Reblogging this again bc people in the notes are asking a lot of "Am I included? Am I disabled if I have x?" and I just wanted to add the flag here to show people who the pride month is for.
This is the new flag, the old one was more vivid and in a z shape, but it's been made more neutral to be inclusive of people with seizures or sensory issues.
Each stripe represents a different aspect of disability:
Red: Physical disabilities
Yellow: Cognitive & intellectual disabilities
White: (And this is the key one I think) Invisible AND undiagnosed disabilities
Blue: Mental illnesses
Green: Sensory disabilities
If you're autistic or have ADHD? this is your pride month. If you have a mental illness, it's your pride month. If you're hard of hearing, this is your pride month. If you have an autoimmune disorder, this is your pride month. If you are not diagnosed with anything but you know something is up with you: THIS IS STILL YOUR PRIDE MONTH.
Yoooo!! Fawx & Stallion S3 fund is almost at 80% already!! :D
The award-winning comedy-mystery audio drama about the (second) best detectives in London is raising funds for its third season!
but i am going to need y'all to help it pass its goal so that the lovely people at @224bbaker can also get paid <3 (tbf i need all the stretch goals to be hit, houds of the baskervilles with f&s' holmes and watson?! yes please!)
my erotic fanfiction is more historically accurate than yours. here it claims that shes moaning 'yes,' however classical latin didn't have a word that corresponds to Modern English 'yes,' i.e. an affirmative answer to an interrogative. You could have easily avoided this glaring implausibility by allowing her to moan plus, 'more'—as exemplified in my critically acclaimed fic with an unprecedented number of kudos (eleven). I recommend that you log out of AO3 and return only after acquiring satisfactory knowledge of the subject matter.
my erotic fanfiction is more historically accurate than yours. here it claims that shes moaning 'yes,' however classical latin didn't have a word that corresponds to Modern English 'yes,' i.e. an affirmative answer to an interrogative. You could have easily avoided this glaring implausibility by allowing her to moan plus, 'more'—as exemplified in my critically acclaimed fic with an unprecedented number of kudos (eleven). I recommend that you log out of AO3 and return only after acquiring satisfactory knowledge of the subject matter.
Please know this sites hashtagging system is categorical and NOT clout based
Aka if I look up the “Wendell and Wild” tag, I should find clips, media, art and posts related to Wendell and wild ONLY. Same with any other random tag searched
If I spy a selfie, a random neighborhood, or any other kind of “insta” post trying to take likes for a popular hashtag, I’m reporting you for spam. Most other long term users will too and your acct will be fast tracked as a spam blogger and blocked.
You will not ruin the last non corporate site for us, especially by trying to treat this site like influencers matter. If you get popular, it’s bc you’re a clown w a skill not bc your hot or rich or skinny, got it?
#holy shit at people in the notes this isn't 'tyrannical' it's basic courtesy AND against the tos #the spam report button is easily accessible for this exact reason #cross tagging is absolutely reportable spam according to tos so just don't do it #it also doesn't get you any more notes it just pisses people off
People (me) will report you for this (I will). If you are spamming the tags, someone (again, me) will click the little report button (and I will enjoy doing it) every time they (I) see your unrelated posts clogging their (my) search.
Absolutely No Adventures is casting again! Specifically, for a "secret" Necessary Evil special (which is not secret at all if you are on Patreon or read this casting call I'm about to link).
It's for a Necessary Evil prequel special and I need 3 roles filled--2M, 1F. It'll be open for two weeks (until July 14th)! Audition! Send it to your actor friends so they can audition!
Absolutely No Adventures Presents: Necessary Evil Prequel Special Casting Call Thanks for checking out the Casting Call for the prequel spe
The following has been copied over from our new Substack.
Dear reader,
OFIC Mag is back! Here’s what we’ve been up to:
We ended our print run with issue #13 last October. It was not an easy or willing choice for us. Being a print publication was part of our initial vision for OFIC. Unfortunately our subscription platform of choice was Patreon, which eliminated its “per creation” billing option last fall. We publish three issues per year, so we charged three times a year. With that change forcing us to reconsider our workflow, we decided that the complications of printing and distribution were no longer conducive to our long-term goals—our long-term goals being: keep going for as long as possible.
Initially I intended to pivot to a fully online publication with stories posted on our website, because that’s how most digital lit mags work. But I started doing research into how other mags operate, and I discovered that while I love the aesthetic of many of them and the work they produce, I really hate how they’re organized. Namely, you click a random title of a random piece and start reading. With print, you can just turn pages; there’s an inherent order to it. But with online magazines presented as tables of contents with no information but a work’s title and its author, there’s nothing that really encourages you to read.
What I found myself thinking repeatedly was, “Just send me a story. I just want to read a story.” I don’t want to click on a link to a page with the story on it. I don’t want to click on a link that takes me to a page of other links, especially if those links are just author names I don’t recognize. I don’t want to be met with a paywall after three paragraphs. I just want a story, in full, in my inbox at regular intervals.
Then I thought, “Hey, why don’t I just...do that?”
And here we are.
How it works
We’re keeping it simple. Free subscribers receive one story every other week. No paywalls.
In addition to the above, paid subscribers ($5 per month or $30 per year) receive the PDF and EPUB files of each issue as it releases. New issues come out on April 1, July 1, and October 1 each year. You can also purchase them on our website for $8. We understand that’s a weird price discrepancy, but $5/month and $30/year is the lowest Substack will let us go.
Funds from paid subscriptions go toward our operational expenses and contributor honorariums.
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More info under the cut
In addition to our relaunch, here are some other changes we’re working on:
Building a digital archive
Since our initial launch in 2022, we’ve published 13 print issues containing a total of 112 stories. Recently we reached out to all our previous contributors and asked if they’d want their stories to be re-released online, and thankfully many of them said yes. So starting this month, every other Monday you’ll receive a story from a previous issue until our next issue in October.
We’ll also share stories from our archive sporadically throughout the year, particularly in January through March when we don’t have a new issue to post from.
New social media
Social media in general has kind of tanked in recent years, what with Twitter being taken over by a supervillain and AI slop infecting every corner of the internet. And yet we must persist. Going forward we aim to have a stronger and more consistent social media presence.
You can find us on:
Tumblr, which remains our platform of choice, being as we are a team of old school tumblrinas
X, simply because we already had that account set up
Bsky, which is a brand new platform for us but we have high hopes for it
Duosuma
We’ve finally moved away from Submittable, which has long been the bane of our existence. We’re instead using Duosuma to manage our submissions. We’ll open for submissions for our April 2027 issue in fall.
Lastly, here are a few miscellaneous notes/reminders:
To former patrons
We were unable to import our full mailing list from Patreon, so if you’re a former patron coming upon this post from a social media share and find yourself having to subscribe, please know that Patreon just straight-up erased most of our patrons’ email addresses. I did my best to go through and manually add people whose email addresses I knew, but I’m very sorry if I missed yours.
Back issues
If you’d like a physical copy of one of our previous issues, we have some remaining back stock you can purchase at our store. We’ve discounted all physical back issues to $12 each.
Up next…
Our next post will be on July 13—an essay I’ve written on the history and importance of the short story. After that, we’ll continue sharing archived pieces every other Monday until we publish issue #14 on October 1st.
This is also an open invitation for creators and listeners alike to tell me about their beloved shows on this post (or in my asks if you're shy). I am perpetually curious and also enjoy seeing people celebrate the things they care about.
Exciting news, detectives! A generous benefactor has offered to match all pledges to our Kickstarter campaign dollar-for-dollar through Sunday, 7/5, up to $500! If you've been waiting for the opportune moment to contribute, this is a great chance to maximize the impact of your pledge!
generative ai is objectively bad and causes widespread harm. it has a terrible impact on the environment and on humanity. it is regularly used as a tool of fascism and i hope it dies
much of the joy of fanfiction is that it’s written by a fellow human being who likes the same media as you and has put effort and time and their lived experience into their work
ai tells absolutely exist but ultimately some fics are going to look like they’re ai generated because ai was trained on human writing. this will only become more of a problem as ai writing becomes more ‘humanlike’ and human writing is inevitably influenced by the vast amounts of ai writing we’re exposed to
statements such as ‘this fic was obviously ai because of how shit and badly written this section is’ and ‘you can tell when a fic doesn’t use ai because it’s actually good’ are distasteful and will discourage real human writers from sharing their work
there are people who enjoy yelling at others and hunting people down for whom ai has become a convenient justification for their bullying
while you can think any ai use at all is unacceptable, there is a difference between e.g. a fully ai generated fic and one where ai has been used to correct the grammar of one paragraph
i don’t want to read ai generated fics at all but ultimately i would rather read 100 fics of which 5 were written using ai in some form than read 0 fics because people are so petrified of being accused of ai use that they stop sharing their work and/or stop creating altogether
Obsessed with Qifrey because what we see of him is 50% him being the best most kindest teacher and 40% a suspicious and desperate wildcard. But very rarely, just 10% of the time, we get to see him when he’s not being a teacher or being around his friends and family and not being a witch at the scene of a disaster, and he’s like, the most bitchy and hateful creature. Guy who is sick of being in a space. Acting in a way that makes you go “ah, that small withdrawn child grew up into a withdrawn adult who is just barely better at hiding it”. Obssessed. Guy of all time.
Thanks to some incredibly generous donors over the last 24 hours, we are over the hill of 60% funded! As a sign of our gratitude, we are delighted to share a small glimpse into season 3.
This season will have a number of fantastic guest writers, which we will very much be getting to in short order. However, the first three episodes that kick off the season are penned by our creators, Ian Geers and Lauren Grace Thompson, the first two being:
The Curse of the Canadian Curse
The Curse of the Illusory Identity
From our silliest title to our most cerebral, from the recursive to the mercurial, enjoy this small amuse-bouche into the world of season 3. And, well...the curse(s).
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dededos
tangentwithtanner
origamiaround
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