a) The exact moment Jiang Cheng decides to make this excruciating for everyone
b) Wei Wuxian’s realization that Jiang Cheng has committed to the bit and is fully prepared to just stand there and demand that they lie to his face.
c) Xichen bluescreening as he tries to figure out the odds that Jiang Cheng knows Xichen knows and whether or not he can play this off like oh, no … This is a different guy in a mask who follows my brother around everywhere and dresses exactly like the yiling patriarch… it’s the latest thing this season… you should try it out it’s very fashionable and great for your skin
Also Jiang Cheng’s barely contained smile as he asks “could you please introduce him to me?” He is having way too much fun
The actual motto of the Jiang Sect is “I will cause problems on purpose” and both WWX and JC are masters of it
If OTW weren’t around, this wouldn’t be “scaremongering”: It would be the inescapable status quo.
The people who believe this crap are the anti-vaxxers of fandom.
Oh god. They kind of are, aren’t they?
I’d go bigger and just say that they’re the conservatives/reactionaries of fandom–or, to frame it differently, this is how conservative and authoritarian ideologies express themselves in the context of Fandom.
my opinion on AO3 is that it’s an important asset but i still find it scummy that they’ll ask for money but when their users try to ask for money they slam them with their non-monetization rules.
Like Anne Rice is dead and this isn’t the 90s anymore, people are making money from fandom please catch up with the times.
I think you’ve misunderstood:
AO3 was built by a bunch of us with our free donated labor for the purpose of being a space free from commercial spam.
It’s not a public service. It was built by us to house the type of fandom culture we liked.
People who want to do fandom differently, including making money, are welcome to go build their own site with their own money or their own donated labor.
AO3 does not forbid commercial links because they think fans making money from fanworks is immoral but them making money (to run the damn site) is fine.
AO3 forbids commercial links because they are making a very specific claim about the legality of fanworks, and that claim is about noncommercial fanworks.
They’re not saying that commercialized fanworks are against the law. They’re just not prepared to host them–nor defend them in court.
In case people missed it: The OTW will not honor DMCA takedown orders that are basically, “I own X work and that’s a fanfic of it, and that’s copyright infringement so make it go away.”
The OTW says, lolnope, we don’t think that’s copyright infringement. If you disagree, sue us.
The OTW says: Disney - we will not remove explicit Mandalorian fanfic. Rowling, Warner Bros - we will not remove trans Harry Potter fanfic. Gabaldon - we are not removing Outlander fanfic no matter how much you think it’s illegal or a personal violation. Yarbro, if someone puts “The Adventure of the Gentleman in Black” on AO3, you will need to actually take it to trial to (try to) get it removed; none of this C&D order followed by fans caving because they can’t afford a lawyer.
…So far, nobody has sued them. (This is, in my mind, the strongest proof we have that fanfic is not copyright infringement. In 13 years, not a single person or company has scrounged up a lawyer and filed a lawsuit against AO3/the OTW for hosting fanworks.)
But they’re not willing to put themselves on the line for commercial works. Those get considered differently in copyright law. They’re not always infringing - there’s a whole history of parody books & songs to prove that - but the OTW is not dealing with them.
The OTW does not care if fans are making money. The OTW cares if fans making money interfere with its legal defense of its archive.
If you are not a copyright lawyer, your opinion about the situation is not going to be considered.
Also, it wasn’t just Anne Rice coming after fandom in the 90s as though this is some relic holdover terror from ancient history.
Events like Strikethrough and Boldthrough happened in the early to mid-2000s. It felt like you’d wake up every day in 2007 and find another fandom group on LJ gone. (And not just fandom groups either, important community groups for education and trauma survival were also wiped out in those purges as well.)
And while not exactly the same, Yahoo Groups–and yes Yahoo Groups was a major online fandom hub at one point–were deleted as late as 2019 with very little warning, leaving a lot of older fandom groups scrambling to back up decades worth of content.
I might be projecting, but Fanfic.net seems to be wobbling too. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out they go under in the next few years despite performing similar purges of adult content in 2012 and allowing for obnoxious ads, which made the site unusable on mobile unless you wanted to see an ad what felt like every couple of paragraphs. (It might be better now, I haven’t checked in a while.)
It has only been in very recent memory that fandom has gained any sort of foothold that isn’t poised directly over a precarious faultline that could at any moment open up and swallow entire communities whole, and a huge part of that is the volunteers at Ao3 who decided to play chicken with the likes of Anne Rice and won.
Ao3 at its core was and is built by fandom. Some people don’t like it and that’s fine, but to even suggest that the volunteers are lounging around eating peeled grapes and lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills making bank through fraud while fanfic authors are left out in the cold is beyond the scope of laughable.
Another point for why it’s important to own your own copies of music and media, and not use streaming services, is because the copy you own can’t be taken back.
(This is also a good time to remind people that yout*be to mp3 converters still exist).
please don’t tell me you guys are ripping songs one at a time for the quality and getting mp3 -_- here’s what you should actually do:
1. sign up for a free deezer account 2. download python if you don’t already have it 3. download deemix-pyweb for your os (r/deemix will have the link if this one breaks) 4. extract the zip, click on deemix-pyweb.exe, login in w/ your deezer arl in settings (it’ll tell you how, it’s very easy)
ta-da! now you can download multiple songs, albums, playlists, and entire artist catalogs at the same time! in mp3 or flac quality! all organized w/ album covers & info & everything else!
also, you can convert any spotify playlists you have to deezer ones using soundiiz, or thru deemix itself. enjoy! 🎵
Writing romance as an asexual is literally just staring at the various romance novels you’ve pulled up to see if you’re describing sexual attraction right
I don’t know what the allos are talking about and at this point it feels weird to ask
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It’s writing aggressive cuddles and scraping your fingernails against their scalp. Its writing blankets and food and the soft way they look at each other. It’s a gentle headbutt so you can stare into their eyes to let them know that, oh my love, I am with you no matter where you go.
It’s all the softness of a hard man looking down at someone who is so precious and he doesn’t know how this happen but he’ll pray to anyone who is listening, let me have this, I’ve never had peace but let me have this.
It’s the resigned apathy of a woman who thinks, I have gone too far in the eyes of those around me and there is no one left to hear the truth, only to find, that one person who refuses, who says never, never will I not listen, tell me and I will hear you.
It’s one last desperate gamble that only time will tell you if it worked and they stand in the middle of a destruction of their own making, one last attempt to prevent the unthinkable and they’re still the only one by your side, never wavering, never hesitating.
You are mine, is what they whisper in the dark. You are mine and I am yours and nothing will change this. We are family, we are team and crew and there is we and there is us, nothing will change this.
What more do I need to do then show you what loves looks like when I lay awake at night and wonder if such a thing exists-
Surely it must? Surely, surely there is love in this world and if it falls to me to tell you want it is, I want you to see love as I do.
