when u have strong political opinions but u also have anxiety disorder….. social justice worrier
yep
repeat after me:
criticizing people on harmful art is fine, explaining to them about it, blocking them if they refuse to change, even warning others that you think this art may be harmful to: a okay
callout posts to dox them, wishing death or harm on them, inciting a mob to lynch them, hateful words just for the sake of it:
makes. you. the bad. person.
Growing up in internet fandom in the 00s, remembering:
1. ff.net banned NC-17 fics
2. The moment you signed a disclaimer for reading fics that you’re 18 years old when you’re actually 18
3. Trying to keep up with the threads on Yahoo mailing lists
4. Exploring fanfic archives through “Web rings” of fic sites
5. Livejournal: drabbles, ficlets, vignetts, comment fics, lj communities, when OkCupid was funny personality quizzes
6. Learning about society (and social psychology) through Fandom_wank
7. Discovering ships via ship_manifestos: also, words like “plotbunny”, “squee”,” guh”, “squick”, “plotsheep”
8. Yuletide fics is Happy Holidays for EVERYONE- fic recs everywhere
9. Wanting fanfic Awards in the form of icons you can put on your fic site and respecting the fics that had those icons
10. The joy of browsing fics via Del.icio.us (TAG SYSTEMS RULE)
You know what I want more of? Variety in aliens. No, I don’t mean more designs for alien species. I mean variety within a species. They always seem to have the same government, the same culture, the same religion, the same language. Come on, humans don’t work that way!
“Say, there’s a Qualar over there. What are they saying?”
“No idea.”
“What?”
“That’s a Kinzian Qualar. I’m a Surolian Qualar. You’d have just as much luck understanding them as I would. You’re lucky I even speak Human.”
“Human isn’t a language.”
“What?”
me: *goes to followers and types in a mutuals url*
tumblr: this user is still following you :)
me: *quiet, deeply relieved breath*
[via karlcat]
