#I don't really understand

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

Just sending you a bit of love and gratitude for the ways you highlight discrimination in the workplace and actually in all the halls of power in every industry. Some of your anons sound really young, so please keep educating. ❤️

Thanks anon - I really appreciate it. I do really enjoy talking about these issues and think they're really important - I was really looking forward to answering these today and there's more left that I'm looking forward to.

[irontragedyreview]

hi. i made a uquiz

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[avaantares]

Yet another AO3 bot situation - please spread the word!

Hi, it's me again, the person who wrote that viral post about fanfiction plagiarism! Today I'm here to warn you about abuse perpetrated by bots who have stolen AO3 usernames.

There's currently an epidemic of bots going around leaving (apparently random) horrible, hateful comments on people's fics. This isn't the first time bots have invaded AO3, but the big problem with this wave is that they're using real AO3 usernames to do it.

I learned about this when another writer contacted me after receiving the following comment on their story:

Now, while that is my username, I DEFINITELY did not leave this comment (and anyone who would leave something like that on a fic should be slapped! What an awful thing to post). This fic is in a completely unrelated fandom that I have never participated in, nor has that author participated in any of my fandoms, so the probability of it being some intentional fandom drama thing to make me look bad is also low.

The writer whose fic the comment was left on enlisted the aid of some friends and tracked down other guest comments with unrelated usernames attached, which is pretty strong evidence that they are being left by bots at random.

The TL;DR: If you receive a cruel comment from a (Guest) with an actual AO3 username attached, it's most likely from a bot. Please do not lash out at or dogpile the AO3 user who owns that name, and who in all likelihood has no idea that their name has been hijacked for evil.

If finding this kind of comment on a fic, even left by a bot, is likely to upset you, I would recommend changing your comment settings so that only users who are logged in can leave comments. To do this, edit your story settings, and under "Privacy," select the radio button that says "Only registered users can comment," as shown below.

Please spread the word to other AO3 users! And if you see mean guest comments on other fics, maybe let the author know that it's probably from a bot and not a real person who thinks their writing is bad.

[nmotypdfsfg]

[we can construct a diagram in which the bubble of light, which grows as time passes, forms a cone. This cone widens from the past to the future, and inside of it, we trace a trajectory through time]

[in one year, light will always travel a distance of "one light year" through space]

[this type of object is called a light cone. as time passes, the cone expands at the speed of light, and whatever we do, our path remains bounded by it, it's impossible to escape it]

["causality", the fact that one event can trigger another, is limited by the speed of light]

[we cannot turn around because we are bound to remain within these lightcones]

[ "time", in the relativity, is simply the direction in which the light cones are oriented]

[space on the other hand is the set of all other directions, perpendicular to time]

[gravity affects not only matter, but also light]

[close to a massive body, the light cones are no longer aligned with each other:they curve more and more, bent by gravity near a massive body, the direction of the light cones curves…and in another words, "time" is bent towards the center of the planet]

[mass distorts the geometry of the universe, space and time become relative, their orientation depending on where we are, this is "general relativity" the more massive a body, the more it bends spacetime]

[a black hole is a spherical region of the universe, a sort of bubble, in which the curvature of space-time drives all objects towards the center. the boundary of the black hole is called the "horizon"]

[while the distant observer sees the black hole as stationary, for the astronaut at the horizon,time and space are tilted, such that the black hole behaves like a light cone, which explains why it is impossible to escape]

[when astronaut crosses the horizon, the notions of time and space seem swapped around compared to the outside:time is now pointing downwards - which, before, was a direction through space - the horizon of the black hole is no longer a place in space, but a moment in our past, and the center of the black hole is no longer a point, but an event in our future, a destiny we cannot avoid]

[surrealsloth]

finally completed my dnd quiz! featuring a mix and match of 30 races and 14 classes, discover who you would be in the forgotten realms! i'd be a satyr artificer :)

[paranoiacally-anxious]

when your BTS fan friend and your One Direction fan friend starts to argue but you listen to 5sos so you can't really understand what the fuck is going on

[maiaczy]

Sometimes taking a leap forward means leaving a few things behind.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Do you guys notice how when Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers union, started planning a general strike, he did it by a) targeting his messaging towards unions with the ability to safely and effectively strike in large numbers, b) laid out a clear, actionable plan for those unions to follow (setting contracts to all expire at the same time, since many unions cannot strike while under contract), c) is using union contracts to set clear, actionable demands that can be met in order to gauge success and provide an end goal, and d) started organizing FOUR YEARS before the proposed strike date to give people the chance to plan accordingly, because it takes a really freaking long time to get tens of millions of people organized?

You notice how he didn't do it by slapping a message on Twitter saying 'hey nobody go to work on Monday, that'll really show 'em'?

[datcravat]

Yukari I will be on the front lines for you when The Answer drops

[rocketbirdie]

sleepwalking

[shinynewmemories]

Listen to me Suzanne Collins did not have to give Katniss and Peeta a history before the games. She did NOT have to do that. She could have just had their story begin when Peeta's name was called. She could have had them be total strangers until the moment of the reaping.

Like: "And the boy tribute is... Peeta Mellark!" Katniss: Who's that? Or she could have made them vaguely familiar with each other! Peeta's name is called and Katniss just thinks, Oh, I know that name! He's in my class, actually. Poor boy... Anyway!

Either way, SC could have written the rest of the story exactly the same! I think many authors would have done that! Because if Peeta's purpose in the book was to be Gale's competition, to be one of the 3 corners of a love triangle, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE WAY TO DO IT!! But that's NOT how she did it because that's NOT what Peeta is.

And who is he? To Katniss, Peeta's someone who saved her and her family and received nothing in return except a beating. Peeta's someone she has had her eye on but has never worked up the courage to talk to. Peeta's someone she associates with kindness and hope. And all this before the start of the events of the book! Just because WE, the READERS, met Gale before Peeta and immediately felt a connection with him does NOT mean that was Katniss's experience! And that's what SC is trying to tell us!

To dismiss Katniss and Peeta's past as unimportant or inconsequential compared to whatever Katniss and Gale have in the present is to fundamentally misunderstand Katniss as a character and, as a result, condemn oneself to never fully understand the choices she makes in the future.

Suzanne Collins wrote it that way on purpose because she had something to say. And no one will ever be able to convince me that something wasn't "It was always going to be Peeta".

[fixfoxnox]

This is why I'm not the biggest fan of the Price is the dad of the 141 headcanons, because what people fail to understand is that the person on the leash is actually Price

[uncanny-tranny]

Basically, my philosophy around disability fakers is: I would rather a thousand people fake a disability than have one disabled person suffer without care, aids, compassion, or any help.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Flower Empowered.

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[sleepnoises]

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