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NFE 2025 Tag nominations

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i actually need to know people's thoughts on this because at least in my experience the answer to this has drastically changed since i was on tumblr in the 2010s and its driving me fucking insane

*im talking about fandom takes specifically. not someone being horribly evil about a real-life issue or or blatantly factually incorrect. literally just harmless fandom disagreements or differing interpretations of a text/character/etc.

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The rest of the thread is here.

tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids.  You won’t like what happens next.

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Thank you, Genie. This is absolutely true and fair on all counts. I apologize, to both you and OP, for going a little crazy in that previous post. I shouldn't have lost my temper. My entire sector is being wiped out right now by these right-wing, Neo-Nazi, anti-intellectual asshats, and I'm seeing the careers of incredibly smart people be destroyed, and I don't know how we're ever going to recover from this. If we do, it probably won't be in my lifetime. And I am furious and grieving. We do need to recognize the anti-intellectulism on the left (and you're correct; it's been there from the beginning, though it has gotten SO MUCH WORSE on the right), and even that makes me crazy, because we can only fight on so many fronts, and right now every front is a five-alarm fire.

i genuinely think one of the things that contributed to the rise of anti-intellectualism is when leftists started conflating characters in a book being sexist, racist etc. with the book itself, or the author, being sexist or racist or possessing any other type of prejudice that they wrote into the book. and then one step further, accusing anyone who reads such a book of having those opinions as well lol. toddler-level media criticism

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Uk peeps!! Let’s get this going! 🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧

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I can't even with this. Anti-intellectualism has been coming from the right for fifty years. Since Nixon. Read some history, I beg you, and some political history specifically. The right has been pandering to the lowest common denominator for longer than I have been alive. They have been pittlng people against each other based on race, class, and gender. They have been defunding public education since I was a child. I lost it when Betsy DeVos became Education Secretary, because she had destroyed the Detroit public schools in Michigan under Engler when I was a kid, and the schools in the rest of the state kept getting their funding cut, and cut, and cut. The right has been saying climate change isn't real since the 90s, at least. The scientists are wrong. The people who have spent their whole lives getting degrees and conducting experiments and documenting the millions of ways our planet is dying, are the ones who are wrong. The tobacco industry lied through its teetch for decades about cigarettes causing cancer, and when doctors and scientists called them on it, they kept lying. Now we have a moron of an HHS Secretary who doesn't believe in vaccines and kids are dying from measles as a result. We have a Secretary of Defense who is trying to claim that compromising national security because he was using a gd app to communicate isn't that big a deal. We have a WH Press Secretary saying with a straight face that it isn't illegal to deport people without due process (YES IT FUCKING IS).

I'm not saying that leftist readers should be doing this ridiculous kind of "reading" where they're conflating the characters and how they behave with the stance of the author, or claim that because the characters do something bad, it's a bad book. I'm saying that is right-wing anti-intellectualism, my friends, seeping into the reasoning of people who are, usually, too young to know any better and/or who haven't been exposed to anything other than right-wing Groupthink their whole lives. And I'm not saying leftists are perfect, either - I have a really long list of them that I'm really angry at right now. But seriously, please don't try to tell this 44-year-old that the anti-intellectualism in this country comes from the left, because I have been watching it take over from the right for my entire lifetime.

i genuinely think one of the things that contributed to the rise of anti-intellectualism is when leftists started conflating characters in a book being sexist, racist etc. with the book itself, or the author, being sexist or racist or possessing any other type of prejudice that they wrote into the book. and then one step further, accusing anyone who reads such a book of having those opinions as well lol. toddler-level media criticism

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Happy birthday, Hayley Atwell! (April 5th, 1982) 🎈

MCUCHALLENGE YEAR OF CELEBRATIONS

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Ship Tag Game

I was tagged by @theredandwhitequeen ; thank you! :)

Rules: Without naming them, post a gif of 10 of your ships any media and then tag 10 people.

Ship Tag Game

Thank you for tagging me @krissielee 💜💜

Rules: without naming them, post a gif of ten of your favorite ships (any media), then tag ten people to do the same.

In no particular order ...

No pressure tagging: @grapehyasynth @phneltwrites @firstprinced @rachelica9 @hotcinnamonsunset; @frogprincesnowglobe @wilmon @simonsapelsin @nerdyfangirl76 @piebingo; @nerdyfangirl76 @margotdanslebois @themarsbar @kruemel8; @sillylittleflower @justfriendsbestthings @maryp50 @gulliblelemon @impossibleknots; @bigalockwood @grounded-parasocial; @amailboxlemur; @saynomorefic @skibasyndrome

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Your April Fools' Day reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

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For school I am building a marketplace/index for cross stitch patterns. Specifically to free designers from Etsy, and stitchers from pattern mills and AI generated garbage.

During the process I realized there might be an actual need for it? So yeah. If you, a person who does cross stitch and/or embroidery work thinks a place kinda Ravelry, but meant for us, would be cool, let me know (:

Further features I had in mind were project galleries, floss stash, stuff like that.

(also I can totally put some prototype screenshots here if there's an actual interest from you guys)

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Femslash February: Rare Femslash Exchange

For Femslash February we are looking at the Rare Femslash Exchange! This gift exchange began in 2021 and runs annually from December to February.

For this exchange only F/F pairings with fewer than 250 works on AO3 are eligible to partake, with either a 500 word fic or a nice sketch.

Every year the number of works created for the RFE goes up, going from 88 works across 75 fandoms in its first year to 120 works covering 81 fandoms in 2023.

Do you know a ship that would fit into this exchange? Learn more about past challenges and the community on Fanlore!.

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One of Sarah's most prized possessions is the Magen David necklace her maternal grandmother gave her before she and her family left for America. She hasn't seen her extended family or Poland since she was seven but when she feels the chain around her neck and the weight of the pendant against her sternum, it's almost like she's home again.

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Sam and his dad

Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail and The Stackhouse Filibuster give SUCH a good and fun insight to Sam's relationship with his dad and I really love them for it.

And really what it comes down to is just... he and is dad had a great relationship? Or at least a good one. Until the affair came to light, but that was still not enough to actually break that relationship. And that's so interesting really.

Cause we see Sam in SGTESGTJ when he's first found out about the affair, and it's wrecked him. Just absolutely wrecked him. He's sleeping on Toby's office couch for a few days, he's in a bad mood, he's tossing sugar and remembering his dad pushing him to practice the clarinet. He's going through it, and rightfully so.

But the main thing that his father's affair is compared to in the episode is the grandfather of Donna's friend, who she believes is a wrongfully accused guy, who she believes, sincerely, is actually a really good person. And instead he can't wait to tell her that actually, her grandpa was a spy who murdered people. Because "this girl is gonna find out who her (father) grandfather is".

And that, I think, is such a big part of why Sam is this upset about his dad. Obviously the whole thing would be upsetting in any scenario, but the fact that it comes as such a huge shock, feels like such a huge personal betrayal, is just so painful. Sam never would have assumed his dad was the kind of person capable of doing something like this to his mom or to Sam. Like the girl believing her grandfather to be good person, Sam always believed his dad to be good. Until now.

But then it ends with Sam picking up the phone and calling his dad. Cause that's his dad. He's been cheating on Sam's mother for almost three decades (which is such a huge chunk of Sam's life), but that's his dad.

And then in the very next episode, we hear it's just a few weeks later, Sam's writing an email to his dad.

He starts it off with "hey jackass" and then replaces that with "hey dad". He's still pissed, as he should be. But again, that's his dad. And he loves his dad. Clearly. Cause the next thing he says is that it's been a few weeks since he told his dad any white house stories.

Now two things about that: 1. Sam writes emails to his dad telling him about what's going on at the white house often enough that a few weeks of no stories is noteworthy. Compared to CJ having a special Moment emailing her dad specifically for his 70th birthday, that's pretty cool information! And then 2. The emails contain not just the stories that make Sam look cool or good. And that's so important.

Cause Sam tells his dad about how Winnie the intern kicked his ass. Now, when CJ asks about this, Sam deflects and claims he didn't get his ass beaten by anyone and that she was nineteen and "he showed he was open to all forms of debate, with anyone". He's embarrassed to admit the truth. No such thing with his dad. He sounds pretty stupid in the way he tells his dad about the intern.

And that's key, in my opinion. Sam not only regularly writes to his dad and tells him about the white house, but he's not at all afraid to tell his dad things that make him sound stupid or silly or whatever. He's comfortable telling his dad "this 19yo intern kicked my ass cause I was cocky", and that says so much about the relationship Sam and his dad have! Not a lot of people, especially not a lot of men with egos and jobs like Sam's, would have an easy time telling their dad "here's a story making me look like an idiot", and the fact that Sam does that, and that it's specifically the first email he sends his dad in a while, is so cool and so interesting.

And I just love that for them. He loves his dad. He's angry with him, as anyone would be, but he loves his dad and a few days later they're on the phone and a few weeks later Sam's telling him about a work screwup. He loves his dad, and he's comfortable with him, and that makes it hurt worse that his dad would be cheating for SO long, a whole secret life. But again even that doesn't actually deter the relationship for very long. And that's just !! It's so good.

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being silly is their full time job