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[wolfythewitch]

Dog years

THE VERY FIRST STAR TREK SLASH FIC PUBLISHED

“A Fragment out of Time”, published in 1974. Kirk / Spock. page 1 page 2

I had to share it with you because I can’t stop laughing, and every time I reread it it just gets funnier and fUNNIER

[catbountry]

This fan fiction is older than the push-through tabs on soda cans.

[cylonqueen]

Your grandma wrote this on her Commodore 64.

[strike-team-delta]

I miss my Commodore 64

[stoplookingup]

Oh my dear, sweet children. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982. This was produced on a typewriter and probably mimeographed. And while it may seem funny now, it took more courage to write and distribute this than you will ever  know.

[athelind]

Reblogged for that last comment.

[gokuma]

respect your elders

[ohfreckle]

Children, in the olden days fanfiction was written on a typewriter, copied and sent by snail mail. Getting one one of those letters from across the world was every bit as exciting as getting a notification that your favorite writer posted a new fic.

[berlynn-wohl]

It’s been said before, but the fact that this fic begins with the dialogue assertion “We’re by no means setting a precedent” is endlessly amusing to me.

Diane Marchant changed all our lives. May she rest in peace.

[prokopetz]

The precedent line is especially amusing when you bear in mind that “A Fragment Out of Time” is not only the first Star Trek slashfic to be published in a widely distributed magazine: it’s believed by some to be the first slashfic of any kind to be widely published.

[ralfmaximus]

In 1974 it was illegal to send pornography through the USPS. So distributing fic like this via mailed newsletter was literally dangerous. And they knew it.

[spltlvlhous]

kirk/spock. og. og mpreg . kirkspock og mpreg

[marycomix]

SKDNDNAKBDBXJZ @manofthepipis !!!

I was checking everyday but finally it came out

Chapter 17!! (Spoiler)

It was supposed to be a sketch, I was just trying some new procreate brushes-

But I got carried away

Finally I can do some artwork of this marvellous fanfic, and I am adding THIS as one of the most cute moments from this fic

I'm sorry, it is a bit rushed and I will draw at least another section from this chapter.

I wish I had done some sketches of the other chapters too to post, but I've seen some other artist do a stunning job already 🙌

Forgive these corny words, but I wanted you to know that I am not an usual fanfic reader and not of this genre but GOSH yours- your style, the characterization, the povs, the details!! the way you write is so catchy. Spectacular job, I mean it, can't wait for next chapters.

[hollenix]

"fourth of july" - sufjan stevens sketch animatic for my voice actor friend bug's life-ruining au :') some context:

the red light in this video is an indicator that the laptop has been fully disconnected from tv world, with no way back. due to an innocent mistake, they don't see it flash to the orange warning light while in cyber city - and then that's it, and there's nothing for them to do but wait for tenna to turn to stone.

[fconvicted]

the dolphins are paid actors

[4nything-3verything]

Doomed Yuri? Yk what else is doomed?

Yeah that’s right.

I chose Spamton to be Homura because he knows a lot more than he should, and because his caring for Tenna (leading to him signing the deal) leads him to a whole lot of suffering. However, Homura‘s obsession is way more present in Tenna I think. Spamton also sees Tenna‘s „nature“ (Lord of screens) dooming him, much as Madoka‘s nature (selflessness/low self-esteem) dooms her.

This came to me after I started animating lol I just saw „doomed“ and had to connect them

(Do you guys know the Lovebug AU, where Tenna basically becomes Homura-)

I realised halfway through that the perspective doesn’t line up property but alas, 'twas too late.

[owlgams]

He deserves the world honestly

@cuddlepossum

[hollenix]

first time trying animation!

made in magma and imovie ;;

[vokoy]

[director's cut]

[paxamericana]

you’re hearing it more and more

[kyrare]

Spotify Premium ad: “Imagine playing music without interruptions! Infinite skipping! Replay the song you want! And even do it offline? No ads! Whatever songs you want! For a small monthly payme-” Me: *nods, turns off Spotify and turns on my MP3 player and does all the things they offer, but for free and with songs they don’t even have*

[jimtheviking]

For those of you who might not know how to do any of this:

To convert CD audio into mp3s, you just follow the steps here

To play mp3 files, you download an mp3 player like Winamp here and away you go

On mobile? There are plenty of free mp3 players for your phone available, too, so check them out

You don’t need to be tethered to an online streaming service for your music. Be free.

[eroticcannibal]

You can also rip audio files from youtube and find files all over the internet. It is far easier to come across great and lesser known music if you dont limit yourself to spotify.

[n7punk]

Here’s a tutorial on how to get the music and playlists you like with unlimited listening/downloads. This is a free way to do it that I believe is a balance between cost, time, and pros & cons:

If you have the CDs, it will be easier to rip them. Most music managers include this feature and you will have all the track information loaded into the file. There are also pirate websites where you can download entire albums with their metadata attached, but there could be risks associated (I would worry more about viruses than lawsuits these days, though). Deciding a method for acquiring music is a balance of the required time, the alternative costs, and other pros/cons like supporting the artist or taking the risk of pirating sites.

1. Find the song on Youtube. YT has pretty much every song at this point, usually in comparable quality to what you would get on a streaming service.

This is great if you already listen to music on Youtube, but there might be a better method for going direct from Spotify, though this will work either way. The main downside to this method is that official music (and even lyric) videos sometimes have non-music portions so you might have to listen to the whole thing to be sure. SponsorBlock will highlight non-music sections for most artists, so if you have it installed you can tell at a glance if this is the case.

2. Download the audio from YT. There are many ways to download YT videos completely for free. It’s probably against the YT terms of service, but you’re not going to get sued.

I like y2mate for downloading YT videos (or their audio in mp3s) because it’s a simple, ad-free website. You just paste in the URL for the video you want to download. Sometimes it’s laggy and you have to come back later, but usually after a few moments the video loads, you select your download quality (the highest), and then save it. For easy file management, download everything in folders for the Artist, and then sub folders for the Album, and name the MP3 file the “song name”.mp3.

3. Upload to your music player/manager of choice. The file will currently be lacking metadata (Artist, Album, track number, etc) and will be added to the library as a song with its title set as the file name minus its .mp3 extension. Various music players/managers have different ways to add metadata (usually accessed by right-clicking the song) with varying ease.

iTunes is free and and logical if you have an iPhone, but limited in its capabilities. I do all my management/listening in MusicBee (free for Windows) because of its playlist and management features, as well as having a very customizable interface. You can set it to scan the folders you download music to so it will automatically load things into your library, or do so manually. Once loaded into MusicBee, you can batch edit an entire album’s metadata at once easily with Auto-Tagging. Auto-Tag can fetch the details from the internet and fill in artist, tracks, album artwork, etc and save that information to the mp3 file. You can edit this manually if needed too. Drag and drop the edited songs to any other player you may want to add them to so it can find the files.

4. Now you can use the player of your choice to listen endlessly, form playlists, etc. Some free music managers also have music discovery/recommendation features for expanding your collection.

MusicBee allows you to create playlists with folders, subfolders, and dynamic features. You can export these playlists for cross-platform play on other computers with MusicBee installed. I think the playlist features on MusicBee are better than what is on streaming services. You can create an auto-playlist of your recently-added music so you can easily find the ones that are new and might need need editing, adding to other playlists, etc. I have custom tags for music by LGBT artists, sapphic love songs, and more. I also drag-and-drop these playlists directly into iTunes so I have them on my phone too (you can do this to make a new playlist or just edit/add songs to a current one).

There are many music managers/players, including cross-platform ones with streaming, though they usually have fees for that feature. Because you aren’t streaming the music and rather storing it, you’ll need space on each device you want to play the music on, but memory is cheap these days.

You can buy a 2TB external harddrive for less than Spotify or Youtube Premium costs for six months, so having to store the songs isn’t much of a downside. Plus, the song will never “leave the service”, you can listen to it offline, etc.

I do encourage people to pay for art, especially from small, independent artists. You have to pay for art if you want to keep it alive, but there is debate over if streaming services are really “paying the artist”. Alternatives include buying and ripping CDs, purchasing merch or tour tickets (where artists make a lot of their money), etc to support them with something other than streaming views.

[night-dark-woods]

ID. a tweet from Don Hughes @/getfiscal dated Feb 18 21. it reads, “Started imagining paying for Spotify for the next thirty or so years and got a bit dizzy, cancelled a bunch of subscriptions, installed Linux on my computer and then pulled out my old CDs to rip. Going caveman.” End ID.

[uberguber89]

[ryttu3k]

Seconding MusicBee! Also, you can use a library subscription to access Freegal, which allows (depending on your library system) up to five free downloads a week. Completely free, actually legal, yours to keep, no DRM or any crap like that.

For indie producers, always check if they have something like Bandcamp! Bandcamp lets you download as well, and has significantly higher royalties going to the actual artists (Spotify pays them… very little).

[fluffmugger]

Jsyk, winamp rips cds natively.  You can set whatever bitrate you like.  Been doing *that* since last century. 

[audacityinblack]

It’s that time again:

GitHub - Igglybuff/awesome-piracy: A curated list of awesome warez and piracy links

A curated list of awesome warez and piracy links. Contribute to Igglybuff/awesome-piracy development by creating an account on GitHub.

[wikdsushi-v2]

Don’t forget that you can borrow CD’s from your local library! Borrow, rip, repeat ad infinitum!

[jughead-is-canonically-aroace]

for playing mp3s on android - musicolet, very customizable, bajillions of options, and you can edit the metadata in-app including album art and lyric files

on firefox - there’s a youtube video downloader add-on that lets you do it from page, though only as video - but most video players have an export-as-audio option

[i-say-ok]

ok!

[bunnieswithknives]

And the video is finalized!!!!!

[j3libeanz]

recently got rlly into sherlock on BBC and craving some good fanfic does anyone have any recs pls and thankyou

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

[jaydove-writes]

Thank you

[localcanadiancryptid22]

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter

[valenrepetto]

If tails and knuckles didn't arrive:

[Different follow up]

From here:

[hawkeyedflame]

youtube is pulling this bullshit again

praying for the firefox gods to save me once more...

[findingschmomo]

I just fixed this for me!

I use Ublock Origins (and recommend). Once you have it go to Settings and then Filter lists

Scroll down and expand the Built In option. Then uncheck the "quick fixes"

Apply changes and reload your youtube page!

Not sure how long this work around will function so time stamping to 12/20/24 ~4pm EST

[hawkeyedflame]

Yup I found this on a reddit thread shortly after I posted and it worked for me. Reblogging to raise visibility.

[veryintricaterituals]

It was queerbait, actually (A repository)

(It's almost three am but I am fuming, I've been collecting these for a while, my evidence, I WILL write a detailed post about this in a few days but I wanted to leave this here in case anyone else wanted to see how fucking deep this goes)

HYPOTESIS: Nandermo is textbook queerbaiting, not in spite the characters being queer but BECAUSE of it. The ship was used deliberately by the writers, the actors and the marketing in order to bring lgbt viewership to the show with NO intention on ever delivering on their promise.

Also the show presented itself as queer, marketed itself as queer and went to win GLAAD awards two years in a row then proceded to have no m/m or f/f couples for SIX seasons. Their queer rep were just jokes.

WHAT'S QUEERBAITING:

(I hate that I have to use wikipedia and dictionary.com but the actual articles about it are behind paywalls and I am poor)

Okay on to WWDITS

Let's talk marketing:

These are from season 3, 4, 5 and 6

Season five:

The show is over, it had six seasons, where were my m/m or f/f couples? Because I sure as hell didn't see one apart from the one episode with Freddie, that's it, that's all we got. Apart from that it was just jokes.

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But that's not about nandermo, you say, it's just about queerness, then what about this: FUCKING HEAVY HANDED NANDERMO MARKETING FOR YEARS:

OR THIS:

How about what the show's socials were posting, this is from season 3 or 4

Now let's see what the writers were saying (this is before season 5):

The infamous that's his boss moment came from this:

But before that we had:

This is Harvey in 2022:

Here's Harvey today:

And here's Kayvan in 2022

Here's Kayvan last year:

And today:

[sitp-recs]

Masterlist - Drarry recs by sitp 

Hello friends! I finally put together all the #drarry reclists I’ve done in the past year, and this master post is now linked on my bio. Enjoy and don’t forget to shower these authors with love & appreciation! 

Tropes:

A/B/O

Action/Adventure

Advent

Amortentia

Angst 1 | Angst 2 | Angst 3 | Angst 4 | Angst 5

Animagus

Arranged marriage & Accidental bonding

Auror Trainees | Ministry co-workers

Break up make up

Case fics

Clubbing | Dancing | Coming out 1 & 2

Comfort fics 1 | Comfort fics 2 | Comfort fics 3 | Tender fics

Courtship

Creature fics | Werewolf Harry + Veela Draco 

Dark fics | Dark Drarry

Disability

Draco POV | Draco in the Muggle World

Enemies to lovers 1 | 2 | 3 | Enemies to lovers to enemies

Established relationship 1 | 2 | 3 | Reckless proposals

Epic fics with high stakes

Fake dating | Secret relationship

Female Drarry

Fluff 1 | Fluff 2 | Fluff 3

Found family

Friends to lovers | Friends with Benefits | Strangers to friends to lovers

Golden Trio Friendship

Healer!Draco + Auror!Harry1 & 2

Hitmen AU

Hogwarts 8th year: Reclist 1 | Reclist 2 | Reclist 3

Hogwarts Professors

Holiday trips

Humor

Hurt/Comfort

Identity porn

In Vino Veritas

Mpreg | Kid fic | Single parenting

Magical houses & sentient Hogwarts

Major character death

Miscommunication

Movie/TV AU | Non-magical | Historical | Hanahaki | Merman

Mystery | Noir-esque fics | Horror | Spooky

Odd jobs

Older Drarry

Only one bed | Nightmares

Parseltongue

Party games

Pets | Draco owns a cat | Pet snake

Poly/Open relationship

Post-war struggles | Redemption Arc

Presumed dead/disappearance

Quidditch

Roommates

Sex shop

Slow burn 1 | Slow Burn 2

Soulmates & Fuck or Die | Non-explicit soulmate AU

Texting

Time travel

War aftermath

Wizarding Politics

5 + 1 | 9 + 1

Characters:

Ace Drarry | Trans Drarry

Dark Harry 1 & 2 | Powerful Harry | Head Auror Harry | Recluse Harry | Flirty Harry | Master of Death Harry | Himbo Harry | POC Harry

Draco fixing things | Draco cooking 

Down and out Draco | Out and proud Draco | Reserved Draco | Self-deprecating Draco

French speaking Draco | Scholar Draco | Beauxbatons Draco

Protective Harry | Protective Draco 1 & 2

Jealous Harry | Jealous Draco

Pining Harry | Pining Draco | Flirting

Pregnant Harry | Pregnant Draco

Smitten Harry | Oblivious Harry obsessed with Draco

Smoking Draco | Sharing a smoke

Spoiled Draco | Witty Draco | Dramatic Draco | Jerk Draco

Soft Draco | Sad Draco | Sick Draco | Long haired & buff Draco

Unspeakable Draco | Spy Draco | Draco with a soft spot for Harry | Draco switches sides

Werewolf: Harry | Draco

Specific themes:

Auction

Banter

Body positivity

Bumping into each other | Draco meets the Dursleys

Cat!Draco

Caught in the act

Dark Mark removal

Drarry against the world | Drarry against the odds | Power Couple Drarry

Denial of feelings

Dubious professional ethics | Harry against corrupted Ministry

First person POV

Fics set outside the UK | Returning to England

Harry takes Draco in | Domestic angst | Intimacy issues

Intimate and light plot | Non-sexual intimacy | Mature/healthy relationship

Loneliness | Touch starved Drarry | Unexpected hugs

Malfoy’s Peacocks

Pet names

Playing the piano | Sharing music recs

Protective Slytherins

Right person, wrong time | Doomed lovers

Sad closeted Harry | One thinks the other is straight

Shakespearean references

Summer vibes | Cottagecore vibes | Dark & sexy vibes

Tattoos

Tea

Yoga

Winter coziness

8th year fuck buddies

21yo Drarry

Side characters:

Draco & Luna | Harry’s friends 1 & 2 | Supportive Ron | Teddy | Original characters | Narcissa | House elves | Charlie | Snape | BAMF Ron & Hermione | Weasleys appreciation | Ginny | Scorpius | Draco & Hermione

Personal favorites:

50k+ fics | Fics that give me chills | Oldies (2000-2010) (2011-2015) | All-time faves | Smut 1 & 2 | Hurtfest 2020 | Short fics 1 & 2 | Fics that made me cry | Popular tropes | G and T works | Long T-rated fics | Bedtime reads | New fics

[the-starryknight]

Today I’m thinking about how grateful I am that @sitp-recs is here – just look at this massive list of recs she’s made with every theme under the sun. I always feel warm when I see her blog around my dash because Liv is always working to spread love and joy wherever she goes. Each time Liv has sent a rec my way or commissioned art for me, it’s brought me undescribable joy (and I’m a writer! I’m supposed to be able to describe these things! That’s how special Liv is). Thank you for all you do, Liv, for spreading brightness, kindness, and some damn good fic. I can’t imagine this space without you in it 💗