#hard to please

[howifeltabouthim]

'Everything seems to be getting worse. Or else I'm getting intolerably old and finicky.'

Iris Murdoch, from A Fairly Honourable Defeat

[tomsmusictaste]

Some Favourite Title Track Shoutouts

Neck Deep // Gold Steps

State Champs // Hard To Please

Seaway // Still Weird

Settle Your Scores // Cashing Your Reality Check

All Time Low // Break Your Little Heart

Dragged Under // Upright Animals

New Found Glory // All Downhill From Here

Settle Your Scores // Keep Your Chin Up And Your Expectations Down

As It Is // Sorry

Deaf Havana // The Past Six Years

Four Year Strong // Enemy Of The World

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Uncaring

[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

[mejkosmos]

whichever madman pointed out that the new rift on bill's body in the theraprism is meant to parallel ford's cracked glasses after he emerges out of the portal,,,, MY SOUL IS YOURS TO TAKE ANYDAY MY GOSH

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bonus !!

ford about bill:

bill about ford:

[egophiliac]

get 'em before they melt!

(the flavors are 99% vibes + first thought only thought, don't take them too seriously)

[endyfwend]

Just found a Batman quote, and it sounds like an “incorrect quotes” sorta thing. It’s not. Batman, THE Batman, has actually said “Ya basic”

… I’m crying

[ssenza]

It is calming to see something familiar in another

inspo x x

[howifeltabouthim]

It's like she was trying each person to get just a taste of their outlook on life, only to find it boring or stupid a few weeks later.

Katherine Lin, from You Can't Stay Here Forever

[himulrai]

previous one went stratospheric so this came about lmao??

part 3 is now up!

[whalesharkstho]

jazz ur gonna give him a spark attack

bit of a follow up to this post X]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[qifreyplushie]

can i see your necklace for a second, your highness? ^__^

[thepeacefulgarden]

[noodles-and-tea]

Redrew a comic from AGES ago

[slightlyartist]

Alex Hirsch did this to every character but McGucket was his personal punching bag for real