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Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I write fanfic on company time

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Being a writer is more about googling words to make sure they absolutely mean what you always assumed they meant than simply writing.

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god there really is NOTHING as fun as the feeling of a taylor swift album rollout. the questions, the hints, the clues, the theories, the edits, the community, the anticipation!!

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ok but Pinterest is totally the wedding planner right?

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yes tumblr has to deal with ao3’s 15 million fics in their archive… but what about ao3 dealing with the tumblr users. hordes of us following them around like little gremlins - like that one annoying cousin at the family reunion who just won’t leave you alone. we come with the marriage and there’s no stopping our incessant yapping sorry not sorry new found family/adopted parents love u <3

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gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

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does anyone know how to finish things and actually while im at it does anyone know how to start things

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AO3 and Tumblr can never go down for maintenance at the same time because there would be no one to watch their children (us, the users) and there’s too many of us to hire a babysitter

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currently snickering about the fact, that somewhere the social media interns for tumblr have to explain to the team that they have married another website called ao3

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Love it when my mind suddenly provides me a fancy ass word or a phrase in casual conversation and the person in front of you is visibly taken aback and slightly impressed and mildly lustful-

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Mom (AO3) is out going for a grocery run, so now I'm going to annoy Dad (Tumblr)

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I have an angel in my ear telling me not to draw this,

But on the other ear..........

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One of my favorite things about the fanfiction community on here is you can always tell when Ao3’s gone out.

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