Multi-Fandom Love

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Happy birthday to this incredible person

Jiyong is a lot of things to different people:

Fashion king, cutie, rapper, singer, idol, sweetie pie, lyrical genius, great actor, humble, incredible performer, or a person who often doesn’t wear their shoes properly,

whatever applies he is someone who means so much to me. Of course I don’t personally know him, most of us don’t know our favourite idols or celebrities, but all people, no matter how far removed from real encounters, give off energy and his is one I truly vibe with and always will.

I’ve been a vip for 6 years now and my love is stronger than ever I can’t wait for more music more birthdays and anniversaries

I love you jiyongie have a fabulous day baby

kpop idols with the same ___ as me 🌼

age: pentagon hongseok | birthday: jessica jung | star sign: bap bang yongguk | height: snsd sooyoung | mbti: seventeen wonwoo

Yiling Laozu and his Ghost General

This includes Stephen King (which coincides with his Twitter drama with Rowling from before), Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, and more big names in the industry.

Look at those beautiful trans supportive authors!

The Google doc with the letter and a list of the authors who signed it can be found here:

Here is a link to an LA Times article:

And here is a link to the Guardian article:

I thought, given all the sincere disappointment I've heard from people who loved her books, at least this gives you an alternative source.

The category for relationships (Gen, F/F, M/F, M/M, a combination, something else)

The right category for ratings (is it for General Audiences, Teenagers, Mature, Explicit, R-Rated, Nc-17?)

The relevant warnings (violence, rape, underage sex, anything else you deem relevant)

The relevant tags on it (what relationships are covered in the fic? What characters? Is it light and fluffy fic? Funny? Sad? Dark? Does it have sex, and if so, what kind? Is there violence? Tags are used by readers to find fic and to avoid fic)

A summary that informs the reader of what kind of fic they’re gonna read.

Author’s notes for everything else. You can use the summary or author notes to explain certain tags, or add caveats, or thank your beta’s.

Things that are not a fanfic writer’s responsibility:

Kids stumbling across your fic and reading your fic and assuming that whatever is written about in the fic is 100% cool and normal.

They don’t seem to understand that “I’m opting out of the warning system” is a PART OF THE WARNING SYSTEM on Ao3 and even the DEFAULT Archive Warning according to their TOS FAQ.

To suggest I don’t post to Ao3 because I like using their default warning is…more than a little bizarre xD Again, it all boils down to “ONLY THE WAY I DO FANDOM IS RIGHT!” - while Ao3 instead explicitly offers authors several different ways of doing fandom/posting their fics, which aren’t inferior to each other. JUST DIFFERENT.

But then, far too many people don’t understand that “different” doesn’t mean “bad”, and even when the site specifically tells its users “We offer you different ways of doing this”, apparently some people think that those who actually take advantage of that offer should…leave? *lol* Also, I threw a fit after people told me how authors were “exclusionary” and “dicks” etc. etc. for using CNTUAW as if they were owed to be able to read every fucking fic. Which they are not. (Yet another fact this person doesn’t get.)

In short:

So there was so much debate over WHAT kind of content requires MANDATORY warnings?  And why?  This wasn’t how fic worked before AO3.  Yeah, many authors would warn for things like non-con or graphic violence but it was still very voluntary and up to each individual. 

Many authors at the time HATED the idea of including warnings or being forced to warn because they felt that putting a warning for things or a tag at all would ruin the suspense and surprise reveal of their plot.  And this wasn’t a fringe concern! 

That’s why there’s an opt-out option!  Because a community is about compromise and balancing the needs of authors and readers and people with very different feelings about how fiction should work.  So having mandatory requirements to warn for certain things AND an option that lets people opt-out of this requirement while still warning readers that these are DANGEROUS AND UNCHARTED WATERS is a fucking compromise.

I know a lot of younger people seem to have never heard of compromise because they’ve been raised by the extremes of online discourse and Fox News but when you’re literally building community infrastructure it’s the name of the game.

Basically, if the people who don’t want to do something come out of the argument able to behave exactly as they wanted before the argument began, you have not actually created a compromise, you have given them the win

Except ao3 is non-profit! You cost OTW money to use their archive.

All content is made for free! (No really, it has to be made for free content or ao3 cannot host it for legal reasons. This includes linking to a patreon and kofi account. Do not.)

I don’t think any of you criticizing ao3 for its set up realize that you are essentially being handed a gift and then whining it’s not exactly what you wanted.