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you ever get surprised by your own recurring issues. like come on man. I thought we were past this.

#fucking mood #me and myself side by side at the bar nodding and muttering 'it is what it is' back and forth #unrelated to fandom

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I'm losing my mind at how they make a harry styles fanfiction adaption every three months and we're supposed to pretend like it's normal meanwhile the white boys of Hollywood are wearing and passing around Harry's skin like it's the sisterhood of the travelling twink I can't take this

#i was on the outside looking in in 2013 #and i truly could not fuckin' tell you #bear in mind that superwholock was going on at around the same time I think #so it was sort of a very strange miasma of extremely emphatic fandoms #looks like it's time to update 'the power of myth' #i don't even know if joseph campbell is still alive #it's fine #they can call it something else and someone else can write it #tangentially related to fandom

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the odd time that it becomes acceptable is "would you like me to take a picture of you both" or "do you want to be in the picture as well? I can take it for you." which is pretty appropriate, given that those are times of a kindness of a stranger, helping someone to remember a time when they were with the people they love.

Our personal phones are like dæmons in Phillip Pullman's Dark Materials universe: it's horrendously taboo to touch someone else's phone unless you are lovers, and it feels particularly egregious to touch a stranger's phone (even with permission, it just feels uncomfortable).

But when I'm staying in a hostel and another guest has an alarm go off at 5-something in the morning with the same melody repeating itself for like 20 minutes while the phone's owner is presumably out of the room, the idea starts to become a lot more enticing.

#his dark materials #sorry to add onto your post OP I just finished binge-watching the series and am crying my eyes out #hdm HBO

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#I've been on this site too long #I remember when Tumblr was pretty hot on doomtree #unrelated to fandom

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Wait wait wait. When I try to boop someone else from my likes page, I boop myself?!

#the boopening

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reblog only if you’ve received less than 1000 boops! we can all get each other to “max”

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#look at me now you’ve made a believer #biting elbows #unrelated to fandom #except that their songs are on MANY of my fan soundtracks #in for the kill is my favorite

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Me: Writes a fic for an exchange involving New Shadow Style, planning on wholly making shit up because Gege never explained it.

Gege: Starts explaining it (kinda) the very next issue to fuck with me personally.

Gege: Also keeps throwing in Nanami-as-fourth-wall-breaking-narrator to fuck with me personally.

Me:

#jujutsu kaisen manga spoilers #jjk manga spoilers #goddamn it gege #fic writing problems

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#david bowie #the man who fell to earth #not to be a huge weeb but Gojo Satoru vibes

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#none of the above #it is a diarchy of tiffany and debbie gibson #don’t at me #i’m back on the poll #unrelated to fandom

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Stop putting DNI on your tags and stop bringing shipping discourse into AO3

AO3 hid the story and asked OP to remove the tag (the fanfic is not even removed) due to the inflammatory tag. That's deserved. AO3 is not a social media for people to fight over ship and chronically online discourse. It's a library. If people keep bringing DNI and discourse into AO3 it'll make the place toxic for writers and reader.

What are you trying to accomplish with putting DNI? Do you think people actually care about DNI? No, it's just making you looking like an asshole doing this

Also AO3 was founded by a Wincest and Thorki shipper. Astolat made AO3 because FF net and other sites keep purging nsfw fanfic. AO3 is literally made for problematique shipper that op don't like.

Then OP doing this? For what? People want to enjoy reading their fanfic not seeing DNI and online discourse on AO3. I hate using the word virtue signaling as it's often used to demean progress but this is what a real virtue signaling looks like 🤦🤦‍♀️

(I bet op wrote more inflammatory tags on their fic other than 'proshitter DNI get a life' because it take a lot to get your story hidden or removed)

#fanfic #archive of our own #ao3 #shipping discourse #fuck purity culture #do not harass the original poster of the fic #not that i think anyone among the eight of you who follow me roll like that but just so it’s out there

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You know what I hate about the internet? Sometimes people will just lazily slap a “citation” on an infographic and trust that they’ll be completely taken at their word and nobody is going to dig deeper. And it works all the time. As an example, please look at this photo someone posted to dispute my assertion that garlic can be toxic to dogs.

Okay well, kind of a pain to manually type in that link but obviously I am going to look into this study that is confident enough to recommend people feeding their dogs garlic. So here’s the article, kind of a weird journal choice for this graphic to reference from but looks like a legit (though 20 year old) study

Funny thing is, almost immediately this article acknowledges that garlic can indeed be toxic to dogs. The health benefits mentioned in the graphic are referring to human health, not canine. This section is literally in the introduction of the article and one of the first things you read. Emphasis here is mine.

Crazy to me that someone would imply that this article encourages giving dogs garlic when it in fact immediately asserts that doing so has the potential to cause hemolytic anemia. The article does explore the anti-thrombotic effects of garlic components in dogs and humans, but by no means does it say that “contrary to misconceptions garlic is safe for pets”. It is dishonest to assert this in an infographic. However the creator of the image correctly assumed nobody would check, because the person who posted it took it as fact without further investigation.

I am begging you to be skeptical. Check your sources. Check their sources. Check my sources. Learn how to dig deeper and exercise that muscle as much as you can, especially on the internet. You will be absolutely shocked how much misinformation is casually stated and received as pure fact.

#veterinary medicine #important #dog health #pets are family but they are not PEOPLE #and let's be real people made eating tidepods a thing so #OP is 100% right - check your sources #people can literally just say anything #unrelated to fandom

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The man is risking his tummy by deep frying in his completely period-appropriate crop top and some people out there have the audacity to complain about it! (Not OP obviously, thank you for your service of these screen caps.)

The man. Is making. Beignets. FROM SCRATCH. And look how happy he is! How could anyone deny Gambit the chance to live his best life as Rogue’s marvelous malewife in slutty armor? Why do they hate joy?

Gambit in his little pink crop top >>>>

#x-men 97 #what's the phrase? nature is healing? #I embrace this wholeheartedly #xmen 97 #x men 97 #gambit #remy lebeau #and my beloved Rogue is there too of course

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#you can't get it anymore unless you hunt it down and pay five bucks a bottle #but clearly clearly canadian was SO good #they brought it back for awhile but I never did find my favorite flavor: Western Loganberry #unrelated to fandom #I'm back on the poll

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Hey folks! There's a bunch of fun new Nanago fics which might've slipped by ya, the order got a little weird, but please go take a look at the Nanago White Day Exchange collection of you're into that!

Thank you to the mods of @nanago-exchange who put in so much work in organizing this shindig. :)

#nanago White Day Exchange 2024 #jjk #jjk fic #nanago #Gojo/Nanami #Nanami/Gojo

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please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

#meta #fiction #good God this is an amazing analysis #tangentially related to fandom

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Please reblog, I’m trying to make up a god

#depths of the earth #the ocean wants all of you #your breath your soul your meat #but the depths of the earth will flay you before it swallows you #cw: blood #cw: drowning #the forest can love you back