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Endless Sailor Moon: 6/?

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Fandom pro tip: engage with fandom based on what you love, not what you hate. Goes for ships and characters, plot points etc.

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@sorceressmaria's Snakeric and Nekofia, the prey has tricked the predator into protecting her.

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i respect those people who have sideblogs for all their different interests, if you follow me, you’ll just have to accept you’ll be submitted to whatever nonsense i’m into at the moment

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Those Christmas romance movies that treat Christmas as the end of the Christmas season are really missing out on the classic Christmas romance trope that lets it continue through the real twelve-days Christmas season, so the couple can have a big romantic moment at a New Year's Eve party.

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"Being compassionate to the weakest member of our family —the physically weakest, the psychologically weakest, the morally weakest— is a means of grace." From a homily today.

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Baby potato

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Sayonara (year of) Shadow the Hedgehog. Her turn now.

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holding yourself accountable and tearing yourself down are two different things

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but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*

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writing badly and cringily is actually an essential part of the writing process, both in terms of individual projects and in gaining voice and confidence as a writer in the long term. there is no way around the cringe. there's no way around the work.

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Little traitor

Jealousy

@shadamytober Day 25

What? No, Shadow isn't jealous. What's there to be jealous of? Being on the receiving end of Amy's unwavering love and affection? Don't be ridiculous.

Also WHY all the references I found for Shadow's chao are different in some way? it is supposed to be the same chao, righ? RIGHT?!!

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This is a terrifying norm I’ve been seeing in fandom recently, with a lot of people asking for photo ID’s to enter a server or for 18+ commissions or to follow a private Twitter account. While I understand the sentiment and realize that there’s an issue of minors trying to get into adult spaces, this is an incredibly dangerous practice that needs to stop.

I have seen this popping up more and more in the past year and frankly, I’m sick of sitting back and watching it become a social norm. Not to mention, there is a huge difference between a company with a team of lawyers and legal statements with the intention to protect your information and giving this to a random person online.

Here is an article from IAPP discussing more in depth the current difficulties for age verification online.  Thanks to @murmurkins for digging around to find this!

Here is also some resources for Discord specifically on how to moderate and run a server that has 18+ channels and designating a server as 18+. Discord also notes that if you are locked out of 18+ channels, you can appeal this by sending a picture of yourself and either a photo ID or your Discord tag. Again, while not a perfect solution, this is their last resort, not the intial requirement. It’s dangerous to do, and Discord recognizes this, which is why they have a system to protect your information AND they require that all third-party individuals have a privacy policy telling individuals how they will protect others’ information. 

If anyone wants to respond to this post with more information on other websites, feel free! The biggest issue I have seen with this is on Discord, so that is where my information is focused.

TL;DR: Don’t give your ID out online to random people for your safety. Make sure who you are giving personal information to has a privacy policy. While it is an issue that minors are accessing 18+ content, this is not a safe solution to the problem.

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