Why is a raven like a writing desk?

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.

Next Up On Game Changer - Sam and Brennan are both led to believe they are secretly hosting an episode designed to fuck with the other, only for it to be revealed that the episode is actually being hosted by Vic 'Honorary CEO of Dropout' Michaelis and they have 40 minutes left to live

"can u multitask" yes actually i am losing my mind and chilling at the same time

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

i do feel somewhat ruined forever. but it’s okay we stay silly

Interviews with hockey players are fantastic, because it is a complex game that can be spoken about at length, but during the intermission they'll find the Wettest player imaginable on the losing team and for thirty seconds they'll ask them things like "what do you need to do to get more pucks in the net?" And the player (panting, haunted behind the eyes) says something like "well, we've got to get them in there"

I’m a patron of the arts (I leave nice comments on aO3).

I'm a patron of the arts (I reblog on Tumblr dot com)

Nothing slapped my shit back into place like someone pointing out that the "genius gifted child with so much potential who got burnout and mental illness" is just the nerd equivalent to the jock "could have been a pro at sportsball if it wasn't for the injury".

Babygirl I know fandom history that you wouldn’t even care about

i know fandom history that even I don’t care about

girls go to college to get a degree in a program that they were once excited for but have since had all the enjoyment sucked out of it and is no longer a baseline requirement in an increasingly competitive and demanding workforce

(girl who is already extremely private) i think i need to Move In More Silence

The pilot -> astronaut pipeline makes complete sense but is also funny to me. There's a secret second sky and if you get good enough at doing sky you can do space.