Mistborn Hero
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We’re here, we’re queer, and you should live in fuckin fear.
Proud pervert, rebrobate, degenerate, queer, faggot, whatever you wanna call me to try and insult me, the answer is always “Yeah, I fucking know.”
daysofxavierspast
“Yeah, I’m queer. And?”
jesus christ
This is the superior “comic showing the events leading up to a popular gif” post.
The best compliments and insults are both just describing the person. Just describe whatever you can clearly observe about them. The distinction of whether that's an insult or a compliment is whether you're saying it with a pleasant tone, or if you're saying that like it's a bad thing.
Children, who make their observations in an utterly deadpan voice as neutral remarks, are capable of obliviously roasting people because they haven't noticed this.
If your tummy itches when you wear jeans, you have a nickel allergy and should paint the back of the buttion with nail polish. Okay I am going into the woods forever now. I love you.
WHAT
Sensitivity to nickel is extremely common amd despite this, clothing manufacturers often use it because it is cheap. A coat or two of nail polish is an effective barrier between the allergen and your skin. Goodbye forever. Do not forget my wisdom
yeah okay ill reblog that!!
Reminder that many medical implants use a titanium alloy that includes nickel. If you have to get pins, a joint replacement, anything, ALWAYS ask for a metal allergy test. If you test even mildly positive for anything in the alloy, push HARD for a ceramic coated implant.
Sincerely, a girl who watched her mom became almost completely disabled due to having a knee replacement she was allergic to and no one believed her for YEARS.
There once was a man from Verdun
There once was a man from the sticks
Whose limericks stopped at line six.
They were fine till line five
Then they took quite a dive —
But the problem is easy to fix
If you just ignore the last line, it doesn't even follow the rhyme scheme oh god I've really lost control of this thing I'm so sorry...
There once was a man from the sticks
Who liked to compose limericks
But he failed at the sport
Because he wrote them too short
There once was a fellow named Dan,
Whose poetry never would scan.
When told this was so,
He replied, "Yes, I know--
It's because I try to squeeze as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can."
On Tumblr did lasses and lads
Their way with fail poetry had.
You're having your fun
But you're fooling no one -
It takes skill to do something this bad.
it does genuinely make me seethe with rage that people think the defining quality of a tradwife is her dependence on a husband and not the ideology of fascism that she has bought into. dependence on men is literally a normal feature of patriarchy, and one rife with abuse. many women choose to be or are forced into these arrangements (or a combination of both) for purely structural reasons. the tradwife chooses (and is also continually structurally coerced into) the relationship due to her belief in the divine/natural order of patriarchy and her desire to make other women, particularly women of color, subservient to her.
in general I think more folks should think "what power is the tradwife hoping to get" when thinking through the traditionalist/trad movement. we understand that for fascist men they are seeking both domination (over their wives, children, elderly parents, people of color, LGBTQ people, etc.) and to be dominated (by a god-emperor strong man). fromm, unfortunately, refers to this as a kind of "sadomasochism" but he does make sure to tell you he's not talking about actual kink. (although, I'm not completely convinced that there isn't a large fetish component with fascism generally and the tradwife stuff specifically.) anyway, tradwives are explicitly given the domain of the home and often of a home business (typically an MLM, let's be so real). they are enabled to have greater power over their children, elderly parents, marginalized women and men, and other women in their trad subculture. it is not that they are simply subservient--they are also seeking power and a return to what they see as the rightful domination of some people over others. and, of course, they're still on top of someone.
no i didnt get that from a video essay im a little more well read than that thanks. i got it from the abstract for a study i didnt read the rest of
Mainland She Oak Skink (Cyclodomorphus michaeli), mother with pups, family Scincidae, eastern Australia
photograph by Ken Griffiths
I wanna talk about Fandom Oversaturation.
I saw a post about stopping treating fanfics as content, there's no fic market, there's no way to "oversaturate". I agree 100% but it did get me thinking about oversaturation and I actually do think it's possible to oversaturate a fandom (but not in the way the post was suggesting hence why I'm on my post.)
I think it's possible to saturate a fandom with an idea/concept/a particular AU/characterization/etc.
And despite everyone going "TWO CAKES", the reality is, it's more like 100 cakes. Specifically a 100 chocolate cakes that made slightlyyyy different and taste amazing but you'll probably be a little sick of chocolate cakes at the end. If you're not, great! But I imagine most people are a little tired of it.
The "oversaturated" part is always a little bit different in each fandom too.
Take for example, Miraculous Ladybug fandom on ao3. It has a total of 76,508 of which 5920 are Batman crossovers. That's 8% of all ML fanfics. There are 2191 Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Damian Wayne fanfics. It's in the top ten of the ships of the fandom. In a series with over 20+ characters and potential ship combos, a *crossover crack ship* places in the top ten ships.
"But you can filter it out!"
Sure, but doesn't change the fact that if I was reading ML fics during that heyday and had absolutely no interest in Batman, it probably was kinda annoying to run into all the time.
Speaking of Batman, the Danny Phantom/Batman crossovers sit wildly with 5500 fics total too. And I know I've seen a post here on tumblr about how it sucks when you're a fan of one but not the other because it's like everywhere and not properly tagged so you can filter it out.
"But that's just crossovers!"
Okay, take character bashing in the Harry Potter fandom. That was a popular thing at one point. There's 575,517 fics on ao3. If you filter out the metatag character bashing, it drops to 558,524 fics. Seems like a lot options to read right? But that fandom is wide and varied. Let's just say you want to read a fic with Harry, in English, with no crossovers include. That brings the number down to 190,069. Remove character bashing meta tag? 180,318 fics.
And this is before you get into any preferences with your ship, the tags, the rating which will drop the amount available even more.
fanon!chuuya from Bungou Stray Dogs is very different than canon!chuuya, some might argue. And I've read a lot of good fanon!chuuya fics, but doesn't change the fact that someone who is sick of seeing fanon!chuuya and wants a characterization more in line with canon!chuuya is probably a hell of time finding fics because that's not something that's really tagged per se.
Think of other characters from other series who personality traits are exaggerated and thus are the most common characterization of that character. Manipulative!Dumbledore, Soft-Woobie-Always-Right!Obi-wan.
"Okay but those are huge fandoms that still have plenty of options!"
Alright, so what about smaller fandoms? Tenkuu Shinpan is a small niche manga that got a netflix anime. There's 163 fics currently. BEFORE the anime was released, there was maybe 30+ fics. Guess who wrote 19 of them? Me. Guess how many of them were crossovers? 12 of them. Guess how many of them were Katekyo Hitman Reborn/Tenkuu Shinpan crossovers? 8 of them.
Didn't like or know any of the crossovers I wrote? Sorry...that's 40% of the total fics at the time, leaving only 18 fics left and again, that's before you filter out a language requirement and you own preferences.
Even today my fics represent 11% of all fics in Tenkuu Shinpan.
Yeah most people would be like "thank you for feeding the starving fan" but on the off chance you didn't like my writing for whatever reason, you probably got a little sick of seeing me in that fandom for the 6 or so months I obsessed over it.
And like even fanon or fanworks spreading can oversaturate a little. Trying to read Legend of Zelda fics with no knowledge of Linked Universe is rough and you lose quite a good chunk of fics available. A lot of people think in KHR, Tsuna's flames being sealed is canon. It is to a degree, only in the anime. But if you're a manga-only fan, you're probably sick of "sealing" fics being so popular.
What I'm getting at is that I think an idea/concept/a particular AU/characterization/etc can oversaturate a fandom. It's like a meme going viral. Yeah it's fun to see everyone's takes but some people will tire it fast than others.
Is it possible to oversaturate a fandom? Yes
Should that stop you from writing and posting your fic? Hell no.
If everyone and their dog is posting their coffeeshop AU, you can too!
But it's interesting to note that some readers will, probably, be sick of seeing the "same chocolate cake" over and over. And other readers will have refined down to VERY SPECIFIC chocolate cake with raspberry filling ONLY that they will ignore your very delicious, super moist chocolate cake.
And as a small minor note, I would argue there are some concepts/ideas that are harder to saturate. Taking the coffeeshop AU example, it's a broad enough concept that occasionally, you'll discover a cheesecake or a strawberry cake hidden among all the chocolate cakes. Like "coffeeshop au but it's rarepair ship". Or "coffeeshop au, but surprise one of them is a secret spy we shift genre to an action movie."
Bottom line, write whatever you want. If you want to be the 101th chocolate cake at the table *do so*. But if you could also keep in mind, variety is the spice of life. So please also consider writing that weird funky niche idea that you thought no one would read and bring ice cream to the cake table instead.
#i've just been rotating this idea in my head all night
#i can read the same cliches/ideas/pairing over and over again
#and i get jumping on the bandwagon
#but sometimes i want something a little bit different too
#you're always going to be inspired by other things that popular at the same moment
#look at like superwholock or rise of the tangled brave dragons
#but don't be afraid to step out of that too
#like it's really common to do a modern day domestic au for a series that feature a lot of fighting/angst/drama/action
#which is great
#i've read a bunch of good fics
#but what's stopping you from taking this is anime-esque fantasy world and making it a sci-fi? or a horror movie? or victorian?
#or if you're gonna set it in modern day
#why not another country? or mundane modern magic?
#try those crack ships! ask yourself my blorbo from last fandom meets my current blorbo
#what happens when i lock the two of them in a room?
#you can flip the script
#flip the dynamics
#try that popular AU with a different character
#everyone makes your blorbo an omega in omegaverse fic
#try write a fic where they're an alpha or a beta
#there are just so many options and if you feel like you're adding to the “oversaturated” fandom
#it's not that you shouldn't post any fic
#it's you should write that fic and own in a way YOU like it
#thousands of different choices and options
#that's the best part about fanfiction
#the sky is the limit (so break the sky)
We need to bring back the athletics body type post
This photoshoot unlocked something in me the first time I saw it. The idea that EVERY body here is what "peak physical condition" looks like.
Mainland She Oak Skink (Cyclodomorphus michaeli), mother with pups, family Scincidae, eastern Australia
photograph by Ken Griffiths
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