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I’m late again with fanart of cute outfits Mario Kart Tour gave to us ;3;

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10/28/2021

3 days of excess

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this blog 100% supports chubby tummies, arms, and thighs 👀👌👀👌

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silly little app

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i dont think you get it. 1980 was twenty years ago. 1990 was 10 years ago. 2000 was 10 years ago. 2016 was two years ago. 2018 was also two years ago. 2017 was last year. 2014 was four years ago. do you understand me now?????

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Unironically I think this site and queer spaces in general do a lot of good for appearance anxiety. To be a daughter who grew up in the stranglehold of the Aéropostale mid-2000's era, to now wake up in 2023 and throw on some absolute bullshit in the morning and go "yeah, a lesbian somewhere would find this super hot." Affirming. Soul-healing.

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On "Moderation"

We've seen some... creative interpretations of our requests over the last few weeks, and we'd like to address some of them now: we are NOT expecting comprehensive and exhaustive 'moderation' of existing or future work posted to AO3.

That is to say, we are not expecting AO3 to ban every work with even a whiff of racism in it, and to then systematically comb through the millions of works that currently exist on the site and delete any that may be vaguely "offensive," nor to pre-screen every work that will be posted in the future.

The way AO3 handles TOS violations now is to respond to user-submitted reports about work posted to the Archive, and only then to examine and evaluate the reported work to determine whether it violates the TOS. If the work does violate their TOS, they choose how to handle it (deletion, as we understand it, is a last resort).

We are simply asking that they expand their existing TOS to address explicitly harassing works and extremely racist works designed to harm fans of color, and to apply their existing moderation process to such reported works as they do to other violations of their TOS. This will not require a catastrophic increase in the staff they have on hand for Policy & Abuse. If they design the new TOS terms and policies with care and foresight, they will have guardrails to prevent/minimize abuse of the new terms.

The elaborate descriptions of why comprehensive, full-scale moderation of each and every work on AO3, now and in the future, is impossible and unfair are dramatic - and possibly willful - misinterpretations of our demands. Moreover, it's another example of how fandom will leap to the worst possible interpretation of antiracist goals in order to justify feigned helplessness and total inaction in the face of fans being actively harmed by racists.

Not to mention, we aren't asking for anything the OTW themselves didn't already promise they'd look into. This suggestion is one they made themselves three years ago as a potential solution to make AO3 more welcoming of fans of color - we're just asking them to follow up on their promises:

"Moderate" is also a noun. And to be a naysaying "moderate" when marginalized people are simply asking an organization to fulfill its own promises to stop platforming abuse... just enables more of that abuse.

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he’s right

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okay no wait but actually

my granddad's legal name was Robert, but everyone called him Sam starting right around his late 20s / early 30s. literally everyone who knew him. his siblings and i think even his parents swapped over.

the name came about when he and my grandma lived in Africa for a few years. (idr which country specifically.) apparently they stayed with a tribe who called him by a name that sounded similar to Sam, and it just. stuck. he liked it, my grandma liked it, so he just started going by that

normal guy who transitions into a different, equally normal guy

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Happy Pride, monsterfuckers.

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🌱 and 🦚

How would your younger self act if your current self told them they were queer?

If I told my 10-18 year old self I liked girls as well as boys I just straight up would not have believed me. I'm bi with a preference for men/masc ppl so it took me a very long time to even realize that I experienced attraction to women and wasn't just appreciating them aesthetically.

As for the trans part of my queerness, I think maybe that would have been easier for me to accept. The main reason I didn't realize I was trans sooner was bc I had never met or seen representation of a trans man until I was 19, so I didn't have a concept of it as something that was even possible for me to be. And even when I did encounter portrayals in media (my first ones were Boys Don't Cry and Max from The L Word 😬) they were straight, dudebro, very butch guys that I didn't really identify with beyond the transness. so yeah if I could show my younger self the type of man I am now, I think that little guy would imprint immediately and a lot of other things would suddenly make a lot more sense

Are there any queer books/shows/etc. that you would suggest?

I've recently gotten into The Owl House via my gf and I'm really enjoying it! To relate it to the previous question, it has exactly the kind of matter-of-fact, casual representation that can mean so much to queer kids and I really wish there had been cartoons like this around when I was a kid

thanks for the ask @uncivilcivilservice !

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doodles

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somehow got myself into a t4t bi4bi femguy4femgirl relationship and I feel like I won the fucking lottery u guys