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@serenova
One of the worst side effects of being a person with an almost masters degree in English who is both a voracious reader and writer is that I have become disgustingly picky when it comes to fanfic
My formal degree title is "Bachelor's of English with a concentration on Creative Writing" and this is such a mood
Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter, momentarily distracted by a beluga whale
AFTER NEARLY 19 YEARS OF THIS STUPID WEBSITE
Get rid of your fucking Ring cameras holy shit. That was one of the most chilling ads I’ve ever seen
😰😰😰😰😰
For anyone confused about why this "sweet ad" is actually evil:
ring is passing the surveillance they collect to ice
ring is using these ID features to search for/identify people that ice wants to deport/kidnap/disappear, & using it to spy on Americans in general.
This ad is the company's gross & sneaky attempt to appeal to humans' kindness [ I'll be helping people find their pets!" ]
They are trying to trick more people into buying this tool that will be used as surveillance on people living in the USA
AND~!!!
also probably trying to trick people into turning on features/settings that will make it easier for them to pass information to ice and other hostile governmental authorities
Re-reading your own fic is wild.
Okay, that's a really good sentence. Typo. Typo. Huh, did I write this? It's actually not bad. Typo. Hm, I would cut out that part now, but it kind of works. TYPO. Oh, this part is really good. That is the wrong word, wtf? I'm enjoying this more than I thought I would. ANOTHER TYPO? FFS.
I've found that using a voice synthesizer to read my fics to me really helps catch all the typos .... Because I know what it's supposed to say when I read it with my eyes, but hearing it with my ears is a whole other thing 🤷♀️
What if we win?
What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?
What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?
What if the rainforest ADVANCES?
What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?
What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?
What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?
What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?
What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?
What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?
What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?
What if we win?
How would you win?
And we've won a lot already, mind you.
The condors are back. The whales are saved. The sea turtles are no longer endangered. The cranes are back. The bees are recovering. The air in LA and Tokyo and London is clean again. The aquifers in the LA Basin are refilling.
Children are kinder than previous generations. Parents are stopping the abuse cycle. Being trans and queer is more acceptable than ever on a ground level.
It's hard to see if you're young, if you don't know how to step back from social media and the news. But remember--bad news sells, and the algorithm knows despair keeps you scrolling. It's a skewed lens.
We are fighting and we are winning against this adminstration's bullying. We are coming together against the bullies and they are running away scared because they don't understand that we will do that.
People are working hard every day to find ways to make sure fewer animals get hit by cars and planes and rockets.
Maker spaces are more common than ever. Solar and wind are more common than ever. Coal plants are shutting down every day.
Unprecedented numbers of acres are being bought back or given back to their rightful stewards, and the world heals because of it. People are working hard every day to learn how to help a forest recover faster.
We are not at zero. We are at decades of effort to heal the world. We've come SO far.
In 1982 there were only 22 California Condors left in the world. In 1992, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), with its public and private partners, began reintroducing captive-bred condors to the wild. In 2001 the first wild nesting occurred in Grand Canyon National Park since re-introduction. In 2002 there were only 8 pairs of wild nesting birds population-wide. In 2008, for the first time since the program began, more California condors were flying free in the wild than in captivity. Today there are nearly 500 – more than half of them flying free in Arizona, Utah, California, and Baja Mexico.
When I was born, there were no condors in the wild. I'm 37 now, and there are over 250 condors flying free.
When my mom was born in 1955, there were days when she wasn't allowed to go outside to play, because of the air pollution. When I was born, that never happened anymore.
When I was born, humpback whales were critically endangered, and people thought they were going to go extinct. Today, they've recovered to exceed their recorded numbers. Other whales too!
We fixed it.
We CAN fix it and we ARE fixing it and we DID fix it.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
It's still far from our reach.
But it's there.
Believing that things can get better is not blind hope or optimism--it is based on hard data that many things have consistently gotten better over the arc of history.
In addition to all that was mentioned above:
The likelihood of dying in infancy or childhood--or losing a child--has plummeted just in my lifetime. The likelihood of dying in a natural disaster is the lowest in recorded human history. Yes, even with the uptick in natural disaster intensity from climate change!
Humans alive right now are more likely to have access to healthcare, electricity, education, birth control, clean water, and nutritious food than at any other point in human history. There are so many diseases we can treat now that were a death sentence for 90% of human history.
This is not by accident. This is because generations of humans put in work to make life better for their communities.
Some of our solutions had the side effect of creating other problems--better access to electricity that ultimately made people's lives easier and safer led to pollution and climate change, for example--but we are tackling those knock on problems too. Our generation's solutions to our current problems will probably create their own less-bad side effects for the humans after us to deal with.
Is it silly and naive to believe we might actually be able to make things better? Not at all. We have many times before. We are doing it right now.
We must also remember to never give up hope.
Be a light in the darkness. Be the spark that ignites the fire.
None of these incredible things were done in isolation. It started with one person, then a group, then it grew into hundreds or thousands or even millions of people were working together towards these goals.
We did not shrink the hole in the ozone layer because of one person. That was literally a global effort.
Look to the past to see how far we've come, then turn and push towards that better future.
We must not let despair win the war. It may win the battle on any given day. But only if we wake up the next day with hope and a dream for the future can we truly all work towards a better future.
AO3 should have an Annotation Mode where you can click to view all of the author's commentary and thoughts about certain parts of the work. A little comment that says "I spent five hours researching vintage radio mechanics for this and didn't even end up using it" or "this is an ancient Hebrew literary technique!" would make my day
I've basically started using footnotes like this. See a little number? I've got something to say, or an added thought from a character that would make the paragraph too long, or commentary about a thing I just wrote, or my own thoughts on something, or some world building that just didn't fit
.... My footnotes are full of random stuff and I very much abuse them to all hell, bit you get fun, potentially snarky, commentary with some world building thrown in so like.... Maybe give them a shot?
give me a nice thought
bitch I’ll live to WRITE it
Author who wrote a fic I read on ffdotnet (like....15 years ago) reposted it on AO3 and I was fucking ECSTATIC because it's a damn good fic and I wanted to give the fic love again
the anti-ai oath
(with your hand in a bunch of pages of ao3’s source code)
I [tumblr or ao3 username], do solemnly swear that all my slop is my own, and that no ai was ever used in the creation of it,
and that while it may be shit, it is my shit, created with my own two paws.
I acknowledge should I ever break this oath, I will be banned from ao3 for life, and will face execution by firing squad.
amen.
gay men.
EDIT: that’s it, I’m turning off notifications on this post. Thanks for loving this post so much yall
EDIT TWO: this is insanely popular so imma just put in here that should kick your local ice agent in the balls
EDIT THREE: if this hits 100k by the end of the year I will let the most liked comment decide my fate. Start commenting my fate. (within reason, I get to veto things if I feal uncomfortable doing them)
Me at 13: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”
Me at 17: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”
Me at 21: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”
Me at 35: “god I can’t wait to go home and read fanfic”
Me at 51: "god I can't wait to go home and read fanfic"
Me at 38: "gd I can't wait to go home and read fanfic"
reblog to give prev a fUCKING BREAK in 2026
nothing but love and respect to all fanfic writers
WHAT APP IS THAT
Scrivener
It's around $70-$80, but it's a lifetime license, not a yearly cash grab, and it does so much that it's definitely worth that.
Fucking LOVE scrivener.... Been using it for literally over a decade and it's the BEST!
And! Good news! It now works with WINE so if you're not on Mac or Win, you can still use it! I was so upset when I first switched to Linux that I couldn't keep using it but now Wine supports a full 64-bit install and I couldn't be happier!
Last night I had a crazy weird dream that was somehow a crossover between Doctor Who and Star Trek (basically 10 was there and there were Klingons) but the only thing I distinctly remember was the line:
"I love you in the in between"
which, tbh, is a fucking raw ass line
no idea what it means - don't remember who said it, but if it ain't a hell of a line
reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform
