jason todd didn't die for this

Kit. 22. Cosplayer. Writer. Academic. PhD Candidate.

[docaria]

Kaeya💙

[myfandomrealitea]

"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

[yoursirdoctor-deactivated202512]

"I want old fandom culture back, but proshippers are disgusting, don't bring them into this" a real life TikTok post that I saw btw.

YOU CANNOT HAVE OLD FANDOM CULTURE BACK WITHOUT PROSHIPPING.

[frontmansdefender]

✨ in this house it’s always fuck censorship ✨

[thememedaddy]

[animentality]

[dajo42]

Do a little dance. Make a little love. Get the FUCK down tonight.

[dajo42]

people werent ready for this post in 2011. what about now

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"red-pill" "snowflake" everything about v for vendetta...fascists really do love to steal and bastardize culture from the queer people they are trying to destroy

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"snowflake" was popularized in Fight Club, a novel by a gay man. "red-pill" is from a movie created by two trans women and is a metaphor for estrogen and gender transitioning. those same women adapted V For Vendetta from the original comic (written by a polyamorous man who may or may not be queer but certainly has something going on); in both versions the titular protagonist "V" is implied to be transmasculine, and a survivor of torture and imprisonment for the crime of homosexuality.

because that's what they see in us, these bigots who are happy to consume and quote and corrupt queer-created media, as long as they can erase every beautiful root. they see criminals, commiting the crime of being queer. and they are doing their damnedest to bring back the laws that made it so.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

also i miss when the joker was just a gay ass clown

[evermore-fashion]

Chotronette 'Iridescent Armour' Gown

[yoursirdoctor-deactivated202512]

"I want old fandom culture back, but proshippers are disgusting, don't bring them into this" a real life TikTok post that I saw btw.

YOU CANNOT HAVE OLD FANDOM CULTURE BACK WITHOUT PROSHIPPING.

[madlori]

what the fuck do people think "proshipping" means anyway

I keep seeing it referenced as some kind of badge of dishonor

it means

"in favor of shipping and the freedom to ship whatever"

that's it

no, it does not stand for "problematic shipping" which is a real thing I saw someone try to claim

it came about as a response to ANTI-shipping

as in people being weird and toxic about other people's ships

like, stop that

that's what it means

[harmless-variety-of-garden-snake]

Bringing in what I said in the group chat: they wouldn't survive in the LiveJournal communities that raised me.

If you wanted a place for just your ship, you made your own fanfiction archive for it and you maintained and moderated it yourself. And most of these only existed because it made it easier to find fics for your OTP, not because the sight of other ships disgusted you.

Have an issue with something you see on a kink meme? Don't read through the comments on the kink meme or wait until the Delicious board is up and filter just the tags you want.

If someone brought up fic or shipping to an actor, a containment breach klaxon would go off and everyone would talk shit in the private LJ and Dreamwidth communities. You did not make ship wars the problem of the actors, show runners, directors, or writers. That was internet bullshit that stayed on the internet. If someone became aware of it on their own, fine, but that was exceedingly rare. You definitely didn't ask shipping questions to the actors if you were a "journalist."

You shipped what you shipped, you were into what you were into, you left people alone, and you did not wave any of it in the face of the actors.

So yeah, bring back the old fandom culture. Please. Let shippers and the actors have some goddamn peace.

[gay-mooshrooms]

ok I need to talk about the hunger games real quickly

The thing thats so genius about the hunger games is the dystopia of the world suzanne collins created is the fact that people are forced to be cruel and brutal towards each other for the sake of their own survival, something that is stated by capital officials as human nature. BUT, in doing so, they made it that the most rebellious thing you could do is be kind. The main acts of rebellion, the thing that scared the capital the most, was not Katniss's videos, was not them attacking their planes or storming their city. The thing that originally scared them was people being kind toward each other, Katniss sacrificing herself for Prim, going out of her way over and over to save Peeta, Thresh not killing Katniss, Katniss honoring Rue and Rue's district bringing her bread, and all of the tributes unifying in Catching Fire. These all scared them the most because all of their power hinges on the people they control destroying each other and seperating themselves so that they don't destroy THEM.

So, in a world that is becoming increasingly brutal, the best thing we can do is care about each other.

[wistfulweaverwoman]

Because the elites pit the working class against each other to distract from who the real enemy is.

[blackulax]

They are just like me forreal

[white-throated-packrat]

every time I see film of a platypus I am struck again by how small they are

[white-throated-packrat]

#How did I not know that platypus are tiny!?!#They max out at 2 ft long and 6 and a half pounds

My problem is that they look like duck-faced beavers, so I expect them to *be* the size of beavers.

Beavers are *huge* -- about 35 to 65 lbs (16 to 30 kg) and 3 to 4 feet long.

[claudiagray]

See, I always thought platypi were tee-tiny--like, the size of your hand--so the first time I saw one in the zoo, which happened to be a two-footer, I was like THEY ARE GIANTS NO ONE TOLD ME

[fnord888]

It would be funny if nuclear waste warning messages become an attraction for future historical linguists.

I mean look at this thing:

A parallel text in 7 languages, with 4 different scripts between them! And pictograms! All designed to be preserved intact!

[max1461]

maybe nothing of value to you is here

[mylordshesacactus]

That is legitimately a massive problem that the nuclear waste warning projects are aware of and trying desperately to counteract.

Like, every post about them on tumblr going “lmao let’s be real, if I saw this shit I would stop at nothing to explore it” is highlighting the central conceit of the yucca mountain project.

The project is VERY aware of humanity’s tendency to explore, and the people involved are tormented constantly by the fact that ANYTHING they do to indicate “this specific place is extremely deadly and there’s nothing valuable here, GO AWAY” is going to become a fucking MAGNET for treasure hunters, explorers, adventurers, mystery enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists…like, the MOMENT it’s discovered, people will flood that place.

That’s what makes the project so fascinatingly difficult! There’s so much they have to convey, but at the same time, they have to do so without making the site itself interesting in any way, and without making it significant. Many possible warnings don’t incorporate a message at all, focusing instead on simply making the site as ugly, inconvenient, and unimportant-looking as possible so that it’s just never disturbed because nobody is interested in getting close. (It’s why seemingly crazy ideas like the color-changing cat priesthood are actually more viable than the seemingly “practical” example above, which still depends on written warnings guaranteed to be extremely interesting to future humans AND depends on the idea that those future humans will be able to decipher any of our languages. The most viable ideas focus on exploiting superstition and the subconscious, rather than LITERALLY trying to communicate “This place is not a place of honor” etc in as many words. Those are general ideas to be gotten across, not a script.)

The impossible catch-22 of the nuclear waste warning projects is that they absolutely MUST communicate the level of danger and the importance of keeping your distance…while also being acutely aware that warnings on the walls of ancient burial sites about the horrible curses that would afflict anyone who disturbed them did jack-fuck all to dissuade archaeologists.

Anything we do to make the warning seem important will guarantee it’s disregarded, but if we fail to make the warning unmistakable enough, we’re responsible for whatever happens to the humans ten thousand years in the future who suffer from our mistakes.

[patheticperipatetic]

If the area is to become unappealing why not put a landfill over it. To get to the death rocks you’ll have to dig through undecayed cabbage

[odonata523]

See above re: archeologists. Who just LOVE garbage dumps for what they can learn about people’s day-to-day lives.

[aeshnacyanea2000]

‘And there’s the sign, Ridcully,’ said the Dean. ‘You have read it, I assume. You know? The sign which says “Do not, under any circumstances, open this door”?’ ‘Of course I’ve read it,’ said Ridcully. ‘Why d’yer think I want it opened?’ ‘Er … why?’ said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. ‘To see why they wanted it shut, of course.’  *

* This exchange contains almost all you need to know about human civilization. At least, those bits of it that are now under the sea, fenced off or still smoking.

– Terry Pratchett - Hogfather

[finding-flight]

I can’t belive they just dropped “color-changing cat priesthood” with zero explanation, so I googled it and here you go:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_cat

[artistic-arteries]

[mothman-etd]

What I find extra funny about the Pratchett quote was he was the press office for a nuclear power plant before he was a full time author.

[roach-works]

another big part of the problem is that as soon as you communicate ‘this substance is an odorless poison that works by proximity and especially ingestion, do not hang out near it or eat it, btw it’s in the shape of small pellets,’ it’s going to be extremely valuable because humans fucking love poisoning each other. ‘thing that kills stuff’ is like one of our most valuable trade goods, historically. arsenic, alcohol, salt, sulfur. not only do we want murder weapons for other humans, we want insecticides and antibacterial compounds for pretty much everything. a little cursed pellet you could put in your pantry to keep down mold and maggots would be incredibly useful. until your kid got born without a skull.

but yeah like how do you get people to avoid something that kills them without explaining that the thing kills them, because the minute they know the thing is killing them they’ll start using it to kill on purpose? crazy ass problem.

[oneswordstyle]

Secret hide out

[getougender]

jjk but the stronger a sorcerer is the freakier they tend to look in the same way that the more powerful a curse is the more human-shaped they usually are

[getougender]

[getougender]

the above are all fantastic and i will be integrating them into my belief system immediately. also for your consideration:

getou’s hair shines like an oil slick in the right light and his skin is so thin it sometimes looks translucent. out of the corner of your eye it looks like something’s Moving underneath but when you look at him nothing’s there. it might’ve had legs.

not only are yuuta’s eyes empty but he doesn’t blink as much as he should and he doesn’t. sound right. it doesn’t matter where he is in the room; his voice still carries a very faint echo, and he regularly surprises people because any noise he makes is muffled, like it’s coming from a distance or from underwater.

megumi’s shadow is a little too deep and after the yasohachi bridge incident, light no longer hits him properly. like sure you can see him just fine but there’s an area around him where everything just seems dimmer and the colors less saturated, like the way the world looks during an eclipse.

utahime doesn’t stand out much physically, but her voice reverberates in your skull in a way that makes your bones itch. when she was a teenager and her power progression was at its height, she’d wake up every now and then with new teeth.

[tomonari-nue]

i swear Riko you always bring tasty stuff like this out and it’s just

[getougender]

[getougender]

some of my favorites from the notes from, in order: @/keniaku @/crows-and-cookies @/enevera @/izhyperfixates @/kaleidoscopic-quiddity @/ai-thne @/marrowbones

i’d also like to propose that:

yuuji has two shadows

noritoshi’s anatomy is fucked up eight ways to sunday. everything’s there, but it just,,, shifts. his hair and fingernails lengthen and shorten depending on the day. his pulse points change. sometimes he’s double-jointed, sometimes he’s not.

[strxwberrymint]

"DONT LEAVE ME."

fanart for lost in paradise by salemn!

[mirshroom]

his salvation