Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
JVL
almost home
blake kathryn
ojovivo
cherry valley forever
noise dept.
$LAYYYTER
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
art blog(derogatory)
Misplaced Lens Cap
#extradirty
@theartofmadeline
Product Placement
oozey mess
Origami Around
NASA
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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@anhyatt9
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*vampire standing on a table* Don’t you see? It’s the same “divide and conquer“ bullshit all over again! Listen, the only reason humans rule the world is that none of the rest of us can do it alone, and we could never pull ourselves together to get anything done! We’re still fucking doing it, but it used to be so much worse - vampires and werewolves, werewolves and fae, and don’t even get me started on the fucking nephilim and demonspawn-
other vampire: what are you saying, we need to overrun the humans? Carl, that’s some supernaturalist bullshit, what the hell
Carl: What? No. I’m saying we need to get our heads out of our asses and vote for moderate Democrats.
Do you ever think about how so much of the deadly anti-science rhetoric that fills America today and is killing countless vulnerable people can be directly traced back to one fucking guy who decided to just straight-up lie about vaccines causing autism because it would make him a profit? Do you ever think about that? Because I think about it a lot.
So, you've been on the Internet for a bit longer than me, and it sounds like you've used your full name as your net-facing identity for a good part of it. One thing heavily instilled in me as a child is that I should watch what I post online, since employers may find it (and do still remember how awkward it was to get called into a supervisor's office and shown a series of my inadvisable Facebook posts that said supervisor did not have direct access to). But right now I'm starting to get tired of juggling pseudonyms and taking care to remember who knows which of my identities link to each other. And seeing you post about furry dicks and whatnot under your legal name seems like it's rather liberating in comparison. Which brings me to my actual question: have you experienced (or suspected you've experienced) any employment-related downsides to such openness online, particularly in IT?
Honestly, if I wasn't a published author, I probably wouldn't be posting under my real name, either. I wouldn't recommend it in general; I'm in a position of considerable privilege employment-wise because I happen to be operationally indispensable to some fairly critically placed systems, so I can basically do whatever I want online short of openly committing felonies without any consequences. Most people don't have that luxury!
This you?
I'm neither furry nor Nebraskan enough to be that guy.
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Shout out to fanfic writers that don’t get put on rec lists.
Shout out to fanfic writers who write short fanfics.
Shout out to fanfic writers who don’t write often.
Your fics are just as much a labor of love.
I told my therapist recently that buildings actually do need to sweat and breathe, and have what amounts to circulatory systems in their ventilation, water and electricity. If you leave a building closed up and stagnant for too long it will rot. He appeared genuinely shocked and touched and thanked me emphatically for the information
Of course the follow up was a trite “do you treat yourself the way you treat a building” and you know what, it doesn’t matter at all. Everything is a system and all systems require maintenance, and often that maintenance is deferred due to money and laziness. I am winning at therapy.
I've tried a few times to articulate why I enjoy writing about female characters-- both in original fiction and in fandom-- and every attempt has sort of turned into a rambling nothingburger.
But you know what a big part of it is? Spite.
There is so much fiction out there that treats its female characters as disposable. Background noise. A love interest to check off a box, to give the male character as a prize, but unimportant beyond that. Doesn't matter what objectively interesting things have happened to her, when looked at on paper; the powers she has, the major life shifts she's gone through, the grief or pain or terror-- it's all secondary or tertiary to the guys'.
So I like taking those characters and saying No, and forcing the spotlight on her.
And then. And then. When you find those stories that do care-- that do see the full intelligence and complexity and autonomy of their women-- then I'm not fighting against the writers. I'm fighting alongside them. I'm holding hands with the authors, and each of us are picking up a pick-axe and taking it to the patriarchy.
Come, join me. It's a lot of fun.
even saying cost of living leaves something bitter in my mouth what kind of fucking phrase is that. vile
Very bold of us all to assume Gandalf has a gender and adheres to the modern gender binary
pippin at 3am: pretty fucked up that we assume gandalf is a man. they’re a maia. merry? wake up merry. listen. they’re sexless.
gandalf at 3am: I identify as Tired, peregrin took
insane to me how, to some people, this is not a common sense
Mentioned to my mom I'm asexual a couple months ago and today.... we got into the car and she hit me with, "So you use they/them pronouns now?"
I went, "What. no. she/her."
"How does that work? With she/her/hers and they/them?"
I stared at her. "What are you talking about?"
"Well you came out as-" and I said, "I'm asexual."
She replied, "Like an amoeba, I know."
"Oh. My god. No. Mom. It doesn't- it's not the asexual you learned about in biology. I didn't come out as a single celled organism."
With heavy relief, she said "Oh, it has a different meaning?"
"Yes, mom."
Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower
that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.
I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah
"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane
We write for ourselves, but we post for others.
(this came out of a conversation in the comments on a previous post about an author threatening to stop updating a fic because of lack of engagement)
So there’s this idea that fic writers should write for themselves and not care too much about stats or engagement,
and i totally get the sentiment behind that. if writing becomes entirely about stats and external validation, something important does get lost - creative freedom and joy, conviction in your own writing
but i also think:
“i write for myself, but i post for others.”
because posting fic is not only self-expression. it’s social. ao3 is called an archive, but emotionally it often functions as a community space.
people post for connection, for participation, for others to bear witness to their pain and trauma and grief,
and i don’t think most people are asking to be admired so much as acknowledged. there’s something deeply human about wanting another person to encounter something that mattered to you and go:
“ok, yeah, I see what you were trying to say. I see you.”
especially because fanfic is often people processing very real feelings through fictional characters at a safe distance, one step removed,
and then uploading that deeply personal thing into a shared archive and hoping somebody else might connect with it.
And i think that’s why it hurts so much when you summon up the courage and post a fic into the void and you get nothing back,
and then it’s like,
does anyone see me? does anyone even care?
