#and i get the message. however may i propose that distinctions such as that don't even have to matter. consider

[incesthemes]

"their relationship is romantic" "their relationship is familial" "their relationship is platonic" you're thinking too narrow. their relationship goes beyond labels. the family is inherently queer. their platonic love is romantic. the erotic is familial. each one is the other and the other is them

[the-final-sif]

A03 and the SMP Problem

Hello Tumblr!

If you've been a fan of any major SMP for the past however long, you may've noticed that we've got something of a problem on A03. For reasons unknown to me, SMPs are constantly categorized as Video Blogging RPF. Characters on the SMP are forced to share a tag with their content creators and be listed as RPF even when that isn't accurate and makes tagging complicated. Worse, if a content creator plays more than one character, both characters are merged into the cc tag. Which is incredibly confusing, and hard to follow tags for.

In the past, I've contacted A03, and gotten this reply:

Thank you for writing in about Dream SMP. We are currently reviewing the Dream SMP situation and having discussions about creating a Dream SMP fandom tag. The tag wranglers will look into other servers of similar types in the future. If an SMP is canonized, all fandom tags that clearly reference the server will be moved over to the new canonical tag. There are a number of issues we need to work through before we can do so, including ensuring that users are aware the tag is for Dream SMP members, not for other Minecraft streamers. While we can't promise that all the issues can be resolved, please do know that we are doing our best to resolve them.

Now, I was hopeful when I got this message back in November that changes would follow. However, we are now at well over 5 months past, and there's still no changes for any tags. Tags keep getting wrangled and forced into categorizations.

A03 is a fandom space, it is supposed to be by fans for fans, and it's ridiculous that a huge chunk of fandoms, including Dream SMP, Hermitcraft, Last Life, Empires, and more are forced into RPF tags that aren't remotely accurate or reflective of the works. It sucks for the people writing about the SMP, and it sucks for the people writing actual RPF. Series like Critical Role or The Adventure Zone don't have their actors listed, so why should SMPs be forced into the RPF tags?

Thusly, I would like to propose a coordinated campaign to put pressure onto A03 to create proper fandom tags for SMPs, separate from RPF tags, and with separated tags for characters and content creators. I think that a show of support for this change would help demonstrate how many people are currently being effect, and that this isn't something that can just get brushed off. They need to see how many fans are actively upset about this failure of tagging. At the very least, we deserve a public statement with what's going on and the timeline for fixing this problem.

If you're interested in participating in this campaign, my proposed dates are May 1st - May 7th.

During this period, people can, and should:

Send polite, constructive, messages to A03 support requesting:

Separate tags for SMPs and RPF, for fandom and for characters.

Separate tags for characters on SMPs, with character tags only using usernames/character names, not the names of content creators.

Separate tags for distinct characters played by the same content creators.

Reblog and create posts discussing this issue on social media. Encourage your followers on different platforms to reach out to A03 and ask them to fix the mistagging. You can use the tag #SMPsNeedTagsToo on any platform to help spread the word.

Within this tag, it would also be lovely if lists of SMPs that need this change could be created, as well as a list of characters + other tags that will need to be split from the RPF tags. These lists could also be sent to A03 to make the process of splitting easier.

If you are already planning to post a chapter or fic on A03 during this period, consider including an author's note encouraging your readers to reach out to A03.

Remember to remain polite! This is not a harassment campaign, A03 is an amazing website, and the point of this is to call attention to the issue and improve the website we love. Not drag it down.

Equally, please do not be nasty or judgemental towards RPF readers/writers. We're not trying to shame anyone for what they're reading or writing, we just want to have proper categorization so people can post their works correctly!

If this is something that interests you, reblog this post to spread the word, and when May 1st rolls around, get started! If you have questions, feedback, or suggestions, feel free to add on to this post or send me an ask!

[breebeelee]

Don't Get Mad At The Internet - Get Even!

The insights are inauspicious. In 2006, online US gems deals are up 20% over the earlier year. 2.45 billion dollars of adornments was bought online in the US in 2006. Furthermore, every year the news is the equivalent: an expanded level of the market is moving on the web. The stock cost of Blue Nile is taking off, too it ought to be. Furthermore, coincidentally, shouldn't something be said about the disintegration of benefit? It's not simply the expanding level of deals that are moving on the web. It's the value rivalry that retail locations need to look from the Internet, in any event, when they can make the deal.

What's an autonomous blocks and-mortal retail location to do? Kick back and acknowledge a declining portion of the pie? Or on the other hand retaliate, and provided that this is true, how?

We prescribe retaliating, and we likewise have a few thoughts for how the fight ought to be pursued. Alright, there's incongruity here. Ostensibly Polygon itself imagined the idea of internet exchanging precious stones and adornments back in the late '70's. Blue Nile really started life as a Polygon retailer that took CertNet stock and began showing it on their own site. Maybe the entire thing's somewhat our shortcoming. Be that as it may, don't reprimand us for making the Internet. That was Al Gore, recollect?

Regardless, for more than two decades Polygon's crucial been providing the adornments business with the online instruments it needs to remain serious Jewellery Design Competition, thus we have some quite solid thoughts regarding what retailers ought to do in the Internet Age.

How to retaliate? Clearly, innovation is a piece of our answer. In any case, before we go there, how about we make sense of what the vision ought to be. What can retail adornments stores offer their clients that the enormous e-rears can't? The appropriate response is self-evident: a nearby nearness. However, how would we influence that?

I'm helped to remember a course at the NY JA show a couple of years back. It was a promoting master examining the aftereffects of an ongoing report on purchaser purchasing in the attire business. The investigation tried to comprehend the essential explanation customers decided to purchase in physical stores, instead of by means of mail request indexes, for example, Land's End or Spiegel. The outcomes were just somewhat astonishing. Customers who shopped in retail locations did so not due to their craving to genuinely observe the product, to contact it, or to think about various things simultaneously. The mind-boggling reason they favored physical stores was on the grounds that they wished to take a stab at the apparel and ensure it fit!

The promoting master noticed that if this was actually the primary explanation individuals went into physical stores, it was somewhat astonishing that store designs were not sorted out around changing areas. Her point was that changing areas were commonly far back in the store, precarious to discover, excessively little, regularly too few were given, and different bothers. Clothing retailers, she clarified, were not utilizing their most significant resource: their changing area. They ought to give extravagant, available, sufficiently bright, simple to discover changing areas, since that was their single best upper hand! It bodes well when you consider it. So what can adornments retailers gain from this?

No, you don't have to introduce changing areas. Yet, you would like to give more ways the customer can "collaborate with you" as a feature of the shopping experience. Keep in mind, not at all like an attire store where the business aide is in many cases only an aggravation, buyers are acutely mindful of their absence of information about diamonds and gems. That is the reason the way toward purchasing gems so regularly startles them. They realize they need your assistance, however are hesitant to get brought into the "gravitational power field" of the salesman. They think frequently effectively that they will lose in that procedure. They will get sold something they don't generally need, or will wind up purchasing something too expenisve. To put it plainly, they dread that their own absence of information will make them simple prey. (These are generally sentiments they don't have, for instance, when they stroll into a supermarket.)

So here's the test: What would retailers be able to do to (1) defeated the buyer's dread of conversing with the sales rep, (2) influence the intensity of their store being genuinely situated in the nearby network, and (3) persuade the customer that they should purchase here, not on the web?

Our answer: a flanking move. Break up the conventional vulnerability the shopper encounters (Should I converse with the salesman? Should I evade the sales rep?) with a greeting. Not an encouragement to see adornments; they're anticipating that. In any case, a solicitation to (and here comes the innovation part)...

· Compare the light estimation readings of a few distinct precious stones (You'll need a GemEx, Brayscale, IdealScope, or something comparative that you can entrance them with.)

· Check "World Diamond Prices" from your counter-mounted PC. (We propose Polygon for this, utilizing the markup highlight.). "Goodness, you're keen on a precious stone? OK prefer to check World Diamond Prices genuine speedy? We should perceive what the market's doing today. Ahhh, resembles it's up in Antwerp! How about we see what's going on in Hong Kong. Indeed, simply come directly over hear and investigate the screen..."

· Learn how to recognize break filling utilizing a Gemscope (You'll need a Gemscope and two example precious stones: one crack filled, one not.)

· Design their own ring, utilizing the most recent Cad-Cam program (Gemvision, or comparative)

· See some other cool bit of innovation that instructs them about diamonds and gems.

What does any of this achieve? All that we required it to. (1) The purchaser is currently conversing with the salesman in a non-undermining, loose, and fascinating way. They are being demonstrated something intriguing, something they didn't think about previously, something that will help make them a progressively instructed shopper. (2) The buyer is having an encounter that solitary the nearby retail location can give them. The retailer is utilizing the intensity of the neighborhood association. Furthermore, (3) The unobtrusive message-or maybe not all that unpretentious is: That online etailer didn't show you these things, did he? We're your ally. We can get things done for you that that generic site can't. Work with us, and the entire experience will be increasingly charming and fascinating and fun.

Buyers are moving to the Internet since they like it's accommodation, and the capacity to value shop. In the event that you need to pull those customers again into your store, give them motivation to make the excursion. Creative innovation you can show the client, in your store, is one approach to "settle the score" with the Internet rivalry.