joan asking sherlock what's wrong: i love you so much but if you don't tell me what the fuck is up with you this instant i swear to fucking god-

sherlock asking joan what's wrong: hi :( if you wanna :((( talk :((( i'm here whatever you need whenever you need, you're my best friend, if anything happens to you i will literally die

My dear lgbt+ kids, 

Being outed against your will is wrong - even if it goes well. 

Let’s say someone tells your parents (or a sibling or a friend who didn’t know yet etc.) that you’re queer, and they do so without your consent. Luckily, the person they told turns out to be supportive and open-minded, so the outing has no dire consequences for you. In such situations, you may feel (or the one who told them may tell you) that you have no right to feel upset or hurt. After all, you just gained a new supporter, right? They may even tell you they did you a favor and saved you the trouble of having to come out. 

But that’s oversimplified. The decision how and when to come out is so personal. You had the right to choose the “how and when” (and also the “if at all”), and the person who outed you took that decision away without asking your permission. That’s upsetting and hurtful, regardless of the reactions and results of their actions. They broke your trust by telling a secret, it’s as simple as that. 

You deserved better than that. You deserved to tell it to the people you wanted to tell, at the time you wanted to tell them, in the way you wanted to tell them. It wasn’t fair to take that from you. 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Dad 

Me: I'm sooooooo productive

Narrator: she was working on every task except the one she needed to.

@chemical-processes BABE LOOK WHAT HES DONE

how?? just how?

"you need to let it go" that would be really cool, unfortunately I'll take it with me to the grave

sorry i can't come in to work today. yeah sorry they killed me off last night. yeah i just wasn't relevant to the plot anymore. i should be in tomorrow but i'll let you know.

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🥺😭 thank you.

The a team is a very comforting show to watch partly bc every single recurring character is deeply and profoundly Weird. If they weren’t all absolute freaks they wouldn’t have survived the way they do. Their weirdness is what keeps them together and what makes them successful as a unit and in a world where people unironically say that non-normative people ‘should have been bullied more’ to beat the weirdness out of them, it’s nice to see Hannibal, a certifiable Freak, calling similar people slimeballs and getting his collection of adopted children to join him in blowing their cars up without actually hurting anyone, while BA pretends to be normal to cover the fact that he’s easily as bizarre as Murdock, and Face speaks mostly in keysmashes and is fully convinced that he’s perfectly normal, Murdock saunters around in tight trousers talking absolute nonsense at top speed.

About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

the point of creating is not to create something that has never been done before. it is to take an idea, explain it your way, and put it out there for people who are experiencing that idea for the first time. to those people, your version of The Idea is now their touchstone. they cannot judge you based on what came before, but they may judge all others by you

* family time being with or without your siblings if you have them, or just forced time with your parents. Scheduled out being like Monday you do this together, Tuesday you do this, etc. You have one maybe two free nights a week. If you don't want to participate that's too bad. You don't get to say no without it becoming a thing. Like forced bonding time. Regardless of whether or not it was enjoyable, was it mandated?

Reblog for a bigger sample size if you can, I'm deeply curious