There is a trend I’ve noticed that smut fics tend to be much more popular than anything else and honestly I just want to have something to look at to remind myself and that writing doesn’t have to have sex to be worth putting out into the community.
Okay, I know that a good majority of us read fanfic. And AO3 is quite popular, I love that site.
I recently just came across a site on my laptop while I was looking some klance fics to read. I found one and clicked on the link which said it was an AO3 fanfic. Norton Security prevented me from accessing the site because it ‘may be impersonating AO3 to steal your personal or financial information’
If you find a link to a fanfic and it has ‘www.archiveofourown.com’ run for the hills. The true AO3 is .org not .com. It may seem obvious but it’s pretty easy to miss. Just letting all my fellow fanfic addicts out there know that there is a scammer.
I’m trying to tag all the fandoms I’m in so that those people are aware.
What kind of person impersonates a well known fanfic site to steal information. Such a heinous crime. I will admit, this person was pretty smart. All kinds of people read fanfics, especially teenagers. Just think of that and how easy it would be.
Please reblog to every fandom and if you find any other fanfic sites being impersonated please add them to this post. Some of us fanfic readers are close to being adults or are already adults, but there are still twelve year olds and younger who don’t pay attention to things they find on the internet.
I’ve had a few folks IRL (mostly, my cousin’s stepdaughters, who are 12 and 14) trying to convince me to get into Voltron (2016). I haven’t watched the previous incarnations, but understand that that isn’t a prerequisite to watching the new series. I started watching the first episode but found it a little … juvenile, I guess? (Although I was delighted AF to hear Rhys Darby voicing Coran!) As I said, the people who recommended it to me are young teenagers, and they were super-enthusiastic about how amazing the show is (they both cosplay and were excited to show off their Lance and Keith), and I recognize that I, as a nearly 40-year-old woman, am probably not the target audience, but I want to try and get into it as much as a means of connecting with my cousin’s girls as anything else. (I don’t think they have a lot of adults in their life who “get” their interests and hobbies, and whenever they visit they kind of latch onto me because I’m very open about my geekiness.)
Help me out, folks. Help me get into Voltron. What do you like about it? What do you love about it? Who are your favourite characters? Your least favourite? Why? Why should I fall in love with this show?
(Tangentially related story: The younger of the two girls, upon discovering that I LARP, came to me to ask about how she feels more comfortable when she’s in-character during cosplay, and whether or not I thought that was “normal.” I said that in my experience, it’s easier to interact with people when you’re playing someone else because the consequences aren’t the same. You get to model different behaviour and different personality types in a way that you can’t when you’re yourself. And it fucking killed me that she’d never really had anyone else say “Yeah, I do this, too.” I don’t know if it’s normal, but fuck normal – does it work for you and are you hurting anyone? If the first answer is “yes” and the second answer is “no,” fucking go for it. And in the past year since we had that conversation I’ve seen her grow a lot more confident and become a lot happier, so, yeah, if I can find other areas to connect with her I will because she thrives like this.)
So, uh, yeah, back to the main topic: Make me love Voltron.
so do you think Krem opted to go by Krem, or when he told the injured, partially blinded Iron Bull who had just saved him that his name was Cremisius, Bull just raised his bleeding head and said “krem puff, krem brulee, krem de la krem, krispie krem, krem cheese, heavy whipping krem, ice krem, ice krem sundae, krem of wheat, krem of tartar, coffee with krem, banana and krem pie, wu tang clan’s K.R.E.M.”
and Krem is like, “oh so you actually are concussed”
“those are just the nicknames I can whip up off the top of the ole dome, join my mercenary crew, I wanna see how long I can keep this going”
“you’ve already used up all the puns. look at the pun box. it’s empty.”
“first off kremsicle, don’t ever doubt me.”
#bull and varric bond over being nicknamers#but fundamentally disagree on the nicknaming philosophy#‘you pick one nickname and call them that for a decade’ versus ‘every day is a bold new challenge to piss off my second in command’
@indigopersei is the french language just always on the verge of getting someone accused of assault or..?
my friend, if only you knew
It’s a very dangerous language to learn
Here’s an interesting thing about French! Everything needs to have an article in front of it. That’s why it’s “la chat” as opposed to just “chat”. So, for instance, you could say la fille for the girl, or jeune fille for young girl, but you can’t just say fille, because that means you are calling her a sex worker in a derogatory way.
The moral of the story is, if you want to make something rude in French, just take out the article in front of it. Yes, this works for nearly. every. word.
Every year. Every year there’s that kid who forgets that you can’t translate “I am excited” to “Je suis excitée”. And every year Monsieur Jordan has to slam the brakes before that kid can finish his sentence and then tactfully ask him not to announce to the class that he is horny.
“is the french language always on the verge” oh buddy, oh pal, i am so happy to break this news to you:
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