the lions look real, don't they?

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.

i guess DNI lists do work in the sense that sometimes i see a user with a DNI full of so many crazy specific discourse topics and opinions that i immediately think "this person is extremely exhausting to be around and/or fourteen years old" and lose all desire to follow them. so like. it did its job. in a way.

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

This is basically how you should approach structuring a story btw.

its crazy that megan thee stallion is not considered a queer artist by some people. the woman is not shy about the fact that she finds women attractive and likes having sex with them. she references it pretty frequently in her music, she made a whole song about enjoying having threesomes with a woman and a man, she made a Jennifer's Body-themed music video, she had Victoria Monét full riding her thigh on stage at a coachella, and there's literally a video of a lesbian interviewing glorilla at a party & asking who she would date if she was queer and her immediate response is "megan. megan like girls!" and then megan turns around and immediately starts flirting with the interviewer. i don't know what more you want. that woman is Bi Sexual and we should all be thankful every day for that. bi women are still bi when they wanna fuck men too you know. the fucking of men is also done bisexually.

My toxic fandom take is that I think that it's awful how much we can talk to creators and get answers from them word of god style. We should be out here in a godless place rooting for scraps of lore in the media like truffle pigs out in the fields

I want to write something scary but I don't know if the things that I find scary would make a good horror story.

Part of it is that this feels very unoriginal. "wooooo, capitalism scary!" yeah. we get it.

it's bartleby the scrivener and metamorphosis and prometheus and omelas. "the system eats people. duh."

The horror in the story is that nobody in the story notices the horror. This is simply life. This is the way things are. You come home from work and wash the smell of iron out of your hair before you rush downtown to meet that cute guy from the bar for a drink. There are houses in the shadow of the staircase and they have raingutters to keep the blood out of the flowerbeds.

They don't know where the blood comes from. People they know don't disappear, people who work on the staircase don't fall off and die. There's always more blood. It's just a thing that happens, and somebody has to clean it up otherwise the drains get backed up and that impacts traffic.