#gonna post

[polyghostfacehours]

I've been sick since yesterday, so my Kinktober Day 1 will be coming out tomorrow, along with Day 2!

[aroace-number-eight]

I've seen a bunch of posts talking about how dead the Lorien Legacies fandom is and to revive it. Yes, we look that way, and we want to bring it back up as a fandom. But, first and foremost, let's get on a couple things

We're not dead. Far from it. We're spread apart on every social media platform going from DeviantART to Tumblr to Ao3. There are active people on every one of these sites, still posting work, frequently or periodically. There just isn't a strong presence of us being active and together that makes it seem like we're noticeable for newcomers. Why?

Lack of new content and encouragement. Yes, there's tons of work from past fans dating back to when the series started. And it looks like there's a huge gap from when the fandom collapsed up to now. However, that doesn't mean we're entirely gone. There already exists a considerable amount of creators hiding out in a number of places, producing work quietly and hoping that there's someone who knows what we're about. But there isn't an audience.

When we create or even talk about LL for this fandom, we hope for people to recognize our work and acknowledge it. When there's someone who knows LL and likes our stuff, we get excited and realize that we're not alone, and we want to interact with them more. So how would we interact with fellow content creators?

Sharing and/or commenting. Spread that piece you love so much like a wildfire, so that it reaches out to people who follow you and also like that content. They'll reblog too, and share it with their followers who also like the creator's work. That's a driving force that makes us realize "I'm not alone in this fandom. There's people who know what I'm making and they love it." And that drives us to want to make more content for the fandom, because now we know that people are out there, people who have a shared interest with us, and suddenly we're not so alone anymore.

If you don't want to comment, putting your love in the tags is just as good. I always look forward to reading the tags when someone reblogs content, be it mine or someone else's work, and seeing the encouragement and reaction that's fueling and heartwarming enough to want to keep on doing what we do.

Reblogging also spreads content to other content creators who might not feel ready to post their own work. By seeing work of a fandom they recognize and love, it gives them the courage to post their own work too, because there's definitely someone who loves what they love, and might see their own work as well. Heck, what's stopping us from those massive @ lists of LL fans? Those posts had tons of people to follow for Lorien Legacies headcanons, meta, content, etc.

Who knows how many more artists, writers, editors, or fans in general there are? We don't know, but it's not going to stop us from encouraging the people we know right now. Reblog and comment/tag the content on Tumblr. Leave reviews on Fanfiction. Kudos and comments on Ao3. Favorites, mentions, and comments on DeviantART. Creating work only gets us so far; interacting with others and being engrossed in the fandom and the books we've read beginning to end will keep us an active and lively community. We love to talk about the books, so let's do that.

Let's make fanart. Create edits and moodboards. Write stories of every genre and AU. Make headcanons and incorrect quotes. Discuss meta. Tease the books a little. Love our characters and they're personalities and development arcs. Recommend the books to people we know. And most especially, encourage each other.

I'm with the LL community. How about you?

[fraddit]

The energy I’m trying to channel right now on this set:

[tinknevertalks]

Ok wow, my face looks weird. Anyways, this is my answer to the accents challenge thing! It sorta jumps straight in because I cocked up and accidentally showed someone else’s phone number and I didn’t want that so yeah... I am not normally this manic. (I am, I really am.)

So yeah, it’s long. Enjoy my grating voice. XD

[coldtomyflash]

Ok so I have a question that I've always kinda of wondered about the Flash universe, but I don't think it was ever really answered and I'm kinda interested at others opinions. Do you know how Caitlin an Cisco make money? like I guess in season 1 Eobard!Wells could've paid them for helping Barry, and I'm also guessing that maybe the police department paid Cisco for making them new tech, but other then that I have no idea.

So I was sure I had a post about this, but I cannot find it for the life of me.

I have this from an old post:

I always assumed that the bars (edit: Barry’s protein bars) come from the STAR Labs’s budget, much the same as the rest of the Flash equipment they need, the parts for the things Cisco invents almost weekly, and all the lab equipment and chemicals that Caitlin uses. The budget must also include the standard operation of the building – keeping the lights on, the security up and running, it probably has to be inspected at least annually even though it’s closed, and even things like getting the trash picked up weekly and the floors mopped, unless Cisco or Caitlin or Barry takes care of that.

Not to mention that Caitlin and Cisco have to have salaries via the lab still, because Caitlin doesn’t work at Mercury anymore and Cisco only acts as an occasional liaison for the CCPD. With Barry technically owning the lab, I imagine that he has mostly let Cisco and Caitlin determine their own expenses and salaries and that the lab has an accountant or three to process all their financials.

What they list the Flash-related expenses as on their documentation is another question altogether, but it could probably slide under some radar as research-related funds if they’re careful; it’s not like Cisco wouldn’t be able to hack or falsify some documents as needed. Let’s hope they never get a picky auditor though.

Beyond that, how the lab makes money is a neat question too. You’ve got to imagine they have royalties from some of their old patents, that Cisco might still be patenting inventions and Caitlin might be at least publishing papers on her research at times. In theory, the lab’s investments should be pretty-much self-sustaining at the very least, especially with such a small list of employees now and relatively low operating costs (aside from Flash-related things and the amount of electricity it would take to power the pipeline prison and a few other things they use on occasion), but they’re still spending money and not bringing in much. Factor in the lawsuits that the lab is paying out and the cost of paying the law firm itself, and you’ve got to hope that Eobard had things very nicely set up for the lab before the accelerator blew, or else they would be bankrupt… but then, he was from the future, so many he managed to know exactly how to invest the lab’s capital to get everything nice and well-established to ride out their substantial costs?

That’s more specific to Season 1 stuff, but a lot of it carries overs now, like the fact that there’s royalties and patents and former STAR Labs tech, and maybe research contracts. There’s also the “STAR Labs museum” that started in S3 and I don’t know if it’s still operational but there’s a chance it’s bringing in a bit of a cashflow on the main floor of the building. They might even have staff? There’s so much we can speculate about when it comes to this, honestly.

And STAR Labs had to make huge pay-outs after the accelerator blew, I’m pretty sure, but it’s operating budget also shrank to nothing. If Eobard had set it all up “just so” with his knowledge of what was gonna go down and how to prepare for it, he likely could’ve made sure that STAR Labs would have enough $$$ to stay afloat for a pretty long time even non-operational.

I’m more curious about it’s board of directors and stakeholders and everything else, to be honest. It seems like it was all down to just Eobard, and now down to just Barry? 

But I fully anticipate that all the research that Cisco and Caitlin do as part of Team Flash has translated into patents and contracts from outside stakeholders of some sort or another, really, and that’s helping finance what they do now. Cisco’s inventions would definitely be of interest to a lot of organizations, and there’s a pretty good chance that the CCPD has purchased his tech en masse, making for some serious coin. 

That might account for some of their salaries? Or maybe they each just got a huge payout when the accelerator blew and they’re living comfortably off it. Having seen their apartments, this seems less likely (whereas you can’t convince me that Barry didn’t spend a ton of his inheritance from Eobard on that ridiculously huge place he has with Iris...).

Beyond that, like you said, the CCPD likely pays Cisco a consulting fee of some sort, and Caitlin worked for Mercury labs for a while and apparently has been bartending for a bit. But so long as they’re working at STAR Labs, I anticipate that they’re still making STAR Labs wages, because if they have enough $ to keep the lights on, the satellites in the sky (that’s another thing, they might make $ off people paying to use their satellite?), and to make all the different things that they make for Barry (and themselves) then... they have money. A lot of it, definitely more than enough to pay themselves a fair wage. Wherever that money happens to be coming from.

[annieisyourfavourite]

I forgot I drew a beet today

[nickamarofc]

modrić goal btw <3 spurs legend