#and it’s driving me insane

[frownyalfred]

Reminders for new ao3 users (in no particular order):

- filter your searches like you would on a library website or in an online catalogue

- don’t post placeholders, fic searches, or recommendations as fics. DON’T! It’s against ao3 TOS

- there is no algorithm. ao3 sorts by date posted/updated unless you filter with specific search criteria

- ao3 is a non profit. that means it doesn’t sell ads to make money — it only survives on donations. this is why it can show you so many fics without ever flashing an ad or pop up at you!

- report fics that break TOS when you see them (I.e., placeholder fics, searches) to help other users navigate better

- the tag “dead dove, do not eat” doesn’t equate to gore/awfulness automatically. it is a complementary tag that enhances current tags. E.g., if the fic is tagged “gore” and “dead dove, do not eat” the author really wants you to mind the gore tag

- most fandoms have a variation of “no beta, we die like (x character)” and they all link back to the “No beta” tag

- publishing a new fic sometimes means it won’t show up in the fandom/pairing tag for a few minutes

- subscribers receive update emails at different times, depending on when you update/publish your fic. there’s no good way to predict when an e-mail will be sent — it can be in 30 seconds, or two hours later

- some fics are restricted by authors to those with ao3 accounts only. if you see a blue lock in the upper right corner, that fic is only visible to logged in ao3 users

- you can block commenters now! this didn’t use to be a thing

- updating a fic just to stay at the top of the pairing tag/fandom tag is a dick move. unless you’re legitimately editing or adding chapters, this just annoys readers and fellow authors, and people will skip over your fic

#if someone else already has something like this lmk #but I think this bears repeating #ao3 #archive of our own #I keep seeing placeholder or search fics #and it’s driving me insane #fic #fanfic #fandom #fanfiction #new ao3 users #ao3 tos

[leafdoodles]

Ooh! The palette challenge looks fun, and I can't wait to see what you make! Care to try out a Joe Hills x 64?

Sorry for those expecting muppet Joe I couldn’t bring myself to do it </3

#leaf doodles art #Joe hills #Joe hills fanart #hermitcraft #color palette challenge #doodle requests #I don’t draw them a lot #but he’s the silliest #I didn’t do enough texturing on this one #and it’s driving me insane

[lokiiied]

#what started as a fun lil crackship that i knew was never going to happen #well… #it just might happen #and it’s driving me insane #this season has been making me considerably more delusional with each new episode #they know exactly what they're doing #mr brett goldstein #cough cough #mr phil dunster #what do you know that we don’t #jamie tartt #roy kent #roy x jamie #ted lasso #ted lasso s3 #ted lasso 3x06

[hxmswxrth]

there is NOOOOO way i’m seeing people say “stan would be so disappointed” as their reaction to the she hulk finale

LET THE MAN REST

#if ur a fragile man just say that #i’m losing it #it makes it sound like they’re using his death as an excuse #and it’s driving me insane #marvel #mcu #she hulk show #she hulk spoilers #she hulk #jennifer walters #daredevil #matt murdock

[ivyppoison]

i swear i have tens of aesthetics now

#txt. #ik you shouldn’t conform to specific things #but my interests are broad #like i love coquette but i also love the goth & punk subcultures. ( specifically the fashion ) #i love the music sm #i’m also alt left so <3 #i love the office siren / bayonetta aesthetic but i also love dark academia #i love y2k fashion too #and it’s driving me insane

[takamoris]

#It won’t let me in for some reason #i keep getting 90002 and 2002 and 5006 errors #And it’s driving me insane #especially because it closes The fucking game every time #and I have to jump back through the hoops and put in my password and the stupid idiotic ‘one-time’ password again #every single fucking time #rage… #I want to play the funny game… #I was having so much fun with it why is this happening now #like. Nine hours in? #it sucks

[regina-cordium]

I’m once again being outsmarted by the cookie gacha

#I need crystals to level up candle cookie #but I’ve spent them all so I have no more to get from the different shops #and I just wanna beat this level #it’s the O N L Y one I don’t have 100% #and it’s driving me insane #alex plays cr

[seaoreos]

oh my god I finally found a simple way to put something that has been driving me absolutely insane recently… I need to make art to survive, but I need to live to make art

#sea thoughts #I can’t dos tuff that requires a lot of walking or just movement in general #I can’t do a lot that would give me creative energy #but I still feel the constant need to make things #and it’s driving me insane #I need to recover to make art but I need to make art to recover #Fuck

[mysweetcheesemygoodtimeboy]

I keep seeing everyone freaking out about that article, it’s making me nervous. Do you think nandermo will NEVER go canon or do you think everyone’s freaking out too much?

Oh asking the real questions here huh anon. I obviously think they have enough in the show to make it canon now, but I think we can all tell that they’re playing the long game with Nandermo if it does happen. Which I love, btw, I live and breathe slow burn but since the show’s still ongoing we don’t know yet if the slow burn will ever actually end, y’know? I mean my sister thinks it’s definitely gonna happen and I don’t exactly think she’s wrong but I personally am not used to many ships I have actually going canon so I guess part of it is that I’m hesitant to believe it will actually happen. Pretty much I think signs point to them going canon but I won’t fully believe it until I see them go canon with my own two eyes

#I also don’t even really have that many ships either #I’m very slow with getting into any new media #and not all of the new media I consume changes my brainwaves so honestly I only have like 2 or 3 other ships #and let’s just say that the other fandoms I’m in don’t have canon content like wwdits in terms of representation and all that #so usually I can like rest safe in the knowledge that none of those ships I have will actually go canon #but then there came nandermo #and now I’m just going back and forth arguing with myself in my head about how they definitely won’t or how they definitely will #and it’s driving me insane #in case you can’t tell #asks

[hiddenramen]

one of my greatest pet peeves in fiction, and it is truly stupid I know, is that no one seems to understand how genuinely hard it is to kill someone via stabbing. stab wounds have a mortality rate of like 5%. especially abdominal stabbing. tv shows and movies show dudes getting stabbed one time in the lower abdomen with a tiny knife and then they fall over. like what did he die of precisely. that man died of Small Knife

#drives me insane! #p

[catmask]

when u go to write a mentally ill person in ur story you are presented two options. the first option is to write your mental illness realistically as you actually experience it with all the ups and downs and people who are like you will resonate with it and feel seen. except every person who reads instagram infographics on mental health that uses the phrase narcicisst for anyone who does anything that crosses them and unironically call themself a dark empath will call you scary and tell you that youre demonizing mentally ill people

the second option is to lie and write inspiration porn for those people to get hard to

#just kidding the third option is i drive myself insane #trying to find a way to write someone like me in a way i may be respected as a human being #without shaving away the more frightening aspects of my experience or life #challenge level . impossible. i will die. or they will make youtube 3 hour long rant videos about it someday #scratchpost #txt

[saintgeorgesdragon]

Idk why but i just want to scream and cry

#or jk i know why #getting my exam results in two (2!!!) days #and it’s driving me insane #screaming crying wailing

[calyxthenerd]

am I really hyperfixating on the most cliche romance show ever?

#I am #and it’s driving me insane

[possamble]

hiii everybody are you normal about Falin showing Laios the same little spell that Marcille showed her? are you normal about Falin remembering it fondly enough that it was one of the first things she showed her brother while trying to teach him magic?

#dungeon meshi #marcille donato #falin touden #laios touden #farcille #not really but im going to see it as that anyway #the way falin's love for marcille is always implicit and unspoken drives me insane forreal #marcille doesn't know how much falin loves her but laios does #because falin's always talking about her and thinking about her when she's not actually there and it's just laios seeing all of that #even the audience has to go hunt for it in the little details #and marcille doesn't even know!! of course she doesn't really care she expects nothing in return for her devotion to falin #but she doesn't even know that it's reciprocated!! she doesn't even know!!

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

Watching Home Alone is so funny it’s like

Kevin’s mom: *hyperventilating into a paper bag* I can’t believe I left my son home alone, he has to be so terrified, my poor baby boy all alone I need to go get him-

Kevin: *actively planning to commit war crimes*

#mads posts #also holy shit all of Kevin’s dialogue? fake as hell #it’s driving me insane #home alone

[abba-enthusiast]

What is it with the s-bahn and irritating noise

#there’s a baby crying and there’s a sound that sounds like a mosquito using a hair trimmer #and it’s driving me insane #christmas (and my new noice cancelling headphones) can’t come quickly enough #linda loquitur