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my home situation has recently graduated from quietly abusive to absolutely untenable where i literally have to wait until i'm home alone or people are sleeping so i can eat. i haven't been able to wash my clothes in several months. anything i do invites harassment and threats, even so much as going to the kitchen to pour myself coffee in the morning.

i don't have nearly enough of a comfortable margin of savings to sustain myself on my own until i get a full time job or even like. anything that'll pay. my estimative is that i, being generous, have three months of living expenses right now.

in any case, i need to leave as soon as possible and i'd like to, y'know, survive until i can pay my bills myself and no longer have to worry about any of this bullshit.

if i can get any help from here that's good, if not then i already expected that. thanks

So!

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

Jor-El calls Clark "Filio" all the time, and with "Filius" being the Latin word for "son" it immediately reminded me of it. (Yeah it could also be from the Italian "Figlio", but the pronunciation is more latin)

Towards the last few sentences it even sounds more like Dutch, 'cause the language is becoming more comprehensible over time, aka more English is put in the mix.