i am both “fast replier” and “never replies” type of person, it depends on my mood.
me: I'm literally begging you to do the one task you need to do
my brain:
This image has a lot of energy about it but idk what type to call it
cool skateboard dad energy
heterosexual christians in college be like: gotta marry or i will die
they wanna fuck. they gotta fuck or they will die but God put fucking behind a paywall
back in the day, “Tolkien fan/author self-insert gets transported into Middle Earth and must use their encyclopedic knowledge of The Lord of the Rings to navigate the world and help the characters survive” was a popular fanfic premise.
I would like to read a story about a modern human who gets transported into an epic fantasy world that they were once a huge fan of, but they haven’t read the source material in twenty-five years and now only vaguely recall a handful of plot points and their attempts to use their pseudo-prescient knowledge of story events is actively unhelpful.
their college roommate used to have them proof-read their slashfic and that’s the extent of their engagement with the series
OH OH OH THERE WAS A DRAGON AGE FANFIC WITH THIS EXACT PREMISE @foolforbrightness idk if you’re in that fandom but it exists!
Protagonist was super into the series ages ago, then subsisted on fanfic and fan discourse for a decade and a half, and the story is just a series of horrifying personal revelations about how much that they remember as canon is just popular fanon or fanfic tropes. Every chapter a new assumption originating from a fandom trend nearly kills them.
This is how I interact with half of the stuff I love so this is now scaring me
This one time I wrote a scene (in Parting the Clouds) about Rachel explicitly putting her earrings in her pierced ears after demorphing in book 3 of Animorphs (which is consistent with my headcanon about how morphing works), later forgot I invented this scene and thought it was in the original, and used it as evidence to support said headcanon without double-checking the book. I am haunted by this mistake to this very day.
(Rachel loses an earring late series so it’s possible to claim that piercings survive morphing, but it’s not as conclusive; they could be clip-ons, or a new piercing, or their morphing skills could have improved by then as they later learn to morph bulky clothes and soforth, something.)
okay but what if this premise but in the opposite direction. drop JR^2T himself into Middle Earth.
Tolkien gets sucked into Middle Earth only to discover that his pronunciation is terrible and he was wrong about Elf sex
A woman who doesn’t work here anymore brought this weird smurf toy into work a couple of months ago and set it on top of the computer because apparently her kids wouldn’t stop fighting over it and I hate it every day. It sits up there taunting me with its apparent lack of spine or any normal smurf anatomy. Anyway I found out a few weeks ago her kids are about 15-17 and now I’m certain this is a highly cursed object.
The worst part of depression is that it doesn't kill your desire to want to do things, it doesn't kill your dreams and what you want in life, it just stops you from doing them
When Google celebrates someone’s birthday or something and makes a special logo you can click the logo and find out who it is. In this damn website you get a Guy Fieri-themed logo for his birthday with no explication and you’re supposed to just live with it.
