You can call me Artie or Arthur :) 23, Aries, they/them, queer, near London. Formerly known as desdemonasarahmckenzie. My AO3 is also aerialworms and my art blog is @aerialworms-art. I tag nsfw posts as #suggestive, so if you're a minor please block that tag or don't follow me at all. If you'd like me to tag anything else or just wanna chat, feel free to shoot me a message! Navigation on desktop is the blue j by the bottom circle.
By the way, to teenagers: Adults going “aren’t you like 12” when you could not be more clearly and obviously sixteen isn’t them being hyperbolic or deliberately rude. Well okay, maybe just a little bit, but not by much. But once you get to like your mid-20s, everyone under the age of eighteen just looks twelve. That’s someone’s kid, why is there an unattended child here.
This also applies to adults who are trying to date you. Bear this in mind. You might be mature for your age, but a grown fucking adult telling you “you’re so mature for your age I forget you aren’t like 20” is lying to you. They’re not attracted to you despite of your age. They just spotted an unattended child.
Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn’t make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you’re being snobbish or condescending when you’re just trying to be specific
“fanfiction,” as a concept, only exists because of intellectual property. at the end of the day, it’s just fiction. some of it is great, some of it sucks ass. sometimes, it can reveal something damning about the author—prejudices, biases, whether or not they think cats should be left indoors, how they feel about offshore tax evasion, whatever. that’s the nature of fiction. this is not news to anyone who’s ever opened a book
what’s truly unique about fanfiction is that it’s anonymous and free with a barrier to entry that ants wouldn’t notice climbing. also, it’s amateur by necessity; barring a few notable exceptions, nobody expects their gaudy slash fiction to win them an award or make them a million dollars. this crock pot of internet fuckery lends itself to two things—a monumental diversity of skill level and buck wild nasty behavior
fanfiction is neither god’s gift to all man kind nor an incurable blight. it’s just a thing. that exists. it’s neither defenseless nor indefensible. it can be harmful, helpful, or benign. more importantly, it’s not going anywhere, so i wish we’d stop arguing about whether or not it’s “legitimate” and talk about what’s actually happening with it instead
I think Spock would hate Spuck but Kirk and Kork would immediately be best friends. And Kirk would also love Spuck
Kirk would go “Spock he looks just like you!” and Spock would go “I fail to see any resemblance, sir” but he knows it to be true and is seething deep down
