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Today, ASAN celebrates Juneteenth, a commemoration of the ending of slavery. ASAN offices are closed today, but we uplift the histories of Black struggle for freedom and continue to advocate for the rights of Black autistic and disabled people today.

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lrb thinking once again about the themes of sexism that deltarune touches... Does it even matter who "The Girl" was ever meant to be? Could it not be any girl?

In the end all girls are like the rose bride..

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You're all aware that ordinary fan art drawn by humans falls under the same "this is identical to our copyrighted characters" claim that Disney is using to sue midjourney, right? You know that in the eyes of the Mouse the only difference between you and midjourney is a matter of scale, right?

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My dear lgbt+ kids, 

Just a quick note for Pride month, since it invariably always wakes up the „But what about…“ crowd: 

Awareness months for other things already exist. 

„Why do gays and transgenders get a whole month and US veterans don’t get anything?“ They actually get two months. National Military Appreciation Month is May, while National Veterans and Military Families Month is November.

„I have nothing against the lgbt+ community but if they get a whole month, it’d only be fair if we’d have a month for disabled people too“. Good news, Disability Pride Month already exists: July! 

„Cis women are oppressed too and they don’t get a whole month“. What about Women’s Health Month in May or Women’s History Month in March, for example? 

„People are already aware that gay men exist. What about some awareness for smaller minorities?“ Good idea, what are you doing for Asexual Awareness Week (October), Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week (February), Nonbinary People’s Day (July 14), Intersex Awareness Day (October 26) or Bisexual Awareness Week (September)? (Plus, Pride has never been about gay men only. Saying this shows quite a lack in historical knowledge, actually.) 

There are a lot of causes to support and there’s only twelve months. Our community doesn’t even have a monopoly on June - we share our month with Men’s Health Awareness, Infertility Awareness , PTSD Awareness and Caribbean‑American Heritage Month, for example. 

Let’s be honest here: this isn’t actually about other groups or causes not having their own months. If they genuinely cared about those causes so much, they’d be involved enough in them to be aware of their respective months and dates. Ideally, they’d even be involved enough to do something for those months. 

Because the truth is, Pride Month doesn’t just magically happen, either. It’s not like June rolls around and, boom, there’s Pride. People make it happen. People are involved in the cause. People organize and plan and pay for and promote Pride events. People show up. 

So, when they ask „But what about…“, the real question is: Are they actually doing something for that other cause - or do they only bring it up when it’s a convenient way to disparage Pride? 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Dad 

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LOVE the new profile picture. nanao heads roll out!

Thank you so much!

Nanao heads stay winning always and forever 💪

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it’s cheaper to buy vegetables here

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*walks out of the homoerotic friendship covered in blood and wounds* you should see the other guy

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the opposite of that "orc can't read ulysses" is an elf who smugly delivers a lecture misinterpreting the Very Hungry Caterpillar

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controversial inventor of cheese-shaped car drives wedge between consumers

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家主はこれを　ひとつのシアワセのカタチというです

My landlady says this is a shape of happiness

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that’s where I work…

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How are you able to make so many relatively accurate observations about fandom culture?

Because I have been researching fandom culture for over a year (using only Reddit arguments as a source) and this is what I’ve leaned:

Fandom does not mean being a fan of something. Fandom refers to a group of adults creating and consuming romantic (also known as “shipping”) “smut” (p*rnography) content based on a handful of commercially-produced intellectual properties catering to the Teen Demographic.

Although these intellectual properties are marketed to 12-16 year-olds, fandom “spaces” are NOT for teens. This is because when minors are in fandom spaces fandom adults cannot comfortably share their Shipping Smut, due to Purity Culture.

The relationships in this shipping content may feature 2 or more canon characters (that is, characters created by people outside of Fandom) or a mix of canon characters and “OC’s” (characters created by someone in fandom). However, if you make shipping content that contains ONLY original characters, what you have created is not fandom but “mainstream media.” This means that the rules of fandom etiquette such as “ship and let ship” and “don’t like don’t read” no longer apply to people who consume your work. You made the mistake of, for example, creating a webcomic with 5 readers that earns you $0.84/month and now your fandom is free to harass you for ruining their comfort characters and head canons. Also, do NOT complain about people making smut out of your OC’s as you will get a lecture about the Death of The Author.

But the good news is, even if everyone is making smut out of your OC’s, at least your name & likeness will be left out of it, right?

WRONG. You, the non-fanwork content creator, are now a “public figure,” making your private life fair game for RPF (real person fan fiction), which hopefully you will never see unless one of the billions of internet users unfamiliar with fandom etiquette sends it to you.

So, in conclusion, fandom is a joyful and creative space for anyone over 21 who wants to get into endless arguments about which cartoon characters are ******* each other

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I really like this website because somebody will be like “there’s nothing wrong with darting out from behind a parked car into traffic, bootlicker” and you can be like okay this clearly evolved from a valid point about how the US is too car-centric. But something happened to it.