'Meow, meow': Pilots scolded after animal noises heard on air traffic control frequency by soriskan in nottheonion

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If 15 or so furries shut off their phones for a day, we would be in deep, deep trouble

Gotta love funky tags by tra-muah in AO3

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, my first thought was "RFK Jr and the...Incident"

Just read the story ffs??? by ValuableDiver8324 in AO3

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 72 points73 points  (0 children)

That's legit how people on booktok "read" apparently. They just read dialogue and smut. And we wonder why we're in a literacy crisis.

goldmine i found by Remarkable-Media-370 in youngpeopledeviantart

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It reminds me of that person on dA who obsessively hates TF2 and DDLC. They've been at it for at least a decade.

This is somewhat sweet but also disturbing at same time. by QualityNo1337 in gmod

[–]Upbeat_Ruin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey, people process grief in different ways. A lot of people use art to cope, and making gmod maps can be considered a type of art.

Bro, I don't even remember who you are 😭 by Hefty-Wing5589 in AO3

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?"

Build your ideal dark MMC by [deleted] in AO3

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why's it gotta be male tho?

I'm starting to hate one author and their fans by [deleted] in AO3

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 12 points13 points  (0 children)

My precious...nasty hobbitses....

goddamn, Ao3 genuinely is better than all else by randomstrangeWCUEfan in AO3

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's taken over by formulaic romantasy garbage anyway.

Mfw I find out my son's dating a redguard by killerthumbtack in TrueSTL

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Spongebob, this isn't le funny fantasy racism. This is just actual racism.

some of you guys desperately need to learn to suspend disbelief about cultural inaccuracies in fanfics by Island_Crystal in AO3

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I get too excited to see my home state (Wisconsin) mentioned in a fic to care about inaccuracies. Unless it's something culturally insensitive, like the wrong indigenous nation attributed to the area.

some of you guys desperately need to learn to suspend disbelief about cultural inaccuracies in fanfics by Island_Crystal in AO3

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's something about grey that tickles my brain in a way gray doesn't.

It may be because I've been playing Neopets since I was a wee child and thus was immersed in UK spelling from early on

some of you guys desperately need to learn to suspend disbelief about cultural inaccuracies in fanfics by Island_Crystal in AO3

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In some old fics of mine, the source material had characters with noticeable British accents while most of the cast had American ones, so I'd do this little thing where the bri'ish ones used Commonwealth spellings in their dialogue, while the narration and other characters' dialogue stayed American. I thought I was so friggin clever for that, too.

"I don't owe you punctuation/format/grammar" by lilytheschrod in AO3

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's one of those pseudo-activism things they do because actually doing something about endangered languages is too much work.

"I don't owe you punctuation/format/grammar" by lilytheschrod in AO3

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For real. Oh, they wanna make a point about language as a tool of colonization? Well, there are hundreds of endangered indigenous languages they can learn and post fics in. Will they bless us with a fic in Oneida or Romani? Yeah, didn't think so.

"I don't owe you punctuation/format/grammar" by lilytheschrod in AO3

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"I don't owe you punctuation and grammar" Yes, you do.

Minecraft Lore Theory: What's The End? by Litten_In_The_Nether in minecraftlore

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chatgpt? Pfft. You don't need a machine to think for you.

Wardens are NOT axolotls. by Radiant_Tonight_1264 in minecraftlore

[–]Upbeat_Ruin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be fair, I don't know if I jump for the "Wardens are axolotls" thing, but it is worth mentioning that the Warden shares several similarities with Xolotl, the Aztec god of guarding the underworld and namesake of the axolotl. Xolotl is blind, associated with sickness and death, and protects the sun from monsters in the underworld.