theeternalghost

Friendly reminder that nothing in fiction is real. It's all made up. Non existent. The literal equivalent of children's imaginary friends. It's all just humans having fun playing pretend and letting our imaginations run wild with "what if?" None of it actually matters at all and that is exactly why it is so great. You can do whatever you want in fiction. There are no rules. There is no risk. Nobody can be hurt in fiction. Anything is possible in the worlds that don't exist. Every violent thought or fear or fantasy that you would never want in real life but still want somewhere to think about? It's perfectly okay in fiction. You can safely explore anything that you're curious about for whatever reason but don't want to go anywhere near in real life in fiction because none of its real. At the end of the day it's all completely inconsequential thought experiments. Every thought you could ever have, even the terrifying ones (looking at you fellow OCD havers), are safe to have inside your own mind. They are safe to have and safe to explore and fiction is a wonderful tool for that.

Drown out the noise trying to impose rules on how to engage with and enjoy fiction. They're uniformed. We know better. You can love a character who is a rapist or murderer or whatever and you don't need to say a word to explain why you love them because it doesn't matter. The character isn't literally a rapist and you know that and can take comfort in not needing to justify loving a rapist. No justification is needed because you don't actually love a rapist because the character isn't real. It doesn't exist. It hasn't ever raped anyone and never will be able to. So love that character as much as you want and don't feel guilty about it for a second. The notion that it could be compared to a literal rapist is beyond absurd.

Ship whatever you want whenever you want however you want. Be unhinged. Write and read with abandon. Give yourself to the fun of going all in with fiction because you know that none of it is or is meant to be real.

Fiction is self serving, self pleasing, hedonistic in nature. And that's a good thing. Let yourself go. Enjoy yourself. There are so many rules in the real world that are good and important and necessary and all that. Fiction is where you can go to get away from the constraints of reality. Take refuge in that, do whatever you please, and never be ashamed of it for a second.

I am lowkey unfit for human interaction

for me internet friendships are “we don’t talk all the time but I see you’re online and it makes me happy” and I really hope it’s like that for everyone

(via @freenarnian )

Hey, USAmericans? Wanna save your country? Run For Something!

I want to offer an anecdote about my coworker, who ran for the school board. His campaign (8 years ago now, I believe) cost him around $1800. Mostly he socialized with his community, got to know his neighbors, the people who would be voting. His brother would text him when he found a gathering of people, so he could show up and socialize & answer questions.

He's been running unopposed since then.

I know $1800 is not pocket change to most people. But it's not an insurmountable amount of money either.

Honey baked ham

the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.

the second best is the one the author used to work through some issues.

no I will not be normal about it I think you need to try being weird about it

Perfectly Southern Pecan Pie

do NOT sort by kudos the real play is to find the most prolific writers in the hockey rpf tag and go to their profile to see if they’ve written a single bizarrely high-quality fic for the fandom you’re actually looking for

the spirit is not willing and the flesh it is not so into the idea either