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the fact that walls get dusty is ridiculous. you're vertical. act like it.

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trying to see something:

Feel free to reblog for reach, I wanna see how it is with other people

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I am re-reading The Left Hand of Darkness and unfortunately, my brain is too rotten for this, because all I can think about is an alternate timeline where the girlies got absolutely sauced on this book and instead of inventing the Omegaverse, people just wrote Kemmering AUs instead.

to be clear, Ursula K. LeGuin would hate this

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MAY YOUR DAY BE YAOIFUL ON THIS YAOI DAY EVERYONE 🥳🎉👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨💞

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did you make sure to make lots of mistakes today ? from which to learn and grow ^_^ ?

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big fan of a character seeking comfort in the arms of the thing that’s going to kill them. and i am psycologicalily normal too.

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Chord.

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in the club begging strangers for forgiveness and proving incapable of articulating what for when asked

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This is one slice of an incredible high resolution, enhanced color image of Pluto, recently released by NASA. You can see the full, larger version here. 

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

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anyone else think its dope how applying to jobs is intentionally designed as like a humilation ritual where you degrade yourself like a slimy worm both physically and mentally for crumbs

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New Mobile Report Gundam Wing -Operation 30th- (x)

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Oh boy, the Ao3 ship stats went up on Twitter today and ofc people are mad as fuck over the lack of F/F ships and every ship being "too white"

Am I crazy or do I remember the person who makes these ship stat charts being dragged last year for using faulty data and misrepresenting all the numbers? I mean I'm assuming it's the same person doing it because we have this discourse every single year. So how does anyone know if they're being honest or if they're just lying and misrepresenting everything again?

Yeah, the same person just came out with their summer stats, and it's the same terrible methodology as always. @5ummit is the person with the big debunking post.

Last January, someone else ran the same stats with reasonable methodology. I don't see a half-year update from them, but the January stats shouldn't be *too* different, and frankly, estimating what's popular this summer from what was actually popular last January is going to be far more accurate than estimating it from bizarro equations that have nothing to do with reality

The "too white" thing wouldn't be nearly as much of an issue if they'd stop flattening all the Asian media and erasing the cartoon characters' ethnicities. Or we'd be able to see what the issue actually is.

Same with F/F. Because the methodology is so nutso, it's impossible to tell from the bad stats how many F/F ships are in among the top 100 in the first half of this year.

But I can tell you that between January and the end of July of this year, 155,607 new F/F works were created. If we expand the search to include older works which were updated within that timeframe, there are 329,385 (this figure will shrink with time as ongoing works continue to be updated).

Top F/F ships in English from fic created Jan-July 2025 (the top ten list after pruning the false positives)

Caitlyn/Vi (League of Legends) (5736) Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s) (3420) Agatha Harkness/Rio Vidal (2441) Elphaba Thropp/Galinda Upland (1550) Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes (1416) Shauna Shipman/Jackie Taylor (1279)

(arguably I should have pruned OFC/OFC, but I think leaving it in and pointing out that original work is the top fandom in this search is relevant. There's tons of F/F on AO3, it just might not be where you're looking for it)

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Analysis of characters' ethnicity isn't nearly as easy. We could repeat the same process as above for the Character(s) of Color metatag, but these tags aren't actually used that often outside of headcanons and racebends. There's no need to tag the fact that Wyll Baldursgate is Black, everyone who recognises his name in their AO3 search results knows that already.

And then we have less clear cut ethnicities with all the cartoon characters, deliberately ambiguous characters, aliens and fantasy races, and characters played by PoC actors who look White to much of the audience.

Figuring all this out would take rigorous research of both canons and fannish interpretations, preferably by a team who can counter one another's biases. The slapdash assignment of ethnicity by one woman with an agenda who isn't personally familiar with every single canon in the list is, well, her guess is as good as mine, and I know mine's just a guess.

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it's so hardcover –> we're so paperback