Light Party Adventures!!

First off, this mindset is simply wrong—I'm ace and have always been a rampant shipper, I know tons of ace people who are the same, and I know lots of allosexual people who are not into shipping at all.

One's sexuality has literally nothing to do with your tastes in fiction. Nothing about you as a person necessarily has ANYTHING to do with your tastes in fiction.

Making that assumption is—and I'm not being hyperbolic—extremely dangerous and can lead directly to harassing other fans for what they enjoy in fiction, as well as harassing artists and writers because they created something you don't personally like. It's such an insidious disease that goes against the core values of fandom: ship and let ship, have fun, don't try to dictate how other people can have fun with their paper dollies. This entitlement in regards to other people's tastes in fiction often demonstrates that the people holding said beliefs are not yet very good at separating fiction from reality.

It's fine to be annoyed by a ship or characterization, and you can complain about too much of this headcanon or not enough of this one, etc. But insulting people who enjoy those things, and seemingly wanting to stop other people from enjoying those things is NOT ACCEPTABLE. It's not how fandom is supposed to operate, and if your goals are to control other people, then the only 'friends' you're going to find in fandom are other people who have that same controlling attitude, who will turn on you as soon as you like something they don't approve of.

Stratt was a historian. She wasn't just pirating for the sake of entertainment for the astronauts, she was doing a full historical backup of the planet. Who knows how much knowledge and communications ability, how much art and culture and history, how much niche knowledge of how to make specific pieces of modern technology or modern medicines, was lost as the wars for resources isolated everyone, as the death tolls led to the deaths of specialized trade workers and scientists, as the power grids failing across the planet (or cut off, potentially) led to all the cloud servers going dark. Stratt was facing methods of combating extinction and she did her best to ensure that if/when the Hail Mary worked, it would send back not just the hope of the future in the solution to the astrophage, but the restoration of history and culture and knowledge.

Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.

Demon Rearing by @beansmakesthings

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

looked at so many photos of people hugging cows for this one