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Gotta say, "I'm not seeking penance for what I've done, Father. I'm asking forgiveness for what I'm about to do." is a hell of a line to introduce us to the show's protagonist

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The purpose of life is to get really into stories that drive you so crazy you sometimes feel the need to throw up from how much you love them

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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I replied to your message in my head several days ago did you not get it

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Fannish Safety Signs Kickstarter: Now Through May 22nd!

We are over the moon to share that our Fannish Safety Sign Sticker Campaign is now up and running on Kickstarter!! Made with all of creator’s Xianyu Zhou’s fandom love and whimsy, these fun 37 stickers offer warnings and alerts for fannish tropes, character archetypes, memes, and more that one should be on the lookout for. From “Be Alert for Idiots in Love” to “Caution: Dead Dove Do Not Eat,” if you love fandom, you’re sure to find a sticker here that’s perfect for you! Get one sticker, get all 37, mix and match and customize your order however you’d like – the possibilities are endless.

Visit our campaign page now!

Or scroll on to see ALL THE DESIGNS!

All BE ALERT FOR… Stickers:

All CAUTION Stickers:

All THE REQUIRED FOCUS AIDS MUST BE PREPARED… Stickers:

And lastly, our Caution Tape Sticker Sheet:

Ready to back now that you’ve seen a sticker you’ve gotta have? Here’s that Kickstarter link one more time!

And! People who back our Patreon at the $10/month or $25/month level will get one additional sticker as a freebie/bonus when they also back the Kickstarter campaign!

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the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight

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absolutely love abusing the power that comes with 3rd person limited pov and just ignoring things and being vague sometimes. does the character know all the details? no? then I don't have to either.

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Baymax meets the Pines family

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you too can write incredibly niche femslash rarepairs that no one knows or cares about 🫵🫵🫵

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On disability and charm: Obviously everyone talks about how charming Matt is, and it's also agreed upon that him being blind impacts the way people interact with him. But something that I think doesn't come up a lot is the fact that, like a lot of disabled people, I think Matt probably learned how to be charming in part to put people at ease BECAUSE he's blind. It's pretty agreed-upon in the disability community that putting people at ease, especially when you have a visible disability, becomes something that you learn to do and get better at overtime, as a tactic to get people to stop oggling/fixating on whatever is visibly different about you (obviously not everyone chooses to take this route, but it's definitely one of the common available ones). I bet Matt, as a disabled person, sometimes sees being charming as an act of disability advocacy (lol). The first scene that comes to mind is in the very first episode of the original show, when he charms the real estate agent that foggy had TOLD him was ableist. I would love to think more about this dynamic and how it impacts the way Matt chooses to interact with people. Would love to hear others thoughts!

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There should totally be a movement called “Sleep in Public” where people defend their right to sleep on public property. Sleep in your cars. Sleep on benches. Sleep at the park. Just make it a mundane and regular part of life to see someone napping in the library. It would make it much harder to single out the homeless for harassment if everyone else is doing the same thing and much harder to argue that it’s a “threat to public safety” when it’s so clearly harmless.

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post oversharing clarity is on the top 3 for most humiliating experiences ever, and it's not in third place

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Daredevil Cat AU

Who else should I add??

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Auctions, As Threatened

Normal fandom gift events don't contain enough moving parts to satisfy your brain? Excited by the idea of gift-posting crime (in a way that everyone is delighted by)? Events having paltry minimums like 500 words in a month not enough for you, you want the chance to have a minimum like 3,000, or 5,000, or even more? Auctions, As Threatened, may be the event for you!

How it works:

Everyone makes 1-20 requests just like we would for a normal exchange (except that we have an overflow collection for people who want to make more than 10 requests) including DNWs and optional Dear Creator letters. Then people who want to make gifts gather in a discord, waiting for the date when auctions start. Over the course of nine days, an assignment for everyone who has submitted requests goes up for a 24-hour long bot-managed auction. Gift makers bid word count (or equivalent, for mediums like art and podfic), and the bidder who has promised the highest word count for the assignment wins. Winners have a month to make their gifts! Bid on one auction, bid on several, bid thousands of words— if you think you can deliver it in a month, the sky's the limit!

But wait, you mentioned gift crime?

So what if you get outbid on all your auctions? (Or what if you just have no respect for the lawful transfer of assignments via auction?) The only legal way to add a gift to the collection is to win an assignment at auction...but what the Auction House doesn't want you to know is that their security is totally garbage. You can still make an illegal gift and sneak it into the collection for anyone you want, causing delight and joy to the recipient of your gift.

If you want, you can even take part in a little bit of wordcount-laundering, by posting an illegal treat to the collection and then winning an auction for your recipient. You can either write real fast before your recipient's auction in May...or you can bide your time for the middle of the creation period when your recipient might go up for a Penny Auction if someone's defaulted on their official assignment.

How can I participate?

Requesting: Before we can auction, need people to request gifts! If you want to just request and not bid, that's a perfectly fine way of participating in AAT. You'll need to meet the pinch hit requirements laid out below if you want to be guaranteed a gift, but if you want to just chuck in some requests and forget about it unless a gift appears, we'd be happy to have your requests.

Bidding: We also need people who are willing to bid on auctions and make a gift! If you want to write a gift between May 24th and June 28th, and the idea of competitively bidding (and/or doing crime) using a discord bot sounds fun to you— join us! You don't need to make requests to participate in bidding.

You can participate by giving fic, art/comics, podfic, and playlists. If you have an alternative gift-giving medium in mind, stop by the medium nominations post. We'll see if we can figure out a bid format for you!

Conventional pinch hitting: We will need conventional pinch hitters as well! Near the end of the event we will pinch hit anyone who a) requested 3 or more fandoms, b) had one or more people bid on them at any time, c) gave a gift of 500 words or more, and d) does not HAVE a gift of 500 words or more. The event doesn't open until all the people who meet these requirements have a gift. If you like writing a gift for someone on an accelerated timeframe, this is a chance to help the event work— we always love pinch hitters.

Just hanging out: You're welcome to just come down and hang out in the discord. Cheerleaders are always welcome, and we'll probably need betas of all types once people start creating works.

If you want to join an exchange with so many moving parts we built a custom discord bot for it, if you want the thrill of bidding higher word count than your adversary and then the excitement of having to fulfill it, if you want to do gift crime, if you just want to see how this works— come join us!

Links:

Dreamwidth blog (more details and rules)

Main Ao3 collection, Request Overflow collection

Tag set

Discord

Requirements for participation:

Must be 18+

Must have an AO3 account*

Must be not banned from Fic In A Box** 

If you're going to request: Must have an AO3 account which is open to receiving gifts***

if you're going to bid: Must have a Discord account you are willing to link to your AO3 account

(See rules post for more explain-y notes, but in short: *Can't sign up without and AO3 account; ** If you're banned from FIAB you should have a direct email about it; *** Can't get gifts if you have the "no gifts" setting on!)

Schedule:

April 27th-May 9th: Nominations

May 1st-10th: Requesting

May 15th-24th: Auctions

June 8th-June 14th: Penny Auctions

June 28th: Assignments due

June 29th-July 5th: Pinch hit period

July 6th: Reveals

Come join us! Auctions, as threatened!

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this applies to both of them

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Please call this recession the Trump Slump.

We need to put Trump's name on this.