It's Thursday, life is stressful, let's get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!
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Originally published on Medium
Now everyone is staring at Klaus, who had chosen to pick at a thread on the shawl he’s wearing. He looks up in the following silence, smiling.
“What can I say, the fans love me.”
I'm currently reading The Umbrella Academy (TUA) fanfiction like there's no tomorrow... which given the current state of the world is a possibility, but let's move on...
So, I'm heavy on the TUA fanfics-reading at the moment.
...Especially the ones that play around with my favourite, fandom-specific, tropes.
Warning: brief discussions of Anxiety/mental health issues
This is a reminder to any of you fellow writers/bloggers/whoever-s out there who need it:
You don't have to post everything.
You don't have to publish everything.
'Daniel tips his head back with a sigh. “Okay, so you stole something. What.”
There’s a pause, and then. “I believe it might have been… jewels of some kind.”'
Every now and then I like to rec a fic from a show called Stargate: SG-1.
This is a sci-fi TV show that ran from '97 to '07, and which still has fanfic authors writing new material, because fandom love never dies 😅
It's Thursday, the world remains a dumpster fire, this is Dora Reads, so lets get some comics-y superhero-y goodness!