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Ao3 does not need an algorithm, you're just lazy

Ao3 does not need a 1-5 star rating system, you just want to bring down authors writing for FREE

Ao3 does not need automatic censorship, it is an archive, therefore anything can be posted

Writing or reading about something illegal does not mean the author nor the reader condones it, if that were true, you could never read a story involving anything negative

Purity culture is ruining fan culture and you all are fucking annoying

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You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

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im sorry but when you grow up and interact with people irl youre gonna have friends where you dont fw their tastes. sometimes youre gonna meet someone chill whos also a hazbin hotel fan or have a really nice coworker that likes taylor swift and youre gonna need to mind your business and shut the fuck up or youre gonna be real lonely

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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

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DNI except on party business

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so when doctor octopus wants to go by doc ock it's fine but when i, doctor cockroach,

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bite marks

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lets go winterhawk!!!

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trans people will literally go “i have a complicated relationship with my history with gender and sometimes see it as a gender i ‘used to be’ and i don’t really look like a cis person of either gender and i don’t think i can fit it into simple categories” and everyone will spontaneously combust

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🍀🗡️Ides of March: GhostSoap Folklore Event 🍀🗡️

In the dawn of the new year, the GhostSoap 18+ Discord is thrilled to announce that sign-ups for the new event are officially open! Welcome to Ides of March!

🕯️What's Ides of March?

This is a nice and sweet creator event, with no partners. All creators should create something inspired by or connected to the general idea of folklore. The main theme for this event is folklore/myths/legends/tales, however you take that! We encourage everyone to explore your (or other) culture, show the fandom the depth of it.

🔮Event housekeeping

The sign-ups will be open for server members throughout the whole event, so you're welcome to join whenever you want. You don't even have to sign up up until the very end (posting period). Signing up just allows us to give you a special role we'll ping for all announcements for this event. Only those with the event role will be able to post their creations in the designated channel in the server at the end.

This is a relaxed event. We want this to be more low-key for everyone, while also enjoyable and fun for creators

📃 Minimum word count is 500 words. No maximum!

🖌️ Minimum art contribution is black and white sketch or an equivalent of rough draft in your chosen medium

💖Huge and special thank you to @octaviusing for the beautiful banner, artworks, and all the amazing, hard work you put into this event. Couldn't have done it without you

🌹Timeschedule

January 11th: Sign ups open (and never close)

January 15th: Creation period starts

March 15th: Creation ends, posting period begins

March 22nd: Posting period ends, reward roles are given out

🎐How do I join?

This event is open to server members! If you're not yet a member of the GhostSoap Server, we hope that you'll join us. Detailed instructions, sign-up sheets, creation help, and just chatting about our favourite soldiers can be found in the server. If you'd like to join us, click here:

We look forward to all of your amazing creations!

-Lt. Bucky

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WIP

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Some of you need to hear this, but the fact that there is a parallel between Vander and Silco’s conflict and Vi and Jinx’s still doesn’t make Vander x Silco an incestuous pairing. When people corrected you by saying they’re not biologically related nor adopted brothers, you switched up to “the parallels to this actual sibling relationship make it incest” which is honestly one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard against a romantic pairing within the tar pit that is shipping discourse.

Vander and Silco represent parental figures to Vi and Jinx respectfully. Of course their “children” will mirror themselves in some ways, but saying that makes Vander x Silco incestuous just because Vi and Jinx are siblings would be like calling the relationship between two parents incestuous just because one of their children turned out like one parent while the other turned out like the other parent. That is madness. Absolute madness to LEAP to that accusation for this pairing.

Some of you are suffering from such seriously high levels of shipping discourse brainrot to the point where you’ve moved the goalposts of “morally okay to ship” so far up you might as well be Evangelical Christians running a conversion therapy camp. You really need to learn to stop justifying your dislike for ships in the context of morality and admit to yourself that you can dislike things without needing a moral justification, otherwise your self righteousness makes you no different from the conservative bigots I grew up around.

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you want me to start dating? why? so I can get married? so I can wear a ring? the thing that killed Isildur and brought doom and destruction upon Middle-Earth? nice try dude! I see through your deception! now you must find another pawn to use in your evil machinations, o Lord of the Rings!

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Tweet i wish I made first

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Googled boys kissing and this came up?

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I need something bigger than the sky Hold it in my arms and know it's mine