Magic in your fingertips, poison in your tongue

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I've talked about how much I long for more fandom meta to be archived on ao3 for both preservation's sake and easier access, but a specific kind I'm always ravenous for is translation analysis.

Yes, tell me more about the cultural connotations of this word, tell me about this pun or double meaning that didn't fully translate, tell me where the English translation took liberties. Can't get enough of it.

I’d also add that cultural analysis during the time it’s happening is different to analysis done in the future, so timeliness changes our understanding of it. Meta analysis of fandoms and fandom in general is important to document too. And as someone fairly new to fandom I find it fascinating:)

I was looking for something completely unrelated when I came across a holy tag on AO3 with a multitude of resources. Behold:

Fanwork Research & Reference Guides

Adding a few more tags to filter like Language, Linguistics, Translations, Meta, Essays and you can find some really interesting results! I love rummaging through tags. I've also found if you exclude tags like CSS, HTML, Work Skin from that result it will make it easier to filter for the meta and research. There's a lot of incredible formatting tips and guides with the Work Skin-related tags though so whatever you're looking for, filter accordingly! Here's just a few things I've found recently:

Meta: Linguistic Analysis of the Main Characters in The Old Guard by wingsdocx. ~9k. This is an analysis of the speech patterns of the main characters in The Old Guard. I’ve focused on syntax, although I’ve also looked at pragmatics and semantics, as well as sociolinguistics to a smaller extent.[....]

Ethuverazheise Reference Guide by Island_of_Reil. 20k. This is a list summarizing various worldbuilding aspects in both of Katherine Addison’s novels, one aspect per chapter[...]

50 Ways to Kill a Mermaid by SpinnerDolphin. 5k. A hopefully humorous guide to writing mermaids, by your friendly fannish neighbor who studied marine biology. WRITE MORE MERMS. AND PLEASE STOP PUTTING THEM IN BATHTUBS. <3

Representation of Deaf Characters and Sign Language use within Fanfiction by ResearchUnicorn. 12k. *This is a scientific paper - not a fic.* This paper looks into how D/deaf characters are portrayed in fanfiction, how sign language is portrayed in fanfiction, how this compares to mainstream medias, and lastly is an ode to fanfiction and what it can mean.

It's just an incredible bounty of fandom and fandom-specific resources! I plan on archiving my "how to find fanvids on tumblr/AO3" on under that tag since I can barely find my own tumblr post with my documentation. Remember: Fanwork Research & Reference Guides ! What else is buried in these pages of amazing resources? 😍

if you've never engaged with a creative art on a regular basis you need to understand that it requires concerted effort to get into "the groove" to make something and every second that it takes to get into that groove causes physical pain, but the only thing worse than doing it is not doing it.

Assume they have access to ikea furniture

“Is it okay if I draw fanart of your fanfic?👉🏼👈🏼”

My brother in Christ we shall have a spring wedding

in the google doc. straight up "writing it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. Nothing

this whole mutual thing is overhyped on this site. want to send me an ask off anon? do it. want to tag me in a post? do it. follower, mutual, or just random person who stumbled across my blog: I crave interaction and literally do not mind.

Here's the r/Wattpad master thread.

And a thread on r/FanFiction.

I haven't had time to dig into them yet.

Someone's moving to AO3 guide. I'll be interested to see what they say.

And you won't. That's not how purges work.

What happens is that they hit a lot of individual works, frequently ones that don't even violate the guidelines, while failing to catch tons of equivalent works. When authors complain, they'll get no response or a highly ambiguous and useless one about what the problem was.

Because Wattpad hides the actual totals of works and has no comprehensive index, you'll never know how much was quietly deleted.

I've explained this before in a post about TikTok purging omegaverse content and/or hiding it from searches:

NSFW content is profitable. It is even profitable to the platforms that claim to ban it.

When platform conduct purges, their goal is not to eradicate nsfw content. Their goal is instead to make an example of just enough nsfw creators and purge just enough nsfw content to maintain their public-facing image of wholesome family-friendly respectability, while continuing to profit off the remainder of the nsfw content.

They make sure the porn-banning rule in their TOS defines porn vaguely enough to allow them to delete any content they want at any time for any reason. It's not about creating a safe kid-friendly space. It's about looking good to their shareholders and wielding power over their userbases.

Yuup.

FINALLY my main account has been unshadowbanned and the relief at being able to send posts to people is undescribable 😭😭😭

anyway less known symptoms of shadowbanning:

regarding 1), check first in your blog settings if you have the internal/Tumblr search option activated. If the rest applies, and you haven't broken the TOS that you know of, contact support. NOTE that the shadowbanning can just happen for one blog and not the others (my main was affected but seemingly not the sideblogs.)

WHICH REMINDS ME, if during the past............ several months to half an year..................... you tried to contact me on ANY of my blogs (but especially my main @commandersya) it might have been affected by this, i was not ignoring you.

I actually don’t mind that “dead dove” has become conversational shorthand for “fics with heavy themes where you REALLY need to pay attention to the warnings”. such is the nature of language. what i do mind is when people tag their actual fics with dead dove and then give no indication of what they’re actually warning about. that is useless. that helps no one. that is completely against the spirit of the meme. i will not be reading that

When the tags say "bdsm" and "dead dove" it means that the bdsm is, like, super duper bdsm.

When the tags say "dead dove" with no other clarifying tags, it's like walking down a hallway and having someone shout "BE ALARMED" and then vanishing into thin air with no further details given. Be alarmed about what.

What do I look like, Burger King?

I write for my enjoyment. If you'd like to share in that, you're welcome. If not, please move on. This isn't school; nobody's going to flunk you for not reading things.

calm down please