on being yourself

So this has started showing up in search results when I type AO3 into duck duck go. It appears to be a mirror of the official AO3 site but all links point to the I♥️AO3 domain.

Pride events are all ages. It is very likely that you will find men and women wearing booty shorts/bikinis and harnesses or collars at Pride parades, but anything remotely NSFW will take place at 21+ bars and clubs, or 21+ events. Most children at Pride are the children of LGBTQ families or queer and trans themselves.

Folsom, the country's most famous kink/fetish festival is NOT Pride, and is NOT family friendly. They're pretty explicit about this.

You will see a lot of queer PDA at Pride events, and two adults kissing each other isn't NSFW and doesn't make Pride unsafe for children.

New York state law, for instance, is actually pretty chill about toplessness in public, so NYC Pride tends to see a lot of topless folks of all genders frolicking in the fountain at Washington Square Park in the unbearable summer heat. It is one of my very favorite things to do at Pride, it's beautiful and affirming and I fall in love with my community all over again every time.

I bring this up because last year, some photos of this frolicking made their way into culture war spaces, being labeled like "zomg look at these nude women* having a sex bacchanal in a public park in full view of children" but I promise you, there is no sex bacchanal; it's just some people playing in the fountain on a hot day and some of them take their tops off. Everybody's shorts are still on.

Well, except for this coconut I saw last year. Brazen, shameless stuff.

After several attempt to stop him, she finally declared, “If you keep kicking those over, your leg will fall off!”

No sooner had she said this than she looked up and was mortified to notice a man standing on a pair of crutches with one leg.

Before she could apologize, he looked down at the boy and sighed, “I used to love to kick those.”

it would be so awesome

You KNOW classic SF used the limited displays of CRT television and the static of transmitted signals the way theaters use stage makeup and lighting to make inexpensive props look great fine— take advantage of the medium! But it's hard to imagine how it looked if you've only seen Blu-ray HD restorations.

twelve episodes, twelve contestants - a mix of annoying middle aged sci fi authors, fan fic authors and random people off the street

a variety of against the clock writing tasks, big finish scripts, ability to interact with actors without shouting at them and challenges where you have no budget or doctor for an episode

judged by solely by christopher eccleston

Regular people: Wait, the King has easily stolen potatoes? How do I get in on this?