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honey and wildfire

@coffinofthevine / coffinofthevine.tumblr.com

| Yvonne. 18. She/They. | Multifandom mainly ATLA currently | Icon by @theusualemptypie
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pregnancy is a hoax the baby sprouts out the ground ive seen it happen

People pretend to be pregnant for clout it started with one woman named dvd and people been chasing the same high since

meant eve

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Every “Why my disability didn’t stop me from living” article written can be summarized as having access to resources materially and socially.  Which results in a fascinating intersection between ableism and classism, as the resulting inspiration porn - used against disabled folk via the “Why are you more impacted than this person in the article” - essentially boils down to shaming people for not having access to the resources required to mitigate the disability. 

rosalarian

Every time someone reminds me that Lady Gaga also has Fibromyalgia I want to scream. She is also rich enough to pay people to do things for her. Of course she has energy to perform when she didn’t have to spend all her spoons on doing the dishes and cooking and cleaning and all the little things that exhaust me and leave me with zero energy and lots of pain. I sure would love a personal trainer and dietician and premium healthcare and access to better meds to keep my body working but I can’t afford any of those things.

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I keep seeing fic with words censored in the body of the fic like so: c*nt, f*gg*t, q-slur (seriously, come on), r*pe, *nc*st. I even saw a fic where someone was described as “sitting next to his unalived body” which was so absurd it made me laugh.

I’ve seen this trend in tags as well, which would be ACTIVELY FUCKING DANGEROUS if AO3 tag wranglers weren’t literal, actual angels who make sure that “rape” and “r*pe” (and all such transpositions) are treated like the same tag.

AO3 isn’t TikTok. Tag accurately and completely for your fic themes so people can search AND filter. Use the correct words in your fic content so people who use blacklist extensions can actually benefit from the tools that protect them.

If you don’t feel comfortable using a word without censoring it, then don’t use that word at all. Maybe consider why you’re even writing something that contains that theme.

Sincerely,

An actual real life rape and incest survivor who has actual fucking PTSD and really doesn’t want to have to stop reading fic for my ship because people think a god damn asterisk is going to somehow save people like me from being triggered.

I feel like maybe people newer to fandom don’t realize that putting asterisks in words like that is not to avoid triggering someone. Alternate words and alternate spellings are for tricking the algorithm from censoring/blocking your content from distribution (like on tiktok, not showing your video to anyone if you use the word “dead”, so you use the word “unalive”).

Tumblr and AO3 both don’t have that issue - your posts will still be seen if you use the full version of those words. And, as OP stated above, people rely on you using those words so that their blacklisted words/phrases work and they can actually avoid the things that trigger them.

The internet is vast and ever-changing and rules vary from site to site - this is good information for newer AO3/tumblr users!

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txttletale

terfs are so funny imagine thinking this reads like an epic fucking righteous screed and not like something someone would murmur to themselves while curled up on the floor in the fetal position crying

[sobbing and sniffling like a wounded piglet] and, and, nelson mandeal.. . was a terf. and my doordash delivery guy is, a terf. and jesus christ, was a terf. and ronald mcdonald, is a terf. and they all agree with me and think im so cool and normal. and they all love my opniions and they are all just out of frame telling me this

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gothicprep

book banning is unequivocally bad and worth being concerned about, but it's funny how this practice has survived into the internet age, where information is more readily available than it's ever been in human history.

"ACK! my kid is going to learn Gender Queer at the school library" dude your kid has a porn machine in his pocket and you pay for it.

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