Not To Be Emotional On Main But Fanfiction Is A Gift And Its So Fundamentally Human To Tell Each Other

not to be emotional on main but fanfiction is a gift and it’s so fundamentally human to tell each other stories and i am deeply grateful to have that in my life. thank you all for adding so much emotion and meaning to the world with your words

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

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The sunflowers along the side of the house are finally starting to bloom!

The eight planets of our solar system (and the dwarf planet Pluto) image credits: [x] / NASA

“Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient of everything that informs the present. When we read Pride and Prejudice or Middlemarch, we’re not tempted to believe that because the characters wear funny hats, get about by horse and don’t talk explicitly about sex that they’re innocents. This is because we are allowed full access, or carefully arranged partial access, to their feelings and thoughts, their dilemmas. Assuming we’ve been carried along by the narrative, they appear before us, these characters, intact, as contemporaries, unscarred by unintended ironies.”

— Ian McEwan, interviewed in The Art of Fiction No. 173 (via theclassicsreader)