Fic quotes for the soul

Discussion in 'Fan Town' started by Deresto, Feb 5, 2017.

  1. BaseDeltaZero

    BaseDeltaZero Shitposting all night.

    Or hair that's really, really greasy and sticky.
     
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  2. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    Haha, gross. Not entirely implausible in the scene tho
     
  3. Verily

    Verily surprised Xue Yang peddler

    I don’t even go here but I love everything about this story that presents the most unflinching and downright savvy take on romance where serious long term illness and disability are involved (please mind the tags). But I had to stop at this sentence because it made me cry. And now I’m having trouble starting again because it’s still making me cry every time I go back.

    The character in question isn’t passing the test, and neither the pov character nor the story think he should be. It’s an assertion about how very much kindness costs, not a judgment.

    And yet I feel absolutely, overwhelmingly seen. Like every single time someone told me I was nice or a good listener or a comfort, and I think I know why my mom looks at me the way she does sometimes, like she hurts for me but knows without understanding that it’s a fraction of the experience and never the heart. A person amounts to so much rubble under the feet of what their own compassion would make of them. It’s not a character test. I think it’s more of a very particular kind of tolerance for being pulled completely out of shape. The capacity for kindness in the face of overwhelming agony isn’t so much about something you do, it’s something you have to become, and then you will be very alone. You probably won’t be lonely, but you will be alone.
     
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  4. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    Oh man, that is some strong stuff, thanks for sharing. I dunno about others but whenever shit gets so bad and I can't be cheery and happy I would feel so guilty?? And just. This is so important to me, reminds me to let myself be human
     
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  5. goldenflowertea

    goldenflowertea this universe SUCKS but it is full of FRIENDS

     
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  6. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    Please tell me if you ever find out anyone has actually done this.
     
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  7. TheSeer

    TheSeer 37 Bright Visionary Crushes The Doubtful

     
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  8. Scheherazade

    Scheherazade It's a story fractal

    You know, I feel like we should just have a blanket policy of always linking the fic in question, at this point.
     
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  9. TheSeer

    TheSeer 37 Bright Visionary Crushes The Doubtful

    Fair enough. Here. I think that will work.
     
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  10. vuatson

    vuatson [delurks]

    I guessed it might be animorphs but I should have known it was that author
     
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  11. Loq

    Loq rotating like a rotisserie chicknen

    (link, unfinished, 57/?)
     
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  12. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

     
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  13. goldenflowertea

    goldenflowertea this universe SUCKS but it is full of FRIENDS

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  14. Loq

    Loq rotating like a rotisserie chicknen

    9/105+ (unfinished)
     
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  15. TheOwlet

    TheOwlet A feathered pillow filled with salt and science

    god that quote could be straight from Matt too adfsdghj
     
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  16. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

     
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  17. BaseDeltaZero

    BaseDeltaZero Shitposting all night.

     
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  18. goldenflowertea

    goldenflowertea this universe SUCKS but it is full of FRIENDS

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  19. BaseDeltaZero

    BaseDeltaZero Shitposting all night.

    Will do... As promised, here's the link.
    (Note: click on 'reader mode' to only see the main story segments... and a bit of setup)

    Mind, the whole thing is a forum game about a quasi-post apocalypse America filled with a bunch of successor states, the most prominent of which is a... very conservative and very nasty bunch, which the player faction (the Chicago Commonwealth) fights against. Which is to say, the above segment is... not entirely representative, the rest is often quite a bit less whimsical.
     
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  20. Loq

    Loq rotating like a rotisserie chicknen

     
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