Main is fierysins! I made this blog purely so that I could go back and read all the awesome stuff I come across, in one place, rather than digging through the never ending chaos that is my main blog. I often do massive reblog dumps and fandom dumps on here, because I go on subject binges. Things written by me will be under the tag #my writing (This blog WILL contain stuff that isn't SFW. Minors do not interact, I am an ADULT and this blog is not for you. I ALSO REBLOG A LOT OF GRAPHIC AND YANDERE STUFF. PLEASE BE CAREFUL)
Alpha!Husband Gojo who crawls into your messy little nest in an attempt to comfort you, only for his approach to make you tense and scoot way as you sit up.
Omega!Wife who is usually much of a ball of affection, so Gojo knows it's just her hormones overwhelming her. Though he couldn't help his protective alpha instincts to push him into making you feel at ease immediately.
Alpha!Husband Gojo would roll over gently, laying on his back half inside your nest while offering his head and a warm bare neck in your lap; trying to come off less intimating.
Omega!Wife who brings up a hand hesitantly, burying her dainty fingers in his soft snowy locks. It's true indeed—contact with your alpha helps the heat. You blush.
Alpha!Husband Gojo who has a smile tucked on his lips, finding that you're getting more comfortable around him as the heat passes.
Omega!Wife who leaves little bite marks which could only be justified with her bad pain or need for affection. Your husband doesn't mind—rather adores it. Those short canines could hardly break skin anyway.
Alpha!Husband Gojo who scoops up the omega and spins her in the air to sooth her sulky mood, listening to her giggles. He loves her cute little smile that only gets bigger.
Omega!Wife who has a hint of sweetness in her scent whenever in heat, and the effect it has on Gojo is pathetic. It gets him clingy and stubbornly possessive.
masterlist!!
an. a softie alpha gojo craving 🧘 likes & rbs r appreciated <3
Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being kidnapped totally against their will was a way for them to engage with a romantic or sexual fantasy without feeling morally in the wrong for doing so? Added bonus that the fantasy involved being whisked away from repressive environments like home or school, right?
Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic:
“I TOTALLY love my wife and would never do anything that an upstanding Good Straight Working Man wouldn’t do but oh nooo, big strong man with broad back and strong enough arms to carry me back to bed like a princess trapped me and claimed me as his, completely against my will 👉👈 But he protects me against the bad evil sexual women (who I assure you, I am TOTALLY sexually attracted to, as any straight man with a choice would be) but trust me, I do NOT want ANY of this. What’s that? The Count is not capable of feeling love? Would be a shame if I had the special ability to change tha-”
This is also the fantasy behind all those old bodice-ripper romances that people today like to mock or call problematic, by the way.
“Oh, my next forty years are going to consist of nothing but washing dishes and keeping house and bearing children for the disdainful man I married right out of high school because my parents said college was for men and I had no other obvious life path open to me? What if a pirate captain thought I was worth stealing away from it all? [what if I ran away but no-one could blame me for leaving]?”
#I read an article a long time ago about a woman who was raised in an incredibly repressive conservative christian community#where all that mattered was purity and virginity etc #She talked about how for a long time rape fantasies were the only way she could derive any pleasure from sex #because she couldn’t feel safe exploring the idea of wanting sex #it wasn’t really ABOUT rape or eroticizing assault or whatever #it was about creating a scenario where she was free from the shame associated with wanting #i think this is true of a lot of icky-seeming stuff in romance and erotica #it’s an imaginary scenario where nothing you don’t really want actually happens #but you can’t be blamed or feel guilty for it #you didn’t do anything wrong#anyway that article changed my perspective a lot #i think there’s also something to be said for people who have felt ugly and undesirable their whole lives #enjoying fictional scenarios where a hot alpha werewolf or whatever is so attracted to them he ‘cant help himself’ or whatever #because it can also be really shameful to want to be desired #when you feel like youre ugly and gross ( @headspace-hotel )
I mean the guy made a film about how awesome the guy who created the zero fighter was and how japan should take pride in that despite the fighter being used as a tool of Japanese imperialism. I'm not saying he is a nationalist but like it's kinda obvious he still has stuff he needs to work on
The entire point of the movie, like, its whole message, was how the guy who created the zero fighter was a misguided artist who ended up causing more harm than good. His entire story follows him repeatedly ignoring signs of poverty and war and death and oppression to follow his dream of designing airplanes. The Wind Rises is not about how awesome this guy was, it’s about how selfish and complicate he was in a war he benefited from, despite his “goodness.” There’s literally a scene where his best friend calls this out. “Poor countries want airplanes. And they pay us a lot to design them. It’s ironic.”
The movie ends with the guy watching his zero fighter—the thing he’s been working on for the entire film—succeed. Everyone’s cheering, but he’s lost looking across the countryside of Japanese because he’s just realized he’s lost everything. His wife, his country, his passion. It’s not a victory, it’s a tragedy. The next scene is the bombing of Hiroshima as he walks amongst a graveyard of warplanes; his legacy. He watches his zero fighters fly away and sadly says, “Not a single one returned.”
Also, Japanese nationalists famously hated this movie.
Saving this thread as one of my favourite examples proving that no matter what good intentions and beliefs a person (creator most often) holds, there will always always ALWAYS be idiots that completely misinterpret them (in full 180 degrees) and jump to the worst conclusions about their character ignoring all the facts that redeem this person. I mean LOOK at this, some people are ridiculously confident to judge a very anti-nationalist guy as a nationalist all because they've missed the undertones of his creation and did not do any research on him. Never let someone's idiocy become your, or anyone else's, problem.
After shoving Hansel in the oven, the witch turns to Gretel - who is currently fending the witch off with a gingerbread chair - and says:
“I can’t believe you thought a trail of breadcrumbs would save you. I mean, honestly, this is a forest! It’s full of animals. Honestly, the very idea that a dumb shit like you thought you could get the better of me is absurd.”
Gretel hits her in the face with said chair. To be fair to the witch, she takes the chairshot like a champ.
“Ow!”
“Did you know,” says Gretel, “that crows are capable of facial recognition?”
“Eh?” Says the witch, clambering to her feet and pulling a candy cane sledgehammer off the wall. “What’s that got to do with anything?”
“Not only that,” Gretel continues, “but they can remember both friends and enemies. And they’ll often follow people they remember as friends.”
The two fence with their sugared weapons for a moment, before the witch knocks the chair out of Gretel’s hands.
“Enough with the bird facts! Honestly, this whole attempted escape has been utter clownshoes. Get in the fucking oven!”
She seizes Gretel by the collar. Gretel immediately sandbags, letting her whole body go limp. This eminently practical defense forces the witch to try and deadlift her. Which is hard, as the witch often skips leg day.
“For example,” Gretel says, as the witch struggles and grunts, “if you feed crows a lot of breadcrumbs, they’ll probably start to see you as a friend and follow you in the hope of more food.”
The witch stops. Outside, she hears the thunder of wings.
“They’ll even bring you shiny things they find as presents!” Says Gretel, as a corner of the gingerbread ceiling is suddenly cut away by a large crow with a knife in its mouth.
“Oh shitballs.” Says the witch, as the crows descend. “I hope you know this is a great unkindness.”
My guys it is starting to work, I've seen some people I know complaining about the writer's strike and turning against them because their favorite shows and/or movie got put on hold. Please do not be fooled like this, this is exactly what the corporations want. It can wait, I promise you will find other things to focus, but writers need this.
If the writers lose, your favorite shows and/or movies will be worse. Guaranteed. The things the studio is pushing for will result in everything being low-quality shit.
"Thank you for an excuse to publicly air my fascist smypathies. Wanting you dead for being trans or Jewish is in bad taste, but if you spoil a video game I'm vindicated in calling for your death, and the death of your people!"
“if you won’t respect us, we won’t care about your feelings”
You are the one who bought Jews-Are-Evil: The Videogame and gave your money to the Supreme Terf of Terf Island, then got upset over finding out that Professor Pissboy dies at the end.
How can say the phrase “if you won’t respect us, we won’t care about your feelings” completely straight like that, after funding actual bigotry an then getting pissy when the people you have financially participated in the oppression of decide to not be niceys to you
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Although we are not yet able to release the OGL at this time, we would like to update you on how things are developing, and the goals we have in mind fo...
(Check the link for the post itself! Here’s a screenshot of the same content available in the page, though)
Wizards of the Coast has finally made an official statement about the new OGL, and as expected, it’s an attempt to douse the fire with sweet corpo speak. So, here’s some key points about it, so we don’t forget what actually happened.
They repeated thorough the letter that this was to avoid bigoted content. About three times. Don’t let them lie to you: This was NEVER about preventing bigoted content. (In fact, please remember that WOTC released the hadozee on 2022, and has a lot of unresolved sexual harassment case allegations)
They also mentioned the NFT thing. Again: This is another buzzword, given how nowadays most people dislike NFTs openly. It was NEVER about preventing NFTs
Most importantly: They are blatantly lying about the leaked OGL being “up to revision” and them having planned “to accept community feedback”. The leaked OGL was sent as it is to implied third parties, alongside with contracts. THEY FULLY PLANNED TO HAVE PEOPLE SIGN IT AS IT WAS.
They have been saying they’ll backpedal on some of the choices. DO NOT BELIEVE THEM until we see an actual readable OGL of whatever changes they are promising. They are trying to, desperately, calm down the storm.
KEEP pushing, in fact. Keep unsuscribing from DnD Beyond. Do not buy their products, don’t watch the movie, etc. If this PR stunt makes people suddenly calm down, they’ll try to get away with the OGL as it is.
Also, here’s some segments I want to highlight, just to show how thoroughly filled with horseshit they are:
And third, we wanted to ensure that the OGL is for the content creator, the homebrewer, the aspiring designer, our players, and the community—not major corporations to use for their own commercial and promotional purpose.
This one is probably a jab at Paizo, but they certainly didn’t care about all the third parties affected by this. The “aspiring designer”, the “homebrewer”, the “content creator” are all people who probably have a foot in the industry and are working with smaller TTRPG companies, or third parties. Most third parties have a very limited number of employees (or quite literally consist of just one person), and hire freelancers as needed. These were quite literally the most hurt by this new OGL. Let’s not forget they were content trying to put an end to that.
It also will not include the license back provision that some people were afraid was a means for us to steal work. That thought never crossed our minds. Under any new OGL, you will own the content you create. We won’t. Any language we put down will be crystal clear and unequivocal on that point. The license back language was intended to protect us and our partners from creators who incorrectly allege that we steal their work simply because of coincidental similarities.
They made a section in the OGL that allowed them to steal content. Of course, they are claiming that is not true now, as it would give them a bad image. And yet, they have the nerve to claim they are just defending themselves when they release copied content.
Finally, we’d appreciate the chance to make this right. We love D&D’s devoted players and the creators who take them on so many incredible adventures. We won’t let you down.
This is obviously that sweet corpo speak that ties everything together. They never wanted to make this right: Again, the leaked full OGL was never a draft. They were ready to fuck the entire community over (and still are, most probably) over a greedy cash grab. Do noT forget, and do not relent now: The fight is not over.
We don’t need a “compromise” over the new OGL. I wouldn’t care if they applied this new OGL exclusively to OneDnD, but there is still a lot of people who have built a living operating under 5e’s OGL, and they should NOT be taking that from people.
Just a reminder not to publically on big websites (especially not Twitter or tik tok) say where you’re torrenting stuff from cause that’s a GREAT way to get that specific avenue shut down
Some of ya’ll are very bad at this and very confidently bad at this and for no reason so-
1. ZLibrary recently went down because someone made a popular tik tok about it
2. “But Reddit-“ most reliable sources of yor are gone now because of Reddit. Hate to break it to you but cops use Reddit. See how many of those links on subreddits actually still work and for those that do- how long.
3. Most reliable Reddit mods for topics like this will tell you not to be asking for this shit publicly because that’s how it gets busted. Remember the shop lifting guide masterpost? The only thing reliable about that now is that it is reliably known by every store manager on the continent.
That is what we call a “honey pot” something that many people in both the replies and reblogs would very easily fall for by the looks of things.
When a resource becomes compromised sometimes they’ll use it to try and find other resources like it from its user base as well as the identities of the heads behind said resource. Once they have what they want then they shut the whole thing down.
insiders at WotC have shared that d&d beyond cancelations have affected them (source)
d&d beyond subscriptions are the most direct way for hasbro/WotC to get financial feedback from their cash cows oops i mean, customers lol.
the OGL 2.0 announcement was supposed to be today and seems to have been canceled, largely due to the backlash.
the page to cancel d&d beyond memberships isn't currently functioning, lmao. but once it's back up, please consider canceling your d&d beyond membership and cite "OGL 2.0" as the reason.
So, let's go over everything Wizards of the Coast is trying to do this coming year.
>Erasing everything that made DnD fun
>Sanitizing everything to appease a minority of leftist puritans
>Making anyone who wants to play DnD pay microtransactions
>Making anyone who makes anything based off of DnD pay royalties to Wizards of the Coast
I hope the company fucking crashes and burns, Hasbro failed to claim TSR as their own now we just need it all to crash and burn so TSR can make a big comeback.
Hasbro executives believe that the Dungeons & Dragons brand is heavily under-monetized, with moves [...]
They're planning on making all DnD content switch over to digital only eventually, meaning any source material can only be accessed through DnD beyond, and the ones being charged won't just be the DMs, it'll be players too as they'll lock everything behind a pay wall that you need to pay into to play.
They'll most likely disable any ability to share the content with others, meaning each person wanting to play will need to buy access to the content.
BTW the new DnD CEO was a former Microsoft employee who was instrumental in implementing ever more microtransactions in video games.
They’ve switch the President of the D&D portion of WotC a couple times over the last few years. Mearls was an idiot, but then they replaced him with Ray Winninger, a guy who at least had some background in RPGs and Tabletop hobbies, but was clearly hired because of his background in trying to force tablet and app integration into games (which failed). Things under Winninger apparently didn’t impress the higher-ups. New guy, Dan Rawson, is a nepotistic pick from the current WotC President, Cynthia Williams, who also worked at Microsoft with Rawson. Williams is the one above being quoted about not monetizing their brands enough, Rawson’s entire career has been monetizing and e-commerce.
WotC has been a fucking terrible company for years. There’s been more than enough reasons to dump them entirely over the past decade, but over the past few years they’ve made a dedicated effort to prove that it can absolutely get worse. They’re currently trying to sell piece-meal content from their books on the DNDBeyond website.
Individual feats, stat blocks, items, and anything else they can break up. It’s cheaper to just buy the whole thing instead, but this shit shouldn’t even be an option. They’re doing this because they’re trying to see what they can get away with. They will try worse. They will do worse. They will try to stamp out competition.
People will make excuses that they can just keep playing 5e and keep using homebrew, but they need to stop making excuses for why it’s okay to support WotC indirectly and WotC will continue to see what they can get away with because not enough people will have abandoned them to make an impact on their profits.
1) AO3 does not need $130,000 every three months to operate. It needs a lot of money (I haven't checked the numbers) to operate quickly. Remove the money, and they lose bandwidth capacity and the site slows to a crawl. They own the servers; they won't lose data. Just speed. If AO3 doesn't get money, it'll run slower than the wayback machine.
(AO3 currently gets plenty of money; if you are short on funds, don't bother donating. If you're only a little tight for cash and want to be involved, donate the $10/year to get a membership. AO3 needs money, but AO3 does not specifically need your money. Do not feel guilty if you can't comfortably donate.)
2) AO3 does not have a "legal defense fund." The OTW, of which AO3 is only one project (...okay, it's the BIG project) has a legal team, which operates entirely pro bono - for free. However, their financial reports include info on how much that legal work would cost, if they paid for it, because of lawyer-taxes reasons. No money actually changed hands. AO3's lawyers support AO3 because they believe in its goals, not because they're getting paid.
3) Ads mean ad-company corporate interference, which is exactly what AO3 was created to get away from. Part of what happened on LJ, is when people couldn't get fanfic removed for being "disgusting, offensive, and perverse" (which wasn't against the TOS), they screencapped fanfic pages with ads on them, and sent notes to the ad companies saying, "Here is YOUR PRODUCT showing up next to EXPLICIT INCEST!!!!" And those companies complained to LJ, and suddenly there was a policy change.
4) AO3 does have paid memberships, or rather, the OTW does. They just don't get you any extra features on the Archive - just the right to vote in the elections. (Would those minimal-cost memberships cover the operating costs of the archive? Hell no. Are you, OP, ready to fork over an annual fee based on how many fics you post or read on the Archive? If not, shut up. There are already people covering your usage costs, and they do it by donating.)
5) They will indeed "stop receiving donations" when they have enough money. Enough money to cover their bandwidth costs forever. Enough money to hire a staff of full-time coders instead of relying entirely on volunteers. Enough money to hire an administration staff, again, instead of the all-volunteer system. Many nonprofits--most, actually--have some paid staff members, and the OTW would love to do that.
There's even ways to do so for ongoing costs like server fees--by having enough starting money to invest it, and get dividends/returns that cover the ongoing expenses, and still gains enough to cover occasional one-time expenses like server upgrades.
How much money is that?
Tens of millions to start. On top of "a couple of years operating costs." They don't have it. They don't expect to have it anytime soon. If you know an easy, no-strings-attached source of tens of millions of dollars (that doesn't involve, oh, a pyramid scam like NFTs or environmental destruction like cryptocurrency), feel free to suggest it.
Convince some nice billionaire to donate $50,000,000 to AO3 and they can stop the twice-a-year donation drive, and just have a small "donate/buy a membership" button somewhere on the main page, for the people who want to donate enough to get merch.
I think we are going to spend about $300k on servers this year as its a database refresh year and those are always expensive ones ( And yes with paid staff we could think harder about that and delay longer or maybe be more efficiant but one persons cost for two years makes that 300k look cheap ).
Also, I'm just saying, do you know what you need in order to "print out fanfiction and mail it to each other in binders"?
MONEY.
You need to pay for paper. You need to pay for ink. You need to pay someone to bind it, OR you need to pay for staples and a stapler and do it yourself*. And then you have to pay for postage! And, incidentally, you have to hope the zine you receive has stories you like in it.
So let's see. Let's say you and four of your fandom friends print a zine, and five other people want it. It doesn't qualify for media mail (I checked), so you have to pay for a manila envelope size. I'm going to assume you already own a printer (you will not be able to print this much material at the library), and that each of you wrote a story averaging 1500 words. I happen to have a WIP open in another tab, so I looked at my word count and page count and did the math, and you're looking at about 500 words per page if you single-space (which is hard to read, but hey! this costs money!). So that's fifteen pages, for a total of 150 pages if you and your friends also want to keep copies of the zine. So let's look at the cost of your print run, shall we?
ONE REAM OF PRINTER PAPER: $10.79
PACK OF STAPLES: $2.18
PACK OF ENVELOPES: $5.28
LARGE ENVELOPE SHIPPING WITHIN THE US: $2.16 each
(that's a total of $10.80 for shipping by the way)
And you're paying for all this. Keep that in mind. This is you paying a fee so other people can read your work.
For this single zine, you've spent $29.05...or the cost of being a member of the OTW for three years.
Now, I'll grant you some of these costs would be spread out. That pack of staples will still be mostly full by the time you say "fuck it." The cheapest pack of envelopes I could find came 25 to a pack. You can print two and a half zines out of that ream of paper. But even so, the shipping alone costs more than an OTW subscription and you're only getting five stories out of it.
I'll leave you with this. It's from an actual zine called The Displaced, that I own, that was published in 1978. Today we'd call it a longfic; back then they called it a novel. It was published by a woman named Lois Welling, and here's part of what she wrote in the dedication:
"To Ruth Newman, who is neither a Science Fiction nor a Trek fan; but ended up with over two years of listening to, reading, correcting, proofing and finally typing some of "The Displaced."
To Melissa Bayard; without her excited interest and 'volunteering' to print it, "The Displaced" would not be a reality. Thanks Melissa.
To my parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Tomse; who were supportive enough to advance some real cash money to the project. And my brothers, Jack and Jim; who would have--and did give lots of encouragement."
[Image ID: the above-mentioned dedication page from The Displaced. In addition to the relevant quoted dedications, there are additional dedications to several of the author's friends, her husband, and her children. The entire page is typewritten except for the signature at the bottom, which is hand-written. End ID.]
So as a reminder: this woman was not young. I've actually traced her online to see if I could send her a postcard and be like "hey! I found your zine! Thank you for writing it!" (I can, if I read it fast enough, she's old) and she would have been in her late thirties to early 40s when she published The Displaced. She was married. She had kids. She had to borrow money from her parents to make this zine.
You kids sure you want to go back to that?
Just asking.
*we're assuming standard old-school zine format, not getting fancy with needle and thread.
I started writing fanfic when there were still a few paper fanzines.
I belonged to one for years. Our “editor” used the fact that she paid for printing to play tiny dictator. She cut our stories mercilessly, because every page cost money. She charged us for subscriptions (which was fair, and reasonable), and then refused to tell us where the money went. I had some art get lost in the mail and she never forgave me.
AO3 is better. It costs me less to be a member of infinite fanzines and stories than it did to belong to one paper publication, and no one tells me what to do.
