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@theladyw replied to your post “I have 314 things in my q  it is dumb how happy...”:

Pi

​ 🥧! I have turned into a failure of a nerd, I didn’t even notice that, I’m just still thrilled I can go over 300 now, after getting into some very bad drafting habits from getting stuck at 299 a few too many times 🤣

@oranges8hands replied to your post “so staff is working on POLLS which will be great...”:

#6 could be fun but true vote is mermay fic (assuming this is referring to the malec fic - or even better the follow-up to the AU mermay fic cause that thing lives in my head rent free) or sh wip - like another chapter of "if broken hearts were whole" or if you were still doing a sequel to "with an if in its soul".

I mean. IN THEORY ALL THOSE THINGS WILL HAPPEN SOME DAY?

I don’t usually actually totally abandon the WIPs. I have only done so twice in a dozen years? That’s not bad odds, tbqh. Now, has it been longer than usual without managing forward progress on quite so many of them? Perhaps....

*sighs forever*

@jadesabre301 replied to your post “so staff is working on POLLS which will be great...”:

considering I just wrote a nearly 6K summary of a fic I'm not going to write, I'm a big fan of the not!fic collection idea.  But also you should probably work on the thing where snippets are due soon.

Not!Fic is fun! (I have like 10k of journal entries for Ella Shepard that aren’t fic but are good background references, yk?)

& ​I did not do the thing, and continue to be snippet-less past the deadline. No art for jilly. (But a belated thank you for the pragmatic advice? 😅😅😅😅)

​@leahazel replied to your post “so staff is working on POLLS which will be great...”:

I should do a poll like this but for all the unfinished scenes in one WIP.​

On the one hand, YES! otoh, my polls have not actually been helping me do anything lately, so uh? YMMV?!?! *snerk*

@servantofclio replied to your post “so staff is working on POLLS which will be great...”:

I admit Downworld for Dummies sounds hilarious to me

I mean. I find it hilarious, that’s why I started writing it? But then it needed more effort and I went *thbbbbbbbt* because my brain is mushy.

@thedivinemissema replied to your post “so staff is working on POLLS which will be great...”:

4 sounds good to me!

WELL IT SOUNDS GOOD TO ME TOO BUT I KEEP NOT WRITING IT?

https://oranges8hands.dreamwidth.org/2342.html

4. can I ask what you've tried so far?

I’ve tried TumblThree (and can’t even get the program running).  I tried this one: https://github.com/bbolli/tumblr-utils/blob/master/tumblr_backup_for_beginners.md    I can’t seem to execute it once I get to the command prompt step.

1. What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?

Bros, I will not ever not even a little bit not even slightly be into brock rumlow slash anybody. Same for Pierce. Like...I know there’s an appeal in a power disparity but those dudes are evil garbage and I am very content to just wholeheartedly hate them. I will be there for any fic that features someone dropkicking either of them, but hell to the no am I ever gonna ship them with anybody. I want no joy for either of them. None.

5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

I am pretty much uninterested in Steve/Tony anymore because of fandom. Not because of anyone in particular, but it’s super hard for me to be interested in them--the mega ship--when Tony/Rhodey and Steve/Sam get ignored so often. I just can’t be happy in a Steve/Tony fic anymore.

23. Unpopular character you love?

It hardly counts in fandom, but I spend a lot of my time in rl arguing with people about Black Widow and Hawkeye being awesome. My dad, in particular, is unimpressed by non-super superheroes. I literally just had that argument right before my book club the other night.

Also, I know a lot of you are on board with this one but: DUM-E. I fucking love DUM-E.

ALSOALSO: I am still waiting for Sitwell to be redeemed and revived. I CAN DREAM, OK.

16. Most shippable character?

1. What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?*

Sabriel. Aside from the issues with Gabriel having canonically tortured Sam and having one hell of a vindictive streak, I just don’t see their personalities meshing very well. Sabriel tends to be written as fluffy and, with the issues I just mentioned, that doesn’t sit very well with me.

Wincest, too, to an extent. I’ve been watching Supernatural since close to the beginning, but stayed away from fandom because the pairing squicked me and in the early days it was the only game in town. I never saw, or wanted to see, Sam/Dean. Intense relationships can and do exist without having a sexual or romantic element, and Sam and Dean’s relationship often reminded me of my sister and I so… yeah.  (That said, I do sometimes read the fic. I love horror and my tendency to be squicked by Sam/Dean can actually be used to great effect in the hands of the right writer. I’ll just never be into soulmates, fluff, or the idea that it’s at all healthy.)

5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?*

I don’t think it’s really ruined a pairing, but it has burnt me out on them. Again, Sabriel’s probably the best example where it went from being a kinda rarepair I didn’t run across too often to “shitdamn, why am I having to work so hard to avoid this.”

19. What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?

Ugh, just one? One??? The bullying. The world would be a much nicer place if, anytime someone felt the need to fling some anon hate, they just took a fucking nap instead. Or maybe a nice walk.

3. Have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion?

I’ve unfollowed a few people for arguing that John Winchester wasn’t abusive, and I would do it again.

Glad you had a fun time!

lol. ok how abt this since I have a LOT of thoughts abt how well the show did Nephilim culture (answer: not very) - what is the biggest flaw you think the show did re Nephilim culture? what is the major change you would have made?

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that’s not any better than the broad strokes META?! question the first time

I think, in relation to the show and also my last post, so my brain’s kind of going along in one direction, is that the show didn’t settle strongly enough on the militaristic/child soldier/righteous duty thing that’s the whole point of the Nephilim.

Like, they said it, but they didn’t show us the structure of the society that supports that, they didn’t show the gaping holes still left behind by the Uprising twenty years ago that could lead to someone barely more than a child left in charge of an entire Institute. (Because Alec’s clearly been “Acting Head” for longer than is reasonable, even for a world where children start going out on carefully curated missions at 12 and 14.)

You can’t have an army without a chain of command, and we have no idea how any sort of hierarchy remotely functions, and that’s hard to parse when world-building or writing or meta-ing or even just watching. Like, who’s really supposed to be responsible for what? Does no one know that, and that’s why everything’s such a mess? Have the Nephilim just sort of been acting by whim and impulse for 1000 years?

There’s no sense of scale, of how many soldiers they have, and how many Institutes, and how big the Council is, or how many children they have, (how big the Academy was, back when it was open). When interrogating Clary, Jia talks about their people a bit like they’re under siege, and if it’s true that “killing” a demon just sends it back to its own dimension, while killing a Shadowhunter kills them, then they are in an eternally losing battle, there’s no way to reach even, much less win, unless demon incursions are much smaller and less frequent than the show led us to believe.

(How small is the Warlock community really? Since they require the violence of demons to exist. Is the lack of info/structure we got re: their society because there isn’t any, because there aren’t enough of them to bother? That’s strongly implied by the books, and the fact that Magnus just sort... declared himself High Warlock of Brooklyn because why not? and no one countered it with anything else. Is he now the High Warlock of Alicante because, again, why not?)

Who does what and what does it mean if they don’t do it?!? IDK! No one knows! (In theory the people in the show-verse know, but they certainly didn’t tell us...)

[end of year writing meme]

P: What are your pet peeves in other people’s work?

“per say”

“till” instead of until or ‘til

also characterization I don’t agree with

also also I just deleted a very long rant that would probably come across as vague-blogging so I’m just gonna... not

/I am very angry about many things all the time! yelling in public helps no one though, so I usually don’t

but uh, different rant that’s slightly less sweary: hey, if you’re posting fic on the internet, consider your formatting! Consistent paragraph breaks and not entire walls of text are considered standard because without that it is actually technically & physically difficult to read please don’t do that to people

M: Meta! Have any meta about a story you’re dying to throw out there?

I have a lot of thoughts on Nephilim culture and parabatai bonds and hierarchy and how wings would work (for the wing!fic obviously) and I would love to yell about all of them but also spoilers?!? so I’m not sure where to start.