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do you know where "no beta we die like x" comes from and how it is used?

The term "beta" in this context is short for "beta reader" - a person who reads a fic while it's still in the editing stage and helps the writer get it ready to post. Some betas check grammar. Some check canon compliance. Some are sensitivity readers. There are lots of things that betas can do.

So functionally, saying "no beta" means that the writer didn't get this checked by a second person before they posted it. It's a warning that there might be errors or typos etc. It's mostly used when an author has written something quickly and is posting without doing a lot of (or any) edits first.

As for where it comes from? It all started with a bumper sticker.

This image was an internet meme at one point, and it got meme'd on in the form of "no ___ we ___ like men"

Here on tumblr, one of the versions that got really popular was from now-deleted user @grec1a who created this version:

From there, it migrated to AO3 as the "no beta we die like men" tag, and very often the word men is replaced by the name of a character who dies in canon.

#I knew about half of this #but not the far back stuff #a03

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My boyfriend's professor doesn't believe I exist, so I sent this email

And his professor responded with this

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unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

#that last one #mee yet

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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Hey weird question but what happens if you put two reasonably likeable anthropologists of wildly different cultures together in the same room? Do they study each other? CAN they? Is it like an infinite conversational feedback loop? I'm imagining two dogs eternally sniffing each others butts at the park

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one thing that will always be funny to me about batfam is that jason is forever convinced that dick is bruce's favorite child while all of his siblings know for sure that bruce's favorite child is actually jason

some random reporter: who's your favorite child?

bruce: how DARE YOU imply that i play favorites, i love ALL of my children equally

dick, without missing a bit: oh he absolutely plays favorites, it was jason

tim: rest in peace

#my head canon is more complicated #dick thinks jay is fave #jay thinks dick is fave #but then DAMIAN thinks TIM is fave #while Tim #Tim doesn’t think B has individual faves #but Tim thinks he might be LEAST fave #and Cass KNOwS she’s fave in the only way that matters to her

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The way so many "feminist" retellings actually give their women less agency makes me want to bite someone

#cool stuff #food for thought #jane austen #little women #books

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commission for @jediscribe!

(commissions are closed!)

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Gambit and Rogue

By Bella Rachlin

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A phonograph that “reads” and transforms a rock’s rough surface into music | source                          

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Does this count as finding a walrus at your door?

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it feels fitting that i was working on this while watching x men 97 and then ep 5 hit... i might come back to it when my emotions recover but for now i'll leave it unfinished

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what's the most cancelable shit y'all do when ur not online

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I know what the endgame is!!!

Art by LukasWerneck

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Endless X-Men 97