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this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

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“imagine caring so much about fiction” imagine being so lame that you scoff at the timeless human practice of falling in love with art and stories

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I think about this constantly - people say "Lan Wangji waited for Wei Wuxian for thirteen years", but he DIDN'T. (As far as my understanding goes, anyway!) He had no expectation whatsoever that WWX would ever come back.

There was no light at the end of the tunnel or sense of holding on until something would change - he created a new life, without WWX. One still profoundly formed by WWX's influence on him. He was settled in to his long-term, never-assuaged grief. LWJ never thought he'd come back to see it, but he still lived his life to make WWX proud and to demonstrate his devotion to him, and that's so much more significant to me.

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Hot tip: when you get older and have more money and space, you can buy multiple pans.

So the pans get to take turns in being the one you have to fucking wash AGAIN. And then sometimes you have to wash THREE PANS what the fuck.

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

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Yes, this is about "For a Good Time, Call"

"Ah yes, a nice comfort podfic. Good!"

[3 hours later]

*loud sobbing*

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"Ah yes, a nice comfort podfic. Good!"

[3 hours later]

*loud sobbing*

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me writing fictional couples: oh wow…. the tenderness, the devotion, the romance

me irl:

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the untamed + text posts

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When you're very into something niche 😭

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IMPORTANT NEWS:

Dashcon 2 has hit serious person Twitter

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So you're telling me, you're not obsessed with two gay ass motherfuckers, that permanently altered your brain and you do not think about them every living moment of your life, and you don't cry about them on daily basis? Ah. That's.......cool.

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✨ Lan Zhan is a good boy ✨

inspired by this brilliant comic, tutorial for the moving mask effect

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Extremely rude that, because I was obsessively writing a fic that wants to get out, I stayed up way too late two nights in a row and now I am too sleepy to write the fic that continues to haunt me.

This is a maladaptive strategy by the story honestly

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While writing: "ah yes, a masterpiece"

While reading it over: "why did I use 'just' as every second word"

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Wow I'm failing pretty spectacularly at getting back to a normal schedule and work vibe!!!!

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saw an absolutely hilarious animal crossing theory that i now 100% accept and it’s that in the animal crossing world, humans are going extinct, and so all the animals have locked you in an elaborate zoo enclosure and are trying to give you enrichment. and that’s why they give you infinite pointless tasks, hide money in trees and rocks, invented debt that doesnt matter etc. it’s why they always act so happy to see you even after you raze the entire island, relocate their houses twice, and always act so pleased about your choices no matter what. it’s all to keep their little endangered human healthy and enriched. and thinking of it this way has genuinely improved my experience of the game

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the question of fic comments is very straightforward actually. readers do not owe writers comments. writers do not owe readers fic. there is no bargain, no transaction, no debt.

fic is a gift. comments are a gift. gifts are exchanged between friends, out of love, not out of obligation.

I write for myself. I post it for others, as a gift, because their joy brings me joy. I read for myself. I comment for the author, as a gift, because their joy brings me joy. perhaps we were not friends before, but we are now, however fleetingly, because we have given each other gifts out of love.