A Neutral Fan

Young adult, writer, ASL user, reader, college student (for now), Blogger? This is where I'm posting all my fandom things and also anything I like from tumblr. So you'll see: 'Doctor Who', 'The Avengers', 'Marvel', 'Agents of S.H.I. E.L.D',...

[fishyfic]

Nothing gives me the serotonin like

It’s not even just getting comments on my own work. I love it when authors reply to my comments on their work X3

[quoth-the-raven-evermore]

Can we please respect everyone's ships as long as they are legal/consensual? I am tired of people hating ships and/or commenting how they dislike them when they are literally about *fictional* characters. Why can't we all be like : "hey I don't really see them together but I respect your right to ship this and I am really happy that we are in the same fandom"

[themarysue]

The Bad Faith Attacks on Archive of Our Own Have to End

A strange and ugly discourse has reared its head on social media over fandom mothership and Hugo Award-winning website Archive of Our Own.

[kawree]

“It’s become a sort of purity culture staple to call out Archive of Our Own, because we cannot apparently enjoy nice things.

[…] Some fans argue that AO3 should be actively moderating more of the content posted on-site, even though it has exclusionary tag systems so that you can, personally, tailor and be responsible for your own AO3 experience.

Don’t like a pairing or tag situation? Hide it and you never have to worry about seeing it! In addition, AO3 does have a Policy & Abuse team that deals with issues like plagiarism, harassment, and violations of its content policies; it’s not the Wild West out there, despite what this new breed of moral panic-mongers would have you believe.

[…] There’s a persistent, and, for me, exceedingly strange swerve these days towards demanding The Powers That Be censor and remove fanworks that some users deem problematic, often with a pearl-clutching sentiment attached that the youth are being corrupted from exposure to unsavory themes, or the mere possibility of exposure.

These sentiments always remind me of the people who used to assert in the 18th and 19th centuries that the act of novel-reading would corrupt a young woman’s mind, and that (especially) women couldn’t be trusted with so dangerous an activity as reading or choosing their own reading material.”

y’all, if even uninvolved people writing articles can see that you’re being jackasses, it’s time to own up to your jackassery and knock it the fuck off.

[neutralfans]

I see stuff on AO3 all the time that I don’t like; I keep scrolling and ignore it. If it violates their procedures, then they’ll handle it. 

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Have you heard the good word about the Pembrokeshire walrus yet?

This walrus is fucken lost.

But Wales has lost its collective shit about it. They're generally keeping its location secret to keep people away, but we get updates every day if it's still here, if it's happy, if it's healthy. We think it was in Ireland about two weeks ago, which is interesting, because it is not actually native to Ireland either. Why is it here? No one knows.

It seems to like Pembrokeshire beaches.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I regret to inform you all that the walrus is a delinquent.

In attempting to climb aboard a dinghy in Tenby it capsized it.

It then proceeded to Tenby harbour where it tried to climb aboard a fishing boat.

Incredibly, this is not an April Fools

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Today on English People RUIN Everything, a bunch of English tourists from Essex and Leeds broke covid-19 regulations and travelled to Tenby over Easter to try and see Wally (so named after Where's Wally) and crowded him with jet skis and surfboards and stuff, so he's not been seen since Monday. We don't know yet if he's moved to a secluded spot again, or left Wales entirely.

But, you know, I doubt we were going to have Wally for much longer anyway, since they need to head back home again at some point. Godspeed, Wally. May your fish be ever plentiful.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

The English went back home and Wally came back to Tenby! We stan a true Welsh icon, folks.

Some facts about Wally:

She is named after Where’s Wally because she is hard to spot

She was previously in Ireland, and then secluded beaches in Pembrokeshire, but has really taken a shine to Tenby, which is a delightful village

She has a scar on one flipper but it’s long-healed and doesn’t seem to bother her

She is the southern-most walrus ever spotted in the wild!

The current theory as to how she got here is that she fell asleep on an ice floe that drifted south, but she’s not bothered about returning yet

She’s believed to be two years old

Her gender is still a bit of a mystery but we seem to be leaning female

This story on Wales Online claims she’s believed to be male, but then uses female pronouns. It also features a video of some Welsh people chatting about Wally, including a child whose first language is very clearly Welsh and by the end of his part is struggling to think of things to say about the walrus in English.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

WALLY UPDATE!!

The Western Telegraph has opted for male pronouns, and is being very firm that Wally is male, although other news outlets are still all over the place. But what has Wally been up to the past few days?

He is rapidly gaining weight, and is still giving no cause for concern to either of the organisations watching him (which are the RSPCA a bit and Welsh Marine Life Rescue a lot; this is funny though because a walrus is so far outside of the wheelhouse of either of those organisations like we’re all just guessing here, lads)

His delinquent ways have continued - he has now attempted to climb onto multiple buoys (all unsuccessfully) and at one point nearly got a mooring rope stuck around his neck. 

Has he learned from this?

FOLKS HE HAS NOT!

He is now a Fashion Icon. He has surfaced multiple times wearing accessories in his moustache. Mostly this has been shells, but three days ago he upped his fashion game by wearing this starfish:

What an Icon.

The photographer of this picture, one Amy Compton who has been Wally’s official photographer since the start, has been making these delightful Wally masks (inset). They sell for £5, of which £1 goes to Welsh Marine Life Rescue. If you would like your own Wally mask, contact her here!

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

My mother came for a visit today and we checked and Tenby is an hour away from me, so we went for a Lovely Day Trip to Find a Walrus.

Friends, I took the shittest photo there has ever been of a Walrus. But I absolutely did get to see em.

A lifeboat wandered by to check em out at one point, and ey just... sank. Just dropped below the surface like Homer Simpson moving backwards into a hedge. After a while the boat left, and Wally surfaced again.

I can now confirm that ey really, really likes blowing water around like a whale, and also kept eyeing up that buoy next to em.

Also, I had entirely forgotten how comically beautiful Tenby is, but that's an aside

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Time for a Wally Update!!!

It's only a little one, but apparently we're getting Serious about this walrus, lads - the police are now stepping in to say that anyone interfering with Wally (examples of this interference to date: throwing things at him, taking boats and paddle boards out to him, throwing fish overboard to tempt him closer, etc) is committing a criminal offence and we must send evidence of Assholes to them. So that's fun!

Meanwhile, the tense stand-off between the RNLI and Wally continues over Who Gets To Use The Lifeboat Slipway. Here is a picture of Wally in full delinquent mode.

What a public menace.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Time for the weekly Wally news!

Here is the problem with 2,500 lbs of predatory sea potato using the slipway of a lifeboat station as a spa bed: sometimes, canoeists get in trouble near Stackpole and need rescuing and then some underwhelmed Welsh coast guard is going to have to try to chase said predatory sea potato off the slipway so they can launch the boat.

Here is the problem with that scenario: an underwhelmed Welsh coast guard basically views 2,500 lbs of predatory sea potato as a sort of ornery gelatinous cow, and so will try to do this with, and I am not making this up, a broom. But a ton of overgrown seal has no fear of brooms, so the attempt is not entirely successful under time-sensitive conditions while canoeists are actively drowning 10 miles away.

Solution? An air horn.

Which did work long enough to get the boat out, and then Wally clambered back aboard barely minutes later and fell asleep again. So trick learned, I guess.

Anyway, since I've apparently become Tumblr's primary Wally journalist, I thought I'd go for a cheeky visit again today so I could report on their condition FIRST HAND (you're all welcome, I have incredible integrity). Today I tried using a binocular over my phone camera with was extremely stressful and moderately successful - and I have two pieces of NEWS.

Story the First

Two dinghies with divers aboard suddenly turned up and sailed right up to them. There are Welsh Marine Life Rescue volunteers everywhere, and one woman immediately yelled "YOU ARE TOO CLOSE. MOVE AWAY."

Everyone on the cliff went silent. The boats went closer.

"YOU ARE BREAKING THE LAW," yelled the beachmaster. "MOVE AWAY."

Tumblrs, they did not.

"CAN YOU HEAR ME?" she yelled. "MOVE AWAY."

At which point, the whole fucken cliff starts joining in, because Welsh people are Like That.

"Move away!"

"Leave 'im alone, mun!"

"Move away, butt, what you doing!"

"He's the size of an 'orse, bois, can't you see 'im from here?!"

"Bloody move you fucks, you'll scare 'im away again!"

(That last one was, I swear, an eighty year old woman.)

The boats, suddenly being yelled at by a whole cliff of Welsh people, sailed away. Later, we followed the beachmaster who was now on a mission, and found her with a couple of community police officers ripping the shit out of the divers. It was very satisfying.

Story the Second

I mentioned my binocular and phone trick. It came in handy. At first it gave me some very satisfying shots for a distance picture on a phone camera:

But, you know, whatever.

But THEN I got this picture:

which I got 0.256778 seconds before that majestic Arctic beast of purest beautiful nature untamed FELL OFF THE SIDE OF THE SLIPWAY LIKE A CAT THAT GOT TOO CLOSE TO A TABLE EDGE

Wally was fine, the seagull to the right was traumatised.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

This is not an update as such but my friend Chris who I took with me to get the scoop on Wally on Sunday had a real camera with him, and he has produced a WAY better photo than I did, and I want you all to see Just How Louche a Walrus is capable of looking:

Handsome boi

[ao3-tags]

[dear-ao3]

[writing-and-nutmeg]

[starsandmoonys]

Everytime Remus walks in on Sirius or James doing something stupid he just goes "No❤️" and apparates out.

[maraudersxa]

James: We could be killed!

Sirius: Or worse, Remus could give us another lecture on responsibility.

[spacejellyfish3]

Wanda: I have everything under control.

She did not in fact have everything under control.

[neutralfans]

Is it bad that I read the last line in Vision’s voice?

[softholand]

okay, so i wasn’t really too keen on watching wandavision but after this week’s episode i just had to and HOLY SHIT— it’s sooooo good

[hoennislands]

Stop making Maria’s death about Carol.

Stop making Monica losing her mother about Carol!

Stop making Monica’s loss about your fucking ship

[neutralfans]

WandaVision Spoilers

DOCTOR DARCY LEWIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[neutralfans]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy (Comics), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aleta Ogord/Stakar Ogord Characters: Aleta Ogord, Harry Potter, Stakar Ogord, Original Characters, Martinex T'Naga, Krugarr (Marvel), Charlie-27 (Marvel), Mainframe (Marvel), Yondu Udonta, Lily Evans Potter, James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin Additional Tags: Found Family, Adoption, Ravagers - Freeform, Before any of the events of the Guardians of the galaxy movies, Taking bits from the comics, and bits from the movies, and a lot from the books, Harry grows up with the original Ravager team, Baby Harry Potter, Found harry potter, Love, Family, Surprise Baby, Accidental Baby Acquisition, Space Pirates, Harry Potter raised by others, Vernon is mean, Well-Meaning Albus Dumbledore, Misguided Albus Dumbledore, Vernon Dursley Being an Asshole, Child Abandonment, A lot of the hp characters don't come on until later, But they're mentioned, Past Child Death, Past Abuse, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Stakar and Aleta's father was evil, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Flashbacks, Past child experimentation, None of these apply to harry potter, Ravagers as a family, Healing, Character Study, Canon-Typical Violence Summary:

Harry Potter unwanted by his relatives is abandoned in the woods several hours away from his Aunts home on Privet Drive in early November 1981. But he was not alone in those woods.

Aleta Ogord, Ravager Captain, second only to the admiral of the fleet her estranged husband, loves exploring new planets. Or new areas of old planets in search of something new. Terra surprises her more than most planets do. This time though she's gotten a little more than she thought was possible.

Ravagers don't do kids, but she can't just leave the little one out in the cold under a bush.

[jamborae]

[neutralfans]

This is so cool, looks like water color to me. 

[theladymeera]

Today's big question: Bran/Meera drunken Vegas wedding. Good idea? Bad idea?

(Bonus: they just never get around to a divorce)

[neutralfans]

I would read this X10!!!! 

[theladymeera]

I had so many grand plans to finish all my WIPs and write like three new multi-chapter fics and like four one-shots this summer and prep like three more fics to post over the fall/spring and I haven’t written one word. I think at this point I’d have to get a flood of people begging for more on my WIPs to encourage me to write I can barely get very important forms for grad school filled out in time, much less independently write overly-ambitious fics in mostly niche branches of this fandom for free.