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Or "Some Advanced Reading Page Curation Techniques"

Or "I Don't Want To See My Fandom Nemesis' Stuff, Dammit!"

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1. What I mean by wrong: What's wrong with sex in fanfic is that what you think is wrong in in fanfic sex is not wrong. There is nothing that you can write in fanfic that is wrong. What you choose to write is absolutely fine, no matter what it is. What  is wrong is when authors are made to feel that certain things are required, when they should not be. There is nothing wrong with BDSM - quite the opposite - but BDSM is hotter if the author is aware he or she is writing it. If not, key emotional and physical reactions might be skipped over that take the reader out of the story.

2. There are a few anatomically questionable things that pop up a lot in fanfic. Things that I consider "wrong" are labelled with *** These are not terribly important, but if something anatomically questionable comes up, or something that is a fetish pops up constantly as "standard", it can take a reader out of the moment. They are not strictly "wrong" because everyone is different and there may very well be people for who these things are very "right". But in general, not, and so if they are included a writer might want to highlight emotional and physical reactions in these cases.

EFD is often diagnosed during the transitions to 6th or 9th grade, when school structures and schedules change dramatically, and academic expectations increase. Parents and teachers often don’t get why kids can’t work independently on an assignment, and assume they’ll “pick up” the necessary skills. It’s important to start helping kids with ADHD/EFD early, and to acknowledge the problems those disorders cause so that kids don’t feel stupid or lazy.

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I've talked before about how diverse adult SFF gets so much less attention than diverse YA SFF.

So here's a thread of diverse (AKA SFF by and/or about marginalized people) science fiction and fantasy novels aimed at adults!

— Sarah Waites (@coolcurrybooks) May 13, 2018

A thread with brief descriptions and links to Goodreads pages for SFF books either by and or about marginalized people (includes POC, queer, disability, representation)

From conuly's link postSexist Jokes Make Men Think Sexist Behavior Is Okay, Study Says - VICE

Peter Hegarty is a psychology professor at University of Surrey and the lead author on the study. Hegarty says that men's magazines generally "broadened the kinds of sexism that men found normal."

So yeah like all the warnings for examples of rape, rape culture, sexual harassment, and sexism. To be fair, the article had to be that direct because people don't take our word for it on how bad it is when described more generally. The title is actually the least clear and direct part of the article it could equally have said "...think rape is okay, multiple studies say" but then the people who need to see it would be less likely to click. I believe the phrase I am looking for is "we been knew" but hopefully having actual studies will make people think about what they read a little more carefully.

Via umadoshiSlate.com posted: y can’t we have decent toilet stalls?

Aside from the cleaning perks and cost benefits, flimsy partitions have been justified precisely because they offer no privacy. They make it easier to see if someone is, say, doing drugs or having sex in a stall, Besides offering an arguably more pleasant experience, the floor-to-ceiling design “provides more privacy for people who need to do more personal matters in the stalls,” Worsham points out, whether that be manage an insulin shot or change clothes. The design would make it possible for folks with pee shyness or bowel issues to use the toilet without fear of judgment. In Norén’s imagining, the ideal public bathroom would not only have floor-to-ceiling stalls but also a little shelf for things like phones and insulin syringes and the option to turn on some nice noise-covering sounds.

isabellerecs posted: Signal Boost: Stitch's Media Mix

Queer-Coding, Bad-Bat-Takes, And Why The Joker Isn’t That Important to Batman

I never realized how much I merely tolerate Joker as a means to get to Harley Quinn. Every time I tried to come up with a Batman-Joker interaction that refuted anything said in this essay or was even actually interesting to me I came up with Batman having a complicated emotion about Harley. On the plus side, I am no longer getting my Batman content by watching the animated series after school so I can simply read comics that have Harley but not Joker. Always weird coming across stuff about a series I used to be really into, especially since this was one of those "fan but not in the fandom" things where I keep forgetting that I'm not in middle school and I can talk to people other than my indulgent older brother about it.

Back to the essay itself, my only quibble is that I think of Joker more performing queerness because its a way to make people uncomfortable than as a character who sees sex and love as anything other than a power play (and not the fun kind). I spent a chunk of middle school obsessed with the Batman Superman adventures so I hope I can be forgiven an essay pulled out of my...memory of that show and the few comics I've read. In the cartoon anyway Joker broke Harley more or less for the lulz and lost interest in the game once he was sure of his control. He calls people darling and makes passes at men when he wants to unsettle them or hint at his power ("you can't stop me" being more important than the actual implication of sexual harassment/rape). If we are to see his sexuality as a dark mirror of Batman it is in that neither Bruce nor his alter ego even seem comfortable with power imbalances in a romantic relationship(except possibly the fun kind, he wears too much leather and likes Catwoman too much to ignore the possibility). I can't see him even flirting without making it clear that he was fine with a no. Consider two he is most often shipped with: Catwoman caught his interest by besting him without actually crossing his moral lines (his attempts to stop her usually being perfunctory or more of a game than a real objection to her actions), and Superman is one of very few outside of the Batfam he actually asks for help or seems to regard as his equal as a Superhero. In short, Joker strikes me as liking to fuck with people more than fuck people.

This Enthusiastic Life posted: Strategies for Neurotypical People to Develop Empathy for Autistic People - The Enthusiastic Life

Recent studies indicate that while autistics may experience and demonstrate empathy in different ways from neurotypicals, they do indeed experience it, sometimes to intense degrees. The debate is well summarized here. Throughout this discussion, I have observed a curious and glaring omission: what about how and whether neurotypicals empathize with autistics?

Well written, you don't need a background in the issues to follow it. I did find it spawning tabs at an alarming rate as I opened the links in it to other articles and more in depth explorations of the topics it touches on.

Heads up for other people who were labeled "twice exceptional" and other people who were the kids this article is encouraging people to empathize with: it brought up a fair amount of emotion for me to be see kids needing helped talked about as hard to empathize with. Seeing things I lived with as long as I can remember being discussed as new concepts for adults is a little bit rage inducing, even if I know I've had to teach them to many adults in my school years. "maybe the skills involved in being good at video games don't actually apply to most homework, maybe it makes no freaking sense for those skills to develop at the same time and pace" is something I heard myself muttering at the screen.

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In light of content creators in fandom being attacked,blamed & labelled as fetishists & sexualisers I feel the need to remind the people about the "3 Rules of Fandom" which many of us from multi fandoms already know but new ones-such as #ARMY who are new to fandom culture don't.

— Z0YA ⌚ (@namjinary) January 14, 2019

ao3_news_feed posted: Copyright Week and Good News About Article 13

On the last day of Copyright Week, the EU nations' Councils have voted on their positions on Article 13, and the majority have decided not to support it in its current form. This is good news for fans!...This result is powerful. It means that you can still continue to create fanworks and share them not only on AO3, but also on sites that would have been affected by Article 13, such as Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook.... Because there simply aren't algorithms capable of filtering for fair use, a lot of fair uses--including a lot of fanworks--would undoubtedly get caught in such filters. We know you don't want that! OTW Legal has argued against mandatory filtering proposals, and will continue to do so.