why do these things only occur to me when I'm the only one in the office?

Every time we publish a form at work, I want to make an effort to change our parent information section to say "parent 1" and "parent 2" (or guardian, or *something*) instead of "mother" and "father" but I never find out about these things until after they've been distributed, and by that point it feels like pointlessly causing trouble. We have had and will likely continue to have GLBT staff members, and I find it baffling that we publish forms that our staff members could not fill out... accurately? Is that the word I mean?

The signature line has always said "parent/guardian" too, which makes it doubly baffling to me.

you can safely ignore this, but I had to type it.

So, I'm scrolling back through Teen Wolf fic on the archive (I'm around episode 2x04 if you're curious, which clearly you are), and there's a fic (a great one, don't get me wrong here) that has over 80,000 hits. And my first, somewhat irrational reaction was something along the lines of "...are there that many people who have even heard of AO3?" (which, clearly, there are, by at least an order of magnitude, and I know there are stories on the archive with even more. Like I said, irrational response.)

Seriously, that number is... I don't even know what. That texts from cephalapods fic that got linked everywhere during Yuletide, including Real Life, has fewer hits. It has ten times as many hits as hir next work. And it was apparently posted to AO3 like 5 months after it was written? I don't know if congrats or condolences are warranted. Teen Wolf is out of control.

I also don't know what my point is here, other than wow. Fandom is awesome/baffling, and everyone I know is reading 50SoG.