the woods are lovely, dark and deep

Like - putting aside the question of whether the amount of fanfiction a piece of media receives is an accurate reflection its cultural impact (I abide by the fanfiction moss analogy, sometimes good media just does not beget transformative work), looking at AO3 for numbers just feels disingenuous. AO3 was operating in 2009 but in my memory it wasn’t really in vogue during the time that Avatar 2009 was in theatres. If you’re looking for fanfic based on media from the 2000s, I find that Fanfiction-dot-net is the better website to look at; Castle 2009 only has 4,808 fics on AO3 at the time of writing, but it has over 23,600 fics on Fanfiction-dot-net. It’s not that Castle 2009 had no cultural impact, it’s just that AO3 wasn’t the website being used when that show was in the zeitgeist to capture that cultural impact.

#I don’t even go here but this is cool

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#asshjdfgkasgfkjhsak this finally convinced me to watch all ten seasons over the weekend #ffffffuuuckkkkkk #gnawing on the bars of my enclosure #I will die and/or kill for them #desperately need a 50K fic of this

[ID: a tag by @helianthus-annuus777 that reads: ‘#there was a bat-cock reveal?’ The four photos is two sets—the original panels and the reprinted ones from the comic Batman: Damned #1. The first photo shows Bruce stripping out of his costume and throwing it on the floor of the Batcave. As he undresses, we can see his penis hanging flaccidly before he walks towards the viewer, having full frontal nudity from the chest down. His penis is nothing remarkable to describe or look at, especially when compared to his thick thighs or the scars that litter his body. The second photo is the same as the first but with dark shadows covering his little penis and balls. There's also added dialogue, him asking the computer to run a scan on any injuries then saying bullshit when it reports no evidence of multiple fatal stab wounds. The third and fourth photo is focused on his unfortunately smooth ass as he walks to a different section in the cave and stands in a doorway that leads to his other costumes. In the bottom panel (in the original image), we can see his dick again. The fourth photo has it hidden with shading. There's more dialogue that's been added that's really not important or relevant. END ID]

Nifty little language game here.

I can read back to 1500 with basically no difficulty

at 1400 I have to read slowly and carefully, but I can understand all of it save a couple words

at 1300 I can still comprehend most of it if I read slowly, but a much larger percentage of the words are unfamiliar to me, even with context

"If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity."