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MadaTobi Week 2021 Prompts

Your votes have all been tallied and Mods are very happy to announce the prompts for MadaTobi Week 2021! This year we will have a month long event taking place over July 2021 and each week will have two prompts to choose between. Mods will even have a little surprise under the cut! Without further ado, here are your selected prompts:

Week 1

Folklore and mythology // The moment I knew

Week 2

Time or dimension travel // Taking care of children

Week 3

“Do I want to know?” // Soulmate au

Week 4

Modern au // The favor of the gods

If you have any questions about how this event works or what sort of content is admissible please check out the FAQ linked in our header. Any queries not answered there the Mods will be more than happy to answer for you.

Please remember that participants are responsible for using proper content warnings and that all submissions need to either tag this blog or use the tag @madatobiweek2021 so that we can find your works to share them. When the time comes, if your content is not reblogged within 24 hours please contact the Mods as the search function may have hidden you from us. 

Have fun and happy creating to all!

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Person: My life has felt so empty after that series ended

Me:

Reading this made me cry, for real.

Source 

The singular instance of "gatekeeping" I feel compelled to do is for Star Trek series shorthand. That is, the often three (3) letters we use to shorten a show or films title for quickreference. On occasion this can be up to 4 letters (often for films), or down to 2. Generally though 3 is the most common.

At no time in the 56 years of the franchise have we used "ST_" because it is ridiculously redundant. It also wouldn't make any sense upon a single show existing with the same letter prominently placed. Example, DS9 and Discovery.

This is why it is wholely incorrect to use the initialism "STD" besides the fact that it's a favored term by bigots to defame Discovery. They enjoy associating the show with the initialism for Sexually Transmitted Disease. Partly because they have the mindset of 13 year olds, and partially because of the inherent bigotry of hating the show featuring the most LGBTQIA and POC cast.

The proof is in the pudding though. Enterprise is ENT. No where can you find fans calling it STE. Voyager is VOY (or occasionally VGR). What would you even do with TOS and TNG? STT? STO and STG?

When we needed these shorthand terms, we came up with them and even gave the original series it's own unofficial subtitle as "The Original Series".

So for those in need, here's the proper terms.

Star Trek (the original series): TOS

The Next Generation: TNG

Deep Space 9: DS9

Voyager: VOY or VGR

Enterprise: ENT

Discovery: DSC or DISCO

Picard: PIC

Lower Decks: LD or LDS

Prodigy: PRO

Strange New Worlds: SNW

For the films, it's pretty basic. Take the title and go. Yes, we include Ts for "The" - don't ask me why.

TMP, TWOK, TSFS, TVH, TFF, TUC, GEN, FC, INS, NEM, 09, ID, and Beyond as the only mono word title just gets the whole word. No one knows why lol. I guess BEY feels weird, like calling it BAE. But that's how everyone felt in 2016 so it's what happened.

I tell you all this NOT to make you feel like a lesser fan if you don't know it. On the contrary. I want you to know it because I'm welcoming you in. I want you in my fandom. And this is a piece of important messaging because it's been mutilated by toxic anti-fans. They and they alone embrace the obnoxious contradiction of calling the modern shows "STD" and "STP" etc for their own vile hate.

I want you all to know what true fans have used for decades. So you're not associated with bad people. You can dislike Disco or Picard, or DS9 or TOS. That's up to you. But it's toxic to be accidentally or unknowingly using the wrong terms that a particular nasty and vocal subset who hate the shows because of politics, bigotry, or grifting off hate use.

Don’t know what I would’ve done without fanfiction this year.

ох,любовь!!!

My mom: why do you get up so late? You don't do anything at all, what could you be tired of?

Me, internally: I'm tired of this motherfucking shitty life and I wish I could take me off I don't want to live another fucking moment

Me: I don't know 🤷🏽‍♀️

yes

i’m gonna watch the last episode of sherlock. should i prepare a pool for my tears?

Hey pals! A bit of a different comic this week! I made this working with Bird Safe Guelph to help spread some information about birds and window collisions. 

 - the issue: between 16 and 42 million birds die from fatal window collisions each year in Canada

- the solution: retrofitting windows is an easy and effective solution to preventing bird deaths

- the details: markings on windows should be on the outside of windows and no more than 5cm apart to be effective

- take action: each person can save birds lives by retrofitting their windows at home

- For folks in Guelph, Ontario @birdsafeguelph will be giving out free materials for transforming windows at home in the month of April, visit www.birdsafeguelph.ca for more info. 

 And visit Flap Canada and Feather Friendly for more information on the topic! Americans can find more information on local city initiatives here.