Esther Andoh

Creators do not owe anyone content. Do not ask writers when they will update.

If an author did not ask for [negative] criticism , do not give criticism.

Read the tags carefully before reading a fanfic.

If you ignored the tags and were upset, that is your responsibility, not the creator’s.

Disliking a ship does NOT give you the right to attack people who enjoy it.

Do not tell authors or shippers that their ship is “disgusting,” “wrong,” or “shouldn’t exist.” Shipping fictional characters is not a moral failing.

No one is obligated to justify why they ship two fictional characters.

Headcanons are PERSONAL interpretations, not universal truth.

Dark themes in fiction do not equal real life beliefs or intentions.

Leaving kudos or short positive comments genuinely matters.

Not every fanwork is made for you, and that is okay.

Scrolling past content you dislike is better than engaging negatively

Enjoying a fandom later than others does not make someone less of a fan.

why? because when white women talk about women and feminism, they aren't talking about women of colour. to them, the default "average" woman is a white woman

the reaction that white women have to critiques of white feminism, treating it as a misogynistic attack, is exactly what happens any time that people of colour call out racism in marginalized groups that we belong to. this happens in the trans community, the disabled community, I could go on

I think that this is a combination of three main things:

they see us outsiders trying to tear them down, because there's no way that we could part of their community

they view people of colour and our cultures as backwards and bigoted. they act like the cultures that we come from are inherently misogynistic/transphobic/homophobic/etc.

My mom tried to lose weight in vain for months before she finally gave into my begging her to get a second opinion. The first doctor she saw next scheduled her for surgery the same day she met him. When my mom asked about the risk of operating on her he told her that there was some minor risks for complication and that all she would need to do to alleviate the risk was spend an extra night in the hospital so that they could keep a look out for any complications.

There were zero. There were also zero complications when she had her other knee done, her hip replaced and her gallbladder removed.

I'm not talking lipstick here I'm talking life saving medication

Disclaimee

The discomfort people express about Jon Snow embracing his Targaryen side or "gasp" take on the Targaryen name Lyanna and Rhaegar likely gave him says a lot about how in Western society adoptees are expected to be perfect, compliant little angels who never seek to know more about their birth families and would never dare to legally change their names back to their birth names.

It's especially gross when you consider the ultrasexist fifties/sixties scoop that GRRM grew up in where women were forcibly separated from their babies and those now adult/senior adoptees are denied the right to their OBCs even decades later.

let’s pretend for a second that y’all win. you destroy the state of israel, kill all the jews, and reclaim “palestine”—what happens then?

“Back to how it was before 1948” > I thought we disliked British colonialism?

“Returned to the indigenous people” > that’s Israel

“An Arab state” > oh… ok. that’s very anti-colonial of you isn’t it.

And who would be in charge???

Hamas > literally say they want to kill all Jews everywhere in the world, regularly massacre and starve their own people

The PA > new constitution refused to acknowledge any Jewish ties to the land and is deliberately exclusionary to Jews. Also they pay people who murder Jews so there’s that.

And they fail to address what would happen to the Samaritan, Druze, Kurdish, Armenian, Assyrian, and Baha’i (etc) populations in Israel.

And what happens to the LGBTQ+ people from Arab countries who moved to Israel to escape persecution? Oh sorry. That’s pinkwashing.