#work liveblog

[aesrot]

students really be out there thinking teachers/professors wont know when they use ai for their assignments and essays -.-

[poptartmochi]

online store era...2!

[bug-s0da]

blehhh...

i made an aa/lawyersona of @snapscube :3 we all know and love the lawyer+silly girl duos of ace attorney but it's about time the silly girl became the lawyer

[stjohnstarling]

Alright, so: I want to explain a little more about this connection between the Twilight fandom, Fifty Shades of Grey, and seemingly, the self-publishing industry as a whole. It's a lot, so I'm going to have to chip away at it a bit at a time, and I think the best place to start is by describing the scene in late 2000s Twilight fandom.

In 2009, Twilight was one of the biggest fandoms in the world, although it was nearly invisible to outsiders because it

Was about a straight couple, while most other fandoms were predominantly gay, and

Was conducted almost entirely on fanfiction.net among a group of people who had little other background in fandom. (x)

That meant for many Twilight fans, Twilight was fandom. It was all they knew, and many had no path out. That also made it a corked champagne bottle with the pressure building.

Because of these community dynamics and the declining quality of the Twilight books themselves, Twilight fanfiction evolved to be mostly AUs so alternate they were more-or-less original romance novels that used Bella and Edward as broad character templates. (x)

Seriously, Twilight fandom got really crazy big for a few years there. It was not totally uncommon to get multi-million clicks on a semi-popular story. It's weird looking back on it and calling it "Twilight fandom" because it was really more like "Romance Novel fandom". For real, for a period there, calling a Twilight fanfic author a 'Twilight fan' would be the ultimate insult. But they never stopped writing about Edward and Bella! It's so weird. (x)

If you were in 2000s era fandom, you're probably aware of the phenomenon of Big Name Fans and the various social-climbing dynamics that happened around them. The Twilight fandom took this social power game another level:

This wasn't even just an author thing. There were Big Name Authors (BNAs) but there were also Big Name Readers. These were basically like... full-time rabid fans of a BNA. They devoted so much of their time to helping out the BNAs, reviewing their chapters, making them fanart, promoting their fics, kissing their asses with cringe-worthy intensity, you name it. Which is why you saw what looked like BNAs having 'employees', such as Moi, tby789's Director of Marketing. (x)

It became apparent that these power games weren't just for fandom clout. The fandom was proving that that social power could be translated into real-world dollars. You see, the Twilight fandom used to organize charity auctions where big name authors would auction off custom fanfiction, and the money generated was substantial:

Mostly authors would auction off stories. So if you donated in my name, I'd write you 10,000 words of porn in my Tattward universe, or something new, etc. That's how it worked. The 2009 auction raised $80,000. The 2010 auction raised $140,000. The 2011 auction raised $20,00. [NOTE: this is likely a typo] (x)

A lot of these dynamics were not unique to the Twilight fandom, but it was the combination that created a perfect storm of opportunism. This would end up changing not just fandom dynamics but the publishing industry as a whole.

[cuntyqueerleondraisaitl]

Loki: If I don't make it back I--

*disappears*

Mobius: he'll make it back

THATS GAY. THATS GAY. I'M SORRY THERE'S NO DENYING IT.

AND THE RAINBOW GLARE IN THE CORNER. THERE WAS A RAINBOW GLARE IN THE CORNER

ME HAVING STERK?

[apollos-boyfriend]

hearing that tubbo wants to become a spy to find out more about the federation is so funny. yeah because espionage has historically gone great for you king

[blennie]

looks at your little orange ass. you are a towhee (californian)

[housedyke]

Live from the editing mines

(Before/After)

[kadextra]

LETS GOOO MORE ACCESSIBILITY IN MY QSMP

A chatter in Bad’s stream expressed difficulties reading some egg signs, like pomme’s red one, so he immediately went to see how he could customize the qsmp texture pack and boost contrast. with some help by richas’ artistic abilities, pomme’s signs are now a gorgeous deep wine red color (like a true french) and personalized with pixel art leaves/vines :D

Bad and Ricardão are planning to work together and make accessible + personalized sign textures for every egg, and provide it to the qsmp team to officially implement in the game!!! 🫶 here’s their brainstorming:

an additional message from Ricardão:

[tawaifeddiediaz]

me convincing my boss that it's a 2-person job

[sparring-spirals]

aabria, tearfully: i didnt kill as many of you as i thought i would. and that's a skill issue.

[luminousstardust]

dorian giving orym literally ALL of his money so he can buy pretty armor that reminds him of the ashari and then proceeding to say “i like to see you happy - ALL of you happy” and slipping in all of bells hells at the end is peak i’m-in-love-with-my-best-friend-but-don’t-want-to-fuck-it-up energy

[luckthebard]

Every time I’ve seen some entitled guy on Twitter this morning complain “maybe you should check in on what your FANS want” or say “glad to see the death of CR in real time, you’re shitting on your fans!” I grow more happy with CR for daring to be bold and do something unexpected and hope they are more quietly hostile to those fans and their entitlement, tbh.

[mmyashas]

they have added only one creator because the new dynamic for korean members is really different– its going to be treated w/ attention because it's the first time a creator that has a totally different alphabet joins the qsmp!

[theminecraftbee]

-slamming bolt upright in a cold sweat- what do you mean verbal contracts cleo. what do you MEAN verbal contracts cleo. artists if you're doing commercial work you're A) charging much higher rates and B) making them SIGN A CONTRACT, right? right? you understand why that's VITAL, right? why having a written contract is VITAL for commercial work? you understand? you make them sign a written contract? please if you go looking in proper artist/graphic design circles i'm sure you can find a basic form that's legal in your locality and doesn't require you talk to a lawyer but if you're doing commercial work you're MAKING THEM SIGN A CONTRACT RIGHT--

[phatcatphergus]

No but it actually makes me cry to think about Tubbo scrounging for money and doing every job he can and working until his hands are raw to save up money to the point that he limits teleporting because it costs money but he bought two expensive masks to match his daughter and then bought another for a kid that isn’t even his own so that he feels included and safe without his dad.