maybe i’m fanfic ancient (i am) but i don’t really understand readers being so cagey about giving kudos? to me, they’re just a simple like, or an “i read this, thanks”? i don’t pay much attention to them as an author and even less as a reader as some kind of signal of fic quality
Gen Z will never understand how weird and fun the internet used to be. We had personal websites, obscure forums, experimental pages, and bizarre corners of the web. Then Google, Amazon, and Meta turned it into an algorithmic shopping mall packed with ads and commerce.
“I love you”
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“I couldn’t choose a day. Any day with you, Eloise. Any day with you. Any week, any month, any hour. Any moment, as long as
I’m with you.”
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“and were you not so narrowly concerned about your own standing, you might see that penelope is the most eligible amongst you. in the future i would advice you to not sully our bridgerton name by suggesting otherwise”, ate her up and claimed penelope in one sentence.
i hate grownups who think that if you’re young and you have other interests than just clubbing you’re wasting ur life. i told this woman i like baking, cinema, museums, reading and she just concluded ‘so you don’t do much in life that’s sad’ lol im sure
People hated him so much for this, but those same people would've butchered him if he did sleep with her, still trying to figure out how to move past the LW of it all. He wasn't gonna sleep with her here even tho he wanted to because sex was a big deal... To him!
Eloise : “I tried to grow roses one year. They all died.”
Phillip : “Roses are more difficult than most people think.”
Eloise : “I noticed you have them in abundance.”
Phillip : “I have a gardener.”
Eloise : “A botanist with a gardener?”
him at his own engagement party thinking the reason penelope is hyperventilating is because she doesn’t want to marry him, him thinking he forced his feelings on her and overwhelmed her meanwhile she has been in love with him for almost a decade.