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I'll mostly be posting about JJBA and Jonadio/Diojona here! I'm a multishipper so there may be some other ships mixed in (all ships will be tagged)

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noquelle

Spoiler of fat fish

speedstarweek

Hi everyone! ✨ We're back again and this time we bring you the prompt list for this year's Jonawagon Week! 🌟🎩

Please make sure to read the rules first! We have translations to a few other languages available inside 📝️

Please reblog and share to boost and help us spread the word around! 📢💙💜

#should have a couple fics #jonawagon

nineinchclawz

Speedwagon probably does his dramatic narrations when he gets fucked in the ass, too.

"oh!! The young gentleman is pinning me under his 16 stone frame!! This angle is stimulating my prostate so good i may faint!! i can't believe he's a virgin! what a fast learner! amazing!!!"

#i actually love fanworks that give him this trait LMAO #jonawagon

beeziedraws

A love letter 🩸🫀

#gore cw #jonadio #jonathan's dead eyes AUGH!!#my heart!

silvermoon424

A word about scanlation

I scanlate a lot of manga and doujinshi and am part of a couple of larger scanlation groups (I'm not really active in them rn though).

The scope of fandom has changed so much over recent years that I'm not sure some people are aware that, for the most part, scanlation (and translation in general) is a labor of love. It's unpaid volunteer work and often actually costs money because you have to buy the raw materials and maybe even software to do the typesetting/cleaning/etc in. I actually pay unaffiliated freelance translators to translate certain materials I desperately want to read but can't find a translator to collab with for whatever reason.

All of this is to say that you aren't supposed to be making money off of scanlation. Scanlation is technically illegal because it involves the unauthorized reprinting of copyrighted work, but many companies are willing to turn a blind eye to it because it lets them gauge interest about official translations. Scanlator etiquette does make allowances for donations towards raw materials like manga, artbooks, etc though (which is more than fair imo).

Anyway, I bring all this up because I've been noticing a trend of new scanlators wanting to monetize their work. This is EXTREMELY frowned upon in most circles but is becoming more and more widespread. In one of my scanlation groups, we had someone who asked "how much the role pays," and when they were informed it was a volunteer position they left in a huff.

There are entire scanlation groups now that lock their catalogs behind paywalls and threaten legal action against anyone who reuploads their work. Even though, you know, they're reuploading other people's work and are usually pumping out chapters so fast there's not a whole lot of quality control.

Also, reader entitlement towards scanlators is as old as scanlating itself, but I've seen an uptick of assholes who yell at people volunteering their labor because they aren't doing it fast or well enough. The vast majority of these entitled assholes have no fucking idea how to translate, or how to typeset, or how to scan/acquire raw materials, or how to clean/redraw scans, etc. They just feel entitled to other people's time and labor and instead of being grateful they get anything at all, they bitch about how it's not perfect.

I've been scanlating for a decade now and I only do it because I love it so much. I've sunk countless hours and a ton of money into it. And I really don't like how people are trying to capitalize off of it. It just feels like everyone is trying to monetize everything nowadays.

You don't need to make money off of your hobby!!! You can just do it because you love doing it and you love being part of a community!!!

Anyway, be nice to scanlators, y'all.

#I too have noticed an influx of people thinking scanlation is some kinda get rick quick scheme #makes me mad cause they clearly don't have any passion for interest in the thing they're working on #you gotta do it for the love of the game