But where there's hope, while I still breathe, I will believe.

Call me Fry or FFF Bi. In my 20s. A Very Dorky Scot. Or a very Scottish Dork. Dumb Animation Nerd

[glitteringstardust]

💗 💜 💙 | 💗 💜 💙 | 💗 💜 💙

bisexual bertie songthrush stimboard

-with cake mixing/baking stuff, sweaters, and an actual songthrush, requested by @fryferbfringefan44

[usernameofrassilon]

the tardis medicating her beautiful wife

[starridge]

why did you do it

[animentality]

[darthstitch]

Me watching idiots on Twitter/X whinging about how they want AO3 to be monetized and to censor all the ick ew omg stuff they hate and my special favorite: OMG WHY CAN'T THESE WEIRDOS GO OFF AND CREATE THEIR OWN SITE

BITCHES AO3 IS THE WEIRDO SITE. THE WEIRDOS MADE IT. NOW GET THE FUCK OUT.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

AO3's source code is free to use! If you don't like the weirdo site with all the freak sex and free speech, you can go make your own site with your own rules!

::aid whispers in ear::

What? People have tried that before? Huh. Why hasn't--

::aid whispers in ear::

oooh, it always collapses under the weight of their moral superiority and infighing over what "bad" means. Right. Right.

[riddlecats]

"that character can't be trans fem because we need rep for boys who are feminine" and "these characters can't be gay because we need rep for healthy male friendship" are the same mindset of hyperfocusing on fan response instead of actual text. where are all the trans fem characters with detailed self-acceptance arcs??? where are all the gay couples with focused plot build-up, especially in genres considered "masculine" like action??? in addition to prioritizing cishet sensibilities with a thin progressive veil, it's just a nonsensical thing to say because the representation being defended is more common than the representation being derided as "actually following gender roles tbh."

[nektoshur]

request from tg

[garforarts]

Fight little wolf!

[sophsun1]

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[newsmutproject]

Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.

We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.

Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker

[beatrice-otter]

This is also, btw, how the US drastically reduced drunk driving in the US. Telling people they shouldn’t drive when intoxicated made absolutely zero difference. A slogan-and-ad-campaign for “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk!” changed drinking culture. Going after the bystanders is quite often the most effective thing to do in any social change.

[a-kai202]

childhood memory

[angel-in-shibari]

[daughter-of-sapph0]

infinite handcuffs hack

[artisimpossible]

I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.

I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.

[healerqueen]

I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples. If you like something, tell people.

If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well. Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two. Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.

[sircolinmorgan]

CATHERINE TATE as DONNA NOBLE in DOCTOR WHO.

[sgt-cookie-2]

Me (A time traveler visiting 20-year old Mozart): OK, so, this is called an electric guitar, basically instead of the body functioning as a resonance chamber, it produces music by harnessing the power of lightning. Do you have any other questions?

Mozart (Currently shredding Violin Concerto No. 1 on the guitar, having figured it out within 30 seconds): What other music can be made from harnessed lightning?

Me (Loading up some heavy dubstep): Oh, we're just getting started.

[axei]

and if i said the twelth doctor?

[samthecookielord]

Man i hope im not mischaracterizing or flanderizing the character....

>looks inside source material again

>they are exactly like that

>sometimes even more like that than i remembered

[draconym]

[draconym]

great work everyone hit the bathhouse