Anti Archiver

Just you're everyday ace adult in a perpetual state of existential crisis who copes through fiction of all kinds. (Also @BookAdictArchiver on ao3 so I guess I sorta write)

[jesterlavorres]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[tiredadventurer]

[ruinedchildhood]

[cryptvokeeper]

if we stay very still maybe they wont notice

[lizluvscupcakes]

Shhhh!!! They’ll hear you!!!

[dazedcraze]

Captain...We should run...!

[lizluvscupcakes]

Wait.

[dazedcraze]

Captain, please...!

[lizluvscupcakes]

WAIT.

“Nobody is posting on tumblr; tumblr is full of Nobody’s posts”

“If nobody is on tumblr, then who cares.”

“Don’t go!!”

[dazedcraze]

"Let's post a meme and away we go~"

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

!!!

reblog if you were there for beta

[writingdose]

[hazelestelle]

I congratulate myself for finishing a fic, I go to post it, and then, the insurmountable hurdle:

[writingdose]

I don’t know about y’all but my first draft is literally always my final draft and this has been the case since I started writing fics almost a decade ago. I proofread my works for typos, plot holes or grammatical errors but that’s it 😭

[everythingelseisspokenfor]

Oh yeahhh! For sure. I don't even start writing a fic till my imagination is so technicolor it demands a physical form. After that rewriting it feels like a sin 😂. And I don't feel obligated to make multiple drafts, just edits

[i-will-write]

Me at 3AM thinking about a new plot line for my multichapter fic I haven't still written a single word of:

[writingdose]

one of the best feelings tbh

[our-trans-punk-experience]

in the absence of ao3 I think we should go become tattoo artists, flowershop owners, students, members of a band, long term rivals, coworkers, or get selected for a politically advantageous arranged marriage.

Let's take this shit to the streets

[i-will-write]

Writing a long multichapter fic be like

[daciancatamite]

me: does this fantasy setting have no misogyny or does it just have women in the warrior class

they: i dont understand

me: *explains in detail the difference between a fantasy setting w no misogyny n a fantasy setting where the creator just added women to the warrior class n put no further thought into it whatsoever*

they: *laugh* its a good fantasy setting, sir

me: *looks inside* *they just added women to the warrior class*

[eminentwren]

Explaining cause someone in the tags wanted to know:

A lot of fantasy worlds carry structural misogyny that mirrors our own world, that many readers take for granted, because we are not necessarily used to using the fictional space to imagine radically different worlds and consider what “no misogyny” looks like.

So for instance, even in worlds that an author might textually tell us “treat women equally”, and they prove it by having a woman be a warrior (“see? Women can do any job a man can do!”). But, if there’s no particularly different structure to society to handle domestic labour and childcare, then much like our modern world, it places a high burden on women to occupy dual roles in society. They must often be both carer and breadwinner (and also Hot, let’s not forget these settings always want all women to be Hot, and all “ugly” women are evil), while male protagonists are simply “themselves”. They are not truly equal with women because actually, they can look however they want, and also care work is not expected of them. It is rarely a constant passive part of their lives (when it is present, it is a very active part of their narrative, distinguishing them from the “norm” of the world). Women continue to occupy invisible roles in these narratives as the stay-at-home parents, the cooks in the kitchens, the hags, whose stories are unimportant to the narrative because they aren’t considered full and real people with rich interiority. The work of caring itself dehumanises them. The closest we typically get to valuing “carer roles” in fantasy is to create archetypes for the Healer, which are invariably very femme-coded and often tied to damsel-in-distress stories. (The Healer must often then distinguish herself from the devalued image of association with care work and femininity by becoming a warrior as well.)

And then, of course, there’s the uncritical reproduction of systems of violence and war that typically impacts women and other marginalised groups more than anyone else… because “fantasy”…

but the point isn’t to create an ever-moving bar here, because we could talk about all the ways in which this stuff shows up til the cows come home, but to talk about what it means to exercise the attempt to imagine what “no misogyny” looks like. Exploring the possibilities that open up when you ask, “what if childcare was structured communally instead of by individual families and how would that shape our heroes?” and “what if this society assigned gender roles differently/at a different age?” And “would a history in a different world full of female leaders conceive of territoriality differently compared to the Westphalian notion of the nation state as demarcated by men?”

If it starts and stops at warrior women, that’s no different from thinking feminism ended when women got the vote, or the right to die in the army. Fantasy is where our imaginations should explore possibilities, not be trapped by the limits and chains of our current political reality.

[thepurpleglass]

[station18908]

Re-reading your own fic is wild.

Okay, that's a really good sentence. Typo. Typo. Huh, did I write this? It's actually not bad. Typo. Hm, I would cut out that part now, but it kind of works. TYPO. Oh, this part is really good. That is the wrong word, wtf? I'm enjoying this more than I thought I would. ANOTHER TYPO? FFS.

[neveragainfools]

Sam Reich, On set at Game Changer: Now, you all understand how the Game Works?

Shane Hollander: Nobody told me anything, no.

Illya Rosanov: You brought us here to torture us, yes?

Brennan Lee Mulligan, on centre ice at a Boston Raiders Game: So we're just...playing hockey for this one? Has Sam run out of ideas, or is this a clever ruse?

Zac Oyama, facing him off: I get the distinct feeling he wants to make us kiss

[my-dailydreams]

[capsyst]

I love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?

Any rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.

Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).

But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?

The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:

They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣

That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.

That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.