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Y'all need to stop putting the good shit in the tags.

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@craniumsquirrel it’s your friend gold ship!

craniumsquirrel

Gold Ship is the shit. His father and brother were also problem children, but Golshi has my heart.

He could absolutely be a temperamental asshole who once caused race bettors to lose like 200 million yen overall in a single race because he decided to try and throw his rider at the gate. Sometimes he'd just decide he wasn't going to do stuff today, but when he ran he ran the competition into the dust. He got nicknamed Silver Collector because he didn't really collect major prizes, but he was always threatening to - plenty of place and show awards.

He seems to be a pretty playful guy too; I have seen some excellent video of him just hopping around in the exercise yard and digging with both his hooves and nose like he's trying to excavate treasure.

But the best part about Golshi? He's never run on full steam ahead mode. When he retired, they did a full physical to see how he'd be for studding, which he passed with flying colours - none of the strain or injury you'd expect from a horse who had given his all in races for a few years straight. The only injury on record for him was a slight tooth injury that came from his habit of biting the fenceposts.

Truly one of the greatest characters of racing and the world is greater for his being in it.

Behold, the legend!

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Mermaid's fishing (or humaning?) for Mermay2026

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Fandom old here, been in fandom since I was 13 and I'm not in my early thirties. In regards to the Beta and Writer conversation I have been seeing on your dashboard as of late, I wanted to say that Fanfiction.Net actually had the ingenious idea a long time ago to make a list of beta readers. What you did was you filled out a beta-editor profile and your fandoms that you were willing to do. They still have it up. The issue is that Archive of Our Own Does *not* have this. There's no official list of active beta readers or what fandoms they will do publically. Instead, most beta readers that I have found are in fandom discord servers. Tumblr doesn't give enough traction to do a beta reader call because everyone posts and can get lost in the feed. That helps no one, not the writer and certainly not the beta whose looking for someone to help. The other issue that I am seeing is that there was a unspoken yet quite loud rule that betas were people who wished to be editors one day and just like many of us on fanfiction were hoping to become writers or were going to go into English Degrees, understood that we had to practice for our own rejection. So basically, rejective sensitivity didn't exist for us because the betas were in as much practice as we were. This is their craft as much as writing was ours. Now there were bad betas, don't get me wrong. But you knew a bad beta from a good one. Now, I don't know about everyone else's school. But in my high school we were taught how to give criticism. Art and English teachers used to make us grade each other's art and grade each other's essays long before the teacher ever got a hold of them. We had a rubic to follow in English to help us, and for art...that could get brutal. Big time. You didn't get a I'm afraid. We got "oh god, she's going to hate it and I'm going to be re-writing this again" because English teachers back in my day gave back essays and told you to re-write it. You had four drafts before you could turn in a "final". I don't know how classes are run now, but this is another huge problem that I am seeing. So, how does this work in fandom etiquette today? I don't think anyone really wants a "beta", they want assurance. Every time I see "it's my writing style" I leave because I already know they didn't want me to edit and it wasn't a writing style they just don't know how to break the rules properly. Betas can help you break grammar rules *properly*, because that's their craft. They know the rules therefore they know how to bend them, break them, and make them theirs. Writers, we should know how to do that too, but they know it better. Let them have it. Let them know what really is a writing style because if it's just insecurity, guess what? Here's the tough truth: you either get a beta and you enhance your writing and you learn how to hone your craft to be a better writer or you don't. And the problem is that you can get better if you don't. A beta isn't a have to...but a beta can make you get better faster. You'll be getting better slower especially with lack of engagement on fics on AO3 if you don't. Which is a valid way to go. And a whole other ask/blog entirely. Editors and writers go hand in hand, betas aren't an enemy you fight. People who are afraid of the red pen weren't afraid because of the mistakes they made, it was once more going to the typewriter and figuring out how to make it *better*.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, anon.

ursavorpalis

idk how old this person is, but i'm 40, so at the very least not that young.

I used to be in a "brutal criticism" writing environment when I was ~18. what it did was kill my desire and ability to write, and I didn't get it back until I got into fandom and met people who approached my writing with warmth and a desire to help me learn.

a brutal criticism can feel satisfying to make or read. it is not actually better in improving a story than a gently phrased "hey the thing you did has X effect, is that what you meant to do?"

"when I was young we didn't have rejection sensitivity!" or maybe all the rejection sensitive people were driven out of the writing circles you were in. maybe you'd prefer that. I don't.

backofthebookshelf

I am a fandom old, been in fandom since I was 13 and I'm 42 next month. I used to write a writing advice column on fanfiction.net (I was fifteen and my only qualifications were I wanted to do it) and while yes it was more common to have a beta reader at the time, it was also well known that there are different kinds of betas, and what anon describes was often not called a beta at all but an edit. A beta reader was there to tell you if you misspelled the character's name or forgot a piece of lore, or if you had used a word incorrectly, or if this fic had the emotional impact you intended. A beta reader has never been primarily about harsh criticism, and anon is the kind of beta reader I would have shrugged off as "not really interested in fandom."

athenadark

Also fandom old - sometimes what someone needs is not so much a beta but an excited reader

Someone they can bounce ideas off and be told - that'll be sooooo coool

Personally I need a second pair of eyes so my betas fix terrible punctuation and paragraphing

But I've also had betas that go okay you used this - how are you going to take it forward and then when you don't chewed me out for it and that was what I needed then

Knowing what you need might be hey someone wanna read this and tell me if it works; and someone good at fixing stray commas; and someone who will put this through the wronger to make it better

Sometimes it's not 1 person who can do all three, or more

Fandom is a gestalt and it's at its best when more of us participate, and it makes the work we share better

jjjjjjjjoey

When ur mutuals w/ some cool ass people rb if u agree

decomposedmaw

Pixel post dividers for everyone! It's not much, but feel free to use them if you'd like. I don't know the ideal size for these, so let me know if they're too tall. I can make them a bit shorter next time.

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Day 31- MerMay2026

🐚 - seafoam - 🐚

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one fight at a time

lizardlicks

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local grou

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displeasedwolf

this is the vibe i bring to the party actually

seirxi

episode 44-49 of bnha drawings!

loved this arc so much and there were so many cute bakugou scenes i was rejoicing. I love the character progression so far as well, it just has me so excited to see where all of these characters go in the future

(previous watch drawings can be found here)