#changed tags

So, I'm a Bucky Barnes fan. "No, really? You don't say? With a username like that, we never would have guessed!" I know. Shocking. I'm also a Bucky Barnes fan that follows several fans of a ship known as BuckTommy from, I think, 9-1-1? The show might have a longer name than that. I don't watch said show.

I have seen several of those people (one in particular, whose posts I love to see so so much) start their posts off with something along the lines of, "Okay, so let's say Buck..." and so on. And I will read, because Bucky has been known to go by Buck, and those people who are BuckTommy fans are also MCU/Marvel fans (that's actually why I followed them in the first place, but now I'm getting bonus other content and God I love being introduced to other shows through people on this site).

I will read to a point where I'm like, "Hang on. This feels off? What am I reading?" And then I'll read a name like Chim or Hen and I go, "Oh. OH! This is NOT a Marvel post."

And I will keep reading. Because my goodness, I am so fucking HOOKED on BuckTommy even though I don't watch that show. I saw their first kiss and I was in. I watched, through gifs and posts, their googoo eyes for each other. Buck talking about Tommy to anyone who will listen (and those who don't want to hear it?), and I'm just in love with them. I adore them. I would do anything for those two men, Your Honor.

And then I cried through the breakup that I DIDN'T EVEN WATCH. I watched fans of the show go feral over it. I watched people get so mad and I was mad with them. Because excuse me? Excuse me?! What?

I was just getting into these two together and now they're just... not?

And then all the homophobic discourse from people about them? And people being so cruel and rude? About the actors? Not just the characters, but the actors themselves? At least, from reading other people's posts, that's what I gathered from it. As a gay man, I was both floored and not surprised at the same time. I was just angry. And I kind of stopped reading for a while because it hurt my heart.

Then, I saw the, "Fuck it, we're going to write them getting back together," posts. And I started reading again. Because my goodness, how beautiful and powerful is a fandom? That they just fought back against hate by writing what they want? It's wonderful.

And then. Then came the fires in California. And that fandom came together to raise money for the firefighters or the families or... something out that way. I can't remember which. But I know the show is about emergency workers, largely firefighters, I believe, and it makes so much sense that people who love a show about firefighters would go to the ends of the earth to help fight such a massive fire in their own way.

And I don't know if anyone out there said anything, but I watched. It looked to me like they raised more than their goal in less than a week? Maybe my timing was off. But they blasted that shit out of the water, and I'm so so proud of them. Had I money at the time, I would have donated, because what they were doing was so honorable and beautiful, but they did so well on their own. They came together as a community and kicked ass for people many of them might not have even known. But they did it out of the goodness of their hearts and the shared love of a show.

Not a new chapter update yet, but I encourage all of my readers to check out 'In the Dead of Night' on AO3, as I have updated the tags that should hopefully provide a trigger warning for what has happened (for new readers) and what could still happen in the story.

Keep in mind that I do my best to handle all of these serious topics with care and respect, as they are based on not only my own experiences, but the experiences of people close to me. I'm also always subtle with things, and they're only ever implied (so don't worry about anything graphic or vulgar!)

@dduane​ just forwarded me the current list compiled by @bannedtags​.

The ones that potentially affect me include, among numerous other idiocies...

butt (arms & armour posts.)

edge (arms & armour posts.)

feeder & feeding (garden birds, pets etc.)

gun & gunshot (gun safety, firearms safety, trigger discipline - as for that last one, see further down...)

knife & knives (arms & armour posts.)

long post (Not that I’ve ever...)

queue & queued (say WHAT?)

reblog & repost (this is just loopy...)

satin (not forgetting all his amps and demins. Bleu demins, of course. Also costume-related posts.)

shooting (see gun & gunshot, also anything involving archery and cameras.)

shower (but not, for some reason, bath.)

tagged (well, of course.)

trigger & trigger warning (these aren’t bolded in the list which according to @bannedtags means only the tags vanish. Bolded words - the rest of this list - mean the entire post is blocked...)

underwear (costume-related posts.)

wax (posts to do with sealing letters, candles, bees and oh, all right, ears.)

weapons (Thinking of my own blog I can’t think of anything funny to say.)

If it only means the tag “weapons” it’s not too bad, since I usually add more detail - “Indo-Persian weapons” / “combination weapons” / “reproduction weapons” etc.

But if the ban includes expansions as well, then it looks like I have a bit of work ahead, changing tags from banned to doublespeak (for example kitchen knife / knives = kitchen cutlery or Viking weapons = Viking weaponry / Viking arms & armour)

Finding posts on Tumblr using tags is a hit-and-miss affair anyway; a word in the Search Box is as likely to come up in the body of the post as it is as a tag, and if that won’t work, there’s always Google.

There’s also the business of copying posts with a lot of work involved (banned tag ”long post”) and saving them elsewhere, against the day when Tumblr finally goes tits-up.

FYI, tiddy and titty are on the list, tits are not. Just as well; an entire genus of small birds says thank-you.

The next chapter of the time-travel, fix-it fic “This Time, We’ll Do Better” is up. Please do note changed ratings and tags, a possibility for which is warned in the tags in AO3 beginning... Nothing untoward or what grown-ups wouldn't have seen million times before, but yet, to be on the safe side.

The chapter is called “Intimacy” - take it what you will of it... Thank you very much for @hardlyfatal for betaing, once more!

derp can write --> pomelo writes

derp can draw --> pomelo draws

derp can sew --> pomelo sews

derp can cosplay --> pomelo cosplays

derp writes fics --> pomelo writes fics

But why... why do they always have to have the real fucked up endings? What's worse is when they're cutesy or innocent-looking and then shit hits the fan before you can say "Oh snap!"