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observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

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i love you whump community. i love you whump enjoyers who like whump as kink. i love you whump enjoyers who process trauma through whump. i love you whump enjoyers who vent intrusive thoughts through whump. i love you whumpers who write fic. i love you whumpers who read fic. i love you whumpers who draw whump. i love you whumpers who use music in whump. i love you whumpers who aren't yet comfortable liking whump. i love you whumpers who love whump out and proud. i love you whumpers who don't know what whump is. i love you teen whumpers. i love you adult whumpers. i love you whumpers who write darkfic/dddne. i love you whumpers who write comfort-no-hurt. i love you whump community. i love you. i love you.

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a desk hates to see jj coming (insp)

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the insane experience of missing a fictional character . like you can always go back and reread the book , replay the game , rewatch the show or movie , you can always go back & see them , but you can never experience them & their story for the first time again . its absurd to miss them because they'll always be there , but you'll miss when there were still new things for them to say .

for a small time they were real & growing and changing and you hung onto every new word, but now all they can do is repeat the same story forever&ever & they're not real anymore because you know everything they're going to do. & you miss them. its fucked man...

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And we're off! It's a great day to read (or listen!) to a fanfic and then leave a comment, don't you think?

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Status update: Read a fic. In pain.

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress

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Today was so perfect. I don’t want it to end. Can we make it never end? I promise, it’s only going to get better.

CHICAGO FIRE 9.15 'A White-Knuckle Panic'

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these docu-series episodes make them SOOOOOO GRUMPY SUNSHINE i just KNOW that pepole in-universe watch these and ship them

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You’re telling me that I’m supposed to watch Tim Bradford go through what he’s going through, be wound so tight he looks like a guitar string about to snap, then I’m supposed to see Lucy trap them in an elevator and pull him into a hug where he just lets himself deflate into her arms (again!!) and breathe the first full breath he has in the back half of season 7 AND I have to hear her ask him if he’s okay, only for him to say “I am now,” in a shaky voice AND IM EXPECTED TO ACT NORMAL ABOUT THIS?! WHAT THE FUCCCCKKK

and to make matters worse this all comes the episode after the angsty Kojo birthday card delivery scene that had me sobbing like a baby? Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool. I’m never gonna be okay again. Cool.

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When a Character Is Grieving Someone They Never Got to Say Goodbye To

✧ They talk about the person in past tense… then correct themselves. Then stop talking entirely.

✧ They touch things that belonged to the person like they’re fragile, sacred, about to disappear.

✧ They hoard the last voicemail, last message, last anything. Play it. Don’t play it. Just knowing it exists hurts enough.

✧ They leave something untouched, an empty seat, a half-packed bag, a coffee order that isn’t theirs.

✧ They get irrationally angry when someone else seems to be “moving on.” As if forgetting is betrayal.

✧ They don’t let themselves cry all at once. It comes in pieces. Like they’re afraid too much grief will drown them.

✧ They over-apologize. For being quiet. For being distant. For not being okay.

✧ They become hyper-aware of time, dates, anniversaries, time zones, the exact moment everything ended.

✧ They get superstitious. Ritualistic. As if doing things "right" might reverse something.

✧ They smile when they talk about the person. But it’s brittle. And it never quite touches their eyes.

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bc of my crack fic people have been sending me every manner of Grinch x Tony the Tiger headcanon……who wants to hear the one that finally snapped me like a tennis player’s tendon

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ADELAIDE KANE as Mary Stuart in REIGN (2013—2017) 3.16 "Clans"

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stop earning advanced degrees i need you to finish your fanfiction

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"mmh did you know that creator you like also posts 🔞 content? did you know that? don't you think that's weird? don't you think we should keep this space-"

no. i don't.

i booked a front row seat to the devil's sacrament and you're blocking the view

just go back to the 1660 new england hole you just crawled out of and eat barley for a week to atone for your sins or whatever

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Hi,

It’s your friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:

I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.

That is my anti-permission.

Thank you for your attention.