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no, there’s no nurse shark, the big boy is a whale shark! different species 0:

Darn it! I had to read this twice, because my brain insists that those are IDENTICAL words. Which is ridiculous!

My brain is pretty good at organizing data, but when it makes a mistake, it doubles down on it. It is UTTERLY SURE that ‘2′s and ‘e’s are the same thing; that all personal names can be used at random; and apparently that ‘nurse shark’ and ‘whale shark’ are equivalent.

I am sorry, good artist.

What does this citation mean?

I’m reading a dictionary (eDIL) and it seems to cite the sources for its example texts. But I don’t understand the formatting at all!

Example:

  • as subst.,pn an Indian : Prois In-neccda `Proiss the Indian ,’ Ériu v 158.209

I guessed this meant the Ériu journal, volume 158, page 209.

But Ériu only has 60 volumes.

I tried volume 58, but it doesn’t have 200 pages. I’m just completely lost. Can anyone help?

Actually I have a question about commenting concrit now. What if something in a fic is seriously problematic? And obviously your mileage may vary on what qualifies, but for example – what if the story is pretty rapey but depicted & presented as a love story? And not in that pervasive, intentional way, but as in the author clearly isn’t aware. I don’t think many authors would take a criticism like that well, but should you still comment?

ao3commentoftheday:

pbjellieao3:

ao3commentoftheday:

That’s the sort of thing I wouldn’t say in a comment. That needs to come from someone with a relationship with the author who can have the kinds of conversations with them that need to be had. 

That said, if you’ve noticed something I’d encourage you to reach out (from a place of love). Better to come from someone who has concerns and wants the writer to improve than for the writer to see their work panned on a blog post or an anti-rec list. But even then, a tumblr ask/message or a twitter DM or something would be the better place for it. Comments are too public on AO3.

Anyone else have some advice here? I’ve never encountered this myself.

And I get your point, but in this case, it was very clearly understood. And the vast majority of the readership understood that. And sometimes as readers we think we understand things more than we do. This particular work had an adult  character (18) recovering from CSA who kept recreating the abuse. And it was brutal to read, but it was tagged as non-con. Somewhere between purity culture and the idea that nothing should ever be problematic, a reviewer decided to give their concrit that essential CSA character was a whore and that this story was devolving.

Too many reviewers do not understand the difference between a personal preference and actual constructive criticism.

If I write something from the perspective of a problematic character, (like Cartman, because I’m a SP writer), I’m not going to show him regretting his actions. He wouldn’t. His psychotic ass would be rationalizing as he went through the motions of whatever atrocity he wanted to do that day. 

There also comes a point of where I’m, personally, tagging everything as E rated angst. I’m not going to go through and tag every little thing that could ever be interpreted as problematic in the tags. It ruins the story. If I have to say that in chapter six there’s an amputation when I already tagged for graphic violence, the weight of that falls on the reader. If I tagged for non-con I’m not going to tag again for dub con, or sex as a weapon. If I tagged for character death I am not going to tag the exact way that character dies. In the nicest possible way, if you need a plot summary before you read my works then you should probably not be reading them for your mental stability. 

Fifty Shades of Grey is a rape fantasy, at best. And you know what, she’s free to have that fantasy. I’m not gonna ever read anymore of it, but I’m also not going to send her hate mail. 

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This comes back to an earlier question of the blog of how much tagging is too much and how much is not enough. To me, indicating specific chapters is too much for tags, but depending on the story and the readership, perhaps a heads up in an author’s not at the top of the chapter would be appreciated. Ditto if there’s MCD, I wouldn’t tag which character dies. I’d do it like a typical season finale where everyone knows it’s coming but they don’t know who it’ll be. 

I’ve seen some readers say they don’t look at tags at all and others say that tags are how they choose which fics to read. I’m curious how readers view the tagging discussion. What about other authors?

Thanks for your thoughts on this. 

I only remember to look at tags if the author’s note or summary suggest the story might have a personal trigger.

Well, I almost always check for pairings, because I’m aro-ace and have a complicated relationship with romantic fic, but otherwise my eyes skim over them.

But I LOVE authour’s notes. If they say, “see end note for details,” I am incredibly grateful and check those end notes before reading. If they spoil plot points, I rejoice because I won’t be hitting them unprepared.

I’ve sent personal notes to authours asking them to spoil certain plot points so I can make sure I’ll be able to handle the fic.

Tags are a lifesaver. I don’t think you have to tag every single thing, but broad categorical warnings are REALLY important to me. And the details in the end notes, if you’re willing!

ESPECIALLY non-con. I’m willing to read non-con, but if it isn’t warned for, I don’t think YOU realize that it’s problematic. I really don’t want another fic where the victim ending up with their abuser is the happy ending. So that clear warning in the tags is important. Some people say if they end up together in the tags, and I love that, but I’m sure it upsets other people. That might be another thing for the end notes.

Now, on to my opinions about anons question! (I have many opinions 🙂

I have found myself in this situation twice. I usually steer clear of anything in the grey area of romance/abuse. Twice, though, the line blurred after multiple chapters of story, where I’d been commenting and building a rapport with the authour.

The first time, it was a last chapter reversal. I think the authour panicked about the depressing ending that was coming – survivor recovering and missing their abuser as they come to terms with what happened. So the main character ran away to his abuser, abuser did love him even while remaining a monster, happy ending!

In that situation, I didn’t say anything. The story was done. I left a comment thanking them for the story, and made no reference to the final chapter.

The second situation was more complicated.I started worrying about a relationship that was just starting to develop. For about three chapters, I left positive reviews, and included questions about how the authour saw the relationship. I was a bit worried about character A’s ability to consent, was the authour planning on addressing that? Character B is character A’s caregiver, some people might consider that an unbalanced power dynamic. Are you aware of that? My brother is mentally disabled, and character A reminds me of him a lot, there are certain things I couldn’t handle reading about. Are these specific things going to happen?

The authour was happy to discuss things with me. After those three chapters, I realized that she just did NOT get it. She was trying to write something consensual, and failing utterly. So I thanked her for the fic, mentioned that it was getting a bit uncomfortable for me, because of things previously discussed, and noped out.

I don’t think you should ever tell an authour that their fic is problematic or bad. ‘This thing was a bit too close to this OTHER thing, which I have a personal problem with. I’ll skip this story and enjoy your next one,’ might be okay if you have a relationship with them. Maybe.

It’s hard.

Hey, Jewish Side of Tumblr

What are your thoughts on Christians wearing tischels? I mean, we’ve stolen everything else (and then said we were ‘sharing’) so I’m guessing y’all might not be too excited by the idea. But I’m not sure.

But imagine the batboys accidentally setting up safe houses right next door to each other

incogneat-oh:

Omg though? This is magnificent, and actually weirdly likely to happen when you consider buildings empty or abandoned, and central enough to be functional.

Except that now, all I’m picturing is Red Robin holed up in a dodgy apartment he’s got stocked with supplies, and he’s patching himself up and scowling because all he can smell is cigarette smoke?? and it wouldn’t bother him that much except he wants to sleep and it’s giving him a headache, so he winds up burying his face into the pillow and lamenting his choice of safe-houses. Only, the next morning, at about 6.45am when he’s happily dozing, he’s awoken by the THUNDEROUS SOUNDS of water moving through the ancient pipes in the walls. And then, half-asleep, bewildered, and incredibly cranky, Tim’s like ‘…who in hell showers this early?? Are they being punished?? Am I being punished??’— until he hears the singing start. A rock ballad, falsetto. In a very familiar voice.

At which point he yells “JASON!” and probably starts banging on the adjoining wall, and gives Jason a minor heart attack. (But he would probably keep singing, tbh.)

But I feel like Jason would find it hilarious and mildly confusing, because he doesn’t get why Tim’s so mad, until he starts on with “you were chain-smoking. at 2am. AT TWO, JASON”, and Jason, feeling a little bad, goes and gets them apology-breakfast. 

note-a-bear:

note-a-bear:

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It used to be that “stuff in your orbit” was a passive suggestion.
All day I’ve been trying to figure out why my dashboard flow has been stuttering and incoherent.
Turns out, they turned “stuff in your orbit” into the same damned thing as “best stuff first” and you have to turn it off in order to see your actual dash in actual chronological order.

Otherwise, you basically only see the feed as if it was a mishmash of your mutuals’(?) likes.

@staff NO ONE WANTS NON CHRONOLOGICAL DASHBOARDS. THAT’S NOT HOW MOST OF US USE TUMBLR
I’m not sure if it’s been rolled out to all mobile and non-mobile accounts, but if you notice that the dash isn’t moving as quickly as it once did….well, blame the new feature

At first I thought it was just tumblr being weird and laggy. But once I turned it off, there’s like, a lotttttt of things that weren’t there two minutes ago.

@hellsatmyfeet, on mobile at least, it’s under general settings >> dashboard preferences, and you can toggle it off and on

hello im the artist of the sharks you reblogged! idk how much you care, but the shark species from top to bottom are silky shark, whale shark, thresher shark, great white, and hammerhead. (the ray is a manta.) so i guess you know that now? they were also listed in the tags of the original post. i guess if you are ever at a loss as to species of animal you can check the original post as some wildlife artists do include that info! but it’s really up to you, haha.

Hmm … yeah, that would probably have been smart, huh?

In my defense, it was early morning and I changed my meds again, so my brain wasn’t so sharp. Still, that extremely clever solution to my confusion might not have occurred to me even at my best 😉

(I originally typed ‘manta ray’ but changed it because there was Actual Colour. I wasn’t sure my favourite ray COULD have colour!)

Oh my god I hate the idea of Slade as Damian’s dad. But I rlly want to hear someone joke about Rose and Dami both being snatched and moulded into heroes under Nightwing?? Like, Bruce and Slade all snarly mad custody battle and Dick is like, their kids in both arms, “lol u snooze u lose”

fishfingersandjellybabies:

haha Dick just drags them away ‘SURPRISE LOSERS THEY’RE MINE NOW AND YOU’RE NEVER GETTING THEM BACK AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.’ 

bruce questions if it was Dick who sent the mysterious (And probably false) DNA results to enact this plan by distracting them haha.

Okay, but this is obviously why Slade is doing this? DICK STOLE ALL HIS KIDS. It has nothing to do with Bruce, Slade doesn’t care about Bruce. But he is totally going to steal the first child Dick helped raise.

I really want Rose to use this as an excuse for more bonding with the cool, violent kid she likes. (If you see her in her few preboot scenes with Joey, it’s obvious that she is so hungry for any family at all.)