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reminder to go watch the picard video if you havent yet today

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an erotic poem:

leg so hot

hot hot leg

leg so hot u fry an eg

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Hey remember all those posts that compared Hazbin Hotel to The Good Place? As if they're remotely similar shows in any way?

The Good Place is a comedy with a heavy focus on morality and ethics, questioning what makes someone "good" or "bad", and discussing the ways that a person is built by their circumstances and how someone can decide to change and be better.

Hazbin Hotel is a dark comedy for adults. It's meant to be dirty with heavy focus on violence and sex. Maybe it'll tackle morality later (and I hope it does, at least to make it clear that sex work doesn't make someone bad or wrong), but that will likely never be the focus.

These are not equivalent. Hazbin Hotel isn't worse than The Good Place because they are completely unrelated to each other.

They have completely different goals as entertaintment; comparing them is like comparing Adventure Time and Fallout because they have vaguely similar premises.

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blorbo is a stand in word for your favorite character(s). The full phrase is ‘blorbo from my shows’. I’m not sure exactly where it originated. But now people will say things like “oh this song reminds me of blorbo” or “tag this with your blorbos” as a way of nonspecifically referring to fictional characters, usually in a way to maximize relatability.

okay either im too old or been gone from tumblr too long bc what the fuck is blorbo???

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I miss when fandom was full of freaks and normies were considered an outlier

Yes, there were shitty parts too (see Harry Potter Ms. Scribe debacle and Final Fantasy House for two examples), but literally everyone in fandom knew they were weird. You would have gotten laughed out of livejournal if you said “this is incest :( and immoral” about the cartoon characters.

Nowadays, it’s a bunch of normies coming in and whining about the “freaks.” Bitch, it’s always been full of freaks and transgressive fiction!

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hook hand in unloveable car door

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Full offense but there's no excuse for telling real people to kill themselves over the fictional characters they ship

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“oh no we need to practice for our fake dating” is the funniest trope to me cause like. there are so many people who force themselves into a shitty relationship they hate just because of amatonormatiivity that it’s an ingrained part of popular culture to joke about hating your partner.

which is to say, oh my god you dont need to hold hands and go on fake dates, you don’t even need to agree on a single detail of your cover story beforehand. you can literally stand 6 feet apart at all times and look profoundly uncomfortable and all anyone will think is “yikes™. not my problem”

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“Child marriage is legal across wide swathes of the United States, as long as the parents consent’ is one of those facts that I have to remind myself of every so often just because, like, it feels like there should be some major national organization screaming about it constantly?

I mean, not to be all ‘why is no one talking about this?’, but relative to the issues and ‘issues’ in American politics that are constantly shoved in my face as vitally important, I mean.

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I truly love how queer can mean "Eh I'm some flavour of Not-Cishet but I don't care to know the specifics beyond that" but also "I absolutely do know the specifics but we will be here all damn day if we get into it" and like. Everything in between. I think that's incredibly powerful of us tbh.

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Friendly reminder that fan-made content (fanart, fanfic, fanvids, etc) are:

extremely time consuming. Remember someone actually took time out of their life to create that, time they could’ve used to, idk, sleep, for example

entertainment you’re consuming for free. I can’t stress this enough: you’re enjoying someone else’s craft for free. You paid exactly zero money to look at/read/watch it.

S H A R E D  with you, not made for you. This is the most important point: someone created that, put it online and you found it. No one forced you to consume that fanwork, you C H O S E  to do it. 

Whenever you feel like leaving a mean comment, anonymous hate or make a ~clever post about how ‘lol look at all of these overused tropes every fic writer crams into their fics’ remember you’re being a dick to someone who shared their work with you. You’re not being funny, you’re not being edgy, you’re not being brave for calling something out - you’re being a dick.

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Sci-fi short stories are so efficient; they take 15 minutes to read and then you think about them for the next 5 years

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the fun thing about being in a fandom with mentally ill characters is that inevitably fans of those characters will talk about how offensive it is to depict those characters with stigmatized traits and symptoms that you have