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when i was a young boy i had the philosophy of ‘balls are the boobs of the penis so its ok that i want to suck on them it doesn’t make me gay” and tbh i was cooking

tastylemonbread

to see a marching band

lilyblisslys

me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me

mollyjames

indigosfindings

i really like this thing where websites will have separate "log in" & "sign up" buttons and if you click "log in" it takes you to a sign-up screen anyway so you have to click "i already have an account" and then it will ask if you want to sign in with your facebook account or with instagram or linkedin or deviantart or whatever, and if you choose "username & password" it asks if you want to put in your username or use your thumbprint, and once you put your username & password it emails you a confirmation code, and once you put in the code it says "do you want to give us your phone number for future sign-ins? do you want to sign up for facial recognition? do you want to give us your bones? give us your fucking bones?

girlballs

websites prior to like the 2010s: sign in with your username and password

websites now:

daughter-of-sapph0

happy pride

lindleland

learningtogirl

I've seen this clip many times, but never really appreciated the power of "what was her problem?" Just casually assuming that lesbians come in a wide variety of shapes and being inclusive. As a transbian who is probably still closer to Homer shaped than to my ideal, that's huge!

soyalexnajera

derinthescarletpescatarian

Love when you're reading a fanfic or web serial and it's great and you want more like it but you've run out of stuff by that author, but then you see in the author's note "I've been reading X and it's really fantastic" and you're like "great! More stuff to red!" and check it out and it turns out that this author you love has absolutely dogshit taste.

derinthescarletpescatarian

My theory as to why this happens btw is that writers see more beauty in what they cannot write than in what they can. Beginners will recommend stuff similar to what they're writing because that's what's inspiring them to start, but when people have their feet wet and know what they're doing then they're less likely to be fascinated by things similar to their own work unless the author they're reading is markedly and obviously more skilled at what they're trying to do. (The exception is if it's an author they got into before they started writing it, and nostalgia is involved.) Everyone who isn't just beginning thinks that the style of writing they do is trite and unremarkable, and is unlikely to be amazed enough by writers similar to them to recommend it to their readers, even though their readers obviously love writers similar to them (otherwise why are they here). So you read stuff you love by some writer and they're like "I am so obsessed with X!" and X is some nonsense slop you couldn't be less interested in because the stuff you are interested in is the stuff that the recommender, by definition, finds routine and not worth appreciating.

That's what I reckon, anyway.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#i am in the process of having the reverse happen to me#where im realizing an author i like maybe isnt as MatureTM as i thought they were originally#and im sitting here now like 'oh no am i the author op is talking about'

Listen, when I was a teenager I recommended Sword of Truth to multiple people.

my-dailydreams

theimaginatrix27

There is a not-insignificant part of me that wants to grab the AO3 source code and set up a website for original web serials one can monitise.

Specifically because I want to post my original work online where someone can easily access it, like my mutual @derinthescarletpescatarian does. Which means I must not post it on AO3 because that goes against their TOS for good fandom-protecting reasons.

But I love the layout of AO3. I love making long detailed author's notes at the end of each chapter of my fics to explain why I made certain decisions I made, because I can't shut up about my own work once you get me started. I love the scene breaks, and the way you can add chapter summaries, and organise things into series, and tag stuff so people can find it if that kind of story is what they're after.

And I can't do that in blog posts. Not the way AO3 does.

But I have no money to keep a server running and making such a site just for my work seems frivolous...

derinthescarletpescatarian

Royal Road is a site for this, but I have no idea whether it's good on screen readers or not.

biological-mechanical

royal road is decent on screen readers unless you’re using a strange font or formatting. I often listen to royal road stories thru the built in screen reader on browser

derinthescarletpescatarian

Fantastic

animentality

wizardarchetypes

i think avoidance is such a little-recognized ocd compulsion. all the time i talk to people with ocd who are like "i was always having intrusive thoughts about using kitchen knives and harming myself or others but i'm okay now because i just stopped using knives ever 👍 so i'm good now"

and i'm like unfortunately i have bad news.