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Would You Fall In Love With Me Again from Epic the Musical except Rumi is Odysseus and Mira and Zoey are Penelope.

The post demon reveal polytrix would go crazy

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Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.

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A good thread on whether “queer” is a slur and if it should be used or not.

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Okay about Aithusa

She is deemed male at birth but later they either changed their minds, or katie said she was female (I have heard conflicting reports.) And she is now deemed female by the entire fanbase. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?

Aithusa is transgender! MtF! #transaithusa No I will not be accepting feedback. She is a transgender dragon girl and that should be celebrated!

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So this has started showing up in search results when I type AO3 into duck duck go. It appears to be a mirror of the official AO3 site but all links point to the I♥️AO3 domain.

It could just be a cute gimmick, but please don't log in to an unofficial AO3 site with your credentials. Who knows what it's doing in the background and what information it might be gathering.

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She does, in fact, bite

Bonus: It was also later noted that, after the curtains in Arthur’s chambers mysteriously caught on fire, she apparently breathes fire too

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What if... alzheimer? ☝️🤓

before you kill me, I'd like to mention that @capi-art is part of the idea 🫵

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I just found out that one of my friends is as insane about Merlin as I am.

So she called me and asked what I was doing

I said “not much, just reading”

And she replied with “don’t get stew in your hair”

I was grinning like an idiot for a full five seconds before she apologised for the too niche reference and I turned into a gremlin and yelled “don’t you dare apologise, we say Thank you and cry about it in this house!”

Then it was like that Spider-Man pointing meme of “you like Merlin?” While we both turned into absolute idiots because we were excited about finding someone who also likes crying and medieval gay tragic husbands

And then we spent a few hours talking about BBC Merlin while we went to the garden centre for lunch.

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Leon: we all have demons,

Leon, holding up Merlin like a cat: this one’s mine.

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Odysseus logging into AO3:

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Not much to say

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Why the fuck does the word queue have extra letters?

And I know the whole etymology of French origins, tails, and hairstyles of the 18th and early 19th century for British military.

I can even accept queue and cue, it’s not the weirdest pair of homophones in the English language. I may not like it, but I can understand it.

But queue and que.

Why.

I’ve had a special interest and been studying etymology for 8 years.

How am I just now learning that que isn’t just shorthand for queue? It’s a shorthand for Quebec.

And sure, I could understand that to some extent with the French origins, I don’t know enough about quebecois as a language to say anything about it but sure.

But it’s two syllables. Does Quebec really need a shorthand? And linguistically, if you use it in conversation I don’t really think anyone would have enough context to understand what you’re talking about so it becomes redundant anyway.

Also, you could argue that four vowels is too many vowels for a word that doesn’t sound any different if you get rid of all the vowels.

Like “Queue” “Q”

Just why?

Anyway. I think I found my least favourite word and my friends have banned me from watching men in black.

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Charles Rowland, Edwin Payne, and Emma - The Case of Crystal Palace

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saw an elderly woman walking around with a tote bag whose design were the four AO3 fic category squares and she very excitedly asked if i was a reader or a writer bcs nobody else at the con had recognized it, and after telling her that i've been writing fic since fanfic.net, she solemnly nodded and explained that she'd been reading fic since "the days of personal websites" but that she only started writing fanfic when she was 47 and oh my god when i tell you that i genuinely teared up on the spot!!!!! like!!! HELL YEAH???? LITERALLY NEVER TOO OLD TO START WRITING. NEVER TOO OLD TO WRITE AND SHARE YOUR FIC.

her enthusiastic "i'm a very nice and bubbly person, i swear! but i love writing angst and major character death :)" nearly took me the fuck out.

icon. legend. diva. i wish her nothing but a kajillion million comments and kudos. i hope her fic updates crash AO3. i hope she knows i'm promoting her to my personal patron saint of AO3.

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ao3 and tumblr ship is wild...