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happy flash missing vanishes in crisis to all those who celebrate

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In honor of April 25th, 2024, I would just like to say one thing:

Grant Gustin has been, still is, and evermore will be MY Barry Allen. No one else is Barry Allen in my eyes.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Caspian/Lucy Pevensie Characters: Lucy Pevensie, Caspian (Narnia) Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Post-Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Alternate Universe, Book: The Silver Chair Series: Part 3 of Sea and Stars Summary:

After Rilian's capture and Lucy's expulsion from Narnia, Lucy and Caspian find themselves in England, and have a moment to reconnect, regroup, and breathe.

I finally finished the third part of my Lucy/Caspian AU, and I am so happy to have it out in the world. If you haven’t read the previous stories, I highly recommend starting at the beginning - this is a VoDT and Silver Chair AU, and won’t make a lot of sense if you don’t have the backstory.

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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 

url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order

url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes 

url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc

url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly 

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant) 

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

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do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.

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CASUAL Chappell Roan

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I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you're able to write loads & make lots of progress <3

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Sapphic Blues

Welcome to the Sapphic Blues Event Week! The week begins April 23 and ends April 30 at midnight. 

The ship for this week is…Newsbians! All other related concepts- Sarah-focused content, Katherine-focused content, their individual stories- may be featured, along with the characters and general context of the Newsies fandom!  

Acceptable submissions for the week include written works, artwork, and playlists (if interested in submitting a creation of another variation, please refer to the rules/FAQ or ask moderators). 

There are no specific days for any specific AUs or themes, but some ideas and suggestions include: childhood best friends, soulmates, enemies to lovers, unrequited love. You may include any other characters or tropes, but please try to keep the focus on either the ship itself or the characters directly involved. 

Due to the specificity of this week, please refrain from works that heavily feature another related ship as the main plot point (ie. Jatherine, Jatherid). If it is present as a reason for angst, that is acceptable. Please do not write a Jatherine fic just because you aren’t a Sarah/Katherine fan. There will be opportunities for those types of work at a later date. 

The collection will be posted April 16 on AO3! You may submit finished works to this collection before April 23, but they will not be announced or displayed until the week officially begins.

FAQ

Rules

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To thank you for your participation in the Battle of the Klaine Kisses, here's a set of all the kiss gifs that were used in the polls. 😘 By @klainegifs

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If only you knew

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Calling all fandom journalists—both current and aspiring! As promised, we've put together a doc for pitching Fansplaining (which will temporarily become a written-only publication after Flourish's last episode next month). If you've got an idea that fits in with our general tone and approach, please send int our way!

We highlight these pieces in the doc, but in case folks are unaware that we're *currently* a written publication as well as a podcast, here's a sample of some of the stuff we've published over the years!

Kayti Burt on the specific challenges of being a “fan-journalist”

@earlgreytea68 on how U.S. copyright law doesn’t understand—or account for—fan creativity

Maria Temming on whump, featuring extensive interviews with whumpers

@areyougonnabe on the ever-mutating life of Tumblr and its communities

Keidra Chaney on stan culture’s intersections with corporate interests

@elizabethminkel on the uneasy relationship between fans and Hollywood at SDCC

Caroline Crampton on WIPs, from modern fics-in-progress to Victorian serializations

@elizabethminkel on the past, present, and future of the “Mary Sue”

@flourish on the deeply annoying reason mainstream publications spell it “fan fiction”

Also please note: we're v transparent about money here. We *deeply* appreciate our Patreon support, but we can't afford to pay a ton or publish super frequently with the current amount we take in. So if any generous folks are interested in sponsoring smart, substantive writing on fandom in the future, please get in touch. fansplaining at gmail dot com. :-))

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Happy Belated Anniversary to Newsies!

The Newsies anniversary was yesterday, and I didn't see anything about it until this morning! I was so busy yesterday that the anniversary completely passed me by. But I will write something belatedly, since I love this film so much.

The film was releaves on April 10, 1992. I didn't see it in the theater. Those of you who know something about Newsies will know that Newsies was only in the theater for two weeks. I was one of the many kids who got swept up in Newsies through a video store. I remember (or at least I think I do, knowing that memories get layered and blurry) seeing the trailer and being captivated. I had loved musicals from a very young age, and the idea that someone was actually making a new one was incredible to me. I know that the first time I brought it home to watch, probably from a trip to our local Family Video in 1992, I was hooked. I can't remember that first viewing anymore - there have been too many - but I do know that I rented it an absurd number of times until I was gifted my own copy, and watched the VHS over and over and over until I eventually switched to DVD. (Disney did a terrible job on the Blu-ray, which is why I don't have it; they need someone who actually cares to do a proper restoration.)

If you don't already know this film and love it, it might be hard to explain the cultish love of those of us who are obsessed. It really should have been a longer movie (and Kenny Ortega, bless him, was already pushing far past Disney's usual 90 minutes). There are gaps in the narrative, interpersonal moments that should have been there. Most notably, Sarah Jacobs gets an absurdly small amount of screen time, and ends up feeling flat when viewed objectively. She is only the love interest. (But she is so much more than that, too. More on that to come.)

But, some of the things that Ortega got right in this film were later completely sanitized in the stage version. The dirt. The grittiness. The fact that these were actual children and teens, living in a lodging house and working in the streets of NYC when there were no child labor laws or protections. The fact that you see, in moments throughout the film, that they are usually hungry. That some of them can't read, or can barely write. The fact that they are subjected to an early form of juvenile delinquency incarceration, complete with corporal punishment. (Yes, The Refuge was a real place, and just as badly run, most of the time, as Warden Snyder would suggest.) The fact that the power of the press still means something. The fact that children who had next to nothing were strong enough to form a union and demand better from two of the most powerful men in the country. The love and solidarity for each other. And the fact that most of these actors *were children,* at the time, and thus even more convincing (with the exception of Max Casella, who was 25 and the oldest newsie on set, despite his perpetual baby face. Steals nearly every scene he is in, too, of course).

Happy anniversary to my beloved Newsies. And keep your eyes peeled for Newsies Now and Then: Essays on the Film and Broadway Adaptation, coming in early 2025 to a bookstore near you. :)

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9 questions to get to know me better

I got tagged by @theredandwhitequeen - thank you! :) I haven't been on here much, so for those of you who are new to my blog, this will tell you a little bit about me.

Last song: Can't Stop the Feeling by Justin Timberlake

Favorite color: Burgundy and yellow

Last show/film: The Bear and NCIS

Sweet/savory/spicy: Sweet and savory - I like both! And spicy in limited doses.

Last thing I googled: Toronto postal code

Last book: I’m reading Reader, I Murdered Him right now. (Yes, it is a Jane Eyre spinoff. Yes, it's great. It's by Betsy Cornwell. Go read!)

Relationship status: Married

Current obsessions: omg. I mean, most of them aren't new, and things you will see quite a bit of on my blog. Klaine, Newsies, The Matrix and Neo/Trinity, Chronicles of Narnia, Jane Austen, queer romance, series fiction, period film. The list goes on.

I’m going to tag: @whatstheproblembaby @redheadgleek, @coffeegleek, @thatgirlnevershutsup, @elozable, @siterlas, @galadryels, @ckerouac , @jackabelle73, @queenofbrooklyn, and anyone else who would like to play! :)

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As promised! I wrote about the illegal fanbinding that's led to writers deleting their works recently, how that connects to the current pull-to-publish wave, and what happens when the rapidly expanding sphere of fic readers starts to get disconnected from *fandom*:

The ever-increasing reach of fanfiction has inched the practice away from text-written-in-community to a more traditional author-reader relationship—and the context collapse that’s come with viral works being treated like any other romance novel has spurred clashes between different types of readers with different sets of expectations. In the past few years, fic authors across all corners of fandom have increasingly complained about shifting attitudes from readers who treat them like any other content creator, demanding the next chapter as you might demand your favorite influencer’s next video. But unlike on creative platforms like TikTok and YouTube, the fic writer doesn’t get revenue from their new installment.

We'll also talk about this in some capacity on the next episode of @fansplaining! (In contrast with today's episode, on the non-monetized, gift-economy practices of many fanbinders, whose hobby is also imperiled by the people selling and buying fic.)

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Le Figaro have a newly published photograph from inside Notre Dame shortly before the roof collapsed, as molten lead fell into the nave. (+)

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Hi all - I'm going to do some education here, because I teach, among other things, about social media and fanfiction and copyright, and I think the reasons why selling bound fanfiction is bad need to be spelled out. Especially for those of you who have grown up since the 2000s, fic is such a normalized part of the internet that you probably don't realize the implications of this.

First, let me be very clear about something. If you are binding a printed copy of an author's work and selling it for profit, and you didn't ask that author's permission to do so, you are doing something illegal. You are making money off of someone's intellectual property when they didn't agree to let you do that. And that's illegal, full stop.

This is why, by the way, printing and binding a copy for yourself is fine. Printing and binding a copy as a gift for a friend is fine. You aren't making any money, you're paying for the materials and doing the labor, and you aren't mass-distributing it for anyone who wants to buy one.

Now, is this a little more complicated because fanfiction itself is free? Sure. I can see someone arguing, "But authors put up their stories for free, and I'm just charging for the cost of the binding. I'm not trying to make a profit." True. But, if you did not ask the author's permission, making and selling printed copies of their work is still illegal. You still stole their product, something that they created, and are trying to sell it. It's like you are selling cheap Kate Spade knockoffs on a street corner. And, you monetized something that the original author intended to be free to readers.

I am sure someone will also make the point that fanfic authors don't have a lot of legal standing in this. They write their work for free, and fanfiction is, itself, derivative of the original work. This is true. But that is exactly why this kind of selling of fic is dangerous! You are exposing the author of that fan work (not to mention yourself!) to lawsuits because you are selling something that infringes on the copyright of the original author! And frankly, I can't believe Etsy hasn't shut down these sellers already, because they become legally liable too, when people are selling illegal products on their site.

Think of it this way. I'll invoke JKR here because she's ridiculously rich from a series that a lot of people loved, and because a lot of the fic authors being harmed right now are part of HP fandom. If you are selling bound HP fanfic, you are infrining on JKR's copyright of her work. JKR could send her entire team of lawyers after you, and hound you for the rest of your life, and you would lose, because making money off of derivative work is part of the definition of copyright infringement. You could try to argue that you aren't doing it for profit, that you aren't making money, but you would probably lose. JKR can let her lawyers argue against you until the end of time.

In addition - I'll say it again - you are infringing on the intellectual property of the HP fanfic author. Would it be harder for a fic author to make this case in a legal court? Sure, because their work is already derivative, and only the original elements of the fic are their property. But if you took that work and printed it and sold it without their permission, they could still seek damages. They weren't the ones doing the printing or making money. They weren't the ones infringing on JKR's copyright and taking money away from her profits. You, the bookbiner, were.

These kind of actions are the things that upset the very careful balance fandom has with media companies. Fandom only works in the way it does now because media companies recognized that fandom generated a lot of free publicity and enthusiasm for their products. But this? Selling fanficiton that the authors didn't give you permission to sell, and that JKR didn't give you permission to write? This is the kind of nightmare that sends fandom back into the shadows, into the days of being sued by Anne Rice and Marion Zimmer Bradley and by every Disney property under the sun, and we all go back to sneaking each other 'zines at cons because it's the only way to stay under the radar.

Learn some fandom history, and something about the legalities of copyright, and CUT. THIS. SHIT. OUT.

STOP SELLING BOUND FANFICTION

I cannot blame them for pulling their works, in fact I'm proud of them for doing so. Fanfiction is a community of gifting. As authors we write fics and share our works for free. Fanfiction is a weird, fragile, liminal space that can crumble at any time. This fragility needs to be respected.

If you want fanfiction to be around for you to enjoy, then the rules need to be respected!

You can bind fics. You can gift bound fics. DO NOT SELL BOUND FICS!!

Or soon we won't have fanfiction anymore and the world will be much darker for it.