fandomrouletteburrito

[fandomrouletteburrito]

Jinshi: you can’t use your leg right now, you’re injured. Let me help you.

Maomao, her eyes enormous: you CARRY Maomao?? You pick her body up like the football??? OH!! Oh!!! Jail for Master Jinshi, jail for one thousand years!!

[fandomrouletteburrito]

Gyokuyou when some Jinshi x Maomao drama is happening (always):

[fandomrouletteburrito]

It’s incredibly important to me that the anime decided to include this scene that wasn’t in the manga. In the manga, Maomao does pass out in Jinshi’s lap after saving him from what was obviously an assassination attempt.

HOWEVER, the manga cuts off at this point, keeping strictly in Maomao’s perspective, and cuts straight to when she regains consciousness in bed after being treated for her injuries. The manga doesn’t show how she got back. They SAY how, and she briefly mentions, “wow that must have been embarrassing; he carried me back,” but we don’t SEE it. We don’t get to feel the true impact of what that means. But the anime DID show us, and holy shit.

They SHOW us how taboo this is. They show Jinshi carrying her out of the temple, after a public attempt on his life.

They show us the shock and horror on Lakan’s face as Jinshi silently walks past him. Horror at the state his daughter is in, horror at another man—a man with a status he could never dare to question—staking such a public claim over his child, horror at the fact that he could never have this level of closeness with her (as Maomao would never allow it).

Everyone hides their gazes, as is their custom when someone of his rank passes by, but the air is different this time. Jinshi is furious, he’s terrified, and he could not give a single shit about how inappropriate it looks to these palace officials.

The shot that slowly follows her trail of blood—even though it’s a small detail—that in particular leaves such a intense impression of how poignant this is for him.

Maomao talked about this scene in the manga like it was nothing to her. She did what she set out to do: she saved the person who was targeted by the attack. She didn’t even know the target would be someone she knew. But she has no idea that this happened afterwards as a result of her bravery. To her, it likely wasn’t even an act of bravery at all. She acted on impulse; she did what she knew was the right thing to do.

The anime didn’t need to include this, because the manga didn’t show it. But damn, I’m so glad they did.

[fandomrouletteburrito]

Okay I know we talk a lot about the significance of Jinshi giving his hairpin to Maomao and how it is a romantic gesture and how the garden party's kind of a turning point in their relationship, but can we also talk about how Lady Lihua walked up to Maomao, saw she was already holding two seperate hairpins, said "No, you should have more" and then took one of the nicest pins she had out of her hair and handed it to Maomao in front of her entire entourage and all of Lady Gyokuyou's other ladies in waiting? Walks up to her, basically goes "I dont care if it could get you in trouble with your boss, you're too pretty to only have 2 of these" and then also gives her a token of affection with like, 20 witnesses.

Are, are we seriously not going to unpack any of that?

[fandomrouletteburrito]

Holy misinformation Batman! Just saw that anti ao3 zionist bs post. Wtf are these people frothing at the mouth about ao3 when they have alternatives?? No one is forcing THEM to donate or to use the site? They have wattpad and squidgeworld!!! Why are they so obsessed with ao3 it feels weirdly vendetta-y?

Also I kept seeing people talking about ‘overdonating’ to ao3 after it reached its goal and like,,,you mean so we have a vote? Yeah I want a fucking vote and I’ll pay for it no matter how much they’ve gone over because I need to be sure to vote against any fundie weirdos trying to censor an online library and I’ll do it again and again and again

--

It's also a misunderstanding, possibly willful, of how donation drives work. OTW generally asks for the bare minimum they need to limp along. They don't do big projects very often because they simply can't. If they have more money, they can do more. Most nonprofits are like this.

[fandomrouletteburrito]

fem skk but they're gossiping about you

[fandomrouletteburrito]

Love that every once in a while my Tsubasa Feels post gets a couple of notes, and I am reassured that all us Tsubasa fans are still just out here perpetually going through it bc Clamp made their protagonists the saddest, wettest, most tormented ragdolls imaginable and refuses to give them lasting peace or happiness 🥲

#clamp really said pain and misery for tsubasa characters for 1000 years #< prev tags are so right #trc

[fandomrouletteburrito]

[fandomrouletteburrito]

Tifa’s doodles, with Cloud knowing full well she is an excited chief ✨

[fandomrouletteburrito]

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

[fandomrouletteburrito]

You keep talking about the origins of AO3 as this group effort by an actual group of people who were friends and who spent time discussing this with each other in person. It's kind of blowing my mind. Is there a post or a journal somewhere that specifically keeps record of this?

--

I'm dying.

Nonnie, seriously?

No, that's mean, I know you're serious. It's just flabbergasting how much fandom has expanded and how much there isn't a direct link to the past.

Astolat and Cesperanza floated the idea at Vividcon and various places, I think, though I wasn't going to cons in that era. We were all on LJ in those days, and Astolat made a big post nailing her theses to the door. Discussion in the comments was instant and prolonged.

A LJ com was set up to discuss. It was later renamed to otw_news, but if you go all the way back to the beginning, you can see brainstorming mess instead of official news posts.

Fanlore page linking to Astolat's post and giving a little context.

Early brainstorming: https://otw-news.livejournal.com/2007/05/

For example, here I am collecting links to older archives to look at for research when designing AO3.

Fun fact, we never intended to call it AO3. There was a whole call for name suggestions, but nothing was as evocative as astolat's original post title referencing Virginia Woolf. (For those who haven't thought about it, AO3's name is a reference to A Room of One's Own.)

Here's the name discussion

Here's the poll that came out of it

But also notice how many people voted: 562.

That's how many people cared at the time: a few hundred. Maybe a thousand if you count lurkers, but frankly, that community was not as lurkery as now. It wasn't just ten friends. It was a community effort. But what "our" community looked like at the time was vastly different. It was six degrees of Kevin Bacon astolat, not a vast sea of strangers like fic fandom on AO3 is now.

Here's an early post suggesting we ban the under 18s from the site entirely. Pity we didn't do so, given the rise of antis.

Here's the invite to a fundraising party at astolat's in NYC that following Halloween. I dressed as Amanda from Highlander, not very well.

You can tell we knew each other by looking at those comments on astolat's initial post. You can also tell how discussion-based that part of fandom was back in 2007.

The way my tumblr is now with a ton of text, back and forth, and hopping around between threads of conversation, all featuring a consistent set of faces, is very much like LJ. Most of tumblr is not.

[fandomrouletteburrito]

Endeavor holding his hand out to stop Touya from poking Fuyumi and waking her up is conclusive proof that Touya has always been a menace.

[fandomrouletteburrito]

#skk #bsd fanart

[fandomrouletteburrito]

sure i exist but at what cost

[fandomrouletteburrito]

your honor who gives a fuck. like for real

[fandomrouletteburrito]

gonna buy this god-forsaken web site and charge all y'all $8 a month to edit reblogs.

[fandomrouletteburrito]

i think the thing that bothers me the most about the toning down or dismissing of Katara's anger as a "flaw", or making it some "dark" side of her character (asides from the misogyny...) is that it completely overlooks how it is fundamental to Katara's (and the show's) particular brand of hope.

her anger is the impetus for the Avatar being freed. her refusal to accept being told her place in the world, her refusal to accept "how things are" if they are unfair or cruel. she believes so strongly in a better future, in a world without the fire nation's war, and she is going to be a part of that effort in reaching it.

and yes, sometimes her anger is a flaw. sometimes she takes things too far and doesn't listen. she's like. 14. it's actually good that she's not always in the right, despite her righteousness, because this is yet another of the core themes of the show - learning from each other - from different cultures, from different generations, from different experiences, teaching what you've learned to others in turn, and thereby preserving what's most important, or what might otherwise have been lost. change is achieved through education and compassion for the disadvantaged and hope.

and hope is not passive, so neither is Katara