Blind Venetian

I wish this had some kind of theme... I mean it’s going to be 80% a LadyIrina stan account so

[pedricaraz]

i rlly need to rant bc 🧘🧘

i get youre loving the basque yaoi with unai and oyarzabal and youre writing fics/making fanarts of them, which like 10/10 i support ive been there and done that, but i feel like most of these people dont know rpf etiquette bc theyre repeating the same "and when we tell them about this ship and blah blah blah" over and over and ITS MAKING ME GO NUTS

like why are we normalizing letting the people we make fics of know about it?, why do we try and make it so mainstream when it only endangers fandom spaces bc regular people find them and only laugh at them?? it just makes no sense to me and makes me mad

[theblindvenetian]

this sentiment is so real and applies to all ships, like people STOPP telling the subjects of the fanworks about the fanworks!! Not only will regular people laugh at it but you will destroy the cute interactions (truly romantic or not) that made everyone ship them in the first place bc they’ll get conscious of their every move being perceived in a certain way! Like, did we not learn from Larry Stylinson 🥲

it keeps making me so uncomfortable to see mainstream news articles about ships and videos going viral where you know the subjects are going to see them and probably feel weird about it!

[despitethebite]

SERHIO RAMOH & IKER CASILLAS IN THE BOX TOGETHER, HELLO DARLINGS

[sulphuryasecretcloset]

Chapters: 17/17 Fandom: The Mandalorian (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Corin the Stormtrooper (Rescue and Regret)/Din Djarin, Paz Vizsla/Original Female Character(s), Paz/Raga, Zev/Leo Characters: Din Djarin, Corin the Stormtrooper (Rescue and Regret), Paz Vizsla, Raga Saxon, Zev'sonya Lee Lewna, Leo aka Leave-it, Original Mandalorian Characters (Star Wars), assorted ducklings and some familiar faces from SW-verse, Grogu | Baby Yoda Additional Tags: Found Family, Hurt/Comfort, Most of them have some kind of ptsd really, Friendship, Pining, King Oblivious, bring on the tropes, Fluff, Touch-Starved Din, reformed Storm Trooper, ManDadlorian, Adopted Sibling Relationship, little green bean continues to be a danger with his adorableness Series: Part 12 of The Mandalorian, his son and the Storm Trooper Summary:

Over a year ago CT-113 was forced to his knees as he was about to be executed. Today Corin is a very different man, thanks to Din Djarin and their little Foundling and he’s finally found his home with them. So things should be good, right? Unfortunately they still have to deal with an unknown fiancé, evil Hutts, people who will do whatever it takes to get the darksaber, and bad luck descending on their friends…

Is there such a thing as a happy goodbye?

[djarins-cyare]

HD version!!!

I also put it through a softer filter so you can see the details in his suit more. That's a new IB-94 blaster, too!

[spageddy]

mad respect for our men in stem (sewing, tidying up, errand running, making dinner)

[powerfulwizard]

People on here say shit like “I’m gay so I don’t listen to country” like Dolly Parton hasn’t historically had an enormous influence on the gay community and especially for drag artists, and like Johnny Cash wasn’t a historically a huge influence on butch lesbian style and attitude. Your bad taste is not universal.

[powerfulwizard]

Just saying,

[powerfulwizard]

Also lets name off some gay country stars:

Brandie Carlile:

Lil Nas X:

Orville Peck:

K.D. Lang:

Chely Wright:

Feel free to add more

[anissapierce]

Some of these straddle the line of folk and country but imo sth being labeled as folk vs country is sometimes v biased (like lgb women are Known for folk in a lot of ways but so many of them would be considered country if country stations actually Played them imo)

Thao and Mirah

Loamlands

Evil

Paisley Fields

Who could forget Lavender Country

And Patrick Haggertys new album

Mya Byrne

Karen and the Sorrows

Hurray for the riff raff

Ryan Cassata

[anissapierce]

Pt 2 (i hit an audio limit)

Sam Gleaves

Mercy Bell

Dane Terry

Eli Conley

Little Bandit

Justin Hiltner

Alabama Shakes has Brittany Howard in it and she’s queer (though i guess its classified as southern rock and not country)

[kingofthewilderwest]

#country is good yall just dont know how to find music the charts dont shove in your face

FUCKING THANK YOU

[duskydestra]

Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

[theblindvenetian]

🎉🥳🎁

[beachdeath]

a few weeks back i looked up the source of “we deserve a soft epilogue, my love” because it’s such a lovely, evocative line and i wanted to know the name of the poet who wrote it and it was. from captain america fanfiction.

[beachdeath]

wow this post got vastly more traction than i expected it to so a couple things:

this is the source of the quote

the punchline of this post is not “lmao captain america fanfiction is so dumb” but “wow fanfic authors are so gifted” i want to be very clear because it would kill me if people thought i was making fun of the author

[theblindvenetian]

10-20k fics that are just one chapter have a 90% of fucking me up for the rest of the day.

[professortennant]

How Long is this Fic Really?: A Guide

Word count in the HP Series: 

Sorcerer’s Stones: 76,944  Chamber of Secrets: 85,141 Prisoner of Azkaban: 107,253  Goblet of Fire: 190,637 Order of the Phoenix: 257,045 Half-Blood Prince: 168,923 Deathly Hallows: 198,227

Word count in the LOTR Series:

The Hobbit: 95,022 Fellowship of the Ring: 177,227 Two Towers: 143,436 Return of the King: 134,462

[orangelemonart]

This changed me

[the-queen-of-thedas]

I’ve read/ am reading fic that are upwards to 150,000 - 200,000. You’re telling me that authors that write for fun are writing a full-length book for the fun of it? They have earned my respect 10 fold.

[armellin]

A friendly reminder.

[chatstronaut]

Adding on to this by reminding everyone to leave feedback on fics. Seriously, y’all, fic writers put their heart, soul, blood, sweat, tears, and time into their writing. The least that you could do is let them know you enjoyed their works. 

[theblindvenetian]

Seeing physical books makes me feel nervous sometimes because almost all of my reading is done online, and I don’t really know how long it will take me to get through a certain number of pages. I wish all books came with a word count because I am not scared of a story over 100,000 words, but I see 200 pages and I’m like 😰 so long too much.

I feel like seeing the word count of highly successful published printed books also helps to legitimize fanfiction because it just is further proof of the effort of authors.

[dear-ao3]

[lagozze]

Ao3 authors will literally post under any fucking circumstances

[countesspetofi]

“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to stan this ship and declare it endgame. Repeat after me: I, Gary Stu, take thee, Mary Sue, as my lawful OTP, for hurt and for comfort, in fluff and in angst, IC or OOC, through squick and through squee, forsaking all retcons and AU’s, so long as both our work shall be in progress. If any OC’s here present know of any reason why this ship is crack, let them comment now or forever hold their recs. By the authority vested in me by The Powers That Be, I now pronounce you a canon pairing.”

[brydeshit-deactivated20221217]

dear fan fiction writers who write 100K+ fics,

i’ve just heard of this thing called kissing me right on the lips, you wanna try?

[bronyrpblog]

[windmill-ghost]

I’ve seen people pass around the “hold up, I’m googlin’ something” image but it cropped out the part where he was googling “how many guys can one guy take”

[windmill-ghost]

this page, in isolation, is possibly the funniest thing i have seen in any manga

[tits-n-trix]

[levynite]

FUCK YOU DISNEY

Anyways, y’all better start saving your fave fanfics and fanart under the Disney labels cause it looks like they’re trying to curb fair use/fanworks and I’m sure there’s going to be mass panicked deletions even though it’s probably unnecessary cause AO3′s legal team will fight for us.

[dancinbutterfly]

You know that 400K yall were so fucking mad about OTW raising? Yeah, its gonna pay for the travel expenses and court costs that the legal team at AO3/OTW when they protect your shit from getting C&Ded. DO NOT DELETE YOUR STUFF! IF YOU GET CONTACTED BY DISNEY - GO TO THE ORGANIZATION OF TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS , CONTACT THEIR LEGAL ADVOCACY DEPARTMENT! ASK FOR HELP!! THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE IS *WHY* *THEY* *EXIST*

[elfwreck]

Note that Disney would have one Hell of a time serving C&Ds to authors at AO3 - because there is no “contact author” option other than leaving a comment.

They’d have to contact the SITE, which is to say, the Organization for Transformative Works, to deliver a C&D order or a DMCA takedown order.

And the OTW is not going to remove fics because someone sent a letter that says “actually those characters belong to me and you can’t use them that way.” The OTW was created to FIGHT that kind of claim. They are ready. 

Don’t delete your fics out of fear. WE OWN THE SERVERS. They can’t threaten the hosts into deleting anything.

And if Disney thought they had a strong legal case against fanfic, they’d’ve shut down the archive a decade ago, when it was penniless and unknown, instead of waiting until it had won several battles in Congress and got worldwide acclaim for a Hugo Award.

[living-force]

This is important!

[araceil]

This is why we say you aren’t allowed Patreon and Ko-Fi links on AO3. Because it gives these parasites their legal back door to fuck your shit up.

[onhirel-reblogs]

Reblogging it for that last point. We can do this because it’s free. Don’t be an asshole and have the fact that you are charging people to write about another organization’s intellectual property out in the open because you can ruin it for everybody.

[freetheworms]

you promised to put out a new fic chapter today but your brain seems to be working against you ? totally cool, i understand !

you said you were gonna answer some asks but you’re feeling a little overwhelmed ? no worries, we can wait !

you decided you were going to post some art today but you’re just too busy to finish it ? all good, there’s always tomorrow !

give yourself a break sometimes. work at your own pace. congratulate yourself for any amount of progress.

creating content is hard, okay.

you’re already doing wonderfully. no pressure. you got this.

[theblindvenetian]

Thank you for doing it at all 🥺💕

[kate-komics]

Voices of the Dark Ch. 3 Part 2

The bitch is back…

But I would like to state that it was in these pages that I realized just how stunningly lovely Katee Sackhoff is. That babe’s cheekbones could cut steel.