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I'm in FTH!

*crawls out of my cave* Um hi. How've y'all been?

Dusting off this account to promote my offerings in Fandom Trump's Hate! It's a fandom auction where all proceeds go to charity (there's a list to pick from!)

You can see them here but let me explain briefly here too. My first offering is to beta! I'll beta your fic from any fandom I've been in before, so that's Kingdom Hearts, Baldur's Gate 3, Legend of Zelda: BOTW/TOTK or Skyward Sword, Final Fantasy XIV or XV. I haven't created for the following fandoms but I would still be down to clown for: Cult of the Lamb, Nier: Replicant and Automata, or Persona 3, 4, or 5.

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The second offering is to write you a fanfic between 1k - 5k words! (The technically minimum words is 0 but like I would not do that to you). Same fandom(s) as above but please take note of my ship preferences in the FTH official offering posts. More than likely, if you see this, you already somewhat know me and know what I fuck with and don't so. Y'know.

Anyway, bidding is open from right now to March 1st so if you would like to bid on me (or anyone else!) don't wait! :) I myself plan to bid on about 2. There's SO many offerings of all kinds of fandom works so please take a look!

Thanks for reading, y'all.

sxptember-s-deactivated20230222

Writers.

Your stories matter.

You are not inferior to other writers.

You don't have to prove your worth to anyone.

Your passion matters more than your skill.

You are allowed to openly celebrate your achievements.

You're doing great. You are making a difference. You are so important to this community.

#writing #support #queue

New Fic!

God it’s been so long since I’ve posted here but I want to get back into using tumblr so...

Anyway, for day 1 of soriku week 2020 I wrote Buried Boxes And Pressed Flowers! 2k of pure fluff inspired by the prompt “time capsule”.

Summary: “I… I was thinking. We’re leaving tomorrow, again, and we don’t know when we’ll be back.” Sora scratched his cheek thoughtfully. “Still, I feel bad that we have to go. I was thinking maybe we could leave something behind, to — I don’t know... proof that we were here?”“You mean like a time capsule?” - Or, in which Sora and Riku bury and unearth a time capsule.

Ao3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27942692

#my fic #my writing #kai writes #soriku week 2020 #soriku

sorikueverafterzine

“And Sora and Riku lived happily ever after…"

Surprise! Some of the CTL mods with the help of new talent are happy to announce a new project: Soriku Ever After Zine, a collection of soriku fairy tales and folktales, paired with full illustrations from amazing artists.

Like Cross the Line Zine, we plan to sell the zine digitally & physically with merchandise bundles (plus, some ~secret~ content). Our tentative pre-order launch date is August 14th, so mark your calendars!

Finally, tomorrow we will announce our ever-talented artists and writers. Please look forward to it! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to send us an ask <3

#zine #soriku zine #kingdom hearts zine #fairytale zine #zine watch #soriku #kingdom hearts #queue

animacreates

Pre-Orders for my new pin!

Hey guys! In honor of Pride Month 2020, I am opening up preorders for a brand enamel new pin I designed featuring Meow Wow and Komory Bat!

Preorders will close at the end of the month! Pre-order here: https://etsy.me/36RfHlh via @Etsy

kaiserin-astraia

I don’t want to bring more attention to this, but I just have to say you picked a really bad day to open pre-orders for this. Today (June 2nd, 2020), fandom merch creators were not going to retweet/reblog/post merch sales to give Black Lives Matter a voice (aka Blackout day). So you posting this today… not a good look.

On top of this, I’ve scrolled your twitter and your tumblr, and you don’t ship soriku (you can check their tumblr: they tag soriku as “brotp”) , nor do you identify as LGBTQ+. This makes me highly suspicious that you are a cishet artist jumping on the Pride train… for money. If you weren’t aware, the reason this is bad is that 1) it is taking money away from LGBT fanartists and 2) its very disingenuous.

To my soriku followers, please do not buy this pin – its not even overtly soriku anyway. To my fellow kh fans, please do not buy this pin, and support a LGBTQ+ kh merch artist instead.

#lgbt representation #pride #kingdom hearts #soriku #kh discourse #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq+

ao3feed-soriku

Catch the Moon

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3allMHo

by KaiserinAstraia

“I was thinkin’,” Riku began, voice lowering to a whisper, “dontcha think the meteor shower would be super cool on the play island?” He glanced up at the sky, giggling at his brilliant idea as the falling lights continued ceaselessly flying across the horizon. “We should go!”

Sora gasped comically loud, eyes widening again. “Play island! We could bring our swords!”

Words: 3513, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Kingdom Hearts

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Riku (Kingdom Hearts), Sora (Kingdom Hearts), Riku’s Mother (Kingdom Hearts), Sora’s Parents (Kingdom Hearts)

Relationships: Riku/Sora (Kingdom Hearts)

Additional Tags: Fluff, Canon Universe, BBS Soriku, Riku is a good kid, Sora is the cutest kid, They’re best friends, post-bbs

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3allMHo

gunvolt

im going to have a stroke

prideling

Instead try… Person A: You know… the thing Person B: The “thing”? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING ROD

artykyn

As someone with multiple bilingual friends where English is not the first language, may I present to you a list of actual incidents I have witnessed:

Forgot a word in Spanish, while speaking Spanish to me, but remembered it in English. Became weirdly quiet as they seemed to lose their entire sense of identity.

Used a literal translation of a Russian idiomatic expression while speaking English. He actually does this quite regularly, because he somehow genuinely forgets which idioms belong to which language. It usually takes a minute of everyone staring at him in confused silence before he says “….Ah….. that must be a Russian one then….”

Had to count backwards for something. Could not count backwards in English. Counted backwards in French under her breath until she got to the number she needed, and then translated it into English.

Meant to inform her (French) parents that bread in America is baked with a lot of preservatives. Her brain was still halfway in English Mode so she used the word “préservatifes.” Ended up shocking her parents with the knowledge that apparently, bread in America is full of condoms.

Defined a slang term for me……. with another slang term. In the same language. Which I do not speak.

Was talking to both me and his mother in English when his mother had to revert to Russian to ask him a question about a word. He said “I don’t know” and turned to me and asked “Is there an English equivalent for Нумизматический?” and it took him a solid minute to realize there was no way I would be able to answer that. Meanwhile his mom quietly chuckled behind his back.

Said an expression in English but with Spanish grammar, which turned “How stressful!” into “What stressing!”

Bilingual characters are great but if you’re going to use a linguistic blunder, you have to really understand what they actually blunder over. And it’s usually 10x funnier than “Ooops it’s hard to switch back.”

sorikueverafterzine

Hello everyone,

We’re still waiting on some of the merch pieces to come in, but here’s a preview of what we have so far! (Bonus Riku and Sora nendos to give you some scale) Pictures do not do them justice– everything is looking AMAZING and we can’t wait for you guys to see them in person! The book itself is as thick as the KH3 steel case and weighs about 2 pounds on its own:

On that note– We know you’re excited to get your orders, but we do not yet have a definite date for when the bundles will ship. We’re still hoping that the last items will arrive in a week or two, and we’ll keep you posted as things progress.

To help us get the bundles shipped asap, we’ve already started prepping packages with what we *do* have. We’ve sorted over 250 orders so far, so a little over half of them. Rest assured, we’ve got a lot of hands on deck to help us get everything out as quickly and seamlessly as possible.

As we mentioned in previous asks, the PDFs will be emailed out after the last bundles have shipped. Please keep an eye out for updates and feel free to send us any questions you may have.

Thanks for your patience, everyone!

~The Cross the Line Team~

sorikueverafterzine

Get your copy today! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO PREORDER THE ZINE! SALES END TONIGHT AT 11:59pm CST!

https://crossthelinezine.bigcartel.com/

birdsandivory

Here’s my preview for the @crossthelinekhzine! Preorders are open HERE!

afoxnamedmulder

not to throw myself into discourse or anything but fandom went downhill the moment fans began holding up fandom content to mainstream content standards

katbelleinthedark

Elaborate pls.

afoxnamedmulder

Shipping is no longer about “hey I think these characters have an interesting dynamic and I want to explore what they would be like together”, it’s “but it needs to be canon, it needs to be healthy, it needs to be representation”

Headcanons are no longer personal opinions but “you are wrong and always have been wrong”, “you are DIRECTLY going against canon with this and here’s a list of reasons why this is so!”

Do I even need to bring up the “fiction = reality” argument here that’s currently so prevalent in fandom circles that, sure, definitely has some truth in it when you’re considering a piece of mainstream media which is going to reach millions of people, but not so much when you’re applying it to a fanfiction with 100 views tops

There are certain things fans want to see in their mainstream content, and that’s okay! I do that too! Diversity is a necessity in media and it’s wonderful that the mainstream media is finally taking steps to rectify that, no matter how small. Fans can now openly communicate with content creators on social media and get them to confirm all manner of headcanons, and that’s good too!

Except some fans have run with this and started using it against fandom, and suddenly you’ve ended up with fans terrified to put forth their own content because it doesn’t fit into the requirements they’re requesting from the mainstream.

One of the best examples to illustrate this recent shift that I can think of is (oh god here we go I’m not even in this fandom) Reylo. If it were to become canon in the films? Sure, feel free to criticise the creators behind the decision all you want! However, exploring the potential such a relationship could have in a fanfiction no-one’s going to read except other people interested in the same idea doesn’t open it up to this same criticism.

tl;dr: through wanting to transform the canon, fans are forgetting how to transform the canon for themselves into their own fanworks and this is leading to fans criticising each other on the same level with which they criticise mainstream media without considering the history & small nature of fandom and the intention of fans in their production of content

paintapictureonsilence

I agree with what you’re saying, but I do want to point out that sometimes those fanfics with only 100 views end up getting more views and becoming mainstream media (namely, 50 shades of grey).

I agree with everything else you said - I don’t think that what’s mainstream should dictate what’s in fandom, but when stories get big (and just before becoming mainstream), should they still be excluded from criticism?

afoxnamedmulder

This is a good point, but allow me to use 50 Shades of Grey as an example since you’ve brought it up:

50 Shades of Grey, in its original form as Twilight fanfiction, was fanfiction written for fandom consumption and published in a fandom space.

EL James, in deciding to publish it, took that fanfiction out of the fandom space and opened it up to full public consumption.

And in turning that fanfic into a published novel, in removing it from its fandom space and placing it in a literature space, EL James should have done her research, or at least sought out critical opinions which influenced the novel’s transition from a fanfic written entirely to amuse herself to a published work.

Does this mean we should be criticising fanfictions which gain popularity in fandom in case the authors decide to do as EL James did and publish it as an original work??

In my opinion, no.

Fanfictions published in fandom spaces are written freely, given freely. We have no way of judging why an author felt the need to write their fanfics and fanfiction authors do not need to justify themselves even if they do (to use 50 Shades again) write fucked up dynamics in a romantic way, or haven’t done any research on a topic central to their work such as BDSM, etc. If, however, you choose to edit your fanfiction into an original work, it no longer exists in a fandom space and you should be aware of that.

Those popular fanfictions? Remain excluded from criticism because they still exist in a fandom space. If you find aspects of a popular fanfiction to be harmful or worthy of criticism in some way, there’s the back button, or even better, a blank word page to begin writing your own fanfic.

sorikueverafterzine

We are pleased to announce that pre-orders for the Cross the Line soriku zine are now open! Don’t think twice– visit our store to make your purchase today! https://crossthelinezine.bigcartel.com/

Cross the Line features the work of more than 50 artists and 20 writers, with over 150 pages of content! We are offering six items for purchase (all items in USD, physical items will have a shipping fee):

Cross the Line (Digital Only) – $20

Kiss Me One (Physical Book) – $25

Kiss Me Twice (Book + Merch Pack 1) – $45

Kiss Me Three Times (Book + Merch Pack 2) – $45

Everything I Dreamed Of (Everything Bundle) – $60

Don’t Think Twice (Merch Only) – $35

Store is open Aug 1st, 12:00 am CST, and closes Aug 31st, 11:59pm CST!

@fandomzines @zinefeed

@zineapps

sorikueverafterzine

We’re *almost* there, you guys! Preorders open tomorrow, so stay tuned for the announcement and link to the store, both on here and on Twitter!

randomslasher

I get antsy when I haven’t produced content in awhile. I worry I’ll be forgotten. I feel like I have to keep buying my place in fandom with stuff like art and writing. Which makes it hard to produce content because that’s a lot of pressure to put on my creativity muses. So I sit here worrying instead.

Bleh.