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Every time I advocate for voting people are like "no you shouldn't vote! Read this literature, it'll totally change the way you view voting!" And every single time it's the same fucking "you shouldn't vote because both parties are exactly the same so it won't make a difference who wins" bullshit wrapped up in some fancy language

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so.

i guess fanfiction wasn’t a phase….

#my first fanfic that I remember was a Star Trek-Highlander crossover that my dad found on an online bulletin board in 1994 #my first real online fandom experience was a bit later in about 1996 - Highlander and Forever Knight #I was primarily a lurker though until the mid 2000s

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...he is weaving the chocolate. Do you copy, this bitch is WEAVING CHOCOLATE

#this fucking guy

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Lovely Day for a Guinness

#the whole ad is AMAZING

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Lovely Day for a Guinness

#oh my god #someone in the comments has the full ad and it's AMAZING

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I really think people have forgotten just how bad things were under the Trump Administration. Literally every day there was news about some service being cut or someone terrible appointed somewhere they shouldn't be or what have you. He constantly flirted with WW3 and military dictatorship. It was such a blur of badness that there aren't big standouts for people to point to to make him "the XYZ president." it was everything. all the time. Why do we not remember this.

#I get being angry or disappointed at Biden #I am often myself #but to claim that he and the democrats have done nothing is incorrect and outright dangerous at this point in time

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TNG Onion Headlines by me

#the riker ones are very very accurate #but the Tasha one is probably my favorite

[kalinara]

I often think about that post that was a fake dating profile for a cat that was all about chickens, like wanting someone with posable thumbs for opening chickens.

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#this fucking guy

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Of course you don’t. Free college might hinder the school-to-prison pipeline your  prison owning donors depend on

#I don't really understand the Russian psy-op thing #but honestly a leftist who reblogs from me with any kind of “don't vote/they're just as bad” messaging is likely to get blocked #I probably wouldn't block someone just venting on their own blog but putting that shit in my replies/comments? No. #Not at this stage and not with what's at stake now

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#worth remembering #even when we're upset at Biden's political choices #(understandably!) #the supreme court is the long game #and the main reason things are so fucking scary right now

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receive the ultimate blessings from the Year of Loong龙( wealth, luck and health) by 爱摆牌的龙龙

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When absolutely 0 of Biden’s accomplishments have made any kind of news, and we’ve been fed a steady diet of fear and panic for 3 years, no one gets to be shocked when he loses the next election to Donald 2.0.

Posting anything positive about the president here will get you called a capitalist bootlicker.

What do we expect to happen?

Anger sells better. Anger feels better, it feels righteous.

It’s easier to protest against a president you don’t like then to actually remain in charge and keep pushing ahead, even if small, consistent accomplishments are all you receive.

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STARGATE ATLANTIS 5x10

#it always amuses me how much John Sheppard does not actually want to be in charge #my favorite space ace

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this anti-criticism/critical analysis wave some of y'all like to be on is making some of you bitches soft. 'don't like, don't watch, don't like, don't read, if you didn't like the game then why did you play it?'

maybe some of us come into a piece of art hopeful and excited for the possibilities, and are disappointed when it falls short. maybe some of us want to critique parts of the art that could have been stronger. is that going to kill you. will you die due to not seeing a constant stream of smoke blown up the creator's ass.

#I get that sometimes it's hard to see people rough on something you love #but...well...'don't like don't read' applies here too

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Oh for fuck's sake. Please don't tell me "warning" discourse is coming back.

Look guys, I don't fucking care if you decide to use warnings or not. If you're an author who chooses not to use warnings, I may or may not read your fic, depending on my mood at any given time, but that's not a value judgment.

But can you not be a pretentious asshole about it?

"Books and movies don't have warnings!"

Really? Movies don't have warnings? What do you think that big "R" is on the advertisement there (if you're American, anyway, but as far as I know, most other countries use rating systems.) It might not be an explicit, spell-it-all out warning, but you're generally not going to see a graphic rape scene in a fucking PG movie.

Books? Generally no. Though there are exceptions. And many bloggers or goodreads reviewers will happily warn for readers who are concerned. That said, you can draw some conclusions based on genre, publisher and imprint. A romance reader generally knows where to find the really hard shit. You're not generally going to find a lot of strap ons or ball gags in Harlequin.

"Warnings didn't exist/weren't common practice before AO3!"

That's a fucking lie. I started reading fanfic on the internet in 1997, when I was young enough that I had to lie about my age to get onto the good mailing lists. And you know why they were the good mailing lists? Because they had explicit stuff. Because they had passwords to the best archives.

And those archives generally did have warnings! At least for the really big shit. Rape? Torture? The phrase "non-con" existed long before fanfiction.net, let alone AO3 was a twinkling in anyone's eye.

Because here's the thing, it's common courtesy. Fandom is a community experience. Isn't that what everyone always says when the topic of negative reviews come up? We can't make the author feel bad! Traumatizing a reader though with something that they don't know to avoid though, that's perfectly fine.

What AO3 DID invent, as far as I know, is the brilliant "Author chooses not to warn" tag. That's a great idea. It means that a concerned reader can go through the no warnings needed tag with reasonable confidence that they won't be hit with the most common triggering subjects. And if they go into a "chooses not to warn" fic, then that's their risk to take.

(Personally, I've never read a "choose not to warn" fic and thought "god, I'm so glad the author didn't spoil this rape scene in the warnings, losing the element of surprise would have ruined the story!" but that's just me. There might well be one out there, and even if not, it's the author's call.)

I don't really have a point to this rant. I just really dislike people who decide to raise their lack of consideration for others into some sort of intellectual high ground while touting blatant misinformation to support it. I also never get tired of ranting about fandom hypocrisy, so there we go.

TLDR: do what you want, but don't be a self-congratulatory dick about it.

#fandom woes #this was admittedly mostly inspired by that “warnings didn't exist before AO3” line #someone seriously said that #can you please ask a fandom old when you're going to say nonsense like that? #we do still exist