#i’m not even sad about it
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Just saw that Sally has a miscarriage. Makes sense it’s not like the writers allow her to be happy ✌🏻
#i’m not even sad about it#just annoyed#now when Courtney cries? THEN i’ll be sad#sally spectra#the young and the restless
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not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…
‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.
‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.
even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.
I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.
fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.
idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.
#ao3#archive of our own#fanfiction#tbh even if I got a comment that said ‘I hate you I’m going to kill your family’ on chapter 75 it still means they read 75 chapters first….#it just makes me sad to see so many writers shouting into the void#and also see ppl complain openly about the specific types of comments they receive#posting screenshots on Reddit like ‘should I be mad at this’ CALM DOWN#sigh
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normal things that happen on their weekly grocery run
#this came from my anesthesia dream#i don’t know if that’s crazy or not#dreaming about destiel even when i’m under the knife#sort of beautiful..#also i needed to draw a sweet moment bc the last episode i left on was SO SAD#my doomed yaoi pookies…#destiel#dean winchester#castiel#spn#supernatural#fanart#comic#d art
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Emmy being self-conscious of his age, and maybe even about how he looks. 🥺 Rook loves him anyway.
#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#DAtV#Emmrich volkarin#my art#yes I had the thought after I saw folks changing how he looked via mods#Emmy is already self conscious of his age#I can imagine at his lowest points he just wonders if he even looks good enough#he tries to dress well and is very particular about shaving and grooming himself#even tho he came from poor circumstances and doesn’t seem to care for nobles#he still tries to come across fancy and upper class#being sensitive that its education that makes a man#he’s a sensitive soul inside and he’s always trying to please the people around him#I can imagine how badly he might take comments about his looks#anyway I’m rambling but I want to make yall sad too#ahahah#oh Emmy we love you
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Thinking about Thalia Grace. Thinking about Thalia losing her little brother when she’s nine. Thinking about Thalia running away and meeting Annabeth Chase a few years later, a tiny blond girl around the same age her brother would have been if he’d still been alive.
Thinking about Thalia starting to see Annabeth as a little sister.
Thinking about Thalia sacrificing herself to save Annabeth and Luke like she could not save Jason.
#Thalia Grace#jason grace#grace siblings#Annabeth chase#thalia and jason#thalia and annabeth#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#hoo#heroes of olympus#Feeling severely ill about the Grace siblings actually I’m so sad for Thalia#She lost Jason *twice*#The most time she ever got to spend with him was when he was a baby so young that he can’t even remember
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Okay can I be a bitter Anders fan for like. Just 2 minutes here lmao
Cause bioware released some game stats for veilguard and apparently 72% of players redeemed Solas which is like. Okay yeah the game kinda pushes you towards that. But when I think of all the shit I used to have to put up with just for enjoying Anders like at all and…
(This is not me being anti-Solas, I do not care if you love or hate him, but I am gonna say what he’s done is like. Objectively worse than literally every other companion so lmao. And that’s fine! You can still enjoy him! I’m not saying you can’t and it’s important to me that people understand that! I’m just saying he did in fact do objectively morally worse things in game than Anders did and I don’t think that’s really debatable. And I can’t really make my point here without saying that but I do want to make it clear this is not some moral condemnation of Solas enjoyers cause it’s not)
Getting anon hate on the regular, being told “oh you’re allowed to like Anders as long as you regularly talk about how much he sucks”, people gleefully describing how much fun they have killing him ON your posts about the fact that you like him, the devs making jokes about shitty fates for him when fans asked innocent questions about him, the absolute audacity of his writer to say half the shit she did in interviews (about bisexuality and mental illness, most critically), and then being beaten over the head again in inquisition about how Anders is the worst character to ever exist and there’s no redemption for terrorists who lie to you one time in the entire game and he deserves death or worse and that’s it
And now… 72% of people are down to redeem the guy who lies to you for 2 games straight and who did a lot of questionable things that includes creating the fucking blight and. Like. I guess I’m glad that Solas fans can live in a world where they aren’t constantly harassed and can give their ship like. A pretty damn good ending all things considered. And that the devs love Solas and actually give the option for that happy ending and have characters go to bat for Solas throughout the game and the most annoying thing they have to see are people making scrambled egg memes. I would not wish anyone to have to deal with the shit Anders fans had to put up with back then cause it sucked. It really sucked. And I’m glad it’s not being repeated with a different character, if nothing else
But like. Man there really is a difference when the writers actually like the character who does the thing, huh
#shut up nerd#anders#I’m sorry it’s just. really hard to not be bitter tbh#like the shit we as fans went through#just for liking a damn character#tbf I do actually think if the game came out today perceptions would be different#I think people would be more comfortable with revolutionary action now than they were then#but even still#it’s not even about that you know#it’s about people (both fans and at times the actual devs) being mean when they really didn’t need to be#and the DA trenches are probably why literally no harassment phases me anymore lmao but#that’s not a good thing slskd it’s just a useful consequence I guess#so yeah idk#am I jealous that Solas fans get to have a better experience?#yeah I can’t deny I feel a bit of that#but I’m also just. idk tired and sad for what that time was. and also glad that it seems to be over#but also a little bitter that I had to go through it when it didn’t need to happen at all#idk just feeling a lot here in this chili’s tonight lmao#(why do I say that I don’t think my country even has chili’s)#ANYWAY#dragon age#veilguard spoilers
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Sometimes a day makes you want a Starscream to bite and squeeze
#guess who got their final scores back ahaaa#class avg was 60 percent 😭#also I have blocked the transformers tag on TikTok that place is a hellhole#bit of a vent here but it’s so crazy#I was talking to a person I didn’t even follow a while back and we were making jokes like yeah the autobots ship megastar#on my fyp a couple days later and I see them reposting “shipping megastar is bad and gross’ like bruh what#I saw one of my followers commenting ‘yeah can’t believe it’s so popular’ I HAVE POSTED MEGASTAR BEFORE WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE#I POSTED MY STARSCREAM AND MEGATRON FIGURES RAILING EACH OTHER#I only started posting cause I was like eh if it’s getting banned might as well#these people were poisoning my fyp smh#I’m convinced it’s just a moral superiority thing like all of those people who thought abo was so cringe and then someone was like#‘I secretly like abo’ and everyone agreed that they also like abo and it’s not that weird anymore#Ngl though. it is kinda sad but also kinda funny#sorry for the rant cause I talked about it before and I don’t want to keep on talking about it but those two baffled me#transformers#transformers fanart#megastar#megatron#starscream#transformers g1#megascream#maccadam#its like watching one of those religious couples where one of them is gay and theyre like 'I am working through my gay to be straight'
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Sobbing,,, that lore drop was something huh?
#boothill#honkai star rail#fanart#I love him a lot#like I’m insane about it#I’m so sad about this#distraught even#he deserves a happy ending#anyways if people wanna talk to me about him I would like that#also I tried coloring this for like 2 hours and I hated each version so I left it#but like if you want to color it i don’t minddddd#my art#my baby my baby you’re my baby say it to me#sobs
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would you hold my face softly and tell me it will be alright?
#genshin impact#scaramouche#wanderer#furina#in my head they are already domesticated#very much in a romantic sense#i don’t see why people need to comment besties/siblings so badly#rant time#like you don’t need to ship them but this is my art and i very much ship it#so if you don’t see them that way you can interpret my art that way and go on your merry way#at this point it’s just annoying bc i could never imagine someone commenting siblings on my yantao art#i don’t mind if you see them as best friends i can also see them like that#but you don’t need to announce it#as if your integrity is in danger#im sad i can’t tag the ship bc it’s a rarepair and i’m not sure what the name even is#welp if anyone read this you can totally forget about it now i'm over it#sad scararina hours letsgoo
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Thinking about Carpe Diem and the cinematography of falling leaves to falling snow.
Seasons as cyclical as generations. It's tapestries and banners. It’s photographs on the wall. A structure, a system; tradition in the bones of buildings and boys.
There's a choice to be made - Nolan's hollow, ceremonial Light of Knowledge, or Neil's scavenged, man-made God of the Cave?
They’re children living for the future through a lens of past. Fireside stories embraced by woodland caves. They chant, dance, and recite from a sacred book - the heirloom they claim from a father they chose.
The window is finally open, but time froze at Welton lake. Forever winter. Forever youth. A moment in time, a feeling, a community turned to dust.
It's all so fleeting. Carpe Diem. Teenage years, childhood, a lifetime in three months. It’s a tragedy of classical epics.
The tale is old, but this wound is fresh. Falling to your knees. Shouting at the sky, praying and wailing, and clutching at the earth.
But the snow never stops.
Spring is up to us.
#ambivalent endings my beloved#trapped by a story we somehow already know#we are right there with the boys#no closure. only what we make of it#denial or sad edits and angsty fics#/#another thought sprial by the courtesy of ts#who do i have to speak to change the prophecy?#even statues (neil) crumble if they’re made to wait so afraid#tempted and bitten - theatre his snake and apple#someone edit todd crying like an infant howling like a wolf at the moon pls#i’m losing it#and i keep thinking about windows in the movie#so. many. windows.#CO Posts#dead poets society#dps#dead poets fandom#dps fandom#todd anderson#neil perry#john keating
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you know I wonder what it says about me and/or fandom that it’s making me way more nervous to outline a future fic I want to write that ends in tragedy and a bunch of major characters die in the course of that tragedy than it ever did to like… write the fic where boatem keeps on coming across their bloated corpses. it’s not even that I haven’t written major character death before (although admittedly the death in stuffed bird ALSO made me way more nervous at the time than just about anything else about that fic, except maybe “the grian reveal ends up too corny”). nor is it that I haven’t written things that end bleakly or in tragedy before (carrows is a fic that arguably has an unhappy ending; the catastrophe is averted for the time being rather than actually prevented). I think it might be the combination of the taboo of character death within fandom with the aversion a lot of fandom has to “real” tragedy that’s freaking me out about this fic. I mean I’m gonna write it it’s one of the ideas I’ve been most excited about in a long time and it’s revived my “I want to try to get a daily writing streak going” mood. but man, I don’t know. I think it’s sometimes scary to put yourself out there by writing an ending that is going to make people unhappy on purpose, that’s sad on purpose, and because it’s sad is gonna alienate people and you know that from the entry. so like, shoutout to everyone who does that, y’all are real ones,
#sorry it’s nearly two am and I’m feeling Some Kinda Way#anyway don’t worry about this yet even if I do daily writing this one’ll be a few months out#it’s just ‘sad ending’ is one of the initial thematic cornerstones I’m not going to touch#and that’s scary! that’s scary.
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Stephanie Lauter is initially defined by her archetype as the popular girl in high school, but she must have been so lonely before Pete. Her mother is dead. Her father hates her and makes no attempt to hide it except to protect his reputation, constantly insulting, belittling and exerting authority over her when he isn’t busy with politics. She talks back to him, but doesn’t deny his descriptions of her. Miss Tessburger is the same. Her apparent friendships with the other cool kids, the kind of people who openly state the belief that looks are everything (not so different a paradigm to the one her father lives by), seem to be shallow and distant. Max rules the main popular clique with an iron fist to the point that they all stop bullying immediately and the school’s rigid social hierarchy crumbles once his influence is gone; and yet despite him having enough respect for her to try to protect her from what he believed were the undead during the prank, she was unaware of how big a problem his bullying was until she saw what he did to Pete, so she can’t have ever been that enmeshed in his circle. She dismisses her kindness to the losers as “the bare minimum” rather than lean into the potential for real friendships with them or leverage it to have power in this new group. It’s almost as if she doesn’t want to mislead them into thinking that she’s worth their time.
She’s cool because she acts like she doesn’t care about anything, and why would she? Life has never given her anything to care about. In fact, it’s punished her for caring. No matter what she does, her dad tells her that she’s worthless and stupid, so she stops trying to do well in school and starts sneaking out to parties full of alcohol and following through on flirting with the football players. She might as well make her body feel alive, as she can’t fix the fuck-up in her skull. Her phone is legitimately what she cherishes most in life. It can’t love her back or hug her or make the real world better, but at least it gives her an escape. It’s her space to control. Her pictures that she likes to look at, her music that drives her dad’s words out of her head. Her private conversations with people she chooses. At least it’s hers. (It isn’t. Her dad has been bugging it since she was twelve.)
Then Pete is nice to her, and in two weeks he becomes what she cherishes most.
Then she has to kill him. And shouldn’t she have seen this coming? Shouldn’t she have learned her lesson by now? Caring just means you have something to lose. That’s why she never wanted to love him like she does.
She pulls the trigger.
#and even though he’s okay with it and they both live she has to live with that forever#by the end he’s lost richie and ruth but still has his parents and ted#she has nobody except him#help i thought too hard about the fun cool girl and now i’m sad#she wanted#she NEEDED#the kind of love from someone else#stephanie lauter#steph lauter#solomon lauter#hatchetfield#nerdy prudes must die#npmd
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Sometimes. I’m struck by how. Incurious. The Kids are these days. A 2022 Pew survey showed that 2/3 people under 25 preferred tiktok to any other form of media. If something is not on their tiktok fyp they simply don’t care to know it exists. And even when something *is* on the fyp, they stick to just that one thing and don’t use it as a stepping stone for discovery. Like. Streams of Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams and Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill shot up exponentially after they were featured on that tiktok and Stranger Things, respectively. But *just* those songs. It never occurred to them to. Listen to the rest of their discographies. Even just the rest of the album each was from. They’ll watch a movie if a clip goes viral but not seek out any other works in the lead actor/director’s filmography. Especially if it’s something from before 2001 that isn’t a constant on the letterboxd “popular this week” list. A buddy of mine who is a middle school teacher said that, of the 120 kids she teaches, just 3 of her students read for pleasure. None of them watch movies or shows that aren’t fed to them through tiktok. They don’t spend time in the library just taking in as much as they can. They don’t flip channels and land on a movie made before they were born. They don’t seek. Whatever is going on. It’s only getting worse. I don’t know what to do about it.
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rewatched madoka magica again today bc i fucking hate myself and to absolutely no one’s surprise i went through all five stages of grief in a single evening
#let’s talk about sayaka miki for a second#genuinely the fact that her whole character is centered around tragedy almost to a shakespearean extent#she’s selfless and brave and values her justice and righteousness above all. calls herself an ally of justice#in fact i think it’s rather intriguing how her whole character is centered around “justice”#her story being a more twisted retelling of the original little mermaid#how she is initially portrayed as a very heroic and confident character even before becoming a magical girl. always shielding madoka#selling her soul to heal the boy she loved out of a selfless desire to see him well again#her being absolutely distraught abt being robbed of her humanity and betrayed by kyubey#she combats this harrowing realization by immersing herself in her duties not caring that she is slowly deteriorating in the process#becoming numb with pain and fighting recklessly and psychotically trying to drown out the pain#finally coming to the sickening conclusion that humanity doesn’t deserve her saving and she succumbs to a fate of her making#last words being “i was so stupid” which trumps her previous statement of “there’s no way i’d regret this”#ALSO? the fact that her costume and weapon are symbolic of a knight. she rly portrays this hero of justice who will protect and defend ☹️#i think abt the fact that homura said that sayaka’s wish was so selfless it was only a matter of time before she died#sayaka being the example of what happens to magical girls who go through the entire cycle and eventually become witches is so sad to me#genuinely just like. sick and twisted#very very fucked up.#characters who have their own misconstrued interpretation of “justice” or who are centered around justice in general.#you will always be dear to me.#sayaka reminds me a lot of akechi in some ways ngl#harboring an almost idealized vision of justice but it slowly rots and festers and corrupts their hearts the more immersed w it they become#actually losing their sanity when they fight bc of how much pain they’re in but refuse to acknowledge it until they break#refusing any help and wallowing in misery despite having ppl who love them and want to save them#last words are those expressing regret for being such a fool. for being ignoring#being used by yhe main villain as a stepping stone towards their true goal. they were merely a pawn#also doomed in every version of their reality. always doomed by the narrative no matter what choices they make#i have a type i fear#HAHAHAH ALSO the fact that they’re both dressed so regally compared to everyone else in their respective series#meant to portray them in a virtuous and princely light. only made more apparent by the sword being their weapon of choice#i’m gonna shut up now but they’re soo eerily similar its unnerving tbh 💀
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“What happened to the young boy who came into my chambers just a few years ago?”
Well, I mean, everyone he’s ever loved is either dead or about to die, so I’d wager on that. I mean, I could be wrong, but.
#bbc merlin#merlin#merlin spoilers#honestly Merlin is so fucking traumatised#it’s such a fun show#but then you think about it#and you realise just how tragic the whole thing is#he did everything he could#but there was nothing that could change the inevitable#but he tried so hard to defy fate anyway#even knowing the outcome#great now I’m sad
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Personal space? [x]
#spn fanart#spn art#destiel#dean winchester#castiel#spnfanart#wiggleart#I love this mating dance#the joke here is ladies and gentleman and all in between that dean complains at that point about personal space but in the end they wind#up so literally infused into one another they’re always so close lmao#after 1518 I’m sure Dean mourned any indication of wanting personal space even a decade prior#Sorry sad thoughts I’m done I promise
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