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Shout out to everyone who is just so tired So so exhausted So very very tired so very fatigued so sleepy and tired So

The zoo in my hometown posted this picture of one of their cheetah cubs and I'm obsessed

HIS NAME IS YAM ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDINF ME

— Rob Bell

Can we please make the deep sea the next cool desirable “final frontier” pretty please. I want Elon Musk to design a horrible Tesla Brand submarine and go down to map the Mariana’s Trench for commercial development and watch it crumple like a tin can the second it reaches 200 meters

every day i wake up and remember steve quite literally asked bucky to kill him. like he actually told bucky to finish it because he was with him until the end. he acknowledged it was the end. he stopped fighting back for the first time in his life. he finally threw the shield down after years of doubting his purpose as captain america because he didn’t want to have to hurt bucky. he begged bucky to not make him have to fight him at all because he couldn’t let people die but as soon as he’d saved everyone else he gave up on himself and was planning on going down on the helicarrier with bucky. he freed bucky from being trapped under the wreckage even though he knew bucky was still going to try and kill him. he decided he’d rather let himself die at bucky’s hands than live in a world where bucky didn’t remember him. like. what the hell.

That shield was meant to protect Bucky, not to hurt him.

The French really don’t fuck around.

cas was like there’s one thing i want and i know i can’t have it. my brother in christ you’ve always had it

lily evans the woman that you are….

hbd lily my aquarius bestie <3

every day i am percieved™️

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.

I feel understood 🥰

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♥

The Serotonin is stored in the Ao3

Okay, I never add commentary on my reblogs these days, but I feel so fucking understood right now that I had to this time. I haven’t read a book in over a decade, but I read at least 200k words of fic a day at this point in my life. This makes so much fucking sense.

not keeping up w the winchesters but I am enthralled by the idea that jensen ackles might very well be balls to the walls crazy enough to completely rewrite the supernatural series finale out of sheer pettiness and love for dean winchester

the wolfsbane potion they gave remus in POA didnt stop him from transforming to a werewolf, it just left him his human intelligence. so i therefore imagine remus locked up somewhere discreetly during the full moon, werewolf form, reading a book or some human shit and im laughing so hard

i don’t understand why we aren’t using wolfstar instead of jegulus for the spiderman’s au???? LIKE REMUS BEING SPIDERMAN, HIM BEING BITTEN BY THE SPIDER, THE BEING AFRAID OF PEOPLE DISCOVERING HIS SECRET, THE SCARS, THE NOT WANTING HIS LOVED ONES KNOWING BECAUSE HE IS AFRAID OF HURTING THEM, HIM BEING THE SMART GUY AND THE HERO???, SIRIUS BEING HIS BESTFRIEND TRYING TO FIGURE HIM OUT AND FALLING IN LOVE WHILE DOING IT, REMUS BEING AFRAID THAT THE ONLY REASON SIRIUS LIKES HIM IS BECAUSE HE WANTS TO PROTECT HIM IN A WAY, ANDREW BEING ONE OF REMUS’ FANCASTS AND US LITERALLY HAVING MEDIA FOR EDITS ETC BECAUSE ANDREW IS SPIDERMAN??? LIKE AM I THE ONLY ONE SEEING THE VISION

sometimes i wonder if i’m really a perfectionist and then i remember that i have an incredibly detailed marauders era timeline that has every full moon, prank, birthday, and any important music that was released down to the day just in case one day i want to write fanfiction for this god forsaken fandom.

(and don’t worry it’s all fact checked and accurate)

(it’s all canon compliant and anything that has canon dates is dated [plus fact checked] there but there is a lot of fanon/ headcanons too)

okay it won’t let me put this in a reply so here it is lol

Little marauders party(⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠)

It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc

I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks

(Faces censored and additional text added by me)

Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.

I think the thing we don't talk enough about is how Dean was basically reliving all his trauma at once every second and like actively losing his mind for every second of season 15. Like.

Fighting his way free of his role as Daddy's blunt little instrument. Fighting his way free of his role as the Righteous Man. Fighting his way free of his role as the Michael Sword. Fighting his way free of Purgatory. Fighting his way free of the Mark and Amara. Fighting his way free of Michael.

His entire life spent fighting to be free of the performances forced onto him, and in a single second it's all moot. Meaningless. His very struggle to be free itself was also a performance, a song and dance playing out for the pleasure of a sadistic god. Everything he's ever fought for, everything that's ever motivated him, called into question. Who even is he?

the thing about destiel is that cas drops in on season four pussy out big meow meow eyes and a voice deeper than the marianna trench just to tell dean he has no faith and then you get to season fifteen and they are sharing a bottle of wine over a romcom with their faces wrinkled in mellow laughter

me listening to a musical about the most terrible heartwrenching tragic fucked up shit to ever exist

I am begging people to stop implying mpreg is wrong or creepy. you know real men can get pregnant right