airshipcity

[airshipcity]

#avenue queue #kitties

[airshipcity]

Pain severity scale for chronic pain patients!

I always struggle with naming my pain #. After going through a couple occasions of 10/10 pain, I compare everything else to it. Even if my pain is very distressing there's this strange resistance/guilt to ever naming my pain above a 3 or 4.

#reference #honestly a 3 is a great day for me #about as good as it gets with my fibro #i'm usually somewhere in the 4-6 zone and 6-8 is the fibro flare wave that hits every now and then #if i cancel on something the odds are great that i'm at 7+ lmao otherwise i'm used to just. sucking it up. #and accepting that i'm possibly using up my spoons for the next few days #when i'm at a 3 i usually immediately spend it trying to be productive and cleaning the house and getting shit Done while i can #which unfortunately also tends to mean it's not gonna be at 3 for very long but #at least i get to be in pain in a cleaner house........

[airshipcity]

actually you know what that's exactly it i would rather someone add 5 parantheticals after every sentence than use tone indicators it's 1. accomplishing SO much more in terms of clarity 2. extremely funny to look at depending on how they're used

#yeah i would never have guessed what /gen was meant to convey without a whole list #and the lists tend to have like! multiple meanings for the same shortenings! #and then to make it WORSE some people will make internal in-group changes in meaning to some of them #so they might /s when what they mean is /lh #which in turn is being equally incomprehensibly used by the same person #i would so much rather we all go full elcor speech and do the parenthetical elaborations honestly #much as i enjoy shortening phrases i don't think tone tags are very universally useful if you have to also figure out #whether that one person means the same thing as you when they use any given tag

[airshipcity]

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.

#fandom history

[airshipcity]

who else remembers thwomp night (estimated july 26, 2013) when everyone was posting mario 64 thwomp sound effect edits

#genuinely thought i was going insane when i woke up to the thwompening #tumblr #memeology

[airshipcity]

randomly curious if im weird or if people are like me

#how is there no option for 'hobbyists/makers who make things/engage in hobbies' #that's like 90% of my youtube time #i'm here to watch people paint miniatures and play violin charades and draw and customize dolls for fun #also the fact that games aren't on the list either is wild

[airshipcity]

Types of brain fog:

Brain is primordial sludge & you are drowning in it

U are a ghost and nothing is real

Mental equivalent of attempting to stream some high-res video game when all you have is dial-up

The thing you want to articulate is *right there* but you're just scrabbling at it like a cat continually failing to catch the bird on the other side of the window

The Void

[airshipcity]

alex hirsch going rogue… king shit

#sobs

[airshipcity]

men have those slutty veins in their hands and expect you not to lose a lil focus

[airshipcity]

Have not stopped thinking about this picture I took of Tansy this morning

#avenue queue #kitties

[airshipcity]

なかよくねるです

We're sleep together with love...

#avenue queue #kitties

[airshipcity]

#ratties

[airshipcity]

literally sleeping on a barbecue sauce

#avenue queue #kitties

[airshipcity]

Your daily dose of cat memes

#avenue queue #kitties

[airshipcity]

guys. murder of sonic the hedgehog is really good

#game of the year

[airshipcity]

In the vast world of comics, I wonder if there have been heroes with a “Groundhog Day,” type power. By that I specifically mean a hero who, if they die, immediately finds themselves waking up at the beginning of that day again. If they don’t die, they just continue forward through time.

I’m just thinking of how crazy it would be to have that hero on your super hero team. Like, you go to headquarters in the morning, and it seems like everything’s normal. But then you go to fire off a one liner, and they say it at the same time as you. And suddenly you know. Something went wrong.

And then one day you come in, and your heart drops as you see that their every move looks rehearsed. They answer questions before asked. They are totally aware of everything that’s about to happen. Imagine how scary that would be, realizing you’re starting a day that you’re team mate has failed to survive maybe dozens of times.

#oughhhgh wanna write this

[airshipcity]

maybe one day we'll finally compare airports in person....

haven't talked to @airshipcity in a million years but last night i had a dream they were coming to visit me while at the same time i was flying to visit them in norway and our planes passed each other

#man it's been a ride here too #most exciting thing on this end is probably the T lmao #i have a beard now. insane