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Makers realising their accent has been adopted by a small division of humanity:

Makers realising one of their own kind must have been doing something on Earth for long enough that an entire country picked up their accent:

You watch his back, even though you're scared, even though you don't know what you're doing.

Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

This isn’t to say this is a horrible thing so much is to say it’s an interesting observation. I adore fanworks that cover things like romance and different forms of relationships, but sometimes when a single version gets popular, it hinders exploration.

Dratchet comes to mind in that the MTMTE version of Drift seems to be the default personalty when included in other continuities, rarely exploring new or different dynamics between him and Ratchet, despite the interesting backstories for both of them.

It’s also interesting how when some ships become synonymous with the characters themselves, the expectation for creators in fan spaces change as well; in personal experience with the LLCS AU, I’ve had people get real mad at me that I made Bee a human and Starscream a cat bc that interrupts the ship. A LOT of people were mad in my askbox when Pharma was revealed to be human(and dead lmao). People have gotten upset at my refusal to protray the cats’ relationships romantically as well. What even?

My dad has 4 half siblings and two step siblings. They're all a decent bit younger than him. When I was a teenager, we went to a family reunion, and I realized something—my dad did not respect his siblings. He looked down on all of them. He saw them as fuck-ups and overgrown children. My dad had the American dream: well paying management job, suburban house, wife, and three kids. My aunt and uncles did not. Excluding my aunt, none of them were married or in serious relationships. They hadn't really settled into long term careers. Several of them were working the kind of jobs that get called "Unskilled labor." So he looked down on them because the youngest one was in his thirties (and several were much older), and yet none of them had "settled down" into what he saw as lifelong, permanent careers and relationships and lives. He was polite to their faces, sure, but I heard how he talked about them behind their backs, to my mother.

And then a few years ago, we visited his brothers again for Thanksgiving. And I realized something again--he respected them now. He saw them as equals. Why? Well. All of a sudden, every single one of them had serious, committed romantic partners. They didn't even need to still be with those partners—one of my uncle's fiance passed away from cancer before they could marry—just having had one showed that they matured into a real adult participating in society. In fact, at one point, my aunt was telling my mom about how one of my uncles was no longer living in an apartment she owned, but instead, after having a steady girlfriend for about a year, he moved in with her. And my mom literally said to my aunt, "wow. Look at that. He finally grew up."

One of the lines that frequently gets repeated about anti-aspec sentiment is "why would anyone hate asexuals/aromantics/etc? They aren't even doing anything." And that's exactly it. In the eyes of amatonormative culture, we aren't doing anything. Adults are supposed to do things. That's how you become a member of society.

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