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at some point The Character stops being a character and starts being a close personal friend

or maybe even… a lover

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

Being a 50 year old man is one of the most kawaii things you can be

Imagine going from "I don't see why I have to do that guy any favours" to "I have such deep love and respect for you that I will raise and protect your son to the best of my ability in your absence" Alan Bradley character of all time it will never not piss me off that he wasn't included in ares