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something absolutely lovely about especially the first half of fellowship is that the hobbits keep meeting random kind helpful strangers - the elves, bombadil, butterbur, aragorn (also farmer maggot and his wife, though they're not strangers) - until the book solidifies in you the feeling that these are not really instances of random luck, but rather the inherent nature of the world. kind people are everywhere, and no matter where you are, there is surely someone closer than you think that would offer help if you needed it. it's such a beautiful theme across all of LOTR, and it's very sweet to me that it starts from the very beginning of the journey, on such a 'small' (comparatively), everyday scale

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DOCTOR WHO: FLUX Chapter One: The Halloween Apocalypse written by Chris Chibnall | directed by Jamie Magnus Stone ››› John Bishop as Dan Lewis

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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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brotzly reunion

thats it thats the post

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the urge to write never leaves but the motivation to do so is a lover lost at war

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anyway. i love you will byers who is more sensitive than than the other boys his age. i love you will byers who receives a 120-count box of crayons for his eighth birthday and uses every color to draw a rainbow spaceship. i love you will byers who gives away a toy he knows his mother can’t replace because a girl is sad and crying and he thinks she should have it instead. i love you will byers who comes face to face with a creature directly out of his literal nightmares and speaks softly and refuses to hurt it. i love you will byers who is willing to sacrifice himself if that means his friends and family and the town that hates him is safe. i love you will byers who just wants to play dungeons & dragons and cling to the last pieces of childhood that were forcibly taken from him. i love you will byers who cries with his sister when she is sad and tells her they’ll fix it. i love you will byers who repackages his own love confession into the exact thing his best friend needs to hear. i love you will byers who is reunited with his sister and the first thing he does after holding her close is try to remove the collar from around her neck. i love you will byers who is not violent but would kill vecna in a heartbeat to protect the people he loves. i love you will byers.

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Remember that this is how we leave them.

Whatever happens, they are safe, they are smiling, they are together.

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The story from Will's pov is enough to make me cry

Imagine being kidnapped as a kid by a creature from another dimension, and finally rescued just to be possessed by some shadow. Finally free? Yeah, sure, but now your friends have "grown up", you've lost your childhood, everybody's busy with their relationships, the friend group seems broken and you're not gonna "fall in love" because you're already in love with your best friend (who has a girlfriend btw). Now you end up moving away from the one place you called home, away from all your friends, only to be ignored when visited by your best friend.

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my all-time favourite movies ↳ THE HOLDOVERS (2023) dir. Alexander Payne

"Because no one is his own father. I'm not my dad. No matter how hard he tried to beat that idea into me. I find the world a bitter and complicated place, and it seems to feel the same way about me. I think you and I have this in common. But don't get me wrong, you have your challenges. You're erratic and belligerant and gigantic pain in the balls, but you're not your father. You're your own man. Man, no. You're just a kid. You're just beginning. And you're smart. You've got time to turn things around. Yes, I know that Greeks had the idea that the steps you take to avoid your fate are the very steps that lead you to it, but that's just a literary conceit. In real life, your history does not have to dictate your destiny."

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We always find greatness in the dead. In the end, we forgive them. I don't want anyone to forgive you.

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mike making dustin feel better, saying he has superpowers,

mike defending el when they called her weird, praising her like a superhero

mike calling will a super spy and empowering him

all while he's only felt like a nobody that's not needed in anyone's life

that painting meant way more than will could ever imagine

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"dbda getting cancelled is so sad bc now we won't see payneland get together!" "dbda getting cancelled is so sad bc now we won't see niko reunited with the gang!"

dbda getting cancelled is so sad bc now we won't see edwin get covered in even more blood and say fuck a few more times

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I love that this scene begins as a conversation about Charles and Crystal kissing, and ends with Charles' affirmation of their friendship and Edwin's bashful little smile.

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wasn't going to listen to synth pop from the 80s with homoerotic lyrics tn but damn i miss mike wheeler like a bitch

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What about Charles getting enchanted by a magical item to tell the truth? But it's a Payne land confession? And Crystal and Niko are just there and like 'finally, it's happening!'.

I couldn’t think up a magic item so let’s just say they had a little run in with the Cat King 🐈‍⬛ thanks for the request!

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“Is it okay if I draw fanart of your fanfic?👉🏼👈🏼”

My brother in Christ we shall have a spring wedding