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You are probably here for an AO3 stats dive. If it's the right time of year, you may also be looking for rants about Bad Ship Stats.
You probably aren't looking for lore tidbits on my assorted homemade blorbos for FFXIV, but This is an Alivion post and This is an Ostercat post are the tags for them.
Happy Wednesday to me
The funniest part about liking Serious Angst Themes while simultaneously fixating on a silly blorbo from my show is that 13 year old me would be writing the exact same type of fanfics as me now. Real tragedy enjoyers know ts for life
Me: what if my favorite characters smoked cigarettes ans has severe trauma 😈
13 year old me: And drank alcohol and had horrible coping mechanisms too
Me: thats badass. I like the way you think
13 year old me: stop saying cusswords my mom Will get mad
Me: sorry
13 year old me: why are you a boy
Me: We're getting off topic.
every day on this website i see people say completely straightfaced, "a GOOD disabled person would never let their disability disable them"
in the age of repression and purity culture, getting more perverted is the only morally correct course of action
#(thousand-yard sex-disinterested aroace stare) cool opinion. love seeing this same sentiment 10000 times a day on this website
im also aroace. being disinterested in sex and romance is still sexual perversion in the eyes of the state. get more perverted in whichever direction fills you with the most joy!!!!!!
sometimes I'll see people say that fic writing is just a hobby and some writers don't want to improve, and I'm wondering if anyone's seen that type of mindset for other hobbies?
like I don't think I've seen it in the cross stitching sphere, beyond having neat backs (which probably counts tbh)
anyways, I'm just curious because other people are in different spaces and hobbies and whatnot! :)
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"Oh, I've been knitting for years, but I couldn't possibly knit a sweater!" and every other stupidass way knitters put themselves down while acting like I'm some untouchable master instead of just braver and dumber.
And also, yes, like the replies mention, there are two common versions of this:
The first and more common is people saying "This is just a hobby. I don't want to improve," instead of the far more accurate and to the point "Your concrit shows that you are functionally illiterate. Go away."
The second is people being insulted when readers prefer the writing of someone who ran spellcheck or has grammar that's at least as good as their standard speaking register (and not a garbled mess from trying to sound fancy in writing and failing).
The second category is all over every hobby and craft in the form of people who are angry that someone else put the work in and got the attention and/or who are afraid to try harder because then they could fail, while not trying means maybe you could be brilliant if you ever put your mind to it.
The first category is all over literally all parts of life because there's always another fool who wants to give you unsolicited and shockingly incompetent advice.
There's also of course the expectation that if you get skilled enough in any of your hobbies that you'll turn it into a hustle. "It's just a hobby I don't want to get better" is also a polite way of saying "leave me alone I'm having fun, I intend to do this at the hobby enthusiast level for the rest of my life please stop trying to force me to monetize it you're stressing me out"
That too. I usually shut that nonsense down with something like "Do you know anyone who wants to pay two to ten thousand dollars for a sweater?"
I'd consider knitting something for money... but we're starting at $30/hour plus materials I enjoy working with at a dead minimum before we even get to other considerations. It's hard to say exactly how long things take, but 50 hours is a common estimate for "a sweater". (Gotta say, that's probably a woman's small and lacking in many cables or complex colorwork.) Someone made the insane unicorn tapestry sweater (not the little cardigan one: the bonkers one) and said it probably took around 400 hours. It's perhaps a woman's large at best even if you increase the yarn and needle size. So let's say maybe 600 hours for a very complex plus size sweater. That's $1,500-$18,000 for labor at a very bad hourly rate given the danger of RSI. If I were also designing a unique work of art... well... you're looking at original art prices. Fifty thousand? A hundred thousand?
There is certainly a price at which I'd be willing to monetize any of my hobbies, but I'm not getting out of bed for less than a grand, and I'm not making an original all-over colorwork sweater for less than annual salary money.
I find that even quoting realistic hours of labor involved tends to get through to most people. Cheerfully saying you'd be happy to and then quoting a real price gets rid of the rest.
(But if anyone wants to learn to knit their first sweater, I'm happy to help you for free. This pattern is pretty easy and makes a decent finished product. My own first sweater and first proper knitting project was this thing, though. Modified to be in the round because, even then, I could not stick to a pattern.)
And then kind of on the other end, there's the fact that monetisation often just.... doesn't. Even if the thing being sold can realistically sell for a reasonable market rate.
My dad knows I write, and he doesn't know exactly what I'm writing these days, but he knows I enjoy it and am good at it and that well written fiction can sell. So he was bugging me a bunch about selling my writing, because he figured I was just sleeping on a good income stream that'd be genuinely easy and enjoyable because I've already got the skills.
So I told him I *did* try, I put a couple of works up on Smashwords and I get about five bucks a month off of that. I went into more depth about how the market works and how the stuff one can make a living on is within narrow genres that I *don't* have the skills for and that to make part time job figures off of selfpub one needs to be a full time marketer on social media,
He's reasonable, so he was like "oh, huh, I guess that's a bust" and dropped it.
name one single thing orin did that was problematic. you can't.
Not be romancible.
oh wait just realized i can edit my own posts.
like you can't edit reblogs anymore but you can still edit your own post even after it has a thousand notes or whatever.
i have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.
Oh nooooooo
how are you gonna be 31 and posting fandom content bro leave it to the teenagers
People 10 and 20 years older than me are writing your favorite fanfics, and drawing your favorite characters. You'd have no fandom without the people you think are 'too old' to have hobbies.
This mentality is so insanely frustrating. Why do teenagers think that people have to give up their hobbies, give up fun, when they reach a certain age? Like??
When I was a teenager writing fic, I remember finding out that one of my favorite authors was in her 50s and that just was SUCH a revelation for me!! What do you mean, 50 year olds can write fanfic?!? Does that mean I can write fics when I'm her age?? That's AWESOME! I seriously looked up to her so much. And now I'm 35 with a husband and kid, and I'm still writing fanfic and posting fandom content - and I have no plans of stopping!
If you try to drive 30+ people out of fandom, you're going to lose the backbone of said fandom!
The ageism in fandom is fucking insane. It’s strange that people seem to have the idea that fandom was created by and for teenagers… It was not. It was created by adults. How would we have ao3 if only teenagers were in fandom?
I don’t want to sound like I am hating on younger people in fandom, but god, y’all need to stop it with the ageism. You don’t have to give up what you love once you’re an adult. Honestly, the belief that you have to is pretty bad. It sounds like it would make people afraid of aging. Granted, modern society is so very afraid of aging.
Don’t give up what you love just because you’re an adult. You don’t have to. And don’t try to force others to do it either.
Fandom has to be multi-generational.
Teenagers don't have the resources and skills to build something like AO3, it has to be people with degrees and money doing that, and that translates to a 30+ crowd. But teenagers especially need the protection and legal advocacy that something like AO3 offers them.
Part of the reason the then 30- and 40-somethings who built AO3 did what they did was so that someone with as few resources and as little support as the average 15-year-old fic author can safely and comfortably share their fanfic and find fic to read.
When you attack and belittle older fans for daring to be fans, you're not just being cruel to people who share your hobby and write fic you enjoy, you're attacking the very same people who make your hobby possible for you in the first place.
I'm probably someone's "not this guy again" on Tumblr
Thought crimes of course aren’t real but uh. We know those aren’t just thoughts anymore once you’ve posted them publicly, yeah?
Then they’re just crimes.
sure, fictional crimes since nothing happened and no one was hurt. should we put the fictional handcuffs on? "sorry, you wrote about murder which is illegal, go spend 20 years in mind jail"
y'all make so much more fuss about shit in fanfiction than crimes in real life
@sylveriasarcana nailed it
It's *about* the bullying. It is not and never was about the morality of depicting cannibalism or whatever in a work of fiction, it's about making up an excuse to get away with attacking people on the internet, often because "they're queer" is no longer a socially acceptable reason for violence in fannish circles.
I just scrolled past a youtube video that explored the archaeology and anthropology of primitive humans and our extinct cousins the neanderthals. It was called "The Other Sapiens," which is innacurate on purpose because they didn't want to call it "The Other Homos."
This was my art school’s water fountain. Drink from them wolf tiddies
Assignment misunderstood. I have now built a city.
Give it a day
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Is it
Is it Rome?
Is it supposed to be about Rome?
Me when I write for 30 minutes: 1k words
Me when I write for 2 hours: 500 words
Me when I write for 4 hours: -300 words
okay so re: spock's "the fact that one of my ancestors married a human female" quote in where no man has gone before.....like obviously the most likely situation is they hadn't decided his mom was human when they wrote that, but taking it seriously in-universe, if spock was actually hiding the fact that his mom is human, mccoy would still absolutely have to know.
like at the very least his medical history would show that, but also he'd just need to know re: spock's health overall, and now I'm losing it at mccoy looking through his charts, getting acquainted with the new ship and patients, and then immediately hearing spock being an absolute bitch about humanity, and then realizing that no one!!!! knows!!!! that spock's mom is human!!!!
"didn't his great grandpa marry a human or something??" some ensigns are gossiping in the mess, and mccoy is banging his head against the wall. medical confidentiality being what it is, of course mccoy is keeping spock's secret, but oh boy is he irritated at the situation!!!
spock, his eyes gleaming in amusement at mccoy's ill-hidden irritation, talking shit about how human mothers are known to coddle their young, knowing mccoy can't say a damn word....... post journey to babel mccoy is ready to unload MONTHS of snarky comments now that everyone knows!!!! except he can't, because spock immediately switches tack entirely and takes on the guise of a good son defending his mama.
mccoy IS gonna kill him btw.
bonus points tho if spock and kirk eventually meet mccoy's mom and spock sucks up sooooooooo bad determined to make this woman he KNOWS mccoy's complained about him to like him........extra funny if she DOES love him but doesn't admit to it (mccoy comes by his nature honestly!!!) and instead dotes on kirk, and spock SULKS and SULKS until she probably does something devastating on the last day like give spock something of mccoy's dad's because she thinks he'd want spock to have it....spock looks at mccoy, and mccoy just nods with a smile, and spock is genuinely touched and speechless and struggling with all his might not to show it lmao
superbat is a bad ship name. it should be manman
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Of course he'd survive, because he never doesn't, but Methos would be a surprisingly good fit in Conan Exiles (or not-so-surprising once you know his backstory).
