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watching my promised afternoon thunderstorm slip from a 90% chance to a 20% chance.... baby come back i can change

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they dont tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan

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I think mostly what young fandom types (and I guess younger people in general) who are very very invested in the idea that “20 is still basically a minor” need to understand is that the feeling of “I’m just a child pretending to be an adult, and everyone else around me is a REAL adult” is DEEPLY universal (and won’t stop, ever, by the way, sorry!) and also is not, like, praxis.

Believe me, I get it, but the self-infantilization needs to stop, especially when you’re trying to engage in conversations about actual children and the harms they can face. Yes, it is scary to wake up and realize you’re 22 and you still feel like you’re 15, but it happens to all of us. You’re an adult. You have to deal with it.

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i hate seeing people now making fun of those who care about privacy online. i've seen people saying things like "well they already have your data. what are companies going to do with it" and it's like, that's not the point. it's that companies /shouldn't/ be able to have my data and sell it. am i aware they probably already have my data? yes, absolutely. but i'm still going to try and keep them from monetizing it any further, why are we defending companies selling data they shouldn't have to begin with though?

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Glad to know we're not total unicorns! 🦄😅

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

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I think some people forget that some literature and some media is meant to be deeply uncomfortable and unsettling. It's meant to make you have a very visceral reaction to it. If you genuinely can't handle these stories then you are under no obligation to consume them but acting as if they have no purpose or as if people don't have a right to tell these stories, stories that often relate to the darkest or most disturbing parts of life, then you should do some introspection.

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I think that Elon Musk is an object lesson in moral philosophy.

Like, he's the epitome of self-interest; the closest thing real life can produce to a Randian hero. And by any reasonable standard, he's won at life! He's the richest man ever to live, and he's getting richer; he controls the channels of information and communication; the government of what remains the world's only superpower waits on his command. If capitalism had a victory condition, he would surely have achieved it. And yet...

He's empty. He's an absolute sucking void of neediness. His own children hate his guts. He pays professional gamers to run up impossibly high scores in every game under the sun because the pale glow of being praised by epic bacon chuds online is the closest thing that he can feel to love.

Like. I can't tell you what a soul is, but I think you neglect it at your peril.

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Once again:

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

Beware of today's "purity culture": in the 1970s, like-minded students paved the way for the current authoritarian regimes in China and Iran.

"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.

"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.

"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.

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if you've been doing anything you don't have to do for over an hour, I think a helpful habit to get into is to ask yourself if you're actually enjoying it. scrolling on your phone. watching a tv show. being at a bar with your friends. whatever.

like if the answer is no, you get to stop, and if the answer is yes, you get a nice little moment of mindfully appreciating that you're having fun right now

and if the answer IS no, a good follow up question is, "what is my goal right now?" is it relaxing? are you chasing a dopamine hit? do you want these people to like you? "I am not having fun" can be kind of a directionless statement, but "I am not having fun, and I am trying to [X]" can give you a heading for where you might want to go with yourself next.

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By making Hobbs a hunter and Will a fisherman they wanted us to understand from the very beginning that Will is a predator too, just like Hobbs and Hannibal but his ways are different. Hobbs hides behind a gun. Hannibal never hides from his victims, he hides from everyone else but his victims. And Will, Will plays the longer game, the waiting game, the reckoning game. And I think all of these say a lot about them.

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Yes. Yes, it is.

writing is 10% storytelling and 90% rearranging three sentences for an hour like you're trying to solve an ancient curse

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Well, if you put it that way... 😅

So, uh… if you’re looking back on your writing and you’re cringing at how bad it is…

You know that’s a good thing, right? That you’ve grown?

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my fave writing reminder

honestly, this phrase has been on my mind more times than i can count. i've kidnapped it, taken it as a hostage with no ransom money because i need it to live permanently in my head.

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people who are just finding out about internet tracking and data mining in the year 2025 and that your special robot friend does not respect your privacy lol

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And putting all those random slices together... don't even get me started 🙈🙄😆

Writing a fanfic sometimes feels like having a plan...only for that plan to magically transform into a slice of cake. Now you have to bake the rest of the cake because you can't just serve a single slice whilst random cake slices of unidentified origin rain down from the sky tempting you like some kind of cake demon.

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Why are people this shitty?!!

Why can't we have nice things?!

This planet, I swear.

THIS IS NOT REAL. If you get this comment, they’re just trying to get you to delete your fic.

1) I would have gotten some kind of email from Ao3 if this was true

2) this comment is formatted to be perfect to tack onto any fic they choose

3) ALSO why on earth would Ao3 get rid of entire fandoms off the site? Even if they WERE inactive? Who knows if others will be ‘late’ to the fandom and want some fic to read. Who knows if someone wants to come back to their 6 year old account only to find most of their fics deleted.

I’m lucky to be a reasonable adult who has seen tricks like these who also had a very kind person comment their own doubts.

Please let your Ao3 friends know <3