Sorry it’s early but you really can’t use fanfiction terms in a non fanfiction context like if someone is trying to sell me a book to read and they tell me there’s an enemy to lovers I would be annoyed because why are you spoiling the story lol
sorry op this is kind of a tangent but this is why i hate how booktok has not only affected how ppl talk about their fave stories, but how it's basically gnawed its way into how publishing companies promote books. it basically encourages authors to build their entire story entirely around marketable tropes so that they turn more of a profit
"it has enemies to lovers!" "it has friends to lovers!" "this is a slow burn!" WHAT IS THE PLOT??? what makes your story unique?? why should i read it??? describing your story entirely in tropes and fanfiction terms makes your story sound extremely uninteresting lmfao.
Fanfiction is for when you want to read familiar characters in a setting where you already know what's going to happen. I care about this coffee shop au because I already love these characters and just want to see them in fun familiar situations
Books are original content for new stories new characters in new situations. Why should I care if it takes place in a coffee shop? Give me a reason to love these characters!
actually i need everyone on here to see this too
hey irish diaspora lets celebrate saint patrick’s day by making a donation to the choctaw nation, and for those who are settlers, by paying reparations to the people upon whose colonized lands we live and by learning how to become accomplices to causes of indigenous sovereignty and the return of stolen lands to those who belong to it
For context, the Choctaw nation sent money to Ireland during the great famine in the 1800s, at a time when the Choctaw were also suffering from colonialism themselves
Solidarity amongst the victims of Empire!
I can’t ever leave tumblr because I just love the tag function.. no other social media platform allows you to heckle yourself on your own post. you get to preemptively make metatextual commentary abt your OWN POST. how cool is that
Megan Arkenberg
doc luben, “14 lines from love letters or suicide notes”
Me when all the good old boys are playing bad new songs on the country station while the city moves on and the hot young things they don't age like wine and I'm on the bad side of 25
I don't think anything will ever validate me more then watching a group of literal brain and heart surgeons confidently walk into the conference room, only to have their leader sadly shuffle out to my office 15 minutes later and ask me to come help them with the projector.
Having a 52 year old heart surgeon say "you're not gonna be able to fix it Kait is the only one who can do it" is the modern day equivalent of being fed grapes on a fainting chair
soundscape of young green martian playing with pvc pipes
oh so when a bunch of roman senators kill their leader it's #girlboss but when i, macbeth,
"tabletop rpgs is for experiencing the joys of found family vicariously" WRONG. tabletop is for getting into Its Always Sunny type situations without getting charged with a felony
all of tumblr tomorrow, march 15th:
Arrested Development (2003-2019) Season 1 | Episode 11
Spider-Man 3 (2007) dir. Sam Raimi
One of the greatest haters in cinema