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okay. holding ur hands as i say this. look me in the eyes. i know this is overwhelming so here's where we start. if he wants you dead then your first act of resistance is survival.

3psboyd

Spitballing with the fellas on discord and we've come up with a Star Trek character we want to see: A 200-year-old top Vulcan diplomat attending a function and laughing boisterously and slapping backs with everyone and then just relaxing into resting bitch face the moment nobody is watching him. He takes his job deadly seriously and studied parties extensively in the diplomatic academy. Every year he's brushing up on new developments in party theory. He knows every party nuance you could possibly think of, for the sake of intergalactic relations. Peace in the galaxy depends on it. It's weird but you gotta meet people where they're at, he thinks.

fionn-o-nassus

Sarek fucking hates this guy and it's 100% envy

bemusedlybespectacled

human diplomat: [laughs at joke]

vulcan diplomat (to himself): this is great. I’m going to get a good grade in Party, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve,

emery-matsushita-vt

I Got A Degree In Party Rocking

tsunamiwavesurfing

dandraco

This is… the exact opposite of that dark souls gif

mrs-the-despoiler

I don’t think it’s possible to adequately state how fucking ballsy and skilled this player is considering the EXTREMELY specific timing of that dodge and catching the spear attack WHILE TAUNTING BETWEEN EACH THROW

I’m wheezing

Big Dick Energy

I figured they were referring to this gif

Since they do the same pose and it really seems like the opposite outcome lol

justanotherdamntarnished

Ah yes. Shroom.

basshole-astard

thank god we aren't posting on FFN anymore. remember how FFN prohibits you from posting explicit sexual content. remember how people posted it anyway. remember how we had to call things lemon if they had sex in them or whatever, becuase if you said explicitly that it contained sex you would get at best your story taken down or at worst YOUR ENTIRE ACCOUNT BANNED. anyway this is why we need to be allowed to post explicit content with warnings becuase otherwise it's going to be everywhere untagged <3 just a reminder <3

basshole-astard

btw. in case anyone wanted to see it. a screenshot of the content guidelines. which you have to confirm you have read before being able to post a fic on FFN

live link [here], wayback machine version [here]

FictionRatings.com seems to be down, but here's a version from the wayback machine [link here] and here's a transcription of the rating system:

[K] - CONTENT SUITABLE FOR MOST AGES - Intended for general audience 5 years and older. Content should be free of any coarse language, violence, and adult themes. [K+] - SOME CONTENT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN - Suitable for more mature childen, 9 years and older, with minor action violence without serious injury. May contain mild coarse language. Should not contain any adult themes. [T] - CONTAINS CONTENT NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN - Suitable for teens, 13 years and older, with some violence, minor coarse language, and minor suggestive adult themes. [M] - CONTAINS CONTENT SUITABLE FOR MATURE TEENS AND OLDER - Not suitable for children or teens below the age of 16 with non-explicit suggestive adult themes, references to some violence, or coarse language.

Fiction M can contain adult language, themes and suggestions. Detailed descriptions of physical interaction of sexual or violent nature is considered Fiction MA. [MA] - CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT FOR MATURE ADULTS ONLY - Content is only suitable for mature adults. May contain explicit language and adult themes.

and of course at the bottom of guidelines:

basshole-astard

even forgetting about explciit sexual content. do you see what else FFN - THE HOTTEST FANFICTION HOSTING SITE BACK IN 2008 - didn't allow?

-> non-stories, okay, reasonable -> one or two liners, okay, fair, -> MST? fair, i guess, esp since this was used so often to flame bad works, but the uncertainty of your brilliant "the les mis characters react to the les mis movie" fic being legal or not... -> "Stories with non-historical and non-fictional characters" no rpf……… ->"choose your own adventure" at least sites existed for that back then, very easy to make, not so easy now, but still.... -> "second person/you based" NOW HANG ON. are you outlawing the use of second person ENTIRELY!? -> "chat/script format and keyboard dialogue based entries" NO CHATFIC???????? how the hell did the homestucks survive……

obviously i'm sure these restrictions were what people used livejournal and wattpad for, but i spent my 2009 through 2017 using FFN, so i'm most familiar with it.

thank fucking god, for ao3, who doesn't give a shit if you write chatfic, or fic in second person, or rpf, of fic of anne rice's work. could you IMAGINE getting banned from a website for writing a fic that consists of your characters texting each other??? that's insane to me.

and before i get off my soapbox, let me higlight something i haven't screenshotted yet. the FFN community guidelines.

1-2 are fair enough, but weird hard-and-fast community rules, imo. did they really ban users for typos and bad grammar? i'm not entirely comfortable with it being on the same page as the "failure to comply with site rules will result in the removal of stories and/or suspension of account". imagine policing whether or not someone can post a fic because...... they have typos. imagine REQUIRING you to proofread/beta your work just to post it. imagine caring about the QUALITY of the fic to determine whether or not it should be archived.

3-4 are reasonable warnings about interacting with other users. reviewers please be kind to authors. authors, please be kind to reviewers. but also. they open with "don't get mad if people complain about your fic!" and not "please be respectful when leaving constructive criticism on someone else's work" ???? on one hand these are useful lessons about interacting with people you might not like, on the other hand, you're really opening on "authors you MUST respect reviewers who complain on your work, because if their criticism is ""rightful"" then they are just trying to help you improve!" .... eesh,

5 "use proper textual formatting" YOU'LL BAN SOMEONE OVER THAT???

there's just this weird high and mighty tone to it. this laying out of rules of what is Worthy of being preserved, and posted

which is why AO3 went "no, ALL FANWORK is valuable enough to archive" and it's why AO3's founders went "we're making our OWN SPACE!!!!!!!!" and thank. fucking god. for that.

it's also probably why people get testy when defending AO3 - this is where we came from. not just the purges of all our queer content. but also sites where the quality of your writing determined, apparently, whether or not your fic deserved hosting

starcrossed-sky

"How the hell did Homestucks survive?" The answer is that we didn't use FFNet very much at all. Homestuck was the first fandom to really take AO3 by storm and make it our primary homeland (as evidenced by how many older homestucks occupy five-digit-or-less AO3 ID numbers lol). We moved from Livejournal (and, in particular, Homesmut, the kink meme, which was abnormally high in non-explicit requests and fills and is the only kink meme I've ever seen that had a large amount of "unprompted fills" where people Just Wrote Stuff) as the censorship got bad, to tumblr for socialization and networking and AO3 for posting fic.

Issues of second person and chatfic aside, FFNet was never appealing to the Homestuck fandom due to the extremely limited formatting there; text colors are such an important part of the Homestuck experience that not using them in fic was just not done. They were an important context clue in reading the chatlogs and chatlog fic becomes a significant cognitive load without them since the handles are all abbreviated to two letters. (Pour one out for colorblind Homestucks, man, yall are sburb's strongest soldiers.)

itsmeimcathy

March: *starts*

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crynburne

chapter 514 my beloved

bare your teeth little guy. bite.

honey-bird10

ANOTHER ONE

creativepromptsforwriting

What is... a squick?

Squicks are similar to disgust. But it differs from it in that a "squick" usually refers purely to the physical sensation of disgust and repulsion. It's more or less just the reaction of the body, not a morally judgement on something.

In regards to writing and reading it means that a specific topic is not something the writer or reader is feeling comfortable with.

cassiesinsanity

It is NOT the same as a trigger.

And squicks are judgement free. "I don't like this thing and I'm not going to engage with it in any way, shape or form, but you do you! Yay you!"

I don't know why we stopped using squick as much as we used to, but we need to bring it back big time.

sickficbay

when a character is so badly hurt/sick that their demeanour switches up entirely

chatty characters pale-faced and silent

quiet and reserved characters rambling deliriously

character who always resorts to humour clearly trying to think of a quip but coming up empty

no-nonsense character so loopy that they can’t stop giggling

a stoic character’s hands trembling in panic

an easily frightened character so far out of it that they aren’t aware of what’s happening to them, much less afraid

intelligent characters who can’t think straight

protective (self-sacrificial) characters letting someone else take the fall for them because they’re too weak to object

patient characters snapping at whoever comes near

affectionate character who wants to be alone

lone wolf who begs you to stay a minute longer.

oldbutchdanielmolloy

omg you people can do anything

ankle-beez

the chain of events in this minute and a half clip is so extremely delightful and funny

ankle-beez

kermit and scooter riffing on how their physicality doesn't let them open the envelope to announce the winner. the audience immediately cracking up when it cuts to statler and waldorf because they know what the bit is gonna be. jim henson slipping into the kermit voice accidentally before bouncing back at record speed and riffing on it. richard hunt genuinely laughing at jim's joke but doing so in-character. prime muppets was something else man

bran-writes

Haven't stopped thinking about this since I saw it

shutoffthelights

i hope we leave behind the weird infantalizing language in 2026. i'm sick of reading "grape" when people mean "rape". i'm sick of the cutesy language to talk about real world horrors. "oh but the platform i'm on would suppress the video" okay? then why are you trying to host the conversation there. there are DOZENS of social media sites out there. surely you can absolutely promote the video elsewhere. surely you can host the conversation elsewhere. why does going viral matter more than language that you're using to describe real world horrors. and why are you using that language in real life, where there is no algorithm to suppress it. you aren't going to get banned on reddit or youtube for saying "kill" get a grip

the-overthinktank

I feel like it's a really common trope to have a non-biological entity disgusted by squishy bio things like secretions and flesh and stuff but. Wouldn't they utterly lack revulsion to those things? The reason we are repulsed by things like blood and shit and corpses is because they are intimately connected to our bodies, are uncomfortable reminders of our animal mortality, can be vectors of harm, or are a signal of danger. A being made of energy, metal, or plastic does not have the same sympathetic connections to these things that we do, except as a kind of intellectual sympathy for what people they care about fear. Disgust is repulsive, and you can only repel something if it's close to you. I think the things that viscerally repel a non-biological mind are not going to be biological.

the-overthinktank

Hmm... Maybe not as extreme as a corpse, but if you handed someone composed of mostly metal an extremely corroded piece of copper, I could see them reacting like you just handed them a very moldy orange.

To reach "handed a decomposing roadkill squirrel" level, maybe give them something with identifiable parts similar to what is in their body, like corroded circuit boards, batteries, wire connectors. That's a more direct reminder of mortality.