Alexa release the serotonin
“Releasing neurotoxin.”
“ALEXA, NO-”
Portal(2007)
if you are reading this, something good will happen to you very soon, don’t give up
Anime Smartasses Be Like….
This is nothing but the truth.
I love how the camera moves during his explanation
This is also the problem with BBC Sherlock. This is exactly how he’d explain a situation.
The fact that L’s theme is playing the whole time is what sells it.
Bruh hold up that’s Near’s theme
Hey is the build a bear employee supposed to force us to jump up and down or are we getting hazed
as a build-a-bear employee it is my honor to happily inform you that we get to make everyone do whatever the fuck we want during a heart ceremony. jump to get that heart beating. rub that heart to your knees so your furry friend always needs you. rub it to your toes so it’s totally awesome! shake it up so it’s got enough energy to hang out with you all day! close your eyes, make a wish, and give it a kiss you helpless motherfucker
WHY DOES THIS MAKE ME SO HAPPY EVERYTIME I SEE IT
this is like, the opposite of loss
gain.jpg
it really is though, dang.
I mean you can find patterns in anything if you really look but…
loss but played in a major key
who is old enough to be part of the fanfic.net era where we literally talked to our characters? like, had conversations with them?
cause I do. as a lonely child of 12 who had no friends, it was a favorite pasttime of mine to boot up the dial-up internet and type out imaginary conversations with ouran high school host club characters in the beginning notes before even starting the damn chapter (which was inevitably 500 words long and absolutely awful)
Modern Author’s Note on Ao3: might discuss some possible triggers, thank readers for comments, apologize for a delay in update, etc–talking to reader, essentially.
Author’s Note on FFN back in 2010:
Author: Y’all are gonna love this cahpter!!!! [Character] not sooooo much
Character:…wh–what’s gonna happen?
Author: Don’t worry about it! ^.^
Character: WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME??
Author: ;)
Character: D:
those were dark, dark days, man. Today’s Fandom Freshman are sure lucky they missed this.
This when right alongside the detailed disclaimers to avoid lawsuits.
Don’t forget that the author was broken into at least five separate voices, ‘Inside Out’ style.
or where you would have ask blogs for your ocs except it was just in a ff.net story. basically an entire classic authors note except people would ask questions. that was my childhood.
Y'all forgot that sometimes we also appeared in the middle of the text with notes like “(author: noooo >:( character is such a b*tch!!!! character: I’M NOT!!!!)” And it was the crimgiest shit ever but we had fun doing it lmao
don’t forget the fact we couldn’t reply to reviews natively before they introduced the private messaging system!!
so alongside the (sometimes incredibly elaborate, and often again involving conversations with the characters) “please don’t sue me” bit and the little “intro to the chapter and chatting with the characters” bit, you’d have like a million little two-sentence paragraphs prefixed with each reviewer’s name as you thanked them for reading and for saying nice things about your fic, and sometimes you answered questions they’d had or teased about stuff in the upcoming chapters (and again sometimes characters interjected here. everything had little character interjections. everything.)
and then of course you’d have the endnote after the chapter, telling people to r&r, and how you wanted/didn’t want concrit, and then some like three-sentence long threat about what would happen to flamers, all with - you guessed it - more character interjections.
This… I feel ancient.