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i feel. like on a fundamental level. i do not understand x reader fic. i am not exactly opposed to it because let a thousand blossoms bloom etc. but like. i genuinely don’t get it. it seems like the exact opposite of how i engage with fiction. like the whole point is that i’m not in there. i don’t wanna be in there. if i’m in there it’s going to be very stressful.
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we need to hold hands for tactical reasons and should consider the possibility that we might also need to strategically kiss with tongue. maybe more if the situation changes.
I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.
I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. The purpose of listening to someone else's story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding.
It deeply saddens me that "pdf file" has become slang for pedo. Don't you dare disrespect my wife the beautiful portable document format ever again
and to the children in the notes saying we need this fucking baby talk to get around censorship online; there's been no credible evidence that any site other that YouTube (which will only demonetize your video, ftr) will actually censor or hide content that include words like rape, pedophile, gun, terrorist, etc. etc. and even if we take as a given they were (which, again, they are not), do not fucking comply in advance, you absolute fucking coward. and ESPECIALLY do not comply by altering your real life fucking vocabulary. don't let the technocrats dictate what words you say holy fucking shit dude!!!!!!!!!!!!
“I asked ChatGPT. I asked Grok” well I asked Janet and she gave me a cactus
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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER // 7.13 “The Killer in Me”
Me about to enter 2026, expecting nothing to get better for at least three years.
i'm going to say something insane. i think the overall pronounced fandom cultural slide away from complex plotty violent work and towards kidfic and coffee shops AUs and cozy domestic romcoms is a symptom of fascism.
okay actually this is a great phrase for it
Reblogging this for the term "neopastoralism", because I think that's fantastic.
Coffee shop AUs are, like... fine. They're not my thing, but they're hardly going to end the world. We don't need to have a moral panic about people enjoying coffee shop AUs. I'm also not about to come for anyone seeking escapism in the current hellscape.
However, I do think it's interesting to examine the tendency within these AUs to project a sort of idyll onto the coffee shop: here is a whimsical place where you can spend time with your friends and potentially meet your true love; here is a world where the greatest dilemma you may face is choosing the right coffee syrup for a new beverage or sneaking your number onto that to-go cup without being obvious.
The fantasy of the coffee shop AU is divorced almost entirely from the reality of an actual coffee shop. There are no abusive, creepy customers or bosses; there is no mention of the barista's wages; we don't see the dishwasher sweating at their station, the cashiers' aching feet; the person whose job it is to clean the (customer-only?) toilets. These topics are Political and Depressing and Must Be Avoided, because Political and Depressing things are antithetical to this kind of escapism.
The coffee shop AU exists, not in a world without capitalism (because this is a setting where commerce is actively happening) but in a world where capitalism has no teeth: a world where capitalism somehow works. In order to be convinced and soothed by this fantasy, you must suspend your disbelief and avert your eyes. You must filter the coffee shop through a neopastoralist lens.
To me, there's something very uncanny about it.
This is a strange and winding anecdote, but bear with me. I was briefly obsessed with a British game show called Only Connect. It's an extremely difficult quiz show with puzzly questions, and the third round is called The Wall (the concept of which was later stolen for NYT Connections). The two opposing teams choose which wall they want to solve, a blind and meaningless choice between the "Lion" wall and the "Water" wall (it's a thing about hieroglyphics too pedantic to explain here).
I was watching an episode from maybe 2021 or 2022, and the team chose the Water wall, and the host, Victoria Coren Mitchell (David Mitchell's wife) actually pauses at length to comment that it's very strange, but before COVID, the vast majority of teams would choose the Lion wall, I guess because it seemed stronger. But post-COVID, teams overwhelmingly were choosing the Water wall. The difference was too extreme to be a coincidence. She wondered if everyone was so burned out on stress and anxiety that they were instinctively choosing the softer, gentler option-- the soothing water over the angry lion.
I wonder if a proliferation of low-stakes, low-plot, gentle romance fics over darker, violent ones is something along the same lines. People, and especially the kind of people who write fanfiction (often, young and/or queer) are having a particularly bad time these days, and maybe feel particularly unsafe, and I wonder if that's presenting in part as people indulging in gentler fantasies.
Anyway, I think about that moment from the show a lot, that's all.
(To be fair, I'd also accept an argument about a loss of media literacy and/or ability to focus. Writing a coffee shop AU is easier on the writer than a violent, plot-heavy epic. I sure don't have the focus I did when I started writing fanfiction in 2010, and I sure as shit KNOW that readers don't have the focus or media literacy that they had even back then.)
current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.
someone brought a cake analysis robot to feed the cake into to determine the exact ingredients and supposedly it can spit out the exact same cake. and if you're like dude. what. then they're like well if it bothers you you should have made more cake. i'm hungry and i deserve cake. and you're like dude we're at a party.
Three months later you find out that fifty people locked themselves in a room to discuss how much they loved your cake and how they wished you made more. None of them ever told you.
so for the love of god. please tell people you liked their cake and don’t feel embarrassed about it. because then they will make more cake.
This is why I read the reddit comments
I love how the notes for this are just chock full of examples of the most batshit specific things people research for their fanfics. Truly a treasure trove.
Some of my favorites
And my absolute fav
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y’all ever read a fanfic that you cannot believe an author just wrote for free?? what an honor it is to read a piece of someone’s soul they shared out of nothing but love for a piece of media. what a privilege it is to be allowed their talent because you share an interest!!
you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.
Neither enemies to lovers nor slow burn but a secret third thing called Schrödinger's intimacy. We are in love and we are not in love do NOT open that lid I swear to God.
Is this not literally the beginning of like 90% of wlw relationships?
so Bobby has a shirt of the girls but consider the girls having a Bobby shirt ✨
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So I finished watching Hazbin Hotel the other day and spent like the past week absolutely brainrotting over it-- there's so much to like! THE MUSIC! Grumpy sunshine lesbians! Raunchy jokes! Weird takes on Biblical lore!-- but the thing that is truly haunting my brain space is this:
Vaggie. is SO ENTIRELY WHIPPED. that her girlfriend, who she has been keeping her MURDER-ANGEL PAST secret from, asks her to come with her to HEAVEN (THE PLACE HER SECRET MURDER-ANGEL PAST TOOK PLACE) to argue before a CONVOCATION of ANGELS (THE THING SHE WAS ALSO ONE OF), VERY MUCH INCLUDING 1) her DIRECT BOSS/COWORKER who literally CARVED out her EYE and RIPPED off her WINGS, and 2) Adam, her boss's boss who LITERALLY NAMED HER and interacted with her on the regular.
AND SHE FUCKING GOES WITH HER.
SHE. HAS NOT EVEN CHANGED HER NAME. HER ONLY PHYSICAL CHANGE IS THAT SHE GREW HER HAIR OUT.
SHE APPARENTLY SEES SO LITTLE PROBLEM WITH THIS PLAN THAT SHE IS *SURPRISED* WHEN THEY RECOGNIZE HER.
I. I'm dying. I'm screaming. This tiny lesbian put her entire existence in jeopardy to the most absurd degree because her gf said pretty please and she didn't want her to make a sad face.
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