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is she. u know

thrilling four year follow up to this post:

#hades spoilers #melinoe #hecate #hades #hades 2

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DO YOU HAVE KO-FI. UH. PATREON. LET ME GIVE YOU MONEY

wwwaggh anon this is so so sweet of you thank you 🥹

I'm lucky enough to be doing just fine monetarily, but I did open a kofi if anyone's interested in throwing me some drawing requests! Any money sent towards it will be donated to UNRWA or the PCRF. If you'd rather just DM me a request along with proof of donation to any of the orgs/gofundme's on this list, that works too!

#morally I dont think I can plug a patreon considering I get like two big art explosions a year and then this blog goes back to hibernation #but I'll keep this up if anyones ever interested #also i did start drawing again......so keep an eye out for that.....im sorry its been so long......

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Trick or treaaaat!🤲👻 And happy Halloween to you :D

OH IM SO LATE BUT Happy Halloween to you too anon!! Haven’t drawn in a bit but here’s some Wolfwood from a heist!mashwood au that I’ll post someday

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im. coping

#trigun #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #my art #i drew this back in April and immediately forgot it and now I’m like #>:( cause I don’t draw Wolfwood that way anymore. ugh. WHATEVER #trimax spoilers #WAIT FUCK I FORGOT I SET THIS TO PUBLISH TODAY #whatever. this is for the best......

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UGH….AGH…….AAAARGH….

#trigun #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #vashwood #this was SUPPOSED to be a quick and easy screenshot trace/recolor but then I uh #went kinda crazy #anyways being able to draw the ghibli Hair Floofening was very fun

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that one Theo van den Boogaard print

#trigun #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #milly thompson #meryl stryfe #polygun #my art #polygun is superior because both directions work

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au notes:

-meryl does roller derby obviously

-vash used to do competitive ice skating as a teenager but stopped because it was fucking up his body. These days he has a youtube channel where he does inline skate dancing

-knives is one of those cyclers who gets way way way too intense about it. Regularly gets into arguments with people on r/cycling. Thinks roller skating is a Fake Sport but still helps Vash film his videos.

-If he gets too annoying about it meryl just rams him. She is Small so he never sees her coming

-I always found it funny that there’s a lowkey rivalry between skateboarders and skaters (thatspartiallyfueledbyhomophobiaandmisogynybecauseskatingisseenaslessmasculineoopsbye).

-Anyways that’s just a fun fact. Wolfwood does not care about any of that he is making out with his boyfriend

-WW’s skateboard is not named The Punisher but his cat is

#hello new followers I do not usually double reblog my art. but I am beaming skater au trigun directly into your minds #*

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still not feeling the drawing juice but here’s some vashwood buggies I made.

#trigun #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #vashwood #i might make them some arms/legs but idk if they Deserve it #my art

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genuinely. I watched the zac oyama herstory clip and my brain went ah. that’s vash #feminism

#trigun #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #millions knives #meryl stryfe #vashmeryl #might be the last post for a bit since work is hitting me like a brick once again 🥲 #my art #*

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boy

#trigun #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #new profile pic wawawoo

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blam blam

#trigun #trigun stampede #meryl stryfe #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #i think I might be the only person who finds this funny but By God will I inflict it on tumblr nonetheless #my art

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I desperately need to know if The Punisher the cat rides with WW on the board when given the chance

yeah they hang out

more skater au >:3

#i think she’s well behaved like 99% of the time but the 1% she isn’t ww is just like #how. how did you do this. I’m not even mad I’m just confused. #trigun #trigun stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #vashwood #my art #*

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au notes:

-meryl does roller derby obviously

-vash used to do competitive ice skating as a teenager but stopped because it was fucking up his body. These days he has a youtube channel where he does inline skate dancing

-knives is one of those cyclers who gets way way way too intense about it. Regularly gets into arguments with people on r/cycling. Thinks roller skating is a Fake Sport but still helps Vash film his videos.

-If he gets too annoying about it meryl just rams him. She is Small so he never sees her coming

-I always found it funny that there’s a lowkey rivalry between skateboarders and skaters (thatspartiallyfueledbyhomophobiaandmisogynybecauseskatingisseenaslessmasculineoopsbye).

-Anyways that’s just a fun fact. Wolfwood does not care about any of that he is making out with his boyfriend

-WW’s skateboard is not named The Punisher but his cat is

#trigun #trigun stampede #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #meryl stryfe #millions knives #vashwood #gonna go back to posting like once a season soon i just got consumed by this au over the past week. dont look at me #my art #sorry i keep on adding extra bullets to this I am having a Very Good Time coming up with silly ideas for this au

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juice...

credit to corviiid on twt :3

#vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #vashwood #trigun #trigun stampede #my art #*

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It's getting close to the end of day two, and we have some glorious stats for you, if you're curious!

On AO3:

There are 2,698 works that result if you search "end racism in the otw" in titles (some are locked, so you won't see them all unless you're logged in).

There are 829 works in the "EndOTWRacism" collection.

8 works in the collection are tagged as "meta."

10 works in the collection are tagged as "fanart."

13 works in the collection are tagged as "podfic."

47 works in the collection are tagged as "fanvids."

57 works in the collection were posted on or after the 16th (due to time zone differences, we're including the 16th as part of the start date of the initiative).

The most popular fandom in the collection is "Bad Buddy: the Series" with 36 works.

On Tumblr:

The Call to Action post has 4,428 notes.

This account has 679 followers.

Side note: we've received word that Tumblr is locking our posts behind a login wall, so we're looking at mirroring options elsewhere.

On Twitter:

The pinned post has 500 shares and 403 likes.

The account has 519 followers.

Overall:

The response and support from ALL OF YOU have been overwhelmingly positive, with only a handful of folks misinterpreting our intentions or spreading misinformation about us. We're grateful for everyone who's been brave enough to combat misinfo on our behalf, both here and on other sites, and would like to remind everyone to stay kind when coming to our defense. Link back to our Call to Action and FAQs whenever you need to.

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End OTW Racism: A Call To Action

A fan protest against the lack of action from the OTW on addressing issues of harassment and racism on AO3 and within the organization

This is a Call To Action for Fans of Color and Allies

AO3 has acknowledged that they have a harassment & racism problem that its parent organization, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), needs to address. Currently, people can use AO3 to harass others through fanworks, comments, and tags. Just a few examples include: racist Untamed “spitefic” that used anti-Indigenous slurs and was written specifically to lash out at fans of color; a Transformer fic that used its Black-coded character to reenact George Floyd’s murder in July 2020; someone naming a fandom scholar who criticized their Nazi omegaverse fic in the tags of the fic specifically to incite harassment to the scholar; writers using racial slurs against commenters who pointed out racism in their hockey fic; and so much more.

In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, the OTW committed to addressing these issues. It has been nearly three years and they have not yet implemented any of the changes they promised, other than a blocking/muting tool that was already in development before 2020. We need to hold the OTW accountable to their own promises. (See the section further down on “Why Are We Doing This” for even more detail.)

As fans, together, we are powerful. We are organizing to protest the lack of action on promises made by the Organization for Transformative works to deal with issues of racism and harassment on their platform, Archive of Our Own.

We call on fans to do any or all of the following actions any time between May 17 to 31, 2023 to send a message to AO3 and OTW that we will hold them to their promises.

On AO3

Change the title of ten (or more!) of your most recent or most popular fanworks to include ‘End Racism in the OTW’ in the beginning, and provide a link to this post in your summary or first/top creator’s note

Post a new fanwork any time between May 17th to 31st with “End Racism in the OTW” either as the title or at the beginning of the title. The fanwork does not have to be long - it can be a 100-word fic, a quick sketch, a podfic of a ficlet, a 20-second vid/edit, a short piece of meta, etc. In the summary or first/top creator’s note, provide a link to this post

If updating any WIPs with a new chapter, add ‘End Racism in the OTW’ to the title and provide a link back to this post in your summary or first/top author’s note

Update your AO3 icon using the profile pic graphic in our Social Media Toolkit

Plan to maintain these changes until May 31, 2023, or longer if you wish

Send a message to the OTW asking for an update on their 2020 commitments!

For Readers: leave encouraging comments on fanworks with the "End Racism in the OTW" title to show your support of this initiative.

On tumblr

Reblog this Call to Action with the tag #End OTW Racism

Update your profile pics and banners using the graphics in our Social Media Toolkit

Follow this account for updates and signal boost our posts

On Twitter

Follow @/EndOTWRacism (remove the backslash) and signal boost our pinned tweet

Update your profile pics and banners using our graphics, and change your display name to include #EndOTWRacism

Use sample tweets and graphics from our Social Media Toolkit to tweet about your fanworks, and use the hashtag #EndOTWRacism

Help us make this a long-term campaign - sign up to help with other anti-racism projects and future actions!

What Do We Want?

Since their June 2020 statement, OTW has been working on updating their Terms of Service (TOS) to address racist and bigoted harassment, but with little transparency and only the vaguest of updates. It has been three years since their commitment to this update - we want to see the results of their work implemented in the next 6-12 months. Their TOS updates and complementary policies should include:

Harassment policies that can be regularly updated to address both on-site harassment and off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users, with updated protocols for the Policy & Abuse Team to ensure consistent and informed resolutions of abuse claims

A content policy on abusive (extremely racist and extremely bigoted) content; by abusive, we are talking about fanworks that are intentionally used to spread hate and harassment, not those that accidentally invoke racist or other bigoted stereotypes

These points are not particularly new and are not our own innovation; please refer to Stitch's article written over two years ago, asking for several of these very things.

OTW has also already committed to various process-based actions for longer-term works towards centering antiracism, including hiring a Diversity Consultant. The last update that OTW published said that the consultant would be hired within the next five years (after already having had three years to work on it since their original commitment). That is not soon enough. We want to see the following process-based actions implemented:

Hiring a Diversity Consultant within the next 3-6 months

Committing to a policy of transparency on this topic, with quarterly updates on the progress of these projects including challenges and their plan for overcoming those challenges. These quarterly updates should be published on OTW News page and newsletters, not solely discussed in Board meetings

Why Are We Doing This?

16 years ago, Astolat famously published her manifesto calling for a fandom Archive of One’s Own. In that time, AO3 has grown to be a central pillar of fandom, likely far outstripping its founders’ original vision. It is more than just an archive now; it is a central hub of the modern fannish experience. AO3 and the OTW must continue to grow and evolve with fandom over time to remain a healthy and functioning pillar of fandom. To that end, there are several areas in which the organization, as it admits itself, is lacking.

In June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the uprising of the Black Lives Matter Movement, The OTW published a “This Week in Fandom” referencing the works of Dr. Rukmini Pande and Stitch, among others in which they discussed ‘making change for a better society’ through ‘conversations about race and racism’. In response, Dr. Pande and Stitch submitted a letter to the OTW calling for a more formal public statement than an offhand reference in a News Roundup that only served to call for thoughts and discussion without any indication the organization intended to do anything, policy wise, to address the issues being raised.

Eventually, the organization did remove the references to the works of Dr. Pande and Stitch and then made an official statement on the issue of racism within the organization and AO3. In it, they identified several things they would be prioritizing to combat harassment and benefit users. Some of those have been implemented (notably those that were already under development). However as of this writing, little else has been done especially in regards to:

Improving admin tools for the Policy & Abuse team

Reassessing the current mandatory archive warnings with the possibility of implementing others

And, most importantly, reviewing the Terms of Service (TOS) to allow the Policy & Abuse team to address harassment that is currently not covered by the existing TOS

By their own admission, the current tools and policies of the OTW are not sufficient to deal with issues of harassment and racism.

Several people who were involved in the founding of the OTW, including previous OTW Board members and staff on the original OTW Content Policy Committee, acknowledge that the founding of the OTW in 2008 and early board iterations failed us as a fandom by not doing enough, and by not even considering the way racism is perpetuated in fannish spaces, despite a long history of racism in fandom.

It has been nearly three years since the original commitment by the organization with little visible, measurable progress on these three crucial issues and a complete lack of transparency on where they are in regards to even beginning to deal with these issues. In fact, in Q&As, it was heavily implied by a member of the board that those calling for OTW to deal with issues of racism (which OTW had already acknowledged as a problem!) were not really fans but outside agitators.

This has cast significant doubt on the organization's sincerity and commitment to their stated goals, and on their position as leaders of a central fan tent-pole. Fans of color are not outsiders. They are right here, members of our community, and they are being harassed and targeted and driven out while space and platforms are being given to racists.

We, as fans of color and our allies, find the current state of fandom and current actions (and lack thereof) unacceptable. Fandom is our space, all of ours. We, as a fandom, have a right to a racism-free space and have a duty to our fellow fans to create that space. Unlike so much of the world, this is a space we can control and make better. It is a space we must make better. To read even more about this movement, visit our FAQs.

#got a huge influx of followers lately so probably time to clean house #anyways if any part of this reads as unreasonable to you then idk what to tell you 🤷🏻‍♀️ #I’ve been in fandom for like 15 years inc the beginning of ao3 I have seen some truly heinous racism that has gone ignored

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Part 1 of my Bottomji Big Bang art!!! I had the honor and pleasure of working with Aubs for her fic. You want pining??? You want romantic heartfelt gifts??? You want seemingly unrequited requited love?? You want sexual awakenings via scandalous exposed skin??? Then please give it a read!!

#mdzs #the untamed #wangxian #lan wangji #my art #wei wuxian