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SABRINA CARPENTER attends SNL50: The Anniversary Special — February 16, 2025

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This is going to be a very unpopular opinion, but as a fanfic reader, you do not owe anyone your kudos and especially your comments.

As a fic writer, yes it's wonderful to see that your work is impacting people. Of course I'm delighted to receive comments, often literally kicking my feet with joy at the email notification. But I'm tired of seeing these moralizing attempts to "bring back commenting on ao3" or just generally shaming the average reader for not commenting on every chapter of every work they've ever enjoyed.

The fact is, fanfiction and fandom spaces are not a transaction where I create a work and in return am entitled to comments or interaction in general. What's so beautiful about fandom is that fanworks are created out of genuine joy on the creator's part. Publishing a fic on ao3 is an act of freely sharing your work to anyone who might enjoy it, not an economic transaction. Fandom is a community, not an economy. And if you're inclined to become an active participant in that community by leaving comments and supporting creators, please do! I am not trying to discourage anyone from commenting in any way. But for those who don't feel comfortable commenting or who simply don't want to, you are completely valid in refraining from doing so.

I know people are going to disagree with me on this, but I feel like it has to be said.

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good wives always know btw

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Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.

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emilia pérez is still winning awards

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critics are raving about morbius!

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she has a willatine for you ☺️

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Flower Fairy 1905 | dir. Gaston Velle

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you kind of do have to let multiple layers of meaning and metaphor coexist rather than claiming one is the true reading if you want to get fucking anything out of art

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Marion Davies by Ira L. Hill, 1917

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lowkey obsessed with my own blog. it has all my favorite things and all the opinions i agree with. best place on the internet maybe ever

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Spinning like a girl in a brand new dress 💃

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Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please ft. Dolly Parton

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say it with me—

“someday i’m going to have the life i’ve always dreamed of and i won’t let self doubt stop me”

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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SABRINA CARPENTER and DOLLY PARTON (2025)