A sad gay rat that’s in to many fandoms

Name’s Ren (they/she) 🏳️‍🌈 Love the arcana, lotr, castlevania, hotd/got, ark, overwatch, starkid and way to many musicals to name.

[caywinn]

Btw this is a personal blog so there isnt gonna be much consistency in what content i post unless its fandom related, speaking of which my current hyperfixation is hotd/got right now.

For hotd i am an Alicent supporter/defender first and team green second. I do love hearing everyone’s opinions tho and im happy to discuss stuff, fair warning i fucking hate Viserys and im also not really the biggest fan of Daemon either. So if those are your favs I wouldn’t recommend interacting with whatever content i post here.

[ghostapop]

i feel like a lot of fandoms pride themselves on being gayer than the source material but have they considered being less racist and less misogynistic than the source material as well . could be revolutionary

[ficauthor]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I need tiktokers to understand that ao3 has been home for the freaks (affectionate) ever since the day it was created. the entire site was created because “dark and fucked up fics” were banned and removed from other platforms, so us freaks came together and created a site for other freaks — a site where nothing is censored, a site with no algorithm, no capitalism, no ads, and again, absolutely no censorship.

this has been our house for decades. you newbies don’t come into our house and tell us how to arrange our furniture. either be nice and respect our house, or leave and build your own house elsewhere.

[vorchagirl]

They'd fit right in over at fanfiction.net 🙃

[pixelrenaissance]

Yalls house sucks and is full of allegations and is sus af and should be investigated lmfao

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

if you report fanfiction to police and tell them they should “investigate this because fictional children are being harmed in these fanfiction and I don’t like it!!!!!”, you will get either of these outcomes:

the police will laugh at your face

they will investigate fanfiction, and while they waste their time investigating fanfiction and victimless “crimes”, real children are being hurt elsewhere, and you are taking the police’s time and resources away from these real children. so instead of doing something to actually help save real children, police are too busy trying to protect fictional ones that exist only in fantasies

also ao3 abides by american laws, so actually everything that is posted on the site is legal in america. and no, it’s not “child abuse” or “rape” or “csem” if the “victims” are fictional characters who were harmed in a fictional world (I believe that’s why it’s legal and allowed).

you don’t have to like it. you can find it extremely disgusting. but whether or not you like it, your personal discomfort is not law. for the record, anything that involves (fictional) children in sexual situations makes me super uncomfortable. so I just… don’t seek out fics that I know will make me uncomfortable. it is in fact that easy.

if you are allergic to peanut butter and you swallow a spoonful of peanut butter, knowing damn well that you are allergic, then the one who’s to blame is you. peanut butter alone will not and cannot hurt you unless you shove it in your mouth.

again, having no censorship is the entire point of ao3. you don’t have to like it. no one forces you to use the site, with all the donations ao3 is receiving, it’s doing just fine without you.

[themaidenofwords]

I find that the people who think more censorship should be involved have never seen how easy it is for the line of what is "appropriate" and allowed to keep moving. I personally think most Americans should at least know enough about bad people in power to be suspicious of giving up freedom of speech, but if you have ever dealt with a strict parents you KNOW that the rules for what is allowed won't even make sense.

AO3 was built because fics were being banned merely because a queer relationship was mentioned. If we allowed censorship on ao3, who would determine what is allowed? Would it ban every FICTIONAL event that includes illegal activity? Would kink or explicit material be banned? Would ANY queer rep be banned?

It is SO easy to erode at the rights of fiction to exist when you decide that something shouldn't exist at all merely because it offends your personal sensibilities. Ao3 has an amazing exclusion tagging system specifically designed to help you ever seeing fics that contain material you don't agree with, but it does not or should not ban things on the basis of personal preference.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

ao3 turns 16 today.

reblog if you’re older than archive of our own

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I need tiktokers to understand that ao3 has been home for the freaks (affectionate) ever since the day it was created. the entire site was created because “dark and fucked up fics” were banned and removed from other platforms, so us freaks came together and created a site for other freaks — a site where nothing is censored, a site with no algorithm, no capitalism, no ads, and again, absolutely no censorship.

this has been our house for decades. you newbies don’t come into our house and tell us how to arrange our furniture. either be nice and respect our house, or leave and build your own house elsewhere.

[vorchagirl]

They'd fit right in over at fanfiction.net 🙃

[pixelrenaissance]

Yalls house sucks and is full of allegations and is sus af and should be investigated lmfao

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

if you report fanfiction to police and tell them they should “investigate this because fictional children are being harmed in these fanfiction and I don’t like it!!!!!”, you will get either of these outcomes:

the police will laugh at your face

they will investigate fanfiction, and while they waste their time investigating fanfiction and victimless “crimes”, real children are being hurt elsewhere, and you are taking the police’s time and resources away from these real children. so instead of doing something to actually help save real children, police are too busy trying to protect fictional ones that exist only in fantasies

also ao3 abides by american laws, so actually everything that is posted on the site is legal in america. and no, it’s not “child abuse” or “rape” or “csem” if the “victims” are fictional characters who were harmed in a fictional world (I believe that’s why it’s legal and allowed).

you don’t have to like it. you can find it extremely disgusting. but whether or not you like it, your personal discomfort is not law. for the record, anything that involves (fictional) children in sexual situations makes me super uncomfortable. so I just… don’t seek out fics that I know will make me uncomfortable. it is in fact that easy.

if you are allergic to peanut butter and you swallow a spoonful of peanut butter, knowing damn well that you are allergic, then the one who’s to blame is you. peanut butter alone will not and cannot hurt you unless you shove it in your mouth.

again, having no censorship is the entire point of ao3. you don’t have to like it. no one forces you to use the site, with all the donations ao3 is receiving, it’s doing just fine without you.

[weaver-z]

It's really funny to take Spanish with people from different Spanish-speaking countries, because the ones from South American countries are like "Yeah no one uses vosotros, we don't know what it's doing here" and the ones from Europe are like "If you don't give our beloved second-person plural its due respect, the Hounds will find you"

[breadcunt]

Why would they speak spanish in europe

[weaver-z]

Spain.......

[princeofnerds]

[queer-cosette]

I love how tumblr is full of people who aren’t afraid to hang around on the bottom rung of the moron ladder. You make me feel better about every stupid thing I’ve ever done in my life including the time I glued fake moustaches to my eyebrows.

[bloodstained-butterfly]

are we gonna skip past port o' rico

[neurotypicalabusesurvivor]

This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay I'll reblog that!!

[multishipperpirateking]

My dad used to work for Vodafone and likes to tell a story about when he was working on a voicemail transcription service.

And there was a woman there who was some form of disability advocate (it was the 90s so her existence in the company was a minor miracle) and apparently she completely blew his mind on that project.

See, he'd imagined that this service was exclusively gonna be for deaf people. Obviously very useful for the very small number of people who couldn't hear their phone, but why would you even own a mobile phone if you couldn't hear?

But she described to him all the times he might want to read a message instead of listen to it. Maybe he was in a loud football crowd. Maybe there was important info that he needed to copy down that was spoken too fast. Maybe he was holding his sleeping newborn (me) and didn't want his phone to be loud and wake them up.

This doesn't feel as revolutionary as all that to those of us that have only ever known phones with the ability 'send text message', but given the timing and placement of this conversation I wonder if this woman and this project is *part of the reason text messaging exists*. The first text (SMS) message was sent by Vodafone UK in 1992 - where + when this conversation was happening - and then for a long time it was supported exclusively for 'messages from the carrier', and this project was an early potential extra use of the SMS protocol.

So Yeh, building for disability is kinda handy..

[the-fallen-blue]

can you imagine how often you would use sign language if everyone knew it

[danpilled]

in all the joy and celebration, we have forgotten the fallen.

rest in peace danandphilgames. babygirl you lived, you served cunt, and you died. godspeed

[fadeintolight]

tonight in a nutshell

[sandinmybed]

i know they just spent 45 minutes making fun of us for this exact thing but when Dan said boyfriend I just put my head in my hands and made a horrible noise of distress

[frankierotwinkdeath]

[glittergradient]

very funny of dan and phil to be like yes actually rpf lowkey ruined our lives but it’s also saving many others so don’t you dare stop doing it on our account,, no actually like for real please get on ao3 right now it’s serious

[phovaries]

how do i be normal after this?????

[thegirlinprague]

mark your calendars this is the day rpf won

[gerardwaysbob]

[soup-is-here]

OPEN YOUTUBE ANY DEVICE THEY HIT THE FUCKIN PHAN-AGON