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I fucking love Alex hirsch

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Her name was Nao and she was feeling sea sick but also really sad because she was headed back to college which was far away from her home...My japanese isn't very good...

I sat with her for a while and ended up asking a staff member for help. It was really bad weather that day, the sea was choppy so that was making her sea sickness worse...It was raining heavily with strong winds, and the staff member suggested she went out on the deck of the boat for some fresh air but it was TERRIBLE weather out there so I went with her. she ended up feeling better! and we waved goodbye once we got to our destination! Nao, I hope you're doing alright out there!

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It’s heartbreaking to pour your heart and soul into a story just to not even know if anyone read it at all. I currently have a fic on ao3 that I wrote because someone wrote such a sweet comment on a different story of mine.

I was so happy about that comment and went straight to work on something specifically to thank that person. That thank you fic has zero comments. Did anyone even read it?

I’m not sure.

I feel discouraged.

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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Went to a friend’s wedding this past weekend and got to see all of my old college friends for the first time in a long time. I had so much fun! But now I’m home and I’ve realized how freaking lonely I am now. I miss the closeness of my college friend group. The easy way we integrated into each other’s lives.

Now, pretty much everyone is married so there probably won’t be more weddings to bring us together. I used to see these people every day for four years, and it saddens me to think that maybe this past weekend was the last time we’d ever be all in one place.

It’s really bittersweet. I genuinely love the people in this friend group, and the idea that maybe we won’t be together again is really sad? But I guess that’s part of growing up.

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New Katsuki illustration

From here:

He looks adorable 😭❤️

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死んだ…殺す

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Old habits die hard I guess 😅

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In Marinette's eyes, the two cats might appear to overlap.

It's been 5 years since the release of Chat Blanc.

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NEW HORI SKETCH with katsuki in a jean version of his costume sdgjsfsghj

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dash is dead im teleporting to the past

https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard?max_post_id=606474489540042752

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Day 15: Spark

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Banging on the walls chanting "OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR ACA THRU JAN 15" like some deranged town crier. Election results aside, you have options to access healthcare as a RIGHT through the ACA. NO one can dismantle the Affordable Care Act in less than 4 years, so SIGN UP! GET YOUR CARE! USE THE SYSTEM!

You have options RIGHT NOW that will be stable thru the next year, the one after that, and I'd be shocked to see them shrink even the year after that. That means RIGHT NOW you can get signed up for next year to gain 100% covered preventative care (your annual check ups, pap smears, dental cleaning, vision check). You have the option to get checked and screened as you need, do NOT be dissuaded from exploring ACA choices. They are SOLID, LEGISLATED, and WORK BEST WHEN PEOPLE USE THEM.

I can't change most things around me, BUT I CAN tell everyone I know that THEY CAN GET LIFE SAVING CARE. THEY CAN GET PRESCRIPTIONS. THEY CAN GET PREGNANCY CARE. THEY CAN GET CANCER CARE. AND THEY WILL GET THAT CARE!!!!!!

SIGN UP BY DECEMBER 15, 2024 FOR COVERAGE TO BEGIN ON JANUARY 1, 2025. ENROLLMENT AFTER 12/15/24 WILL HAVE COVERAGE BEGINNING FEBRUARY 1, 2025.

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She’s everything. He’s just Roy