Hello OFMD fandom! This is a bit of a shot in the dark, since I honestly don’t know the, like, normal way of meeting somebody for this purpose and have no clue if I will get any responses to this but I thought I’d give it a try. I am a fic writer who has written 5 works of pure smut in various fandoms each <6000 words. Recently I wrote a stede/ed fic (this one) that inspired me to want to write a longer, plottier sequel with angst and romance and character development and all that good stuff. I’ve never tried anything like this before. I would really like to meet somebody who either has written something along these lines or is an avid reader of such things to be a sounding board/source of advice for me to work out a plan for this fic. With like, the understanding that I intend for it to be pretty self indulgent and want to have fun first and foremost, but also challenge myself a bit. Whatever I can offer in return I am happy to, whether it’s to do the same for you or actual editing/proofreading or lil commissions or anything like that! Thanks for reading!

Hi everyone! My friend Scallop is looking for a beta reader for her Our Flag Means Death fan fiction. It's Blackbeard / Stede, is kinky, is up on Ao3.

If you have experience in [checks notes] reading slash, please talk to her. She's fun to speak to and a good writer. One of my best friends ever, we talk every day (thanks pandemic), so it would also be a favour for me!

@kit-peddler please consider

me: so its called jojos bizarre adventure and it has a lot of recurring themes of overbearing mothers and absent fathers and blatant homosexuality

Sigmund Freud: you guys went to the moon??

me: so i was wondering if you could give it a watch with me and share your ideas about what this means about the author

Sigmund Freud: the moon in the fucking sky??

I have a shawl my grandma gave me; and I like to wear it, but islamaphobes give me trouble. I got accused of cultural appropriation one time, and it made me super mad. I felt like I had been among friends, but they turned on me with the same shitty assumptions as the bigots. At least I know how to navigate among crazy conservatives, and avoid setting them off...

Leaving aside that shawls/ head coverings are not exclusively an islamic thing:

Cultural appropriation of hijab makes no sense because Islam is an evangelical religion that WANTS everyone to adopt it's modesty norms.

Yeah, if I visited my Saudi friend in his home country, I'd purchase a couple hijabs to wear over there out of respect. But apparently some people I know think that would be wrong...

I had the same reaction as @cromulentenough. Like, from the internal perspective, most of Islam is not “things that a very specific group of people who have defined themselves as Muslims should do” but “things literally all of humanity should be doing but unfortunately only 1 in 5 of all human beings actually committed to them; how sad”.

I think it’d be pretty rare for you to find someone who thinks that “Doing Objective Good” (by their own values) is a bad thing if people outside their group are doing it? Imagine if someone decided to eat meat to avoid appropriating from Buddhism. Or, IDK, swore a lot, flipped off their mum, and got 8 divorces, to avoid appropriating Christianity. Does this end with them saying “Wow, I feel like you really respect my values, thank you so much”? (crackfic idea)

This is a general area where I Just Don’t Get cultural appropriation, because usually the people who are doing X as part of their culture believe it serves some purpose and improves the world. Maybe it just wouldn’t be relevant outside of a specific context; eg holidays and ceremonies that commemorate specific events.

But Muslims (generally) believe everyone is better off from living in a society with strong modesty norms, so saying “You should not do this thing which [they believe] strengthens society because [they] will be offended by it” is just,,, wildly backward. I can’t even. Everyone better drink wine, eat cows, curse their mums, and break oaths before Odin, because good behaviour is forbidden if a specific religion says it’s good. I believe this is how we militant the atheism, correct?

something I think would be an improvement on the standard “crazy asshole goes on a long involved quest to obtain immortality” myth (like gilgamesh and journey to the west and probably other ones): tie it into creation myths, posit a prehistory where people live for like a couple years and it sucks, and then the guy’s not a selfish prick and upon reaching the fountain of youth smashes its pool and releases the contents into the rest of the world, diluting its effect into all the world’s waters which is why the water gives us life and grows our crops and why we can live for wonderful decades and decades – but, not forever

damn this is lit

Question for the day: how many people in history of civilization have been as bad or worse at sex as Stalin?  I don’t mean in the “physical sex life was bad” sense, i.e. he’s a notorious P&V kind of guy.  I mean in the “hardcore statism sex is bad and this is why people did horrible things” sense.  Stalin had the best sex life of anyone in history.  (I mean, last I checked, anyway.)

(He also invented the kaleidoscope, for some reason.  I dunno.)

Your stripper name is sexy + last thing you googled

..........sexy koi fish........are you JOKING??????????????

@turning-darkness-to-light

Sexy should I come out to my parents

Wow

..sexy gulper eel

sexy inevitably definition

Sexy who was Confucius’s teacher?

Less grammatical but more sensible than the one before it - Sexy Yiwu County

(I still want to know who Confucius’s intellectual influences were, though. There were a ton of philosophers in the Spring and Autumn. Surely he at least had Sophist-equivalents he admired...)

I’ve been trying to find this gifset because this is relevant now more than ever.

holy crap Adventure Time

I mean that’s definitely how states got their current borders, yeah

normal ocean creatures: ah. viva la sea. the blue, it is harsh but it is my love. i am a magnificent creature in a magical place

the deep ocean weirdos: i don't need oxygen to survive. i haven't eaten since the fall of byzantium. i have 300 eyes on my eyeballs. its been 14000 years since I've bumped into another life form. I'll kick anything's ass. nothing can kill me not even death

instagram vs tumblr

I feel called out

Proposal: an XKit plugin that replaces every occurrence of the word “problematic” with “heretical”.

when i was 12 i got banned from yahoo answers and when i emailed support to be like “what did i do??” i got a really vague answer that just said “you know what you did” and it still haunts me to this day

When I was 10 I was in a AOL chatroom for kids and we were all making this Homer Simpson face (8^(|) but this one girl Crystal forgot to put the nose in the face so I said “You forgot the nose crystal” and I immediately got booted offline and no one in my family could log on. My Mom talked to someone from AOL and they said I was trying to sell drugs to minors because I said “nose crystal”

When I was like 10 I roleplayed with people on Neopets, completely innocent stuff like ‘high school AU’ or ‘wolf AU’ and the like. I made a thread called ‘See the Sea Hotel’ and it went on for a few replies until I randomly got my account frozen and after explaining to my mom for a good 30 minutes that ‘frozen’ didn’t mean the computer wouldn’t respond, she got on to try and send an email to Neopets’ staff and they said that ‘hotel’ was a restricted word because it included ‘ho’ in it

I had a similar experience around that age with an online music game called Audition.

I said something like “Can I get the speed to 2x speed?” and it automatically changed my message to “Can I get the **** to **** ****?”, and a moderator saw that modified message and suspended my account for offensive language.

It turned out that I couldn’t say ‘speed’ because it had ‘pee’ in it, and I when I contacted support to say it was a mistake on their part and asked if I could be unsuspended, they said that I was also writing numbers, and writing numbers was strictly forbidden just in case they were a phone number.

I remember playing Phantasy Star Online back in like 2001 - it was one of the first console MMOs, if I remember correctly - and you didn’t get banned for saying “bad words”, but they did get censored. their list of inappropriate words was….extensive, and one in particular created a real problem for people trying to make plans to play together. because of course the most common day of the week to do that would be Saturday, right? but. that has the word “turd” in it. so. every time. you tried to say “do you want to play Saturday”. it would say. “do you want to play $%&@%#+%”. and the other person is just. sitting there. wondering. what the fuck did you just ask them to play

This is called the Scunthorpe Problem and it always cracks me up.

This shit used to be annoying as hell.

@argumate I think I once heard you go on the Chinese internet? Do you know of any similarly funny stories from their censorship regime?

it’s called science

Is this supposed to be ironic or did y'all forget the part where the CIS droids walk through the shield like it's nothing and start mowing the Gungans down??

You telling me these droids are cisgender???

@argumate​