As a Canadian living in the US, yes.
It is kind of funny how Canadian patriotism had been on the decline for decades right up until Donald Trump uttered the Manchurian Candidate trigger phrase "51st state" and sent it automatically and reflexively shooting back up.
Have some respect
I feel so strongly about this. It is a spiritual practice walk outside every day in the growing season and appreciate the chaos of my garden. Last summer I had a yellow primrose volunteer itself, the summer before that, a wild orchid. Every spring is a joyful surprise. What will grow this year? The lawn is sprinkled with tiny white flowers and clumps of buttercups that I mow around. Once upon I had plans, designs, now I toss flower and vegetable seeds alike, and anticipate the results.
I can't imagine being offended by the dandelion out of place.
i do think we need to start treating spraying harmless "weeds" in your lawn as utterly absurd princess and the pea level of obsession with needing the world to revolve around your every whim, like.
Okay a flower grew out of the ground outside and you can't cope with it. Do you need to sleep on thirty feather beds as well
ARCANE S2E06 | “The Message Hidden Within the Pattern”
I wrote a thing and it's not for everyone but I'm really proud of it.
Explicit
Rape/Non-Con
F/F, Other
Work in Progress
26 Mar 2025
Rape/Non-Con
Caitlyn/Vi (League of Legends)
Caitlyn & Vi (League of Legends)
Caitlyn (League of Legends)
Vi (League of Legends)
Ambessa Medarda
Original Trans Character(s)
A/B/O
Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics
Alpha/Omega
Alpha Caitlyn (League of Legends)
Alpha Vi (League of Legends)
Omega OC
transmasc oc
Dubious Consent
captive omega
Oral Sex
Rape/Non-con Elements
Kidnapping
“You’ve never been marked by an Alpha,” She noted, “Why not?” He had always been told his smart mouth would be the end of him. “Between you and me, alphas can be kinda rapey,” he quipped before he could stop himself, and mentally kicked himself as he watched her eyes grow even sterner, drawing herself up straighter and taller. In his peripheral view, the pink one snorted. The blue one tsked and cocked her head slightly, “Such a harmful stereotype,” she murmured. She was beginning to walk around him, eyes raking his body. “And you’re here to defy stereotypes?” Fox needed to shut up. He turned his eyes to the pink one as the blue one moved behind him. Her lips were quirked up in amusement as she watched her partner move around him. Pink lips, a scar. The heart-shaped face was simultaneously sharp and soft, and she watched the blue one with undisguised fondness. Behind him, right next to the shell of his ear, the blue one spoke, “No. I suppose not.” -------- Caitlyn and Vi are having a hard time finding an omega to round out their unconventional relationship, so they resort to questionable methods.
She knows what she’s doing.
Vi❤️
3. Actively soothing myself when I realize that my character took their coffee with cream in chapter 3 but is now drinking it black in chapter 10.
There are two types of writers:
1. 'It's fiction, it doesn't need to make sense!'
2. 'I didn't account for the rotation of the planet and how that affects the constalations while my characters stargazed at different times of year, I have failed as a writer, and this entire thing is trash'
It kills me that I can’t leave multiple kudos, and frankly, if you held my attention for a whole chapter, you get the kudos. It’s hard to put your writing out there, it’s so vulnerable, and when you’re in that state, it’s easy to interpret silence as apathy at best, active dislike at worst.
I really don't understand how "without getting kudos or comments a fanfiction author is going to assume that people who clicked their fic didn't like it" became a controversial take.
I don't know why some people think an author should imagine, or guess that people who click their fic enjoyed it it when nobody is telling them that.
If you're re-reading a fic constantly, or leaving it up in your tab so that it re-loads every day for a hundred days the author is not going to know that unless you tell them. They'd love to hear it. It would make their day.
And if you don't tell them you liked their fic, there's no reason for them to assume you did.