lavenderek:

some of these dingbats, every damn year: WOW ao3 is asking for donations.

everyone, every damn year: yeah they need money to operate and it’s free to use, so

dingbats: oh REALLY. well what are they using the money for, it could be going anywhere

everyone: no uh they have a whole ass section on their site that lists exactly where the money is going

dingbats: well it’s suspicious that it really costs that much

everyone: well it does cost that much

dingbats: they take all this money and yet they can’t micromoderate the site to my own personal specifications constantly??

everyone: they’re volunteers who also have other jobs and we don’t want them to godmod

dingbats: they don’t pay the authors though

everyone: what? why would they pay their customers?

dingbats: i can’t afford to give them money

everyone: then don’t. it’s optional

dingbats: i don’t want to pay them

everyone: then… don’t. it’s still optional

dingbats: ohhh i get it. the people running ao3 are volunteers and solicit donations from users so that they can afford to operate the company without having to place ads on the site?

dingbats: and non-profit companies asking for donations and managing their money based on how the company operates is completely normal and reasonable behavior?

dingbats: and the fact that the site fills a unique niche should make me grateful that it exists and not entitled and bitter that it’s not exactly what i want it to be?

dingbats: and the ad-free site is free to use, so if i’m not happy with the way it’s run or i’m uncomfortable with being asked for donations i can always just not use the site?

everyone: yeah basically

dingbats: goooootchaaaa. ok. thanks!

everyone: no problem

dingbats: see you next year for the same exact conversation?

everyone: can’t wait

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creamsnekkle asked:

i REALLY need this please explain to me who margaret thatcher is because shes slowly becoming one of those people that people will talk about like ayy 🦀 she dead 🦀 but theres an unspoken rule to never explain who she is

thebibliosphere:

Aha, ah. Where to begin.

So if you google her, you’d find out she was the first female Prime Minister in the UK from 1979 to 1990, which for some reason has translated into her being a GirlBoss™ figure in the United States.

This is perhaps fitting because she was the epitome of Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss, and an overall fucking vile human being that led to “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” reaching #2 in the UK charts following her death and people throwing street parties like the end of WW2.

Much like Regan’s grave is a gender-neutral bathroom, so too is the grave of Maggie “Milk Snatcher” Thatcher–and if you’re wondering how she got that name, she was instrumental in ending the “free milk for schoolchildren” program for children over the age of seven, which was rolled out in the 1920s to combat childhood malnutrition in impoverished areas.

She also paved the way for the downfall of industry and manufacturing in the UK, the Poll Tax, started the process for the privatization of the NHS, and basically caused an economic downturn which is still being felt in many of the impoverished areas of the UK today and indirectly enabled the current austerity measures in the UK which have killed millions of disabled and vulnerable people.

This doesn’t even touch on things like the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, Section 28 and the renowned Miners and Newspaper Printers strikes that led to some of the most desperate impoverishment not seen since the second world war and a whole other slew of crimes against moral decency and humanity that resulted in commentary like this on the BBC before she’d even died:

“It’ll be the first time the 21 gun salute shoots the coffin.”

“For three million, they could give everyone in Scotland and shovel, and we would dig a hole so deep that we could hand her over to Satan personally.”

So, yeah.

🦀🦀🦀Happy anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s Death.🦀🦀🦀

May her soul reap what she sowed in life and never know peace.

Anonymous asked:

Wild that people are starting kink at pride discourse this fucking early in the gods damned year. It's the first week of April for fucks sake. Pride is at least one and three quarters months away at this point. They could be doing anything with their fucking time, and their choosing this? Wild.

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queerautism:

alter-natively-us:

queerautism:

alter-natively-us:

queerautism:

alter-natively-us:

queerautism:

I do think it’s important to understand that it started by sysmeds digging up my nsfw kink blog, and trying to use that + the fact I support kink at pride against me

I have never touched your nsfw blog nor would I ever want to

Leather gear etc does belong in general pride events

What we are upset about is your not wanting the nsfw part kept in an 18+ section

No, do not start lying about this. I literally NEVER talked about the “nsfw part” of kink. I mentioned carrying a colourful flogger as a cute kinky prop and people very much did have a problem with that.

This is your banner on your second blog

This is a scene and not just someone wearing a leather harness or a pup mask

You have defended this as being child safe

Fuck off

Again, this is an image from this event

Which i started using because someone tried to use it as an argument against kink at pride and also bc they are adorable. This was a pose they briefly took for people to take pictures btw. Posing for pics is not a scene. This was how they usually went around.

You can see the kids in the background. Both their parents and the event organisers clearly thought this wasn’t too explicit. So what’s your issue?

This was another group at the same event. Is this okay?

The first has ass exposed the second does not

Oh my god please don’t ever go to the beach, you’re gonna lose your mind

What was that post that went “Americans are like that bc they’ve never seen their grandma’s tits?”

Yeah.

More men gotta have their ass exposed if this is the reaction.

Goodness, this is embarrassing to watch.

Every argument about “kink at Pride” falls apart when you ask things like “why aren’t you banning other clothing used to sexually signal” or “why aren’t you in favor of banning swimsuits”.

It’s always just kink clothing, which is no more and no less overtly sexual than any other clothing used for sexual signaling - which is, bluntly, a lot of clothing worn by adult humans.

I get it. You’ve got some shit to work out about kink. Maybe your own kinkiness, or maybe what you were told about it being dirty or perverted or harmful. You know - the same things you were told about queer sex.

It’s no surprise that the kink and queer communities are tightly intertwined, or that kink is embedded in the DNA of Pride and always has been. The people who are told their natural desires are filthy and bad have always been allies, and the overlap between the communities is broad.

There is literally nothing wrong with anything happening in those pictures, and seeing something wrong comes from accepting the same messages which find something wrong in all queer relationships. And that’s on the viewer, not the lovely trio enjoying a nice day out at Pride.

It is pretty interesting that the “kink at pride discourse” seems to mostly be flaring up right when it’s become significantly harder to get away with being outwardly transphobic, and it really seems like it’s serving as a replacement wedge in LGBT discourse now that reactionaries aren’t able to credibly push “dropping the T” anymore.

I don’t think every single person who wants to ban kink at pride is some anti-LGBT sockpuppet, I think some people believe it earnestly, but it really does feel like the core of “ban kink at pride” is rooted in the same core rationale behind gay transphobia, i.e. trying to get the LGBT community to hack off one of its own limbs in the interest of assimilationist acceptability.

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Lil Nas X - Montero (Call Me By Your Name) on the BET Awards 2021

Loving the MJ vibes!

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Coco just frayed the edges of everyone!!!

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