Slowly Going Crazy

Destiel/Cockles Enthusiast She/her pronouns Sometimes I write, but I’m mostly just here to have a good time and spam y’all with reblogged gifs. Mostly into SPN, but technically multi-fandom.

[theangelisgay]

Dude. Happy for you. Wish I hadn’t heard about this on Twitter.

[orionsangel86]

Me, waking up, seeing that SPN fandom is once again going crazy because the 8x17 script has revealled that Dean's much talked about "I love you" to Cas comes across even more obviously romantic as it doesn't include the "we're family, we need you" parts and instead starts with "I forgive you"

AND

MIsha Collins, ever an agent of chaos, has confirmed a formerly open secret in Cockles shipper circles that he pretty much always lived with Jensen when filming SPN.

I can't process this much new SPN information so soon after waking 7 months after the show has ended

[bubblegumpenguin]

It’s Here!!!

I got my @tohellandbackanthology book today, and I’m finally getting a chance to sit down and look at it. I was just overcome with so many emotions and started crying in my bedroom, clutching this book to my heart.

It’s been a wild last 18 months, and this definitely is a Top 5 Best Moments. And I can’t wait to get lost in it’s pages. And my roommates will be delighted to not have me saying “book book book book book” every time I come across something that reminded me that it was almost here.

Now it’s time for the hard decisions…

Where am I gonna stick these stickers?

[kbsd-moved]

in high school my friend and i used to judge people based on how good their “birthday” episode of supernatural was LOL like my birthday is july 17 so my episode is 7x17 “the born-again identity” (nice). if you’re past the season finale you loop back to the beginning i.e. she’s nov 27 which gives you 11x04 “baby” (also nice). anyway sound off what’s your birthday episode i’m not going to steal your identity i promise

[ruinedchildhood]

[deanwinchesterapologist]

I think Cas would come home with two baby guinea pigs one day without talking to dean about it and dean would grumble at him for hours and then sigh deeply and set to work building an elaborate wooden enclosure for them

[deanwinchesterapologist]

"cas what the hell are we gonna do if they start....you know.......reproducing??" And cas is like oh don't worry I made SURE they're both girls. And then it turns out he was wrong and several months later they wake up one morning and find more guinea pigs than they had the previous night

[veeaziel]

every day i am percieved™️

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

There is a reason for this though!

The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply. 

significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.

that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).

the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.

Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. I’m glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you love–the way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to stories–that is what matters.

[attackofjak]

I feel understood 🥰

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

a bunch of people have reblogged this with the default “i feel called out” reaction….and i know when we say that we mean it tongue-in-cheek….but this comment sorta blew my mind & shifted my perspective up and to the left a little thank you♥

[bubblegumpenguin]

So about 35 minutes until I’m in the year 2021. And while time is arbitrary and you shouldn’t feel like you need to start improving yourself on a specific date, I do have a very short list of goals for the New Year.

1. Don’t get the plague.

2. Don’t go into more debt than I already currently am in.

3. Don’t crash my car in a ditch

4. Keep loving my cats

5. Tolerate my roommates at worst (Love them at best)

That is all. That’s all I can give to 2021. 2020 broke me. I’ve set the bar so low this year. If I don’t accomplish all 5, I’ll be big mad

[bubblegumpenguin]

Guys! GUYYYYYS!!!!

Look at what one of my roommates got me for Christmas!

My heart, dudes! I love this so much!

[screamyvegetables]

[osointricate]

If you’re a Dean girl and your favorite female character is Claire

Ooh buddy are you avoiding therapy too?

[bubblegumpenguin]

Guys, I’ve been MIA for the past couple of days (not that any of you really noticed) because

WE HAVE AN UNEXPECTED BABY IN OUR HOUSE!

So my sister wakes me up at 8am on Thursday, December 17th, 2020 by saying, “Tianna I have a kitten!” And now anyone who has known me for more than 5 minutes knows that I LOVE cats. I always have. And so upon hearing that my sister has a kitten, I am immediately out of bed. I open my door and sure enough, there is my sister, and in her arms is a kitten (looks to be anywhere from 6-9 months old). And my first thought is “omg baby!”

My sister tells me that it’s a girl (now, my sister and I have had cats since we were little kids. I know what to look for to tell the sex. I assume she does too. We’ll get to that later.) and we both immediately recall our family cat, Ellie. She was a tuxie too, and super friendly like this kitten. Our first thought was “this is someone’s Ellie. This kitten has a family out there that must be worried sick.” So we do what any good person who loves animals would do.

We make a post on Nextdoor.

And we scan the humane society lost pets page.

And we search through Facebook.

Nothing.

Okay, well it’s still early in the day. And if this cat’s family is at work or something, they may not know that she’s missing. So we set the kitten up in our downstairs bathroom, and we get her all settled in, and I have to leave for work.

And I couldn’t focus to save my life. I probably wasted two hours of company time just scrolling through my phone looking for someone in my area to say that they’re missing their baby tuxie.

Don’t get attached. Don’t get attached. Don’t get attached.

I’m texting my roommates that we are NOT naming the kitten! We are NOT keeping the kitten. That we ARE going to find this kitten a home that is not ours. And I’m sure my adamance at not keeping this cat threw them off. I mean... keeping a cat who needed a home was how I got Han Solo

But really, we are NOT keeping this one! So don’t name it. It’ll just make it harder to say goodbye. We’re not keeping her.

Don’t get attached. Don’t get attached. Don’t get attached.

I get home. My brother in law has named her Berry.

So I go to give Berry (I guess?) some attention, and while I’m playing with her, I get a full blown look at her backside. And wow, that is not female cat genetalia.

So now I have to go to every post I’ve made about this cat and edit that it’s a he, not a she. Back to scanning Facebook and the humane society and oh my gosh did we just lose a whole day of finding this kitten’s family because my sister can’t tell a boy cat from a girl?

So now it’s time for me to go to bed. I put Berry the unnamed kitten in the bathroom and go to my room... and then it begins.

This cat begins HOWLING! I mean full on screaming. He wants nothing more than to be out of the bathroom and with his new people.

Don’t get attached. Don’t get attached. Don’t get attached.

It’s a long night.

I wake up the next day, fill his food and water dishes, clean his makeshift litter box, and I’m off to work.

It was a long day, and all that I really wanted to do was go home and cuddle with the new baby in the house. I want to know that he’s settling in. That he’s okay. I am still adamant on not naming him, because we are not keeping him.

Don’t get attached. Don’t get attached. Don’t get attached.

I finally get home, and I go downstairs to check on him and he just immediately perks up when I walk into the bathroom. He jumps up on my lap, and cuddles in close, and begins purring...

And I have an absolute meltdown.

Because damn it, I got attached.

All it took was a couple days, and I already love this little guy almost as much as my other two. I have more than enough room in my heart for him.

I want to take care of him. I want to have days where he shits on the carpet and I’m mad at him. I want days where I break down and he’s there for me like the other two.

I want to look back on his life one day and say that he lived a long and healthy and safe life. More than anything else, I want him to be happy.

Which is why he can’t stay with me.

I am aware that I think with my heart and not my head. It’s caused me to bite off much more than I can chew in the past. And so my initial adamance of not keeping him stemmed from a place of rational thinking. I’m in a different place in my life than I was the last time I had kittens to raise. I have more responsibilities that keep me away from home. Thinking with my head, I know that I cannot provide a new kitten a home right now. I would not be able to easily provide him a fulfilling life.

It’s now day 5. My roommates and I all have acknowledged that we have grown attached. Myself Some more than others. We finally caved.

His name is Jack.

And yes, he’s named after Jack Kline from Supernatural.

It fits him quite well. He was just randomly dropped into our lives. And he’s begrudgingly grown on us despite our best efforts to not bring him into our family.

And in the end, he will inevitably leave us.

A coworker of mine has told me repeatedly that he’d love to take Jack in. My sister has had offers from friends, too. A few rescues have also offered to take him. I know deep down that more likely than not, Jack will go to a good family that will love him dearly. And sadly, that knowledge does little to comfort my grief.

I still check the Nextdoor message I posted.

I still scan the humane society lost pets page.

I still search for his picture on Facebook.

We still haven’t found an owner. A cat that is this comfortable around humans most likely HAD a family. Maybe they’ve seen the postings I’ve made. Maybe they found themselves in a position where they couldn’t care for him anymore. Maybe they just didn’t want him anymore. I don’t know. And I’ve reached a point where I don’t want to know.

These past few days have been a bright spot in the shitty tapestry of 2020. I don’t know if it was fate or merely a coincidence that brought Jack to our deck on December 17th, 2020. But I take comfort in believing that the universe brought Jack into my life for a reason.

[cliveguy]

jackles leaving the cw's office for the last time after securing the rights to spn for $10

[bubblegumpenguin]

Me: What’s happening today on Tumblr?

*opens tumblr*

Tumblr: MISHA COLLINS AND BILL CLINTON FUCKED

Me:

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

So I’m on AO3 and I see a lot of people who put “I do not own [insert fandom here]” before their story.

Like, I came on this site to read FAN fiction. This is a FAN fiction site. I’m fully aware that you don’t own the fandom or the characters. That’s why it’s called FAN FICTION.

[adiwriting]

Oh you youngins… How quickly they forget.

Back in the day, before fan fiction was mainstream and even encouraged by creators… This was your “please don’t sue me, I’m poor and just here for a good time” plea.

Cause guess what? That shit used to happen.

[ohbeckoh]

how soon they forget ann rice’s lawyers.

[emma-regina4ever]

What happened with her lawyers.

[racethewind10]

History became legend. Legend became myth….  And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

I worked with one of the women that got contacted by Rice’s lawyers. Scared the hell out of her and she never touched fandom again. The first time I saw a commission post on tumblr for fanart, I was shocked.

[demonicae]

One of the reasons I fell out of love with her writing was her treatment of the fans… (that and the opening chapter of Lasher gave me such heebie-jeebies with the whole underage sex thing I felt unclean just reading it.)

I have zero problem with fanart/fic so long as the creators aren’t making money off of it. It is someone else’s intellectual property and people who create fan related works need to respect that (and a solid 98% of them do.)

The remaining 2% are either easily swayed by being gently prompted to not cash in on someone else’s IP. Or they DGAF… and they are the ones who will eventually land themselves in hot water. Either way: this isn’t much of an excuse to persecute your entire fanbase.

But Anne Rice went off the deep end with this stuff by actively attacking people who were expressing their love for her work and were not profiteering from it.

The Vampire Chronicles was a dangerous fandom to be in back in the day. Most of the works I read/saw were hidden away in the dark recesses of the internet and covered by disclaimers (a lot of them reading like thoroughly researched legal documents.)

And woe betide anyone who was into shipping anyone with ANYONE in that fandom. You were most at risk, it seemed, if your vision of the characters deviated from the creators ‘original intentions.’ (Hypocritical of a woman who made most of her living writing erotica.)

Imagine getting sued over a headcanon…

Put simply: we all lived in fear of her team of highly paid lawyers descending from the heavens and taking us to court over a slashfic less than 500 words long.

[pagerunner-j]

all of this

[fanfichasruinedmylife-deactivat]

Reblogging because I can’t believe there are people out there who don’t know the story behind fan fiction disclaimers. 

[hils79]

Yep I used to have disclaimers on all my Buffy fic back in the day. The Buffy creators were mostly pretty chill about fandom but it’s not like it is now. You did NOT talk about fandom with anyone except other fandom people and bringing it up at cons was a massive no no because of stuff like this.

I think Supernatural (and Misha Collins specifically) was when that wall between fandom and creators started to break down. It’s a relatively new thing.

I remember going to a Merlin panel down in London and a girl sitting next to me asked the cast about slash and I thought she was going to get kicked out!

Fandom history is important.

[cracktheglasses]

Oh, this brings back some not so-awesome ‘90s fandom memories! 

[griesly]

Oh man, let me tell you about the X-Files fandom. Lawyers for FOX sued, threatened, and generally terrified the owners of fan websites on a regular basis. God help you if you wrote or created original art set in their (expansive) universe or worse - dared to write about their characters. Even people who weren’t creating fanworks, just hosting Geocities pages about how much people liked the show would be sent C&D orders or actually fined. When I was first discovering the concept, the first rule of fandom was you do not talk about fandom because the consequences could be devastating.

It was such a strange and uncomfortable experience for me when fans in LOTR and Potter fandoms suddenly started shoving their work in people’s faces speaking publicly about fandom and wanting to engage in dialogue with the creators and actors of the Thing they were into. Fan stuff was supposed to stay online, in archives and list-serves and zines we passed around because it just wasn’t cool to talk about it and it could get you in a boatload of trouble. The freedom we have to create and gather together in a shared space, or actually be acknowledged in any way by people outside the fandom was inconceivable to my fannish, teenaged self. I want fans these days to understand how amazing modern fandom really is, cherish the community, and appreciate what it took to get us here. 

[oyveyzqueer]

“if you found this by googling yourself, hit back now. this means you, pete wentz”

[tbqtalks]

Oh hey, even more blasts from the past.

I was one of the ones who got a love letter from Anne Rice’s lawyers. Bear in mind that up until that point her publisher had encouraged fanfic and worked with the archive keeper (one of my roommates at the time) to drum up publicity for upcoming books and so on.

I could tell such tales of how much Anne screwed over her fans back then. The tl;dr version is that she and her peeps would use fan projects as free market research and then bring in the lawyers once it was felt Anne could make money off of it herself. (Talismanic Tours being one of the most offensive examples of this.)

But where fanfic is concerned not only did we get nastygrams but one of my friends had Anne’s lawyer trying to fuck up her own privately owned business which had NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING ANNE RELATED. Said friend was a small business owner with health issues who wasn’t exactly rolling in money, so guess how well that went?

On top of that when yours truly tried to speak out about it I discovered that someone in Anne’s camp had been cyber stalking me to the point where they took all the tiny crumbs of personal information I had posted over the course of five years or so and used it to doxx me (before that was even a term and in early enough days of the WWW that this wasn’t an easy task) and post VERY personal information about me on the main fandom message board of the time. Luckily for me the mod was my friend and she took that down post haste, but it was still oodles of fun feeling that violated and why to this day I am very strict about keeping my fandom and personal lives separate online.

Hence why those of us in the fandom at the time who still gave enough of a shit to want to keep writing fic DID keep writing fic, but shoved it so far underground and slapped it with so many disclaimers they could’ve outweighed the word count of War & Peace. It wasn’t just for the purpose of protecting fic but for trying to protect our personal lives as well.

(Also would love to know who @tiger-in-the-flightdeck knew. Life paths crossing after so many years….)

[dubiousculturalartifact]

Lucasfilm also sent cease-and-desist letters to Star Wars fanzines publishing slash.

My favourite bit I read from one included the idea that you weren’t allowed to have any explicit content, of which anything queer, no matter how tame, was included, to “preserve that innocence even Imperial crew members must be imagined to have”.

Yeah. The same Imperial crew members who helped build the Death Star to commit planetary genocide.

(It’s one reason Sinjir Velus, while I still have some issues with him, feels like such a delicious ‘f*** you’.)

Later on, they were apparently persuaded to ‘allow’ fans to write slash, provided in ‘remained within the nebulous bounds of good taste’.

(On a related note, if I wasn’t quite so attached to my URL, I would 100% change it to ‘Nebulous Bounds’, because that’s just downright catchy)

[thepioden]

Anne McCaffrey had this huge long set of rules about how exactly you were allowed to play in her sandbox. Dragonriders of Pern was my first online fandom, and I was big into the Pern RP scene - and just about every fan-Weyr had a copy of these lists of rules McCaffrey wanted enforced. One of which was ‘no porn’ and another was basically ‘it can’t be gay’ (and for a while ‘no fanfiction posted online’? which??? anyway.)

She relaxed a little as time went on, but still. 

[mikkeneko]

Let’s not forget: the reason AO3 is called ‘Archive of our own’  is because it was created in response to some bullshit that assholes were trying to play with fan creators. Basically (if I remember the fiasco correctly) trying to mine fandom creators for content which they could then use to generate ad profit on their shitty websites. When the series creators objected, the fans tried to pull their content, only to find that the website hoster resisted, claiming their content was all his now.

That wasn’t even all that long ago…

[bebopsisyphus]

fandom history class

[snowglory]

Interesting! wow

[i-own-loki]

I remember back in the days having to put a disclaimer on EVERY. SINGLE. ONE of my Twilight fanfic chapters. That’s what everyone did. Even though sometimes it was simply a: I don’t own these characters. I play with them.

It was so strange not doing it on AO3 at the beginning.

[snowballschanceinahandcart]

I still disclaim. Fandom may be more mainstream, but you never know who might get lawyer happy. You can bet I’ll cover my arse best I can at all times.

[bluehooloovo]

Oh man, Pern fandom. I was originally in Pern fandom in the early 00s, when the Rules were still going strong. When I left the fandom and came back and found that there were FORUM CLUBS?! With the posts just where ANYONE COULD READ THEM?! AND NEW DRAGON COLORS?!?! Holy shit, mind blown.

And I remember the list on ff.net of authors whose work you weren’t allowed to fic, including Anne Rice. And literally everyone putting some kind of disclaimer on their fic. It was just how fandom operated.

[pocketseizure]

This isn’t even ancient history. Back in 2010, there was an extremely nasty incident in which Diana Gabaldon (the author of a number of formally published Doctor Who self-insert fics the Outlander series) put up a blog post that began like this…

OK, my position on fan-fic is pretty clear. I think it’s immoral, I _know_ it’s illegal, and it makes me want to barf whenever I’ve inadvertently encountered some of it involving my characters.

As if this weren’t already a strong statement coming from a woman who seems to be oddly invested in writing sexy assault scenes (not that there’s anything wrong with subversive female fantasies, but I’M JUST SAYING), Gabaldon continued in the same vein, comparing fanfic to home invasion and adultery (as well as other bizarre and unsavory things in her responses to the comments on the now-deleted post). When “fandom” rose from the depths of Livejournal to challenge her, she became even more offensive and belligerent, and other popular writers (such as George RR Martin, who was ironcially part of the Livejournal fandom culture himself) came to her defense. This “debate” led to a number of think pieces in mainstream media about how entitled and ungrateful fans were destroying traditional publishing, not to mention high-profile male creators publicly complaining about cosplay, teenage girls attending comic conventions, and other visible manifestations of fandom.

What has changed since then is that the young people (primarily women) whose work was nurtured in fandom communities have become professionals, and they’re transforming the entertainment industry from the inside. Fanfic writers are now publishing original novels and editing their own literary magazines for genre fiction. Fan artists are now working for Marvel and DC and putting out original graphic novels with major presses. Video game fans work as programmers and localizers, and cosplay enthusiasts have become character and set designers.

This cultural shift is not just a white thing and not just a straight thing and not just an American thing. Representation in fiction and art - traditionally published or otherwise - is hugely empowering, as is being part of a supportive community. I don’t mean to suggest that fandom is changing the world… but it kind of is.

[roachpatrol]

one thing i particularly love is how shows have characters that write fanfiction because shows have writers that wrote fanfiction. current fan culture hasn’t been this way for very long, but it’s been this way for long enough, and now it’s in children’s cartoons like adventure time that if you like a book or a show, you might write your own adventures for it and read it to your friends, no big deal. i don’t remember seeing any girl in any show writing fanfiction where that wasn’t the punchline, that she was a sad freak…you still see that joke sometimes, but increasingly there’s also support and approval for the collaborative, imaginative storytelling fans do for fun, and that’s really cool.  

[subtlefire]

Oh man. I remember my first fan war, part of which was “any gayness is automatically rated R/18+ and thus not acceptable on this forum THINK OF THE CHILDREN.” Good times.

[sursumursa-deactivated20180131]

THE NORTH REMEMBERS. Fanfic, and why I’ll never read an Anne Rice book: https://youtu.be/bHVCQuJvAB4

[logicheartsoul]

There is a reason livejournal took off so well and became the home of fandom for almost 15 years. It was easy to use. You could filter your posts by friend locking it or allowing certain individuals to see it, so you can interact with real life and online friends. LJ cuts made it easy to post long fic (you see it today in the “keep reading” thing on tumblr) and it was easy to join communities. Communities had similar properties to individual LJs. You could also filter your friends list so it was easy to catch up on stuff. The tagging system actually functioned well! The expression of things through icons! Comment threads were wonderful. You could actually organize and talk about stuff without it being all over the place!

I miss LJ ok?

[fishey-me]

On that note, I remember when it was common practice to bump the rating of a fic up if it contained slash. At all. Two dudes holding hands? PG. Two girls kissing? PG-13. There were so many het fics that were complete smut (which we called lemons) that were rated R, but the same smut for gay characters was NC-17. And that was before ff.net changed its rating system.

[faedreamer-deactivated20180128]

and don’t even get me started on the backdoor hidden speakeasies where RPF was forced to hide. these days 1D fic gets pulled to publish by mainstream publishers, but once upon a time not so long ago to write anything about real people was so taboo you risked losing friendships and being kicked out of forums and mailing lists and shunned to hell and back.

whispered passwords to locked forums passed through private messages, praying the person you were inviting wasn’t just looking to out you and get you kicked from the main fandom areas.

it was a whole different world not even ten years ago kids. be grateful for what you have and never forget the burning times.

[spiletta42]

Remember back in the old days when we used PG-13 and R to rate fic, before the Motion Picture Association of America attacked with claims of copyright infringement, forcing ffnet and others to switch to “Teen” and “Mature” because the MPAA “owned” the letter R?  And for weeks, there were fics everywhere written without the letter R at all? 

Remember when literary agents would message fanfic writers and tell them they would NEVER represent anyone who had ever in their entire lives written even a single fanfic, and that the only shot anyone had at ever being published was to delete their fanfic and never write any again?  And then if you dared talk about this, you’d be told a confusing jumble of “that’s absolutely true, nobody wants to represent someone who doesn’t follow the rules” and “you’ll never be published anyway, why give up your hobby for an impossible pipedream?”

Remember when all fanfiction was considered plagiarism in academic circles and students could face disciplinary actions for writing it even though it had nothing whatsoever to do with their classes?

Remember that scare when fanfiction was on the verge of being declared criminal in the US, as part of some draconian anti-net-neutrality legislation (there have now been so many I’ve forgotten which one), and everyone was frantically backing up their favorites lest sites go dark?

Never take fanfiction for granted.  Never take AO3 for granted.  Never take the fact that Stephanie Meyer declined to sue EL James for granted.  (I’m no Twilight fan and I loathe 50 Shades but in truth that could have been a disastrous test case, so God bless Meyer for her decision.)

[bookish-but-corruptible-deactiv]

Yes!! I was there!!

[samallcapswilson]

I could always tell when some BNF (y'all remember that term) was trying to go pro because suddenly ALL their fanfiction would disappear and only be illicitly passed along in zip drives of enterprising fans who saw it coming.

I’m still sad that DW didn’t take over for LJ fandom space. It was a much better system than tumblr tbh.

Ah, memories.

Also everytime I see gifs for Shadowhunters and think about the fact that there are fans who don’t know about the Cassandra Clare fanlore, I giggle.

[saunteringvaguelydownwards]

JFC, the Cassandra Claire wank is why I’ll never watch Shadowhunters, I don’t care how gayly the ladies look at each other.

[bundibird]

Man, coming to AO3 and not having to put disclaimers on every single fic and/or chapter I uploaded was bizarre. Gave me mental hives. I felt like I was looking over my shoulder, waiting for someone with a lawsuit to pounce. On ff.n, if you forgot to put in a disclaimer, almost every single review you’d get until you fixed it would be “you’ve forgotten the disclaimer – you’ll want to fix that asap!!” Everyone was THAT hypervigilant.

And as far as i know, there’s STILL a list of authors listed on ff.n whose stories yooure not allowed to write about. At one stage, agreeing to the terms and conditions on that site included ticking a box swearing that you weren’t writing in any of those authors fandoms.

Anyway reminder to everyone to be eternally grateful to the AO3 team for creating a space where everyone can create without fear of reprisal, thanks in very large part to the team of lawyers standing between us and authors who would sue us for playing in their sandpits.

[dancinbutterfly]

Yall with the new DCMA thing attached to the budget bill? I feel like we need to start doing this again. So we dont go to Fucking Prison.

[cornrowe-deactivated20190502]

[maturina]

do you like long-ass deancas fics? can you never decide which one to read next? mood!

I’m here to help. That’s why I’ve created my patented Long-Ass Deancas Fic Rec Generator. It has 50+ fics to choose from, ranging in wordcount from 20k to 400k, with most fics falling in the 50k+ range. I’ve added a short description to each fic, noting the wordcount and season, as well as a couple words of summary. Note that I haven’t read any of these fics (hence why I made the generator), but I got each rec on good authority from long-term fans of the show.

In case the link in the first paragraph breaks, copy and paste this: https://perchance.org/spn-fic-recs

All you have to do is click the button to get a random, hopefully-good fic rec! I’ll continue to add recs as I hear of them, thereby expanding my (and your) To Be Read pile :)

Enjoy!

[thursdaydean]

Your brain is huge.