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Crazy to think that it’s been 1000 days since Lexa died. That’s 24,000 hours, or 1,440,000 minutes, or 86,400,000 seconds, and I can guarantee that Clexa shippers have felt every f’ing one of those seconds.

Yup, I’m a dramatic hoe today.

yxlenas

Sea Mechanic + New Year’s for @dreamsheartstory

inu-fiction

PSA: Stuff You Maybe Didn’t Realize You Can Back Up To AO3, And How To Tag it

Tumblr seems to be in potential death throes or at least, incredibly volatile and unreliable lately, but we’ve done some pretty good and informative work on canon analysis and reference guides so I was looking for ways to back it up without losing it…and the solution became obvious to me: Archive of Our Own, aka AO3. “What?” you might ask if you are less familiar with their TOS. “Isn’t that just a fanfic archive??” No! It’s a fanWORK archive. It is an archive for fanworks in general! “Fanwork” is a broad term that encompasses a lot of things, but it doesn’t just include fanfic and fanart, vids etc; it also includes “fannish” essays and articles that fall under what’s often called “meta” (from the word for “beyond” or “above”, referencing that it goes beyond the original exact text)! The defining factor of whether Archive of Our Own is the appropriate place to post it is not whether or not it’s a fictional expansion of canon (fanfic), though that is definitely included - no, it’s literally just “is this a work by a ‘fan’ intended for other ‘fannish’ folks/of ‘fannish’ interest?” The articles we’ve written as a handy reference to the period-appropriate Japanese clothing worn by Inuyasha characters? The analyses of characters? The delineations of concrete canon (the original work) vs common “fanon” (common misconceptions within the fandom)? Even the discussion of broader cultural, historical, and geographic context that applies to the series and many potential fanworks? All of those are fannish nonfiction! Which means they absolutely can (and will) have a home on AO3, and I encourage anybody who is wanting to back up similar works of “fannish interest” - ranging from research they’ve done for a fic, to character analyses and headcanons - to use AO3 for it, because it’s a stable, smooth-running platform that is ad-free and unlike tumblr, is run by a nonprofit (The OTW) that itself is run by and for the benefit of, fellow fans. Of course, that begs the question of how to tag your work if you do cross-post it, eh? So on that note, here’s a quick run-down of tags we’re finding useful and applicable, which I’ve figured out through a combination of trial and error and actually asking a tag wrangler (shoutout to @wrangletangle for their invaluable help!): First, the Very Broad: - “ Nonfiction ”. This helps separate it from fanfic on the archive, so people who aren’t looking for anything but fanfic are less likely to have to skim past it, whereas people looking for exactly that content are more likely to find it. - while “Meta” and “Essay” and even “Information” are all sometimes used for the kinds of nonfiction and analytical works we post, I’ve been told “ Meta Essay ” is the advisable specific tag for such works. This would apply to character analyses, reference guides to canon, and even reference guides to real-world things that are reflected in the canon (such as our articles on Japanese clothing as worn by the characters). The other three tags are usable, and I’ve been using them as well to cover my bases, but they’ll also tend to bring up content such as “essay format” fanfic or fanfic with titles with those words in them - something that does not happen with “Meta Essay”.

- I’ve also found by poking around in suggested tags, that “ Fanwork Research & Reference Guides ” is consistently used (even by casual users) for: nonfiction fannish works relating to analyses of canon materials; analyses of and meta on fandom-specific or fanwork-specific tropes; information on or guides to writing real-world stuff that applies to or is reflected in specific fandoms’ media (e.g. articles on period-appropriate culture-specific costuming and how to describe it); and expanded background materials for specific fans’ fanworks (such as how a given AU’s worldbuilding is supposed to be set up) that didn’t fit within the narrative proper and is separated out as a reference for interested readers. Basically, if it’s an original fan-made reference for something specific to one or more fanworks, or a research aid for writing certain things applicable to fanworks or fannish interests in general, then it can fall under that latter tag.

- You should also mark it with any appropriate fandom(s) in the “Fandom” field. Just like you would for a fanfic, because of course, the work is specifically relevant to fans of X canon, right? If it discusses sensitive topics, or particular characters, etc., you should probably tag for those. E.g. “death” or “mental illness”, “Kagome Higurashi”, etc.

Additionally, if you are backing it up from a Tumblr you may wish to add: - “ Archived From Tumblr “ and/or “ Cross-Posted From Tumblr ” to reference the original place of publication, for works originally posted to tumblr. (I advise this if only because someday, there might not be “tumblr” as we know it, and someone might be specifically looking for content that was originally on it, you never know) - “ Archived From [blog name] Blog ”; this marks it as an archived work from a specific blog. And yes, I recommend adding the word “blog” in there for clarity- Wrangletangle was actually delighted that I bothered to tag our first archived work with “Archived From Inu-Fiction Blog” because being EXTREMLY specific about things like that is super helpful to the tag wranglers on AO3, who have to decide how to categorize/”syn” (synonym) various new tags from alphabetized lists without context of the original posting right in front of them. In other words, including the name AND the word “blog” in it, helps them categorize the tag on the back end without having to spend extra time googling what the heck “[Insert Name Here]” was originally.

Overall, you should be as specific and clear as possible, but those tags/tag formats should prove useful in tagging it correctly should you choose to put fannish essays and articles up on AO3 :) Oh, and protip sidebar for those posting, especially works that are more than plain text: you can make archiving things quicker and easier for yourself, but remember to plan ahead for tumblr’s potential demise/disabling/service interruptions. The good news: You can literally copy and paste the ENTIRE text of a tumblr post from say, an “edit” window, on tumblr, straight into AO3′s Rich Text Format editor, and it will preserve pretty much all or almost all of the formatting - such as bold, italics, embedded links, etc! But the bad news: keep in mind that while AO3 allows for embedded images and it WILL transfer those embedded images with a quick copy-paste like that, AO3 itself doesn’t host the images for embedding; those are still external images. This means that whether or not they continue to load/display for users, depends entirely on whether the file is still on the original external server! As I quickly discovered, in the case of posts copied from the Edit window of a tumblr post, the images will still point to the copies of the images ON tumblr’s servers. What this means is that you should back up (save copies elsewhere of) any embedded images that you consider vital to such posts, in case you need to upload them elsewhere and fiddle with where the external image is being pulled from, later. Personally, I’m doing that AND adding image descriptions underneath them, just to be on the safe side (and in fairness, this makes it more accessible to people who cannot view the images anyway, such as sight-impaired people who use screen readers or people who have images set to not automatically display on their browser, so it’s win-win)

destinationtoast

Thanks for this helpful guide! I haven’t used some of these tags so far for the fandom stats work I’ve cross-posted to AO3, but that’s because I didn’t know about them. Great ideas! :)

I keep meaning to mass archive my Toastystats work to AO3, but I am always stymied by image hosting when trying to overcome inertia and do so. It takes time to repost all the images to external hosting (like imgur). So thus far I’ve only done it for a few major analyses, and even in some of those cases, the images are hosted on Tumblr. But I should finally get around to it. At least I’ve exported my Toastystats side blog recently, so most of my stuff should be preserved if anything should happen. But maybe this holiday break I’ll finally make more progress.

olderthannetfic

I second all of this!

I’ve also found that AO3 is the best way for me to distribute my vids. I do have to host them elsewhere, but AO3 gives me a consistent URL and a way to have useful headers with fandom/ship/etc. even if I switch hosting a hundred times.

arkadykoshka

From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

- archive everything on your blog you want to keep

- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.

sixpenceee

A scale model showing how mangrove forests protect coasts from wave erosion.

keitrinkomfloukru

Trigedasleng in a Nutshell

Most of my friends know by now that I love Trigedasleng, the language created for the TV show The 100. The show is set generations after a nuclear war destroys civilization, and Trig represents what spoken English might evolve into.

sop, gona kom twel kru-de. (‘sup, gunner come twelve crew there.) “Hail, warriors of the Twelve Clans.”

Grammar is mostly unchanged from English, and the few changes mostly just make things simpler. Articles (a, an, the) have been lost, and so have plurals. All Trig nouns work like “deer” in English. Pronouns have been simplified—just “I” instead of I/me/my etc. E.g. ai naifstik (I knife-stick), “my spear”.

fiya hashta yu sich (feel you hashtag you sitch) “Sorry about your problems”

The one real change is the two-part verbs, but even that is just a continued evolution of English phrasal verbs. Compare take up, take out, take in, and take down.

du bilaik yu ste kwelen. ai na frag emo op gon yu. (dude be like you stay quailing. I gonna frag them-all up gone you.) “They think you are weak. I will kill them for you.”

There are a few sound changes. The simplification or loss of post-vowel consonants and sometimes whole syllables: fixer → fisa, forever → feva, runner → rona; the vowel shift from “uh” to “aw”: cut → kot, much love → mochof, just → jos; the relaxing of some vowels: grind → gran, clean → klin, subway → sobwe. Voiced th has hardened to d: this one → dison, over there → ouder, the fuck → dofo.

hashta soulou gonplei, bilaik won hedon noumou: du souda wan op deyon. (hashtag solo gunplay, be like one head-one (and) no more: dude so gonna wind up (dead) day-one.) “Regarding single combat, there is only one rule: someone must die today.”

After that, it’s just a matter of learning vocabulary. Some words haven’t changed meaning at all beyond sound shifts: hou (home), kefa (careful), mous (most). Some are slang terms gone normal: hashta (about, from “hashtag”), meija (difficult/important, from “major”), kof op (trade, from “cough up”). Some have shifted meaning over time: gon (weapon, from “gun”), sobwe (cavern, from “subway”), sefi (picture, from “selfie”). And some are deliberate euphemisms adopted as a shibboleth: deyon (today, from “day-one”), bushada (coward, from “bush-hider”), gapa (horse, from “galloper”).

nou get yu daun, gostos. bilaik yu don tel ai op otaim, ogeda hukop ste ifi. (no get you down, Gustus. Be like you done tell I up all (the) time, all hookups stay iffy.) “Stop worrying, Gustus. Like you’ve always told me, all alliances are risky.”

The resulting words are then spelled phonetically, which makes them LOOK more different than they actually are. Sound a word out and keep the above sound changes in mind, and you can almost always figure out what English word or words a Trig word descends from.

Dison laik feikau, heda. (this-one (is) like (a) fake-out, head-er.) This is a trick, Commander.

ai ste spichen, ai nou drein daun bitam. (I stay speeching, I no drain down bigtime.) “I’m lying, I don’t drink very much.”

blodkru

I want to be fluent in Trig so bad

ifwearestrangers

I still remember when I was reading fics on fanfiction.net and I thought I had found the eldorado but then years later ao3 descended from heaven and saved my soul and my life.

captain-narraboth

#aesthetic

aprilkepners-archive

TOP 50 FEMALE CHARACTERS (as voted by my followers) #3. raven reyes (the 100) “Everyone thinks they have an idea on how to help me feel better. Stay in camp, only do jobs where I can sit down, ask every time I need something on a high shelf. But you know what? I’m not that person. People think I can just change and my pain will go away, but I can’t.”

nightbleeder

“I know the darkness.”

L U N A K O M F L O U K R U

dontwantthenextcommanderiwantyou

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

reyskyber

The 100 characters ➳ Luna kom Floukru

“What if the fight is all we are? We torture, kill, betray. We pretend we’re more than that just to make ourselves feel better, but it’s a lie.”

pillmanize

I made a difference in the world!

pennie-dreadful

REBLOG TO SAVE YOUR QUEER HEART FROM BREAKING

omgkalyppso

I’ve seen a bunch of people in the notes concerned (like I was) of comparisons of members of the lgbt to dogs: but upon visiting their website I was reassured that they monitor a variety of content, including (but not limited to):