#archives be damned 2000

[entrecannibales]

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[lieutenant-teach]

Attachment vs love, Jedi morals and choice in Star Wars

The amount of people who are presumably ‘fans’ of SW, but a) don’t know SW definition of ‘attachment’ b) don’t know SW definition of ‘balance’ – is astounding. They don’t care about actually learning what SW themes are (Read some Lucas quotes, damn it! It’s not some hidden knowledge.), but quick to jump on pro-Jedi fans to slaughter their views and ‘prove you’re wrong, the Jedi are actually bad’. The ‘Acolyte’ series really doesn’t help! Just – why??? Why do people don’t learn material before engaging in conversations! Even when said material is given freely – read and learn, if you don’t know about Lucas’s definition of ‘attachment’ and ‘balance’! But nooooo, we won’t learn! Won’t even try! There’re whole archives of Lucas’s quotes and analyses of SW, right here, on Tumblr – why not have a look?

And with all this lack of studying we have stupidity like ‘Luke’s attachment saved everyone’ or ‘Jedi were flawed with their morality’ or ‘Jedi didn’t give therapy to Anakin’. I’ll explain once again (I’m far from the first to say it):

1.Luke save everyone with LOVE, and Anakin damned everyone with ATTACHMENT.

2. Jedi morality is right in SW world. They may make mistakes as individuals, but their morals are correct in GFFA. They don’t go enslaving planets and killing babies like Sith, who ARE bad guys.

3. Jedi philosophy is actually therapy exactly for Anakin’s case. Too bad he didn’t want to respond to this therapy – because one of main ideas of SW (as made up by Lucas, everyone agrees he knows better) is CHOICE. Both Anakin and Luke made their respective CHOICES. They knew what was bad and what was good. And both made their own CHOICES. (Any anyway, Prequel SW are movies for KIDS from late 1990s – early 2000s. No one showed therapy as we understand in now in 2020s, in such movies back in those days.)

So, if you’re in good faith and you just lack info, go @david-talks-sw, @smhalltheurlsaretaken – you’ll find everything about Jedi, attachment, etc. If in bad faith – still go read, this may challenge your views.

[tainted-sweet-meats]

You know what I miss........ Community. I really miss it. Back when I came online in 1998 (active in communities with my art in the 2000's on the dot) back when art forums, people having personal websites, and archives were a thing. You would think building a community, and finding folks who share similar interests would be hard considering the lack of social media. But it was so easy and so much fun to just babble about art in emails, talk ocs , world building and talking about art in general, what bands you were into, and what new DIY fashion you did to wear to school the next day. Simple times. I feel I took it for granted compared to what the internet is now with art. Hell how the internet treats artists. How it kinda makes it seems like we are just here to be consumed...like we aren't people behind a screen. I feel if it wasn't for the community that is tumblr I would not post socially beyond my website. There is something about tumblr that still has a glimmer of that artist community, communication, and more for me at least , that keeps me here compared to sites I have left. I still yearn for a dead past.. so many claim to want community but tend to only want stepping stones and its deathly sad to see it play out. So many claim to want old internet community and yet it was about participation for the hell of it. It was about commenting, sharing art with friends talking to the artist.. the artist talking back. ( of course we all have lives and not everyone has time) so minus that. Lets just think in when we have time yuh know. but man the yearning for that sense of community what an adrenaline rush it was....it inspired me to do art trades and random gift arts of peoples ocs..... I miss genuine artistic friendships. Where folks would ping me on msn and go hey pal look at this new thing I drew :') MISS IT sometimes I really really want to make a discord fostering that community, so god damn badly so folks have a place to relax away from social media and actually interact. Hell Id love it too. I mean if there is an interest for it Id make it since it would be nice....

[varlaisvea]

i didn't want to make a post about how much i love zerith-var, but i think i am going to... the meta of him is so lovely--he is the first companion who feels, power-wise and life-wise, like he could be credibly a peer to the vestige. isobel is a junior knight, sharp-as-night is a mercenary, mirri is an adventurer, tanlorin is a thief and a spy, and zerith-var is a miraculously undead elite necromancer-cleric-monk who gets his marching orders from azurah herself. he's way more on the level of the type of power the vestige has.

and it makes sense story-wise that he'd want to hang out with you. the rest of 'em are honored to tag along with the Hero Of Tamriel on your great adventures, but zerith has never heard of no planemeld; you were just the first person who found him and was kind to him. he sees you as his equal--he decides you're his partner, his tamiit, a word which is evidently just as ambiguous in meaning in ta'agra as it is in english/tamrielic. he's certainly getting something out of the relationship; he's incredibly powerful, but he's also woken up in a distant future, so he needs someone he can trust to help him figure out how to exist in a strange time, with a strange purpose. he's understandably uneasy and disoriented in this time, so he's glad to be with you.

i cannot say enough good things about his quests, they are some of the best quests i've ever played in eso. the plots in some of the other companions' quests are kinda flimsy and obligatory, but his has like... richly developed secondary characters who have satisfying character arcs of their own, extensive tie-ins to existing lore, and poignant themes? zerith is a holy warrior in the most literal sense, and yet he himself also needs forgiveness and redemption? it honestly kinda blew me away.

also, i just love him. i thought kim kitsuragi was a jesus i did not deserve, but zerith... it is like. unavoidable. like. a falling star heralds his awakening, and the literal very first thing you see him do is rise from the slab of his tomb, miraculously un-decayed. he has this epic way of talking bc he's 2000 years old, and he constantly reminds everyone around him that no soul is ever beyond redemption. the damned actually literally reach for his hand through a veil of darkness to find salvation from eternal torment in azurah's unyielding forgiveness. he says shit like this all the time:

"To put spirits on the path to redemption. To hold the door even when the shadow of unending night pushes against it. This is my calling... We stepped into the light from the shadow of my tomb. Together, we struck against the darkness beyond the world... I am honored to walk at your side."

he's simultaneously millennia old and also like 50, and also 5. he treats you like an equal, talks to you like someone who has no idea how important you are, but still admires you anyway. it's very good! my favorite companion by far. it's a good thing i enjoy having him around, bc i have to level him fully so i can buy this one REALLY GOOD water furnishing that is going to change like 5 or 6 of my houses substantially. it's going to open a world of possibility. he loves the infinite archive though, and so do i :)

and tbh, he could not be sexier? kind, gentle, playful, intelligent, with a voice so deep you could hibernate in it, snatched waist and dope biceps, sort of dorky smile, shares almost all of his major character traits with jesus christ, is not a human. like idk if sexy in a thirst way but objectively, doing the work of christ while looking hot is hot. terrible facial hair but it works on him, and he looks cool as fuck doing his little magic gesture thing. thenks for my life! this is like the time they made smolder scrolls online for me specifically so i could romance both razum-dar and naryu.

[osakanone]

UPDATE: The Destiel/Supernats aren't taking this well -- explaining my reasoning for the history I gave, and why Destiel is not the big bitch of shipping that it thinks it is

An update to THIS:

"This is just a marketing thing, Gundam is a giant robot show, only men watch it!"

Gundam's fandom is silent majoratively feminine:

"But its not gay, its about giant robots!"

Gundam is very gay. The entire climax of the first story is a riff of Yukio Mishima lmao

The climax of the Amuro/Char arc of Universal Century Gundam (expounding from first Gundam circa 1979), Char's Counterattack is somewhat on the history of Japanese disillusion with liberalism which notably climaxed with the life and history of Yukio Mishima.

You know. THAT Yukio Mishima.

The one who wrote FORBIDDEN COLOURS.

It was so gay that the fanfiction inspired by it became its own damn anime:

And that's just Charmuro, let alone Charma or a billion other ships just in OG Gundam alone.

We've got This is before we get to Guin Sard Lineford and Yamagi Glimerton (both verrrrry gay), Tieria Erde (a genderqueer trans-coded character who transcends gender entirely in their arc) and a bunch of others.

Gundam was always gay.

"I don't see the numbers"

"That doesn't seem like much, Supernat is at least 2x this"

Sooooo the amount of content you do see isn't representative of how much even got written, given FFN had a huge content purge.

First, let's start with the relative proportion of users: If we're analysing the concept of fandom, we first have to look at who had access to the internet in the first place to publish works.

Yeah that's a pretty sizable difference.

Wing's fandom actually exploded in 2000, but got capped VERY early, distributing itself to fansites when FFN fragmented and collapsed.

Why?

Content purges!

"Isn't there some sort of online archive of this stuff?"

Sure, if you wanna dig through tons and tons of Angelfire and Geocities pages which have mostly disappeared. Otherwise, no! There is no archive of this stuff?

"Why?"

They've since rolled back on this but it means there's a massive amount of lost media out there, including the discussions on it and thus there's an entire history you didn't get to experience.

Its actually very difficult to reach people who've been involved, since it was so long ago that very few people remember, and a sizable proportion of that population have actually died.

"But what about SF fandoms? We have ancient records of stuff like Spirk!"

See unlike physical media like zines, when a server goes offline or there's a data-loss, or something like that there is no surviving copy of the thing in question.

The net result is we have this weird hole where content just vanished, and its now considered lost media. The work of many artists, designers, writers, even videos of events are just lost media because we didn't have the archival mentality adults develop.

You're not gonna hear about all the X-Files stuff or Frasier fanfictions or GW stuff because of these purges and the lack of physical media. FFN users were teens, not adults with resources like US/EU/JP SF fans, who had archival tendencies due to their long history.

So there is this supermassive black-hole in the history of fanfiction running between 1998, and 2008 and some of the only evidence of it are worksafe works and fansites which the owners have long since forgotten about because folks moved on. Moving on is a normal part of fandom.

So to those of you just saying "supernatural is losing to a pair of dumb anime girls" or "urgh this is just a trend tumblr will get over it and go back to supernatural"...

Uhhhhh no they won't, actually?

Supernat's fans mostly seem to be waspy Americans. Gundam is kind of a global phenomenon, one which has traditionally had a silent majority female audience, a vocal minority male audience -- and every time that majority has spoken up, its coincided with a content purge, or a TOS change that mysteriously biases American derived fiction over Japanese derived fiction.

Funny that.

tl;dr:

NATURE IS HEALING

[jancyweeks]

✨ everything you need to know ✨

JancyWeek2024 is next week! Here is everything you need to know about the event within one post:

🩶 DAYS AND THEMES

[ DAY 1 | OCT 28 ] — History ⇢ AU: Historical ⇢ canon: Childhood

[ DAY 2 | OCT 29 ] — Monster Hunters ⇢ AU: Monster Myths & Urban Legends ⇢ canon: the Upside Down

[ DAY 3 | OCT 30 ] — Meant to Be ⇢ AU: Soulmate ⇢ canon: Always a Team

[ DAY 4 | OCT 31 ] — 2000s ⇢ AU: Modern ⇢ canon: The Future

[ DAY 5 | NOV 1 ] — Fantasy ⇢ AU: Fantasy Epic or Fairytale ⇢ canon: Dreams & Desires

[ DAY 6 | NOV 2 ] — Slice of Life ⇢ AU: Different First Meeting ⇢ canon: Domestic

[ DAY 7 | NOV 3 ] — Power (Couple) ⇢ AU: Superheroes & Supervillans ⇢ canon: Hawkins Lab

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To enter the lottery, all you have to do is:

Create Content for JancyWeek2024 & include the tag #giveaway2024 until November 10th, 2024 @ midnight (UTC)! Content includes any fan art, fan fic, moodboard, gif set, playlist, or original jancy themed creation that we can reblog to the main jancyweeks blog. Only posts that include the tag #giveaway2024 are eligible to win. Winners will be notified via Tumblr chat. Winners need to claim their prize within 48 hours or another winner will be selected.

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[tokiko220]

Noone talks about The Drummer and the princess movie enough and ESPECIALLY not about the people behind it. It puzzles me to this day.

Warning, extremely long post but i really wanna archive all this.

For those who don't know, in 2018 Angels Pictures released a teaser trailer( CZ EN) for this movie and it obviously looked shit for a movie made after 2000 ESPECIALLY when people were claiming it cost 80 million CZK to make (3.5 mil USD-ish) which is an insane amount of money for a czech production. Plus in the czech trailer they have an uber popular czech singer Karel Gott appear revealing he's voicing in it, they even have a super low res photo with him from the studio.

(honestly i'm pretty convinced they met him once for the recording of the trailer lines)

So allegedly 80 mil CZK 3D animated movie with a bunch of celebrities voicing in it! Wowza! Why does it look so shit? EDIT: CORRECTION! After going through some more documents this is in fact and estimate of how much they think the movie is going to cost- they seem very upset people get that wrong. But honestly I don't think anyone actually thought they spent that much money on it.

Immediatelly bunch of czech news websites started rolling out articles about it because obviously, it was ridiculous. It looked ass the trailer is pretty cringy and they have all that stupid self congratulatory bs about giving 4% of ticket sales to kids because its made for kids. With love♡ People are ridiculing the hell out of it, obviously, but then a rumour starts that it's a all a publicity stunt. Obviously noone would make something that looks this bad in the year of our lord 2018! Angels Pictures don't hesistate and start nodding their heads aggressivelly. They pat themselves on the back for coming up with this new cool marketing strategy they dubbed "The Spites and Envy Promo."

They post this stupid, self congratulatory post talking about how they actually intentionally made the teaser bad, saying they modified it with "minor technical imperfections" (MINOR??????? IMPERFECTIONS????). According to this interview some guy named Jeremy came up with this genius and "innovative" plot. But if you read the interview (in czech unfortunately) you'll also find out the teaser probably looks so bad because no, there isn't actually really a movie at this point! Which is insane, given they released the teaser in September and promised a winter release! They apparently work by recording the dub first and then animating for it. In the interview he says they have about 20% of that done. But whatever, they keep insisting it's all part of the plan dude! The movie is going to release in like 28 countries and it's gonna be huge. (if you speak czech i totally recommend reading that interview it is enlightening lmao) I don't need to tell you I think the "spite and envy" promo is a bunch of boloney because if you're looking to drum up views and popularity through controversy you don't turn off your youtube comments about it.

Back in 2018 I was having a riot following this and despite being convinced it is not going to come out, I was posed to see it day 1 in the theatre if indeed it did come out (afterall, they're giving 4% of ticket sales to kids ♡) They continued to flaunt their genius marketing strategy and even bragged their teaser became the most watched czech animated movie trailer on youtube! Which while true, it doesn't really mean anything, because they second most watched actually came out and made money, while The Drummer and The Princess entirely missed their initial release date with no explanation why! On their website the release year kept shiftin ever forward and in 2019 they added the "RIP Karel Gott" to the trailer, so I know you're out there GIVE ME MY MOVIE!

Spoiler alert, it's 2024 and we still don't have the damn movie! But ever since then I've been completely fascinated with these guys, so let me bring you towards the about us section of their website, because it's frankly hilarious. Meet Angels Pictures!

Starting with Alex Pieter you'll notice he proudly states he's the author of the "project" The drummer and the princess. The second thing he mentions is that he's a member of MENSA and makes sure to explain it is an association of people with high IQ because you wouldn't know anything about that. Underneath that he lists a bunch of things he did which really just reads like when you put literally ANYTHING you think is relevant and makes you look good on your CV, like that he cooperated with big names like Vin Diesel or Catherine Zeta-Jones or Gerard Depardieu. Generaly a bunch of jargon to try and make him look super cool.

There's also this guy but he's considerably less funny and really jsut looks like your regular marketing guy. He's not even in MENSA.

Back then I was still wondering whether this was all an elaborate joke, and I may even believe it if these two guys didn't sound like the most start up "trust me bro" marketing guys. That really marks the end of The Dummer and The Princess, but I'm not done with Angels Pictures quite yet! You see, I thought they got me all excited for this movie and then dipped but no, they were planning something even cooler.

A video game.

Honestly, you need to see it to believe it.

After seeing this, I genuinely started doubting myself again. Like this has got to be a joke right?? What in the mother of all asset flips...

It was supposed to be a VR experience (but also non VR) about .. uh.. well....... Flying aroung?? And there will be vampires.. and dragons?? Whatever they found on the asset store I assume. But not in the base game! You see, the clever MENSA head over at Angels Pictures came up with this new game monetization model called "Modular System". You buy the base game called "The Radix" and then you can buy additional packs such as "Oh, Look!" which adds interesting sights to this flying simulator (making me wonder what the base game even does have). Then we have "Vampires" which I supposed adds the Italian Vampire Palmira who does not believe in wearing pants. Also a bunch of other "modules" that add things to "duel with for treasures". Yay.

Those with a keen eye might notice this isn't actually entirely their idea, this has basically been The Sims 4 monetization scheme since literally forever, but as much as I hate to admit it, at least the sims actually like.... You know.. Gives you something? And isn't an asset flip. And ... exists. Oh yeah, spoiler alert, the No*1 game with the funniest flying object (whatever that means) never did come out, I know, we're all shocked an crushed about it. The actual website for the game went down (which is why I'm making this actually, everday I fear all of this will dissappear) but there's still stuff about the game on their company website such as;

The release Timeline. Lofty goals, per usual. I don't need to tell you none of that happened because if it did I wouldn't be writing this and I would instead be playing Magic Carpet game swith the Vampire and Space module.

Continuing the scroll we can find that they claim to be a studio of "roughly" (???) 30 artists.

Ah yes, nothing is quite as innovative as a VR asset flip game that gives vague description of what it's actually going to be about. Reminds me Dream World.

I don't know what kind of artists they are but whoever made that purple green logo should be fired promptly. Also as you can see they are still bragging about the huge success their marketing campaign was and using it to seem credible- never mentioning that the damn movie never came out. The kids are still waiting for their 4% (which btw they never quite mentioned what charities they are planning to give that to.)

Now let's check out Alex's updated profile for the game;

He's really come to his own since The Drummer and the princess. He's still a member of MENSA, a global association of people with high IQs, but I think it's adorable he updated his photo to be a picture of him holding a controller like he's a gamer girl on instagram. He's just like you, fellow gamers. He's a 3D artist now and an IT specialist and programmer! Is there something this handsome devil can't do?! though despite his newly acquired 3D art skills, the game somehow manages to look worse than the movie trailer.

I also wanna point to this, purely because I wanna archive it. "A game that simply isn't on the market" yeah but what is it ABOUT Alex???? It's honestly a hilarious read and a look into "the sicks brains on their team."

After all of that, what's the conclusion?? I dunno! I think these guys really missed their calling as MMORPG Fundraiser scammers, I think they really would have popped off with that. My theory currently is they try to set up these projects and websites and try to make themselves look as credible as possible to get investors for their stuff?? But I also cannot imagine it ever actually worked out? And obviously they never delivered on anything they promised so I just don't know! Besides they actually did work with Karel Gott and that's nothign to scoff at! I wish I could find out whether it was because they have an in with him or whether they paid him (if so, with what money? I can't imagine getting someone of his caliber to voice for you is cheap).

That marks the end of this insanely long rambling about this thing I've been obsessed with for years now and really wanted to archive in some limited way. Now I'm just waiting for them to come up with some new project that involves AI.

[jakowskis]

torchwood fanfic resources

so i'm a chronic livejournal archaeologist, and fixating on 2000s media is particularly fun for me because it means i get to go digging on lj / dw / old fanfic forums. below you'll find some of the excavations from my torchwood fixation (give it up for month 6!) it's pretty much got every comm i've ever stumbled upon and found useful, or thought others would find useful. it's largely fanfic-oriented, though there's some more generalized comms, too. i hope you guys enjoy!

i was originally going to include a link to my reclist on this post as well, but it's still a wip, so i'll just post that separately in the future.

general disclaimer: most of the content here is from 2006-2013 or so. period-typical attitudes may pop up in places. i'm not sure if most modern tw fans have witnessed the original fandom at all, but i felt a need to say this anyway, because i've seen some icky stuff. i've warned for anything notable. gwen bashing in particular may unfortunately pop up in some of these comms, especially in the comments, so tread carefully.

if you're new to probing through old lj comms, remember to always have the wayback machine on hand, because you're going to run into a lot of purged accounts and seemingly lost fics, but sometimes you get lucky and something's been archived :)

as of the date i'm posting this, all of these comms are still accessible, but if you're from the future and some have been deleted, again, go ahead and give the wayback machine a try. additionally, livejournal has a system that includes 'cross-posting' in which, if authors choose to (and the majority of them do, to get their fics more visibility), fics get posted to multiple comms at once. so chances are, even if one comm gets deleted, the contents will survive through other comms. kind of like how reblogs continue to exist even when the original blog is deleted.

finally, ctrl + f is your best friend if you have a specific ship/character/trope you're invested in, especially in comms with less than ideal tagging systems. if a comm does have a substantial tagging system, you can find all of its tags by adding '/tags' the end of the urls i've provided.

ok... let's begin :-)

assorted livejournal communities

✎ torch-wood: this is essentially a torchwood subreddit. it started before the show even aired, and one of the highlights of it is episode reaction posts (easily accessible on the right side of the lj) that document how everyone immediately reacted to the eps, which is pretty damn cool, fandom-history wise. only thing i should mention is there's quite a lot of gwen and owen bashing in the comments of some of those reaction posts, so just be wary of that if you love those two like i do, 'cuz it's a bit of a bummer.

✎ torchwood-three: this comm is an extremely cool then-daily newsletter (that still updates sometimes?!) that compiled as much fan-content as it could find into cleanly organized lists. the posts made immediately after new episodes aired contain reactions, discussions, meta, theories, new fic, fanmixes, just about everything. very very cool to go back and see the way the fandom was thinking as the show was airing and as they were getting to know the characters. here's a direct link to all posts made in late 2006, during the airing of s1.

✎ torchwood-fic: exactly what it says on the tin. desktop layout is easy to navigate, tags are all there!

✎ torchwood-fic's profile page also features a list of affiliated accounts that's pretty handy. it's worth taking a peek at, in case i've excluded anything in this post that you might be interested in.

✎ twgenrefinders: handy dandy comm where people would ask for fics of a certain variety & be treated with reclists, or hyper-specific fics... pretty cool stuff, ive got several threads bookmarked to sort through the links later. ofc, please note that some of the things people asked for might be stinky. particularly i've seen a lot of ppl requesting gwen bashing fics :/

✎ twstoryfinder: cousin to the above comm; here, people would ask for a very specific fic they'd lost. it's kind of fun to find fics through because you get someone describing memorable scenes + hyping it up, so it's different than just a standard summary. this one still gets posted on, too, which is crazyyy.

✎ tw-unpaired: for gen fics! no romance allowed! there's some good character studies + friendship fics in there. stuff's tagged by character + authors are even tagged, in case you find one whose writing you particularly enjoy. this is v useful for when someone's main journal has been deleted.

✎ torchwood-decaf: a comm where janto is BANNED. nah i'm kidding, it's not anti-janto, it was just made because janto is so huge that it overshadows everything else. pretty smart, tbh; wading through the sheer mass of janto content can be tiresome.

✎ jack-in-cuffs: for dark tw fic, or uber smutty tw fic. as a fan of dark!fic, there's some goodies in here, but of course it's not everyone's cup of tea. most of the writers included warnings, but if you go a little further back, some people weren't as courteous; navigate with caution.

✎ jack-owen: for fic featuring our captain and his (second favorite) doctor. i know this pairing's kinda divisive nowadays, but i enjoy it a lot. the comm's got a dismal tagging system and, ngl, i don't truly like any of the fics there (i'm very intrigued by jack and owen's relationship but i've never found fic that really does them justice, and i still haven't figured out how to write them myself) - but i'll include it anyway.

✎ odetojoi: for fic featuring owen in the middle of a janto sandwich, for those of us who are allergic to women (/sarcasm). there's an oddly impressive supply of fics of the three of them, and a good chunk of them can be found in this comm. (everytime i see this comm i think of a certain abbreviation found in p/rnogr/phy... but i digress)

✎ halfwee-and-tea: for ianto x owen fic. haven't gone through this one much, truthfully. i hate when comms have no tagging systems agh.

✎ owenharper-fans: a comm for the saddest undeadest bisexualest doctor around. also features a few burn appreciation posts, which is nice to see pre-pac rim era. mostly just features a shit ton of owen fic, particularly owen x ianto fic. mostly sufficiently tagged. if you need me once i post this, btw, i will be balls deep in this comm.

✎ the pro-owen alliance: another owen-focused comm - i think this one was made directly in response to owen bashing. haven't combed through this one much but it's got a fair amount of fics.

✎ house-of-cooper: a gwen comm! made in response to gwen bashing. haven't gone through it, but i'm glad it exists.

✎ torchwoodcoffee: ianto comm! this one's hugeee. the majority of it's janto, but the pairings aren't tagged, which is really frustrating. about 6k fics on there, though! just untagged. fff.

✎ tw-femficfest: a comm for fic about any and all of the torchwood ladies. tagging's cleanly done & there's some handy fic round ups, too.

✎ tw-femslash: yuri!!! wahoo!!! a comm for f/f tw ships. there's quite a lot of fic on here, but unfortunately there's no tagging whatsoever. sigh.

✎ tw-classic: a comm for 'all things series one and two of torchwood'. was made after s3 and was popular around s4 out of nostalgia for the golden age <3 good amount of fic, discussions, etc.

✎ torchwood-house: this comm is, like, letterboxd, but for torchwood fanfic. basically a group of individuals who thought of themselves as having Good Taste would read Good Fic and then go in this comm and write a post about why they recommend it. it's well-made, easy to scroll through, and sells the fics v well, and it kinda gets you more excited to read them when you get to see someone hype them up with Fancy Words. it's like a little torchwood yaoi bookclub. we're eating quiche

✎ tw100: a drabble challenge; this thing's full of 100 word drabbles. ngl i hate drabbles but i'm throwing it in here anyway

✎ touchyerwood: i love kink memes... i love kink memes less when my favorite character/pairing is unpopular. the pac rim kink meme's been a blessing bc i'm a basic ass newmann - the torchwood kink meme? not so much. it's got a fair amount of shit, though, so maybe someone else will appreciate it. this one isn't the original, that one's been wiped off the internet, to my chagrin. keep in mind before digging that people in kink memes are horny & gross. that's your warning.

✎ reel-torchwood: for any and all movie aus... ok i have a bone to pick with this comm. i'm a big movie nerd, i love film, i've seen dozens of films i've thought would make good aus - i combed through this and there is not a SINGLE fic in there that piqued my interest. NOTHING. needless to say my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. i'm sure my experiences aren't universal though.

✎ torchwoodslash: ah, remember when we called it slash? gee whiz. i'm not big on this comm, it's not very user friendly + there's like no tags whatsoever so it's extremely hard to navigate. enter at your own risk & good luck, lol.

✎ rounds-of-kink: this isn't a torchwood-exclusive comm, but it's got a sizeable torchwood tag, which can be found here. pretty organized tagging system; makes me happy.

✎ tw-declassified: this comm was mainly used for running a 'torchwood bingo', which, i've been in other fandoms that do episode bingos and it's usually cute... this one confused me a little so i didn't bother peeking around too much, but still a cool little bit of fandom history.

✎ writerinadrawer: this was an annual torchwood writer's challenge that ran for four years... it's kinda hard to navigate but it does have some fic in it so i'm putting it here.

✎ dmarley-recs: a recs journal someone ran for compiling torchwood fic; it's got a l o t of recs on there, largely jack/ianto.

ok and straying from lj briefly for two other places to find fic...

✎ kink_bingo: this is a dreamwidth comm, and it's not torchwood-exclusive, so i've linked straight to the torchwood tag. this comm has a livejournal equivalent, but for some reason the tw tag is pretty barren on that one? not sure why. but on dw it's got a fair amount. the tagging system is rough, it tags fandom and kink but not pairing, which is irritating, and every post is hidden under a cut AND makes you go through a discretion barrier every single time (but probably only if you don't have an account? i'm not logged in) which makes navigation a pain. but i dunno, more smut, if you want it.

✎ whofic.com: this site is for doctor who fic, but it's got a very substantial amount of torchwood fic. i do not, however, like the formatting at all. i'm being overly nice; i HATE the formatting. it's very reminiscent of fanfic dot net but, like, worse. it reminds me of adultfanfiction dot org which was a NIGHTMARE to use. but! there is torchwood fic there so it's going in here.

aaaand there we go! that's all i have. i hope these prove handy! enjoy :D

[boombambaby]

Fictober 2024! - "I know you better!"

"I know you better!" - BoomBamBaby010 - Emperor's New Groove (2000) [Archive of Our Own]

Organized chaos is the best way to explain what happens once the pink vapor cloud of the potion finally begins to dissipate.

Within moments the royal guards have taken over, rushing towards the window Kronk had just appeared from to drag him and a still dazed, but highly agitated kitty Yzma away, and to figure out how to bring Kuzco and Pacha back inside safely. Kuzco blinks his eyes open to glance first across the platform at Pacha, who is staring back at him in what he assumes to be relieved shock and then down at his very human, very NAKED body.

“We did it! Hah! Look, Pach! I’m ME again! Yay for me!”

Hands scrabble to press against his chest, feeling his skin to make sure there isn’t any fur, and laughing a little as he makes sure everything is still in working order. Modest isn’t a word one could ever use to describe Kuzco, having grown up in a palace surrounded by servants who dress, massage and bathe you for special ceremonies (or for whenever he feels like it, honestly), so his current state of undress doesn’t even register until Pacha clears his throat to speak.

“Kuzco.”

Broken out of his thoughts at the sound of Pacha’s strained voice, Kuzco glances up only to find a poncho hovering in front of his face and blocking his line of sight. He blinks, confused and leans around the side of it to stare at Pacha, only to find the llama herder using his unoccupied hand to shield his eyes from the view.

“What are you, five?” He quips, amused.

“Kuzco, take the poncho. You can’t address your public and announce that you aren’t dead like that.” Pacha grits out, and the Emperor snickers as he takes the familiar clothing item and slips it over his head. This is the second time Pacha has offered it to him, the first time being when he was shivering and curled up on the ground in the jungle, and for reasons he doesn’t quite understand he can feel himself almost tearing up from the sentimentality of it.

Someone clears their throat above them, and they both look up to find the Royal Record Keepers head poking out of the window, staring down at them and gesturing wildly.

“Are you both okay? Oh! I can’t believe you’re alive, Kuzco! Thank Inti! We were so worried! Oh we have to—“

RRK quickly disappears, presumably to start barking orders at servants and the scribe to summon the council and schedule an audience and Kuzco sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose. “Sure didn’t miss all of that.” He mutters, just loud enough for Pacha to hear him over the wind.

Relief is a tangible thing in that moment, unseen but heavily felt in the air between them and they share a quiet look of amused understanding that only two people who have shared a figurative fox hole are capable of.

Sometime later, after he and Pacha are hoisted through the window and back onto solid ground, and Kuzco has been checked out by the Royal Healers to ensure there aren’t any injuries or side effects from the spell, the two of them are briefly separated while Kuzco speaks with his advisors and makes plans to announce his good health. It’s taxing, and all he wants to do is take the longest bath of his life, have a massage and curl up in bed for a solid week– responsibilities be damned. But it’s a necessary evil, and once he’s crossed all his t’s and dotted his i’s, the council and most of the guards finally leave him alone.

“What would you like done with them?”

The question catches him off guard, and Kuzco spins around to ask the guard who he’s talking about when he finally notices Kitty Yzma thrashing against the bars of a makeshift cat carrier sitting on the floor. Kronk is sitting beside her, unusually stoic and he wonders not for the first time how someone like him could get caught up with someone like the living crypt keeper.

“Well, I’m sure not taking them to dinner, chuckles.” It’s directed at the guard, but Kuzco is watching Kronk when he makes the comment and notices the visible flinch he gives at the mention of a ‘dinner’.

If he had to bet, he’d guess the big buffoon didn’t even realize what he was doing and was more interested in impressing him with that dinner than actively trying to hurt him. What a shame. “Take them to the dungeon. Let them rot down there for a while we figure out what to do with them. But first– I’d like a word with kitty kitty.”

Yzma hisses at the nickname, and that alone makes this inevitable conversation all the more worth it. Kuzco smirks as he heads over to the carrier, bending down so he’s not exactly face to face with the feline, but more than close enough to catch her eyes.

“Hey, look at the bright side! At least you have hair now!” Kuzco teases, grinning when he’s met with a nose twitching scowl.

“Kuzco, listen; this has all been one huge misunderstanding—“ Yzma starts, but she’s quickly interrupted by Kuzco lifting a hand. “Ah ah ah! That’s EMPEROR Kuzco to you. Now that I’m large and in charge again.”

Another scowl, and an irritated flick of her tail. “My apologies, Emperor Kuzco. As I was saying—“

“Yeah, yeah. I heard you. A ‘misunderstanding’.” He repeats, air quotes emphasizing the comment. “But you see, the funny thing is? I heard you back in that Jungle, Yzma. Telling Kronk all about tracking that llama down and killing him. It’s a little hard to misinterpret that, wouldn’t you say?”

For a moment there’s no reaction, Yzma’s furry little face distorted in shock at being caught red pawed, and Kuzco revels in his amusement at catching her off guard. Later, when he’s alone and he has time to reflect on the fact that Yzma, the closest thing to a parent he’s ever had, tried to kill him he’ll have a proper breakdown—but for now? He’s satisfied with putting on a mask and pretending all is right with the world.

“Please Kuzco, you must understand; I was merely trying to do what I thought was best for the Empire! That’s my only concern here.” She pleads, adopting as sweet a tone as she can muster. “If you just give me another chance- ”

“Give YOU another chance? Oh, you’re kidding right? How stupid do you think I am?” He pauses to lean in even closer, all traces of amusement wiped from his expression. “I know you better than that, Yzma. There’s not, and there never WILL be a ‘second chance’ for you.”

Yzma has the decency to look chagrined, and Kuzco stands and brushes his borrowed poncho off, giving her once final glance before turning his back on the pair; literally. “Your Highness? Rudy the janitor is here to see you.”

“Great—tell him to hang on a sec, I’m gonna need about five baths before I can put my robes back on and talk to anyone.” He turns to leave, waving over his shoulder in Yzma and Kronk’s direction as he does do. “As for Yzma? I’m done with her. You can take her away.”

Lifelong trauma, and a laundry list of making up for his past transgressions aside, and Kuzco is more than ready to get on with his life.

But first?

That much needed bath.

[ghostbabby]

Heyo! Are you a fan of the criminally underrated game Jet Set Radio? Do you wanna read some expanded fan material? Well I got just the thing! I'm currently working on my fan novel: "Stories From Tokyo-To"!

Excerpt from Chapter 1: Beat It!

...Letting out a sigh, the only thing that came out of my mouth at that moment was a defeated "Damn."

I've encountered the law before. Usually, a good lie, a tragic story with some tears, and a swift getaway solve my issues. But not with this sadist. The dude knows. Every scheme, any lie, all of my possible aliases. It's scary. So all I can pray for is that somehow, along the way, he slips up. 

Ever so slowly, I start creeping away from Onishima. Having no other option, I try smooth-talking with the guy. "Oh! Sergeant Onishima! Is that you? You looked so tall, I hardly recognized you! Have you been hitting the gym? Maybe you're wearing platform boots?"

"Shut your trap!" his voice echoed throughout the warehouse. He wasn't having it. Better yet, seeing me back up made him more than happy to take off his gun's safety. "Do you know how long I've waited for this moment? I finally get a chance to slap the cuffs on the damn shitass who's been causing me months of headaches." The shady fuck laughed a bit. "I knew it was you who gift-wrapped the front of my house last Christmas!"

"I was short on cash that year!"

"You made the letter saying I was cast in my favorite show, 'Power Office Girls'!"

"Aw, man... you didn't get the part of 'Handsome Officer 1'? But you were so happy that day."

"And most heinous of all... you put Vaseline on my squad car handles!"

"Really? That was the worst?"

"I WAS LATE FOR A WEEK! I'VE NEVER BEEN LATE, NOT ONE DAY ON THE FORCE!"

"I'm sure your days must be real busy if eating curry rice in your car and harassing me is the only thing on your schedule."

"All that doesn't matter now. I have you right where I want you. Criminal trespassing, vandalism, and hell maybe I'll throw in theft! These spray cans are most likely stolen." He shrugged and leaned back as if his next point was some sort of stupid revelation. "But hey, it's your life, right? I'm just the swift hand of authority here to take you in. Besides, you're no better than all the other filth in the streets." Onishima tightened the grip of both of his hands. "And we both know you ain't talkin' yourself outta this."

"Officer, I just have one question..."

"And what's that?"

"How fast can you run?"...

If something along those lines sounds interesting, be sure to give all available chapters on either Wattpad or AO3!

Thank you so much for reading and keep on tagging those walls! (Special thanks to @skronklpus for the KICKASS ART!)

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[archive-poetry]

—m. regan, gender/rant

poem taken from Transgender Tapestry, issue #98, summer 2002. scans of issue #98 are available via the internet archive.

Transgender Tapestry is a magazine that ran from the late 70s to the early 2000s. you can access other issues of the magazine and related newsletters via the digital transgender archive or via the internet archive.

transcription under the cut!

note: I divided the poem into paragraphs even though it's originally all one block of text because tumblr has a character limit per block, and for readability. I tried to stick to dividing it between sentences, but I will say that I can't actually tell if some of the punctuation marks in the poem are periods or commas.

gender/rant

by m. regan

i have seen the best minds of my generation, (fucked) UP by gender, by what we (think) it means, what it's supposed to mean, by what we (want) it to mean—i have seen "girls” slapped down by the word (itself) made a mockery of their own arms, i have seen "boys” of every age, stripped of their finery, i have NEVER seen a "boy” or "girl” only girl-boys, boy-girls, boy-boys and girl-girl-boy -girls—this is the LAST line in the LAST bit of sand, all other battles begin and END here—this is not a list of performative acts, not a choice between one of two, "fuck the binary” the t-shirt says and i laugh, laugh and say when you are NOT one or the other you are either NEITHER or BOTH, you are a/lone you are (me) and we are forced to call each (other) by NAMES not categories not (pro)nouns, professional/nouns pro-active, I have seen legs and backs stacked in rooms waiting to be assembled and sent to the “boys” room/“girls” room (waiting) to be assigned a label, outside of which your hands, your eyes, will not matter will never (matter)—outside of which (nothing) else you ever are, have been, will be, will EVER, i have seen and i have (never) touched another single HUMAN being on ANY (single) street without a metal spike suspended over (me) over my (face) how many articles of clothing (make) you into a lateral plate, a horse, a shallow groove, an archangel, a metal bar?

this is not a (straight) thing not a (gay) thing not a “woman" (thing) not a "man” (thing) a thing/thing this is (not) queer, not/trans, not Elle/GQ/Vogue not fashion not any/thing that would make (you) comfortable this is not (a word) that you would RECOGNIZE, not a world you would (wreck) in the night i have seen us (ALL) dividing, cutting ourselves into gestures/performance/acts of clothing that ROT/scraps of meat and bone—if (you) asked everyone/and we DO/if you (asked) all the “women" to stand on one side of the/prom/room and all the "men" to stand/prom on the/other side, this is to SAY what could (be) simpler? this is to SAY that some of (us) would NOT stand could not (stand)—in 3rd grade carter gilliam passes me a note that says “if you were a ‘boy’ I would like you" in 4th grade I am skiing/badly in VIRGINIA and a small creature in a flowered skisuit sits next to me on the lift and says, “my parents would never let me ski alone, if you were a ‘girl,’ you'd understand" I gentle my grandmother into the car she says what a sweet "girl" I am I give an old mexican “woman" my seat on the bus, she says I am a "gentleman,” my wife is lucky to have me.

where is (gender)? if it's on the body, then I got SCREWED In college they give me a (button) that says “I like girls” the t- shirt I bought at the mall says “chicks hate me” and I WILL I can and I will open your car door because we BOTH (know) that you can damn well do it your/self and you know that (I know) and that's WHY you let me do it and THAT'S why it means something DONOT be an (asshole), “she” can take care of herself, “he” isn't waiting for you to tell him he’s brilliant/are you SURE? this is SOCIAL CLASS/IFICATION if you (were) you'd understand—i am not solving (this) for you, I am not (telling) you a story, this is not a man/ual i am not a homo/fag/predatorylesbian/butch/dyke/femme/girlygirl/top/bottom your CLOTHES don't (fit) me, if you name me I DISAPPEAR if i don't name myself I DIS/APPEAR this is not an intellectual (exercise), i am putting morphine into J's mouth as she slips into a coma and i want to say FUCKGender there’s no TIME do you get it, there is no FUCKING time.

work it the FUCK OUT i have been cut and cut up and cut out and cut into and I don't want to cut anyone else i will call you whatever you call yourself, I will not (let you) die—how can you tell the truth if you won't confess? absolution? cancer will fuck (up) your day, but disdain, pretension and condescension will KILL you confessional poetry? goahead, shootmeinthefuckingBACK, poetry where you tell whatever truth is in yr. hands right now? is there (another) KIND? make what you (BELIEVE) I ob-ject to the I as/Object as objecti- fied, look, you idiot you are DYING (RIGHT) NOW, the class of the body, the hierarchy of language, my sister/brother’s friends want to be called Girls, tim calls his buddies at the bar the Girls, the waiter calls us Girls, cut, cut, stitch, cut cut, stitch, there’s no TIME I want to say there’s not enough time to do anything but our WORK/cut, cut. stitch, cut, the DREAM of a (common) language, you see?

“she” says, i had a dream about you and i say “yeah? was i taller?” he says “and what does your boyfriend think about you not having reconstruction?” the receptionist says, “yeah, we’ve had a lot of you guys through here this week.” do you get it? the language (is MATTER) matters, the sound of your voice shutting UP for a minute while i tell you (who) i am matters if we-re fixed if we don't (move), we (die)—it is not what comes OUT of the body that makes you ill, it’s what (stays) IN i have seen the best of all of us.

trying to get it RIGHT, trying to (figure) OUT which pronoun will (least) offend, i have seen our minds weighing each word, tossing them (carelessly), throwing hooks into each other, without ever feeling the LIMITS of language without (trying) HARDER “the mind,” bobbie says, “the mind throws the body away and runs” loren can bench 250 i can strip a 9mm in the dark, my (MOM) would kick your ass soon as (look) at ya, but it’s a baby BAT in the doorway, for christsakes, not a WILD BOAR, (call it) by whatever name fits (its) skin—i have seen privilege on 8 yr olds, have seen (reduction), essentialism. violence, have seen a (mother) stand in front of 70,000 people and say of her F2M child, “I love my son" i have seen mothers NOT (stand), i have seen the standing it/self mother so many, i have been a father for a day and a damn (good) one, i have seen the best, the best of all of us, “mad to (live), mad to breathe (free)” i have put my fingers onto the worn (rungs) of bunks in concentration camps, have seen that we all (die) the fucking SAME, each of us alone, with one breath stacked (slowly) upon the next, i have tried to make it last, to be polite, to correct you (gently) but there is NO time, get (busy) living/get busy (dying), but take your hooks out of my FACE, erase yourSELF FIRST, stand up or they will (DEVOUR) you, make your peace, “writing is a (debt) of honor to the (self),” when they (lock) the door take (off) the HINGES cut cut stitch, don't waste it, don't let ANYONE make you (small).

~~~~~~

max regan is a teacher and writer from the hills of Southern Virginia, currently living in Boulder, Colorado. Max is the founder of Hollowdeck Press and the the Administrative Director of the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University.

[overthedub]

The third Iceberg Radio takeover with Russel's picks! He's got a lot to say, even if he keeps forgetting the records he's meant to be playing.

Iceberg Radio was initially a Canadian Internet radio service back in 2005 and has since been bought and renamed to AccuRadio. The site no longer has these radio spots uploaded, so the takeovers are considered lost media.

Audio taken from Blur Archive Project’s archive folder (with their permission), which you can find for yourself here: 

You can listen to the full uncut radio takeover with songs included there!

Playlists for Russel’s picks:

Youtube playlist made by Lobotomy Pop:

Transcript under the cut!

Radio announcer: This is Russel Hobbs' Remix House, exclusively on icebergradio.com.

Russel: Hey, yo, what up? I'm Russel Hobbs, drummer from Gorillaz, and this is Russel Hobbs' Remix Hour. For the next hour, your izz is mine, mama jama!

I'mma gonna play you a whole bunch of my favorite cuts, tunes and tracks, both old and new. So, first up is the track from one part of the N.E.R.D. and Neptune's crew. Can only be the man hip-hop maestro: the production genius that is Pharrell, singing again...as he does. Soundin' like a man with his nuts trapped...in a vice.

["Frontin'" by Pharrell Williams ft. Jay-Z in the background]

Russel: Take it away, Pharrell.

*Note: Pharrell Williams was a part of a rock/hip-hop band called N.E.R.D. back in the 90s/early 2000s. He was also part of a music production duo called The Neptunes. Both have since broken up, with both members of The Neptunes no longer being in contact with one another.

[After "Frontin'"]

Russel: That's Pharrell "Frontin'" Williams right there. And that's all well and...and groovy, but, uh, I'm wonderin' if I'm missin' something.

Can't place it. Oh, whatever! Next up, we just gon' keep knockin' out the classics. This one's from The Game: "Hate It or Love It" with 50 Cent.

[After "Hate It or Love It"]

Russel: That was The Game. I'm your standing host, Russel Hobbs from Gorillaz, and for the next hour: the Russel Hobbs' Remix Hour. Russel, drummer from Gorillaz, y'all. Take it ahead with y'all.

Next, I, uh...Man, I keep gettin' that feeling that I forgot something, y'know? Maybe I left the oven on. Mmm...

Whatever! Uh...can't point my finger on it. So here's, uh, lemme-lemme play another track! Here's a jump-off dance floor feeling from Terror Squad! "Lean Back". Fat Joe...in the house, baby!

*Note: Fat Joe rapped on this track alongside Remy Ma and Terror Squad.

[After "Lean Back" by Terror Squad]

Russel: A'ight, a'ight, a'ight, this is, uh, gettin' on my nerve now. Botherin' me. It ain't my medication 'cause I...I done taken it already. But there's got to be somethin' I forgot.

*whispering* Damn!

Russel: Didn't something to do with the doctor. It ain't the dentist 'cause I saw her last week! Hm, look, I'm gonna play this next track and have a little think about it. Here's Faith [Evans]—sexy, sexy lady—with "Mesmerized".

[After "Mesmerized"]

Russel: Mm, this is, uh, this is chronic, man. My memory's gettin' so hazy. What is it I'm tryin'a remember? Real important sense or record. Maybe it's a chronic medical record? No, wait.

Uh, look... *sighs in defeat*

This track is by Common and it's called "The Corner".

[After "The Corner"]

Russel: That was Common—Sense!—with "The Corner".

It's the Russel Hobbs Remix Hour, Russel, drummer from Gorillaz, y'all. I find myself along today to play some records, check out some new tones and play you the fresh, jump-off Gorillaz track from our new Demon Days album!

This track is the first we released as a single in the U.K. and features a devastatin' rap from good ol' friends of mine: De La Soul. From the heart y'all. Here it is: "Feel Good Inc.".

[After "Feel Good Inc."]

Russel: So listen up, I'm Russel Hobbs from Gorillaz. This next cut is from Ciara with "Goodies".

[After "Goodies"]

Russel: That was Ciara with "Goodies", y'all, and I'm Russel Hobbs, Gorillaz' drummer, sufferin' from a chronic memory loss. I'm playin' tracks and droppin' tunes and forgettin' my records.

But there's a track I'm meant to be playin'. I just...can't remember in tarnation what it's meant to be.

...What? Did I say 'tarnation'?

...I said that? *sighs* Why in the Sam Hill would I say that?

Hm, I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm...Hold up, people! I'm gon' look for that missing record, and y'all just check out Snoop-Pharrell joint. Here comes "Drop It Like It's Hot".

[After "Drop It Like It's Hot"]

Russel: That's Snoop Diggy Dogg, y'all. With Pharrell rappin' about Sean Don. All hip-hops use your accompaniments. Girls' cause, know what I mean?

Snoop 'course broke way back with another great producer: the Dr. Dre, a man of dubious medical achievements but may be from the same college as Dr. Hook, a band who were claiming their ability to write pop hook was to an almost surgical standard. Hence that's why they call themselves Dr. Hook.

*Note: I'm not quite sure who Sean Don is, but I assume he was a big music producer. Dr. Dre is both an American rapper and music producer. Dr. Hook refers to the band Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show.

Russel: Damn! Did I just—?

That's it! Unbelievable, that's it! I just remembered! The missing record! I can't believe I forgot about Dre!

Where's it? Where's it at? Qui-P-P-Put that record on! *soft but hurried click*

[After "Forgot About Dre" by Dr Dre ft. Eminem]

[Gorillaz' "Clint Eastwood" in the background]

Russel: Whew, man, that was close! I almost forgot about that one.

So, I find this whole thing with Dr. Dre and Eminem discovering Dido's "Thank You" track on the Sliding Doors soundtrack to be a little bit, uh, suspicious. Now rumor has it that they were just chillin' around in Mr. Mathers' house. Just the two of them, they decided to rent a movie.

Now two guys...in on a night? I'm thinkin' Vin Diesel maybe. Jean Claude Van-Damme. But no. Uh, guess a-gain.

Two guys. Hardcore rappers. And we get Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow. Two men...with wives...watching a romantic comedy. You draw your own conclusions.

Okay, so I'm Russel Hobbs from Gorillaz, and you been listenin' to Russel Hobbs' Remix Hour. Hope y'all enjoyed the tunes and tracks. I'm outta here. Peace!

*Note: This is referencing the creation of Eminem's "Stan", a song that lifts a verse from Dido's song "Thank You" for its chorus. "Thank You" also featured in the 1998 movie Sliding Doors starring Gwyneth Paltrow.

[destroy-some-evil]

DS FIC REC - Crossover Fic

I have decided that since it's Wednesday it is crossover day. Lets start with what I consider the OG crossover fandom for due South:

The Sentinel (1996 TV show)

Funny thing is I remember reading a decent number of due South/Sentinel crossovers back in the late 2000's but I can't seem to find them anymore and the ones I can find are more Sentinel focused then due South focused.

Mini Sentinel Primer: A sentinel is a person with heightened senses and high protective instinct. Because of their heightened senses there is a risk that they might get overwhelmed and lost in those senses and need a guide to ground them.

So many of Fraser's habits which are attributed in the show to him knowing survival skills (such as licking things and sniffing things to figure out clues) can be easily translated to Fraser being a sentinel that the crossovers were bound to happen.

I do have two fic recommendations:

The first recommendation doesn't really require any knowledge of the Sentinel TV show than what I provided above.

Imperfections: Chicago by Dasha

Summary: Fraser was a damn good cop. Well, an incredible cop, actually, and a sentinel besides. And Canada left him to be guided by a wolf and put him on statue duty outside the Chicago consulate rather then, oh, for example, treating him with a little respect and letting him solve crimes in the Yukon where he'd be really efficient.

or using the Wayback Machine

https://web.archive.org/web/20170314094159/http://soulcake.skeeter63.org/chicago.html

The second recommendation would require more knowledge of the Sentinel TV show which if you don't already know a pretty good summary of it is here.

SVS-13: The Mountie Who Fell to Earth by Josephine Darcy

Summary:

While on an investigation, Jim and Blair stumble across a Chicago cop, a Mountie, his pet wolf and a murder. Eventually the gang is led on a wild ride across the Canadian wilderness in pursuit of a demented religious freak. Can Jim and Fraser save their partners before it's too late?

SVS is the Sentinel Virtual Season. I read it with no previous knowledge of SVS fics and still enjoyed.

[duckpasta-kamonabe]

if you're wondering "damn kamo why do you always draw pixie over and over?"

I don't have particular "special interest" but I do like the aesthetic of fairies. I used to play these flash paper doll games from the 2000s by the maker i-dressup on various seedy flash webs (y8 comes to mind)

Unlike other creators that makes games in the same vein, i-dressup was the few that maintained the quality (some are lower, but some are great)

just look at those clothes. Insanely cool. Some are blatantly traced from a haute couture dresses, but a lot of them looks great

sadly all of them got purged and I can only find few of it archived on old flash libraries

also some of them are known to be """very""" liberal with bewbies and booties so there goes its unstated purpose *sigh* *unzips pants*