Look How They Shine For You

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[sapphling]

actually insane how many people are in the notes of lrb making it about anything but transmisogyny. yes it hurts to be treated like a misguided woman by cis people when you're nonbinary, no it is not even remotely equivalent to being perceived as a rapist-in-waiting by not just cis people but also tme trans people who claim to be in community with you

[sapphling]

when you are presented with the concept of people viewing all nonbinary people as either "silly girls" or "dangerous sexual predators deserving of social and physical violence" your first read on the situation should not be "oh no!! they're imposing a binary!!"

[kaihasmoreswagthanyou3]

jerking off is gay because you’re the same gender as yourself

[icaseybaybee]

[bodhrancomedy]

Look, it’s a weird hill to die on, especially when I don’t really explain, but children deserve to experience fear, disgust, and discomfort in safe scenarios where they can process those sensations.

Media for children used to be scary and that’s important.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis

[grace-in-the-wilderness]

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed."

-- G. K. Chesterton

[keremelcream]

oh to be someone’s daydream

[crimeboys]

the worst part of getting into new media is when youre at the stage where youre completely obsessed with it but you cant go through the tags or seek out anything about it bc youre not fuckiny done yet

[parakeet]

You will not die at the hands of quicksand. Ask me how I know this

[bearthethirdwheel]

Please, how do you know this?

[parakeet]

quicksand does not have any hands

[frankensteins-mt-dew]

[keyleth-online]

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Horizon (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aloy/Seyka (Horizon) Characters: Aloy (Horizon), Seyka (Horizon) Additional Tags: Seyloy Week 2026, Burning Shores - Freeform, picks up right where the epilogue ends, Canon Compliant, Established Relationship, First Dates, Eventual Smut, Fluff, Porn with Plot, Flirting, Alcohol, character exploration, goldilocks fic: not too angsty not too fluffy juuuust right, Canon Queer Character, Canon Queer Character of Color, Bonding Over Trauma, Lesbian Sex, Extended Foreplay, Loss of Virginity, Fingering, Rough Sex, dom!Seyka, Sub!Aloy, Oral Sex, Face-Sitting Summary:

What if Aloy didn't leave the Burning Shores as soon as Londra was defeated? What if she wasn't ready to say goodbye just yet? What if she stayed with Seyka for one more night? What if they could enjoy each other's company without the threat of machines or Zenith? What if they could savor their last moments together before not knowing if or when they would see each other again?

Or: Two outcasts go on a gay-ass first date and it's cute as hell.

[photomodes]

we're family. we didn't inherit each other or settle on each other, we chose each other. no amount of distance, no number of jerks in bad suits or obsequious robots, are going to tear us apart.

- the last girls on earth

[herssian]

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

[allykatsart]

[karagin22]

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[koiagain]

[ghost-mantis]

On this, the anniversary of the lunar landing, let us also celebrate the greatest post-mission achievement by a crewman.

I refer, of course, to the time Buzz Aldrin (age 72 at the time) cold-cocked a moon landing conspiracy theorist straight in his smug face after being accused of being a coward, liar, and thief.

Yes, someone was indeed dumb enough to tell a man so unafraid of death that he was willing to go into the void on a fragile explosive rocket, a coward.

Said dumbass was filming this confrontation as some sort of proof of moon fraud, but has instead captured this glorious moment of near-cosmic justice for us to loop for all time.

Aldrin was not charged with any crime. He should have been given another medal for public service.

[chrispineofficial]

saw an annoying post. but i’m being so brave about it

[chrispineofficial]

i’m obsessed with you. shall we get married

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]

[seracadash]

(goverment voice) we need to protect the children from pornography so our plan is to remove their eyes so they would never see something so traumatic. if you are against removing children's eyes you are basically a pedophile

[mackdaddyofthecravate]

Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol 

[sazandorable]

a short selection of concepts and phrases that used to be commonplace in fandom and we’d really benefit from making that a thing again:

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.

(definitions lifted more or less wholesale from fanlore’s relevant pages)

[shatterpath]

bring the healthy fun back to fandom!