#roz rambles

[rozthestar]

i downloaded krita and picked up my wacom tablet after stopping my adobe subscription a year ago, and really effectively stopping drawing like a year ago... I want to draw again but damn its so hard lets hope this effort gets me enjoying my hobby of doodling again

[tonyglowheart]

I’m torn on modding. On one hand yes it’s a slippery slope and I don’t want to give that a chance. But on the other I’ve stumbled across hetalia fanfics depicting the holocaust in detail as a positive thing and as a Jew it made me physically nauseous and only a few comments politely asking them to take it down... idk if they’re still up in 2020 but the idea of being able to report nazis is appealing. But again it’s a slippery slope

Hi anon. I hear you and I think I can see what you mean, however my impulse is still not along the lines of what you're suggesting, as far as content moderation goes.

In general, I think it's a tough subject and a tough issue to determine or adjudicate if there should be disallowed content for AO3, and if so, what. And.. even though we get some more "obvious" cases, if we ARE disallowing certain content as objectionable, then that's where get into having to start debating brightlines, and I don't think AO3 has the resources to pour into that, necessarily, not and keep the everyday running of the Archive up. (as well as you have the issue then of... well who gets to determine that?)

But beyond considerations of resources and volunteer teams, I do think, though, that this falls into one of those "even though AO3's status is somewhat blurred being as they are a 'living' system with more active engagement, they are still an *Archive* and not a social media platform, and thus fall more into library guidelines/functionality, vs a forum where we might encourage moderation." But this is also where I hesitate to speak more definitively bc I'm not familiar with library discourse esp within like library science fields. My general impression, though, is that most librarians are very much AGAINST bookbanning/bookburning, even for "objectionable" content, but I couldn't speak as to what the prevailing discourse on the topic is bc it's not familiar to me.

I'm thinking what COULD be done, and AO3's answer is generally to tag and warn (one of the main points of AO3 over other fic platforms), but like.. as with discussions on racism & AO3 that have been floating around recently, I don't think that's a good solution either, bc again pointing back to the potential for that feature to be abused by bad-faith players, as well as how it creates extra ToS work which again impacts potentially impacted demographics who would perhaps have to moderate that. ...so again, that's not really a solution either..

It's.. a tough thing to figure, and like.. I feel you on wanting to be able to better control how you can safely engage esp if not everyone WILL add on tags or warnings even if requested (which.. like is, again, their right to decline :') even if I will personally feel like they're potentially being asshole-y and could do better to try to be a good community member). Idk if I have any further thoughts to add that other people haven't really said, but like.. at the very least, I do feel you on the frustration and pain sometimes :') Maybe some interesting things will come out of the further explorations of AO3 tools as far as the racism discussions go. Or maybe this is one of those things where I just have to be able to vent, but then tighten my sphere and move on, about. *that one post I rbed about what you can control vs what you can't* Which... I know, personally, can be tough lol, and I still haven't worked through all my resentment and frustration to always be only or primarily constructive and instructive myself :')

[kaythejay]

Roz’s 300 Follower Celebration

You’ve done it again! You have all helped me to reach yet another follower milestone! I cannot thank you all enough!

When I started this blog, I didn’t think I’d have more than one follower (the girl who got me addicted to this hellsite @destroythedivide ). Now I have over 300! What the heck my dudes! Thank you all!

Before I get to talking about the fics, I wanted to give a special thank you to all of my friends (ya’ll are in no particular order, don’t worry. I love you all 💗).

@destroythedivide @honeyjarhowell @shutup-rat @kickthypj @i-procrastinate-everything @butterfly-apocalypse @madhumitabharadwaj @minihowie 

Thank all of you for everything that you do for me. All of your continued support of me and my idiocy. Knowing what goes on behind what I post and still supporting me anyway. Thank you all so much for being my friends in this journey most can only call “life.” 

NOW FOR THE FIC AND LETTERING STUFF

I’m going to put it under the cut because this post is going to take up enough space as it is so.... yeah. 

Fics: 

How to get one: 

 Do you have an idea for any of the fandoms that I’m in (I’m mostly good at Dan and Phil and Sanders Sides, but I am willing to do some of the other fandoms that I take part in) great! Just send it to me either via an ask, a private message, or a comment on this very post. Just please don’t spam my other posts. This celebration  is for you all to thank you for your support, so I want to give anyone who has an idea that they want me to use to be able to send it in. 

Rules: 

1. I am open to almost anything and nothing I can think of off the top of my head is a line I am not willing to cross (just check out my ao3 to get some ideas of how far I’ve gone just on my own). HOWEVER this does not mean that you will automatically be accepted. If your idea crosses a line that I wasn’t aware of I will not do it and if you try to fight me on it I will block you. I may also just not have any inspiration. 

I WILL tell you why I deny your idea, if for whatever reason I do deny it. Hold me accountable to this. I just need you to understand that you are not entitled to everything and (while VERY LOW CHANCE OF THIS) I do have the right to deny anything. 

2. Be patient. I don’t know how many of you have any experience with writing fics, but it takes me about an hour to churn out somewhere around 1,000 words, depending on how inspired I am by a prompt. 

3. Sometimes my ideas just take over, regardless of what the prompt was so like... that’s a thing that’s more than likely going to happen (though don’t worry about something turning dirty when you didn’t want that or vice versa because I will stick with those).

4. Because of time’s sake I’m going to limit it to 10 fics for now. If I find that those are all done, I still have loads of time, and people still want fics, I am willing to change that, but not a second too soon. Here is the link to the document so you can track how many other people have fics lined up and how close I am to being done with said fics.  

5. Please do not send in more than one prompt. Like I said, fics are really time consuming and I want to make sure that people get 

And yeah! That’s about it for that. Like I said, I’m open to almost anything so like... just tell me and I’ll try to make it happen for you. 

Lettering: 

How to get one: 

Just send me a quote of your choice and what color(s) you would like it in and I will make it happen. I will allow any number of these. Here is the document for this. Don’t worry about the size of the table. I can always add more and this stuff takes up much less time than fics do so like... I can do more of them. You can send in more than one of these. Yeah they take a bit of effort but I need the practice number one and number two they don’t take THAT much time. 

What I mean by lettering:

This has two filters over it, and I will probably put at least one, but that doesn’t change the handwriting itself, just how well it pops. 

For both fics and quotes I will be making a post for them and tag the user who requested it in said post to make sure they see it. I will also be posting all of my fics on Ao3 because that’s how I do things. If you request a fic and want to be included in the notes section of the Ao3 fic, just let me know and I will put you there. If not, just don’t worry about it because I won’t worry about putting you there if you don’t tell me you want your user there. 

[pprismo]

y’all really out here thinking present mic is hot huh

[tonyglowheart]

you know what all of my nihilism & tendency towards negative thought processes aside, there have been fantastic things that came out of getting into danmei fandom. I’ve met some awesome people, and mdzs/cql has given me a pathway to reconnecting with the language and my heritage, and I’ve gotten to meet like people with a similar passion and cultural connection, and like, all of the everything else aside, that’s been really awesome. And it’s also really touching to me to see all these artists and writers talk about how they’d been struggling before with their creativity/inspiration & they hadn’t written or drawn so much until they got into mdzs. I know I myself was kind of feeling fandom stagnation before too (rip Marvel :’) ), and danmei has been pretty cool for me bc it’s been a sort of nice intersection between my old m/m indie comm days, and fandom, but with an extra side of culture!! and like having so many EN-lang ppl actually care about, want to learn about, or honestly even just acknowledge Chinese culture is like my literal wildest dreams as a weeby high schooler who was vaguely salty that anything vaguely Asian would be labeled as “Japanese” with absolutely hesitance from ppl?

But like yeah discovering and getting back into cmedia through danmei has really been a net positive, I think, for all that I’m like a seething saltcano beneath the surface now (thanks twitter and like general escalating purity wank and also the world 8) ) I know my brain is often not a very fun or pleasant place to be and my salt gets triggered more easily these days, it seems, and I get tilted over things now that I’m in an environment with more potential tripwires for me, but like... all of that aside... I am glad I got into it all. 

[tonyglowheart]

rabbit_isle_bot on twitter is one of the best things I’ve followed like ever, bc I get absolute gems like this hand delivered to me:

...effervescent

[tonyglowheart]

I am also thankful for the rabbit isle bot on twitter bc wow those are dang good buns. japanese rabbit twitter is also very good thank u ;-;

the mxtx floofs have been kind of quiet recently but! borbxian is up and borbing and I love this good borb

also I opened twt just now and saw someone lowkey sobbing over the fact that wangxian is married and they have a son and like... oh my god.. they’re married and have a son ;-; bless

[kaythejay]

Guess who went out and is now a NaNoWriMo winner! (Hint: it’s me)