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You’ve heard of one shots, now get ready for none shots! It’s when you think of an idea for a fic and then don’t write it

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I stopped watching Supernatural around season 7 or 8 and apart from watching the more comedic episodes (like the musical or when they're on the SPN set), I haven't rewatched it or anything since

But about 2 weeks ago I had a hankering to at least watch the first handful of seasons because 1-5 are pretty solid, all things told, and the later seasons at least have some funny episodes

I have no idea how far I'll get in this before I get tired of it. I mean, I had to stop X-Files mid-S4 because it was more government conspiracy than I was expecting and I found that boring af

Anyways, after binging the first four seasons of Supernatural, I have decided that I am going to build a time machine, go back and time, and remove the word "slut" from the writers' vocabulary

They have abused that word verily and I think it's time to punish them for it

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I’ve always had a baby face and over the years, I’ve just come to accept that

but there’s something especially defeating about showing your nieces & nephews a picture of you and their dad when the two of you were mid-to-late teens and having the eleven year old say, “You’re a teenager in that picture? You look twelve.”

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hey quick question why did no one ever tell me how fucking insane M*A*S*H is?? their commanding officer is a horse girl. the secretary has psychic powers. this guy walks around a 1950s military outpost in drag and everyone’s just like hey nice dress. the protagonist who is supposed to be the best surgeon in the entire korean war spends every episode strutting around drunk in a hawaiian shirt making homoerotic wisecracks and asking the nurses to step on him like some sort of unhinged bisexual jimmy buffet. guys what the hell is going on in this army doctor show

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The amount of times I've been called "Jennifer" in my life is honestly wild considering the fact that it is not and has never been my name

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need wayne asking eddie “you sweet on him?” about steve

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the bond between mutuals who only share one or two fandoms is stronger than an entire fandom combined… I do not know what you are blogging about but you are right, pip-pip and bing-bong are homosexuals who crave blood and understanding and I will heart that in support

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Back when there weren’t so many dang children in my family, I set up a system wherein Time With Aunt Dessie was going to Barnes & Noble and getting a book and a drink, because reading is something I love and I wanted them to love it too

The system persists to this day and now when a gremlin looks at me and says, “When can we go to Barnes and Noble again?” I just resign myself to the fact that I am about to lose all of my spending money for that paycheck 😂

But when you’re the Book Aunt, that’s just life 🤷🏻‍♀️

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When I was a teenager, I pirated everything. Do you hear me? EVERYTHING.

Because there was no such thing as streaming and if you wanted to binge/rewatch a show and couldn't afford the $50 you had to pay for a season of a show, that's how you did it

Then Netflix introduced the ability to stream and back then, Netflix has EVERYTHING. And you could share your account!!!

I stopped pirating. I paid for the service. I was happy to do it as long as everything I wanted to watch, I had access to for a reasonable price, PLUS the added bonus of no commercials.

It was just like pirating something, except I didn't have to wait for the download to finish. (Because that took a while back in then. I remember pirating episodes of Doctor Who and having to way 3+ hours to be able to watch it.)

Then Hulu came along. That was fine! What you couldn't find on Netflix, you found on Hulu.

But then it kept getting more expensive. You had to pay extra if you didn't want ads.

So then, as family, we shared. One of us paid for Netflix, one paid for Hulu, we all benefited.

Still, I didn't pirate.

Then Discovery Plus came along. And Disney Plus. And Paramount Plus. HBO Max. And, and, and.

Still, we could share accounts. So if we wanted to watch something on a certain platform, it was, "Hey, who has an account for ____? What's your login info?"

Still, no pirating.

But now they're cracking down on password-sharing.

If I want to stream Marvel, I need a Disney Plus account. If I want to watch old episodes of Supernatural, I need a Netflix account. If I want to watch MASH, I need Hulu.

If I want to watch _____, then I need _______.

The more time passes, the more streaming services there are and the more money I need to fork out in order to be able to watch what I want to watch. It's no long easily accessible on one platform at a low price, EVERYONE has ads now and you have to pay extra to avoid them, and you are not allowed to share accounts for most of them.

I'm not going to pay $20/mo for a streaming service where I can only watch ONE show that I'm interested in before I have to fork out another $10-20 for another and another, until it amounts to the same amount of money my parents used to pay for cable.

I didn't pirate because I didn't have a reason to, but you're driving people to it because of your greed.

You want more but people don't have more to give. You're certainly not paying people enough money to be able to afford these services, so why should they twist themselves into knots about it???

And, of course, as much as this is, it doesn't even touch on one of the comments above--about how they cancel so many good shows for no reason.

At this point in time, I'm starting to re-build my DVD collection and the idea of dusting off my pirating skills is always in the back of my mind because I refuse to struggle to pay for all of these services.

I also almost exclusively watch old/completed shows that I've watched before. VERY rarely will I pick up a new show and it's because I am not going to invest my time into something that will be snatched away from me before its time.

If you, corporations of the world, weren't so goddamn greedy--if your mentality wasn't always "How do I get more, more, more???"--then you wouldn't have to worry about competing against piracy

This is your own fault and I really don't feel sorry for you

yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr you greedy fucks

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cast | Oliver on Instagram in response to the reactions to the bi Buck reveal

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I agree mostly. But I'm saying, if I see someone publish a chapter and insists that the readers never comment anything negative about any elements in that chapter, it's unfair to expect any positive comments either.

it’s like this, right

If you see a street musician, you have three options:

Walk past without saying anything

Stop and listen to the music, but don’t give them any money

Stop and listen to the music and if you have the money and liked what they played, you give them money

Nowhere in any of that is the option, “Stop and criticize them to ‘help them improve their performance.’”

If you do that, you are considered an asshole. That’s just how life works.

In the same manner, when you read a fanfiction, you have three options:

Read it, like and/or love it, leave without a word

Read it, dislike and/or hate it, leave without a word

Read it, like and/or loveit, leave a comment

If you don’t like it? You don’t have to comment!

If you did like it but there was an element that wasn’t to your specific taste? Focus on the part you did like when you comment.

If you can’t do that, then walk away. Don’t say anything.

You’re right, you don’t have to leave a positive comment, but I’m not telling you that you have to leave a positive comment. I’m telling you that if you can’t leave one, then don’t leave a comment at all.

If the only way you’re willing to tell someone about the parts of their story that you liked is to also tell them the parts that you did not like and/or actively hate? Then don’t comment. Do. Not. Comment.

Because no matter how long each of those lists are–no matter if the good outweighs the bad or not–the only thing you’ve done is left a sour taste in someone’s mouth.

People do this for fun. It’s not fun if we give you something and the only thing we get back is that sour taste.

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writing is the dumbest hobby, I don't know why anyone does it and most of all, I don't know why I do it, i'm not supposed to be a masochist

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to you, it’s a shitty sentence. to some random bitch 500 miles away, it’s a fire line that’ll haunt them for the next 17 years.

you don’t know how impactful your writing is because it’s been in your brain for far too long now. you’ve stared at it for hours and repeated “this sucks” over and over again to the point that you killed your capacity to feel anything about your work.

but trust me, once you get your shit out there, someone’s gonna go over that paragraph you hate and go “jesus fucking christ” and put the book down to have an existential crisis.

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are you normal or does your brother (32) chase you (33) down the sidewalk trying to lasso you, both of you giggling like a pair of twelve year olds, while your neighbors look at you like you're crazy?

not that I speak from experience or anything