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My boss: schedule a meeting so we can go over your agenda

Me: no prob! It is scheduled!

My boss accepts it immediately

At meeting time, I wander over to my boss’s office on the way to the conference room: hey just a reminder about our meeting right now

My boss: I’ll be down in just a few minutes let me wrap this up

Me, 45 minutes later, still by myself in the conference room: 🤡

#I HATE IT HERE #thankful for a job but WHAT THE FUCK #I even triple checked his schedule #AND talked to him more than once #I am tired of this inefficient black hole of joy

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some of you guys really need to learn to appreciate the fics you've been given. im so tired of seeing comments saying "is there a version where this happens?" "man i was really hoping for this" "another chapter were this happens?"

if you read a story and you can't even bother to comment on the effort and work the author already put in, but you comment suggesting something else just because you wanted it to go a different way? you're doing it wrong. i see this so, so often and im tired of being nice about it.

appreciate the authors who work for FREE on here. they're not writing machines. you're lucky they even shared their works at all.

#or if you reeeeally want them to finish a story but you can’t be bothered to comment #and just incessantly send them inbox messages begging for more without a single nice comment #get bent

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“You are responsible for the minors in your fandom!!!”

No, I’m fucking not. I’m not your parent. My past-times do not automatically sign me up to act in loco parentis. If you need someone else to monitor your own content consumption online, go get mommy and/or daddy to set up a content blocker on your computer.

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summer is coming up lads..

#there is no reprieve from humid heat #the shade is just as bad #but you can be in the shade in dry heat and it gives you some small comfort

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i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest

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NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (2004) Dir. Jared Hess

#C L A S S I C #20 years this year baybee #napoleon dynamite

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Why does spring feel so bad for me

#it’s a rhetorical question #I know exactly why #my house burned down and Covid started in spring #and then two years later I endured the worst harassment t of my life #and then a year after that I did the worst show that legit traumatized me #and now I’m feeling the effects of the delayed trauma of allllll of those things #like I just want to step outside and feel alive and not like my world is crumbling #personal post

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I don't say this as an insult to YA fiction because there are some amazing works in that genre, but The Locked Tomb is absolutely not YA fiction. It's almost an advanced science textbook

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#I have boobs and wish I could take them off when I don’t want them and put them back on when I do #I don’t dislike them #they just feel like they don’t match up with my gender expression sometjmes

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warm orange windows and blue night in the background save me. save me warm orange windows and blue night

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i think twitter is actually really funny and good sometimes. where else are you seeing shit like this

#Rudolph just got bottom surgery

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ADHD

#me every time I remember I’m not alone in the world

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clocking in for another day at the i dont wanna factory

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i love your fics 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Thank you so so sooooo much ❤️❤️

#lisacumslut78 #ask away! #nice things

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For people who haven’t heard: this month, the DSM (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders) are planning on updating the criteria for getting an autism diagnosis. On paper, this sounds like a good thing. It’s not.

The DSM is the handbook used by healthcare workers worldwide, for diagnosing mental disorders and the like. You may have read that the autistic diagnosis criteria is getting updated and, like many in the autistic community, hoped that this meant that it would be expanded, to make it easier for AFAB, transgender, and non-white people to be diagnosed (as it is notoriously hard for anyone except for white, cisgender men to obtain an autism diagnosis). However, they recently released a statement saying that they were not expanding the criteria, but were instead making it more ‘conservative’, as they feel autism is being ‘over-diagnosed’. (Which is, of course, bullshit for a whole plethora of reasons which I’m sure you’ve heard before.)

As-of my posting this, they have not released the official, updated criteria yet, so there is not much we can do right now. But there is one thing that we must agree upon: DO NOT SHAME PEOPLE FOR SELF-DIAGNOSING WITH AUTISM. Because obtaining an autism diagnosis is, quite literally, only getting harder.

#someone saying I don’t have autism because I can socialize #yes it’s called masking thank you 🥰 #I don’t enjoy it? I don’t think I’m particularly good at it? but I can play pretend just fine #cause I’ve been doing it my whole life #there’s a reason I go nonverbal after a long day #anyway my self diagnosis is perfectly fine for me #I’m not interested in going through the time and heartbreak required for an official diagnosis

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#sadly I’ll never be able to turn guest commenting on again #because my stalker somehow always finds out when it’s on and will leave me horrendous comments if I’m not careful #so get an ao3 account or if you can’t for some reason #inbox me your comments