Hello!! If You Get This, Answer With Three Random Facts About Yourself And Send It To The Last 7 Blogs

hello!! if you get this, answer with three random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not. let’s get to know the person behind the blog :)

As always if you feel comfortable doing it ♥️

Thank you for the ask! @primavera-cerezos also sent me this one, so I figured I would answer in one post. I hope that’s okay! I love ask games. This is so fun. Okay, here we go. Three random facts about me:

1. I was very bossy when I was little, and one of the funniest ways this manifested was that I would gather all my siblings and cousins (I was the oldest, for context), and we’d put on little plays for all the adults. I immediately labeled myself the director, and I’d choreograph little dances and scenes for us to all act out. We even raided our grandmother’s wardrobe and more than once devised outfits that were mostly a mix of scarves (she had a ton, all sorts of different fabrics, colors, and designs) and costume jewelry, with the occasional pilfered vest and tie combo from my grandfather’s side of the closet. The grandparents and parents all still talk about this to this day, and it still makes me laugh.

2. While most of my fandom friends are convinced I am an owl in disguise, I would actually probably not be a very good one because I’m terrified of heights! So flight might be wasted on me. On the other hand, it’s really the falling part that I’m so scared of, so if I were in control of said flight, maybe it’d be different. Here’s hoping because I’d actually love to have wings. How cool would that be?

3. I went through the first 33 years of my life having never broken a bone, but I got into a bad car accident on Labor Day in 2018 and fractured my C2 vertebra in two places. So when I do something new I really go big, I guess, haha. 😅 But don’t worry too much. Four months in a neck brace, and I was good to go, minus a bit of nerve damage and a tendency to develop tension headaches more often. And the increased anxiety surrounding driving, but that’s sort of to be expected, really. 

Happy Trans Visibility Day, y'all! I'm an out and proud trans/nonbinary person, and today I see all my trans family! You are celebrated wherever you are in your journey, friends. 💛

Desi Clubs, Plant Catastrophes and Other Such Holiday Hindrances

Author: @crapfaerie​

For: @welpslytherin​

Pairings: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

Word Count: 11,617

Rating: Teen & up

Content: Christmas, Hogwarts Eighth Year, Forced Proximity, Ugly Holiday Sweaters, Sledding, Snowball Fight, Plant Magic

Warnings: None

Summary:

Harry Potter would like to have at least one (1) normal Christmas, thank you very much.

Read it now on AO3!

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The 2021 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The eighth annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 10th March 2021.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, retweet this tweet, boost this Mastodon post, check out this post on Reddit, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks like Facebook. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 24,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercensus2021/

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

OK

I KNOW IT’S NOT A LOT

I KNOW IT IS NOT COLOURED EVEN

AND I KNOW I AM PROBABLY POSTING IT AT THE WORST HOUR

BUTTTTT

I AM REALLY PROUD ABOUT ITTTTT

This is my post for reaching for the second time the 200 followers (yikes)

This

On the other profile was the post who made me able to do “the big step” and become a kinda c00l account

It brought me luck (and fame 🌚🌚🌚) and a lot of new experiences

I hope with this new one I’ll be able to have the same luck again ♥️

IN ANY CASE FREE KISSING GUYS UUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHH (I was really half dead trying to finish it ahahah)

Look, I know I’m a small fish in a very large pond, but I’m gonna piggyback off of my betters here and just agree with all that stuff up above. Stop shaming people for their ships. Ship and let ship. It’s not hard. Don’t go into other ships’ tags and be assholes to people. That makes you a troll and a bully. It’s fine to have squicks or even hard nos when it comes to shipping. It’s not okay to attack other people for liking something you don’t. Stop it. There are real people behind these screens. You’re hurting real people when you call them disgusting for reading fiction. 

It’s not up to you to decide whether or not it’s okay for someone else to find something enjoyable if they’re not hurting anyone else. You don’t know the whys behind someone shipping a particular thing or enjoying reading a certain trope or kink. Maybe it’s their way of processing and/or coping with trauma. Maybe they find the dynamics interesting. Perhaps they just like it. No particular reason why. It doesn’t matter. They don’t have to justify their ships, same way you don’t have to justify yours. The difference is they’re not going into your tags, your posts, your fics, or your art and leaving hateful remarks. 

Isn’t there enough hate out in the real world? Why are we bringing it into fandom, too? Hell, the HP fandom in particular already has enough battles to fight with a transphobic creator and quite a few problematic issues in canon, including but not limited to: racism, homophobia, misogyny, and glorified slavery. So please, think before you type. Don’t like? Don’t read. Realize the difference between fiction and reality, and understand that shipping something does not equate to automatically endorsing it in the real world.

And in closing, if you disagree feel free to unfollow me, block me, whatever. I won’t miss antis, and I’m not interested in arguing with haters. One would think we in fandom would know better than this. That having to often justify our love of fandom to begin with, we might be just a bit more compassionate to each other. It’s always disappointing to see ship hate or shaming going on, and it makes me tired. We need to do better, folks. Be kind to each other. It matters, and it can make all the difference in the world.

Look. I don’t usually take part into complicated fandom conversations. I don’t like the drama, I don’t like the hate and asks that come after one does and I don’t feel comfortable with people taking my words and twisting them into meaning I didn’t mean (it has happened before). BUT.

I cannot stay silent anymore. I just can’t. I just saw someone in the fandom that I appreciated and admired for their talent shaming people for what they ship and…. lately it’s happening so fucking often.

I’ll take this opportunity to make a general statement: if you shame people for what they ship, unfollow me. I’m a Harry/Teddy shipper, Draco/Teddy shipper, hell I also ship Harry/Teddy/Draco as a threesome, I’ve read and loved The Evil Devil Child and the Perfect Gift by who_la_hoop which has double incest, both Draco/Scorpius and Harry/Albus Severus and enjoyed it a big deal.

I get it’s not for everyone. That’s valid and everyone has the right to ship and like whoever they want to. But just as you have the right not to like these ships, me and everyone else has the right to like them. WE DO KNOW that they’re not real people, shipping them doesn’t mean we would be incestuous in real life OR that we’re evil.

That’s what had pained me when I got that anon hate about me liking Harry/Teddy: that they said I’m disgusting. How can you throw a personal insult, a personal judgement on me based on what, a fandom ship I like reading and writing about?!

I’m finally taking a position, and writing a post about it, because I’m DEAD SICK of the vibes going around lately in fandom. About how we’re ready to judge and shame people for the ships they like or the kinks they have or like reading about.

God knows how much I suffered because I like Daddy kink as well. People are so ready to judge.

Can we understand, for once, that this is a fictional place? That we’re here to evade reality for a moment, to give a chance to our imagination to run free, to feel free for once?

STOP IT. STOP SHAMING PEOPLE IN FANDOM.

STOP.

IT.

And for the love of God, if you’re antis or have a problem with what I’m saying, UNFOLLOW me.