Where it's always 2014

Vaysh (she/they) has a type – Winter Soldier, Murderbot, The Mandalorian

[vaysh11]

The AIDS Memorial Quilt, narrated by Cleve Jones, founder of the Quilt.

[vaysh11]

I'll repost some of those 250 one-minute infos of American history for the next month.

[idroolinmysleep]

Welcome home, Artemis crew.

[stereowire]

winter soldier winter soldie rwinter soldier w inter soldierrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

rolls around on the floor screaming until april

[fansplaining]

(Re)Introducing Fansplaining

Writing by, for, and about fandom.

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 WE'RE LIVE!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[wintersebastian-deactivated2018]

Put on your war paint.

[lamignonette]

[onlytiktoks]

[livelovelaugh-777]

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you can only do this career for the rest of your life

https://wheelofnames.com/dng-wgq

How are things going?

Great! A job I actually enjoy!

okay. I can put up with this

bad but not terrible

terrible

I don't work/results

Voting ended onApr 13

(this wheel is set in a magical world where all jobs pay enough to support yourself so this is purely about the work you do and not the money)

[lingua-mortua]

@trillgutterbug NO!!!

[omgpoindexter]

thoughts on americanising fic

i’m american, i don’t care

i’m american, i would rather you americanise your fic

i’m not american, i don’t care

i’m not american, i would rather you americanise your fic

i have a different opinion (pls explain in tags!)

Voting ended onApr 8

​trying to gage this - i personally think it’s unnecessary, as ao3 is not an american territory that im publishing into, but ive had comments before that lead me to think it takes people out of the story. let me know your thoughts! :)

[omgpoindexter]

just to add:

by “americanise” i mean purely in terms of vocab/grammar, for example the use of em dashes is different (in the uk we use -, in the us you use —), or you guys would say “apologize” rather than “apologise”

i agree that if a story is set in america, i wouldn’t be writing “bloody hell” and using “pavement” instead of “sidewalk”. i do think there is some nuance there!

[runawaymarbles]

"Why can't Trump be impeached" because the democrats don't control the house or the senate. "Why doesn't the Supreme Court stop him" well the lower courts are stopping him but he stacked the Supreme Court in his first time. "Why can't they do the 25th amendment" because that requires the president to be basically unconscious. "When will congress do something" probably in January when the new congress comes in if the democrats pick up a lot of seats in the midterms

[writers-solace]

I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world

[transformativeworks]

Spambot Comments on AO3

As spam continues to be a problem on AO3, here's an update on the types of spambot comments you may see, what we're doing to combat them, and how you can help! Read more at https://otw-news.org/mr42w8j9

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[rvnclyd]

process

[teambuckaroo]

Happy birthday to the movie that fundamentally changed my brain chemistry