I like this a lot.
sleepless-rain
cubistemoji
galaxywhale-moved
I lost it at “2 bread”
1 gallon of regular chocolate
18 minutes of flour
5 plates of salt
wtf is harper talking about
htbthomas
laurenthemself
I know a ton of people have said this before but for the love everything PLEASE stop treating AO3 like instagram. It is NOT cringe to comment on an old story. It’s an archive old stories are still meant to be found and read. Please think about interacting with the fic you read: at least kudos if you read it, a comment would be ideal. The authors will be over the moon. I guarantee you not a single author is going to ask why someone is commenting on an older fic.
cubistemoji
shrimpsisbugs
Ngl I was not prepared for where this was going
Me: oh okay she’s lipsynching her song
Me: Is that-
Me:
sagechan
loadingboy
I stopped reading DNIs because 90% of the time they were just fucking inscrutable to me. I’d go to somebody’s page and it would be like “DNI if you’re a COSLA apologist,” so then I would Google COSLA and it was just like “Welp, either things are really heating up in the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities fandom or I still have no idea what the fuck this person is talking about.” Or “DNI if you identify as ANFO.” Okay, well, I definitely don’t identify as Ammonium Nitrate/Fuel Oil, but that’s probably not what you meant (although hey, maybe you did; I obviously don’t know enough about your views on chemical compounds to outright dispute that option).” Like, you have my blessing to hate whatever obscure fandom pairing or super niche kink group you want, but just know I am embracing ignorance on this one and will not be looking that shit up. Peace.
reading DNIs is like reading conlang-heavy sci-fi
birdghosting
sagechan
foxpunk
I recommend to everyone online to follow at least ONE (1) weirdo. Not a qanon conspiracy flavor weirdo, I’m talking follow furries with specific fixations you’ve never even heard of (I just saw a post about paranormal investigator bear furries but with no context or explanation and, sure, fuck it, why not), follow artists who use materials you’ve never heard of before and have barely any aesthetic interest in, follow writers whose work confuses the fuck out of you but makes you pause and think.
And the next part, and this part is VITALLY important… shut the fuck up
DON’T constantly comment “what does this mean”, “I don’t get it”, “explain it to me”, “ok but why”, etc
Just shut up
There’s a time and place for questions and I think it’s HEALTHY to have AT LEAST one place where you COMPLETELY STOP YOURSELF from questions.
A place where you sit, stare, and let yourself Not Get It.
One of the biggest problems I run into with people is their entitled expectations to Understand everything, or at least they want to THINK they understand everything (so they’re a lot more likely to fall for batshit conspiracy theories because, well, pointing at a Shadowy Group Responsible For Everything is pretty easy to understand). They see something they don’t get and they flip out, they want to label it, diagnose it, make panicked laws about it.
You need… NEEEEED… for the sake of your own maturity and mental health… to know when it’s okay to sit there in silence and go “hm. I don’t get it. Cool.”
You need to know how to sit in silence in some one’s art and worldview and words and think to yourself “all of this is put together in a reasonable way, but I am not connecting with it”…
GOOD.
You shouldn’t HAVE to! You shouldn’t be in this world thinking EVERYTHING in it is accessible to you, is understandable to you. You NEED to embrace the idea that SOME things will always evade your understanding. The universe is unfathomably huge and it’s absolute NONSENSE to think to yourself that you can fathom everything in it.
Find the harmlessly weird shit to follow IN SILENCE and let yourself not understand. It’s good for you.
sagechan
keepercinnamon
ALT
ALT"... bought... copper... from... this... shady fucker... bad quality... zero stars... "
n9evepulgas
wildkitte
screaming @ this screenshot bc op of it was talking about… HANNIBAL NBC!!! why does the cannibalism heavy gore emotional manipulation abuse show’s fanfic reflect that i wonder hmm
the funniest thing is that you know they didn’t actually go looking for content they would like because there’s literally a tag for people like them
a tag that’s up there in the hall of fame along with
the way that this generation can’t use ao3’s search even thought it’s the best in the game is wild to me
antique-romantic
