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Therapist: Oh, you definitely have daddy issues

Me: no, I don't

Also, me hours later realizing all my favorite fictional characters are older man....

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i’m obsessed with this

and then, two months later....

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kin

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am I a Hannibal blog now? maybe. bc the hyperfixation is BACK BABY

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we’ve all seen this on twitter right…. do y’all see it…. hannigram….

this is what s2 would’ve been if the writers weren’t scared

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You’re using AI to write while I’m crying on the floor trying to coax a single sentence on to the page after six hours of begging the dark forces and my brain to summon a singular coherent thought just so I can get 6 reblogs and half a like.

Cowards.

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In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

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wanting to talk to people is so fucking embarrassing. literally hi it's me again I wanted to have a conversation with you because I think you're fun to talk to. oh god you can just fucking kill me if you want sorry

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if u think im cute u legally have to tell me

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watching people be affectionate in public makes my skin crawl—not with disgust, but craving. how long since holding and being held was a reality rather than a fantasy?

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my first time at a buc-ee’s. religious, i think.

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it’s a special pain to truly cry for the first time in months and only be able to think of how ugly you must look

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i don’t know why everything in me that’s programmed for life claws against the current instead. perhaps i want someone to love me enough to carry me, thrashing and scratching and yowling, back into the living world.

maybe i’m strong enough to do that for myself.

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“I want a loyal friend” until they’re sobbing at night because you’ll leave each other come graduation. my love is roots and i am the sidewalk. only one was meant to grow.

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it is a distinct pain to watch your short, sweet kindergarten classmates grow into something twisted and bitter