(((I Will Outlive)))

“…to me” is one of the most powerful disclaimers we have on here… is this character analysis accurate? debatable. but it’s real… to me.

"They're not gay, they're mortal enemies-" that's literally the exact same thing

Thinking about the fact that Kurt canonically likes furries 🥰

no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for

never over this

"I know what you are" scene where the person in question is actually some weirdly specific critter from regional folklore and is honestly pretty annoyed at constantly being misidentified as a vampire, as far as they're aware vampires aren't even real, like, some closet-case from fucking Ireland writes an allegorical screed about Dirty Foreigners Come to Steal Our Women a hundred and fifty years ago and it's been their fucking cross to bear ever since.

"so how did you two meet"

she messaged me on tumblr and we became obsessed with each other literally immediately and now we are bound by the red string of fate

Writer: There Was Only One Bed…

Smut fans: *gasp!!!!!*

Writer: So They Spooned All Night And The Brooding One Allowed Themselves To Feel Vulnerable For The First Time In Years And The Chirpy One Got Some Quality Snuggles

Fluff fans: *GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*

Alternatively:

There was only one bed and so they lay there together, only inches apart physically but it may as well have been miles for neither could muster the courage to tell the other the true depth of their feelings and so they lay there sleepless in their mutual pining

Angst fans:

There was only one bed. A carried B to it and gently eased them down. They were both badly injured but B’s conditions were much worse and A wouldn’t rest until they knew B was going to be alright. So A sat down next to B and brushed their hair back, holding their hand as B shivered through the night, their only comfort A’s presence by their side.

Hurt/Comfort fans:

Dear god you’re right, you’re so right

I feel like this needs to be a writing challenge… How many different ways can you write this one trope.

There was only one bed, but instead of making a big fuss, the tired pair went the fuck to sleep and got a full 8 hours.

My sleep deprived ass:

OH YEAH THAT’S THE GOOD STUFF

There was only one bed. This is normal. They’ve been married for a decade and have a small child. The child has climbed in bed to snuggle with them because thunder is scary. They have their baby curled between them and they share soft, warm smiles over his sleepy head as he snores little kid snores.

Me, who just wants domestic curtains found family fic:

I AM ALL OF THIS I WILL LITERALLY READ ANYTHING

There was only one bed, the two characters argued and bickered begging for them not to have to share it, but they somehow are here still. They agree that there both going to pick a side and stay on it. This was going fine until in the middle of the night A woke up screaming and crying, B gets them to calm down and they end up falling asleep next to each other feeling safe

Enemies to lovers fans

There was only one bed. A noticed B’s exhaustion and lifted them easily. “You don’t have to carry me like a child,” B noted, despite being clearly pleased by how matters were progressing. “I think we both know that’s not true,” A replied with a grin. The bed was warm, inviting, and yet something was missing. “Is this a private party, or can just anyone join,” C called from the doorway, clad only in their underwear and a smile. “Only if it’s you!” A and B replied in unison as they drew the covers back.

My OT3-loving ass:

There was only one bed.

It turned out to be a defective Murphy bed and it trapped them in the wall.

Crack fic fans:

This entire thread is delightful

@zombeesknees

There was only one bed, and his oblivious ass didn’t know she wanted to fuck.

Idiots to lovers fans:

I recently started working in hospitality, and I’ll tell you guys right now, the trope of “there was only one bed” is not as rare as you’d think in real life. A few times a week, at least, I have guys come in who are working together on projects in town or passing through who have to literally book the last room I have available for the night and lo and behold — there is only one bed, and guess what, they give each other a side-eyed look and begrudgingly take it. So write it up, it happens all the time!!!

Never let your There Was Only One Bed dreams die. I was secretly in love with my best friend for over a year when she graduated and moved to Oklahoma (like 1000 miles away) for grad school. Between that travel restrictions, we were so scared we’d never see eachother again.

At the end of summer, when Covid numbers were at a lower point, I took the risk to visit her in her new apartment and I quickly realized that, unlike when I’d spent the night at her house before, the couch wasn’t made up like a bed. She explained that since her new couch was so fancy and pink, I couldn’t possibly sleep on it, and so I needed to sleep in the bed with her. You know, out of necessity. I woke up with her snuggled around me in the middle of the night.

We’re dating now, and I genuinely think I’m going to marry her. Just the other day, though, I mentioned that if she hadn’t been weird about her fancy couch, I probably never would have like confessed my feelings. AND THEN she stood up, took the cushions off the fancy couch, UNFOLDED IT INTO A HIDE-A-BED, and said “I KNOW.”

THIS GIRL. ORCHESTRATED. BED SCARCITY. JUST SO SHE COULD MAKE THE “ONLY ONE BED” EXCUSE. Y’all when I said I just about lost my goddamn mind, I just about lost my goddamn mind. I love this sneaky bitch so much and the moral of this story is BE THE ONE BED YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD.

Fanfic imitates life, and life imitates fanfic. It’s full circle really.

im so glad we have cards for this kind of thing now

[Image ID: AO3 tags reading: Rare Parings, Someone Fucking Stop Me, once again being the founder of a ship tag, What is this?, the fourth?, the fifth?, I don't have an OTP, not even an armada of strong ships, i have a flock of one-person inflatables, /End ID]

September 19th 1982: Emoticons debut

On this day in 1982, the emoticon was first used by American Professor Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. In a post on the university’s online bulletin boards, Fahlman proposed the use of a colon, hyphen, and parenthesis, to convey emotions in type. He felt that the use of smiley faces could help distinguish serious comments from jokes, and avoid confrontations that were common on the forums over misunderstandings of intention. Fahlman never expected the emoticon to become as ubiquitous as it has, but soon after he suggested it in 1982, the ‘smiley-face’ spread rapidly and became commonly used. Despite criticism of the emoticon’s lack of subtlety (read Fahlman’s response to this, and a discussion of his invention),  they have become staples of online and text conversation. However, the inventor of the ‘smiley-face’ has expressed dissatisfaction with the evolution of the emoticon, saying that emojis which make the face into an “awful yellow circle” are ugly, and “destroy the whimsical element of the original.” While Fahlman is credited with beginning the popular use of emoticons, the use of punctuation to represent emotion had been proposed as far back as 1887.