Author: emotionalgay94

curlicuecal:

“but AO3 *wants* writers on their platform, writers are providing a service for them, that’s how they get content.”

no, they are PROVIDING you a platform. for your content. as a service to you.

please, please, please learn how the internet works.

the companies that WANT you on the platform are the companies that are SELLING YOU TO ADVERTISERS.

*Facebook* wants you on their platform. *Tumblr* wants you on their platform. *FF.net* wants you on their platform. You are Facebook’s product. Facebook is not a service to you. It is an incentive for you to give them eyes and data to sell. And the second your eyes and data stop being profitable they will toss you under the bus.

That’s why fans made AO3. So we had a space that was ours, that wasn’t profiting off of us, so we wouldn’t get sold out.

mulletlove:

lgbt checklist

  • non professional haircuts
  • inappropriate foot ware
  • shirt way 2 small or way 2 big
  • had to at one point prepare for a possible future where their family and friends were no longer a support system
  • public transit
  • substance abuse
  • intimacy issues exacerbated by endangering your life by public displays of affection
  • fuck cops
  • bad memory
  • utility related comfort item (The Jacket, The Backpack etc)
  • violently hating your body as a teen but realizing it’s other people’s perceptions and expectations of it that you hate in your adult life
  • never fucking going to the doctor
  • UTIs
  • everyone in ur friend group has tried to kill themselves
  • maturity at a young age
  • flannel