Thesis Crying & beyond

Explaining that the prominent iced coffees and chocolate-glazed Munchkins were essential to director Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of the ancient Greek epic, actor Matt Damon defended Tuesday the placement of Dunkin’ Donuts products in the upcoming film The Odyssey. “Look—for a voyage that long, you’d need 50 sausage, egg, and cheese croissants, at least,” said the actor, who added that he spent countless hours consulting with historians while preparing for the starring role of Odysseus to get a sense of what the hero might have ordered from the Massachusetts-based chain in Greece during the Late Bronze Age. 

(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

1) OP made a post that seemed interactive but then

2) Did NOT want anyone to actually engage

I remember tumblr at the time. It wouldn’t have changed OP’s post so lmao big L for OP making it weird

But best of all:

Most people didn’t realize there WAS a response until this fuckin UFO went by.

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My advice on that thread still stands: if you find yourself distressed, upset, furious with people online, speaking poorly of people who write things you don’t like — it’s time to log off. Really. Turn off your phone or laptop and go take a walk. Come back when you’re feeling calmer. If you continue in that spiral of frustration, it will become a cycle that’s hard to break out of.

I think that person was extremely frustrated with the tagging system, and as I said, it’s more of a them problem than an ao3 problem.

I wonder how much of that has to do with the lack of algorithm that younger audiences simply aren’t used to. Nothing is suggested on ao3, you have to find it yourself. You have to bookmark or save certain tags and build a series of searches you like. Depending on how specific your wants are, that could take some effort. Not a lot, but some!

There was someone in the reblogs that offered to sift through that person’s complaints and do the search for them to prove it didn’t need to be so hard. It actually ended up being pretty straightforward, which showed that their issues with inserts / OC’s really felt more like they didn’t ever want to see a single story like that when they search, rather than accepting that it’s much more rare than they claimed and that no tagging system will ever be right 100% of the time.