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[crazy-brazilian]

[bushpoppy]

Gripping my bathroom sink repeating I am not afraid to keep on living I am not afraid to walk this world alone

[vainvaihe]

things got a little heated in the gc today

[gallusrostromegalus]

International Differences that turn into screaming matches of misdirected fury is one of my favorite genres of humor

[tybalt-you-saucy-boi]

Can we talk about how raw of a quote “When I kill God, I’ll make a law in the universe that makes every being put carrots on their sandwiches. … And you? You will eat sandwiches every day.” is

[sushinfood]

Also OP

[idlnmclean]

Tower of Babel by unknown author circa Old Testament.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I hope you all realise that I think of this conversation (specifically the Phoenix Wright animation of it) every time I go to Subway. I had Subway today and thought of this conversation the whole time.

And yes, I had carrot.

[izzunii]

i had to look up the phoenix wright animation of this post and im not disappointed

https://youtu.be/YBAn-k3dgPE

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[beardedmrbean]

[boingo]

[nilim]

Ok, so I was reading this news story:

So far so normal, right? But then:

Like what. And then:

Like, I think Alaska State Trooper Ken Marsh wants to be a romance novelist. 

[panicblanket]

well would you look at that

[autisticexpression]

One of the best posts

[thelilnan]

[ravenslynch]

The poetry of my people.

[cowboydeanwinchester]

i hope all the mcr fans at the ireland concert who chanted fuck the queen at mcr are having a great day

[corvidous]

(Sept 08 2022)

[osha-official-the-sequel]

NOW, FERB

[w0lp3rtinger]

[disteal]

are you ready

[katya-goncharov]

okay but imagine if the queen dies and the entire world sits down to watch the news, but just before they can announce it the screen suddenly goes black and then... the secret sherlock episode airs

[amygdalae]

i simultaneously despise and criticize tiktok while also often enjoying tiktoks because i acknowledge that any medium of human expression will inevitably spawn things both marvelous and abhorrent. tiktok in particular is pretty sucks bad though i stand by this

[natequarter]

the rise in sex negativity amongst young queer people in recent years coinciding with the overall rise in conservative and particularly evangelical christian ideology is genuinely terrifying. i understand that unpacking ideas you've been taught since childhood is hard work but in the current political climate it's absolutely vital that you do not regurgitate queerphobic talking points (which queer people have been fighting against for decades). people are going to die, and it is our responsibility to minimise the damage, because governments and corporations sure as hell aren't going to.

[distantvoices]

I can handle people blazing their nudes but I draw the line at Christian preachers

[saint-vore]

why shouldn't the christian preachers be able to blaze their nudes?

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i think God said something about it or something

[saint-vore]

ohhh ok, i didn't realise they had camera phones back when god wrote that

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

yah she's like omniscient or some shit

[saint-vore]

like she lays eggs?

[ao3commentoftheday]

I've been writing fics for a long time and I remember a time when even the smallest of fics and stories used to get a lot of engagement from their readers, even back in the days of fanfiction net and ye old forum fics. These days, one's lucky if someone leaves a kudos, let alone a simple comment. Did something about fandoms change? Did it become more consumer like?

Personal opinion? It’s not just a fandom thing. It’s a “web 3.0” (or whatever we’re calling the modern internet) thing.

Today’s internet is set up for maximum scrolling and minimal effort. Tiktok is an incredibly popular platform, in large part because there is zero thought that needs to go into watching on it. Youtube requires viewers to read the video title, look at the thumbnail, and make a decision. Tiktok just serves it right up for you.

Other social media sites are attempting to follow suit, easing the path of consumption to keep those eyeballs in place so the ads (and therefore the money) can flow. Everything from news sites with click bait links at the bottom of a story to online stores with “people who viewed this item also looked at this” - the entire internet is set up to keep people moving from one thing to the next without stopping.

AO3 isn’t social media. It isn’t news. It isn’t shopping. There’s no algorithm pushing content. There’s no “you liked this story? here’s another one just like it!” message when you reach the end of the fic.

But people get into certain habits. Just like people who are used to Wattpad use the word “books” instead of “fics” when they start reading on AO3, people who are used to watching a thing and then scrolling on are in the habit of seeing a thing and then moving on.

It will depend on your fandom, of course. And how popular a particular ship or trope is. My last fandom was full of people who’d started out in the LJ or FFN eras of fic, or the early days of AO3 and maybe that’s why commenting was so common. Or maybe it was because the early fans in that fandom created a culture where commenting and kudosing was seen as just… what you do.

I don’t really think of it as being connected to age at all. I see it more as being connected to comforts and habits. But it’s also connected to expectations, community, culture of that particular corner of fandom in particular. These days, I hear a lot of the discussion and recs and squee happens in discord servers instead of on the fics themselves. And that might be because that’s where the community is.

I also wonder (with no basis beyond my own gut) whether that period of several years where there was rant after rant here on tumblr about how to comment “correctly” might have made people comment less. I know that if I hadn’t been in the habit already, seeing the anger addressed at commenters in some of those posts would have made me decide that I wasn’t brave enough to risk it in case I did something wrong.

It’s a simple question with no simple answers, but here’s half a dozen thoughts I have in my head at any given time. I hope it gives you some insight? Or at least some things to consider.

[tcheschirewrites]

Hard agree, it seems to be a side-effect of the internet that we exist on today. I remember engagement on FF.net, LJ, forums and other writing specific spaces, there was so much more of a community mindset, you could actually have a conversation with someone - whether you had read their fic and loved it and wanted to talk to them, or vice-versa. It was just what you did, there was the tacit understanding that sharing art or fic was an invitation to interact about your shared interests.

But the current state of the internet is so stat driven and so based on the assumption that people interacting with your work are merely fans who consume your product. I see the boundaries change in a lot of different ways, where some creators don’t deign to interact with people because they’re only looking for fans who provide numbers, but I also see it with readers who are purely in the lurking consumer mindset.

I’ve personally experienced both of these at varying points (trying to interact with a creator who won’t give me the time of day, and trying desperately to get readers to talk to me), and it is so discouraging because by and large people in fandom are looking for community. I share because I want to talk to people about the things I share - I want to know how people interpreted things I wrote, if they caught the easter eggs I put in, I want people to gush to me about whether they enjoyed it or didn’t and why. And I treat people under the assumption that they have shared for the same reason.

It’s definitely hard nowadays to find that sense of community. It’s tempting to put the hard work into trying to talk to and interact with everyone you can, but you have to be very deliberate about the kinds of interactions you want to cultivate. Sometimes it won’t be reciprocal, and that’s a bummer, too.

[rynfinity]

I do think the point about, e.g., discord is key. At one point the ao3 comments - and tumblr, before nipplegate scattered a lot of fandoms - were a very common place to squee over things, discuss meta, and become a community. Now that a lot of that discussion has moved to other platforms, authors and artists are often farther removed from that community conversation than they once were.

[not-poignant]

I would also like to add that fandom is the least safe it’s probably ever been, overall, as a space for anyone who likes anything slightly taboo in fandom (which let’s face it, is many of us). For myself at least, I didn’t used to get death threats for writing some dubcon, and now I do. I get told to unalive myself. And sometimes readers get harassed too in the public spaces they can be found. Fancops have gatekept so much of fandom that often Discord is the only safe space left for your fandom where you can check the rules in advance to see if anti-shipping or pro-shipping is what underpins the server.

There are folks who just don’t feel safe anymore sharing their comments on AO3, or Twitter, or Tumblr. People who have seen other people get death threats, even some people who have seen attempted murder (this has happened in fandom spaces thanks to antis).

The hate I’ve gotten for being trans or queer in fandom spaces has nothing on the hate I’ve gotten for simply writing content that isn’t pure as fallen snow.

I don’t think all of this is down to the algorithm, or that everyone is increasingly thinking of things in terms like fan or a consumer and that this is a market. I think a lot of it does come down to perceptions of safety. While fandom hasn’t always been safe for everyone in the same way over time (i.e. racism in fandom - which is why there are also hidden POC fandom subcultures), the less safe it becomes overall, the more people are driven to hidden, private and secret platforms to share their love for a thing, to avoid being hated on, being sent death threats, and sometimes coming under physical threat of harm when they go to a convention.

And imho, that’s not nothing, as someone who has observed this shift over the last 20 years. This might not be operating the same way in every fandom, but I’ve had a lot of conversations over the last two years about how people who want to talk about shipping and multi-shipping have been driven to Discords to avoid threats of violence and being called scum.

Fancops are a blight on fandom, and are doing real harm, and the worst part is they’d probably pat themselves on the back for that. But until that issue is wrangled, and broader issues of internet censorship are rolled back (you can share NSFW fanart on a Discord, you sure as hell can’t do that on Tumblr anymore!), things are only going to get more private, and not less so. Community fragmentation here is for many reasons, not least because there is poison in the community.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

doing my damnedest to free myself of the “just gotta get through this week” “only x more days til the weekend” mindset & learn to appreciate each day for whatever it is lest i be driven to madness

[moveslikekeithrichards]

so what if tomorrows monday i have leftovers & maybe this week i will make soup. maybe ill see a cat. maybe each day will show me something worthwhile even if im tired & maybe i can enjoy it

[moveslikekeithrichards]

if u are negative on this post im blocking u ! some of us are trying to get better

[adampvrrish]

season one of how to get away with murder was literally peak television. the acting the plot the drama the characters the writing the suspense the flashforward sequences... how each new episode gave you a new piece of the puzzle to try to unfold the mystery and by the season finale EVERYTHING came together in a satisfying way and not just for shock value.