Anyways remember that time that JK Rowling, who has never spoken to an indigenous American person in her whole life, was like "but what if the Natives had four schools and they were also bloodthirsty savages who started the residential schools with their fictional beings as their mascots and Christians weren't actually at fault" right at the time when we started getting some traction around getting recognition for the heinous crimes that were the mass graves of children, then went on to make a whole spin-off franchise in America using that """lore""" and rhetoric, where the one wizard guy who tried to stop the Holocaust from happening was villainized and played by Johnny Depp (who played Tonto in the Lone Ranger and said he was going to buy the Black Hills and Wounded Knee and "give it back to Lakota people" then never did that at all) and who she later defended as saying he wasn't a domestic abuser because she believed him over a woman who has since been proven to be telling the truth several times over?

The woman's a violent colonizer.

Hello <3 I deleted this original post but in light of the fact that there's a Twilight TV series reboot/spinoff in the making let's talk about how these women are one and the same in their actions against indigenous American people!

Stephenie Meyer is a Mormon with Mormon views. Mormons have extremely racist ideology embedded within their religious texts about indigenous Americans and Jews - that indigenous people are quite literally the Actual Real Jews (I'm mixed, this is truly insane cult rhetoric). Through the decades the LDS church has successfully funded, advocated, and carried out forced conversion and cultural genocide. THEY ARE THE ONES ACTIVELY TRYING TO OVERTURN ICWA, THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT.

Her views on this are very, very clearly written into the pages of her books, here's clearer documentation about how she fucked over the Quileutes tribe and the inner workings of white supremacy in the book.

Are you seeing the pattern here? Are you seeing the undercurrent of antisemitism and anti-indigenous racist imperialism?

Get rid of your attachment to these franchises, stop making it a question of what media you will replace it with, get involved with US. We want your allyship and understanding more than these white supremacists even want to think about your humanhood.

I love seasonal fruits they're like girl we're back lol

happy pride month

HORSE GIRLS WE NEED YOUR HELP

Were the Misty of Chincoteague books an integral part of your childhood?

Do you love horses?

Do you love history?

Do you love saving land from developers?

HELP US SAVE THE BEEBE RANCH AND MAKE IT PART OF THE MUSEUM OF CHINCOTEAGUE!!!

An update from the museum!!! They're at $375k and the property is under contract and it sounds like we now have until the end of June to get the rest of the money raised!!! Please share and donate if you can!! 💕

We're up to $450k!!!! 😍 Please keep sharing and donate if you're able to!! How awesome that they're going to be able to preserve the ranch for future horse kids!! 💕

🌈🦄 Thirty days left!!! The museum funds are sitting right at $525,000 out of $625,000!!! Home stretch, folks!!!

had a lot of fun with this! these two idiots need to make out already <3

Honestly we really need to stop being weird about older adults who are virgins.

& not even purely in a "I'm sex repulsed &/or ace &/or not into the idea of so I willingly didn't have it" but also in a "I'm 80, I would've loved to have sex, but it takes two to tango & no one wanted to have sex w/ me-" and in a "I'm 60 & I wanted to, but I had anxiety so bad I just didn't put myself in a situation where I could've" way, etc. [But yes also the people who are like "I'm a virgin because I never wanted to have sex"]

Someone made a post about having their 40th birthday & still being a virgin & someone commented about how it was heartbreaking... [The OP talked about all their other achievements they reached & how they were happy - just never had sex btw. They weren't lamenting about how they never had sex]

You don't need sex/sexual intimacy to be happy. You don't need romantic intimacy to be happy. [Obviously having those may add happiness, but like you won't live a sad depressing empty life if you're single forever &/or never have sex]

HORSE GIRLS WE NEED YOUR HELP

Were the Misty of Chincoteague books an integral part of your childhood?

Do you love horses?

Do you love history?

Do you love saving land from developers?

HELP US SAVE THE BEEBE RANCH AND MAKE IT PART OF THE MUSEUM OF CHINCOTEAGUE!!!

An update from the museum!!! They're at $375k and the property is under contract and it sounds like we now have until the end of June to get the rest of the money raised!!! Please share and donate if you can!! 💕

We're up to $450k!!!! 😍 Please keep sharing and donate if you're able to!! How awesome that they're going to be able to preserve the ranch for future horse kids!! 💕

HORSE GIRLS WE NEED YOUR HELP

Were the Misty of Chincoteague books an integral part of your childhood?

Do you love horses?

Do you love history?

Do you love saving land from developers?

HELP US SAVE THE BEEBE RANCH AND MAKE IT PART OF THE MUSEUM OF CHINCOTEAGUE!!!

An update from the museum!!! They're at $375k and the property is under contract and it sounds like we now have until the end of June to get the rest of the money raised!!! Please share and donate if you can!! 💕

We're up to $450k!!!! 😍 Please keep sharing and donate if you're able to!! How awesome that they're going to be able to preserve the ranch for future horse kids!! 💕

HORSE GIRLS WE NEED YOUR HELP

Were the Misty of Chincoteague books an integral part of your childhood?

Do you love horses?

Do you love history?

Do you love saving land from developers?

HELP US SAVE THE BEEBE RANCH AND MAKE IT PART OF THE MUSEUM OF CHINCOTEAGUE!!!

An update from the museum!!! They're at $375k and the property is under contract and it sounds like we now have until the end of June to get the rest of the money raised!!! Please share and donate if you can!! 💕

We're up to $450k!!!! 😍 Please keep sharing and donate if you're able to!! How awesome that they're going to be able to preserve the ranch for future horse kids!! 💕

Dead 😂

I really can't emphasize enough how much I don't care if the anecdotes people tell on here are true. We are sitting around a campfire telling tall tales, embellishments and flights of fancy are part of the fun

When the man at the bait shop tells you he almost caught a bass thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig you don't write a callout post accusing him of gaslighting

HORSE GIRLS WE NEED YOUR HELP

Were the Misty of Chincoteague books an integral part of your childhood?

Do you love horses?

Do you love history?

Do you love saving land from developers?

HELP US SAVE THE BEEBE RANCH AND MAKE IT PART OF THE MUSEUM OF CHINCOTEAGUE!!!

An update from the museum!!! They're at $375k and the property is under contract and it sounds like we now have until the end of June to get the rest of the money raised!!! Please share and donate if you can!! 💕

We're up to $450k!!!! 😍 Please keep sharing and donate if you're able to!! How awesome that they're going to be able to preserve the ranch for future horse kids!! 💕

HORSE GIRLS WE NEED YOUR HELP

Were the Misty of Chincoteague books an integral part of your childhood?

Do you love horses?

Do you love history?

Do you love saving land from developers?

HELP US SAVE THE BEEBE RANCH AND MAKE IT PART OF THE MUSEUM OF CHINCOTEAGUE!!!

An update from the museum!!! They're at $375k and the property is under contract and it sounds like we now have until the end of June to get the rest of the money raised!!! Please share and donate if you can!! 💕

$450k!!!! Please keep reblogging/sharing and donating if you can!!! How fantastic that future horse kids will get to visit the ranch!!! 😍

when the media uses phrases like “the union is demanding higher pay” they want you to think hey wait i wish i got paid better you’re telling me these whiny writers are refusing to work? i’m way worse off than them and i still go in to work every day!

they want you to stop there and stew in your resentment instead of following the logic forward to hey maybe if i had a union i would have better pay!

and they say stuff like “working conditions” for the same reason because they know it conjures the image of a sweatshop or something and you’re like well that’s absurd writers work in offices how bad could it be they don’t have “working conditions”

they want you to stop there and stew in your resentment because you also work in an office instead of thinking about what the word “conditions” means and whether you are allowed to take off work to be with your newborn child

don’t be fooled by this shit. don’t buy into the idea that people work in any field solely for the love of the game yes even when it’s a literal game (writers work on those too). work is work! money can be exchanged for goods and services!

Just saw a tweet like "REAL libraries check for quality!" as some kinda gotcha at AO3?? But I'm a librarian, so... heads up that "quality checks," AKA "weeding" or "pulling," means looking for damaged books or ones that haven't circulated in a few years to clear up shelf space. We don't Quality Check for if the library books have nontoxic romance or good grammar. :U I assure you every library in your area has absolute ABOMINATIONS of bad storytelling as well as your favorite pop lit.

Also books that we bare our teeth at every time we see them on the shelf and quietly chant to ourselves "freedom of information access is more important than the fact that I hate you, freedom of information access is more important than the fact that I hate you - "

Like we have 1.7 million+ items in our collection do you think that a staff of 50 actually has time to even physically page thru or run thru every one of them? If every single staff member were only taking one hour to look through every single book or other collection piece (movies, games, whatever) (which: an hour would NOT be enough even to look at every single part of most of them, but okay fine, an hour), that's still 1.7 million hours divided between 50 people. That's 34K work hours, which at 35 hours a week is more than 971 weeks, aka and that's with all of us doing nothing else, at all.

That would be 18 years just to give each single solitary book an hour, reviewing full time, 35 hours a week, with 50 staff only doing that. And we're a small, single-branch library.

Don't be silly.

Also also (forgive my tangent, OP) it is as a librarian/information-services professional, honestly, that I will cut you over AO3. As a pure end-user/fan/etc are there things about it that are not my favourite/I wish were different? Yeah, sure.

As a public-facing information professional whose education and preferred career path involves the impossibilities of classification and cataloguing and subject-heading and "community-led collection and program development" and all that shit that is also what everyone at AO3 has to do daily for like millions larger community than I do, I will throw down right here and right now, man. You could literally not pay me enough to take leadership role in a community-led collection for our fuckheaded fan community, I know us way too well. We are worse to deal with than a municipal community, we are literally everything you could point out about the most fractious possible arts community with everyone absolutely sure that their preferred way of doing things is the obvious mass will of the community (while being diametrically opposed to the way that an entire other huge chunk of the community wants) - you could not PAY ME, and it's mostly being done out of love, for free, on a budget a fraction the size of what my (small, municipal) library works with.

Good grief.

Also... “real libraries check for quality” is kinda ignoring the first damn word of the site. It’s not just a library, it’s an archive. Archives don’t “check for quality” unless it’s in the service of preservation. (And if you’re thinking “yeah but anyone can just go read AO3, it’s not like a real archive” buddy do I ever have news for you about the vast majority of “real” archives.)

So true. SO true.

It's almost like they're creating new criteria specifically for the purpose of excluding AO3.

Another librarian here to say that Ao3 is a fucking marvel. Like do you know how many of my graduate level Library Science courses talk about Ao3 with technical and ideological awe? It's come up in like 75% of my classes. This is not an exaggeration.

hate capitalism and its perpetual use of buzzwords just saw an ad for lemonade with "plant-based caffeine" like where the fuck else would you get caffeine if not from a plant

Like seeing “non-GMO” salt…

…salt is not an O…it’s has no Gs to M…

Hey folks, it's been a hot minute since I posted about this, so I hope this isn't too spammy. But I'd really appreciate it if we could get this spread around?

I'm really hoping 2023 might be the year I finally get to yeet the teets