Mikey. they/them

uuuuh i'm so sorry u ended up here.

[lizzybizzyart]

you reap what you saw and baby you've been sowing

more sketchbook bird

[hibiscusflowerhoney]

[vals-lente]

One of your suitors is an orc. His name is Khai and he sticks out like a sore thumb in every way possible. He is big and brutishly strong, covered in scars despite being only a little older than you are. His hair is long and fine, falling far down his back in a braid.

Another one of your suitors likes to make fun of him but he bears every insult until the man tries to pull his braid. That suitor loses a hand and is removed from the list of candidates. Your father wants to turn Khai away, telling you he is no match for you.

"He will crush you like a flower in his fist," your father says. "All he knows are the ways of battle."

So the next day, to prove a point, you give your suitors a quest: whoever can bring back a golden flower from beyond the swamps will get to marry you. You know the task is basically impossible. The journey is treacherous and the golden flowers are delicate and hard to find. By the time the sun sets only a few stragglers have come back, either without the flowers or with a different bloom that they hope you'll mistake for the one you want.

You turn all of them down. Your father urges you to get some rest but you refuse, waiting diligently by the window. Finally, you see Khai marching up to the house. You hurry to fling the front door open wide. He stands bashfully before you, covered in grime and smelling of the swamp.

He has not one golden flower in his hand but a whole bouquet. Your father splutters something about how you surely aren't going to marry a fellow like him, but you're not listening.

You practically leap into Khai's arms, unbothered by the state of him, planting a kiss on his scarred cheek and laughing as he melts against you.

"Khai is the one I choose," you proclaim.

@vals-lente

[monsterloverwriter]

"Orc tribe using you!!" "Orc tribe orgy!!" "Orc chief watching you get fucked by his tribe!!"

Blablablabla, all good concepts and all but. How about an Orc tribe who actually cares about you and not only about fucking?

I'm talking about kids who ain't even biologically yours calling you mama, men and women making sure you're comfortable and fighting just to have the privilege of sitting by your side in meals, and their chief. Who absolutely ADORES you! You're his pretty little human!

Oh.. if he could he'd have you all to himself.. except if he even dares to try to do that the rest of the tribe is going to chase him down. And he knows that very, very well.

So, he unfortunately has to share. Yes he's the one who usually sleeps in your tent, yes he's the one who cuddles you the most apart from children, and yes he's the one who claimed you first. But that doesn't mean he isn't unhappy not having you all to himself!!

Well, but at the end of the day, as long as you're happy and fed, so is he.

No he is not jealous that the kids get to cuddle you while he doesn't. And no he is not jealous that some other orcs are braiding your hair and putting a flower crown on you. Stop assuming things.

[lowpolybluedoggy-deactivated202]

(staring blankly at the wall in front of me) i need to get drunk

[heterocosmica]

I see why I'm everyone's issue (why everybody's got an issue with me)

[nowadayz]

WEDNESDAY, 2022 ‘You Reap What You Woe’

[spiralstaircased]

due to inflation you must answer my riddles five

[zouffle]

due to budget cuts i will grant you two wishes

[lesbiancinnabun-deactivated2023]

due to recent layoffs there is only one of me and I lie 50% of the time

[nofuntour84]

Peak humor is mcr recording a secret gay sex EP for a fictional band that their fictional characters from their real band listen to and then just making it streamable on a random weekday 12 years after it’s release

[slayerbuffy]

 ‘IF THE APOCALYPSE COMES, BEEP ME!’ [insp] — Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 - 2003).

[forfuckssakejim]

Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.

[moonriseaerdna]

Idc if Larissa Weems is high key sus. I would trust her with my life because she is gorgeous and it cancels out the shadiness

[mothalaalee]

They look too similar (◍•ᴗ•◍)✧*。

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

[hellobendykitty]

You can make one here

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

[sleepingbeautypink]

same energy

[pancakeke]

and another

[sketchy-pebbles-deactivated2022]

The holy trinity

[gayclown-69-deactivated20250630]

This is so fucking wholesome wtf

[wholesomepostarchive]

1/23/2022

[angel-aliscary]

How could we forget.

[suggestionsofkindness]

I hope november brings you peaceful moments and a feeling that everything will be okay. May november bring reassurement and encouragement, and may you walk out of the month feeling better than when you walked in. 🌸

[penny-anna]

[badwolf-timeandspace]

[pixxyofice]

Okay, so, I get it. Its a great site! You can post things there without worry that someone who claims that media seeing it and sending lawsuits on your ass.

You can write all sorts of things, and you can have it be taggable and organizable on this neat website.

It runs donations every now and again so that they can keep the site's servers (and therefore the stories) up. It also keeps a team of lawyers so that any person who takes issue will have to deal with actual law know how.

Thats great, and I love the site for the neat, organizable system it is. It sucks that people write shitty stuff, but fiction can help you run through situations you never want happening irl, and if you dont like it, don't read it!

But. Uh. Enough about ao3, the twitter post is made by a Thorki shipper. They emphasize the part of no censorship of adult content. Hm.

[chibisquirt]

Okay look, you made a very rational post for the most part, and I am not trying to pick on you or start a fight (unlike my recent replies to anon where I let my cranky out full-steam).  You appear to be generally getting the drift, and I appreciate your moderate tone.  

I am not bitching at you, here.  I am kind of laughing at you, though.  In a gentle and non-aggressive way.

I, uh, I have some news for you... about the people who, y’know, founded AO3:

[shinelikethunder]

Oh this is... *chef's kiss* I haven't seen such delicious dramatic irony in the wild since the days when first-time New Who viewers would plaster their Doomsday liveblogs and distraught Tenth Doctor Feels reaction posts with that one "I'm in a glass case of emotion" gif.

[thorkidumpster]

[thesaltofcarthage]

ASTOLAT STARTED AO3?!?!?!?!?!?!

[olderthannetfic]

I should be used to these posts by now, but they never fail to crack me up.

AO3 was proposed in astolat’s 2007 post An Archive of One’s Own (making the Virginia Woolf reference even more obvious).

[elfwreck]

Always hilarious. A little sad, in that it shows how much people don’t look into the “About” pages or histories of popular websites, but also, delightful that AO3 is being used by people who have no idea why it was made; it’s just useful to them. (Which was absolutely the plan.)

But yeah. AO3 is never going to get rid of the underage sex, the incest, the sex-pollen orgies, the forced marriage fics, the mpreg, the underage incestuous forced-marriage sex pollen orgies resulting in mpreg fics... because those were the reason it was created.

[lesdeuxcygnes]

@elfwreck AO3 was created in response to a series of actions being taken by several authors who didn't like fans writing content in the authors sandbox for themselves, for free, and sharing it with other fans. Entire archives of fan fiction were taken down and purged. LiveJournals were particularly affected by this, as well as many other sites I can't remember the names of right now (it's almost 6am and I haven't slept yet, forgive me).

That's why it's called Archive of Our Own. It's a fan-created, fan-run, fan-moderated archive of fan fiction that is well protected by lawyers so that the authors who just want to have fun and be creative don't have formal legal action taken against them again.

Yes, that happened. It was terrifying.

In case you ever run across a fic with a disclaimer on it that says something to the effect of: "don't own, not making money, please don't come after me" that's why. I remember putting those on my cringey af fics myself on ff.net, or fanfiction.net.

That site is another large reason why AO3 is what it is, too. FF.net decided one day that adult/mature content was no longer allowed, and they promptly removed all of it. Didn't inform the authors, nothing. Just... Whoosh. Gone. Mind you, they had a rating system, so if you didn't want to find explicit fics, it was easy not to. AFF.net, or adultfanfiction.net, was put in place rather quickly and it was alright for awhile, but ultimately a bandaid.

Then, AO3 came along, and the game changed. Things could be tagged, collated, and organised like never before, and part of that was because AO3 decided not to censor content. They decided not to because of the damage that had been done to the fanfiction community due to all the recent bans and purges. All of the tropes you mentioned have been around for way, waaaaay longer than AO3.

The site wasn't created to cater to ships, tropes, or kinky stuff; it was created to house fan fiction, no matter the type, and to keep the fans who wrote it from being legally attacked by angry authors. Anne Rice was one of the big names in this, btw. AO3 is a virtual library, essentially; they expect the reader to have responsibility about the media they consume.

Btw, I'm not trying to start a fight or anything; I only wanted to educate you if you didn't know. I think it's very important to preserve our own history, because it's so unique and also because things have changed so much and so rapidly. If you did already know all this background, then please just disregard 💚

[elfwreck]

AO3 was created for a lot of reasons; protection from authors who got upset at fanfic involving their characters was one of them.

Mainly - it was created for fic that was at risk of being thrown off other platforms. It was created after Strikethrough and Fanlib, with several of the founders still coping with the sudden closing of Detention.

“Fics that might be challenged by authors” was a large category AO3 was built to welcome. AO3′s founders looked into the legalities of Rice’s claims, and the history of things like Yarbro’s legal action against a fanzine, and decided: No more. We’re done with fanworks being squished by the mere threat of lawyers, without fans having any idea how copyright law actually works.

Extreme kink was another big category: Fic and art with content that regularly got thrown off of hosting sites, regardless of the legality, because it squicked someone who couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to the “don’t like? don’t click” warnings.The definition of “extreme kink” shifted around a lot; in some places, any slash pairing was considered “adult rated” and “too kinky.” In others, slash was fine; explicit sex was not. In others, sex was fine, but any hint of BDSM would get a work removed. And so on. Lots of shifting goalposts. 

AO3 wasn’t specifically focused around “extreme kinky smut,” but it was made with that content specifically in mind; the terms of service and acceptable content policies were shaped by “how do we allow for stuff that’s going to disturb or offend a lot of people?” Content that would bother fans was just as important as allowing content that would bother outsiders, authors and media companies and moralistic crusaders trying to purge the world of whatever fictional tropes were most hated this year.

(@lesdeuxcygnes I don’t think we’re in disagreement, just focused on different parts of the history.)