Nobody Here Remembers You

Finally watched the entirety of lotr yesterday and I’m going absolutely insane.

Samwise and the Star

Frank Silva (October 31, 1950 - September 13, 1995) and David Lynch on the set of “Twin Peaks,” Malibu, California, 1989. Photo © Richard Beymer. Frank Silva was a Native American set dresser, lighting designer, and prop master who worked with legendary director David Lynch during the 1980s. As filming began on Lynch’s television series, “Twin Peaks,” Silva was hired as an on-set dresser. While Lynch worked with the crew to set up a particular shot in the Laura Palmer house, the director jokingly said, according to Silva, “Frank, get out of the way, you’ll end up in the shot.” A moment later, inspiration apparently struck, and Lynch told Silva to “crouch down at the end of [Laura Palmer’s] bed and look scared.” Thus was born one of the eeriest characters to ever appear in primetime: BOB. In other words, BOB, who in many ways is fundamental to the “Twin Peaks” story, “was an accident.” Frank Silva, who was openly gay and known as a “wonderfully sweet man,” died of AIDS-related illness on September 13, 1995, twenty-one years ago today; he was forty-four. #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #lgbtpride #QueerHistoryMatters #HavePrideInHistory #TwinPeaks #FrankSilva

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

japanese promotional material of twin peaks that I found.

respect and affection…… kicking my feet and whatnot

007 - normal conversation

first art of 2025 ✨ inspired by this post because it speaks directly to my soul

you may disarm a lesbian by showing her a picture of gillian anderson