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Go read an old fic.
There's such recency bias in fandom. As an author you post something, get a few reactions, and then it goes off into the bin. As a reader you check the tags, see what's new, and move on. But a lot of old stuff is really good. It's just sitting there, gathering dust, waiting for someone to take a peek.
So go on. Treat yourself.
Read an old fic.
i think we should bring this back (with some amendments ofc) if we ever needed an "internet etiquette" for the younger generations, now is the moment to remind them. purity culture kills fandom
as well as the three laws of fandom:
Don't Like, Don't Read (DL;DR), Your Kink is not My Kink And That's OK (YKINMKATO) and Ship and Let Ship
📣 Purity culture kills fandom! 📣
NO ONE LIVING hasn't been squicked out by something. There's over 7 billion of us, my delights and disgusts aren't universal. So I move on. Don't like the ship? Move on. Don't like____? Move on.
I am not an exception. Neither are you. I don't like it I move on and shut my gob about it because everyone everywhere is squicked out by something and they need to put the thing down and just…motor.
This but also:
Frames this entire post and hangs it over the fireplace.
My five year plan is to just see what happens
i think we shouod terraform earth to make it completely flat because itd be fun
i meant completely smooth but flat it actuwlly funnier
new flat earth thearoy: we could do it
One of the many perils of engaging with Internet Discourse is that sometimes you realize after the fact that the person you were responding to is a literal child who has mistaken their first big feeling about a wildly complex adult topic for an informed opinion, at which point you have to just stare wearily into the middle distance like: ah, yes, this is my cosmic punishment for having once also been fourteen and convinced I knew everything.
Like. I'm not saying teens shouldn't have access to these conversations or that they should be forced to identify themselves by age, because the negatives in both instances profoundly outweigh the positives. But I do think that, regardless of age, we should collectively start reintroducing a cultural respect for the idea that some people know more than you; that having feelings about something is not the same as understanding it; and that, while engaging in debate can be a good way to improve your grasp of a topic, this doesn't apply if your starting position is a baseline level of hostility towards anything that doesn't line up with the little you already think you know. There's no shame in being less knowledgeable about something than others - by definition, everyone starts out with Baby's First Opinion! - but you do need to understand that it is Baby's First Opinion. You have to want to learn, and you simply can't do that if you've mistaken knowing that a given issue exists for properly comprehending it.
I took a 6yo boy to his placement and as soon as I got him situated in the back he saw my SpongeBob driver’s license air freshener hanging on my rearview mirror. He asked if that’s really SpongeBob’s driver’s license and I said yeah it’s real. Then he asked where I got it if SpongeBob’s underwater so I told him I wore a helmet like Sandy and stole it from SpongeBob when he slept, and without missing a beat he goes “That’s identity fraud”
He's right
It's so weird to me when people are like 'but that will cost the government money!' So what? They're the government, they're supposed to be spending money. What, you want them to take your tax dollars and then do nothing with it? Lock it all up in a big government vault and just look at it? Why are you so scared of giving a third grader lunch or a homeless person a house.
Fic idea
Dean goes to crash Sam's wedding because he found something shitty about Sam's fiance and is trying to save his baby brother
But he crashes the wrong wedding
"Don't do it! She's not who you want!" Dean yells the second he kicks open the Chappelle doors
Castiel doesn't wanna marry so and so, has been trying to get out of this arraigned bullshit for years
Sees a crazy dude crash his wedding and literally jumps at the opportunity. Doesn't think, just looks at his dad all "He's right father. She's not. I'm gay for that man!" Really awkwardly then runs to Dean, puts all his faith into this and jumps into his arms
Dean has no fucking idea what he just did, but the guards are behind him and now the groom in his arms is going "Run! Run! Run!"
And now Dean is running to his Impala, stuffing Castiel in it, and speeding away with him because fuck his life
And now Castiel is stuck in a road trip to save this random guy's brother from a sham marriage
Massive protests were held today in multiple American cities against the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s handling of the country.
The ‘Hands Off’ protests voiced people’s anger for possible cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. People also voiced anger over DOGE cuts, tariffs, and the radical and unjust deportation policies of the Trump administration.
All while Trump has spent yet another weekend golfing in Florida. He has golfed at one of his properties almost every weekend since his Inauguration
Protests were held in cities such as New York City, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Concord, Indianapolis, Houston, Salt Lake City, Rural Alabama, Boise, Miami, Charlotte, Washington D.C and more.
Over 100,000 people protested in New York City alone.
