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so apparently I'm blissfully ignorant, because I have no idea who either of these people are
James Somerton is a previously fairly popular Canadian YouTuber who "made" videos dealing mainly with the intersection of media and queer issues.
The videos were heavily plagiarized (very, very heavily plagiarized) and the original content seemed to mostly involve tacking on extraneous, inconsistent misogyny (often directed at things/people he now seems to have made up himself—he tried to obscure his misogyny by specifying "straight" and/or "white" women/girls, but this was a very obvious smokescreen for just hating women/girls in general). One of his (or "his") more notorious takes was that the boring, non-artsy, assimilationist gay people were the ones who survived the AIDS epidemic and that's why they care so much about marriage equality.
Another YouTuber, hbomberguy, recently posted a video about plagiarism that dealt a lot with Somerton's mixture of theft and bad takes, and it went viral (currently over 9 million views). So there's been a lot of conversation about that over the last few days.
Personally, I knew that Somerton was a plagiarist, misogynist, and generally annoying person because the YouTube algorithm kept throwing his videos at me and I dug around a bit, but I had no idea of the scale. And I find plagiarism itself interesting, esp as someone who has been plagiarized, so that's been a kind of fascinating trainwreck. (I keep saying "was" because he deleted everything.)
I only just found out about Cait Corrain's existence via a truly remarkable attempt at sabotage.
They are (or were) a debut author who was bringing in a lot of good reviews, a strong marketing push from their publisher (Del Rey, I think), etc—basically everything that could go right for a debut author was. Except the part where they'd made a bunch of sockpuppets on GoodReads to attack other debut authors, including authors represented by their own agent, nearly all of them people of color, while simultaneously using the sockpuppets to prop up their own novel.
They first tried to blame this on "Lilly," an unhinged Reylo friend they made up (to the point of doctoring Discord screenshots of them nobly standing up to Lilly). This was obviously a lie and they've since admitted that much. Their current explanation is that it has to do with their mental illness. I'm sure the explanation of how racism is a side effect of mental illness and/or medication is fascinating but I'll admit I didn't bother reading it. The whole thing mostly struck me as a sort of halfway-to-MsScribe situation, only with the stakes involving major publishers instead of Harry Potter websites.
As of yesterday, I think they've been dropped by their agent and by Del Rey.
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A few Neither Living nor Dead notes:
- Just finished outlining/rough drafting Chapter Eight. I’m thinking there’s going to be somewhere between twenty and thirty chapters here; probably a bit closer to thirty than twenty. Am currently debating whether I want to rate this T or M, because it’s starting to occur to me that there’s going to be a fair amount of discussion of suicide in this fic. Torbin’s suicide, of course, and the implied suicide of a background character who’s been dead since long before any of this started, and Sol entertaining suicide ideation-adjacent thinking throughout most of the fic—and I’m not sure yet whether or not he’s even going to be out of the woods in wishing he was still dead by the time the fic is over. If anyone has any thoughts about whether I should rate it T or M, I’d appreciate it. There’s going to be a lot of other material that, coupled with this, might necessitate an M rating.
- Hey, remember when Indara told Aniseya that inside of Republic space, only Jedi are allowed to train children in the ways of the Force? What if that law was passed when Aniseya was a child? What if the reason the witches are so quick to jump to the idea that the Jedi are there to take Osha and Mae away is because it wouldn’t be the first time they had their children forcibly taken away from them? What if the events leading up to the Brendok massacre potentially isn’t the first contact the Jedi have ever had with Aniseya’s coven? What if, if it’s true that the Jedi Order have had contact with members of this coven before, this constitutes yet another skeleton in the Order’s closet? Wouldn’t that be fun?
[Bonus AO3 tags under the cut]
Additional Tags: The SolMae is subtextual but by the end the subtext is thick enough to cut with a knife, barely subtext at all, Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Sol lives but he wishes he hadn’t, Developing Relationship, Intimacy Issues, Triggers, Disturbing Themes, Nightmares, Depression, Trauma, Grief/Mourning, Self-Esteem Issues, Guilt, Colonialism, Space Colonialism, Generational Trauma, Discussion of Suicide, Suicide Ideation Adjacent Thinking, there’s a lot of suicide chat in this actually, the Jedi Order does not have therapy, or mental health services, they’re not great about mental health in general, something something you must give this to the Force, there’s not quite a culture of thinking mental illness is a sign of weakness, but there’s something pretty close, Food Hoarding, Undereating, Mae and Sol get a long sojourn in a thematical purgatory, to work out some issues and discover whole new ones, raising a man from the dead has its consequences, though they’re still trying to work out what those consequences are, obligatory: the Star Wars canon is big enough, that I don’t consider myself beholden to lore unconnected with the Star Wars property I’m currently writing for, let alone Star Wars properties I have neither watched nor read
- Subject to change, obviously, since I’m still outlining/rough drafting this thing. But I did want to share.
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'Stare' for the guessing game meme, please!
There was a long moment of silence as Peggy and all of the Commandos turned to stare at Steve.
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I want you to know that your commentary is giving me life. Also, if you're avoiding spoilers, don't look at my blog; I don't tag spoilers there.
Thank you for both the compliments and the warning!! I’m very careful about spoilers so I don’t even look at the “for you” tab on my dashboard, looking at other people’s blogs is 1000x more dangerous. So, no worries! You guys can send asks/dms and I’ll answer but there’ll be no other contact with your blogs!
— Rose, the Revolutionary Witch
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replaying CF and thinking about how while it is true that there's certain people who thematically fit more with CF, CF is (imo) one of the routes where all the out-of-house recruits staying makes sense.
Because in CF, they are all with you in the Holy Tomb. At the start of the chapter, everyone fights Edelgard because she's desecrating a sacred space and it seems kinda fucked up (it is). After the battle, Rhea tells Byleth to kill her. Byleth is supposed to execute not just one of their students, but a literal head of state. Rhea is, without any second thought, ready to kill a child and throw the Empire into political turmoil (ofc Rhea's trauma does make her response understandable to a degree but that's another post).
If Byleth refuses to kill Edelgard, Rhea snaps. Byleth doesn't declare war on the church. Byleth doesn't turn to fight Rhea. Byleth refuses to kill a student/head of state. And for that "crime," Rhea says she will rip out Byleths heart and turns into a massive dragon, causing everyone to flee the Holy Tomb.
That's probably lowkey traumatic for some, if not most, of the students. Witnessing Rhea's pure viciousness in that moment and watching her turn into a dragon had to have been terrifying. And it confirms everything Edelgard goes on to say about the church. Paired alongside this too, is Edelgard telling everyone that they are not obliged to stay with her. They are free to make their decisions. As conflicted as they are about fighting their homeland, they continue on because they witnessed an event that fundamentally alters how they view the church and they are fighting for someone working to make Fódlan better.
It's telling too, that this is the route where everyone stays together. The other routes, everyone is scattered because the only things that bound them were school and Byleth. But in CF, they're bound together by a world-view altering event and a vision for the future.
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Phantasm
by ncfan
Part 7 of Nan Elmoth
Her child never cries, and he always seems to know when she's coming.
General, No Archive Warnings
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Hi! May I ask, do you have any recomeendation NH story that kind of sad or angst? Thank you!
Hello! Please scroll through #naruhina angst on my blog for a lot of recommendations!
Here are some NaruHina recs to make you feel sad:
“The End of Winter” by @happyocelot - Rated T, Canon-Divergent AU, Multi-chapter, Complete. He was always looking forward, seeing something beyond the big, wide sky. Seeing something no one else could see. Those morning rays of the sun, they hit him first. And maybe she wanted to see what he saw, so she started craning her neck in the same direction. Only now she had to do it without him by her side. Naruto dies. Hidden leaves bloom in Hinata’s veins.
“Endings” from “Tales of Two Ninjas” by @magmawrites - Rated T, Canon-Divergent, Short One-shot. It wasn’t supposed to end up like this. Angst Warning.
“A Place In The Sun” by ihaveastorminme - Rated M for smut and depictions of violence, Canon-Divergent, Multi-chapter, Incomplete. Naruto realizes that he’s not enough to love her. He’s not enough to save her, either.
“Jitters” by ncfan - Rated T, Canon-Compliant, One-shot. He has her heart but he doesn’t even know it.
“The Red Umbrella” by ncfan - Rated G, Canon-Divergent, One-shot. As the rain hits her, Hinata thinks about what she doesn’t have, and what she’ll never have now.
“Until the Day I Love” by BluBlooThalassophile - Rated M, Canon-Divergent, Multi-chapter, Incomplete. Everyone is recovering from the war.
Please enjoy the sad reading 😢
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Hiiii, this is the anon from 2 weeks ago who said trans girl tohya would fix so many issues in umineko but couldn't talk about it because my wrist hurt turn out my wrist hurting was going to last a lot longer than expected, but it's better now :3, so :
There are a few issues that I have with umineko: 1)Ikuko and Tohya are not properly utilised - ikuko is a mouthpiece for the author and tohya's characterisation is hard to parse- the only reason I'm so attached to them as a duo is due to the fic 'Coracle' by Ncfan 2)The exploration of class a bit poor- sure we see how Kanon and Shannon suffer but in their happy alternate timeline, where Lion exists, the issue is not framed as one of class divide and wealth, but rather the family's lack fo acceptance of Sayo (which is also a problem but it wouldn't have fixed everything if they did accept her). TLDR Berkastel was right actually, the existence of the ushiromia family is inherently evil, as it is a microcosm of class oppression 3)there was an opportunity for an exploration of queer community, and finding acceptance outside of family had Tohya been made a trans girl due to Tohya being so separate from the family - I understand why that opportunity wasn't taken, Rhykishi is a cishet guy who probably didn't know much about queerness at the time of writing, and I'm glad that Ciconia is doing what umineko didn't, but I'm still mildly disappointed on that front 4) the wedding in episode 6- no I will not elaborate (lie)
I do have a couple more issues of course, but those aren't relevant rn, why? Because these three (four) problems I believe could be fixed with the inclusion of trans girl tohya How? Combine Ikuko and Tohya into one character (not in the sayo way, but in a 'sometimes you have to kill your darlings" writing advice way) and make this new character poor. Let me explain or rather, let me paint you a picture
You, Ange, sit in the living room of the author you have been looking for. It's small, you note, not a sprawling study filled with books like you imagined, and all the decor is rather cheap. The woman in front of you claims to be 30, but she looks older, you notice white roots at the top of her scalp, her hair looking hastily dyed black to hide said fact, and her skin beginning to wrinkle, her voice nasally and rough, perhaps she's a smoker? Despite all this, she guides you into the small room with grand movements- probably trying to come across as worldly, but there is an air of performativity to it, and rather than dignified she comes across as a bit dorky.
At one point say you've heard that the author was a man so you're you're surprised to have to have found her instead. She actually fidgets and tells you that a friend of hers is the one who handles the public side of this, she always wrote for the sake of it and had little care for the sudden surge of attention she has received recently.
Your lip curls at the phrasing "So you write about someone else's dead family 'for the sake of it'". The woman leans back in her chair, she repeats that she had never expected to gain the attention that she did, let alone for it to catch the eye from a member of the family itself, considering what an eyesore someone like her must be to someone of your status.
it should have come across as scornful, but rather she levels you with a knowing look. Instead of judgement you feel understood in a way you don't wish to be.
You divert your eyes.
Listen, what I want for this reimagined version of tohya to be a worst-case scenario. Without being picked up by a rich benefactor, post-incident Tohya would probably become homeless due to lacking any credentials and not even knowing their own name. That would most likely lead to their first few years of life as tohya to be rather rough, but it would have exposed them to other unwanted folk perhaps even leading them to discover the queer scene of the time Badabing bada-boom, tohya realises she's a girl
over the span of several years
and probably making it even more difficult than it already was
The only reason the Tohya Ange mets even has a modicum of financial stability is because of the community she found.
This all is important to me because of two reasons: 1) trans girl tohya shows that Sayo wasn't doomed 2) it showcases the consequences of separating oneself from an abusive family- primarily the financial consequences - I SAY THIS AS SOMEONE WHO HAS EXPERIENCE HELPING SOMEONE ESCAPE FINANCIAL ABUSE THAT SHIT SUCKS- IT WAS A YEAR LONG PAPERWORK NIGHTMARE TO GET THEM BENEFITS AND SOCIAL HOUSING- LIKE COME ON RYUKISHI YOU WERE A SOCIAL WORKER YOU COULD INCORPORATED IT INTO YOUR STORY, anyway 3) the woman that ange meets being post transition battler would not only tie into the themes of the story ("without love it can't be seen" ange can't recognise who tohya is without coming to terms with what that means) 4) (yeah these points just keep going) tohya would probably come across as a little less irresponsible than in canon. Unlike in canon were tohya only makes contact with ange decades later, this version of tohya does make an appearance once ange seeks her out (perhaps even the whole having a bunch of pen names with different clues leading to her even being intentionally placed for ange). But once she realises that ange does not recognise her and their first meeting not going all that well, tohya might decide that it's for the best - it would echo Sayo's story and in turn make it easier to emphasise with tohya's circumstances 5) also I just think it would just make certain scenes more fun? for me at least. Like I think ange respects ikuko in canon a bit too much. I imagine in this version ange would catch on that trans girl tohya is a dork and think that would lead to some that lead to some interesting banter- the sort of banter that leans uncomfortably close to sibling banter
That would mean that would also change ange's dynamic with featherine. I like to imagine ange being a bit more casual with featherine, perhaps even bullying her a bit for that dress (seriously what is up with that dress), and everyone else being weirded out that featherine doesn't just outright smite her for it
also, episode 6's wedding being battler and erika. Listen, I'm just mad that ryukishi just threw a rape metaphor and never elaborated- that stupid rape metaphor lives in my head and I think it's about time to charge it rent. Felix from Jokrono positied that that scene is there to reflect Ikoku's feeling on how a romance between her and tohya is doomed to never blossom, but personally I feel that's a stretch due to how Ikuko's feelings are never explored in the story and I don't think ryukishi was about to start doing so with the wedding scene as he never elaborated on it.
In my version of the narrative the wedding scene, it could signify tohya's guilt for her inability to be beatrice's groom, to be her prince. ("I mean in canon one of the chester sister's says that battler is more of a bride than a groom, come on ryukishi it was right there!!!) being wedded to erika could signify the fear of staying a man, and the wedding between battler and Beatrice signifies embracing trans lesbianism baby!
Ok I am simplifying it a bit- I honestly don't know what to do with the wedding even in this context, at least not without changing it rather drastically, but I need to get it out there or else this thing is going to stay in my brain. There's nothing wrong with having a rape metaphor in the wedding scene btw especially with a story that focuses on sexual violence like umineko I just wish it effected battler's or tohya's character you know?
And on a final note, tohya in this version wears a short white jean jacket with rolled sleeves with a knee-long black dress and short black hair cut just above the shoulders (aka just a better version of Ikuko's outfit from canon), and once ange and tohya meet again decades later once ange too has become an author, the colours of her outfit have inverted since her hair has gone fully white by then. i would send you a pic of the outfit but I can't find any pictures that match on google so I'd need to draw it- which I might do later
Okay so lets take it from the top lol 1) I usually don't focus much on these characters so I don't have a strong opinion on that, but maybe its in itself a proof of what you're saying here lol. 2) For the class part I don't exactly agree, I think the fact that the servants despite being here for so long are being targeted and distrusted needlessly + sayo being a victim of child labor and being forbidden to be too close to Jessica WHILE going to school with her, being a parallel of her having a normal childhood does say something about the class element. I get where you're going tho and yes, it could have been more developed on that part. 3) Well, but I'd rather something like this on the queerness part than if it tried to bit more than they could chew (and then become really clumsy in the message). I think it treats the subject with enough compassion and respect, thats all I wait for tbh. But I'm also not the right person to elaborate on the trans identity part. (and idk anything about Ciconia but glad its elaborating in the subject).
With all of that said, I do think your idea of Tohya being trans is smart and interesting, combining to characters in one and changing a bit the dynamics with Ange, and its true it would balance things out with Sayo, it holds water and all. The financial part I think was more to make everything easier (having time, opportunities and so on without putting more hours of explaining how its possible). (also that design sounds really cool!)
For the wedding scene and the rape metaphor : in some ways I feel like it was a good adding and in some ways i do not. I understand how it can feel out of place and I agree with you with the lack of following on all of that. I think its being taken as a "what happens in a game stays in the game" but... yeah. I personally just saw it as an illustration of how to feels to force a narrative and a truth without consideration, as a continuity of what happened in EP5 with the character assassination of Natsuhi (which btw, did give me that kind of ick too even if its not the same thing or situation). But for why Tohya made that specific choice I couldn't say for sure. With that said, I can't deny how impactful and chilling that scene was, it think it was extremely well done, but its too bad it was so consequence free :/ (i actually heard other criticism on that scene but more in comparison with how rape was treated in ep7 it was really good I wish I could find it again anyway).
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Mercedes: My adopted father is pressuring me to marry into the nobility even though I don’t want to.
Ingrid:
#ncfan-1#ingrid projected all of her anger into the one support lol#fe3h#fire emblem three houses#ingrid#ingrid brandl galatea#mercedes von martritz
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Tagged by the wonderful @rhavewellyarnbag
Last song? Jesus was a Cross Maker - Judee Sill. She was randomly recommended by Spotify. She had a short, sad life and made some lovely music.
Favourite colour? Probably blue. I have a fondness for wearing red, but it's probably shades of blue that make me properly stare. I visited Switzerland recently and have never seen water that genuine shade of ice blue in my life. It looked like a storybook illustration
Last movie/TV show: I've been flitting between shows. Inspector Morse is the last complete episode of anything I watched. I keep meaning to watch Endeavour: I'm not sure if it'll have that gentle melancholic feel that the original series has.
Currently watching/listening: I've been watching ER again and revisiting an old and persistent crush on Romano. I need to finish Succession. I randomly got a cheap copy of Mildred Pierce - I'll watch that tomorrow
Sweet/Spicy/Savoury? : I have a terrible sweet tooth, but I do like some savoury things. Spice - much less so. I don't mind actual ginger and things like that - but I'm pathetic when it comes to chillies.
Relationship status: Single. I'm open to a relationship - but I also value my independence.
Current obsessions: I'm on a revolutionary France binge. I discovered that they tried to decimalise time and changed the names of all the months of the year
Last thing you googled? The Met Office to see whether I'll need to scrape ice off my car tomorrow morning
I tag, should they wish to play, @countess--olenska, @lalaurelia, @kenobiwaned, @jeremiahwasajoker, @ncfan-1 - and anyone else who would like to play
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Title: A Vicious and Voracious Hunger
Author: ncfan
Fandom: The Magnus Archives
Rating: T
Status: Complete
Length/Chapters: 1628 words, 1 chapter
Summary:
mary/gertrude (ish). set in a roleswap au between jon and gertrude, and presumably the rest of gertrude's assistants as well.
Warnings: blood! blood! gallons of the stuff!
Link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16412204
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/16412204
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🌪️ for the meme, please!
Thanks! This is:
Sum up a WIP with a few fic tropes/Ao3 tags.
Interestingggg. I'll cheat slightly—the meme implies it's a fanfic meme, but strictly speaking it could apply to any storytelling WIP. So firstly, the original novel:
Time Travel, Portals, Culture Shock, Magic School, Trauma, Developing Friendships, Xenophobia, Lesbian Character, Bisexual Female Character, First Impressions
For a fic, let's go with the next in my f!Luke Skywalker series, which has a title that I won't give. It's the sequel to The Jedi and the Sith Lord, which itself covered part of the space between alt!ESB and alt!ROTJ. This fic (which I've written very little of apart from its 15-pg outline) covers the remaining time leading up to ROTJ and ROTJ itself.
Anyway, mildly spoilery tags:
Alternate Universe - Always a Different Sex, Father-Daughter Relationship, Sister-Sister Relationship, Mentors, Long Lost/Secret Relatives, Twins, Jedi Training (Star Wars), Jedi [Redacted Redacted], Dark Side, Original Characters
#ncfan 1#respuestas#meme prattle#original fic rambles#fic talk#fic talk: lucy skywalker#genderbending
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Today in writing...
Welp, I finally finished writing the outlines for Book 1 of To the Limits of Your Choice, as well as the two interlude sections between Books 1 and 2. If you can even call them interludes, as Linhardt's section wound up being five chapters long, and Ingrid's was seven. Now on to Book 2, where the outlining is about to get really slow again because my notes are a lot vaguer compared to what came before. Joy.
#Today in writing#ncfan's writing process#To the Limits of Your Choice#yes this is still on#there's just not a whole lot to talk about when all I'm doing is outlining
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26 and 27 for the Get to Know Your Fic Writer meme, please!
26. Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?
Like, in terms of wildest ride for me in unexpected response, Gambit. In terms of writing experience, Backbone. In terms of interested audience, Morning. (It was wild coming into an active fandom like Loki after years in Star Wars Hell.) In terms of wildest ride for the audience, probably Horizon or Backbone.
27. What is your most and least favorite part of writing?
Writing and also writing.
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How are you liking the music in Umineko? I'm in the middle of a reread myself, and I always feel like I'm going to drown in the music and die happy.
I haven't experienced much of the soundtrack yet! I think the only tracks I can pinpoint as existing at the moment are the Kinzo Interlude and the happy cousin shenanigans break ost.
I'm pretty sure the moment someone actually dies Ryukishi07 is going to drop the nastiest track possible for the body discovery announcement. I'm ready to be wowed.
-- Rose, the Revolutionary Witch
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The Eaves of Dusk
by ncfan
Part 12 of Nan Elmoth
"There's blood."
Teen, No Archive Warnings
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