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sagegarnish · 17 hours

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sagegarnish · 2 days

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【Ａｎｉｍｅ　Ｗｅｂ　Ｔｕｒｎｐｉｋｅ】

【Ｎｅｔｓｃａｐｅ　Ｎａｖｉｇａｔｏｒ】

【１９９７】

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sagegarnish · 3 days

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Here it is! The 2000th Winterbaron fanfic!

This is a really special present that Ary and I have been working on. It's a WIP, so there's more to come.

Find it here: ( x )

#winterbaron #sagegarnish posts #sagegarnish fics

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sagegarnish · 6 days

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To recognize TERFs, anti’s, fash, incels and other internet shitstains, one pattern you need to recognize is this:

They take some normal human behavior

Explain it in the darkest, most bad faith way possible

And then ignore any other, often more realistic, explanation.

A simple example:

A lot of adults watch TV shows about high school relationship drama.

Dark bad faith take: all these adults are obsessing over teenager sex lives because they want to fuck teenagers.

More realistic explanation: a lot of adults have memories of their own high school relationship drama that they like to relive, process, etc through media.

Another realistic explanation: People can empathize with the stories of hobbits, dragons, defense lawyers, plucky detectives, space rebels, talking dogs and teenagers in high school without always having a desire to fuck the characters involved. It is possible to just enjoy a story as a story without it fulfilling some emotional of sexual need.

Like, when you take a tiny step back, it becomes clear that the jump from ‘adults watch high school dramas’ to ‘they all want to fuck teenagers’ is absolute moon logic.

This logic only works if you assume the absolute worst possible things about the group you’re talking about. This logic works if the only lens you can see a group through is ‘predator’ and you do not acknowledge that they are completely humans who can just do non-predatory things like ‘enjoying stories’.

And assuming the absolute worst possible things about a specific group while denying their complexity and humanity… well, that is absolutely key to what TERFs, anti’s, fashos, incels, etc. do.

#anti vs proship #long post

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sagegarnish · 12 days

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Permanent Blacklists for AO3

Would you like to permanently remove fics with your squicks, triggers, and dislikes from all AO3 searches by default so that you never have to think about or encounter them again? Well now you can!

The ability to do this has actually been around for a little while but it relies on some new CSS functionality that wasn't supported on all major browsers until fairly recently (though you may still have to enable it manually on some). I'm not going to explain how this method works or how to code AO3 skins in general, as I've only dabbled in it a little and there are already some very good tutorials out there. If you want all of the details, check out these guides:

Skins and Archive Interface FAQ – The official skins guide created by AO3. Lots of good information but might be overwhelming and confusing for a beginner.

A Non-Extensive Guide on How to Start Creating a Skin for AO3 by ao3skin – Some good, fairly easy to understand, beginner info on CSS and specifically how it applies to AO3 skins.

Permablocking Specific Tags - Site Skin by Eli0t – Everything you need to know to create permablock lists. If your blacklist doesn't seem to be working as expected, check this for troubleshooting tips.

What I can offer though are some handy pre-made blacklists that you can use as-is or as a starting point to create your own so that you don't have to go to the trouble of figuring out how any of this works or hunting down relevant tags. Just copy the code, open AO3, go to My Preferences > Skins > Create Site Skin, paste it in the box, title it, and click Submit!

Note: The following lists are very specific to me and my own personal tastes. Absolutely no judgement if you love any of the things that I choose to blacklist. You do you. I just happen to like my fics fucked up and relatively canonical.

★ No Reader Fic – Hides all self-insert and reader fic.

★ No Alternate Universes – Hides anything tagged with the most common AU tags. There are so many incredibly specific AUs there's no way to list all of them and AU tagging is also extremely inconsistent from fic to fic so this blacklist may only catch 80% of AUs, but that's better than nothing. You could always exclude the entire alternate universe tag, rather than trying to list specific ones, but unfortunately canon divergence and other less extreme AUs would get caught in the crossfire, which is not worth it for me.

★ No Fluff – Hides anything tagged with the most common fluff and romance tags. I specifically left out "fluff and angst" though because sometimes that's used for things that are mostly angst with only a bit of fluff and I do love angst.

★ Bonus: No Dead Dove – This list is not mine (for obvious reasons) but I know some people may find it useful. Hides anything with the main archive warnings and many common problematic, taboo, or controversial tags. Some of these I wouldn't even classify as dead dove, they're literally just kinks, so I'd suggest reviewing the list carefully and removing any that don't apply to you.

Additional Notes:

This system doesn't work exactly the same as AO3's exclusion filters because you can't use top-level wrangled tags to block all subtags. It only blocks exact matches.

Once the blacklist is implemented you'll see no indication that anything was blocked (except for fewer fics listed on each search page); the entire blurb will be hidden. The tags and fic counts listed in the filter bar will remain unchanged. If you want more advanced features like whitelisting or adding something to indicate when a fic was removed, check out the permablocking guide by Eli0t.

Here's a link with info on which browsers currently support the new "has()" element, which this blacklist system relies on. As of right now Firefox for desktop still has to be manually enabled (for instructions see the section on flag enabling in the permablocking guide). Firefox for iOS isn't listed on this website but it seems to work fine for me.

There are other browser-specific extensions that let you permablock tags, such as this one and this one, that may be more a little more user friendly, but I've never tried them so I can't vouch for them and they may not work consistently between different devices. The good thing about doing blacklists via skins is that, after setting it up once, it should work automatically on pretty much any device (as long as you're logged in to your AO3 account).

#ao3 tutorial #ao3 css #ao3 skins

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sagegarnish · 12 days

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I hate that people make posts about how people should be writing something a certain way or prioritizing their time making content for certain groups or adhering to absolute canon for specific instances. And it’s framed as this community wide PSA for the fandom federation or something ridiculous like that as if it’s our solemn duty as a fandom to conduct ourselves in a way that is not cringe, or that the widest possible audience will enjoy it and of course wholesome never too sexual and morally good (and is literally just the posters specific preferences most of the time)

And then these sentiments sometimes spread and you get comments correcting you on the way you spend your own free time playing with dolls as if you are failing the collective in your duties or some shit. Why do people do this! This is a hobby for fun I am not a YouTuber or Tiktoker leave me alone! We are not required to collectively adhere to the most popular views of canon go away! I do not want to be your idea of advertiser friendly so you aren’t embarrassed to share an online space with me. I was disowned by half my family when I came out and couldn’t take my own gf to prom because of Period Typical homophobia from the 2000s you think I fucking care what a bunch of weak willed zoomers are embarrassed by? I am unapologetically sex positive and kinky in my artistic expression and I can take or leave what I like about canon like I have for the 15 years I’ve been in fandom. I’m not going anywhere and I am not changing for your personal sensibilities.

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#fandom

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sagegarnish · 13 days

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Looking most respectfully.

#winterbaron

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sagegarnish · 13 days

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【VIDEO】 Concerning Father H. Zemo & Sergeant J. B. Barnes (1943)

Did someone say priest kink?

This is an idea I've had for a winterbaron WWII Priest AU for a while, but I wasn't honestly sure what I was going to do.

The clips sort of built the story as I went, creating their own narrative with how I was limited by the available snippets. Also on AO3: ( x )

Basic story after the cut

Zemo, the new chaplain, arrives for the 107th Infantry Regiment.

He also does some medic duties, which was normal for them in WW2.

Bucky is like "Huh, he's unexpectedly young and hot".

They bond a little.

Zemo has SOME LUSTFUL THOUGHTS about him. He fantasizes constantly but dismisses it.

He resists, but one day Bucky is injured and brought to the field hospital.

Bucky is like "Am... am I dying? Are you here to do the last rites? Man, I'm not even Catholic".

And Zemo is like, "No, I'm here to take care of you."

and Bucky's like "TAKE CARE OF ME, HUH?"

Anyways, they fuck in the medical tent that night.

They begin an on-again, off-again secret relationship where Zemo is CONSTANTLY breaking it off, out of religious guilt.

Bucky usually agrees it's for the best because they don't want to get a Section 8 blue discharge (what happened to LGBTQ+ people in the army at that time) but he's also very angsty about it every time.

They both keep giving in, always come back for more.

They fool around in fields near missions, in the showers after everyone's left, while all the others are downstairs in the bar.

Anywhere they can get the time and privacy.

Finally at one point, Zemo REALLY ends it.

He's certain he's sinning far too much, and his soul will be damned, and he'll also damn Bucky's soul as well.

Zemo actually asks for a transfer to another unit, and breaks it off. Bucky is heartbroken again.

There's an attack after Zemo leaves, and Bucky believes Zemo died, and spirals.

Zemo is actually fine, and staying with another unit, and taking the time to pray and repent in the church nearby, but he's in agony.

He misses Bucky.

Bucky finds out Zemo lived. He takes off from his assignment, against orders, and travels to the church where Zemo's unit is staying.

Zemo didn't even realize Bucky thought he was dead, and is taken aback by him showing up. He had assumed that Bucky would simply get over him, and it was better this way. Bucky actually showing up throws a wrench into his own plans to move on.

Bucky gives him an emotional speech about how much he loves him. He tells Zemo not to worry about his immortal soul, but if he's so concerned, maybe he can scold him privately.

Zemo can't resist his words, and they make love in a confession booth.

Zemo gets up that night, and wanders through the church to sit alone.

Bucky gets up to confront him.

He gives Zemo a speech about how if he doesn't want God to see what he is, he can stifle that part of himself, but he'll always regret it.

THE END

(in my mind, they run away together, and the war ends and they live happily ever after)

#winterbaron #sagegarnish edits #sagegarnish posts #video edit #don’t like don’t interact #not trying to upset anyone #just vibing in my corner

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sagegarnish · 13 days

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people on here r rly like 'attraction to big people is fetishistic, attraction to small people is pedophilic, having sexual thoughts about a real person is objectifying and basically harassment (and having them about fictional people is perverted), kinky sex is immoral, if youre open about your sex life in any way youre a pervert, if youre not open about them you are queerbaiting. basically you should be completely sexless while everything you do is sexualized and up for debate/speculation. this is good for the lgbt community'

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sagegarnish · 15 days

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I’m not too gone to be healed, am I? I’m not too gone am I?

#obikin

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sagegarnish · 16 days

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5 things your character can't do while speaking

Choke. Just think about it, seriously. Think about what choking is and imagine speaking while it’s happening. That would fuckin’ hurt, man.

Hiss. Look, it’s just not possible, okay? No matter how “evil” you want your character to seem.

Snarl. Animals snarls. The Beast from Beauty and the Beast snarls. The Hulk snarls. You know who doesn’t snarl? PEOPLE WHEN THEY’RE SPEAKING.

Shriek. Come on, 99% of the time, “shriek” is not the word you want.Let’s face it: if you put an exclamation point at the end of the sentence, your reader gets the picture. Don’t bring to mind banshees and screaming toddlers.

Sneer. I’m not even going to bother explaining this one. “SNEER” ISN’T EVEN A SOUND.

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sagegarnish · 18 days

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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sagegarnish · 19 days

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@freelance-anthem