you know i have never heard a convincing arguement as to why AO3 should not moderate the content that is posted to their website and i think a lot of the arguement against moderation on AO3 boils down to, terminally online people thinks community moderation is the same as government censorship and personally sending the cops to someone’s house to arrest them irl/

I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

The Seminar

I’d go to this seminar

must admit I did laugh

Roger "never gonna stop talking about Rafael Nadal" Federer

i think we should make these wizards do more recreational drugs to be totally honest with you

March 28, 2004: 17-year-old Rafael Nadal defeats world No. 1 Roger Federer 6-3 6-3 in Miami third round

similar topic but it's so funny to me when people are like "you can't ship these people one of them is the other's father figure!" as if wanting to fuck a father figure isn't the only joy left in this life

My absolute hottest take is that, from a culturally relative perspective, no food is bad. None of it. It's an expression of culture, art, history, ecology, material conditions, subjective taste. It's all inedible pap to somebody and the taste of childhood for someone else. Americans be eating cheesed burger. Pea wet is as good as gravy in Wigan. The French eat snails and the Inuit eat seal, the Germans eat sauerkraut and the Russians drink kvass, the Inca ate cavy and the Romans ate flamingo. People around the world have been eagerly awaiting their serving of simple bread or thin porridge or fermented milk product or pickled whatever-the-fuck since we learned to cook food over fire. We all love the slop we grew up eating. Food is a reflection of millennia of culture and loving human artistic expression. Attempting to extrapolate largely harmless online food banter into actual serious comparative rankings or half-baked critical analyses of cultures based on how much you subjectively don't like what they eat is a miserable way to live. Live a little. Peace and love on the only planet with food.

I want Draco's bedroom

(follies)

thats not a very nice thing to say

you will not guess where this ao3 summary is going

facts about moto gp, based exclusively on my tumblr dash:

there are seven riders in moto gp: marc, marc, marc, bez, cele, vale, and pecco(?? not sure about that one actually)

they are all italian

or possibly spanish

entry to moto gp is restricted to twinks with DARK CURLY HAIR and INTERESTING FACIAL BONES. no exceptions granted

celebratory public coitus following a podium is natural and expected in moto gp culture

one of my fave parts about monkey man is the twist it takes on the classic training montage trope, because in this film the hero isnt shaping up all on his lonesome, only his traumatic past and thirst for revenge as company, hes in a community. hes being supported and encouraged and literally healed by them, he takes strength from that community, and its so meaningful both to the character and to the audience, as a part of the film and its messaging. idk it was very refreshing to see, and very beautifully represented the specific cultural/contextual importance of community as well as just the universal human need for it especially in our current climate

MONKEY MAN (2024) Directed by Dev Patel

no but seeing dev patel grab a knife with his teeth and stab a guy with it has permanently altered my brain chemistry actually