thefuriousstarlightstudent

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Do you think you'll ever continue Inconsequential? if not, completely understandable!

I do plan to! I've been super busy for a while, family issues, uni, job, etc, so I haven't really had much time for writing, but it will be out eventually!

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Friendly reminder that yesterday when my mom took me to Walmart she left me alone in the toilet paper section and this guy started hitting on me and I said “Sorry, I’m a lesbian.” and he was like “Oh my god I’m so sorry I thought you were a boy.”

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Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.

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should i post the walmart comic

or should i simply wait

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A dating service where matching is based on people’s search history exists. You’re a serial killer. You go on a date with a writer.

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6 hour long fight at this year’s Tolkien Historical Society Conference about whether Middle Earth has bees, before I reminded everyone that the Rohirrim had mead halls, which means they had honey, which means there’s bees. Everyone sighed and the conference continued. This is the life of a Tolkien scholar. 

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ok but if bruce wayne somehow came upon zuko fresh out of banishment he would lose his mind.

black hair? check. bad parent(s)? check. trauma? double check.

bruce: how’d you get your scar?

zuko: my dad got mad at me for saying that killing people is wrong so he lit my face on fire and banished me.

bruce, vibrating with excitement, already pulling adoption papers from his utilility: that’s terrible. how do you feel about capes.

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motherofmemes

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Zhao was Fire Lord Azulon’s illegitimate (semi-acknowledged) son

that’s why he was standing with Iroh and Azula at Zuko and Ozai’s Agni Kai (the family section)

that’s why Ozai kept promoting him despite Zhao not being all that special or talented (nepotism)

that’s why he came up with three new titles to give himself once he killed the moon: Zhao the Conqueror, Zhao the Moon Slayer, Zhao the Invincible. for comparison, Azulon was remembered at his funeral by two feats outside his tenure as Fire Lord: “You were our fearless leader in the Battle of Garsai. Our matchless conqueror of the Hu Xin Provinces.” (Zhao desperately wanted to not just match but surpass the level of fame and historical significance his royal father held) 

that’s why he was always hating on Zuko (deep-seated resentment that Zuko got all the privilege that comes from being a legitimate heir but still fucked up in ways Zhao was sure he never would have if given the same opportunities. seething jealousy that despite it all, Zuko was still a prince and Zhao never would be)

i just think it would be fun (an added layer to every interaction Zhao has with Iroh and Zuko: the unspoken fact that he is their bastard brother/uncle.)

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Hi, I saw your post about ao3 so I figured that you may know more about this than I do. I'm a bit conflicted about continuing to use and support it, cause I keep seeing people say that the creators of it are pedos? And that we shouldn't support them, but I haven't been able to find any evidence for this. So I just wanted to know if you have any ideas about this because I don't. Thank you.

Alright buckle in as I yeet myself into the inferno

The people calling the creators of AO3 pedos are basically toddlers stomping their feet because the siterunners aren't engaging in censorship at their demand. AO3 hosts content that depicts pedophilic relationships, and the only time they step in is if a work hasn't been tagged with warnings properly.

The toddlers are cranky about this because they don't think they should be responsible for their own internet experience, and they think they ought to be allowed to dictate what people can and cannot read/write. So they make attacks against the PEOPLE who run AO3 because they know it's much harder to disprove those sorts of accusations than it is to do any real work on their own internet experience.

Here's the thing: these people who don't like that AO3 doesn't censor content? They could run their own archive! AO3's parent organization, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), has made the code that AO3 is based on completely available to the public!! That's the tagging system, the site skins, everything. But the angry anti toddlers don't want to have to spend money and work to build their own sandbox, they want to be the tyrant in OTW's, stomping around destroying people's sand castles.

So essentially these are purity police who think that anyone who creates or consumes content that is problematic are instantly monsters. This is a failure of critical thinking. Real adults are able to tell the difference between fiction and reality, and can enjoy something fictional without enacting it in reality.

Now if you're thinking "well idk why AO3 wouldn't want to ban pedophilic works" let me put this little thought exercise down for you: Say AO3 does make said content a bannable offense. What's to prevent antis from abusing the reporting system to go on personally motivated crusades against specific authors, or specific tropes? What's to prevent homophobic fans (and I guarantee they exist) from using that reporting system to brigade against all slash fic?

The Archive and the OTW would either have to create a bot that would probably not work very well to evaluate these reports, or they would have to find scads of volunteers who would be willing and able to slog through every report sent to the system.

I'm not very good at coming to conclusions but essentially this boils down to "don't like, don't read" (aka MIND YOUR BUSINESS) and "the back button exists for a reason, as well as every warning the archive allows authors to use." If you have another question and you don't mind the way I answered this one, please feel free to ask!

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he’s right and he should say it

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"you're just racist"