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If you’re a TERF and you’re in the Critical Role fandom please let the door hit you on the way out. Doubly so if you’re trying to use your lesbianism to excuse your transphobia.

crying-over-really-dumb-things

I’ve discovered my new favorite gimmick account on twitter lmao

ursahelianthus

Rainbow trout!!

ruvi-muffin

robotbeetle

i don't think it'd be realistic for wyll to be given wings but could you imagine?

sometiktoksarevalid

catsharky

Happy New Year everyone! Next part is going to be the last bit of this 'chapter' (I guess you could call it?) and after that Rolan gets to play center stage again!

Also, I mentioned it a bit in the tags on the previous part, but in case anyone needs the clarification: the timeline of this comic is what would happen if Astarion had come to the decision that he wasn't ready for a physical/romantic relationship after all. They're still platonic soulmates and all but joined at the hip, but they don't consider themselves in a relationship by this point.

Part 1 • Previous Part

Full page format once again under the cut:

shipping-isnt-morality

Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.

zandracourt

This needs to be reblogged today.

justsparethoughts-deactivated20

Consenting to see adult content doesn’t mean you should have to see a bunch of shit romanticizing incest and pedophilia you walnut

thebaconsandwichofregret

Except this is the last line of consent before the actual work. So if you’re at this button you have already done the following:

1) chosen to go onto AO3 in the first place

2) chosen the fandom you wish to read about

3) had the chance to filter for the things you do want to see like a specific pairing or a specific AU

4) had the chance to specifically filter out any tags you don’t want to see like, oh I don’t know, incest and non-con and dub-con and paedophilia

5) had the chance to set the rating level if you wish to remove any explicit content at all

6) have read the summary of the story, which aren’t always great but are the only indicator of what the story will be like writing wise so something about it was good enough for you to click on it.

7) have read the tags of the story which will tell you what is actually in the story. If you have used filters to remove stories with things you don’t want then there shouldn’t be anything in here that’s a shock to you but maybe there is. That’s why the tags are there for you to check for yourself.

8) Then you have to actually click on the story. You cannot see anything other than the summary or the tags without personally deciding that you are going to open and read this story.

9) Only here, at step number nine, do you get to the adult content warning pictured above. You have been through eight different steps, the last six of which have also been opportunities for you to see that this has adult content. And AO3 has *STILL* stopped you to ask one last time “are you sure you want to read this because it has things that only adults should see in it”.

If after this point you are reading incest and paedophilia then it’s probably because you specifically went looking for it.

You walnut.

vi-maxwell-blog

This is the most beautiful thing that I have seen about ao3

liumilai

alanaisalive

Stardew Valley's lack of a detailed tutorial is one of the reasons it is a truly great game.

Like, the theme of the game is making connections with other people and building community. To learn the game, you can either painstakingly spend hours figuring everything out by trial and error, using the limited in-game resources of the tv and the library, or you can connect with a community of other players who are eager to help because they remember feeling lost and confused too.

Use the wiki. Use the subreddit. Watch streamers and YouTube. That's literally the point of the game: building connections to a community.

evermore-fashion

Favourite Designs: Chotronette ‘Silver Souffle’ Gown

evermore-fashion

Favourite Designs: Linh Phung ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ Resort 2022 Collection

mellointheory

Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

the-haiku-bot

Who makes the porn bots.

Where do they come from. What do

they hope to achieve.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

mellointheory

and what about you, little haiku bot? do you feel kinship with your brethren? do you understand them? they speak words of enticement and seek love, but are met with disdain. you only parrot the words that cross your screen, but we all love you. or rather, since all you do is reflect us, maybe we simply love ourselves through you.

do you understand them, do you wish you could speak to us like they do? if you found your own voice, would we still care for you?

the-haiku-bot

My voice repeats what

you all say: I love you I

love you I love you.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

solkorolevaa

thenewborndeity

This. This is the first time. The only time. That it was not an echo. It was not found. Oh god.

scatter-brain-at-work

History was made on Tumblr that day.

luulapants

Very excited because I just reached the part in my pirate history book about Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet (if you didn’t know, Our Flag Means Death is loosely based on real events). So here are some comparisons between truth and fiction that I’ve noticed so far:

True: The episode title “Discomfort in a Married State” is almost a verbatim quote from one of Stede’s friends who knew him before he became a pirate, alluding to the fact that he was gay.

Omitted: In addition to his married life woes, Stede also had well-documented mental health issues, including severe depression, which are mostly attributed to the death of his and Mary’s first child.

True: He did have a full library in his cabin.

True: He did walk around his ship in silk dressing gowns.

True: Stede did pay his crew a cash salary, rather than a share, which was extremely unusual. He knew that little about the business.

Omitted: A lot of fucked up slavery shit. Stede was from a family of plantation owners and was raised by and owned a whole bunch of slaves. Blackbeard also had a spotty history when he captured slave ships, sometimes absorbing them into his crew, sometimes setting them loose, and sometimes leaving them to be sold by merchants.

True: Stede did receive a life-threatening injury from the Spanish navy.

Changed: He wasn’t tricked into going aboard their ship, and the truth is actually way more insane/embarrassing. He was such a poor captain that he couldn’t tell the difference between a merchant ship and a fucking Spanish war ship. So he engaged a Spanish war ship in battle. Half his crew died, and he nearly did as well.

True: Stede and Blackbeard did first meet as Stede was recovering from his injury.

Changed: Instead of rescuing Stede, Blackbeard was granted command of Stede’s ship by his mentor and OG of the Republic of Pirates, Benjamin Hornigold. Stede kept his space in the captain’s cabin while he recovered.

True: Blackbeard was reportedly very kind to Stede, who he saw as mentally and physically delicate. He encouraged him to rest in his cabin while Blackbeard took care of the pirating stuff.

False: There’s no way Blackbeard was weary of his own legend by the time they met. Stede’s ship was actually his first independent command, out of the shadow of his mentor, Hornigold. The whole smoking head thing? He first did that on Stede’s ship. In fact, the legend of Blackbeard was first and primarily built on the deck of Stede’s ship. They got their start in pirating together.