do people that say shit like “ooh nobody reads anymore, they only use their phones and computers” think that computers and phones can only display pictures and make sounds
like do they think words can’t be displayed by computers
History Has Its Eyes On You // Hamilton.
Do you know how many times you distracted me when I was hurt or lonely? Do you know how many times a line or a scene from fanfic marked me so much that I remembered years later, even though I can’t recall my own phone number?
Even if the fic isn’t perfect or popular or multi-chaptered… Sometimes there’s just one sentence that changed me.
You, miles and miles away, changed me.
Me: I've finished my book/tv show so I can go to bed early tonight
Also me: *stays up 'til 5am reading fanfics of my otp in the book/tv show*
Can ya’ll believe just how much fanfic has skewed with our sense of how long something is? Like my ass can’t sit down to read a 3,000 word document for class but I can look at a 70,000 word fic like “oh that’s not too long, I can read that in a few hours.”
When did 70,000 words become SHORT
Were legit out here reading entire novels a day
Why is [being in the charity firefighter calendar] so important to you?
911 season two, episode 1: Under Pressure The importance of representation.
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