OK Iâm stealing these tags too coz itâs the gospel truth by @starkcontrasts
@starkcontrasts donât forget that Sheppard mounted that rescue mission while critically injured, guilt-tripping Keller, and basically telling Carter to her face that heâs going to disobey her orders, and that sheâs welcome to have him kicked out of the USAF afterwards.
I was just explaining how I saw âTo Wong Fu,â in the theaters as a 17 year old with a bunch of highschool friends and absolutely nobody was scandalized. This drag panic is entirely orchestrated and much ado about nothing.
I mean, somebodyâs going to mention Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, or Flip Wilson as Geraldine, but way back in the fifties, Milton Berle was on Texaco Star Theater and your grandparents or great-grandparents loved it.
A reminder that drag is old. Itâs so old itâs ridiculous. Drag has been done in theater since the beginning of theater. And sometimes those characters are supposed to be another gender [Peter Pan is usually played by a small adult woman, and Edna Turnblad from Hairspray is famously a womanâs role thatâs supposed to be cast with a drag queen]. Sometimes itâs just a part of the show. [Some Like It Hot, where the two male characters are disguised as women to hide from the mob, and one ends the movie with a wealthy man] Drag queens as a trope have always been sassy, world-weary, and absolutely confident in themselves and their ability to attract men. Hell, sometimes the joke is that theyâre [deliberately] making a straight male character uncomfortable and weâre supposed to be laughing at the straight maleâs discomfort. Law & Order has shown drag queens for decades with asshole detectives referring to them as âma'amâ when theyâre in drag even as theyâre trying to avoid the sequins.
This rhetoric is frightening because of how quickly the neo-fascist movements in the US have managed to get it to take hold.
May I add to this with the UK tradition of the âDameâ in pantomime which has been around since 1806 when a Mr Simmonds played Mother Goose.
The reason I think that this isnât such a big issue here compared to the US is that most of us fondly remember screaming âItâs behind you!!!â when our parents and grandparents took us to traditional Christmas performances which were DESIGNED for childrenâs entertainment.
Taking into account the number of preachers/religious leaders that seem to be responsible for child sexual assault in America, I canât help but think that the US needs to get over itself on this non-issue!
This is why it is so important to be critical and double check everything you generate using image generators and text-based AI.
re: government regulation: how about pulling the plug on the whole fucking thing altogether, and redirect the resoueces to combat the effects of climate change
having cash is like having secret money. like whos gonna find out i’m buying tacos with this crisp $20 bill??? not my bank account, that’s for sure
That’s literally why the government wants to stop it
Defend cash. The existence of a cash economy is so so necessary for the survival of every population that the government wants to kill. Homeless people, sex workers, undocumented people, addicts. They all need cash to survive.
Seriously though, modern fandom, yâall need to remember that you can, like, ship multiple ships.Â
Like I can ship two ships that are diametrically opposed, at the same time, because I like both ideas. You donât have to choose one or the other.Â
Like I can ship, for example, Sam/Frodo, and also Sam/Rosie, both AT THE SAME TIME. I donât have to pick ONE couple and denounce all others, and tell everyone else that their ships are WRONG and BAD and mine is the only TRUE AND CORRECT ship.Â
Related: You donât have to sink other ships to sail yours.
Exactly! You can have more than one ship. You can have an ARMADA!!!
Ship everything and ship it so hard you end up sideways in the Suez.
More male characters who are interested in their mother’s legacy. As a trope there’s a lot of sons and daughters who follow in the father’s footsteps and there’s yes, girls who honor their mother, ect. But let’s have more dudes who are like. Stumbling on their mom’s secret fairy cottage or some shit. And they’re like aight gotta make the tea
There’s such recency bias in fandom. As an author you post something, get a few reactions, and then it goes off into the bin. As a reader you check the tags, see what’s new, and move on. But a lot of old stuff is really good. It’s just sitting there, gathering dust, waiting for someone to take a peek.
So go on. Treat yourself.
Read an old fic.
I’d argue there’s a bias against like… middle-aged fics in particular. A lot of people sort by kudos or bookmarks, but that’s going to be strongly biased toward older fics, which have had more time to accumulate them. Then there’s people that sort by date and read the newest. But there’s so much good material in that middle area.
A friend taught me her trick for smaller fandoms, which is to sort by kudos and use the published date filters to go through the fandom in 6-month increments. Within a 6-month time span, you’re not really going to get the kudos-over-time bias. Basically, you end up reading the best fics of each 6-month period until you start hitting fics below your quality threshold, wherever that is. You’ll find so much good material that way that would never have crossed your line of sight otherwise.
This is a clever idea, and I’m reblogging it so I remember to do it.
Is this post why my back catalog is getting groups of kudos in roughly six month increments? How delightful!
Seeing people in the comments of the latest election related post on AO3 say there should be a separate category for trans people instead of them being put in m/m, f/m, f/f, other or multi reminds me of the 60 year old therapist I went to once who thought trans was a sexuality and talked about how I was a confused sexual being who probably slept around a lot and she knew lots of transes who fucked around a lot.
Trans men are men. Trans women are women. AO3 lets you tag when there's a trans character in it. Instead of getting triggered by that and demanding trans people be othered, have they considered just excluding the relevant tags from the filter?
Joke's on them, though, because even if AO3 were considering this incredibly stupid idea of adding a category that doesn't tell you the gender identities of, genitalia of or orientation of a couple, they seem to not realize no one would use it. Unless you're a 60 year old conservative who thinks trans men don't exist and trans is a sexuality, you're going to tag m/m as m/m even if one of the men is trans. Never in my life would I go, "Ah, yes, this story about a trans woman falling in love with another woman is not a lesbian, sapphic, bi, or pan romance, it is clearly trans!" because there's more to a human being, even a fictional one, than just their being trans.
People are fucking stupid. And I'm very alarmed by that because "trans women are women, trans men are men" is so basic but even in queer fandom spaces people keep acting like it's not true. When is society going to grow the fuck up?
if anyone ever finds a way to legit cheat death then my moneyâs on ao3 authors being the ones who do
Straight up, my sister has instructions and a detailed doc to follow if I die with unfinished works
DID YOU KNOWâŚ
You can set a âfannish next of kinâ on AO3? So if you have a friend whom you trust and in the event of your untimely passing, they will take care of your works for you. Whether thats orphaning them (removing your name from them permanently), deleting them or just noting you are gone. This is inline with having a social media will.
You do not have to be theirs if you donât want to and you can revoke this at any time. Just something to think about.
A fannish next-of-kin can activate the agreement by sending a message to our Abuse team that you are dead or permanently incapacitated (this will not be an Abuse case, but our Abuse team handles the process). The Archive will send a message to the email address associated with your account. If we do not receive a response from that address within ten days, we will transfer control of your account to your fannish next-of-kin. The Archive will not do any independent investigation into whether you are dead or incapacitated.
if i could bring back one muslim fashion trend that i canât believe we let die it would definitely have to be âgirlies tucking pretty little daggers and knives into waist belts but also knowing how to use themâ
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