Rei

She/They IWTV/TVC fan since 09’ fan, updates, not spoiler-free

[ourchunkysalsa]

claudia and louis pretending not to know lestat is almost as funny as armand pretending him and lestat were just coworkers

[jamiietartt]

[rosiefingereddawn]

Claudia the moment she sees it

[dreamofme9]

That's literally the vibe she had when she asked with the fakest tone possible "who's that handsome man?". Unfortunately for her she stumbled on the president of the We Love Lestat club. Luckily for her, said president is also the president of We Hate Lestat club.

[complicitsacrilege]

[gorrei]

Ex-twt is being weird and threads won’t let me look up tags this is extremely homophobic to not let me see gay vampire content after s2 trailer drop right now

[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.

[totallysilvergirl]

So grateful for the historical memory and the long view on a phenomenon many of us have come to late, and/or take for granted.

And this is why AO3 generates twice its goal amount in just a few days: they are irreplaceable.

[findingfeather]

Also: they don’t have to be perfect to be irreplaceable, and they also don’t have to be perfect to be better than our other options.

(If you think you can make a better option, have at! Allez-y! Gods-speed! AO3 came out of people Just Doing It, so can your perfect ideal! But Also.)

[neilcfreak-deactivated20240223]

IWTV fandom this is EXACTLY why I am so protective of Anne Rice fanfics. Write whatever you want to write.

[vampire-chronicles]

sharing over here the vampire chronicles family tree i made.

disclaimer: there might be mistakes on it, like rose being made by lestat.

[gorrei]

Explaining tvc ships is so funny. Let me explain why this ship has hatefucked slightly more times than this other ship

[haflacky]

Armand/Louis/Lestat

Full on my Patreon

[anxident]

[fuzziiwuzzii]

⚠️BLOOD⚠️

🌟SAM REID‼️🌟

[syanidure]

Here's some pics from yesterday night shooting! (I tried to put a small vid but Tumblr is very slow this morning, adding it later)

Not really spoilery, just a scene with people walking around. There was no main actors (or I didn't recognize them lol).

FYI: Some crew members were actually beside me, saw that I filmed and did not tell me to not share or whatever so PLEASE, no hate...

[syanidure]

Here we go 🥰

[darealbobbyhill]

Saw Assad Zaman filming iwtv today in Prague couldn’t take pics but just know he looked fine as hell 😏

[persepinas]

Cool what was he wearing though? A hint or two?

[darealbobbyhill]

Let’s just say something not of this century

[showmey0urfangs]

Literally this! 😂

[disaster-vampires]

I made a thing

[mariemarion]

Louis and Lestat portraits, i missing them today :')