Riddled with mold

Readers who attack authors because they didin't read the tags and found something in their story they didn't like.

That's the tags for.

Seen quite a few comments in the style of

"I will find you and you wont like that"

As if is not allowed people to express their imagination and needs to be filtered and controlled.

pretty sure "I will find you and you wont like that" counts as harassment and a threat, which is against ao3’s terms of service (assuming this is about ao3), so they can and should be reported accordingly. and thankfully, ao3 takes harassment very seriously, and they act pretty fast when a comment is rightfully reported.

there’s a special place in hell for people who think fanfics are written to please them and their personal comfort / liking. even if no specific warnings were tagged, if an author used “creator chose not to use archive warnings” then that was already enough according to ao3’s tos.

yes, if you have comment moderation on, you’ll have to manually approve the comment before you can report it to ao3 — otherwise ao3 won’t be able to see the comment (from what I’ve been told), just like how no one else can see comments that have not been approved by you, the author.

that said, another part I’d like to add is that, also from what I’ve been told, if you “freeze” the comment you receive, the commenter will not be able to delete or edit the comment in any way. so if you’re reporting a comment for harassment, make sure you also freeze it. this way the commenter can’t delete or edit it. and so ao3 can take care of it accordingly.

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Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.

Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:

(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)

Anyway, in brief:

Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances

He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election

He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion

His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.

the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.

and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.

I can't bear to hope that he might actually win, all depending on the people of Clacton.

Count Binface on BBC Morning Live. Full interview. 8th July 2026

Ghost Dad: WE LITERALLY CHANGED OUR VOWS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T LIKE "TILL DEATH DO US PART"

Except in the hour of need, a binface stepped up.

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.