#I mean this is obvs my opinion but still

[otaku6337]

Posting Fic Is Like Graffitiing Your House

Okay stay with me here - but posting fics publicly for others to read is a lot like taking the art you might make inside your bedroom and graffitiing it on the outside of your house - it’s public, maybe you even post a few pictures on social media, but you don’t physically drag anyone except perhaps friends or family to look at it, and you get nothing from people other than, at best, kind words or a few social media likes for doing so. Maybe you live in an artsy neighbourhood, or you’ve done this before, and people choose of their own accord to come and have a look around.

Nobody has to look at it, and they certainly don’t have to say anything to you about it. They can just glance at it, and either not care or decide your particular art style/concept/content isn’t for them, and keep on walking. 

Or they can knock on your door, or comment on a post you might have made, and say “wow this looks so cool!” or “finding your art really brightened my day”. That’s lovely of them - unnecessary, but very much lovely.

People have no right, no right at all, to knock on your door and say “this is disgusting” or “why on earth did you draw this” or “you should’ve used red not yellow”.

After all, this is your house, and your art. Just because you made it publicly able to be seen, that doesn’t mean you gave over a single iota of ownership. You didn’t blackmail everyone walking down the street to look at it, and you didn’t ask for tickets from three doors down either way. It’s still yours, and you made it at no cost to those people walking past, so they have no right to criticise you for it. (And that includes, in my opinion, writing cruel or harsh things on a letter and posting it to you, which for this analogy is my equivalent to writing it on a public bookmark on AO3 - because it is attached to you, that letterbox/bookmark space, and maybe you don’t check your letterbox, or at least not regularly, but it’s still yours, just like your house and art are.)

I’ve seen people saying that once you post a fic online it isn’t entirely yours anymore. And to a degree I understand their sentiment, but I don’t agree with what they’re ultimately saying - you as an author still have complete ownership over that fic, and can do whatever you want with it, including deleting, editing, or rewriting it. You don’t have ownership over other people’s memories, impressions, or interpretations of it, but that still doesn’t magically give them ownership of your fic. 

Publicly available/viewable does not mean publicly owned. 

You don’t own everything you see - if you go to a friend’s house and sleep in their guest bed, you don’t suddenly own the bedframe or the sheets or the pillow, no matter how much you might have had the best night’s sleep of your life.

You can repaint your house. You can add more to the art on your house. You can maybe accept a kind request from an admirer of making art for them too. You can demolish your entire house, art included, with a hired crane and a cackling laugh or tears in your eyes.

Your house, and the art you have painted on it, are yours. Your fics, and the worlds you have created with them, are yours. Never let readers, well-intentioned or not, guilt trip you into thinking otherwise. It’s absolutely okay to consider the feelings of others in how you paint your house, but never do so at your own detriment. That isn’t what art, or even life, should be about.

#fic writing #fandom #fandom etiquette #writing #fandom manners #ao3 #ao3 etiquette #if you wrote it then it's yours #and nobody else #writing fics is like graffitiing your own house #it's yours - for you #and other people can appreciate it and share in the joy #but it isn't theirs to control #I mean this is obvs my opinion but still #I genuinely think I'm right about this

[lucy-ghoul]

why are you, as an adult in 2024, still hung up on reylo. why are you still mocking the shippers. why do you believe yourself to be superior only because you dislike a stupid ship from a fucking space fairytale. girl (gnc) get a grip

#it's ridiculous. this ship is... stupidly cliché. like if you know fandoms at all #you could easily guess why people would be into it. hello?? have you tried to watch tfa without your hate-on-kyle-ron goggles? #did you watch their scenes together? you don't have to like something to recognize the hints #hell. at the time i didn't really like jonerys but i realized they were going to be a thing when i read agot in 2011 #like folks. it's been nearly TEN LONG YEARS. let it go. LET IT FUCKING GOOOO #and for the lucy/cooper shippers out there who think reylos are (again) delusional when they compare the two ships: #no. *you* are being delusional only because you think reylo is unsexy and uncool (which is your right to think btw. obv) #if you can't see why someone would like both of these pairings for similar reasons... idk what to say honestly #people compared it to hannigram... honestly. again i see why they would appeal to anyone who's into both ships #i really do. but... unpopular opinion (since i'm more of a clannibal fan than i could ever be of reylo): #they are more similar to reylo than will/hannibal. there i said it #i'm not talking about the writing (admittedly the quality of it was questionable). i'm talking about tropes #never mind that imo the ghoul is more akin to vader than kylo but whatever #hannibal is an unapologetic kind of villain. he's not gonna have a redemption arc and that's okay #cooper is an antivillain who used to be a good man and became a disfigured cruel bastard. a parody of himself #lucy is him. him before the bombs dropped before he discovered the person he trusted the most wanted to commit genocide #nice. moral. polite. infused with the Good Old American Values™. he's basically her dark side #all of this is very hannigram/clannibal. i'm not denying it at all #but what'll likely happen is that lucy's actions will have a positive influence on the ghoul and remind him of what it means to be a man #and that's way more reylo-like. sorry. #beauty&thebeast/villain with some hidden good in him+morally righteous heroine/enemies to lovers etc. #i mean. hello??..... having said that. i'm not so much of a reylo shipper anymore and tbh never was. i really liked it at the time #but i was never fond of the st era. my fav characters are vader and leia and revan from the old eu. just saying #*and* it's also not impossible lucy gets darker with the ghoul as her traveling companion. in fact i wouldn't dislike it at all #if done well i mean #but i would still like for people to be intellectually honest and less puerile. god knows i have my notps #but i really don't give a fuck about the shippers. good for them i guess? i have better taste lmao but that's heavily subjective #val rambles in the tags #val speaks #txt

[margle]

I just realised: dee must have stayed in contact with carmen in order for her to be an option to carry her baby. carmen must have liked her enough to ask her. they might have even been friends. this might be the most dee has ever been trusted by anyone.

#this means so much to me because I love them both so much #carmen #dee reynolds #iasip #dee being pregnant is such a significant moment #and a bit of a turning point in how the gang act towards each other #at least in my opinion #obvs she didnt keep it #and I doubt she thinks about the kid. not rlly her style #but still it was 9 months of her life #and I dont think she's ever mentioned it since #correct me if im wrong #she's very unmaternal #and I love her that way #but still a big life event for her #and one of her only successful schemes

[seeminglyseph]

I just watched a video essayist going over Jennifer’s Body have to fully explain the box cutter line, and I remembered one time having to explain why yelling “kick her in the box” had been crude ringside fight banter, not just average fight banter because the people I had been talking to had all assumed I’d meant “kick her in the head”

Is “box” meaning essentially “cunt” that old fashioned? I mean I know it’s vintage, one of the oldest euphemism for a vagina. But like, what I really mean is like… does no one use it anymore? Why? It doesn’t seem like one there’d be a point in getting rid of.

And I did a bit of research and it can mean a cock too apparently depending on the context so like. Yes, due to the nature of euphemisms being vague it can technically refer to anything. But that’s never stopped anyone from using fuck, which literally can mean anything if you work hard enough. Honestly its ability to be technically genital neutral just makes it more effective? Idk. I guess the cock is usually in briefs though. Hence the box.

But either way. It is weird growing old and realizing your slang is confusing people. I don’t mind dropping vocab if it’s offensive or something, but if it’s just old I don’t really feel like I wanna alter myself… I can just be old and cringe if that’s the only problem….

#pointless navel gazing #and I mean I can weigh the difference between offense and harm I guess #since I still say stuff that’s considered offensive but like on a small scale #like swearing or like… varying opinions and you can’t please everyone etc. #offense is a tricky classification obvs and I have to like.. decide for myself what my standards are

[potatobugz]

hi dear mutuals + followers. n. new hyperfixation. i think. please do not blow me up with missiles and rockets☹️

#rambles #so. uh. um #s. south park drawing. can i post it. can i post art #i started watching it out of curiosity bc my friends like it and i enjoyed it and #i think the hyperfixation was inevitable bc i was planning on watching the whole thing. theres like ten billion episodes #and i am capable of consuming media like. normally #its funny bc when i was younger i used to have a grudge against this show like i rlly didnt like it and look at me now #anywho sorry if iam being cringe and or lame #im not trying to be like 'oh woe is me i am now being shunned because i watched a tv show some ppl didnt like' i #just have anxiety :( bad anxiety :(( #p.s. obvs ppl are entitled to their opinion also #long story short; i am afraid. #ILL STILL POST OTHER ART TOO THOUGH )$;($- OFC #theres room in my brain for many things except long term memories i guess #:( :( :( :( #ANYWAYS LAST BUT NOT LEAST sorry for putting this whole ramble in the tags ii couldnt rmable in the main post #bc for some reason i cant talk like this in the main post bc i get too nervous but i guess im fine in the tags? #sorry thats worded super weirdly. i hope u know what i mean #really truly i am like a frightened baby dear ready to take off at the slightest hint of movement #*deer

[strrwbrrryjam]

i can never get behind "ohh what if this [character] was the villian/evil" mostly because 1. I'm soft and 2. a lot of it involves changing the character to be not that character, to the point where the character because unrecognizable from its original and the only thing they share that is similar is the look of the character.

#it also doesnt help because they change the character to be a person that the original version is actively against #and would never do that thing in a million years #idk. i mean. i guess it can be cool to think about? but a lot of these aus of evil![character] just involves being edgy #to the point where its cliche and torture-porn in a lot of cases. #its my opinion obv u can still like this stuff #strawberry speaks

[volchitsa-of-winterfell]

the F1 shipping chart!! original post here by @foo1ishheart554. blank version below the cut for YOU, dear reader, to do!

#to be clear: i just don't really do otps as like a Concept #esp in rpf like. it's all fake paper dolls no need to get So Attached in my personal opinion #there's no like oooh they're Destined for each other like you can have with fictional characters y'know? #also just don't really care enough abt brotps to note down #like i'm happy for literally whoever out of this piranha pit of a sport manages to be actual genuine friends lmao #Good For Them y'know so i'm not gonna pick faves for that! hope it happens for all of them fr! #ALSO this is obv just a snapshot of how i feel in the moment #nando would probably b in faves tier if the aston hadn't been flopping so much lately e.g. #also i literally still do read and appreciate content of some notps/non-fave drivers lol #it's ALL about the fan-creator's skill!!! #like there's really genuinely no fic i wouldn't click on or no piece of art i wouldn't reblog Just bc it contains one of the ones i dislike #if i know to trust the author's skill or i like the fanartists's style or w/e. like SERIOUSLY i mean it #i am OPEN baby !!! #OH and almost forgot but yeah i didn't bother adding in any off-track figures #bc then we'd be here for hours and the chart would be nigh-unreadable lmaoooo #but yeah there's a few mick ships a few seb ships. britney mark etc #as one does! #f1 #f1 shipping chart

[chooey]

just finished breaking bad

#spoilers ahead so! tread lightly #breaking bad #bc i binged a lot of this show some episodes do not stick out to me like i cant tell u what happened on which episode or even which season #the naz!s were so left field like i think the story would still be the same without the hooked cross tattoos #it was surprising how the drug cartel or whatever didnt have much involvement in s5. like why did i think for sure theyd relocate to mexico #a follow up wouldve been nice is all im saying #OK. characters! my fav were mike jesse gus skyler and saul. hated walt literally since day 1. didnt change much up until the end #listen i can understand the concept of characters being morally bankrupt egotistical narcissistic abusive and manipulative #but walt was just . not charming enough a character to do it sorry he is what he is. sorry to him but i cannot stand him #i can appreciate some of his monologues though! fly (episode) was great for that the show needed it at least in my opinion #i like that all the characters are fundamentally flawed ! walt is at his core insufferable but he makes a good tragic story👍🏼 #hank was so stupid like? 😭 when lab equipment from walt's school were stolen i thought that'd be it lollll #it was well written for the most part i think!!!!! some parts needed suspension of disbelief but whatever yk #what matters to me the most is whether i cried or not and yeah. yeah i did cry!!!!!! so what!!!!!!!!! #THEMES. obv theres change/corruption... power and abuse of power. toxic masculinity? and family. living life to the fullest if ur insane #also!!! just finished el camino and i liked it! simple story but i like the themes in it. this man's been through so much #jesse was point blank a victim of abuse and im glad he gets to leave the past behind and move forward with his life #owned up to the choices that gotten him up to this point. had control over his life again and building a new future for himself #very cool. also the ending of brba? i think it's good enough i mean i cant think of anything more fitting #but man did he do some incredible... maybe irreparable damage to his family huh. midlife crisis things <3 #i hope they heal <3 somehow <3 #wait about the themes too in brba!! one is reaching ur full potential... again if ur insane #idk maybe sometimes it's ok to flop. just as long as ur enjoying ur life and ur happy... i think that's fine! walt u and i will never agree #izza💭

[transfemlogan]

I need more ts critical blogs :(

#THIS isnt in regards 2 anything that happened recently. this is an opinion ive had 4 awhile & it is not. attacking anyone #i am saying this bcuz @tscritical recently went on a hiatus (totally ok & good obvs) & i dont. want this 2 sound like im. GRRR WTF!! over #it NDHSKFNF #ANYWAY. i need more ts critical blogs that r active NDHSJFN i feel like so many blogs stop posting or being in2 tss #4 OBVIOUS rzns #again im not angry #i am just autistic & tss is my spin & i would like more blogs that r active bcuz of that #revy.txt #ive been meaning 2 makw this post 4ever but i havent & now is the worse time ever (/j) BUT ITS OK #& ik a lot of ppl stop posting tss criticism due 2 mental health. being negative & critical all of the time is hard #i do not relate personally. i have never felt the way others feel abt posting criticism & negativity #it has never negatively affected me #i 4got where i was going w/ this? i just dont relate so its like. being in a club & evry1 keeps leaving but im still in it #(AGAIN. THIS ISNT A JAB AT ANYONE OR WHATEVER. I NEED 2 CLARIFY DNDHFJFN)

[lightamp]

smth funny is how people are like 'ah i want p 4 dugeons to be like p 5 palaces' or 'ah can the answer be more palacey' when palaces were the #1 reason p 5 is so low on my favorite persona game list lmfao

if youre just talking about making things more personalized then yeah i agree, but the structure was the most annoying thing on this earth ngl

#im sorry i just found them irritating #i think the puzzles quote unquote were very dumb and just served to make me take 2 mins away from doing shit. annoying. #p 5 is still the one game i have only two playthrus of. i mean palaces aren the only reason but theyre at the top lol #obv my own opinion but goooood. i guess i'll live with it. i dont wanna though

[frankensteindotpdf]

Hi from Achillean Archives as far as I could find about Juno's own wiki "He is bisexual and nonbinary, and uses a mix of gendered terms including lady and guy, though uses exclusively he/him pronouns throughout the podcast. Juno often provides angst-ridden one-liners throughout the show and often makes self-deprecating jokes.", nonbinary fits within achillean which doesn't just include man-aligned but nonbinary folks either transmascs or not transmascs too, specifically it's Juno's relationship with Peter that is read as achillean tho, not the character specifically but Juno's relationship with men as a nonbinary person

that's fair! like i said i think. its a complicated matter and i thought you might want some extra context in case you didnt know it!

#i speak #i feel! conflicted on the matter still skghfdsjkgs #juno definitely seems like a nonbinary character who is leaning more transfem as he learns more about himself #from my perspective anyhoo #but like i said in the comment there where we meet him he seems to present masc socially (we cant. see him obvs ksdhfgdsjk) #but in gendered terms and stuff #and so i could see him identifying with the term at that point #like where the dialogue is from #i dont know how hed feel about it now? and because. yknow. hes pretedn. sdkjgfjdskghk people can have their own opinions on it #like. i do identify as nonbinary and tend to lean more masc but i do still identify with like. queer womanhood to a degree #and if i were in a relationship with a woman it would still be queer and one could maybe call it sapphic? maybe. idk sdfhgkghs #so. shfdjskgdjkshgk #yeah those are my thoughts skdghjkgsd #like i (think?) i said! just wanted to add a little extra context just in case you wanted it #and. i mean i also. i dont think im gonna get into my thoughts on like. being nonbinary within the context of Gendered Terms. so i wont #but yeah. sdjgfkjhks

[kittysherbatsky-moved]

Out goes one of my crushes who I think that we could be friends but no it is just difficult for me being friends with her

#she isn't staunchly conservative #but it is just too much for me to xplain to her that idc about religious dogmas #it is not even my job to defend myself to her either #i told her i don't want to get married & hv children yet i still want intimacy #and she was like 'no you can't do that. it is haram bla bla...' #i mean i don't blame her for her opinions so rather than arguing with her (also im really not that close with her either) about myself #i just ended the conversation by not replying to her messages about it and deleted her phone number on whatsapp #if she alr took it hard with my opinions on dating & not being married #obv she will be more hard to deal with if i told her im bisexual & i had a crush on her #liana

[seipuku]

its not like i really have something against ai i just dont think its that interesting. and the hype wont die down. like id rather an actual artist put thought into creating a story or a piece of artwork than some twitter bro typing in one sentence and getting 52k likes for a screenshot

#ktkatt.txt #nothing against ai except for the usual art theft concerns yknow #and its like #its everywhere. #like its THE best thing ever #i mean obv sure technology or whatever but like. anything a human is making is still better than ai. my opinion #every content creator ever has some sort of ai generated video and idk. i dont care for it

[scuopsie]

:))))

#why do so many joo stans (twt) have victim complex? #it's insane #one of the accs I follow tweeted that one HQ pic of Joo's tat and pointed out how it's not well dine #like how it's off centered and even with the high quality photo we can't tell what it is and the details look rough and blunt #they didn't even say it in a mean or disrespectful way #and like if u know anything abt tattoo and ever looked up tattoo designs you'll see that they're right #(obv we still don't know if the tat is even real. it can be a semi permenant one but regardless) #but ever since that tweet there are a ridiculous amnt of ppl coming to 'defend' joo #like??? hello??? what are u protecting him from? ppl having opinions? #like the tattoo is objectively not great compared to ck and min's tats #ppl have been speculating that the tat is to cover that fold on Joo's belly which is in no way confirmed #and yet someone was using that to say no one should comment ob joo's body (which that person never did btw) bc it was to cover and insecurit #how delulu can u be to make an entire assumption abt the reasons behind a tattoo that we dont even know if its real and then use it as fact? #this whole thing is so funny... like LOL it's not that deep #starlights clown ravi's tats (some more than the others lsjdflsijd) all the time #and one time he even mentioned it in an interview #he was like 'i know a lot of ppl think my YOLO (yeah...) tattoo is lame but idc i thought it was cool at the time and i like the meaning #and that's the mentality everyone who gets a tattoo should have #anyway #i just think it's funny how a lot of jooheon stans like to pretend jooheon is a spoiled toddler who will get upset and cry at the slightest- #-criticism and disagreement #literally grow up alsjdflsjdf

[sussysissybaka]

19/05/2022

#talked to him again #I have his name now and I know where he works #he doesn’t have any of my info obv #hes……. older #hes literally only one year younger than my biological father #and he’s really a musician 😬 #the thought he teaches to children and younger ppl kind of makes me sick 🤢 #I will probably stop talking to him #my curiosity is kind of satisfied ig #at least I hope so lol #but yeah there are many weird ppl around the world #I guess I’m one of those weird ppl sometimes but still wtf #still shocked by his age #I mean not that those 8 years less would have changed much but still yk #low-key creepy in my opinion tho #reminder to myself to never do anything like that ever again

[ilovethecolorpink]

i finished my evelyn hugo reread last night and i feel like i can articulate my thoughts a lot better than 9ish months ago when i first read it and went into it thinking it’s going to be my new favorite book

#spoilers ahead obvs #ok so i can now definitely say i prefer daisy jones over it #and ik maybe they aren’t comparable in many ways and we shouldn’t pit bad bitches against each other #but i read them so close together last time i wasnt sure #but after my dj&t6 reread it solidified itself in my top 3 books soooo yeah #ok so to the book itself #i will say i cried more this time which seems to be a common theme with me rereading books lol #the part that i was most excited to hear again and that got me the most was celia mentioning the chipped tooth in her oscars speech #but i dont like how celia left the second time and it makes no sense to me #like the mick riva thing i get but in my opinion #evelyn not telling celia they shot a pretty saucy or whatever sex SCENE until after it happened #does not warrant celia walking out so abruptly (yet calmly?? but also not idk how to describe) and staying apart for TEN YEARS #and like ik evelyn talks about it being a death by a thousand cuts thing but idk… i feel like we dont see enough of that to warrant it??? #especially since by that point theyd been living as a family for YEARS? a decade??? more?? #i also agree this time around that the inclusion of stuff like stonewall was just kinda random and not well developed or necessary to the #story enough to include without it seeming unthoughtful/disingenuous u know #i will say tho the beginning years of evelyn’s hollywood life are just SO interesting to me #and it still means the world to me having an openly bisexual character like that #harry and celia’s deaths still tore my heart apart #also this is gonna sound awful maybe but now knowing moniques connection to evelyn i was just waiting to get thru that part at the end 😭😭 #evelyn and celia are so FRUSTRATING but im a bitch who eats that UP i love complex and flawed characters who cannot communicate! so! #and overall i still love this story and im forever going to be mad n*tflix picked it up for a MOVIE bc they’re going to do a SHIT job #i dont get why u wouldnt make it a show like …..????? #mine #reading