let men be soft without being autistic.
let men be quirky without being autistic.
let men be anxious without being autistic.
let men have interest without being autistic.
let men exist, and be loved, without being autistic.
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let men be soft without being autistic.
let men be quirky without being autistic.
let men be anxious without being autistic.
let men have interest without being autistic.
let men exist, and be loved, without being autistic.

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awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
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A single day on Venus (243 Earth days) is longer than its year (225 Earth days), and it spins backward. The surface of some neutron stars rotates \(716\) times per second, meaning their edges move at a quarter the speed of light.
also, i like to imagine that if i could eat a star it would feel kind of like drinking a soda while eating pop rocks and taste sort of like the sour powder of a warhead but mixed with brownsugar
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but i don't LIKE being in a creative fallow period. i want to be an eternal harvest!!! i want to sow a little bit and then reap and reap and reap. waiting for the seeds to grow sucks.
wip wednesday—foot edition
@mmmytelephone brought to my attention that the people ( @coachspet ) are asking for it, so here’s an excerpt from my current wip, featuring cheesecake factory server trevor and foot fetish jamie. enjoy!
“Want me to wait?” Denver asks when they pull up in front of the red brick building. He doesn’t mean wait-wait while Trevor, like, hooks up—just until Trevor can confirm he’s getting what he’s expecting. It’s a sweet offer he makes every time he chauffeurs Trevor to a new Grindr meetup, and usually Trevor waves him off, but…
“Yeah, thanks, man,” Trevor says.
Denver tilts his head like a puppy, obviously confused about the change in script, but Trevor just bounds out the door and up the steps. Denver doesn’t need to know this particular meetup isn’t (necessarily??) a sex thing, and came from a website much seedier than tame old Grindr.
Trevor inhales a deep lungful of air, all sweet and floral from the lilac bushes lining the front of the building. He’s looking at the four doorbells, about to pull up his phone to check whether he has an apartment number, when the door opens.
There’s a guy around Trevor’s age on the other side—a shade shorter than Trevor, but built, t-shirt pulled tight over big pecs and strong shoulders, athletic shorts reaching to the middle of thick hairy thighs.
Trevor spends half a second thinking of everything he’d like to do to this guy, none of which involve feet, until his brain catches up and he realizes—duh. This isn’t the guy. He’s probably just on his way out. Trevor’s mystery foot perv isn’t going to look like a Sean Cody top out of Trevor’s wildest dreams.
“Hi,” the guy breathes. His voice is soft, skitters sparks down Trevor’s spine.
“Hey,” Trevor says, trying to look around him, but the guy is wide. His eyes are very blue beneath dark eyebrows, and there are freckles dusted across his nose and cheeks. “I’m looking for—”
Then Trevor watches blue blue eyes flick down to the ground and linger on his feet, watches a flush rise high on the guy’s sculpted cheekbones.
“You, I think.”
They both jump as a horn cuts the quiet evening.
“You good, Z?” Denver calls, leaning across the passenger seat so Trevor can just see his little face through the open window.
“Great!” Trevor calls back, not taking his eyes off the guy in front of him. He flashes the smile that always gets him at least 25%. “I’m great.”
summer goals: Get the Jamie Drysdale/Trevor Zegras tag on ao3 to over 1000 uses
my life isnt perfect but at least im not doing a mans laundry
Fandom old here, been in fandom since I was 13 and I'm not in my early thirties. In regards to the Beta and Writer conversation I have been seeing on your dashboard as of late, I wanted to say that Fanfiction.Net actually had the ingenious idea a long time ago to make a list of beta readers. What you did was you filled out a beta-editor profile and your fandoms that you were willing to do. They still have it up. The issue is that Archive of Our Own Does *not* have this. There's no official list of active beta readers or what fandoms they will do publically. Instead, most beta readers that I have found are in fandom discord servers. Tumblr doesn't give enough traction to do a beta reader call because everyone posts and can get lost in the feed. That helps no one, not the writer and certainly not the beta whose looking for someone to help. The other issue that I am seeing is that there was a unspoken yet quite loud rule that betas were people who wished to be editors one day and just like many of us on fanfiction were hoping to become writers or were going to go into English Degrees, understood that we had to practice for our own rejection. So basically, rejective sensitivity didn't exist for us because the betas were in as much practice as we were. This is their craft as much as writing was ours. Now there were bad betas, don't get me wrong. But you knew a bad beta from a good one. Now, I don't know about everyone else's school. But in my high school we were taught how to give criticism. Art and English teachers used to make us grade each other's art and grade each other's essays long before the teacher ever got a hold of them. We had a rubic to follow in English to help us, and for art...that could get brutal. Big time. You didn't get a I'm afraid. We got "oh god, she's going to hate it and I'm going to be re-writing this again" because English teachers back in my day gave back essays and told you to re-write it. You had four drafts before you could turn in a "final". I don't know how classes are run now, but this is another huge problem that I am seeing. So, how does this work in fandom etiquette today? I don't think anyone really wants a "beta", they want assurance. Every time I see "it's my writing style" I leave because I already know they didn't want me to edit and it wasn't a writing style they just don't know how to break the rules properly. Betas can help you break grammar rules *properly*, because that's their craft. They know the rules therefore they know how to bend them, break them, and make them theirs. Writers, we should know how to do that too, but they know it better. Let them have it. Let them know what really is a writing style because if it's just insecurity, guess what? Here's the tough truth: you either get a beta and you enhance your writing and you learn how to hone your craft to be a better writer or you don't. And the problem is that you can get better if you don't. A beta isn't a have to...but a beta can make you get better faster. You'll be getting better slower especially with lack of engagement on fics on AO3 if you don't. Which is a valid way to go. And a whole other ask/blog entirely. Editors and writers go hand in hand, betas aren't an enemy you fight. People who are afraid of the red pen weren't afraid because of the mistakes they made, it was once more going to the typewriter and figuring out how to make it *better*.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, anon.
I don't presume to know what sort of constructive criticism Anon provides, but I disagree with the general presumption that a thin skin is the only reason for pushing back on or rejecting criticism.
Providing constructive criticism is its own skill, one that being a good writer does not immediately bestow. Good beta readers approach their job with a degree of humility and with the conscious knowledge that their job is to help the writer tell the story they want to tell. If you don't keep this in mind as your goal, it is easy to let your ego as a writer or your preferences as a reader slip in. You try to change the story to one you would want to tell or one you would choose to read for pleasure. Even when done politely and with all good will, this is unhelpful at best and harmful at worst.
It's even worse if manners, much less good will, are absent, and sadly this really happens. I've known of people who view it as their job to "toughen up" the people they critique for. I've heard people say that they view providing any positive feedback as "coddling." I've even seen one person (part of the Fanfiction.Net beta community) go so far as to say their goal was to reduce the number of "bad" stories on the site, and it was quite clear that they viewed demoralizing someone to the point that they deleted their account an acceptable way of achieving this goal.
So, yes, if you are going to seek out constructive criticism (and you have no obligation to do so), you do need to develop the skill to receive feedback without becoming defensive. But that doesn't mean that all the feedback you receive will be good. You deserve a beta reader that prioritizes your goals as a storyteller.

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Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
anyway the thing about fanfic is that it's not essentially bad or good; it's essentially amateur. some people are absolutely out there writing award-worthy prose (some fic writers ARE award-winning writers IRL!), but that's not the point. the point is that we're all telling campfire stories. it's a community, and it's a way to spend some more time in the worlds and stories that we love.
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