#I’m at the end of my rope

[touchlikethesun]

ohhhhh mon dieu je vais tuer cette fille je te jure j’en peux plusssssss 😭 « et on vois que c’est du art nouveau pcq fleurs » « mais ç’a été fait en 1820 donc non » « ah bon ? mais on voit quand même des influences » influences de quoi c’est presque cent ans après !!! juste ???? non ???? ferme la stpppppppp tu connais strictement rien et ça commence à ralentir mon travail arrête arrête arrête

[sp-acecreature]

I will forever love my partner but if they draw one more sexy plankton I swear-

[transmasc-totoro]

Laptop died during 7pm group. Instead of telling us they turned the tv back on. Girl said “oh I thought this was the meeting” no you didn’t it’s a Tom cruise movie!!! Stop fucking lying all the time.

[vodkassassin]

Bringing this up again so very soon purely because I had a perfect example happen just this morning.

For some context: I had a hellish week last week. I skipped all my gym days (something I look forward to a lot!) bc I was so exhausted from an ongoing issue at work. It reached a precipice on Thursday and I experienced a pretty terrible meltdown on my drive home that honestly made me shocked at myself, bc I hadn’t realized it was getting so bad.

Anyway I had a restful Friday and Saturday and finally on Sunday I had something I hadn’t had in a good while: motivation to write! I was so happy and excited, bc work has lately been sucking out all my energy that I don’t have the will or drive to spend time on the hobbies I typically enjoy like art and writing.

I spent all of Sunday having fun and outlining/writing the next chapter for one of my favorite fics of mine. I was very excited to continue working on it throughout the week and was hoping to have something out by next weekend.

Then comes this morning. At on ny first break at work and I’m catching up on my personal emails, when I see a comment on the very fic I was working all weekend on:

[ID: an Ao3 comment saying ‘Still praying for u to continue this one day :')’]

Now, I’m not putting any expectations on this commentor. I don’t know them, they could be anyone. They likely don’t follow me on tumblr or they’d have seen my recent post about this kind of comment and how much we authors hate it. They aren’t in my reader discord server, bc everyone there heard all about how I was literally just working on the next chapter for this very fic.

I also don’t expect them to know how absolutely hellish my personal life has been. I’m hoping that if they did know all that, they wouldn’t leave this comment.

But that’s exactly it. They have NO FUCKING IDEA what I’ve been doing. They came in, read my fic, noticed it wasn’t updating fast enough for them and decided all on their own that the author has just simply abandoned it.

I bet this commentor thought they were being encouraging, perhaps a hero to the other readers of the story for taking one for the team and pointing out to the author how people are waiting on them to get their shit together and do their job.

Well, congrats! You did manage something. I likely won’t get back that motivation for quite a while. Knowing myself, it could be months.

Anyway, I wanted to add this example to this post because it highlights EXACTLY what this post is about. I hope it clarifies some stuff for those of you out there who leave comments like this.

Y’all need to stop commenting on fics like the author is dead or something. The author sees those comments bro it’s like saying to someone’s face “sorry to hear about your passing. The only reason I’m sad about it is bc you won’t be making me any more sandwiches for free” like can you see how that might be insensitive? So what if they haven’t made a sandwhich in a month or a year or five. It’s not your place to announce their death lmao

[bartholomew-junior]

i’ve seen fundraisers gain over 5k in less than 2 days, and if something like that happened to @rajaagaza’s fundraiser, it would change her and her family’s lives.

11 months of genocide have been carried out, i know people are growing weary and working themselves to the bone. but i also know that people are dying. is that not enough to raise your hand?

i hate to say it because i don’t want to confront it, i don’t want to say that the kind, thoughtful, funny woman who asked me about my broken wrist while she was in an active war zone, who told me recently about how her baby boy, karam, recently got some toys gifted to him and how he’s been so happy, is, with every increasing second, more and more likely to die. is that enough for you?

her family is only 5,353 CAD away from being completed. please please please please do anything, anything at all that you can.

here is my comms for proof of donation for her (and others campaigns) info if it helps.

tags for reach underneath the cut. tell me if u don’t wanna be tagged again please:

@wellwaterhysteria , @appsa , @apollos-olives

[mint-termsandconditions]

Live Footage Of Uther Pinning The Blame Of His Actions On Someone Else:

Sir Uther belongs to @quanblovk

Valfrey belongs to @gethoce

[moonshynecybin]

imo wrt rosquez cryptic pregnancy baby like. if vale is first not believing that the child is his/doing accusatory mind games there and then later trying to take the baby away he does kinda become The Bad Guy even if his emotions make sense on his side. but yeah saying that. alex running interference obviously marc is very protective irl but it’s clear it does go both ways

scream trust that even while im exercising empathy for vale in terms of his exact spiral down into crazy during the 2015 season i am ALWAYS hashtag team marc. metaphorical t-shirt that says VALE IS THE BAD GUY that i wear to every grand prix in my mind. i need him to grovel and i know he never will so i need marc to win ten titles minimum

[storybookprincess]

hello my friends i am on the very very last day of packing my apartment to move & my flesh prison has decided to absolutely shit the bed today for no reason so i’m super weak & exhausted & in pain trying to finish everything & i’m thisclose to losing my actual shit about it

SO if anyone wants to send any fun asks to help keep my spirits up pls know they will be super appreciated. doesn’t even have to be moving related!!!!! just say hi or talk about whatever!!!!

anyway this is my to do list girl help

[pjharvey]

my cat has regurgitated his food two days in a row. should i be worried. im aware this is phrased like a reddit or quora post

[fantasticalleigh]

People using AI art to promote their new fics 🫠🤮🤮🤮🤮

There are plenty of artists within this fandom to talk to and hire for commissions yet you choose to do THAT. If you can’t afford to hire an artist or can’t ask for a collaboration then use stock images or try drawing it yourself. get this shit off my dash and tumblr stop recommending me these posts ffs

[pynkhues]

https://x.com/brightssunshin/status/1860408854003298682

https://x.com/chuuloid/status/1861160266391576590

literally post season 2. To Me

I n c r e d i b l e, love your work, ops, haha

[ropes3amthoughts]

I’m so glad I watched Arcane because I got like 3 posts that were full of gifs of Caitlyn and Vi kissing on my dash in a row and if I hadn’t just watched it I would’ve gotten spoiled lmao

[terrak0]

Lee: Uh, Ben? Where’d you get that hatchet?

Ben: I just found it. It was stuck in the door handle at the end of the hallway back there. :)

Lee:

[vodkassassin]

Welcome to another episode of ao3 etiquette! This is really just another follow up to our original lesson of Don’t Be Entitled in Your Comments, where common human decency is explained plainly for all to learn.

In this installment, I’ll be sharing a few examples of comments not to leave on anyone’s fanfic, regardless of who they are. Please see the below:

You will find that in the first example I blocked out the person’s name, as it was an earlier screenshot and at the time my intention was not to call out anyone specific. However, I am past that now. This is a callout, and if you post something online you’d should remember you’re posting it under your own identity, online persona or not.

So, fair warning; if you leave unsolicited complaints or critiques on my fics, you’d best believe that I will be taking screenshots and sharing them with my fellow writer friends so that we can all laugh at the childish audacity of you.

Yes, I’m sure some of you might tell me that the second example is not all that bad and I’m overreacting, but I’m really not. Trust me, even the littlest version of these comments are not acceptable. And that is because, frankly, the commenters have no place to be making them.

Anyway, please take a long look at both the examples above, and really think about them. If you recognize yourself in them, I’d suggest taking steps to correct your behavior before you become one of the people authors don’t want to see in the comments of their stories.

Your only other option is to just quit reading stories entirely! Hope you found this helpful thanks : )

Finally; if you ignore all the above, please at least do know that if you are One of Them, be prepared for me to not be taking any of your shit in my replies, or to be ignored completely.

[sunmisbf]

i saw this tweet n it’s making me spiral i should be seeing her too i’m throwing up 😭😭😭😭😭

[the-broken-pen]

Quotes from me, exhausted and grieving:

“They go to sleepy town and I have much real estate”

“Yeah so I’m actually going to go up to the roof and I’m gonna descend in non traditional methods”

*At three am* “hey do u wanna hear about Batman and all his robins completely in depth curated entirely off of fan media and not at all based on source material since I have not read it? Cool! Okay! So basically—“

“Science is like oh this is so interesting!!! I want to die”

*sobbing and hyperventilating in the corner*: “I’m so sorry I’m being such a bummer right now I’m trying but I can’t stop crying

Roommate, horrified: what no-

“So I forgot I had a presentation and remembered I had a presentation but only remembered at two am so I wrote an incomprehensible script and raw dogged that shit four hours later no slides no practice just me god and the Dr Pepper I chugged. And yk what. I killed that shit.”

“I have a sort of manic depressed aura that draws in English teachers and compels them to let me do whatever the fuck I want. I’m not complaining but ethically is it ok for me to continue to be a sad wet cat in the eyes of humanities professors??”

“When you apply for college conceivably could you list only fans as an extracurricular. Like there are a lot of very specific scenarios that would need to happen regarding laws and age but like I feel it demonstrates certain business and entrepreneurship that could be a good addition to a college app.”

“I relate to Peter Parker in a sad, desperate sort of way. Like can I earn some super powers to go with this trauma. Please.”

Friend: how tf are you still showing pneumonia symptoms

Me: I feel we’ve established I am cursed

“See I already cried three times today so I’m gonna spend the next two days not processing any of my emotions in a dissociative haze and there is nothing that will mitigate that. I’m out of Mac and cheese cups.”

Me: So I stuck a cow to our next door neighbors door because I’ve got a sibling rivalry with one of them now—

Roommate: when did this happen?

Me: idk like 1am you gotta keep up bro

“My roommates go to sleep at normal hours and then I am up at three am and it’s like I am so sorry I am not awake because of an assignment I am just like this.”

“The doctors keep trying to fix me and it’s not working. My body has decided it doesn’t want to digest things again and also I stopped sleeping which means I think I’m becoming god maybe.”