#dirty minds worldwide

Beloved mutuals, we gather here today-

Thesis: the rise of fanwank and anti culture correlates directly with diminished understanding of what “romantic”, in a literary sense, actually means.

It doesn’t mean “this is ideal or healthy or even realistic”. It means “this is beautiful, this is tragic, this is grotesque, this stirs emotion”, even if it’s not, as @starryroom puts it, something you would be comfortable seeing play out in front of you at Taco Bell. It’s about grandiosity and mythology and heroism writ large. It’s about playing with the id, as beautiful and terrible as it can be. 

LET LOVE AND LUST BE MONSTROUS.

i feel like Guillermo del Toro ghostwrote that

“I didn’t say I liked it. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”

- Oscar Wilde 

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.” 

MANSUANG (2023)

The ​Heart Killers | GMMTV 2024

CHANGE2561 ORIGINAL “CHANGING” PROJECTS LINEUP 2024

I’m The Most Beautiful Count

Trailer

Short breakdown of Change2561's QL lineup for 2024:

5 queer shows, 1 het show, so it might as well be a queer lineup

This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans: sailubpon and benzgarfield in a fun kitchen bl

Affair: GL!!!!!!!! stunning girls, spicy and angsty

I'm The Most Beautiful Count: Nut Supanut as a kathoey celebrity who gets thrown into past Thailand. red heels, glitter, actual queer femme lead. a period drama where Nut gets to act like his fabulous self and has 3 hot men lined up for him, seems like Ping will be the endgame for him. this one is for peteway enthusiasts and Nut's girlies

Goddess Bless You From Death: crime and mystical gory horror bl with pavelpooh, a gift for fans of NBC Hannibal

Pit Babe S2: get your candles we are manifesting a baby in that man's magical womb (but other than that it seems Tony and Way are alive)

no offense but some of y'all should really consume more weird media ok some of y'all are ready to clutch your pearls at the mere sight of the slightest offbeat concept in speculative fiction and this can't go on

A lot of you have no ability to actually critique anything so you just point to things and go, "It's weird! It should be normal! But it's not! It's weird!" and then expect everyone else to clutch their pearls alongside you. Why would you want to live your life like this when you could be having fun ingesting weird media? Why would you actively strive to be boring as hell? Why would you want to be the Nostalgia Critic, frozen in the same age and outfit, eternally screaming, "this is weird! were they on drugs when they made this?! were they high?! this is soooo weird! aaaah!" for your entire adult life?

bad influence

Mo Guan Shan’s smile. That’s it. That’s the post.

The sweetest hualian art ❤️✨️ Stoat Xie Lian is so happy in Hua Cheng's arms and Hua Cheng fox kisses Xie Lian on the cheek 💕

The Prettiest Boys in BL: PT 3

Earth Katsamonnat

James Su

Nunew Chawarin

Noeul Nuttarat

Peat Wasuthorn

a sleepover situation with Peem's gang.

We Are (2024) | Ep.01

15 Day BL Challenge 2K24

The full challenge can be found here.

Day 9: Most Visually Pleasing Love Scene

Let's get into the colored love scenes. The ones completely bathed in a singular color to evoke a certain emotion fueling the love scene. IDK what the colors mean 98% of the time but I know the color was a deliberate choice.

The Green Bathroom Scene in KinnPorsche. The way I was OBSESSED with this scene. I could watch it for 10 hrs straight and scream and squeal like it's the first time.

The Blue Scene in For Him the Series. Between the blue lighting and Nail allowing Him to undress him completely (jewelry included) I was GAGGED. It was such an eye grabbing scene.

The Pink Scene in the Sign. What can I say about this fucking scene other than PERFECTION!? I liked that we got two love scenes wrapped in one bright neon pink bow, but specifically when they move to the bed and Phaya is PLASTERED again Tharn's back?? The silent consent?? Tharn biting his thumb as Phaya entered him?? *Chef's Kiss*

But also...any type of lifting in a love scene??? Idk man it tickles my brain and I LOVE to see it! Specifically Tharn lifting Type in the shower in TharnType s2. Honestly...Tharn lifted Type's big ass quite frequently.

Oh also that one love scene of Charlie railing Babe against the locker room mirror. I enjoyed every scene of Babe getting railed though.

And the Daddy Couch Scene in Love in the Air. Like that was a treat for me. I prayed for it and was gifted. It was for me.