yknow qhat i love seeing? people with the "scary" or "mean" or "evil" disorders getting silly with it. thats definitely destigmatizing it /srs

like, if audhd people get to joke around about their disorders, not always treat it with an absurd amount of weight, so does everyone else. i love you aspd people who make jokes about your disorder, you deserve to do that without being called an edgy teen. i love you npd people make memes about it. i love you scary people who get to destigmatize your disorders by laughing.

"at least venezuela lost a dictator" "the good thing about trump's invasion" "maduro deserved it" oh my god some of you are dangerously susceptible to fascist propaganda.

unfriendly and honestly hostile reminder that trump isn't invading venezuela because maduro is a dictator, or because of drug cartels. he's doing it only and exclusively because they have desirable oil reserves and no other reason. reminder that venezuela is a comparatively poor country that will never financially recover from this. reminder that venezuelans are suffering with the bombing and the air strikes. reminder that trump did it to steal from them and no one did anything. reminder that this sets a dangerous precedent and now all trump has to do to invade another country is claim they're in a dictatorship. reminder that trump is a fascist dictator.

this will only be bad, for venezuelans and for all of latin america (and possibly the whole world) in the long run. trump did this not to help the venezuelans or their country, but to steal their petrol and get away with it. and he will. because that's what dictators do.

[ID: A pen drawing of Kazui Mukuhara from the neck up/End ID]

Merry Christmas, @xenonsense !

I was your secret santa and decided to draw you some Pluke fluff, hope you like it!

and thank you to @nevermorgue for setting up this fun event in the nevermore fandom!

This is so cute !! Your artstyle is so nice adn. They're so cute. Tysm

[ID: A digital drawing of Lenore and Annabel Lee playing chess against an unknown/invisible opponent. Annabel's hand guides Lenore's movements and several of their pieces are replaced by figurines resembling the other characters, the opposing pieces are all normal. There is a blurry painting of the two of them on the wall behind them./End ID]

@blacknedsoul-blog I hope I've done this well ! Sorry for. Any mistakes in it. I tried my best.

This is incredible, buddy! The small details, the shadows, the blurred portrait, the expressions of their faces. I really loved this, thank you so so much! <3 <3

I'm glad you liked it !!

Queer culture includes erotic content!

[ID: a post by webster @ quacking.online which reads "the problem, as i see it, is not that censoring erotic content is a slippery slope to censoring LGBTQ+ culture. it's that censoring erotic content IS (is) LGBTQ+ culture."

There is a reply by OP underneath which says "i'm not interested in some sort of disneyfied unsexy LGBTQ+ community being preserved. that's not us. that's not our history. you can't take the 'sex' out of 'homosexual'. i don't give a crystal shit if you can still steam 'love, simon'. the freaks and queers i know are making porn." /End ID]

not an apologizer but a contextualizer. yes the character did that but please understand the Circumstance. yes they had other options but they had to make this choice in a sea of available bad choices. and also it made the narrative more interesting. won't anybody think about the narrative!!!!!

some of you are mentally unwell bc your reusable water bottle is filled with black mold go wash that shit

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi i was drinking mold all my freshman year and got the most sick ive ever been in my life here's good ways to avoid that shit:

number one rule is get stainless steel shit. stainless steel water bottle stainless steel straw, you dont want that rubber plastic etc shit it grows mold like a mf. turns out that was the main culprit of what happened to me, my reusable water bottle was plastic and it didn't matter how much i let it soak or cleaned it out.

get this either if you can or can't afford the stainless steel stuff and just be really on cleaning it; staw cleaner looks like this:

and get one its mammas the bottle cleaner for your cup:

this one is 3 dollars you get soap in there and spin this shit around and push it up and down and the mold will be begging for mercy

My additional piece of advice: get a pack of denture cleaning tablets. These are especially good if you use your bottle for anything other than water (squash, coffee etc) or if you’ve got a built in straw with awkward curvy bits.

You put that tablet in the bottle, add hot water, let it fizz and soak for a bit and hey presto, any stains or discolouration or weird little crevices are suddenly removed of their hidden nasty bits.

My niece kept saying her water bottle tasted weird, and she washed it and washed it, and then me and my mum were like GIVE IT HERE and we put a denture tablet in it and added the straw to it and it started fizzing up the straw and all this black gunk started coming out the weird curvy bits of the fitted straw like a Coke-mentos experiment.

It’ll taste slightly minty unless you rinse rinse rinse rinse rinse rinse but that’s not a terrible thing, and let’s face it, denture tablets are for cleaning dentures so, you know, designed to clean things that go in mouths.

Anyway: wash your water bottles! Wash your flasks! More often than you think you need to!! Keep denture tablets in the cupboard!!

[ID 1: Tags reading "Use a straw cleaner. Look at me. Use a straw cleaner. You need to."]

[ID 2: A picture of 9 straw cleaners in three different sizes. They are thin, and consist of a metal stick with bristles around it near the top.]

[ID 3: A round scrubbing brush that is meant to fit bottles/cups. /End ID 3]

I feel like there’s needs to be, like, handbook for authors who post on Ao3 for effective metatext.

By metatext I mean like tagging, summary, and authors notes (especially initial authors notes at the beginning of a fic). The means by which we communicate to our readers what they’re getting into.

Because we kind of all have to learn it by osmosis and there are conventions but nobody’s really taught them at the start, so there’s inconsistencies and misunderstandings or people just not knowing things through no fault of their own.

This ends up breeding frustration and confusion and in the worst cases resentment, hurt, and aggression.

I’m severely tempted to make such a handbook and get it circulating.

I think it would do fandom a lot of good.

Good news, I’m writing it

Update:

I’m at 9680 words, roughly 16 pages single spaced, with two or three sections to go.

Update:

First draft done. 11,100 words, 29 pages with formatting

The final draft is getting cleaned up right now. I’ll probably be figuring out how to post it tomorrow.

On which note, anybody know the best way to make a PDF available online?

Okay it is done!

Go here for the PDF, or here to view the whole document as a tumblr post.

I recommend the PDF.

Related note: the post length limit on tumblr is apparently more than 13,000 words.

Worth a read; even as a long-time fandom veteran I encountered things I didn’t know were in use, like the “& Related Fandoms” tags.

Please Help Shira Make It Through This Month

Please, if enough people spare just a couple of bucks, we could legitimately save Shira's life!

Update:

This is time sensitive guys! Please help out if you're able! Shira is still recovering after being stabbed a few months ago.

Update October 28th, 2025:

She needs €400 by tomorrow or she'll lose her apartment. Please, lets push just a bit more everyone. Every little bit helps!

Everybody needs that one friend who's better at piracy than you so you can ask for links to tv shows or perhaps movies and they just Have them. They're like genies. This is a priceless gift when unfamiliar links scare you when you try to google Watch free online yourself. Very literally it does not have a price. You aren't paying for it

We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

he has 2 electrons... who? the boy reading this...

He was an alpha particle... Xe was a noble gas... Can I make it any more obvious?

@xenonsense you mentioned