#this is all from a discussion in a discord server

[elysianfieldsarchive]

Hello EF! In case you haven’t heard, it is somehow, inexplicably, 2025. That’s right, we’ve completed another journey around the sun together. And as is apropos at the end of a year and the start of a new one, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on what we have accomplished over the last 12 months as a community, as well as all the stuff your mostly benevolent Mods have been doing to improve your overall experience.

We’ll start with what the admin team has accomplished so we can save the best (that’s you guys and your accomplishments) for last.

Over the last year, we:

Added even more gorgeous site skins right out of the gate, increasing the variety of options as well as artist representation on the site

Successfully completed EF’s second mini-event, Monster Mash, and had a ton of fun doing it

Shepherded in the triumphant return of Mystery Month, the third ever, and first following the community-wide vote to trade off years with Drabblemania

Kicked off the year with a new commenting challenge that yielded gorgeous awards

Implemented a much overdue Artist of the Month Award, resulting in 27 members being nominated over the last year, and 13 Artists of the Month having been chosen (counting January 2025)

Rolled out sensitivity reader as a distinct type of beta reader

Introduced a new crediting system so artists, betas, and sensitivity readers are properly acknowledged with each work

Revisited and refined the existing guidance resources for authors and betas, and expanded them to include sensitivity readers

Added warnings to help members better curate their fanwork experience

Cleaned up our categories to minimize confusion

Resolved the email issues that remained from 2023’s server migration

Vastly improved the site’s previous stance on constructive criticism

Implemented member-driven initiatives in community spaces, such as Spotlight Saturday on our Discord server, in which members can recommend the works that mean a lot to them but do not or have not historically received as much attention as other works. Each work can only be recommended once and is compiled into a spreadsheet for reference. This is in addition to thematic watch parties and recreational game nights, which we hope to increase over the coming year.

The Mod team keeps busy behind the scenes discussing and implementing ideas to improve the member experience. There are a lot of initiatives still in the works, so look for those in the months to come. And as always, if YOU have ideas regarding how we can improve member experience, don’t hesitate to drop them in the Suggestion Box. We are always open to hearing your thoughts, ideas, and feedback regarding how Elysian Fields can continue to improve.

And all of these accomplishments were made in conjunction with our annual site events. We’ve already mentioned the Monster Mash Mini-Event and Mystery Month in July, but other events included Challenge Month in April, the Betrayal Challenge in October for EF’s 18th anniversary, and our fifth Secret Santa Exchange. That is in addition to all the other new works added or cross-posted from other archives over the course of the year. We crunched the numbers, and 2024 was the second largest year in terms of new fanworks posted on Elysian Fields in the last five years. The only year that beat it was 2023 (most likely courtesy of Drabblemania). It is also the second year in recorded site history that exceeded 10M words in terms of new words added. The only other year to do this was a bona fide pandemic year, meaning we were all confined to the indoors in ways we haven’t been since 2022 or so. Let that sink in.

Now that it has, did you hear that zipper being lowered? You should have, because we SMASHED 2024.

In the fifth year of recognizing the milestone of Completed Works, 119 creators completed a total of 450 works.

All creators who completed a work of any length (one-shots count!) in 2024 have been issued this award:

Also in its fifth year is the Event Complete Award (formerly the Challenge Complete Award). This was awarded to site members who during the most recent calendar year completed works submitted for the April Challenge, Mystery Month, or October Anniversary Event site event for all years through 2024. Our events generate many great contributions to the archive, and this award seeks to recognize those creators who not only start a new work for a community event but also finish it. As such, single-chapter or single-day events do not qualify (so no Monster Mash or Secret Santa).

And speaking of Secret Santa, we have some numbers to share.

We had 41 event contributions, which during the posting window garnered 918 likes and 456 comments, and for the first time, we welcomed commenters, artists, and beta and sensitivity readers to participate. That resulted in 27 artists and 28 beta and sensitivity readers helping to make the Santa works sparkle, and 47commenters completed the commenting challenge. All participants who completed their works, as well as commenters, artists, and betas, should now have their awards on their profile.

P.S. If you haven't read the fics or oohed at the art yet, you can find them all on the Secret Santa event page, which is also accessible by going to Browse >> Events >> 2024 Secret Santa from the site menu.

In 2024, we added:

10,320,149 words

566 stories

3,208 chapters

1,956 new members

99,718 new likes

39,923 new comments to the archive (comprising 2,175,381 words)

We also have issued awards to our most prolific members. These are chosen by the numbers.

Top 10 Commenters

violettathepiratequeen (156,694 words)* (Recipient of Most Prolific Commenter Award 2024)

Nightcandle (155,089 words)

magnus374 (147,248 words)

pfeifferpack (133,844 words)

swonderful (128,797 words)

All4Spike (118,334 words)

Green (98,452 words)

acekoomboom (71,023 words)

werehorse (56,350 words)

bmerb (56,037 words)

Our most prolific commenter for 2024 was @violettathepiratequeen!

Top 10 Authors

Ragini (1,022,197 words)* (Recipient of Most Prolific Author Award 2024)

Maxine Eden (611,744 words)

CheekyKitten (500,901 words)

Passion4Spike (493,995 words)

In Mortal (414,608 words)

Spikelover4ever (361,728 words)

Melme1325 (330,544 words)

Holly (274,667 words)

honeygirl51885 (255,098 words)

scratchmeout (250,047 words)

Our most prolific author for 2024 was Ragini!

We also ran the numbers and issued the very first pretties for our Commenting Star and Commenting Superstar Awards!

As a recap:

The Star Award goes to any member who makes the All Stars Commenter list 6 months out of the year by leaving at least 15 comments, each of at least 5 words

The Superstar Award goes to any member who makes the All Stars Commenter list each month out of the year

In 2024, 49 members received the Star Award, and 24 members received the Superstar Award. So if you were an All-Star Commenter 6-12 months out of the year, check your awards because one (at least 6 months) or both (12 months) of these babies should be there.

We love how this incentivized comments for our fanworks, and are pleased to announce the return of this award in 2025. Details (and pretty artwork) forthcoming. So if you want this award in 2025, start commenting!

If you are missing an award you should have received, please reach out to us (elysianfieldsarchive@gmail.com) and we’ll verify and get that corrected.

Friends, we had an amazing year. None of this would be possible without you. Thank you so much for everything you give to the community. We’re so excited to see what 2025 brings—both the stuff we know is coming, and the stuff that will take us by surprise.

[spnfanficpond]

Weekly Pond Newsletter

Happy 2025! Here's hoping this year brings us all the time, energy, peace, and inspiration that we need to finish that thing we've been wanting to finish since *checks notes* Seriously?!?! 2018? It's been 6 years? How about the other one... *checks notes* 2023. A year and a half. *SIGH* Yeah...let's get all the good shit for 2025 and finish this stuff.

Old Business:

Ummm.....There is none because we took time off for the holidays and back surgery and partying and adulting.

New Business:

Manta Rays chatting in the Discord server - We've got TWO Manta Rays chatting in the Discord server this week! Admin MJ will be in there in a few hours (11am EST), and Admin Marie will be in there on Friday at 8pm EST!

Competitive Writing Sprints - Manta Ray Arthur will be hosting a session of competitive writing sprints on Wednesday at 11am EST! Add words to your WIP and also win fabulous prizes!

SPN Rewatch: FanFic Edition - Next weekend, we will gather in the Discord server on Saturday at noon EST to discuss the final two episodes in the third season: 3.15 Time Is on My Side and 3.16 No Rest for the Wicked! Be sure to watch the episodes ahead of time and take notes! For more info and to see all of the notes we've gathered about previous episodes, check out The Archive.

Fishing For Treasures - Next weekend, the @fanficocean will be celebrating FFT with Underappreciated Works! We here at the Pond will be celebrating on the 18th and 19th. Keep an eye out for posts explaining how to participate!

Coming Soon - The New Member Spotlight for December, the Monthly Prompt, and the Angel Fish Awards will all be coming along soon! Some sooner than others. All late, but better late than never, right? (See above gif of Dean. No, not that gif, the other gif. Yeah.) ALSO, a writing challenge for Valentine's Day!!

(Divider by @glygriffe!)

That’s all for this week! To see all Pond events, and also other SPN-related things like conventions and online concerts, check out our Google calendar! Click here for a static view in Eastern US/Canada time (desktop only, no mobile app access, sadly), and click here to add our calendar to your own Google calendar! We try to keep it as up-to-date as possible. If there’s something you want to see on the calendar that’s not there (maybe a convention we missed, cast birthdays, or something similar), send us an ASK and let us know!

Hope you have a great week! - From your Admins and Manta Rays, @manawhaat, @mrswhozeewhatsis, @mariekoukie6661, @thoughtslikeaminefield, @heavenssexiestangel, and @spn-fanfic-reblog-writes!

[reversefantasyspnbang]

2025 RULES AND SCHEDULE

(also available here)

E-mail: SPNfantasyreversebang@gmail.com

Twitter:  https://x.com/spnfb_reverse

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spnfb-reverse.bsky.social

Discord: https://discord.gg/zmNqQEvXtq

The SPN Reverse Fantasy Bang is, as the name suggests, a mini bang where artists create fantasy-themed pieces of art depicting the characters from “Supernatural” and “The Winchesters”, and authors duel for the privilege of writing a fic based on their chosen masterpiece. 

What Counts as Fantasy?

Fantasy is fiction that features magical and/or supernatural elements that do not ordinarily exist in the real world. This includes (but is not limited to):

High or Epic Fantasy (think The Lord of the Rings) 

Low Fantasy (real world setting with unexpected magical elements)

Magical Realism (the real world but magic exists)

Dark Fantasy (combining fantasy and horror)

Fables

Fairy Tales

Myths and Legends

If you’re unsure if your idea counts as fantasy or not, send us an ask, e-mail us at SPNfantasyreversebang@gmail.com or contact the mods via Discord to get clarification.

As a participant:

You are expected to read, understand, and adhere to the challenge rules. If you do not understand something (or anything) please get in contact with the moderators (@ ickyV29 or @ bex) for further clarification. 

Although you will receive periodic reminder emails/ discord notifications, it is up to you to be familiar with the schedule and manage your time. 

You will meet all check in dates and submit drafts at the time they are requested. 

You will communicate with your partner[s] and moderators in a timely manner should any issues arrive in meeting deadlines. 

General Rules:

All participants must be registered for the challenge in order to submit art, claim a piece of art, or post as part of this challenge.

Please note that this is a bang for characters in the SPN verse (including the Winchesters). This means no RPF (real person fiction).

Participants are welcome to create works that feature any relationship between any characters in the SPN universe with the exception of incestual relationships (being defined as sexual relationships between two characters who are blood related).

There are no prerequisites in order to register. 

All participants must have a working email (or discord) that they check regularly. 

You must be at least 16 to participate. Artists under 18 may not submit explicit content, and their partners may not write anything above the T rating for Ao3. Underage authors may not claim explicit content. 

Claims are anonymous. Participants may not independently form partnerships. 

Rules for Artists: 

Artists will create one (1) piece of new art featuring characters from the SPN verse (this does include the Winchesters) 

Artists may submit up to three (3) separate pieces. This means that you will collaborate with up to three (3) separate authors. In order to submit multiple pieces, they must be almost complete (meaning just minor edits) and ready to be posted. 

Art may not be publicly displayed before posting, except during claims when it will be made available by the moderators. 

NOTE: to keep anonymity during claims, we ask that the artist not publicly discuss their art. However there is a spot on the discord server where artists may communicate with each other about their pieces. 

Artists will submit their completed art through a provided form. Art will go through the claims process where authors will claim a piece of art to use for the basis of their fic. You may continue to make changes to your work after claims, but the author must be able to write a fic based on the art as-is. 

Along with their art, artists may include a list of restrictions for the fic based on their art work, or suggestions on prompts. For more info see below on Art Submissions. 

Your art must be publicly available for at least 12 consecutive months following the reverse bang posting period. 

Art Guidelines and Content Restrictions: 

All visual art forms are welcome, whether digital or traditional, 2-d or 3-d. Photo based art must be more than a filter application, text overlay, or a collage to be accepted: the photos must be significantly altered in order to create a unique image. 

At this time we are not accepting AI generated art. 

Art should be at least 500px wide for 2 dimensional art and photos of 3 dimensional crafts, or 30 seconds of video. There is no max size, but be mindful of final file sizes. 

All characters depicted in sexual situations should be over the age of 18. 

Other content restrictions: No incest and no RPF

Rules for Authors: 

Authors will write a fic at least 3,000 words long based on the art claimed. Authors will have three months to write their story and should consider this timeline when making claims. 

You may co-write, but if you choose to do so, be aware that you and your partner may only work on the art you claim together. You may not choose to work independently as well. Each partner will need to sign up as an author. 

Authors may claim one piece of art for this challenge. You may pinch-hit for another piece of art but only if your first story is complete. 

Authors must respect the restrictions of the artists specified during claims. Your fic must be related to the art for which it is written and cannot have been already posted elsewhere. 

Authors may not alter the art or demand changes to the art to fit the fic unless it is specified by the artist that it is permitted. 

Authors may not commission additional art for this challenge, even if your artist permits it. Additionally, you may not illustrate your own fic or ask artistic friends to make art for you as a gift. 

Challenge fics must be written in English. If you are multilingual, and would like to also publish in other languages as translations of the original, you are free to do so. 

Challenge fics must be the author(s) original work: AI generated works (including works created using generative text and/or chatbots) will not be accepted any author(s) found to have used AI to create their work will be immediately disqualified and banned from all future rounds.

Submitted drafts must be typed. 

Please do not share details about your fic publicly until your posting date. Again there will be an author section on the discord to discuss amongst authors. 

Beta readers are strongly recommended, and can be found outside of the bang discord if needed. 

The story must be posted on Ao3 and included in the official archive of this bang. You are expected to include a link to your artist's master post. We encourage you to embed the art directly into the fic, with artist permission. 

Your fic must be complete and posted in its entirety on your scheduled posting date. Serial posting is prohibited. After the posting period ends you may create epilogues or timestamps. 

You must tag for any Ao3 major archive warnings. 

All characters involved in sexual conduct must be over the age of 18. 

Your fic must be publicly available for at least 12 consecutive months following the bang posting period. 

Rough Draft Submission: 

Rough drafts must be at least 80% completed based on your estimated total word count (do your best to determine this), with the remaining scenes outlined, in order to be accepted. Drafts and outlines must be typed. 

Claims: 

Claims are anonymous. Authors will have a chance to preview art several days before claims are open but they will not know the identity of the artist. 

Artist Eligibility: 

To qualify for claims, artists must submit a completed piece of art. We will not accept preliminary sketches or yet-to-be-colored line art for claims. 

You are welcome to continue perfecting the piece between claims and your posting date. However, an author must be able to write a fic based on the art as is. Further changes should not alter the subject unless you and your author have agreed upon it. 

The Claims Process: 

Claims opens at 10am EST on the scheduled date. Authors will be emailed a link to the claims form before claims begin, but it will not open until the scheduled time. The form will ask for the author's name, email, and top selections based on Art ID number. Claims will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. 

Registered authors will have a priority during the first round of claims. If need be there will be a second round of claims that can be opened to the public. Claims will remain open until all art is claimed. 

You are prohibited from using scripts, bots, or other means to expedite the claims process. We will consider this type of behavior cheating and you will be uninvited from this round and future rounds of the challenge and its affiliates. 

There will be a max of one author or co-writer pair per piece of art. 

Withdrawing from the Challenge

There is no penalty for dropping out before claims, however we ask that you communicate to the mods so that we can remove you from the email list. 

If you have already gone through claims and need to drop out, contact us immediately so we can arrange for a pinch-hitter. You must communicate with your author or artist directly. You will not be eligible to participate in the next round if you drop post-claims for anything less than an emergency (mental health, family, pets - if you feel like it's an emergency, we will recon it as such)

In the event that an author drops out of the challenge before posting occurs, the moderator team will work to find a pinch hit author for their artist. If an artist drops, authors will be offered the opportunity to post their fic on their original posting date (with the opportunity to find a pinch hit artist even though it is a Reverse bang.

Do not use social media to announce drops, since we don’t want your artist or author finding out that way. 

In the event of an emergency, get in touch with us as soon as it is reasonably possible and safe for you to do so. We will work with you in any way we can.

Penalties

There is no penalty if you notify the moderators that you need to drop out before art claims.

If you drop out after claims, you will not be eligible for the next round of the Reverse Bang or its affiliates. 

If you miss a check-in point or fail to submit a draft, you will be immediately dropped from the current round. If the challenge is past claims, your partner will be reassigned and you will not be eligible for the next round of the Reverse Bang or its affiliates. 

If you are an author whose artist has been reassigned to a pinch-hit author because you missed check-in, you may only re-enter the challenge if the pinch-hitter opts to transfer the art back to you. 

If you lie to the moderators or to your partner, or if you break the rules about serial posting, the anonymity of claims, or commissions, you will not be invited to participate in future rounds of the Reverse Bang or its affiliates. 

Authors and artists who are found to have used AI to generate their work will be disqualified from the current round and will not be eligible for the next round of the Reverse Bang or its affiliates.

Breaking challenge rules and other actions not specifically outlined here will be handled on a case-by-case basis. The moderators’ decision is final.

Art Submission

You can submit ONE piece of art for each prompt. If you have created several art pieces for each prompt, please choose the one image that best represents that prompt.

You may submit up to three prompts (ie: three different pieces of art). Please use a separate form for each prompt you submit. If you combine them, we will ask you to submit your entry again (it messes up claims).

In order to submit more than one piece, your previous submissions must be completed (other than minor edits).

Submit your files in jpg/jpeg, png, or gif (if animated) format. We will not accept PSD files or files that can only be opened by a specific drawing program.

If you are submitting a video, please upload a screencap or preview image to the Rough Drafts field, and supply a link to an unlisted video on YouTube or comparable service. Please do not email us a video file.

Per the challenge rules, your images must be at least 500px wide and videos must be at least 30 seconds long.

Please resize your images so the files are no larger than 2MB. They do not need to be submitted at full size. If you are submitting an animated gif and this size restriction will cause your image to be blurry or lose quality, please reach out to the mods for a solution. (We are restricting size because our free database only has so much storage space and we are trying to avoid going over that amount.)

Please do not put your name or other identifying information in the filename! An author could see this information.

Do not add a signature to your image. These are blind claims and you should not add anything that might identify you as the artist. If you submit a piece with your signature, the mods will ask you to resubmit. 

You may continue to refine your work after claims, but the author must be able to write a fic based on the art as-is on claim day. The changes should not significantly alter the subject (unless you and your author expressly agree on this).

Form Instructions: 

Please consider writing your prompt, warnings, and restrictions in a separate document and copy/pasting them into the form in case something happens during submission (like internet failure). We don’t want you to have to type things twice.

If your art contains imagery that is inappropriate for the workplace or would not be appropriate for authors under 18 years old, please check the “NSFW” checkbox. NSFW art will not be sent to underage participants.

Please include the pairing that you wish to see in the fic.

While your art will speak for itself, we’d like you to include a prompt or details you’d like to see in the fic your author will write, keeping in mind they may not be able to fill the prompt exactly. You can be as specific or vague as you like, but please remember that being too detailed may decrease your odds of finding an author quickly. If you are open to the author’s own interpretation, please let them know this as well!

You must warn for major character death, underage, extreme violence/gore, and non-con. Beyond that, what you warn for is up to you. If there are no warnings, enter N/A in the field.

Are there subjects or tropes you don’t like? You may include a list of restrictions that authors must adhere to (eg. no AUs, no major character death, no blood, no A/B/O, nothing above a Teen rating). If you have no restrictions, enter N/A in the field.

2025 Schedule: 

(Unless specified, all deadlines are to be met by 11:59pm EST)

January 2nd: Sign ups Open

March 4th: Artist sign ups close

March 22nd: Art check in

April 5th: Art claim info due

April 6th: Author Sign ups close

April 12th: Claims

April 26th: Team Check in #1

May 17th: Team Check in #2

June 7th: 80% Due / Posting date picking

June 15th: Posting Date Released

June 28th: Promo materials due

July 5th: Promo Posting Begins

July 13th: Posting Begins

[driedupeyeballs]

*throws these at you*

[acidic-potato-piss-water]

Inspired by a conversation that @divorcingjimmatthews and I were having

[poor-ciceros-voring-again]

I really need some gravity falls friends I think :(

[the-travelling-snitch]

HI HI HOLLY i saw your tags by the way and it made me so happy to see you reference the yuuyu/yuusha lore and that you noticed that yuusha’s tnbc hairstyle was the elsa hairstyle 😭👋

i dont have irl twst friends as well so im glad to hear i can help fuel that jamil love 😭

ALSO your blogs are SO pretty??? very aesthetic??? i’m going to go through your main and check out your work + your ocs when i have time omg. i’m actually kicking myself having not followed you yet 😤🫶

(also also i got your ask btw!! im having fun working on it rn dhbsjs)

hiiiii!!! ofc i’ve noticed heheh i love the ocs people are coming up with, plus the lore you created around yuuyu/yuusha was super interesting, so naturally that’ll stand out to me ^^

ahsjsh you’re so sweet ㅠㅠ i don’t think you missed out on much, i was knee-deep in a (semi) hiatus for most of the year, so i didn’t actually write all that much ^^; (but there’s this azul thing i’m hoping to finish for halloween 👀)

still i’m so flattered help… 🥺

and ahhhh THANK YOU so much for liking my aesthetics!! 🥺💕 i’ve thought about changing it to a ghost (pokémon) theme bc chandelure is my favourite little guy and halloween is upon us jsjsh (i guess it would be for this blog since i like botw too much to let it go jsjsh)

as for my ocs… carmilla is like the only one i’m thinking about atm (well and this yuusona i haven’t introduced yet but basically already has a feature length film in my head); these two are the reasons i want to learn how to draw, just so i can doodle the sillies jshhs

ooooh i’m glad you’re having fun!! my evil masterplan has worked hehehhe :]

also also i saw the posts you made about posting for multiple fandoms, aka the essence of my online presence, and doooooo it (esp if it’s fandoms i specifically am in, like obey me or hsr jshshs :>)

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

Ok hear me out because I'm tempted-

Goddess Earth/flowerboi Ai chat :>

(Idk random also can't escape me >:])

*gaaasp*

I'd love to chat with Flowerboi!

He is always on my mind I love him so much >w<

[badscienceman]

forever annoyed by the inability to have constructive conversations involving media criticism anymore. I feel bonkers because it's like everything immediately dissolves into reactionary, all-or-nothing arguments that leave me baffled and usually uncomfortable

[burinazar]

I was thinking “haha it’s so weird and silly i got soOOO into this one very specific part/arc/related minor-ish character group of a franchise, i haven’t done that before have i? this is a new weirdness for me isn’t it?”

and then suddenly vividly remembered my inconvenient and untenable and frankly quite extreme obsession with the romulan star empire all throughout middle school, with such force and clarity that i had to put a hand to my face

[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

[hamadisthings]

HELP US STOP CHAT CONTROL!

If you live in the EU, you absolutely need to pay attention to what's to come. What is Chat Control, you may ask? In a (failed) attempt to combat child abuse online the EU made Chat Control, Chat Control will result in getting your private messages and emails to be scanned by artificial intelligence aka AI to search for CSAM pictures or discussion that might have grooming in there. And on top of having your private conversations handed to AI or the police to snoop in, like your family pictures, selfies, or more sensitive pics, like the medical kind, only meant to be seen by your doctors, or the "flirtatious" kind you send to your partner, you either have to ACCEPT to be scanned...or else you will be forbidden from sending pictures, videos, or even links, as said here.

Kids should absolutely be protected online, without question, but the things that Chat Control gets wrong is that this is a blatant violation of privacy, without even considering the fact that AI WILL create tons of false positives, this is not a theory, this is a fact. And for all the false positives that will be detected, all of them will be sent to the police, which will just flood their system with useless junk instead of efficiently putting resources to actual protect kids from predators.

It also does not help that politicians, police officers, soldiers etc will be exempt from Chat Control if it passes. If it's for the sake of protection, shouldn't everyone get the same treatment? Which further prove that Chat Control would NOT keep your data of private life safe. Plus, bad actors will simply stop using messenger apps as soon as they know they're being tracked, using more obscure means, meanwhile innocent people will be punished by using those services On top of this, the EU also plans on reintroducing Data retention called "EU Going Dark". Both Chat Control and EU Going Dark are clear violation of the GDPR, and even if they shouldn't stand a chance in court, its not going to prevent politicians from trying to ram these through as an excuse to mass surveil European citizens, using kids as a shield. Even teenagers sending pictures to each other won't be exempt, which entirely goes against the purpose of protecting kids by retaining their private photos instead. Furthermore, once messaging apps are forced to comply with Chat Control, the president of Signal, a secured messaging app with encryption, have confirmed that they will be forced to leave the EU if this is enforced against them.

If Chat Control also ends up targeting any websites with the option of private messages, you better expect Europe to be geo-blocked by any websites offering such function. I would also like to add that EU citizens were very vocal in the fight against KOSA, an equally bad internet bill from the US-- and it showed! Which is why we heavily need the help of our fellow US peers to fight against Chat Control too, so please, because we all know if it passes, the US government will take a look at this and conclude "Ooh, a way to force mass surveillance on citizens even more than before? don't mind if I do!" It's always a snowball effect.

KEEP IN MIND THE EUROPE COUNCIL WILL LIKELY VOTE ON CHAT CONTROL THIS 19 JUNE OF NEXT WEEK TO SEE IF IT WILL ENTER TRILOGIES OR NOT. Even if it does enter Trilogues, the fight will only be beginning. Absentees may not count as a no, so it is crucial that you contact your MEPs HERE, as well as HERE, and you can also show your support for Edri's campaign against Chat Control HERE.

You can read more on Chat Control here as well, and you can find useful information as to which arguments to use when politely contacting your MEP (calling is better than email) here, and beneath you will find graphics you can use to spread the word!

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN OUR DISCORD SERVER (linked here) TO HELP ORGANIZE AGAINST CHAT CONTROL NON EU PEOPLE ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO JOIN TOO!

https://discord.gg/FPDJYkUujM

PLEASE REBLOG ! NON EU PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO REBLOG AS WELL CONTACT YOUTUBERS, CONTENT CREATORS, ANYONE YOU KNOW THAT MAY HELP GET THE WORD OUT ! Let's fight for our Internet and actually keep kids safe online! Because Chat Control and EU Going Dark will only endanger kids.

PLEASE REBLOG! NON EU PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO REBLOG AS WELL CONTACT YOUTUBERS, CONTENT CREATORS, ANYONE YOU KNOW THAT MAY HELP GET THE WORD OUT !

Let's fight for our Internet and actually keep kids safe online! Because Chat Control and EU Going Dark will only endanger kids.

[gaywineauntsstuff]

Me: I really like dc canon and frankly I think that fanon flanderizes the characters to the point where they are unrecognizable

Also me: Dick and Jason are drinking buddies,

Tim has put kon, Bernard and Steph in a gc called “the roster” and dipped.

Dick is not allowed to meet Barbara’s friends bc they all like him too much and then it’s rlly hard to bitch about him. (This is actually kinda canon thank u Dinah lance in birds of pray lmao)

The reverse of this is also true but for Dicks exes and Barbara like they get along TOO well.

Babs and Kori are friends.

Babs and Donna are sworn enemies. (Mutual)

Dick gets a different signature food with each of his siblings except Steph cuz they get smoothies. 

Dick keeps trying to get Steph and Donna to meet up but Everytime he tries Gotham gets blown up

Damian refuses to sneak pets in a trench coat bc it’s bad for them to be squished.

Duke is the only bat who knows about the mpreg joker story

Tim and Jason’s only texts to each other are “help” or “you lil shit what did you do!!?!”

Tim, Jason, Cass and Duke all like the discowing suit

Steph and Damian hate it

Damian says he’s spending the weekend not with his dad and everyone assumes Bruce and talia are trying split custody but he needs to bitch about Bruce so he goes to bludhaven

Donna and Dick get drunk together and get progressively more and more sappy about how they should move in together and how much they love each other, you’re amazing no you’re amazing.

Roy and Dick are besties who text like a divorced couple trying to coparent

Dicks exes are in a discord server called “raw. next question” and they have channels called “red heads only” “also dated his brother” “tried to kill him” etc

The redheads don’t have names in this discord “redhead 1” “red head 2” “redhead 3” and so on

They also don’t discuss dick in this server at all

Bruce calls dick for ideas about the Brucie Wayne persona and also when he just doesn’t get why people are mad at him.

Dick calls wally for help with menial tasks

Tim is a big big big fan of THC (same)

Dick goes to raves

Jason is actually the DARE Robin

An image of Dick at a rave went viral on Twitter and Bruce had a mental breakdown so did Jason

Stephanie will never ask Bruce for anything but she buys a 10$ coffee every morning on his card bc of that video of people saying young people can’t buy houses bc of Starbucks and avocado toast.

Jason has a video of 19 yr old Dick spitting at a police officer and he sent it on the family gc when he found out dick went undercover as a cop. It is one of 5 messages he has sent.

Everyone of the Bats is some shade of bisexual

Dicks house is the defacto Bruce is being a lil bitch for the bats and literally everyone who is affiliated with Bruce as long as you bring liquor you’re welcome

Garth and Dick watch sad movies together

Tim and Bruce watch all the bond films together

Damian and Dick watch bird documentaries together

Jason doesn’t watch tv bc he’s a secret hipster (he doesn’t have a tv they keep blowing up.)

Linda has absolutely asked Dick to swing with her and Wally and Dick told Wally about this and Wally’s only reaction was…”soooo is that a yesss or a no?”

The fab 5 titans all hate each others exes, refuse to acknowledge any guilt their friend had in the matter , and will absolutely pretend none of them have dated (they have all dated)

Bruce is in absolute denial that his children date. Like he knows dick has dated people but he assumes that it is kindergarten dating “ah dick spent the night at Barbara’s they must really like holding hands” “Bernard and Tim are moving so fast I mean I saw one of them kiss the other on the cheek??” Meanwhile he has traumatized all robins to ever Robin bc him and Selina Kyle can’t keep their hands right themselves

Also me: cognitive dissonance thank you for your service

Dick has like 25million ig followers, donna does his photos

Tim has a very popular shitpost account on Twitter from his pre Robin days that has statements like “if i was Batman I would simply barricade Arkham” and “stalking Nightwing rn we are up to 120 flips and 30 quips…. There is no else here”

[spaghettioverdose]

I've never really talked on here about how I figured out my gender, and since this whole egg discourse is going on, I feel like I should.

I'm not one of the trans women who figured out their genders at age 4 and became fully confident of it. Up until around 16 I didn't even begin to consider that I may not be a cis guy and it took me up until almost 19 to fully realise I was a trans woman. Before this, at 18, after feeling particularly shitty for weeks (from what I later learned was definitely dysphoria), I attempted suicide.

I only really started to understand myself once I started hanging out with other trans people on discord servers. My perception of transness was the more mainstream-accepted version (at that time) of "I always confidently knew I was a woman basically from birth and I exhibited x, y and z feminine behaviours at all times etc." which I didn't fit in with, so I always thought "well I can't be a trans woman because that's not me". Being around other trans people, and especially having other trans women point out behaviours I had, and tell me "that's also how I thought before I realised I was trans" helped me immensely.

I didn't get any of the rigid online definitions and examples, nor did I get the perfectly sanitised videos from the handful of trans people who made it on youtube. None of that felt like me at the time. I didn't have any point of reference. I only really understood myself once I related to someone who used to be in the same position. If some trans girl didn't call me an egg, I might still be a completely miserable "cis" guy to this day still, or even dead.

I understand that others have had worse experiences when it comes to this, but we must recognise that the problem in these situations is outing or harassment. The porblem is abuse, and as with all things interpersonal, you can always turn it into abuse. As with all things interpersonal, you have to have some amount of tact and caution.

I don't think we should harass anyone into getting their egg cracked (and this happens vastly less often than people here seem to think but it does happen), but also we shouldn't be constantly agnostic about if someone is trans or not, because in the end not everyone is capable of coming to that conclusion by themselves, and by the time you've "let them figure it out" they might've spent several more years being miserable and not knowing why or they might be dead.

It is also very important to point out that this discourse is only really happening because there is a particular bias against trans women. This isn't a discussion of how to approach the subject, or a handful of people talking about their experiences with it, it's a discourse where one side is trying to problematize another aspect of the transfem community. Notice that people are arguing this when it comes to transfems and not cis gay people or even transmascs. Notice that this website always cycles back to attacking some aspect of the transfem community every couple of weeks.

Do you really think these arguments are being made in good faith? Do you really think it's worth adding to the sea of transmisogyny that is this website and most of the world?

As always, this post is meant for people who are genuinely well-meaning. The dipshits who keep jumping on any excuse they can to harass trans women can go fuck themselves.

[kaidanworkshop]

Workshop Update: Kaidan Revoiced - Community Expansion 1.0 Launch!

After two years of development, the Kaidan Workshop Staff is proud to present Kaidan Revoiced - Community Expansion (KRCE)!

First and foremost, none of this would be possible without livtempleton graciously giving us permission for our project! Throughout the years, the assets she's allowed the Skyrim modding community to build upon has kept Kaidan alive in thousands of modlists, providing the opportunity for even more players to enjoy her original creations; we're very honored to be added to the list of modders whose creations are inspired by her work. When we started the Workshop, we had no idea if anyone would even notice our project; a new voice actor, a new iteration of an already established character, and no product to show for it in advance. The only thing we could offer the general public at the time was the promise of transparency and community cooperation throughout the process. So we created a budget for revoicing Kaidan, a plan for community involvement, and hit the ground running. We added new staff, taught ourselves new skills as the scope of the project evolved, and leaned on the advice, ideas, and encouragement from our community. Alongside the (mostly) monthly updates on our Tumblr and taking suggestions from our 'I Had An Idea!' Discord channel, our methods for ensuring transparency during development evolved; our Community Team began hosting public meetings via our Discord to discuss our current workflow, answer questions, and conduct live script readings of our original scripts, to ensure that our Writing Team was matching the original tone set by livtempleton. We also streamed our beta footage on Twitch, trying our best to stress test the new framework built by our Creation Kit Team while also taking more suggestions from our audience for future content. Finally, we were incredibly pleased to be able to host an Open Beta for KRCE this past October & November for our Discord community, as a special thank you for their support. We were able to get some excellent feedback on some of our new follower features, as well as hunt down any missed audio or errors our internal testing missed. All in all, it took many, many people to bring this mod to life, and our Staff is incredibly humbled and grateful for the support of everyone involved. While this 1.0 version will be available indefinitely for those who prefer it, the Workshop Staff is very excited to begin creating more original content moving forward into 2025! One of our original scripts for the Daedric quest "Pieces of the Past" is in the 1.0, so you can check it out to get a sense of the tone our writers are going for! You can read about what content is present in our mod, as well as find the answers to commonly asked questions in the KRCE Mod FAQ. Keep up with the project via our updates on Tumblr, or join our Discord server!

The Kaidan Workshop is a community-led, non-profit project that aims to build upon the original LivTempleton Kaidan 2 mod. Our project is strictly non-profit; all funds raised are to commission Mr. Warren for his services. You can read more about what the Kaidan Workshop is here.

[pommunist]

‼️ This is very important so please read ‼️

The ex-admin for Dansir, Lapin, and Sk8ter (a penguin) came out on Twitter with her experience as a QSMP admin and it’s very grim. The user is @/Leasagne_ on Twitter.

I’m gonna try my best to translate from French :

1st Tweet : « Imagine having the first multilingual minecraft server in the world and paying your staff 150€/month and threatening to sue them if they complain. »

2nd Tweet: «  «You signed an NDA blablabla if you speak we’ll sue you. » Yeah Yeah, sure. They think they can gift me a toy and i’ll forgive them and shut my mouth. They don’t know who they are facing »

3rt Tweet : Talking about the NPC she played « Dansir, Tototte, my version of Cucurucho and Lapin won’t come back. Enough of treating people who give a lot of themselves like trash »

She then tweeted art she made for QSMP that she hasn’t been paid for. This include for exemple a Rose drawing, a Lucy drawing and the Techno fanart from Dia de los muertos event.

4th tweet : « Everyone is burnt out in their entreprise but it’s not a problem bc no one can talk or they risk getting sued. »

She then make a serie of tweets explaining why they got fired : « During a stream, Aypierre leaked my name, thanks dude, they saw that i was talking to him on discord, which is a FORBIDDEN THING. I was then accused of leaking things to him, bc on the screenshot, i was talking about DDOSon the server which is considered sensitive information. There was then an investigation on me, which i said was useless as I didn’t have anything to hide and was ready to answer all their questions. I admitted not following the rules (btw it’s forbidden to have chatrooms BETWEEN ADMINS, that’s why I wasn’t following the rules). We aren’t allowed to talk to streamers out of stream, but everyone does it i was just caught doing it. »

She also added some more stuff

-Saying that they were only TWO french admins (the other being Pomme’s) and OP had to do all the translations of QSMP newspapers, as well as adding articles on french CCs as they had been forgotten.

-Said that Empanada wasn’t supposed to be killed that day, it was an accident.

-Said that Pomme’s death, which was reversed, was forced so that « Baghera would have a tragic reaction »

-Said that the QSMP admin staff are all wonderful people with good dynamics, higher ups are the problem.

-Said that she believes Quackity isn’t aware that this is happening.

-Said that now QSMP ccs are aware that this is happening and want to discuss it with the admins.

I’m on my phone so it’s hard to include screenshots or links of everything so if you’re able to feel free to do it by reblog. I’ll add more things as soon as possible.

https://x.com/leasagne_?s=21&t=fDVoT5qDN_AAqnxYhZF3uQ