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"If I didn't know better, I'd think you had feelings for this monster."

[beauty-beast-week]

Be our guest at Beauty and the Beast Week 2024!

@firawren is hosting a Disney Beauty and the Beast fandom event from September 23 to 29, 2024. Save the date and start drafting your creations!

All types of fandom works are welcome: fanfic, fanart, podfic, edits, mood boards, etc. Each work must contain at least one Disney BatB character (crossovers, OCs, and reader-inserts are allowed too!), and be posted on Tumblr, tagging @beauty-beast-week. An AO3 collection will also be set up for fic—details to follow.

Since BatB centers on a rose, the theme for this year is “In the Garden,” with a different plant prompt for each day. The idea is not that you create something literally about that plant (though you could), but that you think of things associated with it and use that as inspiration. Here are the prompts with some associated ideas:

Day 1: Daffodil (fresh start, spring, celebration, self-love…)

Day 2: Venus fly trap (angst, deception, hunger, bondage…)

Day 3: Lavender (relaxation, sleep, bath, summer, scents…)

Day 4: Cactus (resilience, pain, irritation, heat, thirst…)

Day 5: Dandelion (fluff, wishes, children, play, stubbornness…)

Day 6: Bamboo (growth, luck, strength, speed, size difference…)

Day 7: Free day

The examples in parentheses above are merely ideas. Feel free to use your own interpretations of the daily prompts.

Send an ask or DM if you have any questions!

Please reblog this post to spread the word, since this is a brand new event!

[firawren]

This gorgeous art is by @rain1940 to go with my fic "Transformation"!

This is Beast and Belle with their family of half-beast children about 11 years after the main action of the fic. Their kids are named Anatole, Phœbe, and Estelle. I am so in love with how adorable they came out! Thank you, Aliz!

[cedarbranch]

sometimes the best fanfics are written by middle aged adults with years of writing experience who simply know how to craft a good story. but also sometimes the best fanfics are written by a sixteen year old girl with something deeply wrong with her

[cryoverkiltmilk]

#fandoms need both

[anonymousedward]

#biodiversity

[ladyananas]

trade secret, the middle aged adults with years of writing experience are just the sixteen year old girl with something deeply wrong with her but all grown up

[bowditch]

sixteen year old girls who feel deeply fucked up: we’re your future. you make it. you get some therapy, get some meds, find new fandom friends, and keep writing. hang in there.

[fanfictionsrookie]

People who criticise Beauty and the Beast, usually do it over the complaint that it romanticised Stockholm syndrome and how the message of the film is trying to encourage women to stay with abusive men.

Excuse me?

Give me one scene where Belle tolerated the Beast's anger, where she wasn't angry, upset or afraid because of it. Belle left the moment she got the chance, only changing her mind when the Beast saved her life, but even then she didn't take any of his shit. Belle was kind but she wasn't a doormat, and it's that kindness that prompted the Beast to be kind in turn and try to change and be a better person. And while Beast might have changed in part with the hope that Belle would break his curse by falling in love with him, she never knew about the curse at all. It wasn't used by the Beast as some bargaining chip or sad backstory. Did people forget that he let Belle go, fully intending to stay cursed forever, if it meant he could help Belle save her father?

Belle never fell in love or chose to excuse the Beast's anger or the way he treated her and her father initially.

Belle fell in love with someone who was trully trying to be a better person, who took interest in her and the things she enjoyed, and who put her needs before his own when it came down to it.

[ad-wills]

[fixyourwritinghabits]

How dare you post this picture of me.

[rain1940]

Sid on Snapchat. Commission.

[macrolit]

[kabigon143]

Whenever I talk about whatever media I’m into at the moment imagine I am presenting the characters to you like this

[drawnby27emilys]

Just two french ppl having a staring competition

[disgustinggf]

[yesterdaysprint]

Daily Mirror, England, January 23, 1923 Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.

[gameswithfisch]

I forget who originally said it, but there’s a quote about “Great science fiction isn’t predicting the automobile, it’s predicting the traffic jam”

[littlebeetlebro]

me: *sobbing in the woods*

The eldritch horror that’s been watching me from behind a tree: ….Red Lobster’s hiring.

me: *turns around* oh shit fr?

[daily-spooky]

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

i want to coin a phrase that's the opposite of writer's block. call it the muse's fire hydrant. thirty thousand story ideas are being beamed directly into your brain and if you don't write them all at once you will die.

[its-not-a-pen]

yknow what i mean?

[gastonadamficwriter]

First and Last Lines

Thank you for the tag, @firawren!

Rules: post the first and last lines of the last 10 fics you posted.

The Prince and the Peasant (Gaston/Adam, Rated E)

Adam Alexandre Alsace du Maurier set down his quill and moved to seal the latest letter intended for his parents.

They spent the evening kissing and cuddling and laughing - a peasant and his prince.

A Slice of Humble Pie (Gaston/Adam, Rated E)

It was three o’clock on a Tuesday and Adam Benson needed a drink.

Even better than snow on Christmas morning.

Dried Rose Bookmark (Belle/Adam, Rated E)

It was Sunday night in Philadelphia and Belle was running behind schedule.

Beauty and her Beast.

Always You (Gaston/Adam, Rated E)

After pouring herself some coffee, Belle sat down at her desk and opened her laptop to check if she received any messages on the Fairy Tale Romance dating website.

That night, when they arrived at their newly purchased Victorian home in West Philadelphia, they made love underneath the covers and then Gaston fell asleep holding Adam in his arms, thinking of the many possible universes that might exist, and hoping that he found his way to Adam in each and every one.

Sweeping Over Feet (Gaston/Adam, Rated E)

Adam had just finished wrapping up the leftover baked goods that they would sell for half-price the next day at the Little Rose Cafe and Bakery.

"Yeah,” Gaston said before planting another quick kiss on Adam’s lips. “He can.”

Gaston's Tangled Adventures (Gaston&Rapunzel, Rated T)

The sun had only just risen above the horizon when Gaston set out on his latest hunting excursion.

Days later, Gaston reached the village, returning with a renewed sense of peace and confidence, and as he passed by one of the shops, he stopped to admire his reflection in the window, thinking about his strange, magical, wonderful friendship, and how Goddamn magnificent he was to have successfully cultivated it.

Roses and Daffodils (Gaston/Adam [mainly], Adam/Belle, Rated E)

In the middle of the night, Gaston sat alone in his bedroom staring at the sea of glass shards that were scattered across the floor, watching his reflection glimmer and dance in the light of the moon.

“I know,” Gaston said, taking Adam’s hand and kissing it. “I made damn sure of it.”

Blood and Ice Cream (Adam/Belle, Gaston/Belle, Adam/Gaston, Gaston/Adam/Belle, Rated E)

When Gaston opened the door to Adam’s mansion on Euclid Avenue, his ears were flooded with the sounds of lively jazz music and excited conversation between the many other party-goers.

And it was wonderful.

Once Upon a Dream (Gaston/Adam, Rated E)

It was the middle of May and a black-haired, blue-eyed boy was wandering through the forest, just beyond the footbridge to the castle, clutching his bow.

Gaston pulled Adam in for a kiss. “I love you too.”

Cocked and Loaded (Gaston/Anna/Kristoff, Rated E)

As Gaston walked through the forest on an especially hot summer day, he wiped the sweat from his brow, slightly regretting his choice to venture into the woods by himself. 

“Besides, I’ve always wanted to hunt reindeer."

Tagging @glassslippers-n-cowboyboots @loonysama @annaofthenorthernlights @bad-at-names-and-faces @99goosebumps @reconciledviolence729 @mswhich @mrpinniped @lumiereandcogsworth @leaves-of-laurelin.

And anyone else who wants to play :)

[firawren]

First & Last Lines

Thanks for the tag, @bad-at-names-and-faces!

Rules: post the first and last lines of the last 10 fics you posted.

Air heavy with the sound and scent of rain - Belle usually wakes up full of energy, but it’s one of those languid mornings where not even Belle wants to stir from bed. - “Never,” he promises.

Six inches deep (in mud) - Darcy held his wife’s gloved hand as she hopped off the stile and straight into a mud puddle. - He’d had no idea Mr. Darcy was capable of such a thing, let alone Mrs. Darcy, but he silently congratulated the pair on having the vitality of youth and new love to drive them to carry it out.

Charming in its imperfection - Beast supposes it’s funny that one of his favorite things about Belle is that small piece of hair that always comes loose and hangs over her forehead. - “It’s one of my favorite things.”

Seize such an opportunity - “Would either of you ladies be so kind as to indulge us all with some music?” - It was just as things ought to be, and remain, between them.

Dismissed, rejected, publicly humiliated - Adam tapped the headshot on his desk contemplatively. - “Perfect as a fairy tale.”

Transformation - “It’s breathtaking!” she gasped as she swiveled her head around her. - He was enough.

Teach and teach - The first thing that Ed noticed about Stede Bonnet was that he dressed like some fancy, rich guy from one of those old black and white movies his mom had liked to watch when he was a little kid. - Using a sailing metaphor for riding a motorcycle was a slightly odd choice, but Ed fucking loved every delightfully odd thing about Stede Bonnet.

Warming up - The ice tightening around Beast’s heart wasn’t from the cold—it was from fear that Belle was going to die. - For Belle.

Ungentlemanly - The first time Darcy nearly lost control and spoke obscenity to his bride was not his wedding night. - “Or we can forgo the quarrel and simply agree to fuck like this from now on.”

Walking under ladders - Adam straightened up from where he was weeding to watch Gaston’s backside shifting as he came down the ladder from the roof. - “Exactly.”

I really like how some of these mirror each other so well (3, 7, and 9), and others of them make no sense out of context.

Zero pressure tagging @thefamilybruno, @glassslippers-n-cowboyboots and anyone else who wants to do this!

[avaantares]

Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

[heywriters]

UPDATE: Plush Books still exists on Amazon and on Goodreads under the pseudonym "J.D. Geraghty" where the fanfics are also listed. They also have a list of cookbooks that are without a doubt AI written (the descriptions for the books are repetitive nonsense so god forbid what exists inside).

From what I can see on Amazon, most of the stolen fanfics have become "Unavailable." This entity likely operates under more than one name, so it isn't safe to assume crisis averted. Numerous bad actors are posting AI written works to Amazon, which just means plagiarism slurry with a side of potential danger (like the autogenerated mushroom identification books).

[tokyoterri2]

oh ffs. shared.