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It sucks that adults' prejudices shape kids' childhoods. Like poly people having to actively worry about keeping custody of their kids just because other people who don't know them think their lifestyle is weird. Like imagine how much nicer things would be if people could just be normal about things.

Like some kid growing up in a family with Mom, Dad, and Kevin, who sleeps in dad's bed half the time and makes really good spaghetti. And that's just their primary example of what a "normal" family is. And then they go to kindergarten or something and really get to know other kids from other families for the first time and just go the fuck do you mean you don't have a Kevin? What happened to yours?

And the other kids go home asking their parents why they don't have a Kevin, because they, too, want really good spaghetti. And their parents have no fucking idea how to even begin unwrapping what the ever-loving fuck their kid is talking about.

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my dearest love (ao3) has befallen a great tragedy (is down for maintenance) so i must pine alone in my lonely tower (i could do something productive but i think not)

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Grave offerings and burying the dead with tools and goods is actually such a deeply human thing to do. It's not really even necessarily about how much you believe in a literal afterlife or them taking the tools with them. It's also just going Wait, I'm Not Done Taking Care Of You, let me make you one more pair of socks so your feet won't be cold when you go wherever it is where I can't follow.

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Congratulations to all AO3 users! Important Milestone reached!

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If I walk into a Subway and ask them to make me a grilled cheese, do you think they’d do it?

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I think there's also the, very impactful and very regular, chant of "iS thAt a tYpO??" every few paragraphs too...

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…”

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A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.

I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.

All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."

But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.

It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.

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You know for the first 18-ish years of your life everyone your age is mostly doing the same things and then all of a sudden every year for the rest of your life somebody your age is getting divorced while somebody else just learned what a leaf is and you have no idea what’s going on or what you’re supposed to be doing

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Being a cat parent as a young adult vs gen x parenting

I've recently been chosen by the cat distribution system to take care of 3 kittens (now 4 months old), and as a 25 yo, this is technical my first (and probably the only) parental role in life.

One of the kittens puked late tonight because she gulped down her chickpeas too quickly and a few too many and my father called me to clean it up (which is fine, whatever). But in the background I heard him talking to the kitten, berating it for what she had done.

Of course, he was mild in his tone but the thought process is what caught me off gaurd as it sinked in; how absurd is this thinking?

"Hey you tiny being -who doesn't have enough self preservation to not die of inhaling too much food just because you like it- how dare you inconvenience me?"

What is this shaming? Shaming a kid for being sick? Just because it is inconvenient for you -the high functioning adult and caretaker? What a weird thing to do....

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saw an elderly woman walking around with a tote bag whose design were the four AO3 fic category squares and she very excitedly asked if i was a reader or a writer bcs nobody else at the con had recognized it, and after telling her that i've been writing fic since fanfic.net, she solemnly nodded and explained that she'd been reading fic since "the days of personal websites" but that she only started writing fanfic when she was 47 and oh my god when i tell you that i genuinely teared up on the spot!!!!! like!!! HELL YEAH???? LITERALLY NEVER TOO OLD TO START WRITING. NEVER TOO OLD TO WRITE AND SHARE YOUR FIC.

her enthusiastic "i'm a very nice and bubbly person, i swear! but i love writing angst and major character death :)" nearly took me the fuck out.

icon. legend. diva. i wish her nothing but a kajillion million comments and kudos. i hope her fic updates crash AO3. i hope she knows i'm promoting her to my personal patron saint of AO3.

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exile as a concept is so funny. it's like "we don't care what you do after you leave just as long as you get the fuck out and we never have to see you ever again"

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happy 14th birthday to teen wolf <3 you made me cry actual tears over how crazy and bad you were at times but ultimately i love you. you were truly 2010s tv royalty 🐺✨🌙

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Stiles: What are the most unusual places you've had sex?

Derek: in a happy relationship

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I just watched teen wolf finale for the first time and you mean to say to me that Derek saw Stiles on his FBI field mission after not seeing him for like a year or even more (and after forgetting he existed when he was wiped away by the ghost riders) and his first instinct was to carry him out of that building bride-style because Stiles got hurt and couldn't walk??? and then drive with him all the way back to Beacon Hills??? and then bicker with him about another threat like old husbands??? like oh my god, get a room already