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apples and cinnamon truly were made for each other... eternal lovers

#YES #some things just are MFEO #text #q

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a very quick poem i just wrote, made from excerpts of texts my mum has sent me this year.

#this is so adorable #poem #poetry #q

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The Wakanda Files: Bucky Barnes

Here is what I could find in the Wakanda Files (canon tie in book) on Bucky. 

Strangely, they don’t discuss his vibranium arm at all! They mostly discuss his brainwashing.

You can see my post on Sam Wilson’s pages here.

I’m providing image descriptions so most things are under the cut. ARE YOU READY TO BE SAD?

Keep reading

#this upset me SO MUCH #how can they release this officially and still make our boy go through a redemption arc…. redeem WHAT he was TORTURED #i will die on this hill for my bucky #bucky barnes #f: marvel #q

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filling writing prompts for fandom friends having a tough time of it

#honestly like technically my inbox is always open #i miss taking writing prompts tbqh #q

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Howl truly is the man of all time. He’s a playboy. He’s a malewife. He fell in love with a ninety year old woman. He’s a rugby player. He smells like hyacinths. He’s not a natural blond. When dying his hair went slightly wrong, he filled his home with slime. He has a PhD. He’s a wizard. He found a way to another universe and he told absolutely nobody about it. He makes video games about the magical universe for his nephews. He can’t play the guitar. He always takes a guitar with him when he’s trying to seduce a woman. He’s a self-proclaimed coward. He got drunk to trick himself into doing something dangerous. He overcharges for his services to rich people. He undercharges for his services to poor people. A woman invaded his home and declared herself his cleaning lady and he just let her stay. He loves spiders. He lies about his surname to everyone, including royalty. The true spelling of his first name is Howell, but we don’t find out until halfway through the book because the POV character thinks it’s spelled Howl. He’s even Welsh.

#he’s such a fuckin blorbo dweeb #howl’s moving castle #q #howl jenkins pendragon

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me: wow I’m so sad :( maybe I should read something to cheer me up :((( 

fanfiction tagged: angst, self-esteem issues, grief, illness, hurt, major character death 

me:

#ok rude damn #text #fandom-onium #q

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#putting the ‘insane’ in ‘insanely hot’

#i’ll never forgive netflix for depriving me of them #the grishaverse #f: grishaverse #tv: shadow & bone #kanej #q #inej ghafa #kaz brekker

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iron man 1 really went and said that america is the true villain of the middle east while george fucking bush was still in office which is why it’ll stay the biggest dick energy movie that marvel will ever make

#YES!!!!! #to all of this #f: marvel #iron man #iron man movies #no one gives them enough credit tbh #like iron man 2 wasn’t good and that’s fine but the other two were good! the first one was great! #q

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The Original Series / Strange New Worlds Star Trek

#very cool #f: star trek #tv: strange new worlds #q

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— Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

#absolute agony #poetry #poem #richard siken #q

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Carly Rae Jepsen at The Gorge ✨

#QUEEN #carly rae jepsen #q

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An au where Frerin lived and joined the Quest of Erebor.

#ooooh yes #f: lotr #m: the hobbit #thorin oakenshield #frerin #AU #q

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They went straight to first base

(Even though there was nothing straight about it)

#my boys my otp my gays in space!!! #f: star trek #tv: strange new worlds #space husbands #spirk #s'chn t'gai spock #james kirk #q

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Full offense and pun fully intended, but I genuinely think the very existence of "dead dove, do not eat" was a fucking canary in the mines, and no one really paid attention.

Because the tag itself was created as a response to a fandom-wide tendency to disregard warnings and assume tagging was exaggerated. And then the same fucking idiots reading those tags describing things they found upsetting or disturbing or just not to their taste would STILL click into the stories and give the writer's grief about it.

And as a response writers began using the tag to signal "no, really, I MEAN the tags!"

But like.

If you really think about it, that's a solution to a different problem. The solution to "I know you tagged your story appropriately but I chose to disregard the tags and warnings by reading it anyway, even though I knew it would upset me, so now I'm upset and making it your problem" is frankly a block, a ban and wide-spread blacklisting. But fandom as a whole is fucking awful at handling bad faith, insidious arguments that appeal to community inclusion and weaponize the fact most people participating in fandom want to share the space with others, as opposed to hurting people.

So instead of upfront ridiculing this kind of maladaptive attempt to foster one's own emotional self-regulation onto random strangers on the internet, fandom compromised and came up with a redundant tag in a good faith attempt to address an imaginary nuance.

There is no nuance to this.

A writer's job is to tag their work correctly. It's not to tag it exhaustively. It's not even to tag it extensively. A writer's sole obligation, as far as AO3 and arguably fandom spaces are concerned, is to make damn sure that the tags they put on their story actually match whatever is going on in that story.

That's it.

That's all.

"But what if I don't want to read X?" Well, you don't read fic that's tagged X.

"But what if I read something that wasn't tagged X?" Well, that's very unfortunate for you, but if it is genuinely that upsetting, you have a responsibility to yourself to only browse things explicitly tagged to not include X.

"But that's not a lot of fic!" Hi, you must be new here, yes, welcome to fandom. Most of our spaces are built explicitly as a reaction to There's Not Enough Of The Thing I Want, both in canon and fandom.

"But there are things on the internet that I don't like!" Yeah, and they are also out there, offline. And, here's the thing, things existing even though we personally dislike or even hate or even flat out find offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable existing is the price we pay to secure our right to exist as individuals and creators, regardless of who finds US personally unpleasant, hateful or flat out offensive/gross/immoral/unspeakable.

"But what about [illegal thing]?!" So the thing itself is illegal, because the thing itself has been deemed harmful. But your goddamn cop-poisoned authoritarian little heart needs to learn that sometimes things are illegal that aren't harmful, and defaulting to "but illegal!" is a surefire way to end up on the wrong side of the fascism pop quiz. You're not a figure of authority and the more you demand to control and exercise authority by command, rather than leadership, the less impressive you seem. You know how you make actual, genuine change in a community? You center harm and argue in good faith to find accommodations and spread awareness of real, actual problems.

But let's play your game. Let's pretend we're all brainwashed cop-abiding little cogs that do not own a single working brain cell to exercise critical thinking with. 99% of the time, when you cry about any given thing "being illegal!!!" you're correct only so far as the THING itself being illegal. The act or object is illegal. Depiction of it is not. You know why, dipshit? Because if depiction of the thing were illegal, you wouldn't be able to talk about it. You wouldn't be able to educate about it. You wouldn't be able to reexamine and discuss and understand the thing, how and why and where it happens and how to prevent it. And yeah, depiction being legal opens the door for people to make depictions that are in bad taste or probably not appropriate. Sure. But that's the price we pay, creating tools to demystify some of the most horrific things in the world and support the people who've survived them. The net good of those tools existing outweighs the harm of people misusing them.

"You're defending the indefensible!" No, you're clumsily stumbling into a conversation that's been going on for centuries, with your elementary school understanding of morality and your bone-deep police state rot filtering your perception of reality, and insisting you figured it out and everyone else at the table is an idiot for not agreeing with you. Shut the fuck up, sit the fuck down and read a goddamn book.

#fandom-onium #YES

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I actually drew something this week…

#my baby #my friend my pal my bucky #bucky barnes #fan art #f: marvel #q

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Me when I have to join a Zoom call at 4pm, depicted by Euripides tr. Anne Carson

#truly #euripides #anne carson #greek mythology #q

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Palestinians were still suffering and dying by the thousands long before October 2023 so it makes absolutely no sense for you to bend over backwards to defend bigoted behavior towards us under the excuse that it “happened years ago” - Palestinians didn’t start suffering once you personally became aware of it. What xyz did and said in 2021, 2018, 2014, 2009, 2008, etc. still is bigoted and genocidal. Supporting Palestinian suffering is not excusable after a certain date, assholes.