Tomfoolery Actually Transitioned And Only Does She-nanigans Now

NOOOOO CHARLIE!!!

2am

Inspired by the latest SUIT episode where Mr Technodad says Technoblade used to swing around a minecraft sword irl at like 2am and recite video lines

My brother saw this on my desk and kept asking what it meant

i love when characters lie to themselves in the complete privacy of their own minds

Also btw trump recognizing only "the two biological sexes" harms intersex people too. I am a researcher of sex and it's affects on disease, and sex is far more complicated than "two sexes" and it always will be. Sex is multifaceted and there are far more than two binary sexes. Keep that in mind too. Don't fall into bioessentialism as you fight for trans people and intersex people.

“the author’s barely disguised fetish—” WRONG it’s the author’s barely disguised religious trauma again

do you know where "no beta we die like x" comes from and how it is used?

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.

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:

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.

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i might finally be able to get on testosterone, but i need to make at least $70/month to afford it, and my ONLY INCOME IS FROM COMMISSIONS.

here’s some of my work:

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