Menagerie of Bullshit

At the very least, it means asking permission before embedding fan art or linking directly to fan fiction in coverage. It means thinking twice before asking actors or artists to react to ships or explicit fan creations. It means considering whether a fan reasonably expected their work to stay within the community it was made for. Most importantly, it means treating fandom spaces like real places inhabited by real people, many of whom seek out these spaces precisely because they offer a sense of belonging they may not find elsewhere.

Fandom does not need to remain in the margins to deserve respect. But if journalists are going to cover this subject, and we should, we have to be willing to approach these spaces with the same care, ethics, and nuance we would bring to any other community. Because behind every fic or piece of fan art is someone saying, 'This mattered to me.' Did it matter to you too?"

DONT BE A FUCKING SCAB

NOT EVEN DIGITALLY 🫵

ironically its in a book about female sex anatomy that ive come across it (Vagina Obscura by Rachel E. Gross). everyone only wants to focus on the secondary sex characteristics and not the bazillion other functions of estrogen, testosterone, and co.

uses both of them!! for a

million reasons!!!!! aaaaaa!!!!!!!

night 1:

honey for the first time since 2010

jack the ripper for the first time since 2003

night 2:

gerard in a skeleton costume

the secretary slapping gerard and dressing as the clown

ray talking

zero percent performed for the first time ever?!?