Cool Tattoo

truly nothing more magical than finding a good fic and then going to their profile and finding out there’s a whole goldmine in there of fics just begging to be read. what a beautiful world we live in.

It honestly blows my mind when I see adult writers and journalists talking about how fanfiction is “ruining fiction” because “kids are investing all their time and talent into something that doesn’t matter instead of applying their skills to creating something original that they could actually make money off of.” 

Like, imagine if people had that attitude toward other things - it’d be completely ridiculous:

“I can’t believe my sixth grader would rather use the basketball hoop to play Knockout instead of organizing competitive games and striving to join the NBA. What a lazy, unmotivated kid.”

“YouTube videos? Just making free videos on the internet for anyone to see whenever they want? Why don’t you just produce a movie? A whole fucking movie. You’re in high school, you can figure it out.”

“Are you really so uncreative that the only songs you can play on the piano are ones other people wrote? The only real piano players are the ones who write their own music, I’m just saying. People like you are the reason originality is dead.”

SOMETIMES PEOPLE DO THINGS BECAUSE THEY’RE FUN! MAKING THINGS AND SHARING THEM WITH OTHER PEOPLE IS FUCKING FUN! NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT MAKING MONEY!!!

Murphy’s law, applied to fanfics.

- The fic starts out great, nice style, language, captivating summary. It’s unfinished and has been abandoned since 2013.

- The fic is complete, nice style, language, tons of kudos speak for themselves. It’s about your NOTP.

- The fic is about your OTP,  it’s complete, it’s kinky as hell. The plot is absolutely dumbass.

- The plot sounds great, it’s about your OTP, it’s complete. The characters are horribly OOC.

 - Everything is perfect in this fic, starting from the first letter and ending with the last full stop. It’s exactly 800 words long.

- The fic’s word count is a six-figure number, it’s about your OTP, characters are compliant with your head-canon. It’s dull and boring as seven hells.

- The beginning is enthralling, everything’s great, the plot, the style, it’s long and it’s even about your OTP. It features something that makes you close the tab as soon as you open it, like father/daughter incest or mpreg or some other squicky thing. 

- Everything is perfect in this fic, the length, the characters, the language, the style, you forget you’re reading fanfic, thinking it’s a masterpiece of true literature, you cry tears of joy and write a huge review full of gushing love and then rush to the author’s profile to read every other thing they’ve written. It’s their only work.

Literally please be my friend. I have no one that likes hamilton and voltron (which ive opted to call hamiltron because im lazy) please be my friend

haMILTRON I AM SCREECHING YES HI HELLO NEW FRIEND ILY & UR A GENIUS 

IF YOU EVER NEED SOMETHING TO READ READ THIS

OK ARE YOU EVER IN NEED OF BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS BUT DON’T KNOW WHAT TO READ NEXT?

I present to you, straight from the internet, whichbook:

Here’s how it works: You click the link, and choose four categories and the extent to which these categories matter:

Then click “go” and it’ll come up with a number of books you might like.

DON’T LIKE THE CATEGORIES? NO PROBLEM - see this little thing:

THIS LITTLE THING WILL TAKE YOU TO THIS SLIGHTLY LARGER THING WHERE YOU CAN CHOOSE A BOOK BASED ON THE FOLLOWING:

YOU NOW HAVE NO EXCUSE TO NOT BE READING SOMETHING BECAUSE WHATEVER YOU WANT THIS SITE WILL COME UP WITH IT.

… Apart from bisexual retired alien dudes. No books on that. Yet.

Best plot twist EVER 

I haven’t laughed this hard in a while.

#chris evans #in where he is actually steve rogers