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i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

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on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

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to like, explain my gripes about Genderfuck Rep and Femboy Characters to a transmasculine person, like. i want you to think about the movie Mulan. i want you to imagine if the story was not focused on Mulan herself, but that the protagonist was Li Shang. i want you to imagine that the scene where he discovers Mulan's AGAB, the focus was not on the danger and shame Mulan feels, but on Li Shang's anger and disgust, with the assumption that you too should be angered and disgusted by an AFAB person trying to pass as male. imagine watching it as a child- would you maybe feel unsafe? threatened?

now i want you to imagine if the primary cultural impact of that movie, and of Mulan's character, was 1. jokes about how gross and surprising and taboo it woupd be to find out someone you thought was a guy "was actually a woman", 2. people drawing Mulan as a Tomboy Girlfriend Sex Object, and 3. the best you get, which is people affirming that Mulan is 100% definitely a woman and she's like her because shes such a woman who wants to wear pants. (or even trans women talking about how she has to hide her womanhood)

and imagine if there was like, one of these characters in every animated kids movie between 1980 and 2010, half of anime, and not to mention scenes like this explicitly about transmasculine people in every crime drama and all over horror film.

and hell, even then i think Mulan's relationship to transmasculinity is looser than most of these characters who are lauded as GNC Icons to transfeminity. and i really cant convey the experience of how constant and everywhere it all is.

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Gsnk tomoda parody ft gaius, elliot, crowrean and machias from sen no kiseki wwww

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y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot

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lest this be lost in the bellicose noise of the day

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they went off with this

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random anecdote for father's day: one time during a long car ride my dad asked me, "you're familiar with Murphy's Law, right?" and i was like "isn't that the one about how anything that can go wrong will go wrong?" and he said "yeah, exactly" and i said "why do you ask?" and he went "well, have you heard of Cole's Law?" and i said "no, actually, what's that?" and he said "it's mostly lettuce and carrots with a little dressing mixed in"

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why do we bother with I hate my partner jokes when your boss is right there

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Unmute !

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my hottest take

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I think we should have a second pride month in November for gay people who prefer cold weather

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From the OP: "If you sit at a desk or stare at your phone all day, this is for you. Here's how to undo the damage: - Banded Chin Tucks - Strengthen your neck flexors and fight forward head posture - Banded Pull-Aparts - Target your rotator cuff and improve shoulder stability - Banded Abduction - Activate the midline of your scapula for better posture - Lateral Deltoid Raises - Build shoulder stability and control - Banded Up-and-Overs – Boost scapular mobility and range of motion These simple banded drills will help you stand taller, move better, and feel stronger - even after hours at a desk."

Some of these are the same or similar to the exercises my physical therapist taught me.

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From the OP: "If you sit at a desk or stare at your phone all day, this is for you. Here's how to undo the damage: - Banded Chin Tucks - Strengthen your neck flexors and fight forward head posture - Banded Pull-Aparts - Target your rotator cuff and improve shoulder stability - Banded Abduction - Activate the midline of your scapula for better posture - Lateral Deltoid Raises - Build shoulder stability and control - Banded Up-and-Overs – Boost scapular mobility and range of motion These simple banded drills will help you stand taller, move better, and feel stronger - even after hours at a desk."

Some of these are the same or similar to the exercises my physical therapist taught me.

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at the JRPG cafe, and the drink sizes are sod, soda, and sodaga