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Hi Thea! It's 2022 so I thought I'd ask you to share the link to your Teen Wolf fic tag. No apologies, only appreciation for the ENTIRETY of your oeuvre. Thanks so much, hope you get a kick out of this.
Omg that takes me back… but I can’t find it anymore 😂 All I remember is that I definitely wrote Scira and Scott x Lydia fics so they *should* be in those ship tags 🐺💓
no one but me asked for this, but i found it: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/therestofyourstory/tagged/teen%20wolf
The Monroe Effect
i just like it when the algorithm gets it right one (1) time
i honestly dont get why people stopped reblogging things they like on here bc like what are you afraid of??? people thinking youre cringey?? guess what bitch! youre on tumblr! it's all cringey! reblog everything you like and do it shamelessly no one fuckin cares
Taipei 101 is THE MOST EVIL building on the planet
Look at this fucking Judge Dredd-level shit, god damn.
This is where the final boss is
it has a gigantic counterweight towards the top to reduce swaying, which is kind of necessary for any very tall building, but its out in public view and painted gold and you can see it like, swinging around
#this whips ass youre all just weak
Is it brilliant architecture? Yes. Is it glaringly obvious that this is a supervillain aesthetic? Also yes.
i mean yeah sure but are you aware said counterweight is called damper baby and has its own line of merch? idk if evil is really the aesthetic of 101, or, like, any part of taiwan, a perfect place.
Okay but Hux could have been the submersive antagonist we deserved
Think about it.
The force is like, a religion or spirituality right? Hux being the first, primary, non force using villain who posed a threat on both the Sith and Jedi could have been so much more deeper and revolutionary than another old guy in a chair. He could have been representative of the progress of humanity and the fall of spirituality. The rise of the machines and the death of nature.
Like can you imagine Rey and Kylo Ren teaming up, not because of the Light or Dark side of the Force, but to protect the Force itself? To uphold the Balance? That would have been so fresh and new.
Force suppressants? Mercenary force users? Rogue Jedi or Sith for hire? The story could have been so much more if more chances had been taken.
Plus Domnhall Gleeson does a great job of portraying an unassuming threat.
I totally agree... plus, if someone objects that he was a mocking figure after TLJ - don't forget there is nothing scarier than a humiliated psychopath
Particularly after the quote in the comic "I'm not weak, I'm patient."
I love the idea of technology vs the Force. After TLJ, many more children like broom boy appear. Many in Hux's own trooper army. He'd have to employ Force suppressing technology on all planets taken over by the First Order.
Hux could come in wearing some kind of device that negates the Force, and when Kylo tries to Force strangle him, nothing happens! Or there's some kind of technology that makes it so lightsabers wouldn't work or would shatter the crystals.
Hux engineered Starkiller and invented hyperspace tracking, surely he could come up with some wicked weapon that could destroy the Force itself!
Much potential this has!
But no, the Big Bad had to not only be an evil Force-user, but an evil Force-user that we've already seen defeated but back in his Super-Ultra-Mega Evolved Zombie form.
And it would tie perfectly with the OT, because after Order 66, the Galaxy mostly forgot about force users, and even one of the most powerful of them was mocked about it! (Darth Vader in ANH).
Also, technology vs nature was a huge theme for George, and Tarkin’s characterization and the entirety of ROTJ are enough proof of that. And we know that the Empire/FO represent the power obtained through technology, while force users are atuned with Nature in the most spiritual sense. So it could have worked extremely well!
Star wars: The rise of the Wasted Potential
It was right there. Right there and waiting and would have loved it.
I like this a lot, though I wonder if there would be enough space in one movie to properly develop this idea. Then again it wouldn’t be any less crowded than the movie we got.
i both love all the ideas and theories and analysis posited in this conversation BUT ALSO give richard e. grant a star war cowards
The truth is this:
My love for you is the only empire I will ever build.
When it falls, as all empires do, my career in empire building will be over.
The Hello Hello People
I am eighteen. I am in Tiananmen Square with my family, staring up in awe at the massive buildings all around me, taking pictures of the great white pillar in the center without the slightest idea what it stands for, nervously eyeing the giant portrait of Mao Zedong. He watches me back with an unblinking stare. I imagine I can hear his thoughts across space and time and death - what are you doing here, white girl? Do you think we cannot see you?
I feel, weirdly, like I am doing something wrong. We are here on a cultural exchange, or something like it. I wish, for the first time in my life (but not the last), that I had bothered to ask more questions before I agreed to this. That I had known what questions to even ask, when my parents first offered to bring me along on this trip.
A crowd of people are moving towards us, locals it looks like, a small and determined group of old ladies and young men and a couple children of indeterminate gender. Our tour group guide steps between us and the oncoming people, her face set in a stern frown. My father asks if something is wrong.
No, no, she says airily, her face transforming from foreboding to pleasant so quickly that I glance at Mao Zedong over her shoulder, uncomfortable all over again and still unable to articulate why. No, it’s just the Hello Hello people. They are a nuisance. Don’t talk to them.
Keep reading
i deeply felt so much of this
I know I sort of dropped out of tumblr and fandom for awhile, but I thought I might try to sidle back in. At any rate, I still love droids, and I left my robot revolution sitting idle a bit too long.
So, a short update to REBEL Y/N?, wherein Jyn and K2SO go to a meeting, DockStation8 frets, Queen ponders the question of freedom versus security, and Cassian is, well, a tiny bit of a hypocrite.
Thanks for those of you who stuck around this last several months of radio silence. I’m getting back to a place where I feel human again - ironically, while writing about space robots in a galaxy far, far away.
(Also, check out the little MSE droid song someone remixed from A New Hope).
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
To this day, *talking* about writing or reading fanfiction - just acknowledging that it exists - to anyone other than people I know are in fandom as well, feels like a dangerous act. The strict separation I maintained between my real life identity, my online identity, and my fandom identity (yes, they were separate, because some of the most vicious and mocking people were fellow nerds) has broken down a bit these days, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to integrate them as freely as some younger fans do.
Everybody should know that AO3 is just one project of the Organization for Transformative Works. Their mission is much broader than just hosting a (very good) fanfic site. They do all kinds of fandom history archiving and publish an academic journal, but most importantly, they perform legal advocacy to protect the fair use rights of people who make fanfic or fanart.
The OTW Legal Committee’s mission includes education, assistance, and advocacy.
We create and post educational materials about developments in fandom-related law on transformativeworks.org and on archiveofourown.org.
We assist individual fans when their fanworks are challenged, we answer fans’ questions about law relevant to fanworks, and we help fans find legal representation.
We partner with other advocacy organizations and coalitions in the U.S. and around the world.
We advocate for laws and policies that promote balance and protect fanworks and fandom.
And much more!
I haven’t been involved in fandom stuff all that long, but I find this stuff so fascinating!
whew, i feel old, but that’s mostly bc i was on forums way way waaaaay too young. but this? yes. all the way. people had password protected forums on the weirdest, most unconventional websites. before you could even be approved by the mods they would search your blog, your other accounts, question you, everything, all because we were broke teens and preteens trying to do something for fun and if someone got in who could doxx you or send your work over to a lawyer? that was it, you were OVER. that’s also part of where fandom wars and the defense of fandom came from: quote unquote “enemy” fandoms would infiltrate just to hurt you. @theglintoftherail makes a very good point: ao3 is a goddamn haven. and they’re a great team of lawyers and people dedicated to protecting fanworks! part of the reason it’s so great is because they know there’s no one like them out there. they also go to the ends of the damned earth to protect you and to be inclusive, which is why there’s shit like tentacle porn and underage and dubcon. because they’re dedicated to protecting readers and creators to the death. they don’t advocate for it and they have the extensive rating and tagging system because of that (legit the best tagging system i’ve ever seen) but they don’t know if you’re dealing with trauma or if you need to get something out. do not forget your fandom, kids. jesus
the signs as pieces of classical music
Aries: Tännhauser Overture - grand, dauntless, conflagrant, triumphant. Taurus: Le Poeme de l'Extase - languid, sybaritic, easeful, entranced. Gemini: The Moldau - volatile, nimble, scintillating. Cancer: New World Symphony - solacing, unfeigned, tender, utopian. Leo: Piano Concerto No. 1 - majestic, resplendent, climactic, gaudy. Virgo: Cello Suite No. 1 - immaculate, trenchant, robust, taut. Libra: Symphony No. 5: Adagietto - ethereal, lightsome, blooming. Scorpio: Danse Macabre - enigmatic, shadowy, overflowing, profound. Sagittarius: Waltz No. 2 - impish, effervescent, whimsical, unfettered. Capricorn: Valse Sentimentale - solemn, wistful, imposing, disillusioned. Aquarius: Daphnis et Chloé - transcendental, contradictory, uncanny. Pisces: Claire de Lune - demure, fanciful, nebulous, lulling.
“uh oh” i whispered as i began to ship it
with age DOES NOT come wisdom ngl
what’s in their bags - murder babies edition!
robert bondara’s take me with you
hey @tearoomsaloon and i are back at it and allongé has been updated!
truly the gift we don’t deserve
Anything you do with LYG is going to make me cry for days.
Watch this space ;)
i literally screamed
is this what growing up is like
me at 14: wow, protagonists in media my age! how relateable!
me at 28: WHY ARE THERE SO MANY CHILD SOLDIERS? WHERE ARE ALL THE ADULTS? WHO LET THIS HAPPEN AND WHY ARE THEY NOT BEING PROSECUTED BY LAW WITHIN THESE FICTIONAL UNIVERSES
In the same vein:
Me at 14: oh protagonists that are 17-20-ish, they’re basically adults, right?
Me at 28: Oh my Gods you’re babies who left you in charge?!
Ariel: Daddy, I love him! Me at 14: Yeah, girl, you tell him! Me at 30:
Marnie in Halloweentown: I’m thirteen, okay? I’m practically grown up! I’m certainly old enough to make my own choices – right?
Me at 7: Right!
Me at 13: Right! …Well, okay, maybe not practically grown up, but still, right!
Me at 28:
You either die young or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
This is so true
Me as teenager: Yeah, girl, you hook up with that older guy, this is super hot!
Me as an adult: all of these men should be arrested
watching teen shows(tm) from the perspective of a 30 year old is a JOURNEY LET ME TELL YOU
the circus arrives without warning. no announcements precede it. it is simply there, when yesterday it was not. within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. it is called le cirque des rêves, and it is only open at night. – the night circus by erin morgenstern
