#the pieces of it are:

[sweetberry-roebuck]

Hey y'know when the current moment is transcendently beautiful and meaningful and true, but you know that it is temporary and you can't help but feel existentially haunted by that fact. You know when you are experiencing beautiful heartrending art and you feel lost in the moment and then its over. You know how you'll experience art or human connection or a walk on a nice day and you know the sunlight on your skin will fade and you'll forget how it felt to be this warm.

You know in video games when there is one experience-definingly gleeful or touching or viscerally emotional moment that soon ends and leaves you with something more complicated, more doomed, more cyclical? You know? You know how it feels to dig your claws and teeth into a moment and try as hard as you can to feel it and to remember it and to make it part of yourself? Do you know??

[mahgck]

you have to outlive donald trump

[autizmogenderia]

what the fuck why would anyone call it that

[bookwyrminspiration]

sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though

[roboticnebula]

Pros of re-reading your own fic

a good time;

Has exactly the tropes you like and the characterization you want to read;

Gratification: yes you did finish a thing and yes you did do good;

just a very fun time all around.

Cons of re-reading your own fic:

Is that another TYpO

[macdenlover]

it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

[cronchy-baguette]

caitlyn's garden of violets

[charrfie]

Chimera

Acrylic on canvas, August 2024

[scramratz]

[nitewrighter]

You might be frustrated by the library never having a complete manga collection on its shelves at any given time, but the 12 year old checking out 14 volumes of One Piece at once is vital to the library ecosystem. He's like the sea otter keeping the kelp forest from being devastated by an excess of sea urchins.

[color-ns]

Sometimes tweeter people know their stuff- this is the right kind of toxic angst I want to read.

[arnab-factory]

Fascinated by this phenomenon

[monstermonger]

i love when i look into a window and find a cat there... | minizine ♡

[blueskittlesart]

1 minute of washing machine time is like 10 minutes human time. they live on a completely different scale that we could never begin to conceptualize

[tjalexandernyc]

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