DEAR RESEARCHERS OF TUMBLR

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The defining traits of humanity are NOT sex, romance, and empathy.

The defining traits of humanity are our creativity, adaptability, and our boundless amounts of hubris.

As well as arson.

This is important.

There is a candidate named Tiffany G. in the current Ao3 board elections with a pro-censorship position for getting Ao3 unbanned in China. This is ship and kink agnostic: the only way to get Ao3 unbanned in China would be the removal of all explicit queer content to bring it in line with the online censorship policies of the CCP Pre-ban, Chinese writers used Ao3 to host LGBTQ+ and explicit content due to being censored on Chinese websites, and writers of danmei (m/m) stories have been sent to prison in China for publishing queer content.

There are 3 seats, and 5 candidates (including her) so she has an actual chance to get elected. If you’ve contributed $10 in the past year and have eligibility to vote in this election, it is essential that you do so. Please check your e-mail for the ballot and vote for everyone except Tiffany in whichever order you prefer based on their stances.

Important context including how essential it is to vote this time if you want to support Ao3s current policies

Chinese fandoms on Weibo are up in arms against this candidate warning about her intention to bring Ao3 in line with the Chinese censored fanfic sites

Chat transcript of her election interview, including discussion of making Ao3 more publicly appealing, complaints about how it was banned in China, and the suggestion of removing ‘illegal’ content besides underage - which, in China, includes queer and explicit content - and avoidance of clear answers about which content would be censored

Damn we all living the same life, I dunno whether I find that yo be a good thing or a bad thing

desi culture is trying to come out as lgbtq, but immediately backtracking after your mother starts crying and you feel an immense amount of guilt for daring to be anyone but who your parents want you to be

Man of the moment Keanu Reeves has shown his generosity by giving away £50 million of his earnings from the Matrix sequels. The 38-year-old decided to hand over the money to the unsung heroes of the sci-fi blockbusters - the costume and special effects teams.

Benoit Blanc accent being the new "tell me will" meme.

*benoit blanc voice* now that is just amazing, mister kira, but you seem to be a lot less bright then i musta thought... we're only broadcasting this program to the kanto region of japan.

You sir/ma'am/entity, are what we expect from now on

She's beauty, she's grace

ladies invented your favorite science fiction subgenres

Margaret Cavendish - Mary Shelley -  Emma Orczy - Catherine Lucille Moore

I didn't want my heart anyway... Now it's lying somewhere where I read this damn post. Yes please read it too.

written for suptober day 4: branded

i solemnly swear to stop writing sad shit at some point

Sam made him take the jacket off. It was the first time he’d come alive since it happened. He fought back, pushing him away and clutching it closely to his body. 

When Sam had finally pushed him into a chair and peeled it off him, his eyes had widened and Dean had cursed. 

He didn’t need Sam to see. He didn’t need Sam to know why he was spiraling, a million emotions clamoring for his attention. He didn’t need Sam to know that he was so numb to everything, so completely lost that he barely even cared that what Sam had taken away wasn’t even the whole mark. 

Sam looked between Dean’s eyes and the burn marks on his t-shirt, eyes questioning, and then he took the jacket to throw it in the wash. 

By the time he got back, Dean had pulled the sleeve of his shirt down. He was just staring. He couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think, just stared. 

He could feel the burn searing into his skin. Could feel the jolt of Cas’ grace ripping frantically through him. Could see the terror in the angel’s eyes. Could see the cosmic entity in Billie’s guise smirking at them as she pulled Cas away. 

Sam cleared his throat and sat at the table across from him. Dean didn’t bother looking up from the mark. “That’s the same place you had it when he pulled you from-”

“Yeah,” Dean said quietly. 

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I thought this post will go in a different direction, but this. I support this.

It’s sad, and frankly kind of ticks me off, to see the posts where content providers are asking for reblogs. You like it enough to heart it? What does it take, a few seconds more to reblog it. It doesn’t go with your blog’s aesthetic? Fuck that. If you want to see art and fanfics in your feed, you need to be supportive of the creators! Otherwise, they will either move to another site where the people are more supportive, or just stop making content all together, 

Don’t make us beg. If you like it, reblog it! What’s wrong with you? 

the brown eldest daughter conditioned response to suppress thought expression coz either it's gonna be blown out of proportions as hysterical reactions or the trauma is gonna be trivialized. sometimes both