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Harry photographed for SNL (2019)

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This is the prize awarded to me in the 3rd Annual Cobra Kai Fanfiction Awards for

Best Completed Long Fic

Thank you so much to the creator, the organisers, and to my readers and anybody who nominated Malibu for awards. Thank you!!

(my awards)

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daniel and kumiko’s dancing scene for anonymous ♡

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GILMORE GIRLS REWATCH ↳ “There’s the Rub” (2x16)

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"If we're going to be training together I think you better call me Daniel."

and some fanart for "Everything Changes" by Noxnoctisanima! it was the first fic in the lawrusso tag on ao3 (pre-cobra kai!) and we read/reviewed it for the reading club a while back :-)<3

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I'm yearning for some spooky adventures with the ghoul boys.

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Ali, Barbara, and Susan

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honey, if they arrested everybody who painted dicks on things, there just wouldn’t be any room in the jails for all the murderers.

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sometimes I think about the fact that Johnny had three fathers 

one who was absent 

one who was financially, emotionally, and maybe physically abusive 

one who was manipulative and physically abusive

the best of those three was the best he could offer Robby

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• Johnny Lawrence in every scene. The Karate Kid (1984)

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So I have read several people complaining that they can't be expected to know the "unwritten rules" of fandom. So here's what I wish people knew:

Fanfiction is fiction.

Fictional people are not real.

Fictional people do not have rights.

Fictional people cannot be abused.

Reading or writing about something does not mean the desire to do or support it in the real world.

If I find art upsetting/triggering/disgusting/outraging/unpleasant/squicky/distressing/offensive, it is on me not to read it, not the creators and hosts to remove it.

Curate your own experience. The back buttons exist for a reason.

If you don't trust yourself to do that, get someone you trust to do it for you.

Fandom is an adult space. Adults create and own and host fandom spaces. If minors want to participate, then the onus is on them and their parents/guardians/trusted adults to ensure they participate appropriately, not on strange adults to stop being adults.

You often don't know the assault status or mental health status or neurotype or race or nationality or religion or gender or sexuality or age of a creator or consumer, and they do not have to disclose to you to justify their fantasy.

AO3 is not a safe space. It is not intended to be a safe space. Proceed accordingly.

Just because you don't like something or find it offensive doesn't mean it is a "problem" that "has to be dealt with".

Most characters in anime are not white.

There is no onus on you to reblog or share anything.

Everyone makes mistakes in fandom and is less than their best self sometimes.

Persistent pseudonyms encourage long term relationships.

Ship wars are stupid.

Someone else enjoying things does not impact on your own enjoyment of other things.

Tagging and warning is a courtesy, not a requirement. Assume any fic might contain untagged content.

Rating is an imprecise art, not a science.

Don't hassle IP creators.

Most people who are in fandom are hoping to make connections based on a shared passion.

Trying to profit from transformative fanworks puts us all at risk.

No one is obligated to share your head canon or fanon.

Being kind rarely fails to pay off.

It is okay to block and remove people who make your experience unpleasant. You don't have to placate them. (Learn from my mistakes).

Britpicking is a good thing.

You don't have to justify why you like a canon/pairing/trope/kink. Sometimes navel gazing is fun, but you don't have an obligation to explain yourself, especially to strangers. I share the overwhelming desire to refute an unfair accusation, but the people accusing you are rarely doing so in good faith, so you're batting a losing wicket.

I'm not your Mum. (Well, okay, a very few of you can call me Mum or Mom, but if you are one of them you already know who you are ❤️)

If you aren't mature enough to take responsibility for your online experiences, you aren't mature enough to be in fandom spaces.

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JESS WAS A MESSY TEEN WHO WAS NEGLECTED AND HIGHKEY ABUSED HIS WHOLE LIFE BUT THEN OVERCAME HIS REALITY ALL BY HIMSELF AND BECAME A SUCCESSFUL WRITER AND OWNS AN EDITORIAL, AND TRIES TO HELP THE PEOPLE IN HIS LIFE NO MATTER WHAT!!!!! JESS IS THE BEST!!!!! JESS MARIANO SUPREMACY!!!!!!

Jess yelling at Rory for dropping out of Yale is the one

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This is the prize awarded to me in the 3rd Annual Cobra Kai Fanfiction Awards for

Best Beta Reader

Thank you so much to the creator, the organisers, and to my readers and anybody who nominated me for awards. Thank you!!

(my awards)

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This is the best story I have ever heard. Please keep going.