#i am... so tired.

[mandiemegatron]

For the people who keep sending asks or leaving comments like "why do you self ship with a fictional character" or "stop being fucking weird and fall for real life people" -

First of all, there is literally no harm being done by self shipping with a fictional character. It's literally just for funzies, bc I am incredibly aware that they will NEVER exist.

Second, It's a comfort thing. Feeling like this character would care for me and love me, when this world has been nothing but cruel to me my entire life, it makes me feel like I can handle what the world throws at me. It gives me strength to keep going, knowing that this character I love would be cheering me on, even just a little.

Thirdly, it fills me with a huge ICK trying to be attracted to real life people. Sure, there's some super hot dudes/women out there but those are real people, and shipping yourself with real people has real impact. People don't deserve to be treated like a piece of media, people are PEOPLE, and they deserve a shred of respect, and it's disrespectful (TO ME, MY OPINION ONLY) to be so horny for a real person that you ship yourself with them. Like sorry, but you won't catch me shipping myself with like, Tom Hiddleston. I like him, I find him super hot, but I'm not gunna ship myself with him, ya know ? He's a real dude with real feelings.

This is literally just for fun, but some of you are taking the fun out of it by being awful and cruel human beings. Don't like what you see? Then block me. Let me be in my little bubble with my mutuals who understand and you go be with yours. The answer is in YOUR hands, and it's called the block button.

I'm not hurting anyone 😞 just stop.

[ratcandy]

well, you see, the thing is: (instead of finishing my sentence i curl up comfortably in bed and go to sleep

[eunnieboo]

every single time

[freakoutgirl]

I'm like if a girl who didn't do much was still experiencing burnout

[normal-thoughts-official]

Please stop seeing politics as an identity and start seeing it as a collective means for change

[mysillycomics]

[jasontoddiefor]

I need minors to learn how to lie online again. Your name is Derek, you’re 25 and work in accounting now. Please for your own safety learn how to fucking lie. And if you don’t want to lie, then don’t put your age anywhere. Don’t even say whether you’re a minor or not. It is perfectly easy to avoid adult spaces without signposting that you are doing so because you’re a child.

Stating your age doesn’t protect you this only makes you a target.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

"Why doesn't this post cover every single tiny bit of nuance in a situation?!" because op thought it would get 14 notes

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

I am incredibly serious right now when I beg you all, please, and if you have Twitter or Tiktok or whatever to please spread the word: click on an author's profile on Ao3.

You want to know if an author has written more? Want to know if they're still writing? Want to see more from them? Want to know if they've written a trope or kink or sex scenario you enjoy?

Click on their name. And look at their profile.

I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

"Would you ever do X?" "Please do Y!" I already did. Click on my name and look at my works.

Archive of our Own is a library. It's an archive. Not social media. It is your responsibility to fight back against the laziness that corporate algorithms have trained into you.

Click my author name. Just click it. Just click it.

Before you demand more, or ask if a writer will do XYZ, or wonder if the author still writing, or anything - click on their profile. Click on the author's profile.

I'm not trying to be mean or condescending or anything like that. I'm just exhausted. It's disheartening and frustrating to repeat myself ad nauseam, because someone couldn't take thirty seconds to do the tiniest bit of work to see if I've written lately, if I've written more for their ship, or scan my works to see if I've written what they're asking for. Please. Please. I'm begging.

Click the author's name, and explore before you ask.

[hinamie]

make it vicious, take a stab

[transthatfag]

destiel forehead healing kiss. what more could u want.

[riverthebooknerd]

"but why do you even ship them-" IT BRINGS ME JOY AND WHIMSY!!!!!!!

[pepperingsteaks]

hello mouthwashing fans

(this is a scene redraw btw)

[callisteios]

Hi, feel free to take my new uquiz to discover what kind of vampire you are!

[marimbles]

Halloween comic two weeks late bc i will never let tamadrien die

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

I spent all day on this, now I'm gonna go spend the rest of my Halloween with my family, I LOVE YOU GUYS, HAVE A GOOD HALLOWEEN!!!!!

I lost the ask this was supposed to be attached to :'(

Woah, actual communication??? Between these bozos?? More likely than you'd think 🙏

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