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in fact, now i'm curious enough after all these asks that i'm gonna make a tagbait post: transformers fandom, please tell me what you think the rarest rarepair that you earnestly ship is. i'm talking 'this has no fanart no matter how deep into twitter and pixiv you dive' stuff. the ones you made up at 3am when you couldn't sleep and now they are real To You.

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hey asshole! you lifted up the rock and now I have to scuttle! motherfucker!

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Hi everyone.

This is your One Week Alert Post. In one week sign up will begin! The sign up period will last from July 1st to July 22nd*, plenty of time to decide if you want to sign up and to go on and do it.

*From the moment the post goes up which depends on your humble event runner's personal schedule, to July 22nd at 23:59 GMT -5. To be specific.

As a reminder, the list of 95 96 prompts will be provided in the sign up post, under a cut in case you don't want to be spoiled. I'll also post an example bingo card in case you're curious to see what you'll be getting.

In the meantime, be sure to check the logistics posting tag here, or send an ask if you haven't had your question answered yet.

Okay, bye. Get hype etc!

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my favorite thing about navigating fanfiction is finding a really good one and being all “oh boy this was good, I hope they have more!” and literally every other story they’ve ever written was for like Miami Vice 

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one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.

which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes

and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts

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Writing Update

June 14 - June 20 Word Count: 7,323 Total YTD: 271,006

Friday accountability post. A small week this week, but I hit my weekly 7k goal.

What a week -- I started a new, full time job this week and the word count really shows. Most of my writing was done on the weekend and Thursday. I'm not anticipating being quite as tired in the coming weeks, but training being what it is means my head is very full by the time I'm off work, I'm tired, and my sleep routine isn't fully settled yet.

Kinktober:

+~3k -- more than I expected! Nothing finished here, but I've been coaxing a few almost-finished fics along in my breaks and downtime.

BB Fic:

No change here. I'm going to work on this tomorrow or Sunday after a solid night of sleep.

Other:

The humanformers fic gained some word count this week. I finally figured out part of an emotional arc for one of the supporting friendships in the fic and I wrapped two scenes that were giving me some trouble. All in all, a pretty solid forward push.

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Joining a promising new server and the first thing you see is the worst, most bizarrely rancid, bad faith interpretation of your favorite character, completely separate from any actual interpretation of canon -- and two dozen people agreeing with that person

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Your last texaid fic was so good 😭 I'm always starved for content with this pair so I'm always so happy to see when you upload a new fic

Thank you!! I appreciate you saying so, I'm so happy everyone's enjoying reading the fics as much as I am writing them!

You'll also be pleased, then, to know 5 of the 31 short fics I'll be posting for my big Kinktober run this October will be TexAid (or First Aid/Combaticons). I've also got a few longer fics for the ship going strong currently north of 40k each in the pipeline.

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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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Just another brick in the wall.

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Sometimes fandom is like I wish I could find it in my heart to tolerate your guy. You look like you’re having such fun chewing on him.

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You know what I'm gonna COMPLAIN!

Vanilla sex isn't "wholesome sex"! Sex is not more pure just because it's done within the framework of a monogamous relationship and free from elements of kink!

"Person is so pure they probably don't even know what sex is." Purity isn't defined by the distance from sex! As if the more a person encounters sex in any context the less pure their soul becomes!

You🫵are not immune to propagating the beliefs and ideas of purity culture!

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too cool to jerk off to pictures of women with impossible hip to waist ratios yet not cool enough to jerk off to the concept of being killed, the rōnin pervert wanders this land in search of a slightly-higher-concept yet not totally abstract form of fetish posting