Ahhhhh!!!

yeah no, see this is what im talking abt this is the arrogance and over defensive mentality in writing spaces that make it so toxic. If ur posting your writing on a PUBLIC community platform like ao3 or anywhere else then your work is subject to any kind of comment and critique because it’s fucking public!!!! it’s not a “witch hunt”, ppl are allowed to question the integrity of any work posted on a public platform, period. WRITERS OWE THE PEOPLE WHO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO INTERACT WITH THEIR WORK EVERYTHING!!! ao3 isn’t ur fucking hugbox. and im pretty sure there are options on ao3 to make ur work private and only for you to see so???? at this point fanfic “writers” should just call themselves hobbyists with a hyper fixation on making god awful blorbo media slop cus if you’re just doing this shit for urself and u don’t really care to actually CARE about your craft and hone in your skills then whatever ig? maybe we need to draw a HARD LINE between creative writing and whatever tf THIS is…

I say this every time, but people Do Not Realize just how short the timeline has been on gay people in kids’ media. And it’s an ongoing fight, but this was 10 - 15 years ago.

I'm not in the Steven Universe fandom. I don't really even know the show. But the story she's telling here is important to remember. What feels like small snippets of representation took a lot of fighting to get and it wasn't as long ago as you think.

i love the part of making art where you feel like you need to go missing

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

The new season of edgerunners centering around a kid that wants to preserve real art in a world where people are addicted to technological slop is very welcome and needed right now by the way

Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

you can always tell a major breakthrough is made by a woman, a woc or any poc because it’s either completely ignored or never credited like it just happened by itself