I’m Not A Good Person Stede @youcantspellstedewithouted - Tumblr Blog

Things today’s taught me:

Download fics you really like because you never know when you’ll need them

Support and donate to sites you use a lot (ao3 is a knee-jerk reach daily for me and basically the whole internet and I will be donating to them next time that season rolls around as I hope many others are)

Ao3 volunteers are under appreciated without question for all they do for this site

Please show the site some love once it’s back up and thank the vols too

Edit: Also go comment on your favorite fics when the site is back up, saw someone else say and I personally will be doing just that

southfarthing

what with all this talk of fanfic and ai and feeding other people's work without permission into ai programmes to 'finish' a fanfic or whatever... it's just showing how people see fic as 'content'? a fanfic as something mass-produced and official, something to consume at a distance and then talk about in a vacuum? something to use for your own purposes and something over which you have a claim?

fanfic is written by fans like you. written out of love and passion and a lot of effort and hard work, so that the author can share their enthusiasm for the characters and stories with other fans. like you. they aren't these untouchable, faceless people above you – they're your peers. gifsets, fanart, fanfic – they're all made by your peers. mutuals. friends.

if you want to know more about the fic, talk to the author! so many fic writers leave their socials in the end notes of their fics – talk to them! they're not going to be affronted or judgemental. chances are, they're going to be over the moon that you like their work and want to engage and discuss the characters and the themes etc. they made you happy with their fic, and you would be making them so happy in return! (and what does a happy writer do? write more!)

as a fic writer, I made one of my closest tumblr friends because she read my fic and left a really nice comment, and then we got talking and brainstorming loads of headcanons and fic ideas together! fic writers want to talk! if you enjoy someone's presence and contributions in a fandom, let them know!

and for the love of all that is good, don't feed someone's hard work into an ai programme!!! whether you post it (which is just horrible tbh) is beside the point – you're facilitating the plagiarism of their fic!

twistcmyk

friends

#hit hard

frownyalfred

hello. this is a PSA. ao3 is NOT releasing your browsing history, despite what you may have heard on tiktok.

if you’re signed into ao3, your history is viewable in the dashboard tab. it always has been, nothing is changing. please don’t believe everything you hear on tiktok.

no one is able to view your browsing history unless they are signed into your account.

kitsnicket

What was the point in animal planet airing those incredibly convincing fake documentaries about dragons and mermaids

kitsnicket

If the aim was to convince incredibly gullible children that they were real it worked on me

kitsnicket

I distinctly remember watching these and being like why is no one talking about this this is INSANE and then my mom had to explain that it’s fake

kitsnicket

Sorry for believing animal planet. The channel that tells me facts about animals 99.9% of the time

anxiouslittlecarrot

I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.

Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.

That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.

And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.

Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.

This movie has the potential to change the way we collectively see Barbie radically into what Ruth Handler’s intended, I’m so very excited

noahnomore

puipui-official

"Un-uhlaive? UN-UHLAIVE? Ma'am, that man has been killed. He has been MUHDUHED. To DEATH."

froginapicklejar

napneeders

words cannot express how important Frenchie nailing his sleeve to the deck is to me

#our flag means death #ofmd #frenchie #frenchie ofmd #ofmd gifs

batsarebetterthanpeople

Calico Jack's funniest line in the whole show is "Well that is real mature" like my brother in christ you're a 52 year old man who pisses on people and fake cries for attention.

#our flag means death #ofmd #calico jack #calico jack ofmd

amuseoffyre

Just a tasty little bit of foreshadowing

#our flag means death #ofmd #nigel badminton #chauncey badminton

lokigodofsex

you know what kills me every single time?

when Stede runs Ed through with the sword and as Ed collapses in his arms, Stede asks “You happy?” and Ed holds on to Stede, looking like the fucking sun, laughs and says “Yes!”