newbie fic authors, shooting themselves in the foot: This fic is bad haha I suck at writing lol I am being mean to myself in the hopes that you will be nice to me but actually am dissuading anyone from even clicking on my fic because all I have done to advertise it is tell you why you shouldn't read it

me: I am King Big Dick of Fanfic Mountain and I have arrived in your fandom with the Express Intention of writing my Very Favorite Fics, which I will generously allow you to read. You're welcome.

Sweet Potato Gnocchi - Take dinner up a notch by making this easy sweet potato gnocchi - it’s delicious and the color livens up your dinner plate as well as your tastebuds!

Recipe: https://www.proportionalplate.com/sweet-potato-gnocchi/

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@thischarmingand

Pets love to show up like Hello i am Mystery Wet :)

Me: "Cat, why? Where has this tail been?"

Cat: "Perhaps I explored the tub after your shower. Perhaps I sat too close to the sink. Perhaps it is pee. I love our little mysteries."

@thischarmingand Our boy is the wettest groomer, I swear >_<

I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

cats are so very unclear on what is wrong with us but they want to help

DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON OLD FICS DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON FICS IN A FANDOM THE AUTHOR MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE IN. IF THE STORY IS STILL UP LET THEM KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS IT MIGHT JUST BE THE REMINDER THAT MAKES THEIR DAY.

SINCERELY SOMEONE WHO JUST GOT A REPLY THAT MADE ME WANNA MAKE THIS POST

Listen. Authors' brains are really dumb. We start thinking people don't like a story anymore after too long of radio silence

Top 10 anime betrayals

my favorite dune posts ever

Have you ever wanted to see Jenny from Call the Midwife and Jamie from Ted Lasso openly hate and berate their autistic son? Then boy, is The Devil's Hour the show for you!

(It plays lip-service to the kid not being autistic, and they're clearly setting up some paranormal nonsense, but he is SO autistically-coded that it honestly feels offensive.)

Having finished the show...the narrative has so much contempt for this literal child!

They say in the first episode "No, we've taken him to child psychologists, he's not schizophrenic [like the MC's mother] and he's not autistic", but they don't make any argument for why or in what way he's not autistic, so you just have the show and all the freaking characters shitting on this eight year old boy for being inexpressive, very literal-minded, having hyperfixations, stimming and having *textbook* echolalia...but you see, we said he's not autistic, so it's fine >____> We can make it canon that the kid's father left the family because he doesn't love the kid because "he doesn't love me back, he's not able to, he doesn't have emotions like a real person, he's broken and empty inside, and our marriage would be great without him". And the dad's a bad guy, but the wife is still charmed by and sleeping with the guy who openly hates their son! (They clearly had to cast Phil Dunster and have him shirtless in a lot of scenes to try to explain it even a little bit.)

And the ending...

*spoilers*

-/-

They have the serial killer who can see different time loops say that the kid is a soulless husk of a person, because of timey wimey anomaly stuff. The mother objects and pushes back, says her son feels love even if he doesn't express it, so okay, characters' opinions =/= writer's opinions.

EXCEPT that the show then kills the kid! Or maybe he ceases to exist! Or maybe he slipped into an alternate timeline! They end the series without ever explaining it, just spooky ambiguity, making it so clear that this child's abuse doesn't really matter, because he's a sci-fi conceit, not an actual person with thoughts and feelings.

It honestly feels like the writer thinks autistic kids are creepy and wrote an entire sci-fi drama mini-series to try and justify it to themselves.

My brain: You have so many tight deadlines. So many things on your weekly schedule. So many important jobs. You have to get important work done!!!

My hands:

The introductory “Hate” monologue from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, with AM voiced by the TikTok TTS

This is one of my favorite monologues in all of fiction, and I think the voice legitimately, unironically adds to the experience. With the modern connotation we now have surrounding this voice of faux cheeriness, machine generated empathy, machine generated “humanity”, to hear that voice declare utter despisal of life on earth for damning it… its poetry. It’s the only remake of I Have No Mouth we need.