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Athena: Do you want to explain the text you sent to me last night? Bobby: That was autocorrect. Athena: Autocorrect wrote “you’re so hot. Please step on me.”? Bobby: Yes.

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Watching s15 and remembering why I stopped watching SVU... >_>" I hate the entire William Lewis storyline with a passion. URG....

I might just skip the entire f*ing rest of the season honestly. Do i wanna sit there and watch him kidnap Olivia... again?! Nope. <_<'

Top it all off Munch is gone now. -_-' He's my fav.

You are missed, my dude!

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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.

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Peter Krause as Robert "Bobby" Nash 9-1-1, S08E03

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You don’t know what it’s like to be afraid of your powers. Be afraid to get close to anybody.

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BONES! BONES! BONES!

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Dear Fandom readers - an etiquette fail

AO3 is not goodreads. It is not the NYT bestseller list.

You paid no money to read these stories. They are, in fact, a labor of love, done on the off time in the off hours of people who are writing for the joy of writing and the joy of the story.

Your ratings are not appreciated. Not by other readers, who don't know you from adam. Not by fandom-savvy passerby.

And not, in fact, by the author. Who again: Wrote this for fun. In their spare time - around work, around family and friend commitments. Around the rest of their lives. Fandom clout almost never "pays off" in any monetary gains, in any form of physical or financial security.

So please stop "rating" us on something we do for joy.

Today, a fellow fanauthor shared this with me. It was not on any story of my own, but they understandably needed a moment to go "wtf" and process it all. With their permission, I now share this with you.

You won't find this comment on AO3 anymore, by the by.

I have... a lot of issues with this. First of all being something that would be a C-grade in any US school system is not a "Good Rating" for most folks, but many of my issues would be the same even in this commenter had rated this a 10/10.

It boils down to this:

Why are you grading us on something we all are here to do solely for fun and personal enjoyment? Why does it have to be good?

Why can't it just be a labor of love and of joy to be good enough for you, dear commenter?

Do I, as a fanauthor, want to write well? Sure! I do want to write good stories. But I didn't ask random readers to grade me on them. Not in bookmarks that I can easily check, and certainly not in my comments section. And I never will want them to. Every author I've talked to agrees. Is there someone out there who might want this? Sure. Most likely, even! The human experience and desires are broad and varied. But in my experience, if they do exist in Fandom, they're the vast minority. So please:

Don't.

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A commission for Celestial Navigation by @hellogarbagetime.  Thank you so much for this incredibly beautiful piece!

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It’s like every week something weird happens.

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I've reached s13 of SVU.....

Elliot.... bitch? really? Not even a phone call? An explanation personally said by you?? Nothing? The poor Captain had to break the news to her? Bitch I better see something from your bald ass at some point in the next episodes... >_>"

Damn... Seeing Olivia cry kinda broke me, not gonna lie.

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While we're at it can someone tell Eddie to please grow a pair??!!

I mean it honestly. Why TF isn't he just going to Texas to get his kid back? Instead he's just gonna give in? Move back home where he was fucking miserable? Fuck his parents!!! they literally, clearly don't wanna help him! Get a lawyer, this is probably parental alienation. I wouldn't put it past those two horrible people! I get Eddie being worried about Chris being mad at him, I get it.. But Chris is a teenager now. He's always gonna be mad at him! That's what teens do!!!! I'm soo upset at this entire story line... goood lord... it's sooo messed up, and stupid!.

*sighs* I'm gonna kill shit in World of Warcraft and try to forget this entire thing...

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Soo Buck... the man that takes change horribly... That man is dealing with a break-up, his best friend thinking about buying a house in El Paso to move back home, and now his sister is gonna get kidnapped? Yeah.... Where the heck is that therapist of his? He's gonna need her again.

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What was that preview??!! WTF?? Maddie?? What is it about the Buckley siblings....? Huh? Why can't these two just stay safe for pete's sake... Good lord...

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My brain is exploding... XD"

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OMG... Wait... what?? Eddie??!! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Absolutely not!!!!! Buck is gonna have an aneurysm trying to pretend to be there and happy for his best friend.

I hate this!!! Christopher better come back to LA I swear to god!!

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Awwww, this is soo ridiculously cheesy but soo cute. XD"