[novice-crow]

do people still do these?

[cringingwithabook]

Albus: YOU KIDNAPPED THE BOY WHO LIVED???

Severus(holding Harry in his lap whilst Harry braids his hair): I prefer the term express adoption

Harry(like 6 years old): I like sevvy he gives me s’ghettis

[lakevida]

i think its charming when peoples personal lives improve and they get drastically worse at posting

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[ewoly5]

"it's all in your head" oh thank god, it's only just affecting the most important organ in my body that controls almost everything i do to live, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[shamebats]

Oh that one is especially fun to hear when you have a neurological condition. Yes, I know it's all in my head. Headache disorders do tend to happen there. Shocking, I know.

[the-bedheaded-league]

It’s crazy to me that people read Sherlock Holmes’ obsession with Irene Adler as romantic when it is so clearly the same kind of obsession that gay men have for Lady Gaga

[veryfastnighuncatchable]

You know what I would love to see? A little role reversal in the Yard's reactions to Holmes and Watson.

No one at Scotland Yard is put off by Sherlock Holmes. Sure, they all know he's a little weird, but in their field who's not a bit strange? And he's damn good at what he does too, and he's really very nice when you get to know him.

You know who they are terrified of? Watson.

Because Holmes had found himself a flatmate, and everyone was prepared for the certain level of strangeness that must accompany anyone rooming with one Sherlock Holmes. But Watson is deceptively ordinary, and that's where the fear starts.

Because this man is a civilian, a doctor, he wears knit jumpers for god's sake, and he should be the everyman presence at the Yard. But any officer can tell you that Watson is the one you need to watch out for, because Watson will shoot a man at point blank range for looking at Holmes wrong, and then have a cup of tea about it afterwards and look at you like you're the crazy one. Watson once tackled a serial killer for no reason other than the fact that he could and no one had told him not to. Watson, early on in his whatever-he-has with Holmes, had arrived at an absolutely gruesome double murder and not batted an eye.

So yeah. The officers at Scotland Yard are absolutely terrified of Dr. John H. Watson.

[the-bedheaded-league]

New Sherlock Holmes adaptation idea: Watsondoes a voiceover narration of the story and it frequently contradicts what’s happening onscreen. Sometimes it’s literally just blatant lies. Watson also frequently looks into the camera like he’s on the office. It’s set in the original Victorian era so this should not be possible. He’s the only character who does this.

[boybeetles]

Okay so why are people treating a trans man playing on a womens soccer team in Minnesota as a win. Why are queer news places saying ‘hes making history’ by playing on the women’s team.

‘Trans men are excluded and unsafe on mens teams - so a trans man instead plays on womens team. This is somehow a win and the team releases a statement on how #inclusive they are’ ❓how is this a feel good story

[boybeetles]

You know whenever I see ‘feel-good’ stories about trans men being in women’s spaces - I really sit and wonder if those spaces allow trans women. Or is the only inclusion they do of trans people when they are still enforcing the sex binary onto trans men.

Because a lot of times I’ve seen ‘womens groups’ go ‘look how inclusive we are! We have one trans man. Oh trans women?…. Uh we dont have any because we dont allow them’

[bougiebutchbitch]

#another thing ppl overlook is that the trans men face constant degendering and misgendering#and that theres no mens league that would even let them try to compete#or when there is people dont take their lack of support training resources and opportunities into consideration#then ask why trans men dont tend to do well in mens sports#also the constant violent culture of mens sports just makes it a huge risk for sexual and other violence#its often play on the womens team (if they let you)(if they dont see you as a threat)(if they dont force you out socially) or subject#yourself to likely violence that if it happens will be seen as your fault for daring to be a trnas man in a cis male space#and youre constantly told this over and over#then we are told we are encroaching on womens soaces to dare to play sports where they let us#like i dont think any of these guys wanna be in this position#sports makes us so fucking vulnerable to violence and people dont care bc we dont get the news coverage of trans women being villianized#and if anyone says anything about michfest about trans men being in womens sports im going to explode

prev they are already saying this on this post and blaming the trans men involved for 'being like this' when OP freakin made it clear that this guy is NOT ALLOWED to play on the men's team. He is being made to choose between his career and his gender - no different from trans women being forced to play on the men's team. This is a clear example of misgendering in sport and transphobia against trans men and people who hate trans men in the trans community are still using this as an excuse to victim blame the trans guy and act like he is doing this in an act of transmisogyny :/

[ryan-sometimes]

I’m not falling for the propaganda trying to tear apart the LGBTQ acronym, you can pry this community out of my cold dead hands. I love lesbians I love gay men I love bisexuals I love trans people I love nonbinaries and drag queens and kings I love asexuals I love the kinky people at pride I love all queerness get that divisive shit away from me I’m so serious

[ryan-sometimes]

My biggest tinfoil hat conspiracy that I believe with my whole chest and will NOT be convinced otherwise is that a significant portion of modern queer community infighting is a scheme by Big Homophobia to weaken us from the inside and it pisses me off sm that it’s working

[prof-grace-aspen]

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

[nope-the-weeb-deactivated202408]

I know this has good intentions, so I will just add the "how you treat them, even as objects of fiction, can speak about your own character, be careful out there"

[prof-grace-aspen]

Your addition is actually completely antithetical to my message. It is literally the opposite of what I am conveying.

Stop telling people to encourage the cop inside their head.

How you treat fictional characters, given they are entirely objects of fiction, does NOT necessarily speak to your own character, and you do not need to be "careful".

It is not dangerous to imagine dark things happening to fictional characters. It does not mean you are secretly a bad person. It does not mean you unconsciously want to hurt people in real life. It is not a "slippery slope" to doing bad things to people in real life. You cannot damage your brain or turn yourself into a bad person by consuming "dark" fanfic.

I can write tentacle noncon of my favorite character all day long and be a fierce anti-sexual assault advocate in real life because what I do in my head is not the same thing as what I do in real life.

[askinfresh]

These tags were too perfect to not include

[kawaii-pigeon]

In case y'all need pictures sorry it aint in crayon 🖍️-

[novice-crow]

Me shooting up in bed in a cold sweat at 3am: WAIT! SHERLOCK HOLMES EXIST IN THE STAR TREK UNIVERSE! SHERLOCK HOLMES IS SPOCK'S ANCESTOR! WHAT IF THERE'S STAR TREK TIMEY-WHIMEY BULLSHIT AND BABY SPOCK POPS INTO 221B? AND HOLMES AND WATSON HAVE TO KEEP ALIEN CHILD SAFE?

[novice-crow]

John discovered snap button up shirts and now has a small collection growing.

Sherlock was rather appalled— after all, there is nothing wrong with a regular well fitted button up— that was until he realized how quickly he could get John shirtless.

(He may have also given himself a slight Pavlovian response to them, but John isn’t one to complain.)

[sunflowersand-bees]

people don’t enjoy shipping anymore. the point of shipping isn’t the catharsis of watching them kiss onscreen, it’s grabbing the characters and mashing their faces together like you’re five years old playing Barbie in your room again. it’s to take one moment of eye contact in canon and read that over and over and over again with twenty different writers’ interpretations of the characters internal monologues if they were in love. it’s to see the characters interact and cheer because you know that’s another moment to add to your list of canon compliant fic ideas. you’re stressing yourself out, this is supposed to be fun!

[ghosthorse-tracks]

Lesser-known steps of the writing process:

Finding all the paragraphs where you used some hyper-specific word more than once

Rearranging paragraphs that you swear you wrote in the right order but turned out to be totally backwards

Going for a walk, coming up with the perfect line, and forgetting it as soon as you get home and open your laptop

Creating a separate document where you can dump all of those nice sentences that no longer fit in anywhere

Waking up in a cold sweat because so-and-so was supposed to be barefoot but never actually took his shoes off

[what-even-is-thiss]

I can’t believe that in order to tell a story I need to withhold certain information from the reader at first. I’m excited about it and I want them to know.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

what ao3 would look like with ads. no, you do not want this. support ao3 because it’s one of the last few places on the internet that is not tainted by capitalism bullshit. support ao3 because it’s one of the last few places on the internet that is genuinely about the connection between audiences, artists, their works and the love/passion artists have for what they do

[6irlpet]

i dont want a childproofed internet i am almost 30 fucking years old. give your kid an internet safety talk and stop making it the problem of every adult on the planet every time some cryptkeeper legislator gets the brilliant idea (via conservative lobbying) to push through yet another bill gutting our access to free expression + increasing the powers of the surveillance state + lining the pockets of Big Data in the name of Protecting The Kids they wont even feed. this shit is exhausting i can’t believe we’re going to be fighting about it for the rest of my life