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Hey everyone! Alice here, hailing from Jolly Old England! If you like lesbians and cupcakes then YOU HAVE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE. If you like fanart, then I have an art tag which you can find the link to just below my big ol' list of fandoms. If...

“This character is dead in canon” to you. They’re dead in canon to you. To me they’re fine

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“This character is dead in canon” then explain to me why they’re still running around and living rent free in my head.

[image description: a tag that says, “#they’re not dead they just moved to an ao3 fanfic upstate”. /end id]

One thing that makes Galaxy Quest such a good film is how kind it is about the diehard fans, from the nerds who have an encyclopedic knowledge of every inch of the ship to the fangirls who squeal over their favourite ship, it'd have been so easy to make fun of them and portray them as pathetic losers and asocial freaks, but instead they're portrayed as sweet and earnest and having firm and valued and real friendships with each other as a result of their fandom, and being right to care about the show as much as they do. The movie isn't a love letter to Star Trek, it's a love letter to Star Trek fans.

working in a library, i encounter a lot of people who are in the process of filling out important forms, sending important faxes, and copying important documents. and the more important these things are, the more stressful, meaning i end up assisting a lot of really stressed people with a lot of really stressful paperwork, and have thus developed the ultimate line to immediately validate and empathize with their situation

“they don’t make it easy, do they?”

i nearly always use this line at some point in the conversation & it works without fail, because there is ALWAYS a they and they are ALWAYS not making it easy. you don’t have to specify who “they” are. you don’t even need to have an approximate idea of their role in this process.

job application? disability paperwork? insurance documents? financial aid paperwork? in any situation, the person visibly relaxes & enthusiastically agrees, because someone understands their plight: they are out there & they are NOT making it easy