"great music taste you have"

call me Ladle and/or idk- Any nickname you can come up with. She/he pronouns! kotlc is my main bitch, but i dabble in other things. bi aro mishmash.

[lemontarto]

catcher dex but youll never catch me rendering chest pads ever again ❤️

[evilwriter37]

Saying “this niche, properly tagged, warned, and rated piece of fiction could theoretically hurt someone” is not a good argument. This properly labeled cookie with the allergen information at the bottom that contains gluten could theoretically harm me very badly, but only if I consume it. Tags are like nutrition labels, and warnings are like allergy information. If you know you have an allergy to something, the logic is to stay away from it. It is the same with fiction. I’m not running through stores yelling at people to take all the products with gluten off the shelves just because it could hurt me. Instead I ignore it and go to the gluten free section and find cookies that are right for me. And if running through a grocery store yelling sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. Stop doing the same with fiction.

[kokichis-dead-dove-club]

this is the best way i’ve seen this put!!

[lynati]

And just like with food, what might be harmful for one person to consume could be quite *beneficial* for others. One man’s trigger is another man’s catharsis.

[randomslasher]

AND if you lack the maturity/self control/awareness to stop yourself from eating things that could potentially harm you, you either 1) are too young to be making your own food choices and should be supervised by a parent/other adult who is supposed to be responsible for you (and the store clerk who put the food on the shelf is NOT) or 2) need to take accountability for your own actions, because if you deliberately consumed something you knew could hurt you as a fully autonomous adult, then you really have no one to blame but yourself.

[nikoford]

I’d like to add that within AO3, “Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings” is, in this food analogy, like the food labels that read “This product was manufactured in a facility where [potential food allergens] are used in the production of some products”. It’s not telling you they’re in there, but even more importantly, it’s not telling you they’re not. This is not the same as “No Archive Warnings Apply” which would be the certified [food allergen] free food. One guarantees a certain experience, the other has given you no promises as to what may or may not be included and is very much a consume-at-your-own-risk product.

[sevdrag]

perfection

[sweetly-impious]

it’s a good metaphor but i’d like to add that with fanfiction there are no laws or testing facilities to ensure perfect and complete tagging every time. it’s just people, doing a hobby, and most of them are probably genuinely trying to tag well but even common tags can be subject to individual definitions and hazy boundaries. these are strangers and they do not know your needs. you are not buying a product and you cannot sue them for mislabeling.

this is a potluck, not a grocery store. at the end of the day, everyone is always reading at their own risk, not just when “choose not to use archive warnings” is selected. we need to know that and cultivate the awareness to click out of a fic early and administer self-care in the event of encountering something we’re reacting poorly to—whether it’s under-tagged, wrongly-tagged, or we’re just having a worse day than we realised and an old allergy is rearing its head after being dormant for years.

and if we’re really worried, get a friend to pre-read our fics until we’re doing better; community spaces can have community solutions.

[anglaised]

it is so annoying being so self aware about all my issues like okay what now girl

[depsidase]

[kubb-is-a-swedish-lawn-game]

the trolley problem except the guy tied to one set of tracks is your friend and someone you trust and one of the few people in the world that you genuinely like and he's begging for his life and he's saying that you're murdering him and he's screaming and clawing and running like a wild animal. on the other set of tracks is every living thing on the planet. its a no brainer, obviously. but he will still scream. this happened to my good friend eva stratt

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[aloha-from-angel]

My best interaction ever i love humans

[girlnextvore]

When you see a Prep in hottopic

[girlnextvore]

“This Prep is ready for war bring it you emo fuck”

[girlnextvore]

why are people reblogging this again

this post is like 11 years old

WHY AREYALL DOING THIS

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

We’re all having a midlife crisis leave us be

[girlnextvore]

hey

fuck you LOL

[funstyle]

I saw someone spell it "whimsicle" today. Like popsicle

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[junglejim4322]

I live a very balanced life of noticing things nobody else does and not noticing the things that literally everybody notices

[not-your-average-url]

I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.

I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.

[stjohnstarling]

I think the battle is long since lost on what the “-coded” suffix means, but I (old movie guy specifically invested in queer coding) seem to be unable to let go of how annoying I find the fuzzy popular use of the term. This is probably a flaw in my character.

[stjohnstarling]

Coding is intentional, it’s a way of communicating indirectly with the audience through a shared language of signs. That’s why it’s called coding, because it’s communicating in code. It isn’t when a thing reminds you of another thing.

[stjohnstarling]

A lot of people getting into esoteric fandom drama stances, or academic theories of text interpretation on this post, when I was complaining about someone saying “millennial-coded” on a podcast.

[klaasje]

really good text from my sister in law

[purplesoup-lad-le]

i do not merely read fanfiction i AM fanfiction

[thatpinkkwitch]

i just heard the phrase “if you wouldn’t trust their advice, don’t trust their criticism” for the first time and i don’t think i’ve ever needed to hear anything more

[dhia-dreaming]

And once I was told "if you don't agree with their actions, why do you seek their approval"

[zibaldoni-elzapoppin]

[geocaprican]

[irithind]

Become ungovernable.

[fozmeadows]

direct action