Making an Effort

Saw an interesting photo for a ref and decided Law should show em legs off

photo used if you wanna see below

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(I fixed some issues with Sakura's design lol)

hey all! i've built a new ao3 fork called fanfiction.lol 🤙🏽 key differences:

🚫 no invite queue: sign up and start posting immediately. no waiting, no velvet rope.

🏳️‍🌈 expanded content warnings: added ableism, homophobia/transphobia, racism, rpf and more. plus relationship tags for aro/ace spectrum, qpr, non-binary/genderqueer focus, poly/ensemble, and more.

🏷️ all tags are canonical: everything you tag goes into the searchable record. no volunteer wrangling bottleneck.

💜 fandom-agnostic moderation: i care about the writing, not fandom politics or discourse. write whatever you want, tag it honestly.

it's a small personal project but fan communities deserve independent infrastructure.

if you enjoy fandom, i'd love for you to sign up and poke around. tell me what breaks. the source code is at source.tube/brennan/fanfiction.lol.

find me at brennan.day/accounts or email [email protected].

Hi, I wanted to add some more info about fanfic.lol based on some replies. I was trying to keep the original post short and have done write-ups elsewhere but I'll reiterate here.

The admin/webmaster: I'm Brennan! I'm a Queer Red River Métis writer and webdev and huge advocate for the IndieWeb. You can get to know to me on my site, brennan.day

I made this for fun, and it's running using a homelab server in my basement. I don't make money or anything else. I'm just doing it for the love of ball.

fanfic.lol is meant to be a small, independent alternative for fanfic and fandom that prioritizes joy and fun. No aims at trying to replace AO3!

I am anti-genAI and so is the site. You can read more about my stance on AI here.

Archive warnings, like everything else, are under construction! I do have to adhere to the laws of my country (Canada). Please be patient.

I am pushing straight to production, which is to say the entire site could explode at anytime, so please do not use it as the only place you put things! :)

I forsee only a handful of people using this site, it def isn't for everyone. If you don't like it that's okay! Whether you want to give me input or just ignore it entirely.

I was there for the start of AO3, and we really did think we were going to usher in the next age of archives a la eFiction. It took too long for AO3's code to be in that kind of shape and the internet changed radically around us. We did not mean to create a behemoth. We just wanted venture capital bros to stop disrespecting us.

As a side note, all the comments you're getting like "There already is a fanfiction website. Wtf" are exactly what people said about AO3/OTW in 2007. There was a ton of bitching about us stealing FFN's idea. (Never mind that there were older archives.) There were frequent complaints about how there was already "an archive" and we didn't need another. Most of that discussion got deleted when FFN decided to nuke all of its inactive social spaces one Thanksgiving weekend while nobody was around to object or save their data. But I was there and I remember it and it sounded exactly like these comments now.

The oldschool core of AO3 was into the age of archives. We liked there being lots of different little spaces run by different fans. It's nice to see that energy floating around in 2026. Go indieweb!

But like the dark side of it is I just feel like there’s something in both of them that wants to tie the other to them irrevocably, as you say it’s the baby trapping impulse. This is the actual soul baring they do at the cottage confirming do you actually want this—where this is not just a relationship or dating but a lifelong commitment that neither of them can back out of no matter what. This is why I joke about them being the first gays to get covenant married

I’ve criticized Shane feeling relieved at being outed in TLG before but I think I’ve come around to it being the right character choice because I think for TLG they’re both kind of on the cusp of wanting it, wanting to push each other into this place where they can’t take anything back, but neither is willing to do that to the other because they don’t know if the other one truly wants that. And then it’s taken out of their hands and made someone else’s fault and Shane is just like “thank god”

HAPPY PRIDE!!

People have a lot of unexpected free time right now with nothing to do. What better time to create a rec list of your favourite fics to share out with your followers?

Recommend your own fics, your friends’ fics, your favourites from different fandoms. Create lists for tropes, ships, themes, what have you. 

People looking for stories get more entertainment. People who wrote those stories get to know how loved their words are. You get to feel awesome for making so many people happy. Everyone wins!

Neon blue text on a black background, taking up the left hand side of the image. On the right are a series of lightbulbs hanging from neon blue strings and glowing white.

Yellow text with a black shadow. The font is reminiscent of comic books. The background colour is shades of red.

A clothesline with a heart, a sheet, and another heart pinned to it. The sheet is white with red text, matching the hearts. The background is sky blue.

Navy blue background with gold filigree in the centre, creating a negative space box in the middle. The text is the same gold as the filigree.

An almost-black background with raindrops on it (like a darkened window). The text is white with an art deco feel to it.

A dark grey damask background. Along the left third of the banner are gold/floral curlicues. The right two-thirds is occupied by text in the same gold. The text is cursive with many flourishes.

A watercolour background of horizontal brush strokes. The top is bright pink, the bottom is bright yellow, and in between is where the paints blended. Text is white, lowercase cursive over the bright pink section of the banner.

A rainbow of paint, exploding towards the camera. The central colour is red with yellow and green on the left, purple and pink on the right. The text is white and similar to a typewriter or old-fashioned label maker.

A chalkboard type textured background in blue-ish green. The text is white and similar to chalk hand writing or printing.

"The sex tells the story, so it never felt gratuitous to me. The sex is character development. The sex is what is moving this relationship forward, and watching it change over time."

We are doing something. We’re rejecting allonormative ideals and that’s a massive thing to do. We’re actively fighting not just to help other aspecs, but to help everyone, because amatonormativity (and allonormativity as a whole) hurt everyone. Single people who want to find a partner but can’t also deserve to be able to exist.

There are so many issues with the expectation of marriage, including:

A single income isn't enough to get by anymore

Having a spouse is almost necessary under the current medical system

Society shames and pressures people who are single to get into relationships constantly

Rejecting allonormativity means fighting against these things that hurt everyone.

The first on-screen kiss between two men.

In this scene, the lower pilot is dying. He had been captured, managed to escape, and stole a German plane to fly back. The upper pilot–his best friend and rival for the love of Clara Bow*–shot him down, believing he was the enemy. This is him kissing his friend goodbye.

“But that’s still slashy!” you can say. Yep, it is. “You can read this as homoerotic!” Yes, you can. “Why are you denying this? Is it because you think being gay or bi is shameful?” A thousand times no. I am pointing this out because I think this is an important piece of evidence about what homophobia has done to our society and to male expressions of emotion. 

In 1927, the obvious reading of this scene, for audiences, was not that this was a romantic kiss. Audiences primarily understood this as an expression of friendship and love, because of course it was perfectly natural for non-romantically involved men to embrace or even kiss, particularly at highly emotional moments. Of course a dying man would want to be held during his last breaths. Of course a guilt- and grief-stricken man would want to kiss his friend goodbye. 

However, not very long after this, the commercialization and commodification of homophobia became a powerful force. The market (including Hollywood) began drawing lines and graphs and boxes, declaring which emotions, expressions, habits, and even colors “belonged” to men and to women. This kind of touch, which would not necessarily have been sexualized during many eras or in many cultures, became forbidden to men in the US, Britain and Canada (and many other places, too) within the decade–and is still lost to them today. This scene–a far more honest expression of grief and affection than anything we’re used to seeing in today’s action films–became gay. 

Now, if you strongly wish to write “Wings” slash, you can still do so–and not entirely by putting on your goggles! University culture of the 1900s-1920s definitely allowed for a far wider range of sexual behavior than frats do now, etc. I don’t want to police what anybody can and does find in “Wings.” But I think we should acknowledge what we lost when capitalism decided that, for men, kisses could only be sexual.