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the beauty of the world is that there are people out there having basically indistiguishable gender and sexuality experiences and one has several microlabels and an army of pride flags, one says "idk i guess im nonbinary or something" and the other is comfortably cis with a little flexibility. and all of them are correct because your identity is whatever you make of it.

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wannabee twitter already bending the knee to terfs

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do you guys wanna get up early and get pastries and eat them in the park and lay in the grass for a while and then go for a long walk to an antique centre and wander round and hold things up and say "this is you 🫵" and then watch classic who and parallel play by working on our individual writing/art projects for the rest of the day with intermittent drink/snack breaks and none of us ever have to look at microsoft outlook or receive an email ever again

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the people in these comments are babies. you're so fucking stupid. you really think following a memoir on how she was immensely abused and exploited as a child and how that affected her into adulthood, jannette mccurdy is gonna come out with a hot steamy smutty novel about adults fucking minors? kill yourself. and none of you know what lolita was about

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It is incredibly important to train yourself to have your first instinct be to look something up.

Don't know how to do something? Look it up.

See a piece of news mentioned on social media? Look it up.

Not sure if something is making it to the broader public consciousness, either because you don't see it much or you see people saying nobody is talking about it? Look it up.

Don't know what a word means? Look it up.

It will make you a better reader and a better writer, but it will also just make you more equipped to cope with the world.

So often, I see people talking about something as though it is the first time anyone has ever acknowledged it, when I've been reading reports about it on the news for months or years. Or I see someone totally misinterpreting an argument because they clearly don't know what a word means--or, on the other hand, making an argument that doesn't make sense because they aren't using words the right way.

Look things up! Check the news (the real news, not random people on social media)! Do your research! You (and the world) will be better for it.

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I FINALLY FOUND IT AGAIN

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that some people respond to any well-foreshadowed reveal with “ugh that plot twist was so predictable” proves bad faith criticism has rotted their brains to the point they think it’s bad writing if they can correctly identify information the writers were intentionally giving them

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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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Unconditionally accept nonbinary identities. I am no longer asking

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i miss my ex bestfriend & everyone else that i have ever loved but don't want any of them back either

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To the bold ff.net user in 2013 who tried to write Moby-Dick from the whale’s perspective, please get back here you were cooking

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the only censorship we need is the block, mute and filter option because giving others the power to dictate what can and cannot exist in fandom will eventually lead to banning all nsfw works or even slightly but nuanced ‘problematic’ topics. ​I block and move on because I don’t want to see certain things but to erase them completely is a dangerous slope to having things you like be banned eventually.

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there is also something kind of gross to me about the constant insinuations that the "questioning social norms" component of autism immediately turns every autistic person into a genderfuckery kinkster leftist who don't give a fuck. and I say this as someone who is a genderfuckery kinkster leftist. autism isn't a political alignment, it's a disability. sometimes the autism 'sense of justice' is wrong. sometimes an autistic person will find a home in conservative ideologies for many of the same reasons as other autistic people will find a home in communist ideologies. sometimes the autistic communist will come up with dogshit analysis even as they're guided by their sense of justice, because good political analysis isn't a feeling or a neurotype, it's a skill that you cultivate. I know it would be pleasant and emotionally soothing for you to be able to believe that autism turns someone into a superpowered leftist but it's a politically fraught and deeply questionable line of thought to be feeding into

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in defense of fanfiction

Someone asked me today about fanfiction vs. literature, and fanworks and quality, and I didn't realize I had an entire 30-minute talk prepared on the topic. (I'm going to talk about fanfiction here, but I'm using fanfic and fanworks interchangeably.)

We get defensive of fanfiction because people outside of fandom use the term "fanfiction" with condescension. Patriarchal institutions view and irrelevant metrics deem fanfic as "less than" because it does not align with standards for what a piece of writing "should be." Coincidentally, the people who make and consume fanfic or other forms of transformative fanworks are often women or queer or marginalized. The defense might feel necessary in the face of whom fanfiction is ultimately for.

To be honest with you, along those institutional standards, most fanfiction is not good. And also along those standards, some fanfiction is extraordinary. But I really don't care about any of that, because that is not what fanfiction is for.

Fanfiction is for the writer and for the people who want to engage with a fandom after they consume a piece of media. It does not need to be commentary, a response, a movement. Like a diary entry, transformative fanworks are individually indulgent, and like a lovingly cooked meal, can also be communal, shared. They can be "poorly" written and also moving, dumb and insanely empowering, confusing and satisfactory, juvenile and self-revelatory for the author and the reader.

Writing and reading fanfiction is such an intimate and personal act, that I find it ludicrous? Irrelevant? Pointless—to debate whether or not fanfiction should be "good." Huh????

Engage with these arguments if you want, but fandom exists in a completely different environment—an unacademic one—a rare non-monetary one—so the metrics for value are completely different. And if you stuff fanworks into containers of capitalistic consumption, you're gonna be very frustrated. "But was that journal entry good?" "But was that meal among friends good?" "Was that time we spent in the idea that I shared good?"

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so a Blorbo is a type of spiritual chew toy, i gather

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