#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.

[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.

[prognostic-santhanas]

Exclusionism is so silly to me because its so stupid to try and enforce irl. Are you going to go to a pride parade and ask every induvidual attendee if they fit your fancy no-fly list? What are you going to do if a fully grown lesbian woman calls herself a dyke and dates a hyper-masculine enby? Tell them theyre not really queer? That their existence is lesbian-erasure? If that person was being beaten up for their inherent queerness, would you join because... in case you havent noticed, you exclude a person from your community because they dont fit your ideas of sexuality and gender, and instead of trying to understand and/or accept them, you decide to hate them? Gosh, that sounds familiar!

Anyway, whatever labels you use and no matter how esoteric, contradictory, or limit-pushing it is, your queer enough to be worthy of existing, and dont let a tiktok posted by a babygay 13yo tell you otherwise

[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!

[lunaplena]

makorra real makorra endgame makorra forever

[dorkydiaz]

I NEED TO MAKE ART!!!!!!

[merofthefae]

YouTube is such an ass website. :|

[sorrowfulwill]

i need a better idea thinker

[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.)

[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

[madolecence]

my apartment is currently infested with ants and i just woke up to one attempting to CRAWL UP MY SHORTS WHILE I WAS TRYING TO SLEEP

[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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[girlfictions]

something i’ve been thinking about lately is like. growing up muslim right after 9/11 is something i’d never really reflected on much because it was all i’d ever known — at 5, my friend’s mum didn’t let her invite me to her birthday party because i was the only brown girl in our class, at 12, my classmates would joke about my family being part of isis, at 16, my dad was interrogated by american airport security for hours — and it always stung and it always hurt but it was just the way things were because the western world hated muslims. but i don’t think i’ve ever fully comprehended the extent to which we were hated until now.

palestine is being turned into a mass graveyard. every single day there are new photos of the atrocities being carried out against them and videos of them pleading for help and still those who can actually intervene turn a blind eye. israel is claiming to only be targeting hamas “terrorists” while bombing a refugee camp. israeli police raided and assaulted a non-zionist jewish neighbourhood. israeli soldiers are posting tiktoks of them torturing captured palestinians. this is not a complicated issue and it never has been. ethnic cleansing is being committed right in front of us. and yet the western world leaders refuse to call for a ceasefire.

and while zionist organisations accuse pro-palestine demonstrations of anti-semitism, while zionist celebrities insist that they’re afraid to leave their mansions in los angeles, a six year old muslim boy was stabbed to death and his mother wounded in the same attack in chicago. a muslim doctor was murdered while sitting outside her apartment complex in texas. hundreds of peaceful protesters have been arrested (many of whom have been jewish). despite what zionists want you to believe, this is not a jewish/muslim conflict. i have so much love and gratitude to my brave jewish brothers and sisters all over the world who are condemning israel for their actions.

ultimately, israel have been granted impunity by the west. they have slaughtered thousands upon thousands of innocent palestinians. they have bombed hospitals and schools indiscriminately. they have used white phosphorus, violating the geneva convention. they have completely eradicated nearly 900 bloodlines. how many more need to be wiped out? how many more children need to be buried underneath the rubble? how many more doctors need to be confronted with the bodies of their own family members? how many more journalists need to detail the horrific acts of violence they are witnessing? what more can be done to the palestinian people that has not been done already?

i truly believe that palestine will be free one day. i believe the palestinian people will receive the justice they finally deserve. but what breaks my heart is how much they have suffered and will continue to suffer before they are deemed worthy of help. and it would be to all of our detriment if we ignored how much of a factor palestine being a predominantly muslim state has played into the way the world has reacted to their genocide.