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Cooper Howard and that winning smile

#that’s husband #cooper howard #fallout

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La'an Noonien-Sing + other people

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS 1x01 Strange New Worlds | 2x03 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

#la'an noonien singh #star trek #snw

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LA'AN NOONIEN-SINGH in Strange New Worlds

2x04 - Among the Lotus Eaters

"Maybe some memories are worth the pain of others."

#hair down la'an my beloved #la'an noonien singh #snw #star trek

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#for gay reasons

#la'an noonien singh #star trek #snw

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FALLOUT 1.02 — The Target

#cooper howard #fallout

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You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

#omg the chocolate bird discourse was my FAVORITE tumblr discourse #listen here cum-slut i bet you 5 million dollars that you don't own a bird

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idk if the story is gonna redeem them but idc i think petra and peter deserve to die long painful deaths.

#funny story #emily henry

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FALLOUT (2024— ) S1E05 The Past

#lucy maclean #maximus #fallout

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i didn't care for book lovers but funny story has been a really cute read so far.

#emily henry

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Megan’s Instagram Update (May 2, 2023)

#megan thee

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Ngl I think I hate performative girlbossification of female characters more than I hate people not including said female characters in their fan content. Actually I don't care at all if they're indifferent to her. Who gives a fuck. Like I'd respect it more if they're like "ngl I just don't give a shit about her" with their whole chest, rather than being like "OMG I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!!! She's perfect, she's best girl, she kicks ass [never talks about her ever and only includes her as a prop to examine the male characters they DO like]" just because they're scared of getting called misogynistic. Like if you know in your heart that this character means nothing to you and you know you're not gonna do her justice, might as well just leave her out. But attempts to shoehorn her in, using your 2015-feminist style characterization is so weak, man.

#and a version of this: pretending you ship two female characters together just so you can ship your slash without getting called problematic

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if you're a scotty girlie like me, you should listen to the interview that open pike night did with martin quinn. he comes off as such a sweet little guy and it's cool to learn about how he's approaching playing scotty.

#martin quinn #montgomery scott #star trek #snw #he rambles the whole interview and then at the end apologizes for rambling oh he's just like me fr

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You keep talking about the origins of AO3 as this group effort by an actual group of people who were friends and who spent time discussing this with each other in person. It's kind of blowing my mind. Is there a post or a journal somewhere that specifically keeps record of this?

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I'm dying.

Nonnie, seriously?

No, that's mean, I know you're serious. It's just flabbergasting how much fandom has expanded and how much there isn't a direct link to the past.

Astolat and Cesperanza floated the idea at Vividcon and various places, I think, though I wasn't going to cons in that era. We were all on LJ in those days, and Astolat made a big post nailing her theses to the door. Discussion in the comments was instant and prolonged.

A LJ com was set up to discuss. It was later renamed to otw_news, but if you go all the way back to the beginning, you can see brainstorming mess instead of official news posts.

Fanlore page linking to Astolat's post and giving a little context.

Early brainstorming: https://otw-news.livejournal.com/2007/05/

For example, here I am collecting links to older archives to look at for research when designing AO3.

Fun fact, we never intended to call it AO3. There was a whole call for name suggestions, but nothing was as evocative as astolat's original post title referencing Virginia Woolf. (For those who haven't thought about it, AO3's name is a reference to A Room of One's Own.)

Here's the name discussion

Here's the poll that came out of it

But also notice how many people voted: 562.

That's how many people cared at the time: a few hundred. Maybe a thousand if you count lurkers, but frankly, that community was not as lurkery as now. It wasn't just ten friends. It was a community effort. But what "our" community looked like at the time was vastly different. It was six degrees of Kevin Bacon astolat, not a vast sea of strangers like fic fandom on AO3 is now.

Here's an early post suggesting we ban the under 18s from the site entirely. Pity we didn't do so, given the rise of antis.

Here's the invite to a fundraising party at astolat's in NYC that following Halloween. I dressed as Amanda from Highlander, not very well.

You can tell we knew each other by looking at those comments on astolat's initial post. You can also tell how discussion-based that part of fandom was back in 2007.

The way my tumblr is now with a ton of text, back and forth, and hopping around between threads of conversation, all featuring a consistent set of faces, is very much like LJ. Most of tumblr is not.

#fandom #i miss the LJ days #it just felt more satisfying to be in fandom

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Sudan still desperately needs aid--it needs a lot of things, but it is approaching a dangerous point with famine and mass death due to hunger imminent.

These are the kinds of headlines we're getting now:

Here's an ongoing fundraiser:

I linked it before, to help with Ramadan, but it's an ongoing initiative, the need has not stopped.

I picked this gofundme because it's been boosted by people I trust and you can see pictures online of the food they've provided, e.g.:

But I also picked this because you can see the amount of donations. It's 2pm ET on Saturday, April 20th right now? For the next week, whatever's donated, I'll match for a total up to $2,000 (we'll say 2,750 CAD, since the gofundme is in Canadian dollars).

You don't have to send me a receipt, I just ask that you donate and boost.

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just because music isnt playing doesnt mean im not listening to it