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THE SWIMMING PIC HAS ME SOBBING 😭😭

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newbie fic authors, shooting themselves in the foot: This fic is bad haha I suck at writing lol I am being mean to myself in the hopes that you will be nice to me but actually am dissuading anyone from even clicking on my fic because all I have done to advertise it is tell you why you shouldn't read it

me: I am King Big Dick of Fanfic Mountain and I have arrived in your fandom with the Express Intention of writing my Very Favorite Fics, which I will generously allow you to read. You're welcome.

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ive SEEN quiet toilets. i KNOW we have the technology.

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white people are historically opportunistic and hence not to be trusted. because of historical ontological reasons right you know? white people. all of them. historically they get worse when they say ‘yeah we’ve figured this all out and got past it’. well you know you know

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“Hozier is a lesbian” “Hozier is a man written by a woman” “Hozier is like if a man was raised by lesbian mothers” “Hozier is like if a man was a woman” quick give me one reason why a man can’t be soft and gentle and poetic and in love without sounding like a terf or a misogynist

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brown n black people on this site: this post is about a place that is not the USA

white americans, swarming to the post: but america? what about america? the you ess of ey? wont somebody consider america? you FORGET america? DEATH UPON YOU

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what if instead of disco elysium it was called disco deewane and they all freaked out

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stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

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stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

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A useful thing to know about AO3 tags is that they're wrangled by humans. A human being will read your tag, understand what it means*, and then connect that tag in the backend system to other tags that mean the same thing (if there are any)

that's why, for example, the tags

not beta read

no beta

no beta we die like men

no beta we die like mne

no beta we die like [insert character who dies in canon]

unbetad

unbeta'd

unbeta-d

un-beta'd

and a million more versions are all searchable and filterable if you just tag one of them. A Tag Wrangler (the job title of a human volunteer who manages AO3 tags) has made sure that AO3 understands that those are all synonyms, so AO3 treats them that way.

When you're tagging your fic, or searching for a fic, or filtering a tag to find or remove works from the list you do not have to use every possible version of a tag. You just need to pick one - unless using more is a stylistic choice you're making, in which case have at it.

*or research what it means - which is why wranglers really appreciate it if you put (OC) behind the name of your original characters so that they don't have to scour every source they can find to see if it's a named background character in canon.

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started watching this japanese show where they take in requests and they try to help out with whatever the request is. and in this one the guy says that when he was in middle school, he always heard the girl across the street playing her piano, and although he only met her in person a few times, listening to her play her usual song was a great comfort to him growing up, especially getting to hear her slowly get better at playing.

the guy now was an adult and taking a break from college, and began to feel really lost in life, and he kept thinking back to when he was in middle school and hearing her play the piano every day. so his request was to hear her play it again. and he and the show's crew literally go back to his old place, and miraculously the girl still lives in that same house across the street, and even more miraculously the people who currently live where he used to allow him to go back to his old room where he used to listen to her play. and they all agree to recreate his middle school memory for him.

the girl comes home from her part-time job and she plays the piano, although she tells them it's been 4 years since she's ever played and is worried she won't sound good, and the guy sits by the window, and he just listens. and like. just imagining reliving that moment when you were younger, listening to a near-stranger play a song across the street every day, feeling a little less lost because of it, and returning to that as an adult when you need it most and everyone being kind enough to let you savor it again even just for a moment... i wanted to start bawling i wont lie. this is the song she played. im going to go lie down about the humanity of it all

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I love the kind of books that are written from the perspective of a completely ordinary animal, telling a story of their ordinary life, painstakingly researched to be as close to nature as possible, save for being written out in a language that humans understand. The challenge is always in how much the author tries to anthrophormise the animals, I especially hate when they're given humanlike ideas of love and romance. I'm more down for them having their own bizarre religion than them having stable, monogamous romantic relationships if the subject animal does not actually do that in nature. Like rather give me a story about a completely regular deer buck who observes the beginning of rut like

It's starting to be that time of the year when I become stupid. I hope I won't get killed or injured this year from doing anything idiotic. Hey who the fuck is that guy, get the fuck off my turf.

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I am slowly losing my mind over the shift towards video as the default media format.

I do not find this to be an efficient way to absorb information. I am bored and distracted by the time the largely unnecessary introduction is over. I can't use ctrl+f to find the specific information I'm looking for. If there are instructions to follow, I don't want to have to constantly pause and back up to the part I need.

At least give me a fucking transcript.

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“Rayban charity glasses event” is a scam don’t click any link in a post that says that.

Old tumblr users remember this scam back when it first went out.

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Fausto Maria Liberatore - Modella