#but it always does...

[flamingo-bubbles]

It will ALWAYS be funny to me when someone learning Japanese hits that switch point. You know the one.

You've spent so long fearing kanji, silently hoping that everything will be in hiragana 'cause that's so much easier to read. Kanji is scary! There's so many!! And they can have multiple readings!!

But then. You study hard. You learn your kanji. You put in the work. You got this.

And then you see a paragraph. A paragraph that the you of the past would have delighted in. It's in only hiragana. The one that's so much easier to read.

And you just wanna lay your head on your desk and give up. This would be so much easier with kanji...

[filibusterfrog]

monty likes to sit in front of an open window and tell the bin men he loves them (they cant see him)

[obsidianpegasus]

Reading my own fanfiction is basically just a rollercoaster of emotional whiplash.

20% of the time: “Hold on. I wrote this? This is fire. This is emotionally devastating in the best way. This scene is dripping with tension. I’m a literary perfectionist. Someone give me a book deal.”

80% of the time: “Straight to jail. Immediate prison. Why is everyone’s breath hitching?. I used the word ‘gaze’ three times in one paragraph like I was possessed. Did I think 'his eyes darkened' was profound? Why is everyone clenching their jaws? Why is someone whispering 'their name like a prayer' again?? No one talks like this. What is this dialogue. Why are there so many weird metaphors and em-dashes…”

[mythicamagic]

One of my favourite things when reading fanfiction is when you click with an author's style so much that you adore the fanfiction you're reading, and once it's over you need more. So you go to their page and hope that there's more for any fandom you might know- only there isn't any. They've written for other fandoms you aren't familiar with and never would've thought about before.

But you're down so bad for their style and talent that they got you wading in like:

[fernsnailz]

been rewatching owl house w my roommate and wanted to sketch my favs

[stealingpotatoes]

the illness post is still getting notes (???!! <3) and that means people are still telling me to get better soon, which is really nice but im gonna be too powerful if i get any better

[frownyalfred]

actually the idea that Dick, the eldest, the only one who ever wore the cowl long term, the only one who raised a Robin on his own, is also the only one who can successfully, perfectly replicate that barked ROBIN! in Bruce's voice? the only one who can pull that exact tone from the depths of his soul, to the point where his voice is identical, so identical that old Robins like Jason are obeying before their minds even realize their bodies are moving? that Dick is the only one, has always been the only one, who can channel Bruce's voice? can channel Batman himself? I am going feral

[elodieunderglass]

Oh I forgot to say.

Bug (4) is going to start school now so we’ve been doing literacy practice. One set of exercises was about “opposites” and I drew a card reading “fat”. Ok what’s the opposite of fat.

Bug thought about it and then said dreamily: “meat.”

[1alchemistart]

cries mournfully. guess who's been reading fics lately JSDFKLSDKL

[tediousmalcontentt]

my favorite scene in all of literature is when Neil Josten wakes up in Columbia after being drugged, hurls an alarm clock at Aaron, dumps his water on the floor and throws the cup at Aaron, stuff his clothes down the toilet and squeezes out through the window, has the foresight to call Matt from a pay phone to protect his shit, hitch hikes back to campus, eyes back to brown?? shows up on Wymack’s door like 😜 and reveals he could speak German the whole time?? CHARACTER OF ALL TIME, that is a protagonist who knows how MOVE THE MFING PLOT ALONG

[just-a-joey]

Reasonable crashout

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Also the ‘Him’ is the Spectre

[evidmid]

Skyfire experiencing the undiluted joy of having a bug crawl on you by its own volition

[chloesimaginationthings]

The FNAF Vanessas meet their younger selves..

[soaked-doors]

elbaf has been so good shoutout to oda for giving us a luzo meal every chapter 💯

[egophiliac]

IF YOU GO NOW TO SILVER'S PROFILE IT SHOWS "SILVER VANROUGE" I AM!!! NOT OKAY!!! WAUGH

OH MY GOD 😭

like...it wasn't even just "oh we'll call you Silver Vanrouge now", they just straight-up made the adoption official, under the statute of Malleus Says So. he's legally recognized as Lilia's kid! I'm so happy for them!

this may take some getting used to though

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

you mean nothing to me