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We made a server zine!

It's 40k and contains collaborative works, fanfiction from G-E with a great variety of pairings and themes, fanart, podfic, a roundtable discussion on betaing, and translations!

It's available for free, check the links below for pdfs, wallpapers, epub, and podfics!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

An Our Flag Means Death fanzine

#our flag means death #izzy hands #ofmd #ofmd fanfiction #izzy canyon #y'all I'm SO STOKED ABOUT THIS

divorcedwife

in a galaxy far, far away

#Star wars #Art

belladonianoir

razzmothazz

still caring about internet friends you lost touch with years ago is so embarrassing. yeah i had a deam we met up irl recently. the last time we spoke was maybe 7-8 years ago. i still wear the laces we randomly decided was a sign of our friendship. i dont know what any of your socials are or if youre even active on any. sometimes i see someones art resemble yours and i wonder for hours. do you still go by that name you chose? whenever i see it i wonder if its you. we couldve passed each other in this vastness a thousand times and not have a clue.

ekikeki

may the 4th be with you ✨

#art #star wars

ekikeki

May The 4th Be With You 💫

#star wars #art

dindjarism

STAR WARS: EPISODE V – THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) STAR WARS: EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999)

#star wars

xiiiwayfinders

#the good place

itsalwaysdark

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

simoneashley

Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid for GQ Hype by Huy Luong

#sam reid #jacob anderson #Whoa

jess-abides

This is it, this is the one

rocktheholygrail

Hannibal (2013-2015)

happy pride! 🌈

#hannibal #Iconic

wifegideonnav

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

hypokeimena

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)