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their letters are a barely legible scrawl of broken sentences or they get someone else to write the letter for them and scribble their names at the bottom with letters backwards. they ask for coloring books and comic books and books with lots of pictures because they can’t read. they will tell us that they’re sexual predators in their letters but from the way they talk about it, it’s clear they don’t understand what that means, it’s just something someone told them.

they are never getting out of prison.

they will die in prison.

things that are okay: lesbians not being attracted to trans women, preferring to date cis women.

things that are also okay: lesbians being okay with dating trans women

things that aren’t okay: “LESBIANS ARE ATTRACTED TO FEEEMALES. FEMALE = VAGINA. TRANS LESBIANS ARE STRAIGHT MEN!! IF YOU DATE A TRANS WOMAN, YOU ARE A BISEXUAL, NOT A PURE LESBIAN LIKE ME.”

And yes, that is also okay, for anyone to be more attracted to any race, so long as they’re not shooting down other races as inferior or uplifting their own as “the objective best.” Attraction isn’t activism and it cannot be controlled or forced, and it’s no one’s place to try to change it. People should enter into relationships with people they want to be in relationships with, period.

I’m Native American. If someone didn’t want to date Natives, that’s their loss and I would not try to coerce them, I would find someone who did.

simple: seeing the shapes of bones and tendons is a big turn-on for me. collarbones, elbow knobs, the furrow of the spine, the movement of shoulderblades. when i can’t see that, a person’s sex appeal is much reduced.

by @sarajevski‘s logic, i’m therefore of the opinion that fat people – and thus, i, myself – are disgusting subhumans.

to complicate things, seebs, my spouse, was lanky when we got together, but has a squoodgy buddha belly now. did my attraction wane? well, maybe a bit; i no longer get those “holy shit am i seriously allowed to touch this divine being??” feelings. but the machinery of their hands still shows, which is a major source of boners, and besides, this is my spouse. i’m crazy about them for so many reasons. they could become as soft and puffy as me and i’d still be dtf.

i should hope it’s pretty obvious that, in my example, my attraction is a matter of taste, not politics, and there are exceptions based on emotional closeness.

now let’s translate this back into op’s framework.

some lesbians are attracted to things that are found in cis women. female genitalia is the obvious example, but perhaps also matters of waist/hip ratio, shoulder slope, and so forth. there may be a point in a trans woman’s transition when she becomes attractive to these lesbians, or there may not. some of the lesbians with this particular taste may, themselves, be trans women. you don’t have to be attracted to your own body type!

clearly, being attracted to, for instance, small, soft women with sloped shoulders and slender necks would exclude most trans women, but it’s also in no way a judgement of them. in fact, it doesn’t even require that you be the same type of woman you’re attracted to.

People don’t need any justification or explanation for their attraction. I think part of the problem is that, in reality, probably very very few people really have an attraction experience that would reliably fall on trans/cis lines. It might fall out that way in practice for the specific people you’ve met so far, but the world is full of surprises.

So yeah, with the benefit of another few years for the wording and framing and stuff to percolate, I sorta think I approximately agree with that. It’d be sorta weird to actually just have a blanket rule of “not attracted to trans people” and have that actually accurately map to how a specific person experiences attraction without something sorta transphobic-flavored being in there. But I think it’s not particularly remarkable for someone’s preferences to end up functionally meaning that they’re attracted to lots of men, but rarely to trans men, without it implying any kind of hostility, just… wiring is weird like that.

Like, if alpha/beta/omega are as big of a deal in these verses as they get written, why are male/female genders even a thing? Secondary sexual characteristics like distinct tits and facial hair aren’t even universally considered gender markers in our world, they vary between cultures. Why do you have two gendered pronouns instead of three? Or zero? Or six?

Our species has menopause; is there an abo menopause equivalent where people stop going into heat, or stop responding hormonally to other people’s heats? What is life like for abo-intersex people? What are the transition options and tools for abo-trans people? If a given fic has heat-blocking pills available, what are the cultural attitudes towards them?

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things that are okay: lesbians not being attracted to trans women, preferring to date cis women.

things that are also okay: lesbians being okay with dating trans women

things that aren’t okay: “LESBIANS ARE ATTRACTED TO FEEEMALES. FEMALE = VAGINA. TRANS LESBIANS ARE STRAIGHT MEN!! IF YOU DATE A TRANS WOMAN, YOU ARE A BISEXUAL, NOT A PURE LESBIAN LIKE ME.”

And yes, that is also okay, for anyone to be more attracted to any race, so long as they’re not shooting down other races as inferior or uplifting their own as “the objective best.” Attraction isn’t activism and it cannot be controlled or forced, and it’s no one’s place to try to change it. People should enter into relationships with people they want to be in relationships with, period.

I’m Native American. If someone didn’t want to date Natives, that’s their loss and I would not try to coerce them, I would find someone who did.

simple: seeing the shapes of bones and tendons is a big turn-on for me. collarbones, elbow knobs, the furrow of the spine, the movement of shoulderblades. when i can’t see that, a person’s sex appeal is much reduced.

by @sarajevski‘s logic, i’m therefore of the opinion that fat people – and thus, i, myself – are disgusting subhumans.

to complicate things, seebs, my spouse, was lanky when we got together, but has a squoodgy buddha belly now. did my attraction wane? well, maybe a bit; i no longer get those “holy shit am i seriously allowed to touch this divine being??” feelings. but the machinery of their hands still shows, which is a major source of boners, and besides, this is my spouse. i’m crazy about them for so many reasons. they could become as soft and puffy as me and i’d still be dtf.

i should hope it’s pretty obvious that, in my example, my attraction is a matter of taste, not politics, and there are exceptions based on emotional closeness.

now let’s translate this back into op’s framework.

some lesbians are attracted to things that are found in cis women. female genitalia is the obvious example, but perhaps also matters of waist/hip ratio, shoulder slope, and so forth. there may be a point in a trans woman’s transition when she becomes attractive to these lesbians, or there may not. some of the lesbians with this particular taste may, themselves, be trans women. you don’t have to be attracted to your own body type!

clearly, being attracted to, for instance, small, soft women with sloped shoulders and slender necks would exclude most trans women, but it’s also in no way a judgement of them. in fact, it doesn’t even require that you be the same type of woman you’re attracted to.

So, things have escalated pretty quickly at my apartment and for once, it’s not family drama.

My husband and I need to move out with our cat ASAP. Our landlady is trying to make it miserable for us and kick us out. We have a German roach problem because there are some disgusting people in our complex and they’ve been doing renovations. We’ve told her about this problem and she’s done nothing, not even sending anyone out here to spray. We can only battle so much ourselves.

Now our AC is broken and it’s been a week and she still hasn’t called the AC repair people. I think she’s trying to kick us out under ‘being dirty’ or something.

There are no apartments in Vidor to move to where we can all stay as a family unit with our cats and with five people. We can only pay so much at a time.

I’m looking into getting a job seriously now. To make this easier on everyone, Kenneth and I need to get our own place. Their rent would be lower, and so would ours.

However, I have no money to even start looking at apartments. 

I know I have commissions constantly going, but I’m not getting many.

So now I’m asking you, please help us move out and get us out of this situation of, quite frankly, neglect.

I want to get a goal of $1,000 to start the process of looking for an apartment and to have some money, after utilities, to keep up with rent until I can find a job. I will work in fast food full time if I have to. This is a serious concern.

I don’t know what else to say about this except I’d appreciate it if you took the time to share. 

This is something that has been causing me a great deal of mental anguish for a long, long time, and I’m just. Not sure if I can cope with it for much longer. I understand that making this fundraiser is such a huge longshot and I’m not expecting anything from it, but I figure if I don’t try, I’ll never know.

fallen london // sunless sea player characters, part the second!!! this time featuring all of the ones i have who are developed enough to have names/personalities/designs <33 left to right: 

terault wellsey, one of the first of the lineage of captains to achieve success.  unfortunately his desperate need for money and lack of knowledge of the powers of the zee lead him to accidentally sell out the admiralty to the dawn machine, after which he found his revenue stream much reduced and “”voluntarily”” retired back to london

tierney lynch, the terror of the zee, bearing a whiff of cold salt and candle-smoke.  sailed back into london one day on a ship completely empty of crew but for one strange, sigil-marked man who would not leave the cabins.  she is marked by the well of the chapel of lights. the red hunger lives in her still. 

acantha aurora, minor poet of veilgarden.  in some disgrace still over the matter of a certain play.  she believes in romance, adventure, and hedonism.  somewhat worrisomely involved in the affairs of hell; she has an unhealthy fascination for the devils of the brass embassy.  currently searching for the return of her soul; it’s not going so well. 

sylvia hawthorne (belonging to @spookyopercula), lady by night, working captain by day– or the reverse; it’s so hard to tell in the neath.  her ship is full of miscreants; a wistful deviless keeps her bed warm sometimes.  

1. Before you paste your text into the Ao3 text box, make sure “Rich Text” is clicked.

2. Paste your story into the Ao3 text box (like you usually do)

3. Instead of hitting post, go back and click “HTML.” Your story will suddenly show the HTML markup, including all those pesky extra spaces:

4. Open a new, blank document in your word processor. Copy all the text from the Ao3 window and paste it there.

5. Do a find / replace for all the lines that say “<p> </p>”, replacing them with nothing.

6. Now you have a document with HTML markup and no extra carriage returns.

7. Copy this and open up your Ao3 window again. MAKE SURE “HTML” IS CLICKED. Paste your nice new text into this window.

8. When you click “Rich Text” again, your story will look beautiful and have no extra spaces!!!!!!

9. Now you can post your story!

Press Enter once between paragraphs. Pressing Enter twice will insert a blank paragraph, creating additional, and likely unwanted, space between paragraphs when you paste into the RTE. The Archive uses top and bottom margins to create the appearance of a blank line between paragraphs; you can use the paragraph formatting options in your text editor to create a similar effect without adding extra <p> tags.

In Google Docs, you can go to the “Format" menu, choose “Line spacing,” and then choose “Custom spacing.” It will let you set how much space you want before and after paragraphs.

In LibreOffice, go to the “Format” menu and choose “Paragraph.” Under the “Spacing” heading, there will be options for Above and Below paragraph.

Those are the only programs I have handy, but generally, you want to look in the formatting menu for something about either paragraphs or spacing, and you’ll find a similar option there. You can then use any amount of spacing that’s pleasing to your eye and it will still have AO3′s usual amount of spacing between paragraphs.

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I’M PRETTY SURE WE ALL KNEW TO EXPECT A READ-MORE FROM ME ON THIS ONE. DID ANYONE NOT EXPECT A READ-MORE FROM ME ON THIS ONE? GOOD ‘CUZ WE’RE IN FOR THE LONG HAUL, KIDS. 

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