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the problem is i really do love staying up until one billion o'clock. it just cant be helped

5 months? FIVE MONTHS????? That's considered an abandoned fic? Some of y'all don't deserve fandom.

What is up with lefty types pushing to learn practical skills (sewing/gardening/etc whatever) as like "you'll need to know this after The Revolution:tm:" and not, like, "this is a useful skill to help yourself & others in your communities Right Now". You all sound like doomsday preppers and it's weirding me out. We don't have to prep for communist rapture maybe thee revolution starts with helping your neighbors

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN LIKE....... it's weird. It's a subtle distinction but it's weird. People wanna be protagonists in post apocalypse movies so bad & when you're like "well that's not going to fucking happen innit" they call you a counterrevolutionary. Like yeah no I'm on board with dismantling the establishment etc etc I'm just saying you're being fucking weird about it. This is an action movie hero fantasy in a gen z aesthetic trenchcoat. You can just repair your clothes and feed people Right Now

Hanging out with people will make you remember you're the crazy woke friend for like. not wanting to shop at shien

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

writing a canon divergent fix-it fic while also shaking my head to show that i actually really like the canon's tragic narrative and am not trying to say i think it would be better if canon was like this

Well as a "fan" I would be "serviced" by some THEMES AND MOTIFS #themesandmotifs #artwithmeaning

all you new fandom members need to QUIET DOWN oh my god you're going to get us KILLED. we're happy to have you but if you keep talking about BULLSHIT like PUBLISHING fanfic for MONEY, Anne Rice is going to come back from the dead to KILL US. looking at YOU, maurauders fans, heated rivalry fans, byler fans...out here giving out interviews to news channels SHUT UP. we're going to have to start setting off firecrackers to keep the rent down.

the issue with growing up in the 2000s and 2010s was like there was this really big push toward "accepting your weirdness" overall but they meant like idk wearing mismatched socks or something not being tangibly beyond the norm in any way shape or form

OK lads but. Why is the r slur coming back. It's 2026. Why am I hearing so many of The Youth use this word liberally and at whim. Do you need me to ground you. Do I need to sit you on the naughty step. Do you need me to strap you into the Learning Chair and deliver a 4 hour lecture about the history of the r slur, ableism, and why using that word is neither big nor cool. Or do you just need me to punch you in the mouth.

It's not coming back. It never left. The only difference is more self proclaimed neurodivergent people are trying to justify using it online because they are "reclaiming" it. Despite the fact that it was never theirs to reclaim to begin with.

That's not true. Many people have added comments to this post along the lines of 'lol it never left', and I understand the urge to be flippant, but I think it's actually very disingenuous to pretend that we're not seeing a vast increase in its usage. It may not have disappeared completely, but I, An Old, went a solid 15 years without hearing it even once, and now I see it fairly consistently online and have heard it used IRL on multiple occasions. At no point in these real life instances was it used in an (ill-advised) attempt at reclaiming it; it was a solid 'that thing is r------- and it sucks' derogatory context. I think we're burying our heads in the sand about the potentially troubling reasons for its resurgence when we pretend that this has been the case all along. It absolutely hasn't.