#alex yells into the void

[actual-changeling]

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

#alex yells at the void #ao3 #archive of our own #ao3 stuff #fanfic comments #fandom

[danieldrivesfast]

I'm sincerely worried for the future considering how media literacy and the concept of source verification is absolutely dead with a loud percentage of Gen Z/Gen Alpha kids. There's also absolutely zero critical thinking or willingness to understand the context of anything, which is doubly worrying. I hope it's just a vocal minority and not a trend across most.

It's unserious when it's about racecar things, but unfortunately I keep seeing it with serious topics, so when I come across it more and more with the unserious stuff I use to escape the serious topics... it stops feeling unserious and becomes really concerning. Super duper not fun, too.

A bit of today's nonsense? Once again preferring to listen to a "source" with zero credibility over literally everyone who is an authority and has a say in everything. Not only that, but to believe the "source" over the well-understood fact that the team's sponsors came on because of who was in the car more than to sponsor the team itself. Etc, etc, etc. Of course I'm talking about girlypops who get their giggles clinging to any "proof" that DR is getting fired.

The absolute unwillingness to see through their biases to at least form sensible or factual backups for their hate of things (not just DR) is embarrassing, frankly. There are so many uneducated fans who use wrong/not credible/misconstrued information to prop up their "arguments," and even when it's an argument I or someone agrees with, they cling to being wrong and attack the people who showed them facts instead of stepping back and reevaluating. They openly refuse to understand how things work, they'd rather spew hate at others (like Alex Albon, for example) than take a breather, learn, and be upset but still remain decent people. They claim to have the highest morals and use that to eviscerate people, but in the same week will unflinchingly prop up someone who is less than a degree separated from a literal fascist because he's a cutie pie.

A few months ago I saw someone say that Gen Z/Gen Alpha are just young Boomers with how they approach media literacy, critical thinking, confirmation bias, and their own hypocrisy and the way they have no regard for the cruelty they show others. I thought it was a horrible thing to say - until I started to realize they might be right. Existing in fandom space has rapidly been supporting that theory.

I'm going to Austin this year. Friendship bracelets are already being made. I can't wait to meet so many people and trade and share stories and experience an incredible sporting event with thousands of fans and a blossoming young, not-cishet-male demographic. And sometimes I think about the fact I'll likely be trading bracelets with people who've wished drivers dead/injured, spread horrible lies about them or their loved ones, actively contributed to ripping down drivers' mental health, and countless other awful things and think it's perfectly okay because it in no way affected them personally.

Anyway.

#formula 1 #daniel ricciardo #alex albon #lando norris #yuki tsunoda #charles leclerc #carlos sainz #george russell #logan sargeant #lewis hamilton #oscar piastri #f1 #toxic fandom #old lady rant #I'm yelling into the void #off my chest

[aromanticbuck]

be brave and just say it. it's obvious you're talking about eddie

on that note if i still ship buddie do you want me to stop following you

*screams into the abyss*

Ignore that. I'm fine.

Here's the thing, I love Buddie, I really do. It's such a great ship with so much potential, and it would be really cool if there was another queer character on 911 among all of the ones we already have! It's just the way the really loud shippers have been talking about canon and disregarding the boyfriend that Buck has as if, if it's not Eddie, then the ship isn't valid at all.

I had one of my BuckTommy posts twisted into a Buddie post this morning, and I'm just really frustrated by it. Hence the vague(ish) post on my personal blog without any tags so that I wasn't invading a ship/character fanbase only to piss them off (I literally just needed to yell into the void about it briefly because I can't yell at Kit in public and none of my other mutuals were responding super quickly and I just wanted it out).

But like... yeah, if Eddie was straight in canon, I literally wouldn't have any problem with it. I don't necessarily think it would be a good idea if Buck's awakening (that everyone seems to forget is about Buck) becomes Eddie's awakening, at least not for the story they're trying to tell. And it would almost cheapen the acceptance, to me? That we got in Buck's coming out scene? It's not monumental for queer people to support people, we flock together and form herds and cliques, that's just something that happens regularly. But for Buck to have his straight best friend support him? Without the story about Buck!!! turning into a story about someone else? When it's so monumental that we have a bisexual man on a network show at all? Let alone a main? Isn't that good enough?

If you still ship Buddie, you are more than allowed to continue following me - I still have a lot of Buddie posts in my queue and my likes to queue that will post, and I do really like the ship! I'm just frustrated with the hardcore shippers who want to ignore canon or twist it to meet their needs, you know?

TLDR; ship what you want, post what you want, follow who you want! I'm not trying to stop anyone from doing what they want in their own space, curating their experience however they like. the only thing I'm complaining about is my post getting hijacked as if it wasn't very clearly platonic!Buddie and romantic!BuckTommy.

#answered #anon #anonymouse #alex says things #i'm really not trying to be rude i promise #sometimes i yell into the void and forget there are people in there

[actual-changeling]

how are we all feeling? deeply mentally unwell? yeah. me too.

#alex yells at the void #good omens #david tennant #bafta 2024 #bafta awards