Sixth Post!

[hoisinsauce]

"The thing about illegally breeding fire-breathing possums is that you gotta keep a bucket of water handy."

*Those fools! Fire-breathing possums are greasy; water will only feed the flames! Oh, if only I could tell them of my empire...*

(Context: https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/1839.html?thread=2678831#cmt2678831)

Talk fandom! Making things! Reading, writing, drawing, whatever! Miscellaneous life chatter! Meme's happy to see you again!

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Fandom Things

[(Anonymous)]

Vents, raves, misc. Though probably mostly vents.

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[(Anonymous)]

I forgot how captured the Doctor Who fandom is.

Can't go a page without them screaming about trans representation and how the UK is now transphobic as feck.

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[(Anonymous)]

just noticed a current otw director resigned a week back. personal stuff or some otw drama? can't find any discussion anywhere so am assuming 'personal reasons' might actually be personal reasons for a change.

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[(Anonymous)]

There's some discourse on my dash right now about the FTX scandal and its relationship to the Effective Altruism / LessWrong / HPMOR community, and I don't know what's funnier: rationalists getting rightfully shit on or people grasping at straws trying to pin the ultimate responsibility for cryptobros defrauding people of $5 billion onto JK Rowling.

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[(Anonymous)]

>fic tagged 'character is trans if you squint'
>story is literally about being haunted by ghost of parent who didn't accept character's trans identity
I feel scammed.

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[(Anonymous)]

Fanspace I'm in asked everyone to put pronouns in sig. Most of us didn't bother. Go normies!

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[(Anonymous)]

The emotional turmoil of reading a 'fic with just the right brand of sexual tension you like and then realizing it's tagged 'Other Additional Tags to be Added' and the author has written other trans headcanon stories.

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[(Anonymous)]

I like to check out the comments on 'fic I read because sometimes people say the darnedest things. Read one today that said 'I hate dogs, but this was lovely.' The dogs are barely even mentioned in the story.

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[(Anonymous)]

Currently thinking about this fanfic I read a while back where the characters explore kinky sex, can't figure out how to use half the stuff they bought, turn down half the ideas because they're not practical, and eventually realize that they're perfectly fine with their lovingly vanilla sex life.

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[(Anonymous)]

> author posts nsfw art on poipiku with a password
> description says 'password: are you 18 or older? (yes/no) in lowercase'
> comments are still full of people asking for the password

I have some concerns.

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[(Anonymous)]

So there's this series I know, and the bulk of its small AO3 presence is hyperspecific Harry Potter crossovers, all by different authors. It's got no similarities with Harry Potter besides a vaguely modern with magic setting, but the tone and aesthetics are totally different.

I've always wondered how exactly this came about, but most of these stories were written back in the early 2010s and the authors have no social media besides long-deleted LJ accounts. Mysteries of fandom, I suppose. Somewhere, somewhen, there must've been some community of people who really loved that crossover.

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[(Anonymous)]

I've been reading this 'cheating on my broke boyfriend with my sugar daddy' AU recently. Not at all feminist of me, but I have a weakness for dubcon and a good grasp on the difference between fiction and reality.

Unfortunately, I peeked at the comments and was surprised to find a bunch of people not only cheering on the main character because it's allegedly empowering to be a sugar baby, but also criticizing the boyfriend for not being happy about the arrangement. Apparently, it's his fault that he doesn't make enough money to support the two of them, so he shouldn't be upset that his partner is doing sex work on the side.

I have a lot of thoughts about this, but more superficially: the whole point of an AU like this is the main character making bad decisions out of desperation! It's sexy precisely because it's taboo!

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[(Anonymous)]

This shit is seriously ruining so many of my favorite internet corners. Spotted today:

Same here, there were 3 for me that I've now fixed
(note that if the author has got "she/they" on twitter, I wrote the gender as "female/non binary" now)

I know I can't push back or else I'll get permabanned from the site, so I sit there and just think noooooooooooooo

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[(Anonymous)]

Can we expect to have a transgender main character in the future?

Brandon Sanderson: You can expect to have a transgender main character in the future. I want to be careful where I place this... let’s say.... my focus right now is doing Renarin and Rlain right but you can expect this in the future.

I really don't understand why fandoms are now so hellbent on insisting on trans characters everywhere and having creators bend the knee.

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[(Anonymous)]

Comment, dammit.

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[(Anonymous)]

Grumpy at hipsters in my fandom acting as though newly-released content explains a throwaway line when that was explained yeaaaaars ago.

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[(Anonymous)]

> author off-screens character development to recap plot events we saw ten chapters ago
> audience praises him for 'respecting the emotional intelligence of his readers'
> author includes cultural references that are common knowledge for people from that culture
> audience praises him for being so 'cultured' and 'having a deep understanding of philosophy'
> author uses a bunch of technical jargon incorrectly and doesn't explain any of it
> audience praises him for 'doing so much research'

I swear you could serve this fandom shit on a platter and they'd praise it.

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[(Anonymous)]

Ao3 502ing right when I finished my comment; why you gotta be like that? :'(

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[(Anonymous)]

I write a lot of satire. Saw someone else in my fandom attempt satire. Reminded me of how risky it is to write satire. When you get it wrong, you make an absolute fool of yourself.

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[(Anonymous)]

Ao3 glitching again; fuuuuck's saaaake.

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[(Anonymous)]

"Ah, 'a guest left kudos', my old nemesis..."

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[(Anonymous)]

I just got really sad and cried because I thought people had deleted all their comments on my fic, but I was being a dumbass and looking at the wrong chapter, and in conclusion I should go to bed.

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[(Anonymous)]

I just got a comment that makes no sense and now I'm going to be wondering wtf to say in reply for the next week, and feeling a bit rude about posting fic in the meantime

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[(Anonymous)]

Tfw I want to write fic for a new (to me) fandom but also don't want to be recognised.

Tempted to start a AO3 alt just for those.

Name recognition actually really has stopped mattering to me. Same for content. I just want to write things and post them even if I get zero comments or kudos.

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[(Anonymous)]

I'm being insanely inspired for this new-to-me fandom. Muse working overtime and all. I'm sure it's college finals stress that's contributing but damn. Whyyyyy. There won't be new content anymore :(