The difference being online I speak on my own terms on subjects that interest me.

And not too long ago I was reminiscing about the quaint days of goatse on another Jezebel article. Some days I realize I have spent over half my life on the internet and lived through its "wild west" days and seriously consider retiring.

I feel like it really depends on what fandom or whatever you're in. I'm 25, and most of the people I talk to are mid-twenties into early thirties, and I have a blast on Tumblr most of the time. I just avoid the shitty Supernatural, DW, Sherlock crowd.

I think the small town aspect is even more relevant here than the Canadian politeness aspect; it is hard to put your foot down with unreasonable assholes if you know you are going to see them 100 more times that year. It's different with deeply disturbed people in those very small places- they tend to get away with a l…

Oh great, I just managed to escape the wormhole that is fandom wank articles (the HP fanfiction alone kept me going for weeks!) Oh well, I wasn't doing much with my life for the next two months...

There's an interesting trend in good ABO fics, the one where the point is to use the construct to really explore the culture of sexism, where the author never finishes because they get to depressed with the whole thing. Or worse, they have been kind of writing towards a happy ending but ultimately don't think the…

I agree. These folks were taking elements from stories that focused on actual oppression and appropriated it for their really not-oppressed situation of their nice expensive venue wanting money up front (even if that turns out to be false).

that's not THAT dirty. I can't be shocked by historical love letters anymore thanks to Joyce. That bar is TOO high... too. high.

Knotting is a sub-genre of fic that became popular in the fandom from mid-2010 onwards. The genre overlays canine-type characteristics on people, including pack hierarchies and the idea that receptive sex partners may go into heat. The knot refers to men having a cock that forms a knot when erect, as is found in dogs…

OF COURSE IT WAS POPULARIZED ON SUPERNATURAL. OF COURSE.

I read that last night but I have to think that's a joke. There's a live BDSM demonstration and, what, people sitting in the same conference room catch an STD? No way.

Homestuck, that's it. Her and her friends are obsessed. She's spent a week sewing a pair of gray tights into glove/arm things so she doesn't have to paint them gray anymore. She literally sewed it around each finger by hand and then hot glued yellow nails on the tips. She's also hand painted all of her shirts, dyed…

• Can You Knot: Exploring the Omegaverse (18+): A growing subset within fandoms! Topics such as gender roles, gendered language, and the six gender system will be discussed among many other topics.

We have accessible toilets in the men and women's bathrooms. The issue is when a person has an opposite gender caregiver, I have a friend who has a teenage son with autism (he is minimally verbal) and she spends a lot of her time trying to figure out if the place she's taking him as an appropriate restroom, if not…

I say fuck it! When it's single bathrooms for each sex, I consider that more of a suggestion than a rule. If some lady has been in the Women's for more than 3 minutes, I'm using the Men's and fuck whoever tries to take issue with me.

"They're better people than us," says Brian Kilmeade. So are things growing on the underside of bridges.

And the reason we need to write lots and lots of female characters is so that we CAN write flawed ones without them representing every woman in that universe. If the only woman in my story was the one I mentioned above, it could easily imply that all women are heartless and would sell women into slavery to help…

Frank is a goddamn ice king. Both characters know how to put on a smile and fake charm to disarm and then plunge the dagger in. Both characters are master manipulators who always seem to find a way to turn something to their advantage.

I actually found it funny that in the first paragraph of this article Claire is described as "cold" and Frank as "passionate." One of the things that I find most interesting about this show and their relationship as a couple is how they often don't fall into normal gender roles when it comes to how they react to…