let there also be hope

Pro-censorship wattpad refugees drama is so funny to me because when I started using ao3 as a kid I was a devout mormon and I thought that reading anything even remotely pornagraphic was a sin and would ruin my life. So when I was 13 and found ao3 I went "oh awesome I found a fanfic website with a filtering system so I won't ever randomly stumble into porn. This is great! I was really worried about seeing something I didn't want to see on the other platforms." I didn't read any smut online until like three years later. If a mormon 13 year old can figure out 'don't like don't read' wattpad users can too cmon you guys i believe in you.

Environment art by Natalia Sidorova

There’s some discourse going down on Twitter right now where a fanfic author voiced annoyance that people won’t read long fics if their top/bottom preference isn’t honored considering that is such a small part of the fic. I agree with OP that that is a very dumb reason not to read a fic you might otherwise enjoy but in the end, people are allowed to read what they want. My issue is that everyone is claiming who tops and who bottoms affects characterization—that this one tiny thing permeates the entire fic—and y’all. I cannot stress enough that half the time I, the great and powerful author, don’t even know who’s going to top and who’s going to bottom until I sit down to write the scene. Especially in long fics where there’s usually multiple sex scenes. Is that weird? I thought that was normal 😭

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

Truly thrilled to finally find this post on my dash.

Do the AI people know that the rest of us who never got on the bandwagon are still doing everything the same way we always have

The AI boom has changed literally nothing about my day to day life except I now have to work harder to get access to reliable information, all the important admin work is being done wrong, and I keep getting DMs letting me know the perfectly ordinary and plausible photo I liked was actually a fake image generated by a fascist to generate views and churn out ad money for the purpose of funding their tree-powered puppy-flushing toilet

my genuine opinion on the "is fanfiction real literature" debate entire hinges on which side is being more annoying at the moment.

on one hand i have encountered people who think fanfiction writers are single handedly saving art , and think criticizing fanfiction is anti-queer or whatever" and those people are extremely annoying, on the other hand i have also encountered people who think fanfiction is degenerate slop with 0 artistic value that's rotting your brain" and those people are extremely annoying too, so i guess the only person i can trust is myself who has never made a pretentious post on the internet in my entire human life.

Three things:

The owner of the most tacky kitschy tiled house ever

You should be able to rot in bed for 2, maybe 3 hours after waking up before it starts affecting what time it is. If I wake up at 8:30 and lie in bed for 2hr it should still be 8:30 when I get up

two forces pulling in opposite direction • I had the pleasure of painting Sten with the tarot card The Chariot as inspiration for 2026's Dragon Age Annual: ARCANA!

sabine and bull by @mooreaux all the way from 2024!!

i love it when a washed up old guy can't do the thing he loves anymore and so takes a promising younger guy who needs direction under his wing and develops a psychosexual obsession with him. like yessss live vicariously through him so that his only sense of self comes from your approval, which he'll never be able to truly get bc you'll always be bitter you can't do the thing yourself

it's extra good if the promising young guy realizes exactly what's happening and knows its a little fucked but they hero worship the washed up old guy so much they're like please use my body as a vessel for your greatness

The second portrait I had the pleasure of doing for the wonderful Stasia~

KOKUHO 国宝 (2025, Lee Sang-il)