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god why is OFMD so immaculate it only pops up during the two months that represent its two main characters: Gay and Spoopy

#our flag means death #OMFD

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Brendan Hunt’s Post-Finale Reddit AMA (Part 2)

(If you missed Part 1, check it out here.)

On Sam & Colin.

Feels convenient to put Colin's public coming out at the end of your finale so you don't have to deal with the fallout, and not even follow up on it in the news clippings we see after. (I do get it, but. But.)

On Doctor Sharon.

On the possibility of using Trent narrating his book in the finale.

Some Beard Headcanons/Tidbits.

That last one is probably my favorite of his answers from the whole AMA, honestly.

On a possible Community crossover.

For those not in the know, Brendan Hunt had a cameo in an episode of Community.

On rewrites, fan theories, and fan reactions.

So, 1) dispense with your "Apple corporate meddling!!" theories about why this season was so messy, 2) you... thought the blatant ship-baiting opening in the FINALE was an "affectionate nod"? Dude, that's just... out of touch, honestly. I'm not really surprised that this is how they viewed it, but.

As for that last one... fuckin YIKES, dude, even if this was where 100% of the criticism for the final was coming from—it isn't, as far as I've seen; I've seen HUGELY mixed reactions, both here and on Reddit, much of which is not related to specific unfulfilled expectations, shipping or otherwise—that's still just an absolute ice cold take on criticism. Sorry that people get invested in the media you make???

(Tedbeccas, y'all really did get clowned on over here, I am so sorry.)

Why was the finale posted late?

and finally...

Will there be more???

Some notable questions he skipped/did not answer:

as in that last question, he pointedly didn't answer multiple highly-upvoted questions about the choice to have so many big S3 moments happen off-screen

it only had like 25 upvotes but someone did ask in a reply about his thoughts on Ted/Trent which was left unreplied

there was a thoughtful question about callbacks & references with almost 400 upvotes that seemed pretty innocuous but he never answered

someone asked what he would write Ted & Beard's future story as after Ted's return to Kansas and he just said "I’m not falling for this!"

someone wrote a whole thing about an Autistic Beard headcanon that had no replies but over 100 upvotes which he didn't touch

there was also a question with a moderate amount of upvotes about Trent's daughter with zero replies

#ted lasso #brendan hunt #reddit ama

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Brendan Hunt’s Post-Finale Reddit AMA (Part 1)

Because I have seen a lot of one-off screenshots and vagueblogging about this, but no compilation post, I figured I would compile all the canon-important questions Brendan Hunt answered in his Reddit AMA this afternoon, along with some light commentary. (If you want to look through the entire thing yourself, you can find it here:)

Let’s start with a big clarification a lot of people asked for and he answered twice: was the end montage a dream?

Tl;dr according to the writers, none of it was a dream. (Also RIP that book list, I’ve been curious about this before and tried to pull a full list from screenshots but I think we only see 3-4 of the books 😩)

On Beard & Jane.

So this is all very… YIKES 😬😬😬 (Except for the bit about Roy & Keeley, which honestly mostly feels like a non-answer other than “Roy needs to go to therapy” which: lol no kidding.)

On Ted & Rebecca.

Although I don't particularly ship Ted & Rebecca (tho I'm not against it either, I'm neutral in that ship war!) I understand why y'all are mad about these answers. The last one in particular feels like a retcon-y denial of some deliberate writing choices they made, whether or not they ever seriously considered having them actually end up together.

On Ted's Ending.

As someone whose largest problem with the finale (aside from the glaring Beard & Jane Of It All) can be summarized as "Major Issues With Ted's Everything," I'm gonna go ahead and chalk this up to just a major writing fumble, essentially. If people are asking this many questions about it, you needed to spell more of this out onscreen. Half of these questions could've been answered by having Ted actually have a real conversation with Rebecca in the stands instead of fucking SILENCE.

On Ted & Beard.

I mean, other than the drugs question (which is a very valid answer)...I guess?? Feels unsatisfyingly realistic to Actual Adulthood to me, personally, but sure, I guess.

On Dr. Jacob.

I am nothing but a disabled paralegal with Google, and it took me less than five minutes to locate KAR 102-5-12. Unprofessional conduct for Marriage & Family Therapists in Kansas:

(26) making sexual advances toward, engaging in physical intimacies or sexual activities with, or exercising undue influence over any person who, within the past 24 months, has been one's client; (27) exercising undue influence over any client, student, or supervisee, including promoting sales of services or goods, in a manner that will exploit the client, student, or supervisee for the financial gain, personal gratification, or advantage of oneself or a third party;

(All emphasis mine.) So... we'll fall back on that "suspension of disbelief" for fiction, I guess?? Because he clearly violated (26) with Michelle and (27) with Ted.

On Roy, Keeley, & Jamie.

That fight and Roy doing "work on himself" absolutely could have happened earlier in the season, but... sure! I guess! (If I'm being charitable, I might say that he misunderstood the poly triad question since the OP worded it as a "triangle relationship" rather than actually using the words "polyamory" or "non-monogamy" but. He very well may have understood but just ignored that part of it! Who knows.)

1000% everyone should support the writers strike though, obvs.

(Continued in Part 2 since this is so fuckin long!)

#ted lasso #brendan hunt #reddit ama

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Willis. Will. Bill.

Bill and Ted. They were Bill and Ted all along

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers

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happy finale everyone, have fun

#ted lasso #ted lasso memes #shoutout to all you crazy ted shippers #hope y’all have a real one tonight #technically made this weeks ago for a friend #to describe the tag this season #but it also fits p well for relative finale outlooks #if you saw me post this two minutes ago shh tumblr was glitching

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So, I know everyone jokes about their “bingo card,” but. I…did actually create one at the beginning of the season, just before the third episode aired. I’ve been updating it all season and already got one bingo, but I’m curious to see what my final tally is at the end, so I’m posting it now to throw it out there before the episode airs.

[Image ID: A 5x5 square bingo card with black text on a white background, divided by gray lines.

Top Row: “COLIN COMES OUT AS QUEER” (highlighted yellow), “BEARD & JANE FINALLY BREAK UP PERMANENTLY”, “BEX LEAVES RUPERT” “TRENT IS THE ONE TO PUSH TED TO CONFRONT BEARD ABOUT JANE”, “ZAVA FACE HEEL TURN” (highlighted yellow)

Second Row: “JAMIE IS THE ONE WHO PUSHES ROY & KEELEY BACK TOGETHER”, “NATE RETURNS TO RICHMOND” (highlighted yellow), “ROY & KEELEY GET BACK TOGETHER”, “TRENT JOINS THE DIAMOND DOGS” (highlighted yellow), “SHANDY GETS FIRED” (highlighted yellow)

Middle Row: “YOGA MUMS APPEARANCE”, “BEARD HAS BEEN HIGH/NOT SOBER MORE THAN JUST THE ONCE” (highlighted yellow), “TED USES RHYMING NICKNAMES (FREE SPACE)” (highlighted yellow), “JAMIE IS CONFIRMED TO BE QUEER”, “ROY PUNCHES SOMEONE ON BEHALF OF JAMIE”

Fourth Row: “WE MEET ROY'S SISTER” (highlighted yellow), “"SHITE IN NINING ARMOR" = JAMIE” (grayed out), “TED RETURNS TO AMERICA AFTER THIS SEASON” (highlighted yellow), “TRENT BECOMES COLIN'S GAY MENTOR” (highlighted yellow), “ISAAC PUNCHES SOMEONE ON BEHALF OF COLIN” (half-highlighted light yellow),

Bottom Row: “COLIN-ISAAC TENSION WHEN COLIN FIRST COMES OUT” (highlighted yellow), “JAMIE PASSES TO SAM TO SCORE PLOT-IMPORTANT GOAL”, “WE MEET TRENT'S HUSBAND / PARTNER”, “AT LEAST ONE OF THE BARFLIES IS CONFIRMED TO BE QUEER”, “SAM GETS A TURN AS CAPTAIN” (highlighted yellow)

End image ID.]

#ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #ted lasso predictions

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Fuck it. If the finale includes a scene with Roy, Jamie, and Keeley all waking up in bed together, I will get a fuckin Ted Lasso tattoo.

#ted lasso #roy/jamie/keeley #i do not think this will happen and this is mostly a joke #but if they aren’t cowards and actually commit to the ot3 I absolutely will follow through on this #anyway I’m clearly having a very Normal One how are y’all doing

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tag urself im the lemur giving an inspirational speech in the footwell

#ted lasso #GIVE ME THE OT3 WRITERS DON’T BE COWARDS

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Since Jan Maas cited the 10% statistic, and Beard specifically said, “there are probably more people in this room who are gay,” just for funsies, I went to the bother of going through the scene to count how many people are actually in the locker room in that scene. It’s 21; if we choose to include Roy & Isaac, who just stepped out, it’s 23, and if we include Will, who was doing his job in the adjacent boot room, then it’s 24.

10% of that would indicate there are between 2.1-2.4 people in the locker room/general vicinity who are gay.

So……..

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #trent crimm #colin hughes #jamie tartt #the math is mathing #and it says #jamie tartt is bi CONFIRMED #this is a joke but also #is it?? #he’s flattered #vacillating between being 10% to 40% gay is a mood tbh

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I watched the gay pirate show and I have some Thoughts about the way that it mashes together characters who are in totally different genres of Pirate Media

#our flag means death #ofmd

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*BIG SIGH*

My quarantine roommate just came out of her room to inform me that there is ONCE AGAIN Copyright Discourse Happening On Tumblr, because she both knows I have Opinions on this and wanted to verify that OP was wrong, and friends, I am tired, and it’s not just because I watched Star Wars Resistance instead of sleeping last night.

First, let me assure you, as I just did said roommate, that OP is full of scaremongering bullshit.

Next, @shanastoryteller​‘s addition above is largely correct so we could just stop there, but I want to point out two twitter threads:

1) rahaeli’s excellent thread has been linked NUMEROUS times in the notes of this post but I’m gonna link it again because it does a WONDERFUL job of refuting the OP’s points and breaking down why all of that analysis is completely wrong; there’s no need for me to rehash what she’s already said. But suffice it to say: OP CLEARLY DOES NOT UNDERSTAND HOW TOSs OR CONTRACT LAW OR IP LAW WORK

2) There’s a FUCKTON of misconceptions in fandom about how copyright law actually DOES work in regards to fanworks (including in the response directly above), and I literally did a long twitter thread about this two weeks ago. Standard blah blah IANAL I just work for them, but. If you’re curious about, “what actually IS a ‘transformative work’?” or “IS it legal to make money from fanworks?” then check out that thread; I talk about both of those things.

Please, please, consider this my general always-applicable fandom plea, I beg of you: if you have zero experience in reading legalese, do NOT try to spread PSAs if you come across something that seems like it’s saying something scary to you. Double-check with someone who is trained in doing so, because otherwise we end up with widespread misinformation like...this entire post. Sigh.

ETA:  SOMEONE FINALLY FOUND THE RECEIPTS I WAS LOOKING FOR YESTERDAY, SO I CAN NOW ADD—I wouldn’t take the the OP screaming about how Disney’s gonna steal your stuff too seriously, considering they once actually legitimately accused Dave Filoni of stealing their Star Wars fanfic.

Disney Wants Your Stuff. (No, I’m serious, they literally say you own the copyright to your fanwork until they say that THEY own it, i.e. Welcome to the new Disney TOS, Baby.

First up, the link, so chill already: https://disneytermsofuse.com/  Your relevant and terrifying passage(s) are the entirety of Section 7. Go read it. I’ll wait.

Now. First thing to understand is that the legal language within the new TOS *implies* that Disney is only referring to people who use its services, people who clicked and agreed to this new TOS. But it’s implication only. That’s not what this TOS actually says.

This TOS spends a lot of time defining fanworks, or as they call it, User Generated Content.

They want to make it clear that,

a) You totally have the right to make User Generated Content (UGC) all you want.

b) You can put that UGC anywhere you want, whether they own the site or someone else does. What matters is that you’ve put that UGC in a publically accessible place…like, oh, AO3.

c) Disney spends a few breaths saying that the creator of the UGC owns the copyright to that UGC…except if you read those words carefully, they’re not guaranteeing you anything, because THEY own the copyright.

d) Disney then says, since they own the copyright to your UGC, they can literally do anything they want with it. They can steal it, crib it, use the entire thing as their own, make money off of it, reprint it, ANYTHING–and you do not get credit. You do not get paid. You do not get acknowledgement. You might get a DMCA telling you take down your UGC because it is now *their* content that they’re selling and how dare you steal from them. (No, I’m not kidding.)

e) Nobody seems to know a fucking thing about this.

f) The bullshit on Twitter over May the Fourth was just a smokescreen, sorry. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/28/21238909/disney-star-wars-maythe4th-hashtag-copyright-contract-twitter

Disney doesn’t want your Tweets. They just wanted to see who was paying attention, and how, and if they could get away with it. (Yes, they did go after someone who reposted Disney’s own tweets. No more information on that yet.)

g) Yes, you should absolutely take this seriously. You should be terrified, because how many fan content creators have the bank to fight this if their “copyrighted content” that Disney specifies is still *their* copyrighted content is stolen? OTW exists for this very reason, but this is fucking Disney. They. Own. Almost. Everything. In. The. Corporate. United. States. Entertainment. Industry.

h) No, your MCU, Star Wars, Pixar, Disney animated films, ANY such fanworks, are not safe. If Disney likes it, they will take it. If you say they can’t, they’ll point to their new site-wide TOS and say that they can. Is that legal? Don’t actually know, but think about who’s in the White House right now. Think about who he’d support. Yes, the Library of Congress and the House of Reps are supposed to be in charge, but how long until we could push for them to deal with/fix this shit?

i) Yes, Disney is probably trying to steal content in order to survive the pandemic, seeing as their major sources of revenue (parks and movies) aren’t happening right now.

j) Yes, I will be removing my Star Wars content. I didn’t work on that fucking story for nearly 20 years just for some corporate shill to fucking steal it.

k) Someone who currently wishes to remain anonymous has pinged an OTW peep to see if they’re aware.

l) If they weren’t so specific to point out that they really do mean Any Public Place, I wouldn’t be so concerned…but it doesn’t. This isn’t just about their services. This is about the entire fucking internet.

That’s it. You guys now know everything I know, so no, I wouldn’t be able to answer any of your questions. I suggest spreading the word, if only so someone else with more information can step up and reassure us that Disney can’t do what they believe they can do…

…but it’s fucking DISNEY. They nearly destroyed Public Domain in the United States over fucking Mickey Mouse a hundred years ago. Do you really think they’re going to say, “Oh, sorry, our bad” about this?

#im so tired #fandom #ip law #copyright #meta #no I'm still not back on tumblr

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From @nothingbutthedreams: “#from what I can tell I’m guessing it’s screenprinted onto the glass before the pad picks it up”

Kind of, yes and no! This thing works basically exactly like a giant nail stamping plate—the machine on the right spreads the paint (or glaze, not sure which it is) and then scrapes it off at a 45 degree angle as the plate moves back and forth, so the wet paint settles into the recessed areas of the etched metal plate. So, similar to screenprinting, but no actual silkscreens involved, the metal is permanently etched with the design instead. Then the silicone (I’m assuming) pad, which is shaped to fit the size & shape of the dishes being made, picks up the still wet paint/glaze and transfers it to the waiting dish.

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#every time this crosses my dash again I’m like ‘man I should go paint my nails’

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I wanted to weigh in on this both as an #ITPE mod, and someone who’s been around and watched the trends for years. There’s a few things going on here.

Podfic fandom for YEARS was pretty insular, and a community unto itself. It’s natural that in a community like that, people with similar taste would be attracted to it, people with wildly different tastes would feel like it was not a good fit for them and leave, and everyone’s taste would rub off on each other. It’s not a coincidence that podfic as a whole, for instance, when looking at something huge like Star Wars Sequels fandom, skews MUCH harder towards Finn/Poe and Finn/Poe/Rey than the much more popular Kylo-based ships in written fic. That’s the type of people the community has attracted, and collective social taste in a community absolutely plays a large role in what gets created, because many people consider the audience for a work before spending lots of time on it.

Do NOT underestimate the influence of…well, influencers. Because of the amount of podfic she produces, getting Reena Jenkins into your fandom will absolutely balloon that fandom’s podfic stats, and get that fandom in front of tons more eyes/ears, which causes a knock-on effect. Paraka made HUGE pushes to get more Adam/Kris American Idol podfic to exist back in the day, and that’s why that fandom & ship are still on these lists to this day. I’m pretty sure Red vs. Blue is on the fandom list because of blackglass’s sheer determination alone. I got deeply into Hockey RPF back in 2012, and spent at least 6 months very aggressively and pointedly dragging many podficcers (and podfic-adjacent blanket permission authors) down with me. That had a ripple effect that is felt through to today, since once there’s a certain amount of podfic in a fandom, it’s there for podficcers to find when they’re looking for new fandoms to listen to podfic in, and that fandom still has podfic activity happening now as a result. However, notice that (TW: rape mention) Patrick K*ne/Jonathan Toews remains in the top 25 most podficced ships overall, despite it having next to no new podfic activity since news of K*ne’s rape case broke in 2015. (/TW) One big push over a couple years can be enough to cement a podfic fandom’s popularity for a decade.

Okay, let’s talk #ITPE. So, as an unintended consequence of how we match #ITPE, I think podfic fandom has seen a boom in what I call “popular secondary fandoms.” When we’re looking at fandoms and letters, we try to judge what people’s MAIN fandom(s) are—the thing that they really want—and what are the fandoms that they’re not as currently passionate about but would never be sad to receive or make something in, or their “secondary fandoms.” We try our hardest to both match people on the main fandom(s) they want, and also have at least a 2-fandom match, and that’s where those secondary fandoms come in. Popular secondary fandoms tend to be either older popular main fandoms (Lord of the Rings, Due South, Inception, Merlin, etc.) or those fandoms that were never huge in terms of fanworks, but many people have consumed and enjoyed—great examples of these are Firefly, Check Please, and, my classic example of this: Leverage. Notice that ALL of those fandoms I listed have fairly high podficcing percentages. #ITPE has become a HUGE amount of the podfic output for the whole year, and these fandoms have become popular fallbacks for people looking to give quick treats, or backup gifts in case they don’t finish their ambitious one, or what have you.

The other thing about #ITPE matching is a little bit of Slytherin-ing that I normally wouldn’t publicly admit to, but it’s...relevant here, so. When I talk about how we hand-match in #ITPE, that isn’t just because we want to assess like, trope/squick matches. We, in fact, very deliberately match in a way that favors smaller fandoms, rarepairs and ships involving women and characters of color, etc. But the mods are also human, with our own biases and agendas, and sometimes you’re just fed up with the lack of DCU podfic and structure an entire #ITPE gifting loop around producing more Tim Drake podfic, and it’s accidentally FAR more successful than you ever intended and now five years later it’s one of the top 10 most podficced fandoms and the ship & character breakdown of what gets podficced is NOT at all representative of the larger fic fandom and is WILDLY skewed towards your personal character & ship tastes. Whoops? Sorry? (I’m not sorry.) Slightly more seriously, looking at actual stats, there are 627 DCU podfics on AO3, and a staggering 80% were made for that #ITPE or after. Even if you eliminate the DCWTV shows that account for some of that and limit it to comics canons only (as much as you can with AO3 filters), that time period still accounts for 335/382 podfics, which is actually OVER 80% of comics-based podfic, closer to 90%. Some of this is the Reena Jenkins Effect™, but I think it’s pretty clear that, intentionally or not, something can catch on with the right spark and cause a massive shift in podfic fandom taste.

So get out there and push your fandoms, people! ;)

The Podfic-est Fandoms (on ao3)

So there was some discussion on the podfic discord about what makes a strong podfic fandom. Now I don’t think this answers that, but I realized while it was easy to see what fandoms/ships have the most podfic (usually the juggernaut ones) it is harder to say just looking which fandom have the highest rate of podfic. To answer this I turned to @destinationtoast​‘s scripts. I attempted to pull fandoms and ships with more than 25 works tagged podfic on ao3. This limit was a bit a technical one (even like this it took ages to run) but also because when a fandom is small, a few podfics can be a massive skew. It definitely did not pull everything that meets that qualification since as soon as I shared it people found fandoms it missed and obviously some of these fandoms overlap, caveats, etc…

HOWEVER it showed quite clearly that most popular fandom overall =/= most podfic’d so, for fun, two graphs (click the linked title to see original on Sheets) Podfic by Fandom:

(a third piece of data in here, fandoms are in order most to least number of podfics, left to right)

You can see that it’s rare for a fandom to cross 2.5% podfic and also something wild is going on in the Rivers of London fandom. The others to break 2.5% are Leverage (a smallish fandom) and Men’s Hockey RPF which has nearly as man podfics as “The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types” despite having less than a tenth the number of works. Podfic by Ship

Ships on the other hand do seem to break 5% podfic with some frequency. We see ships from our three fandoms that came up as well as from Star Wars, WNTV, DC and a few more non-hockey RPFs Anyways, I don’t have a big conclusion for this aside from just being a big fandom is not always what brings all the podficcers to the yard. If anyone wants to look at what I pulled (or see the graphs better) it is here. Data Retrieved February 21, 2020

#podfic #meta

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SO TIRED

the pain is just...too real

Made for sisabet for @festivids 2019.

Password: triedsohard

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#gourmet makes #bon appetit #claire saffitz #fanvid #festivids #my vids

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(ONLY WANNA) DANCE WITH YOU

You’re in for it now.

Made for @trelkez for @festivids 2019.

Password: toepick

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#The Cutting Edge #fanvid #fanvids #festivids #my vids

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your Being Alive edit *clutches heart* thank you!

Thank you!! I’m glad it resonates with others too, because I cried while making it. <3

And also kudos for tracking me to my tumblr, since this came in when it was only posted on twitter, and I have a slightly different name here that isn’t obviously linked anywhere on my twitter, lol.

#ask #anon #my vids #star wars

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BEING ALIVE

Alone is alone, not alive.

Inspired by this twitter thread by @lordoftheseths.

Password: makemeawareof

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#star wars #rise of skywalker #fanvid #musical theater #reylo #finnrose #anakin x padme #han x leia