It’s hilarious to me when people complain about AO3 and its policies, and what they allow on the site - but it’s ESPECIALLY funny when people complain like “Why can’t the freaks make their own site and just go there?”
Sweetie… AO3 is the site for that. Y'all invaded our space.
Wattpad and FFN still exist. Go there. They’re as shitty and G-rated as you want. You can’t have the luxuries that AO3 offers if you’re gonna be a little bitch about its policies. Imagine walking into a strip club and complaining about the alcohol and naked ladies when there’s a god damn Dennys next door you could have gone to. Christ.
Okay chaps. Here we go. This is for all the people (and yes, there was more than one) who requested Obi-Wan in an oversized/soft sweater (dog bless you all). I threw in the additional suggestions of PJs and a cup of tea for good measure because I appreciate efficiency, and I also appreciate all of you.
This guy was just an ordinary probationary police officer when he asked a ghost for a statement and quickly discovered that he had an affinity to magic and that there was a whole other world within London (and the surrounding area - and beyond, I guess). He gets a different job within the police, monitoring magical crimes.
I love the fact that he has an interest in architecture and history so his POV explains the different places in London and their significance. And all the forms he has to fill out both amuses me and makes it more grounded in reality - despite the fact that he’s talking to a century-old man and the rivers and tributaries of the Thames.
“the term mpreg is inherently transphobic because pregnancy is gender neutral” I hate to tell you this but in the pregnancy fetish fanfiction community they also use the term fpreg
One of the worst parts of current internet culture is that it makes good old fashioned complaining so difficult. I don’t wanna cancel anyone or bully anyone, I’m not trying to form a hate mob I’m not calling anyone out, i just wanna bitch about something. Because complaining is fun, good for you, even. Is that too much to ask? Where is the room for shooting the shit?
Idk a lot of the backlash to broadening who falls under what terms comes from the need to distinctly fall under the specific label you worked towards…but distance from adjacent labels only limits your allies and puts you in a rigid box you can’t come back out of either.
Saw a post by a trans woman horrified by the concept of having overlapping experience with femboys because “fuck you I am a woman.” You are. A woman with a lot of overlapping experience with a GNC man. You’re not a GNC man. He’s not a woman. And the gap between you two is not a chasm.
“How dare you say trans men are similar to butch lesbians. Trans men are men.” Yeah, men with similar experiences to butch lesbians. The butch lesbian isn’t a man. You aren’t a woman. And the gap between you is not a chasm.
This mindset doesn’t even account for GNC men who also ID as women, trans men who use the label of lesbian. Butch can be a label for a person of either AGAB.
Binary trans people wanna separate themselves from each other and from nonbinary people sooo bad. Now it makes eggs feel like the jump from GNC woman to man is an insurmountable journey. A femboy gets told he’s making a mockery of trans women’s experiences. A transmasc femboy is seen as just a faker. A butch trans lesbian is seen as a faker.
These labels are all just plots on the map, not one side or the other. You journey to the farthest edges and you find twinks and lesbians who look and act identical despite being supposed opposites. It’s all made up, we’re all queer.
Transphobes aren’t attacking bathrooms randomly. It’s not about protecting women and children, it’s about preventing trans people from participating in public life.
Access to toilet facilities are essential to being able to participate in public life.
It’s why society was so reluctant to introduce public bathrooms for women, because before that all public bathrooms were for men only.
It’s why society was so reluctant to desegregate toilets for Black people.
It’s why society was and is so reluctant to create disability-accessible bathroom stalls.
If a person can’t access a toilet, then it’s extremely difficult to impossible for them to participate in society.
So, the best way to exclude a group of people from society without putting up a literal sign saying “x group of people not allowed” is to prevent them from accessing the bathroom.
CONCEPTUALIZATION — The hanged man behind a hostel. A stoning. The red-headed child. This all seems familiar to you.
ENCYCLOPEDIA [Formidable: Success] — This setup is exactly like the opening scene of the film “Goncharov” directed by Martin Scorsese. It won several awards and is considered by many critics to be one of the best mafia cinescopes of all time.
