itsleapfrog

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Quick what are you doing RIGHT now (besides scrolling Tumblr)

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😭 how do u win the idgaf war when it comes to shipping

i'm 28

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So messed up how when you're trying to finish a fic and you keep getting ideas for other fics and the urge to outline them threatens to consume you.

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whispering to myself: it just has to exist it just has to exist it doesn't have to be perfect it just has to exist

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Do you ever get reminded of that one really intense longfic that you had every intention of writing and had meticulous notes and complicated outlines for but then something happened and you aren't in the fandom anymore and you still have the desire to write the fic but it's slightly hollow now because it's a good idea and you think it would have been a great fic but you haven't been in the fandom for literally years and you don't have that bit of passion for it that you did when you were writing it and have just a weird moment of nostalgia where you want to reread it but it never existed

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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there's a p common attitude in fandom spaces (fandom in general, not a specific one) that's like "why care about canon, or the characters being ooc? we're here to play with the dolls any way we like" and as much as i obviously am a person who thinks about canon a lot in theory i'm into that. in practice though when popular fanon takes things in a wildly different direction from canon so often it's in the service of taking something that was originally canonically weird and interesting and making it blander. it's flattening a complex character into a broad archetype i've seen a million times before, it's taking two characters with a complicated canonical relationship and writing them in a way where you could find-and-replace the names with any other popular migratory slash fandom pairing and the fic would make as much if not more sense. if you're going to break away from canon at least do something interesting? don't make it less weird? i feel like i'm watching someone take a really beautiful expensive cut of wagyu steak and grind it into hamburger to cook it well done and cover it in ketchup

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they so would. they would get themselves kicked out of the cinema for laughing and shouting. when tsukki is with yamaguchi, they both snicker and make mean comments, but are for the most part quiet. when tanaka is with noya, they both laugh and shout loudly, but quiet down quickly and dont talk. when tanaka and tsukki are together, they will not shut up and will shout the rudest comments they can at the screen while laughing

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you don’t have to write something good. you just have to write something unhinged enough to edit later

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hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

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reblog and tag that one Thing your mutuals can just send you posts about with no context as a bid for connection and a way of staying in touch. mine apparently is shrimp

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Oikawa Tooru you will ALWAYS be famous

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you know a joke that never EVER gets old is when a character says smth like “I will NOT go to [place] and that is FINAL” and then it cuts to them in that place I eat that shit up every single time

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I swear to fuck I'm finishing my iwaoi fic this weekend even if it makes me become a trout

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So, you might or might not have other people in the car but no taking turns and swapping drivers. Just you driving for the whole day

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when u and ur husband are in the same team it gets a little confusing

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do you ever just … picture a whole scene, a whole fanfiction in your head, you know how to place every single word of the english dictionary that you need (or your language dictionary), you know how to structure your sentences, you know just what your characters are going to say to each other and then… and then you just open microsoft word.