trying on a metaphor
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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noise dept.
oozey mess
if i look back, i am lost
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JBB: An Artblog!
Product Placement
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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@yaycoffee
I know I overuse the phrase “I’m so happy you liked it” when I reply to comments but what else am I supposed to say when I’m so happy they liked it?
This. I am genuinely so incredibly happy that you liked what my brain blurted out. Like? I honestly am usually flabbergasted and awed that anyone even bothers. Like??? I AM SO HAPPY YOU LIKED IT!!!!
the contentious relationship u form with the first song on a playlist
Throwback Thursday turned into Flingback Friday! If only I had a memory. Still, my poor time-tracking won’t take a jot away from this great story form @yaycoffee.
So, a couple of you have given me prompts— thank you so much! I am mulling. I will definitely write to the prompt, but if what I come up with sucks (and I can’t make it work)— you’ll never see it ;). Regardless, I think I will have something soonish. I am also considering a personal writing challenge for the month of December. I think I’m hopefully getting to a place where writing is a part of my life again. I really have missed it.
idk who needs to hear this but when your english teacher asks you to explain why an author chose to use a specific metaphor or literary device, it’s not because you won’t be able to function in real-world society without the essential knowledge of gatsby’s green light or whatever, it’s because that process develops your abilities to parse a text for meaning and fill in gaps in information by yourself, and if you’re wondering what happens when you DON’T develop an adult level of reading comprehension, look no further than the dizzying array of examples right here on tumblr dot com
this post went from 600 to 2400 notes in the time it took me to write 3 emails. i’m already terrified for what’s going to happen in there
k but also, as an addendum, the reason we study literary analysis is because everything an author writes has meaning, whether it was intentional or not, and their biases and agendas are often reflected in their choice of language and literary devices and so forth! and that ties directly into being able to identify, for example, the racist and antisemitic dogwhistles often employed by the right wing, or the subconscious word choices that can unintentionally illustrate someone’s bias or blind spot. LANGUAGE HAS WEIGHT AND MEANING! the way we communicate is a reflection of our inner selves, and that’s true regardless of whether it’s a short story or a novel or a blog post or a tweet. instead of taking a piece of writing at face value and stopping there, assuming that there is no deeper meaning or thought behind the words on the page, ask yourself these two questions instead:
1. what is the author trying to say? 2. what does the author maybe not realize they’re saying?
because the most interesting reading of any piece of literature, imho, usually occupies the space in between those questions.
This
im beggin dude, don’t take my man
I am dying! Lol!
Prompt for fun!
J & S being in a serious fight or argument and one of them says "make me!" and the other one goes to do it and it gets physical like wrestling around until they end up kissing and making out. Sex and declarations of love follow!
Hope that sounds fun to you!
This does sound fun! I will see what I can do :)
Because tumblr is weird— after I asked for Johnlock fic prompts, I had some “new” messages— that were from 2018 about Pillowfort. Like? Um? What is real? If you’ve given me a prompt, maybe do it again?
Does anyone want to prompt me with a Johnlock fic? If so— I will do my best.
Every year… Every damn year…
Tags like this are the reason I tend to donate extra to AO3 when I can afford to.
Honestly, I don’t even care if people I know donate. AO3 is designed so that a few generous patrons can make a nice thing exist for everyone… But holy shit do I wish tumblr would learn how websites and companies work because it is important to know what motivates them.
On AO3, MORE TRAFFIC IS NOT BETTER HOLYFUCK. That’s only true when traffic = more ad revenue or a better pitch to venture capitalists or something.
Ao3 is literally a nonprofit, kids.
to clarify, rather than scold: The Archive Of Our Own is a nonprofit organization that runs an archive of fanfiction, specifically for the purposes of recording and maintaining all fanfics uploaded to it. it was founded after livejournal and fanfiction.net repeatedly deleted queer and ‘problematic’ fanfics in order to please advertisers and keep getting ad revenue. for decades, fandom was at the mercy of corporations who repeatedly deleted–with little warning and no mercy–whatever platforms were used to host fanfiction, especially dark, queer, kinky, and immoral fanfiction that would annoy corporate interests or scare off investors or offend advertisers.
AO3 is specifically relies on donations, rather than ad revenue, because it is the Archive Of Our Own, and is not answerable to any political agenda other than protecting and maintaining, again, all the fanfiction uploaded to it. there are checks and balances, and there’s a governing board, and they’re all dead serious about making sure that the archive endures any attempts by outside parties to censor or remove its content, no matter how abhorrent that content is.
the archive is an archive, not a social network or a platform. it hosts content and it serves that content to users in an efficient way–hence the phenomenal tag system–but it is meant to safeguard writers and their writing, not to profit from its users. it literally can’t profit off of its users or monetize their interactions in any way, just by virtue of its own structure: all money given to a nonprofit goes towards furthering that organization’s mission.
see, when a company or corporation makes money, it pays for labor and upkeep and then the guys that own the company keep the rest of the money, and that’s profit. when a nonprofit makes money, it pays for labor and upkeep and then if it has extra, it reinvests in various ways, like building new things or improving old things, or it saves the money for future labor and upkeep it might need.
the archive cares that users are able to control their own experiences of it, and filter out the stuff they don’t want to see. they care that users are protected from harassment. but they don’t profit from users’ engagement with the site, so they don’t do anything to encourage traffic the way a for-profit site that’s monetized engagement has.
hopefully this explanation helps someone.
tl;dr, a non-profit archive can’t profit from traffic the way for-profit social networks do, so it doesn’t care about you in a completely different way.
tl;dr, a non-profit archive can’t profit from traffic the way for-profit social networks do
Repeat for emphasis.
I feel like the problem is that kids these days (yeah, yeah) have grown up in a world where everything is monetized, to the point where they can’t imagine an entire archive, that exists, for free, on the internet, with no nefarious purpose, without the intent of makin money. It’s not for profit. There’s no strings attached. Nobody’s profiting behind the scenes somewhere. People just can’t CONCEIVE of it.
The site is so well designed and looks so professional that the Youths see it, assume it is a Corporate Entity, and therefore must be reflexively Battled Against as The Enemy.
Without noticing that there are…no ads on the site.
*sigh*
And if I may add my two cents, the Archive is constantly adding content. Other fandoms are brought under its umbrella. Fan produced content that would be lost forever if it had no place to go.
Reblog forever, and adding my endless appreciation and heartfelt thanks that A03 even exists.
is there anything better as a writer than an AO3 message that someone went through all your fics in a fandom? “[person] left kudos on [story1]. [person] left kudos on [story2]. [person] left kudos on [story3].” GLORIOUS. like you actually read words I wrote and thought “hmm, yes good, I will continue” and then did so. magical. i saw some Youths out there afraid this is “stalking” but as an Old let me tell you au contraire, it is a rare sweet nectar that warms our ancient dead hearts 💖
Ghost pumpkin
I Said Dangerous (And Here You Are) (2510 words) by yaycoffee Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson Additional Tags: Sharing a Bed, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, missing Mrs Hudson, Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Top Sherlock, Domestic Summary:
It is a danger night for John. It’s time to find comfort in what actually matters.
I Said Dangerous (And Here You Are) (2510 words) by yaycoffee Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson Additional Tags: Sharing a Bed, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, missing Mrs Hudson, Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Top Sherlock, Domestic Summary:
It is a danger night for John. It’s time to find comfort in what actually matters.
I Said Dangerous (And Here You Are) (2510 words) by yaycoffee Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson Additional Tags: Sharing a Bed, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, missing Mrs Hudson, Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Top Sherlock, Domestic Summary:
It is a danger night for John. It’s time to find comfort in what actually matters.
Oh this is delicious deliciousness. Do yourself a favour and have a read - and be prepared for all the feels. 🧡
Thank you so much! 🥰
I Said Dangerous (And Here You Are) (2510 words) by yaycoffee Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson Additional Tags: Sharing a Bed, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, missing Mrs Hudson, Grief/Mourning, Hurt/Comfort, Top Sherlock, Domestic Summary:
It is a danger night for John. It's time to find comfort in what actually matters.
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