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on graduation & parting ways

Night in the Woods: Chapter 3 / unknown / When We Were Young - Adele / We May Never Pass This Way (Again) - Seals and Crofts / Mikko Harvey, for M / John Berger, "Will it be a likeness?" from The Shape of a Pocket / forever - Charli XCX / Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters / nice2KnoU - All Time Low / @alisonzai

"Read Banned Books" a new full page cartoon essay published in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section today.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.

then they started fighting Covid precautions.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.

now my parents think climate change is a myth.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.

then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.

now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.

you can guess who they voted for.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.

when did they forget?

reblog this if your blog is a safe space on april fools and won’t have any jumpers, screamers, or anything scary or anxiety inducing

i find it so funny that the ides of march are directly after pi day. lets cut some yummy pie up then immediately the next day stab a roman emperor

Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

May you feel seen and loved not just today but every day.

What wild stuff do ya'll wanna see me cook up next

my only complaint is that the paws appear when you boop someone and not when someone boops you. I want to be scrolling and minding my own business and suddenly get whapped by a cat paw

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Last Week Tonight, March 16, 2022

Fandom, fans, and content creators

It’s funny. Lately, wherever I go to consume fancontent - whichever website and whichever type of fancontent - I keep seeing the same shit again and again. Just so many entitled “fans” complaining about the content they consume.

It’s 2019. Two-thousand-fucking-nineteen. I have, naively, thought we were past “character XX is a seme, he would never bottom, why would you make him an uke.” Terms like seme and uke are apparently Not Cool Anymore And Too Fujoshi And Fujoshi Is Bad™ now, but it’s literally the same thing.

But oh no, it doesn’t stop there. “I hate XX/YY, I’d really appreciate it if you did more XX/ZZ instead of XX/YY, I love your work but I hate XX/YY, thanks.” “Why do you draw XX like that, they are not like that.” “I hope that’s not shippy because XX belongs to ZZ, YY can never be more than a friend.”

I’m honestly sick of it.

Content creators do not cater to you. They graciously share what they create with you, for free, and ask for nothing back. (Though the likes, comments, reblogs, whatever are more than nice.) Content creators are people. Real humans who do all this for fun and to get better and to do what they love, whith the characters they love, with the ships they love, concepts they love.

They can do whatever the fuck they want. The make their fandom experience just as you make yours.

Want to read more coffee shop AUs? Look for them. Don’t want to read any omegaverse? Don’t read it. It’s your ship but the dynamic is not to your liking? Don’t read it or leave the fic. Don’t like the artist’s character design or artstyle? Don’t look at their art. Don’t like the ship? Block the tag and don’t open it if it’s clearely tagged with that ship. Do whatever you need to make your own experience better.

If you don’t like it, nobody, NOBODY, is forcing you to consume the content.

Imagine spending hours and hours and hours creating something you poured everything into, struggling with yourself all the while because it’s just not perfect enough. Then you finally finish, uncertain with the result but you allow yourself to be a little proud because it’s done and mabye it’s not perfect but it’s something you gave your all and you made you happy. Wouldn’t it be amazing if it made someone else happy, too?

Then you get and email or notification. It’s a comment. You’re all giddy and nervous. What are they going to say?? Did they like it??

“Why is XX a bottom tho :/”

And you can only go “oh.”

It breaks my heart when I see comments like this. Since when do content creators not have the right to have their own preferences, their own likes and dislikes, the right to try new things, ship what they want and however they want, their own style.

It is NOT the content creators’ responsibility to moderate your fandom experience. It’s yours.

Content creators should not and do not cater to you.

here since none of you know what a bear is

if i ever interacted with you and it was awkward just know im sorry and painfully aware that sometimes i come off like a person who is having the first conversation of their life

Fanfic reader's prayer: may my favorite author's hyperfixation on this fandom last longer than mine 🙏

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