Just things.

➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging.

➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way.

➡️ Until AO3 came along, fanfiction did not traditionally warn for content in any significant way.

➡️ An author is only obligated to warn for content to the degree mandated by the format they publish their fiction on.

➡️ Content warnings beyond the minimum are a courtesy, not an obligation.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is a valid tag that authors are allowed to use on AO3. It means there could be anything in there and you have accepted the risk. 'May contain peanuts!'

➡️ Writers are allowed to use 'Creator chose not to warn' for any reason, including to maintain surprise and avoid spoilers.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is not the same thing as 'no archive warnings apply'.

➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you.

I think part of what is making young people lonelier, in discussing why they're increasingly isolated, is that they're so afraid of meeting someone who doesn't hold their same beliefs, and instead of being just core beliefs it is kinda ancillary shit.

It's actually okay to disagree even on social topics! Even on some political ones! But I mean, online you can start with "i love this mutual but they have a really bad/uninformed opinion about x media"

I know this is IMMEDIATELY going to be taken in bad faith, and yes babygirl, you are so right, I DO want you to go make best friends with both the KKK grand wizard AND your nearest nazi leader.

But seriously, as someone who has spent two decades doing community organization: finding ways to connect with different people is so so so important. There are people i follow here who ate 80% smart and their brain falls out of their head 20% of the time and that is GOOD FOR MY MENTAL ECOSYSTEM AND GOOD FOR LEARNING HOW TO BE A PERSON

Guillermo Del Toro on AI "art"

Qenherkhepshef (Ken-her-kep-shef, it's not hard, you can pronounce it I promise) was a scribe alive in the 19th Dynasty, c.1200 BCE, or during the reign of Ramesses II. There's nothing truly remarkable about him, he was a regular guy who did his job at the workman's village, caused people to be absent from work a couple of times, and had a nice family as far as we can tell.

Why do we know who he is? Well, Qenherkhepshef did something that other scribes may have done themselves, but his is the only one to survive: he had a library. Not a large one by any means, but it was composed of other texts that he'd copied up for his own personal collection. That collection was discovered in a small niche in one of the houses at Deir el Medina where it had been protected from the elements for millennia, and was then sold by an Egyptian dealer to Alfred Chester Beatty in the early 20th Century (c.1930). Yes the Egyptian dealer likely dug them up and illegally sold them for profit. That's a common thing.

In that collection?

The sole copy we have of the Contendings of Horus and Seth

Love songs

The sole copy of a Tale of Truth and Falsehood

The sole copy of the Dreambook

The Battle of Qadesh inscription written on the back of the Dreambook

The Hymn to the Nile

Aphrodisiac utterances

Utterances for good health as well as prescriptions

An offering ritual for Amnehotep I (deified at Deir el Medina)

A copy of the Tale of Isis and Ra

The Teaching of Khety

The Will of Naunakhte

Multiple personal letters

The Teaching of Any