next person i catch saying "umm actually this (male fictional character) is a bottom because hes PATHETIC đ¤Ł" is getting an axe to the back of the head. explain to me why you think being sexually penetrated is an inherent demeaning act reserved only for those you see as weak without being misogynistic &/or homophobic. quickly
Quite frankly yall need to be projecting more on the doms. Make the DOM have guilty sexual fantasies !!! Maybe the DOM is shamefully staring at the ceiling after waking up from a dream!!! Yall are cowards. Do none of you have any appreciation for the noble dom identity crisis. Do none of you have any respect for guilty sadists with control issues and who desperately want autonomy for once in their damn lives and who just want to Keep someone, for once, who want to be allowed to Want and Take . Do NONE of yall have any respect for sadists realizing with horror how badly they want to hurt the person they would do anything to protect and take care of and make smile? Cowards, all of you.
What no one warned me about when I got into Discworld is that Terry Pratchett would completely ruin all my future footnote experiences. Now, whenever I read a book (even if it is an academic text!!) and see a superscripted number, my monkey brain makes my eyes drop to the bottom of the page asap, expecting a funny, poignant, memorable, and potentially life-altering little treat, and instead I get hit every time with the soul-crushing disappointment of McFarthy, G. et al. (1997)
people on tiktok keep talking about how ao3 users are breaking ao3's "rules" by marking abandoned fics as complete, or that brainstorming a fic and deciding not to finish it and just posting what you're up to is also a "placeholder" fic.
so just so everyone knows ao3 has a very clear and comprehensive content policy about what is a "non-fan work" and thus is not allowed on the archive. and ao3 makes absolutely no statements on when a fic should or should not be marked as complete including if the author has abandoned it (and they probably never will).
and ao3 makes absolutely no requirement on what tags should ever be on a fic other than rating, archive warning, and fandom. tagging as "Not rated" "creator chose not to use archive warnings" and a single fandom is considered enough.
do not confuse ao3 etiquette with ao3 content policy.
and on top of that, do not assume that there is a unanimous ao3 etiquette at all. if you are uncomfortable reading any tags at all, then a fic tagged "not rated" and "creator chose not to use archive warnings" is not a fic that you should read. this is what "don't like don't read" actually means.
"but how am i supposed to know i don't like it if the author hasn't tagged it properly?" doesn't matter. you have clicked on a fic that clearly indicates that it is choosing not to use archive warnings or other tags. they have tagged it properly. you have made an error in your own judgement. this does not warrant abuse of an author in their comments, or reporting them to ao3 for "violating ao3 policies".
stop fear mongering about what counts as "violating ao3 terms of service" and convincing people they're going to get reported for something as inane as writing a fucking drabble.
saying this as mildly as possible but the anti ai posting tenor on this website (not last post, but in general - i have been biting my tongue for a long long time) is one generally oriented towards a maximal amount of self-righteousness. in my experience, self-righteousness only ever produces martyrdom and a punitive desire for "justice" that can never quite be quenched. none of it is actually conducive towards good politics around the matter in question, least of all ai, which is frankly poorly understood and thought about on here. a little more compassion and thoughtfulness and a little less solipsistic self-absorption perhaps is in order.
Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.
At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.
Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Minersâ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to âencourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community [âŚ] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.â
I see your âRocky swears like a sailor but only in pitches humans canât hear/refuses to teach Grace what those words meanâ and raise you âRocky swears like a sailor and now has to explain to Grace that âbad bad badâ isnât actually a sequence you play on your Eridian speech piano in polite company.â
Grace is both horrified and amused to realise that a more accurate translation for what Rockyâs been saying is âshit shit shitâ.