certified champion of lost causes

I'm casting a spell at you that makes you get five hundred billion thousand dollars. this is not a "reblog and you will get five hundred billion thousand dollars" post. I am just telling you that I have cast the spell, it's happening

human nature is holding the door for people behind you. it’s buying someone their favorite candy because you saw it and thought of them. it’s going on long drives with someone just to have their company. it’s helping someone pick up the papers they dropped. it’s sharing your softest blankets and favorite snacks. it’s giving a stranger in line a little extra cash to help them cover their expenses. it’s buying someone their favorite drink because you remembered when you were getting lunch. human nature is not selfishness or greed. it’s the capacity for kindness. saying otherwise is just an excuse for dickheadery when you know you can do better.

Not only is it not weird, it is ACTIVELY ENCOURAGED. Authors LOVE IT when people do this!!! Its not "weird" and its not "neutral" -- its a fucking DELIGHT. Feel very absolutely free to read though an author's entire back catalogue, leaving kudos and/or comments along the way; we absolutely freaking love when someone does this. There is nothing more joyful than getting a comment notification for an old fic. It will make our day, I promise.

There needs to be a special word for the warm, gratifying feeling that you get when you watch someone kudos everything you've ever written in a specific fandom in backwards order over 3 days. and that word needs a modifier to express the inexpressible joy when they start leaving comments on every story no matter how old it is.

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

the lion does not concern herself with papa

I’m the kind of person that will restart a song because i got distracted and wasn’t appreciating it enough.

there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world right now and I know we as a species has lost the plot a bit but I didn’t expect part of that would include, like, getting a second moon

they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids

10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO

what? oh sweetheart no, you're not weirding me out at all. you're weirding me in. keep talking, freak

Writer confidence is not a thing you build and then have. It's a thing you have for about eleven minutes after writing something good and then it evaporates and you have to make more. There is no reservoir. There is no saving it up. You produce it fresh each time from scratch like some kind of emotional artisan bread and if you don't write for a few days you run out and have to start the whole process over again from flour.

shout-out to the person i overheard today rushing into an antiques shop to ask, very urgently, ‘do you have any silver crosses?’. wishing you well in your fight against the creatures of darkness, friend