Fishy Coffee

Elsanna, fishy things, oceans sometimes. She/Her

[elsanna-shenanigans]

August 2022 Voting

We open the first month of the second half of this year’s contests with 15 Cosmic-themed August submissions. This time around we had one mandatory restriction (no use of the word ‘beauty’ and its derivatives) and three extra restrictions (include a stargazing scene; include a recurring motif; do not mention spaceships) for up to 3 bonus points.

You will have until Thursday the 15th at midnight (Baker Island time, GMT-12) to vote for your favorite of the 15 stories. Keep reading for the voting link and story list!

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[elsanna-shenanigans]

Four days left

To vote for your favorites of the April stories.

Click here to go to the original voting post with the voting link and story list!

[elsanna-shenanigans]

April 2022 Voting

There’s something in the air in April - last year we managed to hit an all time record of 30 submitted stories, and while we did not break it this year, we came very close with a runner-up for the record. We open the voting period with 27 Home-themed April submissions. 

For this month we had one mandatory restriction (no mention of non-/dub-con) and three extra restrictions (include a quote; include in-universe writing; mention something bath-related) for up to 3 bonus points.

You will have until Saturday the 21st at midnight (Baker Island time, GMT-12) to vote for your two favorites of the 27 stories. Keep reading for the voting link and story list!

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[constable-frozen]

Anna 🍂🍁

[constable-frozen]

V.A.T.S.

[puirell-deactivated20221122]

i cannot remain silent about this anymore.

all my friends are so skilled and creative and intelligent and incredible and they deserve so much recognition for their work and all the happiness in the world

[muuutant]

You ever just realized how lucky you are that you did that weird thing that led to you being friends with the people you are friends with?

[orpheuslament]

i love tragedy i love circular narratives i love ppl who cannot escape their fate & characters that have been dead since the beginning

[satyriconmp3]

[seventhstar]

there are three kinds of fanfic:

i can fix it

i can make it worse

horny

[lierdumoa]

4. completely original novel with original characters that just happen to look like and have the same names as the characters in this piece of popular media, but otherwise have completely different personalities and backstories.

[duragdaddy]

[iamsuchagoodfriend-deactivated2]

This is much more interesting than the entirety of Frozen

[olderthannetfic]

A New History of Fandom Purges

On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”

On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.

Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…

HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!

1992 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed

1995 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites

1995 - Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere

1997 - Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites

1998 - AOL goes after X-Files fansites

2000 - Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites

2000 - Anne Rice anne rices again

2001 - Tripod Massacre

2001 - Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN

2001 - The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks

2002 - FFN bans porn

2002 - FFN bans RPF

2003 - Gryffindor Tower implodes

2004 - FFN bans script format

2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic

2005 - Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded

2005 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again

2006 - Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes

2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal

2007 - Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids

2008 - Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it

2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites

2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted

2009 - Marvel gets scans_daily deleted

2009 - imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly

2010 - FFN forums purged for inactivity

2010 - DeviantArt purges adult fanfic

2010 - Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN

2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence

2011 - China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org

2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn

2012 - Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic

2013 - Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content

2014 - Quizilla shuts down

2014 - China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors

2014 - Blip.tv deletes vids

2014 - Viddler deletes vids

2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

2016 - y!Gallery deleted

2016 - Elfwood goes offline

2016 - Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic

2017 - Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama

2017 - Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad

2018 - Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs

2018 - Tumblr announces NSFW ban

2018 - Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning

2019 - China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed

This is only a small taste of the many times that:

Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.

Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.

Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.

Fans grudge reported each other.

Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.

It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.

Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.

This is why we need AO3.

And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.

[olderthannetfic]

For anyone who is new to my tumblr, here is the root of most of my views on fandom.

(No, this is not a complete list. Please stop suggesting that. It’s merely an illustrative sample of the exponentially larger problem.)

[olderthannetfic]

#sweet mother of god some of these are *fresh*

Oh, don’t worry, just the other week in 2022 a fic archive was deleted with 4 days notice.

There are always more where these came from.

[its-me-ej]

WHAT? 4 DAYS AGO????

[olderthannetfic]

Well, no, in late March. But the point is that they put up a banner on the site saying “Hey, I’m deleting this in 4 days. Save what you want.” It was only 4 days notice.

It wasn’t one of the porn purges or anything. It was just an old archive that wasn’t so active anymore, and the owner was tired of running it.

We lose things every day.

[arr-jim-lad]

Barbie in the newest movie looks like if Elsa from Frozen was in Mass Effect

Don’t ask me why I know this.

[powerarmor]

i thought this was a constable frozen edit

[vampire-punk-deactivated2017051]

Apparently the plot for this movie is that all the stars are dying and barbie needs to find a way to stop the universe succumbing to a cold dark end which is honestly more terrifying than a lot of actual scifi

[ruffrowdyboiz]

Barbie and the heat death of the universe

[mooglemisbehaving]

are you telling me that barbie STOPS the heat death of the universe?

[betterbemeta]

i see that the barbie people have finally picked up on what stories little girls actually play out with their toys

[theawkwardarchaeologist]

[butchsaint]

fanfiction was such a good idea. like put those guys in situations

[aggielynnx]

Ah yes, if it isn't my copying meachanism ship *proceeds to look at two people that have so much angst going on*

[thewritingumbrellas]

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

[shigarettosuika]