#admin chie

[sesskag]

Thank you for all the reposts! It's an unexpected but immensely welcome surprise to log on to my Tumblr and see your reblogs! You have my unending love and gratitude 💜

You're very welcome, dear!

Hope you had a lot of notifications waiting! 💖😘

[sesskag]

Hello, being following your blog for a long time now. Although I never had a tumblr account before. You are doing a great job of compiling snippets of the sesskag ship for me to explore. I remember reading about a new sesskag website plan back in like 2021/2022. PMO I think it was called. I even put a few bucks into the gofundme. Was it a failure? Cause the website doesn’t work. Any idea what happened? I don’t want to think it was a scam.

Hello, friend!

TL;DR : You have absolutely no need to worry about PMO. It was not a scam.

What I think, my dear, is that critical thinking skills are a very valuable asset in this day and age. Not taking everything you see on the internet at the face value is a healthy practice. But I also think that at the end of the day, you should still hold onto your faith in humanity.

I can't blame you for having doubts, especially when there was never too much information available on what happened with PMO, unfortunately. But fostering these kind of doubts against a fellow fan just really saddens me, because we do not need that kind of division or discord in a fandom as small as ours.

To combat the negativity of the world and the much too abundant cynicism, I prefer to err on the side of kindness and positivity. And kindness and positivity and support are definitely the kind of values we want to foster in the fandom, to keep it a safe space for everyone.

I personally donated more than a few bucks for the PMO, just as I have been donating funds for the upkeep of Dokuga multiple times over the years. SessKag fandom has been my home on the internet for a long time, and I'm happy that I'm financially secure enough to be able to help where I can. Poor Wiccan is currently paying for Dokuga's upkeep out of her own pockets. Who knows how much PMO's owner invested themselves.

You wouldn't think that Dokuga, the site that has been serving our fandom for the last 16 years, is a scam because it has had to rely on donations from the fans? Is AO3 a scam because they have annual fundraising drive? You know what what Dokuga and AO3 have in common? They're independent websites unpolluted by advertisements and third parties who want to get their hands on your personal data. How rare and amazing is that, in this day and age?

I have some idea, though certainly not all, about what happened to PMO, as I was only ever peripherally involved with the site. But as PMO themselves have not offered a full on explanation, it is not my place to make public the whole sorry saga. What I can say that there were technical issues with the site, and the party responsible for those was contracted and wholly outside our fandom.

I have nothing but compassion and admiration for PMO and what it stood for, for those several months that the site was operational. From personal experience of just hosting a few fandom blogs over here, I have some kind of a guess at how much time and energy such a huge undertaking as trying to put an entire website together for our fandom to use and then maintaining it would consume. And let's face it, most of us SessKag fans are well into our 30s or more by now. We're out here, living the busiest years of our lives and juggling to balance our love of SessKag with our other hobbies, our full time jobs, our friends and family, possibly children, possibly health issues, and with Naraku knows whatever bullshit life might deign to throw at us at any moment.

PMO's owner is a visionary, a friend, and a fellow fan I respect. They put in their best effort, and I appreciate the heck out of it. They had the best interests of our fandom

For the nearly 19 years I've been in the SessKag fandom, we have had a website of our own. First we had Single Spark, then we had Dokuga. For a brief while we had PMO. I think having our own safe corner of the internet has honestly made a real difference. We wouldn't have such a strong sense of community we do these days, if we hadn't had Dokuga forums and chatroom way before Discord or this Tumblr blog came to be. Having our own site is something I want to hold on to. And our SessKag community is something that I will always choose to believe in, 100%.

-- Admin Chie

[sesskag]

No more monthly prompts

I started doing the monthly prompts back when I inherited this blog.

In the past year and half, there has only been one fanwork done in response to the prompts.

So clearly, there no longer seems to be a need for them. And with the new year, we're tossing out the old that we no longer need. 🙂

I hope you all will have a healthy and gentle 2024 in store!

-- Admin Chie

[sesskag]

what is your favorite song by olivia rodrigo?

Honestly I haven't really listened to her music so I only know of like two, three songs.

But I definitely jam to good 4 u 😂

Thanks for the ask!

-- Admin Chie

[sesskag]

The theme is full moon, right?

Fics in Spanish can participate, I'm not very good at writing in English😅

Yes, the monthly prompt for May is full moon and everyone can participate!

Just make sure to tag us and use the hashtag #skmpmay23 when posting, so I'll know to reblog your work to share it here on this blog. 😊

- Admin Chie

[sesskagarchive]

Archive Situation Update 2

I posted this Situation update a year ago and as you may have noticed since then this blog has gone into hibernation.

This blog has since its start been a passionate project for me, but a part of why I’ve stepped back from it is that I never foresaw that we would get rec list requests, let alone so many of them. Every time I think I need to come back to this blog and be more productive I remember the mountain of asks in the inbox waiting for answers and feel overwhelmed.

So I’m going to be Closing the inbox for now. We’re not going to be accepting asks on this blog until further notice. And while the inbox is closed, I can start to chip down on that mountain of requests little by little, I hope.

The Author spotlight is also put on pause for now. The Spotlights have been Admin Sage’s domain and they’re taking time off fandom right now.

I’m not going to give up on this blog. It’s been wholly mine from the start and it’s a passion project of mine. But I also don’t have it in me to make fandom into a second job on top of my full-time job. There’s only so much energy in me to give.

I want to try to be better and ease back into making posts here again, but I also have to be aware of my boundaries and how much time and energy I will have to spare to this blog.

I hope you understand

- Admin Chie

[sesskagarchive]

Do you have a copy of Danyelle-Sama’s Kryptonite?

No, we don't. I'd suggest approaching the writer directly. Danyealle-sama used to have a yahoo group where they hosted their fics, I don't know if they've figured out a replacement since the groups were discontinued.

Sorry we couldn’t be of more help.

-Admin Chie

[sesskag]

Is there still an 18+ Sesskag Server *whobbly lip*

There is still an 18+ SessKag server but it has no public invites there's a vetting system for new members these days.

The other SessKag server as well as the new SessKag fansite PMO's server both have 18+ designated areas/channels, though.

- Admin Chie