Road work ahead? Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does

In the sunfish’s defense!!!!!

Princess Jewelle concept art

Close ups:

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.

Melian for @southaway ‘s DTIYS!

Everyone else seems to really like their houses though, and you can’t see inside of them, so you just assume that you’re being weird.

And then you hear about the construction project that’s happening down the road. And you didn’t know that was an option. You can just…fix your house? It can be better? You don’t have to live with the horrible lighting and weird furniture?

But other people scoff at the construction. They complain about the noise. “Why can’t they just be happy? The plumbing is great and the furniture is so comfortable! Why would you change it? And why do we have to deal with all their issues anyways? They could just do it quietly, away from us!” And you thought everyone hated their houses, at least a little. And it’s so much work to renovate. It’s fine in your house. It sucks, but it’s fine.

Then one day you try putting up a new painting. Something small. Just for you. Just to try it. And it feels like you. It feels right. And you didn’t know anything felt that good, ever. So you start to do more. And more. And eventually you might even start construction. And it’s inconvenient, and loud, and people complain, but you didn’t know that it could feel good to go home.

And then, one day, your renovations are done. And you get to have a home like everyone else. And that joy you felt looking at that painting? It’s everywhere now. And it’s normal.

(Throws this on the ground and runs off)

This is thE LAST ADDITION I PROMISE

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.html

So yesterday Slice fell in love with Sal when Sal helped him recover from an episode of freezing, and then literally fifteen minutes ago Sal fell in love with Slice when he picked up a globe he dropped. Slice decided to confess after divine intervention, and I was looking forward to a nice smooth confession (I've had a bit of a rough time with romance lately) when out of NOWHERE Earrings showed up to gatecrash, being all "fuck off the one who truly loves him is me". And I mean nowhere, they were barely acquaintances before this. Obviously Sal goes with Slice, and Slice shares my view of the whole debacle, stating it was like "something out of a romantic television show."

So yesterday Slice fell in love with Sal when Sal helped him recover from an episode of freezing, and then literally fifteen minutes ago Sal fell in love with Slice when he picked up a globe he dropped. Slice decided to confess after divine intervention, and I was looking forward to a nice smooth confession (I've had a bit of a rough time with romance lately) when out of NOWHERE Earrings showed up to gatecrash, being all "fuck off the one who truly loves him is me". And I mean nowhere, they were barely acquaintances before this. Obviously Sal goes with Slice, and Slice shares my view of the whole debacle, stating it was like "something out of a romantic television show."

So yesterday Slice fell in love with Sal when Sal helped him recover from an episode of freezing, and then literally fifteen minutes ago Sal fell in love with Slice when he picked up a globe he dropped. Slice decided to confess after divine intervention, and I was looking forward to a nice smooth confession (I've had a bit of a rough time with romance lately) when out of NOWHERE Earrings showed up to gatecrash, being all "fuck off the one who truly loves him is me". And I mean nowhere, they were barely acquaintances before this. Obviously Sal goes with Slice, and Slice shares my view of the whole debacle, stating it was like "something out of a romantic television show."