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Welcome to Marginal Thinking!

This is a blog dedicated to writing of various fandom persuasions, oc works, and creativity of all sorts! Below is a small list of the major tags I curate here.

Asks are always open, though I would appreciate not asking for fic/wip updates! The writing will come when it comes.

Please do not ask me about Vampire: The Masquerade, or any writing or art or content I may have created for it in the past. If you send asks, or comment, the first will be ignored, and if sent a second time, you will be blocked. Thank you.

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OC Works -Soon to come!

This has been a time coming, but it has been difficult to find the words. I was hoping that removing myself from the situation would help, but as this has bled over into affecting my partner and friends, I will address it.

About three weeks ago, I made the decision to no longer publicly post or make content for a story. The reason for this decision was due to a combination of factors, that I will not openly discuss. The point is - I decided I would not continue the story publicly, and left the fandom.

Over the past three weeks, me, my partner, and our mutual friends have received a bombardment of asks, comments, and notes harassing us about the continuation of the specific story in question, and bleeding into other fandoms that we write for and participate in. The accounts will beg, pester, guit-trip, and trauma dump, praise bomb, among other actions in order to try and coerce us to write what they want us to write. We have received unwanted and unsolicited nsfw asks, asks about requests, headcanons, rp and other things. Many of the accounts have been bot-like, new accounts created not even a full day before sending the asks. We block, and a new one comes back the next day with the same questions, the same asks, the same behavior about us and our works. On average, we are getting one to three asks in a day between us, with more hate comments on our stories posted to ao3. Some of those are bots. Most of them are too targeted and specific, and are probably real people.

I cannot control other people. I cannot make people stop a certain behavior, nor will I 'explain myself', as I do not owe anyone an explanation for decisions I make about my own creative works, collaborative or purely of my own.

I wish to iterate going forward, simply to state it:

-Do not contact me about any works that appear to be either on or stated to be on hiatus. You will be blocked.

-Do not send us nsfw asks, comments, or headcanons. You will be blocked.

-Do not send us unsolicited headcanons, rp ideas, story ideas, or other material. You will be blocked.

-Do not beg, pester, or guilt-trip about works you personally want updated. Neither I nor my partner are a content machine for you. You will be blocked.

-Do not comment about one work on a different work asking about it because you believe it will get our attention. You will be blocked.

-Do not comment things irrelevant to the story being commented on. You will be blocked.

-Do not offer 'creative or organizational assistance' unprompted. You will be blocked.

-Do not white-knight or otherwise 'advocate' for me or my partner. It is not appreciated, nor wanted. Just stop. It is not your place to 'protect' me or my partner, it is only invasive.

These measures sound harsh, but due to the ongoing issues, my partner and I no longer feel safe in the fandom I left, and feel stalked in this space that was supposed to be a place for us to have fun and share our stories and ideas. We have closed our ask boxes and messages. Our comments section in ao3 is registered users only, and moderated.

This is not us trying to be mean. This is the last step we can take to protect ourselves and our mental health.

Thank you for your understanding.

mistchievous

What vibes does prev have?

Cat

Dog

Bird

Space Alien

Rock

Tree

Hipster

Lizard

Mom/Dad/Parental

Supervillain

Marshmallow

Clown

Voting ended onJul 2, 2024

#either a very patient cat #or a tree 🌲

mistchievous

What vibes does prev have?

Cat

Dog

Bird

Space Alien

Rock

Tree

Hipster

Lizard

Mom/Dad/Parental

Supervillain

Marshmallow

Clown

Voting ended onJul 2, 2024

#marshmallow #soft and sweet

Had a harassment ask call me 'Margot' today. That's a new one.

karcatgirl-vantas

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

skluug

this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

ace-disgrace-on-the-case

False! “Sightly” is a positive word, so the default way for things to work is good as well.

The true most ordinary object is beautiful, horrible sounding, very smelly, intangible, and delicious.

I still don’t think it matches anything in existence but to truly understand a thing one must know its true nature.

professionalchaoticdumbass

"touchy" is also a word! however it's mostly used for things that aren't objects, like subjects of conversation. it either means "oversensitive and irritable" or "requires careful handling/wording, delicate"

i think the second one works well for our hypothetical object. so we can use that.

therefore, the Default Object is:

beautiful

makes a horrendous sound

smells absolutely awful

is very fragile

tastes delicious

and i still cannot think of anything that matches this

and-a-pidgey-in-a-wepear-tree

behold, the default object!

ospreyonthemoon

DEFAULT OBJECT FOUND

#a perfectly generic object

silvermaplealder

Idk I felt the need to draw this immediately. David snatch Marko possessively

#the lost boys #marko tlb #david tlb #marko: *the furious wiggling of a chihuahua scorned*

Just coming in to wish you lots of love and support, Think! Thank you for being such a lovely friend and letting me express some of my thoughts and Rambles about silly vampires and Stranger Things- even some of my own story as well! You're an amazing writer and create such wonderful work you can just feel the dedication and love through the screen with each word, and each characterization, and every well thought out plot and story. 🩷

T-T thank you Cherry.

I'm happy we got to meet in the fandom, and I'm happy we get to share more things together. I adore your art and always look forward to when you post it, and I'm waiting excitedly for your oc works when they come. This fandom wouldn't be the same without you. It's been an honor to know you. I hope you have a wonderful day!!

#answered asks #fandom #*shakes hands* main female vampire character named charlie

midnight-in-santa-carla

This was inspired by the photo under the cut of Kiefer enjoying a little smooch at an event. I just had to do a version with these three ♥️

#the lost boys #michael emerson #david tlb #star tlb #have I reblogged this yet? idk #doing it now #her boysssss

nonbinarypastels

no but how much audacity and sheer entitlement do you have to have to tell people they need to stop posting their darkfic and porn fic and any other fic you don’t like to ao3 so you can have a safe space when ao3 was literally created as a safe space for writers to post their content without fear of it being randomly wiped out by pro-censorship assholes with an agenda like what has happened to plenty of other fic archives before?

“but a lot of us see ao3 as a safe space to get away from that kind of nasty content” - lol you can see the middle of a busy interstate as a safe space all you want too but that doesn’t mean that you get to walk into the road and scream at all the cars going by that they’re the ones infringing on your safe space either

ao3 is not, has never been, and will never be a site meant for nothing but children’s stories. you can “see it” like that as much as you want but there’s a difference between fiction and reality and that view of what ao3 is like is as fictional as the stories posted on it.

smokeymcbandit

Caveat your policies and principles, because there’s a mad difference between children’s stories and stories that are harmful across the board.

A lot of writers on ao3 don’t care to tag their stories appropriately, or consider the harm they perpetrate with their stories, or take responsibility for the harm they cause with their stories. It’s one thing to write whatever you want, it’s another to publish it, publicise it, and not take care enough to note if it’s harmful.

brydeswhale

Let’s be honest, a lot of supposed “dark fic” is generally just exploitive masturbatory fantasy. It’s often written by ppl who don’t care what bigotry they perpetuate, what harmful tropes they use, any of that, as long as they get their kicks.

You can write what you want, but if you choose to post it publicly, you need to be prepared for an audience that has its own opinions. And the audience might say, “This archive needs a better policy”.

elfwreck

The audience might - but AO3 wasn’t created for the audience. It was created for the authors, so they’d have a place to post their fics that kept getting thrown off of other sites.

You might think those sites were correct and some kinds of content shouldn’t be allowed in public anywhere. In which case, you might want to stay away from AO3, because it was explicitly and directly created to host stuff that was unacceptable elsewhere. That’s its core purpose.

Fics that aren’t tagged according to the archive’s rules can be reported. However, there’s not much tagging that’s actually required: Just the warnings (including the option of “choose not to warn,” meaning “not telling you if any of these things are here”) and a fandom. They can leave off the rating, and it’ll be sorted as if it were explicit.

AO3 was meant to be supportive of both “authors who want to tag major and minor pairings, every notable trope in the story, and several types of relationships” - and authors who tag NOTHING but the fandom and maybe a pairing. The “what tags are required?” debate was not new when AO3 was founded, more than 13 years ago. So they opted for a bare minimum of safety tags, added the option of adding a bunch more, and said “Reader Beware: We don’t require that tagging be complete.”

brydeswhale

Bitch, if AO3 was just for authors, it wouldn’t exist, because we all would have gotten off our own dicks years ago and realized we didn’t need public acclaim to enjoy writing.

elfwreck

It wasn’t created “just” for authors. But it was created for authors first, with the for-readers features being most focused on, “hey authors - how do you want your readers to find you?”

There’s a difference between wanting to share writing with a community and “needing public acclaim.”

We knew damn well when we set up AO3’s terms of service, that there would be people who decided, “I am NOT putting my writing on a site that hosts THAT AWFUL STUFF.” (At the time, we kind of assumed “That Awful Stuff” was “Voldemort victorious; Death Eater orgies abound” fics, not “Harry/Draco underage” fics, but we also knew that what’s considered “wrong” changes over time.) (Some of us remember when just saying you read slash could get you kicked out of a fandom’s locked email list.)

We weren’t really expecting demands that AO3 change its policies, because… those weren’t after-the-fact decisions? It wasn’t, “hey, let’s build an archive, and oh, I guess we’ll let the icky smut in too.” It was, “The icky smut keeps getting banned/ deleted/ forbidden/ removed because the mods got into a fight about what to allow…. what can we do about that? How about… an archive?”

Complaints that AO3 allows the stuff that AO3 was created to host will get zero results. No changes in policy; no open consideration; no public discussions.

AO3 is now one of the busiest fanfic sites on the internet, because it turns out, a LOT of people like a no-censorship approach. But if popularity wanes and only the ultra-kink-friendly people are still active… that’s fine. That’s what it’s for. Everyone else has a whole internet that will host their content.

colubrina

If you do not like AO3’s no-censorship policies, you are welcome to create your own site with heavier content restrictions. I believe the code is open source, so have at it.