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My grandma just called and, among other things, said “You have hips. That’s good! Men like hips!” and then she interrupted herself to say “Women like hips. People of your preferred gender like hips. I can never remember”
And I was like “Thanks grandma! My preferred gender is none of them, no thanks.” and she was like “Okay, no one will comment on your hips!” very self satisfied, like “aha, I have figured it out”
I think like half her grandkids are some variety of not-straight and she can’t always remember which is which but she is the epitome of like “she’s a little confused, but she’s got the spirit!”
I told my grandma that I’d told my friends about what she said and that some of y’all had said you wished she was your grandma, and she said “Well, you can never have too many grandkids!”
So like…consider her your honorary grandma* I guess?
*if you want an honorary grandma, that is
Update on my grandma: I told her my hair was standing up, but instead of straight line it was diagonal and she said “That’s okay, you’ve never been straight!” and then laughed so hard at her own joke I thought she was going to drop the phone
The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.
Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"
The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.
Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."
This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.
This torches everything. And I do mean everything.
A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):
ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives
allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason
preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies
requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.
What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.
Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.
Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.
Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:
"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"
But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.
Adding this addition once more bc I keep seeing this post. Please remember this is illegal!!! The first amendment prevents the government from making this types of distinctions to silence political speech. We need to fight this at every step, including the commenting, but keep in mind it is wholly unconstitutional. If we don’t keep that at the forefront we are ceding ground to the administration.
Fandom old here, been in fandom since I was 13 and I'm not in my early thirties. In regards to the Beta and Writer conversation I have been seeing on your dashboard as of late, I wanted to say that Fanfiction.Net actually had the ingenious idea a long time ago to make a list of beta readers. What you did was you filled out a beta-editor profile and your fandoms that you were willing to do. They still have it up. The issue is that Archive of Our Own Does *not* have this. There's no official list of active beta readers or what fandoms they will do publically. Instead, most beta readers that I have found are in fandom discord servers. Tumblr doesn't give enough traction to do a beta reader call because everyone posts and can get lost in the feed. That helps no one, not the writer and certainly not the beta whose looking for someone to help.
The other issue that I am seeing is that there was a unspoken yet quite loud rule that betas were people who wished to be editors one day and just like many of us on fanfiction were hoping to become writers or were going to go into English Degrees, understood that we had to practice for our own rejection. So basically, rejective sensitivity didn't exist for us because the betas were in as much practice as we were. This is their craft as much as writing was ours. Now there were bad betas, don't get me wrong. But you knew a bad beta from a good one.
Now, I don't know about everyone else's school. But in my high school we were taught how to give criticism. Art and English teachers used to make us grade each other's art and grade each other's essays long before the teacher ever got a hold of them. We had a rubic to follow in English to help us, and for art...that could get brutal. Big time. You didn't get a I'm afraid. We got "oh god, she's going to hate it and I'm going to be re-writing this again" because English teachers back in my day gave back essays and told you to re-write it. You had four drafts before you could turn in a "final". I don't know how classes are run now, but this is another huge problem that I am seeing.
So, how does this work in fandom etiquette today? I don't think anyone really wants a "beta", they want assurance. Every time I see "it's my writing style" I leave because I already know they didn't want me to edit and it wasn't a writing style they just don't know how to break the rules properly. Betas can help you break grammar rules *properly*, because that's their craft. They know the rules therefore they know how to bend them, break them, and make them theirs. Writers, we should know how to do that too, but they know it better. Let them have it. Let them know what really is a writing style because if it's just insecurity, guess what? Here's the tough truth: you either get a beta and you enhance your writing and you learn how to hone your craft to be a better writer or you don't. And the problem is that you can get better if you don't. A beta isn't a have to...but a beta can make you get better faster. You'll be getting better slower especially with lack of engagement on fics on AO3 if you don't. Which is a valid way to go. And a whole other ask/blog entirely. Editors and writers go hand in hand, betas aren't an enemy you fight. People who are afraid of the red pen weren't afraid because of the mistakes they made, it was once more going to the typewriter and figuring out how to make it *better*.
idk how old this person is, but i'm 40, so at the very least not that young.
I used to be in a "brutal criticism" writing environment when I was ~18. what it did was kill my desire and ability to write, and I didn't get it back until I got into fandom and met people who approached my writing with warmth and a desire to help me learn.
a brutal criticism can feel satisfying to make or read. it is not actually better in improving a story than a gently phrased "hey the thing you did has X effect, is that what you meant to do?"
"when I was young we didn't have rejection sensitivity!" or maybe all the rejection sensitive people were driven out of the writing circles you were in. maybe you'd prefer that. I don't.
I am a fandom old, been in fandom since I was 13 and I'm 42 next month. I used to write a writing advice column on fanfiction.net (I was fifteen and my only qualifications were I wanted to do it) and while yes it was more common to have a beta reader at the time, it was also well known that there are different kinds of betas, and what anon describes was often not called a beta at all but an edit. A beta reader was there to tell you if you misspelled the character's name or forgot a piece of lore, or if you had used a word incorrectly, or if this fic had the emotional impact you intended. A beta reader has never been primarily about harsh criticism, and anon is the kind of beta reader I would have shrugged off as "not really interested in fandom."
I’m mid twenties, so younger than the others here, but I just wanted to add — I went to college for creative writing, and was required to take both editing and general workshop classes (which were taught by published authors, so people who had gone through this process professionally themselves) where I was also taught how to give criticism, and what anon is describing is not what I was taught. What the reblogs are describing is much much more in line with my experience. You can be honest with your criticism without being brutal. Making people feel bad about their writing is not going to encourage them to keep trying to get better. My professors emphasized this a lot in my workshop classes, and made it clear that they would step in if they thought things were getting too aggressive or cruel. That never actually had to happen in my classes, I think because everyone there was getting workshopped at some point and knew how anxiety inducing it was to put yourself on display like that, so we all had a mutual respect and care for each other during critiques.
In workshop we were taught to detail what worked for us as a reader vs what didn’t (or what wasn’t clear, or what took us out of the story, etc), not what was “right” vs “wrong” or “good” vs “bad.” Creative writing is an art form, and art is inherently subjective — there were times in workshop where I would critique something that one of my fellow students really liked and felt worked, or vice versa. Sometimes we’d suggest something be cut, only for the author to explain their intentions which would change the conversation to okay, how do we help them work that in better? The professors also always made it clear that the student being workshopped was not required to implement everything being suggested. The main point of workshop was to help the author see their work from the perspective of their reader, which in turn could help tailor their edits moving forward. However, sometimes that’s not what their goals for the piece were. Sometimes it is just a stylistic choice that they prefer, and that is their right. It doesn’t make the piece inherently bad - you personally just might not be the target audience for it.
And even with copy editing, which I think is more in line with what anon was describing, where you’re focusing more on grammar and phrasing and the “little things”: your goal is still to preserve the author’s intentions and narrative voice as best as you can. And again, the author doesn’t have to use your edits. I can flag something as clunky and suggest a rewrite, and they don’t have to make that change if they feel it serves the intended purpose as is. That’s not necessarily insecurity or a refusal to improve, that is them making a stylistic choice that they feel suits their piece better. At the end of the day, they are going to know their piece better than you, and it is going to mean more to them than it does to you, and the author-editor relationship only works if you respect that (just as they respect you enough to seek and hear out your critiques and understand that it’s not personal).
On that note, some of the experiences anon seems to be drawing from appear to be very academia-focused, and I think that’s an important distinction to make because editing for academic writing is very, very different than editing for creative writing. In academia, the rules do matter a lot more. You’re writing for a different audience, and the focus is much more on the material/content rather than a unique voice/writing style. The goal is to become invisible as a writer to avoid distracting from the content (I was taught that you shouldn’t use first or second person at all in academia for this reason). Stylistic flourishes and grammatical rule breaking aren’t going to fit. That is what a high school teacher sending an essay back covered in red marks is going to be looking at. In creative writing, you typically want your voice to stand out more and leave an impression. You’re trying to paint a picture and evoke emotions and inspire reactions rather than presenting and analyzing information. It gives you a lot more stylistic freedom, and that’s something you take into account when editing.
And then on top of that, as a final note, fandom and fanfic is not professional writing, creative or otherwise. It something that is done for free and for fun, and there are many times that the target audience for a fic is one singular person: the person who wrote it. Not everyone wants to be a writer outside of fanfic, not everyone is training to become less sensitive to rejection - a good many authors are just playing with characters and ideas for the fun of it. That is also something to be taken into account when editing. I have a friend who beta reads my fics for me, and what I’m looking for in those interactions is basically to find out if what I’m saying makes sense, and if she has the intended reaction to it. It is much, much less in depth than what I would expect from a full workshop on one of my pieces, or from someone copy editing them. Again, that’s not me being insecure or not wanting to improve as a writer, that is me not wanting a fixation on “honing my craft” to take over what is essentially my playtime. There are other times where I’m focused on improvement (and I do feel that improvement happens with everything you write on some level), but that’s not my goal with fanfic.
At the end of the day, it all comes down to what an author is looking for in a beta/editor — there isn’t a one-size-fits-all. Some people do seek out brutality without emotion in their betas/editors, and if it works for them, that’s great! But that’s not the standard, and it’s not something that’s going to help most people.
The @sterekreversechallenges server wrapped up this year's Reverse Quickie on Saturday, and the first thing I wanted to do was take a moment to thank every artist and writer who participated--you all made this event as smooth and fun and stress-free as it's meant to be, and Michelle and I couldn't have been happier.
As for everyone else, if you haven't already done so, make sure to roll around in the art and fic made for the event this year, then show all of the creators some love! We'll see you again later on in the year for another Reverse event!
Sparked Rivalry (@quackquackcey, @wolfspurr):
Hockey stars Derek and Stiles are rivals on the ice, but little does anyone know that they’ve been friends with benefits off the ice for years.
Both know that anything more is a danger to their hockey careers, regardless of their emotions—will they be able to breathe free and unshackled together, or will they suffocate under the pressures in their way?~ 🏒💫
It's Not Quiet In The Library (@artemischarmed, @wolfspurr):
Stiles loves studying in the library. And tweeting about his adventures, especially with the Hot Russian(?) who sits behind him. Hopefully the man never finds out. That would be awkward.
does it count as a midnight tryst if it's only nine thirty? (@thotpuppy, @renmackree):
"The pack meeting itself is pretty lackluster. Mostly, everyone is reconnecting, sharing some anecdotes about their time at school or what they’ve been doing at work. Even Derek manages to socialize a little. Stiles can’t help but notice how much more settled he looks. Gone are the skittish, wary glances and deep frown, forced nonchalance.
Now he snarks with the best of them.
Stiles almost feels bad reaching into his pocket to check his notifications."
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Fellas is it gay to clock your sort of friend, sort of acquaintance, sort of homoerotic saving-each-other's-lives-but-never-really-talking-about-it situationship as being horny on grindr?
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...Can it be?
'Til the landslide brought me down ( @renmackree, @asyndetonic):
The Argents had decided to leave Beacon Hills after Gerard's death, which meant there was room for Derek to breathe for just a second and recover with his whole but still fractured Pack. They were one bad day from breaking again so Derek did the only thing he could think of to try and keep them together.
He took them to the cabin.
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Or Derek and Stiles connect over the summer while Derek builds a Pack.
Fate And Mate (SunflowerQueen (Always_MimiTs), @deancebra-art):
When Derek finds out he’s pregnant with Stiles’ baby after their one night stand, he must figure out how to handle it without telling Stiles, or else their Packs go to war because of his mistake (or so he believes).
Blood in the Water (Red on Your Lips) (@thotpuppy, @quackquackcey):
"It doesn’t take long for the feeling to come to a head, the eerily calm water of the surface suddenly burbling from the center. Derek hesitates for only a moment before bracing himself, a splash of water suddenly smothering his vision, and a creature emerging.
Wide, golden eyes stare up at him from just above the surface of the water, body still mostly submerged, and Derek wipes the water from his eyes once, twice, before staring owlishly at the figure.
“Are you serious right now?”"
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Summer is beating down on Beacon Hills, and nothing says relief like a secret pond hidden deep in the preserve that even Derek's mother was afraid of. What's the worst that could happen?
Your Name Echoed In The Beating Of My Heart (@mindofmim, @escharis):
Derek felt cornered trapped, but also wanted, seen. When Stiles walked in on Derek showering to ramble about a new show he was watching; or the quiet meals where Stiles shared but never pushed Derek to participate, smiling at him and filling in the silence; it made Derek feel like he had found family again.
They had grown together, experienced pain, death, fear, and victory; bonded over shared traumas, and healed into each other's spaces. But love, that had snuck up on Derek. Had grown so slowly, so fully, he hadn’t realized he was falling. And now it was too late to stop it. Not that he was sure he would have wanted to if he could. Even if Stiles never returned his affection, Derek knew his heart would be safe with him.
The Shackles That Set Us Free (@asyndetonic, @quackquackcey):
At Beacon Academy, where misery is magic, Stiles chases the power-giving thrill of the forbidden basement. Between the chains that tether the boarding school in interdimensional space, he finds a shackled monster, and a reason to bring his competitive peers together as never before.
Marked (@cw0ffeefandomaddict, @eevylynnart):
Stiles has spent years keeping his secrets exactly that — secret. Layered shirts, careful angles, a very practiced talent for misdirection. Beacon Hills is complicated enough without adding shifter to the list of things nobody can know.
He wasn't planning on Derek finding out. He definitely wasn't planning on what came after.
Betrothed (But Not to You) ( @write-light, @1989dreamer):
The Hale family is very much alive, very much werewolves, and more than a little… weird. Stiles is a failing portrait artist hired by the mysterious Hales to paint their son's betrothal portrait. Neither Stiles nor Derek plan to fall in love, but things happen.
Who is Derek betrothed to, anyway? And why is no one happy about it? Stiles just needs to paint Derek's portrait – how hard could it be?
A story by write_light, inspired by the artwork of the same name by Klam (shared below).
Enough to Make Me Feel Supernatural (@nixeleth, @renmackree):
The problem with finding someone on Grindr wasn’t that he was demisexual—the problem was that fourteen years ago, Stiles had basically imprinted on one surly teenager over a "stolen" sandwich cookie, and he’d never really gotten over that.
Honestly, it was like something out of one of his own romance novels, except without werewolves.
tagged (@seaweed-water, @asyndetonic):
Stiles, a graphic designer by day and graffiti artist by night, just wants to tag his love for Derek all over town. Derek would prefer to be tagged instead, iykwim 😏
Stiles' first thought was oh fuck.
Stiles' second thought was, why the hell is that rabbit glaring at me?
FUCK was his third thought as the rabbit lunged.
In which Derek startles Stiles awake in the middle of the dream, resulting in Stiles' spark turning them into a rabbit and a cat respectively.
Complicated questions of dominance follow, along with a resolution to said questions (and of course, smut!).
The Sun, The Moon, The Truth (Annabeth_Crestfallen_LeMorte, @sterekloverforever):
Two souls connected despite being polar opposites. One is sunshine, the other is the moon. While one enjoys the simple things in life, like gardening and watching the sunrise, the other enjoys living on the wild side, like riding motorcycles and howling at the moon. When they come together, they realize how the other completes them perfectly.
They are yin and yang, the sun and moon, soul mates.
every kiss you give me (@srue-on-fire, @artemischarmed):
“Can you take this to Stiles? I forgot my notes upstairs.”
Derek looked at the coffee like she’d handed him a live grenade.
“I can’t.”
Laura narrowed her eyes. “You can’t carry a coffee?”
“I’m injured.”
“You have one broken arm, not Victorian wasting disease.”
Derek refused to dignify that with a response and walked away.
Laura yelled after him, “You used to bring him cinnamon rolls voluntarily!”
Yes, Laura. That was before Derek had admitted he wanted a beard burn on his thighs and she cackled like a hyena instead of protecting his virtues.
It was the Year (BytheBry, SunflowerQueen (Always_MimiTs):
Stiles Stilinski and Derek Hale were born on the same day.
Somewhere along the way, that turned into shared birthdays, shared beds, shared dreams, shared lives.
A story told in years about growing up together, falling in love, and choosing each other over and over again.
When a psychiatrist Stiles starts noticing odd things going on with the Wolves in his ward, he must get to the bottom of it, or else Kate Argent and her cohorts are going to keep murdering families.
(Closed Doors) Open Windows (@wolfspurr, @physalislantern):
After the kanima incident at the pool, Derek finds himself climbing through the window into Stiles' bedroom. For some reason, after that, he seems to keep finding himself back there.
OR
5 times Derek climbs in through Stiles' window +1 time Stiles climbs out
Where the Leaves Fall (@simplyn2deep, @changez4sterek):
Stiles goes alone to negotiate with a supernatural ally on behalf of the Hale pack.
takane no hana (@kanra_writes, @sugareey-makes-stuff):
高嶺の花 /takane no hana/
Japanese
(n.) someone or something one desires, but is far away, or unattainable; lit. "flower on a high peak"
or
"What the fuck?" hissed Stiles, scrunching his nose. "What does that even mean? Is the curse referring to murder?"
"Ōkuninushi is deemed as the kami of love and prosperous marriage, while Inari Ōkami is the kami of agriculture. I believe the translation is referring to breaking someone's heart."
Oh.
Well, shit.
or or
A Sterek Hanahaki fic with a little twist on the disease
Stiles thinks the team fundraiser is the perfect time to show off for the werewolf he's been crushing on.
Search for the Hale Relic (@goddess47, TimeLess329):
Derek Hale has hired Spark Stiles to help him retrieve the Hale Relic being held on Argent Land. There is a rumor that the Relic is to be destroyed by the Argents soon, so they need to find the Relic, steal it from the Argents, and return to Hale land with a deadline over their heads.
Drivin' Me Crazy (@sterekloverforever, @thotpuppy):
“Supposedly, the person throwing the party has the hots for Stiles.”
Derek growls and gives Stiles a hard look. “That’s…something. So you think you’re gonna go?”
Stiles shrugs, giving Derek a small smile. “Yeah. I mean, it would kinda nice to know what it’s like to go to a high school party.”
Derek laughs and shakes his head, not believing the words coming out of Stiles' mouth. “No. No. You’re not going.”
Stiles raises his eyebrows in shock. “E-excuse me?” The boy couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Was Derek telling him no?
“You heard me. You’re not going,” Derek explains, not offering more information as to why Stiles can’t go.
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A story about fighting, masturbating, and making up.
Thank you, thePurebloodPrat, for the wonderful art. I hope I do it justice. 💚
#SterekReverseQuickie2026
Don't Be Such a Creeper-Wolf (@1989dreamer, @uinuvien):
Warmth is a thing of the past, much like surefire shelter or even food. Apocalypses will do that, Stiles thinks bitterly, as he joins the line for the morning’s ration of water.
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I hope that everyone was able to scratch at least one Sterek itch with something from this year's Quickie collection! Keep your eyes peeled for something else from @sterekreversechallenges towards the end of the year!
So as I lie here in bed at 5:53am after being awake all night chasing my demons in circles, I got to do a lot of thinking.
I was not on Tumblr for 6 entire months, and my OCD caused me to have to go back to the last post I saw on January 1st. And it occurred to me as I feigned sleep that, barring a very select few (whom we all love dearly), there was a severe lack of Sterek content on my dash, specifically of the "art" variety (ie digital, manips, screencaps, etc).
This saddens me greatly and you know what? I also need to get back to writing so consider this both an attempt to get more art for the fandom and me getting off my ass.
I am proposing a deal for artists: for any artist who creates sterek content in any capacity (except fic) from today (June 6th) to July 6th, if you tag me or send me an ask with the link (if you don't wanna tag me which, totally fair), I will write a one-shot based on it. Kind of like a mini reverse bang.
I can't promise it will be amazing. I can't promise it will be long. But I can promise that I will do it and it will be minimum 2000 words. And if you do 30 pieces in the 30 days, I will write you 30 pieces, straight up. Don't test me (or do, means more art of our boys).
And this is legit a no-lose situation. The art is not for me, it is for the community. And you get a fic out of the art you did for your entertainment.
So yeah, if anyone is down for this, feel free to send me your NEW Sterek art and you will get a one-shot. As mentioned, it does have to be new as of June 6th, 2026, and it can be artwork in any medium - pencil, digital, manips, edits, videos, whatever. Only caveat is absolutely NO AI. I don't care if you think your art isn't good enough, anything is better than AI.
To the artists who have been and continue to feed us: we see you, we love you, and I would write thousands of words for you if you asked <3
Found these fun gems from way back in April or May when Stiles dragged and Derek got up at some early ass hour to say hi to some of the creatures in my art studio.
There will probably be more Menagerie check-ins in the future (since I definitely have multiple areas in the studio where cute creatures live)! Anyway, they both managed to greet Hoot the Owl, Shroomie, some Coffee Kittens and Reptar!
We'll see who they decide to meet when they make their next round of hellos (very soon!).
Stiles who is a hopeless romantic and wants to romance Derek so bad but surely leather jacket bad boy Derek Hale wouldn't want that vs Derek who's ALSO a hopeless romantic and WANTS those things but thinks Stiles only wants him for the bad boy attitude so doesn't act romantically
