i feel so seen!!

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elf yuri except one of them is high fantasy and the other is one of santa's

quotes i saved from fanfics day 9:

"Jesus Christ, you look like the wrong side of the bed became sentient and beat the ever-loving crap out of you."

How do I describe to the young folk that I would rather stab myself in the leg than record video of my own face

looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3 be like:

dont care

dont care

dont care

what the actual fuck

dont care

ooh that sounds- what the fuck

unfinished

don't care

the best fic ive ever read in my life. this absolutely ruined me and ill never be the same ever again

dont care

Growing up is actually all about realizing people don’t inherently dislike you and it’s a bit odd to assume they do

I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted

me when i meet the person who created webp files

may i take solace in my complete and total refusal to use or recognize or commend tiktok for anything ever despite it's overwhelming mainstream presence on all fronts. i enjoy being completely clueless when a bunch early 20-somethings ooze in from the aether with brand new discourse and necessitated slang terms for things that tiktok automatically censors

[person 500 years ago knitting a sock] O Sister Margaret, regale me again with the tale of Vicar Wesley's scandalous elopement with the baker's daughter!

[me today knitting a sock] O Youtuber Hbomberguy, regale me again with the tale of SHERLOCK IS GARBAGE, AND HERE'S WHY

The relationship between shipping and fanfic is so much more than a binary choice between "niche ship where it's impossible to find anything" and "popular ship where it's impossible to find anything readable". There's also "niche ship that has thousands of fics because it's captured the imagination of an extremely specific kink subculture that you're not into at all", "popular ship whose writing community became established during an early hiatus and never incorporated any subsequent developments, instead diverging into an alternative canon that's unrecognisable to fans of the actual source material", "moderately well-represented ship where literally everything seems to have been written by a single impossibly prolific author whose grammatical quirks drive you up the wall", etc.

A light in my house suddenly turned on- AND WHO DO I SEE?!?!