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THE SMASHING OF 2 AVENGERS FANDOM TAGS

Hi there, Marvel fans!

Your friendly neighborhood Marvel wranglers are here to bring you some news and a little bit of tag wrangling history. As the title of this post hints, there are going to be some changes regarding two Avengers fandom tags: The Avengers - Ambiguous Fandom and The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types.

WHAT’S HAPPENING?

The Marvel team will be dismantling the The Avengers - Ambiguous Fandom (AF) and The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types (AMT) tags and flattening them into the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) tag to help make it easier for users to filter for Avengers works \o/

The MCU tag, in the Archive, is the top level tag for all movies and series independently produced by Marvel Studios.

WHY?

About 20 Marvel movies ago, before the first Avengers movie even happened and when metatags had just become a thing in the Archive, wranglers were faced with a Situation: two users had tagged their work with a plain “Avengers” tag to mean the 1960s British spy show while everyone else using the tag meant Marvel.

Since metatags were still pretty exciting, wranglers thought they had the perfect solution for this ambiguity issue! They just needed to create the AF tag to let users know wranglers weren’t sure if those works were about the British spy show or Marvel. The AMT tag was also created due to a bit of ambiguous tagging between Marvel fandoms. With both tags, the majority of uses have always been for MCU works–the AMT tag has also been thought of as interchangeable with the MCU tag, even though it is its own separate thing.

As we can see now, creating these two tags did not solve any ambiguity issues. They just made it harder for users to filter for and find works. Keeping in mind that both tags are mostly used for MCU works, and in consultation with the British spy show wrangler, we are going to gently Hulk smash the AF and AMT tags and make them synonymous with (i.e. fold them into) the MCU tag!

This means that works tagged with AF and/or AMT will not show up as crossover works when filtering anymore and will instead show up in the tag that the vast majority of users actually mean: MCU. \o/

WILL MY WORKS ALSO BE SMASHED?

They won’t! You do not have to worry about your works getting lost. They will still show up when filtering for MCU tagged works, since AF and AMT will be made synonymous with the MCU tag. Even so, here are some steps you can take if you want to be sure your work is tagged with the specific fandom it belongs to:

If you have used the plain “Avengers” tag to mean the British spy show, we strongly encourage you to switch to its canonical tag: The Avengers (TV 1961).

If you are a Marvel fan who has used the AMT or AF tags to mean one of the Avengers related cartoons, video games, comics, or even movies, we strongly urge you to tag for the actual specific canon source instead of AMT or AF, since they will soon redirect to MCU! If you’re unsure what canonical tag would apply to your Marvel/Avengers works that isn’t the top MCU one, you can find all canonical Marvel fandom tags under the Sub tags header on the Marvel tag landing page.

By following these steps, it will make things easier for users who are searching for a specific Marvel/Avengers related canon to find your works \o/

Thank you for coming on this 10-year journey with us and keep avenging!

The Marvel Wranglers

From time to time, ao3org posts announcements of recent or upcoming wrangling changes on behalf of the Tag Wrangling Committee.

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on fandom and content policing

So, listen.

While we’re all having a good laugh and/or panic at tumblr’s incompetent censorship implosion, I just want to take this opportunity to draw a parallel to a lot of the recent fandom wank about what content should or shouldn’t be allowed on AO3. Specifically: there’s a lot of people who want the Archive to ban particular types of fic, but who have no real understanding of how you would actually implement that in practice.

While there are legitimate arguments to be made about the unwisdom of tumblr’s soon-to-be-forbidden content choices - the whole “female-presenting nipples” thing and the apparent decision to prioritise banning tits over banning Nazis, for instance - the functional problem isn’t that they’ve decided to monitor specific types of content, but that they’ve got no sensible way of enacting their own policies. Quite clearly, you can’t entrust the process to bots: just today, I’ve seen flagged content that runs the gamut from Star Trek: TOS screenshots to paleo fish art to quilts to the entire chronic pain tag to a text post about a gay family member with AIDS - and at the same time, I’ve still been seeing porn gifs on my dash. 

It’s absolute chaos, which is what happens when you try to outsource to programs the type of work that can only reliably be done by people - and even then, there’s still going to be bad or dubious or unpopular decisions made, because invariably, some things will need to be judged on a case by case basis, and people don’t always agree on where the needle should fall. 

Now: consider that this is happening because tumblr is banning particular types of images. Images, at least, you can kiiiiinda moderate by bots, provided you’re using the bot-process as a filter to cut down on the amount of work done by actual humans, and also provided you’re willing to take a huge credibility hit given the poor initial accuracy of said bots, but: images. Bots can be sorta trained to recognise and sort those, right?

But the kind of AI sophistication you’d need to moderate all the content on a text-based site like AO3? That… yeah. That literally doesn’t exist, and going by tags and keywords wouldn’t help you either, because there’d be no handy way to distinguish what type of usage was present just on that basis alone. Posts about content generated by neural nets are hilarious precisely because our AI isn’t there yet, and based on what we’ve seen so far, we won’t be there for a good long while.  

It’s a point I’ve made again and again, but I’m going to reiterate it here: it’s always easy to conjure up the most obvious, extreme and clear-cut examples of undesirable content when you’re discussing bans in theory, but in practice, you need to have a feasible means of enacting those rules with some degree of accuracy, speed and accountability that’s attainable within both budget and context, or else the whole thing becomes pointless. 

On massive sites like AO3 and tumblr, the considerable expense of monitoring so much user-generated content with paid employees is, to a degree, obviated by the concept of tagging and blocking, the idea being that users can curate and control their own experience to avoid unpleasant material. There still needs to be oversight, of course - at absolute minimum, a code of conduct and a means of reporting those who violate it to a human authority in a position to enforce said code - but the thing is, given how much raw content accrues on social media and at what speed, you really need these policies to be in place, and actively enforced, from the get-go: otherwise, when you finally do start trying to moderate, you’ll have to wade through the entire site’s backlog while also trying to keep abreast of new content.

Facebook, which is a multi-billion dollar corporation, can afford to have paid human moderators in place for assessing content violations instead of relying on bots; however, it is also notoriously terrible at both following its own standards and setting them in the first place. To take an example salient to the tumblr mess, Facebook has an ongoing problem with how it handles breastfeeding posts, while its community standards regarding what counts as hate speech are, uhhh… Not Great. Twitter has similarly struggled with bot accounts proliferating during multiple recent elections and with the seemingly simple task of deplatforming Nazis - not because they can’t, but because they don’t want to take a quote-on-quote political stance, even for the sake of cleaning house. 

It’s also because, quite frankly, neither Facebook nor Twitter were originally thought of as entities that would one day be ubiquitous and powerful enough to be used to sway elections; and when that capability was first realised by those with enough money and power to take advantage of it, there were no internal safeguards to stop it happening, and not nearly enough external comprehension of or appreciation for the risks among those in positions of authority to impose some in time to make a difference. Because even though time spent scrolling through social media passes like reverse dog years - which is to say, two hours can frequently feel like ten minutes - its impact is such that we fall into the trap of thinking that it’s been around forever, instead of being a really recent phenomenon. Facebook launched in 2004, YouTube in 2005, Twitter in 2006, tumblr in 2007, AO3 in 2009, Instagram in 2010, Snapchat in 2011, tinder in 2012, Discord in 2015. Even Livejournal, that precursor blog-and-fandom space, only began in 1999, with the purge of strikethrough happening in 2007. Long-term, we’re still running a global beta on How To Do Social Media Without Fucking Up, because this whole internet thing is still producing new iterations of old problems that we’ve never had to deal with in this medium before - or if so, then not on this scale, within whatever specific parameters apply to each site, in conjunction with whatever else is happening that’s relevant, with whatever tools or budget we have to hand. It is messy, and I really don’t see that changing anytime soon.   

All of which is a way of saying that, while it’s far from impossible to moderate content on social media, you need to have actual humans doing it, a clear reporting process set up, a coherent set of rules, a willingness to enforce those rules consistently - or at least to explain the logic behind any changes or exceptions and then stand by them, too - and the humility to admit that, whatever you planned for your site to be at the outset, success will mean that it invariably grows beyond that mandate in potentially strange and unpredictable ways, which will in turn require active thought and anticipation on your part to successfully deal with.

Which is why, compared to what’s happening on other sites, the objections being raised about AO3 are so goddamn frustrating - because, right from the outset, it has had a clear set of rules: it’s just not one that various naysayers like. Content-wise, the whole idea of the tagging system, as stated in the user agreement, is that you enter at your own risk: you are meant to navigate your own experience using the tools the site has provided - tools it has constantly worked to upgrade as the site traffic has boomed exponentially - and there’s a reporting process in place for people who transgress otherwise. AO3 isn’t perfect - of course it isn’t - but it is coherent, which is exactly what tumblr, in enacting this weird nipple-purge, has failed to be. 

Plus and also: the content on AO3 is fictional. As passionate as I am about the impact of stories on reality and vice versa, this is nonetheless a salient distinction to point out when discussing how to manage AO3 versus something like Twitter or tumblr. Different types of content require different types of moderation: the more variety in media formats and subject matter and the higher the level of complex, real-time, user-user interaction, the harder it is to manage - and, quite arguably, the more managing it requires in the first place. Whereas tumblr has reblogs, open inboxes and instant messaging, interactions on AO3 are limited to comments and that’s it: users can lock, moderate or throw their own comment threads open as they choose, and that, in turn, cuts down on how much active moderation is necessary.   

tl;dr: moderating social media sites is actually a lot harder and more complicated than most people realise, and those lobbying for tighter content control in places like AO3 should look at how broad generalisations about what constitutes a Bad Post are backfiring now before claiming the whole thing is an easy fix.

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We’re making some overdue improvements to the code that powers our login system. When we make these changes, all Archive users will be logged out of their accounts.

To avoid permanently losing access to your account, please make sure you know your password and/or can receive password reset emails by December 13.

For full details, please refer to the post.

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I really love this one.

Sid/Ovi "Things you said with too many miles between us."

“I don’t hate you,” Crosby says. They’re sitting, waiting for camera people to come their way. They’re so young; they think they’re old then, but they are young compared to what they will be. Alex turns to look at him, this boy who everyone says is the best there is–who’s better than Alex. He just looks like a boy.

“Good?” Alex says.

Crosby turns to look at him. He looks like a boy, but he looks tired, too, like some of mama’s friends look tired. “They’re going to want us to hate each other,” he says, matter of fact. “You can hate me if you want. But I wanted you to know, I don’t hate you. Even if they want me to.”  

Alex snorts. “Who cares what they want?” he asks. He’s so very young. “I’ll do what I want. And I want to win.”

Crosby smiles, and it’s a boy’s smile and it’s a tiger’s smile. “So do I.”

“Then one of us wins,” Alex tells him, like speaking it will make it so.  “And then they’ll stop asking.”

Crosby shakes his head. He looks at Alex like he’s being silly. “They’ll never stop asking,” he says, and then they’re called in.

继续阅读

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Darren Criss, winner of the award for outstanding lead actor in a limited series, movie or dramatic special for “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”, attends the Governors Ball for the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Alex Berliner/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)

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Marvel’s 10th anniversary celebration event in Shanghai

(my photos, plesase don’t repost.)

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Chris Evans, Taika Waititi and Chris Hemsworth at the 10th Anniversary Announcement – Class Photo Video

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Awww, first star of the week, and now of February!

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Generally they are all okay. I wonder how many times they had to repeat these phrases. Poor guys... 

 Jack’s Chinese is surprisingly good.

Jeff gets the tones wrong, but I want to hear him more!

I didn’t recognize the Stanley Cup until I saw the words LOL

The last part, some are just Internet language, not the official translation. Don’t take it too serious.

The strange thing is it’s certainly a commercial for a Chinese website (who has bought NHL broadcast right for 17-18 season), but I can’t find the video on their website.

Eric also said something in Chinese and played a game on the media day of ASG. So I guess there will be more videos?

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To celebrate the #ChineseNewYear , NHL players tried to learn some new phrases in Chinese. It went about as you’d expect… #yearofthedog 

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I haven’t seen anyone talking about it, so I decide to make a post myself...

Wild held a ceremony to honor Eric’s 1000th game before CAR@MIN last season. I first saw this video.

While the host asked Eric and Jordy to the east end of the arena, Eric noticed someone behind him.

He smiled, they talked a bit, and Eric skated forward.

Jordy caught up with him, so I didn’t think much of it. I thought it had to be Jordy that Eric saw and greeted.

Then I saw another video with wider angle. Holy shit! It was Skinny who was behind him. He was talking to Jeff.

And when he looked back, he was looking at Jeff, right? Since Jordy was already beside him.

*sigh happily*

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Waititi is the director of Thor 3. I think Chris follows him because he's superhero related.

February 10, 2018

Chris followed Chris McKay and Taika Waititi on Twitter.

*Chris McKay  is the director of THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE and co-director of THE LEGO MOVIE.

*Taika Waititi is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter, actor, and comedian. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his 2004 short film Two Cars, One Night

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OMG, the tag "only captain i've ever had" makes me wanna cry.

eric staal listening to jeff skinner

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OMG, so I’m not the only one who thinks they look alike. Especially when Tom was younger and had curls.

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME TOM HOLLAND LOOKS A LOT LIKE JEFF SKINNER

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Awwwww

so, a dumb angsty blurb in response to the canes (re: jeff skinner) having a tough season(ANON SUBMISSION):

the first time jeff takes a careless penalty, he skates back to the bench, sits in the spot left open for him next to staal, and prepares to yell back in response to whatever the captain screams at him. but eric just turns towards him, takes a slow, deep breath, and calmly prompts, “jeff, i need you to talk to me when you’re pissed off.”

and then, surprisingly, jeff does. 

he’ll heave himself onto the bench next to eric, or walk into his hotel room fuming, or call him up specifically to rant after a game that’s just the fucking worst. and jeff always feels better after, because whenever he does go off, eric really listens – like, he makes eye contact, and usually puts his hand on jeff’s shoulder, and says things like, “i know it sucks,” and, “we’re a team, and what’s going on with you is important to me.” eric doesn’t talk down to him, treats him like his opinion matters, and offers solutions to whatever’s upsetting him, so jeff always talks to him.

until he doesn’t.

it’s subtle, but everyone on the team (eric especially) notices jeff clamming up and getting more tense and refusing to talk about why. it’s not long until eric, radiating sincere concern, asks him to come over after practice one day. jeff does, and after a little bit of sitting around in awkward silence, he grits out, “look, eric, i know my play has been shit recently, but i can’t fucking look at you without thinking about the big stupid crush i have on you, and-”

“jeff,” eric cuts in, flexing his hand where it rests on jeff’s shoulder. “-i want you to feel like you can talk to me. whenever. about anything. okay?” 

his cheeks are flaming, and he just feels like a silly, foolish kid, but jeff clenches his jaw, manages to meet eric’s eyes, and nods.

in response, eric gives his shoulder a squeeze, and remarks softly, “i can start, if you want,” pausing, before adding, “-i have feelings for you, too.”

a few seconds pass, but jeff’s heart does start back up again, and an absolutely fucking delighted grin spreads across his face. eric smiles back, tilts jeff’s face up with the hand on his jaw, and presses their lips together. and sitting like that, making out on eric’s couch – jeff feels fucking great, but he also feels at peace in that way eric always makes him feel.

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the 2017-2018 season makes jeff want to tear himself in half – that’s how pissed he is. 

they just. can’t stop fucking losing. jeff has never tried so hard and had games turn out so bad. with each loss, it builds, and he just ends up taking more penalties and feeling worse. eventually, it gets bad enough that he doesn’t even bother telling himself that it’s not eric’s responsibility to talk him down anymore; that it’s been two years since he last played for the canes, and almost as long since they stopped being whatever they were to each other.

(they might’ve become fiancees if they’d gotten to celebrate their five-year anniversary before eric had gotten traded. eric was ready to propose – had a ring and everything. but that’s the past.)

he just dials eric’s number, and hopes he’ll pick up.

and of course he does.

and it’s just like things used to be. jeff ranting and eric listening on the end, respecting him, and offering solutions. with every second he spends on the line, the weight on jeff’s shoulders feels a little bit lighter, and after long enough, he can sigh and apologize for calling out of the blue and making eric play therapist, but eric doesn’t let him, just reminds him that, “you can always call me. any time, for anything.”

that makes jeff smile a bit, before his expression turns into something a little more sad. the line’s almost silent, with only the light, faint sound of each of their own breaths being heard on each other’s line.

when he starts talking again, jeff means to tell eric that he misses him, but what comes out is, “god, eric. i fucking love you so much.”

even after eric’s sharp inhale on the other line, it takes a second for him to notice the mistake, and he and eric struggle for a second, one trying to say, “fuck, i’m sorry” and the other, “jeff… i-”

there’s some more silence after that, but it’s brief, before eric quietly says, “i love you too, jeff.”

ANON HOW COULD YOU LEAVE ME LIKE THAT

I AM HAVING FEEEEEELINGS IN THIS CLUB RIGHT NOW

I NEED THEM TO GET BACK TOGETHER AND BE HAPPY

i need eric eventually retiring and moving to wherever jeff is and them getting married and raising chubby babies and eric being a stay at home dad and loving his family like the wholesome blonde gentle canadian giant he is.

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White Christmas

OMG! They are playing glee version of White Christmas in Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur! A Klaine duet! It's the first time that I hear a glee song in RL.

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I’m surprised he and his team remembered to do marketing in China. The sentences are in decent Chinese, not Google translated. But unfortunately, iTunes and Spotify don’t work in China. We can’t buy songs even though we want to.

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DarrenCriss_Official 20小时前 来自 秒拍网页版中国的各位好，我是你们的朋友Darren Criss， 《Homework》EP现已正式问世！感谢大家多年来的耐心等候和不懈支持。 iTunes: 网页链接 Bundle: 网页链接 Spotify: 网页链接 DarrenCriss_Official的秒拍视频 

Translation (per Google Translate)

China, I am your friend Darren Criss and the “Homework” EP is now available! Thank you for your patience and endless support over the years.

December 15, 2017

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I finally found the video where the gif is from, you can see it from the final full coverage video on YouTube (from 02:20:08). 

Eric didn’t kiss Tazer though, he hugged him and whispered something in his ear. Still sweet, but it didn’t involve a kiss (to my disappointment).

Eric Staal kisses Jonathan Toews after winning the Gold Medal