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[daydreamorama]

My Stuff - Pinned Post

Writing: (note all can be found on A03 under daydreamorama and unless mentioned is DMBJ) (this is a non-exhaustive list, cause I apparently didn't post all my fic to tumblr)

Dating on Cruise Control

The Kitten Dilemma

Space Brigades

Space School

That Bondmates AU series:

Life Isn't a Romcom

Bondmates are what you Make it (main story)

Liu Sang's Idea Backfires

A Lonely Road At Night in a Storm

Ships and Sand

Piloters:

Unexpected Pilots

Freedom In The After

Non-DMBJ:

Unnamed Heroes Drabble (Heroes)

The Stars in the Night Sky (Heroes)

Meeting Expectations (Guardian)

Reviews: Shows I've liked and why:

The Immortal Ascension

Hikaru No Go

bromance

King's Avatar (Live Action)

Medical Examiner Dr Qin

more thoughts

KDramas:

Devil Judge

Books

The Hands of the Emperor

Scripts:

easier send to kindle

split screen

Split screen Partial Translation

[powerful-owl]

pick one

your ship goes canon

your favorite ao3 writer drops 100k of your ship + your favorite trope

Remaining time: 3 days 5 hours

[gatesofminrathous]

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

[star-shard]

Sometimes, fanfiction is carefully plotted out stories, with plot points and call backs and themes that all tie it up in a meaningful and exciting way.

And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'

Both are beautiful forms of writing.

[reynard61]

Let's ambush mama! 😼

[red-eye-radio]

So I thought y'all would like this too This great white comes to the jersey shore every year and this year they named her and have been tracking her hella so this is Mary Lee and she decided to show herself under this rainbow for pride month A true gay icon

[victoryyodel]

#This is the representation I’ve been looking for

[havinganormalone]

Fanfiction is insane. You can write porn so good you make friends.

[morweneledhwen]

Things are finally moving forward for Archives: The Nanyang Mystery, aka Southern Archives.

The current release date is rumored to be June 10, and, looking at the activity on their Weibo page, they really seem to gear up for release this time. (Don't disappoint me yet again, drama!)

There seems to be some discussion on how many episodes there will actually be in the end, with some people saying it may have been cut down to 24 episodes, so I guess we can only wait and hope for the best.

Personally, I'm just happy it's finally coming out. 🚢

Probably.

[foxofninetales]

Exciting news for any who may have missed it: there is now an official umbrella tag for DMBJ on AO3, 盗墓笔记 | Dao Mu Bi Ji - All Media Types !

If, like me, you were using the novel tag in desperation for lack of an umbrella tag, now is a great time to update your tags!

[helpmeimblorboing]

Kinda fascinatingly how objectively fucked the Jiang home situation was. Like, you have this situation where "everyone knows" that Sect Leader Jiang loves Wei Wuxian so much and favours him over his actual son, INCLUDING his son, and. No. He does not.

You know what the last thing Jiang Fengmian, the man who supposedly "loves Wei Wuxian like a son" says to Wei Wuxian ? "A-Ying... look after A-Cheng". That's it. Not a goodbye, not a "take care of yourself", nada. Just instructions. Jiang Cheng gets "A-Cheng. Be well". Wei Wuxian gets told to ensure that

You know who else did pretty much the exact same thing, five pages ago ? Yu Ziyuan, who tells Wei Wuxian that "even in death, you have to keep [Jiang Cheng] safe"

I cannot stress enough that this is fundamentally the same interaction. Sure, Yu Ziyuan is infinitely harsher with her words and more abusive with her actions, but her last actions are an exact replica of her husband's - they comfort Jiang Cheng like parents, because they ARE his parents, and then they order Wei Wuxian to protect their son.

And that's why I'll never buy the idea that Jiang Fengmian loved Wei Wuxian more than he did his own son. He may have LIKED Wei Wuxian more, but that was because he LOVED the man Wei Wuxian reminded him of - his father Wei Changze. And he may not LIKE Jiang Cheng, for being more akin to Madam Yu than Fengmian, but it's undeniable that he loves him

And the real fucked part ? Wei Wuxian KNOWS this. He KNOWS that he's second-best !! He's accepted that !! You know who DOESN'T know that ? Jiang Cheng. Madam Yu. To a certain extent, I believe even Jiang Fengmian himself.

And also, this might be painfully old news by now, but also... Zidian unravelling itself when Jiang Fengmian touched it ? Both because it was obeying Yu Ziyuan's command to keep the boys safe - and to a certain extent she considered her husband's vicinity safety - and because she trusted him enough to make him one of Zidian's masters too ? Right after we see that Jiang Fengmian went out of his way to repair Madam Yu's hairpin for her ? This, after so many pages of everyone - including Madam Yu herself - insisting that the two hated each other ? Ugh

[arowitharrows]

dreaming of a world in which people know about aromanticism. And by "know" I don't mean "having a vague idea of it's existence", I mean know. I mean a world where an in depth article discussing people's choice to stay single will include an aromantic perspective. I mean a world where people have an understanding of why love, as an emotion, is detached from morality. A world where people will ask you "what kind of relationships do you want in your life?" instead of asking "do you have a boyfriend?". I dream of a world where aromantic people can exist without the constant underlying expectation of being dehumanized, erased and belittled by an unexpected, unassuming comment. I try to create a microcosm of this world around me. I hope it will be easier one day.

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[teaboot]

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

[ao3commentoftheday]

should i tag/mention somewhere that a fic is abandoned if i never plan on finishing it? i wrote it for a fest, and that fest was the last thing i participated in before i left that fandom. it's only the first chapter and i never started writing the second one. it's been over a year by now, and i don't think i'll ever finish it. should i say it's abandoned, or should i leave the door open just in case?

In a case like this, it's important to remember you can always edit a fic - unless you orphan it.

I recommend adding ABANDONED to the fic summary and/or tags so that anyone who comes across it will know that it's not updating. I've heard from readers, however, that they would appreciate you not tagging it as complete unless it actually is.

If you ever decide to go back to it, just remove that word from the summary and/or that tag from the fic and pick it back up where you left off. I've done it. It's not a problem.

In the meantime, though, it'll be off your plate and not something you'll need to keep thinking about.

[hotairballoongal]

Yes, update the tags AND summary. Let people see up front that they shouldn't expect more. And put it in both in case someone just skims one.

Personally I don't like when authors add a chapter to a work (especially if it's not actively being updated anyway) to say they aren't updating. If I'm subscribed, I've either forgotten about it or I'll get really excited that a long awaited fic finally updated, only to be disappointed when it didn't actually. Or if it's a tag I'm browsing, I'll be like cool this just updated, so it's an actively updating fic. And then I'll get to the last chapter and it's saying how they are officially abandoning it. Then I am sad. Use the tags and summary.

[machinel1ke]

Since it's pride month I'm only gonna be talking about doomed yuri and yaoi. Everybody go read Metal From Heaven right now it's the best doomed yuri book ever. Also Firebreak if you're into doomed QPRs.

[sirfrogsworth]

Important Fox Update

So a few days ago I noticed a fox friend running through my yard. I was able to snap this photo.

I called him Milo.

I thought he was a lone wolf who chose my neighborhood as his domain.

But Milo is not alone.

Milo is a papa.

He and his lady fox have three little foxes!

I went from never having seen a fox to FIVE foxes playing in my backyard.

The three kiddos were wrestling. Their opening move is to do this cat-like superjump and then dive bomb into their sibling. Then they roll around. And then a high speed chase ensues.

One of the little foxes came near the house and I got a few closer photos.

I love the little black socks.

I'm going to need to figure out a lot more fox names.

[asleepinawell]

[chimaerakitten]

So we all talk about being in fandoms for things that are charmingly bad, and being able to acknowledge that they’re charmingly bad. But of course some people are in fandoms for things that are Actually Amazing. There are people out there who write fanfiction for The Best Science Fiction Novel Of The Twentieth Century. Or who draw fanart exclusively of The Best Movie of All Time. And there are even more people who are in fandoms for things that are Actually Pretty Good, which is not quite amazing but is closer to it than to Charmingly Bad.

And sometimes, you have a string of fandoms that are Actually Pretty Good. And the danger of this—the very great danger—is that when you have a string of Actually Pretty Good and even Actually Amazing obsessions, you start to believe that maybe you have taste. Perhaps you are now immune to the indignities of losing it over something mostly bad.

And then it is shattering to discover that no, bad things can still stick a fork in your brain. 😔

[chimaerakitten]

So I understand why the “transformative fandom gathers around things that are not good because there being a problem makes people desire to fix it” model is popular. I even agree that it’s accurate in many if not most cases. However it is not what this post is about. Plenty of people do transformative and creative fandom activities for things that are very, very good. Simplified models do not encompass everything.

And frankly, it’s starting to really get on my nerves when people read “I think this thing is good. I wouldn’t change a thing about it and frankly I don’t even think there should be more canon added to it, but I am still going to write thousands of words of fic, make a cosplay, and draw fanart” and then completely misunderstand and respond with “yes I agree—I like things that are good too. But I never feel the transformative/creative fandom instinct for them because they are too good.”

Some people do not feel it. Other people do. Stop misreading me to avoid having to adjust your mental model of how fandom works.

[blessphemy]

one of the ways a Canon work can be fandom bait is by missing something that fans want to fix, i.e. "it's bad", but i think this is only one way out of multiple that something can be fandom bait.

compelling worldbuilding (invites interaction with the setting)

interesting gimmick (see: daemons, drift compatibility. subcategory of compelling worldbuilding)

shipping bait (duh)

original character bait (in-universe categories/factions and design elements that make it fun for people to create their own characters)

compelling narrative (invites interaction and tweaks to the storyline: AUs and fixits and so on)

basically anything that invites interaction and recombination. but fandom also has a sort of multiplying effect: the larger the interactive audience of fandom is, the more likely it is to generate ideas and works that draw in more participants. so:

network effect (the larger the established fandom, the more likely it has subfandoms and infrastructure that appeals to niche audiences)

[chimaerakitten]

Yes this exactly, thank you bless.

Things that have space to play in are fandom bait, but space to play in does not equal holes.