And on the 10th of May, we were given a date for season 2, and it is ineffably good. Good Omens returns July 28th on Prime Video
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And on the 10th of May, we were given a date for season 2, and it is ineffably good. Good Omens returns July 28th on Prime Video

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A New History of Fandom Purges
On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinkingĀ āAll this has happened beforeā¦ā
On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblrās Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.
Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our pastā¦
HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!
1992Ā - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed
1995Ā - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites
1995Ā - Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere
1997 - Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites
1998Ā - AOL goes after X-Files fansites
2000Ā - Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites
2000Ā - Anne Rice anne rices again
2001Ā - Tripod Massacre
2001Ā - Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN
2001Ā - The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks
2002 - FFN bans porn
2002 - FFN bans RPF
2003Ā - Gryffindor Tower implodes
2004 - FFN bans script format
2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic
2005 - Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded
2005 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again
2006 - Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes
2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal
2007Ā - Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids
2008Ā - Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it
2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites
2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted
2009Ā - Marvel gets scans_daily deleted
2009Ā - imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly
2010 - FFN forums purged for inactivity
2010Ā - DeviantArt purges adult fanfic
2010Ā - Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN
2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahooās incompetence
2011 - China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org
2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn
2012Ā - Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic
2013Ā -Ā Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content
2014 - Quizilla shuts down
2014Ā - China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors
2014Ā - Blip.tv deletes vids
2014 - Viddler deletes vids
2015 - Journalfenās servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank
2016 - y!Gallery deleted
2016Ā - Elfwood goes offline
2016Ā - Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic
2017Ā - Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama
2017Ā - Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad
2018 - Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs
2018 - Tumblr announces NSFW ban
2018Ā - Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning
2019Ā - China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed
This is only a small taste of the many times that:
Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.
Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.
Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.
Fans grudge reported each other.
Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.
Itās not always malicious. Itās not always about us. But we lose every time.
Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.
ThisĀ is why we need AO3.
And itās why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.
Well.
Here we are again.
Hello to everyone flooding out of twitter. This particular exodus is shaping up to be an interesting one because many people are going back to platforms they leftāan unusual move in the history of fandom migrations.
Scandinavians/Nordic families not feeding their friends/guests
Uhh... I genuinely don't know why we're talking about this but I have to say a few things because you all are acting frustratingly flippant and too ready to jump into conclusions...
I can obviously only speak for my culture in Finland but a lot of the posts were written about Swedish people and I recognized some of the stuff, so here's how I have been taught regarding this:
We absolutely do fucking feed guests who stay the night. Whoever said we don't was either a liar or was staying over with someone who absolutely hated him. So, yeah, let's get that out of the way first: Maybe take stuff you see online with a grain of salt.
There's a difference between formal dinner guests and someone who pops into the house somewhat uninvited. The former group is invited because of food, and that's what we will provide for them. The latter is not expected to stay for very long, and if you start preparing them meals, it's very much possible that they will be late from wherever they need to be next, or that someone else is preparing them food somewhere else and this is all a waste. Your guest might even think that you're holding them down unnecessarily, and this is seen as awkward. This general sense of not burdening people in anyway whatsoever is taken very seriously by both parties.
There's a strong shared understanding that you do not go empty someone else's fridge when you don't know how little food they might have left for the rest of the month to feed their own family. You will leave before they start eating, not because the family kicked you out, but because you don't want to humiliate them by forcing them to provide something for you and then not eating themselves. If they didn't formally invite you over in the first place, you will assume they don't have extra food.
Of course there are layers to this, but in general: if a Finnish family starts hustling because of your sudden visit and starts preparing a big meal you will eat together with everyone, it's because they don't know you very well yet. If they don't do much of anything and don't steer away from their own daily routines, it's because they trust you and are comfortable with you. They expect you to be casual and ask for food if you get hungry, or take some snacks freely from the table, or they trust that whoever is closest to you (e.g. when you're a spouse/best friend of one of the siblings) will provide food for you separately. In short: if nothing much happens when you enter the house, consider that a GOOD sign: they have lowered their guard around you and think you're one of them.
Related to the previous point: it's very likely that the family never sits down to eat meals together anyway. So if someone in the household eats when you come in, you're not necessarily asked to join, because you're expected to eat at your own time (together with the person in the family you're closest to). This kind of eating might not be the healthiest, but it is what it is, and regardless, it's a sign that you're more than just a random guest, not a sign of disrespect.
If this is about a kid visiting his/her friend's house, there's again the idea that family dinners are formal and awkward, and the parents don't necessarily want to bother you or make you feel like there's any levels of formality present. They will assume their own child will take care of your needs and ask if you're hungry, and in the meantime, they try to not interrupt whatever you and their child are doing together. There's a shared understanding in Finnish culture that adults should give children a lot of space and not constantly supervise their every activity or try to organize them family-get-togethers at every hour, because that lessens the time the children can be alone together and get creative with their plays. It also increases the risk that the children will end up leaving the house and going somewhere else to be in more privacy. It's better to have the kids in the house or somewhere nearby, doing whatever they want uninterrupted, than have them escape you entirely because you're inviting them to sit-down meals and asking them awkward questions while at it.
TL;DR: Trying to not embarrass or inconvenience others and giving everyone as much space as possible is more important to Finnish people than force-feeding guests at every opportunity. Yet this doesn't mean we don't serve you food if you stay for a longer time or if you were specifically invited to eat food together with us. Dinner invitations are usually seen as formal, though, and we would rather drop formalities as soon as we get to know you better. You can view this as strange, but know that our intention is not to be rude or inconsiderate, actually it's quite the opposite.
the sonic 2 bloopers reel! note that many of these have bloopers of deleted scenes so you should watch the other scenes iāve posted first for context!

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A collection of quotes by (mostly Rhys) and Taika ā who first met at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2002 when Rhys was doing his first solo show and have been friends ever since ā discussing their shared history and finding those dramatic beats in Our Flag Means Death.
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The Kraken
So Iāve been thinking a lot about the Kraken story, the way itās told in episode 6, and the way the episode plays when you already know that Ed is not telling a tall tale about a sea monster, but a true story about killing his abusive father.
When you know that this is all a metaphor, a lot of lines take on a double meaning. The night I saw the Kraken becomes the night I understood my own capacity for violenceāand in Edās own words, thatās the scariest thing heās ever seen. When he says,Ā āI learned something that night. Fear is the most powerful emotion,ā I think what he is really saying is I learned that fear is powerful enough to turn a teenage boy into a killer.
In plenty of other narratives, teenage Ed killing his shitty abusive dad would be framed as cathartic, even heroic. āAbused person finally hits backā is a moment we cheer for in a lot of stories. You could make a solid argument that Ed was acting in self-defense and/or defense of his mother, because there was no reason to believe his dad would stop being violent toward them, and who out there protects poor people from violence? Fuckin nobody. Even though Edās life wasnāt literally being threatened in that moment, itās not crazy to think that at some point with his dad it would have come down to kill or be killed.Ā
The narrative certainly doesnāt have any sympathy for Edās dad. But Ed killing him is still framed by Ed as something deeply traumatic, something monstrous, a part of him heās afraid of and ashamed of. And I think this is one of the showās core thesis statements: that violence fucks you up even if you come out on top.
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Ed taking off his brace to ārelaxā.
can nice sneakers redeem such tragic fashion sense, discuss š¤
anyway yes, Antwan. obnoxious king.

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I miss when everyone on my dash listened to Welcome to Night Vale so thereās be a good chance that on any ole day someone would reblog a quote that would grab me by the throat and forcibly ascend me to a higher plane where I understood myself and the universe better and with more kindness but also a little spook
āThe past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle presentā are you kidding me this quote has propelled me through at least three emotional crises
āThe desert seems vast, even endless. And yet scientists tell us that somewhere, even now, there is snow.ā That quote literally got me through grieving my brother like WTNV goes HARD
A List of Some of My Favorite Quotes From This Insane Podcast:
"You are beautiful when you do beautiful things."
"The present tense of regret is indecision."
"We understand so much, but the sky behind those lights-- mostly void, partially stars-- that sky reminds us we don't understand even more."
"Be proud of your place in the Cosmos. It is small and yet it is."
"Believe in yourself. You are an ancient, absent god, discussed only rarely by literary scholars. So if you don't believe, no one will."
"Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you."
āWhisper a dangerous secret to someone you care about. Now they have the power to destroy you, but they wonāt. Thatās what love is.ā
"Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But thatās not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?"
"When we talk about teenagers, we adults often talk with an air of scorn, of expectation for disappointment. And this can make people who are presently teenagers feel very defensive. But what everyone should understand is that none of us are talking to the teenagers that exist now, but talking back to the teenager we ourselves once were ā all stupid mistakes and lack of fear, and bodies that hadnāt yet begun to slump into a lasting nothing. Any teenager who exists now is incidental to the potent mix of nostalgia and shame with which we speak to our younger selves."
"We are not history yet. We are happening now. How miraculous is that?"
"Wednesday has been cancelled due to a scheduling error."
"We have nothing to fear except ourselves. We are unholy, awful people."
"A million dollars isnāt cool. You know whatās cool? A basilisk."
"There's nothing under your bed. There's nothing in your closet. Nothing waits in every darkness. Nothing is the most terrifying thing of all."
"The night sky is ten miles wide, eight miles deep, and floats three miles up. Its favourite food is grape jelly. It wants to be a drummer."
"Look to the sky. You will not find answers there, but you will certainly see what everyone is screaming about."
"Ignorance might not actually be bliss, but it is certainly less work."
"And now, a special report. Crocodiles: Can they eat your children? *YES.*"
"Lie down and look up at the ceiling and breathe with those curiously fragile lungs of yours and remind yourself: Donāt worry. Donāt worry. All is as it was meant to be. It was meant to be lonely and terrifying and unfair and fleeting. Donāt worry."
"As long as Iām reminding myself things, Iām a good person, worthy of love ā both from myself and others."
"Guns don't kill people! It's impossible to be killed by a gun. We are all invincible to bullets and it's a miracle!"
"Everything is exciting! Particularly existence. Existence is the most thrilling fact of all."
"There is a monster under your bed. A monster at your window. A monster any place you imagine one. You project your monsters on the world."
"You miss 100% of the bank robberies you don't commit."
"I like my coffee like I like my nights. Dark, endless, and impossible to sleep through. "
"A friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep. Welcome to Night Vale."
"And now, the weather."
I discovered this podcast at the beginning of high school, and let me tell you, it rewired my synapses.
Not only was it my first experience with positive LGBT representation, it was the show I clung to when everything else went to shit. Whatever was going on in my life, I knew I had this show in my corner, making me laugh, making me cry, making me feel okay about my place in the universe.
I owe the creators of this podcast more than I could express.
"the lights over the Arby's" is such an intrinsically queer piece of writing that it hits me *hard* every time.
"We will never be the same again. But here's a little secret for you: no one is ever the same thing again after anything. You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are. Accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the gift it is. Work within the desires and goals of the person you are currently, until you aren't that person anymore, and everything changes once again." (from Episode 75)
Theyāre making a tv show! I canāt wait for the Night Valessance
my favourite of all the Fuck The Facts parts of ofmd is when they hang an important plot point on the claim that 1717 was a leap year
It is actually extremely important to me that y'all understand the importance of the talent show subplot to the structure of ofmd being not just a gay romcom but a story fiercely thematically opposed to toxic masculinity and amatonormativity; how Ed the Emo crying into his blanket fort and silk gown writing sad boy poetry music is the most emotionally healthy heās ever been and a hairsbreadth away from sustained happiness.
Which is a hard sell with Stede still playing house and straight man a million lightyears and then one (1) rowboat trip away, but I swear the reason that Ed has this subplot instead of disappearing for twenty minutes of B-plot about mutinying against Izzy only to swan in as The Kraken at the end is because Our Flag Means Death correctly believes with its whole big gay pirate heart that Ed doesnāt need Stede to be happy.
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Iām having so many emotions right now about Ed and the language of face-touching for him.
Body touching is a different thing. Thereās so much of that, I canāt even track it. From the word go, Ed is happy to get in peoplesā personal space, slap them on the back, clasp their hand, squeeze their arm, hug them when a plan goes the right way. But the face? Thatās a whole other thing for him.
Iāve been tracking it through the show (as well as in other people) and most touches to face are done in an act of violence or implicit control/threat in the piratesā experience - Edās dad striking his mother, Jackie to Olu and Jim (and Stede, if you include the knife), Geraldo to Jim, Ed to the French captain, Izzy to Ed and Fang. Iām sure there are more Iām forgetting.
And because it got long again, Iāll pop it behind a read-more.
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Taika wonāt stop eating bananas.Ā

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While we like to joke about Izzy being in the wrong genre, I would argue that there are in fact at least five distinct genre universes in the world of Our Flag Means Death, and all of them have different rules.
Stede Bonnet, and his crew when theyāre around him, live in a Muppet movie. I didnāt come up with this analogy but itās so accurate. Insane physical comedy and comedy-action where no one really gets hurt. Mild peril but you know everything is gonna work out. Terrible puns and sight gags, but room for sweet, genuine emotional moments too. The rules of time, space, probability and logic will bend for a good joke.
Izzy Hands is in a grimdark action/drama where if someone gets stabbed in the gut they will behave normally and fucking die. (Probably slowly and painfully, of sepsis.) Crucially I think Izzy also lives in a genre where you can only be subtextually queer, and violence (done for or with or to each other) is the only acceptable form of intimacy between men. This is why being forcibly dragged into Stedeās world, where everyone is busy having silly low-stakes misadventures and being gay and emotionally available all over the main textāand seeing his Subtextual Boyfriend go into this world and love itāsends him round the twist.
The British, Spanish and other imperialist militaries are in a Master and Commander-style naval adventure where theyāre the heroes. This is why they all take it completely seriously when Stede (unintentionally) kills Badminton and takes hostages, even though we can see that he bumbled his way into it ass-backwards. This is also why Stede is so shocked to get actually for real stabbed aboard the Spanish ship. (āDid you mean to do that?ā) He didnāt realize until that moment that heād stepped into a different genre. The stabbing is one of the first Surprise Genre Switch moments we get and in retrospect itās very important for setting up that in this world, the threat of getting hurt or killed is very realāwhich we need to understand to know that there are real stakes much later, when Stede almost gets executed by the British.
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