What Does The Arab In Your Carrd Mean? Is It Like Afab And Amab?

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

Dear fandom,

Let’s talk.

This is an open letter to all people reading fan fiction. Whether you stroll AO3 for your favorite tags, have been on ff.net since the Before Times or read on tumblr or any of the other wonderful alternatives.

What gives?

Wonderful and passionate authors are writing thousands upon thousands of words dedicated to your favorite (and usually not canon) couples, characters and series. Writers are spending hours and hours working on chapters, battling writer blocks, revising, sending works off to beta readers, second round of revision and then post their chapters. And after? After all that work?

Most twiddle their thumbs waiting for reviews that won’t come.

They post more chapters hoping that it just needs to pick up a bit. A few reviews drop in here and there. The story definitely gets read judging by the amount of views and likes… And finally the author loses interest.

And stops updating.

What gives?

Why have we stopped reviewing? Why have we stopped saying even a simple “thank you!” after reading a chapter? @birkastan2018 writes frigging essays (❤) but do you have any idea how happy an author becomes just seeing a new review pop up? Just a thank you, or some words of encouragement or even a keyboard smash. Instead, most writers face crickets.

Review every chapter. Just send two words if you’re intimidated: “thank you!”

If not, write down your thoughts. A sentence you thought was beautiful. An idea of how you think the story might progress. Fangirling/boying as your fave pulls off his/her shirt. Anything.

Doing nothing is killing fandom. Saying nothing ensures authors will stop updating an a fandom slowly dies off. Stimulate your writers. Be enthusiastic and witness how a fandom will thrive even when the series it’s based on is long over.

Doing nothing is killing fandom.

Please be there for your authors.

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rilakkeunjung

4 years ago

If your biggest problem is the way somebody else decides to describe their sexuality, identity or expression, please get some goddamn perspective.

Are you pissed that some people identify as omni, ply, pan, multi, ambi, abro, fluid, homoflexible, heteroflexible, m-spec, etc?

Do you get mad when somebody who is into multiple genders but not into all genders - who isn't into one of the binary genders, even - calls themself bi?

Do you blame people calling themselves m-spec lesbians and m-spec gays for straight people's homophobia?

Does it piss you off to see people calling themselves homoromantic bisexual, panromantic heterosexual, etc? Do you try to stop other people from using the Split Attraction Model because you personally found it unhelpful for your identity?

Does it irk you that people call themselves, their experiences and their community queer?

Do you try to limit who can or can't use butch and femme?

Do you get mad at m-spec people calling themselves fags and dykes?

Do you hate that there's people calling themselves aro, ace, demi, aego, akoi, etc? That we don't consider ourselves "basically straight"?

Do you blame nonbinary people for cis people's transphobia?

Do labels like dittogender, chaotigender, autigender, etc annoy you?

Do you hate that people are constantly finding new ways of describing their personal experiences, new labels to use, new pronouns too?

Do you hate that there's people having fun with their identities instead of putting themselves in established, sufficiently respectable boxes?

Do you get mad at people using acronyms like QUILTBAG, MOGAI, LSBTI, LADT, HBTQ, etc? Do you harrass people from other countries over it?

If you answered "yes" to any of these, here's a reality check:

The way other people describe their identity, their experiences and their community is not for you to decide. It just isn't. You don't get a say.

The way other people describe their identity, their experiences and their community is not the cause of bigotry.

The way other people describe their identity, their experiences and their community is not tearing the community apart. You are.

The way other people describe their identity, their experiences and their community has nothing to do with you. Stay the fuck out of people's business.

In conclusion: