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[rileycruel]

[certified-door-posts]

certified door post

[fellshish]

i got into gomens years ago when s2 came out, but for the first time ever, i’m seriously thinking of starting a gomens blog and making an ao3. ever since the finale (I Did Not Care For It) i’ve felt this irrepressible need to create, to fill in the gaps that went unaddressed and to give my beloved A&C the happy ending they deserve. anyway i guess my concern is that i’m worried that everyone will leave for greener pastures in light of, well, everything. i don’t want to pour even more of myself into something that’s already broken my heart twice over if the fandom is just going to turn into a ghost town yk? anyway i thought as someone who’s way more involved in the fandom than me you’d have some sense of where things might be headed in the future. but also feel 100% free to ignore this lol

oooh very interesting. i do have a lot of thoughts on this!

first of all, spite is a great motivator to start creating. in fact, it’s how i myself got started in fandom, after bbc sherlock s4 aired, and i went from mostly lurker to very active blog and creator. (just when the fandom was on fire, yes)

and just like the sherlock fandom, the good omens fandom is way older than the tv show. this will not become a ghost town, ever.

i won’t lie to you, though: the fandom will change, inevitably, and in fact, it already has. after good omens s1 the fandom was massive, the biggest fics from those days have more than 40k kudos. post s2 there was controversy, and a fandom split, less engagement on posts and fics. after the neil gaiman allegations came out, a lot of people got angry, disappointed, moved on, etc. now after s3 it will again change: people will move elsewhere, others will double down, some people will join anew.

in truth: your fic will not get as much attention as a s1 or probably even a s2 era fic might have received. i will say in favour of the good omens fandom that it has an excellent commenting culture: readers tend to leave comments more than in other fandoms, which is absolutely lovely.

as a beginner in fandom though, this will likely be an uphill battle, it’s something that will need to grow, though i do know some people are desperately refreshing ao3 for good omens 3 fixits every day. and if you make a blog and write your fic, feel free to tag me in your post about it (for example in the comments) and i’ll give it a reblog.

now here we arrive at the core of it: fandom as a catalyst for creative self expression. you feel that urge to write, to seek justice for your blorbos, to become active in fandom. if nothing else, giving in to that urge will lift you up, inspire you, and help you grow in so many unexpected ways.

when i think back on my bbc sherlock days and look at where i am now, my life has forever changed. i know that if i hadn’t made that jump, there are so many crucial people i would not have met, so many skills i would not have developed or acquired (writing, amv making), big life events that wouldn’t have happened, community i would not have felt,… i would not be who i am, be where i was, if it weren’t for fandom.

everything of yourself that you pour into fandom, changes you, grows something inside you. it isn’t ever a waste.

[fellshish]

oh you put this beautifully

[this-is-trans-joy]

I don’t know if this is an obvious take or a hot take, but I think people need to start re-framing feminism as the fight for body autonomy as opposed to whatever this second wave revival gender essentialist bullshit we have going on right now. Once you reframe it in this way, it’s easier to understand intersectionality and why cis women are not the only people who need feminism. The lack of body autonomy effects cis women, trans people, intersex people, disabled people, poc, homeless people, sex workers, etc. and your feminism needs to include and prioritise all of these groups of people (which will include men btw) because feminism is about autonomy, not about establishing a matriarchy. Body autonomy is the biggest threat to the patriarchy, both with reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and even the right to not be drafted into military services. Once body autonomy is established for everyone, the patriarchy no longer has a leg to stand on.

And body autonomy does include things that you don’t personally like either. I was prompted to write this post after a series of bad takes from progressives, but one of them was re-hashing the Sabrina Carpenter album cover drama with “I don’t think it’s conservative of me to think that the album cover is a bad look when we’ve seen images of women being abused in this way” because I do actually think you’ve failed to understand feminism by projecting your morals onto a woman who was consensually expressing her own autonomy just because she expressed it in a way that you didn’t like or that made you uncomfortable.

Body autonomy also means unhealthy choices. Body autonomy also means regret rates. Body autonomy also means freedom of sexuality. Body autonomy also means mutilation. If you believe body autonomy has limitations and exceptions, then your feminism is most likely surface level.

TERFs are some of the biggest opponents to body autonomy, and if you find yourself thinking “oh people can do whatever they want with their bodies as long as it doesn’t harm them or make others uncomfortable” then you are far more susceptible to TERF propaganda than you think.

[this-is-trans-joy]

ooooh the radfems are BIG mad about this one

[jhoca]

Bachelors

The three bachelors who propose to Lucy in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897)! I laugh at the thought that it's like the Victorian Bachelorette (but in a funny satirical way like in Shrek). I love that Art canonically has a bunch of terriers (spoiler? lmao)

my art  (my dracula art)  |  instagram  |  cara

[sunchildsatoru]

alternative title dnp experience the queer joy of third wheeling dnp

[sunchildsatoru]

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[memories-of-ancients]

Jar with mountain goats, Central Iran, 4000 - 3600 BC

from The MET

[nobrashfestivity]

František Kupka Planes by Colors, Large Nude 1909-10 Oil on canvas 59 1/8 x 71 1/8 inches (150.2 x 180.7 cm) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Mrs. Andrew P. Fuller, 1968

[serenvde-art]

trans fairy to bless ur dash

[sapierror]

also, I really don't know how to phrase this but to me the finale misses the joke, you know?

it forgets that the christian cosmology was the setting, told through corporate satire, not the villain. even God wasn’t an active tyrant; she was an absent CEO, leaving individual contributors like Aziraphale and Crowley to realize their job descriptions were irrelevant to the company's bottom line anyway, so they coasted by on minimum effort

that corporate satire was what allowed this to be a comedy, a space to tell a beautiful story about choices, humanity, and love. the finale for some reason treats that background seriously, it turns that setting into an omnipotent, dystopian threat, which completely suffocates both the romance and the humor by replacing a petty system you can outwit, outsmart, outmanouver with a bleak, unearned nightmare where "the company controls your every breath, and you can never clock out"

[books-and-omens]

Yessss exactly, I've also been saying this. S2 and S3 have a grand storyline and I absolutely see why people enjoy that dramatic sweeping story arc (plus the cast and crew did absolutely phenomenal work). Personally, though, I don't find this grand storyline compelling or engaging. I suspended rather a lot of disbelief in S2, but now that I've seen where S2 was taking us... Well. I simply don't care about an artificial doomed dystopian world with no free will and the martyrdom needed to break out of it. S1, with its queer joy, felt like a revelation, like the best kind of defiance. The tonal shift in S2 and S3 has been... something.

[headspace-hotel]

see like I dont think stucky needs to be a romantic/sexual relationship to be compelling necessarily. i can totally see a version of steve and bucky's relationship where they are not having sex or viewing themselves as a "romantic" partnership but they are still, like, obsessed with each other and codependent in a way that weirds everyone out.

HOWEVER i specifically think Steve is much more compelling if he's gay. because the 1930's was so big in terms of eugenics, and like, Steve is a disabled character, he is "cured" in a way that makes him into this physically perfect man, he also happens to be blonde and blue eyed , and he's explicitly used as propaganda against the Nazis... it is such an interesting situation that highlights how similar the nazi ideology was to USAmerican eugenics (indeed they have common origins).

Steve would have grown up in a society increasingly hostile to disability, with the message that he was a burden on society...in the flashback in CA:TWS we see him refuse Bucky's offer for them to live together after his mom dies because he wants to be independent and make it on his own. but bucky responds "but you don't have to" which demonstrates what a good friend Bucky is but also shows that Bucky values him outside of his ability to "contribute to society"

So Steve probably would have been hyper-aware of how his new body changes how people view him and look at him, and he would still have the trauma of growing up disabled in the society he was in. He might feel like a fraud.

If he's gay this makes it even more interesting because it was also something highly stigmatized in his society (and targeted by the Nazis) but for whatever reason this is something the serum didn't change about him. After the serum I think he would feel like he's still carrying the reality of who he is inside, but hidden. being gay would intensify this because.

ow i'm getting a migraine I think but. y'all see what I'm getting at right

[quinnception]

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

[boopsloop656]

[sapient-simian]

Light Pollution: The Overuse & Misuse of Artificial Light at Night

Light Pollution: The Overuse & Misuse of Artificial Light at Night

[fazedlight-deactivated20251111]

The Dark Site Finder map lets you get a good sense of where near you might be good for stargazing.

[theunvanquishedzims]

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[catchymemes]

This was posted on a ‘second hand finds’ Facebook page…

…only to be followed by this amazing message.

The roller coaster ride started.

With a happy ending…

…and a sweet poem to finish.

[madame-vide]

Puppy Dan!!! Why are you on the card even???

[ao3commentoftheday]

hey, blog! 🌸 anon here. I think there are probably other posts about long fic, but I was wondering if you or others have any advice on sticking to a single long story instead of jumping to another? I'm mostly of a short fic writer myself, and I'm so interested in the secrets long fic writers possess. Anyway, thank you for running this blog! An awesome project :)

I'll give you my secrets as a fellow short fic writer who sometimes dips into medium-fic and the occasional long fic.

Be obsessed with your story. This can go a LONG way to helping you maintain your motivation. Daydream about it. Make playlists about it. Talk to friends about it.

Try to make each chapter feel like a oneshot. Give it an opening, a middle, and a closing. Have some character development or achieve a plot point or drop a clue that will be used later in the story. The more you can give yourself the satisfaction you get from a oneshot, the better.

Do jump to oneshots on the side to keep you going through the long fic. Sometimes you really do need to get the feeling of "done" to be able to continue something that's still in progress. Don't deny yourself that feeling just because you think you should. Life needs dessert and short fic writers need completed works.

Embrace a B plot (and a C plot and a D plot). These side plots can last for a single chapter or can be threaded through the whole story or they can bridge from chapter 12 to chapter 18. Whatever their final form, these smaller stories-within-the-story also help to satisfy the need for a short, punchy hit of dopamine when the story is starting to feel huge.

I'll leave it there for now and open it up. How do the rest of you go about writing longer stories? Especially if you typically prefer to write shorter.