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I havenât watched the new movie yet đĽ˛
Iâve been trying a cleaner style lately, letâs see how that goes.

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Hey yâall I started to paint!
With acrylics, on canvas. Iâm ecstatic! I get a high making palettes and mixing paint, itâs great. Suddenly I want to make art again
made this this weekend (for me)
To me it was there the whole time, just a little bit smaller and in the back
This new movie made me so happy đ, and Iâm ecstatic I get to see a whole fandom awakening like this
Betelgeuse and Astrid "Death" Parallel
I'm not sure what else to call this observation/rambling, but I've been thinking a lot about the events of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and on my most recent viewing, I noticed something super satisfying about this scene. You know, other than the obvious.
We all know Beej is not one to turn down a deal, least of all when it involves his own self-interest. And of course, it's very advantageous for him to rescue the daughter of the woman whose heart he's trying desperately to win. But there's another delicious layer to him being the one to personally dispose of Jeremy Fraizer...
this is the weirdest live action remake i've seen in my life

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i can't stop making these comics. yes there will be more
I couldnât resist doing something on the old show style. I need to watch it again đŠ
for everyone else who is obsessed with this scene
Reblogging this because I desperately need to watch this again when I have a spare moment.
16 frame shooting star animation. January 2022-September 2024 Needlepoint
Frames from my shooting star gif. 16 frames total. Each frame is 8x6.5 inches on a 10â mesh. Designed and animated in photoshop and needlepointed by me. I started drafting this 1/14/22 and finished animating it 9/25/24. It took approximately two years and eight months to finish. This is one of the largest projects Iâve ever worked on and Iâm very happy with how it turned out.
I just watched beetlejuice beetlejuice and Iâm sooo happy is good
Jeez, I havenât had that much fun with a movie in a long time. I have lots of ideas that I need to remove from my mind hahahha
Iâll probably sketch some stuff on the cartoon style
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The regency eraâŚ
Remember to create, darlings.
Create stories and art. Create playlists and moodboards and memes. Create podfics and translations. Create rec lists.
Create folded creatures from scraps of paper. Create silly songs to sing to your family or pets or sky. Create dances. Create joy.
We don't need a why. We don't need to be skilled. We don't need to be good. We just need to try.
Remember to create, darlings, because we were made to.
So Iâm on AO3 and I see a lot of people who put âI do not own [insert fandom here]â before their story.
Like, I came on this site to read FAN fiction. This is a FAN fiction site. Iâm fully aware that you donât own the fandom or the characters. Thatâs why itâs called FAN FICTION.
Oh you youngins⌠How quickly they forget.
Back in the day, before fan fiction was mainstream and even encouraged by creators⌠This was your âplease donât sue me, Iâm poor and just here for a good timeâ plea.
Cause guess what? That shit used to happen.
how soon they forget ann riceâs lawyers.
What happened with her lawyers.
History became legend. Legend became mythâŚ.  And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.
I worked with one of the women that got contacted by Riceâs lawyers. Scared the hell out of her and she never touched fandom again. The first time I saw a commission post on tumblr for fanart, I was shocked.
One of the reasons I fell out of love with her writing was her treatment of the fans⌠(that and the opening chapter of Lasher gave me such heebie-jeebies with the whole underage sex thing I felt unclean just reading it.)
I have zero problem with fanart/fic so long as the creators arenât making money off of it. It is someone elseâs intellectual property and people who create fan related works need to respect that (and a solid 98% of them do.)
The remaining 2% are either easily swayed by being gently prompted to not cash in on someone elseâs IP. Or they DGAF⌠and they are the ones who will eventually land themselves in hot water. Either way: this isnât much of an excuse to persecute your entire fanbase.
But Anne Rice went off the deep end with this stuff by actively attacking people who were expressing their love for her work and were not profiteering from it.
The Vampire Chronicles was a dangerous fandom to be in back in the day. Most of the works I read/saw were hidden away in the dark recesses of the internet and covered by disclaimers (a lot of them reading like thoroughly researched legal documents.)
And woe betide anyone who was into shipping anyone with ANYONE in that fandom. You were most at risk, it seemed, if your vision of the characters deviated from the creators âoriginal intentions.â (Hypocritical of a woman who made most of her living writing erotica.)
Imagine getting sued over a headcanonâŚ
Put simply: we all lived in fear of her team of highly paid lawyers descending from the heavens and taking us to court over a slashfic less than 500 words long.
all of this
Reblogging because I canât believe there are people out there who donât know the story behind fan fiction disclaimers.Â
Yep I used to have disclaimers on all my Buffy fic back in the day. The Buffy creators were mostly pretty chill about fandom but itâs not like it is now. You did NOT talk about fandom with anyone except other fandom people and bringing it up at cons was a massive no no because of stuff like this.
I think Supernatural (and Misha Collins specifically) was when that wall between fandom and creators started to break down. Itâs a relatively new thing.
I remember going to a Merlin panel down in London and a girl sitting next to me asked the cast about slash and I thought she was going to get kicked out!
Fandom history is important.
Oh, this brings back some not so-awesome â90s fandom memories!Â
Oh man, let me tell you about the X-Files fandom. Lawyers for FOX sued, threatened, and generally terrified the owners of fan websites on a regular basis. God help you if you wrote or created original art set in their (expansive) universe or worse - dared to write about their characters. Even people who werenât creating fanworks, just hosting Geocities pages about how much people liked the show would be sent C&D orders or actually fined. When I was first discovering the concept, the first rule of fandom was you do not talk about fandom because the consequences could be devastating.
It was such a strange and uncomfortable experience for me when fans in LOTR and Potter fandoms suddenly started shoving their work in peopleâs faces speaking publicly about fandom and wanting to engage in dialogue with the creators and actors of the Thing they were into. Fan stuff was supposed to stay online, in archives and list-serves and zines we passed around because it just wasnât cool to talk about it and it could get you in a boatload of trouble. The freedom we have to create and gather together in a shared space, or actually be acknowledged in any way by people outside the fandom was inconceivable to my fannish, teenaged self. I want fans these days to understand how amazing modern fandom really is, cherish the community, and appreciate what it took to get us here.Â
âif you found this by googling yourself, hit back now. this means you, pete wentzâ
Oh hey, even more blasts from the past.
I was one of the ones who got a love letter from Anne Riceâs lawyers. Bear in mind that up until that point her publisher had encouraged fanfic and worked with the archive keeper (one of my roommates at the time) to drum up publicity for upcoming books and so on.
I could tell such tales of how much Anne screwed over her fans back then. The tl;dr version is that she and her peeps would use fan projects as free market research and then bring in the lawyers once it was felt Anne could make money off of it herself. (Talismanic Tours being one of the most offensive examples of this.)
But where fanfic is concerned not only did we get nastygrams but one of my friends had Anneâs lawyer trying to fuck up her own privately owned business which had NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING ANNE RELATED. Said friend was a small business owner with health issues who wasnât exactly rolling in money, so guess how well that went?
On top of that when yours truly tried to speak out about it I discovered that someone in Anneâs camp had been cyber stalking me to the point where they took all the tiny crumbs of personal information I had posted over the course of five years or so and used it to doxx me (before that was even a term and in early enough days of the WWW that this wasnât an easy task) and post VERY personal information about me on the main fandom message board of the time. Luckily for me the mod was my friend and she took that down post haste, but it was still oodles of fun feeling that violated and why to this day I am very strict about keeping my fandom and personal lives separate online.
Hence why those of us in the fandom at the time who still gave enough of a shit to want to keep writing fic DID keep writing fic, but shoved it so far underground and slapped it with so many disclaimers they couldâve outweighed the word count of War & Peace. It wasnât just for the purpose of protecting fic but for trying to protect our personal lives as well.
(Also would love to know who @tiger-in-the-flightdeck knew. Life paths crossing after so many yearsâŚ.)
Lucasfilm also sent cease-and-desist letters to Star Wars fanzines publishing slash.
My favourite bit I read from one included the idea that you werenât allowed to have any explicit content, of which anything queer, no matter how tame, was included, to âpreserve that innocence even Imperial crew members must be imagined to haveâ.
Yeah. The same Imperial crew members who helped build the Death Star to commit planetary genocide.
(Itâs one reason Sinjir Velus, while I still have some issues with him, feels like such a delicious âf*** youâ.)
Later on, they were apparently persuaded to âallowâ fans to write slash, provided in âremained within the nebulous bounds of good tasteâ.
(On a related note, if I wasnât quite so attached to my URL, I would 100% change it to âNebulous Boundsâ, because thatâs just downright catchy)
Anne McCaffrey had this huge long set of rules about how exactly you were allowed to play in her sandbox. Dragonriders of Pern was my first online fandom, and I was big into the Pern RP scene - and just about every fan-Weyr had a copy of these lists of rules McCaffrey wanted enforced. One of which was âno pornâ and another was basically âit canât be gayâ (and for a while âno fanfiction posted onlineâ? which??? anyway.)
She relaxed a little as time went on, but still.Â
Letâs not forget: the reason AO3 is called âArchive of our ownâ is because it was created in response to some bullshit that assholes were trying to play with fan creators. Basically (if I remember the fiasco correctly) trying to mine fandom creators for content which they could then use to generate ad profit on their shitty websites. When the series creators objected, the fans tried to pull their content, only to find that the website hoster resisted, claiming their content was all his now.
That wasnât even all that long agoâŚ
fandom history class
To this day, *talking* about writing or reading fanfiction - just acknowledging that it exists - to anyone other than people I know are in fandom as well, feels like a dangerous act. The strict separation I maintained between my real life identity, my online identity, and my fandom identity (yes, they were separate, because some of the most vicious and mocking people were fellow nerds) has broken down a bit these days, but I donât think Iâll ever be able to integrate them as freely as some younger fans do.
Everybody should know that AO3 is just one project of the Organization for Transformative Works. Their mission is much broader than just hosting a (very good) fanfic site. They do all kinds of fandom history archiving and publish an academic journal, but most importantly, they perform legal advocacy to protect the fair use rights of people who make fanfic or fanart.
The OTW Legal Committeeâs mission includes education, assistance, and advocacy.
We create and post educational materials about developments in fandom-related law on transformativeworks.org and on archiveofourown.org.
We assist individual fans when their fanworks are challenged, we answer fansâ questions about law relevant to fanworks, and we help fans find legal representation.
We partner with other advocacy organizations and coalitions in the U.S. and around the world.
We advocate for laws and policies that promote balance and protect fanworks and fandom.
And much more!
I havenât been involved in fandom stuff all that long, but I find this stuff so fascinating!
whew, i feel old, but thatâs mostly bc i was on forums way way waaaaay too young. but this? yes. all the way. people had password protected forums on the weirdest, most unconventional websites. before you could even be approved by the mods they would search your blog, your other accounts, question you, everything, all because we were broke teens and preteens trying to do something for fun and if someone got in who could doxx you or send your work over to a lawyer? that was it, you were OVER. thatâs also part of where fandom wars and the defense of fandom came from: quote unquote âenemyâ fandoms would infiltrate just to hurt you. @theglintoftherail makes a very good point: ao3 is a goddamn haven. and theyâre a great team of lawyers and people dedicated to protecting fanworks! part of the reason itâs so great is because they know thereâs no one like them out there. they also go to the ends of the damned earth to protect you and to be inclusive, which is why thereâs shit like tentacle porn and underage and dubcon. because theyâre dedicated to protecting readers and creators to the death. they donât advocate for it and they have the extensive rating and tagging system because of that (legit the best tagging system iâve ever seen) but they donât know if youâre dealing with trauma or if you need to get something out. do not forget your fandom, kids. jesus
Who else knew nothing about this? A show of hands
Iâm just the right age to remember the disclaimers and to have HEARD about the Anne Rice, Anne McCaffrey, and X-Files fiascos, but I was never in any of those fandoms and I was more or less on the tail end of that. I canât imagine having to be scared to tell people I write fanfic. So glad weâve come so far.
Every time I start reading fanfics, I thank all of you people whose neverending resilience and the drive to be creative made it possible for me to consume content freely and without worry đ¤
My older fics have the disclaimers. Heck, my older fanart has disclaimers in the descriptions. FFN and DeviantArt were those times, AO3 and Tumblr era I stopped finally.
In case folks still donât get why losing AO3 would be so devastatingâŚ
Since itâs happening again now, letâs not forget the purity brigades of the late-90s and early-2000s who took it as their duty to roam fan fic sites in their fandoms and report anything they deemed unsuitable. And if they couldnât get them removed, thatâs when the flame comments would start, where they would screech abuse at you in the comments boxes.
Back then, this could include anything from the ship they didnât like (look up the ship wars from Potter fandom. The feuds were horrendous and hateful) to something as simple as a g-rated slash fic because âthis of the childrenâ. Hell, when strikethrough happened on livejournal, it was everything/anything which - sadly - also included a lot of fantastic support communities for queer kids and SA survivors and the like. All because the site decided to crack down on âlewdâ/âdeviantâ content and didnât pause to think what else might be tagged under queer and SA content.
A lot of the writers in a lot of the fandoms I was in included content warnings for slash because if people felt spiteful or hostile when they stumbled on it, they could report it to fic hosting sites and have it taken down for any number of excuses. I lost fics on fanfiction.net because some big weirdo deemed them as inappropriate and had their friends all report it at the same time.
This is why Archive of Our Own is so special. If someone doesnât like what youâve written, they donât have the power or right to remove it or erase it because it offends their specific sensibilities. Yes, they can still comment and be a dick, but now we can block and/or report them if they continue to do so.

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This made my day hahahahah
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