We're all fine here now

Elwen (she/her), fics on AO3, multi-fandom screams on Tumblr dot com

[saltoncity]

can we get anne carson on hot ones

[marxisforbros]

Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin

[cutemothman]

The X-Files 1.02 "Deep Throat"

A military UFO? Mr. Mulder, why are those like yourself, who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life on this earth, not dissuaded by all the evidence to the contrary?

[wesandresons]

WIDOW’S BAY Season 1, Episode 3 “The Inaugural Swim”

[hrgifs]

hollanov + working up to holding hands

[mitskifiles]

Mitski photographed at Sydney Opera House by petedov (2026)

[elwenyere]

Become untradpublishable.

[elwenyere]

There are a lot of reasons I think it's an ethical good to minimize engagement with proprietary gen AI, many of which are materialist (minimizing contributions to techno-fascism, to ecocide, to the demoralization and deskilling and global stratification of labor, etc.). But in the specific context of fandom I think a big part of what bums me out about the proliferation of proprietary-AI use is the way it erodes the human collaboration that can be one of the greatest affordances of fannish creation. Even if people are using gen AI for things that seem ancillary to writing, like brainstorming or editing or translating (and I would personally argue that those activities are in fact integral to writing), that's still outsourcing to a corporately owned tool of knowledge enclosure what could be the foundation for building relationships and learning with other people. It can be scary and hard and lonely to look for those people when you're new in a fandom space, or if you're shy or experience social anxiety, but like so many other things, if one stops putting in the effort, one stops building the skills. And thinking about a version of fandom where fewer and fewer people collaborate: that really feels like a loss.

[elwenyere]

I think too the amateur, communal ethos of fandom, combined with legal barriers to selling fanworks, has helped it partially resist the pull of commodification, and that's why the labor that goes into making fanworks is so much less alienated than in the general market: many fans really do feel that what they're offering when they share fanworks is not primarily the finished product but the time and effort and care that went into making it (the things that get mystified under commodity fetishism), and that's part of why instances in which someone passes off outsourced labor as their own are experienced as undermining the fundamental values of the fandom exchange.

[dailywoc]

CHASE INFINITI ATEEZ 'Bad' Official MV

[bebx]

“if you love this character then you must make him happy in your fics, right?” wrong. the horror. suffering. internal hemorrhage. hospital. immediately

[thecindercrow]

Widow's Bay song: Something's Buried Under Gary, Indiana (by The Narcissist Cookbook, from Jam Mechanics)

[olympain]

I pray that this burden will never fall to you.

[deanmoth]

I’m so in love with you, and I don’t know what to do about it.

[thesoldiersminute]

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu dir. Céline Sciamma | 2019

[elwenyere]

Just saw a post about The Bear that referenced "JLC," and I was absolutely picturing Jamie Lee Curtis, but for some reason the name-retrieval portion of my mind could produce only "Jennifer Love Cewitt."

[fuckyeahsufjanstevens]

Happy 50th Birthday to Sufjan Stevens (born July 1st, 1975)!

[elwenyere]

There are a lot of reasons I think it's an ethical good to minimize engagement with proprietary gen AI, many of which are materialist (minimizing contributions to techno-fascism, to ecocide, to the demoralization and deskilling and global stratification of labor, etc.). But in the specific context of fandom I think a big part of what bums me out about the proliferation of proprietary-AI use is the way it erodes the human collaboration that can be one of the greatest affordances of fannish creation. Even if people are using gen AI for things that seem ancillary to writing, like brainstorming or editing or translating (and I would personally argue that those activities are in fact integral to writing), that's still outsourcing to a corporately owned tool of knowledge enclosure what could be the foundation for building relationships and learning with other people. It can be scary and hard and lonely to look for those people when you're new in a fandom space, or if you're shy or experience social anxiety, but like so many other things, if one stops putting in the effort, one stops building the skills. And thinking about a version of fandom where fewer and fewer people collaborate: that really feels like a loss.