#yes i HAVE been waiting since they announced the communities beta for this lol

[decepti-thots]

The Transformers Fic Rec community!

With Tumblr rolling out its Community function in beta, I'm jumping in to experiment with whether it's a good platform for an old idea I had to run some kind of fic rec event/feed for Transformers. Because I miss when fic rec communities were a bigger thing in fandom!

What is it?

So first off, communities are a new Beta feature Tumblr is rolling out which allows members to post and reblog to semi-public, curated feeds here on Tumblr. (If you were around when Livejournal was a thing, or use Dreamwidth, it brings a little of the way comms work(ed) on those platforms over here.)

Posts made to the community are visible when you visit it, but don't go into the wider public search. You can comment on and react to posts, and members can reblog posts from elsewhere on Tumblr into the community. The idea is for this to be a dedicated little feed you can proactively check and post to when looking for fic recs and related discussion, somewhere between a forum and a blog feed! Slower and more public than a Discord server, but more curated and targeted than just throwing stuff out there. I also hope to start doing fic rec theme/challenge weeks on there at some point, if I can get things going!

The community will be 18+ only, due to it accepting mature and explicit fic recs. Users will need to have some kind of indication on their blog they are an adult to join. A set of basic guidelines is on the new community page as the pinned post for now and can be read before choosing to join if you like.

So how do I join?

At the moment, communities are invite-only while the beta testing continues. (They are currently working on letting admins use invite links to let people join, hopefully very soon.) This means that if you would like to request to join, you will need to send me an ask so I can add you. (Or comment on this post, or... you get the idea. You have to ask me.) In the future, you'll be able to request to join yourself. As mentioned above, this community is 18+, and blogs that do not verify you are eighteen or older will not be added. (Unless I know you, I guess? But otherwise: say you're old, please, lmao.)

Anyway. Check out the community here and if you want in, hit me up! I'll go make some example posts sometime later today or tomorrow, probably. :) Let's get the ball rolling! (And if you have any suggestions and/or feedback, let me know if you want, I'm all ears.)

[lesbiancarat]

Book anon here and that is correct, I sent my ask prior to learning about the news. I found out a few minutes later from other svt blogs I followed so I want to apologize for my ask! I feel bad sending in the ask and I wasn't sure if I should send in another ask to apologize of my timing?

Its ok for taking a while to respond, please things have been, rocky shall I say? Within the fandom so take all the time you need! You could have also ignored my ask gjskdnak I would have understood! Things have been messy from day one and it seems to have calmed down? I cannot confirm this as I haven't looked up translations on twitter from fan accounts (we saw what happened with that) and am waiting on an official pledis statement which we can for once applaud them for doing their job. They put gose on hold and are communicating for the most part while getting proper info on this. Thus we are in an awkward period with the fandom, its weird to not see svt so much and it makes me realize how MUCH content we got from the boys and I miss them :c like even if they had no promo stuff we got weverse, twitter, and other stuff sprinkled in. Of course I'm not saying tbe mingyu situation isn't serious or anything like that, that is important as well but I hope you know what I mean?

Now back to topic, agreed with everything you said! I want to say I wish reposters could STOP doing stuff like this but well, they won't. Its sadly the internet and many people view things as once its online, its not yours mind set ya know what I mean? I feel bad for content creators that they go to great lengths to protect their work but sometimes it slips through the cracks all because buttsock people dont know common sense

Ssp is iconic and that is facts. Even if I got frustrated with it, if was a fun game and I liked it. I do thank the bts version for getting me into the other games of superstar because they are fun so its a shame to see it be gone so quick. I read that as well and as someone that is playing rhythm hive, the game is buggy but has improved but I can see svt and nuest on there. Since the game is sort in a beta/alpha phase, I'm guessing they are using the "official release" as a big update that can maybe include pledis artists. (Apparently the current state of the game is like a beta? Lol) Of course I'm not sure since we have no official statements or early leaks like when people found out bigbit bought out the video game company that is doing rhythm hive. We shall see, I would like to see a svt game of some sorts still!

ahh it's not your fault at all! you couldn't have known there's nothing to apologize for ^^

and yes, things have calmed down a lot, it feels like all the information that the OPs have to share is out there, now it's just a matter of Pledis clearing up the last little bit. and i agree, Pledis has handled this well!

and yeah i know what you mean. i mean it's looking like the issue is getting cleared up since mg and OP1 resolved their issues and the other claims either have been or look like they will be proven false. but i think it makes sense to miss them, even if mg had been guilty of all of the claims, or at least to miss SVT/mg as we know them. like, even if it came out that all of SVT were serial killers or something like that where it's obviously unforgivable, i still think it would make sense for Carats to miss the SVT we thought we knew, who brought us joy. now that a lot of the claims are starting to get cleared up i think a lot of ppl are more comfortable saying they miss SVT. but i guess my point is when everything was first happening and a lot of ppl thought mg was being accused of way worse stuff i still think it's natural for ppl to miss SVT, and shouldn't feel guilty. it doesn't mean u condone the action in question. i just say this bc i feel like i see a lot of posts of ppl saying they miss SVT but it sounds like they feel guilty about it

yeah it really is impossible to completely protect something once you put it online which sucks!! like ppl could argue if creators didn't want their work stolen they shouldn't put it online, but creators should be allowed to share things without worrying about that. plus for people who do some kind of art for a living, the internet is probably the best way to advertise these days

yeah i wouldn't be surprised if it takes a little while to announce SVT/nuest being added to rhythm hive even if that is the plan. since ssp just ended there might be contract/legal stuff to work out before the songs can be added to another rhythm game. but yeah even though I'm pissed if it really is true that bh ended ssp for their own rhythm game i guess having something is better than nothing. but I'm mostly worried that they won't add after school, pristin, etc. to the new game bc it seems unlikely they will :(