#ever been

fun facts about ari no one cares about #420666: i cant whistle

sorry to keep bringing up Adorno & Horkheimer on this blog but in the culture industry they talk about how genre itself under capitalism becomes its own product, this reproducible standardised form that is materially analogous to a standardised widget produced on a factory floor. And I think AO3 helps centralise this standardisation process for tropes-as-tags. Obviously things like omegaverse, fuck-or-die, 5+1 etc are all already standardised ‘forms,’ fandom events and zines and so on all preceded AO3, but idk if they were ever as consolidated + infrastructurally maintained and standardised (as in site architecture) in one space as they are now, and I SUSPECT that leads to changes in how fandom is arranged and engaged with

Has your muse ever been burned (in any degree)?

Has your muse ever been badly burned?

it’s almost as if !! nothing i ever do !!!! will be good enough !!!!!!!!!!!!

My choice is either another donation post and probably bedrid myself for a month off stress or beg parents for money and ruin all the goodwill ive tried to build with them since i started talking to them again