#psas

Someone made this on twitter, so I decided to reshare it here but all credits for the image goes to @/gokanijiku on X

Here's a weekly reminder for everyone in the Gachiakuta fandom, across all kinds of platforms. Kindly DO NOT USE OR INCLUDE the following on your gachiOC artwork:

Official GACHIAKUTA logo / title

"Written/Illustrated by Kei Urana and graffiti art by Hideyoshi Andou" or a similar phrasing

The graffiti backgrounds made by Hideyoshi Andou-sensei

And most importantly, do not use the official hashtags #Gachiakuta / #GachiArt / #GachiakutaFanart / #GachiFanart if your work includes your OCs in them—even if they're side by side with an official character! (The OCs are not official so you don't want to get someone confused and mistake them for canon or official characters.)

Please respect the creators' boundaries. They are neither restricting nor disapproving anybody to create OCs, rather they do not want any confusion of what's official and not within the community—especially for those who do not know about the series or have yet to pick it up.

INSTEAD, fanartists may go ahead and design your own, original:

GachiOC backgrounds or volume covers

GachiOC title logo

Watermark to indicate that this is an OC art

For hashtags, kindly use #GachiakutaOC or #GachiOC so the community can distinguish between OC fanwork and official work. (Once again, please understand that OCs are not official characters so you don't want to cause confusion to someone out there who might think they're canon to the series.)

Lastly, if you can, consider deleting or removing your previous work that involves the unauthorized use of the official volume cover template designs.

Kensington, Chelsea, Westminster & Brent Health Promotion Unit in conjunction with West London Health Promotion

More and more lately, I've seen people reducing queerplatonicism to just being a settled third category between friend and lover. Or, god forbid, just as "friends with benefits, but make it Woke." I feel like this is becoming a repeat of the gender trinary issue with nonbinary identities. 

The "queer" in queerplatonic ought to mean an endless expansion of possibility, just like nonbinary does. 

To expand our horizons, may I posit the following queerplatonic relationships?: 

A fully negotiated queerplatonic relationship where you both like each other slightly less than traditional friends, and engage in less physical intimacy 

A QPR where you both have agreed that you fucking hate each other, and will kill each other on sight 

In a similar vein, picture a QPR where one hates and will kill the other, and the other just laughs it off. Coyote and roadrunner 

Coyote and roadrunner QPR, but you are both roadrunner. It's up to your free queer heart to define what the fuck this one means <3

QPR where you both wonder how you got so fixated on Looney Tunes, and realize that it has completely ruined the bit

Day sei e sette: Christmas Tree and Fireplace (that I misread as campfire 💔💔💔)

Czech matchbox labels warning of the dangers of alcohol dependence and drunk driving, printed at the Solo Lipnik match factory, 1962

"Luck does not add anyone's health"

"lowers morale, increases absence"

"He didn't count the beers, that's why he rests"

"If you submit, it enslaves you!"

"Drivers beware, dangerous area" (dangerous intersection?)

"Alcohol drowns wishes and desires"

"He stopped drinking, he's furninshing an apartment"

"If high blood proof, you will lose your ID"

"Alcohol reduces attention at work"

"Don't race them, they will ruin you!"

"Red [means] Injury" and "Intercountry action against traffic accidents"

You ever hang out in your little corner of the RPC and notice that a lot of people are writing one specific genre of roleplay you personally aren't too fond of on the dash (ie: fluff, angst, etc)? Notice that you feel like someone's muse is a bit 'OOC'? Think someone is being a bit... Gasp... A wee bit '''annoying''' in how they engage with this hobby? Huh?

Yeah, uh, keep that to yourself.

Genuinely ask yourself. Who is anybody hurting by engaging with a hobby in their own way? How is your mutual writing a muse in a way you personally don't think is 'right' harmful? If you think someone is being annoying, uh... You just sound mean? You can blacklist urls, unfollow, and/or mute people. There's these extremely toxic fandom mindsets that has leaked into creative spaces that we can't have.

Adventure Comics #108, September 1946. Stan Kaye cover pencils & inks.