The Forth Anniversary TAU Ficathon GO!!

beelieveinfandom:

Because of grad school and growing a baby inside her (holy shit what a badass) Mod S can’t make this year’s ficathon again. But that’s okay, because we can make our own ficathon, we don’t need any mods! (that’s a lie we love and depend on you guys)

We are holding another ficathon!!!

And it’s not just fic, any type of content is excepted. Fic? It’s in the name. Art? Just mess me up. Music? It’s been so long I would love to see some more. A full feature animated film? That’s very ambitious for but hey we have two whole months so mess us up!

Here’s how it’s going to work!

1. Prompts and Sign Ups!

From now on, we will be taking prompts and sign ups! You can do both by going to this spreadsheet here and submitting a prompt/signing up for a prompt. We recommend doing this as soon as possible, as the sooner you put your prompt in the more time someone has to work on it. In addition, everything under the fic open season and art open season tag is fair game as well!

2. Posting!

Once you have taken a prompt, please have it done by October 5th! In order to make this a big fun day full of fic and art (like Yuletide on AO3,) if you get done before the 5th, please schedule your post to go online on October 5th.

3. Questions!

Can we submit our fic/art for the thon to you?

If by “you” you mean the main TAU blog, then absolutely! Just let us know its for the ficathon so we can schedule it for the first?

If by “you” you mean beelieveinfandom, aka the person who made the OP, then no. I am but a floundering bee who does not know what to do when people give me wonderful things. Please submit everything to the main blog.

Do we need to do any special tags?

Nope! Just the usual “transcendence au” and we’ll see it from there.

Are you going to chase us down with hammers if we don’t finish our prompt on time?

Nope. While we encourage everyone who picks up a draft to finish it of course, neither are we going to chase you with a banhammer. Don’t get discouraged if you can’t finish your prompt in time, we still would love to see your content whenever it is ready.

You wont even get infini-corner. I’m not a mod. I have not the power.

I want to participate but I don’t feel like doing any of the prompts? Can I just write/draw my own thing anyway?

ABSOLUTELY!

Did you seriously just copy and paste the whole post from the first ficathon?

No, I actually edited my post from the second ficathon.

We hope you enjoy and HAVE FUN! And again the prompt spreadsheet can be found here.

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

runawaymarbles:

otahkoapisiakii:

!!!IMPORTANT FOR BLACK US VOTERS!!!

I saw this on Facebook and went to check my registration status, sure it was fine because I voted recently, but I put in the info and it said I’m not registered

PLEASE, especially if you’re a Black voter, check your registration status at vote.org

Update: check your status with your state, NOT with vote.org. There’s a chance that vote.org is collecting your info

Poll: only 28 percent of young voters say they will certainly vote in the 2018 midterms

adamtots:

kaijutegu:

hellwolf99:

daddy-socrates:

as-if-and-only-if:

realcleverissues:

VOTE!

DO YOUR PART TO CHANGE THIS STATISTIC WHEN IT MATTERS IN NOVEMBER!

are u fucking kidding me hey kids following me please make sure yall are voting in this fuckin midterm jesus louisus (with all due respect, of course)

REMEMBER THAT THIS COULD BE LIFE OR DEATH

FUCKING VOTE

And if you can’t physically go vote, look into voting by mail! It’s never to early to register to vote and it’s never too early to find out about voting by mail!

Even if you think you’re registered, they’re illegally deregistering people. Make sure you’re registered. It’s super fucking easy. Just go to turbovote.org.

Poll: only 28 percent of young voters say they will certainly vote in the 2018 midterms

scribblrhob:

kellyanimallover:

the-shadowsmiths:

fireteam-daybreak:

sandersstudies:

thylovelylionheart:

writer: this is one of my male characters! he cares about his guy friends and loves them deeply.

tumblr: oh! so he’s gay!

writer: uh…no, he’s attracted to women.

tumblr: ….so he’s bi!

writer: uhh…no…….he loves his guy friends but he’s not romantically/sexually attracted to them.

tumblr: ….so you’re homophobic.

writer:

Healthy male friendships are almost as rare in mainstream fiction as gay male relationships, and maybe more rare in fanfiction. Let men be wonderful friends without pushing a romantic relationship, just like men and women should be able to be wonderful friends without the pressure of a romantic relationship.

*AGGRESSIVELY SLAMS REBLOG UNTIL I DIE*

This is literally the reason men are so terrified of being open about loving each other platonically, because they don’t want people to assume they’re gay just because they can be supportive of their fucking friends

YES THANK YOU I 1000% AGREE WITH THIS

there still be a lot of angry gay fetishists out there screaming there’s loads of representation of good guy friends! you’re homophobic if these characters aren’t in love!

like dude… nah. we need both, and intimate platonic bonds are hella rare. just say ur acephobic/arophobic or fetishizing gays (or both) and go

sorry if this is a rude question to ask, but i genuinely don’t know, why do people have a problem with genderbending?

enecoo:

From what I can understand, it is a terminological issue; the assumption that genderbending means transforming the entire character into that of the opposite sex in every physical and psychological aspect. So it basically means that gender (notice the issue here?) is synonymous with sex, which is obviously a problem. If we take a literal approach to the term “genderbent”, it would mean swapping gender, not sex. The other problem would be that it suggests it is exclusive to the “two genders” as opposed to three or more when a character has its gender swapped. 

I guess people are oblivious to the fact that there is a great distinction between sex and gender. However, I would rather that a trans friend explains the issue in greater detail, because I’m cis and would rather not slip with what I say. 

I’m not gonna dwell further on this issue, so further asks will be ignored on this topic, but I choose to stay away from doing that. 🙂

I personally have no problem with it, so long as you’re changing the gender, not the sex. “bending” isn’t a binary word, it just means different from the original.

if you’re changing someone’s sex, imo it’s best to say “sex swap”. but that doesn’t denote gender change, so that should stay the same.

if you want to change both sex and gender, I prefer words like “spectrum slide”, since it’s more ambiguous and can mean multiple changes.

I think everyone just needs to be aware of what does and doesn’t denote sex/gender changes, or the gender/sex binary. and be open to critique, and don’t assume everyone else knows what you know–be kind, be understanding. don’t jump down someone’s throat for getting a term wrong, be courteous when reaching out to them. no one pops out of the womb knowing any of this!

there’s also a… understandably sketchy line when it comes to sexualization and objectification of a sex or gender. so please be mindful of that too. it’s usually extremely obvious when the intent it’s purely sexual, and that’s really frowned upon.

other than that, I see nothing wrong in exploring sex and/or gender changes in characters you love! we do that with just about every other character aspect.

gallusrostromegalus:

thebibliosphere:

kuruasu:

thebibliosphere:

gallusrostromegalus:

thebibliosphere:

thebibliosphere:

thebibliosphere:

thebibliosphere:

thebibliosphere:

Siri, how do you start your own bank?

Oh good, there’s a wikihow

Step One: Determine a need: Why are you opening a bank?

Vampire porn. Next question.

Step Two: Appoint A Board of Directors.

Thirteen sounds like a great number for this venture. Do we know thirteen people who know anything about running a bank?

Would you believe there is actually less steps to this than their acne skin care tips.

Step Three: Make sure you have the starting capital.

*typing slowly, one key at a time*

That’s either a lot of entrepreneurs or a lot of tax fraud evasionists.

Step Four: Create a business summary plan.

We already covered this, vampire porn. Move on.

Step Five: Hire a legal time.

Okay, how many of you are lawyers? Show of hands.

Step six: Establish a risk management infrastructure.

Listen, if I listened to everyone who told me something was a bad idea, I’d never get anywhere. Lets go, come on, lets get moving.

You know? I’d invest in a vampire-and-other-niche-erotica-based bank.  The demand for that is NEVER going away and I’m good with loaning out money so more of it’s made.

This bank needs to be named something suitably Ominous and/or Suggestive.

idk about ominous but I feel like all the advertising slogans need to be puns.

“It’s common cents!”

and “a bank that delivers change.”

Among other things like “You can’t get blood from a stone, but you can get it here, at Nosferatu Banking we…”

Holy crud the comments

I legitimately have the best and funniest followers on this hellsite and no one can tell me otherwise.

I was gonna call it Bodice-Buster Banking and market it with Sexy Vampires/Werewolves/men in kilts/viking-cowboys/mothmen in kilts or whatever lounging attractively on huge piles of cash with out website at the bottom.

allthingshyper:

jamaicanblackcastoroil:

gluten-free-pussy:

afronerdism:

gluten-free-pussy:

Lately I’ve been doing this thing where when men give me shit at my job, I choose to instead speak to their wives/girlfriends/female counterpart. I had a dude today try to yell at me and I ignored him and instead spoke in a very level voice to his wife instead. He literally stomped his feet like a fucking toddler and said “stop ignoring me! I’m talking!” And his wife said “George, please use a quieter voice. You’re embarrassing me.”

You are a genius and I’m using this

Lol I learned it from my mom. She does this all the time and eventually the guy either sulks off somewhere or adjusts his behaviour and THEN she’ll address him. I did this with my friends puppies when I was training them and it works the same tbh

This is the kind of behavior you use on little kids, which I find both hilarious, disturbing and very telling of how little we expect men to GROW THE FUCK UP