#admin update

We are beyond devastated by the confusing and cruel decisions the showrunners and writers have made, and we want to sincerely apologize if our optimism has further increased the distress you may be feeling at this moment. We genuinely believed that they were going to turn things around and had hope for a decent ending, and did not intend to give anyone false hope. That the writers did what they did was pure shock value and bad writing, full stop. A good show would not have done such a thing. A good show would have built upon the clear narrative threads that were being laid down, not smashing them all to pieces to punish their audience.

All we can do now is let our voices be heard: Let them know across social media (twitter, tumblr, instagram, facebook, tiktok, etc) how unacceptable this writing and character assassination is, leave one star ratings wherever applicable (imdb, Rotten Tomatos, metacritic, etc), and create a better story for Nick and Osblaine.

i’m going to be completely away from my laptop because my taekwondo tournaments are starting up, and i need to lock tf in and focus all my energy there! (no, i am not being trained by gun, i promise).

I know most of you follow this blog casually to see cool throwback photos of queer women, and while that is definitely the main objective I have, I also do love researching and sharing the more serious and complex issues of queer history, and because of that, I do make goals with what I want to include in my posts and my standards for posting. One of my current goals with this blog is to include more posts/photos from outside the USA. This is difficult because I source all my photos from archive and museum sites, not other blogs/accounts, to ensure proper crediting and so I can make sure I fully understand the context of the photo before posting here (this does not apply to reblogs, though I try to only reblog from tumblrs I trust). I am American and English is the only language I am fluent in, so it is a bit difficult to find good digital resources online from other countries (at the moment I am focused on Latam and Europe). If anyone (especially anyone international) has any research recommendations, please send me a message or respond to this post! Thank you to all who read this <3

ANNOUNCEMENT: Case: It's Us is over.

I couldn't finish the last chapter and after some serious thought, I'm giving up on writing the series. If you read it on ao3 you would have gotten an notification of the final chapter. I will be posting the same here which includes:

the unfinished chapter 9 that was supposed to lead to matz x reader smut

Ateez descriptions and summarized backstories

my Plot outline for Case: It's Us which was more of a rough outline. The one I had for Case: It's You is different than what it turned out to be, so if I had continued to write C:IU it probably wouldn't have been accurate to the outline.

a summarized plot and ending of how it would have gone.

The reason I did this was because as a reader i get sad when my favorite fics are left unfinished. Also, I am leaving it open and encouraging anyone else to write any of the unwritten parts of C:IU. There is the option I may hand over the rest to another writer if they want to take up the mantle, but as long as everything is credited, go off besties. It's in your hands now.

But also, Sorry and Thank you x10000

Last update (23/01/25): here

These seem to work to keep my brain on track! Many things have not changed since last month as it's been very busy offline for me, but here's where things are:

Tasks not started/still in the same place as last update:

Volume 8 (French Ltd. Ed.) Artbook internals fully edited and uploaded. Covers still require edits.

Volume 13 (French Ltd. Ed.) Artbook still to be scanned

Colouring Book (Japanese) partially scanned. Much more labour intensive than the last one as it dimensions are >A4 so there's a lot of page edits that I'm working out a better process for.

Pika Editions Artbook to be scanned. This is a MASSIVE book though it is a compilation of images we mostly have, so I'll be prioritising new/larger versions of images that don't exist digitally or with clean scans elsewhere. It will also not be shared for some time to encourage purchase of the original.

Tasks in progress:

Creating a streamlined, HQ repository of Volume covers, complete with scan & edit credit list in new Index upload. Currently there are incomplete collections of various languages, but this represents minimal variation. I will be keeping my offline collection of these, but aim to replace it with the following:

Standard edition dust jackets* - editions 7-13 have been scanned, edited & uploaded this week. Volumes 1-6 in progress.

Limited edition dust jackets* - editions 11-13 scanned, 12 complete & uploaded.

Special edition dust jackets* (e.g. PIKA Ed. alternate covers) - Volumes 7-13 scanned and mid-edit, Volumes 1-6 in progress. These take a considerable amount of time because of the intricate design elements that do not scan well, and I'd like to make them as pristine as I can. I'm... somewhat considering digital remasters where the cover images are available digitally (most of them are!) which might actually be faster lol. We'll see!

Under-dust-jacket covers (with Ltd Ed. colours where available) - this collection is complete and uploaded, though I would like to replace the covers with standard edition colours where I can.

Placeholder covers (e.g. German temporary cover designs) - all HQ versions I'm aware of I already had & have been updating, to be uploaded once renamed.

Title pages (internal) - I'm replacing scans I have of these so I can make cleaner edits. Volume 1-4 available from digital copies.

Contents pages (internal) - They have unique danglies! Again, need to make replacement scans.

Chapter covers (textless) - This is where things have fallen significantly behind. Again I will be keeping versions with text in an offline archive, but want to move the chapter covers to this folder and get text-less edits where ever I can.

*where a dust jacket isn't available or needs scanning in HQ, providing a version of at least the front cover & back cover in the standard edition (ENG) for each volume, or a placeholder scan which may or may not be fully edited.

Here's the current state of my tracker for reference. Ew!!

This is where I'm not certain what to do - the "chapter end cap/stubs" (as I've been calling them - they're the little illustrations between chapters in each volume that currently have their own folder) technically belong with all the other Volume art, but they're also mostly illustrations of specific characters who have a spot in the Illustrations folder. I'm not sure if it'd be best to slot them into the former or the latter. But they're living happily where they are, for now, and I may do some rescan/edits after comparing print quality between volumes (some publishers have blurrier prints than others aha)

Apologies for the long post! I've been blazing through the volume reorg this week and wanted to share! I'm uploading as I go, and leaving everything that hasn't been replaced in situ. I've taken a lot of care to edit out creases and scanner dust from the volume covers I've completed so far so please check them out!!