Lazy sunny mornings with your beloved are the best mornings
Monty and Henry in England in 1913
[Art by pokatac, based on a photo from Nini & Treadwell Collection]
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A begrudging Happy Valentine's to you all! Stay safe out there, my fellow aromantics ...
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I couldn't get the idea of Alastor holding Husk like that one ferret gif during his lament in the finale out of my head.
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Every Monty and Henry's (or mainly Monty's) shopping spree inevitably turned into a battle of rationality and impulse. Monty, ready to buy everything that catches his eye in an instance, was the impulse. Henry, silently praying for Monty’s interest to dissipate faster than his, Henry’s, patience, was the rationality. Each battle was totally unpredictable. Henry might have won that time when he persuaded his lover that they did not need a musical saw, what on earth are you going to do with it, Monty. But this time Monty won. And his prize was a decorative palm tree.
It turned out that he had been wanting to get one for months. The benefits of a palm tree at home weren’t easy to explain, but Monty described how wonderful it would look in the library – the room both lovers were fond of. And Henry loved plants so much, their little garden wouldn’t be so magnificent without his care. Besides, ‘Enery would be delighted to have a smaller garden indoors, when it was cold or raining, for example. At this, ‘Enery meowed, looking up at Henry, and Henry gave up. And so the eccentric trio brought the newly acquired plant home. It matched the toy giraffe Geoffrey, Monty concluded, and was perfect for indoors picnics.
[Art by Reist]
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Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.
That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.
That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.
That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.
That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.
That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.
That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.
None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.
I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.
If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.
Celebrate fan work!
To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.
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