#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

[the-void-has-questions]

I wish I could be one of the people who can just let go of things but no it’s like there’s a vengeful little crab in my brain going “hehehehe they’re right about you click clack clickclack”

[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

[etherealxwitch]

The professor vibes are there and they are making me scream

guys, i genuinely will not survive when these hq pics come out

[mint-termsandconditions]

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

Sir Uther belongs to @quanblovk

Valfrey belongs to @gethoce

[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

[viric-dreams]

There was a silver lining to Jones’ stressful mission infiltrating the Koloman Delegation during the Games. He’d managed to make a friendly contact—a surface spy from Cornwall, who found the goings-on just as ridiculous as he did. But her bosses told her to come down to the Neath, so here she was.

The Cornish Koloman at least had a sense of humour about it. And the longer they spoke, the more affinity he had for her. This seemed to be reciprocal, with the interest she’d taken in him. She didn’t know his role, but seemed generally sympathetic toward the cause. Perhaps she could be turned.

Following her departure to the surface, they kept in touch, their letters decidedly friendly in nature, but always with the undercurrent of something else. She’d mention updates from the surface, vaguely allude to the pieces moving above, hints that may be useful. Perhaps she’d suspected his allegiances and wanted to offer something of use. It’s unlikely to be simply friendly small talk—she’s clever, after all.

As time went on and the constable’s menacing weighed heavier and heavier on him, it became more and more difficult to write. His letters would be equally sociable in nature, each piece of correspondence dutifully reported up the chain, but slower, each letter needing longer and longer to write.

He was hardly working anymore. What was the point with the walls closing in on him? If the Constable wouldn’t get him, his own side would. The surveillance was constant now. They were gearing up to make a move, he could feel it. He’d meant to write some sort of a goodbye, yet it had somehow gotten buried in the pile—too many affairs to get in order. He’d probably forgotten something important, but he’d long since stopped keeping track of the things he’d forgotten. He regrets not writing a final letter.

[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 😭😭😭😭😭

[stylishanachronism]

If anyone has fiction podcast recs that are not about the main cast being mean to each other I am all ears