#bugsieplusone

The more you practice, the easier this is. And the deeper in you go as your brain sorts out shit to its satisfaction, the little clouds of thought thin out and start to come less frequently and the ‘space between thoughts’ (which is a lovely way of putting it!) comes more and lasts longer. 

I'm trying to look in your tumblr for context for this but either my connection is bad or I'm just hopelessly lost lol

probably a bit of both, there isn’t much context to be had? What little I can sort of explain is here: #shdldr/chrono (Basically I made the truly controversial statement that: censorship is bad, and people should not be bullied for writing dark!fic, morally grey characters, or even having themes of rape or incest in their fic, and made an anonymous collection for people to post Shadowhunters fic to avoid the dog-piling of the purity-wank crowds. And then got yelled at a lot here and on twitter! It was a. Something?)

neuromagpie replied to your post “re: the anon - Making someone a dom is bad now? Please explain. —...”

Thank you for clarifying your stance on this. These are unsettling trends and issues that pretty much every fandom faces, but they’re nuanced subjects that deserve to be discussed, not a war to take sides over. I wish that some authors were willing to have discussions with folks that find their content upsetting, and I wish that some folks wouldn’t resort to unhelpful anonymous trolling. Anyways thank you, OP.

I am going to disappoint you mightily, but this is not a nuanced issue. Either you think it is wrong to bully people over fiction and that content cannot be policed because censorship is wrong... or you think there should be exceptions and it’s okay as long as it’s happening to the other guy. That’s it.

Do I think we should talk about the way media is harmful? YES. Do I think *fandom and fanworks* can be harmful. YES. 110%. THAT IS ENTIRELY SEPARATE FROM THIS ISSUE.

I am all for every possible conversation about how trends in fanfic and fandom are racist and sexist and queer-phobic and etc. (because fandom is still part of the rest of the screwd up world!) and how we  can fight against that. But that is NOT THIS CONVERSATION. They are two separate issues, and the tendency of people to combine them is where we get into trouble. That is never ever an excuse to pick a single work or author and threaten and bully them because you think they did it wrong.

dearophelia replied to your post “can you delete the fic”

what is even happening

no one knows. people are dumb™

i just caught up and this is a perfect response

why thank you 💗

loquaciousquark replied to your post “can you delete the fic”

This is infuriating to watch.

ikr? I am. Mostly just flabbergasted. This is the hill they’re going to die on! That writing fiction is bad, and I should feel bad for supporting it *shrugs*

jathis replied to your post “can you delete the fic”

Lol

😘

ohfreckle replied to your post “Okay I'm gonna be honest here. That collection is all about "kinks"...”

Seems like anon's kink is self-punishment if they keep visiting places that clearly aren't for them.

*snerk* TMI from the anons!

lemonsharks replied to your post “Okay I'm gonna be honest here. That collection is all about "kinks"...”

Where are these people coming from and, perhaps more importantly, would they be here if anon was turned off?

Probably some of them? I got a few on twitter too before I blocked them. They seemed vaguely offended, but most of them started the conversation with: this is gross, if you agree with this, block me. So I did?

lemonsharks replied to your post “@glorious-spoon asked: ugHHH i almost feel like i should apologize...”

I don't even go here but YES THIS THIS IS THE PROBLEM I HAVE HAD with the ENTIRE perennial wank over top/bottom in every fandom I've been in.

I have always thought that it was really obvious that the problem was THE QUESTION? And yet. *shrugs* 

junemermaid replied to your post “@glorious-spoon asked: ugHHH i almost feel like i should apologize...”

This this THIS. I didn't get this far or this eloquently on twitter today but this is the core of the problem. Discuss troublesome trends instead of dogpiling single writers!

Yeah. There’s a huge difference between: I DO NOT THINK WE SHOULD WRITE ALEC WITH WOMEN BECAUSE THAT IS QUEER ERASURE 

and

omg look at this particular & terrible author and kill them 

like. obviously? I would have thought?

evilsapphyre replied to your post “*makes you a Bloody Mary after that anon* I think you may need this...”

Oh, yes, drinks someday. Somewhere. But mostly, then so you could sit back and just laugh with a tasty drink while seeing people miss the point of dl;dr.

yeah. like. IT’S NOT A TRICKY ACRONYM. IT’S REALLY STRAIGHTFORWARD

bugsieplusone replied to your post “Hold up, let me get this straight, you are supporting this whole...”

How ridiculous is this. It's fiction. Go pearl clutch about things in the real world that matter anon.

ilu. since I haven’t said that lately 💖

la-muerta replied to your post “Hold up, let me get this straight, you are supporting this whole...”

Woooaaahhh hold up here. Magnus being the dom or written as !dark (because he’s canonically the son of a Prince of Hell??? UM.) is your idea of “fetishising”? Like I’ve heard some nonsense, but this is some fuckery, anon.

simple, move to east australia, everyone does that

bugsieplusone replied to your post “I don’t think I can ever move out of California simply for the fact...”

What ? This sounds like perfectly reasonable library attire to me. Plus its 46 degrees (C) out here so I'll damn well wear flip flops to the library if I please.

Ok sure but the only poisonous animal I need to worry about here are black widow spiders. I hope all the Aussie depressives know I stand in flip flopped solidarity with them.

veritasrose replied to your post “I don’t think I can ever move out of California simply for the fact...”

That works in arizona too

True! But my hot weather is like high 80s. I’m personally impressed by all the depressed Arizonians out in the heat living their best flip flop lives.

notactuallyaduck replied to your post “I don’t think I can ever move out of California simply for the fact...”

Wow. Mood.

Send me a fandom and I’ll answer;

character i first fell in love with; Jowan - partly by virtue of being one of the first characters my warden met and interacted with in any meaningful way, but I still really enjoy his character.

ultimate favorite character; It’s a tough one, but I’m going to go with the controversial choice of Florianne De Chalons. She doesn’t get a ton of characterisation in the game, but I was intrigued by her background, the image she’d carefully cultivated for herself, and later by Jo Berry’s short story.

favorite female character; As above. Runners up include Josephine, Isabela and Merrill.

favorite male character; Raleigh Samson. His motivations in DA:I are sympathetic to a degree, even if his actions aren’t, and that’s interesting.

least favorite female character; Grand Cleric Elthina. I found her frustrating, and her actions (or in some cases lack thereof) caused a lot of damage...which could have been more interesting to me if I’d been able to understand her motivations better.

least favorite male character; Danarius...I don’t think this one requires any explanation!

ultimate OTP; Zevran/Warden

favorite m/m ship; Dorian/Inquisitor or Zevran/m!Warden

favorite f/f ship; Josephine/f!Inquisitor. A special mention also goes to Isabela/Merrill/f!Hawke and to Sera/Dagna.

favorite m/f ship; Florianne/Erimond - yes, I know that they don’t meet in the game and it started as crack but listen (also Blackwall/Inquisitor is very good)

BROTP(s); Hawke, Carver & Bethany. Literal BroTP. Also Samson & Cullen, post-Inquisition.

NOTP; Dorian/Bull

most aesthetically pleasing character; Josephine

character you’d totally hug; Ser Pounce-a-lot...but really, there are a lot of characters in need of hugs

character you’d totally date; Josephine

captainsaku replied to your post “This N7 day, I’m going to show off all of my

Question: who the heck doesn't like seeing kickass Shepards???

Excellent question! I think the correct answer is no one. Cause everyone likes kickass Shepards. 

euxiom replied to your photo “Fen Shepard Class: Sentinel Origin: Colony 

oh I'm curious about that backstory and how you tied quarians into Mindoir? :O good stuff

Hopefully I’ll write about it some day. Basically, the wiki says that the quarians would take the fleet to different systems and industrial worlds would give up food, supplies, anything they could to make them leave. Otherwise the quarians would strip mine asteroids and anything they could. So I headcanon that Mindoir was an industrial colony and two weeks before the batarian attack, they gave away most of their weapons and a lot of their supplies to the quarians. Weapons that Fen thinks they could have used to defend themselves. 

aubade replied to your photo “Thanos Shepard Class: Sentinel Origin: Colony

I went through his tag ..... omg I don’t know how you made it through the game.

IT WAS SO HARD. It was an import, so I didn’t play ME2 with him (I don’t think I could have!) But ME3 was awful. So many dead friends. And no Garrus! :(

servantofclio replied to your photo “Thanos Shepard Class: Sentinel Origin: Colony Sole Survivor...”

Aw, he looks sad!

He is the saddest Shepard, Clio. He is the living embodiment of ‘all my friends are dead.’ Morinth and Kasumi were the only two people to survive the suicide mission!

ferociousqueak replied to your photo “Anelle Shepard Class: Sentinel Origin: 

I've never known about Anelle before, but she already makes my heart hurt :(

Same! I love her a lot. I actually almost started a post ME3 fic about her years ago. Maybe one day I’ll write it. Poor girl. 

bugsieplusone replied to your text post “thievinghippoThis N7 day, I’m going 

HOLY MOLY 15????

I think it's a little complex - its wherever your muse is taking you when November rolls around. Last year I had zero inspiration to write original fiction, and was swallowed up by fandom stuff, this year though, I am smitten with my own characters and the story I want to tell. Go where your heart is, I say!

I'll answer this publically because I don't want anyone getting wrong ideas about what happened. 

I saw the post for Turian Week yesterday and thought it would be a major problem during Suvi Week because it would overshadow it completely. I got a message from a friend who said the people organizing Turian Week didn't see that Suvi Week was happening at the same date and they were considering changing the date. They were about to vote to move Turian Week to another date, when I, the host of Suvi Week, asked to speak to the one organizing it and I and only I suggested moving Suvi Week to another date in September. I did this because it would allow me, as a host, to have more time to prepare for Suvi Week. Another reason is that my situation has changed lately and there is a high chance I'll spend most of August hunting for a new job. So in the end, changing the date to September was better for me as a host and I knew I could make sure Suvi Week would have all the attention it needs at that date. That was the reason.