I’m Totally Normal About All Things All The Time

Crohnie. Feminist. Bisexual. Aromantic. 33. You can find me on Fanfiction and Ao3 under the same name. Side Blogs: FunkoFanatical, CCMultiverse and gendryaprompts

[statisticalcats2]

There are gonna be people who won't like hearing this but if you want to live in a world where mixed marriages, families, and adoptions (particularly POC adopting outside their "race") aren't maligned and discriminated against, then you have got to get more chill about seeing someone partaking in something cultural that you don't think fits the "race" you perceive them as.

[statisticalcats2]

It's a vague memory now, it was a vague memory even at the time I made this post, but I think what sparked this was remembering stupid comments I saw about a Chinese-American cookbook that were complaining about it being written by a white woman and then I looked the white woman up and the briefest research showed she was adopted as a child into a Chinese-American family and just....

*pinches nose*

Fellas, is it cultural appropriation to inherit your family's culture but you don't pass the blood quantum test?

All of you are literally just racist. You've come full-circle. You're working under the belief that people are supposed to "keep to their own kind" and that means the socially invented concept of "race", and "race mixing" of any sort is unnatural.

[statisticalcats2]

Putting this in a separate reblog because it involves fictional media but it was still implying a messed up worldview....

This reminded me of a post I saw about someone theorizing what MCU Morgan Stark's middle name was because we just knew her middle initial was "H" and they considered that the namesake might be Yinsen Ho but they didn't want to believe that because it would be, quote, "cultural appropriation".

Cultural appropriation. To name your child after someone you personally knew and was very important to you.

Don't you know it's unnatural for someone of a different race to be important to you? The races are not supposed to mix!

It's literally just racism. Why do people think they're being anti-racist activists by being some of the highest level of racist?

[smegorl]

Yeah this trend has been gaining strength for years of "the races shouldn't mix (but in a Marx honoring way)" and it's seriously fuckin concerning.

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[blackwatersinkingship]

When I finish this whale shark lamp all 4 of you are gonna be So I'm pressed

[blackwatersinkingship]

She glows now, just so you know, and she's full of string deliciöusee string

[god-sent-gender-bent]

Are you gonna show us the lamp? 👀

[blackwatersinkingship]

Good news! Whäle shark lämp 🥰

[enki2]

[mckitterick]

[rip-quizilla]

[ryebreadgf]

yayyyy

[jomiddlemarch]

[avenarts]

we finish this together

[undoingthefool]

that one time in battle city

[voidsentprinces]

[helenvaughans]

[ralfmaximus]

It's gonna take decades to rebuild what those arrogant DOGE children broke. I honestly want them prosecuted for sabotage.

[ashgunnywolf]

Honestly, with all the tradwife cooking trash circulating, it only makes me love B Dylan Hollis more for baking vintage recipes while being openly gay, making sexual jokes, and screaming at the ingredients. He's the antithesis of every soft-spoken cishet woman cooking for her husband and children. You don't have to be an idyllic cottagecore housewife to cook.

[onbearfeet]

The swearing is essential. That's what "made with love" or "the secret ingredient is love" means. It means, "I love you so much that you're worth this fucking bullshit."

[polygummy]

[depsidase]

[msbeastlyeevee]

This is the happy Odion. Reblog to have many happiness fall upon you. – Okay but side note, I don’t know if Odion is the one exclaiming or Marik, but I don’t care. Odion is happy finally and he and Joey should be bros. Joey at least seems happy to see him.

[zombiemollusk]

the idea of honda and otogi as the mom and dad of the group is hilarious to me

[chocolapeanut]

also featuring: Honda grabbing Yami before he mindcrushes some schoolboy who poked fun at Yuugi lmao. “WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING.”

[myfandomrealitea]

"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

[octopuscato]

[elfwreck]

AO3 was specifically made for the stuff likely to be purged from other sites.

It was built around "we need to own the servers" so we wouldn't have to deal with anyone else's judgment calls about what was acceptable in fanfic: Not corporate sponsors, not evangelical religious groups, not "save the children" activists... and not other fans who think that The Gross Stuff should be banned from public view, only shared via private email after you've sent in a request heavily laden with special keywords.

Some of the founders remembered when slash fanfic was kept under the table at the dealer's room, distributed with brown paper wrappers only to people who knew to ask for it specifically.

And they said: Fuck that. Our art is not a crime and we're not going to be ashamed of it. If you are ashamed to have your art next to it - there's a whole wide internet that's ready to host your G-rated genfic.

AO3 was built for the stuff that was unwelcome elsewhere.

[darkshrimpemotions]

Don't make me tap the sign but this is the sign:

[bleugioh]

Atem getting a second chance to live his life with Yugi and the nerd herd but he has to do school and get a degree so he picks Egyptology and he spends countless nights wanting to rip his hair out bc “Wrong. Wrong!!! This textbook has it all fucking wrong!!! Aibou, you seeing this shit???” meanwhile Yugi Kaiba Corporation’s hottest new and most overworked game developer Mutou’s got eyebags for days and isnt seeing anything but the bottom of his coffee mug