forgive me great sage, for I have fucked up

The Great Hating Cunt of Good Intention🪻AO3

[cyberxbattalion]

[calcazars]

let it be known that i touch grass frequently and I’m still like this.

[ongreenergrasses]

emotionally preparing myself to call the insurance and copay assistance companies

[anitanh]

Found in the Internet Archive by AnitaNH

[ongreenergrasses]

horror collection update. right now I think the plan is to have three short prompts and one conceptual (larger, sentence long idea) prompt per week, with three alternate short prompts and one alternate conceptual prompt. those will get posted August 1st at @thghorrorcollection, along with the updated guidelines. I will have a couple trusted people look over the list for feedback before releasing it. I've decided on this format because some of your ideas were so fantastic and unable to be distilled to a single word, but I think conveyed some really chilling elements of the franchise, so I wanted to keep these longer prompts as options.

[cerastes]

I don’t think we ought to normalize or justify bullying as a means to keep people from being annoying — a sentiment that in and of itself could make for a whole article’s worth of conversation — but I do think we should make a habit of politely but directly telling people “hey I didn’t like that”, “that wasn’t funny”, “you are mistaken”, and the like if it’s called for, and more importantly, you should be able to take a “that wasn’t funny” for instance without taking it personally, because protecting a polite harmony where no one can criticize each other, not even politely, is also really, really bad.

[anghraine]

I saw a post about how fandom needs to understand that, while we might have different perspectives on our canons, those different perspectives are valid and we benefit from a multiplicity of perspectives and so forth.

The more I think about it, the more I’m like … hmm, no, actually.

I mean, yes, fandom benefits from a multiplicity of perspectives. Fandom perspectives don’t need to cohere 100% with each other’s to be valid and valuable and there’s a lot to gain from the overall conversation etc.

But the idea that all perspectives in fandom are valid? No. It’s a hard pill for modern fandom to swallow, but “all opinions are valid uwu” and frothing hostility are not the only possible responses to every conceivable fannish perspective. Some opinions aren’t valid. Some takes are bad and some interpretations are based on mistakes and misreading. Sometimes being at all committed to your own convictions necessitates believing that some people are wrong.

Basically, there’s a vast chasm between “not everyone with a different perspective is wrong in a fandom context” and “nobody can ever be wrong in a fandom context.”

[shadowisi]

[lemonwithsoysauce]

I want this mug

[ymutate]

Yoshikazu Tanaka (Kyoto, b.1933),

Moon and Tree in Ancient City

[amywinehousequeen]

Amy Winehouse performing at North Sea Jazz Festival, 2004

[thegroovyarchives]

Vegetables With Glamour From the 1958 "wonderful ways with soups...from Campbell's" Cookbook

[dyingenigma]

Nyaueth Riam for the Face Magazine

[biaderunners]

annie annie annie.. they don’t make ships like this anymore

[gayvampyr]

if you want to dress gay but aren’t sure how, you need to focus more on finding clothes you actually like and that make you feel good when you look in the mirror. develop your style independently of what you think looks gayest and trust me the homosexuality will follow

[didanagy]

A ROOM WITH A WIEW (1985) dir. james ivory

[ongreenergrasses]

that hivemind fandom thing that is so common truly is super annoying, which also manifests not just to fics but to metas, takes etc. Because not only does it lead to creators who divert from those headcannons getting harrassed but it creates these insular repetitive takes for characters and at a certain point it just gets fucking boring, along with people treating the hc's as fact regardless of the source material. plus unfortunately for me i always end up hating the popular headcannons 😭

this is jumping the line because YEAH. I didn’t mention the harassment in that post but that is a very real and very tangible issue and should be brought up! I am lucky in that nobody has harassed me for my hcs specifically but I know that happens all the time and it’s terrible. it does awful things to people’s psyches and their creativity, I’ve seen how destroyed people are from that (which is often coupled with racist bullying in this fandom. btw. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the fans most severely targeted are fans of color) and I think the homogenization and hierarchization of fics and meta absolutely feeds that behavior.

my firmly held belief is that fandom should be transformative. transformative of the source material, yes, but also it should continue to transform and build upon what came before it in terms of fanworks. I’m always deeply flattered when people say they’re inspired by my work and go and create something that has their unique spin, because to me that is the ideal state of fandom. it is not clustering around and uncritically uplifting the same takes from the late aughts over and over (which. we gotta critique a lot of those as products of their time I think). instead, it is finding inspiration from fellow artists and writers as well as canon and using that inspiration to create something new and innovative and exciting that echoes the creator and keeps things fresh. this is also a series designed for teenagers! there’s a whole crop of teenagers out there with fabulous takes and ideas and the idea of them coming in maybe new to writing and fanart and feeling like they’re getting those ideas squashed because of Agreed Upon Fanon that in some cases was developed before they were even born kills me. absolutely kills me

and I tend to hate the popular hcs too so I get you there, lol