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now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself

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“ships should at least make sense.” no. ships can make sense, sure. but they’re just fictional characters we play with for fun. they’re fantasies, not a fucking thesis paper. so no, they don’t always have to make sense. they just have to make you happy (or horny).

let people enjoy (fictional) things however they want to enjoy.

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kentucky star

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steel ball run is real

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STEEL BALL RUN TV ANIME CONFIRMED!!

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i’m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of “content” is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if you’ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.

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Free will

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Saint Seiya Zone is proud to present its fourth fanzine: “Underworld”

Thanks to our collaborators from all around the world for joining us in expressing the seasonal change through their work! 🦇

The file is available here. All mentions of socials are hyperlinked, for your reference, so go show the collaborators some love~ 

Collaborators, please tag us if you share your submission so we can reblog it! :)

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Saint Seiya Zone is proud to present its fourth fanzine: “Underworld”

Thanks to our collaborators from all around the world for joining us in expressing the seasonal change through their work! 🦇

The file is available here. All mentions of socials are hyperlinked, for your reference, so go show the collaborators some love~ 

Collaborators, please tag us if you share your submission so we can reblog it! :)

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SK8 OVA release date announced

They started reairing SK8 on TV today and they showed an ad for the OVA announcing the release date!

It's coming out March 19th!

The website says it's 25 minutes and will feature everyday scenes of the cast.

Things listed as happening in the OVA:

"Rain and cats, convenience store ice cream, soda flavored" Seems to feature Reki, Langa, and Miya

"Being able to become serious" (this is obviously referencing Utsumi's other show Bucchigiri) Seems to feature Joe and Cherry

"Morning Routine" Seems to feature Adam and Tadashi

"Good Luck, Hiromi-chan!" Seems to feature Shadow

They also gave SK8 a new meaning:

Someday I'll spend infinity with you.

And finally, we also got another OVA picture!

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Fanfolks today need to remember how important The Premise was.

Y'all have heard of The Premise, right?

See, historically there have always been people who saw an extra layer of gayness on certain pairs of fictional people (you just thought of several), and people Back Then even wrote their own fanfic (or as they were called at the time, "pastiches"), but the first widespread queer fanwork to really define the fanfiction genre was KIRK AND SPOCK. Kirk/Spock. K/S. The very first slashfics.

Why this work was vastly, overwhelmingly written by straight women is a discussion for another time, but it was, so that's the main perspective I'm gonna consider here.

How do you - a statistically middle-class, 30+, stay-at-home wife and mother - how do you write slashfic ao3-style in the 1960's before the internet?

Carefully.

Through letters with friends, phone calls, pen pals, and sometimes - sometimes - clandestine meetings of small groups. Whole novels were written communally, round-robin style, by sending typed or handwritten additions chapter by chapter to each other. These were all underground, some deep underground; even the early Trekkie fanzines of the time wouldn't touch them.

And keep in mind, few of these stories were explicitly even sexual! But they were all about a very, very close relationship between two men. In the 1960's.

Guess how cool everyone else was about this.

Actually, for their part, Gene Rodenberry and the other writers were fine with it, saying that they had deliberately written the characters to be two halves of a whole, and if you wanna read it that way, yeah sure, go right ahead. Shatner and Nimoy took it all in good humor, and seemingly still do, each guy basically gesturing to the other and chuckling "I mean, who wouldn't?"

But elsewhere there was vicious backlash against The Premise, and not just within the fandom. This was still at a time in the US and UK when various "sodomy" and "decency" laws made no distinction between homosexual sex acts and just, like, directly lighting another man's cigarette with your cigarette in public. (That, sadly, is not a fucking joke.)

It was probably the closest some suburban cishet women came to understanding the pain of being in the closet. They had to protect this secret from their friends and family at all cost. There were cases of divorces where women lost custody of their children because their writing had come to light.

Can you imagine having such a burning desire to write for your OTP that you were willing to lose everything over it? Even if you were never caught, you still had to be willing to wait weeks, months, to receive a letter in the mail that you had to carefully intercept, read in secret, and then add your own chapter t, also in secret, and then send off, perhaps never to be seen again.

These people were goddamn heroes, and they laid the foundation for the world we live in today. A world where we can read, write, comment on, or share - in a matter of seconds! - literature about two background characters from two different franchises enjoying a really specific kink involving vacuums or something. And that's objectively amazing.

Raise a toast to our fanfiction elders, who simped in the darkness so we could simp in the light of day.

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TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY DONATION LINKS

it's tdov again, so @ my fellow allies: please use this day to help out & consider donating to charities supporting trans people. if you follow current events (which you should) you know how much this support is needed, so here is a small list of charities I personally donated to & lists others already put together:

the trevor project (not solely a trans charity, but one I regularly donate to)

bundesverband trans* e.v. (as a german one this is another go-to)

transcend australia

a list of 15 trans organizations to donate to

a list of uk trans charities

this list is non-exhaustive, please feel free to share & add more! also remember to keep up your support beyond this one day 💙💗🤍

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The Naming of Cats | A Cats Musical Zine

A Fanzine dedicated towards the wonderful cast of characters from CATS and the different interpretations of the characters from different productions!

Keep reading for more info!

This zine is a charity zine that will be kept strictly SFW. It will be produced as both a physical and digital zine with merch included in both forms.

We will be accepting 25 Page Artists, 5 Writers, 7 Merch Artists, and potentially 3 Extra Artists to create art prints based off of the Non-Replica productions!

Page Artists will be required to design one (1) page based off of their assigned character.

Writers will be required to write a 1000-2000 worded fic about the characters! (Not character specific.)

Merch Artists will be required to design one (1) Physical and one (1) Digital piece of merch related to CATS.

All Cats ships will be kept platonic to prevent ship discourse.

YOU MUST BE 16 YEARS OR OLDER IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE!

Dates:

January 23 - January 30: INTEREST CHECK PERIOD February 1 - February 8: MOD APPLICATION PERIOD February 12 - March 1: CONTRIBUTOR APPLICATION PERIOD March 8 - March 15: CONTRIBUTOR RESULTS AND CONFIRMATION PERIOD

If there are any questions regarding this zine, please DM me, Peach, directly to this account or to my Tumblr acc (@just-before-dawn).

I'm so excited to see this zine come true! Please answer the Interest Check form if you haven't!

The Mod Application form will open starting next week! Please be on the lookout if you are interested in applying as a mod!

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▼Risotto Nero appreciation post▼

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Reblogging from my art account!

Here's a preview of my piece for "Breaking into Heaven", a Pucci-centric anthology organized by @lorddio and full of amazing illustrations and short fics!

💿 You can preorder it HERE 💿

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Hey, I participated in this zine alongside many cool artists and writers! If you're a Pucci fan, be sure to check it out!!

Happy Birthday to Enrico Pucci! For his birthday, we are debuting Breaking into Heaven, an Enrico Pucci anthology! 

 The anthology will feature 20+ artists and writers and multiple tiers of extras you can buy along with it!

Check out the listing for more details!