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Gender is a performance and it’s time to play the music it’s time to light the lights it’s time to meet the muppets on the muppets show tonight

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A gift for @phoenix-soar

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Did this mid Olympic spree and im not immune. And after seeing this amazing photoshot of an olympic gymnast who was sponsored by parmesan and had a photoshoot with huge blocks of cheese this was the natural outcome. And after building this up with a pair of lovely friends its lovingly referred to as the ''Parmesan AU'' Lmao Their Magazine headline (kudos @sodiumazideandothertoxins ) - How do YOU top your Dish? -

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"Then there may yet be hope for you."

"Comes The Inquisitor."

Babylon 5: S2, Ep21.

An underrated episode of B5, featuring a powerful exchange between Delenn (Mira Furlan) and The "Inquisitor" (Wayne Alexander), this exchange in particular proving very poignant in the times we're living in.

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sorry if i was weird last night it’s just that i’m weird pretty much every night actually

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I have been feeling increasingly gaslit by how many words my spellchecker/autocomplete seems to no longer recognize. Even when I manage to spell the word correctly, it's as if it doesn't exist. All very strange - I've had to check the dictionary again as if it's 1999. But, no, the words are there!

I'm guessing AI nonsense has crept into spellcheck. Need to start a list of the words it believes are figments of my imagination. "Capitulated" was one earlier.

I'm a man with a bad short-term memory + a speech impediment where I often say the wrong word without realizing it, and having to triple check what I write to scan for hallucinations is doing a number on my brain. Text *used* to be where I could achieve communication fluency easily.

Just... entire swathes of vocabulary, no longer recognized! It's infuriating as someone who gets flustered by imprecise language, and now doubly so when his technology implies the words he's depended on are not real!

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All hail Volcano Snail

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OOWS' charity commission form is LIVE!

Wahoo- we are finally opening prompts to the wider public- for a donation to our GoFundMe, you will be able to request a Good Omens fanfic or fanart from some of our talented and amazing writers and artists! All proceeds go to Take Back The Night Foundation. This form will be open until December 13th.

The prompt form below has more information if you're interested:

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OMG just take my money nowwwwww

Photos of Rob Wilkins at Brendon Books last night, modelling what I hope will become fandom merch very soon 🥺🙏

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AO3 Etiquette

It would seem a whole new kind of AO3 reader/writer is emerging and it is becoming clear not everyone quite understands how the website community works. Here is some basic guidance on how most people expect you to go about using AO3 to keep this a fun community archive that funtions correctly:

Kudos is for when the story was interesting enough to make you finish reading. If it sucked or was badly written, you probably left. If you finished - you kudos.

If you liked it, you should comment. It can be long and detailed or a literal keysmash. Writers don't care, we just love comments.

No critisism unless the author has specifically asked or agreed to hear it. Even constructive critisism is a no-no unless an author note tells you it's okay. Many people write as a fun hobby or a way to cope with, among other things, insecurity. Don't ruin that for them.

Do not comment to ask the author to write/update something else. It's tacky and off-putting and will probably have the opposite effect than the one you want.

There is no algorithm, it's an archive. Use the search and filter function to add/remove the pairings/characters/tropes etc. you want to read about and it will find you the fics that fit the bill.

For this to work, writers must tag and rate stories. This avoids readers finding the wrong things and missing the stuff they want. I don't care how cringy that trope is in your eyes - it gets tagged.

Character A/Character B means a ROMANTIC or SEXUAL relationship of some kind. Character A&Character B is PLANTONIC, like friendship or family.

Nothing is banned. This is an implicit rule because banning one thing is a slipperly slope to banning another and another, until nothing is allowed anymore. Do not expect anyone to censor for you. Because of the tags system, you are responsible for your own reading experience.

People can create new chapters and sequels/fic series any time after they "complete" a story. So it's considered perfectly normal to subscribe, even to a finished story. You can even subscribe to the author instead just to cover your bases.

Do not repost stories or change the publishing date without an extremely good reason (like a complete top to bottom rewrite). It's an archive, not social media. No one cares what's the most recent, only what fits their tag needs.

Avoid deleting a story you wrote if you hate it - orphan it so others can still enjoy it, without it being connected to you anymore.

This is a creative fanfiction archive. No essays on your insights or theories please. There are other places for that.

I KNOW there's plenty more I missed but I'm trying to cover most of the basics that people seem to be struggling with.

I invite anyone to add to this, but please explain, don't berate.

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Commenting fanfiction is the easiest thing in the world once you start doing it. 

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the secret to life is always having something to look forward to

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every single time

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Reblog if you'd rather be on the seafloor chewing fiber cables rn

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I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff