That is so cute.

DEAD FROM CUTE

What secret will you take to your grave?

In Dutch, when you boil an egg and then place it into cold water to make it easier to peel an egg, it’s called “to scare” the eggs.

One day when I was about 6 or 7, my mom asked me to “scare” the eggs. So, little joker I was, lifted the lid of the pan and yelled “BOOO!”

My mom cracked up and has been telling this story ever since, for over 20 years. She’s come to love the story and still truly thinks that I wanted to really “scare” the eggs. Truth is I knew what “scaring an egg” meant and only wanted to make her laugh because she was in a sad place and time back then.

It’s made her laugh for over 20 fucking years, that means it’s the best joke I’ve ever pulled off and I’d die before I’d let her find out I was just kidding.

trick or treating with three of your past lives?

This shouldn’t be as cute as it is.

Never too late, for a concept full of this much d'aww.

Comment on fanfics

A few days back on AO3 I found an unfinished, two chapter spideypool fanfic that was cute and had lots of potential and was also last updated two years ago. Two whole years! And it had only three comments, all of which on chapter one, none on chapter two. I enjoyed the fanfic, despite it being far, FAR from being finished and the chance of it ever updating again anytime soon was just about zero. So you know what I did?

I wrote a damn comment. On chapter two.

And I made sure that fucker was long and had a small theory of where I think the author would take the fanfic in the future. I let the person behind the fic know that I friggin LOVED the two chapters I got to read! That I would LOVE to see more! That I’d jump out of my skin in happiness and virtually hug them half to death if I saw that they updated it.

Let me remind you this fic wasn’t updated in two YEARS! I was the first to comment on it in a year. And the first to comment on chapter two! And you know what happened today?

I got a reply.

From the author of the fanfic. And the author said how I gave them life for a project they had loved (still did) and that they were now working on a third chapter. After two YEARS of not updating. Of not writing. And it makes me so friggin happy seeing what I did. What I caused.

With a single. Damn. Comment.

All that it took for me was to think a bit about what I wanted to tell the author and the comment it. All it took was one comment. And suddenly this person was inspired to continue a fanfic they had abandoned for TWO YEARS!!

I couldn’t be happier. I couldn’t be more proud.

Comment on people’s fanfics. No matter how few chapters there are. No matter how many years have passed since their last update. Comment. You like a fanfic? Comment on it. It’s that easy.

Or, also, reblog. Cause if you loved it enough to share it with other people? Woah. Knock me over.

Honestly; the comments alone have kept me going with The Loveless Prince. Without them, the project would have been dead long time ago already.

This. Writers need inspiration, not just for where the story will go, but inspiration to actually bother to take it there. A tv show with no viewers gets cancelled. A fanfic writer with no feedback loses motivation. That awesome fic you love might never be finished if you don’t express some feeling for it to the author.

i get quite a few comments on tumblr about “you must be sick of my feedback” and NO NO NO i’m not. omg. i love it and i love everyone who takes the time to tell me they appreciate my fic.

i know i’m bad at responding to comments on ao3 but i get SO FUCKING EXCITED every time i get an email notif and your comments are always read and make me smile and sometimes i screencap them and keep them to look at when i’m feeling sad and down about my works. :’) so please, please, never stop giving feedback, whether it be on ao3, mentions on twitter, comments/reblogs on tumblr, or if you’re shy, anon ask messages. 

Every comment is cherished. Always. I’ve finished writing fic out of spite and i’ve finished writing fic on sheer determination, but comments actually make me WANT to continue. There’s no better motivation.

Fiala & Johansen cheering from the sidelines in Game 6.