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super simple low-effort ao3 summary methods that are 1000% better and 1000% less annoying than just saying you suck at summaries:

copypaste the first few lines of the fic. u already wrote ‘em. let ‘em be their own damn hook

if ur feeling fancy & don’t mind showing ur hand a bit, copypaste the first few lines of the fic that u feel are esp. Important or Interesting - the ones where u first start getting into the real meat of things

state the main tropes! theyre probably already in ur tags - just say them again - maybe as a full sentence if ur feelin fancy. or with a joke if ur feelin Extra fancy

ask a question. pose a hypothetical. eg what happens if u take [character] and put them in [situation]?

make an equation. [character] + [thing] = [outcome]

just write like a one-sentence summary of what the fuck is going down. just one (1) sentence. doesnt matter if it doesn’t cover every important aspect. or if it sounds bland. any summary sentence is gonna be miles better than “idk i suck at summaries”

just…explain the fic like u would to a friend? it doesnt have to be a polished back of the book blurb. it can just be “[pairing] coffee shop au, but like, still with murder, and also i made everyone trans. enjoy”

just stick a meme in there

honestly who cares

just put literally anything but a self deprecating comment in there & ur golden

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idk if anyone remembers that completely stacked era of white lady best actress Emmy nominations like 20ish years ago, but I DO and holly hunter in the new star trek is going to KILL ME BECAUSE OF IT

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WANDAVISION

S01E07, BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL

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one Rizzles scene per episode [52/105] ↳ 4.12 — “Partners in Crime”

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Lily Tomlin famously walked off The Dick Cavett Show after fellow guest Chad Everett made a sexist remark—listing his wife among the animals he “owned” on his farm.

“I have three horses, three dogs… and a wife,” Everett said.

When Cavett questioned the order, Everett doubled down: “She’s the most beautiful animal I own.”

Tomlin stood up, stunned. “You own?” she repeated, before walking across the stage, saying, “I have to leave.”

What followed was pure silence, and some very uncomfortable energy.

Tomlin later reflected, “It was a perfectly pure act… I felt angels walked me off.”

A moment of feminist TV history that still hits.

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Agatha Harkness | Agatha All Along

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New photos of Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness in ‘AGATHA ALL ALONG’

📸 @danielselon

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ELIZABETH OLSEN AS WANDA MAXIMOFF — DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS // (2022)

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saying ao3 needs to censor certain content is like saying a museum can't have still life art that includes strawberries because you don't like them.

these are not real strawberries. you do not have to, and in fact cannot, eat them. no one with a strawberry allergy will be harmed by looking at them. no migrant workers were exploited in the picking of these strawberries. there were no questionable farming practices or negative environmental impacts from growing or transporting them.

because - and i cannot stress this enough - they are not real strawberries.

if you don't like strawberries, you don't have to look at the paintings. in fact, you can get a map of the museum that lists what works are in what rooms and just. not go in there. if you see one by mistake, you can look away. just keep walking. there's plenty of other stuff to see.

yes, real strawberries can cause real quantifiable harm to real people.

but again. these are not real strawberries.

you may have whatever feelings you like about strawberries, and so can i. you can draw and write about whatever fruit floats your boat, and so can i, even if that happens to be strawberries. and we can hang our art side by side in the same gallery, provided you understand that my strawberries are not about you (and your kumquats are, shocker, not about me) and that - and this is true - neither are real.

and when the fascists break down the doors and grab all the strawberry paintings and heap them in the street and set them on fire, please know that they are coming for your kumquats next.

so if you want a place where you can show off your beautiful kumquat art safely, you're gonna have to tolerate having some strawberries in the next room.

and that's okay. because the strawberries aren't real.

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PITCH PERFECT 2012 — dir. Jason Moore

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i keep seeing well-meaning posts about tagging on ao3 claiming that 'no archive warnings apply' means a fic is fluffy and wholesome and maybe smutty but can be trusted contain nothing upsetting. and from the bottom of my heart, please, this is so wrong. like, even aside from the fact that 'upsetting' is a very personal definition, it literally just means that none of the big four archive warnings apply, and i promise you it's very possible to write a DEEPLY upsetting fic that contains none of those things.

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Here’s a reminder that selfish people make decisions that make things worse for entire communities. #covid #measles

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Annoying that dairy products are demonized as Unnatural and Disgusting when it's actually kinda neat that humans figured out a way to fulfill omnivorous nutritional requirements without killing any animals (and populations historically dependent on dairy even evolved lactase persistence!). This is biopunk to me

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okay main ship is still bechloe bc they have my whole life and soul in the pitch perfect fandom but hear me out:

stacie, the girlie who loves sex, who loves to feel good, who loves to feel close to someone and the feeling of skin on skin, of being sought after and wanted and desired in a physical way, who loves to feel confident about herself and her own body, bc it's hers to decide what to do with, and to dress to impress, not only for others but for herself too, bc what is a girl to do with excellent makeup skills, a great closet, and a knack for having the best fashion sense if not to utilize it??....

falling for aubrey, the one who makes her feel nervous and flustered and insecure and like she actually wants to be one to initiate the kiss this time and not the one who is kissing back, the one she wants to do cute and soft and non-sexual things with (as well), the one she wants to paint her nails for, to paint her nails with, the one to feel intimate with, and not just close? the one she wants to love, and to be loved back from, for all that she is, past her physical characteristics???? im feral.

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DERRY GIRLS 3.07 – "The Agreement"

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