#BookAddict
I’m attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I’m interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I’m interested in the things people try to hide.
-Thalassomania
-Chiraptomania
-Ombromania
-Oneiromania
Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
— Marie Lu, Legend
Had to share this here because you’re right and you should say it. It’s incredible how many people came out of the woodwork as soon as AO3 was down and suddenly had no compunctions at all about screaming how much they love and need fanfic–on the AO3 twitter. Is it so much harder to do in the comment section?
At this point I don’t care anymore if people call me entitled or think I’m out of line. If fanfic is so meaningful to you that you cannot go half an hour without, let alone 24h, then you can get over yourself long enough to write a fucking comment. No excuses.
“writing comments is hard and scary” yeah well GUESS WHAT so is writing fanfics. fandom as a community is dying, because it is instead treated as a COMMODITY, a CONSUMER PRODUCT. We’re not asking for much. We’re asking for a CONNECTION. We don’t want to sell, we want to share.
You’ve shown your hand. You’ve admitted you cannot live without us. Now ACT LIKE IT. Go write a fucking comment.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but being able to identify when you need help and negotiate asking for and receiving it is a coping strategy. If you are effectively managing your condition — whatever injury, illness, disability, or neurodivergency that might be — with assistance, then you are in fact effectively managing your condition.
