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The "you can post fan essays on AO3" post randomly reminded me of the only one I've read that's basically "a lot of people handle this character badly and I don't like their most popular ship"

Which is fine in itself, free speech and all

But it just had to patronizingly explain what a ship is. On AO3. Like uh. what

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Congratulations to Clair Obscur Expedition 33 to be the first media I've looked up on AO3 where the F/F pair is the top romantic tag in the presence of legit ships in the other gender combinations

(I'd put a screenshot but everything above and below that has spoilers so you just have to believe me)

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Sometimes I feel like reading books and wikipedia plot summaries has ruined me because I know all the common fiction tropes now so everything new feels like a rehash.

Like I saw people be impressed by Clair Obscur's plot twist and thinking "Are you really serious, I saw it from 33 miles away ever since finding the second manor door, and the antagonist practically yells it in your face towards their second fight"

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I made a poll in a supposedly nerd discord, asking if anyone else gets creeped out when cafe staff let you know, that they recognize you as That Person Who Always Orders One Particular Item...

and majority of people said they LIKED it??? what

can't believe I manage to out-autism an entire nerd discord, pretty sure that's an achievement.

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Sooo there's been someone in the hades games speedrunning discord with a harry potter meme as their icon for months now, and not a single peep from the mods or anyone.... This is a group with a few very out trans people btw

Like personally? I don't care. I don't care to the degree that other trans people would call me a pick-me selling out to the cis-es if I brought this up as its own post. But I do know of trans people who get very uncomfortable seeing HP related stuff so. eeehhh.

It's not even hand-drawn art or an OC, it's just a certain meme from movie screenshots, poorly cropped due to the discord circle icon, so there's no angle like "oh this means a lot to the person who's using it"

Anyway this is why I laugh to myself when people say that speedrunning is "inclusive". Unless the community leaders are mostly minorities, it's.....really not. By "inclusive" they really mean "we will call you the pronouns in bio, can't make promises if you join VC, also as much as we put 'no racism/transphobia etc' in the house rules, we really only recognize prejudice when it's outright hate speech and slurs, shrugs"

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The Little Merpoke 🌊🪸

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there's honestly so much pettiness in chess that even me, the "doesn't play and only follows for drama" breed that everyone hates, is getting annoyed at the people doing the pettiness

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I am pleased to report that twitter ads have finally caught up to the unhingedness of tumblr ads.

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gods I wish I can reblog without notifying the OP because I truly don't get why the Iron Widow series author even bothered to write in Di Renjie, Wu Zetian's historical bestie, when they clearly don't even give enough of a shit about him to have thoughts about what he'll do in a college AU

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I miss the world before AI image generation

Secondly, I also miss the world where AI image generation was just incoherent blobs and obvious fakes

Thirdly, I miss when I had a spark in my eye

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ok I really hate it when people post like "I always think I'm bothering people which is why I don't text first, but I'm really grateful for those who do 🥺"

Like have they never considered that this sort of behavior is leaving those exact friends wondering if

they are being the bothersome one for always texting first

for gods' sake don't post it generally online, tell your friends to their face. You're not the only one suffering from this affliction, please and thank you

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sooooo are the allo queers who were singing the exact same tune as jk rowling gonna keep doing that or. :)

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James Somerton is working as a wedding photographer with a plagiarized portfolio, btw

YoutubeDrama thread where this came out.

He truly seems incapable of not passing off others work as his own.

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posting this for no particular reason

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internet "leftists" when other game companies do a shitty thing: wooow look at how many people just being hyped at their games while ignoring their practices 🙄 just uncritically consume product am I right

internet "leftists" when Nintendo does a shitty thing: