#i will go down with this one-person fandom ship

[hearts-are-connected]

Dang it, I love this ship and I love the enemies to lovers trope. I get that a lot of people see them as a surrogate father and daughter relationship, but it feels like a been there/done that kinda thing.

As much as I love that trope, I'm also a little tired of it. There's only so much Last of Us style found family I take after seeing it for so many years.

The thing I love about VaultGhoul or Ghoulcy is the idea of Lucy breaking down of Cooper's walls while he helps build hers up.

Is he incredibly cruel to her and those around him in the first season? Yes, extremely

Does he need to chill out and find some of his humanity that's been buried under 200+ years of wasteland survival and bitterness? Yes

Who can bring that needed direction to his life while learning the ways of the new world she finds herself in? Lucy MacLean

I know that the canon ship of the show at this moment is Lucy and Maximus, and as much as I love him, I find the pairing obvious and kind of boring from a story telling perspective. I loved it on my first viewing, but upon re-watching the series, I wasn't as behind it as before. I see their relationship, kiss and all, as a kind of first fling for the both of them.

While it doesn't diminish the care they show one another, there's not a lot behind them as a couple. Now I know that some people might turn around to say how she and Cooper spent less time together than her and Max, but I guess the thing I look forward to is seeing what their relationship brings with the second season.

I feel like Max and Lucy will have a great friendship and I'm interested to see where the Brotherhood fits into their dynamic as well.

With Cooper though, I find his story so tragic, as it's supposed to be. He's your standard hardened survivor who only looks out for himself that's now stuck with the happy-go-lucky main character, however, she's not that character anymore by the end. She's still going to be the Lucy we love, but she's changed by the end. While not losing her compassion and some optimism, I think Cooper is going to bring out a harsher side to her as we saw when she bit off his finger.

I want to see her building up her walls and learning when to let them down. How to truly survive while still bringing her own energy to the wasteland and people around her. I want to see Cooper regaining some lost humanity while learning to truly care for another person again. To see the two of them as eventual equals in one another's eyes as they continue on their journey as reluctant allies.

I also want to say that I'm personally kind of tired of the 'age gap' argument. We have stories of teenagers falling in love with hundred year old vampires. So can we just drop the age gap thing?

As long as they're both consenting adults who understand what they're getting themselves into, who cares about an age gap.

Does it truly matter in the scheme of things when we're talking about a world with cryo-stasis and super mutants?

I personally don't think so.

I don't know if anyone will even bother reading this entire thing, and I know I went on a little long, but I wanted to write down my thoughts on the whole shipping situation with the Fallout TV show fandom at this moment.

I'm a VaultGhoul shipper and I can't wait to see where the second season takes our main trio of characters.

#fallout show #fallout amazon #ghoulcy #lucy x cooper #vaultghoul #cooper howard #lucy maclean #a ghoul and his girl #a girl and her ghoul #I ship it #Can't wait for season 2

[bluishfrog]

HAPPY 1-YEAR OF DRAWING ANNIVERSARY TO ME!

(Warning: slightly longer post incoming cause sometimes I gotta be a sentimental bitch ok? So let's go on a little trip down memory lane.)

This day, a year ago, I made my very first fanart. It was dnf (if that surprises you, then welcome to being on my blog for the very first time). I drew a little frog face too so I could use it as a watermark (fun fact: I still use that very same first one).

I immediately put my drawing up on twt because I told myself that I wasn't gonna be afraid of having people see that I was at the very beginning of this journey and had no clue what I was doing. That instead of being bad at art, I was gonna be awesome at being a beginner who doesn't know shit.

I started with little doodles and silly comics and then I laughed way too long when the first drawing of mine that gained some attention was a dnf butt joke. At the time I was trying to balance shipping and non-shipping art so I didn't even draw dnf that much but in hindsight it's probably the only possible way this could have gone.

At the very end of August I woke up to @honelle56 caps-locking at me in my messages - I was very confused and tired (I am no morning person and I will never be, fuck off with your mornings) because Dranart liked my drawing of singing Dream. Dranart was my 17th follower on twt which is a useless yet extremely funny fact about my time on that hellsite.

I also drew human!patches because a) patches was and will always be my favorite dteam member and b) it was a really cute trend and while I do love drawing dream, george and sapnap, I was also quite happy to try drawing anything but a white man for once. And I really liked how the drawing turned out.

Much, much later, I tried to draw my first slightly more realistic looking drawing. I was extremely confused on how to draw anything like this. Especially their hair gave me tons of trouble but given my experience, I think it's not a bad attempt.

When hijacked smp started I obviously wanted to participate, and I drew c!blu who doesn't associate with any side in particular but instead serves soup to everyone who visits her tavern 'The Soup House'. She also wants to be paid in stories from all around the map.

One of the events I was most excited about was dnf week. I even collaborated with two talented writers and I drew the corresponding art for two fics.

(Fun or not so fun fact: when twt had like three hundred collaborative aneurysms about the situation at that moment, that was when I created this tumblr account. I didn't use it super actively (I guess I needed another situation to fully make the switch) but I at least started the account that now developed quite a bit since then.)

I didn't really draw at all through January and February and I actually kinda thought I would move on from that hobby and fandom (not because of negative feelings, just because I didn't really have the urge to create anything within this fandom) and then situations happened and now I am here; and for some reason that is beyond any logic and my understanding I am now even more insane about dteam.

Wild to me but we are rolling with it now, I guess.

Since I got here, I drew more than ever (I actually think I might have made more drawings in the month since I got here than I made the whole rest of the year). There's just such an active and funny community here that cares about fan works for the sake of creating and not just because a CC might see it.

Unfortunately, Tumblr won't let me add more than 10 images in one post (maybe fortunately for everyone who has this monstrosity of a post on their dash). So if you want to see all the progress I made since I got here, you can look at everything in my art tag. For now, I will close this post with one of the art works from the past month that I like the most:

Can't wait to see what the next year might bring :)

Love, blu

#blu rambles #like a LOT #but if you made it to the end of this post you get a hug <3 #bluishfrog art

[marauding-almond]

Okay, let me just say: people need to stop hating on jegulus. I’m saying this as a jily shipper who does not remotely ship jegulus.

But I’ve seen a lot of hate towards that ship, and I think you all need to calm down. People can ship whatever they want, we shouldn’t have a right to judge them. (I DO NOT, however, think you should ship incest or severe underage) You don’t agree with that pearing? That’s fine! Just don’t go and hate on it. Keep shipping the ones that make you happy and it will all be fine.

Looking at jegulus in particular, people have been saying it’s misogynistic and that’s really been pissing me off. I don’t think people ship it because they hate Lily, more likely, they ship it because they think James and Regulus are cute together. It’s not misogynistic to make James queer and put him an homosexual relationship.

In the end, we are talking about fictional characters here. This is a fandom where not much cannon is left, and everyone has a different opinion on everything, so don’t go and tell people their ship is «wrong» or whatever just because you don’t agree with it.

So please stop hating on ships you don’t agree with. If it makes the person happy, why should you judge them and their parings? Stick to jily if you like it, but don’t hate on jegulus. If you really don’t like it, just ignore it!

#jegulus #james potter #lily evans #regulus black #marauders era #the marauders

[mellowthorn]

Realm of the Elderlings Ask Meme Thing

Created by @hermitknut. I spotted this while browsing tags the other day and figured it might be fun to bring it back.

Favourite RotE Book: Assassin's Quest

Why: It's difficult to pick a single favorite, but I tend to go with AQ because it is where I truly fell in love with the series. The depiction of Fitz's loneliness speaks to me on a very personal level, and Fitz's character arc is overall just masterfully written. The way all the misfortune, abuse and heartbreak leads him to putting his feelings into the dragon and ultimately isolating himself from everyone he loves, is incredibly tragic, but the built-up is done so well that I really couldn't imagine the book ending any other way.

Additionally, AQ is where we finally begin to get information about the Elderlings and are introduced to other mysterious lore elements, like the memory stone, Silver, and the rooster crown. These little hints completely hooked me in and made it impossible to put the series down.

Also it's where the Fool barged in and stole not just the narrative but also my heart.

Top Three Favourite Characters: Beloved, Fitz, Burrich (Paragon and Bee come close though)

Top Three Least Favourite Characters: Tats, Lant, Reyn

Favourite Ship (of the floating kind): Paragon

Top Three Favourite Ships (of the people kind): Fitzloved, Burrich/Chivalry, Patience/Lacey

Would you rather be Witted or Skilled: Witted

If you were Witted, what animal would you bond with?: Probably a dog, simply because dogs are the animal that I most often interact with. But ignoring practicalities, maybe some kind of a bird? An owl?

Would you rather live in the Outislands, the Mountain Kingdom, the Six Duchies, Bingtown, the Rain Wilds, Kelsingra, Jamaillia, the Pirate Isles, or Fool’s Homeland?: Kelsingra! I have a really strong fondness for Kelsingra. It's both exciting and oddly cozy, and I'd love to explore it for myself.

How were you introduced to the books? I was looking for a fantasy book with good characters, and the Farseer Trilogy was the first series that I came across. A booktuber I watch had mentioned Hobb before, so I decided to give it a try.

Share a quote you love: This is one of my favorites from Amber, from chapter 16 of The Mad Ship.

‘Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It’s not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.’ ‘Even when it’s stupid to try?’ he asked with savage sarcasm. ‘Especially then,’ she replied sweetly. ‘That’s how it’s done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you do not ask the cost. That’s how you do it.’

Tagging: I'm going to start with @tragediegh, @spectrum-color, @gwenllian-in-the-abbey, @thenightisland and @everywaythatmatters. No pressure of course! And I'd also love to see even more people do this, so as far as I'm concerned, everyone in the RotE fandom is tagged :)

#rote ask meme #tag game #rote #realm of the elderlings

[nehswritesstuffs]

So I know that a lot has been said about Sabo being a Replacement Ace, and there have been comparisons between Law and Nami (or Law and Robin (and I even saw Law as just a different flavor of Mihawk once, rawr)), but I would like to propose for the internet’s consideration: Law as a Replacement Ace.

Tall, dark, and handsome? Check.

Super-overpowered Devil Fruit? Check.

Tattoos? Check.

Delightfully allergic to shirts? Check.

Fun hat? Check.

“Why the fck is this adult man putting up with Luffy?” Check.

Secret name? Check.

Shipped with Nami, Zoro, Sanji, and Luffy with varying success rates? Check.

Survived the torching of their home? Check.

Broody little shit who surrounded himself with delightful loonies after leaving home? Check.

Fucked over by the WG? Check. Multiple times? Double-check.

Entire existence very specifically irritates Sengoku? Check.

Offered Warlord status? Check.

Adopted by a Very Tall Man? Check.

After living with a bunch of weirdos who love in their own way I guess? Check.

Adventures with the Straw Hats, featuring Smoker and Tashigi? Check.

An adventure that was a side-quest before toppling a Warlord unjustly ruling a hot-climate kingdom? Check.

Got into a fight with Blackbeard while I was in the middle of writing fic with them as semi-to-major players? CHECK.

In conclusion, these two men from polar opposite Blues share a lot of the same beats and I dig it. Except pls one of you two needs to stay safe and we only have one option left. I mean, there’s so many characters in this series that it’s highly unlikely one won’t start seeing some patterns, but you know... it’s just neat to notice.

Now Luffy just needs to learn what happened in ch.1081 and snap into Friend Protecc Mode.

#Trafalgar Law #Portgas D. Ace #One Piece #allusions to ch.1081 #I remembered today that Ace used to be one of my Unnecessarily Sexy Faves like seventeen years ago #and now Law is one of my Unnecessarily Sexy Faves and that shot of his hat makes me uncomfortable #come on Oda-sensei it's so rare I like inked-up characters like this don't ruin it for me again #(they gross me out it's a long story) #holy shit lemme tell you about the Nami/Ace shipping from circa 2006 #it was fire and reminds me of the Nami/Law shipping from today's time #I've become such a multishipper with this fandom and Law is up there for fandom bicycles #as is Ace in his own way though I personally don't get into that too much #I also can't get behind shipping either Ace or Law with Luffy idk wtf you people are on but no thanks I don't want any #Gol D. Ace #Trafalgar D. Water Law #they go down here bc spoilers and shit #y'all thought DW owned my fandom life oh hells naw astronaut meme it's always been One Piece

[leonstamatis]

the thing that helps me sometimes wrt numbers brain is that the most popular fic isn’t actually gonna be the best fic, pretty much ever, bc the things people gravitate toward are the things that appeal to the largest number of people instead of the sort of weird offbeat passion projects i frequently throw myself at. the things that do numbers are bigger fandoms and popular ships and (often) watered down characterizations or popular tropes, none of which is what i really enjoy doing ninety percent of the time.

#what are my most popular fics you may well ask? #o/f/m/d by a long shot. #then a t/a/a/kitz fic from AGES ago when t:b was winding down #then a very fanon-compliant jason fic. #then a very fanon-compliant j/o/y/fire fic. #and i like all of these fics a reasonable amount. they’re fine. #BUT. #they aren’t the ones i go back and reread all the time. #those ones are the ones that are more personalized and particular to Me. #even in blaseball like. the most popular ones are the ones that comply with popular lore. #and if i were to go in and rework them it would be to make them Weirder and Less Palatable #bc then i would be more fond of the actual content of them #of course that’s not always true. im still baffled by the reception to the scorekeeper fic and various other weird projects #looks at margeese pointedly #but like. those are outliers in the broader spectrum of my works. #idk im just rambling #point is i tend to fall around 30-40 kudos regardless of fandom #and that’s in part bc 1) smaller fandoms 2) less popular ships 3) secondary or tertiary characters 4) in a weird plot #and it’s GREAT it’s so fun to do #okay I’m done that’s it #tam.exe

[emile-hides]

Hello Romantic Killer tag I am back I finished the show Riri’s still on Thin Fucking Ice but I will concede it was worth the watch and I am looking forward to a season two if it gets one

#Now everyone go watch Mushi-shi on Crunchyroll #Still squeezing Riri like a stress ball with the kinda strength that makes you worry I'm going to pop it #Love when a RomCom does something more serious personally I like a dark anime and I'm punting Riri in to the sun still #But now it's in more a Blorbo way like how everyone treats Spamton G. Spamton #And also in a full of rage way still #Pull their cheeks noogie their head push them down the stairs #I do not like them I do not like them I will not think about liking them #Junta is perfection the most perfect character and I love him #Am I going to track down if there's a manga and read it if I can find it? #no. #I am going to rewatch Mushi-Shi on Crunchyroll because it has all but the Movie and one OVA and be abnormal about that instead #Before I love hate my way into self shipping with Riri INSTEAD OF JUNTA WHO IS THE CORRECT CHOICE #BRAIN. #Anyway I apologize for my previous post making it into main tags normally when I swear in tags Tumblr hides the post #Apparently we don't do that anymore #I liked the show I promise it was stupid and funny I want to punt Riri and I Do Not Like Them #Romantic Killer #I actually forgot the fucking fandom tag there's no way this ends up in the main tag now fkjgkdfjgkfjkgdfjk I'm so dumb

[avenger-hawk]

also:

Don’t tag my content as ____ (random problematic thing)

Dude, if you police how ppl tag your content when when they reblog it you kinda make them want to...uh...not reblog it. 

Personally, I tag ships not only when I reblog/post shipper stuff, but also when the characters are in the same artwork or stuff, you know, for being able to find the artwork quicker, cause I don’t remember all fanartists’ names (yup, sorry about that). In short, I tag ships because I want to, and if you have a problem with it because you don’t want to have your precious hands dirty with problematic stuff ok, but you put off a lot of ppl. 

Because others might not tag a ship but they might want to add weird rants on their reblog and they might be uncomfortable since you’re policing notes lol, and even tho I find certain thirsty fangirl comments on certain artworks kinda gross, or I get pissed off when someone reblogs the fanarts with permission I post, tagging some canon shit or papas*ke, I don’t start drama with it, I mean as long as they don’t bitch at me directly who cares...ofc I’m not the author. But being an fanfic author, even if it’s not the same exactly, I’m just happy if someone reblogs my stuff and I don’t look at their tags lol. What if...I mean...what if. you start not policing too. Just a thought.

Hawk out

#fanon and fandom stuff #I was going through my likes and was about to repost some cute thing but then I saw their warning and I unliked everything #cause I don't want to get anxious when I tag something #like. real life is shitty enough I don't need to be policed by some stranger on the internet #anyway sorry. I am ranting but I'm not tagging anything so it just stays on my blog and for my poor followers #it's not like I put these rants in some ship tags clearly wanting shippers to see how outraged I am lol #like when ppl tag my NS stuff as SN...I hate it lol but I'm not going to look for them and bitch. which happened to me once tbh? I don't #remember what was the fanart but I took it down cause the person had a problem with one of my tags and wanted me to change it #so ofc I deleted and blocked the person

[decepti-geek]

maybe the most surefire way to not be an arse about shipping is to have your first-ever serious OTP be a rarepair 

#blitzarachnia til i die babey but never once have i gone round telling other people they should be writing about the spider and the jet-tank #we got one piece of fanart that someone bothered to make once a month on the deviantart group and we were GRATEFUL for it #like having stuff for your rarepairs is an insane hit of dopamine but like #after receiving that hit why would your response be to go around and trying to shake other people down for more #it's just... rude? and unkind? #i don't know thus far the hypothesis that makes the most sense #is that people who do that shit are people who started out in whichever fandom with a popular ship #where there was loads of content #and then they come to somewhere else where they ship something not so popular and they want the old setup back #and if lots of content used to be provided then i guess you'd expect that treatment again? #but it is a bit karen-ish like #someone's gotta make that stuff #for FREE #why should it cater to you if the person making it doesnt know you from adam #fandom

[hexados-on-a-string]

I JUST FUCKIN REALIZED ITS FEBRUARY. FEMSLASH FEBRUARY. bakugan sapphics i have failed you... i will make content to feed myself (a lesbian) tomorrow maybe...

#fuckign. i lobe women. love wlw. need me more of that good shit. #altho i know like. one wlw bakugan ship??? honestly why the fuck is there so many men. get them out of my sight. #popular wlw ship i mean. anything else i can come up with is just me trying to sail down a river in a bucket #does NOT help that there are so many men compared to the amount of women in bakugan #also i know like fuck all about mechtanium ILL GET AROUND TO IT I PROMISE #i dont even really do shipping anymore? im just tired of the amount of men. and the lack of wlw ships. #yes gus and spectra are my favourite characters. yes i want more of the wlw. #forcing me to see straight people is a crime against humanity and god DAMN it mylene not getting a gf is a crime #and kazarina was SO out of barodius' league honest to god #the only characters who are kinda men i guess who im willing to talk about is spectra and gus #i am so tired of men tho i am not going to lie. ive been dealing w some shit in other fandoms tho so. i am jaded. #being a lesbian is like 99% of my personality and im proud of it. lets go sapphics. #hnnnhghhgnn women... ♥️ #okay im done now i just had a gay moment i am gay i love women and im super tired of men #no but seriously why was kazarina gonna settle for BARODIUS girl just kill him and take the throne and rule over gundalia

[lorillee]

I always deeply miss being a hater with you when you're away, thank you for continuing to make my dash feel like a safe space for Hate ❤️🙏

of course 💖💖💖💖🙏🙏🙏🙏

#KJSDHFAJKSHDLFKJASDH but like yeah no for real #generally the incessant vagueposting and whining has gone down on this blog in comparison to xbwx #but also i think half of that is just the op tumblr fandom is SIGNIFICANTLY less annoying. LMAO #like wc & sth .................................................. wow i hated and still do hate so many people in those fandoms #actually really funny cuz i made a separate blog for my sth stuff since a new game came out not too long ago #and it reawakened the brainrot or whatever #and . okay its so bad its so bad . i made a post complaining about the fandom's treatment of this one female character #specifically targeted at this one person who made some really awful takes about her boyfriend #and like. generally when people have awful takes about him they like to entirely erase her existence #presumably either so they can ship him with whatever character or just because they do not care about women at all #and so i go on their blog and surprise surprise there are absolutely 0 posts about her #despite the fact that they are apparently the fandom ''ceo'' (self-proclaimed) of boyfriend #and she & the boyfriend have basically been incredibly relevant to each other in ... all of the stories theyve appeared in #so like. you know. whatever. typical fandom misogyny #so i make this post its like a ''i judge [boyfriend] fans by the way they treat [female character]'' meme #and i kid. i kid you NOT. i kid YOU NOT #this MORON. THE PERSON WHO I MADE THIS MEME FOR. reblogs it. and THEIR FIRST TAG #is ''i had to kill her off for [boyfriend]'s redemption arc'' #and then they go on some stupid tangent about something or another #but like. like . like how . d #GIRL. HOW IS FRIDGING THIS FEMALE CHARACTER FOR A MALE CHARACTER'S CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT #EVEN REMOTELY TREATING HER OKAY #HELLO !!! HELLO !?!?!?? HELLO!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!? #anwyays what was the point of me talking about all this . i dont remember anymore #OH yeah it was ''i dont publicly hate that much anymore because op fandom doesnt give me enough to hate #and i hated a lot publicly before because the fandoms were entirely populated by morons like THAT #but im always open to hate. i love being a hater 💖💖💖'' #ask #pleckthaniel

[anurarana]

does anyone else with ocs ever like idk imagine the like "fandom" surrounding ur characters and just wanna blow everything up

#like ok I already know the reception some of my characters have gotten so its like #thats a fan favorite male side character that people will obsess over his relationships more than the actual plot/main characters #also people will refer to him as a twink even tho hes obviously not #heres a stoic woman with a complicated past and indepth emotions but people are going to flaten her down to mean lesbian best friend #or worse villainize her #heres a conventionally attractive white boy who has only done everything wrong and continues to become worse #and no the narrative is not going to forgive his actions but hes just everyone's poor little meow meow #one of the mains is aroace and non white so even though time and time again she has shown emense levels of compassion and empathy and love #that doesnt fit peoples idea of how an aro person should act so she is also reduced to minimal emotion friend character #the actual main romantic ship is het so it will either be writen off as not queer enough even if its bi4bi and the main character is trans #or people will be weird about them bc they are teenagers #idk im making up fake problems to get weird about #i just know how fandom culture works and i simultaneously want to share my characters with the world #and also lock them up in a box and change career paths and bury us both 6ft under #sstfu.txt #delete later #1 am rambles haha this was nothing

[alicepao13]

Craziest interaction that has happened on this hellsite is that I just got blocked for replying “Sure”.

#I mean... #I sincerely hope that person gets better #I truly can't imagine being in such a bad place that one word would trigger me like that #although because I can't leave it alone apparently lol #'sure' in that particular case meant: #'I have covid and that in combination of me being so tired of my words being taken out of context make me not care to properly reply' #which is why I was using tags in the first place but hey some people just can't let tags go either #I do not back down from my initial argument though #let people enjoy what they want in entertainment #and liking white villains equating to racing is pretty thin considering they mostly make white villains #also that guy is not a white villain he is a white baby emasculated by his mother let him enjoy his cereal and go to bed #we can come back to this when he wakes up in a position of power again #(for legal reasons half of these are jokes and also I still have covid lmao) #*racism not racing wtf #anyway this is why people hate the sw fandom #this and like one million other reasons but this on tumblr #I'll just get back to caring about rex and leave andor alone #doggo + ship of my choice is better content for me either way #relation(ship) > space(ship) #just thought of that lol #if anyone considers the above as character analysis then bummer for you #if I wanted to write character analysis I'd do it properly #end of unhinged text

[mitsuki91]

What about, since I have the first chapter written for 2 and half stories, I post them anyway and then it will be a russian roulette to see what story I will update next? :v

(Mostly because I will lost my wips in my google docs, sigh. Writing on the phone is a nightmare for this. Like when I found some days ago the Everlarck story I wrote for my series "The play of songbirds and snakes" months ago...)

#my fics #fan fiction #personal but also fandom related of course #please let me know I am going mad my mind is always spinning between the wips #but everytime I start a new one the other one go down in my google docs and that makes me anxious #I am a mess #coriolanus snow #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #clemensia dovecote #katniss everdeen #snowbaird #all the ships with this characters #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #also all the google docs are double since ita and eng #help

[sleep-deprived-person]

So apparently KOSA (2024 edition) is getting either thrown out until next year or put into effect in six days. That was a guesstimate based on a different person saying that's when Congress is back in session and may be false.

Update that's going in the main post at the top: it has enough support to pass Congress.

It failed the last two times because people were voting against it.

This time, KOSA has traction among the pro-LGBTQ parties. Because nobody is fucking calling their bullshit and screaming from the rooftops that calling it the "Kids Online Safety Act" is misleading.

What will it passing do?

Nothing much, only prevent any education on LGBTQIA+ (it's that stupid fucking argument about us grooming kids again), shut down nearly every fandom space on the internet, and make it required for most big tech companies to have your ID.

Want to have resources for kids to discover their identity readily available? Yes? Then fucking speak up against this stupid fucking bill.

Fandom spaces like Tumblr, Twitter (? I thought the MAGA assholes liked Musk?), Tiktok, Archive Of Our Own, and any other website that hosts fanfic or fanart? Either shut down permanently, forced to uproot to a different country and down for a while (best case scenario, and they likely won't be able to send any data, and therefore fanfics, to the US), or gutted so that you only get to put G rated cishet ships on there, if any shipping at all. How to avoid that? I've already said it: Call your fucking representatives.

Want to avoid the fucking dystopic task of being legally obligated to give big tech your government issue ID? Again, cause an uproar. Call your goddamned representatives.

If they can pass this, the ripple effects could be catastrophic.

So, for fuck's sake, any Americans that can impact this stupid fucking bill and see this? Do everything in your power to shut it down because you have until February twenty sixth (26th) to send this bill back to where it belongs.

And if you can't do that? Reblog, copy my tags, and boost the signal.

Sorry not sorry for ranting, making you scroll through that, and swearing a probably excessive amount, but KOSA is a bill with a GLOBAL IMPACT being passed by ONE COUNTRY because some old people are scared of two guys with who were told they were girls kissing within five hundred miles of a child. Fuck this shit, I shouldn't have to worry about bad bills in America but I fucking do because I use the internet and would like to avoid mass censorship. Fuck this, fuck conservatives, and fuck the fact that some boomers make your country's policies.

Now, if you won't mind me, I'm going to be up until three in the morning downloading fanfiction or copying and pasting them into a a text file if I can't so I can read them by the end of the week.

#kids online safety act #media preservation #kosa #kosa bill #ao3 #archive of our own #tumblr #tumblr meta #fandom psa #fandom spaces #fandom #important #psa #bad internet bills #twitter #internet censorship #internet #very important post #anti censorship #anti conservative #signal boost #fanfic #fanfiction #<- these tags are relevant because they will be lost for god knows how long if this stupid bill passes #stop kosa #stop kids online safety act #tiktok #i don't like that one but censorship is censorship dammit and it's on the list

[matadorofheart]

glances between people who only care about romantic ships and people who feel the need to loudly complain about romantic ships

lays down

#why are we acting all high and mighty bc we don't ship romantically #where are the other ship and let ship aspec people i need u #tired of 'it's aphobic to ship aspec characters' they're not real. #if you're tired of seeing romantic shipping everywhere then go make your own stuff that isn't romantic #i don't like it either so i'm trying to focus my energy on making things i do like 🤷 #also insane to me that people are like #'i don't care about SHIPPING i only want to explore characters on a DEEPER LEVEL' #like. ????? #character development via relationships is a thing #all of my fics are about relationships #not romantic ones but people can get deep with those too #slapping the romance label on something doesn't make it inherently bad CALM DOWN #all this coming from a romance repulsed person like i'm on ur side #but no need to be a dick about it #anyway RANT OVER SORRY #just tired of feeling like such an outlier in fandom idk #ness talks