Notice This is me and here is the result of me finally caving and getting some form of social media. On this blog you'll find any number of things I find cool or pretty as well as some random chattering from me. I am also happy to chatter with you if you'd like!
I am not a fan of the new messaging. As much as I hate making myself sound so antisocial, I'd appreciate if they were kept to unavoidable circumstances, asking first or the unlikely chance I solicit them. Thank you.
You should be able to adopt adults for inheritance purposes like in Ancient Rome. Yeah this is Cathy the 23 year old and she’s my daughter now. She has my last name. When I die she inherits the tire shop.
Cathy will bring glory and dignitas to this America’s Tire franchise location just as I and my father did before her.
this isn’t what i normally post here but firefox just switched ceos and this “anthony” dumbass is trying to put more “ai” slopware into it, meaning more bloat and privacy loss
if you use this browser you should go to their support forums and complain about it
The term “beta” in this context is short for “beta reader” - a person who reads a fic while it’s still in the editing stage and helps the writer get it ready to post. Some betas check grammar. Some check canon compliance. Some are sensitivity readers. There are lots of things that betas can do.
So functionally, saying “no beta” means that the writer didn’t get this checked by a second person before they posted it. It’s a warning that there might be errors or typos etc. It’s mostly used when an author has written something quickly and is posting without doing a lot of (or any) edits first.
As for where it comes from? It all started with a bumper sticker.
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This image was an internet meme at one point, and it got meme’d on in the form of “no ___ we ___ like men”
Here on tumblr, one of the versions that got really popular was from now-deleted user @grec1a who created this version:
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From there, it migrated to AO3 as the “no beta we die like men” tag, and very often the word men is replaced by the name of a character who dies in canon.
I did not know this, but it makes so much sense, and it’s SO good to learn fanfiction history.
Is THAT where “No [X], we die like men” comes from?????
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