Space Ace

I'm here, I'm queer, also trying to be nice. Hey, I'm Ash. : Aro/Ace, Genderqueer: White: Warning: I don't have the spoons to tag much, sorry!

[theprofessional-amateur]

It sure fucking is x

[mapleejay]

does anyone else think about how brave all their friends are and get really emotional about it

[mapleejay]

I'm glad everyone is alive rn

[shamebats]

"There's no thought crimes and no thought heroisms" is honestly such a good piece of life advice.

You could be having the most fucked up problematic thoughts 24/7 but if you treat people with kindness, the good you do is the only thing that matters. But if you have only the purest thoughts and all the correct beliefs, it doesn't matter one bit if you spend most of your time being an asshole to people.

[cardassiangoodreads]

#fandom needs this one

[twasjane]

God there really is a Terry Pratchett quote for everything

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[animentality]

[wizardpostsdotorg]

so funny how the older u get ur like how the fuck on gods green earth did people used to manage all th- ahhh.. i need one of these wives everybody keeps talking about..

[wizardpostsdotorg]

"how was X so successful and productive and achieving?" wife feeding and clothing and cleaning and shopping and parenting for them and also probably booking appointments and personal receptionist work. AND stimulant abuse. and shes supposed to suck you off whenever. id kill him too #feminists

[queenofattolia]

"I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am A Wife. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother.

Not too long ago a male friend of mine appeared on the scene fresh from a recent divorce. He had one child, who is, of course, with his ex-wife. He is looking for another wife. As I thought about him while I was ironing one evening, it suddenly occurred to me that I, too, would like to have a wife. Why do I want a wife?

I would like to go back to school so that I can become economically independent, support myself, and, if need be, support those dependent upon me. I want a wife who will work and send me to school. And while I am going to school I want a wife to take care of my children. I want a wife to keep track of the children’s doctor and dentist appointments. And to keep track of mine, too. I want a wife to make sure my children eat properly and are kept clean. I want a wife who will wash the children’s clothes and keep them mended. I want a wife who is a good nurturant attendant to my children, who arranges for their schooling, makes sure that they have an adequate social life with their peers, takes them to the park, the zoo, etc. I want a wife who takes care of the children when they are sick, a wife who arranges to be around when the children need special care, be cause, of course, I cannot miss classes at school. My wife must arrange to lose time at work and not lose the job. It may mean a small cut in my wife’s income from time to time, but I guess I can tolerate that. Needless to say, my wife will arrange and pay for the care of the children while my wife is working.

I want a wife who will take care of my physical needs. I want a wife who will keep my house clean. A wife who will pick up after my children, a wife who will pick up after me. I want a wife who will keep my clothes clean, ironed, mended, replaced when need be, and who will see to it that my personal things are kept in their proper place so that I can find what I need the minute I need it. I want a wife who cooks the meals, a wife who is a good cook. I want a wife who will plan the menus, do the necessary grocery shopping, prepare the meals, serve them pleasantly, and then do the cleaning up while I do my studying. I want a wife who will care for me when I am sick and sympathize with my pain and loss of time from school. I want a wife to go along when our family takes a vacation so that someone can continue to care for me and my children when I need a rest and change of scene.

I want a wife who will not bother me with rambling complaints about a wife’s duties. But I want a wife who will listen to me when I feel the need to explain a rather difficult point I have come across in my course of studies. And I want a wife who will type my papers for me when I have written them.

I want a wife who will take care of the details of my social life. When my wife and I are invited out by my friends, I want a wife who will take care of the babysitting arrangements. When I meet people at school that I like and want to entertain, I want a wife who will have the house clean, will prepare a special meal, serve it to me and my friends, and not interrupt when I talk about things that interest me and my friends. I want a wife who will have arranged that the children are fed and ready for bed before my guests arrive so that the children do not bother us. I want a wife who takes care of the needs of my guests so that they feel comfortable, who makes sure that they have an ashtray, that they are passed the hors d’oeuvres, that they are offered a second helping of the food, that their wine glasses are replenished when necessary, that their coffee is served to them as they like it. And I want a wife who knows that sometimes I need a night out by myself.

I want a wife who is sensitive to my sexual needs, a wife who makes love passionately and eagerly when I feel like it, a wife who makes sure that I am satisfied. And, of course, I want a wife who will not demand sexual attention when I am not in the mood for it. I want a wife who assumes the complete responsibility for birth control, because I do not want more children. I want a wife who will remain sexually faithful to me so that I do not have to clutter up my intellectual life with jealousies. And I want a wife who understands that my sexual needs may entail more than strict adherence to monogamy. I must, after all, be able to relate to people as fully as possible.

If, by chance, I find another person more suitable as a wife than the wife I already have, I want the liberty to replace my present wife with another one. Naturally, I will expect a fresh new life; my wife will take the children and be solely responsible for them so that I am left free.

When I am through with school and have a job, I want my wife to quit working and remain at home so that my wife can more fully and completely take care of a wife’s duties.

My God, who wouldn’t want a wife?"

-- "I Want a Wife," Judy Brady, 1971

[quasi-normalcy]

You! You seem like a discerning patron of the arts! The kind of person who would enjoy...a fantasy novel, say. One about physics, magic, and political maneuvering. Set in post-apocalyptic fairy-occupied Canada, naturally. With lesbians.

Well...may I introduce you to...my novel! Reality's End, a novel with all of the traits of a good novel.

Oh, what's that? You can't afford it? Well, that's fine, friend; I've serialized it on AO3 for absolutely free!

Too much effort? No matter. I'm also serializing it as a podcast. You don't need to pay for it; you don't even need to look at it. You can just listen to the dulcet tones of my voice, a voice that has been described as "sounding like someone wearing a housecoat", as I read it to you.

You will enjoy it. You will enjoy my book.

[quasi-normalcy]

#you should read this book

You should!

[striders]

the other day i saw a tiktok of a woman talking about how her hyper-militant abusive parents would sometimes punish her by “taking away her name” and referring to her as a prisoner number. genuinely terrible stuff, obviously. but i skimmed the comments and. listen. i truly DO NOT mean to dunk too hard on this person, like they could be a kid or something, but.

just. breathtaking. imagine if your primary reference for the concept of the un-personing of prisoners was (check notes) a book series about owls.

[saleensundria9]

This is why it's important to Include stuff like this in fiction, especially ya fiction. It can be a lot of sheltered and/or indoctrinated children, in the case of a lot of rural "Christians", first introduction to these types of concepts in a way they can understand.

I don't think there's anything weird or shameful about it. Knowledge is knowledge, regardless of where it came from.

[a-polite-melody]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I was once listening to one of the ten billion animorphs podcasts out there, with two hosts, one who'd read Animorphs as a kid and one who was reading it for the first time as an adult. For those who don't know, Animorphs is a war story in which a handful of children have to secretly hold off an alien invasion until the "good" aliens arrive to save Earth. It starts off with fairly clear-cut Bad Species of aliens and Good Species of aliens but as the series goes on it becomes clear that there is no such thing as a good, clean or glorious war, that a clean Good Side and a clean Bad Side is usually propoganda, that heroism is a matter of circumstance and that war will chew up and spit out even the victorious; there are no winners in war, just the side that lost less.

It's a lot, for books aimed at eleven year olds who want to read about kids turning into fun animals.

On the podcast, the two (American) hosts happened to get onto the topic of the post-9/11 Iraq War and their reactions to it. They were both children at the time and as such could not be expected to have particularly nuanced views of US military policy. The person who hadn't read Animorphs was unsurprised by the declaration of war; that's what you did. Someone attacks America, America goes to war. That's how a country protects itself, through military revenge. The Animorphs fan, about the same age, had been devastated and against the war from the start. War was a Big Deal and, while sometimes unavoidable, should be a last resort; a lot of people were going to die, and a lot more were going to get hurt, and no matter how the war shook out it was still going to be horrible. They attributed this perspective, of course, to the series that had taught them about the horrors endemic to war in an engaging way at such a young age -- to Animorphs.

That's what kid fiction is for.

[captain-price-returns]

A real page on the White House website

[tryagain]

TMZ Archives

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[fixyourwritinghabits]

How do you recognize if the IP you want to develop is too fanfiction-ish? Like, waking up in a tv show or traveling through AUs

I got to admit, I find this question just as baffling as it is fascinating. I could point to dozens of recently published works that could be described as fanfic-y. I could point out a couple that used to be fanfic and were marketed as such (controversially, but that is besides the point).

However, your question is if something can feel too fanfiction-ish, and I'd say no. The romance genre is filled with what could be called coffeeshop AUs. Traveling through AUs is Waking up on a TV show or traveling through AUs are just interesting Sci-Fi ideas. You can turn any idea that feels like a fanfic to you into an original series that feels fresh and fun to a new audience. Naomi Novak's first series was just that!

Ultimately, what makes something feel like fanfiction versus original fiction is how you write the story. Fanfiction operates on the assumption that you know and love these characters even if you are writing an AU. Stories that feel like fanfiction to me are ones that don't put enough effort into making my care about the characters or their wants, because when you are writing a fanfiction everyone knows what that is already (no matter how AU it is).

That can be the struggle with writing original fiction, and it's something you have to be careful about if you've mainly written fanfiction before. But the basis of your plot can truly be anything, be it Sherlock Holmes versus Cthulhu (a series by Lois H Gresh) or Doctor Who But Magical (Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci books). The idea will develop and evolve - it's your spin on it that will sell it. Write away!

[berdymane]

[bethanydelleman]

Everyone, we can fix Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet if we just switch the leads.

Romeo wakes up in Hamlet's body and meets the ghost of "his" father telling him to kill his uncle. So if course Romeo just fucking does it, because he never considers consequences, and then gets onto more important shit, like romancing Ophelia, political fallout be damned! But given that he's the son of the murdered king, he'd probably end up on top.

Hamlet wakes up as Romeo and is told that he can't marry the love of his life because his family hates her family. Instead of killing Tybalt and getting Merucio murdered, he's planning elaborate meet-cutes for the two warring families. He's putting on plays about blood feuds and how to overcome them. He either succeeds in bringing the families together or bores Juliet enough with his indecision that the glow wears off and she moves on; both positive options. Everybody lives.

[ekjohnston]

This is much funnier than switching Hamlet and Othello.

[jarbley]

This tracks with how I think about tragedies. A tragedy is when a flawed character is put in the exact situation where those specific flaws will cause their demise. You put them in a nightmare scenario crafted especially for them. Since a tragedy is a union of a specific character and specific situation, if you take the character out of the situation it's probably not a tragedy anymore.

If we watched a character so flawed that they will always fall to calamity, then that's just a biography of a walking disaster.

If we put a character into a situation where anyone would fail, then that's just torture.

It's a tragedy because the character is complicated. They have flaws but also strengths and aren't doomed from the start, but then are put in a scenario specifically crafted to bring out the worst in them.

[wisteria-lodge]

Hamlet is genre savvy enough that I think he'd probably do well in *most* other Shakespeare play scenarios. A lot of his problems come from the fact that he can *kinda* see where this is going, and *kinda* knows what happens when you kill a king (nothing good) and he's stuck in this trolley problem trap. No matter what he does, he can imagine a potential negative outcome, and this holding pattern he's in... like it's not great but it's *bareable.* He's miserable but everyone else is okay. It's a lot of low-stakes spying-behind-corners BS. His solution is to basically provoke Claudius into acting out in order to get things going and justify his actions.

Romeo has comically little emotional control ("by his own tears made drunk") and would see the ghost and just tell... everybody. Ophelia knows about the ghost. Gertrude knows about the ghost. It wouldn't be a tactic or anything, he just wouldn't be able to stop himself. They'd probably be saying "crazy prince Hamlet" but Claudius would be freaking out and Gertrude would be saying... hey wait just a second.

Claudius would attempt to kill Prince Romeo... and Romeo just kills him. but by this point he would probably have secretly married Ophelia and the two of them run away with the pirates. And then it turns into... Gertrude vs Fortinbras.

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[steadynursewizard]

This is the closest thing to a smile I've ever seen this man do for media

[liminalbeauty]

Fair enough. That is a proper reaction.

[the-lamplighter]

Persepolis

[politijohn]

Source

Happy Pride Month!

[reasonsforhope]

Holy shit!!!!!!! HUNGARY DID IT!!!!

-via the Los Angeles Blade, June 1, 2026

[tarragonthedragon]

in 2026 i am wishing for all of us the energy of bilbo baggins, who was headhunted for an extremely well paid role he had no qualifications or experience for, blagged the interview, and within his first week found a magic ring that does the job for him

[phantomrose96]

I like when fic length/book length/movie length is its own punchline

[phantomrose96]

characters: Ah, I'm so glad that's all over now :). But luckily that's done and dealt with and we can all resume our normal lives now :)

fic length: Chapter 9 out of 48

[phantomrose96]

[medievalspecs]

[memorilore]

[epilepticfox]

Odysseus: Thank you for the concern, but brother, I can assure you Our journey is almost done.

Song 11 of 40

[imapuppetqueer]

Gotta catch em all