#just needed to get that off my chest

[groundzero-v]

I noticed that an amazing fic I read with over 60k words and over 900 kudos...didn't receive a single comment in 2022.

There were some comments in 2021, then a gap, then a few comments from this year. That is insane.

Ao3 is not built like Wattpad, it is not meant to be treated like the 'latest hits' page where you only read the new works, or where you only click on sort by number of kudos. It doesn't matter if the fic you like is not wip anymore - if you really like the story, comment. A simple heart will do. The author won't think you're annoying, in fact they'll probably be incredibly happy.

Fic authors don't deserve to have their work just disappear with no engament after few weeks pass. The fics don't deserve it either

[messylustt]

just a reminder to those who report works for being too sexual. if you feel uncomfy or dislike the work don’t put a community label on it, instead don’t read it. most writers put content warnings on their posts. read them before venturing further, please. and if you dislike something on there, again don’t read any further. smut etc. isn’t for everyone, that’s perfectly fine. but don’t do that to a writers hard work. please and thank you.

[perfectmanisperfect]

i had a plan and it’s gone to shit. was following my damn tim drake reading order and planned to stop at a certain point to read young justice 1998 and THEN I stumbled into cataclysm which leads to no man’s land which is like a long ass series but ALSO I was planning to go back and read the nightwing comics i skipped over to keep up with the tim drake reading order and NOW i don’t know what the fuck to read.

like i have to go back now for the beginning of cataclysm and for the nightwing ones but there’s also DIFFERENT reading orders online and i’m surely about to start screaming over pieces of paper!!! why don’t they line up online?? i’m gonna have to put young justice on hold but also i feel im gonna mix up my robin 1993 reading order and why are there so many dc comics and what the fuck happens when i get to damn reboots like whatever new 52 is and rebirth. help me!!

AND now i wanna read all the stephanie brown comics but i keep hearing mixed reviews about her new stuff and just bad character building and don’t even get me started on how badly i wanna start teen titans and I HAVENT READ ANYTHING with jason todd.

can you believe the reason i’m here is because i read a fucking marvel/dc crossover fanfic and then fell straight into the batfam hole. I DIDNT KNOW THERE WAS MORE THAN ONE ROBIN A YEAR AGO WHAT IS HAPPENING all i knew was bruce wayne batman and teen titans tv show from the 2000s. god help me

anyways if you read all this i’m sure you understand the struggle lol. thanks tumblr for giving me on outlet for these rants. i haven’t read anything but comics for the last week straight like over 300 now.

[changing-my-username]

Sick of my micro managing work colleague, who isn't even a manager. Sick of my condescending work colleague, asking me to clear a table that I'm literally standing in front of, about to clear, who makes me feel so isolated. Sick of going downstairs, only to be handed dirty dishes by some cunt, and sent back upstairs immediately. Sick of the food bell going off as soon as I get to the bottom of the fucking stairs. Sick of working with the old woman in potwash, who always fucks off at 3, laughs at everything, and can't stay a minute longer, and the kitchen waiting until after she's fucked off to make my lunch (so that there's no-one to cover me in there during my break). Sick of work colleagues only offering me help when I'm 2 minutes from finishing my shift. Where were you 3 hours ago, when it was busy as fuck in here? Couldn't give a toss about helping then, could you? Sick of hearing my boss, who owns a cafe, complain about breakages, one such instance being the day after a colleague dropped a tray of hot drinks. I'm just tired of this shite at this point.

[keitrinkomfloukru]

Okay, so, the words "starboard" and "port" exist so that you don't have to clarify whether you mean "the boat's left" or "my left" when you're facing the stern.

They're NOT redundant.

[girl-next-door-writes]

Personal rant, and it really is just a pet peeve of mine and nobody should take offence but…

YOUR FIC IS NOT X READER IF YOU GIVE THE READER CHARACTER A NAME!!! THAT’S AN OC!!!!!

*lets out a deep sigh*

Sorry. I’ve just started reading 4 different fics claiming to be x reader only to find the reader character has a name. I don’t mind OC stories, just make sure you tag it right kids!

[imtheiliad]

I NEED TO MAKE ART!!!!!!

[merofthefae]

YouTube is such an ass website. :|

[brawlingdiscontent]

Okay, but like -- and this has really been bothering me! -- we literally just saw him give up his other coven of hundreds of years in a flashback because...he was bored? Lestat was hot? Not wanting to give up your coven of 200 years is wearing a little thin motivation-wise, babe!

Would you like to know what she thinks of you now? (insp.)

[justthatpratte]

Last night, I had several horrible nightmares that I escaped only by waking at about 3:30 a.m. Mostly they were about being lonely and socially isolated, but after I went back to sleep at 4:00 a.m. I had another nightmare where bomber jets were flying overhead and I was hiding on my belly beneath my car, praying not to be hit. The terror was surreal. I have never felt that scared before, and I've lived through some pretty awful things. I haven't felt right all day.

I don't think I'm going to forget that nightmare or that fear anytime soon. I've been thinking a lot lately about the suffering this country has imported and exported throughout the entirety of its existence. I've been thinking about how basically since I was born, I've felt like I was always trying to escape my environment for one reason or another. Nowhere has ever really felt safe. I have never had a stable home. And I'm still miles more privileged than many who live here or abroad.

I think often of my own impotence, my lack of power or influence or even simple energy to resist. I am keenly aware of every pain and weakness and deformity of my body and I am regularly reminded of my physical and emotional limitations. Last night reminded me of what real fear feels like. Maybe I'm being melodramatic, but it seems like everywhere I look somebody is living through hell. I feel like I'm sitting on a safe, but desert, island as a tsunami wipes out everybody around me. I'm lucky to be in California, but I still don't feel safe knowing that people can just get fucken disappeared to another country or gunned down in the street. It doesn't happen here as often as in other states, but it does happen.

I worry about my grandmother returning to Canada. She was already bullied by immigration a few years ago and they illegally forced her to sign away her permanent residency. If something happened to her going over the border again, I don't know what I'd do. I'm worried that I'll never get to see her again. The U.S. is going down the drain so quickly. If they close borders and take us captive, who knows if I'll ever leave this place again.

I hate feeling like this. I hate not having anybody to talk to about it. I hate not being able to do much about it. Voting isn't sufficient when fascists can just block it, or block better people from running. Human rights are meaningless to them, so all of the emails and phone calls are just falling on deaf ears. Protests just feel like opportunities for them to detain and brutalize us, since the law is only being selectively enforced. Violence is barely an option, since most of us are unable or unwilling to pick up a weapon and put up a fight and we're heavily outgunned even if we do.

I'm tired of just trying to survive. I try to remind myself of the things I love, but they all start to feel like chains when I know that the state can threaten them to keep me in line.

[amessageonthewind]

[immabebaby]

helpless love life rant ahead

God I have the worst love hate relationship with my feelings rn cuz like yes but no but what if but it's been forever but it's special but why

Y'know?

I am in love with my best friend, which wasn't a problem a few years ago when I first found out, but now I really want these extra feelings gone. I want to go back to being her best friend, close confidant and all that and not want to be her girlfriend

At first I was like whatever, extra feelings means there's more love for her, but now I kinda hate the fact that I'm in love with her, I hate all these mushy feelings of longing and jealousy, all a that I want it gone

See my problem isn't just that I love her, no it can't be that simple. My problem is that short of making out we're practically a couple, and I know for a fact I don't act like this with any of my other friends, which I don't really know if she's noticed, they have tho. They all know, and the very least, "she's special"

I've taken her dancing, and I don't dance with anyone who isn't family, well I don't dance close, there's a difference to standing a few feet apart and shuffling in place vs taking her hand and leading her in a dance, pulling her close and twirling her around. God, I hold her hand. That may not seem like much but I have an ick to hand holding, even just someone's hand resting above my own, my other friends have picked up on it given that they rarely do it and I only initiate when they require that level of comfort. But with her? I hold her hand freely, seeking her out, reaching for her subconsciously, it does feel icky or gross or wrong in any way, it feels comforting and safe, and sometimes I think about simply holding her hand and never letting go

There's been times where I think about our future, how our wedding would go down (I'd wear a huge dress n walk down the aisle, she'd be able to rock a suit, haven't settled music) or about potential future kids, I know I want them, doubt she wants any tho living together, the whole package, even just being able to go on real dates with her, and being able to call her mine

I want the feelings gone bc she's my best friend and I know she won't ever see me that way, and even if she does now, I don't want to anymore. It's been too long almost, a year and a half after we befriended each other, I realized there was something more there, and after testing how far I could push out relationship, I now realize that it's hard to bring it back.

It's hard bc at the end of the day, a small part of me really wants to say fuck it, shoot my shot, and if she says yes then go all in, let myself have what I've been dreaming about for years . A larger part is fully aware of not only the fruitlessness of asking, but also those loving, tender feelings of love I've held onto for years have a ring of bitter resentment in them because it's been years, years of everyone assuming we're already together and having to explain we're not, years since I've taken her dancing, years of holding her hand and wanting her by my side forever. Years of senseless jealousy that never sees the light of day, years of hearing her wishes of a relationship with anyone, anyone but me clearly.

Years of knowing these feelings will never be returned, and yet I cannot bring myself to hold these feelings against her, or against anyone for that matter, not even myself.

These feelings are still pure, gentle in how I still love her so much even after years of hoping it'll go away.

Then I remember that at the end of the day, she's still my best friend, I'm still one of the most important people in her life, she's with me in the way she's able to and that's still enough. I don't need that relationship, I don't need a "bigger" claim that best friend. I'm already by her side no matter what, and she knows that. And maybe I need to remember that more often

[habibialkaysani]

ngl I kinda really miss the days when I had beta readers. like just being able to bounce ideas off them, not feeling like I was bothering them w writing or sending them a chapter to read. and the thing is I can't just have any beta reader, it has to be someone who's familiar with my writing style and the characters etc but also??? somehow needs to be someone who I can send shitty first drafts to and not feel like I want to die seeing how shitty it is??

idk why I'm thinking about this now, maybe bc I just reread my multichapter engagement fic and have Observed it could have really used a beta bc there are certain passages that are in desperate need of editing. but also I've written myself into a bit of a corner with my latest chapter of my latest fic and need a second opinion yet I have no fucking clue who to ask for said opinion.

[lunathemacron]

gonna keep it so fr I have to say this cause it makes me so happy it's so so so awesome seeing fanart of benrey/barney cause like. everytime there's a white ass person with black hair they're like. always a terrible person. irredeemable monster. idk it just makes me so happy to see a normal ass dude that looks like me it's super awesome

[moonminss]

watched the opening of HSM3 yesterday, and the tracking shot of Troy walking across the court?? STRAIGHT FIREE!!!!! They actually didn’t have to go that hard

[joshsindigostreak]

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