CEASELESS WATCHER, TURN YOUR GAZE UPON THIS WRETCHED THING-

Hey Alice, how do you know what Sam and Celia were asked in their interviews? Hey Alice, how do you know Lena changed her style of job interviews? Hey Alice, how do you just *know* how to file cases when ypu don't even listen to them? Hey Alice, how do you already know Sam has a crush on Celia? HEY ALICE, HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING FOR THE OIAR??

i mount and dew her till she baja blasts

So what's up with the food, Lena?

Why is all food supposed to be eaten on site, Lena?

Why is Sam getting addicted to your coffee, Lena? Did you swap it for decaff?

Why for a second time we see new hire starting their work with eating something that Lena bought?

Why is it established for like third time Alice wants to eat outside of the office or brings her own food into the office?

WHY WAS SAM OKAY WHEN IT WAS JUST ALICE MAKING HIM COFFEE AND NOW HE'S ADDICTED TO OIRA COFFEE? WAS SHE SWAPPING IT WITH HER OWN COFFEE STASHED AWAY SOMEWHERE?

WHAT'S IN THE MINI-DONUTS, LENA?

I’ve seen five different authors take down, or prepare to take down, their posted works on Ao3 this week.  At the same time, I’ve seen several people wishing there was more new content to read.  I’ve also seen countless posts by authors begging for people to leave comments and kudos. 

People tell me I am a big name fan in my chosen fandom.  I don’t quite get that but for the purposes of this post, let’s roll with it.  On my latest one shot, less than 18% of the people who read it bothered to hit the kudos button.  Sure, okay, maybe that one sort of sucked.  Let’s look at the one shot posted before that - less than 16% left kudos.  Before that - 10%, and then 16%.  I’m not even going to get into the comments.  Let’s just say the numbers drop a lot.  I’m just looking at one shots here so we don’t have to worry about multiple hits from multiple chapters, people reading previous chapters over, etc.  And if I am a BNF, that means other people are getting significantly less kudos and comments.

Fandom is withering away because it feels like people don’t care about the works that are posted.  Why should I go to the trouble of posting my stories if no one reads them, and of the people who do read them, less than a fifth like them?  Even if you are not a huge fan of the story, if it kept your attention long enough for you to get to the bottom, go ahead and mash that kudos button.  It’s a drop of encouragement in a big desert. 

TL;DR: Passively devouring content is killing fandom.

happy valentine's day!!! <3

i love the totally uncreative name of Needles. jonny sims was trying so hard not to name him Michael that he couldn't think of anything better

“Ah, there it is. There’s the fear. Not much, just a little prick, but we found it in the end, didn’t we?”

Needles man !! There’s something so wrong with this man I adore him

My hc for his design is that his skin unfolds into needles so he’s like,,, a human needles porcupine,,,

my favorite part of this episode was when needles said 'it's needling time' and needled all over the place

obligatory meme

“chester is jon!” “norris is martin!” okay well reddit user redcanary is danny stoker. if u even care.

She watches me ceaselessly til I'm a wretched thing!

are you freaking serious did they actually put steve in minecraft

Jon and Martin absolutely adore looking at cat memes.

doesnt matter how cringy or basic, they LOVE them

They’re that cringy but sweet old couple and they’re the grandparents of the entire Elsewhere neighborhood

so today i was like "nikola orsinov kinda reminds me of peppa pig for some reason" and my clown friend decided to draw this. so i present to you all

pigkola orsinov

(my clown friend says they regret making her, but personally i could not be happier)

I genuinely gasped holy fuck this is gorgeous

Pov: you’re Sam

So. Norris! Buddy. Is there any particular reason you decided to read that particular file for everyone?

You know, the file about a man consumed by fear and guilt because he murdered the person he loved?

The file about a man who finds himself trapped in a walled garden, cut off from the outside world, with his murdered lover's voice forever whispering in whatever remains of his ears?

The file about a man who finds himself gradually losing his humanity as his new prison transforms him, slowly and painfully, into a part of itself?

The file about a man who finds that even as this transformation ultimately brings him serenity on the surface, even as he can no longer remember what he once was, "deep inside [him] beneath the roots there is something that still shakes with terror"?

Look, I'm just asking, here, but is there anything you'd like to say to the class, Norris?