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"This fic is literally just porn, why do you care about the quality of the editing" unfortunately, both my brain and my dick have strong opinions about verb tenses.

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do publishers realize that advertising books using fanfic tropes spoils the experience of reading an original story. stop telling me it’s enemies to lovers and there was only one bed and unrequited love hurt comfort golden retriever black cat timeloop major character death. why do i give a fuck if i don’t know any of the characters and now plus i already know the entire plot of the story. that’s what ao3 is supposed to be for

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a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

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hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

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i’m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of “content” is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if you’ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.

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remember kids, the moral of "Irish and Italians weren't even considered White yet!" isn't "because in those times people were so ignorant they didn't think the Irish were white". the moral is "because white is an unreal category created to justify slavery and ongoing hoarding of power and wealth". It's not that you know better about Italians. It's that the boundaries of the higher caste have changed.

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I have a friend who says that Lord of the Rings is "not that good because the point is that so many people are sacrificing to stop evil, but no they're not, because nobody dies. Only Boromir and Gollum. It's a world war but no main characters die"

which is so not the point of Lord of the Rings. If you guys have been picking that up as a talking point, drop it on the floor and kick it under the fridge

Tolkien knew that dying for a cause might have been the ultimate sacrifice, but it's not the hardest thing to bear.

Lord of the Rings says that hardest thing to bear losing is the stuff he weaves into the fabric of his story: the little things. Peace at home. Innocence from the world's corruption. The nearness of friends. Relationships. Known History. Poetry. Good food.

It's all that that gets corrupted and sacrificed every time somebody like Sam Gamgee leaves home to help his little scholar boss to save the world. It's all that that's actually hurt and suffers and lost in the story of the Lord of the Rings.

The Fellowship protects the little things for the world and loses connection with the little things, themselves. That's what they sacrifice. Yeesh.

Anybody who's like "some war story, nobody dies" doesn't understand war. Or a good story. You just sound like a blood-drunk peasant baying for gore at the coliseum because without it you don't feel anything

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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padme // lolita

fandom wiki article for padme amidala / nabokov interviewed by herbert gold / lolita p.16 / dominique swain as lolita (1977) / phantom menace promotional photo / “the good queen” by mia waller (editeé) / cheatsheet headline / princess weekes for mary sue / kevin polowy for yahoo / archived starwars.com article / waller / swain as lolita (1977) / portman behind the scenes of phantom menace / lolita p.4 / annotation by alfred appel / revenge of the sith (2005) [sc: george lucas] / lolita p.309 / the phantom menace (1999) [sc: lucas] / “darth vader: dark lord of the sith” issue no. 13 (sc: charles soule) [ac: giuseppe camuncoli] / jeremy irons as humbert and swain as lolita (1977) / ian mcdiarmid as palpatine and portman as padme (1999) / revenge of the sith novelization by matthew stover / lolita p.280 / stover / elizabeth janeway for the new york times / waller / eric lemay for penn state / waller / portman as padme (2005)

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my hottest take

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day 1 at the communal puzzle club: i see a puzzle with a sign next to it that says "please help with our communal puzzle" and i say to myself "don't mind if I do" and did the whole thing