I dislike how clumsy it is to share Twitter threads but here is a portion from a guy I follow (for his trans porn and monster fucking content at that) echoing a sentiment that aces, traumatized people, people with low libido, etc. can fully relate to. The rest is here and it’s absolutely worth the read.

“Sex isn’t special” 

Thank you! I’ve always been fascinated by how sexuality is viewed in such a dramatic, over-criticized way when it’s just another one of those things we do in life, no different from eating, sleeping or playing.

This is also why sex workers don’t appreciate being pathologized for having sex for no other reason than ‘hell yeah money’ or ‘sure, beats an office job’.

( @johannestevans is on Tumblr as well btw!)

King as "Lucio" RIPLEY (2024)

Andrew Scott in Ripley (2024)

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Thisss I think this is something more people need to just realize.

There’s such a push for trans people to make themselves ‘safe’ or ‘palatable’ for cis women.

Trans men can’t be too masculine bc it makes cis women ‘uncomfortable’. Trans women can’t use women’s spaces bc it makes cis women ‘feel unsafe’. Trans men can’t use gender neutral langue for reproductive/menstrual care bc cis women feel ‘uncomfortable’ with it. Trans women can’t call themselves lesbians bc cis women ‘dont feel safe’ .

Like who cares. Cis women aren’t the center of the universe. And there’s nothing I can do to make cis women feel ‘safe’ around me without being a doormat they can walk all over. Me just existing as a trans man who is open about it and doesn’t let them misgender me makes them ‘uncomfortable’ so I’ve decided to just not care what cis women think about me.

Its transphobic security theater. Being safe isn't what matters, feeling safe is. And it's only (White) cis women's feelings that matter because their victimhood justifies patriarchal violence against queer people & people of color.

Wouldn’t leave my mind sorry

BEHOLD...

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top 10 sex positions that will leave naught but ash in your wake

Gay Cats! the musical (1998)

the smallest artist i listen to? probably the bird outside my window

About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

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