Multi-Fandom Love

I'm Melanie and I'm a pagan. House Ravenclaw. Older fan for many fandoms. Icon done by @celiopic and used with their permission. Pan aro.  Birthday is September 7th. This is a multi-fandom blog. I am a multi-shipper in several fandoms and I will reflect this. If you have a problem, simply unfollow and be on your way. I don't tolerate people being vile. I don't hate on ships here. I post about my favorite ships and the multiple ships I love.  You may see my favorite movies, actors, actresses, books, anime, manga, and music. Whatever catches my fancy.

[avengerrs]

shang-chi characters as simu liu tweets

[incorrectbuckoarchive]

[daily-xiu]

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[haniehae]

Performance Unit | Dicon for @24hoursofdaisy

↬ Requests are open!

[palique]

Hongjoong ✧ Promise @ KCON:TACT 3

[choi-seunghyunie-deactivated202]

Seunghyun kissing his members 💋

[thatjuicyhoe]

Happy birthday to this incredible person

Jiyong is a lot of things to different people:

Fashion king, cutie, rapper, singer, idol, sweetie pie, lyrical genius, great actor, humble, incredible performer, or a person who often doesn’t wear their shoes properly,

whatever applies he is someone who means so much to me. Of course I don’t personally know him, most of us don’t know our favourite idols or celebrities, but all people, no matter how far removed from real encounters, give off energy and his is one I truly vibe with and always will.

I’ve been a vip for 6 years now and my love is stronger than ever I can’t wait for more music more birthdays and anniversaries

I love you jiyongie have a fabulous day baby

❤️

[your-sophie18]

@thatjuicyhoe​ - I have to say that’s an awesome and very fitting dedication to the birthday boy. AND what a great collection of pics that really sums up who he is (red hair Jiyong and MADE era black haired Jiyong are my faves).

During the last 5-6 years that I have been into k-pop I have only ever had 2 biases and 2 bands that were close to my heart and Jiyong was my very first bias and …you never forget your first love. AND I will always treasure the memories of seeing him live in the Motte concert. So yes, let’s celebrate the Bigbang leader, the artist, the musician, the fashionista, the producer and the very talented songwriter that is Kwon Jiyong.  I hope we will still get to see some amazing work from him and Bigbang.  

[kendincekomikbiri-deactivated20]

[radiosandrecordings]

me when the mutuals leave nice tags on my posts: i am going to get a good grade in tumblr, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve 

[baekonbaek]

it should be illegal to look this good

[itadori-san]

ah! love | there are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.

[coupsnim]

kpop idols with the same ___ as me 🌼

age: pentagon hongseok | birthday: jessica jung | star sign: bap bang yongguk | height: snsd sooyoung | mbti: seventeen wonwoo

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[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

one of those generically cheerful Bless this Home (and all who enter) signs, but instead it says Memento Mori (remember that you must die)

[meekona]

so, i made a thing

[sarawatsaraleo]

Yiling Laozu and his Ghost General

Requested by Anonymous

[gay-irl]

gay irl

[shepardinquisitor]

I tried to find something about this to reblog and share, but I didn't see anything so I wanted to put this out there. More than 1000 authors have all signed a petition to stand in solidarity with trans rights and essentially condemning J.K. Rowling's TERF views.

This includes Stephen King (which coincides with his Twitter drama with Rowling from before), Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, and more big names in the industry.

Look at those beautiful trans supportive authors!

The Google doc with the letter and a list of the authors who signed it can be found here:

Letter in support of the trans & non-binary community from US/Canada publishing professionals

This is a letter of support for the trans and non-binary community from publishing professionals of the United States and Canada. It is a co

Here is a link to an LA Times article:

Roxane Gay, Margaret Atwood sign open letter supporting trans and nonbinary people

Between 1,500 and 2,000 members of the North American literary world signed an open letter offering support to trans and nonbinary communiti

And here is a link to the Guardian article:

Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and Roxane Gay champion trans rights in open letter

With more than 1,200 signatories the US and Canada including Neil Gaiman and NK Jemisin, message follows row over comments by JK Rowling

I thought, given all the sincere disappointment I've heard from people who loved her books, at least this gives you an alternative source.

Trans rights are human rights!

[seananmcguire]

Just keep in mind that any of these letters, whether you sign them is not just “if this person agreed with this, they would have signed.”  It’s also “was this person offered the chance to sign?”.  I would have signed this letter in a heartbeat.  It was not offered to me.

So please don’t take absence as a statement of anything other than absence, unless the person whose name you’re not finding has said something to the contrary.

[yourshipisfine]

Things that are a fanfic writer’s responsibility:

The category for relationships (Gen, F/F, M/F, M/M, a combination, something else)

The right category for ratings (is it for General Audiences, Teenagers, Mature, Explicit, R-Rated, Nc-17?)

The relevant warnings (violence, rape, underage sex, anything else you deem relevant)

The relevant tags on it (what relationships are covered in the fic? What characters? Is it light and fluffy fic? Funny? Sad? Dark? Does it have sex, and if so, what kind? Is there violence? Tags are used by readers to find fic and to avoid fic)

A summary that informs the reader of what kind of fic they’re gonna read.

Author’s notes for everything else. You can use the summary or author notes to explain certain tags, or add caveats, or thank your beta’s.

Things that are not a fanfic writer’s responsibility:

Kids stumbling across your fic and reading your fic and assuming that whatever is written about in the fic is 100% cool and normal.

The mental health of people who don’t like the subject matter of your fic.

[formallyfreya]

I got 99 problems and being responsible for your competent use of the internet ain’t one.

[hedwig-dordt]

Or, if you feel that’s more suited for the experience: user CHOSE NOT TO USE ARCHIVE WARNINGS. In which case, even more strongly than normal, READER BEWARE.

[helianthus-hellion]

i agree with most of this but “creator chose not to use content warnings” is a bullshit tag that shouldn’t exist. it isn’t an actual warning, it doesn’t mean anything except maybe “this author wants to be ~edgy~,” and there’s no good reason for its presence on ao3.

seriously, i cannot think of a single situation in which “creator chose not to use archive warnings” is appropriate to use except maybe, maybe if your piece has content that could be a common trigger but isn’t available as an archive warning (e.g. incest), but even then it still feels like a cop-out and you absolutely have to make sure that content is still tagged for in your main tags

[octopuscato]

CNTUAW is perfectly fine, since it says: “I’m opting out of the warning system and you’ll have to decide for yourself if you’re willing to read my fic and whatever might be in there”. That is a valid choice for an author, and it’s just as valid for a reader to say: “What? Nope, not gonna read this.” Nobody forces anybody to read a fic that has a CNTUAW tag. The only reason I can think of why people think this warning is invalid is because they assume that they somehow are entitled to every story they see, that somehow the authors owe them their fics. Which is ridiculous nonsense. People like the above are why I by now refuse to use Archive Warnings and exclusively tagg ALL my fics “Author chose not to use Archive Warnings”. It’s so that people who feel entitled to my fic will not want to read it :) (I still get enough engagement on my fics. Boo fucking hoo ;)

[octopuscato]

Idk how to answer someone’s question when they block me but… well.

They don’t seem to understand that “I’m opting out of the warning system” is a PART OF THE WARNING SYSTEM on Ao3 and even the DEFAULT Archive Warning according to their TOS FAQ.

To suggest I don’t post to Ao3 because I like using their default warning is…more than a little bizarre xD Again, it all boils down to “ONLY THE WAY I DO FANDOM IS RIGHT!” - while Ao3 instead explicitly offers authors several different ways of doing fandom/posting their fics, which aren’t inferior to each other. JUST DIFFERENT.

But then, far too many people don’t understand that “different” doesn’t mean “bad”, and even when the site specifically tells its users “We offer you different ways of doing this”, apparently some people think that those who actually take advantage of that offer should…leave? *lol* Also, I threw a fit after people told me how authors were “exclusionary” and “dicks” etc. etc. for using CNTUAW as if they were owed to be able to read every fucking fic. Which they are not. (Yet another fact this person doesn’t get.)

In short:

[three--rings]

Every time I see wank about the “Choose Not to Warn” option on AO3 I remember how controversial the idea of MANDATORY WARNINGS was when the archive was created.  This was 2008-9!  No one in the wider world had heard of trigger warnings!  They WEREN’T A THING!!!  No where!  Fandom was the place where the concept of trigger warnings caught on and a big part of that was because of AO3′s inclusion of tags and warnings.

So there was so much debate over WHAT kind of content requires MANDATORY warnings?  And why?  This wasn’t how fic worked before AO3.  Yeah, many authors would warn for things like non-con or graphic violence but it was still very voluntary and up to each individual. 

Many authors at the time HATED the idea of including warnings or being forced to warn because they felt that putting a warning for things or a tag at all would ruin the suspense and surprise reveal of their plot.  And this wasn’t a fringe concern! 

That’s why there’s an opt-out option!  Because a community is about compromise and balancing the needs of authors and readers and people with very different feelings about how fiction should work.  So having mandatory requirements to warn for certain things AND an option that lets people opt-out of this requirement while still warning readers that these are DANGEROUS AND UNCHARTED WATERS is a fucking compromise.

I know a lot of younger people seem to have never heard of compromise because they’ve been raised by the extremes of online discourse and Fox News but when you’re literally building community infrastructure it’s the name of the game.

It kills me that kids somehow think AO3 was made without considering these issues, that previous fandom generations haven’t already hashed out these fights.  That the extreme growth and popularity of AO3 isn’t inherent proof that the system that was put in place after MUCH discussion and consideration WORKS.

[confusedguytoo]

This doesn’t feel like compromise to me though because the people who say “Fics don’t need to be tagged” get 100% of what they want for their stories, and people who say “All fic needs to be tagged” don’t get what they want at all. It’s the illusion of compromise.

Basically, if the people who don’t want to do something come out of the argument able to behave exactly as they wanted before the argument began, you have not actually created a compromise, you have given them the win

I’m 41 by the way, started reading fanfic back when it was primarily personal archives

[three--rings]

The disconnect I think you’re having is that you are thinking of AO3 as a service for the readers instead of for the authors.  It is an archive created by and FOR fanwriters and it takes a multitude of differing fanwriter perspectives into account by giving the CREATORS control over their own stories.  And it provides warnings to readers who only want to read tagged works.  But it doesn’t allow readers to dictate how writers present their work, because it’s not a reader-customer-focused business, but a nonprofit to preserve fanwork.  The compromise is that instead of imposing one way of doing things on every user (i.e. every writer) each writer gets to choose for themselves.

The customers of AO3 are the writers, not the readers.  That millions of readers do enjoy it, is basically a bonus.  (That costs the organization money instead of makes it because it’s ad-free.)

[theleakypen]

@iamwestiec‘s tags are EXACTLY right:

 reblogging for that last one SPECIFICALLY archive of *our* own writers are readers and readers are often writers but the ao3 is not a goddamn content provider

[shades-of-orange]

Also like, some readers want to go into a fic knowing as little as possible and treat any information almost like spoilers, so they prefer no warnings.

Like you’re not entitled to any fic so if you aren’t comfortable reading something with no warnings it’s like… too bad, life does that sometimes. But it’s not unfair.

[pretz3l-log1c]

I swear AO3 gets so much criticism because it’s the fansite with the best tagging system and ppl are so used to for-profit modeled sites that they feel a sense of ‘my money, so I demand better service’.

Except ao3 is non-profit! You cost OTW money to use their archive.

All content is made for free! (No really, it has to be made for free content or ao3 cannot host it for legal reasons. This includes linking to a patreon and kofi account. Do not.)

I don’t think any of you criticizing ao3 for its set up realize that you are essentially being handed a gift and then whining it’s not exactly what you wanted.

(This isn’t to say ao3 can’t be improved. The site is a constant work in progress in itself. But those are improvements, not changes)