I Made A Meme To Express How I Feel Right Now

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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

Pandemic Gotham is pretty much the same as regular Gotham, only instead of just carrying our masks around, we wear them full time! Oh, and the bridges are down again... But compared to the case numbers in Metropolis, it's a riot! #onlycitywithnocases

Edit: I should not have used the word riot, apparently it gave the Joker an idea. #oops #sorrybatfamily

Dick is the kid who stubbornly leaves Bruce on read for months if his dad says ONE thing he doesn't like. Jason is the kid who'll obsessively check his phone to see if Bruce returned his " Morning, fuckface" text with his usual " Good morning, son. Love you" and WILL freak out if he doesn't get the ❤️ attached to it

i knew about it before hand (even put a reminder of it on the home page of my phone), and I still forgot about it.

Normally I just read a fanfic that I've downloaded before, but I just fell into a new fandom (it's a wonder I didn't get to pjo before with how many crossovers I read) and my hyper focus (sometimes ADHD is a bitch) refuses to read anything else. And I haven't downloaded any of them yet 😭😭😭

Polished Malachite Stalactite - Copper Crescent, Congo

Out of curiosity, if you could make one change to ao3, what would it be?

I'd want:

Change character tags to "MAJOR character" tags and relationship tags to "Relevant relationship" tags to prevent overtagging

Have authors have to click a box stating that their work is actually in line with ao3 terms of service and not a find a fic.

Ban DNI tags because they are against the spirit of the site. Its an archive. Not how it works.

As a batfam enjoyer: Jason’s character has not been handled well since UTRH and Lost Days, meaning he has not had nearly the correct story impact in decades, so him fitting into the batfam right now is nowhere near even a decent writing decision. His entire character is meant to be discomforting to and challenging Bruce constantly. He was reduced to “trigger happy idiot with daddy issues and no solid beliefs” almost immediately and has stayed like that, so he is being thrust into another supporting role without getting 5% of the individual growth that the other main characters get.

It shows very clearly in that he doesn’t even get his very first established skills levels, making him seem incompetent in order to shove him into a role within the batfam. This can’t even be excused by “the writers focused so much on the emotional aspect that they altered everything else to fit” because the closest we’ve gotten to genuine, not shallow emotions was the cheer induced desire scene in Urban Legends. And it was followed by Jason giving up guns, very obviously a lead up to him giving up killing for Batman.

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.

I will never fully understand why things happen the way they do on this planet. Too many people hold their tongue here. Too many people hide their feelings. And at the end of the day, that does nothing but hurt someone. The men and women of Tamaran were always taught to live by their emotions. To trust their first reaction, as it is the most true. Cyborg argues that you need time to make the proper decision. I argue that time blurs the true intent.

To Earth standards, I may appear brash and rushed. I never hide what I think. Perhaps that is why Tamaran was a target for so many invasions. Our captors may have enjoyed seeing what pain they inflicted upon us. For our tears are never hidden either.

This garden is all I have left to remind me of Tamaran. The Hy'tt Blossoms. The Rutt Trees. One of Earth’s customs for the warriors 2called the samurai is to learn patience and understanding from your garden. I hope that is what this teaches me. It would be nice to understand the concept of patience. It would be nice to fit in a bit more with these new Teen Titans.