retention

unpopular opinion probably but I actually like that ao3 doesn’t let people take back their kudos.

forgot that being obsessed with fictional characters is not something normal people do. I hear someone say they’re too obsessed with a fictional character and for a moment I’m like “???? and what about it? isn’t that like??? normal???” then I realize that for a lot of people, it’s not.

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

maybe I’m too old but I’ll never understand “racist dni, transphobe dni, homophobe dni” not because I condone the harmful beliefs these people hold but because I don’t think the majority of people who are racist or transphobic or homophobic identify themselves as those things. like, to them they most certainly genuinely don’t see themselves as those things. so they’re not gonna read your dnis and think “oh dear! I have to click away from this blog immediately! phew 😮‍💨 almost interact with them accidentally offend the op there!”

What if HDH woke up one day to find a mini Gi-hun and a mini In-ho in his house, and now he has to take care of two tiny things that look more like stuffed animals, each with half a brain cell?