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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one that added 35k extra words to the projected length of this fucking story ahgeilahgleiag

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"wait your turn"

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There will be a lot of posts soon from people sharing how much they achieved in 2024. But in case someone needs to hear this, it's okay if the only thing you did this year was just get through it.... It's ok.

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First tweet: “I saw a piece of fabric? on the floor of my room so I went to pick it up but it was actually the moonlight that entered through the window lmao”

Quote RT: “1000 years ago this would have been a poem, not a tweet”

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Lottie are those COMMAS in your tags what is this magic I must know

IT IS A SPECIAL COMMA THAT YOU MUST PASTE INTO THE TAG

I HAVE BEEN COPYING AND PASTING THE SPECIAL COMMA FROM SOMEONE ELSE’S TAG FOR YEARS

SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED A COMMA

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Not sure if you guys know about Simplicity's Adaptive Line. Links are for simplicity.com.

Unisex Dual Port Access Chemo Top and Hoodie

Crutch Pads, Bag and Toe Cover

Wheeled Walker Accessories

There are also the adaptive patterns from Mood,

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I know vampirism is often used as a metaphor for the drain of the aristocracy but I think it would be fun to have more vampire characters who were just some guy before they got turned. You seek out the most ancient vampire in existence and find out he was a 40 year old wheat farmer in ancient Mesopotamia when he was turned 7,000 years ago and he hasn’t been doing much since then.

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Frequent (and continuous) exposure to latex can cause you to become allergic to it. We know this happens to doctors and nurses who often wear latex gloves, but this is also true for sex workers and those with many sexual partners who have a lot of exposure to latex condoms!

If you haven't had an issue with condoms before, but you suddenly start experiencing rashes or issues with them, it could be a latex allergy you're developing! Try latex-free if you use condoms often, even if the exposure hasn't given you an intolerance to latex yet!

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this modern day fandom culture is killing me because we’re losing the art of shipping

these days you have to publish a dissertation and make a 100 page powerpoint with textual and subtextual evidence to back up the fact that you like seeing two characters together because apparently people can only ship what’s canon now

back in my day we used to be able to ship characters who never interacted,

we used to ship characters that didn’t even exist within the same media

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you’d never get it i have sick and twisted fantasies (making every character aromantic)

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Sometimes being the mum who exists in fandom spaces leads to awkward, even concerning, conversations. Such as the one which happened this morning. The mum of my daughter's best mate asked me if one of their mutual friends had sent her a specific message. This message was a link to a fic on ao3, if this had been a G rated fic this conversation would not have happened. It was not G rated. It was an E rated fic. Our kids aren't even 12 yet. As it happens, both of our kids have their internet access heavily locked down and monitored. They have phones because of how their school manages homework. The mutual friend, however, is not so monitored. Or she wasn't, given what her mum found she's about to be. This kid had found a fandom, joined it, and found it chock full of antis. The fic had been sent to her by one of them as an example of the sort of terrible people out there who need to be harassed and attacked because they wrote a smutty story.

Someone thought it was appropriate to send written porn to an 11 year old to encourage her to attack the author.

This resulted in a very awkward conversation where I had to explain to multiple horrified parents the anti culture that is becoming so prevalent. The fact that there are adults who use that purity message to groom kids. The way they escalate and how it bleeds into real life. One parent told me she'd wondered why her 14 year old was suddenly concerned about the two year age gap between her parents. The more I explained, the more absolutely ludicrous it sounded and the more baffled these poor mums looked. More than once I was told "but the characters aren't real, it's really weird but it isn't hurting anyone". Which is the point. The fictional situation isn't hurting anyone. The person who sent porn to an 11 year old is.

Was the person who sent it the author? Doubtful, that thing was tagged in the extreme. Was the person who sent it an adult? Almost certainly. The parent who's child received the original message has found more concerning stuff and gone to the police, but from the language the person doing the sending was in the US. We aren't. Did my daughter receive it? No, she isn't interested in that fandom and therefore wouldn't have bothered with it. Is this the fault of the author? No, they didn't send the link, they didn't ask to be harassed, they wrote a story and put it on ao3, the website created in response to rampant censorship and designed to allow for all kinds of fiction. Is this the fault of the parents? Partially, they should have been looking at their daughter's internet use and clocked what was happening sooner. Is this the fault of the child? No, she's 11, she didn't know better.

This has been a difficult day. Multiple parents have had their eyes opened to parts of fandom culture they had no idea existed. And the thing of it is, they aren't concerned about the why of anti rhetoric. They don't care about the adults writing about teens or rape or incest or torture or any of the rest, because they looked at the clearly tagged and rated fics and figured that it worked the same as a warning on any streaming service. They only cared because some utterly vile individual decided to expose their child to something this girl might not have looked at for years.

Proshippers did not cause what I have spent afternoon helping several sets of parents navigate. Antis did. Normally I'm fairly quiet about the whole debate because I just want to get on with my life and share my experiences. Today I got dragged into that mess in my every day life and the adults in the equation didn't react the way Antis like to think they would. They didn't condemn the author. They condemned the anti who shared the work with a preteen.

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i must remind every trans person on tumblr right now to always love other trans people. there is no such thing as a "bad type of trans person", even if one of those trans people from that other group says something you don't like (or even something genuinely terrible and hateful). you can hate those individual people, but do not take your anger out on the rest of the group. trans unity means we ALL stand together, not just the groups we deem "palatable".

stand up for trans women. stand up for trans men. stand up for agender people. stand up for nonbinary people. stand up for genderqueer people. stand up for intersex trans people. stand up for genderfuck people. stand up for all trans people. transmasc, transfem, transneutral, transmascfem, unlabeled, questioning, everyone.

and this post goes for every single one of those groups listed above and more. it applies to everyone, it means everyone.

love and fight for the groups more than you hate the individual.

don't fall into transphobia (of ANY kind) at the drop of a hat just because one person has a bad take on tumblr.

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Former living weapon absolutely dominating at laser tag

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“we need more platonic relationships in media” your inability to turn off your shipping brain is a You problem

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Wrong: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because she was Lord Byron's daughter.

Right: Ada Lovelace invented computer science and immediately tried to use it to cheat at gambling because that was the closest you could get in 1850 to being a Super Mario 64 speedrunner.

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Not Zack restoring my faith in Payneland endgame on this cold and grey December day: