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No but okay I am fully losing my mind here

I have been ranting to my friends, family, and coworkers about how good the Silt Verses is, how tight the narrative flows, how everything feels inevitable and yet utterly surprising

So maybe I should have known it would blow my socks off with the finale, just not in the way I expected

I've been saying that I have no inspiration to write fanfic because the story is just SO GOOD (I have the same feeling about The Good Place)-- I am so much happier not touching the characters and being told what they do, I don't want to wreck it

I don't know if that ending is just a MUTHAFUCKIN PLOY TO GET FANFICTION AFTER THREE SEASONS BUT BY GOLLY IT SURE IS FUCKING WITH ME

Not a single tied up loose end. NOT A SINGLE. TIED UP. LOOSE END.

THOSE ENDS ARE DANGLING ALL THE HELL OVER THE PLACE

And I KNOW it's on purpose, because they knew they were ending with season 3 and everything else has been so tight!!!

SO THEY SET EVERYTHING UP FOR A HUGE INSANE "HOW ARE THEY GONNA FIX THIS" ENDING AND THEN JUST... DON'T?!?

HELP. HELP

I am so angry. I am furious. And I know that's the POINT and it is not making it better alsjalak

HOW DARE

I fully expected to be weeping at work as I finished the last episode and instead I was just confused and frantically googling to see if I'd missed an episode or a season 4 or SOMETHING

i'm in shock. How dare you, Mr. Ware and Ms. Hussan. How dare

I was expecting a song or somethibg?!? Anything?!? Like...a finality?!?!

Ahhhhhhhhhh

Alright I'm just going to

Continue to lose it over here

I

I have so many emotions right now

I get the shrimp emotions thing I have it I see the colors I'm losing my goddamned mind

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thinkin about this post and MAG111

#tma

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it used to be 2007 you know

#i wont say exactly but i had two children by then.

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I swear to Pete, 'rona, I see you eyeing that feathery friend of your Bird Flu and if you bring that trash into this house I will throw hands.

Okay ms.rona wrap it up hoe

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You can't access society if you get arrested for flapping your hands.

Advocating for accommodation A doesn't imply not caring about accommodation B.

something about how the disability rights movement got watered down, in people's eyes, from "we demand that buildings are built to physically accommodate us, eg with ramps" to "there's nothing we can do about the world around us, but it would be nice if people were more accepting of seeing people stim"

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Are we talking about Basira "covers for her partner's murders for years" Hussain?

the assertion that any of the original four has brain cells is nonsense. sasha "follows weird hand guy to several secondary locations" james. martin "tries to touch plastic explosives" blackwood. jonathan "two interventions and three kidnappings" sims. tim "almost knocks himself out with a co2 canister" stoker. absolutely none of this is brain cell behaviour. the first person to walk into that archive with any amount of sense is basira hussain

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Yes, and...two reasons.

The hopeful reason: you are getting better at knowing what you like and what works, so you can see the parts of your writing that aren't there yet. You don't write worse. You read better.

Less hopeful corollary. COVID causes brain damage in many, if not most people who get it. The inflammation usually gets better over a period of months, but not all the way to baseline. The damage accumulates every time you get COVID.

If you are a human living on Earth, you have likely had COVID multiple times.

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

#writing #covid

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Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:

1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.

2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.

3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.

4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.

We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!

#ao3

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Self Indulgent TMA fic chapter drop

#averted apolcalypse au #jon in the institute

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Bad idea: Age gap discourse but in a fantasy land where there's multiple races who have vastly different lifespans and life styles.

Is it wrong for a 27 year old human to date a 140 year old stone elf, considering most stone elves don't get out of diapers till their 30s?

Is it wrong for a 80 year old dwarf to date a two year old fire wisp, when fire wisps only live up to 5 years (between the eruptions) and have memories of their past lives, so in a way they're "born" at age 400,000+? That octogenarian dwarf is way younger than the fire wisp that's only physically younger than some of the socks the dwarf has!

Is it wrong for a chronomancer who was never born to date, well, anyone? They are zero years old and infinity years old and negative one hundred and seventeen years old all at once. They look like an old human, sure, with the long white beard and the wrinkly skin, but as far as anyone can tell, they've always looked like that. We've seen the cave paintings.

Is it wrong for a 30 year old lizardman (that's old in lizardman years) to date a human who is 60 years old in biological years (because of aging spells), 26 years old in lived-experience years, but only 13 years old in calendar years? (ie, they were born 13 years ago, but spent some of that time in sideways timelines, so they've lived more years than have passed in their home timeline?)

Is it wrong for a 12,000 year old dragon date a pile of 400 kobolds when kobolds only live like 10 years on average, but reach full maturity in one year? And if you disagree, can you do anything about it? You do know what happened to the last policeman who tried to arrest a dragon, right? Their city is still smoldering, 50 years later.

Is it wrong for anyone to date the time worm? It's the same age, every year. So the age gap can only intensify. If you start dating the time worm when you're both the same age, when do you break it off because you've become too much older than them?

And most confusing of all... What about the fairies? They could be anything between a thousand and a day old, they would lie about their age either way, and they can look like whatever they want. There's fairies we know for a fact have been around since the founding of The City of Towers, who met the silent mother herself, and also look like they're at most ten years old. Is it wrong to date them, or just really uncomfortable for everyone who sees it? And on the other side there's fairies who are "born" (hatched? They come from plants, I'm not sure what the verb even would be. Seeded? Sprouted, maybe) this week who are already appearing like middle-aged men and dancing with widows in what looks like a scheme to run off with her fortune but they never take the money, because what would a fairy want with worthless metal discs? Maybe fairies have a hive mind or genetic memory or reincarnation with full memories, they'd never tell you or give you a straight (or consistent) answer anyway.

Stone golems are really the only inter-race dating situation anyone can agree on. They're unthinking & unmoving solid rock during the day, so those hours don't count. Thus their "real age" is a nice even half of their true age. So if you meet a stone golem who was dug out 30 years ago, watch out: that's a 15 year old, and if you're a 25 year human, that's too young for you, even though their dig-date is five years before your birth-date.

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no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward

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YOU GOTTA TRY THIS NEW STRAIN BRO. IT'S CALLED LEAVING A COMMENT. YOU'LL BE OUT OF YOUR MIND BRO

ME AFTER LEAVING NO COMMENTS: I DONT FEEL SHIT

ME AFTER LEAVING TWENTY COMMENTS: YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF FANDOM AND HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS???

MY FRIEND, THE AUTHOR, PACING: THANK YOU FOR LEAVING ALL THESE COMMENTS OMFGG?????

COME JOIN US THIS WEEKEND FOR JUST LEAVE A COMMENT FEST!!!!

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AITA for letting a friend think my husband is cheating on me? A few months ago, my husband (30s) told me (also 30s) he has an adultery kink, but has no interest in actually cheating on me. His proposed compromise was that I could dress up a little different than usual, put on a wig, whatever, and then we could roleplay. A little weird, but I MUCH prefer him communicating stuff like this and working with me rather than the alternative. plus, i get to invent a character and give this fictitious homewrecker a tragic backstory; always fun. I'm thinking about giving her an epic revenge quest to explain her daddy issues. Anyway, I genuinely do like dressing up and I bought the wig anyway, so sometimes I go out in public dressed up as my Homewreckersona, and the long and short of it is a friend saw me with my husband, did not recognize me, and assumed the worst. The next day she called me up like "honey have you considered killing him" and I didn't know what to say. I can't just say "oh, I'm indulging my husband's kink in public." I cannot explain how much I do not want to talk about our sex life with anyone who actually knows me irl. I have to look these people in the eye. Also, she's the type who would tell me his kink is inherently abusive or something and I think it's ultimately harmless if this is how he's playing it. My married life, my choice, right? But anyway, I lied and tried to be like "oh her? yeah I know her. they've been friends for years and there's nothing weird going on. they're like siblings so don't even worry about it because he's not cheating I promise" and for sure she didn't believe me. So in effect, by lying, I have accidentally convinced a gossipy member of my friend group that my husband is cheating on me and I'm clueless about it. If five more people haven't been served the nonexistent tea by Friday, I'll eat my hat. AITA for letting him take the fall on this one just so I can avoid the excruciating embarrassment of admitting to kink stuff? PS: for anyone convinced he really does want to cheat, I tested him a little when he first brought it up and asked if there was any particular look he wanted me to go for (just to see if there might be a specific person he wanted to cheat with who I was intended to emulate) and he said no, whatever I picked would be great, because for all that he had the kink conceptually, he'd never actually wanted anyone but me. I know I'm biased but that's the cutest shit

#however you probably should have decided with your husband what to do in the event

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AITA for refusing to be friends with people who don't have any siblings?

I (20F) have two brothers and two sisters, I am the middle child and luckily I have a good relationship with my siblings even though we argue sometimes like most siblings do. so a few weeks ago, I was at uni and I met this goth girl, she was extremely witty and funny, and overall I rlly enjoyed being around her. I would laugh my ass off because she's hilarious and I can tell she's also intelligent and kind, I liked her so much I even gave her my number after a few days.

we sent each other memes and at some point I mention how I couldn't talk anymore at that moment bc I had to take my youngest brother out since he wanted to go watch a movie. afterwards, I told her a little more about my siblings and she says it's easy to tell I'm a good sister for looking after my youngest brother, and that she thought it'd be cool to have a sister like me, but she's an only child.

for some reason...this made me completely lose interest in her? which is weird bc like I said I do enjoy her company. I then realized all my friends have at least one sibling. I didn't know how to explain this to her so I ended up just ghosting her. I feel like people who are an only child just don't GET me and I want to be able to relate to my friends. I have been inadvertently avoiding people without siblings all my life. I realize I just don't want to be friends with someone who has no siblings but I know this seems like a pretty stupid reason to not want to be friends with someone. tbh if this girl had at least one sibling I would still want to be her friend.

I do feel like an asshole however I don't think forcing myself to be friends with people is a good idea. I also feel bad bc I was the one who wanted our friendship to progress faster and then I just ghosted her completely even tho she did nothing wrong. what should I do? AITA?

#note yta not because you don't want to be friends with someone without siblings #Don't ghost people #unless a person is dangerous