we should be able to have clickmap polls that are on a 2 axis / 4 quadrant grid.
my MS paint recreation
I love the implication that there’s a direct correlation between gayness and liking salty foods - or, more specifically, the straighter you are, the more you dislike salt for some reason
There was a new LGBT+ acronym, and it was twig etc. (it had to be in lowercase for some reason). It stood for trans, Welsh, intersex, and gay. Everyone else was etc. It was very controversial.
6 year old asked me why i dont like mr beast and i didnt have an answer that a small child could understand so i said he tried to eat a homeless person a long time ago
Trump was almost assassinated again, and no one even posting about it
Sorry everyone, let me try again in tumblr
it seems unlikely that there was any assassination attempt. a Trump supporter tried to use fake vip passes to get into a Trump rally and the police checked his car and found guns (they would have found those in every car. it’s a fucking trump rally) and the police were like “we totally just saved Trump’s life” which I think was just them tryna look important
as a woman with elevated testosterone (pcos) who uses steroids (asthma inhalers) i must say i am feeling very cheated in the athletic prowess department. when is my dangerous masculine olympic level strength and speed supposed to kick in. do i need to go to professor x
1) PCOS is a hormonal disorder not a chromosomal disorder. You are likely not intersex.
2) Asthma inhalers aren’t strength muscle steroids they are lung muscle steroids that RELAX the muscles so you can breathe. And they worked exactly how they are supposed to.
ILLITERACY AND LACK OF BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE DETECTED!! OP WROTE ELEVATED TESTOSTERONE AND NOT “INTERSEX” ANYWHERE! REPLIER DOES NOT KNOW CORTICOSTEROIDS IN ASTHMA INHALERS ARE IN FACT BANNED IN SPORTS! YOU WILL BE SENT TO A FORCED RE-EDUCATION CAMP TO RE-LEARN SECOND GRADE READING! AND FOURTH GRADE “LOOKING THINGS UP”! BONK!
my brother kept playing with two ssds so I said “aw you’re making them kiss” and he answered “yeah. and there’s a 500 gb difference between them. barely legal” I’m going to blow him up
told him he was making numbers on tumblr (28 notes) and he said “stop using me for views I don’t want furries to start hitting on me in the street” I fear his views of this website might be skewed
I’m not saying that there aren’t furries on this website btw. I’m saying nobody’s getting laid thanks to tumblr notes
this is like finding out all your friends were having secret orgy meetings and you were the only one not invited
Reddit makes dumb decision -> I finally decide to check out Tumblr -> meet cool people on the 196 tag and become mutuals -> I discover one of them lives in Aus too -> I fly like 1000km and we fuck and cuddle
Person leaves reddit. Immediately loose virginity. More at 6.
if the idea of ‘fat people are hot’ makes you so agonizingly uncomfortable that you have to pop up with 'fetishization’ or 'glorifying’ or 'not everyone–’ please consider that your discomfort with my fat body being hot is a You Problem and i am not interested
Watching Star Wars was a mistake. For years I’ve derived so much pleasure from seeing discourse on my timeline that’s like “it’s actually a pretty good writing choice that Glimbo Knutts manipulated the imbledimbians in the force to make Darth Freeble his personal jedi froogler. It gives the original trilogy more depth” and not knowing what the fuck anybody is talking about. But now I do and it’s ruined. I understand what you freak ass dorks are saying and it isn’t fun anymore. Glimbo Knutts making Darth Freeble his jedi froogler DOES give the original trilogy more depth. This sucks man
I once had to explain to my then-gf that Star Wars is like “at the end of the day, even a single person can be a ripple in the movement to destroy fascism. the empire will crumble when confronted with the inherent goodness of the human spirit. to hope is not weak, our hope makes us strong. ISN’T THAT RIGHT, Admiral Beebo?” and then a little frog in a fighter jet goes “BEEBO WEEE-HOO!”
It would seem a whole new kind of AO3 reader/writer is emerging and it is becoming clear not everyone quite understands how the website community works. Here is some basic guidance on how most people expect you to go about using AO3 to keep this a fun community archive that funtions correctly:
Kudos is for when the story was interesting enough to make you finish reading. If it sucked or was badly written, you probably left. If you finished - you kudos.
If you liked it, you should comment. It can be long and detailed or a literal keysmash. Writers don’t care, we just love comments.
No critisism unless the author has specifically asked or agreed to hear it. Even constructive critisism is a no-no unless an author note tells you it’s okay. Many people write as a fun hobby or a way to cope with, among other things, insecurity. Don’t ruin that for them.
Do not comment to ask the author to write/update something else. It’s tacky and off-putting and will probably have the opposite effect than the one you want.
There is no algorithm, it’s an archive. Use the search and filter function to add/remove the pairings/characters/tropes etc. you want to read about and it will find you the fics that fit the bill.
For this to work, writers must tag and rate stories. This avoids readers finding the wrong things and missing the stuff they want. I don’t care how cringy that trope is in your eyes - it gets tagged.
Character A/Character B means a ROMANTIC or SEXUAL relationship of some kind. Character A&Character B is PLANTONIC, like friendship or family.
Nothing is banned. This is an implicit rule because banning one thing is a slipperly slope to banning another and another, until nothing is allowed anymore. Do not expect anyone to censor for you. Because of the tags system, you are responsible for your own reading experience.
People can create new chapters and sequels/fic series any time after they “complete” a story. So it’s considered perfectly normal to subscribe, even to a finished story. You can even subscribe to the author instead just to cover your bases.
Do not repost stories or change the publishing date without an extremely good reason (like a complete top to bottom rewrite). It’s an archive, not social media. No one cares what’s the most recent, only what fits their tag needs.
Avoid deleting a story you wrote if you hate it - orphan it so others can still enjoy it, without it being connected to you anymore.
This is a creative fanfiction archive. No essays on your insights or theories please. There are other places for that.
I KNOW there’s plenty more I missed but I’m trying to cover most of the basics that people seem to be struggling with.
I invite anyone to add to this, but please explain, don’t berate.
People are so entitled in the comments damn like no you writer don’t have to put up with you being rude they wrote you entertainment for free
To the people in the notes who are insisting that they have the right to leave negative feedback on AO3:
What you’re not understanding is that fandom is not a service, it’s a community. I saw someone compare leaving a comment on AO3 to reviewing a product on Amazon - if you didn’t like the product, you’re going to say so. But fanworks are not products and you didn’t pay money for them. They were shared with you.
Leaving un-asked-for criticism in AO3 comments isn’t like reviewing a product you were disappointed with. It’s like going to a friend’s house when they’ve cooked a meal and telling them all the things that are wrong with the food. Sure, you can do it, but it’s rude as hell and they are probably not going to invite you to dinner again.
(“Can you leave crit in comments” has been a debate as long as I’ve been in fandom, but 20 years ago the argument was “I’m helping the writer improve!” and not “I am a consumer with a right to complain.” Fandom has gotten more creepily capitalistic over the decades but jerks are evergreen, I guess.)
On the last point in OOP’s post, at the risk of, er, accidentally looking like and/or being a jerk who cannot read the room/tell the difference between what is technically allowed vs actually acceptable behavior - creative nonfiction fanworks are allowed under TOS. Liveblogging your reaction to the episode would be ‘ephemeral’ content and against TOS; TOS itself gives "an analysis of or commentary on multiple fanworks” and “an essay on a particular character’s narrative arc in canon or of the interaction between film and comics versions of a source” as examples of permissible works.
Hi! I love your writing and think you deserve everything people give you on ko-fi (and more), but I just wanted to give you a heads up that you might want to remove the link in your AO3 profile. AO3 is super strict about “commercial activities,” and that includes posting links to things like ko-fi. If they catch you, you could get banned. And that would be terrible, because your stories are amazing!
Hi, thank you for the warning! I genuinely appreciate you looking out for me 😊
I’ve looked into it a few times, but you got me searching beyond the AO3 TOS because to be perfectly honest, they aren’t as explicit as they should be when it comes to things that could get their users banned.
I found this post that actually explicitly states that ko-fi/patreon links aren’t permitted, and it’s incredibly frustrating to me that it isn’t explicitly stated in TOS but in a post on Tumblr.
It is also frustrating because a donation link is different than a commercial link. A commercial link is advertising a service you are offering in exchange for money. A donation link is providing an optional place for funds to be donated with nothing expected in return.
If they don’t want people putting any link that could be related to funds of any kind, then they need to be explicit in their TOS and list the sites that are not permitted (or at least give examples), because they make it pretty clear in the Tumblr post that ko-fi and patreon links are ban-worthy offenses.
To be perfectly clear: I do not have a problem with them not permitting these links. I do, however, have a problem that they are not absolutely explicit in their TOS and it took multiple Google searches to find an explanation. I am well aware that this is likely my tisms on full display but fuck it this is frustrating as hell.
ANYWAY. Thank you again for your warning, sweet anon. Especially since you got me to go searching further for more answers! I’ve removed my ko-fi link from my AO3, so if anyone notices one that I missed, please let me know here! 😊
i just wrote in "tamamita forcefem" on the ballot in massachussetts. i have submitted 24 billion of these ballots that the woke agenda will count just enough as to skew the results of the election. you will have a very interesting realisation about yourself on january 20th 2025 i think
are you signing in? that… unusual. haha that’s,, weird. enter the code we’ve sent to you. it’s in your email. it’s on your phone. go get your devices. who are you? who is this??????? confirm your identity. are you a robot?? haha just checking… this is so weird. this sign in attempt is unusual! we detected unusual activity!! are you signing in? is this you? please confirm
are you signing in? that… unusual. haha that’s,, weird. enter the code we’ve sent to you. it’s in your email. it’s on your phone. go get your devices. who are you? who is this??????? confirm your identity. are you a robot?? haha just checking… this is so weird. this sign in attempt is unusual! we detected unusual activity!! are you signing in? is this you? please confirm
Ey, I just wanted to say I absolutely fucking adore your work, especially the gardeners (I have a soft spot for Leshy, sue me), anyway, keep up the great work :)
remembering when the something awful forums made a word filter that changed the word “females” so it was surrounded by Ferengi emoji (we called em ‘smilies’ not emoji back in the day) so it looked like this:
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because someone was sick of incels using the word to refer to women
“Sex is what makes us human” is stupid. Almost every species fucks. Humans are the only species that jumps motorcycles over school buses that are on fire. Some other things too probably
Literally just a really good exercise to develop genuine empathy for the global south and have your antiimperialist sentiment more grounded and being aware of how you benefit from it is just. Holding a product in your hand and think about all of the people who made it possible. not only who harvested the coffee beans from your instant and who roasted them or who harvested the cotton from your shirt and who spun at and wove it, but also who made the paper, plastic, cardboard, inks of the packaging, who delivered the goods necessary from one place to another, all the way to your supermarket, store of your convenience, or even your home.
👉 I’m with you on all these things except instant coffee. For it there’s no raison d'être. Good slow strong coffee or nothing at all ☕☕
Couldn’t make up this response if I wanted. I recommend touching some grass. Once or twice a week for a month will do.
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