BlackHeart Biohazards

nerianasims:

hoidn:

thebyrchentwigges:

Writing a fic ‘late’ in a fandom is OK.

What is ‘late in a fandom’? It’s after the first heady flush of media excitement. Six months after the standalone movie or book comes out, a year or more after the series ends.

We get inspired by late canon: the behind-the-scenes book, the deleted scenes, a revealing creator interview. We get inspired by fanon and meta. We get talking to that one – one! – person who likes our ideas.

Sometimes a fic even needs to be written late in the fandom. After thinking and creative ferment, worldbuilding and character development. ‘Late to the fandom’ is a good time to take risks. To do the dark AU, focus on the minor character from stage left. It’s also a good time to offer up tropetastic fun.

Whatever you do, you will get readers who appreciate that you are writing. Because for every writer considering writing ‘late’ there’s a hundred fandom members wanting some fresh content.

Writing a fic ‘late’ in a fandom is OK.

“a year or more after the series ends.” or, like, 20 years. hundreds of years after the book was published. y’know, whenever.

Also it’s almost always safer. Most of the people who live to be mean on the internet have moved on to something else.

So, witches generally don’t expect they can materialize things out of the air. The general thought in witchcraft is that if you cast a spell for a better job, it doesn’t make your job materialize; it gives you a better chance of landing a job if you do the work of searching for and applying to a job.

Some witches don’t even believe that there’s any sort of metaphysical force at work. Some believe that the spell is giving them a purely psychological boost.

The kind of people I’m talking about in the LOA community are the ones who are essentially claiming stuff like if you assume a new job, you’ll just wake up in the morning and have it. You never had to apply, you never had to go into an interview; you just straight-up warped reality so you always had the job all along. And that’s the level of stuff I find pretty suspicious.

If somebody in the witchcraft community claimed they cast a spell and found a job afterward, I’d believe them – whether or not I personally believed that the two events were connected in the same exact way they believed they were connected. However, if they told me that they cast a spell and just woke up with a new job without ever having to apply or go to an interview, I would immediately assume they were full of shit.

(And yes, I have encountered plenty of witches who were full of shit, and I have in fact written about red flag behavior from witchy folks.)

flirtingxwithxphantoms:

seepunkrun:

blackheart-biohazards:

Here’s some interesting fandom history, friends.

Did you know that 2nd person fic is banned on fanfiction.net?

It has been banned on the site since 2005.

Do you know why it was banned?

Because the archive owners consider it to be “child porn.”

Do you know what the irony here is?

Porn of any kind was already banned on the site since 2002.

Here’s a quote from the site runners at the time.

The first, and most important reason is because it can be considered a form of child porn. Say, for example, you’re reading a “You based fic” that goes along just fine for a few chapters, but then comes to a part with a lemon (sex scene), that story is having someone run their hands down your buddy, exploring your more intimate attributes, removing your clothes, laying you down, you get the idea, yes? Now lets say that you’re 13 years old reading this story. The person responsible for writing said story is now guilty of child porn, and if an angry parent found out they could not only sue the site itself but also prosecute the writer and have them labeled as a sex offender for the rest of their life.

Now say your nightly ‘thank you’ to AO3 for existing!

@stickthisbig Here you go. Googled up and Waybacked the source for this quote from ff.net user Gaaras1Girl:

The F.A.Q. -Frequently Asked Questions- Cornucopia – Critics United Forum | FanFiction

And this is why ya’ll gotta thank Ao3 for your x reader fic hoard 😉
And its also why if the vocal minority of fandom continues to yell and screech about “Normalizing this” and “fetishizing that” you may see Wattpad and Quotev adopt similar rules….

Which….is why you need to thank Ao3.

AGAIN.

Because they will NEVER budge on that aspect.

And if you, reader, look at this post and say “Hey, FF.Net that is purely ridiculous” then we are now friends because yes, that is exactly what I’m sitting here thinking too.