"Is There Anybody Out There, Who Is Lost And Hurt And Lonely, Too? Are They Bleeding All Your Colours

HEARTSTOPPER season 2 + "bi/bisexual"

This is a Moving Forward PSA for everyone using AO3. I am witnessing the results of a culture clash and communication failure. Not a lack of communication, but a misunderstanding caused by changes in fandom culture.

Before fic tagging was common, fics weren’t tagged. You had a pairing, if applicable, an author’s note about genre or general content, and if they were feeling charitable, a vague content warning. There are even a few genres of fic where even vaguely tagging literally spoils the plot and impact (such as horror, psyche thriller, in which the likely content is implicit to the genre). As a result, there is a basic category tag that permits this, as a courtesy to “old-fashioned” writers.

“No Archive Warnings Apply” means the fic is PG13 at worst, probably fluff, totally safe.

“Choose Not to Use Archive Warnings” is the polar opposite. It’s a glaring Enter at Your Own Risk billboard. It means: a shitload of warnings apply but I ain’t telling because this story requires shock value. It’s very important to read the author’s notes for those fics because they might be using that older format from above.

But without the context of fandom culture that generated AO3, it’s understandably easy to conflate the two categories, given their similar wording.

I raise you the giddy feeling of beginning to watch an episode of Board Game Club

In case you ever wanted to feel like you just finished watching an episode of house rules

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Sandi Toksvig so ‘distressed’ by anti-trans rhetoric she ‘could weep’

Sandi Toksvig has spoken of her heartbreak at the intense anti-trans rhetoric currently at play in the media and politics. 

Lesbian activist Sandi Toksvig:

//“I could weep. I don’t get it. It’s beyond me,” the former Great British Bake Off host said, “When the feminist movement started in the 60s and 70s, lesbians were often excluded, because we were told that we would make the movement less palatable.

“I have been excluded myself, so how could I do that to someone else? It fills me with rage.”//

Like I get what this is trying to do, but OMG DO YOU ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT ARSEHATS MOST OF THESE GODS AND GODESSES WERE?! Our dear HS characters don't deserve this.

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I am BEGGING for an open-world game with a functioning train or tram.

Like, you actually have to wait for it in real-time, physically step on, then wait for your stop with the ability to actually explore it and chat with the other riders

No loading screens

And when you aren’t on it, you can look over and see it doing its route without you, picking up and dropping off patrons whether you’re there or not

please i need a video game that captures the joy of free public transit

~ group cuddle in owl ~

From Pennycook et al. (2015).