anjare

whole entire adult still lost in the road of life || likes shitty puns || and cats || likes to think she's funny || (but alas! she is not) || forever looking for motivation || lots of fandoms - occasionally nsfw

[anyareh]

chapter 8 footnotes

for the obkk palace intrigue fic

if anyone ever catches me being weirdly active on here pls know that it's almost definitely because im avoiding my work obligations hahahaha,,haha h,ha

i. weapons

hanbo, 半棒, lit. 'half-staff'. wooden staff around half the length of the usual staff (rokushakubo). i wanted the imagery of gangsters wielding bats or something lmao so have these funky little sticks lookit em go

they look so much like arnis! man i'd love to jump into a rabbit hole of weapons history and how different cultures might have influenced each other... if only i hade the time ......

senbon: sooo apparently senbon are classified under shuriken so they dont have their own wikipedia article.. must resist the rabbit hole..... theyre a kind of shuriken(!) that's shaped like 2-point needle and hella thicker than i thought theyd be. animanga depictions make em look so delicate! so i am Just Now finding out that theyre so much heftier in real life owo

fan: i was thinking along the lines of kks having a gunsen that he modified to be more weapon-y, rather than outright having a tessen on his belt. i have been saying that iron is a heavily regulated material here eheh

gunsen, 軍扇: "[...] wood, bronze, brass or a similar metal for the inner spokes, and often used thin iron or other metals for the outer spokes or cover, making them lightweight but strong"

tessen, 鉄扇: "[...] outer spokes made of heavy plates of iron designed to look like regular folding fans, or solid clubs shaped to look like a closed fan." <-- the actual weapon kind of fan

also i stumbled across this animation on danmeitwt, i think of wen kexing? (havent read the novel) and I Have Not Been Able To Stop Thinking about mister Hatake i'll-parry-your-gigantic-fucking-overcompensating-weapons-with-my-bare-hands-and-this-tiny-kunai Kakashi wielding a fan Like That ever since

geta: kind of wooden footwear with raised clogs. i just love the idea of kks modifying his clothes/accessories to conceal all sorts of weapons. like what if his geta had retractable blades huh. what then. imagine the possibilities!! someone has him pinned but he manages to idk kick up somehow ooohh flexible then bam throat slit!!!

ii. just aburame things

dialect? i dont actually remember if it was only shino who spoke Like That but it would be an interesting cultural development to have a clan so closed off? isolated? discriminated against? that they end up forming their own distinct dialect, rather than just the occasional unique turn of phrase. so from now on i dont have to think too hard when i have an aburame speak '''''normally''' bc i can justify it as them codeswitching for the benefit of The Normies meheheheheh

venomous kikaichu? canonically i think kikaichu only ever drain chakra. but i needed a believable reason for kks to be so quickly incapacitated from one (1) unnoticed insect. plus i dont think they can drain chakra that fast? i feel like kks wouldve found a way to stop it if he was only dealing with one (1) insect. sooo yknow why not make them venomous too eyy

anyway id love to hear your thoughts on why they kidnapped kks! i tried dropping hints but idk how effective i was at foreshadowing 🤘😭

iii. court politics

aight im pretty sure Everyone already knows who obt is (i mean cmon it's the whole entire premise of the identity porn shenanigans 🤭) but im having fun retaining some plausible deniability in the narrative, even when writing from his POV hihihihihi

filial piety: just a super, Super big deal in Confucian societies, especially back in this kind of era. obt is being a weirdo actually for (supposedly) not letting it affect him as much 👀

harem stuff:

in case anyone was worried (bc i know i would be, bc of my own preferences lmao), obt isnt romantically or sexually involved w anyone in the current harem :) he only has 2 kids (itachi and sasuke), and since they're both sons he's been managing to get away with not fathering more children because Reasons.

anyone who's consumed harem intrigue media before should be familiar with the usual scheming involved in getting someone into a harem, imperial or otherwise; it's almost always motivated by politics and making connections with powerful families. lots and lots of fun tropes to explore (and maybe subvert) in the future! *rubs hands menacingly like a fucking fruit fly*

iv. other stuff

Imperial physicians: i am.. no longer basing too much on historical accounts 🤣 in fact i think i'll be taking a lot of cues from the danmei "married thrice to a salted fish" for the medical system here. havent really decided yet.

the healthcare system: so while i was going over the previous chapters i realized i kind of implied the existence of a universal healthcare system (like hello all the arson victims automatically brought for treatment to the Royal Hospital? and their care is paid for by the state? then implied that *Imperial* physicians are managing them?) and yknow what. i'm down. state-sponsored physicians. state-sponsored medical education. state-assigned medical deployments maybe. *slaps roof of fic* this bad boy can fit so much public health initiatives in it

new names:

Sayaka, 彩: to color, coloring, appearance

Kurosagi, 黒鷺: Pacific Reef Egret / Eastern Reef Heron / Reef Heron

Kei: i havent decided on the kanji.. one of these haha

慧 (kei) meaning "intelligent"

圭 (kei) meaning "gemstone"

慶 (kei) meaning "celebration" <- leaning towards this one as a nod to him being kks' little miracle uwu

[anyareh]

obkk farming/palace intrigue fic listen okay i'll make it work eventually

I make money writing BL novels after the Warring Clans Era!

aight since im committing to using tumblr anyways,, gonna post this properly i guess woo

AO3 || 8/?

Rating: Mature Characters: Obito/Kakashi Tags: Hatake Kakashi-centric, Isekai and Transmigration, Arranged Marriage, Identity Porn, Age Difference, Palace Intrigue Warnings: Age Difference, Implied/Referenced Underage Sex, Period-Typical Homophobia, Period-Typical Sexism Summary: Did you hear? The Emperor has married a male consort! OR: Kakashi is so damned tired of all these spirits and power plays and harem politics and goddamned Uchiha clan drama everywhere he turns. Just leave him alone and let him make money in peace, for fuck's sake. Except you, mister shadow guard. You can stay.

[anyareh]

chapter 7 footnotes

I make money writing BL novels after the Warring Clans Era!

unearthing my dusty ol tumblr to write out all my chapter notes and uhh commentary(?) because the ao3 character limit is getting in the way of my complete inability to shut up 😔😔😔

i. idioms

海千山千, 'ocean thousand, mountain thousand': refers to a sly, worldly, cunning person. derived from an old saying that a snake turns into a dragon after 1000 yrs in the ocean then another 1000 in the mountains

dragons: this is more of a cn thing where the emperor gets all the dragon motifs/imagery. empress gets phoenix imagery. so there's a lot of dragon and phoenix motifs in the imperial court. i think jpn uses chrysanthemums more (king of flowers),, i dont rlly have any proper sources so i just mixed em up lmao. anyway it's generally Very Improper for people to compare themselves to the emperor and i think this used to be an actual punishable offense. at the very least it would probably be something the higher officials would get uppity over

poems: kakashi butchered 3 of them in a single breath 😔

Quiet Night Thought

The Solitude of Night

Drinking Alone in the Moonlight

tryna fool u all into thinking im well-read and cultured when my search history was literally just

‘cn/jpn idioms’ > wikipedia rabbit hole into cn/jpn four-character idioms > oh this sounds nice wonder where it came from > ah yes li bai the poet guy > (wow didnt someone on twt ship him w his bestie or was that a different historical figure → oops another mini rabbithole, but still cant find the post) > famous poems by li bai > cherry-picking lines from nice-sounding english translations for fun and profit

ii. kami, yokai++

to preface, (and i think seasoned weabs are already aware of this), although 'kami' is typically translated as 'god', theyre not exactly gods in the same way God is treated by monotheistic religions. there are central kami ofc, and i think hierarchies still exist, but the kami arent *only" gods. to quote wikipedia, "Kami can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, beings and the qualities that these beings express, as well as the spirits of venerated dead people. Many kami are considered the ancient ancestors of entire clans"

so when i have ppl in this fic refer to certain kami as 'Ancestor', please know that they mean that quite literally 😁 i still hope to explore all this in later chapters tho hehe

Izanami: one of the primordial goddesses, goddess of creation and death; progenitor of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanoo, and a bunch of other gods. ayyeee have no idea how to summarize the whole Thing with Izanagi and the underworld and All That Drama. she is a Big Deal and a goddess of death but also not the only kami related to death

Afterlife: so naruto canon has the Pure Lands and idrk how that's related to the Yomi but nwei expect me to play around with the concepts and shake things up eventually

Sukunabikona: Shinto kami of the onsen, agriculture, healing, magic, brewing sake, and knowledge. his name means "the small lord of renown". From wikipedia: "[...] he is also credited with helping women's health, women's reproductive ailments, fertility, and safe childbirth."

Kuebiko: Shinto kami of folk wisdom, knowledge, and agriculture. represented as a scarecrow in Japanese mythology,, hehehe i love when things accidentally work out like this

so why was kakashi so panicked abt the healing? it's new to him; if it could have been explained by the connection to sukunabikona, he's thinking that there should have been signs earlier, right? so now he's wondering if there might be Bigger Guns behind the whole thing and it's making him nervous bc he was previously only aware of the karura intervening

iii. other stuff

i. kasouken, 科捜研; shu, 衆: i have no idea if i used these right, but the kasouken refers to a forensic researcher, and shu denotes a group of people.. i think 😭 so that's what im gonna be calling the forensics subset of the onmitsushu aight

ii. fusseki, 沸石: lit. 'boiling stone'. after much googling i found that zeolites are commonly found in the cavities of volcanic rocks where a bunch of minerals dissolve and recrystallize over extended periods. super useful in modern industry stuff but in this era their usefulness isnt very intuitive so ppl probably only care for how pretty they can be. and they're probably a bit lackluster compared to like, actual gemstones or deliberately crafted pieces, like tobi said

iii. onmitsu names:

Taka 鷹 - hawk (usually the smaller ones; vs Washi 鷲)

Tsumi 雀鷹 - Japanese Sparrowhawk

Kujaku 孔雀 - peacock

holy shit i *just* remembered that 'tobi' could mean 'fly, soar' he totally sorta follows the naming conventions too!!

aaaand idk if anyone has noticed but im very much leaning into bird motifs and imagery for the uchiha! and uchiha-adjacent stuff! bc im pretty sure birds are very vision-oriented compared to, say, canines that rely on scents and hearing. hehe 👀

[prostheticknowledge]

Dildo Generator

Online 3D experiment by Ikaros Kappler which is described as a “Extrusion/Revolution Generator” ….

Created with three.js, you can alter the bezier curves and angle of the form, and is designed with 3D printing in mind (models can be exported and saved, as well as calculated weight in silicone).

Try it out for yourself (if you wish) here

[johnnystompanado-deactivated201]

the time is now

[susaine-mcswiney-deactivated201]

hell yeah

[defibrinationsyndrome]

ah yes, the ol rolling pin dilda

[spiffymuffin]

[caterjunes]

it’s called the purple ramjet

[jolys]

which end do you start with? the answer is yours to decide

[grillmasterxbbq]

shove a vase up your ass

[lord-kitschener]

not even jesus could save yall motherfuckers’ souls

[fan-troll]

i call it the matterhorn

[poultrymancy]

cackling just continues to get louder as I scroll through

[darklightescape]

i think this is the first time an internet community has discovered something customizable and adamantly refused to make penises

[teapotsahoy]

of course this is the post where tumblr is like “Seems sfw to me!”

[furiousfran]

I call this one the Megahorny

Just cram an entire table lamp up there

[ifitaintbaroque]

Me every time this post crosses my dash:

[rosegardenmassacre-deactivated2]

My laugh at this post is auditory evidence of just how sick I still am.

[prettyyinpunk]

Plate. 

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

I’d usually post this to my NSFW blog but this is making me laugh so unreasonably hard that I can’t fucking breathe and therefore deserves to be on my main blog

[in3ffable-husbands-deactivated2]

Compiling some of the best ones from the replies-

[ragingbookdragon-deactivated201]

How you gonna do us like that bruh???

[mysukisilentdeath]

ITS BACK

[ivory-reverie]

M U S H R O O M

[bill-nye-official-blog]

en garde

[corzev]

DO NOT REPOST/ STEAL/ EDIT

whoops my hand slipped

[ladyloveandjustice]

Mary Sue, what are you? or why the concept of Sue is sexist

Looks like this essay was needed, so I went ahead and did it. Not sure I said everything I wanted to say, but I tried.

So, there’s this girl. She’s tragically orphaned and richer than anyone on the planet. Every guy she meets falls in love with her, but in between torrid romances she rejects them all because she dedicated to what is Pure and Good. She has genius level intellect, Olympic-athelete level athletic ability and incredible good looks. She is consumed by terrible angst, but this only makes guys want her more. She has no superhuman abilities, yet she is more competent than her superhuman friends and defeats superhumans with ease. She has unshakably loyal friends and allies, despite the fact she treats them pretty badly.  They fear and respect her, and defer to her orders. Everyone is obsessed with her, even her enemies are attracted to her. She can plan ahead for anything and she’s generally right with any conclusion she makes. People who defy her are inevitably wrong.

 God, what a Mary Sue.

I just described Batman.

  Wish fulfillment characters have been around since the beginning of time. The good guys tend to win, get the girl and have everything fall into place for them. It’s only when women started doing it that it became a problem.

TV Tropes on the origin of Mary Sue:

The prototypical Mary Sue is an original female character in a fanfic who obviously serves as an idealized version of the author mainly for the purpose of Wish Fulfillment.

Notice the strange emphasis on female here. TV Tropes goes on to say that is took a long time for the male counterpart “Marty Stu” to be used. “Most fanfic writers are girls” is given as the reason. So when women dominate a genre, that means people are on close watch, ready to scorn any wish fulfillment they may engage in. This term could only originate if the default was female.

 In fact, one of the CONTROVERSIES listed on the TV Tropes page is if a male sue is even possible. That’s right, it’s impossible to have an idealized male character. Men are already the ideal.

 In our culture, male tends to be the default. Women take on the distaff parts. “Him” and “mankind” are what humanity are, “her” and “womankind” are secondary. Yet this isn’t true for Mary Sue as a term. That name was created first. It was a Star Trek fic that coined it and the female designation was likely a big reason it caught on. Thus, a female name is the default to use when describing idealized characters. Marty Stu and Gary Stu are only to be used if you’re discussing men specifically.  Heck, there isn’t even an agreed upon term for them. So the only time female can be default is when discussing a badly written character, someone who is more powerful or important or liked than they should be allowed to be, someone the plot focuses on more than you would like, someone you don’t want to read about. Hmmm.

 What’s really wrong with a thirteen year old girl having a power fantasy, even if it’s badly written?  Who is it hurting? Men have baldly admitted to writing power fantasies and self inserts since the beginning of time. How many nerdy, schlubby guys suddenly become badasses and have hot girls chasing after them in fiction? See: Spiderman- blatant everyman who happens to  stumble across amazing powers and catch the eye of a supermodel.  Mary Sue is considered the worst insult to throw at a character as it renders them worthless. But since when are idealized characters automatically worthless? Aren’t all heroes idealized in some way? Don’t all heroes represent the author in some way? Aren’t these characters supposed to be people we look up to, people who represent human potential, the goodness that we strive for? Fantasy by nature is idealized, even the tragic ones.

 If you look at the TV Tropes page for Mary Sue, it’s ridiculous. You can be a sue for having too many flaws, or not enough, for fixing things or messing things up, for being a hero or a villain. And of course, this is specifically pointed out as a trope related to the Princess and Magical Girl genres- genres aimed towards women are naturally full of Mary Sues.  Magical girls are powerful and heroic and actually flaunt femininity as a good thing. They are a power fantasy designed for girls. So of course, a girl using traditionally feminine traits to dominate and triumph means she’s a sickeningly pure Mary Sue who makes everything go their way. Feminine traits are disdained and look down on, so when the positive feminine traits are prominent, the reader has an aversive reaction. How can a character be so feminine and triumph? She must be unrealistic, she must be badly written, because everyone knows it is impossible to be feminine and powerful.

 Let’s look at what kinds of Mary Sues people will point to. People will claim a female character is a Mary Sue if she is a love interest. Put a female character within a foot of a male character, and people will scream “Mary Sue!” Why does someone falling in love with her make her a Mary Sue? Well, she hasn’t “earned” this awesome dude character’s love. What has she done to show she’s worthy of him? Fans miss the irony that this line of logic makes the male character seem more like the Sue in Question, as he’s apparently so perfect one has work for his coveted love and praise.

  The idea that woman has to “earn” any power, praise, love, or plot prominence is central to Mary Sue.  Men do not have to do this, they are naturally assumed to be powerful, central and loveable. That’s why it’s the first thing thrown at a female character- what has she done to be given the same consideration as a male character? Why is she suddenly usurping a male role? “Mary Sue” is the easiest way to dismiss a character. It sounds bad to say “I don’t like this female character. I don’t like that this woman is powerful. I don’t like it when the plot focuses on her. I don’t like that a character I like has affections for her.”  But “Mary Sue” is a way to say these things without really saying them. It gives you legitimacy.

 If a character is badly written, there’s generally something much more problematic than idealization going on. The plot will be dull and the character will perpetuate harmful stereotypes while other characters act oddly.  For instance, Bella Swan is one of the only characters I’d even begin to classify as a Mary Sue, yet it’s not really her supposed Mary Sue traits that bother me. I don’t mind that she gets what she wants and everyone loves her, that she’s Meyer’s power fantasy. What I actually mind is that Stephenie Meyer has her perpetuate harmful anti-woman stereotypes- women need to be protected, women are shallow, women’s worth rests in desirability. That’s what’s actually harmful about her and worth discussing. I would criticize that rather than even get to the fact Bella got to be “too perfect and powerful”- that’s just a tiny, insignificant thing not worth mentioning in a huge pile of problems.

 And that’s why I don’t call characters Mary Sue anymore. There’s really nothing bad about a power fantasy or wish fulfillment. It’s what’s fiction’s about.  If one of my characters is called a Sue, I’ll proudly say “yep”, because that must mean that she broke out of that box a female character is supposed to be in.  So I’ll go and say it: I love me some Mary Sues.

[nohaijiachi]

the first time I draw Hawks is for something extremely idiotic go figure lol

[the-arkadian]

Attention fanfic writers: If you use Google Docs to write/store/back-up your fics, you might want to download anything you don’t already have backed up elsewhere. Google is apparently invading and deleting people’s personal drive content thanks to the FOSTA/SESTA bill that recently passed through Congress. Essentially, it criminalizes ANY platform where sexual content could be placed.

It may also be worth making sure you have offline back-ups of any and all fics you have posted here on Tumblr and on AO3, in case Yahoo get antsy (they’ve been cracking down on the porn bot tumblrs already) and OTW face a legal challenge to take down AO3. I’m hoping that’s not the case - but I was on LiveJournal during Strikethrough in 2007 and I remember the way that whole communities as well as individual LJ accounts were deleted and purged; it was instrumental in the founding of AO3 in the first place. That was a widespread purge of fanfic writers and communities, LGBT+ communities and writers and more, all due to legal threats that SixApart, the company that owned and hosted LiveJournal, received due to allegedly hosting paedophile content. After Strikethrough was over and LJ admitted they’d gone OTT, there were a number of communities and accounts that didn’t get reinstated. I’ve always been quite careful not to have my Tumblr flagged up as NSFW in part because of that. Given the number of Facebook accounts that get temporary or permanent suspensions thanks to malicious false reports, I have very little confidence that Tumblr’s staff won’t make mistakes.

I’m not sure what this means for collaborative fics; but Google Docs probably aren’t a safe platform for that anymore.

[noelleian-deactivated20190923]

Oh, shit. I’m glad I found this. Thanks for the heads up. @softnocturne @moonsandrock @blacknekojess @cynfinnegan @passingdestinies @scacao  @noirangetrois @lbro009 @hjbender @ any other  fanfic writers that I’m forgetting. I don’t know which programs y’all use, but just in case.

[hjbender]

Thanks @noelleian! 

If this is news to anyone else, listen, whatever happens in the world of politics, backing up your stuff is always a good and necessary thing. Do it and do it often. Be wise. Nothing is certain. Nothing is stable. Even data decays. In a world of rapidly-decreasing hard copies, you must perform backups. It’s not paranoia, it’s prevention. 

[feelingsinwinterold]

@tisfan @27dragons I know you both use it so I thought it would be a good idea to tag you but I’m not sure if anyone else does so, please, be safe and save everything you can wherever you can.

[menatiera]

If they touch Ao3 I fucking hope there will be a revolution overseas to bring it back, killing of everyone who tried to get us off of our drug.

[kiernaserea]

@xtaticpearlsblog @ishipallthings @thecitylightshow @tahlreth @viudanegraaa

[daltongraham]

Fuck. This. I’ll need to do Google like mad.

[demonicsymphony]

Time to download another backup copy

[noadventureshere221b]

@merindab @amythe3lder

[merindab]

It’ll be a pain in the booty to download allll the fic I have on AO3, but I guess I should spend a day doing that. And there is so much more on google docs >>

This is probably paranoia anyway, but one can’t be too careful

[daltongraham]

If you use a mac, there is something called Google Backup and Sync that puts everything from your Google Drive onto your computer. (It can also take everything from your computer and put it on your Google Drive; you probably want to uncheck that when that option comes up.) It takes a little bit of work but once you have it set up, wham, everything is down on your computer–as opposed to downloading one file at a time.

[cinnamoncandycanes]

I just spent fifteen minutes researching this…

It holds water.

[jeza-red]

Huh

[armeleia]

Here is a video on how you can download all of your Google Drive content at once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pifeYu4sZIA

Easiest way seems to be to go into “My Accounts” in Google, then choose “Control Your Content”, then “Create Archive,” and then unselect everything except Google Drive and create a zip of all your stuff.  

[the-arkadian]

Attention fanfic writers: If you use Google Docs to write/store/back-up your fics, you might want to download anything you don’t already have backed up elsewhere. Google is apparently invading and deleting people’s personal drive content thanks to the FOSTA/SESTA bill that recently passed through Congress. Essentially, it criminalizes ANY platform where sexual content could be placed.

It may also be worth making sure you have offline back-ups of any and all fics you have posted here on Tumblr and on AO3, in case Yahoo get antsy (they’ve been cracking down on the porn bot tumblrs already) and OTW face a legal challenge to take down AO3. I’m hoping that’s not the case - but I was on LiveJournal during Strikethrough in 2007 and I remember the way that whole communities as well as individual LJ accounts were deleted and purged; it was instrumental in the founding of AO3 in the first place. That was a widespread purge of fanfic writers and communities, LGBT+ communities and writers and more, all due to legal threats that SixApart, the company that owned and hosted LiveJournal, received due to allegedly hosting paedophile content. After Strikethrough was over and LJ admitted they’d gone OTT, there were a number of communities and accounts that didn’t get reinstated. I’ve always been quite careful not to have my Tumblr flagged up as NSFW in part because of that. Given the number of Facebook accounts that get temporary or permanent suspensions thanks to malicious false reports, I have very little confidence that Tumblr’s staff won’t make mistakes.

I’m not sure what this means for collaborative fics; but Google Docs probably aren’t a safe platform for that anymore.

[noelleian-deactivated20190923]

Oh, shit. I’m glad I found this. Thanks for the heads up. @softnocturne @moonsandrock @blacknekojess @cynfinnegan @passingdestinies @scacao  @noirangetrois @lbro009 @hjbender @ any other  fanfic writers that I’m forgetting. I don’t know which programs y’all use, but just in case.

[hjbender]

Thanks @noelleian! 

If this is news to anyone else, listen, whatever happens in the world of politics, backing up your stuff is always a good and necessary thing. Do it and do it often. Be wise. Nothing is certain. Nothing is stable. Even data decays. In a world of rapidly-decreasing hard copies, you must perform backups. It’s not paranoia, it’s prevention. 

[feelingsinwinterold]

@tisfan @27dragons I know you both use it so I thought it would be a good idea to tag you but I’m not sure if anyone else does so, please, be safe and save everything you can wherever you can.

[menatiera]

If they touch Ao3 I fucking hope there will be a revolution overseas to bring it back, killing of everyone who tried to get us off of our drug.

[kiernaserea]

@xtaticpearlsblog @ishipallthings @thecitylightshow @tahlreth @viudanegraaa

[daltongraham]

Fuck. This. I’ll need to do Google like mad.

[demonicsymphony]

Time to download another backup copy

[noadventureshere221b]

@merindab @amythe3lder

[merindab]

It’ll be a pain in the booty to download allll the fic I have on AO3, but I guess I should spend a day doing that. And there is so much more on google docs >>

This is probably paranoia anyway, but one can’t be too careful

[daltongraham]

If you use a mac, there is something called Google Backup and Sync that puts everything from your Google Drive onto your computer. (It can also take everything from your computer and put it on your Google Drive; you probably want to uncheck that when that option comes up.) It takes a little bit of work but once you have it set up, wham, everything is down on your computer–as opposed to downloading one file at a time.

[cinnamoncandycanes]

I just spent fifteen minutes researching this…

It holds water.

[jeza-red]

Huh

[armeleia]

Here is a video on how you can download all of your Google Drive content at once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pifeYu4sZIA

Easiest way seems to be to go into “My Accounts” in Google, then choose “Control Your Content”, then “Create Archive,” and then unselect everything except Google Drive and create a zip of all your stuff.  

[deanialsart]

Watashi ga kita! (Bakugo Version)

[ghostigram]

[cerastes]

Nothing beats going through a tumblr search and finding some rad art, something right up your alley, the essence of your spit and pluck made manifest in a graphical shell, something that makes you wonder, if only for an ephemeral second, that someone out there truly shares your vision and perhaps even more, that someone out there visualized something that should’ve only been gorgeous and inspiring to you, and yet, someone else also had that same dream, or something infinitely close to it, and you’re ready to reblog it, aiming to both give recognition to this mirror on the cyberspace as well as share a part of you with your friends and followers…

…And then taking one look at the URL, not even checking the blog, just looking at the URL, just that, and realizing it’s just reposted art without any sort of source and permission, god damn it, son of the filthiest whore that ever sucked for a buck in the streets of Nottingham, how dare you almost make me become accomplice in this morally bankrupt contraband of imagery, this shameless shambling sham, you depositories of deceit. It’s always stuff like “leonardotaku” or “anime-girls-in-articles-of-clothing” or “naomi9337″, which might as well read “Judas”, “Brutus”, and “Cassius”, may rot befall your molars and gingivitis claim your sleep, how dare you subject me to my innermost apocalypse like that, you malformed miscreants.

[jehovahhthickness]

Stop dating abusive women 2018

[jessnesquik]

Hardly any women are gonna reblog this tbh 🙃

[jehovahhthickness]

A lot of women behave like this and think this ain’t abuse

But let a nigga slap them, damage their clothes and pour a drink on them, all hell will break loose.

EVERYONE CAN BE A VICTIM OF DOMESTIC ABUSE!

[thesunsword]

Buddy has the soul of an angel and composure out of this world

[goldaquarius-deactivated2018070]

Just in case anyone wants the context: He has been making music in Chicago, he recently performed to a large audience and met London on da track, who offered him an opportunity in LA. She didn’t want to leave Chicago because of her business there. He told her that she doesn’t have to go, he just needs to do this for his music. She got upset because he straight up told her that he valued his career over their relationship and she did this. 

Now I’m not a relationship expert, but I will never understand how some of y’all expect people to put you above the shit they have to do. Always put your career, your job, your livelihood first. This was all kinds of fucked up, really fucking abusive and manipulative, he should definitely go to LA with or without her. 

[chrstabellathornofthebriars-blog]

Many women *WILL* reblog this, because part of feminism is acknowledging that women are just as capable of being abusive as men. Acting as though women cannot be abusive is misogyny, and relies on the misogynist tropes that women are frail, and innocent in comparison to men. Any true feminist must acknowledge that neither of these things are necessarily true and that a woman is in fact capable of being abusive whether it’s to another woman, a man, or a nonbinary person. The reason we focus on abuse from men towards women is that it is more prevalent, and institutionally encouraged, justified, and allowed without consequence, while a woman even “talking back” to a man is to be “put in her place.” Don’t bring your weak, fragile “Few women will reblog this” shit up in here. We know what abuse looks like when we see it.

[anyareh]

"dont go crying to me"

i dont go crying to anyone, ever, because of crippling self-doubt, but go off i guess

[anyareh]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Original Work, Medicine - Fandom Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Moore/Netter Characters: Moore - Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Netter - Atlas of Human Anatomy Additional Tags: yall thought i was done???, that i had shame left???, bish no, so anyway im not actually shipping the authors, more like im shippine the anthropomorphized books, shh let me be, 2022areyoureadyforpart2, Assholery, Swearing, any resemblances to real people are purely coincidental, i mean that in all seriousness, there is a lot of swearing ok be warned, Surprise Angst Series: Part 2 of Serial Anastomoses Summary:

Netter is often many steps ahead of Moore. This is no exception.

[worldofmy-own-deactivated201708]

Tilda Swinton risked arrest waving a rainbow flag in front of the Kremlin in violation of Russia’s new homosexual propaganda bill. And she wants everyone who can to reblog it in solidarity.

Guys please reblog this, it won’t ruin your blog, this is important

[oceaxe-ifdawn]

Oh look, it’s my wife/surrogate mother/sovereign/deity, doing the Lord’s work (her own work, actually)

[wardog-of-whimsy]

All Hail Our Lady and Savior, Tilda Swinton!

[joestrummen]

i didnt realise ao3 was started in response to lj deleting account relating to p//edophi|ia and they explicitly support the posting of such works yikes

[tomato-greens]

it wasn’t, like, ~~~we luv pedophilia, it was way more complicated than that!

although it’s true AO3 does allow all fannish content provided it’s properly warned for, there’s a long history there - of spaces being used by fans until the host decided whatever we were doing was too weird and distasteful and either kicking us off, banning certain content, or changing the nature of the site until it was no longer viable as a host.

you’re referring to the LJ Strikethrough of 2007, which, being an ancient crone, I lived through, and since I was hanging out in the last vestiges of SGA and in bandom, I saw some of the fallout. this was before LJ was sold to the Russians (which is a whole ‘nother story), when it was still owned by Six Apart; in an effort to clean up LJ’s act, Six Apart decided to delete all accounts using tags like underage, incest, rape, etc.

this was supposed to get rid of actual child porn on the site, and I hope it did, but it also targeted fan communities. this was a problem for a couple reasons; for one thing, not every story tagged with these words is in favor of them; for another, these things happen to real people and these personal posts were also potentially in danger of being attacked; for the last one, look, I ain’t into this kind of fic but people write about what people write about, and if it’s fictional and not explicitly banned in the TOS (correct me if I’m wrong; I don’t think written content about this stuff was banned?) then it’s not cool for a content host to just start deleting communities without warning.

but that’s what happened! these deletions were also primarily targeting slash communities, which smacked of some serious homophobia since things were deleted that had nothing to do with any of this kind of content.

eventually someone found out it was this super conservative religious group who’d sent a list of journal names to Six Apart, and who if I remember correctly targeted slash fic on purpose, even after it became clear that the fic was, well, totally fictional. after a while, Six Apart admitted they’d made a mistake and started to reinstate journals, but all of fandom was pretty shaken up.

THEN Boldthrough happened, which was essentially the same debacle several months later, at which point fandom began its long slow migration from LJ to GJ, IJ, and eventually AO3, Twitter, and tumblr.

AO3 was opened in 2008 in response to several incidents, of which Strikethrough was a really intense one. remember, also, that back in 2008 the stigma surrounding fandom was significantly greater and more shameful than it is today, so finding hosts willing to archive fic was difficult unless someone had the dough to pay for server space - often not an option. this was also back when fanfic.net’s HTML restrictions were so great that users couldn’t use any special characters or bold or italicize anything, and it didn’t allow R-rated content, so it was clearly not ideal. in addition, although cease & desist letters were much less common than they were in the early 2000s and before, DMCA takedowns were still a phantom on the horizon.

LONG STORY SHORT, even though pedophilia is reprehensible and I personally cannot stomach fanfic that involves that kind of content, AO3 was founded specially as a safe space for fandom communities that could not find homes elsewhere. it requires warnings precisely for that reason, and if you find a story that is not properly warned, you can alert the admins and get the story labeled appropriately.

IDK, maybe it’s just because I am, again, ancient, but I was in and around fandom before homosexuality was legal in all 50 states. so were most of the people who started AO3. for most of my formative life, being gay was associated with pedophilia, and so was writing about gay characters. just - it’s a lot more complicated than you might expect, and there’s a reason many older fans who have been involved in several generations of fandom were so grateful to have AO3 as an option.

[beatrice-otter]

I don’t read, for example, Hydra Trash Party fics.  They squick me, and I generally feel they are pretty gross.  But writing noncon body-horror is not the same as saying “yeah, I totally want to go out and rape and torture people for years while brainwashing them!” or even “yeah, I wouldn’t do it myself, but it would be totally okay if someone did!”  Nobody is hurt by it, and nobody is going to be hurt by it.  So should I have the right to go, that is gross, you don’t get to write or read that?  No.

In the same way, writing about underage teens getting it on–sometimes with each other, sometimes with adults, sometimes consensually, sometimes not–is not the same as child pornography, nor does reading a fic about Hermione and Snape getting it on while she was his student mean someone thinks that would be a good and/or healthy thing in real life.

Fiction affects reality, but fiction is not reality.  And writing about something does not mean you want to do it in real life, or believe that anyone should.

Let’s take a closer look at that “Ao3 supports pedophilia!” shall we?

1) The only fics I have ever come across that had actual pedophilia (i.e. someone having sex with a child), it was clearly and explicitly abuse.  It was not meant to titillate or arouse.  It was meant to horrify.  It was seldom explicit.

2) There’s a lot more incest, but it is usually portrayed either as explicitly mutually consensual (i.e. Sam/Dean) or as abusive.

3) I’ve been in fandom for a decade and a half.  When people start getting upset at “omg pedophilia, think of the children!” the fics they are usually objecting to aren’t actually pedophilia.  Usually, it is teenagers having sex, especially queer sex.  And people don’t like that, and use pedophilia as an excuse to shame people for writing/reading sex they don’t like.

Let’s look closer at Strikethrough, shall we?  I hope that, if there were any communities of actual pedophiles on LJ, they got taken down, too.  But here are some of the communities that got taken down that were not in any way supporting pedophilia and/or rape and/or incest that got taken down:

1) at least one support community for survivors of sexual abuse.

2) a literary book discussion group that was reading Lolita.

3) lots of slash fanfic communities, for things like Draco/Harry fic set in their fourth year (when both boys would have been 15).

Basically, this very conservative “family values” group hated porn, and they hated queer stuff even more, and used “but think of the children, it’s pedophilia!” to pressure LJ to get rid of huge swathes of things they didn’t like.  And one time taking down the worst of it wasn’t good enough for them.  No, this was step one on a moral crusade.  If you acceded to their demands, all that did was whet their appetite, and soon they would be back with a new list of demands.  This is why the 2007 strikethrough was not an isolated event, but rather one of a series of events, nor was LJ the only website thus targeted.  It starts with anything that can get labelled “pedophilia” or “incest” because that’s low-hanging fruit.  But they use that to go after anything relating to queer teen sexuality.  Then anything with teen sexuality.  Then once the community is already divided and diminished, they go after anything with non-con.  Then whatever is next on their list.  It doesn’t stop until they’ve won the point and nothing but suitably “family-friendly” fics that match their purity test are allowed.

Which is why AO3 has no morality content in their terms of service.  You can’t break copyright beyond fair use (and AO3 has an expansive view of “fair use” and a team of lawyers on call).  You can’t use AO3 for commercial advertising.  And you can’t post ACTUAL child pornography, i.e. the things that are legally prohibited, i.e. actual photographs or videos of actual children (not teens) in sexually explicit positions–you know, the stuff that actually hurts kids.  Other than that?  It’s fair game.  You can post anything you want, and the archive will not judge.  There is no handle for the Moral Majority Family-Friendly Thought Police to latch onto, no cracks they can exploit to divide and conquer.

We’ve been down that road.  It doesn’t lead anywhere good.

[wrangletangle]

Reblogging this for the excellent explanation of what exactly the moral crusaders did last time. They had an explicit agenda of anti-queerness, and they specifically targeted slash and femslash communities in particular, such that many ship communities became (or started as) deliberately members-only. You had to apply, and your personal blog had to look like a real person and a fan. You were vetted, a la 1990s private servers.

During this period, Dreamwidth was also targeted by attacking its payment processor. They had to get a new one. These “Warriors” (literally called themselves that!) were totally on board with destroying fandom as a side effect of destroying the parts of fandom they didn’t like.

If you’re carrying out harassment of people right now because they’re posting works with sexual elements you don’t agree with? (And it’s always sex, never non-sexual violence, how strange….) If you’re doing that, you’re also totally on board with destroying fandom as a side effect of destroying the parts of fandom you don’t like. Because your tactics are fandom-destroying, and so is your agenda.

[nwcostumer]

reblogging because this is important: strikethru and boldthru and all the various “purges” that fandom went thru about 10 years ago: this had to do with OUTSIDERS deciding that fandom in general and fanfiction in specific were evil and needed to be destroyed; unless we were writing and shipping good vanilla M/F married people. These were outsiders, going after fictional writing about fictional characters.

AO3 and OTW are HUGE, because now we have an organization, with very smart women and a lot of lawyers, that have our back. Fannish history is important, people! It has not always been this way.

This is so, so important: there’s that other post about AO3 and fanfiction floating around, about our history. People decry violent video games but no one is trying to force companies out of business. But people can and do attack fanfiction: an activity primarily written by women for women, about fictional characters. And often about sex. We have to constantly defend ourselves, protect ourselves, support each other against charges like “paeodophilia”.

[denaceleste]

^^^rebageling again for excellent commentary

[araceil]

Throwing this in because I was also present: This was during the American Government’s attempts to pass censorship laws on the internet. As MOST of those domains had their serves in America, they were beholden to those censorship laws. A great deal of fanfiction.net was removed because they happened to lose a goddamn courtcase. I’ve been on the site since 2002. They may not have ‘officially’ allowed NC-17 rated content (what it used to be listed as in the filters), it never did a damn thing to remove it. Ever. They had it listed as a rating option during ‘New Story’ uploading after all. It was i nthe search filters. After they lost the courtcase however, they legally had to start doing things about the mature content reports they got. The admins and mods were not actively looking for fic to remove, they were just responding to reports they had already received. 

[actuallyclintbarton]

tl;dr - I know tumblr is all about black and white “you’re either all right or all wrong” thinking, but it’s important to understand what actually happened before going “ew ao3 was made to give pedophiles a safe place to post” because that is 110% not what happened.

[shidgephobe]

This is why so, so many of the comparatively older fannish folks on tumblr like me are so vehemently against stuff like the anti movement and “all ships are valid UNLESS”. It smacks of censorship and content policing - and we’ve been there. We got our shit deleted and our accounts banned because someone else thought what we were reading or writing or talking about needed to just… not exist. No warning. Literally overnight. We just woke up and stuff was gone.

And yeah, the group was legit called Warriors for Innocence (or maybe of). I knew several people that were members of survivor/support groups that lost their groups - and their main support network - when Strikethrough happened (ten years ago holy shit).

[sulphur-crested-cocktease]

You antis need to listen when us older fans tell you that the censorship you’re advocating for, when put into practice, is NOT a positive thing; it’s an extremely scary thing!

I can guarantee that you would be very, very upset if another event like LJ Strikethrough were to happen today because *you* are just as vulnerable as the rest of us! If you support the rights of marginalized groups of people, if you’re a slash or fem slash shipper, if you support gender identities that aren’t defined by biological sex, if you care about representation, if you support women, if you have any kind of kink, if you care about fandom in any capacity beyond its eradication, YOU DO NOT ACTUALLY WANT THE SORT OF CENSORSHIP YOU’RE ADVOCATING!!

[naamahdarling]

People were terrified during Strikethrough.  I was there.  Communities were being shut down, individual users were being shut down.  People were losing access to their own fics, their feedback, their comments – a LOT went on in comments on LJ.  Think more coherent reblogs, much more personal, very widespread.  Comments were also very important, and in terms of networking/communicating, were absolutely critical.  

LJ was, for many people, central.  

It was a fundamental part of the infrastructure of fandom at the time.  

Having it attacked, having parts of your fandom’s territory just deleted like that, was very very scary.  People didn’t know who was next.  Every day, the list of stricken journals grew.  And not all of them came back, not all of them recovered their content.  Some people even voluntarily deleted their content as a form of protest.  It was a bad time.

You do not have to interact with fic that grosses you out or makes you uncomfortable.  Tagging is a thing.  And even outside of tags, you are responsible for curating your own fandom experience.  It is not right to expect it to be curated for you.  And it is not right to lash out when someone refuses to do so and expects you to walk away from things that do not concern you.

I was gonna say “things that don’t harm anyone” but I realize you can argue that.  If you get triggered, that’s upsetting.  That could be considered harm.  And I have sympathy for that.  I do.

I have run across fic that triggered me.  I have pretty specific triggers, and people don’t always think to warn for them because they aren’t that big a deal for a lot of people.  Or it’s sort of bundled into kink and is presumed, that if you’re okay with certain kinds of kink, you’re okay with this.  So I’ve been blindsided by it before.  And it sucks for a couple of days while I get over it.

That was not the fault of the authors! You could argue that tagging should have been used, and maybe it should, but ultimately that’s not an ironclad obligation.  It’s a tool people provide out of courtesy.

That was not the fault of the site!  The site is there to give authors a way to make fiction available, not to judge each work and interrogate its validity and make sure everything is tagged so that nobody has to see anything bad, ever.

That was not even my fault!  It was my responsibility to try to curate my experience, and I tried, but it wasn’t my fault because I didn’t deliberately set out to trigger myself.

When I get triggered, unless it is by a deliberate act, it is actually the fault of the people who hurt me in the first place! And I refuse to let them off the hook and blame perfectly innocent people who just wanna write their fanfiction! I may hate that fanfiction, but that is irrelevant to the question of whether or not people should be allowed to post whatever they want.

Also, some people cope by writing about fucked-up shit.  My best friend in the whole wide world has shared her fic with me, and HOO BOY it is messed up. She wrote it during a time in her life when she was in and just coming out of a horrifically abusive relationship.  I mean, it was exactly the kind of relationship all of us here on Tumblr love to hate.  She was married to a shitty, abusive man who preyed on someone younger than he was and used his influence over her to treat her in a way that would be right at home in that Lundy Bancroft book Why Does He Do That?  He was a real rapist, a verified grade-A bad fuckin’ guy.  (She was lucky to escape.  I have immense respect for her.)  And she wrote some fucked up fic to deal with it, and she shared it, and people were invested in it.  And because this was early 2000′s, she had to host it on a foreign server and cover her tracks, because at that time no-place was safe to post it.

“Yeah, but if she’s writing it for therapy, she doesn’t have to post it where other people might have to see it!” I hear you say.

But like … what the hell??? “Shut up, don’t talk about it, it’s bad to talk about these things, because these things are bad!” is something used against folks with trauma.

“This isn’t good for me, I can’t talk about this, I can’t be your audience for this,” that’s fine, those are boundaries that people with trauma use to defend themselves.  You should learn to say those things!  It will help you!

But expecting other people to never create and share art about trauma is just so thunderously oppressive I lack the ability to fully articulate it.

And nobody should have to disclose their history of trauma to prove their motives are pure or virtuous enough for their speech to be protected.  I’ve only really been able to openly say “I was assaulted, it was traumatic, I am a little fucked up from it” for the past couple of years, tops.  I couldn’t talk about it before that.  Couldn’t!  And it was over 20 years ago!

I also believe, very firmly, that you don’t need a history of abuse to find writing really messed-up shit satisfying, or to find reading it cathartic.  I believe 100% in the freedom of creative expression, and the freedom to read whatever fucked up shit you want to read.

All y’all fandom youngsters can spit nails all you want over gross rape fic, incest fic, whatever.

Fine, I don’t like it either!

But that fucked up shit?  That fucked up shit helped carve out the spaces we have today.  You don’t have to like it, but campaigning to get it deleted, harassing content creators, calling people rapists and pedophiles who have never done and would never ever do such a thing, that is not the way to improve the world, it doesn’t keep actual kids or teens or assault/rape victims safe.  It wouldn’t have made me feel safe when I was 16 and did’t want what was going on.  It doesn’t make me feel safe now.  I can say with the perspective of someone 24 years away from that event, it doesn’t make the world safer for people like I was.  It actually makes it worse.

Learn to steer clear of the messed-up stuff you don’t like.  It’s a skill, you get better with practice.  Have someone else vet stuff for you if you need help doing it now.

Everything that is sketchy and gross is not criminal, and writing about a thing is not morally the same as doing it.  Please stop acting like writing about an adult and a teenager having really questionable, gross sex is as bad as the actual registered sex offender they caught hanging around an actual elementary school two neighborhoods over from mine, just trying to talk to the kids.  The former is, at most, in poor taste, and potentially triggering to abuse victims.  The second makes me want to vomit because even though he was just talking, that guy was gearing up to try something and create another abuse victim.  A g a i n.  

The first can be avoided because it is imaginary and you, an adult, have power over your back button so that you don’t have to witness harm to imaginary people.  The second, those very real kids had to rely on real adults and real law enforcement to keep them safe from very real assault.   (It worked!  The neighborhood rallied!  He was arrested for violating parole!)

Pretty sure Sleazebag McDongface didn’t read some gross NC-17 Draco/Lucius fic before deciding to harm an actual human being.  Pretty sure not having read it didn’t keep him from doing it. ‘Cause he fuckin’ did it.  And he would have done worse. But actual people stopped him.

I get wanting to protect victims when so many of us are victims ourselves, but man, going after fiction is not the way to do it.

An author is not a perpetrator.  Stop trying to make those things synonymous in the minds of other fans, and in the minds of other recovering victims.

[bonibaru]

I’m a crone who also lived through strikethrough, and all y'all young fans need to read this and understand it if you don’t want history to repeat itself someday.

[singingwordwright]

Here’s the thing, also: it doesn’t stop with fic about objectionable stuff.

If you have a website with TOS that includes any kind of “objectionable content” rules, there will be parties who will use those rules to try to silence other people whom they want silenced.

Let’s look at the alt-right and MRA movements today, or GamerGate a few years ago. What is one of their primary weapons? They report black or feminist or really any leftist YouTube channels (or Twitter accounts, or whatever) whose message they don’t like and claim those channels are are violating TOS by posting hate speech or incitations to violence or whatever bullshit they can come up with, in an attempt to silence those channels.

When Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequence came under fire for starting a crowdfunding endeavor to fund the production of her Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series of videos, male gamers tried to get her KickStarter and various social media accounts shut down by reporting her for for hate speech and promoting terrorism.

Luckily, that became a big enough story that the dudes failed and their efforts backfired. But a lot of times, these tactics work.

How do I know this? Because it happened to me. Not over major shit like the examples above, but over something completely petty.

Back in the mid-to-late 90s, before LiveJournal really became the place for fandom, before FF.net was really a thing, you had to create your own personal website on whatever free webhost you could find (GeoCities was popular, but there were others) if you wanted to host your fic somewhere.

And back then, TV studios and book authors were still sending their lawyers after people who wrote fanfic, issuing cease and desist letters to not only the authors, but also to their webhosts.

At the time, I was writing perfectly het Mulder/Scully fanfic. No rape, no pedophilia, no slash. Maybe a little BDSM. But largely it was unobjectionable.

Then the 8th season of X-Files started, David Duchovny decided he only wanted to be involved part-time, and the show decided to bring in another male character. The fandom lost their shit–as fandoms do–over the idea of “replacing” Mulder blah blah blah.

One of the most popular fanfic mailing lists–one that had previously had no restrictions on what characters or pairings could be posted–decided that if you wrote fanfic involving this character, you were no longer welcome. Well, this was the mailing list with all the readers. Sure, authors could go to other mailing lists, but they wouldn’t have exposure to the sort of readership this other list boasted.

I spoke out, saying that this change was unfair to fic authors and that the moderator of this list was behaving in a pretty vile way. The moderator and her friends took aim at me and began a campaign of harassment, and a few days later, suddenly my website with my XF fanfic was TOSed because someone had reported it. So was the next site I tried to create to host my fic, and the one after that.

Thanks to the way AO3s TOS are constructed, that sort of shit doesn’t happen now. I can speak up if I need to, and while I may receive harassment on my various social media accounts, there’s no chance they can have my fic taken down just because they have an agenda and don’t like me for reasons not relating to my fic.

So yeah, AO3′s rules protect fic a lot of us might find objectionable. But they also protect fic that is in no way objectionable from being targeted by unrelated harassment campaigns. And since any of us could find ourselves in the sights of those sort of campaigns at any time, we need to thank our lucky stars for that.

[olderthannetfic]

I like this last addition.

When I helped write the ToS for AO3, I wasn’t primarily thinking about strikethrough. I was primarily thinking of FFN, where so many people post things that are technically against the ToS but that the community tolerates. Any time someone gets pissed off, they can go on a grudge-reporting spree and target their enemy’s work. Often, that means guys targeting slash or Twilight fic because it’s “for girls” and thus sucks. Sometimes, it’s one ship vs. another. I was also thinking of Miss Scribe and all of that other Harry Potter fandom drama. (And if you think fans are above destroying an entire archive just to strike at one enemy, think again!)

We can’t force people to like each other. We can’t force people to be nice to each other. But we could take away fandom bullies’ favorite tools.

So we did.