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Reblog this to place a small flower in the hair of prev, and that you're very proud of them

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Odysseus doodle

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This is a Moving Forward PSA for everyone using AO3. I am witnessing the results of a culture clash and communication failure. Not a lack of communication, but a misunderstanding caused by changes in fandom culture.

Before fic tagging was common, fics weren’t tagged. You had a pairing, if applicable, an author’s note about genre or general content, and if they were feeling charitable, a vague content warning. There are even a few genres of fic where even vaguely tagging literally spoils the plot and impact (such as horror, psyche thriller, in which the likely content is implicit to the genre). As a result, there is a basic category tag that permits this, as a courtesy to “old-fashioned” writers.

“No Archive Warnings Apply” means the fic is PG13 at worst, probably fluff, totally safe.

“Choose Not to Use Archive Warnings” is the polar opposite. It’s a glaring Enter at Your Own Risk billboard. It means: a shitload of warnings apply but I ain’t telling because this story requires shock value. It’s very important to read the author’s notes for those fics because they might be using that older format from above.

But without the context of fandom culture that generated AO3, it’s understandably easy to conflate the two categories, given their similar wording.

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We've not only taken away all of the physical spaces for our children to exist in, we're now taking away the electronic ones as well. I'm sure this won't have any negative consequences.

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Does anyone happen to

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guy i saw in traffic today that i felt compelled to draw

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"Because I said so" straight up isn't as good an answer as you think it is.

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monthly/weekly/daily artist cycle

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Settles down on your dashboard gingerly and with a big heaving sigh

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how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

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Like to charge reblog to cast

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Positive side of reading in my mother tongue: This is the absolute most beautiful language ever and I Love reading in it

Negative side of reading in my mother tongue: I do Not know what Anything in the book is called in English, and I have to look up Every made up thing in the book so I can write my damn fanfic

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I feel like one of the reasons why the US is Like That is the difference between countries and states. Because apparently when you're nominally still the same country, different states can pull absolute bullshit on each other that would not fly in relations between two countries.

Like if idk Belgium decided "hey we have this huge homelesness problem that we've been neglecting for decades while allowing it to get progressively worse, but we figured out how to fix it: we're loading all the homeless people onto buses and moving them across the border to France", the french response wouldn't just be "aw naw ugh I wish they couldn't do that :/"

It'd be "hey buddy that's really funny, do you want to see how fast we can get tanks on the streets of your capital?"

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me, covered in my blorbo’s blood after I wrote a fic about them

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gnawing at the steel bars of my enclosure which i built myself