Drips Of Creation

"She's Beauty, She's Grace, She can cut you in the face"

[djbhfkjejieuihesowppw-deactivat]

reblog this post with a cool animal species lets make a wholesome thread

[djbhfkjejieuihesowppw-deactivat]

ok ill give a headstart:

i really like leopard seals 

[x-d001]

axolotls are p rad

[djbhfkjejieuihesowppw-deactivat]

I LOVE THOSE

[iridiceae]

potoos look like muppets and i ove tem

[roachpatrol]

here’s a quokka it’s like someone decided to splice together a wallaby and a teddy bear they literally always look like a benevolent cartoon

i don’t think you can get more wholesome than that adorable lil seed-eating smiley face. they’re not even like dolphins, cute on the outside and evil on the inside. they’re herbivores about the size of a cat. there is nothing wrong with them. 

[spaceshipoftheseus]

The Springhaas, or “irl pikachu” as it is sometimes known, is basically a rat shaped like a bunny abruptly caught in the middle of trying to evolve into a kangaroo. This is why they tend to look startled.

[creaturesofnarrative]

This is a dik dik. They are tiny antelopes from southern and eastern Africa–seriously so smol. With teeny hooves and teeny horns and big soulful eyes. And the name is fun to say. It comes from the alarm call that the females make. They live together in monogamous pairs. 

[dragonnan]

Long Eared Jerboa

The adorable mash-up of a hamster, bunny, and kangaroo. Whiskers with no end, ears that put a fennec to shame, and adorability beyond measure!

[djbhfkjejieuihesowppw-deactivat]

bringing this back on your dashes

[dharmagun]

a sichuan takin bull and his daughter

often the color of donald trump’s hair and looking like a cross between a bison and a guinea pig, the takin is actually a bloody big goat-antelope. they have splendid noses, a natural smile, and share their habitat with pandas. which should be good enough for anyone.

[givemeunicorns]

This is an okapi. They are related to giraffe, can lick their own eyeballs and kind of always look like you just asked them for a ride to the airport but look at those ears and the little striped legs ~(*^*)~

[onebigyoush]

Chambered nautilus! A living fossil! I also love axolotl though.

Originally posted by montereybayaquarium

[ember-light]

A cinnamon bear! Actually a member of the black bear family, they’re one of the more calm species out there. We also have matching hair <3 Enjoy this one with a heart on its chest!

[hakuna-tit-tata]

Red pandas!

Originally posted by cutestuffco

[heroes-get-made-deactivated2022]

HIGHLAND COWS

[shootingstarpilot]

This is the most wholesome post on tumblr.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I love echidnas

ESPECIALLY BABY ECHIDNAS

[dovahkulaas]

Fennec foxes!!

[supernachtkuchen]

I love all of these!

[wrenkly]

Capybaras! They’re the largest cavy species,(cavies are animals like guinea pigs) They’re BASICALLY a giant golden retriever in the skin of  guinea pig.

[percyhoneybee]

MANATEES

Originally posted by lovefloridauk

They’re just big lumps that float around the sea. They’re non-aggressive, non-territorial herbivores that spend most of their time sleeping or eating, or they might be socializing with other manatees or investigating interesting objects.

Best of all, as of this year they are no longer endangered!!

[tiny-pebble]

Maine coons!! So soft and friendly!!!

Look at these babies!!!

Majestic af!!! 

[louiselafantasma]

MANED WOLF. Basically what a fox would look like if it was a supermodel.

[xtoxictears]

Favourite post.

[this-is-nowherenearsparta]

@geekwiththeglasses

[actualhumancryptid]

Tawny Frogmouth “Owl” (not really an owl). I love these angry logs. Near my old house I used to be able to see them sleeping during the day (hence not an owl, who sleep in hollows), and they’d shoot me this intense rage-filled glare if I woke them. 

[darthputa]

Coati! They are native to my country of Panama and they are basically raccon, possum, civet, meerkat hyrbid aka an animal straight outta Avatar the Last Airbended

They come in blonde and red variations too :)

[callipygousbusiness]

This smol egg is called a pika

[tcfkag]

This is a baby South American Tapirs or Tapirus terrestris are unique for their stripes. It is also called Brazilian Tapir and is the second largest land mammal in South America next to the Baird’s Tapir.

Here’s a full grown one with it’s baby for reference.

And then there is the Malayan (or Asian) Tapir and it looks like a panda that mated with an anteater.

[kissa-bear]

Pangolins, or as I like to call them, Spikier Armadillos.

[c0ffincritter]

Dragon headed caterpillars! :D

[amtrax]

MANTA RAY

[aylaphantom]

@supermate7 i know you like interesting animals, man

[saltrat88]

[realest-asami-requiem]

Able to eviscerate a grown man in a few seconds and a living Terror Bird. Cassowaries are the peak and the pride of flightless avian evolution

[smiley-ba]

Serval!

[drewdler]

Northern Bald Ipis, these guys made it back from extinction, and are like the stylish, smaller goth cousins of vultures

[bubblegum-pwussay]

People treat single moms like trash and single dads like some kind of a hero

[the-conquest-of-shred]

Because the bar is so low for dads that the bare minimum of care is incredible but mums are just expected to be doing that work

[littletinydoom]

Because single moms “made bad choices” and ended up “stuck with a kid” and it’s treated like a punishment that they deserve (as though another human being is a punishment). And the implication is that a dad has every right to choose not to take care of his children and if he does, it’s treated like he’s going above and beyond and making a huge sacrifice 

[bubblegum-pwussay]

^^^hit it on the nail

[joestrummen]

i didnt realise ao3 was started in response to lj deleting account relating to p//edophi|ia and they explicitly support the posting of such works yikes

[tomato-greens]

it wasn’t, like, ~~~we luv pedophilia, it was way more complicated than that!

although it’s true AO3 does allow all fannish content provided it’s properly warned for, there’s a long history there - of spaces being used by fans until the host decided whatever we were doing was too weird and distasteful and either kicking us off, banning certain content, or changing the nature of the site until it was no longer viable as a host.

you’re referring to the LJ Strikethrough of 2007, which, being an ancient crone, I lived through, and since I was hanging out in the last vestiges of SGA and in bandom, I saw some of the fallout. this was before LJ was sold to the Russians (which is a whole ‘nother story), when it was still owned by Six Apart; in an effort to clean up LJ’s act, Six Apart decided to delete all accounts using tags like underage, incest, rape, etc.

this was supposed to get rid of actual child porn on the site, and I hope it did, but it also targeted fan communities. this was a problem for a couple reasons; for one thing, not every story tagged with these words is in favor of them; for another, these things happen to real people and these personal posts were also potentially in danger of being attacked; for the last one, look, I ain’t into this kind of fic but people write about what people write about, and if it’s fictional and not explicitly banned in the TOS (correct me if I’m wrong; I don’t think written content about this stuff was banned?) then it’s not cool for a content host to just start deleting communities without warning.

but that’s what happened! these deletions were also primarily targeting slash communities, which smacked of some serious homophobia since things were deleted that had nothing to do with any of this kind of content.

eventually someone found out it was this super conservative religious group who’d sent a list of journal names to Six Apart, and who if I remember correctly targeted slash fic on purpose, even after it became clear that the fic was, well, totally fictional. after a while, Six Apart admitted they’d made a mistake and started to reinstate journals, but all of fandom was pretty shaken up.

THEN Boldthrough happened, which was essentially the same debacle several months later, at which point fandom began its long slow migration from LJ to GJ, IJ, and eventually AO3, Twitter, and tumblr.

AO3 was opened in 2008 in response to several incidents, of which Strikethrough was a really intense one. remember, also, that back in 2008 the stigma surrounding fandom was significantly greater and more shameful than it is today, so finding hosts willing to archive fic was difficult unless someone had the dough to pay for server space - often not an option. this was also back when fanfic.net’s HTML restrictions were so great that users couldn’t use any special characters or bold or italicize anything, and it didn’t allow R-rated content, so it was clearly not ideal. in addition, although cease & desist letters were much less common than they were in the early 2000s and before, DMCA takedowns were still a phantom on the horizon.

LONG STORY SHORT, even though pedophilia is reprehensible and I personally cannot stomach fanfic that involves that kind of content, AO3 was founded specially as a safe space for fandom communities that could not find homes elsewhere. it requires warnings precisely for that reason, and if you find a story that is not properly warned, you can alert the admins and get the story labeled appropriately.

IDK, maybe it’s just because I am, again, ancient, but I was in and around fandom before homosexuality was legal in all 50 states. so were most of the people who started AO3. for most of my formative life, being gay was associated with pedophilia, and so was writing about gay characters. just - it’s a lot more complicated than you might expect, and there’s a reason many older fans who have been involved in several generations of fandom were so grateful to have AO3 as an option.

[beatrice-otter]

I don’t read, for example, Hydra Trash Party fics.  They squick me, and I generally feel they are pretty gross.  But writing noncon body-horror is not the same as saying “yeah, I totally want to go out and rape and torture people for years while brainwashing them!” or even “yeah, I wouldn’t do it myself, but it would be totally okay if someone did!”  Nobody is hurt by it, and nobody is going to be hurt by it.  So should I have the right to go, that is gross, you don’t get to write or read that?  No.

In the same way, writing about underage teens getting it on–sometimes with each other, sometimes with adults, sometimes consensually, sometimes not–is not the same as child pornography, nor does reading a fic about Hermione and Snape getting it on while she was his student mean someone thinks that would be a good and/or healthy thing in real life.

Fiction affects reality, but fiction is not reality.  And writing about something does not mean you want to do it in real life, or believe that anyone should.

Let’s take a closer look at that “Ao3 supports pedophilia!” shall we?

1) The only fics I have ever come across that had actual pedophilia (i.e. someone having sex with a child), it was clearly and explicitly abuse.  It was not meant to titillate or arouse.  It was meant to horrify.  It was seldom explicit.

2) There’s a lot more incest, but it is usually portrayed either as explicitly mutually consensual (i.e. Sam/Dean) or as abusive.

3) I’ve been in fandom for a decade and a half.  When people start getting upset at “omg pedophilia, think of the children!” the fics they are usually objecting to aren’t actually pedophilia.  Usually, it is teenagers having sex, especially queer sex.  And people don’t like that, and use pedophilia as an excuse to shame people for writing/reading sex they don’t like.

Let’s look closer at Strikethrough, shall we?  I hope that, if there were any communities of actual pedophiles on LJ, they got taken down, too.  But here are some of the communities that got taken down that were not in any way supporting pedophilia and/or rape and/or incest that got taken down:

1) at least one support community for survivors of sexual abuse.

2) a literary book discussion group that was reading Lolita.

3) lots of slash fanfic communities, for things like Draco/Harry fic set in their fourth year (when both boys would have been 15).

Basically, this very conservative “family values” group hated porn, and they hated queer stuff even more, and used “but think of the children, it’s pedophilia!” to pressure LJ to get rid of huge swathes of things they didn’t like.  And one time taking down the worst of it wasn’t good enough for them.  No, this was step one on a moral crusade.  If you acceded to their demands, all that did was whet their appetite, and soon they would be back with a new list of demands.  This is why the 2007 strikethrough was not an isolated event, but rather one of a series of events, nor was LJ the only website thus targeted.  It starts with anything that can get labelled “pedophilia” or “incest” because that’s low-hanging fruit.  But they use that to go after anything relating to queer teen sexuality.  Then anything with teen sexuality.  Then once the community is already divided and diminished, they go after anything with non-con.  Then whatever is next on their list.  It doesn’t stop until they’ve won the point and nothing but suitably “family-friendly” fics that match their purity test are allowed.

Which is why AO3 has no morality content in their terms of service.  You can’t break copyright beyond fair use (and AO3 has an expansive view of “fair use” and a team of lawyers on call).  You can’t use AO3 for commercial advertising.  And you can’t post ACTUAL child pornography, i.e. the things that are legally prohibited, i.e. actual photographs or videos of actual children (not teens) in sexually explicit positions–you know, the stuff that actually hurts kids.  Other than that?  It’s fair game.  You can post anything you want, and the archive will not judge.  There is no handle for the Moral Majority Family-Friendly Thought Police to latch onto, no cracks they can exploit to divide and conquer.

We’ve been down that road.  It doesn’t lead anywhere good.

[wrangletangle]

Reblogging this for the excellent explanation of what exactly the moral crusaders did last time. They had an explicit agenda of anti-queerness, and they specifically targeted slash and femslash communities in particular, such that many ship communities became (or started as) deliberately members-only. You had to apply, and your personal blog had to look like a real person and a fan. You were vetted, a la 1990s private servers.

During this period, Dreamwidth was also targeted by attacking its payment processor. They had to get a new one. These “Warriors” (literally called themselves that!) were totally on board with destroying fandom as a side effect of destroying the parts of fandom they didn’t like.

If you’re carrying out harassment of people right now because they’re posting works with sexual elements you don’t agree with? (And it’s always sex, never non-sexual violence, how strange….) If you’re doing that, you’re also totally on board with destroying fandom as a side effect of destroying the parts of fandom you don’t like. Because your tactics are fandom-destroying, and so is your agenda.

[nwcostumer]

reblogging because this is important: strikethru and boldthru and all the various “purges” that fandom went thru about 10 years ago: this had to do with OUTSIDERS deciding that fandom in general and fanfiction in specific were evil and needed to be destroyed; unless we were writing and shipping good vanilla M/F married people. These were outsiders, going after fictional writing about fictional characters.

AO3 and OTW are HUGE, because now we have an organization, with very smart women and a lot of lawyers, that have our back. Fannish history is important, people! It has not always been this way.

This is so, so important: there’s that other post about AO3 and fanfiction floating around, about our history. People decry violent video games but no one is trying to force companies out of business. But people can and do attack fanfiction: an activity primarily written by women for women, about fictional characters. And often about sex. We have to constantly defend ourselves, protect ourselves, support each other against charges like “paeodophilia”.

[denaceleste]

^^^rebageling again for excellent commentary

[araceil]

Throwing this in because I was also present: This was during the American Government’s attempts to pass censorship laws on the internet. As MOST of those domains had their serves in America, they were beholden to those censorship laws. A great deal of fanfiction.net was removed because they happened to lose a goddamn courtcase. I’ve been on the site since 2002. They may not have ‘officially’ allowed NC-17 rated content (what it used to be listed as in the filters), it never did a damn thing to remove it. Ever. They had it listed as a rating option during ‘New Story’ uploading after all. It was i nthe search filters. After they lost the courtcase however, they legally had to start doing things about the mature content reports they got. The admins and mods were not actively looking for fic to remove, they were just responding to reports they had already received. 

[actuallyclintbarton]

tl;dr - I know tumblr is all about black and white “you’re either all right or all wrong” thinking, but it’s important to understand what actually happened before going “ew ao3 was made to give pedophiles a safe place to post” because that is 110% not what happened.

[shidgephobe]

This is why so, so many of the comparatively older fannish folks on tumblr like me are so vehemently against stuff like the anti movement and “all ships are valid UNLESS”. It smacks of censorship and content policing - and we’ve been there. We got our shit deleted and our accounts banned because someone else thought what we were reading or writing or talking about needed to just… not exist. No warning. Literally overnight. We just woke up and stuff was gone.

And yeah, the group was legit called Warriors for Innocence (or maybe of). I knew several people that were members of survivor/support groups that lost their groups - and their main support network - when Strikethrough happened (ten years ago holy shit).

[sulphur-crested-cocktease]

You antis need to listen when us older fans tell you that the censorship you’re advocating for, when put into practice, is NOT a positive thing; it’s an extremely scary thing!

I can guarantee that you would be very, very upset if another event like LJ Strikethrough were to happen today because *you* are just as vulnerable as the rest of us! If you support the rights of marginalized groups of people, if you’re a slash or fem slash shipper, if you support gender identities that aren’t defined by biological sex, if you care about representation, if you support women, if you have any kind of kink, if you care about fandom in any capacity beyond its eradication, YOU DO NOT ACTUALLY WANT THE SORT OF CENSORSHIP YOU’RE ADVOCATING!!

[naamahdarling]

People were terrified during Strikethrough.  I was there.  Communities were being shut down, individual users were being shut down.  People were losing access to their own fics, their feedback, their comments – a LOT went on in comments on LJ.  Think more coherent reblogs, much more personal, very widespread.  Comments were also very important, and in terms of networking/communicating, were absolutely critical.  

LJ was, for many people, central.  

It was a fundamental part of the infrastructure of fandom at the time.  

Having it attacked, having parts of your fandom’s territory just deleted like that, was very very scary.  People didn’t know who was next.  Every day, the list of stricken journals grew.  And not all of them came back, not all of them recovered their content.  Some people even voluntarily deleted their content as a form of protest.  It was a bad time.

You do not have to interact with fic that grosses you out or makes you uncomfortable.  Tagging is a thing.  And even outside of tags, you are responsible for curating your own fandom experience.  It is not right to expect it to be curated for you.  And it is not right to lash out when someone refuses to do so and expects you to walk away from things that do not concern you.

I was gonna say “things that don’t harm anyone” but I realize you can argue that.  If you get triggered, that’s upsetting.  That could be considered harm.  And I have sympathy for that.  I do.

I have run across fic that triggered me.  I have pretty specific triggers, and people don’t always think to warn for them because they aren’t that big a deal for a lot of people.  Or it’s sort of bundled into kink and is presumed, that if you’re okay with certain kinds of kink, you’re okay with this.  So I’ve been blindsided by it before.  And it sucks for a couple of days while I get over it.

That was not the fault of the authors! You could argue that tagging should have been used, and maybe it should, but ultimately that’s not an ironclad obligation.  It’s a tool people provide out of courtesy.

That was not the fault of the site!  The site is there to give authors a way to make fiction available, not to judge each work and interrogate its validity and make sure everything is tagged so that nobody has to see anything bad, ever.

That was not even my fault!  It was my responsibility to try to curate my experience, and I tried, but it wasn’t my fault because I didn’t deliberately set out to trigger myself.

When I get triggered, unless it is by a deliberate act, it is actually the fault of the people who hurt me in the first place! And I refuse to let them off the hook and blame perfectly innocent people who just wanna write their fanfiction! I may hate that fanfiction, but that is irrelevant to the question of whether or not people should be allowed to post whatever they want.

Also, some people cope by writing about fucked-up shit.  My best friend in the whole wide world has shared her fic with me, and HOO BOY it is messed up. She wrote it during a time in her life when she was in and just coming out of a horrifically abusive relationship.  I mean, it was exactly the kind of relationship all of us here on Tumblr love to hate.  She was married to a shitty, abusive man who preyed on someone younger than he was and used his influence over her to treat her in a way that would be right at home in that Lundy Bancroft book Why Does He Do That?  He was a real rapist, a verified grade-A bad fuckin’ guy.  (She was lucky to escape.  I have immense respect for her.)  And she wrote some fucked up fic to deal with it, and she shared it, and people were invested in it.  And because this was early 2000′s, she had to host it on a foreign server and cover her tracks, because at that time no-place was safe to post it.

“Yeah, but if she’s writing it for therapy, she doesn’t have to post it where other people might have to see it!” I hear you say.

But like … what the hell??? “Shut up, don’t talk about it, it’s bad to talk about these things, because these things are bad!” is something used against folks with trauma.

“This isn’t good for me, I can’t talk about this, I can’t be your audience for this,” that’s fine, those are boundaries that people with trauma use to defend themselves.  You should learn to say those things!  It will help you!

But expecting other people to never create and share art about trauma is just so thunderously oppressive I lack the ability to fully articulate it.

And nobody should have to disclose their history of trauma to prove their motives are pure or virtuous enough for their speech to be protected.  I’ve only really been able to openly say “I was assaulted, it was traumatic, I am a little fucked up from it” for the past couple of years, tops.  I couldn’t talk about it before that.  Couldn’t!  And it was over 20 years ago!

I also believe, very firmly, that you don’t need a history of abuse to find writing really messed-up shit satisfying, or to find reading it cathartic.  I believe 100% in the freedom of creative expression, and the freedom to read whatever fucked up shit you want to read.

All y’all fandom youngsters can spit nails all you want over gross rape fic, incest fic, whatever.

Fine, I don’t like it either!

But that fucked up shit?  That fucked up shit helped carve out the spaces we have today.  You don’t have to like it, but campaigning to get it deleted, harassing content creators, calling people rapists and pedophiles who have never done and would never ever do such a thing, that is not the way to improve the world, it doesn’t keep actual kids or teens or assault/rape victims safe.  It wouldn’t have made me feel safe when I was 16 and did’t want what was going on.  It doesn’t make me feel safe now.  I can say with the perspective of someone 24 years away from that event, it doesn’t make the world safer for people like I was.  It actually makes it worse.

Learn to steer clear of the messed-up stuff you don’t like.  It’s a skill, you get better with practice.  Have someone else vet stuff for you if you need help doing it now.

Everything that is sketchy and gross is not criminal, and writing about a thing is not morally the same as doing it.  Please stop acting like writing about an adult and a teenager having really questionable, gross sex is as bad as the actual registered sex offender they caught hanging around an actual elementary school two neighborhoods over from mine, just trying to talk to the kids.  The former is, at most, in poor taste, and potentially triggering to abuse victims.  The second makes me want to vomit because even though he was just talking, that guy was gearing up to try something and create another abuse victim.  A g a i n.  

The first can be avoided because it is imaginary and you, an adult, have power over your back button so that you don’t have to witness harm to imaginary people.  The second, those very real kids had to rely on real adults and real law enforcement to keep them safe from very real assault.   (It worked!  The neighborhood rallied!  He was arrested for violating parole!)

Pretty sure Sleazebag McDongface didn’t read some gross NC-17 Draco/Lucius fic before deciding to harm an actual human being.  Pretty sure not having read it didn’t keep him from doing it. ‘Cause he fuckin’ did it.  And he would have done worse. But actual people stopped him.

I get wanting to protect victims when so many of us are victims ourselves, but man, going after fiction is not the way to do it.

An author is not a perpetrator.  Stop trying to make those things synonymous in the minds of other fans, and in the minds of other recovering victims.

[bonibaru]

I’m a crone who also lived through strikethrough, and all y'all young fans need to read this and understand it if you don’t want history to repeat itself someday.

[singingwordwright]

Here’s the thing, also: it doesn’t stop with fic about objectionable stuff.

If you have a website with TOS that includes any kind of “objectionable content” rules, there will be parties who will use those rules to try to silence other people whom they want silenced.

Let’s look at the alt-right and MRA movements today, or GamerGate a few years ago. What is one of their primary weapons? They report black or feminist or really any leftist YouTube channels (or Twitter accounts, or whatever) whose message they don’t like and claim those channels are are violating TOS by posting hate speech or incitations to violence or whatever bullshit they can come up with, in an attempt to silence those channels.

When Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequence came under fire for starting a crowdfunding endeavor to fund the production of her Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series of videos, male gamers tried to get her KickStarter and various social media accounts shut down by reporting her for for hate speech and promoting terrorism.

Luckily, that became a big enough story that the dudes failed and their efforts backfired. But a lot of times, these tactics work.

How do I know this? Because it happened to me. Not over major shit like the examples above, but over something completely petty.

Back in the mid-to-late 90s, before LiveJournal really became the place for fandom, before FF.net was really a thing, you had to create your own personal website on whatever free webhost you could find (GeoCities was popular, but there were others) if you wanted to host your fic somewhere.

And back then, TV studios and book authors were still sending their lawyers after people who wrote fanfic, issuing cease and desist letters to not only the authors, but also to their webhosts.

At the time, I was writing perfectly het Mulder/Scully fanfic. No rape, no pedophilia, no slash. Maybe a little BDSM. But largely it was unobjectionable.

Then the 8th season of X-Files started, David Duchovny decided he only wanted to be involved part-time, and the show decided to bring in another male character. The fandom lost their shit–as fandoms do–over the idea of “replacing” Mulder blah blah blah.

One of the most popular fanfic mailing lists–one that had previously had no restrictions on what characters or pairings could be posted–decided that if you wrote fanfic involving this character, you were no longer welcome. Well, this was the mailing list with all the readers. Sure, authors could go to other mailing lists, but they wouldn’t have exposure to the sort of readership this other list boasted.

I spoke out, saying that this change was unfair to fic authors and that the moderator of this list was behaving in a pretty vile way. The moderator and her friends took aim at me and began a campaign of harassment, and a few days later, suddenly my website with my XF fanfic was TOSed because someone had reported it. So was the next site I tried to create to host my fic, and the one after that.

Thanks to the way AO3s TOS are constructed, that sort of shit doesn’t happen now. I can speak up if I need to, and while I may receive harassment on my various social media accounts, there’s no chance they can have my fic taken down just because they have an agenda and don’t like me for reasons not relating to my fic.

So yeah, AO3′s rules protect fic a lot of us might find objectionable. But they also protect fic that is in no way objectionable from being targeted by unrelated harassment campaigns. And since any of us could find ourselves in the sights of those sort of campaigns at any time, we need to thank our lucky stars for that.

[olderthannetfic]

I like this last addition.

When I helped write the ToS for AO3, I wasn’t primarily thinking about strikethrough. I was primarily thinking of FFN, where so many people post things that are technically against the ToS but that the community tolerates. Any time someone gets pissed off, they can go on a grudge-reporting spree and target their enemy’s work. Often, that means guys targeting slash or Twilight fic because it’s “for girls” and thus sucks. Sometimes, it’s one ship vs. another. I was also thinking of Miss Scribe and all of that other Harry Potter fandom drama. (And if you think fans are above destroying an entire archive just to strike at one enemy, think again!)

We can’t force people to like each other. We can’t force people to be nice to each other. But we could take away fandom bullies’ favorite tools.

So we did.

[actualaster]

Purity culture and antis are a danger to all because they set the stage for another attack once one is successful.

And then another.

And another.

And pretty soon those antis will find THEIR work targeted because it doesn’t meet the standards of another purity group.

This isn’t a hypothetical slippery slope.

This thread contains examples of this kind of stuff. This is actual stuff that has happened in fannish history. We have precedent for it.

So if anybody wants to know why I view antis as a major threat to fandom as a whole, this post is why.

[tyronndy]

A Bisexual character in an m/f relationship is not heterosexual

A Bisexual male character in an m/m relationship is not Gay

A Bisexual female character in an f/f relationship is not a Lesbian

A Bisexual character is Bisexual. Period. End of discussion.

[sparkles-and-trash]

Louder for the people the back!!

[im-pretty-bored]

Don't feel ashamed of doing "CHILDISH" things

•buy toys/dolls/crayons •play with Legos •play old videogames/dress up games •weave friendship bracelets •watch cartoons •use stickers •draw pics of your favorite characters

If it makes you feel nice, do it. Don’t even worry about what other people think, because it doesn’t matter–if it brings you happiness, it’s not “ridiculous”, or “immature”.

You deserve to enjoy yourself.

[blackbearmagic]

Let me share with you what I consider to be the most important less I’ve learned in my adult life:

“Growing up doesn’t mean you can’t have Zebra Cakes. Growing up simply means that, if you want to have Zebra Cakes, you buy them for yourself.”

“What the hell are you talking about, Bear?” Well, let me explain. For those of you who live outside of the US, this is a Zebra Cake:

It’s a little pre-packaged snack cake that is horribly cheap and junky and really not that great, but it is like manna from heaven to me. I fucking love these things. When I was a little kid growing up, my mom bought Zebra Cakes but once in a blue moon. They were intended to be put in mine and my siblings’ school lunches, but my brother and I would eat them whenever we wanted, so Mom just didn’t see the point. (They also used to be kind of expensive, at least for our family’s budget.) Needless to say, the coveted Zebra Cakes were a luxury for me, and were one of the tastes of my childhood.

Fast forward to my college years. I was living in an apartment with three other people, doing my own shopping and cooking. I was in the grocery store, picking up some stuff, and I happened to walk past a display of snack cakes. Among them were several boxes of Zebra Cakes.

I paused at this, chuckling to myself. Oh man. Zebra Cakes. I haven’t had those in years. I loved those when I was a kid. I reminisced happily and thought about how much I missed the taste of Zebra Cakes, then started to walk away.

And then I stopped dead.

Because I had realized that there was literally nothing stopping me from buying a box of Zebra Cakes. There was nothing stopping me from buying ten boxes of Zebra Cakes. If I wanted Zebra Cakes, I could have goddamn Zebra Cakes, because it was my money and my decision to make.

I put two boxes in my cart (they were 2 for $5) and never looked back.

Here’s the secret I learned that day: The idea of something being “just for kids” is, by and large, bullshit. What you do on your own adult free time with your own adult money is, by its very nature, adult stuff. It’s like comedian Eddie Izzard (who frequently performed his routines in drag) once said when someone asked about him wearing ‘women’s clothes’: “They’re not women’s clothes. They’re my clothes. I bought them.”

I am 25 years old, and yesterday I bought myself a shark lunchbox. Look at it. Look at how awesome my lunchbox is.

Was this lunchbox intended to by bought for and used by a child? Yes. The tag said it was for ages 3 and up. But it was bought by and will be used by an adult, and anyone who thinks that’s wrong is probably just jealous that they don’t have the self-confidence to rock a shark lunchbox at 25.

So like. Being “mature” and “an adult” doesn’t mean you have to completely abandon the things that made you happy when you were younger. It just means that you may have to approach them in a different way. 

[tpfaulkner]

Pay attention, there’s a lesson here

[thecreach]

I hesitated reblogging this, and I am not entirely sure why.

[bitemebat]

LEGO. I just turned 42 and I have LEGO sets allllll over my house. Why? Because I wanted them, and because it is my money and I will spend it how I like, MOTHER.

As long as you aren’t bankrupting yourself, buy the things you *want* to buy, the things that bring you JOY.

[hotdogsngiggles]

you are missing out on so much if you just stick to “adult things”

[peachesandplumsmotherchucker]

Zebra cakes make an excellent “the secret to happiness” metaphor.

[ramblingtoaster-deactivated2017]

My wedding cake will just be hundreds of zebra cakes stacked together

[haiku-robot]

my wedding cake will just be hundreds of zebra cakes stacked together

^Haiku^bot^8. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes. Help keep my meatbag slave alive. Contact | HAIKU BOT NO | Good bot! | Beep-boop!

[xxtc-96xx]

I come to class every day with a plush in my bag to sit at my work area and NO ONE can stop me U.U

[meanlizard]

sides as dumb stuff i’ve done

Logan: corrected grammar usage in the middle of a fight. was promptly punched. 

Patton: made a bad pun during a funeral and burst into tears right after. 

Roman: one-man play in underwear while home alone. the blinds on the window facing my neighbor were open. 

Virgil: burned himself making cup ramen because he was too anxious about whether someone would come home and find him to take proper care.  

[meanlizard]

Deceit: stuffed an entire cookie in his mouth. when asked if he’d eaten the last of said cookies, he responded in the negative despite his mouth being full. 

[meanlizard]

*cracks knuckles*

Sleep/Remy: woke up, got out of bed and promptly tripped over cat and landed on his face. stayed there until someone (most likely virgil or logan) physically pulled him onto his feet. 

Virgil: hid in the living room closet for two hours because guests were over and he didn’t want to say hi. 

Patton: spoke to the toaster for a solid thirty minutes because he thought it was haunted. better safe than sorry.

Logan: while tutoring a kid, realized he’d been teaching the subject wrong. proceeded to swear in swedish. 

Roman: someone (we’ll say virgil) jokingly told them that they’d never gotten a home-made birthday gift in their life. he took it seriously and the next day he came in with a stack of drawings, writings, and declarations of love.

Deceit: was warned against eating a ghost pepper. looked directly at the person who cautioned him, straight faced, and proceeded to eat the entire thing all at once. 

“a- are you okay???”

“yes. I’m fine. this is nothing.”

“….your face is red.”  

[kitsuneprideleader]

….this is the best thing is there more of this????

[meanlizard]

my dude. my homie. my person. i am an outstandingly dumb individual. there is so much more. 

Virgil: yet another guest was over. this time someone he didn’t know. literally ninja rolled down the stairs to avoid being seen. was eventually found digging through the fridge. by said guest. 

Patton: had, like, 28 stuffed animals as a kid. tried to give them kisses every night. once he stayed over at a friends house and cried because he couldn’t give his stuffies their goodnight kiss.

“patton, they’re just stuffed animals-”

“toy story is real-!”

Roman: was found, on the ground, nursing his leg as he waxed poetic about the cruelness of the world. tears in his eyes, voice cracking, very much 100% serious. when asked what was wrong, he, with a broken sob, moved his hands to reveal that his new pants had been ripped open. 

oh, and he fell down the stairs, too. but that wasn’t important. 

Logan: wrote a ten-paged essay on why Twilight was awful, but not for the reasons that were often pointed out. somehow managed to fit at least three metaphors involving sherlock holmes. 

Patton: dedicated an entire journal to his favorite puns.  

Virgil: tried to escape social interaction by jumping a fence. ended up spraining both of his ankles.

Roman: spent a solid minute criticizing his own appearance only to defend it vehemently the moment someone else commented on it. 

[i-will-physically-fight-you]

This is incredible and I’m laughing because I could definitely see all of them doing those things at some point. Mind if I add some dumb things of my own?

Roman: Did not want to share a bed with a sibling as a kid, and came up with the Creative Solution of pretending to be possessed by an alien to scare their sibling into sleeping somewhere else. Surprisingly, It Did Not Work.

Logan: Nearly threw hands with a seventy-year-old after they said he was too young to understand politics during a heated debate. 

Patton: Alternated between the stuffed animals he slept with each night, in order to not hurt their feelings by “playing favorites”

Virgil: Feigned sleep in order to avoid having to meet guests.

[meanlizard]

you are absolutely allowed to add your own things omg- 

this is perfect and i’m snort-laughing—

[lady-literature]

Okay, but like Ive done almost all of these???? Ive never related more. The amount of times ive doged social interaction or wanted to slap someone while talking politics is way more than physically healthy for someone of my size

[anachronistic-cat]

@fandergecko i wanna read that essay

[meanlizard]

I would show you if I knew where it was

….I used notebook paper to write it.

[shmuzzieheart]

Virgil: Crawled on the floor back to his room because a stranger was at the door and all the curtains were pulled back.

Patton: Got upset whenever he accidentally poked a stuffed animal’s eye as he was trying to brush fur out of said eye.

Logan: Doesn’t bother to look twice at a cut or bruise, but will go into panic mode if a book is bent/torn/spilt on.

Roman: Will say all the lines along with the characters in movies and tv episodes they’ve seen 15 ½ times.

[meanlizard]

important addition

[alurea-actually-a-prince]

@fandergecko I have some additions as well lol

Logan: so socially awkward that, when he were like 11, hanging out with other 11-year-olds, started small-talking about how bad traffic has been getting recently because of the increasing population of the small city he lived in. Didn’t realize there was anything wrong with this until a minute or so into the conversation, when they noticed everyone else staring at him.

Patton: put his cat in a kid’s toy stroller and carted them around the house with him as they glared at everything because they hated it but would tolerate it for him

Virgil: hidden food in his room so he could hide in it for longer and avoid people better

Roman: didn’t like to play with other kids as a child because he needed Full Creative Control™️ and other kids, annoyingly, had their own ideas for what the Barbies should do next

[meanlizard]

oh my god i love this

[notallpotatoesarefrenchfries]

i want to add some so….

roman: got the high school musical karaoke video game and scream-sang as loud as he could and danced along on the sofa

logan: told parents about the financial burdens of raising so many kids and talked about how stressful it must be for them

patton: got into a pun war with his professor and won

virgil: told thomas he was done with words and promptly went upstairs to chill by himself and would eventually be dubbed cave-dweller by the others

[meanlizard]

the patton one oh god that brings me flashbacks so imma add-

Patton: nearly got fired because he wouldn’t stop telling my boss bad puns during work hours. he was only spared because apparently ‘excessive pun telling isn’t a proper excuse to fire someone.’

Virgil: brought a stuffed animal with him when he went out of town in case he got too anxious. it was small enough to keep in his pocket so he did. someone (we’ll say roman, although it was really my older sister) found out and he got so embarrassed that he violently hit the other with said stuffed animal. bruises ensued. 

Logan: made a serious debate out of whether coffee or tea was superior. obviously, he was on the side of coffee.

Virgil:  walked into work, signed in, went to the breakroom and, right in front of his coworkers, took a giant mug out of his pocket and filled it to the brim with the last of the coffee. stared at them blankfaced as he drank the whole thing. 

 Roman: had a funeral for a stuffed bear. insisted everyone call said bear by it’s proper name - sir real (yes that was the name) - and cried dramatically while claiming vengeance. sir real’s ear had just been torn by the cat. 

[alurea-actually-a-prince]

okay wait these have reminded me of even more dumb things I’ve done so here are some more additions please enjoy

Roman: danced and sung to Lady Gaga so loudly while living in a hotel he got a noise complaint (you cannot tell me that Roman isn’t a Gaga fan tbh)

Roman: owns an actual sword

Virgil (or maybe Roman tbh): attempted the Winter Soldier makeup look and ended up looking like an ugly raccoon (technically this has happened multiple times)

Logan: went to a family reunion and argued with some relative he had never met before for an entire day just for the sake of debate (which the relative didn’t understand at all but that’s not important)

Logan: has bought a million different planners/agendas but has only actually fully used one of them

Logan: has probably somewhere around/above fourty unused or mostly unused notebooks and has not stopped buying them

Logan: gasped so loudly and excitedly when glimpsing a stationary store out of the corner of his eye that several people’s heads actually turned

Roman: did 100 jumping jacks alone in his room at midnight because he was watching a workout video and said aloud (to himself) that he could easily do 100 jumping jacks and felt like he had to prove it

Patton: cried because he ripped a hole in a really comfy pair of sweatpants

Virgil: nearly fallen asleep, standing up, in the shower

Roman: ran away from parents at the mall so many times they put one of those kid tracker things on me (he only stopped because they threatened to put him on a leash)

Patton: made 80-something (no exaggeration) Mother’s Day cards in one day (it was Mother’s Day surprisingly enough)

Virgil: stayed in the bathroom for six hours straight because he started a really good fanfic and couldn’t bring himself to stop reading to leave the bathroom (he only left after he finished it)

Patton: couldn’t sleep alone until he was like six, and whenever he woke up in the middle of the night and his parents weren’t there because they had gone back to their bedroom, would run over to their bedroom and sleep in there for the rest of the night, where he completely hogged the bed and kicked both of the parents while apparently sleeping sideways on the bed, all in his sleep

Logan: once went to a family reunion and introduced himself and his parents by saying “hi, I’m Logan, and this is my mom, and my mom’s husband, *insert father’s name here*.” He was about three.

Logan: called his dad “*insert father’s name here*-babe” for months as a small child (“babe” because that’s what his mom called his dad) and completely refused to call him “Dad” and only ever stopped because eventually his dad refused to respond to it and it got annoying to not have his dad do what he wanted

Logan: refused to hug anyone as a child for a good while

Patton: when he was around four, went with his parents to go stay with his mom’s Grammy for a few days, and before they left, gave Grammy a pine cone “to remember him by”

Roman: once as a baby (yes I do remember this far back lol no joke it’s weird) was in his Johnny jumper and immediately when his dad walked into the room, attempted to kick him, and when that failed at first attempt, he bounced around more until he gained enough momentum to actually kick his dad

Patton: once hid under a chair and cried as a child because he was deathly afraid of the Abominable Snowman from the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindssr movie and his mom was pretending to be it

Logan: figured out what reverse-psychology was at two and refused to let it work on him

Roman: his parents would make him drink a protein shake every morning before school and the only reason he actually did it was because his mom said she didn’t believe he could do it and he had to prove her wrong (Logan: he did realize he was being manipulated but was too proud to care)

Roman: whenever in a group picture, would always get down on his knees in the front and grin super widely and spread his arms and shit because he had to be the center of attention always of course

Roman: smiled close-lipped until he lost his two front teeth, when he trained himself to smile to show off his two lost teeth (and still smiles showing teeth to this day)

@fandergecko hope you enjoy these too lol 💜 (also sorry for adding another thing but I couldn’t help myself I remembered too many good ones)

(yes I was a really weird child I know 😂)

[meanlizard]

!!! i loved these!! oh my god i’m laughing so hard you sound awesome

[arteacactus]

Not nearly as funny as the others but the stuffed animal ones reminded me of a couple things I did

Patton: Woke up one morning and saw the stuffed animal he was sleeping with had fallen on the floor in the middle of the night. Proceeded to sing sad songs and cry for a solid minute.

Virgil: Bought a box of ramen and a can of ravioli and kept them in the room to avoid social interaction. Ended up failing because he needed bowls and silverware.

Roman: Was really passionate about dancing, so much so that when he was home alone, he went outside and pretended to teach a dance number to no one.

Logan: Cried because he wasn’t allowed to learn astrology.

[meanlizard]

no oh my god this is amazing– 

i can definitely see logan becoming emotional bc he couldn’t learn something jksdf

[shit-happens-bitchachos]

Logan: Talked on the phone with mom for 3 hours about neuroplasticity

and got frustrated because she didn’t understand what “rewiring the brain“ means

Roman: Dramatically read lines from a play while home alone, followed by answering imaginary interview questions like he was famous or something

Virgil: Tried to do smoky eyes makeup so I could look more like people my age. Ended up looking like I was punched in the eyes

Patton: Yelled on the street “BIG PUPPY“ when he saw a big dog. The owner probably thought he was crazy

[iguanastevens]

What to do when you don’t like a fic: a step by step guide

Step 1:

[reiner-is-back-bitches]

Amazing tutorial I recommend to everyone!

[thesaltofcarthage]

I have done this and it totally works!

[jadejabberwock]

5/5 totally recommend

[deadskull-buttman]

It's super effective, y'all! Works every time

[jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear]

If you’re a content creator, remember that there’s always a least one person who’s waiting for your next creation. They can’t wait to see what you’ll draw, write, gif or edit next. That’s the kind of fan that matters the most.

[randomslasher]

ty person!

[laco-myles]

Person:

South Park is literally just offensive humor, farts and sex jokes how can you like it.

Me:

Are

You

Sure

About

That???

[tredlocity]

holy shit what an upgrade

[strengthrequireskindness]

Someone tell me, who is this woman?

[cykelops]

roxane gay wrote world of wakanda one of the greatest modern comic books (shes a writer outside that, of course, but thats what i know her for)

[bomberqueen17]

(followup)

also, in case you were not aware what a legend this woman is,

she’s a legend

[savvymavvy]

GIVE ME ROXANE WRITING THIS MOVIE.

[moonarchy]

ADS THAT SUDDENLY TAKE UP THE WHOLE PAGE

[moonarchy]

ADS THAT SUDDENLY TAKE UP THE WHOLE PAGE AND PLAY MUSIC

[dip-dop-pines-deactivated201603]

What about ads that play music, but you can’t find them anywhere on the page?

[moonarchy]

[thegamerinallofus]

Still hearing the ads music after you close the page

[elfzelda]

having adblock

[silver-tongues-blog]

Sites that forbid adblock

[running-in-blind]

When ads pop up even when Adblock is enabled

[cosmic-noir]

When porn ads pop up unexpectedly

[vampire-crimson]

this post gets better everytime i see it

[satanicedition-blog]

When you try get rid of the add really fast but accidentally click on the link that sends you to seventy different pages before you can go back.

[cipheral]

THIS POST KEEPS GETTING BETTER

[satanicedition-blog]

When the ad shows something you’re actually interested in.

[randomfanposter]

When you have to wait to skip the ad

[shitadriensays-blog]

When the ad is about abused/animals needing homes

[doublerainbowcosplay-blog]

@extraordinaquari

[nearsightedgirl]

I dub this post “The Legend of Advertisements”! 

[balance-is-here-deactivated2016]

when you get rid of the add but it keeps coming back.

[dsmaster7173]

It got better.

[askchibirainbowgate-deactivated]

Making it my goal to reblog this once every day lol

[midnight-mocha-is-vibin]

When you get so many ads at once that the site you’re on crashes and you have to reload the page.

[goregutz-moved]

wHY IS THIS SO ACCURAT E

[dovewithscales]

I found this amusing, so here you go.

[kaoann]

I kept scrolling and it 👏just 👏got👏better👏and 👏BETTER

[asynca]

about writing and tumblr

Here is my prerogative as a writer. 

I will write all sorts of stories. Some of them will be happy, and light, and cheerful. Some of them will muscle you into a dark alley and punch you in the stomach until you’re reeling from the pain. Some of them will be dark and they will make you uncomfortable, deeply uncomfortable. So uncomfortable you’re thinking about the issues they raise long after you’ve finished reading.

I will write all sorts of characters. Some of them will be good, and pure, and strong. Some of them will be nasty, petty and weak. Some of them will hurt other characters accidentally and some will hurt other characters on purpose. Some of them will stand idly by while others hurt those characters. Others will commit horrid, atrocious acts knowing exactly what they are doing. 

I will write joyous themes like love, and friendship and success, and tragic themes like death, loss and failure. I’ll write about people suffering, I’ll write about the awful things people do to each other. I’ll write about dark, complex themes like betrayal, cheating, murder, rape, abuse, incest, oppression and suicide. 

I want to examine us. I want to look at life - the beautiful things and the ugly things, and make sense of them all through my writing. 

What makes me so sad about Tumblr is this new purist attitude that writers that explore the dark, complex themes that make people uncomfortable: the rapes, the betrayals, the abuse, etc are bad people. This is new - it wasn’t around for the last 25 years I’ve been in fandom. 

It’s not an issue outside tumblr and fandom at all - George RR Martin has just about all the darkest, most complex themes in his books and he’s a multi-millionaire, award-winning author!

Writers (and other artists!) will at times create works that make you uncomfortable. That’s alright. Sometimes, that’s our intention, and sometimes it’s because it touches on topics that you haven’t thought about or have some personal experience with. If you choose to read them anyway, think about what you’ve read and the issues it raises, and what the implications are. 

Tumblr’s new mantra of ‘if it makes me uncomfortable, no one is ever allowed to create it, and if I ask someone to stop creating it and they say no, they are a bad person’ is really disappointing. It’s also impossible advice to follow: because everyone likes different things, everyone has a different tolerance for discomfort, so where do you draw the line? Who is in charge of ‘this is okay’ and ‘this is not okay’?

If I’ve done everything I can to protect you from a theme in my story - I’ve flagged it, I’ve tagged it, I’ve put it behind and link and a cut and you still think I’m a bad person for even having dared to create it - honestly, bugger off. 

No, really. I’m tired of people telling me it’s fine for me to write emotional abuse, murder and physical torture but omg not incest!~!!!~~@!!~~. Great, that’s your line. That’s fine. I respect your line, that’s why my works are always tagged and under cuts because I understand some people won’t like some themes. But that’s not everyone’s line, and it’s not my line. If I want to explore a dark theme, I will. It doesn’t make me a bad person, and I sure as hell am not going to apologise for it. 

As per above, writers will write many things. Some of them you will like, some of them you will not. If you look at themes I have explored in a tiny fraction of my stories and decide I am a bad person because of it, I suppose that’s your prerogative, too. But don’t kid yourself that just because you’ve decided I’m a bad person, that I objectively am a bad person and should feel bad about myself just because you personally have decided I should.  

[ap-kinda-lit]

YES. YES, PLEASE.

[orphanedscience-deactivated2018]

Apparently, One Day at a Time is in danger of being cancelled!

Please tell everyone you know to watch at least four episodes over the next few days to ensure that it gets picked up for a third season!!!

This show covers topics ranging from depression and PTSD, to alcoholism, sexuality, and racism, all while being incredibly funny and never making fun of the topics it discusses so thoughtfully.

PLUS, it features a Cuban family with a gay daughter and a single mother who just so happens to be a veteran and a nurse.

I have never loved a TV family more than I love the Alvarez family. I have never cried over a TV family more than I have with the Alvarez family. And I truly can say that the finale of season 2 was the best episode of a sitcom I have ever seen.

Please, I’m begging all my followers to not let this beautiful show get cancelled because Netflix yet again doesn’t advertise the true gems in their library.

This cannot be another Sense8, where we watch representation get cancelled over another Adam Sandler movie.

Reblog and watch the show please!

[myriadsubtletiess-blog]

The worst part about having mental health issues is that you’re seemingly required to have a breakdown in order for people to understand how hard you were trying to hold yourself together.

[thingsididntknowwereerotic]

I have never seen it explained so well.

[royallyanxious]

I’ve had my breakdowns in front of the others and they said I should get my shit together and move on; so apparently it doesn’t always work out either…

[pearlsasinger-deactivated202602]

i want 2 say something but it might be too controversial..

[pearlsasinger-deactivated202602]

Lesbian: liqueurs & whiskey

Gay: cocktails and vodka

Bisexual: wines and champagnes

[ginger-ale-official]

you know i really wanted to like this post, but there’s just one little thing that’s being overlooked

[pearlsasinger-deactivated202602]

don’t make me do this ginger-ale-official

[ginger-ale-official]

please… it is your duty

[pearlsasinger-deactivated202602]

I’m sorry it has come to this. I wish we could have been friends

heterosexual: ginger ale

[ginger-ale-official]

oh yeah? oh fucking yeah? I’m going to sell my soul to the devil in exchange for the assurance that he will place a thumb tack on the ground wherever you walk so you can never take off your shoes again.  have fun sleeping in your loafers jackass

[the-alpaca-of-doots]

This is the absolute worst way to curse someone

[linaofthemyscira]

Hey maybe people should start doing this here on Tumblr instead of calling people out for “not knowing enough about the characters” or “not reading the comics” or “blatant mischaracterization”

Plenty of people don’t have access to comic book stores and money to even buy comics or the internet to read the comics. Instead of discouraging people how about offer some knowledge that you have?

[dc-hoe-deactivated20200621]

SPREAD THIS LIKE WILD FIRE

[nightglider124]

🐸☕️

[dar-draws]

Too true. I don’t have the privilege to have easy access to comic stores so I’ve only had animated shows to go to when I was a kid, still do. So I strongly dislike comic fans who look down on fans like me for not knowing or reading this and that. Being a fan is about loving the character, not just about knowing the most about them.

And y'know we’re kinda just here to enjoy the fictional world, not to be a phD.