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the gremlin returns?
as classes have re-started and my existential despair (which apparently powers my limited supply of creativity) continues after my university's decision to be online for the first two weeks due to continued SARS-CoV-2 bullshittery, I am probably going to once again be active on this lovable hellsite.
am i still writing/have i still been writing? apart from a three-week period where uni+research was absolutely destroying me, yes. RFMD is still being updated and Year Two has only four chapters left to go. I'm not sure as of yet whether I'm going to post here when new chapters are up as they are on a weekly schedule. would love to update the Juniper Tree AU buuuuutttt I want to finish Year Two first and finalise the planning/schedule for Year Three (The Night Guardian)
Me, writing chapters of Three Can Keep A Secret: must plan. very suspense. drop hints. red herrings.
Also me: crying because I just want to write about Tom causing havoc and ruining lives and it’s not the right time yet.
guys I’m in the airport waiting for a flight after I missed my original flight like the high-class idiot I am and a little blonde toddler in sport clothes is making TikToks.
Help.
have u ever?
me, having just finished a deadly education and wanting to look around the scholomance fandom:
me, realizing i'm going to spoil the second book and if i do i will hate myself forever: insert clown emoji
The fact that the CW hasn't made an adaptation of my university life where I'm still as emotionally troubled and great at makeup and acting ditzy but a million times sexier and all my crushes like me back so I'm in a love triangle is quite frankly insulting.
girl help: drafting a chapter where one of the characters who can't die yet is well and truly fucked and the only thing that can save them is deus ex machina
this is officially the seventh time I’ve blocked a porn bot which liked my pinned post. where do they come from? what do they want? leave me alone pls stop messaging me i do not want saucy pictures sarah
two creepiest fandoms are british royal family stans and marilyn monroe worshippers, both always foaming at the mouth on social media. YIKES.
so last Friday I was walking past a large window in my department buildings on my way to lab and someone looked up and kind of nodded and me and I thought I recognized him so I waved back
Today I was leaving lab to go have lunch and someone who could possibly be the same person waved at me and I just stared blankly back at him.
Then again it could just be a friendly stranger since my facial recognition (esp with masks) is that bad.
I’m not sure if I should text the person I think it is like HEY ARE YOU THE PERSON WHO KEEPS WAVING AT ME?
I was in Barnes and Noble last week to buy Dune Messiah and it was a genuinely upsetting experience (read: capitalist hellscape). I had a look at the YA section while I was there, which is currently dominated by "As Seen on the Netflix series" and "Popular on TikTok."
Look, I love a trope-y romance novel as much as your next Miss Fandom Trash but it's honestly gotten to the point where it's pushing out actual literature.
presented without comment: the covers of 6 books that released within 3 years of each other (!) by the same NYT bestselling author, and then two quotes by said author.
make of this what you will.
i wish the sequel trilogy had committed to the bit with Rey. she's Palpatine's granddaughter ffs, make her a little more horrible pleaseeee. when will hollywood ever make a female character Fucked Up?
villain discourse is so annoying.
every once in a while when i scroll through the notes on a post about a villain or antagonist who's a fandom favourite, the notes are filled with 'but you know he killed people, right... killing people is bad... if you think this fictional guy is cool and funny and iconic then you're basically a hybristophile because they're a serial killer. you're normalizing serial killers omg. murder is baddddd'
yes, i know that murder is bad, i'm not six months old. and excuse me? it's giving 'women will read books and get ideas' which is maybe not far off because most fic writers and readers are female, and the stereotypical fanfic writer is a teenage girl.
besides, literature and drama always loved the bad guy. re: greek tragedies, crime and punishment, etc. i think everyone on tumblr needs to read some actual books for once.
so many people have this disney-fied, marvel-i-fied idea of what storytelling is, they believe that every story has to be an aesop's fable and adhere to the hays code.
if you're looking to fiction for a moral compass instead of (sometimes ugly!) truths about the human condition, you're looking in the wrong place.
Idc what the epilogue says. Harry would definitely not become a cop. He would retake his seventh year and either set up an advocacy group for magical children in abusive households and/or become the Defence professor.
seriously not trying to be elitist about fanfiction sites, but can someone who actually uses wattpad please explain why every fic i click on forces me to scroll through fancasts and moodboards and sassy things the characters say and people explaining that inspiration for the fic before i get to the first chapter. i’m guessing the site doesn’t give people a space on their profile to put non-writing stuff. or maybe it’s just the culture there. i don’t mind extras in the A/N’s but the first chapter almost never being the first chapter is just annoying.
i’ve tried to read on that damn site for years but every time i rage quit. and the search functionality is trash tier.
again, not trying to be elitist but it’s very annoying when i just want to read fanfiction and end up being assaulted with pictures. ao3 allows you to put pictures, but people don’t abuse it.
and then, the ui is horrible and seems to force writers into doing tiny chapters because the text box is a third of the screen for absolutely no reason. it also doesn’t put the date the first and last chapters were posted so i can tell if it’s been abandoned, finished, or still updating. infuriating.
I don't get the 'gorgeous bride and ugly ass groom' joke, isn't this just an average het couple why are we glorifying and yassifying this? Or is that part of the satire?
Characterizing/portraying Theodore Nott as attractive is so wrong to me
nothing more embarrassing than not being able to read the eye chart at the doctor's office
I still don't really know how to tag, after I put relationship and character tags I can only think of 5-10 tropes/categories to add. How does anyone come up with all that stuff to put in the tags? My mind goes blank.