lesbiæn thespiæn

what it says on the tin. lesbian. thespian. also autistic and science-y and mildly depressed but that didn't all fit. mostly here to stalk my one (1) irl friend. ask me about my special interests and I will love you forever.

[lesbienthespien]

i just want a pretty girl to kiss me under the mistletoe is that really so much to ask 🥺

[lesbienthespien]

i don’t even celebrate christmas 😭

[lesbienthespien]

i just want a pretty girl to kiss me under the mistletoe is that really so much to ask 🥺

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

to me the thing about deification is that something fundamental is lost in the process

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

people can’t be immortal. so in order to be immortal you can’t be a person anymore. you have to be distilled. stripped of everything. till you come out the other side as an abstract concept.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure."

- Clarence Darrow

[greyspectreofkirkwall]

I hope that, whenever Trump dies, I'll first learn about it in this hellsite through the Supernatural meme.

As God intended.

[osterby]

With October and all its fanfic prompt lists just around the corner, I, as a fan of oneshots, want to beg anyone posting to AO3 to please post your works individually and not cram the whole month into one big multichapter work.

Anthologies of short fics on AO3 cause huge obnoxious hurdles for anyone wanting to find or avoid works like yours, and also muck up the numbers for anyone doing a stats dive.

Anything real that someone might try to accomplish with an anthology can be better accomplished with a series or with tags.

Teal deer: I want to read your promptober fics. Post them as fics and not as fake chapters so I can find them and read them.

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Here's the nitty gritty.

Anthologized works cannot be filtered for word or chapter counts:

I like to read fic under 5k, so I do this:

Someone else likes longfic, so they do this:

Only people who do NOT want to see oneshots will see your oneshots.

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All tags on anthologies cannot be trusted and must be assumed to be inaccurate:

This is true of literally every tag on an anthology, including fandoms, ships, categories (m/m, f/f, etc.), and archive warnings. I want to read Cleric Beast/Hunter vivisection fic. Someone else wants to read Cleric Beast/Hunter fic and is squicked out by vivisection. Your anthology features a Cleric Beast/Hunter coffee shop date fic and a Sam/Dean vivisection fic, and therefore carries both tags. I find a coffee shop fic I don't care to read, and the other person never finds the Cleric Beast/Hunter coffee shop date fic of their dreams because they're filtering out vivisection. Mad lib that example with literally any combination of tags and it's the same. Only people who do not want to read the anthologized fics will find them. (PS the tag for Cleric Beast/Hunter doesn't exist, I should get on that)

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Anthologies throw false positives for crossovers:

According to AO3's search filter, a crossover is any work which carries tags for more than one distinct fandom. In our example above, Bloodborne and SPN fics were anthologized together. Neither fic is a crossover, but the anthology will be removed from searches that exclude crossovers, and will spam the search results of anyone looking specifically for Bloodborne or SPN crossovers.

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The ratings on anthologies cannot be trusted:

An anthology must be labeled for the highest rated fic it contains. If you anthologize porn without plot or ultra graphic vivisection in the same work as as tooth rotting fluff, the whole thing will have to be labelled as explicit (or unrated). People looking for explicit work will find the the G rated fluff, people looking for G rated fluff will filter it out because it's erroneously labeled as explicit. Only the people who do not want to read the work will find it. Are we noticing the pattern here?

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To break the pattern a bit:

Individually posted short works belong on the archive.

Archive of Our Own is aptly named, it's an archive. It is designed to house fanworks, all fanworks, no matter how small, and the search function is designed to make those fanworks easy to find and sort. You are not "spamming" by archiving any quantity of correctly labeled archive materials. If someone clicks on a tag and sees a front page full of your works and decides they hate you, they can just filter out your username or change the sort criteria. But chances are they'll go "sweet, twenty new works for the thing I searched for!"

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Anthologies muck up the statistics.

I do a fair bit of searching AO3 to grab numbers rather than to find fics to read. For these numbers to have any meaning, we have to assume that the fics that show up in the searches are correctly labeled.

If I run two searches like this, I can say that these characters have about the same amount of fic. But anecdotally, Elden Ring oneshots are anthologized more often than Silmarillion oneshots. Perhaps there are actually more Ranni fics on AO3 than Turin fics, and they're lumped together and hidden from the site stats while more of the Turin fics are being counted individually.

If I wanted to dig deeper and crunch some numbers, the problem would intensify. What if I wanted to scrape all the metadata and say there were so many millions of words of Ranni fic? If I wanted that to be accurate, I'd have to manually go through nearly one thousand works to exclude the "chapters" that aren't fics with Ranni in them and have been falsely included in the Ranni tag.

And all this assumes that an anthology tagged "Ranni the Witch (Elden Ring)" even has Ranni in it at all. Overtagging is always an issue, but anthologies are often tagged for future fics the author intends to write and include in the figure; not even trace of nuts tagging or tagging, but literally tagging a fic that does not exist. (I see this with highly specific kink tags on kinktober fill anthologies often enough that it's a personal pet peeve in addition to a data accuracy pet peeve).

From another angle, is the sidebar for the Elden Ring tag that reports 2200 slash fics to 760 femslash fics accurate? Is it safe to assume that slash is anthologized at the same rate as femslash in the Elden Ring fandom? I've seen anthologies with "chapter" counts in the hundreds, how different would the sidebar look if all those fics were accurately labeled?

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But Osterby, what if someone wants to subscribe to my kinktober fills but not my other work?

Put it in a series.

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What if someone doesn't want to see my coffee shop AU fic while scrolling through my profile which is primarily vivisection kink fic?

Thanks for thinking of me! I'll filter out the coffee shop AU tag, or I'll scroll through your vivisection kink series.

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How will people know what order to read my loosely connected oneshots in?

That's what a series is for.

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How will someone find all my works with the same OC/setting/kink/trope/fandom?

Series. Or tags. You can give your own OCs and AU settings their own custom tags.

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How will someone subscribe to my kinktober fills if they're not all in the same work?

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What if someone doesn't want to filter and still hates my works?

Skill issue. On their part. Don't prioritize haters over both your intended audience and over people who want to filter out 99% of your work but still want to read that one Cleric Beast/Hunter coffee shop fic. And also you should block haters, not try grovel to them.

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What if I want to bury a fic between other stuff and make it harder to find?

Try minimal tagging, nonspecific tags, empty or uninformative summary, and archive locking.

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If you've stuck with me this long, I've probably convinced you to at least look into the series function.

To create a new series, just make up the name for it while posting (or editing) a fic. It's a ticky box under "associations", right above the "this work has multiple chapters" ticky.

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And if you need more convincing, a series will allow your readers to leave kudos on each of your fics. Wouldn't it be nice to get 31 kudos from me instead of just one? Pretty please let me kudos each of your shorts as I read through your entire bibliography in one go.

[destiel-news-network]

(Source)

Only those who are over 65 years of age or have a "high-risk health condition" will be permitted to receive the 2025 COVID vaccine.

[weirdsociology]

this is a terrible development from a public health standpoint but from a personal standpoint if you want the vaccine: lie. lie your ass off.

your pharmacist won't ask what the qualifying health condition is (i don't think they're even allowed to), just make you check a box on the paperwork that you have one. your insurance may not pay for/reimburse you for the vaccine, but that won't keep you from getting it (as long as you can afford it - obviously big separate problem there.)

anecdotally: i have done this for years and no one cares. i've gotten a covid booster every 6 months for the past four years by checking the high risk box and absolutely no one has batted an eye, including my insurance, who theoretically probably know i don't have a qualifying condition.

so lie your ass off and go get your shot!

[thats-what-sidhe-said]

You may not even have to lie. Here's a list of "high risk" conditions.

[wyf-of-bathe]

ON IT BOSS

[inkskinned]

my brother got covid because he's a college professor and there's not much he can do to mitigate exposure when he has 200+ students per lecture. he's got a baby at home, so he does his best, but.

the governmental website for covid information is now propaganda. not a joke, not hyperbole, not an exaggeration: it's genuinely the definition of propaganda. this is biased misinformation determined to push a political stance. it is being hosted on a government server. it looks like something you'd find in a "top 10 weird internet conspiracy stories (and their origins)" youtube video.

my brother called me when he saw it. he had me type it into google. for a second i legitimately thought that i had typed something wrong. we have both taught college: we have both said "a .gov site is usually a reliable resource." i just stared at my phone for a long, long time.

i thought about how when i was a kid, conspiracy theories were mostly fun and a little spooky. unserious. i remember reading some long, complicated website about how avril lavigne is dead. how bigfoot is real. it used to be funny-and-a-joke.

over seven million people (globally) have died from covid. america has the highest death rate with over 1.2 million people.

the thing is - every time a person dies from something like a mass shooting or poverty or treatable illness - we are told don't make it political. we are told it's just something that can happen. we are told it's sad but what can you do!

the president of the united states is using a government website to try to erase the very-real deaths that he personally caused due to a complete mismanagement of the pandemic. the president of the united states is using a government server to host propaganda, undermine science and medicine, and encourage distrust amongst his followers.

nothing is going to happen. nobody's gonna, like, do anything about it. it's a thursday today, and we are just going to move on from this like we have been moving on from everything else.

yesterday my brother was outside walking his dog, mask included. a guy in a truck pulls up and shouts something about covid and whatever the fuck else. my brother has a good sense of humor, described it to me as enthusiastic! i hadn't ever been catcalled before, this was new and therefore thrilling! i do see why you hate it, though. like. i have actual covid, does he want me to cough on him?

my brother doesn't get extra time off work anymore, because the cdc practically doesn't exist. my brother said i'm not exposing 200 students to covid. his boss shrugged and said: who cares? they're going to get it eventually anyway. like it isn't a pandemic.

like it's just a fucking thursday, and who cares about it.

[summer-with-another-wind]

hey so what the fuck what do you MEAN john proctor won no tonys

[holyheda]

science side of tumblr explain why i’m still not over lexa a year later

[holyheda]

science side of tumblr explain why i’m still not over lexa two years later

[imaginationofacornflake]

science side of tumblr explain why i’m still not over lexa nine years later

[benjinoff13]

happy clexa-had-sweet-and-gentle-and-passionate-sex-and-after-that-they-were-completely-fine-and-nothing-bad-happened-day

[lesbienthespien]

harrow fanart from @cutetanuki-chan 😍

[twoheadedoddity]

straight up how have y'all been managing the alectopause for 2 years now. i've been a fan of these books for 3 weeks and not even done NtN but already feeling like i'm gonna knaw my own leg off if i can't warp to the alecto release date

[horserad-ish]

reblog only if you’ve received less than 1000 boops! we can all get each other to “max”

[punchlove-blog]

More boops!

[lesbienthespien]

watch me watch supergirl s1e20 "better angels"

pre-episode:

ok so. I know, it’s been ages (since I watched, not since I posted). I… kept having so much other stuff to do, on top of the fact that I told myself I wasn’t allowed to watch the last episode until I finished writing up and posting my notes from the previous episodes. but I’m back now! after this episode, I will be taking a break to watch agatha bc my timeline is full of it and I feel left out. not sure yet if I should do a “watch me watch” for that one too? idk yet. anyway, without further ado…

description: "to stop non and indigo's master plan to wipe out everyone on the planet, supergirl is forced into a life or death battle against someone she loves"

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD EVERYONE STAY CALM

ok so recap. myriad is mind control. kara is immune. alex is not, and is being forced to fight kara. (sidenote: I wonder if people are lucid under myriad? does alex know what’s happening and is unable to stop it? more trauma for my babies!)

I think I know at the end of this episode, kara has to fly fort rozz into space? and doesn’t think she can come back? obviously she does lol but I’m curious what goes on with that.

also curious how they stop myriad. lord’s plan from last ep was a bomb, right? but that had a ton of civillian casualties. so what, they gotta figure out a way to kill non without killing all of national city? I feel like that shouldn’t be TOO hard…

ok enough rambling let’s go!

[lesbienthespien]

watch me watch supergirl s1e19 "myriad"

pre-episode:

description: "only kara and cat seem immune from myriad, the mind control technique used by non to turn national city's population into a zombie-like army"

dude we’re so close to the end of the season!!!

I! want! more! alex! this! time!

interesting that cat’s immune with kara, I would think it would be a kryptonian thing

> didn’t they say it was gonna be a kryptonian thing earlier?

istg if they have more of that zombie walking shit I’m gonna lose my mindddddd

[lesbienthespien]

thoughts during the episode:

watched: july 3rd, 2024

non’s like even I don’t wanna deal with that (white martian)

I have not heard of this lady

kara’s “ew gross” (irt “I once sought to make your cousin my mate”) is SUCH A MOOD

wait a sec why did they have to manually release that one lady if all the rest of them are being released automatically

why is kara scolding a robot (kelex) so funny

“once started myriad cannot be stopped” well they clearly stop it so somehow I don’t think that’s true

bro I only realized that was alex when j’onn’s eyes started glowing

> even when she pulled the gun I thought it was just some rando criminal

> were you supposed to recognize her and I’m just faceblind? or

ok so how come a crap ton of them were stalking in the streets last night because of myriad but now a bunch of them are just at computers?? 

> also now that I think of it why did kara wait until the next day to do anything if it started last night?

ok so the ppl typing away at computers are doing something for non. but clearly not everyone is because the tv is providing weather updates in english??

> ohhhh ok that got answered later that it only affects national city

kara I have an idea what if you remembered that physical touch is your love language and tried physically blocking them from doing stuff? I’m assuming the mind control doesn’t also give them your powers, so they shouldn’t be able to overpower you…

> or even like cover their eyes with your hand? just try something! obviously they can’t hear you so try something else!

hehe look it’s stolen doyle kryptonian!

> I would be like “I wonder what it translates to” but it's clearly just gibberish letters

bestie! if literally kissing him last night (blegh) wasn’t enough to snap him out of it what makes you think TELLING him to fight it will??

I forget have we actually seen kal yet? or just like in passing/flashbacks? I definitely thought we had but I guess maybe not

lord jumpscare!

fuck I just thought of this: what if non IS controlling cat but he’s making her act normal so kara will trust her and then she’ll turn??

> probably not but it’s a fun idea

he said two words and I’m already confident that this is a YATBA

> bc wtf is blocking ions going to do

> do you fucking know what ions are

god max do you have to flirt with fucking everyone

anyway my idea was much better and they should have used that as a plot point

I’m giving that a YATBA too and you wanna know why? nature vs nurture can (generally) mean two things: personality or epigenetics. discarding personality as irrelevant, I would say oh maybe it's something in kara’s epigenome that prevents her from being affected. but they have already established that kryptonians have chlorine based DNA and I’m still not over that!

> wait was it the kryptonians that have the chlorine based dna? or was it some other rando alien species

>> ok just looked it up and it was a different species (hellgrammite from e2) but I’m still standing by my point

see this is what happens when we don’t learn from broadway, people

> I recognize that made no sense. what I meant was indigo looks stupid with bright blue skin and pink lips so she needs to pull an elphaba and either do dark lipstick or the same shade. 

since when is non opposed to killing kara? last time he saw her at astra’s funeral didn’t he literally say that she’d be the next one in the coffin?

> like god is consistency so much to ask for

ok alex’s wig might suck a little bit but at least it has good lace!

and yikes there are so many worse wigs on this show this doesn’t even break like the top 20 probably

sorry does he mean kill non and indigo and such? or kill all the zombie people? cause at first I thought it was the latter but now I’m not so certain

(why did literally only just now verbalize this) why doesn’t non have a kryptonian name?

these two are the best? the best people in the world? cat grant and max lord?? really, non?

(wrt to non forcing kara to pick between winn, james, and an innocent civilian) oh shit

> are they gonna like explore how that affects her? or are we too plot heavy right now

>> I’ve definitely read more than one fic about how kara’s inability to save someone haunts her and they’re SO DELICIOUS

>> ughhhh its not exactly the same but god that one where she has to choose between lena and like five innocent people?? quite literally one of the best one shots I’ve ever read

>>> just looked it up and Of Course it’s by @lostariels I mean who else

>>>> I think I didn’t really know who they were when I first read it which is why it didn’t stand out to me but oh my god

>>> see now my stupid ass stopped watching the episode to go and reread it

>>> here’s a link kids have fun and be safe

Well that’s certainly A Plan

oKAY not MAXWELL LORD using female pronouns for GOD

(pssst hey hey you yeah ALL PRESIDENTS ARE WAR CRIMINALS)

(irt to lord saying “if I could protect people, if I could save them, I wouldn’t wait for permission. I would act”) but you did wait for permission. from the president of the united states, no less. that’s like the permission-iest permission you could get.

look I just don’t see why you need a bomb when the deo absolutely has kryptonite weapons that cause far less collateral damage

I don’t know how she (cat) doesn’t see that supergirl is kara when she’s being angsty like this

so j’onn can dematerialize now too? I feel like that’s new

WAIT FUCK

> I thought it was kal that she has to fight in the finale WHAG IF ITS ALEX INSTEAD OMG

FUCKKKK why is alex so hot

> I have a TYPE and it is WOMEN with DARK HAIR who look like they could KILL ME

[lesbienthespien]

watch me watch supergirl s1e19 "myriad"

pre-episode:

description: "only kara and cat seem immune from myriad, the mind control technique used by non to turn national city's population into a zombie-like army"

dude we’re so close to the end of the season!!!

I! want! more! alex! this! time!

interesting that cat’s immune with kara, I would think it would be a kryptonian thing

> didn’t they say it was gonna be a kryptonian thing earlier?

istg if they have more of that zombie walking shit I’m gonna lose my mindddddd