I don't think people who come from wattpad after the purge and now want ao3 to have its own official app understand that one of the main reasons behind the recent wattpad purge that drove them to ao3 was due to pressure from appstore demanding wattpad to be more strict and follow appstore's policy. wattpad complied in order for its app to be able to remain on appstore. thus the wattpad purge.

ao3 doesn't have an app because for it to have an app, appstore will have to approve it first. and if, hypothetically, ao3 needs appstore to approve it, it will also have to abide by appstore's pro-censorship stance and start banning dark and taboo fics, which is against its own core principle of being completely against censorship.

ao3 doesn't need an app. it works more than fine without an app. the reason ao3 can allow dark and taboo fics, the reason it can allow the most disgusting and shockingly vile fics, and be completely against censorship is because it doesn't need appstore's approval. it stands on its own as a non-profit organization with functioning site and a team of lawyers protecting its platform, its users, and every single fanwork on its platform.

everybody say thank you ao3

It's being emo hours about how actually upsetting it is that Shane did like Rose so much. Because it's one thing to show a closeted man force himself try to date a woman for a beard or in an attempt at denying his sexuality, it's another to watch a gay man who does want that woman, force himself to date her and have sex with her when what he wants, what he craves, is just the simplest friendship and connection.

Because Shane was instantly enamoured with Rose, he loved talking with her, he laughs and banters and pushes his own boundaries for her. He obviously finds her so delightful. And it is SO upsetting that in his mind the only way he gets access to a relationship with her is if it's a romantic or sexual one.

It's made SUCH a point when he actually connects with a new person in a real way, whether it's when he meets Rose or Hayden or Ilya, because to Shane it is such a rare and wonderful thing. And few things in the show break my heart as much as Shane watching Rose walk up the stairs naked and his expression, knowing he's about to have sex he doesn't want because society says he only gets to touch the kind of friendship he actually craves with this delightful person he's found if he sleeps with her.

And while I know part of what pushes him to decide to date Rose is the situation with Ilya, I don't think he could have walked away from Rose easily either way. He as a character is filled with so much yearning. And one of the most painful things he says to his mother after coming out is that he tried. He did want Rose. He tried.

And it's a miracle she turned out to be an even better friend than he would have ever dared dream. But fuck does it hurt still to think what he thought he had to do to have that friend.

Over the years I've seen a lot of people lament that they'd like to try podcast voice acting but they have a speech impediment or the "wrong" accent for it or sound too "noticably trans" or suchlike and this is a shame because these are very often my favourite voices to hear.

"I want to but nobody would want to hear me because I [haven't done voice training/have flat affect/stutter/have a strong accent/damaged my voice/haven't started T/have tourettes/don't think I sound very cool/etc.]" Are all sentiments I've heard before. But not only are unique voices so much easier to pick out of a cast, you sound like real people I care about. It makes me happy.

If this doesn't end with "I don't want to", you are incorrect. This, including you.

my cat was elected “the next charlie kirk” and he became a right wing mouthpiece even though he’s a regular cat and can’t talk. i watched him on TV (he was dressed up in a little suit and tie) & he was at some rally, and i felt really disappointed that my son grew up to become a grifter.

Ok, but this is HILARIOUS.

Meowlie Purrk

I'm allo but i'm thinking about amatonormativity tonight

I feel like if losing platonic relationships (in any way, let alone fucking chatastrophically, hi teenage me) was treated with the same respect as breakups are instead of there being a hierachy it'd have spared me a lot of bottling shit up and not processing emotions when i was younger.

YEP at some point i was so lost about what i was feeling that i was like "oh huh it's like grief but for a living person"

"old friend" by mitski was the top second and first song in my spotify wrapped for the next two years respectively. I was NOTT fine.

[ID: tags: #especially because friendship breakups can happen at a young age and nobody tells kids how to manage those big feelings #everybody talks about love and stuff but nobody tells you what to do when your friendship shatters #so kids (and many adults too) bottle those feelings up leaving them scarred #so... yeah /end ID]

hot take possibly? but i actually think it’s okay for things to be marketed for adults. it’s literally okay if things aren’t suitable for children. i feel like we are losing the plot

Correct. Furthermore: children bending or breaking the rules to get a peek at something that's not intended for them is a part of growing up.

old deer coincidental framing concepts

as a trans man, so many of the things cis men consider to be “emasculating” are so fucking funny. you are our gender’s weakest soldier. you would kill yourself if you were a trans man for a day. how are you going to tell me I’m ‘not a real man’ and then start cheating on your wife because she makes more money than you and it makes you feel ‘emasculated’? your masculinity is as fragile as a champagne glass and you’re throwing stones? lmfaoooo

God made me trans because he knew you couldn’t handle it

Because I saw this mentioned in the comments, I think what cis men describe when they speak about feeling ‘emasculated’ is very different than the feeling of gender dysphoria. It is an ego bruise. A dent. Anything that makes them feel like they are not an upstanding, radioactively, toxically masculine member of dominant gender. “I won’t eat any vaguely phallic fruit because it might look kind of gay and being gay makes you less of a man.” is very different than “My body, the way that I am forced to present myself and the way others perceive me is at odds with my inner self and the core of my identity as a human being and it hurts.”

Once again, God or fate made me trans because the guys who think eating a banana is gay and gay is bad would not have survived. A lot of gender is a performance, they’re rigidly reading from a script and yelling at someone in misplaced rage every time they feel like they got a line wrong, I’m doing improv comedy from the heart with a few fun quotes from the classics that I enjoy.

what the fuck are my mutuals doing

Settlers of catan

I miss when it was “that’s photoshopped” instead of “that’s ai”

In complete honesty, my belief in copyright and piracy is that studios need to make media available 24/7 or else they lose rights to it.

You want to stop making DVDs? Cool put it on a streaming service. Want to take it off streaming services? Cool start making DVDs. You don’t want to do either? Cool you can’t take people to court for burning it onto CDs or sharing it. That’s just keeping the media alive.

And none of this “well you can go on eBay and get it for $80” nope. You need to be actively distributing it.

I absolutely agree with this. Use it or lose it, can’t horde it.

My only caveat and I really don’t know how you’d set it or enforce it, would also be to qualify it as “affordably available.” So that in the case of, say, a movie, a $100 steel book ultra deluxe 4k hd version as your sole means of offering it doesn’t count. You’d also need something like a $19.99 basic ass dvd in circulation.

it’s small joys saturday y’all let’s get it

JD Vance takes his faith as seriously as someone placing a DoorDash order

When I first learned JD Vance ‘has Mass at home,’ I got really excited because I was hoping for ‘JD Vance reinventing Protestantism in the stupidest way possible’ would get added to the 2026 Bingo Card but alas there are priests in involved

i love seeing cardinals and bluejays together i’m always like “hehe.. evil siblings”

this is what i’m all about babyyyyy

They’re not even related. Jays are a type of corvid, like crows and magpies, and Cardinals are a grosbeak.

well you see, they are both birds and they both have fun hats. hope this helps

I’m just thinking about how many times I’ve heard my dad on a long call with an obvious scammer and I’ll start begging him to get off the phone because I always think he’s a very easy mark and he’ll just keep going and then after a while he’ll say something like “I died 20 years ago” and hang up.

Virgin Millennial Daughter with 20 hrs of screentime a day: Dad! They’re scamming you! Dad! Stop! They will take your savings and your identity! Hang up before they SWAT you!

Chad Boomer dad with a flip phone he has not recharged since 2014: Well gee I wish I could give you my bank account number after you spent all this time on the phone explaining this car deal with me but I don’t have access to my finances because I am in Rikers for felony murder.

I haven't actively used this site in years but this grabbed my imagination so thoroughly I had to draw it

The art style just made me ask out loud "Damn, when did Calvin transition?"

The art style just made

me ask out loud “Damn, when did

Calvin transition?”

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

spell that makes you get up and do the thing you were procrastinating ⚡️