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A quite insightful quote from Stormy Daniels.

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Notice how cops can't do shit without community assistance?

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This Blog Is Unrepentantly Pro- AO3!

This blogger remembers when we didn’t have AO3.

This blogger remembers when we had to put disclaimers at the head of our fics and pray that someone didn’t take it into their heads to sue us for what we created.

This blogger remembers brilliant artists and writers getting decades of work obliterated on LJ because someone who wanted to tell people what they were allowed to create went running to someone who wanted a profit, and told them the artists and writers had been naughty.

This blogger remembers just how hard the creators of AO3 worked to build the thing we all seem to take for granted now.

This blogger watched friends dive into the creation process so heartily and determinedly that they all but disappeared from the writing/gaming/artistic side of their fandom for YEARS while they worked to make the archive happen.

This blogger remembers the sense of giddy wonder that there would possibly be LAWYERS involved, willing to defend our right to create these works, and not leave us hanging at the mercy of corporate legal teams.

This blogger is aware that she reads between twenty to fifty books’ worth of material every year on AO3, and is never REQUIRED to pay a penny for the privilege of getting access.

This blogger is aware that she will not ever see advertisements on AO3, and that her personal data and reading preferences won’t be sold to advertisers in order to raise the money that AO3 needs to pay for the services they provide.

This blogger is aware that AO3 is, and has always been, a labor of love; by fans, for fans, and not for profiting off fans – and this is what makes it unique in the whole of the media universe.

This blogger has NEVER taken AO3 for granted, and has ALWAYS been damned glad to have access to it.  Even in years when this blogger didn’t have the means to support it financially.

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are you telling me americans have stores that open up SPECIFICALLY for halloween and just. dont exist any other time of the year. you people are insane

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not proshipper not anti but a secret third thing (person who has a career in the media and, through covering legislative politics, has watched "associating with problematic fiction or entertainment is an indicator of moral degeneracy" rapidly become a mainstream GOP position that they are encoding in legislation to target the queer community under the guise of protecting children, thus coming to the conclusion that positioning the "can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction" debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that "should we have the death penalty" is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse — the extent and manner to which fiction affects reality is an issue that is immediately relevant to today's US politics, and to summarize my opinions on the matter in fandom terms would be to diminish the ways this debate is affecting america Right The Fuck Now. and i have stopped taking "this person is bad for shipping the wrong anime thing and being horny about it" in any sort of good faith ever since I saw it literally used as part of a GOP smear campaign against a transgender state legislator in an attempt to defend the right from backlash after they used their supermajority in the Montana house to prevent her from speaking on the floor. Anyway I think everyone on this site, especially Americans, could benefit from ceasing to think in proship v anti vocabulary and instead developing coherent political positions on the nature of fiction that do not directly align with current fascist political tactics)

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ohhh i loike persona twooooo

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graph of what being hungry is like with adhd

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lrb i am i am just sitting here just asking you all to play either trails in the sky fc, trails from zero, or trails of cold steel 1.

yes there is stupid fanservice, especially in crossbell and cold steel. yes there is . there is harem bullshit in cold steel. are the games cringe. yes. are they free? no they... you have to pay money for them

these games have given me the heaviest brainrot of any media ever

please play them and join the kiseki hivemind

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over christmas when i came out fully to my mom she did tell me i was beautiful and gave me some of her old jewelry and told me she was excited to have another daughter and that was all wonderful, but the part that meant the most to me was when i told her "i want to get my facial hair taken care of sooner than later, the whole "girl" thing is a lot easier to swallow when im shaved" and she examined my use of the phrase "it's a lot easier to swallow" and said "Scout, I didn't have a good relationship with my mother. you know that." (i did know that, my grandma was NOT good to my mother) "but your grandma kim [friend of my grandma's, unrelated by blood in any way, but was adopted as a grandma through familial osmosis] was the greatest woman who's ever been in my life. and up until the day she died, she had a beard and a moustache [which is true, my grandma kim, a cis woman, had VERY thick facial hair]. if you kept your facial hair for the rest of your life i wouldnt think of you as less of a woman" and ya know what? THAT'S the part of her support that made me cry.

my grandma kim was an amazing woman and she had peach fuzz that she didnt give a FUCK about. and everyone loved her.

you can have your own fuzz too, and that doesn't make you not a woman.

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idk what to write

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had fun with the sillies

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it’s interesting how the ineffable husbands are doing so well considering good omens is a relatively new fandom?

While much of the popularity of ineffable husbands is due to the show, Good Omens book fandom has existed since the nineties - if you look at the tags on their round 3 poll a surprising number of Good Omens voters were reading A/C fic on Livejournal! Between its large current fandom and its age I feel like its success in these polls is basically what I'd have expected, tbh.

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) dir. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson

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Crow's Makin' Trails! Dengeki Online has been putting out an ongoing biweekly four-panel comic centering around Crow Armbrust. Some friends were wondering what was being said, so I decided to translate them. Stay tuned for updates!

Please support the original comic by viewing it (for free!) here!

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Crow's Makin' Trails! Dengeki Online has been putting out an ongoing biweekly four-panel comic centering around Crow Armbrust. Some friends were wondering what was being said, so I decided to translate them. Stay tuned for updates!

Please support the original comic by viewing it (for free!) here!

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Ma-ia hi

Ma-ia ho

Ma-ia ha

Ma-ia ha ha

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canon: they died

fanfic: fUCK YOU