Typing Awkwardly Sidewards

Until You Chapter 25

darling, this train could take us anywhere. somewhere good, somewhere bad. underdark or spine of the world. it only makes a difference if you’re not there. so don’t worry about the things i’ve left behind. all i want is with me.

Every day, there seem to be more reasons to break up with Google.

So we’ve rounded up a bunch of privacy-centric alternatives for all your deGoogling needs.

Check out the full list over on the blog!

On July 1, Cloudflare, one of the internet’s core infrastructure companies, declared “Content Independence Day.” In a landmark policy shift, the company announced it will now block AI crawlers from scraping sites hosted on its platform unless those bots pay content creators for the data they consume.

Hello everyone! This is an interest check post for a winter themed Good Omens big bang we are planning to run, with the estimated posting window spanning from mid-December to the end of January, and an estimated word count of minimum 2000 words.

We know, we know, it's June right now, no one wants to think about winter activities. But as the posting period would be in winter, we thought it was the perfect time to run an interest check to see if there are enough people interested.

For the event itself, any kind of work that is centered around winter (winter activities, winter holidays, wintery vibes, etc.) would be welcome, both AU and canon setting. It is a loose theme, so you can get creative with it. Works can be as fluffy, angsty, smutty, or whumpy as you like.

Please fill out the interest form below, so that we can see if we have the numbers to run this event:

If we do reach the numbers, a follow up post with the rules, FAQ, and the schedule will be posted after the interest check closes.

For now, please fill out the form, and spread the word by reblogging and sharing the link with your friends. We'll be happy to see you participating 💙

the benches are back

The ace portion of the fandom has been saying there's a problem with acephobia in the fandom for YEARS. Are we going to start listening now?

I'm not even gonna unpack this one. I'm too tired. And honestly it's so blatant that it should be pretty obvious why it's wrong.

Ace fans, do whatever you need to protect yourselves.

seeing stuff like this is so upsetting because these terms were well known and widespread in the ace community but because of exclusionists many people stopped using terms like this because they felt uncomfortable and unsafe.

i loved these terms when i was in highschool, i loved the feeling of community, but i lost that because i didn’t feel comfortable openly and proudly calling myself asexual.

Going through all those blogs and seeing validation, learning more things about my newfound orientation was so incredibly as a questioning and unsure 15 year old. It’s devastating to me that this community has fallen quiet so much. So I started my tags, hoping to spread some more positivity and maybe inform people. This community is full of incredible people and the fact that so little of them remain, it heartbreaking.

Please, if you want to start exploring an identity for yourself (especially one exclusionists will try to tell you doesn’t “belong”), consider finding and talking to older people who’ve been in the community for a while - preferably IRL if that’s safe, or on dedicated community forums. 

{red heart emoji} Ace of hearts - romantic asexuals

{black spade emoji} Ace of spades - aromantic asexuals

{red diamond emoji} Ace of diamonds - demisexuals and demiromantic aseuxals

{black club emoji} Ace of clubs grayasexual and grayromantic asexuals

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