saw a lot of commentary on the birth order stereotypes poll going around and realized that i’d like to see a simpler one, so:
for non-twins/triplets with “traditional” families (grew up with all your siblings, non-blended family, any adoptions in the family were at age <5) what is your sibling order/“birth order”? (i.e. were you the oldest? youngest? of how many?)
When an eldritch horror becomes more empathetic to humanity while his human host becomes more monstrous because he does not see the horrors he’s committing because the eldritch being has control over his eyes
If you don’t hear this often enough, I want you to hear it now.
Fiction helps people.
Fanfiction helps people.
Fandom helps people.
Fiction and fanfiction and fandom are not lazy or pointless.
You’re not a bad person for making fiction or fanfiction or just doing fandom when you think you ‘could be out there helping people’.
There are people who are alive now who genuinely would not be alive if it weren’t for that one book, or that one fanfic, or that one comment they got.
And don’t take this to mean only fluffy and happy fic, but this goes for whump, and smut, crackfic and everything else. You never know what will resonate with someone at the right moment.
Maybe it was your book, or your fanfiction or your comment that kept someone alive another night and you will never know.
But please, recognize that your fiction and your fanfiction and your fandom are valuable, and never a waste.
