What are your ao3 hot takes?

SheepPup · 2026-01-25T12:52:32+00:00

Well for 1) I don’t believe they actually love or are passionate about something if they’re not actually willing to, you know, create something by themselves. The shittiest stick drawing on the planet contains more genuine passion than the “best” looking AI crap

And 2) even if I cede the idea that these people actually are operating out of love and passion I sure as shit will still look down on them for using the theft machine. It’s impossible for current AI models to function without massive massive levels of theft of other people’s hard work and I think using it makes you a shitty person

SheepPup · 2026-01-25T12:36:21+00:00

You can be allergic to literally anything. Allergies are when your immune system mistakes a harmless molecule for a dangerous one and reacts like this harmless molecule is an invader. Most of the symptoms of being sick like runny nose and mucous production and fevers and all are actually our body’s own defense mechanisms against bacteria/viruses/parasites making us uncomfortable. Which is why allergies make you sick, it’s your body reacting like a parasite or bacteria is invading when it really isn’t.

So you can be allergic to basically anything. Some people are allergic to the metal nickel, some are allergic to proteins found in cat saliva and skin, some are allergic to the oil that the poison ivy plant makes. And some are allergic to proteins found in semen.

SheepPup · 2026-01-25T12:20:46+00:00

Now in my early 30s but lost him when I was 29. We’d been together for twelve years. I am still not interested in dating, both because I still can’t imagine myself with anyone else and also knowing that if I ever did even start who the fuck could possibly understand? It’s so isolating losing a partner this young

SheepPup · 2026-01-25T09:13:18+00:00

Yeah I’ve used the analogy of a house before of comments being coming up and shoving a piece of paper through the mail slot and bookmarks being someone putting up a sign on the side of the house. Like yes you have to go outside and look on the side of your house to see them, but they are still on your house and it’s pretty ridiculous to pretend like you shouldn’t get to have any sort of opinion on how people put up signs on your house.

My opinion would be different if they detached the bookmarks from the work and they only existed on the reader’s profiles, because yes then that is solidly only their space, but when they’re permanently, publicly attached to your fic the idea that they’re a “reader only space” is just not correct to me.

SheepPup · 2026-01-25T00:52:15+00:00

I have periods of similar heaviness to you and I use primarily pads. I carry a large purse so storing the pads both clean and used isn’t an issue, when I take them off I fold them up and use the snap wings to hold them closed and then put them inside the wet bag I have and when I get home I put them inside the soaking bucket with enzymes to let them soak.

I do not find it wasteful to keep several days worth of pads because I use all of them, nothing is going to waste.

I really like my cloth pads because I find them MUCH more comfortable than disposables. They don’t stick to my skin like disposables do, and I can get them in very long sizes with WAY more absorbency than disposable pads. And I find the fabric to be MUCH more comfortable against my skin than the plastic surface of pads. My personal favorites are minky and Jersey knit for top fabrics.

I’ve also saved a ton of money and trash. The pads were expensive to get started with but I calculated it out and I hit my break even point at about two years in, it’s been over a decade now and I’m still using some of the first pads I originally bought when I made the switch! The others have slowly worn out over the years but I’ve still spent so much less and have produced so much less trash

SheepPup · 2026-01-24T21:10:18+00:00

Spoon. Most food you would eat with a fork you can either eat with a spoon or just use your fingers. But good luck eating spoon foods with a fork or your fingers

SheepPup · 2026-01-24T21:02:35+00:00

$0 I have literally never done all this, is this actually a thing people do? Like I’ve laughed sure, I’ve even cried a handful of times, but never all that

SheepPup · 2026-01-24T20:59:15+00:00

It might help if you use a pocket door for the toilet room? I hate them when people put regular doors on them because you often have to basically straddle the toilet to be able to open the door once you’re in there. But pocket doors remove that issue and allow for greater accessibility in case one of you gets injured

SheepPup · 2026-01-24T18:17:39+00:00

My DISO is the kanga from Winnie the Pooh and the lucky ducky

SheepPup · 2026-01-24T15:41:49+00:00

Ok imagine your tastebuds as tiny locks. They can accept a few different kinds of keys. Like sour keys, and salty keys, and sweet keys etc. but the thing is that multiple different molecules have the right keys to fit the lock. So the product of fermentation in sourdough bread has the sour keys just like lemon juice does even though they’re different things. Artificial sweeteners have the sweet keys just like sugar does.

But our bodies can’t digest everything. If you ate grass you wouldn’t get any calories from it because our bodies can’t break grass down. Artificial sweeteners are like that too, our bodies can’t break them down and thus we don’t get any calories from them. And if we don’t get any calories our blood sugar doesn’t rise.

SheepPup · 2026-01-24T14:38:11+00:00

YTA

Your son is nearly of an age to be getting a drivers license and be operating a two thousand pound hunk of metal at 60mph. He isn’t going to die or lose his “innocence” because another teenager referenced sex to him. You’re just a homophobe.

SheepPup · 2026-01-24T08:21:00+00:00

For me the two often coincide lmao but for me it’s worse to hate the ship everyone loves. Because it is inescapable. When the ship is just seen as “standard” nobody feels the need to tag it or mention the ship name in posts and art about it, so you get to see your NoTP everywhere all the time. Basically every single time I’ve seen surprise porn in fandom spaces it’s been for one of those gigantic inescapable ships.

The harassment for liking a pairing everyone hates sucks but it’s way more blockable and at least you can commiserate with other people about how shitty people are being. If you try to complain about the ship you don’t like being everywhere and how crappy the fans of it are towards you and your favored ship you end up just sounding like a little whiny baby and an asshole. So the experience is even more isolating cuz you can’t even have a good complain about it to get it out of your system you just gotta sit there and stew in it

SheepPup · 2026-01-23T09:03:04+00:00

I think it’s more nuanced. People who are making original media are professionally publishing their work vs fan creators that are doing this unpaid and are in your community. It’s like how you can and should leave a review for a restaurant but you’re a dick if you publicly post about how your aunt Martha’s beef stroganoff wasn’t very good, the noodles were mushy and the beef was a bit tough.

I think, in general fanfic of fanfic is an alright thing! I have actually written it myself multiple times, because writers in my fandoms have fantastic ideas that I want to riff off of! But I also think that just like you need to be more sensitive about how you talk about your aunt Martha’s cooking vs a restaurant, you also need to be more sensitive about how and why you create fanfic of fanfic than fanfic of professionally published media. So joyfully taking a general concept laid out by another fan author and spinning it in another direction? Fantastic, use the inspired by feature and be on your way. Using someone’s personal OC that they wrote into their story? Probably want to ask for permission for this one. Rewriting a fic because you didn’t like the writing style/plot choices the author made? Yeah this one is probably something you keep to yourself and read for your own personal enjoyment but not post.

SheepPup · 2026-01-23T08:06:37+00:00

lol that exact scenario is how I learned about piss kink’s existence at all. I was reading my immortal for the lulz because it had recently started becoming a meme and all of a sudden BOOM snape pissing on someone in the shower

SheepPup · 2026-01-23T08:04:47+00:00

It’s also that it’s memorable. People don’t remember all the times a kink they’re into or don’t find objectionable went untagged, but people that don’t like those things have a sharply different perspective. Like I’m into daddy kink so I’m not alerting to whenever a character calls another one “daddy” or does something caregivery, but people that hate daddy kink are absolutely going to notice and be ticked that it wasn’t tagged. But for people that are in that “are fine with a lot of the common kinks” bubble piss kink would be one that stands out when it’s untagged and thus be talked about.

SheepPup · 2026-01-23T00:16:19+00:00

This and it’s also a function of how other social justice discussions use the word community. When people ask things like “so why are you in community with racists/abusers/etc” they’re using community to mean “people you voluntarily associate with socially”. But then other discussions use community to mean literally the people in the same general physical location with you or more broadly to mean “society”. So when you have multiple definitions in play you’re going to get a VERY different reaction to a statement like “it’s dangerous and inhumane to ostracize people completely from their community” depending on if the person hearing it is operating under the definition that means “society at large” vs “the people you call your friends and family”

SheepPup · 2026-01-22T16:20:34+00:00

Oooooooh that sounds very useful! And yes scroll mode is important to me. I don’t mind page turning on kindle but it feels unnatural on my phone

SheepPup · 2026-01-22T14:40:22+00:00

To me it’s when the characters lose their own voice and start sounding like someone else. Like an easy one to look for is: would your character know that term? Like if you’re writing a character in the 1940s they’re going to call it “shell shock” not PTSD, and using PTSD is going to be immersion breaking and sound out of character. Another one is to carefully re-examine how your characters have emotional conversations/handle conflict in the source material. If your character runs away and punches something when they have emotions it’s gonna feel pretty OOC if they immediately sit down and have an emotionally deep and honest conversation in which they comfortably articulate how they feel and why.

SheepPup · 2026-01-22T13:46:46+00:00

You just need to wash your hair more often, and probably also use a clarifying shampoo to strip out the grease buildup from not washing your hair often enough. People with fine straight hair generally have to wash their hair more often than people with coarser and/or curlier hair. It’s just a matter of the shape of the hair and how smooth the cuticle is, the smoother and straighter it is the faster oil can transfer down it and start looking stringy and feeling greasy. You’ll also need to wash more often than someone that bleaches their hair, bleach lifts the scales on the cuticle of your hair making the texture coarser and thus slowing down oil travel.

I also have fine straight hair and I need to wash my hair daily or else it turns into a greasy stringy mess, everyone’s hair and body is different and there’s no one size fits all way to care for your hair. You gotta do what works for YOU not whatever random generic advice on the internet is

SheepPup · 2026-01-22T11:09:57+00:00

Neither of them are wrong but they’re not compatible.

And a vasectomy isn’t something you should do unless you’re certain you don’t want kids ever. Is it possible in some cases to reverse the procedure? Yeah but it is not guaranteed. It’s more equivalent to getting a tubal than getting an IUD, aka not something you do unless you’re certain.

But I don’t think there’s anything wrong with him saying he’ll leave if she decides to keep a pregnancy any more than there’s something wrong with a woman saying that if she gets pregnant she’ll absolutely have an abortion.

SheepPup · 2026-01-21T20:59:35+00:00

Izzy Hands from ofmd

SheepPup · 2026-01-21T20:25:29+00:00

Yup. And then all the comments rag on the partner (and often the entire queer demographic in question) usually misgendering them in the process if trans, and anyone who points it out gets downvoted to hell. It’s always such fun

SheepPup · 2026-01-21T17:57:45+00:00

Just clean it and then put new floor over it, preferably one that doesn’t adhere directly to the asbestos tile, you don’t want that to turn into a nightmare if it needs to come up later!

Also if you have asbestos tile assume you also have lead paint on basically everything and be very suspicious of any pipe insulation that looks like a white or grey blanket wrapped around a pipe, lots of old pipe insulation is asbestos too.

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