dedicatedfollower467:

• You are 187 chapters into this fic. You have been reading continually since you began. You must find out what happens next.
• An unfinished fic ends on a cliffhanger. It hasn’t been updated since April 1832.
• A new show has taken over Tumblr. You see the gif sets everywhere. Intrigued, you go looking. You cannot find the show. Five days later the posts disappear as if they never existed.
• Your favorite author posts a new fanfic. It is a different fandom than the one you followed them for, but still one of yours. This keeps happening. You suspect the author may be stalking you.
• The gifs of the new trailer come out before the new trailer does. People shush you when you question this. You cannot ask questions about the space-time continuum.
• You find a new person to RP with. You send them a message and they respond two years later as if there was no time gap. It is possible that for them, there was no time gap.
• This fanart looks nothing like the character. And yet. It looks exactly like the character.
• A shipping war begins. You watch the body count climb higher and higher as it becomes more violent. Blood streams from your face and you clutch your weapon to your chest. Afterwords, the survivors sometimes stare with blank eyes and mutter “Harmony…. Harmony…”
• That character is clearly a Slytherin. The rest of the fandom seems to think they are a Huffelpuff. There is something wrong.
• There is a new coffee shop au for your ship. It is exactly like every other coffee shop au for your ship. It is exactly like every other coffee shop au for every ship. You begin to suspect there has always only ever been one coffee shop au.
• You dare not say the true name of Binkydonk Cucumbershoots. Demon names have too much power.
• The Supernatural fans have a gif for everything. They cannot be stopped by mortal means.
• You begin reading a fic at four in the afternoon. When you next look up it is nearly dawn, and you don’t know what day it is.

silvysartfulness:

pitviperofdoom:

• Ex-villains graduating to “weird
  uncle” status.
• Ex-villains and hero(es) turning the
  events of previous battles into bizarre inside jokes.
• Ex-villains embracing the power of
  friendship and love.
• Ex-villains putting up walls and
  keeping to themselves until the heroes teach them what it means to
  trust someone.
• Ex-villains messing up and being
  forgiven because redemption is a process, not an endgame.
• Ex-villains being shy and uncertain
  about their new place as a hero.
• Bonus: Ex-villains hiding behind their
  hero friends during moments of shyness and uncertainty.
• Ex-villains being tempted back to the
  dark side only to realize how much their newfound friendships mean to
  them.
• Ex-villains pretending to return to the
  dark side, and using their villain cred to be a mole/saboteur on the
  heroes’ behalf.
• Ex-villains taking the same skills and
  character traits that made them effective villains and using them for
  good.
• Ex-villains defeating current villains
  by being better at those skills and traits
  than they are.
• Ex-villains being rejected by almost
  everyone except the very few willing to give them the benefit of the
  doubt.
• Ex-villains being ferociously
  protective of those few.
• Ex-villains convincing old allies and friends to follow them to the light side.
• Ex-villains helping their hero friends
  through guilt and self-doubt by reminding them that your mistakes don’t
  make you and it’s never too late to turn things around.
• Ex-villains receiving unconditional
  trust and affection from someone small and innocent, and having no
  idea what they’re supposed to do with that.
• Ex-villains reuniting with heroic loved ones that they don’t have to fight against anymore.
• Ex-villains looking around at their new
  friends and their new home and having to sit down and ride out a
  sudden wave of powerful emotion because they can’t remember the last
  time they felt content.

oh shit it’s my all time guilty pleasure favourite trope