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#Please little bird
I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.
Itâs a win win. I get a bit of hope, you get a cute birb photo
Itâs a win win. I
get a bit of hope, you get
a cute birb photo
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus
They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her
Iâve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.
Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DONâT EVEN KNOW.Â
Odysseus: Regret it why?
Cassandra: You wonât believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.
Odysseus: ⊠Iâm Nobody. Fill me in.Â
*A couple of months later*Â
Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, sheâs great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother whoâs not going to treat you like shit.Â
Penelope: ⊠Iâm going to need more details, but okay, sure.Â
Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family.Â
Cassandra: Penelope, Iâve had another vision.
Penelope, sighs: Go tell your father.
the original? on my dash?
Dads Every Christmas đ
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. Theyâre everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
oh shit
As the OP of this post, Iâm going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.
Y'all know what to do Tumblr.
Iâm doinâ it.
why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable
Broken notes⊠deactivated account⊠removed imageâŠ.
Finally, we have them all.
In addition: OPâs name is just⊠gone. No â[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]â as is the standard for deactivated blogs.
Just the world âdeactivated.â Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.
Itâll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.
It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.
As will I.
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. Theyâre everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
oh shit
As the OP of this post, Iâm going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.
Y'all know what to do Tumblr.
As fucked up and traumatized and emotionally unavailable as my father was⊠he fuckin tried. He tried so goddamn hard. Went to PARENTING CLASSES on HIS OWN. Taught himself HOW TO READ so he could read me bedtime stories. He taught me how to be independent. How to stand up for myself. How to fight back. He taught me how to not need men like him.
My dad broke down in fucking tears once because he wasnât doing (in his estimation) a good enough job of braiding my hair before school
This fucking guy got dumped by my mom in the middle of the night. She just fucking ditched both of us. He became an alcoholic from the pain, canât blame him. But then he saw the way it was hurting me. And he pulled his shit together. HIMSELF. No rehab. No AA. Stupid motherfucker went cold turkey at home alone except for me and I held his hands while he begged god for mercy through his DTs.
Dad would fuckin play Mockingbird for me because he was so bad with words and needed me to know how he felt.
My dad taught himself how to read at the age of like 45 so that he could read me Harry Potter as a bedtime story after my mom left and it still makes me emotional. Like he cared that much.
And also. You can tell when someone is either proud or ashamed to be a girl dad. And my dad was so fucking proud. He had trouble saying it, heâs maybe only said it once or twice to my face, but I can tell heâs so proud of me
After I came out to him as bisexual, I brought him a pride flag that I had gotten at a parade⊠itâs still, to this day almost a decade later, hanging on his dining room wall.
"Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds" - Ada LimĂłn
I have no idea if you'll see this. I have no idea if you already have. Show your dad this if you can. Don't just tell him about it. He learned to read for you. Let him see what youve written for him
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Then bring me luck
the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work
No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams.
Seriously, Google a picture of this
Iâve watched this video so many times I swear Iâve memorized it.
âDONâT GET ME STARTED ON THE FUCKING NAVY-â
I just got my first ever iPhone and my god it is terrible, how did they get so popular this thing is a nightmare
maybe I'm just struggling cause it's new but it's just been like
Do you want to set up face ID now or later?
Do you want to set up apple pay now or later?
There is no button to close an application, you have to make a very specific diagonal swiping gesture at EXACTLY the right speed or else everything just jiggles a li
I can't put any of my music on it, all my MP3 files just kinda refuse to move over and I don't fully understand why
It doesn't sync with my iTunes account and I don't understand why
To get my existing music onto my phone it says I have to download Apple Applications or whatever the fuck onto my laptop and once I did THAT it said to access my music I had to download Apple Music and once I did THAT I had to make an Apple Music Account at that apparently is only free for the first month before it starts charging me like 5 bucks a month and EVEN ONCE I DID THAT BULLSHIT IT WANTED ME TO BUY ALL MY MUSIC AGAIN
I ALREADY HAVE MY OWN MP3 FILES I JUST WANT TO HAVE THEM ACCESSABLE ON MY PHONE YOU ASININE SONS OF BITCHES
I cant figure out how to permanently say "no" to Face ID and Apple Pay, I just keep getting pop-ups that say "do this now or later" and guess fucking what, LATER KEEPS HAPPENING
What the hell do you mean if I delete an app it stays in my app library. I want it GONE I want it UNINSTALLED. Why the hell would I ever want a phone to be a ruler, why is that a feature that you have
I just now realized this smug stupid son of a bitch doesn't have a headphone jack. Where the hell do my headphones go. WHY THE FUCK WOULD I BUY WIRELESS HEADPHONES I HAVE TO CHARGE EVERY DAY WHEN WIRED HEADPHONES NEVER LOSE BATTERY OR GO MISSING
I don't want my shit on the cloud. I don't want my shit on the cloud. I don't want my shit on the cloud
Why do I have to enter my password every time I want to take a FUCKING picture. LET ME OPEN MY FUCKING CAMERA FROM MY LOCK SCREEN.
I can't open my phone unless I swipe up at the right speed in the right way at the right fucking temperature when mercury is in alignment with Venus or some fuck shit I hate it I hate it I hate it FUCK YOU MOTHER FUCKER LET ME ENTER MY FUCKING PASSWORD. I WHAT CIRCUMSTANCE WOULD I BE OPENING MY PHONE AMD NOT WANTING TO USE MY PHONE. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
Okay so I finally figured out how to open my camera without unlocking my phone. Why the HELL would there be two different ways to do the same thing from the lock screen. Why would I want that. Why does one way involve swiping up and entering a code when the other way is just swiping left. What kind of escape room bullshit is this. Are we smoking crack right now
All the apps I want are on my home screen how do I explode the stupid fucking sort by category app library page from orbit with a heatseeking ballistic missile
I DONT WANT TO SET UP FACE ID FUCK YOUR FUCKING MOTHER
wwhy phone so fucking slippery no wonder every single one I've ever seen is smashed to shit you made it out of elvish satin and children's dreams this thing slides sideways on a flat fucking surface by the gravitational presence of the moon you psychotic fucks what is wrong with TEXTURES I hate you
If this slippery piece of minimalist horseshit asks me one more time to set up face ID and Apple pay I'm going to launch it into the fucking stratosphere I swear to christ I'll fucking do it
"I don't want to read this" is totally valid.
"This is disgusting to me" is totally valid.
"I don't want to read this because it is disgusting to me" is totally valid.
"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.
"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.
Bro, blocking someone and then using their tag like this is, all offence, weak as fuck. Like all you had to say was, na bro I don't promote pedo protags on this here blog, because I wholly agree with the premise of your argument given contexts (i.e., writing abusive relationships to show the evils, great; writing abusive relationships to show the romance, yikes).
This response is so, so comically shitty within the context of that tag, oh my god.
"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.
"I don't think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me" is authoritarian.
"Censorship of some topics in fiction and art is good and I would be happy if it were to be enacted in a way I approved of"
and
"some things should be banned from ever being written or read about in fiction"
are both authoritarian viewpoints to hold and express, even if you don't have the power to enact them.
If you hold these viewpoints you are holding authoritarian viewpoints.
DUDE ITâS PEDO FICS EVERYBODY THINKS THEYâRE NASTY
Let me explain this to you in simple terms.
Something being nasty is not a good reason to ban fiction about it.
If we accept that "something being nasty is a good reason to bad fiction about it" then we give a foot in the door for all the people who truly, genuinely believe that queer people are nasty to ban all queer literature.
This is not about defending bad people this is about defending the freedom of good people from tyranny, you moron.
I think if you take it to its logical extreme. Say, banning people from writing stories of sexual abuse. That could then be said "well ANY talk about sexual abuse is bad."
And from that, you could ban books that talk about it irl. Or books like how to recover after being abuse. If its not something to be discussed AT ALL.
The fact that Iâve seen this post in some form on my dash like 100x and each time thereâs new idiots who do not get that you canât have *some* censorship.
Either youâre for it or you arenât.
The moment you agree that something should never, ever exist in fiction is the moment that anything can be banned.
Remember a while back how Tumblr banned a bunch of tags, including many popular innocuous ones that even people who are for censorship used and were upset about?
When censorship happens, stuff YOU like can and will be banned. Thatâs how it works.
Remember how a bunch of people had their accounts terminated here only last year for writing about their own sexual abuse?
When you ban âpedoâ topics, say, any talk of child sexual abuse in any form, that means people can no longer write about their own experiences. It means people cannot educate others so they can learn how to protect themselves or get help from these situations.
Censorship is authoritarian. Full stop.
Even if âeveryoneâ agrees something is âgrossâ and âshouldnât exist,â that does not fucking matter.
Do you know who generally believes queer people are gross and shouldnât exist??
The same people who are banning books left and right solely because they have queer characters or relationships.
The same people who attack and kill queer folk for simply exisiting.
This is not just some fandom matter or a case of being chronically online.
Protecting freedom of expression is essential, and if you do not get that, I donât know what to say to you.
And the people who keep bringing up child sex abuse as a reason for censorship are doing it very specifically because everyone feels like then they HAVE to agree with the person in favor of censorship.
Itâs not that there isnât widespread societal agreement on this. Itâs that they want you backed into a rhetorical corner where you feel compelled to agree with them.
Also, like, we KNOW how this shit shakes out in fandom because it's happened before.
In 2007, Livejournal capitulated to the "pedophilia and sex crimes!" cries of (hate group) Warriors 4 Innocence, and you know what communities got shut down? Slashfic communities. Sexual assault survivor support communities. Authors who'd written non-smut m/m fic even got caught up in it. It was DEVASTATING to fandom spaces. I think pretty much everyone knew at least one person whose account was literally DELETED, or were a member of a community that was wiped off the map because they were considerate enough to include topics like "sexual assault" or "BDSM" in the profiles under the badly-named category of "interests" to indicate that posts on said blogs or communities may include discussion of things like that. Even if it was for a SUPPORT group. And it was because a group of religious bigots came to LJ and said essentially "EVERYONE thinks it's gross and that it's promoting CSA, we should ban it."
Like, strikethrough and boldthrough were a large part of what propelled AO3 out of a more unfocused conversation on one person's blog about hosting a site INTENDED for fandom content, into being an actual archive and nonprofit. And it's a large part of why you won't find AO3 banning topics that you find "gross".
Censorship is authoritarian and it will ALWAYS have more collateral damage than you can imagine.
"But 22 episodes is too much to binge in one session!"
Perhaps we should not consume our entertainment like an eating disorder.
Maybe for you it's too many
Me until I realised I have ADHD and my brain is different. This is why I think labels are important.
30? I'm 38 and I'm still doing it
Watterson pulled no punches
I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes... this hits harder as an adult.
no but how much audacity and sheer entitlement do you have to have to tell people they need to stop posting their darkfic and porn fic and any other fic you donât like to ao3 so you can have a safe space when ao3 was literally created as a safe space for writers to post their content without fear of it being randomly wiped out by pro-censorship assholes with an agenda like what has happened to plenty of other fic archives before?
âbut a lot of us see ao3 as a safe space to get away from that kind of nasty contentâ - lol you can see the middle of a busy interstate as a safe space all you want too but that doesnât mean that you get to walk into the road and scream at all the cars going by that theyâre the ones infringing on your safe space either
ao3 is not, has never been, and will never be a site meant for nothing but childrenâs stories. you can âsee itâ like that as much as you want but thereâs a difference between fiction and reality and that view of what ao3 is like is as fictional as the stories posted on it.
Caveat your policies and principles, because thereâs a mad difference between childrenâs stories and stories that are harmful across the board.
A lot of writers on ao3 donât care to tag their stories appropriately, or consider the harm they perpetrate with their stories, or take responsibility for the harm they cause with their stories. Itâs one thing to write whatever you want, itâs another to publish it, publicise it, and not take care enough to note if itâs harmful.
Letâs be honest, a lot of supposed âdark ficâ is generally just exploitive masturbatory fantasy. Itâs often written by ppl who donât care what bigotry they perpetuate, what harmful tropes they use, any of that, as long as they get their kicks.
You can write what you want, but if you choose to post it publicly, you need to be prepared for an audience that has its own opinions. And the audience might say, âThis archive needs a better policyâ.
The audience might - but AO3 wasnât created for the audience. It was created for the authors, so theyâd have a place to post their fics that kept getting thrown off of other sites.
You might think those sites were correct and some kinds of content shouldnât be allowed in public anywhere. In which case, you might want to stay away from AO3, because it was explicitly and directly created to host stuff that was unacceptable elsewhere. Thatâs its core purpose.
Fics that arenât tagged according to the archiveâs rules can be reported. However, thereâs not much tagging thatâs actually required: Just the warnings (including the option of âchoose not to warn,â meaning ânot telling you if any of these things are hereâ) and a fandom. They can leave off the rating, and itâll be sorted as if it were explicit.
AO3 was meant to be supportive of both âauthors who want to tag major and minor pairings, every notable trope in the story, and several types of relationshipsâ - and authors who tag NOTHING but the fandom and maybe a pairing. The âwhat tags are required?â debate was not new when AO3 was founded, more than 13 years ago. So they opted for a bare minimum of safety tags, added the option of adding a bunch more, and said âReader Beware: We donât require that tagging be complete.â
Bitch, if AO3 was just for authors, it wouldnât exist, because we all would have gotten off our own dicks years ago and realized we didnât need public acclaim to enjoy writing.
It wasnât created âjustâ for authors. But it was created for authors first, with the for-readers features being most focused on, âhey authors - how do you want your readers to find you?â
Thereâs a difference between wanting to share writing with a community and âneeding public acclaim.â
We knew damn well when we set up AO3âs terms of service, that there would be people who decided, âI am NOT putting my writing on a site that hosts THAT AWFUL STUFF.â (At the time, we kind of assumed âThat Awful Stuffâ was âVoldemort victorious; Death Eater orgies aboundâ fics, not âHarry/Draco underageâ fics, but we also knew that whatâs considered âwrongâ changes over time.) (Some of us remember when just saying you read slash could get you kicked out of a fandomâs locked email list.)
We werenât really expecting demands that AO3 change its policies, because⊠those werenât after-the-fact decisions? It wasnât, âhey, letâs build an archive, and oh, I guess weâll let the icky smut in too.â It was, âThe icky smut keeps getting banned/ deleted/ forbidden/ removed because the mods got into a fight about what to allowâŠ. what can we do about that? How about⊠an archive?â
Complaints that AO3 allows the stuff that AO3 was created to host will get zero results. No changes in policy; no open consideration; no public discussions.
AO3 is now one of the busiest fanfic sites on the internet, because it turns out, a LOT of people like a no-censorship approach. But if popularity wanes and only the ultra-kink-friendly people are still active⊠thatâs fine. Thatâs what itâs for. Everyone else has a whole internet that will host their content.
First they came for the kinky and we said ânot today motherfuckerâ
Complaints that AO3 allows the stuff that AO3 was created to host will get zero results.
Also, reminder that AO3 is a nonprofit, meaning it does not monetize site traffic.
That means that financially speaking, AO3 owes absolutely nothing to users that arenât actively donating money to pay its server fees.
Regardless of who is currently uses AO3, the people *funding* AO3 are still primarily people who believe in its core purpose of preserving fic that is banned elsewhere, because they had their fic, or fic they loved reading, deleted off of other websites.
The people who hate AO3âs policies arenât the ones paying its bills.
The people who hate
AO3âs policies arenât the
ones paying its bills.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
