Burma would have been so nice

sideblog for SAS: Rogue Heroes stuff

[eoinmcgonigal]

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Name: rhubarb Date of Birth: 30-something years ago Place of Origin: rhubarb_crumbl, AO3.org Trade on Enlistment: hopeless daydreamer, writer Religious Denomination: kindness Enlisted at: BBC iPlayer on 13 Jun 2023 For the: Regular Army Supplementary Reserve Terrirotial Army Army Reserve Section D For: ∞ years with the Colours and ∞ years with the Reserve see also: Document Index [tags]

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THIS IS A TRANS-FRIENDLY BLOG

[eoinmcgonigal]

some jucier snippets!

[eoinmcgonigal]

some quickly done gifs of some little Stuart snippets ^^

[eoinmcgonigal]

i would love so much to write and post fic but no matter how many time i ask people to please talk to me no one does and it's just so depressing, fandom is supposed to be a community thing you're 100% supposed to say hi to writers and artists and talk to them about fic and ideas and headcanon and just anything show related tbh

but no one is interested enough in my stuff to talk to me, so.... :')

(genuinely, please talk to me about rogue hero stuff? like truly please do because i love the show and characters and i want to share more fic)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

and make sure your comments are kind!!! “I love this so much!” and “this is amazing! I’m so excited for what happens next” are more likely to get your favorite fics updated than “when will we get the next chapter?”

[eoinmcgonigal]

i'm not sure if i should finish the winter olympics fic i started, there's been so little interest and no one has said they are looking forward to more which does kinda hurt, and the event itself is nearly over so um...

finish the johnny/reg winter olympics fic?

yes

no

Voting ended onFeb 24

[eoinmcgonigal]

tagged by @revolutionarybillfraser - thank you!

last book: the last non-academic one was... Oh I thought it was "The Riddle if the Third Mile", but it might actually have been "9 Troop in the Falklands". It's been a while...

last song: Tell God and the Devil, by Solas

last movie: Wake up Dead Man

last series: Miss Marple as well XD

salty or sweet: salty

coffee or tea: I don't regularly drink either, it would have to be herbal tea

working on: research stuff, and on figuring out how to write more fanfic again (majorly working on trying to figure out how to live with long covid lol)

I've been MIA for so long I have no idea who is still about, please tag yourselves in!

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[eoinmcgonigal]

[fic] To Queen Street

pairing: Bill/Johnny rating: M word count: ~7k tags: modern au, meet cute, mild sexual content

An incredibly gorgeous stranger asks Bill for directions to Queen Street Station, and Bill finds himself helping.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77785051

[aetsiv]

i think because of the whole "writers write for themselves" notion that's becoming increasingly popularized, people forget that we still thrive off interaction and kindness. i write for myself but kudos and comments and bookmarks and really any sort of interaction with my fics genuinely motivates me to keep writing and keep sharing my works.

[animentality]

[beautifulterriblequeen]

A sign to tap

[curiositysavesthecat]

Really wondering about this. This might be what pro/anti ship is about.

So, there's this fic author you found. They write for your fandoms, they respond to comments, and they've written some of your favorite types of fics.

The problem is, they also write things you're not comfortable with. I'm talking incest, child characters being aged up to be shipped with other characters, etc. I don't know if I should keep reading their fics, because on one hand they write some great fics and I'm all for creative freedom, but on the other hand...yeah.

Should I stop reading all their fics?

This is like saying “should I stay friends with this person because I found out they like slasher movies and slasher movies are bad because violence and gore and murders are bad!!!!”

Honestly do whatever you want. But you can’t “police” how other people create their art, or what type of art they create, that’s not your business. Also fiction and dark fics aren’t a reflection of the artist’s moral compass.

Also this sorts of censorship and “writing fanfiction about taboo things makes you a bad person irl” mindset are lowkey fascist beliefs. So I think it’s a good thing that a talented and skilled writer isn’t, you know, a fascist.

Also also, AO3 (assuming the fic is on AO3) is literally a site for freaks lol. Giving a platform to dark fics about rape, incest and other fucked up things is literally the main reason the site was created in the first place. Because these types of fics were banned on other platforms, people came together and created a new site that was safe for all taboo fics. And surprise, that site is AO3.

So anon, if you don’t like dark fics, if you have a problem with it and have to check if an author is “pure enough”, then maybe AO3, a site created mainly for taboo fics, may not be a place for you, with all due respect.

This blog supports profic / proship / dark fics and is anti censorship by the way

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

is it bad if I read non-con despite never having been raped before? Like if I read it for enjoyment, am I a bad person? I'm worried there's something wrong with me

I love writing and reading non-con, and I was never raped before. (most of my fics are about my favorite fictional characters getting raped.) I also write about murders and cannibalism, but I was never murdered or cannibalized before, nor have I ever actually consumed human’s flesh.

with all due respect, this “purity mindset” is both hilarious and sad. let yourself enjoy fucked up things in fiction. it’s okay. thought crimes are never real. no puppy is being kicked and no one in real life is being harmed because you read a silly fanfiction about a fictional character getting brutally raped. jerk off to it if you want to. romanticize and glorify it if it makes you happy. as long as it stays fiction and fantasies—as long as you don’t actually go out there and rape anyone in real life—it’s completely fine. it’s also normal for humans to seek enjoyment in things that are disturbing, or else there would be no horror movies. stop applying moral values to art, fiction and fantasies. stop being your own cop.

[eoinmcgonigal]

borowing from that cake analogy, it really is as if you bake a cake and turn up with it and people just take a slice without even looking at you, maybe you get a 'ta' but then they've turned away and are gone and it's like... lonely. you baked a cake and wanted to share it but something about you or the cake isn't good enough. so you try again and make another cake and the same thing happens again and you try again and again and one day you think okay i'll stop, but you love baking cakes so you can't help yourself, you hope that this time it'll be different, but no. only a few people bother taking a slice and again you get nothing back and you're left just standing there with your worthless cake that you thought wasn't actually that bad but it must have been so you chuck the rest of it along with everything else you made into the bin and tell yourself that this time you really won't bother trying again because no one wants you or your horrid cake that you're still sure didn't taste that bad but it must have done because otherwise wouldn't people say something nice and ask about the recipe or for more?

it's so lovely when people say they liked the cake. it's better when they tell you why. but best of all is when there's someone there with you as you make it and you can show them what you're doing and they can taste the mixture and suggest what type of icing to use and how to set it out and it's so much more fun. and then you can make cakes for them. maybe they like blueberries, so you make a cake with blueberries. perhaps they're allergic to eggs so you experiment with a no-egg mix. you get to make something someone loves and you fall in love with baking again because what it's about for you is sharing something that people enjoy and that nourishes them and seeing their delight

[exhuastedpigeon]

Realizing the writing doesn't have to be done alone and is often more fun and more engaging when you're doing it with friends is a life changing experience.

I don't mean co-writing either. I mean having a friend or two who you talk through plot ideas with, who you bounce ideas off of, who you trust to tell you if something doesn't work.

Nothing is created in a vacuum and nothing can be created alone. Sharing drafts and ideas is a vital part of the creative process and it's a really fun part too.

[eoinmcgonigal]

Yeah this is why my output has been so shit lately. I miss having a few people to talk to about fic ideas and share WIPs with, it's so fucking lonely trying to do it on your own and I just don't have the energy. When no one shows any interest or enthusiasm your work it really makes you feel like you're not wanted so what's the point.

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[hisbelfastboy]

Just saw the most heinous post on "how to tell a fic is AI" (which you can't tell btw so you can quit the witch hunt before every actual writer decides to stop posting because of people like you) and how one of the "immediate tells" was if your fic is longer than "a fic of this type usually is", giving for example "why is your one-shot with a single sex scene 10k" like. Are you fr right now? You're asking a writer why they wrote?? Until they felt like they had finished their piece?? Imagine shaming someone for writing long pieces because it doesn't "fit the usual", this makes me sick

Also the irony of someone posting a "How to tell a fic is AI" post and then the number one thing they tell you "I don't know why people deny it, it's literally free to copy paste in a AI-detector". Do you see what the problem is. Not only are you accusing writers of using AI because they're... *check notes* writing the way humans do, you're actively feeding their work into AI so that AI can copy their style.

This is why the "it's not that x, it's that y" structure is being shouted as an AI tell. Because people feed others' works into AI and AI copies it. Because people use this structure, AI uses it too. Not the other way around. And it's because of people posting these "unmistakable AI tells" that I, who spent 3 months writing a 40+k fic, had nightmares several nights in a row because I remembered I had that structure in the second chapter of my fic and worried that people would think I used AI. I spent days wondering if I should change it before choosing not to, because I am not going to change the way I write for people who'd sooner discourage anyone from ever writing than encourage the authors they like.

You cannot tell when a fic is written by AI. No you can't even guess. Maybe what you read was the first fic written by a ten y/o who doesn't fully speak English yet and just wanted to have fun writing a story they just came up with. Maybe what you read was someone who just wanted to have fun. If you think a fic is AI? Click the back button, block/mute the author. You do not have the right to accuse an author of using AI, no matter how many "tells" they check.

Anyway in those trying times, I beg of you. Support your local fic writers. Between bots and these "AI finders", it's terrifying to post, knowing that someone will probably feed your work into AI to then accuse you of using the slop machine just so they can feel good about themselves. Now more than ever, fandom needs human interaction so please, whether it be a "Second kudos", a ❤️ or a "I liked this", if you have two seconds after reading a fic 🥹

Let the author know their words reached someone ❤️