In ignorance, I await my own surprise

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY 3x01 "Career Day Pt 1"

I have watched your first Robin Sparkles video a thousand times, and it's not because I'm proud of you as a friend. It's because you were totally, totally lame back then. But now, come on. Pa-kow! You're the most awesome person I have ever known. Well — second most awesome.

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favorite lyrics from the tortured poet's department

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big brain only

the English Major in me loathes this but the word-play lover in me adores this

OLIVIA RODRIGO Guts World Tour, Palm Springs (Feb 23, 2024)

Jonathan Bailey | Orlebar Brown Spring Summer 24’ | February 2024 | 📷 Jason Hetherington

"Oh dang, they're onto me... time to act normal"

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Almost 11 years ago, I found this comment in the bookmark tags on one of my fics.

Every time I write.a new fic, I think about that last comment and it helps spur me on that people actually like my writing.

Your words stay with people. Your comments matter. Fandom is interactive and your interaction is vital .

There are some comments where I vividly remember exactly where I was the moment I read them. Once I was randomly checking bookmarks on one of my fics while waiting for the lights to dim, my first time seeing Hadestown, and one of the bookmarks had a note that circled my head for the rest of the evening. Like I can still recite the comment word for word: mindblowing. rarely a fic hits just so, but when it does. fuck me

I remember standing in an arts of Islamic cultures exhibit at the MFA, surrounded by gorgeous mosaics, when I got one of those miraculous comments, paragraphs-long, gushing about everything she loved about the fic, and I'd been having such a shitty week up to that point that the euphoria of reading it is seared into my brain forever. I wandered the museum in a daze after reading it through multiple times. I still remember their username.

And it's so odd to realize that maybe neither of them realize how profoundly they affected me -- that years later I still carry those moments with crystal clarity. That taking minutes out of their lives to express love for something I'd made warms me to this day. These little eternal flames.

Are commenters aware of the power and influence at their command? Especially if you're commenting on something older, that's garnering less attention -- it's quite likely that if you leave a couple glowing words, long after the author expects or hopes for such a thing, that person will wander the earth with this little piece of enduring goodness, a kernel of happiness to return to when they need it.

Sorry to hijack this post, but you're so right, and unless you've been on the receiving end of such a comment, I don't know if people fully grasp the weight and meaning their words can have for someone else.

So to reiterate: Your words stay with people. Your comments matter. Fandom is interactive and your interaction is vital.

Arrested Development – 2.03: iAmigos!

can you believe that we have fanfiction. that we have websites dedicated to fanfiction. that there is a place that you can go and read tens, hundreds, thousands and thousands of pieces of writing that strangers have made. people who are not "writers". people who come home at the end of the day and have feelings and say, i am going to put that into words. i am going to share those words. short, long, sweet, sad, horny, funny, wonderful words. we are all just human and we all love to make and remake and share that with others. can you believe that.