the blood platelet factory is (STILL!) in business

fka @werecat, @kaftan interesting adn peculiar perversions about

[mangonetics]

"why was the ending so rushed it was so good up until the ending" the answer is the same every time no matter the media you're talking about: the author is a bee and had to go back to the hive to defend the queen

[sparrowlark]

Told my friend this reminded me of gwayne and daeron and he lost it

[mynowherenothing]

Yessssss

[ofide]

also grooming subtext is everywhere in stories that majorly involve children because everyone has been a child and children frequently get manipulated and the easiest shorthand to communicate how scary the fantastical/unusual situation the character is in is is to use imagery that suggests sexual abuse. the adult manipulative supervillain tells the child superhero that they’re mature for their age in the same way the slasher wields a phallic weapon. noticing these things is not pervy nor is it accusing the authors of being perverts, it’s just picking up on what’s in front of you

[preyforharley]

[sparrowlark]

Does anyone else care about olivia and freddie gwaynicent truthing by voting to incest each other in this interview or is it just me and them

[dickgraysonsptsd]

i think MORE characters should be rape survivors. i think more characters should be csa survivors. i think more characters should be dv survivors. i think strong and noble and attractive and charming and brilliant characters with indomitable spirits should be survivors. i think the most powerful characters in the world should be survivors. i think characters who are cultural icons should be survivors. i think victims and survivors should see ourselves in the most admirable and beloved characters around! i think we should be protagonists!!!

[dickgraysonsptsd]

#‘it’s so unnecessary’ . okay . god yea this one drives me CRAZY. people will yap all day long about how it's "unnecessary" to make a character a survivor like do you think it was necessary for any of us to be abused or raped irl? was it narratively essential? did it teach the audience an important lesson? why do we, who have to justify our experiences and existences and reactions all the time in real life, also have to justify why we should exist in fiction? people act so repulsed by the thought of us. i've really fully and truly had enough of that. there is nothing so uniquely disgusting or repulsive or unspeakable about our victimhood or our survival that justifies this obsession with keeping the reality of our existence hidden

[dualcasterjay]

"oh but talking about it can be triggering for victims :(((" you know what else is triggering? living in a world that insists that we cannot be open and honest about what happened to us. maybe if we had, oh, i don't know, prominent examples in our cultural stories of people who are victims and are competent and strong it might be easier (for everyone, not just victims) to have the discussions we actually need to have about our trauma.

[dickgraysonsptsd]

#if a story had a proportion of the cast be survivors that matched even the most conservative statistics of the actual population #people would call it hideously excessive (via @specterthief)

[steelplatedhearts]

it’s simple: when I like an adaptation, everyone complaining about changes to the text is a whiny baby who needs to get over themselves and accept that sometimes you have to change the story to enrich the experience/work within the medium. when I don’t like an adaptation, it’s because nobody else understands the core themes of the original work and would be better off just creating a story independent of what they’re trying to adapt.

[destinationtoast]

AO3 creators... have you ever posted something you didn't want associated with your main account?*

Yes - created a separate account

Yes - posted anonymously

Yes - orphaned it after posting

Yes - posted it under a different pseud (but clearly linked to my main)

Yes - Multiple of the above

No - I don't have fanworks I feel that way about

No - I do have fanworks I feel that way about but don't post them at all

I didn't know about these options and am going to go learn a thing

Vanilla extract /answers please

Remaining time: 12 hours 47 minutes

*Could be something kinky, dark, "weird," off-brand in some way, etc! But I'm not talking about "I split up my different fandoms into different pseuds" or something else where it's purely an organizational preference.

[werecat]

more surreal-flavored fiction about soulbonded gay girls

[werecat]

this is how it feels to me

[sparrowlark]

[just saying things] language is the realest fake thing we have created

[sparrowlark]

I’m afraid i will never understand the obsession with purple valerian eyes because anytime i see them all i can think of is alexandria’s genesis

[deirdreskye]

when you're blowing a straight guy in his car in a McDonald's parking lot and you can see the post nut clarity washing over him and he briefly contemplates actually killing you >>

[sparrowlark]

I’ve said this before but re: the fanfiction skillset there is a reason why books/book series are the most intimidating source material for me to create fic out of (and why i’ve yet to publish any): i am actually not great at faithfully imitating another writer’s voice! Or i don’t feel that great at it, especially not for prose. It’s a skill! And my pen always wants to knock my writing sideways, do its own thing, in my own style. Lol. It’s a challenge.

[penny-anna]

one argument you often see about fanfiction is that it's like 'training wheels' writing? like 'oh it's fine to do that while you're still learning, it's easier than coming up with your own ideas'. and I have to say I have just never agreed with that.

[penny-anna]

in my experience it's actually pretty common for newbie fanfiction writers to gravitate towards coming up with OCs rather than writing about the canon characters (hence the infamous Mary Sue); this suggests that many people find that 'easier' than attempting to write about pre-existing characters.

I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.

When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.

In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.

finally I have made this point before but you never really see anyone suggesting that fictional works based on existing public domain texts are on 'easy mode'. is it 'easier' to write something based on a copyrighted work than a public domain work? Of course it isn't.

[penny-anna]

I know I said 'finally' but I forgot a point:

A major strength of the transformative work is its ability to create dramatic irony. If a fanfiction's emotional resonance is dependent on being familiar with the source material that's not necessarily a bad thing. sometimes it's a sign that the author has done a really skillful job of engaging with said source material.

[sparrowlark]

Thinking forever about atsushi (abused at an orphanage where he was explicitly unwanted) having a pretty decent experience as a mentee of dazai (also has a thorny abuse history) and telling akutagawa (physically and emotionally abused, trauma bonded, and then abandoned by dazai) that it’s weird and pathetic to be so hung up on dazai — who is to him, for all intents and purposes, a silly rabbit — but then also dropping “it’s no wonder dazai up and left you 😒” in the middle of an argument… ⁉️

[sparrowlark]

I already said on twitter thst this is ormund but i keep sending myself into laughing fits thinking about it. So it goes here too.