Apparently most people didn’t know this but this is relevant because Fran Drescher, who played Fran Fine on the Nanny, is currently the president of the SAG-AFTRA union, which is going on strike.
standing ovation for @ao3org for fighting for fandom. we see you, we love you, we appreciate you, and we will be kind and patient until such a time as this issue is resolved.
(we will hopefully all also remember this next donation season)
rb to kiss ao3 staff on the forehead and give everyone a juice box and some animal crackers <3
Reblog to remember to contribute to their hookers and firewall budget
My to read list online & offline is insane.
Also apologies to the beautiful Margaret. It took a DDOS Attack on AO3 to get me to restart When the lights go down on Broadway
tumblr mobile has seadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.
examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it “working”), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the ‘for you’ page.
the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:
reverse the recent image viewer update
scrap the new users ’for you’ page default setting
let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely
increase efforts against spam / porn bots
make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam
let us go nuts show nuts again… for real this time
commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!
(suggestions welcome!)
to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don’t use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.
I suggest the 48 hours between the 30th of June to the end of the 1st of July.
this marks the end of pride month (for the “queerest place on the internet”) and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).
tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).
on the one hand, yes there is an othering effect by it
but also, as someone who uses “k is it salad? or salad salad?” to indicate a certain variety (in this case, indian style tea as opposed to chinese or japanese or even sri lankan) is a thing in english even outside of the Sahara, Naan, Scampi or other such examples.
So yes, it’s in use contrary to the local typical variety of an item, but it is also useful to just avoid “indian style flatbread” because I do see folks drop the secondary english qualifer when they grow comfortable enough with the term. To use Chai again, those in the predominatly Indian areas of the metropolitan area are less prone to saying “Chai Tea” than places that feel the need to differentiate and specify the variety, say in more Greek.
This is also not just a feature of Modern English! English does it to itself, most likely due to older varieties of English encountering each other, like Wooky Hole Caves being “Cave Cave Cave” with it probably being called Wooky by the Celts, then the Anglo Saxons came around and called it Wooky Hole, and then modern English renamed it the current name scheme. English isn’t the only language to to this double naming either, such as in Iceland there is a place called
Haukafellsfjall
- in which both Fell and Fjall are Norse varieties of the word Mountain. Whereever one language encounters another, it’s bound to happen, but it does seem like an interesting specific trait English excells at in order to more properly categorize things.
So yes, it’s part of categorizing when you could just say tea. But as my mum found out to her absolute horror, when she asked for “Tea” in a McDonalds in the US, she got some sickly, sweet, cold confection in a glass when she wanted black tea without additions. “Tea Tea” might have gotten the locals to ask for confirmation. But if she had wanted Chai Tea, well… someone would have at least googled and figured it out much more easily.
“ao3 should have an algorithm” ao3 should continue only giving me exactly what I ask for which happens because I know how to use the search, sort, and filter functions
If you’d like to pretend there’s an algorithm, try this trick: the next fic you really like, click into the author’s profile and scroll down to the recent bookmarks. A lot of people use the bookmarks feature on AO3, and by looking there, you can see what they have liked enough to mark. Then you can read through what they ‘recommend’! Some of it is really enjoyable and some of it is awful, just like what you’d get from an algorithm (or a tag search). Good luck, have fun.
Catalogues and Archives my sweets. Makes me want to deep dive into the UofT Library catalogue again.
• Childhood Friends to Lovers? Practically Incest! • Two characters share the same (extremely distant) ancestor? Literally incest! Bad and wrong! • Platonic familial affection and intimacy? Suspicious. • “Sworn Brothers”? You guessed it! Incest.
• Height/size difference? Suspicious. • Two 17 year olds? You should have just made them adults. • But also aging up characters is Not Allowed. • 30+ year old with a much older character? Ew, age gap! • Puppy crushes? Illegal.
• Enemies to Lovers is Abuse, • and you should never redeem or sympathize with Villains/Abusers/The Bad People.
• Monsterfuckers? Zoophilia. Or necrophilia, if it’s vampires or whatever. The point is you’re wrong. And bad. >:(
“Wow what can they read? Only the fluffiest Coffeeshop/Soulmate/HC?”
• Coffeeshop AUs? Romanticizes workplace harassment. And gentrification. • Soulmate AUs? Amatonormative. Supports predetermination. • Hurt/comfort? Why would you want to hurt the characters? Freak.
Also:
• Straight ships are heteronormative. • But queer ships are fetishizing. • It’s very simple!
And even:
• You need the original media creator’s consent to write fanfic. Anne Rice was Valid, actually!
More of y’all need to answer “yes” on the clone fucking quiz and that’s that on that.
went to the grocery store today and i was very pleased by their pride cake selections
The lesbian one ☝️
"Hey, big brother!" grinned the boy who actually stood taller than his brother, but had the same crop of dark hair. Blaine's was tamed down with product, but this newcomers' curls hung free and around his head. He was Blaine's contrast—where Blaine looked utterly tidy, Shane was the appearance of haste and flighty expression. Blaine was short, stocky and put together, but Shane was taller, leaner and languorous. But they both shared a notable resemblance to each other. He reached him, panting, and clapped a hand on his older brother's shoulder. "Found you!"
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you just dropped this in my inbox 6 days ago for what purpose my good dude?
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