#this is my first contribution to this fandom

[jensky2000]

Hello~

I have a few new followers so I thought I would introduce myself.

I never planned on being a writer. It wasn’t on my bingo card as they say. I’m a wife, a mother of triplets, and have a full time very demanding career. I am American, born and raised on the east coast. I’m feisty and not to be messed with according to my husband. I have a kind heart and a long colorful history. (In other words I’ve been through hell and back-I’m grateful for what’s important and the rest can kiss my ass.) I come from an extra large loud family. All this contributes to my sense of humor and sarcasm.

About five years ago, I had a dream or recurring story the would play out in my head every night but I couldn’t get past a certain point. I grabbed my phone and started writing in my notes a little bit every chance I got. Before you know it I had the first five chapters of “Little Voices”. From there it grew to 180,000 plus words and 58 chapters (the revised version is 49)

My fanfic writing continued with “Don’t Love Me”, “A Life Left Behind”, and “I Loved Her First”. (These stories are no longer available- I have plans for them) And of course “The Lies They Told” the was rewritten and changed to “All the Secrets” available on Kindle. My first self published book.

I have two stories in the works. One about Wildwood, NJ and another set in San Francisco. I’m hoping to release them on Kindle soon- ish. Plus my new fanfic coming out on AO3 this Friday. “My Best Friend’s Lass”.

The strange and funny thing is there’s only a handful of full of people who know I write…my husband, my kids, my two best friends and you. Some of you ❤️have been with me since chapter one and have certainly read more of my work than my husband.

Without your love and support for my stories, I wouldn’t do this. For that I thank you. 😘

Any questions or ideas or anything at all. I’m here and love to talk about my writing, or this fandom. Message me!

[slasherholic]

The Collector's Name

For the people just now getting into the fandom, or the ones who have been here for some time and still have no clue why we as a collective (no pun intended) came to the unanimous decision that The Collector's name is Asa Emory—let me help you out:

There are two scenes in The Collection where two separate certificates can be seen, both of which appear to credit "Asa Emory."

The first one can't be made out completely but from what I can tell it reads,

The Listmore University Entomology Studies Presents Asa Emory (the rest is cut off.) Presumably this is one of his diplomas.

The second one, as far as I can make out, reads,

Entomology certificate of merit: National Insect Association recognizes Asa Emory for the (his?) outstanding contributions to (in?) research.

So we have two separate occasions where the name “Asa Emory��� is credited on certificates in the collector’s hotel. We don’t have official confirmation that this is his name, but I mean. C’mon. 

I rest my case.

[cweepa]

As one of “Calo’s friends” I am absolutely going to defend them. Using references like this is an industry norm. If you can’t see that, then maybe you need to step away from the internet, because buddy, there’s a whole, wide world out there that the rest of us live in.

But I won’t go into detail, because everyone else in your comments are already telling you that. So I’ll tell you something different. Calo doesn’t cry to us and claim to be a victim. Have you considered the fact that we simply … like them? That they are a genuinely good person?

Shame on you for trying to put down one of the sweetest, kindest, most altruistic creators out there. And they’ll never say this, so I WILL. Outside of drawing and gifting art, they have contributed endlessly to many people in the fandom. They donate anonymously to your gofundmes and they’ve helped to pay countless bills for many struggling creators. They support their friends selflessly and are the first to spoil them rotten. They will stay up late just to lend a listening ear. They will NEVER tell anyone this, but I will. Because I’m TIRED of seeing my friend treated like this. They don’t deserve it.

I can’t count the number of times they’ve gifted Patreon subscriptions for others creators, to friends. Because subbing once themselves simply isn’t enough - they go above and beyond. Nearly every cent they make from their art goes back to the community.

No one is holding a gun to my head and making me post this. I’m doing it because some of you have gotten way too comfortable with making hate blogs just to bully a creator who is far too classy to stoop to your level. Seriously, I’m begging you. Step outside for a minute. Our world is on fire. There’s no need to add to it by creating petty, baseless, POINTLESS fandom drama in a space where we are all just trying to have fun.

I'm not usually one to make a callout blog, but I don't think it's right to be silent any longer. I'd also like to say that I have no problem with tracing so long as it's transformative enough that no one can tell it's traced.

However, this artist is steadily gaining popularity in the Bloodweave fandom and the more I think about it, the more uncomfortable I get with the fact that this artist is popular. Why? Because they're tracing stock images and still frames from films, and instead of acknowledging this, they're passing off this work as their own original ideas. I know the correct thing to do would be to notify this artist before I go public with this information, but based on my interactions with this artist, along seeing other people's interactions with this artist, I do not think this is appropriate. This artist has a lot of friends who are also quite popular in the Bloodweave community, which is why I'm doing this on a burner account and not my actual account.

A few words of advice: to the artist's friends, if you dismiss this as drama, I will assume that you have not read this piece in full. I would like to restate I do not take this post lightly. If this was a one time thing, I would ignore it. However, this is not a one time thing, and you are tarnishing your own work by hanging around this artist. To the artist: you cannot delete your work to hide, as I have already saved the pieces to the Internet Archive. The internet is forever, my love. To both the artist and their friends: my understanding is that there are tensions between you and some other members of the Bloodweave community. I am not associated or affiliated with those members. I am a third party who became concerned once I saw this first picture, and things escalated from there. Similar to the drama comment above, if you associate this with the people you have friction with, I'll assume you haven't read the post.

Without further ado, here we go.

The artist I'm referring to is calolily. I hate that I have to make this post, because I was a fan of their work for a long time. However, in March, calolily posted this image:

As a certified horse girl, this image threw me off. For those of you who don't get what I'm saying, the issue is with the bit: the metal thing that goes in a horse's mouth. On a horse, it goes in towards the middle of their mouth, behind their incisors (which are the teeth you can see when a horse opens their mouth) into their interdental space, which is basically a long stretch of gum that's in front of the horse's molars. A good fitting bit should not be uncomfortable for a horse. However, this is where calolily has it positioned:

Right in front of the horse's incisors. Ignoring that there's no way the bit would stay in the horse's mouth at that point, if the bit was there, that would be a very unhappy horse. That bottom part is where some (not all, as most reins should sit at the bit) reins would sit.

Despite that, I didn't think the image was traced at first. I know bridles can be hard to draw, so I ignored it. That is, until I was looking for references images for my own piece of cowboy artwork, and found this:

You don't see the similarities? That's all right, I'll help you:

Now I'll admit, at first I didn't get too freaked out by this. Horses are a bitch to draw, so I'm not going to blame someone if they need help getting them done. Was I a little annoyed that calolily didn't say that they traced? Sure, but I thought it was a one-off.

That is, until I saw this:

The left image is calolily's drawing of Gale from their professor AU. The right image is a still from the movie "We Don't Live Here Anymore." Once again, I'm providing a side by side alongside an overlay.

(I am so bad at overlays, but I hope you see the point I'm trying to make.)

It's one thing to copy a picture from a stock artist. It's a little scummy, yes. It's definitely copyright infringement, but people turn a blind eye to it if you're a hobbyist. Copying a still from a movie without crediting it? Only making light changes, like swapping out the watch for a wedding ring and adding a periodic table to the background? Not okay. That's someone else's art you're taking away from them.

But it's whatever, right? It's not like calolily's making money off this, right?

Right???

The left image is a print from calolily's Inprnt page. There's a sale on right now, so you can purchase prints range from $6 (regular $8) to $78.75 (regular $105). The right image is a bondage ad.

I'm not going to point out the similarities on this one. I'm sure you can see how the arms and hands are positioned in the same way, how the only change is making the picture more "Gale" like. I've never purchased calolily's work, but if I was interested in purchasing a commission from them, I'd be worried. Would I get an original piece or would I get a traced bondage ad? Who knows.

Maybe this is a recent development though. Maybe calolily got inundated with requests and, not wanting to let their fans down, decided to take some shortcuts to keep their fans happy.

Ha.

On April 19th, calolily posted an "art improvement" post. Perhaps the improved post was traced, but surely the before was--oh, it was traced too? Alright then. The worst part is that this tracing was not from a movie or one of those giant stock image sites or even an ad. This one was from an independent stock photographer named Rob Lang, and as far as I can tell, he hasn't been licensed out to another stock site. He's freelance.

Unless this drawing was made in the past week, I'm going to assume that tracing has been a long time thing with calolily.

I don't get it. If they'd hidden some of the minor details like the shirt folds and the finger positions, I don't think anyone would've noticed. Hell, I didn't notice until I realized there was something wrong with that horse drawing. And I have zero doubt there's more. What's the old saying? Once is a mistake, twice is a habit? Seems like calolily's been on this habit for a while then.

I know some of you are going to brush this off as this not mattering because it's just stock images or that everyone traces, but the thing is, do you trace as noticeably as this? I don't think you do. And these are all someone's hard work they're passing off as their own, even the bondage ad, even the stock images, and I don't think that's right.

Where do we go from here? I have answers for two different groups of people.

For calolily's friends: Don't defend them. All of you are artists yourselves and surely none of you would do anything this blatant. If you still want to associate with calolily, then hold them accountable. Make sure they don't do this again. If you want to stop associating with them, then explain why. Don't be unnecessarily cruel, but be honest. If you were duped alongside the rest of us, post screenshots and get captures of any images you suspect are traced (because I know there are more) before calolily deletes them.

For calolily: Don't delete. Like I said, the internet is forever. Don't lie either. I know your favorite excuse is that you were an animator so you can draw from reference really fast, but does that explain the same shirt folds? The same finger positions? It doesn't. Instead, I recommend you come clean about all the pictures you traced and provide either links or pictures of them. Apologize to your fans. Apologize to the people you've hurt, because you've hurt a lot of them. Strive to do better.

Don't be a James Somerton.

And know this: if you try and hide this, know that it'll keep coming back. I think it'd be better to come clean now, don't you?

[tabby-shieldmaiden]

OH NO SHE CAN’T HEAR YOU SHE HAS AIRPODS ON!

[14muffinz]

One of those miraculous chatfics where the heroes and their civillian identities are put in a groupchat with friends, except it's the entire class and the entire hero team, and over time they slowly but surely use their hero accounts more and more until they're subconsiously calling one another civillian names while Marinette's staring in silent horror like oh god what the fuck did I do

Adrien is having too much fun making Aspik and Chat hate one another to notice

[somebodyssherlock-heterodyne]

I'm gonna continue the trend and do this instead of my homework:

Fic Writer Ask Game:

how many works on ao3?

37 and I haven't looked at most of them in years.

total ao3 wordcount?

167,109. Not bad.

Top 5 fics by kudos?

Six Flowers, Seven Gazes, Eight Friends (Critical Role, Vox Machina) (I wrote this when I was still in middle school and ngl I'm not jazzed about it but it keeps collecting kudos like dust so I'll leave it up cause it seemingly brings people joy to read it)

Harpy Hare (DC, Batfam) (I'm less cowriting this one and more contributing fun ideas but it's always an absolute joy to work with my best friend and my deity OC rp father)

[Podfic] Standing Engagement (MDZS) (done with me, my mom, my best friend, and my best friend's mom)

[Podfic] Rotten Work (MDZS) (which I did with my mom, my best friend, and a few of our other friends)

[Podfic] The Wondrous Sword of Legend (this was a podfic of a fic my best friend co-wrote! We did it with both writers and a cast assembled from a discord server we used to be on).

What fandoms do you write for?

Going by my WIPs, I rotate between... I stopped counting at twelve different fandoms.

Do you respond to comments?

I always want to! And then I chicken out! I stg one day this summer (i.e. when college is not strangling me) I'm just gonna reply to all the comments on my fics.

Angstiest Ending?

Major character death hurt no comfort.

Fic with the happiest ending?

I've written a few 'fuck canon everyone's happy' fics.

Do you get hate?

No.

Do you write smut?

None that I'll allow to see the light of day.

Do you write crossovers?

Yes! Never posted any though.

Ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope.

Have you ever cowritten a fic?

Yes! I am cowriting one now (for a given value of cowriting, mostly I sit in the back and say 'hey you know what would be so fucked up-')

All-time favorite ship?

Don't have one. Multishipper to the core.

WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

...that's a long, long list.

Writing Strengths?

I'm told I write very vivid imagery and pretty good dialogue!

Writing Weaknesses?

Transitions. And physical (body) emotion indicators.

Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

In fics? I say go for it, we're doing this for fun, but remember that no language, dialect, or accent is superior or more intellectual than any other (and at least bother to look up good 'best language A to language B translators' because they deserve better than Google Translate). In something you're doing in a professional capacity, definitely have someone else who speaks the language double check it, or translate the lines, for you. I think every language in the world has its own niche where it can just express something more beautifully or in a different way than any other dialect can.

First fandom you wrote for?

...I started writing fanfiction in grade school so I genuinely don't remember. First fandom I posted something for was Blue Exorcist, I think? That was... about a decade ago now.

Favorite fic you've ever written?

I have two. A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes for Girl Genius because I had fun writing the dream sequence and wistful surrealism of it all, and Pink Hellfire and Plum Stormclouds for Order of the Stick because I wrote that fic years ago but I'm still proud of how it came out.

tagged by @glitter-stained!!!!

Fic Writer Ask Game:

how many works on ao3?

73!!

total ao3 wordcount?

485,903

Top 5 fics by kudos?

So, how old is that in Tim years?

On Haunting vs. Being Haunted

I will leave the water like someone about to forgive

In the Event of an Emergency

Think of Me

What fandoms do you write for?

DC: mostly Batman, but I hope to branch out!!

D20: mostly Fantasy High!!

Do you respond to comments?

Yes!!!

Angstiest Ending?

probablyyyy Deja Vu? it's meant to be a somewhat. very loosely. look this fic is very stupid and i love it a lot and its relationship to canon is extremely nebulous and it's more accurate to game changer than fantasy high now that i think about it. but it's supposed to be a Kipperlilly Copperkettle canon compliant origin story? of sorts? so angsty!!

Fic with the happiest ending?

I think I'm going to have to go with: Everyone tells me "You're fine don't be in love"!! I think it's the most joyful!!

Do you get hate?

not that i know of!!

Do you write smut?

god i hope i will someday soon. I was struck by visions of dinahbabs earlier today... trackerbees nsfw compels me... stephcass nsfw zombie au can anyone see my vision... and of course. my tragic yuri heljanet set to good luck babe... one day.......

Do you write crossovers?

this is a really good question. Does my Kipperlilly in game changer au count. does my K2 goes to other d20 worlds count. does k2 in VIP count. I do hope to write a K2 vs. Batman fic someday!!!

Ever had a fic stolen?

not that I know of!!

Have you ever had a fic translated?

No!!

Have you ever cowritten a fic?

there's several docs in the drive of a Batman magical girls au i was working on with a friend last summer, and the lovely @purrassicjet wrote a sandra lynn chapter for Skin and Soul Deep!!

All-time favorite ship?

ohhh so. so i really don't care about ships at all really. All of my caring about ships is borrowed from other people. Maybe trackerbees because i had a ton of fun writing them for my first time writing romance!!!

WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Very Complicated Women. I posted the outline for what i want the rest of it to look like here a while ago, and i love it i love it so so so so so much but i don't know if id have a ton of fun writing it because i'd want it to be all transcript and im not super in the mood for that and don't know if i will be again? in the same vein, Wayne Family Adventures, which is my fic that was going to be a very strange unreality type thing that started off as a novelization of the wfa webcomic!!! just not sure when if ever i'll be in the mood to write a novelization of a comic!!

Writing Strengths?

I think I'm pretty good at doing dialogue!! I love thinking about what makes character voices distinct!!!

Writing Weaknesses?

action scenes action scenes action scenes. fight scenes. hate them. i need to practice them.

Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

if this is asking about untranslated languages different than the fic's primary language being used, complicated!!! i think it's important to remember that language and how we perceive it is super important!! i think it's important to remember that sometimes, when you think you're phonetically writing out what you think of as just an accent, you're actually taking bits and pieces from a dialect that deserves to be researched more in depth so as to treat it with respect!! the line between a dialect and a language, from my understanding, can be drawn and is often used to discriminate against marginalized communities so when asked about mixed language dialogue, it's a deeper question than I think might be expected!!! and as a batman fan, you know I have to raise the question of sign language!! At the end of the day, I know very little, and think that I would probably just defer to people who know other languages, but the one thing I do know is that if there is a different language being used, it should be treated with respect!!!

First fandom you wrote for?

many years ago, Percy Jackson and the Olympians on wattpad!!

Favorite fic you've ever written?

Difficult difficult difficult. fics that have been finished and posted? Deja Vu or So, how old is that in Tim years? because they made me laugh the most when I was writing them!! not posted? The Stupid Goddamn Jack Drake Vigilante AU, which is nowhere near what I would consider done, but everything that has been written so far was only written because I could not stop laughing about it. Also, the fic I'm working on right now!! (otherwise known as B2 fic!!) mostly because i'm having so much fun writing it. like every time i work on it im just sitting here going oh my god i love writing fanfiction. I have a lot of fics and I love them all for different reasons!!!!

no pressure tagging: @the-flying-robins, @20dimensionsoftangerine, @vechter, @lisziztaken, @blackbatcass, @havendance and anyone else who wants to play!!!!!

[michelle-jacksons-art-blog]

Maybe should've tried harder for that scholarship

[frenzyfeline]

Jentry if she was a freak BASED

(also yes, i've acquired a new hyperfixation)

[coffeezdraws]

This is the laziest thing I’ve ever made but the fit possessed me

[dads-typo]

[beeskits]

hello klapollo nation

[seventh-district]

Making Incorrect H:SR Quotes Until I Run Out of (hopefully) Original Ideas - Pt. 1 - Ratiorine Messages Edition

[Pt. 2] [Pt. 3] [Pt. 4] [Pt. 5] [Pt. 6]

[sleazyjanet]

this was supposed to be that sexy stock photo but it turned silly, i'm sorry

[koalasmashedoneucalyptus]

This has been sitting in my drafts

[sainosaurus]

remy lebeau my beloved ✨

(pose used for down right by mellon soup ❤️)