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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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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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de una forma una mini pimer es como una cinturonga …

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dungeon meshi but they end up in the back rooms, a cursed idea that was eating away at my brain

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Behold, more Clan of Three in the Peanuts universe~!! 🥜

(Closeups Below!)

I felt like Snoopy!Din would look like a mix between a poodle and a terrier, a skilled vermin-hunting dog who was still floofy. I think a white beagle fits Luke perfectly though, so I kept that iconic Snoopy look for him 🐶

And Grogu is Woodstock because of course he is 💕

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You. Don’t. Own. Trauma. Some stranger drawing something isn’t drawing “YOUR TRAUMA” and if anything it’s probably their trauma.

You are not nearly that important to random strangers for them to write or create content about your trauma

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Next up in the torment nexus: weed gummies that kill you

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“why are you wearing a cloak at the bowling alley” it’s my bowling cloak you fucking casual

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The way you change your immediate reactions to things is that you catch yourself having an uncharitable/bigoted/overly judgmental thought and you catch it and replace it and then you do that a hundred times a day for your whole life and eventually one day like five years later you realize that you think differently now and you’ll always be working on something but that’s how life goes and that’s fine.

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So hey, when proshippers say that anti arguments about the evils of darkfic and how Enjoying Morally Bad Fiction Is As Morally Wrong As Whatever Crimes It Depicts is tantamount to Evangelical Puritanism in a gay hat? THIS IS WHY. I’ve seen so many antis claim angrily that it’s a straw argument to call theirs even remotely relates to Evangelical logic, but please, by all means explain to me how the Evangelical belief that thought and action are morally the same is different to the idea that reading or writing something bad is as bad as doing it.

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emperor palpatine is so fucking cringe dude he doesn’t even have a court jester

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Reu you reblogged that post on StarDads 👀

goddammit, thank you

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need you to know that i very consistently forget crash and burn isn't canon bc it's just So Good (it actually lives rent free in my head 24/7 STILL)

Thank you so much! I can't believe people are still enjoying it, I have this reaction every time someone says something nice 👆

I love these boys so, so much. I kind of knew that s3 wouldn't be what I hoped for (not that I knew what it would be, just that I couldn't see them resolving the s2 finale story beats satisfactorily), so my goal with C&B was to make an s3 for meeeee

Touched to hear it was that for you, too!

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