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Stop tagging your non-explicit AO3 fic ace-friendly.

Saw a fanfic summary in the Sandman tag that pissed me off.

At least half the explicit fic on ao3 is written by asexuals

Fictional written porn is not real life sex. Whether or not you like reading/writing fictional written porn has no bearing on whether or not you experience real life sexual attraction.

Liking zombie apocalypse movies does not mean you want a zombie apocalypse to happen in real life.

Fiction is not reality.

Equating asexuality with sex negativity is, however, acephobic.

The tag “ace friendly” fic is too close to kid friendly to not be infantilizing, and assumes there’s only one kind of ace, but we’re not a monolith. We have micro labels galore specifically because we’re not a monolith and have varied opinions especially about sex and explicit content.

We have a tag/rating for non explicit it’s called gen or general audiences. If you’re looking, there it is.

Standard ao3 tagging etiquette is plenty good enough. If I’m not interested in taking my ace self to the explicit works I won’t. If I am having a normal one and traipsing around the explicit tags I’m still fine, worst case scenario -click the back button. Like everyone else. The aces must be protected from smut/kink/reality that other people bang group is a vocal minority with a volume bump from the right. Not actually representative of most ace people.

Speaking as a person who falls under one of those micro labels on the ace spectrum (and it IS a spectrum, not a single point), I actively enjoy reading fics rated Mature due to sex, and even fics rated Explicit.

i kept reading 'ace friendly' as meaning 'avoids the othering sensations created by amatonormativity' and getting burned by fic that absolutely did not do this

Equating sex negativity with asexuality is, in fact, aphobic.

The “aces must be protected from smut/kink/reality that other people bang” group is a vocal minority with a volume bump from the right.

God I love this website

best callback in star trek best one everyone else shut up

attack of the clones leaves plausible room to theorize that there's a raging death stick addiction epidemic going on in the jedi temple, and by "plausible room" i mean that i personally can overthink star wars faster than a hummingbird can beat its wings

in attack of the clones, obi-wan is approached by a drug dealer in a bar, and is offered death sticks for purchase. this immediately after anakin (the least helpful individual in space) helpfully shouts JEDI BUSINESS, BACK TO YOUR DRINKS and obi-wan is wearing distinctive jedi robes and is carrying a lightsaber, which even a slave kid (anakin, when he was more helpful) from the rural portion of the galaxy could recognize.

factor to note: the jedi are here in an enforcement capacity, they are actively chasing a criminal. the jedi clearly have the legal capacity to operate as law enforcement, although i doubt they operate as local coruscant law enforcement. but they are still quite literally government contracted law enforcement wizard monks, and death sticks are implied to be an illegal substance, and given the context of the bar, we can assume they're a party drug.

drug dealers do not typically go "would you like to buy drugs" to random people, especially people very obviously in uniform, carrying a weapon, here (which everyone knows, thanks to anakin) on official business. official business that involves law enforcement, because that is obi-wan's job, he is literally stopping a hired assassin. so what we can assume is that this guy is either really dumb, really high, both, or that he has an active market of jedi who buy death sticks from him, and that market is so stable he is bold enough to walk up to random jedi #5 and offer him illegal drugs. hence, there might be a solid number of jedi doing death sticks.

factor to note: it's mentioned in the prequels that the force was growing darker, more clouded and more hostile for the jedi to use. in legends, it's said that death sticks could hamper a user's ability to touch the force, so you could connect the two and say that death stick usage spiked because the force had really, really awful vibes suddenly. and then you send THAT vulnerable population, where they become MORE vulnerable.i can wring all of this out of a one-off gag scene, you have no idea what kind of insane thoughts about star wars i can make up.

Genius. 

That, or it was just Obi-Wan's dealer.

[Image IDs/ A series of tweets from verified user Mx. Amanda Jetté Knox (@/ MavenOfMayhem) reading: “People will get fired for using the wrong name/pronouns for a trans person!” 

Ok, so, let’s say a cis guy named Ted works in your office. Your coworker keeps deliberately calling Ted “Susan” and using she/her pronouns when Ted goes by he/him. Ted repeatedly corrects the coworker. 1/ 

Repeatedly Ted says “I’ve told you, my name is Ted. I’m a guy. I go by he and him” and the coworker says “Anyway, so Susan here replied to my email and she said…” 2/ 

Ted says “Buddy, listen. I’m Ted. I’m a man.” 

And the coworker says “You look like a Susan to me. You look like I should be using she/her pronouns for you. So tthat’s what I’m going to do.” 

Well, Ted is going to make an HR report. And that coworker is going to be in trouble. 3/ 

What I’m trying to say is that this would happen if Any situation, whether or not Ted is cis, trans, nonbinary, etc. Repeatedly referring to someone as they don’t want to be referred to when you’ve asked them to stop is harassing. This isn’t new. It’s not a “trans thing” 4/ 

People have made entire careers off of trying to say trans people are changing the rules and making things hard. There’s no rule change here. When at work or at school or anywhere else, you refer to someone as they wish. That’s just basic respect. The sky isn’t falling. 5/5 /End ID]

ACTUALLY it won't.

This is a solar flare and the earth's magnetic field shields us from it. This is something that happens regularly (you have already experienced this) and thanks to the electromagnetic field it gets directed away from us. It's pretty neat.

you underestimate speedrunning techs and their requirements

I'm pretty sure the absolute best speedrun time is the one where somebody got a random warp saving several seconds that was ultimately concluded to not be reproducible due to most likely being caused by a neutrino passing through exactly the right physical location in the RAM at the perfect moment. So yes, astrophysical phenomena do affect SM64 speedruns on a much higher level of sensitivity than you expect

I had to google this because it sounded fake but

"The research was conducted by the deVere Group, a leading financial advisory, asset management and fintech organizations, and it surveyed more than 750 clients under the age of 42 using the deVere Crypto app" (source)

ok so they surveyed people that are already into crypto, meaning the whole thing is literally bogus

A better headline would be: "Less than half of people actively invested in crypto would prefer part of their paycheck be in crypto."

I want to look at this tweet forever.

[ID: Screenshot of a tweet that says, “The irony about the saying “superhero movies are the modern spaghetti westerns” is that I would probably love superhero movies if they were shot for $30,000 in Spain and had titles like “If You Meet Captain Marvel Pray For Your Death.” End ID.]

Like can we summon this m

like to charge reblog to cast

A monster?

Sweet pangolin baby. A little guy. A friend

LIKE TO CHARGE REBLOG TO CAST

Evergreen post.

sometimes i think about the golden record and i want to cry

there is a disk. it is 12 inches in diameter, it is made of copper, plated with gold. there is an inscription— "To the makers of music – all worlds, all times" on its surface. it lies on the space probe, Voyager 1, launched in 1977, to explore interstellar space beyond our solar system.

it contains human existence.

116 images— the sun, the location of our solar system, mathematical and physical unit definitions, and our planets, including a blue and swirling white sphere simply labelled "Home." it contains images of human dna, of our atoms, their structure, the way they divide, our anatomy, our conception, our birth.

it does not contain an image of war. nor of disease, nor poverty, nor crime, religion, or ideology.

it does contain a father looking lovingly at his daughter. it does contain the picture of a tree toad in a gentle hand, of a woman eating a grape at a supermarket.

the remainder of the disk is audio. a 90-minute selection of music from all over the world, sounds, and greetings. there are greetings in 55 different languages, one akkadian, spoken in sumer about six thousand years ago, and one wu, a modern chinese dialect. the greetings call out to a friend. it wishes them well. it asks them if they have eaten yet.

but it contains other sounds too. it holds the sound of rain, of thunder, of a volcano and an earthquake. it holds the sound of mud pots and trains. it holds the sound of a mother kissing her child.

with little to erode it in space, the golden record would probably outlast all human creation. it will be 40,000 years before it approaches another planetary system. if it does, it cannot find intelligent life. intelligent life will have to find it, retrieve it from where it floats silent and small through space. we still don't know if they would understand it.

in 7.5 billion years, the evolution of the sun would burn the earth up, and we would not exist any longer, but the voyager would fly on, bearing a memory.

bearing a disk with a little inscription etched by hand on its surface.

I wish I could encapsulate the noise I made at these comments

this is peak trans culture because this would have been easier with very nearly any other guitar design but she just haaad to use one shaped like the letter e. Not afraid of a challenge. Respect.

(for anyone wondering, this is E. Streeter (She/They), an alt trans musician and lead singer of The Happy Yew)

That's because pea flower tea works naturally as a ph indicator! It will turn magenta when mixed with acid (lemon juice) but will turn cyan green when mixed with something alkaline (baking powder, bleach etc.)

i'm not putting bleach in my tea

wait

yea that's funny

Spider dog, spider dog

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