Everytime Ao3 Cloudflare Pops Up, Part Of Me Is Worried It Will Decide After Some Loading And Circling

everytime ao3 cloudflare pops up, part of me is worried it will decide after some loading and circling that i, after all, am not a human and ban me from the website.

It's unlikely. It's completely stupid. And it's probably definitely not how this stuff works,

but,

i can't deny that the only thing worse than ao3 being down is ao3 being down for ME.

and that's enough for it to be a paralysing terrifying intrusive thought.

No one but me knows how happy it makes me to see stuff like this. "This" meaning things I don't usually think twice about out of fear of doing so because what if I'm alone in this. But then I see a post like this with fking 100k likes and for a while, everything is alright in the world.

Has anyone else noticed that as a society, we’re shamed for wanting to sleep? Sleeping in is bad, naps are only okay if they’re 20 minutes, you cant be tired unless you’re a <insert career/lifestyle choice here>, so on and so forth.

I mean, I think we all need to spread our blankets out, cuddle a pillow, and go to sleep. Everyone needs more of it, fuck this “it’s not productive” nonsense. It’s okay to sleep, it’s okay to want to sleep. You’re not lazy because of it.

He was still holding Shen Qingqiu’s body, which was rapidly cooling down. It seemed like he wanted to call for him loudly and forcefully shake him awake, yet he didn’t dare to, as if he was afraid of being scolded. He said slowly,

“Shizun? Why aren’t you drawing more SV art as an SV main???”

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A tip for excellent writing I just learned: Don't introduce a character with their Dramatic Backstory. It makes readers go "oh alright this is the Dramatic Background Story Character" and establishes a baseline of Tragic, either for the story as a whole or this character in particular. With no contrast of light and dark, pure darkness isn't impactful, it just looks like the absence of anything to look at.

If you really want someone's dramatic backstory to hit the audience like a gut punch, let them get to know the character first. That way the dark backstory doesn't come off as a description of who they are, but an explanation to why they are the way they are. Bonus points for connecting it to something that's already been established as a part of the character - what a devastating blow to suddenly put together that hold on, that funny quirky thing that they always do is a fucking trauma response.

narrator who's terrible at social cues & describes every facial expression as "unreadable"