Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?
whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision
it really is so uncomfortable being a trans man in cis centric conversations of feminism. I just wonder. do they know about people like me? do they care? if I brought it up to them, how would they react? Do they expect me to be their human shield?
the weird thing is, when I view my job as some sort of background extra it becomes much more palatable. people go to a library and see me shelving a stack of books in my cardigan and glasses (now with glasses chain!) and they go "yeah, that's exactly right. that's how it's supposed to be in a library." and for some reason, that's comforting? the work is whatever, and the customers are customers, but sometimes it feels like I'm being paid just to make sure this places looks right, and I find that very fun.
I see we're at the stage now where the Internet is between people being genuinely misogynistic about "white women" being “stupid” because they like the new Taylor Swift album, and certain kinds of Swifties creating no-win scenarios where if you don't love these songs you're somehow being misogynistic or you don't understand metaphor.... and I'm just sitting here, a Taylor Swift agnostic with a music degree, wondering if anyone involved smokes weed
When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...