Dylan

A glorious experience! Meanwhile, the newer fandom folks are posting things like "omg this fic turned out to be an untagged bottom Dean fic, my whole week is ruined." smh

I love when Spn fics from the “lightly tagged or not tagged at all” era of AO3 turn out to be twisted as can be 😈 like how Gnaw has no tags besides “pre series” lmao

Daylight Suffering Time

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Listening to a podcast, and this ep is from a month ago and they're saying "we loved Heated Rivalry so much but we're already reaching a saturation point with it and getting annoyed, ready to move on." Being in gay fandom spaces, I'm just... I can't imagine moving on from anything that fast lmao.

If you need a quick pick me up, just remember the way Jenna Maroney pronounces “camera”

What a vital and epic contribution 🙌

And they were both of the "but please send us work in the future" variety so that's nice

Oddly comforting to get a couple story rejections rolling in because it's like "yeah, I really am back to it, look at that." I took such a long break from submitting that it is weirdly good to have the reminder that I am Doing the Thing again.

God, same. I went to see him a couple years ago on that Buddy Cole tour, and he surprised us with a bunch of transphobic jokes. What was supposed to be a great night ended up being me realizing the first queer person I ever identified with on TV hates people like me 😒

Like, I just would love one day without this shit inserting itself into my life in the most judgmental, derailing ways.

I don't care what decisions others make about their looks. But I would like a day off, where I'm not forcibly reminded that so many people are sprinting away from looking like me.

One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*

And I think one of the worst parts of it is how often it's our own moms giving us the worst/most aggressive messaging on this too oof

The baggy beige shit reminds me of one of my fav tweets that was something like "is it really fashion or just an ultra skinny person in an oatmeal colored outfit" lol it really is a cycle that keeps coming back! I hate it

Meanwhile, those same people who claim it's "shaming" tend to be super okay with saying whatever they want about fat people 🙄 everything is great /s

Once again there is this assertion that disabled/high risk/immunocompromised people live in a vacuum, like we don’t have healthy family members around us or caretakers who desperately need to stay healthy to avoid endangering our health or becoming disabled from their next Covid infection.

I couldn’t get out of bed or eat or drink anything until almost 3 PM how’s everyone else faring on this Tuesday

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

more info from reddit on why ao3 is down:

Okay if fucking Trump outlasts Bruce Campbell I'm fighting god barefoot in a Waffle House parking lot.

one of the neat things about submitting to the fancier lit mags is that by the time they send you a rejection all the cells in your body have been replaced with newer cells, they're not rejecting you but as past version of yourself, how quaint

OH WOW, that is surprising. But I support you because I understand the feeling haha

Now, I don't think it's the kind of thing people should spout on moment one, but a few weeks later when you're looking around like "wait I can say this now?" Feels kind of relieving tbh.

Like, I'm a Firefly hater. Do you know how dangerous it used to be to say that? They would hunt you for sport over that shit. You would have to leave the party you were at if that came out into the open. Do you know how good it felt when I could openly hate it with relative impunity?

One thing ppl miss when complaining about ppl saying "well, X person's work has always been bad" is that not everyone is doing it because of some false correlation between art & the morality of the creator. Sometimes it just feels good to finally openly hate that thing ppl used to hunt you for lol.

1. This is despicably evil.
2. This needs to be fought at every level. There is no world in which this cannot be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
3. Those behind this effort need to be exposed and never know a moments peace.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

a series of tweets. one person asks Richard Siken: “why did you have to admit to writing wincest 😓” Richard Siken replies: “I’m not afraid of being alive and I’m nog afraid of trying things and I didn’t live through the AIDS pandemic and a significant stroke to be afraid of literature. Literature that makes people uncomfortable is still literature. It’s valid. I will not support censorship.”

whenever i feel scared about my writing or get in my head about how others perceive me/the state of censorship i remember this tweet from the closest human i’ll ever have to an “idol”, richard siken & immediately feel like 10x lighter

Will probably surprise you zero percent to hear that I support this 🙌