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As a malevolent podcast only fan, it is interesting hearing about the patreon fandom side in the Q and A since I only know the podcast from recommendations on Spotify and I never looked into joining. Didn't even realize the lore was based on the creator's DnD multiverse. Very interesting...

#also interesting to hear the fandom got upset over the child comment #antis would run with that and say it's problematic to ship it now i suppose lol

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Happy Birthday Kyojuro!!!!

#their art!! look at it!! #friend art... #rentan #tanren #kny #kny fanart #fanart

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#love this #it would go down like that #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi fanart #fanart

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The most recent prison QuiEiden scene was gooood. Makes me want to write some quieiden

#🤭🤭😳😳 #need more quincy losing his shit #some of these scenes can get so repetitively vanilla #some spice!!! #nu carnival

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I sincerely wish people knew how to tag their dungeon meshi spoilers

#yes your text posts count too #SIGH #dungeon meshi #this is perhaps the worst it's ever been #never seen so many untagged spoilers and i can't just unfollow everyone

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an important principle of fandom (and life, actually) is that if you want more of Less Popular Thing, it is good to create positive spaces and events for it. however, if you use those spaces to take cracks at the More Popular Thing which you perceive as stealing oxygen from your Less Popular Thing, you do not increase the audience for Less Popular Thing. you decrease it, because you irk people who like both Things. and depending on the relative popularity, there are quite possibly more people who like both Things than people who only like Less Popular Thing. (not to mention - you kill your chances of recruiting people who like More Popular Thing but are neutral on or haven’t considered Less Popular Thing.) 

you’re not campaigning for votes (where There Can Be Only One), you’re marketing for a share of people’s attention. don’t be petty. be effective. 

#flashbacks to that one person in the one server #the would interrupt ppl's little hc ideas to say “but what if it was the opposite of that #insulting shippers of popular ship #eventually they did leave of their own volition and it finally felt like there was room to breathe #saying things like “x fans only like x ship because [huge mean spirited generalization]” #dont be that guy!!!

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I said soon on the next update but work has been crazy....I just don't have time or energy. But I promise I'll find it

#0<-<

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So today I got a rather unkind comment on AO3 (one could call it hate), but I believe it to be a bot for several reasons:

Guest account, but username attached

Said username exists but person is unlikely to be reading Tolkien fic (according to their Tumblr and AO3, they are in other fandoms)

Two grammatically correct sentences

Super generic text that could apply to any fic:

"I've seen better fanfiction written by a toddler. Get it together!"

I'm curious, did anyone else get comments like this? Let me know.

And to those who have gotten rude comments and are now worried/upset: Maybe it was just a bot too. Either way: You're awesome for putting your writing out there for others to enjoy and you don't deserve to get rude comments for it. If you want feel free to message me to compare cases and discuss details :)

#oh damn #ao3 #know some folks who would really feel hurt seeing these #glad they took action #bots are sneaky

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Hello, I saw some of your fics attached to old Samurai Bravo posts, but when I clicked on them, they didn't exist anymore and I couldn't find your Johhny/Jack stories on AO3. Would you ever consider making your old Samurai Bravo fics publicly available to read again? If not for whatever reason, I understand but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask!

Hey there! The fics should still be available, so I'll take a look tomorrow and see if I can find anything to fix. I think the urls likely have my old username maybe?? Honestly, I never posted them to AO3 only because I was a bit lazy about it and didn't think people cared that much :') I should though, for archival purposes and when Tumblr gets all buggy

#let this be the kick in the butt for me to finally do it

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dunmesh x hades

#OH LOVE THIS #dungeon meshi #hades #fanart

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where my dungeonheads at

#lmao #dungeon meshi #i am obsessed #chilshi #senchuk #idk ship names

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please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

#ohh #nice #writing reference #tbh #if i forget

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What a dialogue

#love it #the magnus protocol #alice dyer #sam khalid #fanart #tmagp fanart #tmagp spoilers #tmagp

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The Slasher U Kickstarter for issues #1-3 has finally launched! Want your OC to be a student at Hope university? Check out the rewards! (OCs must be human to keep the story grounded)

You guys have 24 hours to get the discount!

LINK

#if i was in any way imaginative #slasher u #alas just the physical

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Our Systems volunteers have written up a great behind-the-scenes look at last year’s DDoS attacks against the Archive. Why not check it out and show them some love?

#wow #ao3

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attached

#wowowow #chilshi #dm fanart #fanart #dungeon meshi

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feel like i should be sorry about this one

#this is so chillchuk #dungeon meshi #dm fanart #fanart