#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.

[captainswan618]

Confession: the song “Hanging on the Tablaphone” from the Doctor Who season 4 soundtrack haunts my dreams. Not because of anything about the song itself, but because “tablaphone” isn’t a real word. Looking it up yields only this exact song, because it’s not a word. Which begs the question, what does it mean?? Murray Gold please I just want to know why you put a made-up word in a song title. What the fuck is a tablaphone.

[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.

[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!

[imtheiliad]

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.)

[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