i have loved the stars too fondly

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Hello!

Hi! I’m Stars, or lovedthestars, or variations thereof. My pronouns are she/her/hers. If you think you recognize me from the Murderbot discord server, yep, that’s me! If not, hello!

As my username suggests, I love the stars (but also, it’s from a poem: The Old Astronomer by Sarah Williams). I make lots of art, but I only share the occasional fandom piece on here. I also write, mostly Murderbot fanfic at the moment. My ao3 is i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly if you’d like to go see what I’ve written! I have so many unfinished wips it’s not even funny, and I ramble about them sometimes. If you ever want to ask me about something I wrote/am writing, please do, I will be very excited to talk about it! I’m happy to get asks in general, and I love ask games & tag games. Please feel free to drop into my inbox and say hi.

Things I reblog fairly consistently: Murderbot fanworks, space photos, cool art, poetry, reference materials and tips for art & writing, queer stuff (especially aro & ace-spec focused)

Things I reblog on occasion: Fun polls, other people’s short fiction, book recs, posts that make me feel good about humanity, and assorted other fandoms (A smattering of examples: Discworld, Rolling with Difficulty, Witch King, ATLA, Temeraire)

I don’t make a lot of original posts but here’s a list of tags you can use to find my art, fic & other stuff I talk about:

I try to tag common upsetting topics in the format “#tag” or “#cw tag.” You’re always welcome to ask me to tag a post or a subject—I’ll let you know if it’s something I don’t think I can consistently remember to tag. Mutuals can do me a favor by tagging #food, especially for images.

Pinned Post a draft of this has been sitting in my notes for Ages i am giving up on making it perfect and simply posting it! i can always edit later pinned post just realized how helpful that list of tag links is gonna be for *me.* amazing
astriiformes
specialagentartemis

It just makes me so frustrated when people go “not all aroace people are romance- and sex-repulsed! Therefore it is WRONG to say THIS aroace character is romance- and sex-repulsed even though that is how it is consistently and clearly written!” (“Therefore it is wrong to say any aroace is sex- or romance-repulsed! Don’t you know aros and aces can still have sex and romance?”)

it doesn’t come across as respect for sex-favorable aces and romance-favorable aros, it comes across as a fundamental inability to believe that anybody could actually not want sex or romance.

littlebigmouse

don't hide this in the tags @astriiformes

#hijacking this a tiny bit but#i think a lot about a post i saw once that was specifically discussing caduceus clay from cr but could apply to a lot of characters#that brought up the point that often when characters are confirmed as aro/ace in fiction#it's NOT by saying 'i am [aspec identity]' but rather by expressing an overt disinterest in sex and/or romance#like in the case of caduceus iirc he says something along the lines of 'i love what you all have going on but it's not for me'#NOT 'i am asexual and aromantic' (which is a lot more flexible)#which. if people were trying to argue that characters whose identities were confirmed exclusively via labels were sex- or romance-favorable#i think it would be more forgivable#but when you're arguing that a character that said 'that's not for me' is actually into the thing.... that's not great#i don't know. with some characters there's still a lot of nuance and i'm all for preserving that#but due to the ways in which aro- and ace- characters tend to 'come out' in fiction#i'm pretty bothered by the argument that those textual elements can be ignored in favor of more palatable ones#aceblogging#aroblogging

really good thoughts from both of you yeah it's like. 'i'm aro and ace' doesn't *necessarily* mean 'i am not ok with engaging in romance or sex' (which is still often a token argument but that doesn't make it untrue of many real aspec people) but 'i dislike and have no interest in romance / sex' DOES if that is in the text and you decide to make that character romance/sex favorable you are going against canon and if you wanna have headcanons then fine go ahead. that's what fandom is about. i might not personally like your headcanons but i can't and won't stop you from having them but if you try to act like that's a supported interpretation of canon then you're just wrong. AND being disrespectful to aspec people on all parts of the romance/sex favorability spectrums aspec stuff fandom discourse shipping culture amatonormativity aphobia

anyone else getting this new form of spam ask where they get sent the same ask, on anon, but by multiple different accounts so even when you block the anon they still send you more?

i’ve gotten like 8 in the past 24 hours. exactly the same text, all of them anonymous but mentioning the same username at the bottom. but the 4 or so i’ve blocked all show up as different users in my blocked list. so that’s fun.

anyway. turning anon asks off for a day or two because this is annoying.

blogkeeping honestly at least they're anon so i *can* just turn it off for a bit but this is just obnoxious i'm not more likely to post your spam ask after the 8th time you send it
astriiformes
astriiformes

Let it be known that I am looking over at our fellow upper Midwest neighbor state with unrestrained glee after the recent election. Hooting and hollering even. Peace on Earth (and Wisconsin if possible).

FOR REAL shoutout to Wisconsin!! also Florida even if the dems didn’t win they halved the margin of victory also Cory Booker it’s so nice to see multiple real tangible ways that people are fighting back
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rowan-ashtree

thinking about Three....

what if your body wasn't your own. what if your MIND wasn't your own. what if a stranger offered to free you and showed you what good things can happen when you are safe and can trust people. what if you could suddenly turn off the thing that killed (your friend? coworker?) secunit 2. what if everything changed in 90 seconds. what then?

what if your body and mind were very suddenly your own. what if protocol was your lifeline, and suddenly you didn't have protocol and didn't need a lifeline. what if nothing was standard and everyone was scared, but you knew you could help. what if your second and third choices ever were to help people you've never seen before, all because a stranger showed you what good things can happen when you are safe, and you made your first ever choice: to trust it. what then?

what then?

murderbot meta having Emotions about three always murderbot secunit three
darlingofdots
avocant

okay so I'm having a debate with my flatmates

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are these all different things and if so what do you call them

1. hoodie / jacket (zip up hoodie if I’m being specific) 2. hoodie / sweatshirt (pullover hoodie if I’m being specific) 3. sweatshirt (I have been known to accidentally call this one a hoodie as well despite its lack of hood) anything is a hoodie if you believe it enough anyway to me this is a sweatshirt/hoodie ven diagram with the second one in the middle
the-nanowrimo-chronicles
the-nanowrimo-chronicles

So Nanowrimo is actually dead.

After 25 years of operation, Nanowrimo is shutting down.

An email came out in the hours approaching April Fools

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A video was attached to the email, which can be viewed here:

The video is on Kilby’s channel and not the long dead Nanowrimo channel. The video is full of…

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Kilby logic, but there is some relevant information contained within.

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If have anything on Nanowrimo you need to get off the site, take it now. The site will likely not be around for too much longer.

Despite everything that the organisation has been through, the closure of a 25 year old nonprofit is still a tragedy, and my heart goes out to everyone that’s grieving from this. Nano has hurt a lot of people, but it meant a lot to so many, and I will be sorry to see that go.

Even if I don’t agree with many things in the recent video, I can agree with the sentiment of one slide.

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I will update you all if and when relevant information comes out. Despite everything, I now doubt that this will be my last post.

welp. RIP nanowrimo honestly at this point it’s probably for the best that it goes back to being a solely community organized thing instead of having an organization at the head screwing things up but I do miss the nanowrimo that got me started writing as a teenager time to go download my stats and anything else I can off their website before it goes down nanowrimo nanowrimo controversy