best boys

two ppl with shared history is the bestest most delicious compelling dynamic in the world... exes. old friends. childhood friends. old friends who are no longer friends. decade long slowburns. multi decade slowburns. etc

It makes me happy when they listen

i flipping hate ao3's layout there's too many goddamn words

you know what i deserve this

you guys should read things are stranger than girls kissing girls sapphic stancy and queen stevie actually mean everything to me <3

NEW GIRL ( 2011 - 2018 ) ↳ season 2 episode 11

collection of a specific dynamic that gets me every time

adding a few more

reblog for bigger sample size

yuri this, yuri that, how about yu-read a boo- huh? you do? well uh, what do you read about? oh... I see...

Victoria Pedretti as Eleanor Crain THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE (2018) dir. Mike Flanagan

Or just go to browse and hang out! I promise it will be inspiring :)

It’s also a lot easier to do research in a library; sure, it’s one thing to have internet access, but it’s another to have wifi access to databases and books on the topic an approximate two minute walk away.

This simmering discourse about how sometimes banning books is good actually is more evidence to me that the new framework for childhood is "No one should feel a negative emotion until age 25." People are setting kids up for failure and are convinced that they're doing the right thing. You know what you get when you coddle people from an early age straight on through adulthood? You get assholes. For reference, see: All rich kids.

ok im really curious do you guys have books you consider your "white whale"? as in books you keep telling yourself oh yeah i really want to read that, but you keep not reading it?

🇵🇸don’t forget to do your daily clicks!🇵🇸

About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

Gentle but sincere urging to get an account, for those of you who haven't! AO3 is not a social media site that's free to use because it's harvesting your data for resale and spamming you with ads: it's a nonprofit that's free to use because people give generously at its completely voluntary and infrequent donation drives (which consist solely of a single text banner that can be dismissed if you're logged in).

Members also get emailed when their fav fics update, which is worth an account in and of itself.

Also the majority of my works are now locked to non-users, so if you like my fics, you'll like them even more when you can actually, you know, read them.

All i wish for 2024 is every creator to start that project they’ve been thinking about, write those fics they have been planning, make messy art, and to have as little burnout as possible.

for the next 6 months life is worth living (I can go on walks at 8pm and the sun will still be there)