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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Cookie Run:Kingdom Official!
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I'd rather be in outer space šø
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
RMH
Not today Justin
Noah Kahan
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Product Placement
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The Bright Sessions
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Definition of blorbo: you know, he's that kind of a character that's so stubborn, wants to bruteforce through suffering and yells about how he is FINE and I'm here like O_O you know, I would dearly love to snap you over my knee like a stick and see what happens. Bet the crack's gonna be loud and sharp and so satisfying.
Yeah, that's all.
Mauro C. Martinez (American, 1986) - Trust (2022)
PAINTING, SCROLL BACK UP
We CANNOT let all the Wattpad users migrate to ao3
Everyone was new to AO3 once. Hereās an FAQ I wrote up that covers many elements of the site Wattpad users tend to be curious about. If you see someone struggling, linking prewritten information may be easier than explaining the same things over and over.
Once i had a teacher who was OBSESSED with
A) resource guarding
And
B) Harry Potter
So naturally, every time someone didnāt have a pencil she would charge them 10 house points (which, even in schools where there is an actual house point system, probably doesnāt fucking happen). She openly held the belief that she had to ascribe value to these precious writing implements or else no one would appreciate them, a concept evidenced by, i kid you not, how when homeless people are given houses for free they let them fall into disarray, because they didnāt pay for the house and therefore didnāt care about it. I, a pissed off 13 year old with a vendetta against power hungry teachers and also JK Rowling, brought a 100 pack of pencils to school so that whenever someone had to ask for one, instead of being charged a fictional currency and upsetting their fellow, deeply competitive students, i would just give them one. If the pencil didnāt come from the teacher, she couldnāt charge points for it.
This upset her. She couldnāt assert her power over the 1st period Advanced 8th Grade Math Class anymore. For i, The Pencil Liberator, had come to put an end to her tyrannous behavior.
She told me to stop about 30 pencils in.
look, even if hypothetically I was willing to scan my face and give a video of me to a social media company's shady unnamed third party data processor to do [God] knows what with in order to prove my adulthood...
chances are I can't. my body is that of a disabled Asian woman.
the facial markers of childhood on a white person- prominent monolid eyes, round faces without prominent cheekbones, clear, smooth skin devoid of wrinkles, lack of facial hair- are traits that many adults of Asian descent, many in their fifties and sixties even, have to an extent that several of my (adult, mind you) relatives and friends have been declared to be in their teens, or even to be preteens or 8-year-olds, by an algorithm that associated those features with childhood rather than ethnicity and lineage.
I can usually figure out how to look directly at a camera, if I try hard enough. but from what I've seen of Roblox's face verification process, it also needs you to move your eyes slowly from left to right so it can determine you're using live footage of a real person.
simple, right? wrong. I can't do that. I can kind of move my eyes a short distance(and it always hurts like hell, especially when I do it consciously), and I can change what part of my vision I'm paying attention to, but otherwise my only way to change what I'm looking at is to turn my entire head. and it clearly doesn't accept head-turning as "looking from left to right".
I don't have any other facial differences that might mess with the algorithm recognizing my face as a face- and that's a related problem that's already been documented by numerous people and organizations like Face Equality International.
I just can't follow the instructions, because it wants me to do something I can't do and expects that all adult humans can move their eyes consciously, because ha ha who couldn't do that if they're using a computer in the first place? it's not like disabled people might ever have friends or want to be on social media!
This week, I read a fic that was around 20 years old, which had originally been posted on the author's personal website and which she added to AO3 a few years ago. She listed her email address with the fic, so after I finished reading, I sent her an email saying how much I enjoyed the story, how much I appreciated the work and effort she obviously put into it, and thanked her for uploading it to AO3. She responded the next day and thanked me for my message, then said she had a few more stories in the same series that she hadn't gotten around to uploading. I checked this morning--she added a 35,000 word novella and thanked me in the summary.
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wattpad really gave ao3 a huge free promo with their new policy update that makes things even worse for their users. so to all the people who are now moving to ao3 due to thisā¦
welcome! here are what you need to know about ao3 and how itās the complete opposite of wattpad
trigger warning for the mention of contents that are allowed on ao3 that can be triggering to some.
ao3 is a non-profit organization. itās run by fans (people like you and me), for fans.
fans donate to the site on their own free will to keep the site up and running smoothly.
ao3 is not a social media. it is an archive.
ao3 doesnāt have ads. it doesnāt have algorithms. it doesnāt have āgoing viral.ā
everything is endlessly free on ao3. there is no āao3 premium.ā you will never see a single ad on ao3, and you can download as many fics as you want to read offline for free.
ao3 doesnāt have an app. and ao3 doesnāt need an app. any āao3 appsā you see are third-party apps and are not affiliated with ao3, so be careful giving these shady apps your login infos or other personal information.
ao3 was built with the main purpose to 1.) be completely against censorship and 2.) host fics that are banned on other platforms like wattpad.
the reason ao3 doesnāt have an app is because for it to have its own app, appstore and google play store will have to approve it first. and due to the contents ao3 allow, chances are that it wonāt get approved. which is actually a good thing. it doesnāt need an app. it works more than fine without an app.
on ao3, every single thing is allowed as long as it is fanfic or fan work (original works, fan art and video edits count as fan works, but if you want to post a video edits on ao3, you will have to post it elsewhere and then link it back to ao3 ā ao3 cannot host video edits on its platform due to copyright issues)
by every single thing that is fanfic, I mean every single thing:
the filthiest smut without plot that is written purely for sexual pleasure is allowed. it has its own canonical tag called āplot what plot, porn without plot.ā
fics that focus on non-consensual sexual intercourse are allowed, doesnāt matter if the fics glorify or romanticize the act, doesnāt matter if theyāre written as kinks. they have their own canonical tag called ārape/non-con.ā
fics about characters who are minors are allowed, even if theyāre portrayed in a sexual manner, even if theyāre non-consensual sexual intercourse. even if the minor characters are romantically and/or sexually involved with characters who are adults. even if they fics are written in ways that glorify and/or romanticize the thing. they have their own canonical tag called āunderage sex.ā
fics about incest are allowed. doesnāt matter if they glorify or romanticize the relationship. they have their own canonically tag called āincest.ā fun fact: the first ever fic that was posted on ao3 was a fic about an incest ship from supernatural.
fics about self-harm and suicide are allowed. doesnāt matter if they glorify or romanticize the act. they have their own canonical tags called āself-harmā and āsuicideā also āsuicidal ideationā, āsuicide attemptā, āimplied/referenced suicideā, etc.
fics about violence and gore are allowed, even if they were written for the sake of shock value. they have their own canonical tag called āviolenceā, āblood and goreā, āblood and injuriesā, etc.
rpf is also allowed. doesnāt matter if the content of the fics are dark and taboo. theyāre treated the same way as any other fics.
every single dark and taboo fic you can think of is allowed. and it has its own canonical tag. because it is the main reason why ao3 was created in the first place.
ābut what do I do if I donāt wanna see fics about xyz?ā you can filter out any specific tag, character and/or pairing you want.
āwhat do I do if I wanna find fics about xyz?ā you can search for any specific tag, character and/or pairing you want.
a lot of ao3 users rely on tags to search for specific tags, pairings, characters they want. they also rely on tags to filter out and exclude specific tags, pairings, and characters that they donāt want to see.
ao3ās tagging system is by far the most efficient one Iāve ever seen.
on ao3, our main principles are ādonāt like donāt readā ā which means YOU have a responsibility to curate your own internet experience. yes, ao3 allows all kind of messed up fics, but they also allow you the ability to NOT see anything you donāt want to see, by filtering out specific fics, pairings and/or characters.
no. you cannot harass authors who write about things that disgust you. you can and will be reported for harassment, and ao3 takes harassment very seriously. they will not take your side. because fucked up fics are allowed on ao3āfucked up fics are the main reason ao3 was createdāwhereas harassment is a direct violation of their terms of service.
ao3 is a house of the freaks and the perverts (affectionate). you ARE in the house of the freaks and the perverts. so donāt think about harassing or being rude to the freaks and the perverts who built this anti-censorship house and are kind enough to let you in.
ao3 is proship, profic, and anti-censorship.
any writer can write whatever they want, however they want. the only etiquette is that you tag your stuff properly and accurately
mistagging for visibility is heavily frowned upon here, and it wonāt get your works more views. people will either block or report you if you deliberately mistag things with the purpose of getting your fic more views. as Iāve said before, ao3 is an archive. itās not a social media. it doesnāt have algorithms or going viral.
if you come across a fic that has the tag ācreator chose not to use archive warningsā it means the fic may or may not contain topics that can be triggering, but the author wonāt tell you what these topics are, or if there are any at all. so proceed at your own risk.
that said, because ao3 is a non-profit site that hosts millions of works about othersā copyrighted characters, you CANNOT link a monetization platform anywhere on ao3, you CANNOT mention any donation, commissionāor anything that involves moneyāanywhere on ao3. no, you cannot imply donation, commission, or anything that involves money either. that is against their terms of service.
and because ao3 is a place for fanworks, the āwork sectionā of your post has to actually be fanwork (fanfic, original work, fan art, link to a video edit count as fanwork). anything that isnāt fanwork is not allowed.
you cannot post something on ao3 that is not fanwork. so no political statement, no call-out post, no āIām looking for fics about xyzā.
ao3 is anti censorship as long as what your post is actually fanwork and as long as you donāt violate their terms of service that Iāve mentioned above.
ao3 has their own team of lawyers to protect them, their users, and every fanwork that is posted on their platform.
last but not least, donāt write directly onto ao3. write and store your works elsewhere before copy and paste them onto ao3 once theyāre ready to post!! because ao3 does NOT autosave drafts for you, you risk losing everything youāve typed if thereās a glitch, if the site crashes or if your device unexpectedly shuts down for whatever reason.
thatās all for now. have fun and happy writing/reading!
Once I "made" a custom emoji for my mum by crudely drawing a hijab on it and now whenever she wants me to buy a coffee for her I get a text like this
absolutley enchanted by cobepee
where are you going
(Source)
Guys, heās at it againā¦
Office comedy where the pilot episode newbie is being walked around to meet all their colleagues and they get introduced to the pair of coworkers who are snappy, electric, flirty, filling each other's coffee orders, finishing each other's sentences, desk leaning, bedroom eyes, feet kicking
And when the newbie asks someone "Are those two uh, you know?" the seasoned coworker goes "Aha yeah. Divorced š"
And this isn't a broken-up couple on the rebound. They've absolutely always been like this with each other save for the 11 months they were married, during which time every single day was a murder-suicide risk.
Two people who are each other's absolute everything unless you try to make them share a kitchen and a budgeting system
So many women are looking for a āmasc lesbianā but what they really mean is that they want a top who has their life together lmao
āYou got masc vibes even though you are a femmeā do I? Or do you just think that confidence and competence are inherently linked to masculinity?
Like if you want someone to top you till you cry then you should just say that. There are many women who can provide, many of them femme.
But also itās kind of rude to assign gender roles and sexual preferences to someone just because theyāre masc. just because she wears a snapback that doesnāt mean sheās a top or able to fix your car or whatever.
HELLO ! have you thought about Van Goghās First Steps today ?
Here you go. This world is beautiful. Humans are beautiful. I love you
Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus
They say if she made a prophecy Nobody would believe her
Iāve gotta say, that is exactly the kind of stupid thing that probably would circumvent a curse.
Cassandra: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO REGRET THIS SO MUCH YOU DONāT EVEN KNOW.Ā
Odysseus: Regret it why?
Cassandra: You wonāt believe me if I tell you. If I prophecy, nobody believes me. That is my curse.
Odysseus: ā¦ Iām Nobody. Fill me in.Ā
*A couple of months later*Ā
Odysseus: HELLO PENELOPE, I AM HERE PRECISELY ON TIME AND NOT YEARS LATE incidentally I rescued and adopted a Trojan seer while I was away, sheās great, got me home really fast, Cassandra this is your new mother whoās not going to treat you like shit.Ā
Penelope: ā¦ Iām going to need more details, but okay, sure.Ā
Cassandra: *in tears* I love you, new family.Ā
Cassandra: Penelope, Iāve had another vision.
Penelope, sighs: Go tell your father.
the original? on my dash?
