Kelly/"Net" - 30+ - Autistic androgynous anxious ace animation aficionado who REALLY likes robots, redemption arcs, and romance. Just trying to figure things out and be a bit kinder every day. No, I will not calm down.
Damn, Gege has such a talent for making the moments where the characters we love to hate get what’s coming to them SO DAMN SATISFYING. Like if I had to pick out one thing from his writing I particularly enjoy it might have to be that.
Sharing this for everyone who stumbles on this post!! Please be safe y'all, def use gloves, mask, and make sure to have good ventilation! Always check the ingredients of your cleaning products before using them together! Please share this so more folks are aware, they literally don’t be teaching us important stuff like this to prepare for the Adult World™
Adding that even if a combo isn’t on this list and you can’t find RELIABLE (NOT AI FOR THE LOVE OF GOD) information about how two chemicals interact just… don’t mix them. Don’t fuck around a find out.
Some of y'all take the phrase “I don’t care what people think” and just use it as an excuse to be an asshole.
Like there’s being authentic with the self-esteem to accept you won’t be everyone’s cup of tea and then there’s just being pointlessly mean to people because you never learned basic courtesy/manners/give-and-take then wondering why you can’t build and maintain healthy relationships.
Welcome to another year of the Fanfic Reading Challenge (FRC)!
Here’s the gist of the challenge:
The event runs for the whole year - Jan 01-Dec 31, 2026
There is no official sign-up. You can make a copy of the challenge spreadsheet and track your fic reading however you want to. You can start at any time of the year.
To participate in the challenge, you read fics that match the tasks in the challenge. Some are easy. Some are more difficult.
This challenge is for any fandom, any ship(s), and you can use more than one fandom and/or ship to complete it.
Fics can count towards more than one task (unless the task says otherwise). Podfics count too.
This challenge operates on the honour system. If you said you completed a fic for a certain task, that’s between you and whichever ghost/saint haunts/watches over you. No one is checking your work.
Likewise, if you’re unsure about whether a fic fits the task, you are welcome to discuss it with us onthe Challenge Discord OR you can use your best judgment. Again, no one is checking your work.
You will need to download and make your own copy of the above spreadsheet. There is an info page on the first sheet of the spreadsheet that may answer any additional questions. If you need to contact any of the Admin, please send us an ask, or join the Discord.
This year, there is a Virtual Book Club group of tasks, where you are required to ask others for suggestions for various task prompts. You can do this via Tumblr ask, in the specific Discord channel, on some other Discord you belong to, or even by asking your friend who lives next door. We’ve created a Discord channel to help people complete this, but it’s not required to join us there; however we’ve really become a lovely community of vastly different people who are all joined together in our love of fanfiction, and you would definitely be welcome.
As there is a component of the FRC that includes tracking numbers of words read, most of us use a reading log/tracker to keep count of how many fics we read, including data such as words, of course, chapters, month completed, ship, author, title, fandom, link to the fic, and such. It’s a great place to mark what fics you want to read in the future as well!
We’ve got four suggested trackers linked below. All of them are quite different from one another - and you’re welcome to make a copy of any of them if you’d like - and you can customize them for your personal preferences.
You guys are SERIOUSLY sleeping on the way Kaiju no 8 writes its female characters like goddamn people and only has a single fanservice moment (that kind feels like the editor required it) and it’s a tasteful nude backshot of a grown-ass 27 YEAR OLD WOMAN with realistic proportions
Like it wins by just making its girls regular-ass people who could have just as easily been male characters and not being creepy about its teenage tsundere duotagonist I don’t see ANYBODY talking about it.
i even added a stupid meme to catch the people not reading plain text replies
