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people who are nice to me in online games even though i suck: i owe u my life

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sometimes the best fanfics are written by middle aged adults with years of writing experience who simply know how to craft a good story. but also sometimes the best fanfics are written by a sixteen year old girl with something deeply wrong with her

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I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

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god damn he's so sexy

Dylan O'Brien as Richie Boyle in The Outfit (2022)

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I’m always feeling like wait did I just do something unforgivable? But all I did was walk somewhere or turn in a paper late

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emails with “[AO3] Comment on _____” in the subject line give me a better dopamine rush than hard drugs ever will

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blocking someone bc they’re personally annoying to you is always morally correct

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i get that people are more comfortable with defined rules and structure but i also think queer people lost when they started resorting to dictionary definitions for what labels mean

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best part of the internet is the option to not engage. maybe i don’t want to have this convo. goodbye

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‘relationships are work’ means ‘you have to put effort into loving each other intentionally & learning how to love each other and communicating properly’ not ‘your relationship makes you feel stressed and sad most of the time & the other person disrespects you and treats you bad but you stay anyway’

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only if you pay for mine

so i started editing again

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the way i posted a newtmas prompt on twitter and someone stole it and posted it on tumblr and someone else wrote a fic about it on ao3 and no one ever credited me 🤡🤡

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casually cruel

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the fact that y'all got so sad about this makes me think you're not ready for what im posting tomorrow 🏃‍♂️

so i started editing again

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"diluc with a high ponytail"

"so true. kaeya with a braid"

"OH MY GOD"

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so i started editing again