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[the-desert-beast]

gonna throw my 2 cents in on this current Fandom Topic;

You cannot give in to resentful isolation. I'm serious.

Even if your last attempts went badly you have to keep trying. You have to make mistakes to learn from them. You have to find out who's worth your time and who you click with somehow, and you can only do that by Doing It Scared.

I fall into those mindsets, a lot. They suck. They're powerful and overwhelming and painful. I have to fight with myself and repeat over and over, No, you know your friends care about you. They've SAID that.

And I have to do this all the time. In minor and major ways.

Do It Scared. Try. If you feel like you've failed? Try again. There are ways to build self confidence but you have got to start with letting yourself feel confident any little way possible.

Don't give in to resentful isolation, that will only hurt you.

We all have bad brain days, weeks, or months.

Fandom will be waiting for you.

If you've started to treat fandom like a vending machine where lore/fanfic/art/screenshots go in and compliments come out, you should take a break.

[michaelsgavey]

made both aemond & michael in the sims and this is how they are:

[the-ace-with-spades]

Stupid question but how do you prefer your em-dashes — with or without spaces between? Like when you have a narrator going on about something and then mid-thought, they add something (a parenthesis, is the English term, I think?)

I've been using spaces because the text is easier for me to read that way but most published texts don't use spaces so I'm curious

[activesplooger]

Weird question but I was wondering... | 18+ POLL

minors DO NOT interact.

So, I've written a few spicy fics. it got me to thinking like do you guys get off on them? not judging or anything, but I'm just curious. (i think i saw another creator ask something like this as well awhile back and it respawned in my mind when i started thinking ab this so):

lwfbiwojfnwed pls note, you absolutely don't have to vote on this. its really none of my business and its just for the sake of my curiosity.

[aw-tysm]

Negative Autism Post -

There's a relatively big push from some people in the online autism community towards autism being solely an identity and pushing towards only the social model of disability (but not really in the correct way). And some of these "advocates" have BIG voices in the autism community. Influential voices.

I was only just starting to understand how some people view autism as not only a disorder but also as an identity. And that was fine. I don't relate or truly understand but whatever.

But I just am so frustrated.

They are changing terms and words. They are pushing away from medical model of disability when both is important. They are pushing away from disorder. They are trying to say identity only like being lgbt.

These things matter. These things affect ALL OF US.

They get upset at "person with autism". They get upset with "disorder". They get upset at medical model. They get angry at professionals. They say professionals, medical side of things is wrong.

So they fight to change it all.

And in doing so they do harm us. They say it doesn't harm us but it does. They take it all the way to the other end of extremes. They use terms and words that other people WILL and DO think means there is nothing 'wrong' with us. That we don't need support because it's "just a difference". There is a reason it is diagnosed as a disorder.

They talk about how words harm us and then do the same thing to us.

If you think Autism is solely an identity and should be taken away from the medical model. That anyone can identify with it. Then this is not the blog for you.

What they are doing makes me feel like complete shit.

It makes me feel broken. It makes me feel like I'm right back at the start. It makes me feel like there is something still so incredibly wrong with me.

If that is the point of view society wants to take with autism, then they should create a new diagnosis for those of us who truly struggly, who truly need help.

Upon diagnosis, I starting accepting myself. I started learning about who I was and why I did the things I do. I was getting support that I needed. I was doing better. I was in a better place.

Because that kind of push these "advocates" are making, make me depressed. Make me feel useless. Make me feel worthless. Make me just want to hide in a hole and never come out or worse.

[camelpimp]

I don't know if anyone remembers her, as i hadn't posted about her in a while, but today i had to put my old cat Carmen down. She hadn't been doing great in a while, but she really went downhill fast in these last few months.

In memoriam, I wanted to post my favorite picture of her.

A grand, regal looking cat who was still, just, so silly.

Thank you for being my friend, Carmen

[zipquips]

not to he dramatic but finding out your friends are hanging out without you while you're already having a crisis about whether or not they hate you has got to be the worst thing ever

[shyaringan]

Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London

(day 1)

[kechiwrites]

wake up; reader getting fucked from below by neighbour!Simon who keeps your hands pinned behind your back while he bullies the thickness of his cock inside you, just a little too deep. All too happy to let you drool on his shoulder as he drives into you again and again, watching the reflection of your ass bouncing heavy and fast over his lap on the black screen of your television. Scarred and tattooed arms sinking into your sides, anchoring you to him, implacable, insatiable. He was only supposed to pick-up a package mistakenly delivered to your front door, too heavy for you to bring it over yourself. Only supposed to have 'a cuppa, if you have it, pet.' Only supposed to take a kiss, soft, fleeting. Only supposed to 'touch it, over yer clothes, promise.' Only supposed to rub against the outside, slotting his ruddy, leaking tip between the already soaked lips of your pussy. Only supposed to pull out, come against the curve of your ass.

But Ghost can be neighbourly, he can go above and beyond. If it's for you.

[felsicveins]

It's not NOT confirmed (?)

Bonus:

[romanxeisdeadbutimnot]

Some zosan warmups

[honeyhobbs]

I don't usually share WIPS bc I'm embarrassed lol but I drew his hair and now I have to draw the hat over it 😔

[the-ace-with-spades]

Okay so I might or might not write omegaverse for hangster

Its going to be dramatic/cliche omegaverse mpreg fic I just need to figure logistics of who is who and see what designation everyone should have - I probably will stick with omega/alpha shitick because that's what I know but one again, need to figure who is what designation

Any thoughts/ideas?

[dude-standin]

harry. sitting comfortably. enjoying life

[froody]

I could never date someone who played sports because it would be so hard not to laugh my ass off if my S/O was telling me they play basketball every week and are still so ass at it everyone is afraid to pass them the ball. Like maybe I’m just evil (probably) but the visual of that has me dying. I can only assume he plays competitively in some way because if it was just bros shooting hoops I think they’d let him miss but the fact they won’t pass him the ball means there’s something riding on it. I’d have to be like “Babe, maybe we should go to a pottery class.” conveniently taking place on the day he usually fumbles his basketball game.

[bixels]

The Ryoko Kui interview's reception is such a disaster over a pretty normal (yet still flawed) interview between a non-Japanese fan and Japanese artistic. This is discourse for discourse's sake, and it's no surprise that almost every Twitter user I've looked at who's using this interview to parade Kui around as a goated mangaka standing strong against Western ideology is anti-trans.

Like, I do think the interview was kinda wonky with its focus on fandom culture, which Kui clearly didn't have much interest in. But sometimes that happens. Sometimes interactions between two people, especially a fan and a creator, two people who view and interact with a piece of media in completely opposite perspectives, don't click. Does this really need to get blown up into a "West vs. East culture war" issue.

Anyways, Kui saying "I don't consider my audience's interpretations when writing. I leave it to their imaginations, but I have my own read on things too" is the healthiest, most normal thing an artist/writer who wants a non-parasocial audience could say. Artists and writers use this line all the time. If Kui didn't enjoy autistic Laius or Farcille headcanons, she would have probably voiced/signalled her discomfort, like she did on the topic of Senshi fanservice. Overall, Kui handled the interview really well. Props to her to sticking to her guns and keeping a healthy disconnect from the fandom. While I think the interviewer could've/should've been more tactful and restrained, the flaws in their questions is not a symptom of the woke mind virus trying to wriggle its way into the pure Japanese psyche. It's the sign of an over-eager fan who sees a piece of fiction differently than its creator.