Miles to Go

My feelings. Let me show them to you!

[emperanas]

howl jenkins pendragon:

there you are sweetheart, sorry i’m late, i was looking everywhere for you.

[princessesfanarts]

By Astor Alexander

[elinjos]

Saw this post from katarawr and I can’t stop myself, I know this really happened. Zuko can’t cook but he is a baby and he is just trying to help

[fredy-carter]

BUCKY BARNES | 1.05 TRUTH

[captain-flint]

when your boyfriend and your boyfriend’s ex wife’s husband are both chaotic insane but your two solid braincells aren’t enough to resist joining in on their stupid #prayfordavid

[boonki]

[c-rowlesblogs]

I’ve been seeing just. The wildest takes about AO3 this donation cycle and I’m at my limit. I just saw a post claiming that AO3 isn’t a real archive, that it’s a scam, because there’s no quality control like a real, legitimate archive would have, that they just let in any old trash. And that this makes AO3 not worthy of anyone’s money or respect.

And you know what? It’s true! AO3 does let in any old trash! People can just post whatever the hell they want. And you know what? An ad-free, free-to-use website where people writing fanfiction, in their free time for no money, can upload their work with no hassle or exclusive vetting process, that also happens to be a highly popular and well-known fanfic repository for every fandom under the sun? WITH a robust and well-curated tagging system, too? That’s the dream. I’m glad they let anyone upload whatever weird trash they want. GOOD.

[lemonsharks]

Libraries--legit brick and mortar libraries around the world are in awe of AO3's curation. AO3 is lightning in a bottle and these turds want to burn it to the ground because they won't read a freakin tag block? Because they choose to consume material that "makes them uncomfy" when the contents of that material are laid out in big step away anyone with the good sense god gave a bedbug to assess and move on from?

Listen up kiddos, a lack of self control on your part does not constituent a crisis of morality on mine.

Figure out how the fuck to not look at things that upset you and get on with your life.

[naryrising]

I'd add that, as with any archive, AO3 can and does remove things that are not within its mandate to host. Those include: commercial promotion, non-transformative works (someone's economics homework, the entire text of The Great Gatsby, plagiarized fics), spam, ephemeral content (e.g. fic finding posts, update plans, reaction posts), and illegal-in-the-US content. The rest of it?As long as it's a fanwork, our mission is to preserve. It doesn't matter if you think it's unimportant, doesn't have artistic merit, is offensive or in poor taste or badly written. As an actual professional archivist for about as long as I've been an AO3 volunteer, that's the "quality control" that we engage in.

[nannyfeline]

speaking to what @lemonsharks said, I am an actual librarian who works in an actual library that I am inside of right now, and yes, I am in awe of ao3 (and really any online archive with a mandate to host content in perpetuity).

some people need to hear that a librarian approves of the trashy stuff, too, so here you go. you porn is LIBRARIAN APPROVED. even the shitty stuff that's really poorly written.

[kattahj]

The "they let in any old trash" is extra funny when you remember that there are libraries that have an actual assignment to keep EVERYTHING. I think here in Sweden there are seven (I could be wrong about the number) libraries who have a duty to collect everything that's printed here. That newsletter from your folk dance group. The rantings of the local extremist party. IKEA catalogues. EVERYTHING. There's so much they don't even have the time and money to sort through it all. And they're the most prestigious libraries in the land.

[oneiriad]

The Royal Danish Library has been charged with collecting everything from books and journals over audiovisual materials to the Danish part of the internet for ages. If it’s published in some form, people are legally required to hand it in to the library.

(Among other things, you can probably thank those laws for being able to actually find a copy of that particularly controversial (and not really that good) novel by Peter Freuchen from back when he was really mad at libraries.)

And this was already in effect back in 1969, when Denmark as the first country in the world legalized visual porn (which predictably rapidly became a big industry) and until 1980, when the politicians finally realized that they’d literally tossed the baby out with the bath water and recriminalized child porn.

11 years worth of actual fucking child porn handing in by legal posit laws and yes, the Royal Danish Library is keeping them. You can’t get to see them without special permits (I believe the police might need to be involved?), but they are preserving this particularly fucked up piece of history (the 70s were weird, okay?).

Don’t tell me actual real libraries don’t keep the trash.

[kitsune-scribe]

This just in Ao3 is Fanfiction's Library of Congress, pass it on

[officialyoda-deactivated2024050]

does anybody else remember that reality show where they gaslit a bunch of americans into thinking they were competing to marry prince harry but it was really just some guy

[officialyoda-deactivated2024050]

[officialyoda-deactivated2024050]

[sharphoe]

#oh they GASLIT gaslit them

[wandasmaximoff]

[aliciavikander]

Bucky + whatever the fuck his face is doing 1/?

[mattmaesonnatural]

Alright James, why does Sam aggravate you? — TFATWS, Episode 2

[victini]

You can control white people by giving them cheese

[0ndo]

cheese is so good tho

[victini]

I got one

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[incorrectgundamwingquotes]

Heero, looking at Mariemaia: I’m not good with kids.

Relena: You're not too good with adults, either.

[toxicsamruby]

actually that fits w my theory that fanfiction is closer to literary analysis than it is to creative writing. like i feel like so much of fanfiction is more about "this is my interpretation of the text, and i'm teasing out the complexities of this interpretation by writing it in the format of a creative writing piece" than it is about an original piece of fiction

[toxicsamruby]

Yeah all of this!!!!! it's about Engaging with the original text and offering up ur interpretations of it

[professionalpenthief]

but arguably, i adore aus because its the author analysing the characters - what makes them innately themselves and to what extent are they defined by their surroundings? if their surroundings changed what needs to remain the same for me to recognise the character? if you read enough AUs about the same two characters you notice that certain elements of the original text always creep in (in every single AU Zuko still has an abusive dad, etc) which is the fic writer's way of deconstructing a character and studying what would have been the original writer's approach to building the character

[blackteaandbones]

This is interesting and relevant to a conversation I’m having with @entirelytookeen about the nature of plot vs. character and if they can really be examined as separate elements of a story.

My first instinct is yes, absolutely, isn’t that the essential nature of the AU? To take characters out their own story and drop them into another one? But I’m finding myself prompted to look deeper into that perspective, and re-examine my thought process.

I think part of it is having picked up so many novels with a promising premise, only to be disappointed by flat, boring or generally underwhelming characters. If a interesting idea can be let down by poorly executed characters, can interesting characters not exist within a poorly executed idea?

Food for thought.

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[missazuki-blog]