Look At All Those Gays

To Eijirou, Katsuki was never someone to be afraid of or obnoxious or to look up to. To him that's literally just a dude who happens to be strong and I think that's exactly why their relationship works so well.

Eijirou never put him on that pedestal like everyone else (even he himself) did and thus he never had that pressure to constantly 'be better' in their relationship.

This was where my mind was the whole time soz gang

Not to mention Zuko calling a man attractive and Sokka saying Zuko has a beautiful face

Zukka gang how we feelin

Sometimes, in fandom, we just want to write id-tastic fic that rolls around in tropes that might be viewed as problematic. But we don’t want to address the problematic side of things in this particular fanwork; we just want to roll around and wallow.

It is considered courteous to give readers a heads-up via use of AO3 tags. I propose a tag that signals that a given fanwork is for rolling around, not giving a measured evaluation of anything. The MCU has carved out a space for this sort of fic with the “HYDRA Trash Party” tag, for which I commend them. Trash Party is a bit too specific to cover all of the ground I’m thinking of here, though; I propose “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.”

For those of you not familiar with Arrested Development, Michael Bluth finds a paper bag in the freezer labeled “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.” He opens the bag, finds a dead dove, and reacts as follows:

[gif of a white man saying “I don’t know what I expected” in a deadpan manner]

The “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” tag would essentially be a “what it says on the tin” metatag, indicating “you see the tropes and concepts tagged here? they are going to appear in this fic. exactly as said. there will not necessarily be any subversion, authorial commentary condemning problematic aspects, or meditation on potential harm. this fic contains dead dove. if you proceed, you should expect to encounter it.”

Using a random fic of mine as example..

The left example: ✅✅✅

The right example: ❌❌❌

Idk how many times I’ve read a good fic summary and been so excited to read before clicking on it and being met with an ugly wall of text. When I see a huge text brick with zero full line breaks my eyes blur and I just siiiigh bc either I click out immediately or I grin and bear it…it’s insufferable!

AO3's posting form has two modes: Rich Text and HTML. the vast majority of people write in Rich Text editors, aka any normal word processing software (MS Word, Google Docs, Apple Pages, what have you). but when you first open it, the posting form opens in HTML view. if you paste formatted text into HTML view, it erases every piece of formatting, including paragraph spacing.

this is an easy fix. when you go to post your fic, make sure the posting form looks like this:

not like this:

Especially if you come from any western or colonial power absolutely do not think you are some bastion of good morals and ethics. America is just loud. That's why it has the world's attention, and your governments doing the same stuff want to keep it that way.

I saw.

They told my I had six cavities and needed two crowns.

They tried to charge me a thousand dollars for one crown.

I immediately began sobbing and told them to cancel all appointments.

I left with my alleged six cavities and have been trying to get into a second dentist for another opinion ever since.

Chapter 7 of our kiribaku round robin fic, Seashells and Linseed Oil, is out now 🤍

You do not want to miss what @thegrimzuera has in store for our love birds 🪶

Only one chapter remains, make sure to catchup with the story soon if you haven’t 🌻