Forget About Me

21+ - He/Him - transmasc - Obsessed with Doctor Who - omorashi- Minors DNI

[forget-about-me2]

Intro

Okay, so intro post time I guess. Hi, I'm Troder. My pronouns are he/him and I'm an FTM transgender. Have been in transition for over 5 years, been on hrt for over 4 years, had top surgery two years ago and hysterectomy earlier this year. And I'm currently pursuing bottom surgery.

Doctor Who has been my hyper fixation since 2016-ish. I do interact with some other fandoms as well, but Doctor Who is my main.

I do occasionally write some fics, these can be found on my AO3: Forget_About_Me

I decided to make this blog to share some of my ideas that I might never end up writing/ might write at some point but am unsure. But honestly, everything just goes here, whatever I feel like.

This includes but is not limited to: Doctor Who, trans, autism, omo, Good Omens, the Sandman.

I write both SFW and NSFW fics. I have omo fics and normal fics, though they tend to be more dark.

Most stuff on this blog are SFW but I do sometimes have kinky/nsfw stuff, so be warned.

My asks and DMs are open for pretty much anything.

I do take prompts/requests, though I won't make promises about fulfilling anything.

DW omo related things are tagged WhoOmo.

If you look at my fics you'd notice that Ten is my favorite, I'm a Ten/Martha shipper first class.

I like to torture my characters a bit, but with a hurt/comfort goal, well most of the time. I can come up with some very crazy concepts. My mind is weird okay

Note: River/Doctor is my NOTP, though I have nothing against River as a character.

minors DNI, if I see a minor I'll block

Please if you follow me don't do it from an empty blog, with no picture or bio. Show me that you're human. I'm reluctant to block that but one of these days I might.

[shamebats]

[electronicmail]

wait til i get outta this time loop then youre really gonna get it

[electronicmail]

oooh just wait til i get outta this time loop

[puppygurll]

She's had enough of his shenanigans... And cutieful puppy dawg eyes xD

[docwhofans]

[bloodtroth]

I was today years old when I learned that when you type "otp: true" in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship

[djinnhatescold]

Gamechanger

[downtroddendeity]

Here’s a cheatsheet of all the available hidden search functions. “-creators:[whatever]” is another exclusion that can be particularly useful.

[lookmomitsmytmblr]

[ftld42]

Can't believe we're here, but especially important for fandom accounts: DO NOT link your IRL, government ID to your fandom accounts! Not ever. Not for anything.

You will feel tempted by FOMO, you will feel bullied by Discord. You will be peer pressured to the ends of the earth. Do not do it. Do not allow them full access to you, and do not let them normalize this utter horseshit. We deserve anon spaces. We deserve the internet, it's ours.

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally

Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and

Like this shit is TERRIFYING.

Cancel Nitro and tell them this is why. Shit talk these assholes in public. Ridicule them. And do not budge an inch, do not let them have you.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

For real, this same company had a massive data leak recently. Do not give them your ID. Do not use their face verification system. Do not pay for Nitro.

[asynca]

if you are a person who comments your reactions on every single chapter of a multi-chapter fic, please know the author FUCKING CHERISHES YOU

[asynca]

yes, and I tick them off in my head one by one and look forward to all their reads and takes!!!

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

you have to explain the nearest item on your left side to a mediaeval peasant, can you do it?

yes

no

way too easy

way too hard

they call me a witch

results

Voting ended onFeb 17

[kalatannya]

"Age in bio or i'll kill you"

You better pay close attention to the first one, and read it very carefully. I will quiz you on it later.

[kalatannya]

So much good tags

[sirobvious]

“Appeal to a wider audience” is corporate lingo for “strip more themes from a piece of media so it’s safer and more sanitized for investors”

[sirobvious]

I struck a nerve in the billionaire fandom with this one

[wiseabsol]

Okay but this is actually one of the most useful things you learn in creative writing workshops! Namely: Not all of the feedback you get is going to be useful! In fact, most of it isn’t! What you’re looking for are the people who vibe with your work and understand what you’re going for. Those are the people who can help you make your work better! But if you try to please everyone? Then you’re stripping out what makes your story uniquely yours. You’re stripping out what’s going to challenge and resonate with your audience. So don’t ever try to appeal to a wider audience! If you want those diehard fans who are going to follow your catalogue, let your work be weird. Lean into what you love about it. That’s what’s going to stick with your audience at the end of the day.

[osterby]

This is what “write for yourself” actually means. Write for an audience that happens to want exactly what you want, and don’t change or remove or water down things for hypothetical readers who don’t like your writing.

[skysilvestry]

Doctor Who (2005) 3.12 and 3.13: The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

[penny-anna]

In recent years of Dr who the doctor generally doesn't use physical violence due to his moral scruples but in 60s who the doctor generally didn't use physical violence bcos he was delegating it to whichever handsome 21 year old boy he was toting around

[penny-anna]

The first doctor: I don't kill people ):<

The first doctor like 2 episodes later: now Steven the invisible people who live on this planet are very tall so you want to aim about 8 feet off the ground. Ok start blasting my boy.

[ospreyonthemoon]

He's like "no i don't do violence!!! I've got my boys for that. Hit it boys, ohohoho"

[lolstitanic]

Isn’t this just a shitposting version of the take that Davros had during Journey’s End?

[penny-anna]

Well no bcos this post is very specifically about the doctor's beautiful boys

[penny-anna]

Like ppl keep bringing up broader points about the doctor delegating violence and citing companions like Ace and Leela. No I'm talking specifically about the initial 6 seasons of the show when the doctor having a full time handsome action boy in the tardis was an essential part of the formula.

It's a very specific dr who companion archetype that doesn't really exist outside the 60s.

[penny-anna]

essentially in the 60s the formula of the show, rather than Doctor + companion, was the Doctor + boy companion + girl companion, with the boy companion's job being to punch people in the face and look good doing.

classic who's last boy companion was Harry Sullivan who i think it would be fair to describe as a deliberate pastiche of the archetype, framed as a very old-fashioned guy and played as kind of dim witted next to the Doctor in spite of being, himself, an actual medical professional

Turlough and Adric are both boys who are companions but neither is the Boy Companion. Adric is, interestingly, a male version of the plucky teenager companion from the 60s (extremely similar specifically to Zoe). Turlough is in a category all by himself called the Rat Bastard.

the 13th Doctor's era has a new, unique type of male companion which is the goofy old man companion. i have mixed feelings about the goofy old man companion as patently he exists to fill the vacuum left by not casting a goofy old man as the doctor themselves.

that brings us to nuwho's remaining line up of male companions. are any of these guys the Boy Companion?

Jack IMO is the closest. like wouldn't be massively out of place in 60s doctor who. he's much more of a bad boy than any of the 60s boy companions. the doctor is also a lot more disapproving of his methods which is more of a post 60s dynamic.

Mickey introduced a new character archetype which is the companion's kinda pathetic boyfriend. he does eventually outgrow this role but does so by ceasing to be a doctor who companion and going off to do his own thing.

Rory is example 2 of the companion's kinda pathetic boyfriend but in later seasons I'd have to say Rory does essentially become the boy companion to Amy's girl companion but he undergoes pretty significant character development to get there. IMO he's closest to Ian in that him doing action stuff is a little funny due to being at odds w his usual persona.

idk how to classify Ryan to be honest.

this concludes my study into boy companions 👍

[funwithmydem0ns]

Thinking about how exhausting and energy draining it must be to have a healing ability. Like think of how tiring it is for our bodies to heal regular wounds or sunburns or fight a cold/infection, how much we wanna sleep it off and just feel gross. Now imagine healing a broken bone or mortal wound in an unnatural amount of time. The crash must be insaneeee

[whitepeopletwitter]

[commandtower-solring-go]

There are a lot of really dog shit things in the world of tech that can be solved with a bit of time, some stubborn googling and maybe some special hardware and piracy is only the tip of the iceberg. 

Printers are notorious for claiming they’re out of ink when they haven’t come close to the suggested number of prints, and their cartridges literally still have ink in them. So after a bit of googling I found out how to ‘reset’ a cartridges automatic stopping system (its literally 1 physical wheel on the cartridge that you gotta turn back). The only downside is that I don’t get a digital ink monitor, but since it told me it was empty when still half full, I don’t mind. 

Like, you can just jiggle with some shit and solve one of the biggest money making scams in the post-industrial world and I don’t think people realise its that easy. 

Or, like, repairing your own technology. A few months ago, I swapped out my sister’s laptop screen. Did it myself, I removed maybe 4 screws, no vital parts were exposed and it cost me $40. I even got a choice of matte or glossy. 

My point is, any walls that capitalist technology presents you with will be a false one. And one already broken by a dedicated community of interesting people working hard for free to break down that wall.

[buckskinblues]

kids these days will be all “be gay do crime” and dont even know how to watch a cartoon without paying for it smh

[thedreadvampy]

IN FAIRNESS

piracy was definitely leagues easier a decade or so ago when thepiratebay was functional, megaupload was still running, and YouTube and Google made only the most cursory attempts to block copyright content. like let’s not pretend that the internet hasn’t got a lot more corporatised in the past decade or so. piracy is still possible and you can and should do it but it’s a LOT harder to do safely and reliably than it was.

[thebroccoligoblin]

^thank u

[theoutcastrogue]

Sorry, this is all wrong.

1) ThePirateBay is still functional. (It’s not the same pirate bay that it was back in the day, but let’s not get into Theseus’ ship territory. It’s still here and it still works, that’s all that matters.) There are plenty of torrent sites around, more than there were 10 years ago – although overall traffic has plummeted. Now as then, it’s a whack-a-mole game.

2) Why was it “leagues easier” a decade ago? Some countries, not all (not north America, for example), now mandate ISP blocking of torrent sites, but this new complication can be bypassed with one (1) step: a google duckduckgo search for proxies. No government agency or ISP can possibly keep up with proxies, it’s yet another whack-a-mole game. So yes, it was technically easier before, but I don’t see “leagues” anywhere.

3) It was safer before? Are you shitting me? Have you lot forgotten that the legal departments of MPAA and RIAA sued torrent sharers (not even uploaders) and asked for millions of dollars for damages? AND GOT THEM? (By which I mean they didn’t actually get millions since the people they sued didn’t have any, but said people were convicted and ruined and that was the goal in the first place. It was a deeply amoral and cynical scare tactic.) Well they stopped doing that at some point, and focused on hunting P2P and torrent sites. Running a site is certainly less safe today. Using one, though? Depending on where you are, the ISP may be allowed to block you after repeated instances, and that’s it. You’re not getting in trouble with the law or into crippling debt. And either way there’s only a minuscule chance that any of this will come to pass, which becomes zero (0) with a VPN. (Safety of course depends on the country, and in some cases piracy is the least of your concerns. Let’s not get into that.)

4) Ten years ago there was no Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis was in its infancy. If today it’s harder to find PDFs on google, it is orders of magnitude easier and more reliable to find them elsewhere. People just have to unstick their minds from the notion that stuff is either on google or doesn’t exist at all. Geez.

5) P2P still exists. IRC (the sharing channels in particular, #bookz and the like) still exists. Torrenting functions like it always did. All these methods are exactly as easy to use as before, i.e. not necessarily a piece of cake, there’s a learning curve. But it’s the same learning curve it was 10 years ago.

6) So what have we lost? Only YouTube (meh, the film/tv quality was appalling anyway, and music is still there) and direct downloads (at least the permanent ones: there are plenty of them still around, but files expire and you need to keep track of what goes up when. So this goes beyond knowhow, it’s about internet communities. Let’s not get into that either, it’s a huge subject.) It’s a loss, sure, but I wouldn’t call it a terrible blow.

7) And in exchange for that loss, we got streaming sites. This is piracy, too, and it’s much much easier than torrents, and tons of people do it. Any “piracy has declined” narrative either implies that we’re excluding streaming from the discussion for some reason, or is flat out wrong. Ten years ago, grandpa couldn’t possibly torrent a film, and it’s debatable if he even knew how to open the file you helpfully sent him. Now, as long as someone has set up kodi or similar, grandpa can watch it on his tv and it just feels like cable.

8) On why torrents in particular have declined in recent years, see here. It’s a big subject and I didn’t cover all of it, but the main reason is that people had access to easier methods to get what they wanted (some legal and affordable, some illegal and free), so they didn’t need to learn how to torrent. Ergo, they never did. There’s more of course, and there’s definitely a cultural shift too, but that’s a very long story so let’s not get into it. The linked post also includes some thoughts on why torrents aren’t dead and doomed just yet, and ooh, I forgot a very important one: you can’t stream photoshop.

To summarise, internet piracy is NOT more difficult, unreliable, and unsafe today than it was 10 or 20 years ago. For reasons why people (young or otherwise) seem less versed in it, please look elsewhere. I have thoughts on that too, but this is already a very long post, so I’ll just leave you with the best kind of thought. I’ll leave you with a doubt:

ARE people less versed in piracy? Are they really? Or is it simply that 20 years ago, internet users were computer geeks by definition, whereas now everyone’s online? Perhaps the percentage of skilled pirates in the general population remains more or less the same, and the only thing that’s dropped is the percentage of skilled pirates to total internet users. I can’t be sure without statistical evidence, but it’s a possibility.

[pulchrabelle]

You can literally google “watch _____ free online” and find most movies but the third result just download Adblock or popup blocker and you’re golden it truly couldn’t be easier

[chickenmcnuggies]

I’ve been meaning to make a piracy masterpost for awhile and what better time than now?

Materpost: A curated Githup tutorial of links to more torrent sites, software, VPNs, uBlock origin filters, ect. Basically everything you could ever want starting out. Do be warned though it doesn’t appear to have been updated in awhile so a few of the links are dead.

GAMES:

Vimm’s Roms: NES era->ps3 era roms and emulators to play them. Has user ratings on games. Cons: slow download speeds.

NxBrew: Switch roms/game updates/dlc

nsw2u: More switch roms. Check here if nxbrew doesn’t have the game you’re looking for.

Hshop: 3ds games/updates/dlc. Very well organized and sorted by console region. Bonus ability to generate QR codes to scan with homebrew to begin download directly on your console.

Oldgamesdownload: Old 90’s-2000’s PC games and some gamecube games. Technically, all of the games here are abandon ware, meaning the original company/creator doesn’t sell nor make money from the games anymore period. If you’re into that.

Fitgirl repacks: Heavily compressed PC games, and other various consoles. Small downloads and faster speeds for the size of the games. Somewhat limited game selection.

Steam unlocked: Steam games with easy-to-use installers. Check here if fitgirl doesn’t have what you’re looking for.

Steam Underground: A user forum for piracy support, usually about installing cracked games. Does have some scattered PC game downloads.

Google doc of Skyrim SE creation club content.

Amiibo life: Amiibo bins, can be loaded with some homebrew to load in games without any external source, or, if you buy writable NFC cards, you can make your own free amiibos.

Books:

Library Genesis: a good all-in-one ebook finder. Has books, magazines, scientific papers, ect. Well organized and able to sort by Author, Genre, ect ect. Almost all books in .epub format

Calibre: Not piracy but a free software for reading said .epub files, and other ebook formats. Good for sorting your books.

Sci-Hub: Research papers, academic books, pdfs, ect. Helpful for collage students.

IT ebook: eBooks about learning programming languages.

audiobookbay: Audiobook downloads.

Booksonic: Audiobook streaming.

5e.tools: Dnd player’s manual, guide, ect.

Books on learning various languages.

Mangadex: Manga, Doujinshi.      

Headspace sleep audio.

Various books and manuals.

Streaming:

ustvgo: Free streaming of live tv, has most US cable tv channels.

tutturu: Spiritual successor to Rabbit, allows you to stream your screen with friends.

Yes movies: Movies

Kimcartoon: Cartoons/animated movies

aniwatcher: Anime

animedao: Anime

Computer software:

getintopc: Wide selection of pc (mostly windows) software of all sorts, and different versions. Can personally vouch for the site, I’ve gotten Photoshop, Maya, and Sony Vegas from here over the years.

Other:

the eye: An archive of old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect. Cons: No search function and slightly hard to navigate.

1337x.to: Torrent site for movies, shows, games, comics, ect.

ThePirateBay: The classic.

Recorded broadway musicals. Verying quality.

[unyanizedcatboys]

Finally someone actually posted links instead of just bitching or saying “it’s easy”

[zoanzon]

Ok just want to plug the eye a bit more considering I lost a few hours in their yesterday.

the eye has been up since 2017 and in the last four years have accumulated 140TB of data (according to their own reports). Part of their growth is just their own work, part of it is absorbing other archives/open directories that were having issues: I know rpg.rem.uz used to be its own archive - gave way to The Trove, which is having its own issues right now unfortunately… - but now most-all of their content can also just be found on the eye. Same with a few dozen other archives.

And they have ‘old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect’, but massively more than you might think just based off how this sounds. Like…

They have it all.

If you want to try and homebrew alcohol, go check their stuff. If you want to try and read books that are out of print or otherwise in public domain (and some that aren’t yet in public domain), go check their stuff. If you want to run a campaign and can’t pay for expensive print tabletop books, go check their stuff. If you want to fuck off into the woods to live off the land (or research how that would work for a writing project), go check their stuff. If you’re trying to learn shit about drugs - any drugs, almost - go check their stuff.

Hell, if you want to go read what looks like literally every research paper on coronaviruses from 1968 up to Feb 2020, you can do that too!

As chickenmcnuggies said its a mess and a half to navigate through their collections, partially with how large it is and the fact quite a few folders were once whole other archives since absorbed by the eye…

But goddamn you can lose an afternoon just going through all the stuff they have.

[bigbadowlet]

The subreddit r/freemediaheckyeah is a great resource and their index: https://fmhy.net/ has A LOT of stuff with a pretty straightforward UI. Its got free resources for pretty much anything you could want on the internet, both fully legal and dubiously legal.

Welcome

The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!

[i-might-be-vanny]

@isuggestalibraryofthings

[isuggestalibraryofthings]

i have a suggestion

[anarchistmemedistro]

r/piracy megathread

[synergy27]

Me at 13: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”

Me at 17: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”

Me at 21: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”

[showgirlshawn]

Me at 35: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”

[avenger-nerd-mom]

Me at 51: "god I can't wait to go home and read fanfic"

[cookiemom6067]

Me at 63: "god I can't wait to go home and read fanfic"

[omowritingprompts]

A character with recently acquired transformation powers abusing them to deal with pee drama, like transforming into a dog to pee in public without people questioning, or just a smaller creature, and it's mortifying at first, but way too convenient not to do it over and over again.

[unpretty]

pro tip “he freed his erection” is the most useful phrase in any smut writer’s arsenal because it means never having to figure out a dude’s pants situation. how did he do it? were there zippers? buttons? some kind of bizarre lacing situation? maybe he cut off his pants with scissors. maybe it was a wizard. maybe it busted out like the hulk busts out of his shirts. no one knows. no one cares. his dick is out now and that is all that matters. thank you helpful dick wizard.

[unpretty]

happy ten year anniversary to the dick wizard

[official-penis-posts]

The penis

The penis has been freed

yes

YES

the penis is out