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[foolish-pyrite]

Silk song experience so far

[ao3commentoftheday]

There was a reply on that last post (which I have deleted, so don't go looking) asking why I want to defend pedophilia, and I think the crux of the issue is that i don't think fanfiction is pedophilia

The reason why pedophilia is such a shocking thing to think about and such a strong taboo across cultures is because it can result in the harm of children.

No child is harmed when someone types words on a screen and posts those words to the internet.

Now, I have no idea about the real life habits of the person who did the writing and the posting - I admit that. But neither does anyone else. That person could be a criminal, but it's much more likely they're a teenager writing a fantasy about an older actor/character they have a crush on. Or someone grappling with what was done to them when they were a child. Or someone who enjoys the sensation of being horrified and writes horrific stories because of that. Or a bunch of other types of people who have other reasons all their own.

Writing about sex (even sex you find absolutely horrific and vile) is not the same as having sex or committing rape. Writing about murder is not the same thing as actually killing someone. Writing about being drunk is not the same thing as chugging down a mickey of whiskey. I once wrote a story about waltzing and I've barely ever danced in my life.

The reason why people like me make a distinction between stories and real life is because the people in stories (even if those stories are about real people!) are only as real as the Barbies I played with when I was a kid. I used to smoosh their faces together to make them kiss. I'm doing the same thing with characters, and the smooshing is happening with words instead of dolls, but it amounts to the same thing.

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

anyway in case you don’t know it yet

[i-add-sources]

ChatGPT banned in Italy over privacy concerns

The country's data-protection regulator has serious privacy concerns over the technology.

Not only is this true, Italy’s privacy watchdog fined OpenAI for 15 million euros in late 2024.

[autumnblooms]

“Death first to vultures and scavengers”

Harrowhark Nonagesimus you were made in a lab for me

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

[denizenhardwick]

you have to release yourself from the pressure of writing Blorbo from Your Shows in your fics because that's literally impossible. instead you are writing Your Portrayal of Blorbo. everyone has different interpretations and headcanons and focuses on different things when writing characters and that's beautiful.

[denizenhardwick]

it's much more fun to lean into the aspects of Blorbo that interest you the most rather than trying to force yourself to write the character exactly as they appear in canon. that's super restrictive and it's never going to happen.

[hug-your-face]

via @swatercolor [insta]

[hug-your-face]

This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think

[littleechoart]

SPOILERS FOR UP TO TMA 159

The Magnus crew and what they become 👁️ 📼

[omagpies]

[ you meet god and she is mostly dead fish. ]

a comic based on this post:

You meet god and she's mostly dead fish. You ask her why and she says most of the world is dead fish, and she's made herself to appeal to th

[kettledemon]

Mo Xuanyu text posts (posts provided by @aphel1on )

[wifiwuxians]

song lan sunday backlog request 40: song lan x wen chao

whoever sent this in is a legend. i know they sent this with love towards me

[sadbugbois]

I am rereading svsss right now and work has not been horrible for the past few weeks so here is some fanart

[tbgkaru-woh]

My bookcover art is ready for artprints ♥

[erstwhilesparrow]

okay i lied put your clothes back on we're not having sex i'm fundamentally evil and i need you to kill me

[queer-cosette]

'dating rules' are so fucking stupid btw. "don't talk too much about your hyperfixation on a first date, it'll scare them off!!" it'll only scare them off if they're a coward. Someone worthy of my affections will listen to me talk about my goal of visiting every whale exhibit with a life-sized effigy of a whale in it in the world for a solid half-hour and come away from that experience desiring me carnally.

[queer-cosette]

One time I went on a date with a guy who stared at me with raised eyebrows while I told him about my plan to go to ComicCon as Daphne Blake, and then he scoffed and said it was weird for me to be so into Scooby Doo at the age of 19. Last year I told my boyfriend (before he was my boyfriend) that next time I got ComicCon tickets I wanted to go as Rapunzel, and he gasped and said "NO WAY I WANTED TO GO AS FLYNN RIDER". So, like, not only is talking about your hyperfixations on an early date a good way to learn quickly if someone is going to treat your whole personality with respect or not, you might also find a kindred spirit.

[queer-cosette]

This doesn't just apply to dating btw. Any platonic acquaintance who acts like you're cringe for having a lot of enthusiasm about something is not someone you want in your life. The people who matter will do things that you want to do with you because they love you and like when you are happy. Case in point I could not have paid my high school official-best-friend to spend four and a half hours in London's Natural History Museum taking photos in the whale gallery but my adulthood best friend agreed in a heartbeat despite knowing the bare minimum about whales.

So yeah. Be openly enthusiastic about the things you love and the right people will love you for it.

[pavlovs-titties]

Hey, in the most respectful and platonic way possible? I desired you carnally off the first post alone, and that gave me seconds of you.

If someone does not love and respect both your proper and your freak? They were not meant for you.

No more 'being on our best behaviour' for first dates. Let them see your gremlin. Perceive their gremlin. Fall in ooky, whacky, gremlin love.

[queer-cosette]

MWAH kissing you in a nineteenth-century-author-writing-a-letter-to-a-close-friend-that's-now-heavily-debated-as-evidence-of-their-queerness-by-historians kinda way <3

YOU GET IT

[hbosscreations]

I ended a 15 year friendship over this exact thing.

I loved my dear friend, but it became clear to me in recent years that my friend did not love me.

Oh, she was happy to come and stay at my house half the weekend and tell me all her woes and how excited she was to do pottery and about her job and the men she was pursuing.

But she could not handle a five minute conversation about comics or movies or books or art that I was working on. She would sit there silently and say 'I have nothing to contribute' or she would start watching TikTok WHILE I was talking until I gave up.

It wasn't as if I didn't try, I only brought up topics in those genres I thought might interest her, or referenced things she'd talked about in the past, but it starting being very obvious that she didn't want to have a conversation, she wanted me to listen and affirm while she told me things.

And it genuinely hurt my feelings, because I don't particularly care about pottery or glazing, but I listened and learned and asked questions and eventually learned enough to have an actual conversation on the topic with her. Because I loved her and that is what she loves.

A few weeks ago, I went to see a different friend and she asked me if she could play a video game while we talked. I didn't mind, I was used to trying to fight with TikTok for attention.

We spent five hours talking, actually talking. Five hours of me getting to talk about the novel I've been working on for nearly two years at this point and for her to tell me all about the construction and design of her favorite game franchise, and not once did I feel like I was fighting for attention. It felt very much like hanging out and playing video games when I was a kid.

If someone isn't willing to try to meet you where you're at, especially if you're doing it for them, it's not a good relationship. You deserve someone who'll meet you at your level of freak, you deserve to be listened to and treated with respect.

[okaylokii]

SINNERSSS 🧛‍♂️🥀🦇🧄🇮🇪

This is available as a print on my etsy! 🫶

[wifiwuxians]

mermay fun in the sun

[sunderwight]

Fandom terms have to sound silly, like blorbo or squick, because fandom needs humbling. Not a lot. But just every so often you need a good grounding reminder that all of this is literally made up nonsense for fun.

If you take a fictional thing so seriously that silly words genuinely annoy you, you've gone too far and you need to dial it back.