A Blog I Use to Pass the Time

idk if this is a young fan thing or new fandom culture but some of yall think fics are abandoned way too quickly. a few months or a year or two is not unusual to go without a fic update. sometimes fics take longer to write, other times writers have rl events, or maybe there's multiple fics and one gets more priority. there are tons of reasons for fics not to be updated every week or every month. it also isn't uncommon for people to come back and update fics after a number of years—ive read updates that took five, or ten years. people's lives change, but they still want to tell their stories. personally, i never consider a fic abandoned unless the author has said so; though if it's been a few years i manage my expectations. but a last update being a year ago is... generally not a sign that a writer has abandoned their fic

That! Exactly that!!! Writers have lives and writing is hard! It takes time. Stop assuming fics are abandoned!

Original fic usually goes through this same process before being commercially published. Readers just don't know that bc they aren't receiving it in bite-size chunks online. Large periods of stagnant writing are historically just another Monday for most writers.

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HELL NAAA

chainsaw being a metaphor for ronan's heart and only knowing one name, which is adam's is so dear to me. she doesn't even call ronan ronan, but she does call adam 'atom'. ronan's heart only knowing one name, and thus, only loving one person ever, is so beautiful. given adams lack of love during his childhood, no other human could have given him what he needed (aka blue, or gansey romantically), im so glad adam and ronan are endgame and get married!

I hate hate haaaaate this culture of toxic productivity. I wake up before 5am every day, i go to work for 8 hours (10 if i also count the time i spend commuting), if all i want to do when i get home is sit and stare at the wall, it's my prerogative. I pay my bills on time, i support myself by myself, i work out, i clean, do enough, jfc. I'm allowed to not do anything else if i don't want to. I hate feeling guilty for spending an afternoon on my couch. And i hate it if people make me feel guilty for this.