#crosstagging again yeah

[auburngods]

happy pride to the submarine homosexuals

[corviddusk]

I am Neutral on "shipcourse"

I hate like rehashing this discourse because it centers around a lot of trauma for me as a human trafficking survivor and as someone who was on the internet way too young and got harassed by people in mass droves online but I just wanted to make a post about it.

I am not antiship.

I am not proship.

I consider myself media literate and critical (profic but not proship)

I'm going to list off issues I have with both communities and I'll also mention aspects I have found good about both, then explain why I label myself now as neutral and kinda cringe at my past as an antishipper. I may not be proship myself but I'm still in a sense... An ex-anti.

✧:･ﾟ( ̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅[̲̅:♡:̲̅]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅ ) ･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ( ̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅[̲̅:♡:̲̅]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅ ) ･ﾟ✧

Issues with Antishippers

Literal puritanism. Like full on "well you shouldn't have been wearing that if you didn't want to be assaulted" type puritanism.

Anti-kink stances that mirror radfem ideology

Anti-sex in general

The inability to just block people and curate their own spaces

Cross tagging so much crosstaging

Actual harassment especially of children

Inability to accept nuance or understand that there may be more than one reason for someone to be proship

Encouragement to emotionally self harm and not distance yourself from things that are openly triggering.

Going into people's asks or DMs whining about who they follow

Labeling anyone who doesn't engage with the discourse as proship or proship defenders and then in turn "pedophiles/pedo defenders"

Allowing minors in their spaces and sending porn or barley censored porn to talk about how "gross" it is (THIS IS STILL SENDING A CHILD PORN LEAVE THEM ALONE YOU'RE COMMITTING A CRIME)

Sharing around the content they're against to get people riled up instead of trying to be helpful to people wanting to not be triggered by seeing it.

✧:･ﾟ( ̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅[̲̅:♡:̲̅]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅ ) ･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ( ̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅[̲̅:♡:̲̅]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅ ) ･ﾟ✧

Issues With Proshippers

Anger and lashing out at people who are not as sexual as them. "PURITEENSSS RAHHH" When that is a literal child who probably doesn't want to have sex because they're a CHILD. Maybe children are going to have more likely innate disgust at sexual topics and shouldn't be involved in the discourse?

The inability to block people and curate their own spaces (oh look both sides have this issue)

Crosstaging all the fucking time... (Both sides again)

Actual harassment to the point it's a joke they claim to be anti-harassment (Literally some of the biggest accounts that are "proship" oriented are focused on harassing and bullying random people online and usually children :/)

Inability to accept nuance or understand that there may be more than one reason for someone to be antiship (it's both again)

Encouragement to emotionally self harm and not distance yourself from things that are openly triggering. (Yeah both do this)

Labeling anyone and everyone who doesn't have exactly 100% the same opinions "alt right" or calling it "Nazi rhetoric" or screaming about them being puritanical even over slight disagreements

Get offended at the idea of criticizing any media because how dare you have opinions on media I guess... "No more fun if your fun slightly annoys me and makes me upset even though I claim I only care about harm!"

Also allowing minors into their space and/or in mass speaking to children on porn accounts for having "the wrong opinion™" with their porn accounts

Supporting actual child grooming and predation in proship spaces and defending 20+ year olds speaking in private DMs to a 13- year old about the ethics of pornography and trying to get the little kid to like a certain kind of porn (This is about something I saw proshippers come out in droves to defend in the Obey me fandom)

Sharing around the posts of the people they don't like that are against them and riling everyone up and purposefully triggering others for the sake of discourse (similar to antis)

✧:･ﾟ( ̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅[̲̅:♡:̲̅]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅ ) ･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ( ̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅[̲̅:♡:̲̅]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅ ) ･ﾟ✧

So yeah both sides have a child abuse problem, a self harm problem, issues with etiquette, and issues with making any form of cohesive point. Now this isn't to say that all these issues are always in every single individual anti/proshipper. Everyone is different, some people will engage in one way or another but I want to be clear this is about what I've seen online from these groups by and large. It's a cluster fuck of abuse hurled at one another and it's disgusting. Children shouldn't ever be involved in shipcourse and I'm sorry if it offends kids but this is for their safety. We don't let kids in any other NSFW communities but people will pretend that doesn't apply to the EROTIC FANFICTION AND FANWORK DISCOURSE.

I literally cannot stress enough that this is about primarily erotic fanfiction. Yes there's stuff that goes beyond and tends into actual media analysis type conversations and ethics of fiction, which I love, but most of this is about random pornography.

Am I anti this nebulous concept or shipping that nobody can agree upon and actually doesn't matter because anti/pro ship has nothing to do with wether or not you ship things in general- or am pro this nebulous concept of shipping that has no actual cohesive agreed upon definition?

I have met wonderful people on all sides of this debate. I have met horrific people on all sides of this debate. But most of all everyone who has ever spoken on this debate has been prone to completely missing the point of what someone has to say. If you want to have big boy philosophical discussion about the ethics or morality or impact of fiction and fictional content then let's have that outside of these parameters. I love discussing media and I love having in-depth discussions about how people interpret it how it impacts the world reasons people are for or against certain stories or ways of depicting things but I am not loving discussing whether or not Henry over there in the corner is allowed to make his little dolls kiss because one's a human and the other is a monster who has an unreasonable life span.

I'm neutral ship because of these parameters in my own opinions

I don't really give a flying fuck about what someone ships. If I don't like it I block them and move on. I don't harass them it's easy.

I don't support shipping of anyone real people without their explicit consent because it is a form of sexual harassment. Something that I have endured in real life before. I believe it should be moderated and should be removed when non-consensual as it is sexual misconduct and harms the victims.

I think some types of content needs to be properly tagged especially those of triggering natures. I believe ideally those who do not properly tag and categorize these works should have theirs striken down on online platforms or automatically corrected to the right settings as part of moderation to allow people to more easily avoid triggers (IDEALISTICALLY I am aware this will likely not occur or get misused by bigoted people such as current issues with websites marking trans people as inherently sexual when we are not)

I am against all forms of harassment though I can understand why and how it can occur in many cases and have been guilty of this behavior in the past. I believe people should be able to grow and change and move past this.

I do not feel comfortable with a large amount of the content that is common from proshippers as it is triggering to me. I think if they keep it to themselves and don't force people to look at shit or mistag it it's more so okay.

I do not think children should EVER be involved in erotica discourse and it is so fucked that they have been. It messed me up as a kid and it's gonna mess others up

I think if you're going to make a certain kind of content you have to accept people thinking you're weird or gross, same with sharing said content. People will be grossed out and scared of me liking Gore and Guro. That's okay, they're allowed to be freaked out and if someone can't be friends with me because of that fact, then clearly we weren't compatible as friends anyways.

Censorship is necessary in some circumstances this especially applies to works of propaganda. I find the idea that your stance on fanfiction has any reflection of how you feel about broader media to be foolish. I don't care about your weird Hisoka X Reader fanfiction that's morally ambiguous I care about the effects of things like "The Birth Of A Nation" which was a propagandistic film that spurred the resurgence of the KKK. I think that things that will cause harm in the present should be sealed away in historical foundations or museum vaults for some time before being allowed again to the general public for historical purposes. (ONLY in cases where a work will cause direct harm like say Mien Kamph by Adolf Hitler)

I don't feel comfortable being associated with anti or pro ship people

I believe that writing specific stereotypes into your fanfiction about minorities is a reflection of your own bigotry and unless it's written for the purposes of discussion of such themes or as satire or parody of said bigotries there is in fact a reason said work can be deemed to be racist/homophobic/transphobic/sexist or whatever else it may be

You can have weird fucked up kinks. Your kink is not my kink and that's okay. What's not okay is to try and coerce people into said kinks or get them to engage with you when they clearly are against it. If someone doesn't want to do an erotic roleplay around the themes of aggressive sadism and masochism then don't force it- find a topic you can both feel comfortable on.

At the core of it I am: anti-harassment, media critical, believe in some level of censorship for the safety of the public from extremist ideological propagandistic bigotry, see that fiction affects reality and wish to discuss the influence of media on society, and pro the creation of dark and fucked up media that is telling a story of genuine value.

I may also be disgusted by certain types of porn but as long as it's legal and not victimizing anyone or anything- people should be able to make it and be on their own. But also you gotta accept stigma comes with it. And if you make content centering a paraphilia then don't be shocked when you're called a paraphile.

[queensparklekitten]

Rating: NOT CUTE!

While Minecraft and MCYT fans living in close proximity often leads to some overlap and intermixing, and interactions between the two CAN be positive and beneficial for both, MCYT posts should NOT be tagged as #minecraft! This ranges from distressing to actively harmful for base game focused fans (who will be referred to as Minecrafters in this for simplicity, even though most MCYT fans are also heavily into the base game), as Minecrafters need their own space and will understandably grow distressed at heavy presence of MCYT posts in their tags, as this prevents them from accessing things they need for proper enrichment and, while often not intended as such, is still essentially an attempt at taking over their territory- and will likely be responded to as such.

If your MCYT fans are crosstagging their posts as #minecraft or otherwise invading your Minecrafter's territory, you likely either have too small an enclosure or your MCYT fans are not properly socialized with Minecrafters. This should be remedied as soon as possible, as otherwise it will most likely lead to your Minecrafters and MCYT fans fighting each other, which can cause major damage to them both!

If you see Minecraft and MCYT fans fighting a lot, you might assume this is a natural occurrence, but this friction does not exist in the wild. Look to 2015 and before- this infighting rarely if ever occurred, Minecrafters often watched YouTube, and MCYT fans were treated as no different from Minecrafters. This is the natural state of Minecraft and MCYT fans in the wild. Heavy fighting between Minecraft and MCYT fans is brought about by artificial stressors such as the aforementioned crosstagging and territory invasion (which, again, is the direct result of small enclosures or isolation), Twitter discourse, cringe/purity culture, and many subtypes of MCYT fans being mistaken at a distance for another species that resembles them but is actually highly dangerous to their well-being as well as to that of Minecrafters.

If you're keeping Minecraft and MCYT fans in the same enclosure, make sure it's large enough for firm territory to be established without it feeling cramped for either of them, and try to keep the above listed stressors to the minimum you can. You should probably also make sure your Minecrafters are socialized enough with MCYT fans to, at the very least, recognize that there are too many Minecraft YouTubers for all of them to be problematic.

I'm going to have to go soon so I can't say much more, but yeah be sure to keep MCYT posts out of the #minecraft tag for the good of your cube-crazy creatures!

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

It's quite a shame that most of the videos of cute Adora and Glimmer moments are now gone cause now if I want to find Glimmdora content to look at I'd have to actually look at the tag and HOO BOY that's a mistake I'm never ever making again

most of the glimmadora videos are gone? damn. and yeah, c//a stans keep complaining about us crosstagging but the glimmadora tag is filled with c//a stans being petty.

[jeffthekillersomega]

I mean this in the kindest way I can, please dont take this wrong, but the reason why people dont appreciate Creepypasta content flooding the Marble Hornets tag is that Tumblr works differently than other social media. Even if you are also a Marble Hornets and Slenderverse creator, if the post has nothing to do with Marble Hornets, it will technically count as spam, since its crosstagging for more reach. While Tim and Brian are from MH and you make content featuring them, I suggest only including the MH tag if the two appear in your post. But uploading art of say, like.../just/ BEN or Jeff can be really upsetting for people who only want to see Marble Hornets, and counts as crosstagging. Kindly, I hope this explains it!

Omfg I’m sorry, yeah I just learned how to actually use this app I think less than a week ago, won’t be doing that again LMAO 😭

[superantiship]

BRO LMAO

I saw ur “don’t interact with us if you don’t like us!” Post on the proship tags, saw the URL, and went “Yeap. Of course. Antis cross-tagging in the proship tags again..” But I am *SOOO* glad I double-checked! Cheers & Props! :> :]

THANK YOU! Yeah I promise I’m not crosstagging hehehe. I hate those that do. I’ll stick to my own lane tyvm heheh.

[achillean-knight]

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I love persona 4 alot, I really do, but how they handled the characters arc's are- So so bad.

The closest we've gotten to seeing genuine LGBT rep in a GOOD WAY in Persona was Jun in Persona 2 being gay, but even then, he got barely any screentime and had to sacrifice the relationship at the end. So even then we don't get a proper queer relationship portrayed- only in such small amounts in a game nobody really plays.

It was just a heart break when you realise Yosuke had a FULLY VOICED ROMANCE CONFESSION then completely ripped from the game last minute.

He's so homophobic in the game, and it always hurts me how he treats the thoughts of it and treats Kanji because of him potentially being queer.

I again, really love persona 4- but I just wish they toned down the homophobia and transphobia.

I know it's- very outdated now, but even then, they could've atleast NOT added extra crap in golden to amplify it :')

Ah but what can you do? The closest thing we'll get really, is Yosuke's VA taking the time to voice a whole confession for Yosuke toward Yu which was cute :')) (Unrelated to the removed voice lines)

I'll still love Yosuke's character but just not the side that is- extremely toxic y'know?

I'll honestly take it as a win tho, that in BlazBlue Crosstag, Yosuke legit says to Yu "If we die, we die together" and Yu is like "Yeah!"

(if I find the pic I took of it, I'll reblog or edit this lol)

i'm thinking about yosuke again and it makes me so annoyed because of how hard atlus dropped the ball with him. it's very obvious that they made his character arc with the intention of him being a closeted high schooler in the year 2011 that struggles with internalized homophobia who learns to finally accept himself, but then randomly decided to cut out the payoff to all of the setup so it just makes him extremely homophobic. the whole game is about accepting the part of yourself that you hate, and yosuke coming to terms with his bisexuality throughout the course of the story fits into that theme perfectly.

it's small stuff like this and so many other moments that make much more sense with the context of him originally being planned on having a romance route. he projects his idea of "manliness" and what's "right" onto both others and himself to make up for the social stigma placed onto him by society; he's trying to convince himself that he's "normal" so he can fit in. him feeling ostracized because he's the manager of junes' son is a blatant parallel to this, and the two of them could've easily been intertwined.

"i never knew i had such... heat inside. d-don't make me say stuff like that!"

"don't go... i like you." (ore, omae ga suki da 《俺、 お前 が 好き だ》 -> known as the most common form of a love confession in japan and is almost always used romantically, especially given the context)

this is an obviously repressed queer kid who has been struggling to grasp his sexuality and growing feelings for yu; there is so much subtext throughout the game that has all culminated to this moment—or at least, should've culminated to this moment. but it didn't.

funnily enough, i don't think it was atlus projecting their bigotry onto him at first until p4g, but making a genuine attempt at a good character arc that, much like the rest of persona 4, misses the mark in the worst way possible despite being so close to saying something meaningful (cough kanji and naoto). it's like they chickened out at the last second, but "forgot" to take out the parts that just make him a homophobic asshole with the context removed—and then even doubled down on it in p4g lmao. the thing i'm confused about is that hoshino (the former director of the persona series who is extremely disgusting and bigoted) was... already in the company when the lines were recorded??? so i'm baffled as to why they were allowed to come up with it in the first place before deciding against it.

this could've been really great and realistic representation that could've helped other queer people who were going through the same thing yosuke was—especially in the year 2008—and i'm super disappointed that they decided to cut it. persona 4 is about confronting the problematic elements about yourself, and i cannot think of a greater example of this than yosuke and his internalized homophobia.

(bonus: the closet is made out of glass)

[the-lone-witch-and-secret-room]

Hey owl house fandom,

Can you guys stop portraying Camila as homophobic for no reason?

That’s... that’s not okay.

We were given absolutely no indication that she is. Some of y’all just keep inventing reasons to bash the POC single mom and I’m really tired of seeing that in fics constantly.

Is she a flawed parent? Yes. But she’s not a terrible person. The amount of hate she gets from the fandom is absolutely ridiculous, which is not helped by people just making stuff like this up to hate on her even more.

This needs to stop.

[owletarc]

okay but blake’s death line in that smite game? but i promised i wouldn’t leave?

bro that’s fucking heartbreaking. blake has held herself to such an impossible promise and it’s being lauded as such a good ship moment when really all it’s going to do is send her the same way as yang with her abandonment issues and mental trauma. pushed aside because it’s no longer convenient to the plot or it can only be pulled out for “ship angst.”

like no. fuck that. i hate that line and i hate blake’s impossible promise because it’s destined to end in tears and heartbreak. blake can’t keep that promise and all it’s doing is letting her blame herself even more than she has in canon. blake needs to realize that leaving is not a sin, especially when the canon narrative has actually pushed it as the best option for her in a lot of situations but that’s another post. i’m tired of blake taking on all the baggage and her trauma (and all the girls) being used like battering rams or ship moments. whether m&k will address these issues in the girls is to be seen but seeing what they did to yang’s abandonment issues arc ... i’m not hopeful. it doesn’t help when shippers laud it as an uwu romantic declaration of love and not the cry for help it is.

[algumaideia]

I think the pro stan above you post on the anti/fey//sand tag is about you.

Also again, Rhys putting shield around Feyre is THE SAME as Tamlin locking Feyre. Come to think of it, your boyfriend doesn't allow you to wear bikini and you're liek.. "oh he is what he is" plssss no matter how she cOnSents, it still a RED FLAG and toxic!! Why can't the stan just admit she jumped from one abusive man to other.

Hi nonnie!

Wow, okay. I went to look to it and yeah I also think it is an answer to my post, it talks about a lot of the things I mentioned. I just don't understand why the person tagged this as anti, like what is the point? To me see it?? I don't know like, most of the stans won't become an anti which fine, and the antis won't become stans, so I really don't understand why to crosstag???

Anyway, I don't know how to feel about it. Like, I'm kinda sad about it. I posted it for the anti community not for the stans. I'm uncomfortable about it. Like it is not like I'm a victim but it is just pretty weird.

But whatever. I also insulted the stans in my post so the person has the right to be mad and I think that's it. I just hope this doesn't happen again.

(I'm trying to be respectful and deal with this situation politely but I think I'm just sounding snob and like I'm playing the victim. Sorry.)

And yeah, like it is toxic and a red flag and abuse. But I'm not gonna rant about it, I'm not in the mood.

Anyway thanks nonnie for telling me that!

And how do you people deal with stans answering your posts?

Best regards,

Me.

[antiloreolympus]

I really wish people would stop posting LO in Apollo’s Greek myth tag, now that the eps with Daphne are being released people are cross tagging again and it’s so annoying

Yeah

Tumblr's tagging system is crosstagging the posts 💔

[kingreywrites]

Hey Kingrey, I just had a few questions on how to start a writer / just general tangled blog for tumblr considering how well you do it! I love your stories and I am just wondering how to get notice on tumblr generally? I've written a few and am however just waiting for an invitation on A03 to publish. I know that's a lot of questions and you probably have better things to do fgdhds sorry! Anyways, thank you so much if you have the time to respond xx

this tumblr feels like one big mess to me but i'm glad you think i'm doing well 😭💕

Getting noticed on tumblr definitely needs a bit of luck, though the first thing you need to do is to tag your post appropriately. Tbh I'm not the best at that, I just tag "tangled", "tangled the series", and the concerned characters, but I know you can also tag with "tangled fanfiction", "Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure" etc - basically if you wanna try to reach more people you can try to find other tags to put but it's not like, mandatory (however try not to crosstag because the only thing that does in my opinion is annoy people asghsjdk)

Tumblr is weird so just... don't talk in the tags of your post if you want them to actually appears in the main tags, I learnt that the hard way 😭 but yeah tag your posts, check that they actually appear, and that's how people will find your works

But honestly that's just to get the chances on your side. The thing with fanfics is that they always get way less traction than art / edits etc (which is logical since they're more time consuming for people!) and that in the end, you get noticed if your story sounds interesting to people, and they're willing to read it 😅 try to present it well so anyone can understand immediately what it's about, and also, don't just put links to ao3, repost them entirely if you want it to get some notes on tumblr too!! (But put the text under a read more ghshsjjd)

(everything i say is based on the way i do it so you can have your own opinions on what's better for you!! Best thing to do is find other fic writers and see how they present their stuff, and just pick the things you think are the best for you)

Also like, it's no magic trick, but if you participate in fandom, reblog and comment on stuff you enjoy, you'll make friends and these friends will tend to try and read your stuff. I mean, I don't reblog things so people reblog my own things, that's not how that work, but these kinds of interactions keep the fandom alive, and idk, i do tend to look at stuff i wouldn't have checked out otherwise if i recognise the name!

On ao3 the terrain is a little more even, because people who go here are looking for fanfictions specifically, so again it all depends on what you write (tho in my experience there's always someone who will be interested! write what you like and you'll make someone else happy for sure)

anyway i'm not sure i'm much help but yeah, that's basically what I do, and then I hope for the best asfhsjdjd

[boqvistsbabe]

tampa bay fans being mad about crosstagging but one of them sends kotkaniemis shit about that goalies death when its so obvious they're still grieving. i have no sympathy for tampa bay fans if this is how they act. that was disrespectful. they cant wonder why people are saying theyre insufferable when they send stuff like that. now corwin has turned off messages and is logging off for however long. thanks tampa fans way to show how classy you are.

Yeah I agree that was a fucking terrible move and that person is not a good person whatsoever. Literally a horrible thing to do. That person very much pisses me off. And I hope that Corwin gets their time to grieve and just feel better all around because that was a really shitty thing for that person to do.

And I agree that wasn’t classy or a good thing to do whatsoever I still believe that crosstaging shouldn’t happen. And also all of Tampa fans should not be put under the same umbrella as that person because it’s not fair to them and whether some people like or not, just because other people like different teams does not mean they are all terrible people. Now if they are being a terrible person then yes they suck but please don’t group them all together as if they all got together and had one of them send something like that.

I hope you get what I’m saying. Because I’m trying to agree with the fact that what they said to Corwin was terrible and should have never been said, but I also want it to be a point that crosstagging still shouldn’t happen. And not just for playoffs but for the whole season and for all teams in general not just these two.

And like as something to say to everyone as a whole, stop sending anon hate. Whether somebody pissed you off or has a different opinion don’t send it. Go about it maturely and either ignore what they said or block/unfollow them. And this goes for stuff outside of hockey. I don’t know how many times I see my friends and other people I follow getting hate for literally no reason. I’m saying this as an unbiased party, no one deserves anon hate. I don’t care what y’all say, no one does. I’m gonna be real fucking annoying here and say this: if you don’t have something nice to say, DONT SAY IT AT ALL!!!!!!!! It is not that hard. Please stop sending hate (anon or otherwise) to people, whether you think they deserve it or not. And once again, stop crosstagging.

Anyways anon I hope you (and everyone else) understand(s) what I’m saying and that I said this in a way that makes sense

And I hope Corwin can get better and recover from what was said. I can’t believe that even happened at all. And I’m very sorry it happened in the first place, it is horrible.

[townhulls]

2020 fic year in review!

tagged by the lovely @enchi-elm! thank you darling!

total number of completed stories: 9! that is somehow much more than i expected it to be, haha.

total number of words: 85,525! also much more than i expected, wow!

fandoms written in: band of brothers, hockey rpf, the pacific, turn, and undrafted! i love my ensemble casts.

top 5 by word count:

1. tyson barrie gets his groove back, and other unlikely stories - hockey rpf, 29,533 words

2. pales in comparison to love - turn, 17,153 words

3. Choice Theory - hockey rpf, 13,215 words

4. the things that fate had willed - the pacific, 9,827 words

5. a little less human - the pacific, 4,963 words (rip… my one and only abandoned fic…)

top 5 by kudos:

1. tyson barrie gets his groove back, and other unlikely stories - hockey rpf

2. got no brakes - hockey rpf

3. the things that fate had willed - the pacific

4. Choice Theory - hockey rpf*

5. simply going forward - band of brothers

*technically my 4th most-kudosed fic is actually a fic i published anonymously, but i’m not going to put it here because it’s anonymous for a reason lmao.

top fic overall: in terms of stats, definitely tyson barrie gets his groove back. i’ll own up to a bunch of crosstagging to explain the hits/kudos lol, but it’s also the longest one-shot i’ve ever written and i’ve gotten a ton of lovely feedback on it!

looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you’d expected? oh hell yeah i wrote more than i expected. honestly, march was filled with such writing malaise that i wasn’t expecting to get any writing done over quarantine, period. but starting in about late may, stuff just started to go right for me. i even participated in my first ever fic exchange! and even though classes have been killing me for the last few months, now that i’m on break i’ve managed to rekindle that writing fervor, which i am unspeakably glad for.

what’s your own favorite story of the year? this is so difficult! the obvious choice is tyson barrie gets his groove back, as mentioned above. but also, pales in comparison to love was the product of a year and a half of love-induced labor. to get that done was such a relief. but ALSO, the things that fate had willed is one of my favorite fics i’ve ever written, and i miss writing sidgene like, daily. in the end though, i think this one has to go to got no brakes. i just truly enjoyed writing it, and it’s not every day that your girlfriend embroiders an entire pillow in honor of your hockey rpf fic.

did you take any writing risks this year? oh, where to start? as enchi-elm mentioned, erotica is hard, and this is the first year i’ve really sort of dived into it! also, the amount of research i’ve put into my writing this year, from the price of a record player in the late 40s, to the various functions of ship parts in the golden age of piracy, to just getting time periods and rosters straight for rpf… is definitely unprecedented for me.

do you have any fanfic or profic goals for the new year? yes!! i’m currently slaving away at my avs small town au, which was supposed to be short and is now 28k and counting. hopefully it will be done by next year, haha… after that i’ve been thinking about a dystopia au a la ionthesparrow’s hockey at the end of the world, and i still have an unfinished sidgene fic that’s been sitting in my drafts since january.

story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: cough it out for sure! granted, i wrote it for fun and mostly as a joke, but the undrafted tag is so tiny that, uh, it has 14 hits and no kudos. (i was going to say either Choice Theory or the things that fate had willed, but that’s just because those are rarepairs lmao.)

most fun story to write? got no brakes!

most unintentionally telling story? haha um. all of them? idk all of my writing is weirdly personal. if you’ve ever read my fic you have Perceived me and i’m sorry.

biggest disappointment? oh, definitely abandoning a little less human. i had a playlist for it and everything, and a 3-page long plot synopsis for what i wanted to happen. unfortunately, while i love sledgefu dynamics and writing about pirates, sidgene snagged hold of me and… didn’t really let go.

biggest surprise: hockey rpf! if you told me in september 2019 that a) i’d be invested in a sport, b) that sport was HOCKEY, and c) i’d be writing real person fanfiction about hockey players like, in a serious capacity, i’d have laughed at you. but here we are, and what a ride it’s been.

again, thank you so much for the tag! i’m bad at tagging people so if you see this & feel compelled by forces unknown, consider this your tag!

[radioromantic-moved]

All the rile up f/o asks with Drake?

:0 ANOTHER ONE...TYSM. himb. again under the cut cause this might get long

1) while not the Hottest of takes (at least i’m sure i’ve seen it somewhere before) y’all know about my autistic drake headcanon. other than the stuff i’ve already mentioned (pacing! occasional tunnel vision! routines! comfort gear!) he’s also very expressive in general with his gestures and movements. which i think was just a Thing in 90s cartoons but i still file it away in my brain to think about and go :)

2) I can’t...think of anything at the moment?? jksgkgs dw fans just want their Family Content. i guess one thing is people who make weird content about drake and launchpad being mistaken for a gay couple and then having to explain that they’re not. i’ve only seen that a few times but it’s so strange to me? like you don’t have to ship them but that’s a weird thing to do

3) morgana AND launchpad at different, varying points. hghsjgjd i was Not prepared to get a crush on him. 

4) i think drake is pretty well liked by both the dwd and the dt fandoms tbh...except for by maybe the really really hardcore fearsome five stans. but they’re few and far between for the most part 

5) this isn’t a thing i’ve heard so much as a thing i’ve seen but occasionally i find negaduck/dw art which is...uh. Bad! they’re essentially the same person and also most of the time it just devolves into torture porn. but thankfully that stuff is really rare for the most part. i guess dt17 negaduck/drake would be fine cause they are their own individuals but i don’t think i’ve seen anything for that so it’s kind of a non-issue.

6) amp up the fluff...i am guilty of this. make him look even more like a dad. and tired. he always looks like he needs more sleep. 

7) yeah...he always gets out of stuff okay in the end but it still hurts to see him hurt you feel me. i feel like most if not all of my f/os deserved better if i’m being honest

8) i didn’t think i was gonna like it originally--i was only planning to watch a few episodes so the references to the original show in dt would make sense but then. i got invested. so yeah i...really like his source material ghsjgj. but even if i was just watching it for him:

9) nah, like i said the dwd fandom is pretty chill for the most part! i’m sure there are weird corners of it but i...haven’t really found them yet except for the gosalyn/negaduck shippers. they can go jump off a cliff.

10) i literally poked fun at the idea i might fall for him when i first started watching dwd but in the way of “haha he fits my types” more than actually expecting to fall for him...and then when i did i was...i mean. not surprised. cause i already knew he at least had crush potential. but at least a little appreciative of the irony. i can’t joke about a character being my type because then i’ll actually fall for them. 

11) in terms of drake i definitely appreciate the amount of content there is for him...especially the family content which is most of it. the ship thing is kind of a nonissue because most of the shipping in the dwd tags is drakepad which i’m fine with as a concept (and on the days where i can’t handle it for some reason, again, tag block is my friend). morgwing is a little worse for me mentally for unknown reasons but it’s not as if i can’t Stand seeing it. drake ships are a lot less bad for my mental state than some other canon ships in general.

12) this isn’t that much of a rant but it is frustrating so anyway: stop crosstagging fics in both the dwd and dt17 tags if the characters are only from one show. we don’t know if the fearsome four exist yet in the dt17 universe, and if they do, the relationship isn’t gonna be the same as it is in the dwd universe. the same with steelbeak fics--there are two very different depictions of steelbeak depending on which one you’re talking about. it’s the same with all of the characters. but this is less of an angry rant and more of a thing that bugs me personally.

[janiedean]

serious talk but i’m honestly stumped as to why jcs are the ones sending hate. i’m not saying anyone should send or receive hate but in every other fandom i’ve been in the ‘problematic’ shippers are generally chill and stay in their lanes, while being the ones getting sent hate. i’m not saying jcs never get hate but i’ve never seen taboo shippers be the ones doing the harassing before.

*shrug*

I had an anon addressing that at length in june so if you want that entire discussion it’s here https://janiedean.tumblr.com/post/185642667908/hello-im-sorry-for-disturbing-you-but-im-quite

that said I’ve been considering it for years bc honest I never was in the situation where I argued with **problematic shippers and like you can ask anyone in the theon corner who’s also in th/ramsay fandom that I’ve defended them countless times regardless of the OMG YOU’RE SICK people coming from (sadly) my side because they got trashed to hell and back, and like… I have it on record that even if I’m not into badwrong stuff I will defend people who ship it bc everyone should ship what they want. and everywhere even within this fandom **problematic shippers usually stay in their lane - I mean ffs I don’t think I’ve ever ran into anyone shipping idk th/ramsay or sansa/lf or whichever other badwrong ship being like that. and jcs get way less hate than any of them and half of that is jb people telling them to can it after they crosstag hate on purpose and then pearl clutch that ohmygod we’re so hateful, but if you want my two cents, under the cut bc it’s long and is2g if someone shows up telling me this is me accusing jc shippers as a whole of whatever I’m blocking on sight:

that part of jc fandom has done that since I remember being in this fandom, and with that part I mean that there’s a bunch of jc people who either multiship or are like sane people who aren’t partaking in fandom or left bc they didn’t want to be associated with that attitude

that part of jc fandom has spun a narrative since 2011 that if you didn’t like c. or thought j. was a better person than she was (or tyrion too) you were a closeted misogynist and like… a lot of those people were bnfs back in the day so basically criticizing c. and/or saying that jaime isn’t a bad person now automatically means that you’re problematic/a misogynist/hate women and no one countered it bc apparently saying that grrm is not necessarily misogynist for writing c. as a villain is a controversial opinion which means that if they coat their analysis in performative feminism they have the upper hand *shrug*

in this context c. being the abuser/bad person is downplayed/turned over on its head and no one recognizes that jc is indeed an abusive rship where j. is the abused/wronged part and you can see that because 90% of the meta published in this fandom villainizes j. in nonsensical ways just so it’s an argument that he’s as bad as c. if not worse and jc is seen as codependent toxic but not as abusive with power imbalance which means that it’s not seen as necessarily *problematic* or badwrong which means they don’t get the shit that everyone else shipping badwrong gets which… good for them bc no one should get shit for shipping what they want but basically they never were on the side of receiving anon hate all day long and they actually were on the side of sending it all day long

and like sorry but that’s factual, some people in that side of fandom were making burned ground around jb before S2 and the moment jb became popular they were on us/the ship like woah because obviously if people shipped jb they should buy the narrative where j. is redeemable/not a terrible person, and the moment people buy that narrative then theirs is automatically put in question, and so they started painting us as the problematic straight women who are homophobic bc they don’t think brienne is lgbt and want her with j. bc we want to fuck him and we’re projecting, which at the same time makes us sound like we’re making shit up and have no textual analysis to base stuff on when in fact we do, but again in this climate where saying c. is terrible = you’re a misogynist you’re automatically discredited the moment you say that and that j. isn’t as horrible as she is

also, since the people enabling that shit in jc fandom were bnfs (like there’s… one bnf in jc fandom who’s an a+ person and didn’t engage in shitting over us at least but everyone else enabling it was a bnf) it meant that the ‘let’s shit on jb shippers’ behavior was always condoned/let slide, so basically if anyone wanted to get popularity points being asses to us was the best way to go at it, and that’s why 90% of what’s remained of them rn is more interested in sending anon hate to jb shippers than producing content, and every single time it’s turning things over on their head making it sound as if we started it or anything of the kind. too bad that I’ve been here since before jb was a show thing and I can 100% remember the times people asked me privately questions aimed into guilttripping me from having jb as a sideship in t/hrobb fic and I was terrified of what would happen when I put it as a sideship in sfbd which is btw one of the reasons I dropped it for a year the first time round *shrug* (yeah it’s been long enough that I think I can say that *shrug*)

basically: I think that those specific jc shippers have…. issues in the sense that they’re caught in some very unhealthy internet presence thing in which they’ve been doing this thing since like 2013 if not earlier and now they can’t stop and the new ones who fall in that crowd follow suit and no one ever told them to can it or that it wasn’t okay or whatever, and now it’s too late to do anything except waiting for grrm to publish wow, have c. die somewhere j. is not and have the entire ‘they’ll die together’ discourse die and maybe they’ll stop. but like… again: i made the blog private for three months, I put it back to public, before I could even make the post saying it like three minutes after I went public again I got a jc anon. within the first week I had twenty. and they showed up the moment I put it back to public. just that is a level of unhealthy that should be enough to state whoever’s doing this needs help like very much because it’s like basically stalking, but hey, it’s all my fault because I said jc is an abusive rship and he’s not the abuser. *shrug* like: at this point I’m legit worried for them because this isn’t healthy and I really hope they get help because there’s no reason why they should come at me like that when I’m in my lane all the damned time except for the single occasions pointed out in the first linked post. the only explanation is that they can’t handle the fact that I’m existing and expressing an opinion they disagree with when I don’t even know them so if it’s the problem………. I really hope they get a grip. because it’s not healthy. period.