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New Year, new challenge! Guys I've been thinking about this for some time and I think we need one. Arda needs Slavness.

(If anybody wants to do this with me, pls lemme know anywhere!!! You don't have to be Slavic at all, all we need is some love for Slavic cultures 💖)

⚠️UNDER CONSTRUCTION ⚠️

People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

[The artist, putting a simple cake next to a much fancier one: “Aw man, that guy’s cake is way better than mine.” The Audience, gleefully holding up a knife and fork “HOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!”]

additions from the og artist (credit)

“Holy shit two cakes,” I mutter to myself as I do fucking anything these days, this post was a godsend

aragorn's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week:

Also it's his birthday

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you know what i hate the argument of "who was the real hero in lotr". you are missing the point. none of it could've happened, sauron and his armies could not have been defeated and the ring could not have been destroyed if there was one singular hero. it's about teamwork, it's about friendship, it's about- get this- fellowship

You… do realise that people tag works as containing rape/paedophilia/incest when the stories are explicitly about those things being bad, and not just because they’re writing dark themes for reasons that you personally disapprove of, right? That tags merely state the presence of a thing without explaining how it’s dealt with in the narrative, and that stories do not have to be morally instructional and perfect and pure in order to be allowed to exist? 

Like. You might as well walk into a bookshop and stamp BLOCKED FOR BADWRONG CONTENT on every book in the Song of Ice and Fire series, half of Shakespeare, every YA novel about rape recovery, every adult novel about rape recovery, every biography of someone who has suffered from rape, incest or paedophilia and been brave enough to write about it, every book of Greek, Egyptian and Norse myths, the fucking Bible - just a truly massive percentage of the entire global literary canon, because there is literally no way to remove each and every reference to these themes otherwise. 

Do you know why schools and libraries are pressured to ban books like I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, To Kill a Mockingbird and Laurie Halse Andersen’s Speak? Because dumbass, scaremongering adults think that letting teens read about rape or racism or sexual violence or queerness or half a dozen other topics they think are Bad Things will lead to them down a path of Vice. 

What happens to characters in stories, no matter how graphic or awful, is not the same as that act occurring to a real human person in real life, nor does reading or writing such works indicate endorsement of those acts. This is why a story which features paedophilia, regardless of whether it’s written as overtly sexual content or as a damning condemnation of the act, is not the same as child pornography by any legal definition: because no actual children are harmed. Are you personally still allowed to be angry and disgusted about the public availability of the former type of stories, even in instances where the writers are themselves victims of child abuse trying to process their trauma? Yes! You’re under no moral obligation to like any kind of content! But are you correct in asserting that the creation of such stories is illegal and hurting somebody in exactly the same way that a real abuser hurting a real child would be? No! Because fictional characters are not real people, and whatever our motives for creating or engaging with a particular thing, monkey see = monkey approve is not how it fucking works.  

Have you ever watched an episode of CSI? Congratulations! By your own logic, you’re pro rape and murder. Ever watched an episode of Hannibal? Congratulations! By your own logic, you endorse cannibalism, Stockholm Syndrome and serial killing. Ever watched a historical drama where a young girl gets married to a much older man? Congratulations! By your own logic, you endorse child brides. And on, and on, and on.

I say again: you are allowed to be critical of particular works and/or the recurrence of certain themes across a particular medium. But arguing that an entire literary platform needs to end because some stories there contain Bad Things makes as much sense as banning the works of Octavia Butler or Sherman Alexie from school libraries because of their content. Which is - spoiler alert - a really bad idea.

UGH.

Since this post is from 2018 originally, I was curious. So I searched exactly as the OP did. These are tag searches not warning-based, so keep in mind as most people will probably use those for these topics instead.

Total fics as of Feb 11, 2023, 10,584,367

1. Underage

As of Feb 11, 2023, there are 257,436 fics with the tag “underage.” This means only 2% of fics on AO3 use this tag. That’s a very small amount.

2. Incest

This tag represents only 1% of fics on the site, in any language (114,208 total). An even smaller amount.

3. Pedophilia

Only 0.06%, or less than 1% of all fics on AO3 use this tag. (Only 6,326 fics.)

4. Rape

Only 0.4% of all fics in any language on AO3 use this tag. (48,969 total)

That’s hardly the overwhelming majority that antis like to claim. In fact, some of these numbers have actually gone down since 2018.

Again, it’s possible if you searched by warnings there would be more but like… that’s the point of warnings, so you can avoid them.

Yes. Yes. And yes.

To understand why to use tags in the first place, you need to know it’s the absolute best to search for the fiction you want to read. And even better. It works in both ways at the very first try.

Want to read fluff because you need a comfort fic?

But don’t want to have any sex involved?

The result gets down because those will be filtered.

You still unsure by seeing a mature tagged story? No problem at all. You can filter literally everything.

But ohhh… There are so many languages you can’t read. Maybe just filter for your or at least one you can also understand.

And because there are some options you also would like to have filtered …

If your still insecure, you can filter additional characters, pairings,… Everything.

That’s why on ao3 you’re, as a writer, useing the tag mentions of rape or rape because you want your readers warn. And make it possible for people being triggered by those, filter it out. So just the mention of it won’t be inside the story a reader wants to enjoy.

Antis always say ao3 is toxic or dangerous because of how many stories are about those topics alone. But the truth is that most of those stories are tagged to avoid triggers.

To make filtering possible. That’s what ao3 stands for. And seriously people. Tell me one website that cares for such a filter system. Tell me about one library where you go to the person behind the counter and give her a note with all the things you want, but also those you want to avoid to read. And that person search it out for you.

Ao3 does this for you.

I’ve been reading more Real Books lately and while I’ve loved doing so (if anyone else used to read books a lot as a kid and mostly only watches shows and reads fanfic now, I can’t recommend getting back into published work enough, but that’s a whole other post), I have been repeatedly surprised by content I wasn’t expecting to see, because most books don’t describe their content nearly as explicitly as AO3 does. It’s started to become more common for authors to put content warnings at the beginning of novels, but that is a recent thing and it’s far from the industry standard. I picked up House of Leaves for the mind bending unreality of a haunted house and the experimental and unconventional format, not for the seemingly* random sex scenes that are way more explicit than my sex adverse little self usually prefers encountering. I would have still read the book if I’d known about those scenes, but I vastly prefer having the heads up, like I had with the last binding trilogy, which I went into knowing that it was a romance series with explicit scenes. We SO easily take for granted the amazing tag system of AO3!!! It’s honestly incredible!

*I don’t actually think they’re random I think they tell you a lot about the kind of person Johnny is and where his headspace is at I’m just saying they pop up kinda out of nowhere, which so do the rest of his footnotes they’re very stream of consciousness so it’s not unusual for the book it just still blindsided me ok don’t come AT me house of leaves experts!

me when i get my student loan

this is the money cat. reblog in 30 seconds and you will find yourself with more wealth

#this is the only money cat i will reblog because it’s actually doing the manekineko pose151,646 notes (via lolwhutninja)

OMG YOU’RE RIGHT

and it has its right paw up! the correct paw for this. and from the markings on its ears, it looks like it might be a calico cat. which is the luckiest kind!

extremely lucky cat

I don’t even care if it actually works, I’m mostly reblogging because it’s freaking adorable.

cute cat and need money, good post, 10/10

in case anyones interested in the other versions

http://www.namaii.com/manekineko/maneki-neko-types.html

Y’know I reblogged this a bit ago and was saved from financial probation and getting kicked out of school because of it, just mere months from graduation. Got a call from the financial aid advisor telling me that they made a mistake with filing my account (or some other sort of clerical error) and said that, basically, they owe me money. Welp.

Last time I reblogged the money cat, I won two $100 gift cards at work.

Damn.

KITTY. YOU CAME BACK. AGAIN. YAYY.

this is funnier the earlier in march you reblog it it

✨ it’s march ✨

😔 it’s march 😔

Baby it’s March🤡

I know people like to say that the reason Pippin was overly familiar with Denethor was just because of a difference in dialect, but personally I like to think that when Pippin heard ‘Steward of Gondor’ he went, “oh, like the Thain of the Shire” and proceeded to talk to him the way he’d talk to the Thain—which is to say, politely, but like an equal

No but like this is really funny tho. The reason hobbits invented the office of the Thain in the first place is because the northern kingdoms (Arthedain in particular, being the one the Shire was a part of) fell. Before that, the hobbit’s leader was the fucking King. 

“Afterwards in the peace that followed the Shire-folk ruled themselves and prospered. They chose a Thain to take the place of the King, and were content; though for a long time many still looked for the return of the King. But at last that hope was forgotten, and remained only in the saying When the King comes back, used of some good that could not be achieved, or of some evil that could not be amended.“

By the time Pippin and the War of the Ring roll around, the Thain has become a hereditary title of the Tooks. As in the current one is literally Pippin’s dad. Look at him as just some back-country halfling all you want, but from Pippin’s perspective, he has the exact same social standing as Boromir and Faramir.

thank you so much for this very detailed correction. I really appreciate it. anyways:

Pippin, slamming open the doors to Minas Tirith: what’s up pops!

Ok, but:

Pippin: What's a Steward?

Boromir: [launches into a long-winded explanation]

Pippin: Oh, so like my dad!

Boromir:

it’s not fucking tinnitus idiot that’s my guardian angel speaking to me

“what’s xe saying” eeeeeeeeee

stop reblogging this without the addition if i dont have neopronouns in my posts theyll end up in terflandia by like 500 notes

So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

Seeing as Twitter is gonna legally steal your work now, please use glaze to protect what you make.

Guys did you hear about Nightshade?

Using both Glaze and Nightshade would corrupt the generation of pictures mimicking artist AND mess with the AI's recognition of what everything is. Like it would generate a dog when you ask for a cat.

And it would be hell for AI bros to remove the cloaked pictures from their database ʕ 👀人ʔ

Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

obikin doodle :3

“but AI art lets me create my OCs!” YOU WILL USE PICREW AS GOD INTENDED