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"Maomao I think we need to cure the patient."
"But let me taste this first please."
"No"
Maomao and Dr. House by Airiineando
I Don’t care if this is not in the light novel, the manga or whatever,
The animators need to come up with a reason to have Mao Mao making one of her deductions while walking with a cane and using it to point at things while shes doing it
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"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.
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.
they should make a version of socializing that doesn’t make you feel like you’re still the weird 12 year old kid that doesn’t know why she’s not normal like the other kids
the thing that bothers me with 7 deadly sin based characters is when they cant decide if they embody the sin by suffering from it or by drawing it out of others. ie. if your gluttony demon is a guy who loves eating then your lust demon should be a gooner sex pest. and if your lust demon is a seductive girlboss then your gluttony demon should be a 5 star chef. does this make sense.
On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."
As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.
As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.
I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.
May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.
In a weird twist of fate yesterday when I reblogged this I was interviewing for a job that would pay me $10k more. I just got the confirmation that I got the job.
Hey, that's awesome! Congratulations :D Glad my well-wishes may have done some good.
i really really hate liberals who do volunteering for orgs that help the homeless and then write thinkpieces about how a lot of homeless people are very educated and hardworking and its not at all their fault that theyre unhoused like. even if ur hypothetical homeless person is addicted to every drug abused their whoever commited many crimes and their situation is every bit their fault. no one deserves to live on the street.
what walking/cycling around the city every night with a bike basket full of sandwiches accompanied only by another volunteer for almost a yeat has taught ME is that in the winter its really cold and after an hour we both wanted to go in anywhere warm, but every single business requires you to be a paying customer to sit inside, subway stations have staff that chase you away if youre sitting there long enough and even heating vents have spikes on them, and that in the summer its incredibly hot even at night and cops chase you away from fountains and the city is full of tourists and partying people that make it impossible to sleep on benches and that in the spring it rains and in the fall it also rains and that your only source of food is going to be a couple of teenagers and uni students volunteering in their spare time to make you a sandwich. and my conclusion from this, is what everyones conclusion should be. this is inhumane and no one deserves to live this way
"She is the slut!" Season 7 - Episode: Old Boyfriends
GOLDEN GIRLS 1x22 - "Job Hunting" (1986) Dir. Paul Bogart
sometimes i watch golden girls and i just tear up remembering everything each cast member did for the queer community
estelle getty lost her nephew to AIDS and moved in with him during the last months of his life to take care of him. she started a foundation that cares for people affected by AIDS that's still there to this day. she saw one of the writers on her show was queer, walked right up to him and said "you're one of us!" and promised to protect him. she put her career on the line to become an outspoken ally of AIDS patients at a time when it would've been career suicide
bea arthur was a staunch gay and trans ally who donated a lot of her time and money to helping homeless lgbt youth. when she died, she left them thousands of dollars to stay afloat after she was gone. she was incredibly socially active in the queer community!
rue mcclanahan was a staunch advocate of marriage rights for gay couples and openly devoted her time and money for the fight for equality. she also openly participated in queer spaces and loved the community with her entire heart. she was intimately aware of gay mens' particular love for her character blanche and she fully embraced it
everybody knows by now about betty white's activism, but i'll say it anyway. not only did she join the fight for marriage equality, but she was a great mother to her lesbian stepdaughter. she participated in anti-bullying campaigns specifically against lgbt youth. she accompanied liberace to events because it wasn't safe for him to be out. she loved us and she fought for us just like the others
all four of them did SO MANY amazing things for us, and it makes me happy that we had people like them -- that we still do in people like dolly parton! we didn't deserve them. i wish i could've met all of them and told them how grateful i am!
I saw multiple people point this out on twitter, and then many people (predictably mostly white lestat fans) getting angry and saying they're reaching and making stuff up. This show doesn't do race-blind casting and is usually very deliberate in depicting how race impacts the story and the characters and their relationships. It feels very pointed to me that all the men that Lestat has been shown to be excessively jealous of are dark-skinned men of color, starting from Jonah in s1. I saw some people say he's so upset about Armand in the clip because Armand killed Claudia, but he literally says he could understand better if Louis had gotten together with Santiago, who also killed her. Lestat sees Santiago a lesser evil and a more palatable option for a relationship than Armand. He mocks Louis and Armand's relationship with innuendous comments implying their relationship couldn't have been sexually satisfying, kind of in the same way some fans act like Armand isn't a 'man enough'. Immediately after this argument is interrupted Louis touches his lawyer's arm and Lestat is Distraught
(source) (sidenote it never stops being funny to me how everything Lestat feels just shines from his face the least mysterious vampire ever)
I think people often take Lestat's suggestion he doesn't see race, it's just a human thing that doesn't matter to him, too much at face value as it clearly not true. He's completely aware it. The very first thing he says to Louis in the first episode is about his race and asking how he got in there. He uses fetishistic language about Louis and Lily and their skin color and romanticizes them as misfit beauties. When cheating on Louis he chooses the affair he maintains for years to be with a white woman because he knows it would feel particularly hurtful to Louis (i'm certain that was an intentional choice from both writers and Lestat in-universe). Lestat of course doesn't see himself as racist in any way and i think he would be very offended if someone called him that (like he was when Louis said being called a fledgling felt like being called a slave in s1). He thinks racism is wrong, nonsensical and tasteless. But i think he's also like many people influenced by highly racist culture(s) he's lived in for his whole life, and carries some ideas at least subconsciously. In the same way he seems to understand the abuse he experienced from his father was wrong, but then becomes a patriarchal abuser himself and refuses to see some of his actions toward Louis and Claudia as wrong.
I think Lestat is very scared and insecure that Louis could be sharing things with other people that Lestat can never share or even understand. Jonah was an old love but he was also a connection to Louis' black community. This Lestat's anxiety is actually most clear with Claudia, another person who he was very jealous of and started to almost see as a romantic threat against all sense. Lestat was instantly uncomfortable when he realized Louis and Claudia could communicate telepathically but he couldn't hear them. This knowledge that his (black) partner and daughter would always share an intimate connection he could never be a part of i think was a major part of him becoming more and more resentful and controlling.
When Lestat says he could understand better if Louis got together with Santiago it's worth mentioning that in addition to being white Santiago also slightly resembles Lestat (iirc Ben Daniels confirmed it was intentional). I think it would in some way be less upsetting to Lestat if the other men Louis has relationships with would at least have something in common with Lestat. It would be validation to Lestat that he's something Louis could want and love. Instead what many people have pointed out and i think Lestat himself is noticing is that most men Louis is interested in don't look anything like Lestat or have much other similarities either. I think the guy in the bar in the beginning of s1 who freshly turned Louis wanted to eat is the only one who kind of had a similar appearance to Lestat. Lestat has built much of his identity and self-worth around his romantic and sexual prowess and being a good provider, and when those don't work he's terrified. What does it mean to his value if other people, including people he may look down on, can give all that to Louis and Lestat has nothing to offer?
Fernando:*Walks into a driver dinner and puts a human skull on the table* Lewis: Uhhh... Fernando? Fernando: What? Lewis: The skull? Fernando: Oh yeah, that's Mother's. George:*lurches back* Charles: OH MY GOD!!! Max: Cool. Fernando: No, it's not my Mother, it belonged to my Mother. She'd put it out every Christmas to remind us that even though it's the holidays, people still die, I've have it up every year. Lance always seemed to enjoys it when he comes over. Fernando: Plus, you can put sweets in it! Lance: *Enters* Hey guys... Aww, the Christmas candy skull! You remembered!
Just thought of Van’s video store, While You Were Streaming, sitting vacant after her death and eventually closing down, probably leaving a couple dozen queer teenagers without their safe space, a whole little archive of queer pop culture that Van curated over the course of 25 years all thrown away and forgotten and now I’m crying
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How you dying 👀
