𝖇𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖍𝖊𝖊𝖋𝖆𝖓56

When I was a teenager writing fic, I remember finding out that one of my favorite authors was in her 50s and that just was SUCH a revelation for me!! What do you mean, 50 year olds can write fanfic?!? Does that mean I can write fics when I'm her age?? That's AWESOME! I seriously looked up to her so much. And now I'm 35 with a husband and kid, and I'm still writing fanfic and posting fandom content - and I have no plans of stopping!

I don’t want to sound like I am hating on younger people in fandom, but god, y’all need to stop it with the ageism. You don’t have to give up what you love once you’re an adult. Honestly, the belief that you have to is pretty bad. It sounds like it would make people afraid of aging. Granted, modern society is so very afraid of aging.

my dad has a statue of gollum in my parents living room and a map of middle earth used to hang over their dining table (where we ate every meal) - he was abolutely involved in fandom culture as a teen and probably is now on reddit

my parents are fandom nerds and i'm very aware - hell i've sent my mum ao3 fics before many a time

if you think adults aren't involved in fandom culture - you're just wrong

I fear the younger generations wouldn't even be able to appreciate the good fanfiction already there, and struggle to contribute too.

"Thank you. It was expensive." I lift my chin.

"Cost someone their life."

'Expensive necklaces'

it contains human existence.

116 images— the sun, the location of our solar system, mathematical and physical unit definitions, and our planets, including a blue and swirling white sphere simply labelled "Home." it contains images of human dna, of our atoms, their structure, the way they divide, our anatomy, our conception, our birth.

it does not contain an image of war. nor of disease, nor poverty, nor crime, religion, or ideology.

it does contain a father looking lovingly at his daughter. it does contain the picture of a tree toad in a gentle hand, of a woman eating a grape at a supermarket.

the remainder of the disk is audio. a 90-minute selection of music from all over the world, sounds, and greetings. there are greetings in 55 different languages, one akkadian, spoken in sumer about six thousand years ago, and one wu, a modern chinese dialect. the greetings call out to a friend. it wishes them well. it asks them if they have eaten yet.

but it contains other sounds too. it holds the sound of rain, of thunder, of a volcano and an earthquake. it holds the sound of mud pots and trains. it holds the sound of a mother kissing her child.

with little to erode it in space, the golden record would probably outlast all human creation. it will be 40,000 years before it approaches another planetary system. if it does, it cannot find intelligent life. intelligent life will have to find it, retrieve it from where it floats silent and small through space. we still don't know if they would understand it.

in 7.5 billion years, the evolution of the sun would burn the earth up, and we would not exist any longer, but the voyager would fly on, bearing a memory.

Garrick: *gently taps table* Xaden: *taps back* Liam: What are they doing? Bodhi: It's Morse code. Garrick: *aggressively taps table* Xaden: *slams hands down* YOU TAKE THAT BACK-

Xaden: ••-•/••-/-•-•/-•-// /---/••-•/••-•//

Liam: What are they doing?

Bodhi: It's Morse code.

Garrick: ---/-•-// , /••// /•--/••/•-••/•-••// /--•/---// /-/---// /•••-/••

Xaden: YOU LITTLE SHIT!!!

*Garrick laughing loudly and uncontrollably*

Slightly edited - this is set in post fourth wing time span instead, But I couldn't resist 😅

Challenge: Take the test and learn what type of toast you are.

Part of me was a little sad, and part of me was not surprised. (And another part was shocked how really accurate this is??)

No Pressure Tags:

@humanitys-strongest-bamf, @banasheefan56, @thestarryfalls , @littlerequiem , @dorydotcom , @abiatackerman , @AsexualAxolotl, @hideandgopeep, @amywritesthings , @sixpennydame,  and anyone else who wants to play!

Why is this 99% accurate? I'm anxious about that 1%...

That quote was my mantra through my entire school life....

No pressure tags!

There was only one thing that Bryce Quinlan would describe her as: “A warrior.”

-House of Flame and Shadow