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They/Fish | Agender Neuroqueer Introvert | 🐟🐠 | I am older than you | Jolly Roglax pfp by Nine Lives Tattoo in Bray and courtesy of Mission to Zyxx

[creatures-of-wikihow]

[enigmafish]

Hello, Hi, Yes, I know I'm in this bag here but I would like to give you a little kiss on your nose

[gigglybumbug]

randomly getting intensely interested in some bullshit like

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

Hello. Since I've seen people submit finished wheels, I thought I'd submit a wheel I came up with. In this case, it's a wheel to tell you something that you can't do for a week.

https://wheelofnames.com/kch-gkt

this is a really really cool idea! Thanks!!!

You can't do this for a week!

How bad is this for you?

Its great! I can live with this

I already don't do this

It'll be annoying but I'll be fine

VERY BAD.

results/other

Remaining time: 4 days 4 hours

thanks inkarchivist for the submission!!

[tourfilm]

living under a rock is so fun i love watching a movie that’s been famous for decades and being like wow this is so good.. did you guys know about this

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

putting a freeze on y'all on this site posting about loving toxic yuri until I see someone get weird about Bargie and Tiny Toots

[thebargereanjade]

WHO THE JUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE BRINGING UP THAT NAME IN MY PRESENCE I'M FINE ITS FINE THAT SHE BLEW UP I DON'T CAAAAAAREEEEEEEEEEEEE

[enigmafish]

@thebargereanjade

[probuccalfat]

nobody else doing it like me. particularly because the way i’m doing it is needlessly difficult

[sconesfortea]

Excellent Dan & Hank interactions today

[enigmafish]

They’re both right, by the way…

I did need the link so that I would impulsively go play it, and I did need the timer so I could see how fast I was

[pseudomantis]

[is-the-owl-video-cute-deactivat]

a squirrel or perhaps a cardinal posted this

[phaeton-flier]

How about you mind your own damn business

[avidcollectorofdust]

Really glad predictive text exists. Should i bring my own parking lot

[pixeljade]

i am a SUCKER for characters who start out as copies of other characters but eventually become their own people, their own identities, completely different from who they once reflected

[hellish-undeath]

disabled people who do not directly "contribute" to society and need large amounts of care and resources to survive deserve not only to survive but to have comfort, stability, and fun within their lives while they do. no compromises.

[enigmafish]

Jeremy Bent’s straight man characters exist on a spectrum

Quariel is on one end and C-53 on the other

ZapZop is at the midpoint and both extremes exert the same pressure on him

[only-knives]

*taps mic* the queer community needs to make more effort to make pride events accessible despite corporate influence on pride and structural inaccessibility.

the queer community needs to hype up disability pride month (july btw) while queer pride month is happening. the queer community needs to amplify disabled queer experiences.

the queer community needs to recognize intersex people and how many of us have disabilities related to our intersex variation - and this Still Does Not Prove Eugenicists Right.

the queer community needs to fight ableism and love disabled people. queer or not. also quick question. why do you think the right paints us as insane predators.

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[violentoffender]

[wastrelwoods]

been sort of obsessively combing through articles and websites and resources about top surgery and recovery more and more as I gear up to My Big Day and while I hate to report I may have gotten through most of the scientifically rigorous and reputable sites I am at least, now, stumbling over some of the funnier AI generated slop images i've ever seen in my quest for Patient Information

[brawltogethernow]

They missed. 😔

[cactusringed]

I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??