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i feel the ghosts of my ancestors possessing me-

Guess who didn't get admitted into the art department

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oh back then, 100%. So grateful for the people that helped me! But the new people are now just commenting: "I didn't like that!" And NOTHING ELSE. like why???? Some things just aren't for some people and that's okay but I've never gone out of my way to tell a fanfiction author, who's doing this for free, that I don't like that, so it must be wrong. It's so frustrating BC damn, that fandom was genuinely so important to me, it's part of why I am now able to study to be an English teacher (also the people that helped me when I was younger). It's so sad to see that community fall apart🥲

Damn some of the young people who migrated from Wattpad to ao3 don't know fanfiction etiquette at all. You don't like a story? Just god damn scroll. No need to comment that shit, especially if it isn't even BC of the writing but the storyline. Just accept that this ain't for you and move on

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Damn some of the young people who migrated from Wattpad to ao3 don't know fanfiction etiquette at all. You don't like a story? Just god damn scroll. No need to comment that shit, especially if it isn't even BC of the writing but the storyline. Just accept that this ain't for you and move on

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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i'm getting into politics

Guess who didn't get admitted into the art department

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Sometimes you are in a fandom and it helps you find yourself. And sometimes you want to go back to that but have to realize that you're no longer 16 with no hope but that the people inside that fandom are that still.

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JJ: "ohhh Shit"

Emily: "What happened???"

JJ: "I slipped and fell, bring some ice!"

Emily: "Weird request but okay" *opens refrigerator* "We have vanilla and strawberry, which one do you want?"

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I'm in a group chat with some people from spain. They sometimes send texts in Spanish. I don't speak Spanish BUT that will not stop me from reading that shit out loud. The issue? While I don't speak Spanish, I am studying swedish. Have y'all ever heard someone speak Spanish with a swedish intonation? Bc that is many things but not smooth

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Considering the fact that I may have been annoying to that one girl at our art entrance exam. I was just nervous and when I'm nervous, I babble.

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I sound like I've been chain-smoking for the past three decades

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....how does one tell a girl that you like her without putting pressure on her and possibly ruining a wonderful friendship?

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Getting groceries while wearing a mask is an experience. BC why TF are so many people so pressed? Like damn, I'm sick, I'm doing this FOR you! But sure, keep giving me the evil eyes and I might just start coughing right in your face

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Now why TF did I have to pay an arm and a leg for some damn cold meds???

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Managed to hand in my essay, you know it's bad when you apologize for any possible mistakes in the email BC your head is about to explode

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Fuck ist Merz ein ekelhafter Mensch. Die "Drecksarbeit"??? Ein ganzes Land wird ausgelöscht und der bezeichnet diesen Genozid als Drecksarbeit. Wie man sich sowas herausnehmen kann, vor allem als Deutscher-

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at a conference I attended recently, a researcher pointed to the difficulty of finding material in archives because so much depends on the metadata and the terminology used to describe things changes over time. "it would be so helpful," the researcher said, "if I typed 'lesbian' into the library of congress database, it would also show me results that were categorised in the 50s, when the materials were interpreted as 'intimate female friendships'"

which is what tag wrangles at Archive Of Our Own do incredibly effectively: searching for "omegaverse" also leads to "alpha/beta/omega dynamics" and "alternate universe: a/b/o" and so on. but ao3 achieves this frankly incredible categorisation and indexing system by the power of countless volunteers putting in hours and hours of unpaid and unthanked free time, and it's completely understandable that most archives do not have that kind of infrastructure, but also how incredible that a fan-run website has better searchability, classification, and accessibility than the library of congress