oh, to be a human turned into a pokemon against my will and have a complicated relationship where memory issues are involved with my green ex-partner pokémon.

O B S E S S E D

not being able to borrow an ebook because someone else has it on loan is stupid as hell. like babe this is Document. these are pixels.

Go read an old fic.

There’s such recency bias in fandom. As an author you post something, get a few reactions, and then it goes off into the bin. As a reader you check the tags, see what’s new, and move on. But a lot of old stuff is really good. It’s just sitting there, gathering dust, waiting for someone to take a peek.

So go on. Treat yourself.

Read an old fic.

I’d argue there’s a bias against like… middle-aged fics in particular. A lot of people sort by kudos or bookmarks, but that’s going to be strongly biased toward older fics, which have had more time to accumulate them. Then there’s people that sort by date and read the newest. But there’s so much good material in that middle area.

A friend taught me her trick for smaller fandoms, which is to sort by kudos and use the published date filters to go through the fandom in 6-month increments. Within a 6-month time span, you’re not really going to get the kudos-over-time bias. Basically, you end up reading the best fics of each 6-month period until you start hitting fics below your quality threshold, wherever that is. You’ll find so much good material that way that would never have crossed your line of sight otherwise.

This is a clever idea, and I’m reblogging it so I remember to do it.

Observers

Marvelous three

so fucked up that baby rats are like adult rats but small

this shit is insane

posting this for no particular reason

broooooo ahaha that's so epic. do you mind if i grow fond of you

Brilliant and radiant. A shining gem. Now valued at $32768!

nintendo switch 2 looks cool but kinda expensive Everyone promise not to buy it for 1 year until they panic and drop the price like they did with the 3DS pretty please 🙏

my dash did a thing

I guess the moral of the story is that the $15 pc indie game reigns supreme at the end of the day

go my sleepy future trio

To everyone considering paying 5 billion dollars per year to play gamecube games on switch

Take my hand. I can show you a better way

You have got to be FUCKING kidding me!! Holyshit bro... these motherfuckers are too comfortable with price increases...