[jackpyroscythe]

Hello Tumblr, I'm here with a STUPID request... I asked myself the question 'Is Every Block in Minecraft Someone's Favourite?", and to answer this, I created a survey! It takes two seconds to fill out, and I just really want to know if every block is loved by someone! And that just doesn't have to be for building, it can also just be for how you use it in the game, the sound it makes when you place it, or maybe you've got a memory attached to it! On the 21st of April, I'll be sharing the results with the survey alongside some hopefully interesting stats. Please help me out, fill in the form and share it around! https://forms.gle/yhK6PFUPcJ6McPS78

[goomyloid]

It means everything

(happy 10th bday UNDERTALE!)

[featherspiral]

🎉✨️happy 10th anniversary to PEAK 🎉🎊

+ closer on the two halves bc its a pretty long canvas. I wasn't originally going to make a piece and then decided last minute because I mean. come on I gotta!!! Not only is the game itself 10 years old but this also marks 10 years I've been a fan of it :) shoutout to asriel dreemurr for being my absolute goat when I was in middle school

[szivarvanyturmix]

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[citric-crow]

had a dream about chapter 5

[badwolfkaily]

This.

[strongwomenunited]

I don’t know about others but the only reason I put both is so that whichever someone clicks on, they will find my fic. So if there is supposed to be rules, I guarantee you that no writer knows these ones. We can barely get people to comment, you think we’re going to specifically choose & or / ? Hell no.

[beatrice-otter]

I’ve been in fandom for twenty years, and “/” means romance and “&” means no romance was literally one of the first things I learned. It dates back to Star Trek fanfiction of the 70s. I’m boggled by the fact that anyone who’s been reading fic on AO3 for more than like five minutes wouldn’t know that, and I’m curious as to what fanfic community you come out of.

I don’t think that tagging with both is actually going to get your fic in front of more readers. People looking for romance often exclude the “&” tag if there are too many gen fics tagged with both. People looking for gen often exclude the “/” tag if there are too many fics with both. So rather than putting your fic in front of twice the people, you are in fact more likely to get your target audience ignoring your fic because it has a tag they don’t want.

Also, by overtagging you are more likely to annoy potential readers away from your fic than entice them. A fic tagged both & and / better have both romance and a ton of platonic interaction between the two characters, like a slow burn romance friends-to-lovers arc. If it isn’t, I’m going to be very unhappy because the author lied to me with the tags to try and trick me into reading a fic with deceptive advertising.

When I’m in a fandom and see tagging where some of the tags don’t really apply and are just there to get it in front of more eyes, I’m going to assume one of two things. Either the author is a newb who doesn’t know anything, or the author is purposefully spamming the tags because they don’t care about lying to their potential audience and think that “spray and pray” is an effective tactic. In the first case, their writing probably will not be very good, so why bother reading their fic. In the second case, the fact that I can’t trust the tags to be accurate means I’m not going to read it to see if it’s interesting even if it has a tag I like. Chances are, that tag isn’t actually in the fic anyway, and even if it is, by spam-tagging the author is making the archive harder to use for everybody. Why would I reward bad behavior with attention? No. Far better to mute the author and move on.

[mylordshesacactus]

More to the point--and no, I will never stop harping on this, because we have GOT to stop leaving our strongest points in the drawer--it doesn't matter if you heard of this convention before joining AO3 or not, because it's in AO3's tagging FAQ.

[id: the "How do I tag a romantic or platonic relationship?" section of the tagging FAQ here.]

"But Jo," you may argue, because you're wrong. "There's no way to find that without digging through site FAQ menus, and that's really inaccessible!"

sure

except

that when you go to post a new fic, and you go to put in those relationship tags, you see this

[id: the Relationships field]

and that tooltip, the one THERE TO EXPLAIN HOW THE FIELD WORKS, links to the Relationships segment of the tag FAQ, which explicitly lays this shit out.

I don't care if you don't know fandom history. I don't care if you've never heard a goddamn word about the spirk shippers. I don't care if you've never been exposed to fandom culture in your life. It is, frankly, not fair to expect those things of everyone.

What is entirely fair to expect is that you will READ THE INSTRUCTIONS PRINTED NEXT TO THE FUCKING BOX, actually. Forget fandom conventions. It genuinely doesn't matter whether you agree with or respect fandom conventions. This is a site policy. This is explicitly how tagging on AO3, specifically, works.

[vendeavendea]

I often write fanfics with queerplatonic relationships or semi-romantic relationships, and I'm never sure how to tag them properly. Relationships can be so much more than just romantic or platonic.

[tu0fu]

🪽

[jazze-bee]

They got off to a rocky start.

[hourlycatphotos]

[facultativeactivity]

[meltesh28]

Animated another scene! Also from chapter 4 of deltarune...

youtube link

[tambersome]

Canon to chapter 5 i saw it in a dream

[vendeavendea]

Spent 10 years of my childhood learning the fucking piano, and my teacher always pushed me to learn reading music sheets, but I thought that was boring and unnecessary because I have perfect pitch and I could play stuff by hearing, so I never did. I've recently got back into playing and I'm trying to write some music, and it's so annoying that I always have to make recordings or use FL Studio so that I don't forget my own music because I can't write a goddamn sheet music. Sometimes I hate how stupid I was as a kid. (And yes, I'm trying to learn it on my own, but it's hella confusing. I bet it would've been much easier to pick it up as a child.)

[facultativeactivity]

There should be other options than tiredness because of lack of sleep and tiredness because of too much sleep

[kiraheartilly36]

Tiredness because you are sick

[vendeavendea]

Tiredness because of burnout.

[ivipl1]

hey man do you need something

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

OP I saw this and. I just had to

Visit Original Link

[fruitsoupeez]

an asriel and kris comic i made (they are the siblings ever)

fun fact this is based off of true events, my little brother pulled this shit and i figured that this scenario would fit them so well

[chocolatechibi]

When I watched She Ra for the first time as a kid, I always remember being so confused and angered by the way the other princesses treated Entrapta in season 5. Like sure, she switched sides on them, and they had reason to be angry, but they also left her behind without a second thought? Knowing what she was like? And Scorpia?? Even Scorpia would favor the other princesses without even trying to stand up for Entrapta?

I didn’t know anything about autism back then. I didn’t realize Entrapta was autistic.

Then all these years later, I suddenly realize. I remember why I quit my choir of like 9 years, because even the people I thought were really good friends left me behind at the zoo (we were there for a field trip type thing) while I was in the bathroom and went off with the rest of our little group with no way for me to catch up. These are people I grew up with. People I thought cared about me. Then I realize.

OH.

Then I want to drop to my knees, to grab my Entrapta doll and give her the biggest hug, to cry.

Now I realize. I was never unkind to my friends. (And I never sent giant robots to try and kill them either) But some days I was just too overwhelmed for it all. I was shy, quiet, avoidant, because I couldn’t do it all. I couldn’t be the kind of friend they wanted or needed, I couldn’t be the kind that was easy and normal to them. I wasn’t the perfect friend because I didn’t know how.

So while I wouldn’t have left a stranger behind like that, they left me like it was nothing.

I remember Entrapta. I remember not understanding why even Scorpia wouldn’t have her back, and now I know why.

Maybe having an autistic friend isn’t easy. I’m not saying there isn’t multiple sides to this.

But I understand the pain of being left out and left behind. I understand now.

Maybe they just didn’t love me the way I loved them. Maybe they didn’t even know that I did.

And I realize I’m just like Entrapta. I understand now.

[entrapdaknation]

Welcome to the family, from an AuDHD She-Ra fan. Realizing one is autistic answers so many persistent questions and makes so many painful experiences easier to understand. Many of us empathize with Entrapta, whose experiences mirror ours.

[ectofool]