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[json-derulo]

Whenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"

[dragonsongsblog]

I failed this as a kid because I read each instruction carefully and then did that instruction one at a time because I thought ALL meant to like. read each one. Idk. it didnt reveal that I didnt read instructions just that I didnt understand them and I'm not the smartest tool in the shed but it was a great way to publically emberess me

[olderthannetfic]

i like bloodymary as much as anyone else but i really wish i could go into the iron lung tag and get exclusively iron lung content. like in the project hail mary tag the majority of it is strictly project hail mary stuff with the occasional bloodymary. but if you go into iron lung it's almost exclusively shipping... i wanna see commentary about the movie and ideas and thoughts about the movie itself without the shipping

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[dragonsongsblog]

Does no one use filters just filter out the fandoms you dont want to see...

[olderthannetfic]

So I went and looked up "unc", which is the hot new slang being flung around by obnoxious tiktokkers, and was completely unsurprised to learn that they yanked that one from AAVE, too. But underneath all the glurgy clickbait that just explained the Tiktok usage I'd already inferred from context, I found a few articles by and reddit threads full of Black Americans who were very cranky about a term of *respect* being misappropriated as an insult.

Apparently in its correct usage, "unc" is what you call an older guy who you look up to and who watches out for you.

So yeah, we'll be filing that one under "blatantly racist misappropriations" instead of "tactless and obnoxious borrowings".

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I clearly don't spend enough time on tiktok and am indeed the dreaded trend-ignoring old person, but the rest of this... must be a day ending in y.

[dragonsongsblog]

I legit thought ahh was just self censorship especially since that's on the rise with unalive and stuff

[saltminerising]

Call me ableist if you want I feel like being confused by k in treasure is just a skill issue. This is a very common number system on multiple games.

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[dragonsongsblog]

fucking hell no ones confused it's just annoying because it prevents you from seeing the exact amount of treasure you have at a glance

[vasira96]

it's always "immortals always lose the ones they love!" and never "this family has had this incredible, powerful, loving figure present through generations of their lineage, all because they are descended from someone the immortal loved long ago" and i think that's a shame!!

[inbabylontheywept]

The loss trope is almost always played out as part of the immortal’s growth, as if learning to be vulnerable and connected with the world in spite of pain and death was something only an immortal has to face. But we all do. I heard a story once about an old famous musician, rich and well known in his youth, who died in his late 90’s. And his funeral was almost empty because most of his friends had died, and the few that remained were too sick to travel. You do not need centuries to become an island lost in time. It can happen in years.

I’d like to see an immortal who crossed that bridge already. Who has used their endless expanse of time to become more human, and not less. To love in the way we all should, with the knowledge that one day this will end, and all you will have are memories. To want those memories so intensely it’s almost unsettling.

[inbabylontheywept]

@billgenbrough why are you whispering ideas that need to be yelled? Love this. Love this love this love this.

[chimaerakitten]

I think one of the big strengths of fanfiction as a medium is that it can, on average, assume the reader has a way higher degree of familiarity with canon than like…canon can. If you’re in the Star Wars AO3 tag you probably like Star Wars enough to remember more things about it than the average Star Wars-enjoying-ten-year-old. Which makes it way easier for fanwriter a to get to the juicy stuff and really engage with the worldbuilding or minor characters without having to spell out like. Who Wedge Antilles is for everyone who forgot or never noticed him in the first place. You could write a book about Wedge in the old EU because EU readers could also be assumed to be serious fans, but you can’t make a new canon Disney+ show about him. Those cost money to make and are intended for a broader audience.

And all this means that like. A good fic writer can and often will surpass canon when it comes to like. Thematic resonance and stuff, because they can really dig into something. Star Trek 2009 gave Kirk a new, more generic tragic backstory because it couldn’t expect the average moviegoer to be familiar with Kirk’s old, way more interesting tragic backstory. (Frankly, I’m not sure jj abrams knew about TOS Kirk’s backstory) whereas I have read a LOT of well-written, interesting, deeply resonant fanfic examinations of Tarsus IV, and what it means for Kirk’s character that he’s a genocide survivor. Star Trek 2009 answers the question “why did Kirk cheat on the kobayashi maru?” With “‘cause his dad crashed a spaceship when he was a baby.” A close examination of TOS canon implies the answer is “because he lived through a real-life Kobayashi that did have a win option, but which wasn’t taken.” BUT—and this is significant—even the TOS canon movies can’t really assume knowledge of the full TOS tv show, so that implication is never examined or made explicit. Instead it’s fanfic (and maybe spin off novels? Idk I’ve only read 2 trek books, if there’s one out there that covers this that would be really cool) where we get dives into that thread, where Kirk gets a commendation for original thinking because he can look a testing board in the eye and say “I’ve seen what happens when someone is entrenched in this kind of thinking, and I cannot let it happen to me. I understand the lesson, but it’s not hypothetical anymore and it never will be. I did what I had to do.” And that’s interesting! That’s meaningful! That can’t happen in a summer blockbuster. But it can happen in fic, easily, and that’s a strength of fic, I think.

[jupitermelichios]

I hope you don't mind me adding to this very good post, but in general i think the financial supremecy of movies and (more recently) tv has lead a lot of people to assume that the best stories can be interchanged between mediums. That every book can be adapted into a movie, every light novel into an anime, every movie into a video game etc etc

and that's the same attitude that underlies all the 'the goal of fanfic is to file of the serial numbers and publish it' or 'fanfic isn't real writing because real writing is novels and fanfic is usually structurally so different from a novel' type of takes come from.

this assumption that the medium is largely coincidental to the story being told

when that's just not true.

the very best adaptations always change things, because mediums are not interchangeable, and they fundamentally shape the stories told in them.

there are things you can do in fanfic that are simply not possible in a traditional novel, because you're starting from that possition of love and knowledge, and because you aren't bound by the need to be canon compliant, so you can ask questions like 'if these characters met in other lives, under different circumstances, what would they be like? how different would they be? how much of what makes them them is tied to the circumstances they found themselves in?' or 'what was it like to not be the heroes, to not be actively involved in the cool exciting bits? what was it like to be a minor character, left behind to deal with the consequences' because your audience is already invested, they'll show up for questions like that in a way a movie or novel or tv audience wouldn't.

there are things you can do in a podcast or radio play that are not possible in visual mediums like film or tv, because you're relying on the audiences imagination. there's a reason the best radio comedy tends to be surreal, and the best podcasts tend to be horror, those are both genres that thrive when the audience's imagination is allowed to fill in blanks.

there are things you can do on TV that are not possible in a novel or a movie. the way WandaVision completely changed its visual style with each episode is something that would not work in any other genre, but it's essential to the story. TV usually exists in very defined seasons, but cannot traditionally be consumed all in one go, which is not true of almost any other medium, and that dictates a specific type of pacing. combine that with the fact that it's a visual medium, and you get something like the overarching stories of the 9th Doctor's season of Doctor Who. No other medium could have delivered the resolution to that storyline as effectively.

Video games can force the audience to consider their own part in events. No movie could do what Spec Ops did, when it gives you a button prompt to commit a war crime, and then turns around and asks you why? why did you do that? was it too easy? do you think it felt like this when the US government committed the exact same war crime within living memory? Was it easy then too? A novel or a movie could show you walker doing this terrible thing, but it could never convey the point with the same effective simplicity, and it could never make you the audience feel culpable. only the author is responsible for the actions of the characters in a novel, but in a game, it's the audience who bears that responsibility, and that allows for moral questions other mediums struggle to effectively convey.

Comics can tell stories that take three decades and ten different writers to tell. Movies can use silence more effectively than any other medium because cinemas give you a captive audience and close-ups means you can reliably assume they can see everything that's happening (unlike theatre, which can use silence, but can't assume everyone has a good view). Theatre provides real time audience interactivity and a very special and unique kind of suspension of disbelief. Professional wrestling can tell ongoing stories in real time over years or decades, and walk the line between fiction and reality. Novels can immerse you more fully in one person's view of the world than any other medium (which also allows for information to be hidden from the reader without it feeling cheap the way it can when a movie does the same thing). Live oral storytelling allows the story to be adapted on the fly to fit audience reactions, allows for infinite variations of the same story, because no two tellings will ever be identical.

Fanfic isn't a genre, not really. Fanfic has genres, but it isn't a genre in and of itself. Fanfic is a medium, and like all mediums, it offers storytelling tools that are unique to it, that it does better than any other medium. and as OP pointed out, one of the big ones is that it can assume both familiarity and love from the audience to the characters depicted. We can stray far further afield from where we started in fanfic than the original creator ever could, because our anchors are not the narrative, but the characters.

[alfgifu]

Fantastic articulation of something that I've been looking at from a few different angles lately.

I started writing fanfiction partly because I wanted to get better at writing long-form fiction before going back to drafting an original novel. Fanfiction seemed like an excellent way to get feedback on my writing, and I happened to stumble into a fandom and have some time on my hands at the right moment. And of course I've met a lot of people who are doing something similar, it's very common for fanfic writers to have some original writing project(s) too.

Writing original fiction feels different from writing fanfiction in ways that I hadn't fully expected or processed until I was moving back and forth between one and the other.

It's not easier, but there are things you don't have to do as a fanfic writer, and therefore don't have to think about.

When I'm writing original fiction I have to figure out every tiny detail of the world. When I'm writing fanfiction, there's a huge amount of structure already there - and there's a vibe, a sense of what this place looks and feels like when it's lived-in - that I'm drawing on (or subverting, or playing with, etc).

When I'm writing fanfiction I do tend to provide some reference points in the text for a reader to orient them, enough that it should be comprehensible for someone who doesn't know the canon material. But I can assume most of the readers do know a lot about canon, so I can freely rely on association with the emotional resonance of the original to do a lot of heavy lifting. Brief asides can pack a punch from the very first paragraph. In original fiction those resonances only exist for me unless I set them up. I can't play with them. There's a whole layer of shared understanding that just doesn't exist yet.

On the other hand, writing original fiction I know SO much more than the reader about the world, and that lets me do interesting things with character perspective and revelation that would be tricky to pull off in the same way in fanfic.

Fanfic allows for play and interchange with the readers. It's like theatre in that sense. It's a conversation about a shared interest, and it's compelling to write partly because you bounce back and forth with other people about something you and they both want to play with. Whereas original fiction feels more separate and distinct: I'm starting from the beginning and showing you why this is interesting to me. What do you think?

(Not that any of these distinctions are hard and fast - I think particularly genre conventions and tropes let original fiction play with ideas the way fanfic does, and a lot of authors are effectively in conversation with each other, and fanfic can involve a great deal of heavy lifting bringing in original material etc.)

[olderthannetfic]

Ok I'm not one for frivolous accusations but I think I might be reading an AI fic. It was a social media comedy during the first half and it updated super fast, so I got into the habit of checking daily.

However, now that the later half of the fic turned into a more serious prose-based story, I am noticing some patterns. Namely, it almost feels like the entire fic is made up of 3 types of sentence structure: "This is not just x, it's y"; "This is x, and that matters"; "We have done x, now we do y." Additionally, there are long scenes of characters talking in circle and just repeating the same exposition with different phrasing.

Like of course this could just be a beginner writer who found reliable template sentences and just went to town with it, but it's kinda... idk. I'm not going to say anything to anyone, but I simultaneously feel like this probably is an AI fic and that I'm being paranoid, influenced by the AI fic witch hunt

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Those are definitely the structures a bad writer would overuse after being fed a steady diet of fic. Whether this particular bad writer is a human, I don't know.

[dragonsongsblog]

I ffeel this so hard. The "three things" like this. not that. That. you know it if you've seen it, algorithms love to do it. but those algorithms were trained on real writing but my pattern seeking brain sees it constantly in fic and I'm going insane they cant all be written by algorithms but I keep seeing it over and over screams

[thatdisasterauthor]

Drone incursions are becoming more and more of an issue when it comes to wildfires, so last year I designed these graphics, but I never got around to sharing them anywhere.

If you send your drone up during a wildfire, even if you don't feel like you are that close, all planes and helicopters in the area may have to be grounded which can have a massive and detrimental effect on first responders' ability to manage that fire.

If you send your drone up and a plane or helicopter hits it, no matter how small your drone is, it could crash that aircraft injuring or killing those on board and potentially people on the ground as well. Even if the aircraft stays up, it will have damage that could ground it for an indeterminate and potentially extensive amount of time, meaning one less resource is available for that fire and other fires.

Just don't do it.

These graphics are free to use and distribute for any non-profit uses! You can check out my Payhip store to download (for free, or pay what you want) a package of files that include vertical versions of each design, print sizes, and social media sizes.

If you want to check out the other disaster and disaster education resources I have available, visit my website.

[thatdisasterauthor]

This is such a different style than I usually work in, but I had so much fun with it, and I love how it came out.

[the-irish-mayhem]

Thank you for this! I am a wildland firefighter and can confirm it's a fucking pain in the ass when an unknown drone is sighted on a fire. All aircraft working the fire have to be grounded, and they have to STAY grounded until law enforcement finds the drone operator. It can take firefighters away from our tasks as well as we try to track the drone's flight path.

I've seen this happen before, and like I said, it's a pain in the ass for EVERYONE. We communicate via radio on fires, and any time a channel has to be taken up by some bullshit like "there's a civilian drone flying" is time when other information can't be communicated over that channel. Larger incidents usually have open channels for just about everything, but still, it's radio traffic that doesn't need to be taking up airtime.

Most wildfires and prescribed burns have established Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs). If you plan on flying a personal drone somewhere, please check that there isn't a TFR in place. The FAA has this information freely available, and I believe there are several apps where the information is updated as well.

There's literally no excuse for not doing your due diligence as a drone pilot. There's also no excuse for being an asshole and trying to get pictures or video footage of wildfires when you don't have the clearance to be in the air.

[thatdisasterauthor]

Yep! I work in wildland fire dispatch and it is a fucking pain in the ass to deal with.

[saltminerising]

"anon what did you do" I used to live in an apartment with 7 other college kids and 5 of them were my fr friends, so maybe this could be confused with multiaccounting, but my biggest fear is actually them looking through my PMs and seeing I sent my roommates funny messages in portuguese about sucking dick instead of money for buying pot. Sorry I won't be trying the light sprite (I think its against the rules to write other languages on site??)

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[dragonsongsblog]

all tthe chinese users with their profiles in chinese would get in trouble if it was flatbanned. as far as I'm aware it's just not allowed on the forums. Dont know about the sucking dick part if a mod actually got it translated lol.

[olderthannetfic]

Im not sure if the original anon is talking about the same nazi sympathizer, but Embers is an atlab fic where the author basically said Rommel was a good guy, among other things in the author’s notes.

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Based on the other quotes provided a few asks before this, I find it astonishing that any readers haven't noticed this person's politics.

[dragonsongsblog]

I'm sorry but I have never seen anyone treat airbender as two words and say atlab instead of atla and I was so so confused

[grootficguy]

“Every Pokemon is someone’s favourite” I’m making a spreadsheet to see if this is true. Reblog with your favourite Pokemon in the tags.

Here’s the spreadsheet in-progress

[grootficguy]

Ok, mother of GOD that's a lot of responses and I am but one man with Excel. I'll update these ASAP but also some rules:

A Pokemon only counts for itself, not its evolution line.

A Pokemon with multiple forms (like Zygarde) will only be counted for the specified form. A Pokemon with multiple appearances (like Spinda, Vivillon, Sylvally, etc.) count for all their appearances.

I'm literally doing this as a testament to my own depression that not everyone is lovable, so add that to the weight of this post's meaning.

[dragonsongsblog]

i dont have a mucrosoft account...but its flygon

[saltminerising]

we got aeq shutting down the idea of a fr fangame before gta 6

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[dragonsongsblog]

nintendo has been shutting down fan games for years and yet

[olderthannetfic]

To me 3D printing has a similar vibe as AI, but for IRL arts and crafts. 3D printing bullshit crawled so that shitty AI artists could run with shitty excuses and bad faith arguments.

A bunch of people calling themselves artists because they use someone else's work to make their machine make products for them. (Buying or even just stealing other people's 3D blueprints.) Clogging and flooding artists sites, shops, and even real life events with they mass produced cheap shit. Getting into petty fights with other untalented 3D printer people who sell the same cheap shit as them. Touting 3D art as the most accessible and innovative form of real life 3D art, while they themselves have non of the accessibility needs nor any artistic bones in their body to even make that judgement. Claiming that 90% of the useless shit they print has some form of value and ignoring when it's clearly going to end up in a landfill. Printing mishaps or throwing out entire sets of their shit and polluting the world isn't really "their problem." As if it's no big deal that they've reprinted the same ugly ass design 10 times already, and they keep breaking it during the removal phase, or they somehow didn't figure out that their impossible form print would fall over or break during printing, so that they effectively just created an entire chunk of trash for nothing.

The only reason why I like some 3D printing is that there are ACTUAL artists out there who know how to work different mediums who work with 3D prints, and show that these actually can have some value. Especially when they don't leave them as unfinished messes. People with actually skills who know how to use 3D printers as tools to make creations they've actually worked on. Not just the milionth 3D printed multicolor dragon, or retractable sword that'll break in two weeks.

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I went to a local witchy craft market and someone had the fucking dragons on their table. Last year's stuff was a lot better. This year, I hardly bought anything.

[two-headed-lamb]

One the one hand I do agree that a lot of 3d printed stuff is dross.

On the other hand it's gonna be these arts and crafts wannabe 3d artists and rich craft mums that are gonna bring down the cost of 3d printers to a broadly accessible price. And I reckon that is gonna do wonders for our right to basic repair when, I dunno, oven makers can't stop us just printing up a new knob for the oven when the original breaks.

Im not interested in 3d printing for artistic purposes, but I do wish I had one every time I need a specifically shaped thingy to jimmy whatever wotnot needs bodging back together.

[olderthannetfic]

Oh, I think it's a wonderful technology! Even for art, but especially for tool-making.

I just wish craft fairs would enforce one simple rule: to sell 3d printed stuff at the event, you need to have designed it yourself.

They wouldn't even need to investigate much. The tables I spot literally all have that same one god-damned dragon. The fair staff would just need to go on the most common site for downloading designs, look at the top 50, and use that list to catch people.

I assume they don't do this because they want a bajillion dollars per table and the vendors willing to pay that are the ones selling low-effort crap. I'm sure running more vetted events is a huge pain in the ass.

[dragonsongsblog]

i wonder if i have one of those god dammned dragons, my mom likes to go to craft things and knows i love dragons, she got me a 3d printed one one time

[sivavakkiyar]

I might be wrong on this: I think it actually is significant to not solely focus on but note how bad that essay is, because 1) it would pass no evaluation in any context and 2) because the TA was extremely generous towards it. She did everything right, every single thing right in responding to a student who was clearly expressing that in their ideal world she would not exist. She shoved all of that down, responded strictly properly by rubric, and was still sold out by her institution, what should have been her class solidarities, even though she held to exactly what the people who vilify her insist she is incapable of: engaging, “academic neutrality”, etc. She did it, as is extremely usual. They didn’t care. They were ranging for her and they’re goddamn hypocrites. People I think should know that; at least for her.

[whatbigotspost]

For folks who may not know what this is in reference to;

Oklahoma university instructor on leave after failing Bible-based essay on gender

A University of Oklahoma instructor has been placed on leave after a student complained about receiving a failing grade on a paper

[awkwardinnocent]

So I reblogged this once already so I could more easily read and respond to it on my computer (typing on a full keyboard is way easier than on a fucking phone).

This is genuinely one of the most infuriating things I've read about recently. This girl just straight up DIDN'T DO THE ASSIGNMENT. Then complained about discrimination because the person grading it was trans.

She got a ZERO because she didn't do the assignment. She didn't even properly CITE her source, which was the bible. There is absolutely a proper way to cite the bible, btw. And she didn't do it.

This was the assignment, btw:

She did not do almost ANYTHING this assignment required. She deserved that zero.

this was the TA's reaction, btw:

"Please note that I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs, but instead I am deducting point for you posting a reaction paper that does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive. "While you are entitled to your own personal beliefs, there is an appropriate time or place to implement them in your reflections. I encourage all students to question or challenge the course material with other empirical findings or testable hypotheses, but using your own personal beliefs to argue against the findings of not only this article, but the findings of countless articles across psychology, biology, sociology, etc. is not best practice. "You argue that abiding by normative gender roles is beneficial (it is perfectly fine to believe this), but to then say that everyone should act the same, while also saying that people aren't pressured into gendered expectations is contradictory, especially since your arguments reflect a religious pressure to act in gender-stereotypical ways. You can say that strict gender norms don't create gender stereotypes, but that isn't true by definition of what a stereotype is. Please not that acknowledging gender stereotypes does not immediately denote a negative connotation, a nuance this article discusses. "Additionally, to call an entire group of people "demonic" is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population. You are entitled to your own beliefs, but this isn't a vague narrative of "society pushes lies," but instead the result of countless years developing psychological and scientific evidence for these claims and directly interacting with the communities involved. You may personally disagree with this, but that doesn't change the fact that every major psychological, medical, pediatric, and psychiatric association in the United States acknowledges that, biologically and psychologically, sex and gender is neither binary nor fixed. "I implore you apply some more perspective and empathy in your work. If you personally disagree with the findings, then by all means share your criticisms, but make sure to do so in a way that is appropriate and using the methodology of empirical psychology, as aligned with the learning goals in this class. If you have any additional questions or concerns about this or would like some additional educational resources, I would be happy to discuss this further and provide you with them."

(all typos are mine, I had to type it out from screenshots in this article, which ALSO CONTAINS THE WHOLE ESSAY SHE WROTE)

Can we talk about how PERFECT this response is? This TA did their due diligence when grading this paper. The essay? It was hot garbage. I read the whole thing.

The other instructor for this course AGREED WITH THE TA!

"Samantha, I am the other instructor for this course, and I have also take the time to read your paper. I concur with [redacted] on the grade you received. This paper should not be considered as a completion of the assignment. "Everyone has different ways in which they see the world, but in an academic course such as this you are being asked to support your ideas with empirical evidence and higher-level reasoning. "I find it concerning that you state at the beginning of your paper that you do not think bullying ("teasing") is a bad thing. In addition, your paper directly and harshly criticizes your peers and their opinions, which are just as valuable as yours. Disagreeing with others is fine, but there is a respectful way to go about it. That goes for discussion posts as well as reaction papers. "Please employ more thoughtfulness in your future assignment."

There is genuinely no reason, at all, for this TA to be placed on leave. The TA was just doing their goddamned job.

As someone who had to write all kinds of essays about all kinds of things in high school (and in college, but that's somehow less relevant to this). I was able to write about being pro-gay marriage (before it was legalized in the US), being pro-abortion and being LGBTQIA+ AT A CATHOLIC SCHOOL. And I still managed to get As. Do you want to know how? I used real sources and cited them. I actually followed the assignment while still getting my point across.

It is absolutely possible to write essays disagreeing with the premise without completely flouting the assignment. I promise you it's possible.

I could vent about this for HOURS. That's how much it pisses me off.

Based on the essay itself, this genuinely feels like the student is such a bigot that she doesn't want a trans teacher and is using a RIGHTFUL zero to try and get that TA fired. She is claiming discrimination while actively discriminating against the TA.

[tammog]

We need to stop ignoring the obvious: this was a setup.

The essay is intentionally bad. You cannot write an essay that bad unintentionally, and even if you could, you would not then cry discriminating for being part of the biggest religious group in the US.

This woman saw that she had a trans woman in front of her and decided to try and ruin that trans woman's life to kickstart her own career in the reactionary talk show and podcast circuit. She already had an appearance on Fox, iirc.

This was planned, and what she wanted, and her victim did nothing wrong and was STILL placed on leave simply for happening to be trans. Since when are people just placed on leave when someone challenges a paper worth 3% of the final grade, especially when it is a paper so clearly intentionally written to be offensive, and to be failed? She was abandoned by her University, so so this fucking vulture can make her name for robbing a trans woman's life.

[vaspider]

It doesn't even meet the minimum wordcount.

[dragonsongsblog]

evil evil people

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

There’s something so uniquely terrifying about memory issues. I feel like my self is slipping away from me.

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

Here’s the thing I feel like a lot of folks don’t get: I’m not trying to forget what you said. Honestly, I really tried not to. I can’t control what I do and don’t remember—forgetting things just happens. It’s annoying for you, I know, but for me it’s distressing as hell and when you make a big deal out of it rather than just reminding me you make me feel ashamed. I’ll remember that, at least.

It costs you nothing to be kind to people with memory problems. Please. It’s scary enough without people treating memory lapses as a personal failing.

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

Hey, reblog this version instead, please!

[saltminerising]

just reported someone for having a very blatant nazi symbol in their signature. i hate this fucking website.

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[dragonsongsblog]

why do you hate fr for it lmao nazis can be anywhere what is fr supposed to do magically block an image from a website with psychic that's a swastika powers

[trivalentlinks]

People NOT of east Asian/Vietnamese heritage and not from east Asia or Vietnam: at what age did you learn to use chopsticks, and where did you grow up?

<18, North or South America

18 or older, North or South America

<18, Europe

18 or older, Europe

<18 Australia/NZ/South Pacific

18 or older Australia/NZ/South Pacific

<18, other region (but not East Asia or Vietnam)

18 or older, other region (but not East Asia or Vietnam)

I'm of east Asian or Vietnamese heritage or grew up in east Asia or Vietnam

Voting ended onNov 24, 2025

(By East Asia or Vietnam, I really mean commonly chopsticks using cultures, you know what I mean. So if you are from East Asia or Vietnam, but not a chopsticks using culture, or you are not from East Asia or Vietnam, but are from a commonly chopsticks using culture, please vote accordingly.)

[dragonsongsblog]

I. dont know how to. is this just a thing people casually learn?