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@glitterandrocketfuel / glitterandrocketfuel.tumblr.com

She/her, old enough to be your Fandom Auntie, blogs Fall Out Boy and writing. Ships and meta-analysis. I think too hard about these adorable goofballs.Trans women are women. Trans men are men.
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fipindustries

I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!

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myfandomrealitea

"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

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elfwreck

AO3 was specifically made for the stuff likely to be purged from other sites.

It was built around "we need to own the servers" so we wouldn't have to deal with anyone else's judgment calls about what was acceptable in fanfic: Not corporate sponsors, not evangelical religious groups, not "save the children" activists... and not other fans who think that The Gross Stuff should be banned from public view, only shared via private email after you've sent in a request heavily laden with special keywords.

Some of the founders remembered when slash fanfic was kept under the table at the dealer's room, distributed with brown paper wrappers only to people who knew to ask for it specifically.

And they said: Fuck that. Our art is not a crime and we're not going to be ashamed of it. If you are ashamed to have your art next to it - there's a whole wide internet that's ready to host your G-rated genfic.

AO3 was built for the stuff that was unwelcome elsewhere.

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darkshrimpemotions

Don't make me tap the sign but this is the sign:

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rookamell

I've said it before and I'll say it again, you do not decide which discworld book you're going to read first, the universe does. It's whichever one accidentally makes its way into your immediate vicinity, whichever one is the only one on the shelf at the library when you were actually looking for something else. It will find you when it's Time, it has something to do with wossname... quantum

#Discworld Distribution System#when the student is ready the master will appear
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fairygodpiggy

Finally remembering to share this here after sharing it on twitter a loooong time ago.

My partner said that Emet and Hyth basically had a Bert & Ernie dynamic and I couldn't get it out of my fucking head.

...So I did what I do best and made a shitpost.

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mirkemenagerie

mirkemenagerie update

Lore Index

I’ve had my own lore compilations thread on the RPC for some time, and now I’m porting the Index over to @mirkemenagerie. So you will now be able to scroll through an itemized list of my lore posts here:

While still finding all lore-related reblogs under the Lore Tag here:

Hope you all like the changes!

Mirke’s Menagerie Lore Index

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Aether & Magic

Deities & Primals

Races of Man & Beastmen

Guilds, Classes, & Jobs

Ul’dah, the Jewel of the Desert

Limsa Lominsa, the Navigator’s Veil

Gridania, the Sylvan City-state

The Holy See of Ishgard

Sharlayan, the Old World

Ala Mhigo

Garlemald

The Near East (Ilsabard & Thavnair)

The Far East (Othard & Hingashi)

Ancient Allag

Meracydia, the Southern Continent

Mamook, the New World

Miscellaneous

The First: Norvrandt

Keep reading

#ffxiv lore
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birues

Emet-Selch complains abt suffering the indignity of having his robes wet bc of a shallow water on Elpis and then builds an entire city in the depths of the ocean. Then he complains abt the cold and builds an entire empire in the middle of antartica. Honestly what a dude.

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glitterandrocketfuel

Not to mention the Greatest Sorcerer of Eld picks a completely magically-null people out of which to build said empire.

#emet-selch#ffxiv
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corvase

enemies to lovers midpoint prompts

as the request stated, that ‘i am trying really hard to keep hating you‘ phase, or what i like to call the reluctant friend stage. feel free to use :)

  • “i think we’re friends now.” “God, don’t say that.”
  • “everything is just a competition for you… isn’t it?” “isn’t it for you, too?”
  • “h—” “don’t talk to me.”
  • “i’d pay good money for you to admit you tolerate me.” “tolerate being the operative word.”
  • “why can’t you open up to me?” “why do you want me to?”
  • they’re so used to hating each other sometimes the snide remarks just slip out LMAO
  • like “should i get you something too?” “you can get out of my fa— woah, hehe. sorry.”
  • “you’re still on that?” “still on that..??? STILL ON THAT?????? I CANT STAND YOU???!!!(!;!”
  • a whispered moment between them ; “i’m trying so hard to hate you.” “why?”
  • they’re trying hard to hate each other then something happens (plot) and they’re stuck together which makes it ten times harder
  • “be honest with me.” “but why? why would i do that?”
  • “stop.” “stop what?” “being so kind to me.”
  • remember… they hated each other a couple chapters back. what changed? why did it change? who did it start to change in first?
  • the moment where your character asks themselves; “when did this nuisance become so important to me?”
#writing#tropes#enemies to lovers
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nomaptomyowntreasure

there's this element of them playing deep cuts and b-sides and forgotten songs and the crowd yelling back every single word at them that screams: we love all of you. all the ugly parts, the deep parts, the forgotten parts, the parts you thought you couldn't trust us with? you can. we love all of it and all of you. you are loved.

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glitterandrocketfuel

At my show, we were in the "punk is dad" section--all of us Olds who'd brought our kids to see this amazing bunch of nerds we remembered from some type of wayback, whether it was prehistoric or just crazy MTV years or even a little more recently. We were old enough to know to go to the bathrooms before the last song of the openers (and also old enough to have to, LOL), old enough to get beers if we wanted, and old enough to have played their albums over and over so many times that our kids knew the words, and when they played the deep cuts, SO MANY of our kids were SCREAMING ALONG right alongside us. We might have screamed those old lyrics in basements or to the radio or at Warped Tours or music festivals in mud and sticky summer sweat...but our kids heard them in car seats, or while playing legos, or maybe even watching a Disney movie here or there.

We were screaming those lyrics right along as a legacy to our next generation. To show them that grubby, stinky kids in vans and in basements and garages with heart and not much more than insane crazy love for being able to just TRY something that came from their hearts found other grubby, stinky kids in vans and basements WHO REMEMBERED and shouted that love right back.

I want my own grubby, stinky kids to not be afraid to take something they love and scream it out to find other grubby, stinky kids who want to love that same thing and scream it back.

#grubby stinky kids in basements and garages#punk is dad#fob forever
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preachelectrics

as someone who experienced the fall out boy hiatus in real time i can't explain how magical it feels to witness everything about tourdust. not that they ever had bad blood between them even during the hiatus but there's something so special about seeing your four favorite artists make a conscious decision to go back to making art together, and not only survive the hiatus but thrive. to not just try to recapture the magic of before but to build something even better. to become better friends, the closest knit family, after being there for one another through unimaginable ups and downs. to clock how much every single special touch on this tour means to the fans and not say "ok, that's probably enough for now" but to raise the stakes and make the show better every single day. anyways fall out boy forever

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glitterandrocketfuel

@earlgreytea68 in case you hadn't seen this...

#so much this#fob#fall out boy forever
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Anonymous asked:

sorry if you've talked about it already, but what is it that makes KOSA's idea of online safety wrong? I don't know much about the bill, what does it intend to do?

What do you think is a good way to protect kids from things like online predators or just seeing things that they shouldn't be seeing? (By which I mean sex and graphic violence, things which you'd need to be 16+ to see in a movie theater so I think it makes sense to not want pre-teens to see it)

genderkoolaid answered:

From stopkosa.com:

Why is KOSA a bad bill? KOSA uses two methods to “protect” kids, and both of them are awful. First, KOSA would incentivize social media platforms to erase content that could be deemed “inappropriate” for minors. The problem is: there is no consensus on what is inappropriate for minors. All across the country we are seeing how lawmakers are attacking young people’s access to gender affirming healthcare, sex education, birth control, and abortion. Online communities and resources that queer and trans youth depend on as lifelines should not be subject to the whims of the most rightwing extremist powers and we shouldn’t give them another tool to harm marginalized communities.  Second, KOSA would ramp up the online surveillance of all internet users by expanding the use of age verification and parental monitoring tools. Not only are these tools needlessly invasive, they’re a massive safety risk for young people who could be trying to escape domestic violence and abuse.
I’ve heard there’s a new version of KOSA. What’s the deal? The new version of KOSA makes some good changes: narrowing the ability of rightwing attorneys general to weaponize KOSA to target content they don’t like and limiting the problematic “duty of care. However, because the bill is still not content neutral, KOSA still invites the harms that civil rights advocates have warned about. As LGBTQ and reproductive rights groups have said for months, the fundamental problem with KOSA is that its “duty of care” covers content specific aspects of content recommendation systems, and the new changes fail to address that. In fact, personalized recommendation systems are explicitly listed under the definition of a design feature covered by the duty of care in the new version. This means that a future Federal Trade Commission (FTC) could still use KOSA to pressure platforms into automated filtering of important, but controversial topics like LGBTQ issues and abortion, by claiming that algorithmically recommending such content “causes” mental health outcomes that are covered by the duty of care like anxiety and depression. Bans on inclusive books, abortion, and gender affirming healthcare have been passed on exactly that kind of rhetoric in many states recently. And we know that already existing content filtering systems impact content from marginalized creators exponentially more, resulting in discrimination and censorship. It’s also important to remember that algorithmic recommendation includes, for example, showing a user a post from a friend that they follow, since most platforms do not show all users all posts, but curate them in some way. As long as KOSA’s duty of care isn’t content neutral, platforms will be likely to react the same way that they did to the broad liability imposed by SESTA/FOSTA: by engaging in aggressive filtering and suppression of important, and in some cases lifesaving, content.

Why it's bad:

  • The way it's written (even after being changed, which the website also goes over), it is still possible for this law to be used to restrict things like queer content, discussion of reproductive rights and resources, and sexual education.
  • It will restrict youth's ability to use the Internet independently, essentially cutting off life support to many vulnerable people who rely on the Internet to learn that they are queer, being abused, disabled, etc.

Better alternatives:

  1. Stop relying on ageist ideas of purity and innocence. When we focus on protecting the "purity" of youth, we dehumanize them and it becomes more about soothing adult anxieties than actually improving the lives of children.
  2. Making sure content (sexual, violent, etc.) is marked/tagged and made avoidable for anyone who doesn't want to engage with it.
  3. Teach children why certain things may be upsetting and how best to avoid those things.
  4. Teach children how to recognize grooming and abuse and empower them to stop it themselves.
  5. Teach children how to recognize fear, discomfort, trauma, and how to cope with those experiences.

The Internet makes a great boogeyman. But the idea that it is uniquely corrupting the Pure Innocent Youth relies on the idea that all children are middle-class suburban White kids from otherwise happy homes. What about the children who see police brutality on their front lawns, against their family members? How are we protecting them from being traumatized? Or children who are seeing and experiencing physical and sexual violence in their own homes, by the parents who prevent them from realizing what's happening by restricting their Internet usage? How does strengthening parent's rights stop those kids from being groomed? Or the kids who grow up in evangelical Christian homes and are given graphic descriptions of the horrors of the Apocalypse and told if they ever question their parents, they'll be left behind?

Children live in the same world we do. There are children who are already intimately aware of violence and "adult" topics because of their lived experiences. Actually protecting children means being concerned about THEIR human rights, it means empowering them to save themselves, it means giving them the tools to understand their own feelings and traumas. KOSA is just another in a long line of attempts to "save the children!" by dehumanizing them and giving more power to the people most likely to abuse them. We need to stop trying to protect children's "innocence" and appreciate that children are already growing, changing people, learning to deal with discomfort and pain and the weight of the world the same as everyone else. What people often think keeps kids safe really just keeps them ignorant and quiet.

Another explanation as to why it's bad:

The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online
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glitterandrocketfuel

Alternatively, Anonymous, the answer is simple: PARENT YOUR OWN FUCKING KIDS. Stop making strangers on the internet do it.

#stop trying to make algorithms raise your damn kids#raise your own damn kids and stop making the internet do it for you
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