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18+ My Tumblr is stupid broken and I never get notifications so sorry if you’ve ever messaged me, I may not notice for months.

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

Being 30 is fun. I was discussing anime with a teen at work and asked her how much of bnha she had watched. She had trouble answering and wasn't sure how to approach it. I said "better question was who was your husbando" and she turned bright red before mumbling an answer. They never expect me to know how deep their love of anime boys runs....

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

One time she said she used to be into BL and another employee down the hall asked what BL was and I yelled back "ITS YAOI" which reduced the teen to yelling "ITS SOFTCORE! SOFT CORE!!" So I yelled back "ITS SOFTCORE YAOI" anyway I get why dads are like that now

[multibatshipper-deactivated2026]

One of the most interesting things when getting into comics and reading the most popular arcs and stories first is that you’re always wondering “Why is batman acting like that” then you start getting into it more and discover sheer ATROCITIES and tragedies that have befell this man in the recent past that Do, in fact, Explain Why He’s Acting Like That.

Like yeah, a person who only read utrh will say batman was acting cold or whatever but there is an entire web of trails and tribulations happening in the background😭 It was set smack dab in the middle of a literal universe wide crisis, Bruce’s eldest has been suicidal for the past 6 months and his CITY JUST GOT WIPED OUT BY A NUCLEAR BOMB, hasn’t even been a year since Bruce’s friends betrayed him so badly that he created a whole system to monitor them cause they lost every shred of his trust, a system which was then taken over TO KILL EVERYONE. All the rogues and villains have formed their own fucking union in protest of what the Justice League did behind Bruce’s back. AND THEN the father of his youngest son Robin got killed in his own home by fucking CAPTAIN BOOMERANG out of all people.

Like yeah, NO WONDER HE’S NOT COMPLETELY THERE.

[chiyana]

Jason: either you kill the Joker or I do

Bruce, half disassociated out of this conversation already, vividly imagining locking Tim and Dick away somewhere safe where no one can find them and then slitting the throats of his enemies, thinking: if I kill someone or let one more person die in front of me I am going to Fucking Lose It.

[sourcreammachine]

i’m sorry kink fans but i just can’t see the suffix ‘con’ without thinking it means convention

‘dubcon’ will skrillex be there??

[sourcreammachine]

oh no oh no please not this post please

[wynnyfryd]

reblog to get your bones rattled at the dubious convention

[crimson-chains]

More of this guy~ The TBHX characters all have this fancy outfit thing and so of course I have to draw Nice in his ^^ Just such a good look!!

[hinamie]

some spressions

[everythingfox]

Fear me

(via)

[moniquill]

I’d like to point out that this kitten is trying to entice the dog into wrestling. As it would with other kittens/cats. That feinting and then leaping back sideways? That’s an invitation to tackle. Other kittens would understand this body language.

This dog does not understand which is probably for the best, because this kitten clearly does not understand the concept of ‘weight class’

[bloomofoblivion]

sorry i forgot about tumblr for a minute. i really should start posting things here first, where i can edit them after the post-post Mistake Awareness kicks in

[homunculus-argument]

I recall someone who'd never been to Korea complain about how the korean shows on netflix are amazingly written but the actors are always so bad and overacting in an annoying way, but it turned out that this person just had no idea that that's just how korean people talk. They'd never encountered korean culture outside of the shows, and the thought that this "flaw" they spotted in every show might just be an accurate representation of real life.

My father hated the way that american movies always had to underscore everything they wanted to say with the subtlety of an anvil. It never occurred to me to ask him why he keeps watching them if he hates them so much. He hated the lack of subtlety and was always quick to point out that these movies were made for a stupid, uneducated audience that wouldn't pick up on subtle details or context clues so everything has to be all in-your face.

Anyway I woke up this morning to news that in the US they publicly shot a guy who was known to say shit like "sometimes people get shot but that's the acceptable price for having guns everywhere" while he was sitting under a big-ass banner saying "PROVE ME WRONG".

[segamascott]

[badwolfkaily]

This.

[strongwomenunited]

I don’t know about others but the only reason I put both is so that whichever someone clicks on, they will find my fic. So if there is supposed to be rules, I guarantee you that no writer knows these ones. We can barely get people to comment, you think we’re going to specifically choose & or / ? Hell no.

[beatrice-otter]

I’ve been in fandom for twenty years, and “/” means romance and “&” means no romance was literally one of the first things I learned. It dates back to Star Trek fanfiction of the 70s. I’m boggled by the fact that anyone who’s been reading fic on AO3 for more than like five minutes wouldn’t know that, and I’m curious as to what fanfic community you come out of.

I don’t think that tagging with both is actually going to get your fic in front of more readers. People looking for romance often exclude the “&” tag if there are too many gen fics tagged with both. People looking for gen often exclude the “/” tag if there are too many fics with both. So rather than putting your fic in front of twice the people, you are in fact more likely to get your target audience ignoring your fic because it has a tag they don’t want.

Also, by overtagging you are more likely to annoy potential readers away from your fic than entice them. A fic tagged both & and / better have both romance and a ton of platonic interaction between the two characters, like a slow burn romance friends-to-lovers arc. If it isn’t, I’m going to be very unhappy because the author lied to me with the tags to try and trick me into reading a fic with deceptive advertising.

When I’m in a fandom and see tagging where some of the tags don’t really apply and are just there to get it in front of more eyes, I’m going to assume one of two things. Either the author is a newb who doesn’t know anything, or the author is purposefully spamming the tags because they don’t care about lying to their potential audience and think that “spray and pray” is an effective tactic. In the first case, their writing probably will not be very good, so why bother reading their fic. In the second case, the fact that I can’t trust the tags to be accurate means I’m not going to read it to see if it’s interesting even if it has a tag I like. Chances are, that tag isn’t actually in the fic anyway, and even if it is, by spam-tagging the author is making the archive harder to use for everybody. Why would I reward bad behavior with attention? No. Far better to mute the author and move on.

[mylordshesacactus]

More to the point--and no, I will never stop harping on this, because we have GOT to stop leaving our strongest points in the drawer--it doesn't matter if you heard of this convention before joining AO3 or not, because it's in AO3's tagging FAQ.

[id: the "How do I tag a romantic or platonic relationship?" section of the tagging FAQ here.]

"But Jo," you may argue, because you're wrong. "There's no way to find that without digging through site FAQ menus, and that's really inaccessible!"

sure

except

that when you go to post a new fic, and you go to put in those relationship tags, you see this

[id: the Relationships field]

and that tooltip, the one THERE TO EXPLAIN HOW THE FIELD WORKS, links to the Relationships segment of the tag FAQ, which explicitly lays this shit out.

I don't care if you don't know fandom history. I don't care if you've never heard a goddamn word about the spirk shippers. I don't care if you've never been exposed to fandom culture in your life. It is, frankly, not fair to expect those things of everyone.

What is entirely fair to expect is that you will READ THE INSTRUCTIONS PRINTED NEXT TO THE FUCKING BOX, actually. Forget fandom conventions. It genuinely doesn't matter whether you agree with or respect fandom conventions. This is a site policy. This is explicitly how tagging on AO3, specifically, works.

[oboro-t]

[ari-kari]

fuck marry befriend kill: operator addition

Fuck:

Addition (➕)

Subtraction (➖)

Multiplication (✖️)

Division (➗)

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

[ari-kari]

Marry:

Addition (➕)

Subtraction (➖)

Multiplication (✖️)

Division (➗)

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

[ari-kari]

Befriend:

Addition (➕)

Subtraction (➗)

Multiplication (✖️)

Division (➗)

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

[ari-kari]

Kill:

Addition (➕)

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Multiplication (✖️)

Division (➗)

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

[wickedsick]

[penny-anna]

[tamamita]

The proletarian revolution will be upheld by the worker bees

[studentofetherium]

[tamamita]

[weirdplutoprince]

Yiling Patriarch era Wangxian is so fucking funny like.

Wei Wuxian: Lan Zhan always looks so angry and disturbed whenever people accuse me of stealing away virgins and fucking them in my evil cave. He must hate to think me so far gone and depraved

Lan Zhan: it should be me in that cave

[sparrowthemormon]

Charlie Kirk is scheduled to speak at UVU. I have the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time

[sparrowthemormon]

IT WASN'T ME I PROMISE

[doctorcocktopus]

Getting shot while literally dismissing people’s concerns about gun violence under a tent with the words “Prove me wrong” printed on all sides is the most fucking hilarious way to die

[sneezingbabysloth]

none of the things I'd like to say are in the bible