#(is fandom wank even relevant to this as a tag?)

[vladdyissues]

just a little reminder to always check accounts!! don't interact with anti-proship bc pompep is a proship!! i know you are probably careful and don't but as a fellow pompep shipper i just wanted to remind you ^_^

Thank you, anon. I typically do glance at accounts before interacting, and so far I've had only one or two instances where I've been mistaken about someone.

One point I feel necessary to mention: I don't actually label myself as "proship", even though I agree with everything that word stands for (i.e., ship and let ship, don't like/don't read, your kink is not my kink and that's okay, don't harass people over fiction, censorship is bad, and various other forms of "don't be a feelings yakuza"). Back in my day, this was called being a normal fan. The only people who had a label were the antis.

Quote via korrasera:

Specifically, there aren’t anti-antis. There’s just antis, who are authoritarians, and the people who disagree with them.

Also—and please don't think any of this is criticizing you personally, anon; I'm strictly addressing the current fandom climate and my personal stance in it—I would never label any ship as "proship" because doing so insinuates that there are "safe/good" ships and "dangerous/bad" ships*. It plays into anti rhetoric, where antis are trying to redefine "proship" as being short for "problematic ship". That's a lie. Reject it.

*Any ship can be "problematic". Romeo/Juliet is "problematic" because Juliet is purported to be 13 or 14. Han Solo and Leia Organa have a 13-year age gap. Lots of phans think Sam/Danny is problematic because Sam is "toxic". It's all wank.

Same goes for the more recent "comship" label. I agree with the attitude, but I'm not getting it tattooed on me. I'm a fan. I enjoy my ships. I let others enjoy their ships, and if I hate those ships, I keep my mouth shut and move along. I have as much right to be here as any other fan. I will use the main fandom tag. I will tag all relevant characters. I am doing my due diligence. If anyone has a problem with that, it's their responsibility to block me, block the ship tag, and take charge of their own online experience.

[autumnslance]

Search, Tags, and Tumblr

Tumblr's search functions are notoriously weird, but there's a few common things to know about how it works in conjunction with Tagging. First things first:

-Tags are for searching but also personal blog organization as desired. This is why some folks have weird/funny personal use tags. Tags can use dashes and spaces, but not regular double quote marks ("), though single marks are fine (').

-Tag for what's in the post; adding other, unrelated tags "for visibility" is against Tumblr's TOS and gets you reported for Spam!

Example: if you make a post for your new Clive Rosfield screenshots, make sure you're only tagging terms relevant to Final Fantasy XVI and Clive Rosfield (and any personal organizing tags like "screenshots"); don't add tags like "Star Wars" and "SpongeBob", as Clive has nothing to do with those!

-Tag without censoring words! We use filters/blacklists here to avoid things we don't want to see. Can also work for words in the body of a post. There's no rules here against using "kill" or "death" or other terms defining common human experiences determined "too negative/dangerous" on other sites (stay civil to each other).

-If you do alt-spell things, it's only in the body of a post and usually when it's dislike of a fandom thing as a courtesy to those enjoyers. If I make a shipping post and say, for example, "I can't stand R3y|o", that's when I want to use weird spelling and symbols--and no common tags for that fandom! If you do use tags for organizing, keep it to things like "#anti (thing) or "#(thing) critical", again spelled correctly for others' blacklisting purposes and to keep it out of the Reylo Search and Tags so those fans can enjoy their ship without seeing negativity. Because...

-General Search pulls from Tags and Also terms found in the body of a post. If I just put "Thancred" in the Search bar at the top of the page, it'll show me any and all posts with "Thancred" in them, including 1) if the name is in the body of the post, 2) if the name is in a tag that's a sentence/includes other words, and 3) even if not tagged for Thancred.

This caused some wank a couple years back for certain fans when someone tagged a lascivious picture set with what they knew was a triggery NOTP for many...but they also put the characters' names in the post body, not realizing simply searching for either of those characters would pull it up (They also, IMO, should have put the images under a Read More to be doubly safe, for themselves and for others they knew might be upset stumbling onto said images, but the crux was not realizing how Tumblr Search worked).

-Tag Search specifically pulls from the tags; per Tumblr's info pages, the first 20 tags (out of 30 total allowed) now will show up in search. Common, consistent tags first are good for visibility. You can also Follow tags you want to keep track of; there's even a tab on your Dash for it.

-Reblogs do not show up in the searches, even with additions and new notes. However, a blacklist filter will catch tags put on the original post, even if the reblogger doesn't add it when it ends up on your Dash.

-You can also blacklist blog names/URLs. Think of it like Twitter's muting rather than a full block (though one can do that too, and should as needed).

Example: someone following Seanan McGuire doesn't like frogs, but she reblogs a lot of frogs. The follower blocked and blacklisted the blogs she often reblogs frogs from to minimize the number of frogs they see while still following a favorite author for her book info.

-If people ask you to tag a thing cuz it's a squick or full-on trigger, you can just do it, or you can politely say no; that's valid. It's up to that person then to decide if they want to blacklist or unfollow or block or what. Just be civil either and both ways.

In summary: if you're talking about bunnies cuz you took pictures at the local farm show, just write "bunnies" normally in the body and/or tags of the post, so anyone with "bunnies" blacklisted can avoid it--and folks who want to see cute pics of bunnies can find it!

Even if you use proper tags, or no tags, or only use alternate spellings in the post body to keep things out of the tags/searches, consider still using a Read More as a last line of courtesy to any followers or random folks you don't want to catch in the crossfire. Also consider hiding your blog from Search results, and/or Private posts.

Tumblr's Help Center (On Desktop browser, go to the "About" link, and then the "Resources" menu; on Mobile App, go to Account settings, General settings, scroll down to "Help" under "Account") has further info about Searches and Tagging (and everything else!), and as that info changes, it's a good idea to keep track of those page updates, as well as the @changes blog to keep track of new updates, bugs, recent fixes, and upcoming info.

[danmei-confessions]

(ﾉ*･ω･)ﾉ Hello! This is another danmei confessions blog. The mods here won't take any sides in things, and will just post every ask without comment. Feel free to send whatever, and we won't be the ones to sort the good takes from the bad. Unless you're sending hate to us who run the blog personally, or trying to "call out"/target another person. That's not cool.

Confessions will be tagged with:

#danmei-confessions

fandom(s) talked about (#fandom)

any ships talked about (#ship if positive or neutral, #anti ship if negative)

any characters talked about (#character unless specifically meaning to hate a character and/or the fans, in which case #anti character. note that simply mentioning a character's canon actions and not bashing fans does not count as being against a character. if you dont like hearing about your fave's crimes why is that even your fave.)

Posts that aren't confessions will be tagged #mods posting and the relevant mod posting the thing. We are mods feiji (airplane) and huanggua (cucumber).

In any case, we're all hand in unlovable hand here, and may the inevitable wank that results from thus be worthy of 'Hall of the Mountain King' ╰(*°▽°*)╯

[olderthannetfic]

The drabbles-are-clutter nonsense has reminded me of something that happened in the Final Fantasy XIV fandom a few years back.

A large number of Chinese language fanfics were uploaded all at once and erroneously marked as English. The error was resolved within a matter of hour (my guess is that someone's browser set English as the default language and they forgot or didn't know to change it), but some people took the opportunity to rant about how obnoxious it is that Chinese language fics "flood" their favorite ship tags. Some even veered into racism, making sweeping statements about fans from China and how they don't belong in the same fandom as the English speakers.

It was pretty ghastly, all because someone accidentally clicked the wrong button while uploading fanfic to a fanfic archive, and the wank and racism continued long after the mistake was fixed.

Some people just cannot stand that archives archive things that aren't relevant to them.

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Yeah, seriously.

[tonyglowheart]

hey, y’all, so ik I mostly just stick to my own corner of Tumblr and I only have the vaguest clue of what’s going on beyond that, but just like...a quick reminder of what the Defense Squad is and is not? (disclaimer/caveats/w.e at end of post):

Is: defend Tony when ppl pull out factually incorrect stuff, especially if/when people start getting personal. Like historically, there was a time when being a Tony fan was so bad and we had to caveat with “yes we know he has flaws, but I still love him anyway” as if it were something we had to be ashamed of and Realize Was Wrong, and not just unabashedly like a fictional character?? And the defense squad was original pushback against that, like “yeah he’s got flaws, but so does your fave and that’s not a reason to tout your moral purity against ours.” Please do pick your battles, though, most of the time people are not going to change their minds just because someone came at them on an opinion they had. And also, like..........I don’t want to say “please watch your tone,” but please don’t get personally offensive? I just feel like that’s a good guideline in general, it’s lowkey not helpful if you call someone names for their opinions, even if they’re wrong on facts or whatever. This ain’t social policy we’re discussing, they’re fictional characters and fictional worlds. Real actual human beings still rate higher than “defending” a fictional character.

Is: defending other Tony fans if/when people are dogpiling on them. This was also historically a problem, although I think (I hope) it’s less so now? But honestly it’s hard to tell unless someone posts about it/posts asks, but also hopefully this is somewhat the purpose of the squad. This does NOT meant “going after whoever is doing it,” it sucks sometimes when you’re reacting to have to moderate your own reactions, but continuing cycles doesn’t help.

Is NOT: “the best defense is a good offense.” Guys, please don’t go in the anti tag picking fights. There’s no need to “be proactive” about this. As long as they’re keeping their stuff away from the Tony tag, like, you literally cannot control another human being. That’s not how that works. Also, make sure you’re in the TAG and not the search, do NOT go on people’s untagged posts. It’s their own blog, they’re allowed to post their opinions or vent or whatever. Also again please do NOT call ppl names, pls it’s tempting and I get it, and for Tony fans we’re So Tired and it’s easy to make the most recent person who shits on Tony the representation of every single person we’ve seen in the past forever and have had to personally experience and handle emotionally, but in most cases they are just a single individual with their single opinion and not a conspiracy out to get us all.

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Like, whatever I’m not going to go after each person individually who doesn’t follow these guidelines, I’m not the fandom police or your parent and I really don’t want to be. And like yeah Who Am I To Lay This Out, I’m just one person, my idea of what the defense squad is and isn’t maybe isn’t yours, like I feel like I was lowkey one of the OG members but clearly this has grown beyond us. But like...please do be aware that if you go way too far about “defense,” then you put people off of Tony, RDJ, this segment of the fandom (i.e. Tony fans), etc. Some of you (me included) might have this experience with certain parts of the B/ucky or St/ucky fandom, for example (especially back in the day), (and if not then whatever this example doesn’t apply to you), just like...please be aware?

I’m just making this post because it pains me to talk to people who aren’t in the greater Marvel fandom or even see posts around complaining about Tony fans but making complaints that I’ve had with other Marvel-adjacent fandoms that get way too zealous and put me off the character or ship or whatever.

[reachexceedinggrasp]

I would love to hear your thoughts on why you like the Twelfth Doctor and Clara, individually and together, if you feel like talking about it! I've only seen what amounts to now half of New Who, Nine, Ten and Eleven, and I've been watching Twelve and wow. He's really special. Eleven is like the opposite of Twelve, he's so underhanded, yet Twelve is like generous even when he's harsh. It's so funny how different they are. What romantic beats do Twelve and Clara hit for you?

Haha sorry if that's a really broad question. I've been through your Tumblr tag for the pairing already lol. For a more specific question, what do you like about Twelve more than the other Doctors? And how does the Doctor and Clara compare to other ships you ship? Hope you are having a great day, I love your blog!

Oh, so you've already seen my Whouffaldi Text and Subtext dissertation. When I read your first ask, I was going to just lead with that lol.

I don't know if you read all my tag rambles where I talked a bit about some of this, but I'll try to explain why it's such a Ship of Dreams for me. There was actually a hurdle I had to get over, because my parents raised me on lots of Classic Who, so it did feel really weird to ship the Doctor. Just because I imprinted on it super young and related to him as a kind of avuncular figure lol. I know there's a whole wank about this in the fandom and a lot of old school fans are hardcore NoRomo and regard him as a totally non-sexual being, but the show has never supported that reading. (The First Doctor is not only travelling with his granddaughter- who is never implied not to be his literal, biological granddaughter- he also dated an Aztec woman and even flirts occasionally. All the Doctors flirt with the possible exception of Two. Four/Sarah Jane is borderline explicitly romantic.)

Anyway. That reluctance aside, this pairing is very nearly tailor-made to be Relevant to My Interests.

Because it's the 'unlikely on the surface' thing where they are from such vastly different worlds and have such vastly different frames of reference. He's a nigh-immortal prickly alien who is a weird combination of selfish trickster god and ethical paragon, who is always some degree of abrasive and impatient in every version of himself despite the fathomless well of compassion he has for all forms of life. The Doctor is always both a child and an ancient world-weary old man, which makes him a very complicated person to have a serious relationship with, even a platonic relationship. He's difficult. Where Clara is a normal adult with a normal maturity level and a primary school teacher ability to turn on a friendly, upbeat, nurturing social persona. People take her to be sweet and simple at first glance. They seem an odd match on the surface.

And I love a pairing where people on the outside can't imagine how it happened. I like when you can't judge the book by its cover. They slot into my broader Beauty and the Beast archetype (which really describes 99% of my ships in some capacity).

But even more so than that, they have a tangible, adult connection which is very grounded and real, but they are also this epic, all-encompassing, universe-destroying, can-be-contained-only-by-poetry, destinies entwined, deathless true love, Gothic Romance, out of hand soulmate thing. The Doctor endlessly incinerating his own body and chiselling away at the impossible for 4.5 billion years just for a potential opportunity to save her life? Not even be with her, just save her? A chance! Fucking ROMANCE. Clara's abject devastation that he would do that to himself, her equally insane antics to try to protect him, her realisation of being so overwhelmingly loved by this absolutely terrifying force of nature and her response to that being 'we're such idiots we should have talked about this, we're going to talk about this right now!' It takes until the very end, the utmost extreme, for Clara to recognise his devotion for what it is,

(because both of them have been idiots about this throughout their entire relationship- afraid to be hurt, afraid of all that it would mean, of change, afraid to be rejected again, etc. etc.- and have been pining away in denial that their feelings are mutual, paralysed by fear of losing each other)

but when she finally understands that he loves her, she has to wrestle with the Frightening Scope of Being So Loved and she rises to it, undiminished, boldly human and not needing to be any more than that to stand shoulder to shoulder with this profoundly alien personified time abyss who ushered in the end of all things to see her smile again. One smile. I'm breathless!!

I love that they're so different and there's such a massive disparity between how others perceive them, between the powers afforded them, yet they're also so similar and complementary and equal. They're both caretakers who tend to be bossy and controlling in part as an expression of that caretaking, they're both quite self-absorbed egoists who are capable of absolutely staggering selflessness, they're both idealists who refuse to give up, and they have the same sense of humour. There's a genuine intimacy and unspoken simpatico I think is unmatched by any other relationship the Doctor has ever had.

Each of them wrote and became a fairy tale for the other. Clara threw herself into his timeline and became The Impossible Girl, shattering herself into every fragment of his life to rescue him from being physically destroyed. Then she rescues him from being emotionally destroyed by stepping in to stop him using the Moment. Then she secures him a new set of regenerations. Clara is hope, she is his guardian angel. She became a story and then when she again stays to help him after he regenerates, they break down all the façades and idolisations between them and strip down to bare humanity. I talked about how her idealisation of the Doctor was broken down over series 8 in the post linked above, but he goes through the same thing with her. Their connection is tested and purified and rebuilt, always being reaffirmed, always growing stronger.

On the simplest level, they just adore each other. They can't stay apart because that affinity they share is irresistible; they're never bored if they're together and they work perfectly as a team. What makes it so special to me is that it's both this stupid simple mundane thing of they delight in one another's company like real people and it's this operatic epic of story and destiny and having woven themselves into each other's fate for all eternity. That's everything I want in a romance. I want the small and the big, Gothic drama and warm cosies. I want love which feels both transcendent and domestic.

Anyway, I'm kind of rambling but I love Magical/Mundane pairings, I love Immortal Fae Being/mortal angst, world-crossing, layers of identity, Sarcastic Aloof Super Genius with Heart of Gold/Vivacious Practical Person, Physically Powerful Man/Emotionally Powerful Woman, etc. They're ticking a lot of boxes.

And I love Twelve so much because a) Peter Capaldi is the only person to ever play the Doctor who played all the Doctors. He doesn't just feel like he's in continuity with the other regenerations where there are core traits that carry over, he feels like he tangibly still is all of them in this uncontrived and magical way. That he can contain all those aspects at once, that he's really the same man with the same interior landscape and actually lived all those lives, did all those things. He makes me believe it in a total, simple way I never quite have before. b) He and Tom Baker are the only two that, to me, genuinely felt alien and they both sometimes give me goosebumps because of that. They convey this point of view outside and beyond humanity which shouldn't even be possible for an actor to achieve, but which is necessary for the Doctor.

c) my many rants about forgiveness and compassion and how series 9 is the most profound, demanding, and uncompromising study of those themes in the last twenty years of anglo pop culture. Just absolutely unflinching idealism, all the more powerful and heroic because it's coming from such a deeply flawed character who has done truly horrific things himself. That Twelve can be so clearly worn down by darkness both within himself and out in the universe, be such a burdened melancholy character staggering under the weight of unspeakable guilt and terrible responsibility, yet be infused with so much childlike wonder and incorrigible curiosity, always excited to keep learning... always willing to hope.

Like I want to go on a whole side tangent about what a BRILLIANT cliffhanger Magician's Apprentice/Witch's Familiar is because the cliffhanger isn't about the plot or who will survive at all despite that being the ostensible stakes, it's about whether the Doctor will live up to his principles. And we know he's failed before. That's where the suspense is- vengeance and playing hero are temptations he's fallen to before. That the most brutally difficult mercy to give allowed for the possibility of victory is just...! Yes!!!

But also he's hilarious and grouchy, deeply profoundly kind and patient while also just having... zero time for people's nonsense (and people consist mostly of nonsense, so he doesn't have time for much). He will believe in and hope for the best from anyone, wants to save everyone, but he is almost exclusively irritated by social interaction. The dichotomy of his loving, compassionate embrace of all living things as infinitely valuable and his cloak of misanthropy is getting at something extremely poignant about the struggle to be an optimist in the real world.

And one of my favourite favourite things about Twelve is that the story doesn't just tell us he's brilliant and move along. We don't get only the normal outsider perspective of him seeming to know almost everything or pulling random quick fixes out of nowhere. We get to see his mind at work. Heaven Sent actually walks us through his genius and not only how he thinks, but how he makes it look effortless. It's just... one of the best character studies in the history of television. It's a masterclass on the Doctor: who he is, who he wants to be, and why he's such an infinitely wonderful, fascinating character.

And it's also a study of grief, of perseverance, of despair and hope. It is the most triumphant tragedy I've ever seen and everything about it is just so beautiful and so romantic. The Doctor breaking down and exhausted and wanting to give in, but roaring through Hell to keep living and keep striving in his cloak of tattered idealism because the flame of hope in his heart will never go out. It is majestic.

I love the Doctor because he's so full of contradictions while being such a vibrantly alive, resonant personality that we recognise as somehow 'real' or 'true', and no one incarnation encompasses a more vast range of these contradictions working in more perfect harmony than Twelve.

[jlf23tumble]

Hi Jen, I hope you don't mind me asking this. Really need some advice on how to cope in this fandom. Idk why people keep yucking other people's yum. The other day I just quoted "Louis is such a goofy dad" and I received my first K-Word myself in my anon inbox. They stated "Louis is a MILF and a slut!! go k-word urself" and I'm just in shock? Idk people keep wanting a certain narrative to be true. Can't we all have opinions? Have funsies? I just stated he's a goofy dad and I get this? Any advice?

OH MY GOD, oof, yeah, having had this "fun" experience before, I'm truly sorry you got this message, I mean, I'd feel like that about literally anything anyone's posting on social media in the year 2022, but especially anyone posting about One fucking DIRECTION seven years after they broke up. He absolutely IS a goofy dad, you're right, you should say it, I wonder which dumdum blouie's gonna come send me this kind of garbage, I'll leave you in the dogpile of my inbox with the other tragedies sharin' a sad wank in the clowncar that is this fandom, I'm sure your fave is real proud! Ahem. Anyway, the sad truth is that a bulk of people still living in the 2012 era have a hard time reconciling the differences between 1D fiction and 1D reality on just about every level (the hot takes I have on this one, so spice, and it's not just the BL "paradise" crowd), so there isn't a lot you can really *do* about it, but maybe these ideas will help?

1. Ignore. Just ghost and don't respond, don't block it, don't vague it, pretend you never got it...odds are they aren't even following you, they're just looking to start some shit. Pro: if they're a real person following you, they'll keep comin' back, lookin' for that sweet sweet release that will make them feel relevant yet will never, ever come. Con: they might keep coming back to harass you in your inbox, which is fucking annoying.

2. Block. This is somewhat effective but not entirely. My stinky traffic dropped off when I went hunting for that circle of monsters and proactively blocked them all BEFORE they could send it--search for something like who are your fave BL blogs or whatever, and go to town on block city. (I would take a look at the op of the post you added your tag to as well, maybe check out recent notes) Pro: you will magically prevent a lottttt of horseshit from coming your way. Con: you will catch glimpses of a hell you will never unsee.

3. Report. Especially in this case! I haven't seen if it actually works or not, though, so I don't really have a good pro/con answer here, and it could suck MIGHTILY if it turns out a favorite mutual sent this your way. (Which reminds me: check who's following you and do some preemptive blocking work that way, too.)

4. Turn off anon. I swear to god, this works, jesus, they're such cowards.

5. Firehose. Depending on how petty you're feeling, BURY your feed in dilf Louis content. There are blogs that specialize in spank hands daddy Louis, goofy drunk bbq dad Louis, actual dad Louis--reblog the FUCK out of all of 'em, give it a fun tag if you want (for my special anon who's into milfs), just spray a virtual firehose of daddy louis content until this person blocks YOU. Pro: you will jettison a lot of people, hopefully including whoever's lurking. Con: you will jettison a lot of people who probably enjoy other content you put on their dash, but oh well! There's a price to pettiness, always, so weigh that one out.

God, I wish people would get over the weird pearl-clutching fear they have over Louis's dad antics on ANY level, so I secretly hope you drop this bomb and let me know how it goes! But real talk, I hope you feel okay in the aftermath of getting this kind of shitty ask--if you ever want to message me directly, I'm here!

[hua-fei-hua]

i’ve just had a brilliant thought--

when tagging works on ao3, what if there was on option to not let that tag show up when searched for? like, obviously always allow it to be filtered out, but allow authors to opt-out of having their works show up in the search results when searching for that particular tag

for example, you’re posting a work, and it has character a/character b as its main pairing as they fake date or something, but it also has minor appearances of character c/character d in it. for the sake of accurate archival and tagging, you want to tag both of them as relationships, but as a reader, you don’t want to contribute to The Slush Pile of works tagged “minor chara c/chara d” in the relationships tag because you know how exhausting it is to filter through when looking for that ship as the main pairing.

what i’m proposing here is the ability to add the tag “minor character c/character d” to the work’s relationships category, and then mark a tag in such a way so that if someone clicks on the character c/character d tag on ao3, it won’t show up, but if someone is looking through character a/character b and excludes character c/character d from their search, it also will not show up. similarly, if someone is searching through the fake dating tag w/o any pairings included or excluded, the work would still be shown.

and like, i think it would be neat to have this show up for all tags (except for maybe the warnings? though if they can be filtered out regardless i guess there’s no problem with not letting them show up in the search), so if you wrote a bit of meta about fandom in general, but your case study is a particular one, you’d be able to tag it with the particular fandom, but it won’t show up when going through that fandom’s Tag.

i guess this isn’t all that feasible for the ao3 to implement, since then it becomes metadata about metadata, unless they just added in a second tag input that allows you to tag for exclusions for each category. this would make all tags on existing works by default inclusive, which i think is a fair compromise because even if it means looking through older works with absent authors might still be difficult, it leaves the author entirely in control of the work and able to tag accurately and thoroughly, while still easing a reader’s search for relevant works.

i’m sure that wank would inevitably pop up around such a feature-- stuff like trying to make an author change a tag on of of their works to exclusive-only because every author has a different idea of how much of something should be shown in a work for it to warrant a tag (basically, wank that already exists around untagged miscellany showing up in works), or lobbying to make some particular tags only ever exclusive (basically, wank that already exists around people not wanting shit they find gross just out there and available to be sought by the masses)-- but i can’t really imagine what kind of brand-new community problems it would create

[incarnateirony]

misha confirmed that he's not in the final scene during one of his b-day vids for people who paid for it. how do you think the sam and dean final scene ties in to the overall episode? (also this isn't wank i do think cas is in the finale but apparently just not in the final scene that they shot yesterday)

Okay so, I literally got off of work to a series of these. I’m going to reply to this one, and quote a second one at the same time. 

Misha just confirmed in a Creation vid that he wasn’t on set during the final day of shooting, so he won’t be in the final scene. Is there any reason to have optimism that Cas will get a good ending anymore?

I’m putting these together because these two are the good ones. They’re not brimming with hate, unnecessary hysteria, nobody’s out here just dumping their personal panic attack in my inbox without trying to figure out how to be more based. To the other nonnies: take a lesson from these two, and understand why I’m replying to these two (and doing it together to not slam my page twice)

First of all, I defer both of you to this (x) 

Misha not being at the very last shot on the very last day may be disappointing, but people have to understand that on average that’s maybe a 40 second time period. Hell, it could be less. It could be a 20 minute shot of one last person walking into the light to join the others. We don’t know. You don’t know.

Is there reason to still have hope for a good ending, yes. Be it tracking the time Misha was in quarantine before he went dead silent on livestreaming coincidentally for about 2 weeks, making it impossible to specifically track him -- be it the jumbled shooting of eps 19 and 20 together, the fact that they hid nearly a third of when each episode was filming what -- be it the very long meta chain and paths, I generally sweep over the content of my blog and then point back to that link, right there, on how to really put into context how not-hugely-relevant shot 60-in-particular is. Not being in the very last 20 seconds is not the same as not being in the finale at all, and I know that’s easy to lose track of.

We also need to understand, for the love of god, do NOT sit out here spamming misha or others with tagged hate or lament, as some of the other nonnies in my box have left me wondering if the individuals may be doing. We’re fully aware they had to tweak things because of covid. As it is, any day Misha was there, that was a couple hundred dollars a day in accomodations to take care of. Like, minimum. And CW already had to bite the bullet on everyone having an extra two weeks of downtime.

Originally they said they would all be there together. So I /beg/ this fandom to have empathy for the fact that /everyone here lost something because of covid this year./ Not just you, having a fan reaction. Misha, Jensen, Jared. They didn’t get to have their big final party. They didn’t get to have that final day with everyone on cast and crew. They didn’t get to have their celebration. And quite frankly, it’s not all about you. And if you think for a second anyone, even Misha, would want some of the behavior I saw out of other anons here than these two, I’m going to have to ask everyone to take a study in Misha Fucking Collins again and ask if he really would approve of it. 

They all lost something. And they have 15 years of investing their actual lives into it. Not an episode a week. Literal weeks per episode. There’s a difference there. It’s been everything they knew and formed their friendships and they didn’t get to have those final moments they were so excited to talk about at the start of the year before our country went sideways from a pandemic. They wanted those crew parties, those final shots, those moments. They didn’t get those. And that’s not just fucking Misha. That’s fucking Jensen and Jared even, too, because a lot of those friends just aren’t there. There was no afterparty. There was just a sad wrap and sloughing off home to, essentially, cry about the end of an entire era of their lives.

If you want hope of a good ending, review my blog. But I will say I’m not gonna post content like the other nonnies I opted out of doing, and would prefer not to slam neg after neg after neg on my blog so if people want to have a genuine conversation about this, please, DM me.

[workingforitallthetime]

ok, i am perseverating on this topic because it really did worry me. so i did a full usntdp audit of my blog. i’m jotting down my reflections only for my own future reference, although they may also be useful for anyone who’s trying to decide whether to unfollow and/or request that i filter something for you (which i’m always happy to do).

so, i went back through my entire blog starting with the date trevor zegras zoomed across the foreground of the team usa photo and straight into my heart. i was greatly relieved to find that i have not made any explicit references to individual minors. everything of possible relevance to the topic was either a general reference to the usntdp, or a specific present-day reference to an individual member of the usntdp class of 2019, all of whom are currently 20 years old. because hopefully reviewing everything i’ve said in the past is going to help me be more mindful going forward, i’m gonna break it down:

references to the usntdp

--as i suspected, joke tags were indeed the problem. my general ustndp tag was a bad idea and has been retired. i regret it, and i regret another similar one i used a couple of times. now i no longer have a general usntdp tag, but i decided i’d rather leave all my references to the collective usntdp class of 2019 unsearchable instead of making them accessible in the general usntdp tag or coming up with another supposedly fun tag that might turn out to be a bad idea.

--along similar lines, i found one reblog of the joke “usa hockey is fuck or die.” the source material that led to this joke is a locker room video from the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship (a U20 event). i checked DOBs and everyone involved is over 18. still not going to reference that joke again on the blog, or anything similar.

--i have made multiple references to the concept of usntdp spin the bottle. i have thought about this, and my conclusion is that it falls on the non-explicit side of my bright line, and i will continue to reference this cherished headcanon. teen kissing: approved!

references to individual members of the usntdp class of 2019

i did not find anything in this category that i felt violated my bright line about not writing anything explicit about minors. i did find occasional suggestive content related to 19- and 20-year-olds. gonna jot down my thinking about each of those instances:

--i have said a couple of highly complimentary things about about cam york’s thighs. the pictures that prompted those references all appear to postdate his usntdp era and therefore contain legal adult thighs. i am going to continue to allow myself the occasional thirsty thigh comment when circumstances warrant, although reminding myself that is really not the purpose of my blog.

--i have made some explicit references to trevor zegras in fic scenarios, all self-evidently pertaining to the post-usntdp era.

--i have obliquely referenced my cherished and elaborate humiliation kink headcanons about alex turcotte and his AHL teammates (i.e. in circumstances in which everybody’s 18+), and i will continue to do so. obliquely.

--as noted in those pearl-clutching tags the other day, i have referenced writing porn about cole caufield, who is currently 20 years old. i don’t think it’s reasonable for someone to see an undated reference about porn and assume that a minor is involved. everyone was a minor once. if someone personally still thinks of a current 20-year-old as the minor he was more than two years ago,  that seems like it could be related to fandom’s pernicious desire to infantilize rich famous white men, and that’s not a me problem. i have decided that i will not be adding an explicit “...and this all takes place after their 18th birthdays!” qualifier whenever i reference writing porn about current legal adults.

--relatedly, the current forecast is that i’m gonna have some thoughts about cole caufield’s 20-year-old body, and i may air those on this blog at a level of explicitness similar to my thoughts about jordan martinook’s body. i can’t help it, it’s... like... transitive horniness as a symptom of writing fic? idk. i am not gonna stop writing sex scenes about consenting adults (even if those adults are 5′7 and have the face of a cavalier king charles spaniel puppy),* and i am not gonna stop enthusing about that writing process in tags.

one overall takeaway for me is that some people may have a different comfort zone than i do about explicit material pertaining to people who fandom has known as minors in the not too distant past. maybe this isn’t an issue for me personally because that set-up was inherent to 1D fandom? i’m comfortable with my bright line of “no explicit writing about minors but anything 18+ is fair game,” and if anybody has a different personal comfort zone, i’m satisfied that the appropriate solution is for them to unfollow and not for me to stop lovingly crafting this quarantine facetime wank scene. however, in order to be responsible about lovingly crafting porn involving consenting adults, i have to make sure i’m not sloppy about general usntdp references that could be read to encompass minors, whether or not that’s an interpretation i intended.

*hmmmm this does make me notice that nobody said boo when this blog included explicit material regarding 20-year-old andrei svechnikov. it’s interesting to consider whether people look at svech differently than the 20-year-old alumni of the usntdp because svech is 6′2 and built like an ox, or whether national origin could be a factor here.

[multsicorn]

fandoms for a reason for a season for a lifetime

It’s funny how even spiralling into a new obsession I can tell - this isn’t one of the big ones, probably. Not unless it pulls out a whole lot more ~something~ in the last seven eps I have left.

Because when I look back at the fandoms I’ve been in here on tumblr over the last decade, there seems to be a sharp dichotomy.

[this got way too long? have a cut.]

There’s fandoms I think back on as ‘damn I love/d that. For so many reasons. Even if, for other reasons, good reasons, I am not in the fandom anymore - or not currently.’ Glee, Hamilton, Check, Please!, (where I never liked the canon much at all! but I loved my corner of fandom so much, I kept coming back to it for years.)

The Untamed. (Which I hope I may still come back to? In some form, if it’s still going, like, next year? I never quite managed to find myself a cozy corner, and wore myself out trying and failing, but I also never managed to really exorcise the feelings I wanted to there, so, I’m still like - I love it? I love a lot of things about it. But I cannot currently ~engage.)

Nirvana in Fire, which I am fully planning to watch for the third time, and hoping to create content for this next time round, … whenever I get tired of Word of Honor, probably in a few months from now.

And then there’s the fandoms where I just kinda needed - a fandom. To be in. Which does not mean I didn’t love them at the time! Hockey RPF (where I pretty much only read fic - and also wrote in my head a good handful of fic. based on fic. but I never cared much for the ‘canon’, lol.) Yuri!!! on Ice; Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812; Good Omens. There are things I remember with fondness about all those canons (… rpf fic, the way I look at it, is the canon) - but - like. They’re not *so* much, to me. Obviously, to other people, some of these fandoms are their very favorites!

There’s more or less stuff that I love in each fandom. Or, maybe, more accurately, if I think about the things that draw me to each - they mean more to me, or less.

I was fully immersed in Glee fandom for … almost four years. I’ve never had another experience like that, because for almost all of that time Glee was actively, um, happening to us ;). I joined in the middle of season three, I left the fall after season six ended - in part because I fell head over heels for Hamilton, but mostly just because. I’d spent almost four years reacting to the unfolding story (and spoilers for it etc.), writing fic and meta and so forth, having my enthusiasm refreshed every few months (at least) by injections of new canon. Of course half the time I was reacting against new canon info instead of in favor of it, lol, but in any case - I was kept interested! And so by five or six months after canon ended… I felt like I’d chewed it over enough. I still loved Glee, and I will always love Glee, but I’d had most of the thoughts I’ll ever have about it. I was ready to find something else to have new thoughts and fresh feelings about.

(I was in Hamilton fandom for about a year and my experience there ended because of the aftermath of a pile of pan-fandom-famous wank. Fuck Israa, I say, from the bottom of my heart. Although what got me to leave ultimately wasn’t the flames or dogpilers, but the fact that so much of the fandom at least passively agreed with and supported them, meaning that I never knew which of my fellow shippers I could try to befriend or interact with.) (And then, after Trump was elected, I became far less interested in writing any fic about any Founding Fathers than I was in 2015. Which was after I left the fandom, but not irrelevant to why I never went back.) (seriously tho, I will remember ‘i would hope that it is clear who i do and do not associate with’ 4ever.)

And then! I was obsessed with a fandom built out of a few strips out of a webcomic that I don’t even really like… on and off over four years!? Goddamn. When I needed something else cause I was frustrated with Hamilton, I fell into Check, Please! and Jack/Parse (<3 <3 <3), and, because (that segment of the) fandom was tiny, and (relevant to my interests) canon updates virtually nonexistent… I ran out of interest/excitement/engagement repeatedly, and took up - one after another - Hockey RPF, Yuri on Ice, Great Comet, and Good Omens - each for just two to six months, iirc. And then I boomeranged back to Jack/Parse.

(at some point I will finish the post in my drafts about why Jack/Parse had such a hold on me, ‘living in the wreckage of what you thought your life was going to be.’ But that is not this post.)

And THEN I fell in love the with The Untamed, (thanks, stulti! For turning me on to *two* of my all-time favorite fandoms), and it was just, like, amazing, for a while. I hadn’t loved a canon that much since Hamilton, which had been five or six years ago? Even though I’d been in a number of fandoms between the two. It was so nice to love something so very much!!! And I ended up kind of overdosing, I think, cause I was eating from the fandom buffet more-or-less indiscriminately… there were so many riches in that fandom! And so many that weren’t quite to my taste, lol, because there was (and is) SO MUCH STUFF in that canon for its fans to love. (there’s another post in my mental drafts about that.)

Anyway. My point is. I guess. That I hope to come back to The Untamed, sometime. I fully expect to come back to Nirvana In Fire. (It is, actually, so good? As a canon as well as a fandom.)

I don’t expect to come back to Check, Please! ever again, because, weirdly, I don’t think I need to. Of course my understanding of what it means to ~reconcile with one’s past~ etc. has changed in the last mumble-years, but more than that… I have Nirvana in Fire, now, to deal with almost the same issues. I don’t think I fully got the Extent of Mei Changsu’s (Lin Shu) identity issues until the end of the show? But in retrospect - now that I have -

Nirvana in Fire is a pretty perfect fandom/canon for coming back to with gaps between, lol. It’s small enough that I can read through all of my favorite AO3 tags and be left wanting more; it has enough of a strong but slowly-spreading appeal that new people do come and go between say, last summer when I consumed the canon for the first time, and this spring when I watched it again.

And maybe I won’t need to come back and back! Maybe a third watch will be enough for me to say the things in that I want to say. I certainly cannot guess ahead of time!

But - yeah. There are those fandoms I love ~forever,~ some of which I may not be done with…

And then there’s Word of Honor. Which I love right now. Even if it’s not as deep, or ~intense, or… whatever… as some of my other fandom loves; I still love it! Even if I can see ahead to six months from now when I bet I won’t, anymore. I still can’t believe that I spent the past hour-plus writing this post rather than dashing on to watch episode 30, which is what I was intending to do when I sat down.

It’s just - funny. That sort of double vision. How I know this fandom is Mx. Right Now, but that doesn’t make me squee any less.

[rainhadaenerys]

MY TAGS

These are the main tags used in this blog:

META TAGS

my meta -- tag for my metas

ask -- tag for asks that I’ve answered

posts I added -- posts I reblogged with some addition, like metas to which I added something

rambling -- less serious metas/ramblings

asoiaf meta -- metas for book canon, mostly about Daenerys (I don’t tag all of my metas as #asoiaf meta or #got meta, so if you’re looking for a specific post of mine, it’s better to look in the #my meta or #ask tags)

got meta -- metas for show canon, mostly about Daenerys

meta edit -- edits and fanvids with character analysis, parallels, and foreshadowing, both for books and show

asoiaf speculation -- speculation and theories about the future books

asoiaf criticism

daenerys defense squad -- posts defending Dany, but that I didn’t want to put in the asoiaf meta or got meta tags (mostly because the Dany defense tends to get a little repetitive, because antis repeat arguments all the time, so I don’t want to stuff the meta tags with it).

masterpost -- meta masterposts, but there might be masterposts for other things

crack meta - metas meant as satire of anti arguments, or joke metas not meant to be taken seriously

fandom meta - metas discussing the fandom

anti got rant -- rants criticizing Game of Thrones that I don’t put in the meta tags

fandom wank

my good queen -- posts about why Dany is a good queen

let dany live - reasons why Dany should survive

books vs show

Daenerys Meta Masterpost

INFORMATIVE TAGS

grrm - GRRM interviews

interview -- interviews related to Game of Thrones and ASOIAF

asoiaf quotes

got quotes

asoiaf resources

got resources

ART AND EDIT TAGS

my edit

daenerys targaryen art

jonerys art

daenerys targaryen edit

jonerys edit

asoiaf art -- tag for arts of other asoiaf characters that don’t include Dany

got art -- tag for arts of other characters that don’t include Dany, but for show canon

asoiafedit --  tag for edits of other asoiaf characters that don’t include Dany

gotedit --  tag for edits of other characters that don’t include Dany, but for show canon

anti got art -- tag for arts of Game of Thrones Season 8, especially concerning Dany’s death and her stupid villain turn, because I don’t want to sully my normal tag with this content. Also has art that criticizes the show.

anti got edit -- same thing as #anti got art, but for edits

jonerys baby -- arts and edits of Targlings

pregnant dany -- Dany pregnant (with #jonerys baby or #rhaego)

jonerys kiss -- tag only for gifs

jonerys smut -- tag only for arts

boatsex -- mostly boatsex gifsets, but there are some arts in there

otp: daenerys x throne

our savior - tag for Dany art and edits with religious imagery, because Dany is our savior

au - alternate universe

daenerys death tw -- arts and edits of Dany’s death in the show

crafts

sculpture

tattoo

graffiti

OTHER ASOIAF/GOT RELATED TAGS

got crack -- fun posts/memes about the show

asoiaf crack  -- fun posts/memes about the books

fanvid

fanfic

headcanons

music

cosplay

funkopop

toys

dany merch

avatar maker

FANGIRLING TAGS

my poor baby -- sad posts about Dany

love of my life -- I just love Dany so much. I don’t even know if there’s a criterion for the posts I put in this tag, but I thought it was relevant to put this here

daenerys appreciation -- tag for posts dedicated to appreciate how awesome and iconic Daenerys Targaryen is

jonerys appreciation --  tag for posts dedicated to appreciate how awesome and iconic Jonerys is

dragons are cats

OTHER TAGS

cats -- because I love cats and occasionally reblog cute and funny cat posts

random - tag for random posts not related to ASOIAF/GOT

art - art that isn't related to GOT/ASOIAF

edit - edits that aren't related to GOT/ASOIAF

meta - metas for other fandoms, or general metas about fandom

resources

I think those are my main tags. Other characters are tagged with their names.

[fleetofshippyships-archive]

Fanfic Author Meme

Tagged by @diligent-thunder and @rockmarina​ =)

Okay, so I’m me, and I talked way too much, so I’m putting this under a cut to save your dashes. You’re welcome 😘

Please do not reblog this post.

Author Name: 

Fleetofshippyships + Knowyourincantations + Legendaryroar

Fandoms You Write For: 

(in order of decreasing # of fics) Harry Potter, Voltron, Merlin, Yuri on Ice, Star Trek, Star Wars and then a few one-offs that aren’t really worth mentioning.

Where You Post: 

AO3 primarily, Tumblr, trying to post more on Pillowfort, I also post on a couple of sites for knowyourincantations

Most Popular One-Shot: 

Fleetofshippyships: Potter’s Insatiable Cock (Drarry, Explicit (duh XD), 20k (viewable only for logged-in AO3 users)).

Knowyourincantations: A Decent Start to Things (Pansmione, Teen, 7k)

Legendaryroar: Finding Time for Rest (Sheith (Voltron), Teen, 3k)

Most Popular Multi-Chapter Story: 

RestraintNone of my old multi-chapter fics are available to read at this time and I don’t really write multi-chapter fics anymore.

If oneshot/drabble collections or two-shots count, then:

Fleetofshippyships: Vanilla and Sweet Spices (Drarry, Explicit, 2 chapters, 20k)

and this really doesn’t count, but technically it has multiple ‘chapters’ soooooooooo

Legendaryroar: Kinktober 2018 (Multiple ships (Voltron), Explicit (duh), 31 ‘chapters’, 26k)

Favourite Story You Wrote: 

I don’t think I ever have a static favourite, I’ve just written too many things, I too quickly move on to the next (and frequently forget some of my own fics exist XD), but recently I re-read In Pursuit of Red Wine (Dreville, Teen, 29k) and really enjoyed that again, and I am really attached to it cos it was my first longish rarepair fic, kind of proving to myself that I can write longer rarepair stuff. 

I also recently re-read Unburdened (Merthur (BBC Merlin), Explicit, 2k) and really enjoyed that too, had a total disconnect from having written it since it’s been so long, so I was able to read it without self-judging, and oh boy that was nice. 

I’m also quite proud of Healing What’s Left (Parkgrass, Teen, 2k) for some reason, I dunno, maybe the dark political backdrop of the fic, or maybe just cos it’s the first time I’ve written Daphne as the main character and I’m happy with the result and now have some headcanons about her rather than her being an unknown blank character to me. 

I also binge read a lot of my Voltron stuff recently and had big feels over that so....I also specifically enjoyed re-reading The Perks of Skincare (Klance (Voltron), Explicit, 3k) again cos I dunno, I like how I wrote Lance XD and also the Sheith fic I linked earlier is a fav for sure. Shiro/Rest is the ultimate OTP.

It really depends how soon after I write something or when I go back to re-read it as to what my fav is at any given time (or people commenting on it and hyping me up for it again).

Story You Were Nervous to Post: 

Everything. But most recently I was terrified out of my mind before posting: 

Friday Night by the Fire (Harry/Neville, Teen, 583 words) because I have a lot of fears about screwing up trying to write ace characters and somehow not even making that a focal point of the drabble made it even more terrifying,  No More Waiting (TianShan (19 Days), Teen, 2k) because it was a new fandom to write in, Harry Potter and the Maudlin Merman series (Drarry, Teen+ Mature, 3k +6k) due to my feelings of inadequacy because it would be better as long fic but I struggle too much with writing these days to write long fics and can only manage short things. I’d rather write this as a long fic, but then I’d never finish it so connected oneshots are the best I can do right now, but I still feel it’s not good enough and have a meltdown whenever I post one. And speaking of which, I’ve been sitting on the next one for months and should probably just fucking post it already.

Actually, most recently: Minding One’s Limits (Cho/Ginny, G rated, 1.5k), because I gave Cho a disability modeled off my fibromyalgia and wrote a scenario similar to something I’d dealt with myself, it was incredibly uncomfortable to write in the first place, and then terrifying to post, even though it’s so short. But in the end I’m proud I finally wrote about it a bit? I dunno, might take me a while to work up the nerve again though XD (also was my first time writing that ship, so there was a lot of nervousness over that too)

Oh, and I was a super ball of anxiety posting  Kinktober 2018 (Multiple ships, Explicit, 31 ‘chapters’, 26k) because for almost all of those it was the first time I was writing those kinks (and some were kind of squicks for me but I wanted to see if I could write them anyway cos I’m dumb like that) and in a lot of cases those ships were completely new for me to write too, in addition to trying to write and post 1 a day, so...yeah. Also that was my first time writing tentacle and human/werewolf smut so...yeah. I was an absolute mess that month and not in a fun way. But I’m still really glad I did it, it was fun =D

In summary, I’m always an anxious mess posting anything, but most especially if it’s something I’ve not written before or is personal to me XD

How Do You Choose Your Titles: 

Most of the time I’m staring down the empty title field in AO3 cursing like a fucking sailor when I choose titles XD Sometimes it’s a line/theme/feeling from the fic. Sometimes it’s totally random and just comes to me. Sometimes I just grasp the first thing that I can no matter how stupid it sounds cos it’s been three days and I still don’t have a title and I’m over it and ready to post before I lose my nerve.

And tbh, it’s only getting harder to think of titles as my number of fics increases, and I’ve now started thinking of the perfect titles only to realise I already have a published fic by that title so....TITLES CAN DIE A FIERY DEATH

Sometimes, not so much anymore, it would turn out that I would give a wip doc a name just so I’d know what it was, sometimes as a joke with whoever was reading it and cheerleading while I wrote it, and then I would refer to it by that and think of it as that so much that when it came time to actually give the fic a title, it was too late and I could not think past that stupid file name, and that’s how Potter’s Insatiable Cock happened, and how I very nearly called a Merthur fic Arthur’s Wanking Tower (saved that one at the last moment thank god cos the tone of that fic is actually really serious and emotional and wtf was I even thinking with that file name and actually I linked to that fic above XD it ended up being called Unburdened). 

Potter’s Insatiable Cock slipped through cos it’s actually relevant to the fic content and I could live with it.

But needless to say, I don’t give my wip docs joke names anymore XD

Do You Outline: 

Only if I never want to actually write the idea...once I outline, it’s over. I can’t write to a detailed plan. It stifles me. I’ll always get stuck having to try and think ahead to the plan, and then I lose the flow and nothing works because I’m a pantser/intuitive/instinctive writer not a planner. Sometimes I jot down ideas but in like, the vaguest of ways, usually more focused on emotional development than actual scenes or events or anything because then I won’t be able to write it (and I rarely stick to those vague ideas anyway). 

I can really only write when I’m staring down a blank doc with no idea where it’s going and discover it as I go (which is why writing is so fun for me). I can only finish a fic if I don’t think too hard about what’s going to happen next and just let it happen as I write. 

This of course means that editing is a fucking bitch when I finish anything, beginnings often get totally re-written, but if I plan, it just doesn't happen at all, so I’ll take the extra editing if it means I manage to write something.

I do have a lot of detailed plotty fic idea outlines...and I mourn them cos I’m never going to write them now, but they’re so goooooooooood XD

Complete: 

Online (across all 3 accounts): 381 (incl. my hidden drarry fics as they are technically online just hidden, not incl. individual oneshots/drabbles in collection ‘fics’, of which there are ridiculously many). Offline: 20 (I have the worst habit of just sitting on completed fics and I really need to stop)

In-Progress: 

Too many to name, last time I counted it was ~60 but that wasn’t even including my vld wips so...I don’t actually know. I hoard wips and just switch up what I work on all the time depending on mood/interest levels/effort required. 

Current main focuses are a 50k+ plotty Drarry (*fingerscrossed* cos this is my first time seriously attempting something long (will probably reach 80k at least) in a very long time and I put it down for a few months and thought that was it but then I picked it up again recently, yay!), and re-writing some hidden fics I can’t put them back up in the quality they’re in, I just can’t guys, they’re awful.

I’ve been thinking a lot about working on the longish 8th year Pansmione fic I started for the wlw big bang before I had to pull out of cos stupid life stuff. I might pick that up again for a bit too, couldn’t be more different from the Drarry one so it’d make a nice focus break =)

Coming Soon/Not Yet Started: 

I don’t even plan fics I’m writing, I sure don’t plan ahead to stuff I haven’t even started XD The only think I can think of for this category would be me re-writing my hidden long Drarry fics.

Oh, and there will be a Merthur oneshot coming (hopefully) soon, because @april-thelightfury115​ won my custom fic giveaway with a merthur idea. Just waiting for my brain to cooperate so I can start that and not suck XD but I’m so fucking excited to write some Merthur again, you have no idea.

Oh, and lots more Sapphic September drabbles coming too, I’m way behind and only just posted day 11 cos this month is literal hell for me, but I am still planning on finishing the prompt list, no matter how long it takes, but no plan for those, not even which ships, I just sit down with the next prompt and a blank doc and see what happens.

Do You Accept Prompts: 

Yes, I love writing to prompts, I’m take them via google form here, but I’m in such a bad space with my health I’ve been really struggling with writing lately, managed to do a bit of editing (fuck knows how), but writing new stuff is so hard, so there’s a long wait while I wait for my fibro fog to ease off to the point I can write new stuff with more regularity (and less stupid errors I have to edit out later).

Upcoming Story You Are Most Excited to Write: 

Again, I so don’t plan. But I really want to be making more progress on the long plotty drarry wip I’m trying to write. I’m still not sure I’ll have the guts to post it even if I do finish it, given its subject matter (it would make a great careers or consent fest fic tbh), but damn I’m really excited by it. Not sure I can maintain it being plotty and not revert to focusing on the relationship (which is easier for me), but I can only try and see what happens. (trying to write a non-relationship plot without planning is a nightmare but I don’t have a choice if I want to write it at all XD)

I’m also now excited for my longish pansmione wip too actually, just because it’s already longer than my Dreville long-ish fic and it’s exciting and scary to do longer rarepair stuff. I’m way out of my comfort zone with the fic itself, but I dunno, I re-read some recently and fell in love with it all over again, like, flustered lesbian-awakening, disaster for Pansy (but sure she still hates her) Hermione? YES PLEASE! and also, I am guilty of not writing female characters as much as I should because, well, canonically, they don’t have much depth and I’m very meh about them, but in this there’s a huge focus on them because they’re all determined to band together for 8th year and Hermione is making friends with them (Parvati is like, dragging her along all the time XD) where she once dismissed them so it’s scary but exciting =D I’m getting more practice with all the sapphic I do over on knowyourincantations, so I feel more confident working on this wip now =D

I’m also kind of excited about re-writing my old long fics, because they’re all 3 years old now, and my writing tastes (and skill, yikes) have totally changed, so it’s like I’m writing the story again but how I would write it now while maintaining the overall same plot, so it’s really interesting, like discovering the story all over again. Like in one (Making Malfoy Blush) I’ve gone as far as introducing a new side character to replace another’s parts because I no longer feel those parts are in character for them. It’s super terrifying, but it’s fun at the same time =) it’ll take me forever to do these though, so I dunno about ‘upcoming’ really, I only chip away every now and then when I’m unable to write new stuff but am still coherent enough to do something.

Eh, it is what it is, I can’t write like I used to, hence me being inactive more than active these days, but I’m trying to work within my new limitations instead of getting frustrated with them and just giving up entirely =)

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Now, who to tag....I think anyone I would tag has already done it, and if not..I blame the fog if I’m forgetting someone obvious, if you wanna do it just say I tagged you so I can be nosy and take a look =)

Again, please do not reblog this post

[emperorren]

so antis are saying that reylos want more rose and finnrose because we’re trying to promote reylo? and ofc they end up doing what they’re accusing reylos of doing by making the promotion of finn all about reylo, saying that reylos didn’t participate in the finn tag because we’re racists. never mind that whenever reylos try to engage in any mainstream finn appreciation we’re harassed and gatekept by antis. how is promoting a character unrelated to reylo somehow proof we only care about reylo?

idk but this is why i have such a low opinion of antis. they’re hypocrites. at the end of the day they only care about their ship wank and nothing else, even though they like to pretend their the ones with superior morals and investment in politics. In truth, they’re so tunnel-visioned in their effort to make us the villains of the sw fandom that they can’t recognize that in certain circumstances our support could be an asset. An asset to create more Finn and Finn/Rey content, an asset to champion the importance of giving characters of color the relevance they deserve in the promotion. But no. The first thing that comes to their mind is undermining the genuinity of our campaign. 

Though, should that surprise anyone, considering how they treated Rose in the first place?

[kattahj]

Concerning those AO3 posts, you could ask, "Katta, almost all of your stuff is teen rated. You're basically a gen girl at heart. None of it is wank material and very little is even disturbing. Why do you care what happens to those gross fics?"

And the answer would be: BECAUSE almost all my stuff is teen rated, and I'm basically a gen girl at heart, and I STILL had trouble with archives before AO3.

Some years ago, fanfiction.net famously all of a sudden decided that it wouldn't host any sexually explicit fic anymore. It less famously also decided that certain formats of fics weren't allowed, such as fics in script format, because reasons.

Also, it wouldn't allow any fic written for fandoms whose authors didn't approve of fic. That means no Anne Rice, no George RR Martin, no Diana Gabaldon, etc. And if we're talking about the immorality of various fics, let's remember for a moment that Diana Gabaldon claimed that writing any fic at all about her characters was like selling her children into white slavery. (She specified white slavery, because she's classy like that. /sarcasm)

Then there were the smaller, fandom-specific archives.

In one of my earliest online fandoms, out of dozens of sites, only one permitted slash of any kind. One other permitted R-rated het. I had to haggle with the archivist at the archive where I usually posted, to be allowed a sex scene in my plotty romance fic. She only allowed it because I made about five different arguments about why it was relevant to the plot. 

Another fandom only allowed G-rated fic. At all.

in yet another fandom, when I asked for a fic of mine to be hosted on a character-specific site, I got a note back saying that they'd only allow it in if I changed it so the character was no longer in an open relationship, but instead in a monogamous one. (To make it more bizarre, the character was Faith Lehane.) I declined.

I had people tell me I needed to "warn" for lesbians in a story with only female characters, marked romance, and rated mature, because clearly those weren't obvious enough signs that there would be lesbians.

due South had separate archives for people who preferred RayV, RayK, or "swung both Rays". (I escaped most of that drama because I had a Diefenbaker archive, and people generally could agree on liking Diefenbaker.)

Plus, of course, archives were just up for as long as archivists wanted them to be up anyway. Server space costs money. After a while, they might decide that they wouldn't bother, and take it all down. (Not to mention that Geocities shutting down meant a whole lot of sites disappeared - but that was after AO3 had already been created.)

And then there was Livejournal, which seemed like it didn't give a shit what fans were doing in the various communities (much like tumblr) until it suddenly closed down a bunch of journals based on buzzwords like "rape" in the interests, and accidentally got some survivor and fannish communities/journals in the sweep.

I wasn't affected by strikethrough personally. Most of the people I knew weren't. Thing is, we didn't look at that and go, "Ah, well, it's just those porny pervs, the innocents will get their journals back." (Which, by and large, they did.) Instead, we thought, "Here we go again."

It was THAT sense of fatigue that led to AO3 becoming the huge archive it is. Not just a sanctuary for the fic that had been blocked from LJ, but for any ficcer at all who was tired of the whims of archivists deciding which fic could stay online.

AO3 has all fandoms, all ratings, it's easy to search, you can filter out content you don't want to see, AND it's run as a nonprofit by fans for fans. That's not something we had before, and it's not something we can take for granted.

The AO3 staff will remove stuff that's downright illegal (according to US law), but it's true, they won't remove legal stuff for being immoral (as long as it's adequately tagged). And here's why: Everyone has different ideas of what constitutes immoral. Shit, the discourse in any fandom at all will tell you that, what with all the "your ship is Bad and Wrong/no, YOUR ship is Bad and Wrong!" going on. And that's not even going into different countries, religious communities and so on.

(Heck, where I come from it's legal not just to write about two 15-year-old first cousins having sex, but for real-life 15-year-old first cousins to actually DO it.)

AO3 offers no stamp of approval on the millions of fics on its site. There are probably fics on there which the board members disapprove of, just like there are fics that you disapprove of. But if those aren't the same fics, you'll still be able to find the stuff YOU think is okay, even if it's not what the board thinks is okay. And that's something to cherish.

None of that means you can't criticize specific fics, or fic tropes. Of course you can, and you should. (As long as you acknowledge that your opinion is yours alone and doesn't define the content of the archive. If you can persuade someone to write differently, great. If not, tough titties.)

As for actual abusers using fic to lure kids in, report them to everyone you can think of, because those people need to be in jail. But that's NOT the same thing as reporting every fic with a subject matter you find squicky.

[perfectackeracy]

I feel like reiner really is over annie's and bertholdt's dead already. He always thinks about the hanged man and he even begged for forgiveness the guy who killed his apparently best friend. It also seems like reiner helping eren up/eren helping eren up is ultimately more important parallel and has more relevance than bertholdts in 94. Poor bertholdt could've really just died for nothing because reiner never thought much of him , i think isayama is even going to make armin and reiner team up

sigh

@impossiblystrangepanda

When are you going to stop plaguing Bert’s tags and warrior blogs with your bullshit exactly? There’s a reason why you figure on several blocklists, mine included (which is honestly an honor, since you have to reach an extra tier of ultimate annoyance for that).

Listen. We all got it. You hate Bertolt. His existence pisses you off so much you need to splort out whatever delusions you have in mind and tag your posts with every possible spelling of Bert’s name, so people would see it. All you’re doing is making the Armin subfandom look worse than it already looks and doesn’t help in the slightest. If your intention is to piss everybody off, you’re succeeding since so far, the only support you’re getting is your fellow Arminsharts who need to feel triggered everytime they see a post not in favor of their precious coconut.

Doesn’t help you’re an incoherent mess who tries hard to force your AU where everything is the same but Bertolt doesn’t exist (protip: you can’t), with the form of your posts being nothing more than a massive paragraph without spaces and dots, full of grammar mistakes and you copypasting the same expressions over and over to sound ~intellectual~. But eh, you fail at basic English so having a deficient reading comprehension is on par. 

Seriously. I don’t understand the need for Arminsharts like you to rub how great their fav is in everybody’s faces. It’s almost as if you acknowledge that deep down, he’s not as interesting as you think, that we’re all mean bullies beating nerds when we point out something obvious like Armin being not fit to be a CT, and that you need to show off how Isayama “is getting really excited” to show his arc when, let’s face it, Armin only made cameos since the Marley arc started. 

But hey, last time I checked, fandom prefers dead characters to ~promising ones~. Erwin ranked 1st, Bert ranked 6th, heated wank in the forms... Japanese fandom was beyond pissed after 84. Fact.

And as if it wasn’t enough, despite blocking your IP several times, you keep coming back in my askbox coming for more. I’m communicating several times that I want nothing to do with you and you keep coming in my inbox over and over. That’s called harassment, kid. Shows how desperate you are for attention, when in fact you cut your own tendons over and over. Why don’t you go post your shit on SnK’s subreddit instead? The IQ, reaching and the obvious stanning are on par with yours. You belong there.

Don’t ever message me again.