u/fanime34

It is up now. I had thought that I set the schedule already. I know for sure I did.

“Syd and TP have been spending a lot of time with kids, and it’s teaching us all A LOT. A 6-year-old at a bounce house asked an important question for which TP had no answer. Gymnastics resumed. Syd got her biggest wish - another class clown in her family tree.

Since y’all can’t let us take a vacation in peace, Syd clears the air on retirement, injury, and where her dream final minutes would be played.

TP is having a little "hissy" (her words), otherwise known as a hysterectomy. No more pain, no more blood infusions. You’ll never guess what she wants to be called when she wakes up. She's kidding. Mostly.

Plus: the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act and Louisiana is just the start, WNBA valuations are breaking records, ESPN dropped a Top 50 list that was clearly designed as rage bait, and Gen Z rookies are TikToking in the locker room after getting cut. And we couldn’t even tell a joke on the bus after a loss?”

The New York Liberty enter a new era as the CBA is signed and free agency reshapes the league. From re-signing the Big 3 to welcoming new faces and the first days of training camp, this episode goes behind the scenes of a team chasing a return to the championship stage while building toward the future. As expectations rise across the league, the journey back begins with the work being done long before opening night.

I would like to believe that this subreddit is full of people who like to uplift one another in our writing journeys, but seeing downvoted posts really makes me feel sad. People here worked hard on their stories. People here were brave enough to share their passion projects. People want a place to talk about their interpretations of what they'd like to see from a show or movie or book.

Whether you don't like the creator of the main work, or you secretly don't like the fanfiction author, or you don't like the series the work is from, or you don't like the work the fanfic author produced, that doesn't mean anyone deserves downvotes. We're supposed to unite. I know it would hurt a little (not a lot, though) to see something I worked hard on in a subreddit like this get downvoted for reasons unknown. This isn't a like or dislike thing. You might not like some shows, movies, or books, that doesn't mean you have to downvote. I don't know about you and maybe it's my empathy, but I can't imagine putting my passion out there just for it to be seen as disliked. Similar to the unwritten don't like, don't read rule, let's not downvote when people are trying to get the courage to show what they like.

Turns out we have to update the app every pre, regular, & post season.

I have a story in which the main characters of my story aren't the main characters of the source; and even more, the plan of the story is to go through the canonical stuff.

So here is the problem. It feels like some of the major points of the story are going to be skipped because the main parts of the story arcs are about characters who aren't the ones I'm highlighting in this story.

I have read a story that went through the canonical story line, but the writer would skip some of it while simultaneously adding their own things. However, the main characters in the story are also the main characters of the show. The main characters in my story are a deuteragonist and a tertiary character in the show/manga. I think you could also say they're static or stock characters.

I just think I might end up cutting a lot of stuff and might possibly highlight them at the beginning of the following chapters. But I don't know.

What would you do?

If the demand comes out for it, we will try again; but for now, it seems that the demand is too little, especially considering the fact that you all can ask for feedback on your own. This is something I should've talked about earlier in the subreddit as I am one who thinks transparency is important. I would've made an announcement the following Friday, but then forgot and was focusing on other things. Weeks after the fact, I ended up dealing with personal matters. Almost a week after we stopped, I dealt with the unfortunate news of the death of a friend and I struggled with issues regarding health insurance. I wanted to say something around that time, but the news hit too hard. I tried being business as usual in this subreddit and tried helping, making announcements, and giving advice here and there, but that wasn't really helping myself as I can't distract myself from the reality that another one of the many people I knew as a kid is now gone. I also feared that I annoyed some people with some things I said. My classmates and I really don't have the best luck regarding our high school graduation class as we've lost many. I also never really felt close to the majority of my graduating class and the school in general and didn't go to my class's reunion, so death of my classmates hurts on a lot of levels. I have even made amends with some people I went to school with, which made me feel worse because of things that should've been said earlier (but better late than never). Don't be like me. I still regret the fact that there were some things I wanted to say to another person I knew who died.

I know this was your idea, but I am sorry that this didn't work out u/Far_Philosophy_2654.

I do know that you all will be able to ask each other on your own for said feedback and opinions. After all, it's not like we force you all to have specific days for things anyway.

Take care of yourselves. I'm still not okay. I know I am not perfect as I can be someone that few or even many may disagree with in this subreddit (whether knowingly or not). I might not be able to tell. I just felt like I wasn't okay; and hiding the decision to end something from you all (temporarily or permanently since we don't know if there could be better interest) isn't fair. And no. Me bringing up the fact that some might disagree here and there is not me resigning from moderation. I love this subreddit and want it to be better than the other fanfiction subreddits. I think it is. I just want it to get bigger.

Bottom line, you never know what someone is going through; so do always try to be nice to anyone you can. Don't forget to care about yourself. I have a hard time doing that sometimes.

I don't need advice, but you can comment if you want. And in case it gets seen by some White people, here is the obligatory not all white people because at least some of them have common knowledge and decency.

While this isn't really a "black" thing, this is something that has been on my mind. There isn't really a generic active people of color subreddit, but this was on my mind.

I've been leaving a lot of animal subreddits because of things like videos of animals licking babies or videos of animals making babies cry by hitting them. Every single time a video like this exists, the baby is white, which means the family who thinks this is a good idea to record and post online is white. And every time I point out that 1) babies should not be licked by animals or 2) recording babies crying because an animal hits them or took something is fucked up, the only people who give me flak, tell me and others that we're being too sensitive, or who say "animals have cleaner mouths than humans" are white people. Yet they will say that it's the baby's fault or that babies shouldn't annoy animals.

Every non-White person will say it's gross. They all say making content of videos where a baby cries because a cat slaps them say it's fucked up. And yet EVERY person I see who says it's fine or records and posts those videos are White. EVERY person I see who thinks an animal spreading germs on a baby is cute and adorable is White. Every person I see who thinks it's funny to see cats hit babies and make them cry is White. Every family I see in the videos are White. Every baby I see who are in those situations are White. Every baby I see crying from being hit by an animal is White. Every baby I see being licked by an animal is White. I am glad that there are some sensible White people who have the common science knowledge to know it's gross and the common decency to think hitting babies is fucked up. However, I recently got downvoted in a subreddit that I left because I said a cat licking a baby is gross.

They are actively ruining animal subreddits for me because of their pseudoscience takes and their amusement for child abuse at the hand of animals. Why are they so fucking stupid and illiterate to science? Why are they so fucked up? And what I hate about it even more is the White people who tell me I am wrong will give no scientific evidence or proof that it's completely safe and tell me I'm overreacting or just plain wrong despite the active scientific studies. And when it comes to making babies cry and I call it out, I'm told I am too soft, told that it's the baby's fault, and see how many people think it's funny It's literally just like modern day conservative Republicans denying science and accepting abuse and murder.

Animals are cute and adorable. Babies are cute and adorable. Them together can be cute and adorable. But the problem I have is when people are okay with being scientifically ignorant and okay with violence.

We do not need the feed clogged up with unnecessary posts; and while I love moderating, it would be easier to not have to delete posts that could very much just be comments. We have game threads. We have post game threads. If you're going to talk about the game when it's happening, or after the fact, keep it there.

Edit: the reason why I'm saying this is because some of you are getting reported about it.