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the usual i’m not a bot i swear description :/ (20+)

[charles-pitlane]

There's only one person in my view

[callsignrex]

With Rose (the author of Zero Cycle) announcing that she is taking down her fics and stepping away from the internet I think it's important to remind everyone about fandom etiquette.

This situation is not exclusive to rpf. I have watched this happen in pretty much every single major fandom. Klance Byler Mcyt, ect, they have all had a fic go extremely viral which then results in a downward spiral where fandom etiquette is thrown out the window and the author inevitably ends up pulling their fic from the internet and stepping away all together.

To be honest with you I am not surprised that this has happened again. I have been noticing for a while that the way people have been treating Rose and her fics has been absolutely terrible. Even people who were well meaning let their excitement about her fics cloud their judgement and cause them to be quite rude to her and disrespectful of fandom and rpf etiquette.

Therefore I would like to give some reminders to everyone about fandom etiquette. Because it's not just "keep all rpf discussion to ao3 and tumblr." those are important and those rules being broken certainly played a role in this particular scenario, but there's a lot more to it then that and as a fan you need to be more aware of how you interact with content.

Authors are not celebrities. They did not sign up for having an audience to deliver things to. They are fellow fans and creatives who are passionate about what they do. Because of this, I urge you, no matter how good a fic is, no matter how much you love it, you cannot treat it like a grand monolith for the fandom. When that happens the fic gets pulled out of its intended context and the author will inevitably be put under extreme strain and scrutiny. If you love a fic the best thing you can do for it is keep your interactions with and discussion of it purely to the ao3 comments and the authors askbox. I understand that creating a separate fandom for someone's works is done out of love and admiration but I have never ever seen it end well. When you create a fandom for a fic you are inviting typical fandom problems in and pushing them onto an author who did not ask for this.

You also need to stop treating authors like they are gods or something. I know this is usually done with the intentions of being complimentary. But an author is a real human being who deserves compassion and kindness. When you treat them like something to be worshipped you are inevitably dehumanizing them and making people feel more comfortable saying horrific shit to them or just generally being disrespectful. While it is also bad to get too parasocial and act like an author is your close personal friend, going towards the other extreme is also harmful. It is also just uncomfortable in general to have people act like you are not just a normal average person existing in the world. Authors are amazingly talented of course and that should be appreciated, but that does not rank above the fact that they are a normal person who would just like to interact online like anyone else.

The most important thing to remember is respect above all else. Because authors are human beings who deserve it. Being talented at something should not exclude them from that right. I ask that you take the time to reflect on the way you talk to/about authors and double check that you aren't accidentally forgetting about that.

Also last reminder for this particular situation. Do not complain about Rose taking down her fics. She does not owe you anything. You do not get to be upset that someone who has had their boundaries crossed over and over again and has been repeatedly disrespected has taken steps that are in her best interest. You are not the victim in this situation, do not act like it.

[guabiju]

Tumblr sexy man of the year if you people weren't cowards

[flatoutin-eaurouge]

Ella Häkkinen won two first-place trophies in the women's category, as well as first- and second-place rookie trophies, during the F4 CEZ race weekend at Most.

This moves her from 14th to 13th in the championship after only (!) her 2nd ever round in F4.

Absolutely love that Mika is now the cute laundry father of his talented race winning daughter.

[b331687]

i want charles leclerc to win every race for the rest of time

[wizardarchetypes]

i get a $250 million production budget to adapt beowulf into a summer blockbuster and at the end beowulf is contemplating his reign as king in his old age and the passing of time and we hear some kids say something he doesn't quite understand and he says stoically "it's as if the English i speak is becoming old..."

[iampartofteamvettel]

Emotional feeling to remember that Vettel won after Bianchi's passing and Leclerc won after Hubert's passing💔

[brawn-gp]

Charles Leclerc after Qualifying P1 in the Belgian GP 2019 [for @maranello ♡]

[antspaul]

on that note i think that massive parts of a fandom distancing themselves from the hyper specific context of elite men’s sports actually just functions to allow them to distance their fave guy (fictional or otherwise) from the harsh realities of elite sports that fiction could actually be used to address openly. i do think that if you engage with a sport—and yes, consuming media with hockey/soccer/etc at its center counts, even if you don’t care—you should have to engage with the rampant racism, classism, homophobia, and misogyny literally cooked into these spaces. if you don’t you’re at best making yourself complicit in the whitewashing of elite men’s leagues or, at worst, you risk replicating or defending these structural inequalities in more active, harmful ways

[xarialore]

does anyone remember this ❤️

[2008braziliangrandprix]

actually so mad abt this. what actually is ruining the sport is people not wanting to challenge themselves to learn something new so they base everything off what they can see which in f1 is maybe 30% of the whole story and that’s generous. this sport doesn’t exist without data, overtakes don’t exist without data, energy deployment is literally one of the most important things with these regs and you don’t even want to make it easy for me to access that?? i feel like im being pranked.

[countingstars-17]

wet kitten 🐈

[lestappenfiles]

Charles | Fight aids cup 2024.

DO NOT REPOST ANYWHERE THANK YOU.

[lecrimosa]

every time i think about my sweet mouse charlie, i remember how carlos said he’d beat him at every sport and charles with the sweetest face just destroyed him with two fucking words. NOT. RACING. 🧊😮‍💨

[maxcore]

f1: the sport whose so called stars are neurodivergent psychos who enjoy going 300 km/h in a metal death trap with a minimum 20 year hyperfixation on car and their fans that love numbers, stats, graphs and probability and spend their weekends fighting other weirdos over their perfect little guy's more perfect stats while reading about damaged floor vane extension pieces in their free time

the f1 boss: our fans are stupid FUCKS and enjoy it when the yo-yo goes boing~

[814sun]

stumbled upon that video this morning, and i got reminded of that insane race. i think everyone should watch it - charles leclerc winning the f2 sprint race in bahrain in 2017, managing an overtakes masterclass people still talk about to this day. that win also gave him the lead of the f2 championship, that he went on to win that year. ♡

[vertoneli]

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West - Sebastian Vettel