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"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

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1966

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I'm going to be so real I love bi women and no actual real life bi woman has said this to me in person but the take of "bi women avoid dating women because they're so scared of biphobia" is so whack. Like you're more afraid of biphobia from a lesbian than a man? Last I checked lesbians did make up 99% of violent crime perpetrators. I've been treated like shit because people assume I'm bi. I've had lesbians be honestly disgusting to me because I'm femme. I've only felt scared around men.

I'm not saying you have to date women to be bi but did you maybe consider that the reason you're scared to date women is the fault of heteronormativity and not lesbians who act like fuckboys? Just saying.

Also any straight person is more likely to be biphobic than a queer person. So idk how you're avoiding biphobia by dating straight men.

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A lot of these apply to Captain America's stance in Civil War (the movie).

Fascism sells a synthetic nostalgia.

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Okay y'all please reblog this/signal boost it because I need answers. When I was in elementary & middle school I remember having so many peers tell me they ate/enjoyed paper. Looking back this seems insane but at the time these kids were like "what? You don't snack ob paper?? You're weird" I need to know if this was a normal experience of if my school was crazy (for the record it was not an area with high food insecurity and most of the peers doing this ate better than I did)

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in the club doing unspeakable things

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This really assumes 1) that Gandalf would not immediately launch into song that tells the whole history of Ungoliant and 2) that they don't already know because Bilbo also faced her children.

Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

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Aww poor little guy

and I didn’t know that little deer make such a funny cartoon sound 

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Ummm what?

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a lot of queer people i know in real life are either into or open to talking about astrology but online i think ive noticed a lot more people who dislike astrology and im super curious to see if that holds up.

please reblog for sample size and elaborate in the tags if you want!

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kurt vonnegut, being good at things is not the point of doing them.

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Broke:

Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.

Woke:

Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.

So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.

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"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick