Being asexual and racist is embarassing as fuck. Being racist at all is obviously embarassing as fuck but the amount of racism and especially antiblackness i have been seeing from asexuals recently is obscene.
One of the only asexual activists is Yasmin Benoit, a Black woman. She has raised so much awareness for the community. She was the first asexual person to lead Pride in London, she started the #thisiswhatasexuallookslike movement and is THE leading voice for the community.
And you all will celebrate international asexuality day on April 6th but we wouldn't even have that if she hadn't cofounded it.
Edit: why are you all too scared to repost this. Cmon. Be vocal about being against racism
sometimes I remember that jmart is actually 100% canon and I get a sudden rush of joy and gratitude for the writer(s) at rq.
and not just implied canon either. not just an ambiguous confession that could be twisted to be platonic. not just subtext. not just a relationship confirmed by the creators after the fact. they are 100% undeniably canon.
they refer to each other as boyfriends. they talk openly with other characters about the fact that they're dating. they have an audible kiss. they say I love you in a way that is undeniably romantic. they openly flirt with each other.
and like. yeah canon is made up and whatever we want it to be yadda yadda. but like,, canon queer relationships, especially quality written queer relationships, are just,, RIDICULOUSLY hard to come by for some reason and jmart's relationship is so refreshing to me, especially because you can tell the writers actually care about it
and they're not the only ones! there's a canon lesbian couple! there are canon trans characters! there are literal statements with themes of transness and queerness and how that impacts people's experiences! there are explicitly queer background characters/relationships! jon is canonically asexual! (and jon's asexuality could be a whole other post for me—it feels so monumental as an asexual person to see somebody who is both canonically asexual and still has genuine romantic relationships)
no matter what your opinion on jmart is, I think it's pretty hard to deny that they're so important on the representation side of things. as a queer person it's incredibly comforting to have a fandom where I feel 100% safe and accepted by not just the queer side of the fandom but the creators as well <3 thank u rusty quill for all you do
obsessed with the fact that hannibal is technically a horror show but half the fandom watches it like it’s a slowburn romcom with occasional cannibalism
i think there is a statue of grace. on the campus of the university where he got his phd. it's a big base, like the statue atop it is going to be a larger than life hero standing brave. but instead it is him, life size, sitting with his feet dangling off the edge and turned slightly to the side like he is in conversation.
there is room to sit next to him. students like to hop up and sit next to dr. grace to get advice, vent, just take a minute. he's a friend to all on campus
I hate to do this, but there is a recent semi-popular Bagginshield fic and series on AO3 that was written with the help of AI and it is being hidden as a fact from its readers.
Read below for more information.
There is a Bagginshield series on AO3 right now that is only gaining more and more views by the day that was written with AI and as far as I can tell, none of its readers know.
And for as far as I know, those who found out are being deleted and silenced.
AO3 & Tumblr user Kerningster is writing fics with AI, and she's not even hiding it all that well.
Last night, I was browsing the Bagginshield tag on AO3 (as you do, lol) and I came across a somewhat recently completed fic, dating to around the end of March. When I clicked on it, I realized it was the 2nd part of a series, so I went to go check out the first fic.
To my surprise, both fics were completed & created around the same time, about two or three days apart from each other. This came off as a little odd to me, but people upload finished fics all the time, not everyone writes a new chapter after every update. Right?
So I decided to give the first fic a chance, sincerely hoping it was just a new gem of a fic I found at the right time. However, once I got to Chapter 9 of the fic, my fears became true.
Look at this screenshot:
Do you notice anything off about it? Anything that stands out in particular while reading? If not, I'll point it out to you.
This particular paragraph, this particular line. This stood out to me, it completely halted me from continuing further. Movie-Thorin? What did that mean? It got me thinking, and I realized it had to of been written at least with the help of AI, more importantly probably getting tips on how movie-Thorin vs book-Thorin's personalities would differ, or something along those lines.
This was a shock to me, so I immediately of course went to the comments, and I saw nobody else mention it throughout any of the other chapters. I decided I'd be the first to say something, there was only one other comment on the chapter, so I figured I'd be answered relatively quickly.
I tried to be respectful about it, afterall even though I thought it was true, I wanted to give the author a chance of explaining herself. After I commented this, I closed the fic and went to sleep.
Today, after going back to the chapter and checking to see if I had gotten a reply, I was met with my comment being deleted.
And the chapter being edited, completely removing the movie-Thorin line. In fact, completely removing the entire paragraph it happened in.
This immediately raised red flags to me, so I went to the authors account, and checked her profile. On it was a simple strawpage link, which I clicked and scrolled through, and found none other than what I suspected.
Right there, in her socials page, was the link to AI. If she's willing to use CAI as far as she has, I'm willing to assume she'll go so far as to use AI to write for her.
I know we in The Hobbit & The Lord Of The Rings fandoms value our creativity and love for the craft of writing above all else, so I knew I had to say something. To not only use AI to write for you, but to silence others who simply ask about it, despite you so brazenly having it listed on your profile, is an utter shame.
I'd hate for any other readers to stumble upon it, and think they found something good when it had no human heart put into it.
The fic series in question is Tails and Thorin, here you can see the creation dates and completed dates of all stories within the series, showing just how closely the dates are to each other. If the series ends up getting deleted, the fics in question are: Braids and Blunders, Seed-cake, and Pebbles and Stone.
She also writes for The Pitt, specifically Hucklerobby, and I have to assume if she is willing to write for Bagginshield with AI, she is willing to use it for Hucklerobby as well. The fics in question for The Pitt are Bloodhound and Scent Puppy.
Her AO3 is Kerningster, and her Tumblr is kerningster.
Beware of reading her fics further, and thank you for reading this post.
I keep thinking of the Hobbits having tails headcanons and what bothers me is how there's a chance that if that were a thing the tail would have farmer strength because it's basically an extra limb so you got a hobbit carrying two sacks of feed and still having to carry things like a basket of garden veggies or groceries at the market place because "Mama didn't raise no two trip loser."
Wouldnt that cause back trouble or a stronger back because aren't tails connected to the spine? And is there muscle there? Would that mean Hobbits have really sick back muscles but you'd never notice because of the fat from the hobbit body type?
I just found out that silverpoint styluses (styli?) are a thing. Literal silver forged into a pointed tip for writing and drawing.
Apparently they were used by the Romans as well as artists such as Davinci in the Renaissance. They work by leaving tiny amounts of silver behind on treated paper, oxidising it. The stains they leave have a long life as well, not fading in the sun like ink. In fact, they only get darker with age.
And we still give our dear dwarrow quills and ink. (I mean. I do too, in my current fic.)
The literal best smiths in Middle Earth, with basically unlimited access to silver… yea, new headcanon accepted. Also, it is way more durable than a tiny little quill. Big dwarf hands need something sturdy to hold, not something that could snap if they pressed down just a tad too much. In my opinion. And they would be easier to take along on travels!
No more fumbling with broken quills and empty inkwells. Just silver. Bam. They might even make a good weapon in a pinch - stylus to jugular, or through the eye.
