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@ralina003
Regency themed Harry Potter featuring dubiously researched costumes and furnishings (artistic license was liberally taken). And in case anyone was wondering… yes, I did just binge Bridgerton season 2 😅
Omg. This reminds me of my Regency story.
Sevbrella: the new OTP.
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A tribute to my friends in the northern hemisphere, many of whom were lured into a false sense of security by first spring 🌼🌧☔️
False sense of security indeed... 😒
“George hadn’t known what to expect when approaching his friend’s new home, but it certainly had not been finding Hermione up in a cherry tree with Dumbledore and Fawkes at her side, Hermione feeding the phoenix a cherry while the headmaster watched them with a fond smile. A pair of knitting needles floating in front of him as he worked on a pink and yellow sock. Behind Hermione, George could spot a basket full of books and he could imagine her sitting up there all day, reading while eating cherries in the sun. It was the strangest thing seeing Dumbledore with his colorful robes sprinkled with cherry juice, or Hermione wearing shorts and a striped tank top, giggling carefree as her bare feet dangled from the tree branch. Both of them seemed oblivious to the world, absorbed by the moment of happiness.”
The illustration based on story “The long way home” by @ralina003 on Archive of Our Own
Yay! It is finally here. This picture captures that moment from my story just perfectly! 🥰
So I’m on AO3 and I see a lot of people who put “I do not own [insert fandom here]” before their story.
Like, I came on this site to read FAN fiction. This is a FAN fiction site. I’m fully aware that you don’t own the fandom or the characters. That’s why it’s called FAN FICTION.
Oh you youngins… How quickly they forget.
Back in the day, before fan fiction was mainstream and even encouraged by creators… This was your “please don’t sue me, I’m poor and just here for a good time” plea.
Cause guess what? That shit used to happen.
how soon they forget ann rice’s lawyers.
What happened with her lawyers.
History became legend. Legend became myth…. And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.
I worked with one of the women that got contacted by Rice’s lawyers. Scared the hell out of her and she never touched fandom again. The first time I saw a commission post on tumblr for fanart, I was shocked.
One of the reasons I fell out of love with her writing was her treatment of the fans… (that and the opening chapter of Lasher gave me such heebie-jeebies with the whole underage sex thing I felt unclean just reading it.)
I have zero problem with fanart/fic so long as the creators aren’t making money off of it. It is someone else’s intellectual property and people who create fan related works need to respect that (and a solid 98% of them do.)
The remaining 2% are either easily swayed by being gently prompted to not cash in on someone else’s IP. Or they DGAF… and they are the ones who will eventually land themselves in hot water. Either way: this isn’t much of an excuse to persecute your entire fanbase.
But Anne Rice went off the deep end with this stuff by actively attacking people who were expressing their love for her work and were not profiteering from it.
The Vampire Chronicles was a dangerous fandom to be in back in the day. Most of the works I read/saw were hidden away in the dark recesses of the internet and covered by disclaimers (a lot of them reading like thoroughly researched legal documents.)
And woe betide anyone who was into shipping anyone with ANYONE in that fandom. You were most at risk, it seemed, if your vision of the characters deviated from the creators ‘original intentions.’ (Hypocritical of a woman who made most of her living writing erotica.)
Imagine getting sued over a headcanon…
Put simply: we all lived in fear of her team of highly paid lawyers descending from the heavens and taking us to court over a slashfic less than 500 words long.
all of this
Reblogging because I can’t believe there are people out there who don’t know the story behind fan fiction disclaimers.
Yep I used to have disclaimers on all my Buffy fic back in the day. The Buffy creators were mostly pretty chill about fandom but it’s not like it is now. You did NOT talk about fandom with anyone except other fandom people and bringing it up at cons was a massive no no because of stuff like this.
I think Supernatural (and Misha Collins specifically) was when that wall between fandom and creators started to break down. It’s a relatively new thing.
I remember going to a Merlin panel down in London and a girl sitting next to me asked the cast about slash and I thought she was going to get kicked out!
Fandom history is important.
Oh, this brings back some not so-awesome ‘90s fandom memories!
Oh man, let me tell you about the X-Files fandom. Lawyers for FOX sued, threatened, and generally terrified the owners of fan websites on a regular basis. God help you if you wrote or created original art set in their (expansive) universe or worse - dared to write about their characters. Even people who weren’t creating fanworks, just hosting Geocities pages about how much people liked the show would be sent C&D orders or actually fined. When I was first discovering the concept, the first rule of fandom was you do not talk about fandom because the consequences could be devastating.
It was such a strange and uncomfortable experience for me when fans in LOTR and Potter fandoms suddenly started shoving their work in people’s faces speaking publicly about fandom and wanting to engage in dialogue with the creators and actors of the Thing they were into. Fan stuff was supposed to stay online, in archives and list-serves and zines we passed around because it just wasn’t cool to talk about it and it could get you in a boatload of trouble. The freedom we have to create and gather together in a shared space, or actually be acknowledged in any way by people outside the fandom was inconceivable to my fannish, teenaged self. I want fans these days to understand how amazing modern fandom really is, cherish the community, and appreciate what it took to get us here.
“if you found this by googling yourself, hit back now. this means you, pete wentz”
Oh hey, even more blasts from the past.
I was one of the ones who got a love letter from Anne Rice’s lawyers. Bear in mind that up until that point her publisher had encouraged fanfic and worked with the archive keeper (one of my roommates at the time) to drum up publicity for upcoming books and so on.
I could tell such tales of how much Anne screwed over her fans back then. The tl;dr version is that she and her peeps would use fan projects as free market research and then bring in the lawyers once it was felt Anne could make money off of it herself. (Talismanic Tours being one of the most offensive examples of this.)
But where fanfic is concerned not only did we get nastygrams but one of my friends had Anne’s lawyer trying to fuck up her own privately owned business which had NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING ANNE RELATED. Said friend was a small business owner with health issues who wasn’t exactly rolling in money, so guess how well that went?
On top of that when yours truly tried to speak out about it I discovered that someone in Anne’s camp had been cyber stalking me to the point where they took all the tiny crumbs of personal information I had posted over the course of five years or so and used it to doxx me (before that was even a term and in early enough days of the WWW that this wasn’t an easy task) and post VERY personal information about me on the main fandom message board of the time. Luckily for me the mod was my friend and she took that down post haste, but it was still oodles of fun feeling that violated and why to this day I am very strict about keeping my fandom and personal lives separate online.
Hence why those of us in the fandom at the time who still gave enough of a shit to want to keep writing fic DID keep writing fic, but shoved it so far underground and slapped it with so many disclaimers they could’ve outweighed the word count of War & Peace. It wasn’t just for the purpose of protecting fic but for trying to protect our personal lives as well.
(Also would love to know who @tiger-in-the-flightdeck knew. Life paths crossing after so many years….)
Lucasfilm also sent cease-and-desist letters to Star Wars fanzines publishing slash.
My favourite bit I read from one included the idea that you weren’t allowed to have any explicit content, of which anything queer, no matter how tame, was included, to “preserve that innocence even Imperial crew members must be imagined to have”.
Yeah. The same Imperial crew members who helped build the Death Star to commit planetary genocide.
(It’s one reason Sinjir Velus, while I still have some issues with him, feels like such a delicious ‘f*** you’.)
Later on, they were apparently persuaded to ‘allow’ fans to write slash, provided in ‘remained within the nebulous bounds of good taste’.
(On a related note, if I wasn’t quite so attached to my URL, I would 100% change it to ‘Nebulous Bounds’, because that’s just downright catchy)
Anne McCaffrey had this huge long set of rules about how exactly you were allowed to play in her sandbox. Dragonriders of Pern was my first online fandom, and I was big into the Pern RP scene - and just about every fan-Weyr had a copy of these lists of rules McCaffrey wanted enforced. One of which was ‘no porn’ and another was basically ‘it can’t be gay’ (and for a while ‘no fanfiction posted online’? which??? anyway.)
She relaxed a little as time went on, but still.
Let’s not forget: the reason AO3 is called ‘Archive of our own’ is because it was created in response to some bullshit that assholes were trying to play with fan creators. Basically (if I remember the fiasco correctly) trying to mine fandom creators for content which they could then use to generate ad profit on their shitty websites. When the series creators objected, the fans tried to pull their content, only to find that the website hoster resisted, claiming their content was all his now.
That wasn’t even all that long ago…
fandom history class
Interesting! wow
I remember back in the days having to put a disclaimer on EVERY. SINGLE. ONE of my Twilight fanfic chapters. That’s what everyone did. Even though sometimes it was simply a: I don’t own these characters. I play with them.
It was so strange not doing it on AO3 at the beginning.
I still disclaim. Fandom may be more mainstream, but you never know who might get lawyer happy. You can bet I’ll cover my arse best I can at all times.
Oh man, Pern fandom. I was originally in Pern fandom in the early 00s, when the Rules were still going strong. When I left the fandom and came back and found that there were FORUM CLUBS?! With the posts just where ANYONE COULD READ THEM?! AND NEW DRAGON COLORS?!?! Holy shit, mind blown.
And I remember the list on ff.net of authors whose work you weren’t allowed to fic, including Anne Rice. And literally everyone putting some kind of disclaimer on their fic. It was just how fandom operated.
This isn’t even ancient history. Back in 2010, there was an extremely nasty incident in which Diana Gabaldon (the author of a number of formally published Doctor Who self-insert fics the Outlander series) put up a blog post that began like this…
OK, my position on fan-fic is pretty clear. I think it’s immoral, I _know_ it’s illegal, and it makes me want to barf whenever I’ve inadvertently encountered some of it involving my characters.
As if this weren’t already a strong statement coming from a woman who seems to be oddly invested in writing sexy assault scenes (not that there’s anything wrong with subversive female fantasies, but I’M JUST SAYING), Gabaldon continued in the same vein, comparing fanfic to home invasion and adultery (as well as other bizarre and unsavory things in her responses to the comments on the now-deleted post). When “fandom” rose from the depths of Livejournal to challenge her, she became even more offensive and belligerent, and other popular writers (such as George RR Martin, who was ironcially part of the Livejournal fandom culture himself) came to her defense. This “debate” led to a number of think pieces in mainstream media about how entitled and ungrateful fans were destroying traditional publishing, not to mention high-profile male creators publicly complaining about cosplay, teenage girls attending comic conventions, and other visible manifestations of fandom.
What has changed since then is that the young people (primarily women) whose work was nurtured in fandom communities have become professionals, and they’re transforming the entertainment industry from the inside. Fanfic writers are now publishing original novels and editing their own literary magazines for genre fiction. Fan artists are now working for Marvel and DC and putting out original graphic novels with major presses. Video game fans work as programmers and localizers, and cosplay enthusiasts have become character and set designers.
This cultural shift is not just a white thing and not just a straight thing and not just an American thing. Representation in fiction and art - traditionally published or otherwise - is hugely empowering, as is being part of a supportive community. I don’t mean to suggest that fandom is changing the world… but it kind of is.
one thing i particularly love is how shows have characters that write fanfiction because shows have writers that wrote fanfiction. current fan culture hasn’t been this way for very long, but it’s been this way for long enough, and now it’s in children’s cartoons like adventure time that if you like a book or a show, you might write your own adventures for it and read it to your friends, no big deal. i don’t remember seeing any girl in any show writing fanfiction where that wasn’t the punchline, that she was a sad freak…you still see that joke sometimes, but increasingly there’s also support and approval for the collaborative, imaginative storytelling fans do for fun, and that’s really cool.
Oh man. I remember my first fan war, part of which was “any gayness is automatically rated R/18+ and thus not acceptable on this forum THINK OF THE CHILDREN.” Good times.
THE NORTH REMEMBERS. Fanfic, and why I’ll never read an Anne Rice book: https://youtu.be/bHVCQuJvAB4
There is a reason livejournal took off so well and became the home of fandom for almost 15 years. It was easy to use. You could filter your posts by friend locking it or allowing certain individuals to see it, so you can interact with real life and online friends. LJ cuts made it easy to post long fic (you see it today in the “keep reading” thing on tumblr) and it was easy to join communities. Communities had similar properties to individual LJs. You could also filter your friends list so it was easy to catch up on stuff. The tagging system actually functioned well! The expression of things through icons! Comment threads were wonderful. You could actually organize and talk about stuff without it being all over the place!
I miss LJ ok?
On that note, I remember when it was common practice to bump the rating of a fic up if it contained slash. At all. Two dudes holding hands? PG. Two girls kissing? PG-13. There were so many het fics that were complete smut (which we called lemons) that were rated R, but the same smut for gay characters was NC-17. And that was before ff.net changed its rating system.
and don’t even get me started on the backdoor hidden speakeasies where RPF was forced to hide. these days 1D fic gets pulled to publish by mainstream publishers, but once upon a time not so long ago to write anything about real people was so taboo you risked losing friendships and being kicked out of forums and mailing lists and shunned to hell and back.
whispered passwords to locked forums passed through private messages, praying the person you were inviting wasn’t just looking to out you and get you kicked from the main fandom areas.
it was a whole different world not even ten years ago kids. be grateful for what you have and never forget the burning times.
Remember back in the old days when we used PG-13 and R to rate fic, before the Motion Picture Association of America attacked with claims of copyright infringement, forcing ffnet and others to switch to “Teen” and “Mature” because the MPAA “owned” the letter R? And for weeks, there were fics everywhere written without the letter R at all?
Remember when literary agents would message fanfic writers and tell them they would NEVER represent anyone who had ever in their entire lives written even a single fanfic, and that the only shot anyone had at ever being published was to delete their fanfic and never write any again? And then if you dared talk about this, you’d be told a confusing jumble of “that’s absolutely true, nobody wants to represent someone who doesn’t follow the rules” and “you’ll never be published anyway, why give up your hobby for an impossible pipedream?”
Remember when all fanfiction was considered plagiarism in academic circles and students could face disciplinary actions for writing it even though it had nothing whatsoever to do with their classes?
Remember that scare when fanfiction was on the verge of being declared criminal in the US, as part of some draconian anti-net-neutrality legislation (there have now been so many I’ve forgotten which one), and everyone was frantically backing up their favorites lest sites go dark?
Never take fanfiction for granted. Never take AO3 for granted. Never take the fact that Stephanie Meyer declined to sue EL James for granted. (I’m no Twilight fan and I loathe 50 Shades but in truth that could have been a disastrous test case, so God bless Meyer for her decision.)
Yes!! I was there!!
I could always tell when some BNF (y'all remember that term) was trying to go pro because suddenly ALL their fanfiction would disappear and only be illicitly passed along in zip drives of enterprising fans who saw it coming.
I’m still sad that DW didn’t take over for LJ fandom space. It was a much better system than tumblr tbh.
Ah, memories.
Also everytime I see gifs for Shadowhunters and think about the fact that there are fans who don’t know about the Cassandra Clare fanlore, I giggle.
JFC, the Cassandra Claire wank is why I’ll never watch Shadowhunters, I don’t care how gayly the ladies look at each other.
Man, coming to AO3 and not having to put disclaimers on every single fic and/or chapter I uploaded was bizarre. Gave me mental hives. I felt like I was looking over my shoulder, waiting for someone with a lawsuit to pounce. On ff.n, if you forgot to put in a disclaimer, almost every single review you’d get until you fixed it would be “you’ve forgotten the disclaimer – you’ll want to fix that asap!!” Everyone was THAT hypervigilant.
And as far as i know, there’s STILL a list of authors listed on ff.n whose stories yooure not allowed to write about. At one stage, agreeing to the terms and conditions on that site included ticking a box swearing that you weren’t writing in any of those authors fandoms.
Anyway reminder to everyone to be eternally grateful to the AO3 team for creating a space where everyone can create without fear of reprisal, thanks in very large part to the team of lawyers standing between us and authors who would sue us for playing in their sandpits.
Lord, I remember these times. I remember posting to Ff.net with disclaimers on EVERYTHING and this was around the time where the Harry Potter Lexicon was sued by JKR. This scared the SHIT out of me as a writer. I used the lexicon and still use it to this day to write fanfiction and the fact that someone with more resources than me was sued for making content using the same materials I was terrified me. AO3 is a blessing and y'all are lucky you don’t have to jump through the same hoops we did for a crumb of fanon.
this shit is actually part of the reason ao3 exists. you’ll notice some things in their info on the site.
ao3 actively fights to protect the rights of fanwork creators. that’s why they ask for donations every few months or so.
if you look in their terms of service:
‘We are committed to defending fanworks against legal challenges. Our position on transformative fanworks is detailed in the OTW FAQ. We have legal resources and alliances on which we can draw.’
“The beginning of the end was the battle of Hogwarts. They had given it their everything and lost – everything. That was, at least, how it felt to Hermione. She still couldn’t understand how it could have all gone so wrong.”
Beautiful commission based on Ralina’s (@ralina003’s ) story on archiveofourown !
I commissioned another beautiful picture from the amazing Klaus Wanderer. So excited to share this with you!
I’ve been reading @ralina003 ‘s amazing story Kindred Magic and there are these scenes where Hermione gets to have some quality time with her dearest friend Severus in his animagus form and I couldn’t help myself, I had to draw it. So here it is, a little homage to this fantastic story! I totally recommend it if you haven’t read it.
Used references:
https://www.deviantart.com/adorkastock/art/Sailor-Team-Defeat-90048895
Sailor Team Defeat by AdorkaStock on DeviantArt
Omg, this is my first fanart EVER. And it's beautiful! I love it so much! Thank you for drawing this and sharing with me. 💚
➺ 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬: 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦; 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘻𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘺. 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘭𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥, 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴. 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘦.
Attending a boring party at Malfoy Manor
The purricifation of one Hermione Granger
Today I finished posting my newest twinmione project on AO3.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/28898886
Summary: After being accidentally transported two years into the past, Hermione Granger must protect her true identity. Letting the Headmaster transfigure her into a cat sounded like a good idea, ending as the Weasley twins’ pet… not so much.
Rating: M
Chapters: 45 (78893 words)
Pairing: Hermione/ Fred/ George
Hello! i’m open for commissions!
I do character designs, illustrations, fan art, portraits. Open for any ship!
For more detailed information i’m waiting you in private messages or comments down below :D
I am already saving up for my next comission. And sometimes patience is sooo hard...
a man of his word. on twitter
This is hilarious! Love it! 🤣
Cat NO likey!
ALL THESE CATS ARE LITERALLY: “bitch what the fuck” LAHSLAJSOS
These cats all passed the mirror test and I think that’s impressive
i’m?????????????? they recognise themselves and their owner well enough to check back on their face???
My favorite are the ones that look up slowly as if they were in a horror movie
Cats (2019)
literally ALL of these cats just revealed that not only do they recognize a separate moving image as themselves, but that they recognize their owner AND their placement in space which is actually a Big Fucking Deal and I hope that animal behaviorologists are going nuts over this
Cats being able to experience the uncanny valley effect is not something i thought we could get from a shitty filter.
This is amazing
Cats are clever. There's no denying that.
One Kiss a Day
Pairing: Hermione/Fred
Chapters: 10 (17737 words)
Rating: E
Summary: At the beginning of their Ministry-arranged marriage, Hermione and Fred decide to establish some rules to make this whole situation somehow work for them. Fred's first rule for their marriage is rather simple: He wants Hermione to kiss him once a day.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/25289449
This was originally a drabble I wrote for a prompt that was delivered by the “Weasleys, Witches and Writers” Facebook group I’m a member of. I am horrible at writing One-Shots though, as I just cannot keep things short. Luckily I don’t have to and so this grew into a nice, fluffy story. Writing pure fluff is rare for me, as I am an angst-driven writer. But I really enjoyed writing this.
The Open Link
At the beginning of Hermione's 5th year in Hogwarts, the ministry discovers, that there must be a student with an open magical link at the school - a phenomenon that hasn't happened for more than a hundred years. Nobody knows who it is, though, not even the person themselves, but everybody seems to be out to find the Open Link, even the Dark Lord himself.
Rating: M
Status: Finished
Chapters: 80 ( 263,096 words)
Pairing: Hermione/Fred/George
https://archiveofourown.org/series/1633519
From all the stories I have written, I still like this one the best. It’s a rollercoaster of emotions and there’s not also the Weasley twins in there, but also Severus, who plays an important role. If you don’t mind angst, this is a good story to read.
What a lovely picture of Ron!
Night Time Routine by @ralina003
The war is over. Hermione still suffers from the after-effects of the Cruciatus Curse. Will Fred be able to help her cope?
Rated: T; Chapters: 6; Words: 8438
→ Link: Archive of Our Own
Thank you for recommending my story here! 🤗
This is the cover I have designed for it:
“MUDBLOOD” is a Harry Potter fan series taking place in North America. The story revolves around a teenage witch named Muriel Warrington, who flees from Hogwarts and makes her way to upstate New York, only to be persecuted by Death Eaters. Muriel holds the key to something Voldemort needs…or lost. The series takes place between ORDER OF THE PHOENIX and HALF-BLOOD PRINCE.
This 3-part short film series is being produced by Conrad Studios and being released entirely for free on their YouTube Channel. Part 1 will be released FEBRUARY 4, 2021.
This is film is made for NO-PROFIT, and is being made entirely by Harry Potter fans for Harry Potter fans. We hold no association with J.K. Rowling, Warner Brothers, or the Wizarding World.
