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Fandom Problem #7198:

I turned 29 this year. Maybe it's because I've been in fandom since the late 00s and I'm just jaded now, but I've grown so damn tired of the way fandoms nowadays are so quick to "other" anyone who has different headcanons than the in-crowd and the popular consensus. People project too quickly, then call their headcanons law. Hell, even popular headcanons get absolutely torn up (as with the people who have them) if you accidentally post or interact with a certain smaller group who disagrees with those headcanons. They make it their life mission to discredit and invalidate you, like it's impossible for fans to have differing innocuous opinions. I've been in quite a few fandoms since their inception and I've watched them blow up, and the overall demographics and participants in them skew and change over time, as the behaviour, and it's totally put me off from fandom participation now, despite having created so much meta and fics that people have enjoyed. But that doesn't even make me smile anymore. I'm just tired now. It's like self-harm to be here now, and take such a huge risk that will have certain groups and, frankly, the core participants in fandom nowadays, tearing you apart, for even just sharing headcanons and sharing what ships you like. Even if they aren't even known as "taboo" kinds of dynamics in real life. It could be something as silly as liking a ship someone thinks "stole" the ship they personally wanted to be canon. I'm done.

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DEAR FANFICTION WRITERS

Thanks for existing

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In consumed, Clockwork expects to raise Danny many, many times. Does that mean Danny has a chance of ending up younger every time he's wombed? Is it associated with the potential memory loss?

It's independent from the memory loss, but although a ghost generally has greater potential power after being consumed, they've still got to rebuild their actual power, which was taken by the ghost doing the eating. This means that the ghost in question is smaller and younger-looking than they were pre-consumption.

And that's if their new parent doesn't decide to restrict what they have available to form their new body with.

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Behold the dazzling Australian Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons)! Found in parts of southern and eastern Australia, this bird can be spotted in woodlands, rainforests, and wetlands. It’s an insectivore that darts rapidly through the air to catch fast-moving prey. It’s easily recognizable thanks to its signature tail fan, which is found on males and females and grows more vibrant in color as the bird matures.

Photo: craigwelden, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

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Poor old grizzly bear not a fan of a fan of thunder and lightning.

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too many stories about turning yourself into a monster as a metaphor for pretending to be something you aren't and losing yourself in the process. not enough stories about turning yourself into a monster as a metaphor for choosing to openly embrace yourself even if it's strange to other people

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A lot of deep sea creatures are coloured red, but since the colour blends in so well with dark water it just ends up looking black or dark blue. 

In short, combined with the horn-like crown, submerged home, and pitchfork/trident, Poseidon is just another name for the Devil.

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Jumping Spider (Chrysilla lauta), family Salticidae, Sri Lanka

photograph by Artur Tomaszek

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you contradict yourself because you contain multitudes. i contradict myself because i am wrong.

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song: 其实都没有 - 于冬然 (remix not on youtube)

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seduce me with ur history knowledge 

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suck, and i cannot stress this enough, my cock to the fucking base

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I fully think Odysseus expects to never see Athena again after he turns down her offer. Yes, it’s clear she’s changed—the Athena he knew would never say something so sentimental—but he’s familiar with her nature. She won’t be back now that he has no use to her.

I also fully think that Athena would absolutely rock back down to Ithaca after a week of letting the family reunite (she’s taking this empathy thing seriously, guys) and just be chilling at the breakfast table in the morning. Just visiting. No biggie.

(This becomes a regular thing.)

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I've seen a few different people talk about how they're disappointed in how Odysseus and Athena's reunion went, saying that they don't like how they didn't reconnect and left the bridge burnt because he is now a "monster". I didn't interpret this part this way. I think Athena is still looking for her warrior to train and needed to be told that it couldn't be Odysseus anymore.

I feel like a lot of the epic fandom forgets how old Odysseus is suppose to be at this point because Jorge still looks and sounds like a young man but Odysseus is likely somewhere in his early forties or even getting close to fifty. He has spent the last 20 years of his life fighting and all he wants now is to stay home and grow old with his family. Athena was offering him a chance to help her change the world and help people be better. He isn't telling her no because he's angry at her or the world, he's just tired. He's fought too hard to get home to turn around and go start another fight. She needs to find someone younger, who still has faith that people can be good and has the energy to fight for that belief. (Someone like Telemachus who in the animatic shows every sign of being willing to be that warrior and help Athena). Odysseus even brings up that she's immortal and will have the all the time in the world to make a better place for people to live in but he reminds her that it isn't something his mortal lifespan will allow him to pursue.

He wants her to make the world she believes in and wishes her the best but he cannot be her warrior anymore and I think she accepts that and lets him rest.