Signless, gesturing at an empty field: 6EH9LD THE FIELDS IN WHICH I GR9W MY FUCKS, LAY THINE EYES UP9N IT AND TH9U SHALT SEE THAT IT IS 6ARREN
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Signless, gesturing at an empty field: 6EH9LD THE FIELDS IN WHICH I GR9W MY FUCKS, LAY THINE EYES UP9N IT AND TH9U SHALT SEE THAT IT IS 6ARREN
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ITS 4/13 !!!
HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY HOMESTUCK
Artists, there’s a scam going around on Twitter at the minute, and you never know, someone might try it over here.
This guy is messaging commissioning artists and attempting to gain access to their PayPal by pretending to need a code to pay the bill. Obviously we all know that’s bull, but if someone isn’t paying attention, is unfamiliar with PayPal commissions as a whole, or is just desperate enough for that commission money? They might fall for it. OP’s tweet here.
It’s just not how it works, I know it, you know it, the scammer knows it. But he’s gambling on the potential that someone (and that someone is mostly likely to be a young, new artist without much commission experience under their belt, let’s be honest) doesn’t know it. Let’s make sure everyone does. So if you’d be so kind, please boost the everliving hell out of this. Don’t let anyone fall prey to this shady, shady individual, either here or on twitter or anywhere else.
mallek doodle dump :p
A good boi
you can’t really spoil homestuck, because any plot revelations are utterly nonsensical to someone who hasn’t read it and the story doesn’t rely too much on dramatic reveal anyway. the only comprehensible spoiler is simply that despite all evidence to the contrary homestuck is good and enjoyable to read
caste party masterpost! It’s all one big party now!
all the homestuck and hiveswap trolls, minus beforans and ancestors, and plus the two canon fantrolls.
oh right, guess i forgot someone.
party of one.
oh hey, look at that
guess he’s not completely alone
now it’s a party!
happy 4/13 yall
the ancestors are such a strange thing to be invested in, but also it makes total sense.
the sort of people who are really interested in ancestors are probably, if you think about it, the sort of people who would read your sort of typical fantasy overthrow-the-king sort of series but the kicker is… the heroes lose? and that’s such a fascinating thing to think about because from a typical sort of story-telling perspective, it would be set up as the Next Generation saving the world, but that doesn’t… really happen. not in a way that would be satisfying from an outside perspective because really, the world that the Next Generation fought for was not the one our heroes died for.
but theres just something so appealing about these literal footnotes in homestuck’s story that the people who are invested in the ancestors, while they’ll certainly also enjoy the main characters, will view their story as almost separate from the webcomic as a whole? at least, that’s how i feel about it.
homestuck is a story that CONTAINS stories, and the ancestors one - even just the inner circles one - is just so fucking… deep and rich and really able to be dug into, but it gets maybe a few brief lines. but if you actually analyse NOT ONLY the small amounts of information you get, but also the worldbuilding we’re given, if you pick up on contextual clues, you can build up so much and there’s actually so much personality within these characters.
its fascinating and i love it so much. i could analyse the ancestors for a lifetime and die happy about it
Sometimes fanfiction is a love letter to the original canon, sometimes it’s just that one telegram that says “Fuck you. Strongly worded letter to follow”.
I can always tell when a show I don’t watch has gone completely off the rails, because this post inevitably comes back from the dead.
New goddess idea: She’s an earth goddess of the new age who’s domain is spinning and weaving, but specifically spinning and weaving gigantic structural steel cables for construction and other industrial purposes. Her skin is steel grey and hard to the touch and her hair is like long dredlocks of woven steel. She laughs at shitty architecture deigns that will fall apart if actually built and protects well-made bridges and buildings she likes. She might warn you of unforseen danger if you always wear your proper PPE.
Okay now what do I name her
O’sha.
Obviously
I AM ALWAYS HERE FOR QUALITY WORKPLACE SAFETY REGULATION PUNS
That’s my goddess. 👍🏻
May O’sha bless you with earplugs that are comfortable and respirators that fit perfectly.
the only divinity where you don’t take your hat off in the temple – you put your hat ON.
Our Lady of Health and Safety,
Hazard flies from thee.
Inform us of our rights at work,
Lead us not into destruction,
but deliver us from error.
Maketh us to lie down among blueprints
And lead us to good designs.
You give us appropriate PPE,
We shall not want.
Holy Lady, of engineers,
Pray for us sinners,
Now and at the end of our contracts.
In the shadow of the valley of evil
You show the way with adequate backup lights,
You deliver us from trip hazards.
For thine are the Great Works,
the power and pylon,
Now and forever.
Close paren.
A few bars, please, of the Hymn to Breaking Strain.
Hey heck that song is legit
I really like this. An addition: Lady O’sha, she who watches over us. I beseech, keep our bodies whole and hale, with your vivid lines of warding and your glittering raiment’ orange. Keep our feet upon the road, with shield and cushion strong. Keep our hands upon the range, with glove and speed and keen hindsight. Keep our joints strong and our lungs breathing your hymns true. Keep our service in your name, Lady of Caution, Lady of Awareness, Lady of the Workplace. Guard our service from the cheapskate overseer, the cruel customer. Keep our contracts fair and our wages secured. I plead Lady O’sha, keep our people from harm and workmans compensation. We the Retail, We the Construction, we the Restaurant and Bartender. We the Manufacturing, we the Layperson and the Engineer. We your servers and your disciples. Caution, wet floor.
CAUTION WET FLOOR
aww it got better!
me: aw he’s so handsome and buff, i wonder how tall-
me: HIM BIG
Happy Pride, ya’ll
Its still june
Lesbians still making posts about how bad it is for bi women to use butch/femme: We know! We heard u! We’re trying to make our own terms and have them used widespread but we need to get the WORD out for them to be commonplace and that’s hard when literally nobody but bis reblog posts talking about bisexuals lol! It’s not like we all follow each other. At this point the only people trying to take ur terms from you are lesphobes or young bi girls who straight up don’t realize they aren’t generic wlw terms because they haven’t learned the history bc literally no one is out here trying to include and teach bisexual kids shit about their gay lineage, everyone’s too busy trying to push it under the rug.
bi equivalent of femme: doe bi equivalent of butch: stag
There are more for nb bis and such you can look into but there’s the basics! Look I’ve even designed flags you can find if you scroll through this tag! (i didnt come up with the terms)
So was no one going to tell me- as a bisexual- that we had our own terms that are like Butch and Femme. Or was I supposed to find that out though this post??
I seriously don’t know enough about my own sexuality.
Wait…what?!
PSA for all the Bi. Y’all people out here spreading education.
PSA for my bi sisters and brothers.
Since OP’s links don’t work:
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BITCHES IM A MAGE FINALLY
Cherubplay isn’t getting shut down, is it?
Unfortunately it is. I’ve been meaning to shut Cherubplay down for like a year and a half, and now seems like as good a time as any to get on with it.
Registration is now closed. Next week I’ll post a timeline for the rest of the process, which will include bulk export functionality and a way to download your prompts and directory requests.
movie tropes that will never get old to me:
character being all “you expect me to do X?” Gilligan Cut to character doing X
how could all y'all forget “ACT NATURAL!”
These are all great but let’s not forget two characters giving extremely biased flashbacks to the same event that each paint the other as an incompetent loon
i would like to respectfully add: scenes where a character walks into a room, sees something scary, and turns around and walks out with no reaction or change of expression
May I submit a character a politely introducing themselves to character b while just so happening to 'accidentally' kick the collective asses of characters c through h?
Weapons grade slapstick
For the people who are out there “fighting the good fight” and “trying to make fandom a better place,” I have two important questions for you:
1. Is the author dead? x
2. Is your baby in the bathwater? x
What do I mean by those things? Let’s start with #1. The Death of the Author is a type of literary criticism, the extreme cliff notes version of which is that art exists outside of the creator’s life, personal background, and even intentions. I’m using it slightly differently than Barthes intended, but that’s okay, because the author is dead and I’m interpreting his work through my own lens.
In fandom, the author is dead. In fact, the author was never alive in the first place, not really. The author has only ever been the idea of a person, because unlike published fiction, the only thing we know about a fanfic author is that which they choose to tell us about themselves.
Why is that important?
Because it might not be true. Hell, that happens in real life with published authors, who have SSN’s on file with their publishers, who pay taxes on the works they create and have researchable pasts. If the author of A Million Little Pieces could fake everything, why can’t I? Why can’t you? Why can’t the writer of your favorite fic in the whole wide world?
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: “you can only write about [sensitive subject] if [sensitive subject] has happened to you personally, otherwise you’re a disgusting monster that deserves to die!!” Or maybe “you can only write [x racial or ethnic group] characters if you’re [x racial or ethnic group] otherwise you’re racist/fetishizing/colonizing!”
You can play this game with any sensitive subject you can come up with. I’ve seen them all before, on a sliding scale of slightly chastising to literal death threats.
Now, I could tell you that I’m a white-passing Latina whose grandmother was an anchor baby. I could tell you that I speak only English because my family never taught me to speak Spanish, something which I’ve been told is common in the Cuban community, though I only know my own lived experience. I could tell you that I’m mostly neurotypical. I could tell you that I’m covered in surgical scars. I could tell you lots of things.
Are any of these true? Maybe! I could tell you that my brother has severe mental development problems, so uncommon that they’ve never been properly diagnosed, and that he will live the rest of his life in a group home with 24-hour care. Is that true? Am I allowed to write about families struggling with America’s piss-poor services for the handicapped now?
Am I allowed to write about being Cuban? After all, I did just say that I’m Cuban. But is it true? Can I instead write a character that’s Panamanian? Maybe I really am Panamanian, not Cuban. Maybe I’m both. Maybe I’m neither. Maybe I’m really French Canadian. Should we require people to post regular selfies? I can’t count the number of times I’ve had someone come up to me speaking Arabic, and I’ve been told that I look Syrian. What’s stopping me from making a blog that claims that I am Syrian? Can you even really tell someone’s race and ethnicity from a photo?
Am I allowed to write about being a teenager? Am I allowed to write about being a college student? Am I allowed to write about being an “adulty” adult? Can I write a character who’s 40? 50? 60? How old am I?
All of this is to say: you can’t base what someone is or is not “allowed” to write about on a background that may or may not be real. No matter how good your intentions. And I get it - this usually comes from a place of well-meaning. You’re trying to protect marginalized groups by stopping privileged people from trampling all over experiences that they haven’t suffered. I get that. It’s a very noble thought. But you can’t require a background check for every fic that you don’t like.
If you say “you can only write about rape if you’re a rape victim,” then one of three things will happen:
Real survivors will have to supply intimate details of their own violations to prevent harassment
Real survivors will refuse to engage and will then have to deal with death threats and people telling them to kill themselves for daring to write about their own experiences
People who aren’t survivors will say “yeah sure this happened to me” just to get people to shut up
Has that helped anyone? I mean really - anyone??
So now let’s get to point #2: is your baby in the bathwater?
If your intention is to protect marginalized people from being trampled upon, stop and assess if your boot is the one that’s now stamping on their face. Find your baby! Is your baby in the bathwater? Which is to say: find the goal that you’re advocating for. Now assess. Are you making the problem worse for the people you’re trying to protect? Does that rape victim really feel better, now that you’ve harassed and stalked them in the name of making rape victims feel safe?
Let’s say you read a fic that contains explicit sex between a 16 year old and a 17 year old. Is this okay? Would it be okay if the writer was 15? 16? 17? Should teenagers be barred from writing about their own lives, and should teenagers be banned from exploring sexuality in a fictional bubble, instead of hookup culture? Is it okay for a 20 year old to write about their experiences as a teenager? Is it okay for a 20 year old to write about being raped at a party as a teenager? Is it okay for a 30 year old? How about a 40 year old? Is it okay so long as it isn’t titillating? Is it okay if taking control of the narrative allows the writer to re-conceptualize their trauma as something they have control over? Is it okay if their therapist told them that writing is a safe creative outlet?
Is your author dead?
Is your baby in the bathwater?
Now let’s take a hardline approach: no fanfiction with characters who are under 18 years old. None. Is the 16 year old who really loves Harry Potter and wants to read/write about characters their own age better off? Should they be banned from writing? Should they be forced to exclusively read and write (adult) experiences that they haven’t lived? Will they write about teens anyway? Should they have to share it in secret? Should 16 year olds be ashamed of themselves? Should we just throw in with the evangelicals and say that the only answer is abstinence, both real and fictional?
Let’s say that no rape is allowed in fiction, at all. None. What happens to all the hurt/comfort fics where a character is raped and then receives the support and love that they deserve, slowly heal, and by the end have found themselves again? Are you helping rape victims by banning these stories? Are you helping rape victims by stripping their agency away, by telling them that their wants and their consent doesn’t matter?
Is your baby in the bathwater?
Fandom is currently being split in two: on one side, the people who want to make fandom a “safer” place by any means necessary, even if that means throwing out all of the marginalized groups they say they want to protect - and on the other, people who are saying “if you throw out that bathwater, you’re throwing the baby out too.”
The whole point of fandom is to be able to explore all kinds of ideas from the safety and comfort of a computer screen. You can read/write things that fascinate you, disgust you, titillate you, or make your heart feel warm. This is true of all fiction. People who want to read about rape and incest and extreme violence and torture can go pick up a copy of Game of Thrones from the bookstore whenever they want. Sanitizing fandom just means holding a community of people who are primarily not male, not straight, not cis, or some combination of those three, to higher and stricter standards than straight white cis male authors and creators all over the world.
There is nothing you can find on AO3 that you can’t find in a bookstore. Any teenager can go check out Lolita, or ASOIAF, or Flowers in the Attic, or Stephen King’s It, or Speak, or hundreds of other books that have adult themes or gratuitous violence or graphic sex. The difference is that AO3 has warnings and tags and allows people to interact only with the types of work that they want to, and allows people to curate their experiences.
Are these themes eligible to be explored, but only in the setting of something produced/published? Books, movies, television, studio art, music - all of these fields have huge barriers to entry, and they’re largely controlled by wealthy cishet white men. Is it better to say that only those who have the right connections to “make it” in these industries should be allowed to explore violence or sexuality or any other so-called “adult” theme?
Does banning women from writing MLM erotica make fan culture a better place?
Does banning queer people from writing about queer experiences make fan culture a better place?
Is M/M fic okay, but only if the author is male? What if he’s a transman? What if they’re NB? Who should get to draw those lines? Should TERFs get a vote? What if the author is a woman who feels more comfortable writing from a male character’s perspective because she’s grown up with male stories her whole life, or because she identifies more with male characters? What about all the transmen who discovered themselves, in part, by writing fanfiction, and realized that their desires to write male characters stemmed from something they hadn’t yet realized about themselves?
How can we ever be sure that the author is who they say they are?
Who is allowed to write these stories? How do we enforce it?
Is it better for none of these stories to ever exist at all?
Have you killed your author?
Have you thrown out your baby with the bathwater?
this post is AMAZING.
you checked in on me a wwhile ago and i guess i wwanted to do the same. so hi. also can i ask you wwhat the fuck made you compare me to a "bag of bulges"??? fuckin hell. (ask-eridan-captor)
*blink blink*
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AgaIIn.