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[depsidase]

[transformativeworks]

April 2026 Membership Drive: Behind the Scenes of AO3

The OTW April Membership Drive has begun! Check out the new donation gifts for this year and learn a little bit about what AO3 is like behind the scenes.

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[depsidase]

[dinovelvet]

[sharkinablanket]

[thefoolishkat]

and they are the bestest of friends

[depsidase]

[infinitysgrace]

i think the thing about batman's no kill rule is that its essentially bruce saying "guilty people don't deserve to be murdered on the street either, actually." and he's not wrong.

[quackysprouts]

ares slays his daughter’s rapist

[fearlesshades]

Hi, OP, hope you don't mind my rambling texts to my husband about this art because I've been having feelings about it since yesterday and I've been talking about it since yesterday.

[quackysprouts]

this is literally so flattering thank you😭🙏 i love when people notice the little details i put into my art and id almost forgotten about this piece, it’s been so long

[sp-delta]

I was suddenly reminded of my old art and that I need to finish it

Well

I would like to warn you right away that these are not my best works.

But they also have a place to be here (o´･⁠_⁠･⁠)⁠っ

(Predator and prey)

(Broken tool)

[strawberry-fairy-girl]

I spent an hour making none pizza with left beef in tomodachi life

[twoblogger]

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

[twoblogger]

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

[angel-derangement]

I hate it too tbh

[carolxdanvers]

Settle an argument for me

is collecting (as a hobby) inherently consumerism?

yes

it depends, but usually yes

it depends

it depends, but usually no

no

even MORE nuance (explain in reblog/comment/tag)

bald/see results

Voting ended onApr 28

Reblog for sample size etc etc

[carolxdanvers]

Btw this was all because I was looking for information about the toothpaste I buy and I found a subreddit where people are posting pics of their collections of the toothpaste tubes

[gallusrostromegalus]

Tag essay by @elodieunderglass clarifies the situation rather nicely:

(sorry for screenshots and lack of alt text I'm on mobile, will come back to this)

[z1ish]

"Why do you talk so much about being intersex?"

Over 90% of parents of visibly intersex children opt for cosmetic surgery on their infants.

The ones that don't experience medical violence then, likely experience it as a teenager.

I didn't.

I am very rare in that I did not experience medical violence.

Why? Because I learned what intersexuality was as a young age, and I actively fought against what doctors wanted to do to me. All the way down to legal research on what medical care minors can be forced into. I remember walking into that doctor's appointment with the state law written down that proved that if I did not consent they could not do surgery.

That is why intersex activism is important. It saved me and it will save more.

[thefreewifi54]

#INTERSEX TALK MORE NOW AND PLEASE LISTEN

[lastoneout]

I've complained about this before but ngl I hate how most gluten free food sold in stores is also vegan and low fat and low sugar and all that, bcs I think that people who are gluten free but not vegan or on a diet deserve food that's just gluten free, and vegans that don't have allergies deserve food that isn't gluten free, and people who can't have too much sugar or fat deserve non-vegan non-gluten free food.

Also as someone with POTs who needs a lot of salt so much gluten free food also being "health" food makes it less healthy for me. I need salt and sugar and fat!!

If there is any justice in this universe the diet industry will one day know my wrath.

[somequeerbitch]

This!! Just because I have to be gluten free (which is much more than just diet) doesn't mean I am someone who wants to be eating "healthy food".

Gluten free isn't a more healthy option for people who do not have some sort of medical reason. It really isn't. So it's really awful to people who can't have gluten for medical reasons to make everything gluten free also ideal for dieting, which can cut out all sorts of things that are vital for people who have been malnourished for years.

[circumference-pie]

Website idea: Writers of all nationalities give each other advice on how to name OCs from their native culture/language.

For example, a native English speaker can tell you that "Henry Edward" is kinda weird and evokes Tudor kings, and a native Chinese speaker can tell you that, I don't know, "mīmī" sounds cute but means titties.

[supernumerarianism]

Re: Chinese names, there is something cool people should know about, (maybe you already know):

Using this database, you can access the names and biographical information of real people across Chinese historical periods and dynasties. You can go on here and find the names (not just given names but courtesy names and other sorts of honorary aliases, depending on the period) of thousands of real individuals, though it's almost entirely men in the older dynasties. Very few women.

Need a character name for your Tang Dynasty official? Check out the CBDB and find a *literal Tang Dynasty official* to grab a name from!

[robertreich]

The Big Tech companies developing AI already have far too much power over our lives. We need lawmakers who won’t sell out our future to the whims and profit margins of Big Tech. We need regulations in place to keep up with AI development and guard against its potential harms. AI could be a net good for society. Or it could be a wrecking ball. Its future is not written in stone. It is written in code and we still have time to shape it.

[queerautism]

Fellow white people did you know there's this cool youtube hack where you go out of your way to watch videos made by Black people. And suddenly your video recommendations will have loads of cool new channels. And then you realise youtube was literally hiding videos made by Black people from you because they assumed you wouldn't be interested

[thenebulousthey]

Don't talk about it. Be about it.

my favorites:

Daniel JrStetch (fitness)

Frilancy Hoyle (fashion)

EarthtonesGirl (knitting)

Josh Johnson (comedy)

[aroaceauri]

BlackForager (...foraging)

[teawitch]

Reese Waters (US politics)

https://youtube.com/@reesewaters?si=OOV1cQllMSoYhKx_

TL Yarn Crafts (crochet)

TL Yarn Crafts

I’m Toni – let’s learn how to crochet together! 🧶 Hey babes! I’m Toni, the designer and instructor behind TL Yarn Crafts, where every croch

Charm City Ewenicorns (knitting)

https://youtube.com/@charmcityewenicorns?si=GsG6iZIOnSsd2E6E

[nimashkawizii]

Sage the Bad Naturalist! (Link is to my fav recent YouTube short about BEES!)

[headspace-hotel]

BlackForager mentionnnnnnneeed

[steelplatedhearts]

there’s a local guy called the Sidewalk Astronomer who sets up outside the clubs downtown with a giant telescope and lets the drunk people walking by look at the stars. he’s my hero and he let me see the moon and Jupiter today