Karamelldiamant - Kadia

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The AO3 Tag of the Day is: Parental guidance suggested for tricksy bastards, tomfoolery, hijinks, silliness, and otherwise mischievous, clown-like antics

y’all think that when villains poison the water supply they ever stop and remember that they need to drink too?? #onlyingotham #pleaseijustwantabreak #stoppoisoningthewater

a list of takes that tumblr apparently cant handle:

1. calling someone by a label that they dont identify with is harmful

2. men can be abused too, not just women and gnc

3. asexual people are valid and deserve representation

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The AO3 Tag of the Day is: As long as you don’t leave the carcass on my doorstep

This is a callout post.

Hank, why do you have a stark computer? I thought you would've made your own.

Hank: I use a Stark sometimes because I know Tony spies on it, and it’s fun to type weird things into google and watch him freak out and try to decifer what it means. Recently, I’ve been researching “What to do when you have romantic feelings towards shrubs.” Tony didn’t look me in the eye on our last skype call. It’s pretty great.

i made a meme to express how i feel right now

So, I work from home for Keurig. Someone in Gotham set up an account years ago under the name Red Robin. I figured they were trolling us.... And then they regularly place $500 orders.... With Bruce Wayne's credit card. I actually talked to him once. Fell asleep halfway through and someone picked up the phone, apologized and hung up... Think it was either Nightwing or Batman. All I know is that they placed an order for a brewer and 8 boxes of pods to come to my apartment.

#OnlyInGotham

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Posted: November 17, 2024, 11:15 UTC

In response to the reactions I’ve seen to #EndOTWRacism

Four things that can, actually, co-exist:

1.) being anti-censorship

2.) writing extremely kinky, fucked up idfic

3.) being a longtime lover and supporter of AO3

4.) supporting the End OTW Racism initiative

There are only four things the End OTW Racism initiative is asking for right now.

ASK ONE:

Harassment policies that can be regularly updated to address both on-site harassment and off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users, with updated protocols for the Policy & Abuse Team to ensure consistent and informed resolutions of abuse claims

If the inclusion of “off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users” upsets you, try one of the following:

1.) consider the idea that a person should be able to submit evidence of off-site harassment in conjunction with reports of on-site harassment, or

2.) go to the final thought at the bottom of this post.

ASK TWO:

A content policy on abusive (extremely racist and extremely bigoted) content; by abusive, we are talking about fanworks that are intentionally used to spread hate and harassment, not those that accidentally invoke racist or other bigoted stereotypes

Say it louder for the people in the back: “we are talking about fanworks that are intentionally used to spread hate and harassment, NOT those that accidentally invoke racist or other bigoted stereotypes.”

(If you believe removing works that harass actual human beings is the same thing as censorship, you’ll need to engage with someone who has far more spoons than I do.)

ASK THREE:

Hiring a Diversity Consultant within the next 3-6 months

How is this controversial?  It’s been THREE YEARS.

ASK FOUR:

Committing to a policy of transparency on this topic, with quarterly updates on the progress of these projects including challenges and their plan for overcoming those challenges. These quarterly updates should be published on OTW News page and newsletters, not solely discussed in Board meetings

This is not a big ask.  This is an important enough topic that one should not be forced to either attend the Board meetings or read the published Board minutes in order to receive an update.

Final thought:

Your beliefs do not have to perfectly align with a movement (nor every person within that movement) in order to support that movement.

And if you think they do, please consider how that works in real life. (It doesn’t; that’s how movements get divided.)

And perhaps also take a moment to appreciate the purity culture/purity wank implications. (“I only support things that are absolutely perfect!”)

This post is from May 18, 2023.  The End OTW Racism initiative referred to here is the planned two weeks of action from May 17 through May 31, 2023.