have you ever read a fanfic so good that you wanted to write a fanfic about that fanfic, but was too shy / too intimidated to ask for the author’s permission and too afraid that your writing wouldn’t be half as good as theirs and that it would be an insult to their work that was basically a literal masterpiece, so you just sat there fantasizing about their work and how beautiful it was and how you wished you could just eat it and how you wished canon could write your blorbos half as good as this writer did and how you just wanted to cry because you just loved that fic so much????
Every facial expression in this picture is priceless
That post about 30 year old coming of age stories?
I’ve been thinking about it all morning. What would the plot points be for that? What makes a 30 year old coming of age story?
Old folks sound off in the comments
A few ideas:
- Burying a parent that never encouraged independence
- Acknowledging a trauma you've spent your life ignoring
- Finally opening yourself up to a truly mutual, non-transactional relationship (platonic or romantic)
- Leaving a community (religious or otherwise) that has kept you from growing
Obtaining a diagnosis for a health condition (mental or physical) and finally getting treatment and recontextualizing your life.
Student loan forgiveness kicking in, suddenly you can afford to live. That one small change snowballs into something big.
Starting over after the end of The Big Relationship you thought would define your life. Engaging in a new hobby/social group that adds context to how small life felt in that relationship.
You find yourself with a pet you have to care for, which teaches you to care for yourself.
You take a class somewhere that unlocks skills you didn't know you had.
In limbo between leaving the job that used your degree and finding the job you know you actually want—either your "calling" or something that pays well, is low-stress, and you will be treated well.
You've settled the wild and restless needs of your youth, as well as the mistakes you made or opportunities you missed, and you realize the first 30yrs were training wheels. Your real life is just starting.
- getting sober and realizing that just because habitual drug use wasn't life-ruining, bankrupt-level addiction, it still controlled your life
- realizing when you were the bad person; trying to make amends & dealing with the ramification that people aren't obligated to accept an apology for the way you hurt them
- getting a diagnosis for a long-suspected neurodivergent brain & living with the duality that comes with a) recontextualizing each time you got grounded, punished or each failure at school or with social situations, and b) figuring out that even with medication, you aren't "fixed", learning that neurodivergence is something you have to counterbalance & work with. the hard, ugly road to self love vs figuring out that self love is a journey not a destination
yes I am talking about myself what of it
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Meanwhile Emily Brönte just said “We can make each other worse.”
Mary Shelley said, "I can make him