like i’m sorry but these enormous metal robots so vast and powerful that they run on nuclear reactor cores welded into their chests can only be moved and controlled by the power of love??? how does that not drive you utterly insane just thinking about it???
pacific rim was really like “our giant monster-killing robots are powered by the tender, intimate, powerful connection of soulmates – romantic, platonic, or familial” and i’ve never recovered from how the sheer brilliance of that concept made me feel
Tag: q
I want you to remember something that’s very important. You won, not by playing the game Harlan’s way, but yours. You’re a good person.
Knives Out (2019) dir. Rian Johnson
He’s willing to stop pretending he doesn’t have emotions just long enough to call Bones ugly
Thanks.
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Boots with the fur
Re: the last post, the article mentions that some places use clams to test the toxicity of the water. It’s like that in Warsaw- we get our water from the river, and the main water pump has 8 clams that have triggers attached to their shells. If the water gets too toxic, they close, and the triggers shut off the city water supply automatically.
The clams are just better at measuring the water quality than any man-made sensors.
Edit: check out this documentary trailer : https://vimeo.com/408820791
God Bless Our Troops
They hot glued a spring to a clam and gave it full control over the water supply
I trust it
Clams don’t lie
Home Deco Goals.
Adam Hillman, an artist on tumblr
A New History of Fandom Purges
On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”
On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.
Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…
HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!
- 1992 – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed
- 1995 – Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites
- 1995 – Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere
- 1997 – Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites
- 1998 – AOL goes after X-Files fansites
- 2000 – Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites
- 2000 – Anne Rice anne rices again
- 2001 – Tripod Massacre
- 2001 – Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN
- 2001 – The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks
- 2002 – FFN bans porn
- 2002 – FFN bans RPF
- 2003 – Gryffindor Tower implodes
- 2004 – FFN bans script format
- 2005 – FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic
- 2005 – Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded
- 2005 – Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again
- 2006 – Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes
- 2007 – Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal
- 2007 – Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids
- 2008 – Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it
- 2009 – GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites
- 2009 – Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted
- 2009 – Marvel gets scans_daily deleted
- 2009 – imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly
- 2010 – FFN forums purged for inactivity
- 2010 – DeviantArt purges adult fanfic
- 2010 – Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN
- 2011 – Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence
- 2011 – China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org
- 2012 – major FFN crackdown on porn
- 2012 – Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic
- 2013 – Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content
- 2014 – Quizilla shuts down
- 2014 – China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors
- 2014 – Blip.tv deletes vids
- 2014 – Viddler deletes vids
- 2015 – Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank
- 2016 – y!Gallery deleted
- 2016 – Elfwood goes offline
- 2016 – Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic
- 2017 – Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama
- 2017 – Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad
- 2018 – Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs
- 2018 – Tumblr announces NSFW ban
- 2018 – Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning
- 2019 – China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed
This is only a small taste of the many times that:
- Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.
- Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.
- Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.
- Fans grudge reported each other.
- Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.
It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.
Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.
This is why we need AO3.
And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.