To Be Seen Without Performing. To Be Heard Without Screaming. To Be Missed Without Disappearing. To Be

I think a fundamental aspect (though not the only one) of why a lot of twitter people failed in their attempt to come to tumblr is that plenty of them are in the “sassy banter” part of the tech tree, where they think that hitting someone with a sitcom zinger is the biggest own possible, but tumblr is on the “kill yourself” part of the tree, which is the hard counter to that.

Karen Page & Frank Castle Daredevil: Born Again│Season 1

I thought that I was flyin' But I was crawlin' on my knees

—Blind Spot, Bruce Springsteen

...I heard your heartbeats.

haven't done my work but i did draw myself not doing my work. and the specter. not sure how this helps

Frank not caring what anyone thinks of him, but as soon as karen page is disappointed in him, he has the saddest puppy dog eyes you’ve ever seen.

frank with his sad eyes like - you asked me for a favor and I did it karen. I love you karen. I would die for you karen. I'd do anything for you karen. why didn't you want any coffee karen????

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

Fanfic is a free hobby.

It's one of the last few things we can have as a society that's free. You can engage, for free. People give you things (art, stories, etc), for free.

Don't buy into the consummerism just because it's everywhere else.

You don't have to consume everything you interact with. You don't have to use things, just because they exist.

You're allowed (still, for now), to have things that are enjoyable for free.

Do you realise how insane the world is? We don't have many places where we can just be, for free anymore, but ao3 is. Did you notice we don't have ads in ao3? We don't have pop ups? Where ELSE do we not have that?

Where else can you just go and not have to wait for a commercial to be over or for ads to be on the sidelines?

I don't think the younger people understand, but the whole of internet used to be like this. YouTubers would do Youtube for free, just because. You couldn't monetise your internet presence before.

Ao3 is like a little preserved corner of the internet where the old internet used to be, and it's being attacked by people who do not understand that free things are allowed to exist without judgment.

Please don't ruin this for us.

Some of us need it.