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Happy Sannami day! It's 3.07, which means we get to celebrate our favourite cook and navigator.
Last year, I participated in the "Sunset at Sea" Fanbook project in 2024. The (first of its kind) English Language Sannami fanbook's theme was liminal SanNami moments in canon. We've officially reached the 1-year anniversary of this project, which means I now get to share these fics on my "regular" account.
I was honoured to participate in the project, with my own idea and as a pinch hitter. This one was the one I pitched as part of the project, mostly because I cackled hard at both Sanji and Nami being terrified of the moths, and a fandom friend of mine loves Usopp so it came together. Thank you to GemmaRose for her work editing as our writing mod, and for mign for the great artwork that illustrated it. Check her out on instagram at @m19n.ig, and check out the SanNami fanbook on the site formally known as Twitter at @SxN_fanbook or on Tumblr at @sannami-fanbook for more information.
I hope you had a chance to check out some of the other fanworks. There was some super talented authors and artists involved. Big shout out to elvenstar, elemeaya and all the other mods, artists, and authors involved in getting this project out and in our hands. It really takes a village to make a big fandom project like that happen, and now I get to have some of my own work as an actual physical thing in my hands, plus all the fun extras and merch (I have an acrylic stand! I'm a real weeb now! You have no idea how much it makes me grin, lol). It was an awesome experience!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63673894
Happy Sannami day! It's 3.07, which means we get to celebrate our favourite cook and navigator.
Last year, I participated in the "Sunset at Sea" Fanbook project in 2024. The (first of its kind) English Language Sannami fanbook's theme was liminal SanNami moments in canon. We've officially reached the 1-year anniversary of this project, which means I now get to share these fics on my "regular" account.
I was honoured to participate in the project, with my own idea and as a pinch hitter. This one was the one I pinch hit for; originally, this idea was Dee's (adietxt), who unfortunately had to withdraw from the project, and I jumped at the chance to take it. I hope I did the idea justice! Thank you to GemmaRose for her work editing as our writing mod, and for Giada for the great artwork that illustrated it. Check her out on instagram at @giada.carboni.art, and check out the SanNami fanbook on the site formally known as Twitter at @SxN_fanbook or on Tumblr at @sannami-fanbook for more information. I hope you had a chance to check out some of the other fanworks. There was some super talented authors and artists involved.
Big shout out to elvenstar, elemeaya and all the other mods, artists, and authors involved in getting this project out and in our hands. It really takes a village to make a big fandom project like that happen, and now I get to have some of my own work as an actual physical thing in my hands, plus all the fun extras and merch (I have an acrylic stand! I'm a real weeb now! You have no idea how much it makes me grin, lol). It was an awesome experience!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63674329
Well, it’s finally finished. It was a genuinely satisfying project. I present you Ankh Morpork in the guise of Google Maps.
STILL ALIVE
I promise I'm still alive. Life's just been a lot. Also this is what I get for putting multiple fight scenes in a fluffy romcom AU *Sighs*.
Also I've said many times that I'll finish ATSiD through my descendants or through my ghost, and that still stands!
Thank you to all my readers who are still around <3
Meanwhile:
I cry and laugh every time i see sasuke XDD
*releases pack of dads into home depot* go……be free
invasive species encroach on lesbian territory
This is a common misconception because they’re such similar environments, but you should be aware that dads are native to Home Depot, while lesbians are actually native to Lowe’s. At this point, however, both dads and lesbians have made themselves at home in both Home Depot and Lowe’s to the point that trying to separate them back into their original ranges would probably do more harm than good to the delicate ecosystem of large chain hardware stores.
A properly raised and socialized Dad will be perfectly comfortable cohabiting with Lesbians. Its not really “encroaching on another’s territory”. You wouldn’t say that about foxes in a forest that also homes bobcats, would you? No. It’s just two different species that have both evolved to live in similar/the same environment. As long as they recognize each other as equals, Dads and Lesbians are more than capable of cohabitation.
Now, if you were to release a pack of Lumberjacks into a Lowes or Home Depot, that’s where chaos will reign. Being adapted to a far harsher and more demanding environment, the Lumberjacks would simply push Dads and Lesbians both out and also consume far more than a sustainable amount of resources. It would be like releasing bears at a country club.
As a former timber-harvester… I feel this is potentially accurate in theory. But highly improbable in actuality.
Lumberjacks, like most megafauna species generally require more space than the average hardware store, even a big box store could provide. The misconception is that Lumberjacks are a social species because of how they often work and live together.
This is a matter of necessity, not preference, and a survival technique for thriving under the LogBoss.
A “pack” of Lumberjacks, if not under the environmental pressure of a LogBoss will naturally disperse until they each have a wide territory.
Lumberjacks rarely fight for territory.
One on one, a Lumberjack could drive out a Dad or Lesbian, however the latter tend to travel in social packs.
Lumberjacks will passively retreat on the presence of large numbers of people. Kind of like Sasquatch.
Getting a “pack” of Lumberjacks assembled would be hard enough unless they were forced into a Hardware Store by a LogBoss. In that case, they would already be in a heightened and potentially agitated state far above their natural behavior. This artificial scenario can be likened to a circus animal running amok. If it had been in the wild, the incident would not have occurred.
Free-roaming Lumberjacks are the cryptids of the Hardware ecosystem. They are surprisingly quiet and unobtrusive.
Please stop labeling Lumberjacks as dangerous roving social predators. They are intermediate level omnivores and remarkably peaceful unless threatened.
As a hardware store worker I can say that this is all 100% accurate.
now how in the FUCK am i supposed to leave tumblr when a god tier post like THIS is just is just waiting for me daily?!?!?!
question where does the “art student” or “DIYer” “crafter” or “soap maker” or “miniaturist“ etc. who has ventured into the store for supplies fall into the ecosystem/what is their impact of said ecosystem?
Most of the above are native to craft and hobby stores (art students, historically, are native to museums, but having been introduced to hobby stores, have found a niche for themselves and thrived), but all can be seen in hardware stores on occasion due to territorial overlap. They are generally low-impact, as they tend to stick to specific small areas and primarily utilize different resources. While a large group of any of them can be disruptive (art students, in particular, are known to travel in packs), in general, they are more likely to have territorial disputes with one another than with the local fauna.
A point of clarity -“crafter” is a bit misleading; while it conjures a specific image, much like ‘fish’ or ‘reptile’ it actually covers a broad array of wildly disparate species, and in general, more descriptive nomenclature is preferred. Fiber artists in particular are a genus to watch out for, particularly in groups. Beware a roving pack of domesticated quilters. They fear nothing, will go anywhere, and due to their social nature, will often seek interaction from other species that thrive best in solitude. They are quite friendly, and will happily adopt members of other species; the concern is that their adoptees do not always wish to be adopted.
#in search of taxonomic precision and peaceful coexistence (via welkinalauda)
I do wonder how lesbian/bisexual lumberjack-mimickry fits into this
I can say as a former craft store worker that if you wish to see true fear, look into the eyes of a Dad who must venture into a craft store. Despite the overlap of familiar beings known to him from his native hardware store habitat, Dads are instinctively aware that craft stores are not for them; they contain unfamiliar perils and even the seemingly familiar may have strange variances and unnerving secrets. (”Why is this airbrush so small? What do you mean nails, why would you… WUT!!”)
Only experienced silverbacks or the boldest young Dads dare venture into a craft store for long without his mate or offspring to keep roving Craft Ladies at bay and guide him in this strange ecosystem. If a Dad enters with his mate and is separated from her, he will often scuttle for the seeming familiarity of Woodcrafts, Models, or Paints (the latter not to be confused with Fine Arts, unquestioned territory of art students), but he eyes Scrapbooking and Jewelry with trepidation and will usually venture into those exotic areas only in the company of females of his pack.
Lumberjacks are rarely spotted entering craft stores of their own volition, for while they do not fear it as Dads do, they know it is an environment unsuited for megafauna such as themselves.
Hardware store Lesbians generally adapt more easily to craft stores, although they may enlist another Lesbian of a subspecies more adapted to that environment to guide them until they find their niche. Lesbians have even been known to seek the aid of a Craft Lady, a native fauna that share similarities with Lesbians but are usually smaller and nimbler to suit their chosen habitat. Dads who witness this are often awed by the Lesbians’ temerity, for although larger, Dads are generally wary of the cunning and dexterous Craft Ladies and may mistake their enthusiastic pack greetings as predatory swarming.
Craft Ladies, secure in their ecological niche, have no fear of interlopers and take the presence of non-native beings in stride, although they may become territorial about scarcer resources.
The only truly invasive species that threaten craft stores are Brides-to-Be, who are mere annoyances individually, but like locusts may descend in hordes and lay waste, leaving swathes of destruction in their wake. Fortunately for the Craft Ladies, Brides-to-Be are seasonal and usually only a threat in the spring and early summer.
It Got Better
Is anybody going to address the newly invasive species of BuJo enthusiasts into the craft store/art supply store environment? Why aren’t we talking about the dangerous proliferation of Leuchtturm 1917s and the growing threat of Dotted Moleskins? I had to liberate a Dad from a tangle of washi tape in the art supply store the other day and it wasn’t pretty.
The natural habitat of journalers was stationary stores, which have been replaced by office supplies stores, not the same. Journalers invade the craft stores and art supplies stores to get the markers and washi tape and Sakura pens they require for survival.
@great-art-and-a-purple-tongue @onbearfeet THE LORE HAS BEEN UPDATED.
VERY IMPORTANT AND ENTIRELY ACCURATE now excuse me I gotta hit Lowes and Michaels.
Yes I re-read my own fics because I wrote them for ME
Wish that bitch would update though.
People used to comment on web comics.
People used to comment on fanfiction.
People used to comment on fanart.
People used to comment on OCs.
I hate "content" culture.
I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.
People used to be excited about the art that other people created.
People used to want to share that excitement with creators.
I hate this future.
antis are exhausting.
"it's gross" is an opinion, not an irrefutable fact
"harassment of anyone is bad" shouldnt be a controversial statement
"everyone is allowed in the main tags" is true, even for the people you dont like. you cant control the things that people post, only the actions you take to avoid the triggering stuff
"someone of your intellect" is ableist no matter how you look at it
"it's deviant/could harm children" is recycled transphobic/homophobic rhetoric
fiction shouldnt hold your hand and tell you what your moral compass is. people are allowed to explore dark themes/tropes in fiction, even if it's triggering to you
stop making stuff you dont like into a morality/censorship battle. you cant control everyone around you, but you can control your own actions.
furious that i am not a playable character in this game
Enormously relieved that I am not a playable character in this game.
a few reminders because i’m tired and angry
fandom is a hobby, not a form of activism
adult women aren’t inherently creepy for being in fandom and having hobbies apart from raising babies and doing taxes
the vast majority of people pushing back against the worrying trend of instigating harassment over fictional characters and relationships aren’t incest supporters or pedophiles, actually
liking a m/f ship doesn’t make someone a dirty heterosexual invading your space
preferring gay ships doesn’t make you ‘’woke’’ and good
no one owes you a disclaimer that they are a good person who recognizes that their favorite fictional villain’s actions are evil and that they don’t condone those actions irl
liking a fictional villain is in no way comparable to advocating abuse/murder/genocide/etc and you’re a fucking idiot if you believe that
just because a woman is attracted to a fictional villain doesn’t mean she’s promoting toxic relationships or going to end up in a toxic relationship. assuming women can’t tell fiction and reality apart stinks of internalized misogyny
some rando’s a/b/o fanfics have none of the level of influence that popular tv shows and movies spreading propaganda have
no one owes you a detailed description of their traumas and mental health problems
abusive relationships are not the same as enemies to lovers ships
y’all need to chill the fuck out over people, relationships, actions and events that don’t actually exist and learn how to enjoy and discuss them like normal people
fandom is a hobby, not a form of activism
feel free to add more
THE WAY I SPED TO HIT REBLOG-
Maybe I should be thankful I haven’t run into these haters in the wild, but gods my smut-writing, ‘please step on me Miss Villaness while making out with your stepsister’ ass kinda wants to troll them.
Bitches, I survived over 20 years of conservative evangelical Christianity, under my parent’s roof where I had no power. A gaggle of militant puriteens just sounds… quaint.
This isnt a conspiracy Chuck Tingle is literally, without hyperbole, the pen name of sir Andrew Hussie, the author of Homestuck. Something wild for you to keep in mind as you read this and just so you know hes not only read Harry Potter but done a whole parody draw over of the first book in the past.
Why is there such an obsession with insisting that Chuck Tingle is the alter ego of [existing well known writer] instead of his own person
Honestly. (Also. “sir” Andrew Hussie? When was he knighted? And for what, exactly? …I mean, all creation is honorable. But gimme a bloody break. Are you seriously attempting to put him in the same rank as Pratchett? FFS. …No.)
Like Chuck doesn’t write enough books for any two writers anyway. Where do they think this hypothetical alter-ego is finding all that time?
first of all thank you to buckaroos @headspace-hotel @dduane and @tkingfisher for their kindness and standing up for my way. LOVE IS REAL and your words have proven this to me today. i genuinely appreciate it very much.
i noticed this post float by and thought i should trot on over to say a QUICK SOMETHING so here goes
it is true i have addressed this many times and the BASIC POINT is that i do not like this comparison because i have had encounters with those who make something called HIVESWAP (which is connected to HOMESTUCK in some way and honestly i still do not really understand what EITHER of these things are just that they are some of the same folks). what i DO know is that these encounters have not been good.
usually when i talk about this i delete post because i do not want to start gossip or have a CALL OUT POST WAY. it is not my intent to make this into some big public battle, but it keeps coming up so i will say what i can and try to leave this one up
FOR THE RECORD i have never met andrew hussie but from my understanding his connection to way of hiveswap is tangental. i do not know if he is a kind buckaroo or a scoundrel. i really have no idea but since we have not met i will say that i have no ill will in this way
the folks of hiveswap are another story (i should also say there that i am only comfortable reposting these screenshots because they are all public. i am not leaking some private conversation these posts are just sitting around online still)
hiveswap folks have said terrible things to and about chuck. they have been ableist and they have been biphobic. they have been gatekeepers who said my autism was fake and that me saying ‘bi is valid’ is a joke.
this second one is saying that buckaroos need to know the history of every person in each gif they repost? i guess? i do not even understand this trot but i do understand the darkness of equating THAT with saying ‘bi is valid’
long ago these folks asked to make a video game with the tingleverse and i said okay, then they pretty much disappeared. over time i have realized my first clue that something was amiss should have been the fact that i am a professional writer and SOMEONE ELSE (one of the folks above) was brought in to write this game. what this says to me is that while intentions might have been good at the time, subconsciously i was absolutely not taken seriously as an artist and seen as a joke or a meme or some member of whatever internet forums they trot around on. imagine asking stephen king to make a game and then not at least ASKING him to write it, or jordan peele, or junji ito.
i make real, important, valid art worthy of consideration. i am sincere. i put my whole heart into everything i create. i am not a meme or a character or a joke.
i am a person.
so every time this andrew hussie connection comes up online and i see it i am faced with all of these feelings about how these people treated me. i think about the way they invalidated my neurodivergence and queerness. but what is most troubling is that i am faced with questions of WHETHER OR NOT TO EVEN ADDRESS IT.
i did not want to write this post this morning. i did not want to consider whether or not i should defend myself and stand up to gatekeepers or just let it trot on because i really really really am not trying to start a dang fight with these folks. i have better trots to trot and i am sure they do to.
so hopefully for the last time (unless i feel dang strange and delete) i would appreciate if buckaroos could retire this little andrew hussie theory
I recall hearing that Discworld, especially in the earlier books, is also prone to ethnic and gender stereotyping (which I noticed some of in the book version of Good Omens too), though Pratchett evidently got better about that later on
Oh it very much is. He got a lot better about it but was always a British Dude of a certain age.
There's multiple bits of great trans rep & I love the plotline in Unseen Academicals where one woman has to come to grips with her own internalized sexism and how she's been looking down her nose at a great opportunity for her friend, which her friend loves and to which she is well suited, bc it isn't a "serious enough" opportunity. Like, he tried, and in many cases he succeeded, and the constant attempts to get better are why I still love Discworld.
But I'm really not okay with pretending it's all roses.
To pretend everything about Discworld is perfect and "unproblematic" goes against everything PTerry wanted readers to get out of it.
He addressed real problems where he could and encouraged critical thinking, growth and a healthy sense of humour.
I think The Nights Watch books are some of his best work to see this in (personally my faves are the Witches books).
One of the reasons that I really respect PTerry is that he worked to improve himself, and it showed in his writing. He's one of several authors that I know of (including Tamora Pierce) with a decades-long writing career who rose to the occasion of changing societal pressures instead of their work souring like old milk.
Both Terry Pratchett and Tamora Pierce had their first works come out in 1983 (the color of magic and Alanna: the first adventure, respectively). That's 40 years ago!! And these books were modern for their times! And the books that came after that were steadily popular - they could have stayed on writing stuff that was cutting edge in the 80s/90s and been reasonably successful. But they rose to the occasion! They worked on including more racially diverse characters, more gender-diverse characters, more religious diversity, more scathing social commentary.
These two authors really raised my bar for how an author should react to changing times. It makes some other authors in the fantasy genre look pretty bad by comparison.
I think that it's also worth mentioning that there's a phrase for writing what would be considered moderately enlightened and up to date by 2020's standards in the 1980s.
Career suicide.
Seriously. As someone who was there, I cannot emphasize enough to those of you who weren't that the casual racism/sexism/classism/{string_variable}ism that looks so absolutely blatant (and abhorrent) to you as a child of the oughts was just part of the air we were breathing in the 80s. If they'd written something appropriate to the 2020s then, they'd have never been published again.
As another commentator put it about homophobic humor in 90s television, no it's not ironic; that's just the type of fag-bashing that was considered mainstream appropriate in the 90s. And there's a vital piece of context that is frequently missing. It was an improvement. It meant that television was acknowledging that homosexuality existed. For a very, very long time, by regulation, that wasn't allowed. Literally in the studio standards and practices style guide.
Looking at STAR TREK as a quick and imperfect gauge of the arc of this:
TOS (1960s): The Premise (look it up, it's not my story to tell). Multi-racial/multi-ethnic crew and guest stars (truly, the sheer number of non-white faces in key roles on that show, particularly in single episode guest roles, was absolutely radical for the mid-60s).
TNG (1980s): Several episodes dealing with gender and homosexuality in allegory (clunky AF by today's standards, but bleeding edge when they aired). Multi-ethnic crew and use of the infamous skant on male and female crew members.
DS9 (1990s): Ambiguous morality everywhere. Explicitly bisexual main characters but only from the mirror universe. Alien species that's been ret-conned a bit to trans allegory (again, not my story to interpret). African American commander.
Voyager (mid 1990s-early 2000s): Female captain (absolutely radical at the time). Only one white guy in the primary cast, and he was a bit of a dick (I am also counting the aliens in heavy prosthetics as non-white).
Enterprise (2000s): Bit a train wreck generally, but did include a polyamorous main character with multiple wives who still played the field when he had the chance, and who was, of course because this sort of thing has to be coded, an alien. It was mostly played for humor, but again it acknowledged that m/f monogamy was not the only possible thing in the universe.
Discovery (2010s): Explicitly gay, lesbian, and bi characters with actual relationships in the core cast with a non-binary character added in the second season.
Strange New Worlds (2020s): Good lord & butter. How much rep do you want in one show?
Another potentially useful marker about this, in case it's been lost to the mists of time. My late husband enlisted in the US Air Force straight out of high school in the late 70s. In the early 80s, he was discharged for being a homosexual. Before Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the rule was Don't.
Speaking of DADT, back in the 90s, part of Bill Clinton's radical proposals in his communist remake of America (/sarcasm) was allowing gays to serve openly in the military. Every member of Congress went ballistic. There were months and months of non-stop bipartisan gay-bashing hearings about how this would destroy the fighting readiness of the entire United States military (who knew gays had so much power?). In 1993, a compromise was reached that Clinton signed into law. This became known as Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In short sum, stay in the closet and you can serve. Come out and you'll be discharged. In theory, the witch hunts for LGBTQ people were supposed to stop. It practice... not so much.
If this sounds an awful lot like the current paroxysms of trans-in-the-military bashing going with Republicans in Congress, that's because it's essentially identical. They're running exactly the same rhetoric with a search-and-replace on "gay" for "trans."
DADT lasted until 2010. The exact same arguments from 1993 were trotted out before it was repealed, and precisely none of the dire predictions came to pass. It's been less than two decades since one could be openly queer in the military. It's been less than a decade since we could be legally married (and brother is that in serious jeopardy right now).
Look at those two timelines again and then look at the date something that reads as problematic today was published. It had a context. And if that doesn't get you over the hump of being able to enjoy it, understandable. But take a moment and reflect where the rest of the entire world was at that moment before you climb on your high horse and imagine that you could have done it differently given the state of the world around it when it was created.
