#mainly it's insufferable

[bookofmirth]

Are the acotar stans on drugs or why do they believe that the deer on a hoodie has any deep meanings??

"It's Elain!!" "No it's the hind!!" or hear me out... maybe it's a reference to the kids movie called Bambi? Which her kids also might like? Or... and hear me out on this one... maybe it's just f*cking hoodie that she decided to wear cause it's pretty?

I fear that these people are adults.

I've seen people say that she leaves easter eggs in her posts and NO??? SHE DOESN'T????? Literally name me ONE TIME she has left a clue for her readers in a post on Instagram. She doesn't do that??? The only thing that has ever been posted on insta relevant to a "hint" about acotar was when Josh "accidentally" posted the acotar script, and that wasn't even an easter egg, it was a big ol' news spoiler.

It's this weird thing where they think they have a parasocial relationship with sjm. The woman intentionally doesn't have any social media on her phone, she doesn't run her social media herself, she is pretty clearly being constrained in what she can and can't say by her publisher, and people think she's out here trying to leave little clues for those in the know on her posts?? Sorry, she's not speaking directly to you in a code only you can decipher XD

What would we even call this? A para-parasocial relationship? A pseudo-parasocial relationship? She leaves info and clues in her books but her Instagram page is not the place I go for evidence to come up with a whole ass theory. She isn't that kind of author or social media user.

Other reasons for that sweatshirt:

It was November, it's cold in NYC.

Like you said, she thinks it's cute

Her kids maybe have watched the movie

She likes the movie

She has other interests besides acotar??? I mean that post wasn't even about acotar, it was about hofas!!!!! She often has objects related to her other interests on her desk or around the house, which is... normal! That's normal human behavior! It's not some damn conspiracy theory or secret code.

And why would people be so okay with this quiet little "teehee" reveal instead of hearing sjm gush about how excited she is to be writing Elain's book right now? Why would people be okay with Elain's book to be introduced to the world via a sweatshirt and her love interest's pov (despite the fact that she doesn't write men front and center... lmaoooo), rather than an actual announcement and Elain's OWN POV???

This fandom is fucking exhausting. If people were just playing around and making a meme of it that would be one thing, but to take it seriously? I promise her sweatshirt is not that deep. Even if Elain's book were next, that doesn't mean there was some intentionality behind that fucking sweatshirt. Not everything is about Elain.

[lostinthewoodsomewhere]

Forever obsessed by how much her voice changes between her internal monologue and when she finally calls out!

Just, the calm, driven confidence juxtaposed by her soft, polite uncertainty, it's just, ahhhhh, it's so good!!! It immediately sets up how she interacts with the world so perfectly, I love it!!

[solomiracle]

so glad the devs stopped trying to write lucifer as anime christian grey by season two and realized his true potential lies in him, the avatar of pride, turning into a whimpering and pathetic loser for a human. THAT'S character development

[narilwrites]

Very important DBZ poll

[thewhizzyhead]

when I first heard of the premise for nerdy prudes must die, I wasn't expecting that the jock brute and someone whose last name is often mistaken for "chastity" to be my favorites but hey here we are and those two have completely stolen the show

[apathetic-graffiti]

The Amporas are incredibly dysfunctional but they care for each other even if they're incredibly shitty and I stand by that...

[catboy-jupiter]

ioryuugero is like. "me and the two bad bitches i pulled by being insufferable"

[iqmmir]

Some people are literally so funny like why does my existence piss you off so much why are you thinking so much about what i said i wasnt even talking to you why are you thinking so much about me are you in love with me

[batcavewitch]

THE CRAVING BY TWENTY ONE PILOTS!!!! THAT'S IT THAT'S THE POST

[chanrizard]

the youknowhoification of skz worst thing that happened to me in a while

[biblically-accurate-soup]

“if you are trying to be a phd candidate in a social science field why the fuck are you studying math for fun” because i’m quirky and hot. next question.

[saline-coelacanth]

I really want skull mask guy to be Jay because when the character was first revealed everyone was making Sans Undertale jokes, and if this character turns out to be Jay, then that means I can make jokes about Jay being Sans Undertale and I can be so insufferable about it please let me be insufferable about it

[electric-friend]

Re: astroglide, I obviously don't know what fic it was, but engagement I've seen with the brand directly or via fanworks is like pure shitposting. It's conceivable, I guess, that an author stuck it in a series/non-crackfic, but yeah. It's most stupid and shitposty.

ok please don’t take this as an insult bc i mean it genuinely but i’m not really sure what you’re trying to say here? i’m aware that people think it’s silly and funny that astroglide and the ofmd fandom are currently joking around with each other. but i don’t know wether you calling it shitposting is like… defending it as harmless or saying it’s dumb? that’s quite unclear to me just based on what you’ve said. sorry, i’m just not good at working that sort of stuff out.

don’t take this the wrong way but my opinion is that the whole astroglide thing is kinda stupid? the fandom is just going along with being roped into free advertising. even if it’s a meme or for fun, that doesn’t change the fact that people are… almost being tricked, into advertising a product for no compensation. it IS advertising. it’s bringing attention to a specific brand and a specific product. mostly positive attention, mind you. i’d say that’s advertising. and i’m just really tired of capitalism permeating everything. i know it’s not necessarily escapable but i never used to see product placement in fanfiction.

then again i’m a fairly cynical person and i don’t expect everyone to think the way i do, it’s not really fair for me to judge everyone. but if you’re not aware i’m also one of those people who didn’t like season two and thinks the effort to get a season three is a bit silly. i’m also the sort of person that considers, for example, amazon lying about the budget of the lotr series they produced to have been a deliberate attempt to create discourse that would serve to get their series more attention than it otherwise would have received. advertising. i’m not really a faith in humanity sort of guy.

i don’t think it’s fair for me to pass any moral judgements upon the people engaging in the astroglide thing bc they’re having fun and i can see that it’s fun and it’s funny and all that. i just personally think it’s a bit frustrating that people seem to think that the nature of this interaction being just a silly funny thing somehow makes it NOT free advertising for a branded product??

and i just don’t really like that. i think that’s fair of me, haha. you don’t usually get branded product placement in fanfiction, you know? and the fandom is kinda treating the situation like it’s memeish status excuses it of literally being advertising? idk. not a big fan.

anyways sorry if any of this seems offensive or fun-spoiling but this whole astroglide thing is just not for me personally.

[skuntank]

No medication is kicking my ass already

[aroanthy]

ok seriousposting over, anthy and touga reunite in the world’s most acute instance of die kill maim vibes when they both do a literature degree and end up in a seminar together on virginia woolf. because theyre literally mrs dalloway but worse. also as a literature student i imagine that anthy would share all my good takes and touga would share all my self-indulgent ‘i can’t really justify this and know it makes me sound like an asshole but im sticking by it’ takes. they’d have a passive aggressive debate about their differing readings of a passage from the waves and everyone else would just be experiencing shrimp emotions for the first time in their lives like what is going on rn why are the die kill maim vibes in this room so acute all of a sudden

[shoyowo]

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