BlackHeart Biohazards

thebibliosphere:

embervoices:

thebibliosphere:

esoteric-merit:

thebibliosphere:

Hearing the words “they called them flamewars back then” in the latest strange-aeons aged me to dust.

wait, what do they call them now?

‘Discourse.’

I can not BEGIN to tell you how twitchy it makes me that “discourse” has become a euphemism for “flamewars”. Because, of course, now “discourse” has negative connotations it didn’t have before.

I’d also argue that calling it discourse lends some legitimacy to what the bad-faith actors are doing and that the switch was intentional to avoid being called out for what they really are: bullies.

Like legit, some people use discourse to mean what it means (i.e., a (hopefully) well-informed debate), but too often now, I see posts tagged as ‘discourse’ when what they really are is either fandom wank or flaming.

I believe the answer is yes!

People corrected me about anonymous works on AO3. Those are just shared to an anonymous collection and are otherwise normal!

It’s orphaning a work that’s no takebacksies

cultofcatboy:

blackheart-biohazards:

cultofcatboy:

blackheart-biohazards:

cultofcatboy:

does anyone else remember those websites where you’d go and like… register your yourself as ‘married’ to a specific anime boy? Geocities and angelfire type stuff.

Randomly remembered those today and honestly I kind of miss them. Seeing the galleries of pictures of anime boys and captions under them that read stuff like ‘Inuyasha married to xXShadowgurl165412Xx on 8/12/1998’ was kind of adorable.

Remember bishonenmon??

*Wheezes*

I didn’t until this very frigging second and now it’s all coming back to me. The shitty ‘trainer cards’ we all made and the equally terrible ‘I caught Character’ cards that had all been resaved by every fan at the time so many time the jpeg compression on them looked like a portal to a different dimension…

Oh man I would love making some of those for some more modern fandoms.

Shitty jpeg compression necessary

Right?? I think about trying to recreate it sometimes! A modern version would be so fun.

the world would be a better place if could all catch us some bishies again lol

Maybe we’ll give it a shot after we get the proship self ship forum off the ground!