#read 1st alt text before requesting

[bambinettea]

pressed flowers, quiet hearts

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[finishwhatyoustarted-event]

Finish What You Started 2025 - Event Rules

[simple ID, more in alt: basic rules for the event. End ID.]

The goal of this event is to get things done that you’ve already started. We all have unfinished projects whose incomplete status haunts us. Those are what we want to tackle!

The structure is loose, as this is a multimedia event. While primarily aimed at writers, this event is open to any kind of creative fanwork. Fics, translations, podfics, fanart, animations, cosplay - if you started it and never got it done, it qualifies. There is no sign-up required. I will not assign beta readers for writers, but I can boost requests for those who want them! And I can boost messages of those who would like to beta read.

The mod is a danmei fan mainly, but your work can be any fandom. Maybe something you started before your current fandom excitement took over, or one you keep putting off in favor of compelling new ideas.

Feel free to pass this event info along! The more the merrier!

Further rules and clarifications:

Alt text is very encouraged, especially for boost posts or artwork! Remember, alt text is searchable (so much as anything ever is on this site), so it can help more people find your work as well as letting vision- and internet-impaired fans enjoy it (which is its main purpose).

Machine Generated or “AI” images and writing are not permitted. If you are found in violation of this rule, you will be removed from the event. All images, writing, or other works must be your own.

If your work is NSFW, I will only boost it if it has appropriate content warnings. Spoilering images is recommended but not required as long as it’s tagged. Do not letter-swap or abbreviate content warnings. These are so people can mute them as needed. Example: “gore” not “g0re”

Remember Tumblr can mute phrases, but each warning should be its own tag as well as in the body.

Please use genderbend or genderswap for characters depicted not as canon genders. Example: “#NSFW #genderbend #gore”

Please use Omegaverse or A/O/B for that content. The original letter order is a slur against Aboriginal peoples and will not be tolerated here, even with the slashes. It, like other racial or identity-based slurs, fall under hate speech and are thus not permitted.

This is a positive, shared space. Do not belittle other creators’ medium of choice. Please no fandom/character/ship/creator bashing, and don’t berate artists or authors for not being done with something, even if they don’t finish by the end of the event. Also, please don’t passive-aggressively send this event to the author of an unfinished fic you want to see done faster. 😥 Be cool, respect each other, and keep any interpersonal disagreements to your own tumblrsphere.

Schedule and Hashtags

This account will post weekly morale-boosting messages and helpful resources. Every Friday, starting March 14th, will be Finished It Friday. All the completed works posted that week will be boosted together in a big thread, so we can celebrate your accomplishment!

Halfway-point check-in is April 1st. Final event deadline is April 30th. The last Finished It Friday is May 9th.

All posts and boosts will be crossposted to the event bsky (finishwhatyoustart.bsky.social) and Discord. Expanded rules, explanations, and Dead Dove guidelines can also be found on the Discord. (invite link in pinned post)

Fics can be posted to the AO3 collection (archiveofourown(dot)org /collections /FinishWhatYouStarted2025_Spring)

Work-in-progress posts should be tagged #FinishWhatYouStarted2025 . If you complete a wip within the event, tag it #IFinishedWhatIStarted2025 for boosting so we can all celebrate!

FAQ:

Q: Are original works acceptable?

A: This is primarily a fanwork-focused event. If original work is the only WIP you have to work on, it’s certainly fine to work on it during the time frame of the event. If it is posted publicly when finished, you may tag it for boosting.

Q: Are there any restrictions on topics?

A: No, so long as your event # post is properly & fully tagged for content (see rules about tagging above). "Dead Dove” topics are allowed. Some submissions will be 18+. For me, this is less about the content and more about finishing it.

Q: Are there any restrictions on media that can be submitted?

A. All content created must be your own and must abide from other stated rules. The usual restrictions based on laws and Community Guidelines of course apply, so you may need to tailor how you post to which event space your interacting with. Twitter, Tumblr, and Discord all have their own rules. There are also some topics that are in poor taste to make fanworks around. The event organizer and mods reserve the right to not boost your work if they decide it is rage-baiting or trolling. They are not responsible for negative reactions to your works. Please be respectful of those you share a digital space with.

Keep in mind that when I link to your finished work during a Finished It Friday, it may reach a wider audience than you may be used to.

Find more information and community on the Discord, if you want! Joining the Discord is not required for the event. As always, if you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out!

[voidcoining]

[ID: Three flags made of seven horizontal stripes. The middle one is half as thick as the others. From top to bottom, they are dark green, tree green, green, white, dark periwinkle, blueberry, and violet. The bottom left flag has the science symbol, a model of an atom. The bottom right flag has the alterhuman symbol, the unicode symbol for alt with an arrow on it. Both are gold and outlined in white. The top flag has both symbols next to each other. End ID]

[ID: A red line with dark red devil horns on either side outlined in red. Orange text outlined in red reads “Team Villains.” End ID]

Alterhuman Scientist

[PT: Alterhuman Scientist. End PT]

A flag for alterhumans who are scientists, those who feel their alterhumanity is connected to science, or anyone who feels connected to both science and being alterhuman

———⭐️———

coined by me! requested by no one

revenge on @liomogai for 8 points! (5 base + 2 non-gender + 1st revenge)

tagging @coinfight

please let me know if this has been coined before!

[cypresscries]

Hai welcome to my hell

(Please at the very least read my DNI at the bottom of the post.)

Before you go, please understand we DO NOT ACCEPT DONATION ASKS DUE TO MENTAL HEALTH REASONS. This post [here] does a good job explaining it. Sorry.

IM A MINOR‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

Quick note befor everything: PLEEEASE TELL US IF WE DO SOMETHING WRONG!!!!!! BUT IF YOU DO BE WARNED I WILL APOLOGIZE PROFUSELY AND IT WILL BE ANNOYING!! OKAY SORRY CONTINUE ON WITH UR READING OF THIS LONG ASS INTRO POST

another quick note, my blog may not be very accessible or screen reader friendly! i plan on making a plain text version of this intro post, and i try my best to add alt text to my art and images i post.

You can call me Tamari... Sunny... Chiip.. uhhhh.... Anything works ig. my prns page has some names on there too ig.

Pronouns are He/it/she/spark/beep/boop, and any other neos ::]

Prsk friend code [ENG]: 394877626071769089

Prsk friend code [JP]: 416376526629928966

artfight profile ::3 <- click!

♫︎ anything is chill really, but NO THEY/THEM!!!! i will explode on inpact.

♫︎ im genderfluid transmasc, objectum, panromantic and aroaceflux! im also a self shipper!! uhh u can ask who my f/os are but i might be a bit awkward abt it.. im sharing tho!

♫︎ Im part of a mixed origins system!! Though i, Tamari, am permafronted and have a.very hard time contacting headspace [therefore it being very rare for others to front/co front], they will have their own post tags and signoffs on others posts! :

-✨️Squilf/Atlas || any pronouns, #Atlas Does a Talk

- 🎉 Kylie || they/them, #Kylie Speaks

- ⭐️ Emu || she/her, #Emus Shenanigans

- 💥Teto || she/her, #Tetos Faggotry

- 🔥 Ashfur || he/him, #Ashy Burns Shit

- 👑 Ranboo || he/they, #Rans Ramblings

- ⚡️N || he/him, #Ns Silly Talking Times

- 🔋Uzi || she/her/they, #Uzis Kooky Insane Ramblings

- 🪽V || She/her, #V Says Something

- 🗡Spears || He/they/slug, #Spears Whispers

- ❤️‍🩹Hunter || He/she, #Hunter Hours

- 🐈‍⬛Tessa || She/he, #Tessa Talks Shit

- 🎀Mizu/Micheal || He/she, #Mizu Meows

- 🌺Flower || any, #Flowey Yaps

- 🩷Amia || She/her, #Amias Silliness

- 🍋‍🟩Limey || He/him, #Limeys Evil Plans

- 🐾Kian || He/him, #Kian meow mrrp mrows

- 💣Arti || she/her, #Arti said this

- 🌊River || he/she/they, #River's yappings

- 🌌Juice/Jupiter || he/him, #Jupiter's ramblings

#‼️ the whole gangs here ‼️ || post from multiple fronters or the system as a whole!

Syscourse triggers us, please do not talk about it with us /srs

We all use the names Squimpy and Chiip! if you do know tje fronter, we would prefer you use said fronters name instead!

Uhh more stuff:

♫︎ im alterhuman n stuff!! ill make a list for my kintypes some other time.. too lazy soz

♫︎ im a furry

♫︎ we are bodily a minor (16-)

♫︎ my birthday is febuary 1st

♫︎ Timezone is EST.

Note: small typing quirk! i use two colons (EX: ::3 ) for 4 eyes ::D

Fandoms im in [green = hyperfixated on right now, blue = active in]:

♫︎ Rain World

♫︎ Cookie Run Kingdom

♫︎ 17776

♫︎ Ghost and pals

♫︎ In Stars and Time

♫︎ ENA

♫︎ Vocaloid [my favs are Kasane Teto and Yi Xi if you were wondering]

♫︎ OSC [Object Show Community]

♫︎ Parkour Civilization

♫︎ Alien Stage [HYUNA MY BELOVED💚]

♫︎ Cattails Wildwood Story

♫︎ Murder Drones

♫︎ Night in the Woods

♫︎ Omori [havent played the game yet but still]

♫︎ Project Sekai

♫︎ Nilfruits [dont know a bunch abt it yet nilfruits moots are encouraged to infodump abt it ::3 ]

♫︎ The Amazing Digital Circus

♫︎ AVA/AVM

♫︎ Hermitcraft + Life series/Trafficblr

♫︎ Wings of Fire

♫︎ Warrior Cats

♫︎ Parties Are For Losers

♫︎ Pokemon

♫︎ Undertale [+ Deltarune when i play it]

We mostly post about . Uhhh Pokemon, Rain World, and Project Sekai. And the stuff in green and sometimes blue

ART REQUEST STATUS: CLOSED

F2u with credit slugcat pfps here [warning! These r old...]

My fursonas name is Luvin and he uses the same pronouns as me

Our systems collective sona <- Click!

my persona <- Click!

Username changed from tvcat0w0 -> chiipeatsbatteries175 -> tamarieatsbatteries175

Our discord user is kanamafuu. [Please only friend us if we are mutuals and have interacted b4]

Tagging System:

Tamaris Art- #Sillyart

Artfight attacks- #Tamaris artfight stuff

My brothers art tag- #Watermelons Gallery

Reblogs (though i tend to forget to use this tag)- #sillyreblog

Submissions- #Blog Invasion { SUBMISSIONS }

Alterhuman/kin talk- #Squimpys Kin Yaps ☆

Text posts- #YER TELLIN ' ME TAMARI FRIED THIS RICE ? ☆

Text posts from 2024- #Chiip is a huge bug enthusiast

Text posts from 2023- #sillytalking

Vents or complaining- #Not so silly sillytalking

Asks- #answering the sillies

Real life photos- #squimpy irl

Pictures of my cats- #kevin the sea pickle 🐈 #Tilly the yapper 🐈

Extra tag for when people infodump/show me about their blorbos- #blorbo storage

silly rw hcs / totally true rw facts- #tamaris true rain world facts

My warrior cats oc fanclans tag- #Chiips silly fanclans

My prsk oc unit tag- #Twilight's☆Glow

Rando facts about me:

♫︎ My favorite songs are: Telepathy by DECO*27, Ángel by Kairiki Bear, and Wiege from Alien Stage

♫︎ currently mentally ill about: pokemon and rain world. lord send help i may have autism

♫︎ my favorite color is green

♫︎ im full of mental illness /gen

♫︎ my favorite slugcats are Hunter and Spearmaster! (Not counting Inv, Artificer, or Saint cuz das literally me) (im biased bc my insys qpps are hunter and spears fictives)

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Please tag me in things you think i would might like, and i am also 100% open to talk to ::] dms are open ::D

I almost forgot my sideblogs: @sodacantt [semi inactive], @just-kevin-things , @the-spinner-that-spins-things [mostly inactive], @where-is-tamari-now [inactive], @that-thing-luvin [mostly inactive], @chiipsimportantblog [not used anymore], @tamariz-epic-blog [inactive], @chiips-slugpup-posting , @daily-sluggcats , @tillythesilly14 , @michigan-real , @kiyoko-takamori , @eeeeeespeon [ rotomblr ] and @invwuzhere

If you have any questions, just ask! Pleeease ::]

A really epik post <- Click!

I have a youtube channel! But for personal comfort reasons, i will not be sharing it ::P it is mainly alterhuman focused tho

More info dumb shit here: [ planning on adding more stuff on the strawpage as well!!

And here [OUTDATED]:

PLEASE INTERACT:

ALTERHUMANS, RAIN WORLD FANS, DUPES, OTHER SYSTEMS, AND IDK ANYONE WHOS CHILL IG? I LOVE FRIENDSHIP ITS SO AWESOME

Note: we are an Endogenic system WITH TRAUMA. Some members of our system may not have formed from said trauma, but we still have it.

VERY IMPORTANT DNI LIST:

ZIONISTS

Meanies 👎

[WE BLOCK WHO WE DONT LIKE.]

NSFW/18+ blogs are fine. just PLEASE dont be nsfw towards me if you are an adult. i will block you if you make us uncomfortable.

Note: we dont give a shit about proshipping bs. If u liek proship stuff and interact with us thats fine! Just know it may make a few of us uncomfy and most of us dont really like that stuff. We will NEVER go out of our way to harrass u for it tho!!! I [tamari] personally am chill with it, and you can ramble abt it to me if u want. [Just no akiena pls. Thats a big nono for me cuz of kin reasons.]

ANOTHER note: i am personally uncomfortable with kff [kin for fun] bc its misusing the term kin sorry.. if u kff thats fine u can interact id just rather u not talk abt it to me srry

first two blinkies + userbox made by us!

skitty blinkie made by @/blinkees

thabk yoy for readdijngnnnnn

[limoncats]

hi i’m limoncats

and i made this bullshit of a blog on the 26th of August, 2023

QUICK NOTE: you've most likely already noticed, but i swear very frequently. i sincerely apologise if that bothers you!!! ANOTHER QUICK NOTE: i do post a lot of Okegom but please know that i do NOT support funamusea.

my nicknames are Seren, limon or Eostra, i don't mind which you use.

okay so uhh before you go down and look at my kinda about me section pls look at my sona’s character sheet (no pressure btw)

(drawn April 4th, 2024) yeah, you can use that to reference my sona when drawing! if you do end up drawing me pls tag me i’d wanna see it 🥺🥺

also this comparison between heights of my sona and my OC Mayuu (real name: Rui Maikaze) is here so you can use it as a reference for my sona's height [height chart by MookieTheMonster on Deviantart]

DISCLAIMER: THIS BLOG AIN’T SPOILER-FREE FOLKS!!

okay here’s the long-awaited (← not really) about me section

hi, i’m limoncats (no shit) and i’m a multifandom artist who loves RPG Maker games! aaaaaaaaaaand the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness...god i love that series.

my birthday is January the 5th, i’ve basically drawn my entire life, purple is my favourite colour, green is my least favourite colour, i’m aroace, and vegetables taste ass to me

i was born and raised in England by Turkish parents!

i’m also a minor (under 18) so ye

as of now, i own 3 cats. (2 at home, 1 lost. i miss her [Luna] so much…praying she comes home)

disclaimer: if anything i say comes off as offensive to anyone i apologise in advance. i don’t want to offend anyone.

FAQ

“can i use your art as a profile picture/header?” yes, just credit me somewhere easy to see.

“can i repost your art?” yes, just credit me somewhere easy to see.

“can i dub one of your comics?” yes! ask me 1st and credit me in the description of your video, whether it’s a link to one of my socials (or multiple) or a direct link to the comic. (p.s. please give me the link to the comic dub i’d love to see it 🥺)

"can i use your art commercially?" ask me via discord (limoncats)

"how do you say your names?" limoncats is said "lee-mohn-cats", Seren is "suh-renn" (like the "seren" in "serenity", i think Seren is supposed to be a shorter version of "serenity"), Eostra is "ee-o-strah" (the o is said like the o in "impossible")

"why is one of your nicknames Eostra wtf she's like a horrible villain" listen. my school friends were assigning Soul-Eaters to each other and they assigned Eostra to me and i think it's funny asf

feel free to ask me stuff/request drawings via ask box!

my website (straw.page)

(there's additional info there too)

and that's basically it for my intro post! you're free to go look through my tumblr now :) (dw you weren't obligated to read this)

(p.s. if you like the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, please talk to me. i'm begging you)

as of the 1st of July, 2024, i have hit 100 followers on tumblr! thank you all <3

and as of the 17th of August, i have hit 100 subscribers on YouTube!! thank you all so much!!!!!!!

userboxes + stamps below! (credits in alt text) flash/hueshift TW

if you want to see my art, go to the tag #my art on my blog!

p.s. feel free to ask me shit about Anaita

[carriesthewind]

Another update to end the week, including an answer to the question that was left dangling as of the last update: was it just an oversight that LoDuca was not granted an extension of time to file his supplemental written response, when Schwartz and the law firm were granted an extension to file their written responses?

On June 1st, as foreshadowed by the May 31st letter by the Firm/Schwartz's attorney, two attorneys entered their appearance on behalf of Mr. LoDuca. As mentioned above, these attorneys work for a different firm than the lawyers retained by the Firm/Schwartz. (And as mentioned above, right now we can only speculate on the reason(s) for the separate representation.)

(For clarity, I will be collectively referring to all of the lawyers who have entered an appearance to represent LoDuca, Schwartz, and the Firm as the "Professional Responsibility attorneys" to distinguish them from all of the other attorneys involved in this case)

That same day, his lawyers asked the same question I had after the judge's May 31st order - does Mr. LoDuca also have until June 6th to submit his supplemental written response?

Part of the job of the Professional Responsibility lawyers is to try to deescalate the situation. Here, they have to walk a balancing act in attempting to clear up an uncertainty from the court order, give themselves as much time to respond as possible, and not piss off the judge any further. Normally when a judge issues an unclear order it's relatively simple to request a clarification. Compare this request from the Defendant's attorneys on March 2nd:

(Basically: the court originally set dates on which the Plaintiff's and the Defendant's briefs were due. The Court extended the Plaintiff's deadline, but didn't include an extension of the Defendant's deadline. So the Defendant is requesting a clarification of when its brief is supposed to be due. This request was granted by the court without comment on March 3rd.)

However, in this particular situation, the judge is very clearly not happy with LoDuca, Schwartz, and the Firm (to put it mildly) and is likely to be disinclined to give them any benefit of the doubt. If he thinks his previous order was clear, having to respond to a request for clarification will just make him angrier. But, if you, as the Professional Responsibility attorney, don't ask for clarification and proceed under an assumption that later turns out to be incorrect, you will end up screwing over your client. So they have to ask, but that is why you see such a difference in the language of the requests between the June 1 request and the March 2nd request.

Unfortunately for Mr. LoDuca:

Ouch.

If you can't read the judge's handwriting, the full text of his order is in the alt text, but I also include it below for reference:

"Mr. LoDuca is differently situated from Mr. Schwartz and the Firm. He has availed himself of a full and fair opportunity to respond to the Court's OSC regarding non-existent case law and three (3) possible grounds for sanctions. He is not entitled to a do-over. The only [underlined] point of response to the supplemental OSC of May 26 is whether he, in fact, physically appeared before Mr. Schwartz, a notary public, on April 25, 2023 and took an oath to tell the truth. That should be a simple and straightforward matter. But if he needs until June 6, 2023 to respond on this point he may have the time. Application GRANTED. SO ORDERED. [signature of Judge P. Kevin Castel] USDJ 6-1-23"

I've seen a couple different interpretations of the exact vibes this response (less disagreement about what a bad sign it is, more differing interpretations of tone and rage levels). At this point in the proceedings, we are all reading tea leaves to some extent trying to squeeze more meaning out of this, but for what it's worth, here's how I read it:

First, with regard to submission of the fake cases, I think the judge may be thinking that anything LoDuca submits at this point can't help him, and may only hurt him. LoDuca has had so many opportunities to come clean and clear things up. He could have immediately responded to the Defendant when they first identified the fake cases and withdrawn his opposition (which he still hasn't even attempted to do, by the way), before the Court even had to weigh in. He could have come clean when the Court ordered him to provide the cases. Instead, he doubled down and submitted the fake opinions. And even when he finally had to respond to the first show cause order, (I think, and I think the Court thinks) he completely failed to show contrition or even recognize what he had done. He doesn't even admit that he submitted fake cases to the court! The portion of his written response attached below is the entirely of his discussion of what he actually filed:

He doesn't even mention the April 25th filing (when he submitted the fake cases)! Even though he was explicitly ordered to, "show cause...why he ought not be sanctioned...for...submitting to the Court annexed to his Affidavit filed April 25, 2023 copies of non-existent judicial opinions."

My read of the judge's June 1st order is that he isn't interested in anything that the Professional Responsibility attorney might submit on behalf of LoDuca at this point. Anything that might help him, unless it contains substantial new facts, is too late.

Second, with regard to the notarization issue, I think this order by the judge shows the judge's thought process on this point. He says in the June 1st order: "The only [underlined] point of response to the supplemental OSC of May 26 is whether he, in fact, physically appeared before Mr. Schwartz, a notary public, on April 25, 2023 and took an oath to tell the truth. That should be a simple and straightforward matter."

Remember, back when the judge issued his first OSC, the notary issue was just mentioned in a footnote:

The judge only made it a third possible ground for sanctions after the May 25th Affidavits by LoDuca and Schwartz. In those affidavits, a) the judge learned that the notary was another attorney at the Firm, and he had been the person who was actually drafting the filings, and b) LoDuca completely failed to respond to the question about the notary date anomaly.

The simplest and most innocent explanation of the date anomaly is that whoever drafted the April 25th affidavit (whether it was LoDuca or Schwartz) accidentally typed the wrong date (or failed to edit the date if they were working of a template, which was likely). LoDuca, when* he reviewed the draft, didn't notice the mistake. He signed it in front of Schwartz on April 25th, as the date next to his own signature indicates, and Schwartz signed and stamped it, but also failed to notice** the error in the date. If that is what happened, it doesn't make LoDuca look good, but it's also not really that bad? Mistakes happen, errors happen, and to the extent that anyone did anything wrong, it was Schwartz.

*Or possibly if he reviewed the draft. As I previously noted with the duplicative numbering in Schwartz's affidavit, these guys don't seem to bother to copy-edit their filings.

**See above footnote.

But if that was what happened, why didn't he just say so in his May 25th affidavit responding to the first Order to Show Cause?! As the Court says in its most recent order, it "should be a simple and straightforward matter." I (and I think the Court, based on the language of this order), see two possible reasons:

LoDuca is so completely oblivious and incompetent that he failed to realize the seriousness of the situation when the first OSC was issued, and it did not occur to him that he should include a response to the notary issue. While I don't discount that, if that was the case, it should still just require a very quick and easy supplemental affidavit, unless

That simple and innocent explanation is not what happened, and Something Else is Going On.

With that in mind, I think the judge's extension of time on that last point is an extension of grace and grant of the benefit of the doubt, but one that comes with a warning: he wants simple facts, told plainly, and if he thinks that's not what he's getting, he's not going to fuck around.

The last filing before the weekend was on June 2nd, and consisted of a list of the witnesses that LoDuca, Schwartz, and the Firm intend to call at the June 8th hearing.

Again, the Professional Responsibility attorneys who have entered the case are serious professionals who know what they are doing. If you recall, the second OSC ordered everyone to submit written responses by June 2nd and identify in writing any witnesses they wished to call by that same date. The May 31st order (supplemented by the June 1st order that we just discussed) extended the time for written submissions to June 6th, however, it did not mention the deadline for the witness list. The Professional Responsibility attorneys could have asked for clarification, but (wisely, imo, given the response to the letter from LoDuca's attorney on June 1st) chose to proceed under the assumption that the original deadline remained.

If you recall, in the first OSC, the judge gave the Defendant the option of also filing a response by June 2nd. They have not done so (again, wisely in my opinion - why insert yourself in the middle of this when you don't have to?).

Oh dear.

So as some of you may know, I love to point and laugh at bad legal arguments. And as fun as legal dumpster fires are when they are made by people who aren’t lawyers but think this whole “law” thing seems pretty simple, it’s even funnier when an actual, barred attorney is the person dumping gallons of kerosene into the dumpster.

And oh boy folks, do I have a fun ride for y’all today. Come with me on this journey, as we watch a lawyer climb into the dumpster and deliberately pour kerosene all over himself, while a judge holds a match over his head.

The court listener link is here, for those who want to grab a few bowls of popcorn and read along.

For those of you who don’t enjoy reading legal briefs for cases you aren’t involved with on your day off (I can’t relate), I will go through the highlights here. I will screenshot and/or paraphrase the relevant portion of the briefs, and include a brief explainer of what’s going on (and why it’s very bad, but also extremely funny). (Also, I’m not going to repeat this throughout the whole write-up, so for the record: any statements I make about how the law or legal system works is referring exclusively to the U.S. (And since this is a federal case, we are even more specifically looking at U.S. federal law.) Also, I don’t know how you could construe any of this to be legal advice, but just in case: none of this is, is intended to be, or should be taken as, legal advice.)

First, let’s get just a quick background on the case, to help us follow along. In brief, this is a civil tort suit for personal injury based on defendant’s (alleged) negligence. The plaintiff is suing the defendant (an airline), because he says that he was injured when a flight attendant struck his knee with a metal cart, and the airline was negligent in letting this happen. The airline filed a motion to dismiss on the grounds that there is an international treaty that imposes a time bar for when these kind of cases can be brought against an airline, and the plaintiff filed this case too many years after the incident.

The fun begins when the plaintiff’s attorney filed an opposition to the motion to dismiss. (So far, a good and normal thing to do.) The opposition argues that the claim is not time-barred because 1) the time bar was tolled by the defendant’s bankruptcy proceedings (that is, the timer for the time limitation was paused when the defendant was in bankruptcy, and started again afterwords), and 2) the treaty’s time limit doesn’t apply to this case because the case was filed in state court before the state statute of limitations expired, and the state court has concurrent jurisdiction over this kind of case.

I’m struggling a bit to succinctly explain the second reason, and there’s a reason for that.

You see, the whole opposition reads a bit…oddly.

This is how the opposition begins its argument, and it’s…weird. The basic principle is...mostly correct here, but the actual standard is that when reviewing a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim (which is what the defendant filed) the court must draw all reasonable factual inferences in the plaintiff’s favor. But even then, you don’t just put that standard in your opposition. You cite to a case that lays out the standard.

Because that’s how courts and the law work. The courts don’t operate just based on vibes. They follow statutory law (laws made by legislature) and case law (the decisions made by courts interpreting what those laws mean). You don't just submit a filing saying, "here's what the law is," without citing some authority to demonstrate that the law is what you say (or are arguing) it is.

Again, this isn’t wrong (although I'm not sure what it means by new arguments?), but it’s weird! And part of the reason it’s weird is that it is irrelevant to the defendant’s motion to dismiss. The defendant filed a motion stating that based on the facts in the complaint, the plaintiff has not stated a claim based on which relief can be granted, because the complaint is time barred by a treaty. There is no reason for this language to be in the opposition. It’s almost like they just asked a chatbot what the legal standards are for a motion to dismiss for a failure to state a claim, and just copied the answer into their brief without bother to double-check it.

The opposition then cites a bunch of cases which it claims support its position. We will skip them for now, as the defendant will respond to those citations in its reply brief.

The last thing in the brief is the signature of the lawyer who submitted the brief affirming that everything in the brief is true and correct. An extremely normal - required, even! - thing to do. This will surely not cause any problems for him later.

The next relevant filing is the defendant’s reply brief. Again, the existence of a reply brief in response to an opposition is extremely normal. The contents of this brief are…less so.

Beg pardon?

Just to be clear, this is not normal. It is normal to argue that the plaintiff’s cases are not relevant, or they aren’t applicable to this case, or you disagree with the interpretations, or whatever. It is not normal for the cases to appear to not exist.

Some highlights from the brief:

Quick lesson in how to read U.S. case citations! The italicized (or underlined) part at the beginning is the name of the case. If it is a trial court case, the plaintiff is listed first and the defendant second; if the case has been appealed, the person who lost at the lower court level (the petitioner/appellant) will be listed first, and the person who won at the lower level (the respondent/appellee) will be listed second. There are extremely specific rules about which words in these names are abbreviated, and how they are abbreviated. Next, you list the volume number and name of the reporter (the place where the case is published), again abbreviated according to very specific rules, then the page number that the case starts on. If you are citing a case for a specific quote or proposition, you then put a comma after the beginning page number, and list the page number(s) on which the quote or language you are relying on is located (this is called a “pincite”). Finally, you put in parenthesis the name of the court (if needed)(and again, abbreviated according to extremely specific rules) and the year the case was decided.

So the plaintiff’s response cited to Zicherman, which they said was a case from 2008 that was decided by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. However, the defendant was not able to find such a case. They were able to find a case with the same name (the same petitioner and respondent), but that case was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1996, and the lower court cases associated with that case weren’t in the 11th circuit either. (The United States Reports is the only official reporter for the U.S. Supreme Court, and only includes SCOTUS decisions, so it’s not necessary to include the name of the court before the year it was decided.)

Just to be clear. The defendant’s brief is saying: the plaintiff cited and extensively quoted from these cases, and neither the cases nor the quotations appear to exist. These “cases” were not ancillary citations in the plaintiff’s brief. They were the authority it relied upon to make its arguments.

This is as close a lawyer can come, at this point in the proceedings, to saying, “opposing counsel made up a bunch of fake cases to lie to the court and pretend the law is something different than it is.”

That, “Putting aside that here is no page 598 in Kaiser Steel,” is delightfully petty lawyer speak for, “you are wrong on every possible thing there is to be wrong about.”

By page 5, the defendant has resorted to just listing all of the (apparently) made up cases in a footnote:

(skipping the citations to support this proposition)

This is where I return to my struggle to explain the opposition’s second reason why the motion to dismiss should not be granted. I struggled to explain the argument, because they failed to explain why the argument they were making (that plaintiffs can bring lawsuits against airlines in state court, and the state court have specific statutes of limitations for general negligence claims) was relevant to the question of whether the plaintiff’s specific claim against the airline was time barred by the treaty. Because 1) this case is in federal court, not state court, and 2) federal law - including treaties - preempts state law. Again, it’s almost like plaintiff’s attorney just typed a question about the time bar into a chatbot or something, and the machine, which wasn’t able to reason or actually analyze the issues, saw a question about the time to bring a lawsuit and just wrote up an answer about the statute of limitations.

We also end with a nice little lawyerly version of “you fucked up and we are going to destroy you.” The relief requested in the defendant’s original motion to dismiss was:

In their reply to the opposition, however:

“The circumstances” in this case, being the apparent fabrication of entire cases. Because courts tend to take that pretty seriously.

And the court took it seriously indeed. The defendant’s reply was docketed on March 15th of this year. On April 11th:

AKA: you have one week (an extremely prompt time frame for federal court) to prove to me that you didn’t just make up these cases.

On April 12th, the plaintiff’s attorney requests more time because he’s on vacation:

The judge grants the motion, but adds in another case that he forgot to include in his first order.

On April 25th, the plaintiff’s attorney files the following:

(And he lists the cases, with one exception, which he says is an unpublished decision.)

But he says of all of the cases except two, that the opinions…

Which is…nonsense?

First of all: if you cited a case, you had to get it from somewhere. Even unpublished opinions, if you are citing them in a brief, you are citing them because you pulled them off of westlaw or whatever. Which means you have access to the case and can annex it for the court. (There are even formal rules for how you cite unpublished opinions! And those rules include citing to where you pulled the damn case from!)

Secondly: remember that long digression I went into about how to read case citations? Remember that bit about how you include the name of the reporter (the place the case was published)? Yes, cases are published. They are printed in physical books, and they are published online in databases (e.g. lexis or westlaw). If the specific online database you are looking in does not have the case, you look somewhere else. If you have a judge telling you to get them a copy of the case Or Else, you track down a physical copy of the reporter if you need to and scan the damn thing yourself. You - literally - can’t just not have a copy of the case! (Especially published federal circuit court opinions, which multiple of these cases are! Those aren’t hard to find!)

And what kind of “online database” doesn’t include the entire opinion anyway? I’ve literally never heard of a case research database that only included partial opinions, because that wouldn’t be useful.

Maybe if we look at the attached annexed copies of the cases, that might give us some answers.

...

My friends, these things are just bizarre. With two exceptions, they aren’t submitted in any sort of conventional format. Even if you’ve never seen a legal opinion before, I think you can see the difference if you just glance through the filings. They are located at Docket entry #29 on Court Listener (April 25, 2023). Compare Attachments 6 and 8 (the real cases submitted in conventional format) to the other cases. Turning to the contents of the cases:

In the first one, the factual background is that a passenger sued an airline, then the airline filed a motion to dismiss (on grounds unrelated to the treaty's time bar), then the airline went into bankruptcy, then the airline won the motion to dismiss, then the passenger appealed. And the court is now considering that appeal. But then the opinion starts talking about how the passenger was in arbitration, and it seems to be treating the passenger like he is the one who filed for bankruptcy? It’s hallucinatory, even before you get to the legal arguments. The “Court of Appeals” is making a ruling overruling the district court’s dismissal based on the time bar, but according to the factual background, the case wasn’t dismissed based on the time bar, but on entirely other grounds? Was there some other proceeding where the claim was dismissed as time barred, and it’s just not mentioned in the factual background? How? Why? What is happening? Also it says Congress enacted the treaty? But, no? That’s…that’s not how treaties work? I mean, Congress did ratify the treaty? But they didn’t unilaterally make it!

In the second case, there’s an extended discussion of which treaty applies to the appellants claims, which is bizarre because there are two relevant treaties, and one replaced the other before the conduct at issue, so only the new treaty applies? There isn’t any discussion of the issue beyond that basic principle, so there is no reason there should be multiple paragraphs in the opinion explaining it over and over? Also, it keeps referring to the appellant as the plaintiff, for some reason? And it includes this absolutely hallucinatory sentence:

…the only part this that makes sense is that the argument is without merit. I’m not going to discuss the actual merits of the legal arguments in the opinion, because they are so bizarre and disjointed that even trying to describe them would require a Pepe Silvia-sized conspiracy board. Like the previous case, both the facts and the legal posture of the case change constantly, with seemingly no rhyme or reason.

The third one…oh boy. First, large portions of the “opinion” are individual paragraphs with quotations around the whole paragraph. What’s happening there? As far as the content of the opinion itself - I can’t. I mean that, I literally can’t. What is being discussed seems to change from paragraph to paragraph, much of it contradicting. It makes the first case seem linear and rational by comparison. The court finds it doesn’t have personal jurisdiction over the defendant so dismisses the case based on a lack of subject matter jurisdiction? But also the defendant hasn’t contested jurisdiction? And also the court does hold that it has both subject matter and personal jurisdiction over the defendant? And then it denies the motion to dismiss the case? Also, at one point it cites itself?

…also, even if this was a real case, it doesn’t stand for the propositions the plaintiff cited it for in their opposition? I’m not going to go into the weeds (honestly it’s so hallucinatory I’m not sure I could if I tried), but, for example, the plaintiff’s reply brief states that the court held “that the plaintiff was not required to bring their claim in federal court.” The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is a federal court, and there is no discussion of any filings in state courts. The closest the “opinion” comes is with the statement, “Therefore, Petersen’s argument that the state courts of Washington have concurrent jurisdiction is unavailing.” (This statement appears to be completely disconnected from anything before or after it, so I am unsure what it is supposed to mean.)

Moving on, case number four is allegedly a decision by the Court of Appeals of Texas. It includes the following line:

Honestly, the plaintiff’s attorney best defense at this point is that he wasn’t intentionally trying to mislead the court, because if he was doing this on purpose, he would have edited the cases to make them slightly more believable. (Context in case you’ve lost track: these documents are supposed to be copies of the opinions he is citing. The screenshoted line makes it clear that what he is actually citing is, at best, someone else’s summary of an "opinion". It would be like if a teacher asked a student to photocopy a chapter of a book and bring it into class, and instead the student brought in a copy of the cliffs notes summary of that chapter. Except that the book doesn’t even exist.)

The actual contents of the “opinion” are, as is now standard, absolutely bonkers. First, the court decides that it doesn’t have personal jurisdiction over Delta because “Delta did not purposefully avail itself of the benefits of conducting business in Texas.” This was despite the fact that the factual background already included that the appellant (sorry, the plaintiff, according to the “opinion”) flew on a Delta flight originating in Texas. Like, this is just wrong? It’s not even hallucinatory nonsense, it’s just facially incorrect legal analysis. Then the court starts discussing the treaty’s time bar, for some reason? Then it goes back to talking about personal jurisdiction, but now the trial court denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, and the appellate court agrees with the trial court that it does have personal jurisdiction, even though this is the plaintiff’s appeal from the dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction and the court already ruled it didn’t have personal jurisdiction? And even though on page 1, the plaintiff was injured during a flight from Texas to California, now on page 7 she was injured on a flight from Shanghai to Texas? Also the trial court has gone back in time (again) to grant the motion to dismiss that it previously denied?

Also, I’ve been trying to avoid pointing out the wonky text of these submissions, but:

Everything ok there?

Case number five is similar enough to number four that it’s not worth repeating myself.

Thank god, cases six and eight, as noted above, are real cases, so I’m going to skip them. The defendant alleges that the cases do not stand for the propositions the plaintiff cited them for, and I’m going to assume that is true, given the rest of this nonsense.

Case number seven looks legitimate on the surface. But neither the defendant nor I could find the case through any legitimate search mechanisms. The defendant looked up the purported docket numbers on PACER and found completely different cases; I was able to find a case with the name “Miller v. United Airlines, Inc.,” but it was for a different Ms. Miller, it was a California state case (not a Second Circuit federal case), it was decided on a different year, and the substance of the case was entirely different from the alleged opinion filed with the court.

On top of that, this might be the most morally reprehensible fake citation of them all? Because it is about the crash of United Airlines Flight 585, a real plane crash. Everyone on board - 25 people in total - was killed. 

The individual cited in this fake court case was not one of them.

I cannot imagine conducting myself in such a way where I would have to explain to a judge that I made up a fake case exploiting a real tragedy because I couldn’t be bothered to do actual legal research.

Now, I know you all have figured out what’s going on by now. And I want you to know that if your instincts are saying, “it seems like the lawyer should have just fallen on his sword and confessed that he relied on ChatGPT to write his original brief, rather than digging himself further into this hole”? Your instincts are absolutely correct.

Because obviously, the court was having none of this b.s. On May 4th, the court issued an order, beginning with the following sentence:

That is one of the worst possible opening sentences you can see in an order by the court in a situation like this. The only thing worse is when judges start quoting classic literature. If I was Mr. Peter LoDuca, counsel for the plaintiff, I would already be shitting my pants.

“I gave you an opportunity to either clear things up or come clean. Now I’m going to give you an opportunity to show why I should only come down on you like a pile of brinks, instead of a whole building.”

We are getting dangerously close to “quoting classic lit” territory here.

If I learned that the judge in my case called up the clerk of a circuit court just to confirm how full of shit I was, I would leave the legal profession forever. Also, the judge is now also putting quotes around “opinion.” When judges start getting openly sarcastic in their briefs, that means very very bad things are about to happen to someone.

So I’m guessing the delay between this filing and the court order was because the judge’s clerk was tasked with running down every single one of the additional fake citations included in the "opinions", just to make this sure this order (and the upcoming pile of bricks) are as thorough as possible.

If you are following along with Dracula Daily, the vibe here is roughly the same as the May 19th entry where Dracula demands Jonathan Harker write and pre-date letters stating he has left the castle and is on the way home.

Also, hey, what’s that footnote?

Wait, what?

Folks, it appears we may have notary fraud, on top of everything else! Anybody have bingo?

So on May 25, one day before the deadline, Mr. LoDuca filed his response. And oh boy, I hope ya’ll are ready for this.

Hey, what’s the name of that other attorney, “Steven Schwartz”? Where have I seen that name before…

...I ran out of room for images on this post. So I'm going to have to leave this as an accidental cliffhanger. Part 2 to follow once I refresh my tea.

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SY 2019-2020 1st Semester Recap: Partners, Product, and Content

    Time flies so fast. One moment, it was just the start of the school year, and the next thing you know, it’s already the end of the 1st semester. Now that most of us are on our semestral break, let’s look back on how we’ve grown in the past 5 months:

New Partner Schools

    Last school year, Quipper has partnered with 140 schools, both private and public. Come SY 2019-2020, about 40 successful partnerships have been made nationwide. Listed below are all the new schools and even a company that have started integrating technology to bring the best education with us:

Alitagtag College Inc. 

Ancillae Christi School

Andres Bonifacio College 

Beulah Land Integrated Science School

Bukidnon State University 

Cavite Bible Baptist Academy 

Colegio de San Ignacio, Inc. 

Elim School for Values & Excellence 

Ferndale International School 

FMC Ma School and Tutorial Services Inc. 

Gazellian College Foundation 

Golden Heritage Polytechnic College 

Holy Cross of Davao College, Inc. 

Holy Nazarene Christian School 

King of Zion School 

Liceo De Cagayan University RN Campus  (JHS)

Lord's Hand Academy 

Lourdes College Basic Education 

Lyceum of the Philippines - Davao

Mary Mount Academy 

Montessori Center 

Prime Brilliant Minds Academy

Professional Academy of the Philippines 

Saint Joseph School-Zamboanga City 

San Pedro College SHS-Main 

School of Our Lady of La Salette 

St. Alexius College, Inc. Integrated School Department

St. John the Baptist Catholic School 

Summer Hill School Foundation Inc. 

Sunbeam Methodist Christian School 

University of Saint Anthony

Yazaki Torres

Zion Evangelical School 

    One of our biggest breakthroughs this year is the increase in our homeschooling partners. We began with just one, Harvest Christian School International in Cebu, and this school year, we partnered with 5 more institutions, including one from Dubai - our first international partnership:

Filbrit Training Centre, Dubai

The Learning Place

Blended Learning Center Manila

Oak Homeschool

Independent Homeschoolers PH

    Other than that, we have also made a new partnership with another DepEd Division - Division of North Cotabato - which comprises of 15 schools.

Here are some snippets of the trainings and activities held during the 1st semester with our partner schools:

Photo 1: Faculty Training with Teachers from Elim School for Values and Excellence, San Jose City, Nueva Ecija

Photo 2: Parents’ Quipper Orientation at Davao Doctors College, Davao City

Photo 3: Quipper Day with Grade 10 Students of Fort Bonifacio High School, Makati City

Photo 4: Students of St. Paul University of Surigao, Main Campus using Quipper for their quarterly examination

Photo 5: Awarding of Quipper top teachers at Saint Charles Academy High School department together with the school principal and assistant principal

Photo 6: Students' Quipper Orientation with Senior High School students from San Pedro College, Davao City

    We’ve had a good start this school year with our new partners, and we are sincerely honored to have all of them a part of the education revolution! 

Product Improvements

    Helping our schools transform learning with technology, our team of dedicated web developers continuously worked day and night to improve our Quipper platforms for better teaching and learning experience of our partners. One of the biggest product upgrades we’ve done this past semester is the launch of our new and improved student portal, Q-Learn, which was released last July 2019. Read our previous blog article for in-depth and detailed information about the improved features of the new Q-Learn or watch the video tutorial through this link.

    Following the updates on the Student Portal, our Android team has also revamped our Quipper Android app to align with the enhancements on Q-Learn. With its new design and user interface, improved features and better navigation,  Quipper for Android will surely change our students’ learning experience for the better.

    Also released last July 2019 was our Parent App. With its more simplified version, parents can monitor their children’s learning progress online with ease and real-time. All it takes is a few clicks in creating their own accounts, and parents can now start being updated with their children’s academic performance on Quipper.

    As for our Teacher Portal, Q-Link, there were also a few updates made on some of its features such as the following:

      1. New Q-Link Messages

    Previously, when clicking the Messages icon, it will open up a new tab to access the Messaging feature on Q-Link. With the new update, it will now simply open on the same page on Q-Link; teachers can still send messages to their students as a class or individually as before.

    2. “Search Assignments” button on Dashboard

    On the Assignment List section on Dashboard, a “Search Assignments” button is now made available. Clicking this button will redirect teachers to “Assignment Analysis” section found Statistics tab. Here, teachers can:

See all assignments as filtered by class, subject, assignment type, and period.

View success rate of students per question item

View students’ performance per topic

More Content

    Aside from the improvements made in our Quipper platforms, we have also launched several new content projects for the past 5 months. Our Content Team continuously strives to create edifying quality content for the benefit of our teachers and students, and they certainly did an amazing job by releasing 3 brand new content this school year.

    The first one is our Teachers’ Content package, which was well-received by our partner teachers. It serves as a one-stop-shop of resources for teachers that can help reduce their workload and make them more efficient. This package is available for Math, English, Science, Filipino, and Araling Panlipunan subjects, and contains the following features:

Downloadable Teaching Guides

Worksheets for Math & Science

Additional Literary Texts and Language Drills for English

Downloadable and Editable Presentation Slides

Additional Resource Links

Answer Keys for Quipper Study Guide activities

    We’ve also released two new subjects that have been highly requested by our partner teachers. These are MAPEH for Grades 4-10 and TLE for Grades 7-8. These 2 courses include the standard content package: lesson slides, downloadable study guides, and 10 ready-made questions for assessment.

Sample Study Guides for Junior High MAPEH

Sample Study Guides for Junior High TLE

    Last in our content releases for this 1st semester is for our Quipper Video users. From the previous year, 10 Senior High School core subjects with video lessons have already been published. For this year, we have launched 7 more Senior High School core subjects for Quipper Video. These subjects are:

Media and Information Literacy

Physical Education and Health

Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions

Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person

Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics

Personal Development

Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction 

    For these new batch of video lessons, the uploaded videos have now been uploaded in segments or chunks. This means that there are at least 2 video lessons per topic that will allow teachers to emphasize the key points of the lesson through short, engaging videos. More than that, this format can help students process the information better.

    In addition to our 7SHS Videos, we have also launched our Math 2.0 content, which not only includes the basic features (e.g. Downloadable Study Guide and 10-item Quiz) but more importantly, a new video format and improved video features. This is available for Senior High School Math subjects, General Mathematics and Statistics and Probability, as well as for our Grade 10 Math Video course set. These new features in Math 2.0 include:

Better animation and improved background and graphics.

More examples with step-by-step solutions.

Each lesson will now have a maximum video runtime of 9 mins that are divided into short segments.

Mixture of videos and lesson slides in each topic

    Looking back, indeed, it has been a productive and meaningful 1st semester for all of us. As we enter the second half of SY 2019-2020, we look forward to more opportunities of providing the right combination of technology, content, and support to achieve our goal of bringing the best education to all corners of the world!

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Finish What You Started 2024 - Event Rules

[ID copied from alt: Event Rules on a blue background. ⬒ No new projects ◨ Any medium and any fandom welcome ⬓ NSFW inclusive, warnings must be tagged ◧ Tag #FinishWhatYouStarted2024; boosting/retweeting starts September 13th ◼ Event ends October 31st, 2024]

The goal of this event is to get things done that you’ve already started. We all have unfinished projects whose incomplete status haunts us. Those are what we want to tackle!

The structure is loose, as this is a multimedia event. While primarily aimed at writers, this event is open to any kind of creative fanwork. Fics, translations, podfics, fanart, animations, cosplay - if you started it and never got it done, it qualifies. There is no sign-up required. I will not assign beta readers for writers, but I can boost requests for those who want them! And I can boost messages of those who would like to beta read.

The mod is a danmei fan mainly, but your work can be any fandom. Maybe something you started before your current fandom excitement took over, or one you keep putting off in favor of compelling new ideas.

Feel free to pass this event info along! The more the merrier!

Further rules and clarifications:

Alt text is very encouraged, especially for boost posts or artwork!

If your work is NSFW, I will only boost it if it has appropriate content warnings. Spoilering images is recommended but not required as long as it’s tagged. Do not letter-swap or abbreviate content warnings. These are so people can mute them as needed. Example: "gore" not "g0re"

Remember Tumblr can mute phrases, but each warning should be its own tag as well as in the body.

Please use genderbend or genderswap for characters depicted not as canon genders. Example: "#NSFW #genderbend #gore”

Please use Omegaverse or A/O/B for that content. The original letter order is a slur against Aboriginal peoples and will not be tolerated here, even with the slashes. It, like other racial or identity-based slurs, fall under hate speech and are thus not permitted.

This account will post weekly morale-boosting messages and helpful resources. Every Friday, starting September 13th, will be Finished It Friday. All the completed works posted that week will be boosted together in a big thread, so we can celebrate your accomplishment!

Halfway-point check-in is October 1st. Final event deadline is October 31st. The last Finished It Friday is November 1st.

FAQ:

Q: Are original works acceptable?

A: This is primarily a fanwork-focused event. If original work is the only WIP you have to work on, it's certainly fine to work on it during the time frame of the event. If it is posted publicly when finished, you may tag it for boosting.

Q: Are there any restrictions on topics?

A: No, so long as your event # post is properly & fully tagged for content (see rules about tagging above). "Dead Dove" topics are allowed. Some submissions will be 18+. For me, this is less about the content and more about finishing it. 

The usual restrictions based on laws and Community Guidelines of course apply, so you may need to tailor how you post to which event space your interacting with. Twitter, Tumblr, and Discord all have their own rules. There are also some topics that are in poor taste to make fanworks around. The event organizer and mods reserve the right to not boost your work if they decide it is rage-baiting or trolling. They are not responsible for negative reactions to your works. Please be respectful of those you share a digital space with. 

Keep in mind that when I link to your finished work during a Finished It Friday, it may reach a wider audience than you may be used to.

Q: Are there any restrictions on media that can be submitted?

A: Machine Generated or "AI" images and writing are not permitted. If you are found in violation of this rule, you will be removed from the event. All images, writing, or other works must be your own.

This is a positive, shared space. Do not belittle other creators' medium of choice. Please no fandom/character/ship/creator bashing, and don't berate artists or authors for not being done with something, even if they don't finish by the end of the event. Also, please don't passive-aggressively send this event to the author of an unfinished fic you want to see done faster. 😥 Be cool, respect each other, and keep any interpersonal disagreements to your own tumblrsphere.

All posts and boosts will be crossposted to the event Twitter (finishwatustart) and Discord. Expanded rules, explanations, and Dead Dove guidelines can also be found on the Discord. (invite link in pinned post) 

Fics can be posted to the AO3 collection (archiveofourown(dot)org /collections /FinishWhatYouStarted2024_Fall)

Work-in-progress posts should be tagged #FinishWhatYouStarted2024 . If you complete a wip within the event, tag it #IFinishedWhatIStarted2024 for boosting so we can all celebrate!

Find more information and community on the Discord, if you want! Joining the Discord is not required for the event. As always, if you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out!

[finishwhatyoustarted-event]

Finish What You Started 2024 - Event Rules

[ID copied from alt: Event Rules on a blue background. ⬒ No new projects ◨ Any medium and any fandom welcome ⬓ NSFW inclusive, warnings must be tagged ◧ Tag #FinishWhatYouStarted2024; boosting/retweeting starts March 15th ◼ Event ends April 30, 2024]

The goal of this event is to get things done that you’ve already started. We all have unfinished projects whose incomplete status haunts us. Those are what we want to tackle!

The structure is loose, as this is a multimedia event. While primarily aimed at writers, this event is open to any kind of creative fanwork. Fics, translations, podfics, fanart, animations, cosplay - if you started it and never got it done, it qualifies. There is no sign-up required. I will not assign beta readers for writers, but I can boost requests for those who want them! And I can boost messages of those who would like to beta read.

The mod is a danmei fan mainly, but your work can be any fandom. Maybe something you started before your current fandom excitement took over, or one you keep putting off in favor of compelling new ideas.

Feel free to pass this event info along! The more the merrier!

Further rules and clarifications:

Alt text is very encouraged, especially for boost posts or artwork!

If your work is NSFW, I will only boost it if it has appropriate content warnings. Spoilering images is recommended but not required as long as it’s tagged. Do not letter-swap or abbreviate content warnings. These are so people can mute them as needed. Example: "gore" not "g0re"

Remember Tumblr can mute phrases, but each warning should be its own tag as well as in the body.

Please use genderbend or genderswap for characters depicted not as canon genders. Example: "#NSFW #genderbend #gore”

Please use Omegaverse or A/O/B for that content. The original letter order is a slur against Aboriginal peoples and will not be tolerated here, even with the slashes. It, like other racial or identity-based slurs, fall under hate speech and are thus not permitted.

This account will post weekly morale-boosting messages and helpful resources. Every Friday, starting March 15th, will be Finished It Friday. All the completed works posted that week will be boosted together in a big thread, so we can celebrate your accomplishment!

Halfway-point check-in is April 1st. Final event deadline is April 30th. The last Finished It Friday is May 3rd.

FAQ:

Q: Are original works acceptable?

A: This is primarily a fanwork-focused event. If original work is the only WIP you have to work on, it's certainly fine to work on it during the time frame of the event. If it is posted publicly when finished, you may tag it for boosting.

Q: Are there any restrictions on topics?

A: No, so long as your event # post is properly & fully tagged for content (see rules about tagging above). "Dead Dove" topics are allowed. Some submissions will be 18+. For me, this is less about the content and more about finishing it. 

The usual restrictions based on laws and Community Guidelines of course apply, so you may need to tailor how you post to which event space your interacting with. Twitter, Tumblr, and Discord all have their own rules. There are also some topics that are in poor taste to make fanworks around. The event organizer and mods reserve the right to not boost your work if they decide it is rage-baiting or trolling. They are not responsible for negative reactions to your works. Please be respectful of those you share a digital space with. 

Keep in mind that when I link to your finished work during a Finished It Friday, it may reach a wider audience than you may be used to.

Q: Are there any restrictions on media that can be submitted?

A: Machine Generated or "AI" images and writing are not permitted. If you are found in violation of this rule, you will be removed from the event. All images, writing, or other works must be your own.

This is a positive, shared space. Do not belittle other creators' medium of choice. Please no fandom/character/ship/creator bashing, and don't berate artists or authors for not being done with something, even if they don't finish by the end of the event. Also, please don't passive-aggressively send this event to the author of an unfinished fic you want to see done faster. 😥 Be cool, respect each other, and keep any interpersonal disagreements to your own tumblrsphere.

All posts and boosts will be crossposted to the event Twitter (finishwatustart) and Discord. Expanded rules, explanations, and Dead Dove guidelines can also be found on the Discord. (invite link in pinned post) 

Fics can be posted to the AO3 collection (archiveofourown(dot)org /collections /FinishWhatYouStarted2024_Spring)

Work-in-progress posts should be tagged #FinishWhatYouStarted2024If you complete a wip within the event, tag it #IFinishedWhatIStarted2024 for boosting so we can all celebrate!

Find more information and community on the Discord, if you want! Joining the Discord is not required for the event. As always, if you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out!