#also i love ppl who r extra enough to send me 3 asks like this YES

[nevada-wrytes]

Chapter 8.5 - Hiatus Update + Bonus Content

Hello everyone! If you didn't know, I posted a lil thing two weeks ago which was basically an unformal apology and a promise to post a new update soon.

Well- It's been two weeks and I still have nothing to show you. ;-;

Anyways, I am very sorry if you have been looking forward to another real chapter,, but I hope this bonus content is enough to satisfy you and to hold on to because well- there won't be another update anytime soon.

I start school tomorrow 😫 and with all the extracurriculars I'm doing I will end up at school for more than ten hours PER DAY

Yeah- basically that messes up with my writing schedule A LOT

or maybe it will help? who knows-

Regardless, I love y'all and thank you so much for being supportive with this series. *BIG HUGS* and I am thinking of making a QnA chapter soon just so I have something to post if I run out of time on an update (btw, as of now, I plan on updating every three weeks or so) BASICALLY if you have any free time, just pop into my asks or just idk reply or reblog this post and send in your questions!

Okay, that's enough talking, here is some extra content as promised <3

also here's the link to the last chapter

Oh- you actually were interested in some bonus stuff- cool cool 😫

jk here are some memes \/ \/

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Charlie, tearing up the room: Where are they?

Charlie, looking under a pillow: Who moved them? Who moved my children?

Charlie: Somebody moved my M&M's, and now I am going to start killing.

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Charlie, writing in her diary with a glitter gel pen: I'm losing my sense of humanity. Nothing matters. God is dead. There's blood on my hands.

lmao the journal remember the journal ^^

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Charlie: I hate how you're just born out of nowhere, and you're forced to go to school and get education so you can get a job. What if I wanted to be a duck? No one ever asked me if I want to be a duck!

girl you are a shape shifter,, you can literally be a duck if you want smh

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Me: What do you call disobeying the law?

Charlie: A hobby.

Me: *crosses my arms*

Charlie: That I do not engage in.

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**okay just for some info on the next ones,, Charlie's mother... let's say is called Kym

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Charlie: Where are you going?

Kym: Hell, eventually.

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Kym: Charlie, what do you have?

Charlie: A KNIFE!

Kym: Okay, have fun-

Me: NO!

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Charlie: Happy October 32nd! Second Halloween!

Kym: That doesn't exist.

Charlie: Not with that attitude.

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Kym: Here's two facts about me.

Kym: 1. I hate hot people.

Kym: 2. I'm a hypocrite.

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Charlie: Ayo, what the FUCK is this?!?

[REDACTED]*, sitting down, surrounded by corpses: I won Mafia, that's what.

*hmm hmm a new character I wonder? how mysterious

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Someone: Are you really going to listen to and trust some strangers that tried to kill you?!

Charlie:

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okay that's enough memes for now ✨ again, I hope y'all will like the little bonus content and I would very much appreciate if you'd send in some questions!

have a great day everyone 🦋

\/ \/ tagging some ppl don't mind this \/ \/

@thebonecarver @theglassphantom @confused-as-all-hell @iambecomeyourvillain @brekkercookie @wolfnzy01 @f-r-o-p @reyyya @thecurlychameleon @rrruthless @thesexypanda-boo @kazoo-the-demjin @twelve-kinds-of-trouble @bookavert @fuckanteaters

#flexible by nevada #nevada writes #my ocs #my writing

[idk-my-aesthetic]

Ok the whole thing w/ clogging up ao3 tags is stupid for multiple reasons, like how it fucks with screen readers for one, but the MAJOR issue is that having too many tags isn’t actually a problem w/ ao3

Like seriously guys? There is a lot to criticize. And I say this as someone who heavily relied on fandom spaces to get me through some really really hard times and still loves ao3. I can say I love what it does for fandom while also acknowledging there’s some seriously fucked up shit going on both behind the scenes and with ppl who use the site. It’s literally like saying “I love tumblr but I acknowledge there are literal nazis on here and as a Jew/human with a working brain I hate them and that they’ve been here so long”

Like. I get u think ur sticking it to the man or whatever. And idk I partially agree bc. There’s so much nasty shit and some technically illegal shit that I don’t want to even mention! But ur not even wasting the moderators time or anything ur just being obnoxious and then everyone starts discoursing on tumblr and I’m legitimately tired of it. I don’t wanna see ppl defending gross stuff and I’m tired of talking about the ppl who do defend gross stuff bc I don’t wanna remember that they exist bc I have shit to do irl and not enough space in my brain for them

So. Idk ima propose at least a temporary solution before I have to hear one more argument for or against censorship bc y’all seriously don’t understand how to have a nuanced conversation

How about instead of asking AO3 to take down gross fics (which may or may not be morally correct but will 100% reopen a very over done conversation) instead we ask for some specific plausible things

1) when you use ao3 explicit and unrated fics are automatically filtered out. They do this on ff.net. Yes it may be like 2 extra clicks for ppl who wanna read explicit stuff but ppl who don’t are going to do that anyway, and it protects the people who don’t know to do that and don’t want to read graphic tags. Most importantly it requires consent to browse explicit fics. Yeah you need to give consent to read explicit stuff, but you can look through the incredibly graphic tags/summaries without consenting to anything. It’s literally the default. Which is both upsetting to ppl who don’t wanna see that and also maybe a bit of a legal loophole they should close up

2) a “suggest tags” feature. This would be moderated by authors not ao3 staff. Basically ppl can like..... idk entire a series of tags and you can choose if you want to add them or not. The person submitting them has an option to be anonymous or not. Obviously the author doesn’t have to add every random tag and it might be annoying but it would help with making sure triggers got tagged. It would be helpful if it didn’t let you suggest tags that were already suggested/on the fic but I’m not too picky. Like I said the point of this is to make sure ppl can block stuff properly, and it honestly might also help authors with visibility bc like. Obviously you know the tags you use but you don’t know what tags other ppl look for. Again maybe it may be obnoxious with ppl having a lot of tags but people already have a lot of tags

3) a dispute rating button. Now before someone bitches at me that the ao3 moderators don’t have time to go through disputes- I know I already took that into consideration. Basically the idea is when you dispute the rating the site will ask you what rating you think it should be and anonymously log it. So if someone rated something M but you think it should be an E the site will log that and send a message to the author. The author has a choice if they actually want to listen to ppl and change the rating or not. They don’t actually have to listen to the ppl disputing the rating. Unless they get a certain amount of disputes. I was thinking maybe like 50 or so?* So if 50 ppl say “hey this really needs to have a different rating” then and only then would the moderators take a look at the fic. And the moderators would then figure out what the rating should be.

(*idk if 50 is the right #. I was thinking it should maybe work on like a percentage of your hits in the fic?)

3.5) have a sexual content marker. This is marked as 3.5 bc i feel like this idea if implemented would be misused. But yeah in theory you could just have a sexual content marker that could be clicked by the OP and then automatically filtered. Again you could use the system from #3 but again I feel like ppl would missuse it.

Anyway yeah. I wanted to give some viable solutions ppl on both sides might actually agree with. Like I get not wanting to make concessions with gross ppl, but it’s a lot faster so I’m ok with doing it for now while the rest of y’all continue to debate or w/e

Final note- please for the love of g-d learn how ratings work. Ask someone else’s opinion if you have too. I have seen so many explicit fics marked as mature or teen it’s a legitimate problem. I’ll give a quick rundown of what each rating means but pls guys

General- g- basically go by what you’d see in a Disney cartoon

Teen- pg/pg 13 - there are swears there’s violence, sex may be mentioned, you might call someone sexy or smthn idc, but no one is shown having sex or or discussing/thinking about it in detail

Mature- R - injuries/gore may be described with more detail. Uhh there could be some heavy making out and the characters might talk about sex or feeling sexually attracted to someone. But actual sex is not shown!! If you have to mention or refer to someone’s genetalia in any sexual way you should probably move it up to an E. Even if ur characters are fully clothed the entire time. Also If you’re talking about kinks outside of a quick joke or reference you should probably move it up to an E.

Explicit- NC 17- sexually explicit content. (You can put non-sexual violent stuff under here but most ppl leave it under mature)

TLDR/oversimplification(for the ratings) -

General: nothing sexual

Teen: implied sex

Mature: refrenced sex

Explicit: shown sex

General tldr:

Some criticisms of Ao3 are valid and needed, and some are just stupid and infuriating (specifically talking about the tag thing stop it’s annoying and ableist). There is constant arguments and drama surrounding those criticisms, and I decided to offer some solutions that actually have a chance at getting implemented, even if I would prefer a different option.

#ao3 #ao3 drama #ao3 tags #I’m really swinging a bat at a bees nest huh #shipping discourse #ao3 discourse #I don’t want anyone to come yell at me for either defending OR demonizing ao3 #please understand that I can have a nuanced opinion where I both love and greatly dislike it at the same time #also I’m tagging this with shipping discourse and shit but pls don’t bug me about that #literally all I have to say on it is a) don’t harass ppl b) don’t do gross shit c) if someone likes something harmless don’t be a d*ck #and d) u are not immune to criticism #if you get called out for being racist or gross you don’t get a get out of jail free card just bc we’re online #if you hand sew a nazi flag ppl are allowed to get mad even if it’s ur hobby #if you harass someone by mail your going to jail #don’t do shit online you wouldn’t do irl and expect 0 consequences #this is several bees nests and I am a coward so I’m posting this and immediately going to bed

[survivorunfinishedbusiness]

Episode #8 - “please send your prayers, good vibes, and Facebook likes” - Kevin

https://survivorunfinishedbusiness.tumblr.com/post/175863241573/announcement

https://survivorunfinishedbusiness.tumblr.com/post/175896908958/individual-immunity-1

Andrew you dumbass!!! My dumbass Taveuni son. he's like my child that i want to support and believe despite his failures ugh at least colin's gone

Finally MERGE OMG!!! But where do I like stand with all these ppl?!? Oof all the ppl I’ve ever worked with or talked to went home 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

Finally we merged!! I am so happy to have made it to merge, but now I really need to step up my game because I have been quiet recently since I haven't been to tribal in a few rounds. The only people on this tribe who I haven't been on a tribe with yet are Julia and Issac, so that's good, I've at least interacted with most of the people already. I'm really hoping for the best and I am really going to try my hardest to get to the end.

me: loves my wig alliance, would go to war for them. loves jake, andrew, and anna. beautiful people dani : finger wag the other tribe: finger wag me: sobbing ugh honestly jakes my least favorite of the group!! no shade or anything he's nice but he pales in comparison to andrew and anna. also he nicole and i are the only people from...what was our original tribe talio???? god!!! anyways FUCK audax for voting out andrew. dumbass can't even get single digits ONE TIME i raised him better than this. but more importantly i am even MORE disappointed in audax. you know if nathan was still here he would have kept andrew around because he wanted to do unspeakable things to that boy. UGHHH i think isaac voted for kori. we love a gay 13 year old with good taste.

Well I did it, back to where I was before, this is where I find out if the game I've played so far proves better than the one I played in Havana. Dani and Isaac are both dragging me now, though Isaac seems to at least be willing to have intelligent conversation. Apparently drama happened while I was away, and the Vote split plan was abandoned for a 4-2 vote, though this definitely makes me question Blake now as a long term ally, since it seems like he might have been trying to pull a fast one by telling Andrew. I dunno what the merge holds... my best shot is to just talk to everyone and try to get along as best as I can, because right now my odds don't look too hot overall.

Over the entirety of this game Timmy has followed me around like a fucking LEECH. Every time we've swapped tribes he's followed along sucking the living LIFE out of me. And I'm sick of his bitch ass. If it were me Kori and his sorry ass would be packing their bags and heading out the door as we speak.

So apparently Audax had an interesting few rounds. Issac and Dani now both want Kori gone, and honestly I'm just happy it's not me. I will try to make sure Kori doesn't go though because I was working with him when we were both on Audax. I don't get why Issac didn't say he wanted Julia gone though if apparently people are just following her every word. Cut the head of the snake and the rest will burn and I doubt they'll be able to clear the ashes. Either way I'm in the background right now and that is where I need to be because I don't need to make a big move this round, unless the opportunity really presents itself. Tomorrow I'm going to talk to Ryan and hopefully figure out where his head is at with everything because it's been a while since we haven't been going to tribal. Also Kevin, the best group right now would be me, Ryan, and Kevin and I would try to get Kori to vote with us but who knows with him listening to Julia apparently. But also, if it is good for my game to be on a side with Julia right now, I'm going to do it because I need to do what will get me far enough to make the moves I need to, and who doesn't love a good villain who betrays their alliance (all hypothetical at this point though).

https://survivorunfinishedbusiness.tumblr.com/post/175897236773/announcement

Ugh I'm so influential. Naming the merge tribe will probably be the only impact I have in this game so I'll take it.

https://youtu.be/JzlmTjteQEY This was made before Isaac popped off in the main chat. Thank you for making yourself a target over me!

I'll admit, not a HUGE fan of the challenge, I'm still talking to alot of people though I wasn't as active today as I wanted to be. (I'm hoping that doesn't affect me too much going forward.) I just gotta get through this next tribal and I'll be better than I was before, for me it's not quite about winning yet, it's about making sure that I beat where I was in Havana. If the opportunity presents itself to better my position, I'll take it, but at the moment it's about making sure I'm not the first one out in the merge.

https://survivorunfinishedbusiness.tumblr.com/post/175935254603/announcement

Dani, I'm coming for your fucking neck.

Time to idol out Anna... AGAIN... 

https://survivorunfinishedbusiness.tumblr.com/post/175935153583/individual-immunity-results-1

I'M IMMUNE AND MY FAVORITE PERSON IS BACK!!!! I LOVE LIFE!!!! This is honestly the best day ever, I am so happy this is all I could have asked for. Now I just really need an alliance of me, Anna, Kevin, and Ryan and life will be amazing and the world will be pure.

Well I didn't pull off the challenge, which might be for the best, Timmy is likely to be generating a Challenge Beast Rep, which isn't good for him, but overall that's fine.

Holy shit I’m playing both sides... and one side is I think significantly better for me than the other. But the other side hav ppl I love and care about on... ugh well I want to keep me working on both sides on the dL. Ima vote the way with the ppl Ik who r better but tell the ppl I love who they are voting for so they can use their idol efficiently  :)

https://78.media.tumblr.com/276b0a6d4d9c64c3bcec7a5ef7467628/tumblr_omklr0UPjN1talut1o2_400.gif https://media.tenor.com/images/bb0d298a3927b5121456b17d65f90ccd/tenor.gif Live footage of Anna arriving into the game

So Anna is back in the game and I'm SHOOK. She was apart of my original wig alliance with Kevin and Andrew and now that she's back we basically have the alliance in order again. I really hope she wants to stay loyal to me and Kevin. Now we have to vote for someone and I'm going to tribal for the first time in like 2 weeks. Anna is already making a scene with Dani and a lot of people are mad at her so I hope that this round's set is between Dani and someone she doesn't like. Dani and I are good so I don't think she'll come for me and hopefully this puts me in the middle and gives me options for the round. I trust Timmy, Ryan, Kevin, John, Isaac, Dani and Bodhi enough for them not to want to vote me out this round, which is good. Hopefully none of them is playing me. If too many people want Dani out then I'm probably gonna have to let her go, but there's a chance that something could be pulled since I know there are a few other people who like Dani. My pitch would have to be to go to Isaac who is in hot waters with Julia/John/Blake/Kori and convince Isaac, Bodhi, Ryan, Timmy, Dani, Kevin, and Anna to take a swing at Blake Julia or Kori because they've been made out to be a tighter group. That could put John in danger though which I don't want because just like in Crossroads, I trust him but not his allies fully. Blake is really nice and we're talking but I think his loyalties are to them more than me so if he had to go, then so be it. Ryan was also on their original tribe so I think he might be inclined to stick with them too... so it might not work. Dani may be too volatile to be able to keep around though, as much as I want to have her as a number I don't know if Timmy or Anna would ever be willing to work with her. Regardless, my number one priority is to keep my ass safe above anyone else. I don't have a ride or die for once in a game so I'm just going to do whatever I need to take it to the end!

https://youtu.be/38oCDIIH9no Oof my reaction to the winning house of immunity challenge #1

Crazy that Anna's back, and now Timmy and her are both immune this vote, which is great because I feel good about both of them. Additionally they both want Dani gone, which is EXTRA great. However the problem is Dani can't help starting shit, I tried reaching out to her, 3 times, she was unresponsive each time, and she just gave me fake shit the last time before tribal, so the way I see it, it's either her or me at this point. I wouldn't have it any other way.

These people make me SICK! Anna is a shit stain among other things. SORRY I IDOLED YOUR BITCH ASS OUT! AND IF YOU WERENT IMMUNE THIS WEEK YOUD BE GETTING IDOLED OUT AGAIN. SHABYE BItCH.

Dani is like a bug that flies in your face and annoys you when it's the least opportune time for you. I've had it, she keeps calling me a rat, fine I'll own up to it. But this Rat is gonna squish that Bug. If I don't so help me god.

Well tonight hinges on people realizing Dani is a cracked nut, and no idols being played on her... I'll either be celebrating or crying in a bowl of ice cream at ponderosa tonight... hopefully the former.

Whew, what a mess it's been today! So, let's start. When I wake up, Kori tells me that he's only heard one name so far, and that Anna told him that she wanted to vote out Dani. Didn't surprise me, but I was like hmmm why didn't Anna tell me that yet? So I asked Anna, and she said that Kori came to her about voting out Dani and she's mad that he's using her as the one to first say it. So she confronted him and I was like oh okay werk. Then I'm talking to Dani, and part of me wants to keep her cus I know she trusts me and she'll always be a bigger target. I tell her that Kori mentioned her name to me, and she blew up in the tribe chat on him, we love drama! Anyways, Dani tells me that she has Julia and Blake on lock, but Anna told me that Julia told her she'd vote out Dani... Obviously I don't trust Julia as much as the others so I tell Anna about this. But for some reason Anna tells Julia that she heard Dani thinks she had her vote... So Dani asks me if I told Anna about Julia voting with her and I had to play dumb, smh. But I told Anna that Julia told Dani about their conversations so that Anna will trust me more. I hinted to Anna that Kori could be more dangerous for using her as a scapegoat, and she contemplated voting Kori instead, which I wouldn't mind... but she thinks that it will give Dani more power and won't do it. After Dani's blowup, she tells me to vote her out and that she's done. Um, she did this the round she idoled out Anna, so I'm a little paranoid. But no other names are being said to my knowledge, and my allies want to vote Dani out, so at this point I think I'm just going to have to go with it and hope that an idol isn't played that fucks me over.

https://youtu.be/gYyYP1NV4Ls

I swear if Dani has an idol I won't be able to contain my anger. She does not deserve to be here and she thinks she is so honest, bullshit. She had said we were good and then 5 minutes later started spreading my name around. That was a few rounds ago but it shows she isn't as honest as she claims to be. There is no good having her here.

Have I confessed today? I’m stressed

I HATE THIS GAME I HATE HURRICANE DANI So I'm talking to everyone and they're like "It's Dani yep it's Dani" and I'm like that's cool, she's a hot fucking mess. A fun mess but nonetheless a mess. Too many idols. And so at 7 pm. I'm chilling. Laying in bed. Watching Avatar The Last Airbender. At 7:30 I log onto Skype and I see 8 messages from Anna and 2 call attempts from the Wig chat and I feel a stroke coming in and APPARENTLY we have another fucking rat infestation we seriously need a fucking exterminator. Bodhi Julia and Dani are trying to get either me or John out. I love John. I love me. We're lovely people. Lovely homosexuals who don't deserve to be idoled out!! So I go to the wig chat and apparently we're hijacking the vote and voting out Queen Julia. Im too scared to write any more but please send your prayers, good vibes, and Facebook likes <3

So apparently dani has an idol and she is going to play it, she added Jake (my BOY) bodhi and Julia to a chat and they planned to 2-2 the vote between John and Kevin... apparently they wanted to get out someone close to me.... So Jake told me and now me Kevin and Jake are all voting Julia... it should be 7-3-2-1, 7* on Dani, 3 on Julia, 2 on Kevin and 1 on John... causing Julia to go home Hopefully this works!!

Um so change of plans, if this work Julia is gonna go. I'm gonna get cussed out. I'll explain everything after cus too much is happening rn dfnfdsjnfdsjfdsjfdsnfjj.

https://survivorunfinishedbusiness.tumblr.com/post/175967725043/merge-tribal-council-1

Julia is voted out 6-3-2-1-1. You can watch her preseason interview here.

You can see how her opinions as a juror changed here.

#writeanewchapter #episodes