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Linus Baker disliked himself and had a depressing view of life but Arthur and the children still fell in love with him and I absolutely love that bc it crushes the idea that you have to first love yourself or be healed in some way before other people can love you.
When I was a kid, I thought those pillars went down to the sea floor.
In reality, they usually go down to some large submerged floats.
I dislike this.
Pillars and floats like that are pretty stable, compared to regular boats, so there’s even a research vessel, called FLIP, that purposefully capsizes itself to be more steady when conducting research.
YEA IT FUCKIN IS (id embedded in image)
This.
I don’t know about others but the only reason I put both is so that whichever someone clicks on, they will find my fic. So if there is supposed to be rules, I guarantee you that no writer knows these ones. We can barely get people to comment, you think we’re going to specifically choose & or / ? Hell no.
I’ve been in fandom for twenty years, and “/” means romance and “&” means no romance was literally one of the first things I learned. It dates back to Star Trek fanfiction of the 70s. I’m boggled by the fact that anyone who’s been reading fic on AO3 for more than like five minutes wouldn’t know that, and I’m curious as to what fanfic community you come out of.
I don’t think that tagging with both is actually going to get your fic in front of more readers. People looking for romance often exclude the “&” tag if there are too many gen fics tagged with both. People looking for gen often exclude the “/” tag if there are too many fics with both. So rather than putting your fic in front of twice the people, you are in fact more likely to get your target audience ignoring your fic because it has a tag they don’t want.
Also, by overtagging you are more likely to annoy potential readers away from your fic than entice them. A fic tagged both & and / better have both romance and a ton of platonic interaction between the two characters, like a slow burn romance friends-to-lovers arc. If it isn’t, I’m going to be very unhappy because the author lied to me with the tags to try and trick me into reading a fic with deceptive advertising.
When I’m in a fandom and see tagging where some of the tags don’t really apply and are just there to get it in front of more eyes, I’m going to assume one of two things. Either the author is a newb who doesn’t know anything, or the author is purposefully spamming the tags because they don’t care about lying to their potential audience and think that “spray and pray” is an effective tactic. In the first case, their writing probably will not be very good, so why bother reading their fic. In the second case, the fact that I can’t trust the tags to be accurate means I’m not going to read it to see if it’s interesting even if it has a tag I like. Chances are, that tag isn’t actually in the fic anyway, and even if it is, by spam-tagging the author is making the archive harder to use for everybody. Why would I reward bad behavior with attention? No. Far better to mute the author and move on.
Vegetable girls by Camille Fourcade
April 22, 2023 - Three Word Title
tbh remus could’ve really easily explained his frequent hospitalization while at school by claiming severe celiac
lmfao bc now all I can think about is how every time remus accidentally eats a piece of toast or something in public his very concerned friends (see: lily) are like OMG REMUS NO and then he has to pretend to have a flare up and go hang out with pomfrey for a couple hours
fake celiac remus getting unwillingly roped into a student-run disability support & advocacy group bc he thinks saying no would be too suspicious and actually getting really into it bc he is disabled just not the way everyone thinks
Did I finish Project Hail Mary like a week ago and is it the only thing I keep thinking about?
It's more likely than I expected.
Still hasn't changed, I recommended it to everyone I know!
I think I might be a bit annoying at this point, but my friend just finished it and she loved it!
the thing about project hail mary is that it says things like at the start of our existence we watched each other sleep to protect ourselves from our biology and now it is just a part of our lives but all my crewmates are dead so i shall watch you sleep to keep you safe please watch me sleep too and then it says things like an alien wants to see our technology so i am cleaning my spacecraft up whilst he prepares the airlock because i am painfully human and we clean up for company and it just expects me to go on living my life normally like that isn't emotionally compromising
i cannot stop thinking about project hail mary. grace sees a foreign ship right next to his, a foreign space ship in a foreign solar system, which means not only is there intelligent life out there but it’s right outside less than 300 meters away. the other ship sends an object across the space between them, and when he pulls it on board, pries it open, and inspects the inside, he finds a 3D star map with a line connecting two of the stars. a map that essentially says, without language, here’s where we are, and here’s where i came from. do you understand what i’m trying to tell you? and grace doesn’t hesitate. he’s known there’s other intelligent life in the universe for, at best, a little under an hour, and he doesn’t hesitate. he scrambles to find some materials he can use, welds a piece of wire to the map to say, i understand, and here’s where i came from, too, and he sends it back. in any other sci-fi story this would be a monumentally huge mistake! in any other sci-fi story, grace would have just projected our planet’s location to a group of potentially malicious invaders! but this isn’t any other sci-fi story. the alien made first contact using the only thing that was sure to be the same across alien life forms–the stars–and he gave them some common knowledge to build from. they’re not colonizers or crusaders or invaders. he and grace are just two scientists, both excited as hell to meet each other, both trying desperately to find a way to save their planets and both so, so relieved to not have to do it alone anymore. i’ve never read a better first contact story. i’m in love
I get emotional about Project Hail Mary because they completely by accident ended up with the best possible person to lead first contact: a teacher.
CRY LATER. MISSION NOW.
Project hail mary does that delightful thing where it gently introduces new concepts at you as it goes on and then by the end is conveying highly technical made up language that you are capable of followibg without skipping a beat
"See the taumeba-06 originally harvested from adrian is proving to be highly resistant to low concentrations of nitrogen within the xenonite capsule, which is great since itll be able to curb the levels of astrophage even on the eridian system"
Yes, of course, that all makes perfect sense
Underrated Project Hail Mary detail is how everyone is multilingual except the main character so whenever he’s there they all have to switch to English which probably makes him look and feel like an idiot
project hail mary said "we would be ecstatic to find out that there's other intelligent life out there, so why wouldn't they be just as happy to find out about us?" and then proceeded to write an entire thesis on how the inherent nature of sentient beings is to forge friendships, to not be alone, to protect each other at all costs. i'm inconsolable
I just realized that my favorite book genre might just be Alone In Space and honestly I'm fine with that
No, but he’s been alone on a spaceship for forty years, so like
Was messing with the tape measure Grace gave him the first time Rocky’s PLAYED since his crew died?
