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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Dimension 20 (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Adaine Abernant & Figueroth Faeth Characters: Figueroth Faeth, Adaine Abernant Additional Tags: Campaign 01: Fantasy High (Dimension 20), Fantasy High Sophomore Year Spoilers (Dimension 20), Figueroth Faeth-centric, Hurt/Comfort, the author thinks too much about half elf/tiefling biology, it's an excuse to indulge in some h/c and yell my hcs into the void, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, No Beta We Die Like Gilear Summary:

Nobody ever said that the life of a half-elf, half-tiefling teenager was easy. No one had warned Fig that it could suck so much, though. Hells damn it, she should demand a bigger compensation than some fire immunity.

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She was Fig the Infaethable, the Archdevil of Rebellion and King of the Bottomless Pit. She was supposed to be cool, suave, a fucking badass. Not a whimpering teenager who cowered on her room's couch, clutching her horns in a way that hurt, but hurt more placidly and sharper than the throbbing aches numbing her mind.

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fig faeth #i need to go the FUCK to sleep but tagging is a bitch #ao3 #my writing #is it indulgent. why yes of course

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comments on fanfics

I thought about writing this post for a long time and decided, fuck it, I'm gonna write this.

All over my dash I see people being disappointed because nobody is leaving comments on ao3 anymore/rebloging things on tumblr.

And the only thing I can think about this is: it's so true.

Two weeks ago I posted the epilog of my 60k words fanfic (I've been writing on it for almost a year and got some positive feedback on it) and I got ZERO comments, or kudos on the epilog.

I can see that people kicked on it, but I have no idea whether they liked it or not. (And I used to get a comment on my story now and then)

Last week I posted the first extra chapter (I planned three of these) and also got no reaction.

No I'm just sitting here, wondering if my writing is just true shit.

This is also the reason I was hesitate to post this. Maybe it's not the people and just that shithole of a story I've been writing.

Things like are just running around my head now and must say that the motivation to even finish those extra chapters is gone.

GUYS, IF YOU LIKE A FANFIC PLEASE LET THE AUTHOR KNOW, IT MEANS SO MUCH TO THEM.

So if you read a good story, not some bullshit like mine, write that comment.

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i just feel strongly that work shouldnt be the Main Activity of five days out of the week

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stop showing me ai ill fuckin kill you

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JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.

Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.

However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.

But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.

It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.

We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something

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When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.

Stevie Nicks

I kept thinking of this quote last night when I was watching the Golden Globes. I really thought that there was a horribly icky tone toward women and their accomplishments. It started with that horribly sexist and totally unfunny opening monologue, and then kept chugging along with casual misogyny. Despite all the really strong female performances and intriguing stories about women’s lives, wants, and desires, it felt like a really big men’s club meeting to me last night.

I felt it the most in regards to “Barbie.”  Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig shepherded that movie to be the most successful movie of 2023, yet all people could comment on were boobs. It was gross.

I hate this narrative, because the exact same thing happened with Lady Bird and Little Women. The movies are properly recognized, and given a lot of praise for their insights into the lives of women. Then award season that goes around, and suddenly they are belittled for being too “superficial” or “slight.”  Men’s coming-of-age stories are treated as sacrosanct and universal while women’s are treated as frivolous and “niche.” Seems like the only time a woman’s story is given value if the woman truly suffers in the story – illness or death has to be involved, or else it’s as if the story doesn’t have merit.

Women’s stories have just as much value as men’s stories – I don’t care if they are a comedy or a drama or what. A female character doesn’t need to shed tears or shed blood in order to be valuable. I feel like Poor Things suffers a bit of the same issue – it’s boiled down to being simply “horny” and hence Bella’s voyage to discovery of what she really wants, and embracing life, is ignored. Oppenheimer is allowed to have a sex drive, because it makes him complex and edgy . But Bella Baxter has a sex drive, and suddenly it makes her silly and “a caricature.”

I just hate the fact that Barbie is being dismissed because it uses a light touch for the serious subject of exploring girlhood to womanhood- what is gained and what is lost. Just because it’s funny doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a legitimate message to share.

I have so many thoughts of this, but I’ll go back to Stevie’s quote. Ultimately, women are punished for what they are initially praised for.

#some people watched Barbie with some ideas in mind and didn't bother to change them after the movie said its message

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Q+A from library visit where I read my comic about a skeleton that plays the fiddle

Kid: Is this fiction?

Me: Yeah

Kid: I kinda thought so

Me: Oh really? Why?

Kid: Because skeletons aren't real

Me: Skeletons are real. You have one!

Kid, jumping up out of his seat: Yeah but they don't move around!!

Me: Your skeleton's moving around right now!

Kid, yelling: THAT'S!! DIFFERENT!!!

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#my ass wouldn't remember to put a third of those measures in action every night #in my house we lock with key and have a little chain #and I've forgotten more than once to put the damn chain #one out of two #I'd loose half of those devices in a week

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found these on twitter that might be helpful to all rpers who want to make sure their themes and carrds are accessible to all

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"Not beating the ___ allegations" is such a 'now' turn of phrase, implying as it does a world where everyone's behavior is always on literal trial by a guilt-presuming judge and jury that consists of anyone who happens to be paying attention.

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Seeing drag queens in real life gives me the exact same feeling as how the hobbits describe elves in the lord of the rings

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this has got to be my favorite c&h comic of all time. he just turns evil for no reason at all

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my brave darling ad blocker is fighting on the front lines against the nasty evil attacks by the forces of youtube ads

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Werewolf from 2018 🌕🐺

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thinking out loud

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#don't worry about their round ears and their tendency to dig up corpses

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Yes geologists! Doing the important work 💖