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This is your friendly occasional reminder to back up your fic! Put it on a USB drive or on your hard drive or in your Dropbox in addition to uploading it to places like tumblr and AO3.

Save your fic in multiple places so that if the platform where you originally posted it goes sploot you don't lose all your hard work!

#fanfic #fic #fan fiction #back up your work my lovelies

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Technically AU. In the Ed and Stede Show that is about Ed and Stede.

I think some folks need a dictionary.

Anyway, I have just read the words "EdStede are now technically AU" and I'm going to go lie down for a while.

If you want to write a ship and not grapple with its issues within canon, then maybe you shouldn't write the ship. Just sayin'.

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Evidently there's a poll going around TikTok that asks women whether they'd rather be alone in a forest with a bear or with a man. Most women are choosing the bear, and men are Big Mad.

Instead of getting all upset, maybe those dudes should consider the reasons why a woman would feel safer with a large wild animal than with them, and take steps to improve themselves. (Pro tip: it's because the bear will probably leave the woman alone and respect her space.)

#women #men #sexism #misogyny #rape culture #in 2021 #almost 1700 women were killed by their intimate partners #in that same year #2 women were killed by bears #not even including stalking #harrassment #assault #and rape

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And Steed was all, "LOL, I technically own Emma Peel. She's never gonna hear the end of this."

#gosh he's pretty

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In case anyone needed a reminder that our so-called "justice" system was set up to protect the interests of wealthy white men, one need look no further than the news about Harvey Weinstein today.

If he didn't want people testifying against him, he should have kept his pants on.

#harvey weinstein #lock him back up #rape tw

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Honor Blackman undoubtedly helped increase viewers' interest in The Avengers. Despite having fewer resources, she paved the way for Diana Rigg. All the elements that contributed to international success were developed between 1961 and 1964.

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under the rocks and stones, probably

Oh man living in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife and owning a large automobile fucking slaps

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Dear men whose blogs consist of whingey posts about how much you hate Taylor Swift and Beyoncé alongside pix of women with ample bosoms: you are not the cool edgelords you think yourselves to be. Rather, you are insufferable and will be blocked on sight.

#ew #just grow up already

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Sending help.

Good on me for deciding to start the PAIN ARC right when I started my period. Congrats, self. Good job.

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Also the issue of when you figure out you're autistic and suddenly people are willing to accommodate you because now you have a name for it, and you're like "why couldn't you have done this when I was a kid, I'm literally still the same person with the same issues."

Any other late-diagnosed autistics out there go through a stage of being ABSOLUTELY ENRAGED about having been treated horribly their whole lives for having what's turned out to be a medical condition? Because I now want to fight my entire family of origin, a bunch of doctors, several professors, many former "friends," and my ex.

I wasn't lying. I wasn't exaggerating. I wasn't a shitty person. I was and am and always will be autistic. And I deserve to live.

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they walked

so they could run

(patrick macnee and diana rigg as john steed and emma peel, 1960s // david duchovny and gillian anderson as fox mulder and dana scully, 1990s)

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Yep. <waves>

Any other late-diagnosed autistics out there go through a stage of being ABSOLUTELY ENRAGED about having been treated horribly their whole lives for having what's turned out to be a medical condition? Because I now want to fight my entire family of origin, a bunch of doctors, several professors, many former "friends," and my ex.

I wasn't lying. I wasn't exaggerating. I wasn't a shitty person. I was and am and always will be autistic. And I deserve to live.

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And I've found that this can change as one gets older. Thirty years ago, I could listen to songs that had words and write at the same time. I can't do that anymore.

I can do art and listen to things with words, but I cannot word and listen to words simultaneously now.

Neurodivergent lightbulb

Lately, I have been having these neurodivergent lightbulb moments. They always follow the same pattern:

1. I have a question about human behavior. Example: How can people call and/or listen to music while riding their bikes?

2. I will, slowly , realize that this behavior is caused by other people NOT being neurodivergent. Usually, this realisation is something along the lines of: gosh dammit, it's impossible for me because I have disorders.

I believe this is a new phase in my journey towards full neurodivergent acceptance. I think I will call it "Oh, right, I am Different(TM)."

#actually autistic

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I get the impression that Izzy Hands would sign his own kids up for conversion therapy.

OK, OK, but, like, even IF Ed was depressed and in need of help, in WHAT FUCKING WORLD is "stop being gay or I'll kill you" a mental health intervention?!

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Speaking of couples who have intense relationships...