☆ Star Charter ☆

It’s done! I have concluded the thing™️! Which I can now say was an animatic! I, severely underestimated how long it’d take to export so now it is once again not on time for the anniversary but whatever. It’s up. That’s what’s important

@luckystarchild @luckychild

I AM SCREAMING, CRYING, FREAKING OUT, OMFG YOU BEAUTIFUL CREATURE YOU

I'm sitting in the bathroom at a Christmas function while watching this and grinning and freaking out over my phone. I can't do a full review at this exact moment in time but please know this is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life. I'm in shock. I'm just floored.

I don't know how to go back to the Christmas party and act like a functional human being. I never in my life thought I'd see LC portrayed like this? This is so f****** cool. And that song is so perfect, and your drawings are so perfect, and the pacing is so perfect, and getting to relive all of those moments from the story has made me miss the story like you wouldn't believe.

I've had to take a break from it because I'm so burnt out with work, but let me tell you this just lit a fire under me in a way I can't describe. Thank you for this. Thank you for your time, thank you for your effort, thank you for your beautiful mind and hard work. I can't imagine the effort this took. You are fantastic and beautiful and you made the otherwise not so great 2022 I've had into something magical.

Lord, I'm at a loss for words. Thank you so much. That's all I know how to say at this moment in time as I whisper my reaction into my phone and let speech to text make me sound like a more put together human being than I actually am right now. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK.

How the hell am I supposed to go back to the Christmas party when I feel like this?!?!? I'm going to have this big old grin on my face the whole time and no one is going to understand why 🤣💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

Yoko my beloved...

Shit like the Great Purges and the Strikethrough of Livejournal eventually led to fans banding together to create A03, which I would have absolutely KILLED for when I was 15.

Back up ao3 was created by fans?

It’s…right on the main page. 

I love this because I will bet you that persefv has read that bit we are all so inundated with hyperbole and advertising that says that the consumer is somehow in charge of whatever product they are shilling that we all just assumed this was another sales tactic.

But we’re not even… selling anything…  *quiet sobs*

No ads. No subscriptions. No data selling.

We are the definition of “what it says on the tin.”

Is there any way to spread this info? 

THE OTW WAS CREATED BY FANS SO WE’D HAVE AN ARCHIVE THAT WASN’T SUBJECT TO CORPORATE REVIEW. 

Nonprofit, so that nobody could ever say, “this isn’t making enough money; it’s getting shut down.” (See: Geocities, Quizilla, Figment, G+.) With lawyers involved and a firm awareness of the legalities of fanfic, so nobody would decide “we’ve gotten a nasty letter from a megacorporation with lawyers, so we’re hiding because we can’t afford to face a lawsuit. (Jedi Hurtaholics, Trevizo’s Millennium site.) With teams, so that an argument between co-mods didn’t result in the destruction of a whole archive. (Gryffindor Tower, Detention.)

AO3 IS OUR SITE.

It is by fans, for fans. Fans do all the coding. All the legal paperwork. All the abuse/tos violation complaints. Fans make all the choices about policies. Fans decide how to run the fundraisers. Fans write the blog posts. All the volunteer staff are fans; all the people who train them are fans. Fans wrangle all the tags. 

(And the other OTW projects, too. Fans manage the entries at Fanlore. Fans run the Open Doors project. Fans publish Transformative Works and Cultures.)

EVERYONE WORKING FOR THE OTW LOVES FANDOM. Wants it to survive. Wants it to be awesome for everyone.

(Knows that it can’t be awesome for everyone; some approaches to fandom just clash hard. But they strive to minimize those clashes as much as possible, because they love fandom.) 

AO3 is not some company that decided, “we’ll make a site for fanfic and then…” I don’t know what people are thinking is the reason. Money? Data harvesting? Tax shelter? Amusement and pity?

Nope; AO3 was fans saying, “Livejournal sucks; we’re tired of this fucked-up ‘rebuild every three years’ garbage; WE NEED TO OWN THE DAMN SERVERS.”

That’s the “of our own” part of the name. OTW isn’t a “them” running the site “for us.” It’s “us” making places for “us” to share what we love with others of “us.” 

This this this.

I was there for all of that shit, and AO3 is a godsend. If you enjoy or create fanworks, support AO3, donate if you can, and remember why it’s there in the first place!!

Fandom history really does get lost quickly. For current 20-something fans, AO3 has always been there.

@thisweekinfandomhistory , y’all recorded a couple, episodes about these purges, didn’t you?

Yep!

And we haven’t even gotten to the del.icio.us purge that cost us thousands of curated rec lists… Sigh.

an interesting take on this from matt braly, creator of amphibia

Imagine being a business that has managed to get THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE, and you've managed to make it so this is a bad thing.

You did it. That's late stage capitalism in one sentence.

These people are making as much money as is possible to make and it's still not enough for them.

It's not enough to hire more people.

It's not enough money for them to treat their employees like human beings.

It's not enough money for them to stop overcharging customers.

It's not enough money for them to stop using CGI sweatshops.

It's not enough money to satisfy them or their shareholders.

They're making as much money as possible but it's not enough.

It's called late-stage capitalism for a reason. This is the part where people realize how extensive our exploitation is and reckon it with how people like execs and CEOs have no intention of cutting us a break.

I’m so tired of every show that takes place in the past (wild west, medieval, pirates etc) ALWAYS having so much sexual violence towards women like writers can cry “oh it’s realism” all you want but it’s very transparent how realism only applies when you want to hurt women on screen. If we’re talking staying realistic, why doesn’t everyone have brown teeth? Or bad skin? Or dying of dysentery? Just admit y'all want an excuse to brutalize women on screen lol

This pisses me off so much. A lot of the time if you mention realism would also involve women having unshaved legs or pits, or bushy eyebrows, or syphilis, the answer is often “well that’s gross, no one wants to read about/see that” and like…. If you think that women being ugly is grotesque, but brutal depictions of rape aren’t, then I don’t really know what to say to you other than stay the fuck away from me.

To add to this: The pirate captains had personal codes (rules) about what was allowed on the ship, and some of them were very clear on the subject of sexual violence

“ IX. If at any time you meet with a prudent Woman, that Man that offers to meddle with her, without her Consent, shall suffer present Death. “ -From the code of Captain John Phillips

“ 9th: If any p[er]son or p[er]sons shall go on board of a Prize and meet with any Gentlewoman or Lady of Honour and should force them against their will to lie with them shall suffer death. “ -From the code of the company of Thomas Anstis

Or in other words, sexual violence against women was recognised as a crime punishable by death on actual pirate ships, don’t let anybody tell you it’s necessary for “realism” when the pirates themselves recognised how absolutely despicable it was.

I will always reblog

Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

I do like characters who do not exhibit any hint of sexuality in any way because they’re too busy being tormented by the narrative. like “yea I might be gay or whatever but the labyrinth is growing so I can’t worry about that shit rn”

DECADES IN ANIME: 1990s