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There is a reason for this though!
The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply.
significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.
that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).
the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.
Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. I’m glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you love–the way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to stories–that is what matters.
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a bunch of people have reblogged this with the default “i feel called out” reaction….and i know when we say that we mean it tongue-in-cheek….but this comment sorta blew my mind & shifted my perspective up and to the left a little thank you♥
EXACTLY, there is way more than enough Anxiety, and Change, and New Stuff, and things i have to Adult about with all my brain, i don’t need it in my entertainment too. it’s not entertaining.
That’s exactly me. I always thought… well, I always thought that 1) my ADD became worse as I grew older and 2) I simply stopped enjoying fiction - I’ve only been reading non-fiction for years (when I’m not reading fics).
I also rarely listen to new music/new artists. I mostly stick to albums/artists I already know and love, have loved since childhood.
@biggest-gaudiest-patronuses
Again: shit
This is also exactly why I look up spoilers and wish actual entertainment would have tags. One mystery I read ages ago had the solution hinge on “Oh yeah, this character was a child abuser, no wonder someone offed him” - but it came as a plot twist. And fanfic-reading me (who’s never been abused in her life) still reacted with “WTF, you don’t spring that on people, and I’d rather not read a mystery without knowing I’m supposed to be rooting for the killer to get away with it!”
What does the ao3 tag dead dove: do not eat mean?
Hi anon,
Essentially it’s a generic darkfic warning.
The name comes from a scene in Arrested Development where a character finds a package in a refrigerator labelled, “DEAD DOVE: Do Not Eat!”
Curious, he opens the package anyway and discovers it contains exactly what the label says: a dead dove. The character then says to himself, “I don’t know what I expected.”
“I don’t know what I expected” became a meme in and of itself, used in situations where people choose to look at things that are probably going to be unpleasant, and find out that they are, indeed, unpleasant.
The use of “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” as a tag for fanfiction was suggested by @mostlyvalid as a way to tell readers that, seriously, this fic contains something unpleasant – you have been warned. If you choose to ignore that warning and open the fic, then get upset by the unpleasant content, well, we don’t know what you expected.
It’s also a great way to find darkfic, if that’s your pleasure on a given day.
It honestly does weird me out a bit that some of you on here have kids. It isn't a slight against any of you and I'm not saying you shouldn't be allowed to have hobbies. It's just strange to me that you post something very smutty and the next post is something about your kids.
Hey, nonnie. I'm sure you're not the only one weirded out. But hobbies don't stop after kids. I'm not going to make any apologies about being a mom and posting what I choose to on my blog. If it's weird or strange to you, feel free to unfollow or filter out "navybrat rambles". Maybe I'll make a brand new tag just for my family talk.
And maybe you truly didn't mean it as a slight or to shame me, but I don't get the weirdness of age or who has kids or not on this site.
If someone would like to point me in the direction of a site that is like Tumblr but not Tumblr, I'm all ears. 😂 Please and thank you. ❤️
The literal children on here need to deal with their internalized misogyny before they send messages like this.
I’m so fucking over it.
Do you know that when you turn 30, you don't become a 80+ grandma?
Do you know that women's sex lives don't end after they have kids?
Do you know that hobbies aren't just for teenage girls, but also grown ass women?
Do you know that ageism is fucked up and problematic?
Do you know that moms had passions and thoughts and feelings and opinions and desires before they had kids – and they didn't disappear as soon as they gave birth?
I'm not a mother. But I get so disgusted how people on here treat women they know are older than them and/or are mothers. Women can be mothers and write smut. They are not mutually exclusives, you absolute idiots.
If this continues, you're going to force the best writers off this platform. Ya know, the women who have life experience and know how to write realistic and healthy relationships.
i have bad news for this anon about how children are made
I also have some bad news for this anon about the age and sex of the creators of the media that fandom comes from.
I just. Wow. I’d love to check back with Nonny in 10 years and see how they feel about this comment. It’s not gonna age well. All the stuff that everyone else already said, plus you know what? Adulting is fucking hard. Let us play. Let us have an outlet without shaming us. We can be multidimensional. It’s possible to tell your kid to stop hitting his sister with the duplo block grenades he made and then turn around and thirst on a post. It helps you not kill your spawn who are now scaling the couch like little monkeys while dumping chocolate milk all over your floor. Jesus Christ. Grow up.
^^ All of this but also, ageism aside, can we not, like, perpetuate the idea that once a woman has children then those children become her identity?
A lot of posts like this defend that women are allowed to have hobbies/outlets even after they're 30, and obviously yes true, but also women are allowed to have hobbies even after they've procreated.
Women are people with hobbies. Women are people.
I am a person and I am a mom COEXIST. It isn't I am a mom, therefore I am no longer a separate person.
Stop judging people on their ages and the hobbies they have at those ages, stop judging people for how they spend their spare time, but also stop saying that once a woman has procreated, she is defined as being a mother first and a person second (and should act accordingly).
“I’m not saying you shouldn’t be allowed to have hobbies.”
I find it strange that you think I need your permission.
There's a whole lot of shit this person said that they didn't mean to say.
On of the things that I really love about fandom (and tumblr) is what a diverse group of people it encompasses. I am a middle-aged, white, mother-type. I have friends that are very young, POC, elderly, trans, those who share my culture and those who have only learned a tiny bit of the language I speak. My friends are neurodivergent, disabled, queer. They are writers, artists, commenters, consumers and cheerleaders.
THAT IS A WONDERFUL THING. Every person I know who is different from me has something to teach me, and I become a more complex, compassionate and enriched person as a result.
I hope that every member of a fandom community is able to quickly learn what a precious thing this diversity brings us, and comes to cherish it instead of maligning it for being different from them.

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My wedding day, happiest day of my life hands down. -Everett K. Ross 🦋💍🌹
Love is love and we deserve equal rights, no matter what gender or sexuality we choose to be. Please support LGBQ+ community and be kind to each other. Happy Pride Month to y’all🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I’m so glad I finally finished this piece just in time for Pride month this year(started sketching in Feb 2019) It based on a line from deleted scene in Black Panther. When Nakia asked Ross about his wedding ring. I just couldn't contained myself and had to draw it out. Forever Freebatch shipper that’s I am🥺😭 Sherlock and John are soulmates in every AU.
ATTENTION there are hummingbird species called pufflegs and they are all wearing very silly pants and that’s their defining trait
Pufflegs! 😭 Reminds me of a booted racket-tail.
While cleaning out my room I found a paper that my therapist gave me some time ago to deal with obsessive and intrusive thoughts. Sorry the paper is a little crinkled and stained, but I figured I’d post it in hopes that it will help someone like it helped me.
Here it is again with text for anyone who can’t see the picture
That thought isn’t helpful right now.
Now is not the time to think about it. I can think about it later.
This is irrational. I’m going to let it go.
I won’t argue with an irrational thought.
This is not an emergency. I can slow down and think clearly about what I need.
This feels threatening and urgent, but it really isn’t.
I don’t have to be perfect to be OK.
I don’t have to figure out this question. The best thing to do is just drop it.
It’s OK to make mistakes.
I already know from my past experiences that these fears are irrational.
I have to take risks in order to be free. I’m willing to take this risk.
It’s OK that I just had that thought/image, and it doesn’t mean anything. I don’t have to pay attention to it.
I’m ready to move on now.
I can handle being wrong.
I don’t have to suffer like this. I deserve to feel comfortable.
That’s not my responsibility.
That’s not my problem.
I’ve done the best I can.
It’s good practice to let go of this worry. I want to practice.
This was very helpful. I especially like the “I have to take risks in order to be free.” OCD can be scary sometimes (all the time)

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ultimately i think kindness is the most radical thing you can do with your pain and your anger. it’s like, you take everything awful that’s ever been done to you, and you throw it back in the world’s teeth, and you say no, fuck you, i’m not going to take this. you say this is unacceptable. you say that shit stops with me.
humans are fucking terrible and this awful world we live in will fucking kill you but if you are kind, if you are brave and clever and try really hard, you can defy it. you can impose on this bleak and monstrous structure something beautiful. even if it’s temporary. even if it doesn’t heal anything inside you that’s been hurt.
i’m gonna sleep and i’m gonna wake up and i swear by everything in this deadly horrible universe i’m gonna make someone happy.
i’ve seen a number of comments and tags where people feel that they must swallow or repress their anger in order to engage in kindness. that is not at all what i am recommending here. radical kindness is an expression of anger. it is not passive. it is not repressive. it does not require you, in any way, to forgive those that have fucked you up. it does not require you to be quiet.
it just requires that you be kind. viciously. vengefully. you fight back. you plant flowers. give to charity. play games. pet someone’s dog. scream into the dark. paint and write and dance, tell jokes, sing songs, bake cookies. you have been hurt and you don’t have to deny that hurt. you just have to recognize it in other people, and take their hand, and say: no more. enough. fuck this. no more.
have a cookie.
i will say this again: we are all going to die. the universe is enormous and almost entirely empty. to be kind to each other is the most incredible act of defiance against the dark that i can imagine.
i will say this again: we are all going to die. the universe is enormous and almost entirely empty. to be kind to each other is the most incredible act of defiance against the dark that i can imagine.
1. The universe is indifferent. We ought not be.
2. A good quote: There are two kinds of people. Those who think, “I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did.” And those who think, “I suffered; why shouldn’t they?”
3. Two good quotes by Kurt Vonnegut: “Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies-“God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
And: “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
Another good quote:
“I. THIS IS NOT A GAME.
II. HERE AND NOW, WE ARE ALIVE.”
You can be kind and fuel it with rage. You can be kind and fuel it with a bitter twist, or you can be kind and fuel your kindness with righteous anger, or you can be kind and fuel it with love or spite or ecstatic joy. And no matter what your fuel is, you still can make kindness happen in the world so that people can warm themselves by it.
Kindness isn’t an emotion, kids. That’s the thing. Kindness is action. Kindness is choosing to take your emotions and channel them towards doing the most good where you can; to choose the targets of your actions carefully; to spread a little joy behind you, when you have a little to spare.
Kindness can mean a gentle word or a shouted imperative. It can be a warm meal or a gentle hug or a clean death. Kindness can manifest in many ways, and not all of them are one hundred percent nice. The kind thing to do may be doing nothing at all.
But kindness is, above all else, an action. We are imperfect humans, and we cannot control our emotions–but we can control what we do as a result. We can control the actions that our emotions and experiences propel us to perform.
The darkness is nothing but the absence of light, you know. It is endless and nihilistic and all enveloping. A lit candle has no hope against it.
But if enough of us light small candles and little matches behind us as we walk through this wide, uncaring universe, we can light up that sky. We can take an empty world and we can fill it with each other.
That’s how we can take the bones of an empty universe and forge a warm hearth fire humanity can use to keep back the night.
But kindness is, above all else, an action. We are imperfect humans, and we cannot control our emotions–but we can control what we do as a result. We can control the actions that our emotions and experiences propel us to perform.
I’m also a fan of Camus:
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
“There are three ways to ultimate success. The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” — Fred Rogers
“Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I’d always thought kindness a trivial virtue therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hearth.’ ‘Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how they may endure.’ ― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion
“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives! Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical… There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.” - Ursula K. LeGuin
“We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?” - Ursula K. LeGuin, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. you possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.” - Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed
Here are some links to reinforce the importance of what is said here: 1. Human beings consistently become more cooperative, compassionate, and constructive following major disasters.
2. Normalcy bias, also called bystander syndrome, is what happens when people don’t know how to react to an emergency, so they wait for someone else to move first.
Be someone who moves first.
Ok this is kinda funny but imagine being surrounded by people who sound like this. The French language was a mistake in the first place but combining it with English.... abomination
@033h we've been saying
"toc toc toc toc you are now a porcupicicle"
@professordrarry
Eyyy, je parle comme un perfect lil chou, thank you beaucoup @emerald-fire-3510
But also, toc toc toc is the best French sound effect... That, or scronch. Hard to say.
tw: blood Bloody Version below
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A well deserved cup of coffee after a bloody hard work☕️🩸
Can't wait for S3 and bts from the cast✨👀
will be the cover of my sketch booklet that I’m working on right now.

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Star Trek (2009) is a Legally Blonde au
Stephen, while looking through alternate universes, discovers that he is connected to Everett Ross in more ways that he thought was possible. - (Originally posted on my insta @/bannersodinson)
- Part 2: https://hamishhhuh.tumblr.com/post/176526967126/part-2-how-sherlock-survived-the-fall