and all the ships that never sailed

Nice job, you genetically perfect Cerberus Cheerleader bosh’tet! Keelah se’lai! Header image by sentinelvictorcullen, icon by erughostcat

[spacemomnephmoreau]

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Find me on AO3: Neph Moreau

Poke me on Discord (for the time being): nephmoreau

I actually do have a writing sideblog but I never remember to use it! @nephmoreau

Frequent Tags:

#neph’s big bag of writing tools #fuck purity culture #fuck ai #neph’s soapbox #on fandom #and then i laughed for 50000 years

[gums]

i highly recommend for women and girls to be intellectually curious and difficult to shame

[lets-steal-an-archive]

Happy birthday to the film I've had memorized since 1990 🥳

‘Maybe the best pumped-up sequel ever made’: James Cameron’s Aliens hits 40

The director’s more-is-more approach to the 1986 sequel gave us seat-edge action and an indelible performance from a rule-breaking Sigourney

You can read scans of the treatment, first draft, and final draft here:

Downloads (Trailers, Features, Scripts, Fan Films, Parodies) - AvPGalaxy

Main downloads section covering various Alien / Predator / AvP downloads including desktop wallpaper, trailers, featurettes, scripts, fan fi

[spacemomnephmoreau]

Shoutout to my friends that consistently tag their posts so I can keep them on my dash without seeing things that I don't want to (for a variety of reasons).

[righthandarm-man]

can you remember the name of every person you’ve kissed?

yes, I remember all their names

I could name most of them but there are few I can’t remember

if you put all of them in a room I could put a name to at least half the faces

i’m not confident I could name a quarter of them, let alone half

I can’t remember more than one or two names

I’ve never kissed a soul and want to see the results

Remaining time: 3 days 2 hours

[alphacrone]

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

[auxins-insanities]

this disability pride month lets be kinder to folks with moral ocd . no more “if you really care about this minority , you’ll reblog this post” , “someone will die if you don’t reblog this” , etc etc , and all other kinds of guilt tripping reblog bait . at the VERY LEAST tag your reblog bait so we can filter it out and avoid unnecessary spirals . it’s 2026 , we need to move past using guilt to get engagement .

[krisonthefrontporchwithabeer]

You should be able to sort by controversial on ao3

[auxryn]

Many people are aware that copyright originated as and remains a protection for publishers, not authors.

However, there are longstanding rights intended to protect authors. These are legally called 'the moral rights of authors.' Good naming.

These rights include:

The right to attribution. To have your name on your work. Don't repost peoples work without attribution.

The right to use a pen name or to publish anonymously. Publishers should protect the privacy of authors. Service providers shouldn't require posters to provide ID.

The right to integrity. Editors should not cut up your work to make it say something you do not endorse.

So let's review:

❌ AI harms authors because it violates copyright.

✅ AI harms authors because it violates their rights to attribution and integrity.

[apolladay]

When I write a story or make up OC's I simply cannot get attached to them, no matter how I go about it and how I develop them. Can anyone else relate to that?

1. Yes, same for me

2. Yes, kinda

3. Not really

4. Not at all

5. I don't make up stories/OCs in the first place

6. Nuance

7. Results

When I write a story or make up OC's I simply cannot get attached to them, no matter how I go about it and how I develop them. Can anyone else relate to that?

Yes, same for me

Yes, kinda

Not really

Not at all

I don't make up stories/OCs in the first place

Nuance

Results

Remaining time: 4 days 23 hours

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

stop deactivating

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

i thought we all agreed we were here forever

[kirishima-hates-terfs]

[ghostofmads]

rb to bonk prev with an empty paper towel roll

[quietwingsinthesky]

the draw of arranged marriage AUs to me is really the way the dubcon of it all binds them together. neither of them have a choice in being here, something else is foisting this upon them whether that’s their parents or the political situation around them or expectation or something else, but the point is that they don’t get that one choice. so they have to make a choice somewhere else, that now that they’re here, they’re going to make it work. they’re each other’s only allies, in this cage built around them. they may have been coerced into swearing to stand by each other through anything, but they did swear.

[delicatetrashdelusion]

[gangueiro]

[transviktortalis]

#oh this place is HAUNTED haunted

[alleiradayne]

NOW it’s serious

[appendingfic]

This is the supernatural equivalent of going to the doctor and they keep pulling specialists in the room to go, “wow, I’ve never seen THAT before”

[dduane]

Over on Bluesky: somebody's fair question

(from @jonchristian.net): "what stage of capitalism is Minions-branded weed"

[pearlo]

there’s very few things that drive me up the wall in fandom as much as this weird new assumption that fandom is primarily a space for younger people that older folks are only accepted into in a trial basis if they promise to centralize and accommodate younger fans, and further, anything else is creepy and predatory. IT’S OKAY FOR ADULTS TO PRODUCE CONTENT FOR OTHER ADULTS.

[deputychairman]

if I have to read “women in their 30s” used as an insult one more time I swear I’ll - step away from that user and just hang out with the other grownups who consistently create good content because I’m also an adult and too busy comparing car insurance to fight with teenagers on the internet, but goddAMMIT I’ll be annoyed

[teaboot]

I’ve been in this hole since yall lil shits were three apples tall and I’ll die in this hole too

[persisting]

Older fans are building and running the sites you use to fandom on. Myself (41) included.