#your comment is still Factually incorrect

[ssaalexblake]

i don't make a habit of being a petty bitch (often imagine it, but daydreams are neither illegal or amoral) but the chaos and discord that i could spread if i were to apply some of the buzzwords ppl use against 13's era bc it makes all the anti bs look all ~legitimate in the same way people use therapy buzzwords to make any absurdist statement look ~legitimate, and apply them to some Other doctors and stories. It's a fun thought exercise. That's all.

#dw shit #your idiot statement Doesn't look any less stupid when said with a fandom buzzword #your comment is still Factually incorrect #but anyway yeah honestly sometimes i also hate this show but that's a Me problem?? #there are times i hate this show for Very valid reasons #which isn't a me problem #but there are equal the times that i just don't like it!!! 'the writing is bad' apparently but no #the writing doesn't Actually suck i just don't like it #i'd Love the moral righteousness of being able to say that i am the keeper of quality and that #everything i hate it Bad Morally but no i do not have that power #i just don't like some of it and i'd love to claim it's crap but like. it's not #also side note i do not often criticise 13's era bc lol i cba and also bc you'd dogpile and i am not giving you ammo #but it's super funny ppl are never like... actually complaining about Actual things in it that are messed up???? #bc it exists but in general the only ppl who actually go there are people who Like it which is super funny #like y'all are too busy making up stuff that was bad about it that you missed the things that actually uh... are wrong with it

[bau-drabbles]

change your mind

a/n: i love aaron so incredibly much 🥺 most of this is factually incorrect but i just had to write it

hope you enjoy and asks/requests are open! :) 🤍

Everyone eyes were glued onto the window of that room, you had been in it for far too long. Longer than Aaron cared for.

"Is she still in there?" "For 3 hours now" Emily answered while Hotch had his arms crossed firmly over his chest, his jaw locked in a tight stance. The rest of the team assumed it was nothing more than a colleague worried for another but it so much more. Of course it was.

Rossi placed his hand on Hotch's shoulder, partly to comfort him but also that deep down he understood. And he knew he would talk when he was ready to do so.

"Guys we got something" JJ entered, waving the file in her hand. At the same time you left the room, taking a deep breath to compose yourself.

You looked frazzled, irritated and defeated but you perked up for your team who all gave you questionable looks. Of course his glance burned a hole straight in you but you decided to look at Morgan instead.

"L/N what's goin on?" Derek had his brow raised as did Spencer and Emily. It was so hard lying to a bunch of profilers who analysed your every move.

"It was about the last case, I didn't hand in my notes and she wanted to discuss about it" "For 3 hours?" Spencer stood up, his eyes narrowed like he didn't believe you. You didn't even believe yourself with that lie.

"It was about my progress overall" You continued and they all looked at you, wanting to say something but unsure on how to go about it. You were covering something more bigger, that they were sure of.

"Guys we have a new case" Garcia walked in, remote in hand and her case files in the other

"This ain't over L/N" Morgan nods at you and you walk into the conference room, not wanting to be under any more scrutinising stares. Especially not his

•••

You walked back to your office to collect your things, it was hard to digest that after tonight you would no longer be working as part of the group you had come to adore and cherish. It felt like a stab to the chest when it was said but that was how it was. You couldn't change it no matter how desperately you wished, how could you remain on a team without your friends, the people that felt like your family?? Without him?

Would he even care that you left, probably not. He stopped acknowledging you altogether after you both split. Of course it was done in a such a way nobody really knew.

It wouldn't stop the occasional glance at the both of you when tensions were quite clearly high. And the one off comment about you and him but otherwise you were both amicable to one another. In a room full of profilers, one wrong move and they would know something had taken place. You had a sneaky feeling Rossi knew a part of it but if he had, he didn't breathe a word of it which you were entirely grateful for.

You just kept to your minimal sentences, it was incredibly hard to see him and not be able to hold as you once did. To kiss and hug him as you so badly desired. You couldn't even smile at him, it brought back memories you had suppressed in a tight jar. Those memories would come out to play in the early dawn, leaving you in tears everytime. But if he didn't care then why should you? He moved fine after the breakup, it was only right you did the same.

If only you knew the sleepless nights and the anguish he felt

"Y/N" You froze when you heard his deeper voice say your name behind your back.

"What exactly did Strauss discuss with you?" Oh so she hadn't told him...

"Nothing, everything is fine" You threw on your jacket but he closed the door behind him

"That excuse might've worked on the rest but your tell tale signs are showing Y/N. What exactly did she say to you?" He was sharp with his words and you don't even bother looking at him. Instead you straightened your back, just looking at the wall that contained every profiler in the precinct. How odd yours would no longer be there, like you were never part of this place. A part of this life that you truly enjoyed every day despite the hardships and failures.

"I'm moving teams" Your voice is quiet, the words of Strauss reverberating against the walls of your head. It was so incredibly unfair, you wanted to shout and scream but it would do you no good. This order didn't come from her but from the higher ups. They were adamant that you were on rotation. You had to work in a different city, under a different name for a few years or retire completely from the firm.

"You're what?" His own voice surprised the both of you, it was concerned. Worried, fearful.

"You can't, she can't do that I-" "Careful Hotch, I might just start thinking you care" Your voice was cold as your turned finally, met with his beautiful face. He wanted nothing more than to take you in his arms and promise you its be okay. But it wouldn't be. Who was he trying to fool?

"I can talk to Strauss, she could refer you to-" "And then what? Even if that worked, I still have to work elsewhere. I wouldn't be here for a few years at best"

For the first time in a long time he was stumped, you were right. There wasn't anything he could do. Every option had been exhausted, everything he could possibly say was counteracted with something else. There was no guarantee that you would be coming back to work for this team. Even thinking that was enough to send him over the edge.

"Y/N I-I can't... I don't-" "It's fine" You answer as you glance at him. He looked so worried, uneasy and it pained you. Even after how he treated you, you wanted to reach out and comfort him before the first tear drop fell. But it couldn't be, he couldn't still hold love for you if that was how he treated you throughout these years

You held the box in your hands, 4 years of being here all contained in a tiny box but memories that would haunt you for a lifetime.

"You had years to say what you wanted. But you never did. Maybe I wasn't that important to you like you were to me-" "No I-" "No? Oh but you did such a great job of making me feel like I was dirt all the time Aaron" You hissed, your fingers clenching over the edge of the box.

"I thought I would have more time with you, I was scared of this becoming more than it was. I was scared of giving my heart to you Y/N" He takes a shaky breath, his brows scrunching in a saddened look.

"But it was always yours" He whispers more to himself, the realisation dawning upon him that you were everywhere in him. In his drink, in his dreams, in his blood. Places that shouldn't have been in, places he swore off once Haley was gone.

"You can't leave like this. I can't let you leave like this" He runs his hands through his hair wracking his brain to find a solution. He was the team leader he had to find a way to stop all this. Why couldn't he think of a solution, why couldn't he help you?

Gently you set the box on the table next to you and walk over to him. You should have walked straight out but your heart guided you towards him, wanting so desperately to engulf him into a hug but you didn't know what the limits were. So you stuck to words instead.

"This isn't your fault Aaron, no one knew. You couldn't have stopped this" To your surprise, he takes your hands in his larger ones his warmth radiating from him onto you. And it takes you back in the moments of your relationships where you'd be so intertwined, it would hard to see where he started and where you began. Moments where his kisses and your hugs would be enough words to convey how you felt.

"I.... love you too" Your breath catches in your throat, placing a hand upon his chest. His heart was beating a mile a minute but you can only focus on him, wanting to say so much more but hoping he knew the love you held for him went deeper than any words you could possibly say right now.

"You know Y/N.... I love you, I'm so sorry I couldn't say it before" He whispered, his eyes brimming with unshed tears. In all your time you had never seen him be like this, so close to crumbling but trying his utmost hardest to be strong. It broke your heart into a million pieces and you know deep down you won't ever be quite the same after you leave him

Your lips were but a hair away and you don't know who made the first move but he kisses you with an intensity that makes you buckle, that makes you hold him that much tighter against your body. Your head is between his hands, his thumbs gently stroking the apples of your cheek. A few hot tears escape your eyes, knowing you would never get to experience a love like his ever again.

But you don't.

When you break away, his forehead rest against yours. It doesn't comprehend that once you leave this office, you could never be back in his loving arms again. You would never be with him at his side again. Eceb having him ignoring you was better than never seeing him at all again

So you move back, every ounce of you frantically trying to go back to him.

"I'm so sorry Aaron...." Your voice is a saddened murmur, eyes prickling with tears that came in waves but you resisted.

Holding your box in your hands, you give him a last look. His eyes shone under the dim lights and it took you everything not to drop everything and run to his embrace. To hold him once more until the hurt left him, to kiss him until his cheeks were stained with your lip balm and not tears. But this was life, you would cry your heart out when you were alone. Not here, not like this. You wouldn't break him further than how he was right now.

Taking a breath, you leave the room with the ghost of his lips caressing your skin.

Leaving him with a million words he wanted to shout but not one could pass his lips

#aaron hotchner #aaron hotchner x reader #aaron hotchner x reader angst #criminal minds fanfiction #criminal minds #aaron hotchner x reader fanfiction

[eykismyfav]

Would You Please...

Requested: Yup! see request here @makiekeys

Request: Hello could I pretty please request a Jack Russell x reader fic w/ prompt #18? I am an avid hiker prone to injury & I’m currently recovering from surgery. I got scolded by nurses constantly for pushing myself too hard and being stubborn. I know I’d give that poor sweet wolf man even more grey hair 🤣

Genre: Fluffy and wholesome with a little bit of some good old hurt/comfort oh and lots of cuddles.

Warnings: Swearing, Mention of injury

Pairing: Jack Russell x reader

Characters: Jack Russell, Ted

Authors note: I love Jack he deserves the world and so does Ted. Jack is so done with the reader in this story but he loves them and that is all that matters. Also @lilpunkrock​ I know you wanted more Jack content I hope this helps! Also There needs to be more Jack Russell content on this app. I really hope you all like this story please comment and reblog as well as like it really helps me know what is good and what is not in my stories

Word Count: 750

Prompt:  “I don’t need help” “That is a factual incorrect statement you do need help.”

Request Open For Jack Russell

Werewolf By Night Masterlist

Prompt List

“You shouldn’t put weight on your ankle my luna!” Jack begs as you ignore him marching forward ignoring the stabbing pain that occurs with every step you take. 

“I’m fine... it’s probably just a sprain...” You mumble the last part knowing damn well it was a lie. You stubble slightly as you encounter a downhill section of the woods. Jack takes this opportunity to put himself in your path, stabilizing you and preventing you from moving forward.

“You are bleeding because you were grazed with a bullet!” Jack is exacerbated at this point why won’t you just listen to him.

“Exactly grazed, it's not that serious!” You grumble trying to push Jack away.  “I don’t need help!”

“That is a factually incorrect statement, you do need help.” Jack growled as he picked you up one arm under your knees, the other supporting your upper back.

“Jack! Put me down this instant!” you shout in a rather undignified manner wiggling about in his arms.

“Would you please just relax and let me help you Y/N? It is okay to need help every now and then.” Jack reasons and you give in just a little bit relaxing in his arm letting you head rest on his shoulder. You might as well get comfortable as you realize this was not a fight you were gonna win and Jack was not gonna put you down anytime soon. 

“Fine..whatever..” Your voice is muffled by Jack’s shoulder which shakes lightly as he chuckles.

“What am I going to do with you?” Jack asks as he continues on walking towards camp.

“I don't know…” You sigh as you close your eyes, relaxing even deeper into his embrace. Might as well take a nap on the way you really had exhausted yourself more than you had thought. As you drift off you feel Jack press a gentle kiss onto your hairline.

When you wake up later you find yourself alone in the Teepee that you and Jack called home at the campsite with your ankle wrapped in a clean bandage which was clearly Jack’s doing. You are still a little groggy but you hear Jack and Ted talking to each other in hushed tones clearly as to not wake you before you wake on your own. You stretch slightly and crawl over to the entrance popping your head out to look at the two of them. 

“Good morning boys…” You yawn out rubbing your eye gently.  “Ted, would you mind if I borrow Jack for a little bit?” You ask with a gentle smile. Ted replies with a low grunt and the nod of his large head. “Thank you! Jack, come here please.” you request as you disappear back into the tent. You sit in the tent on your butt with your knees to your chest and cheek resting on your knees. 

“Are you okay? Does your ankle hurt? Is it worse or better than before? Is there anything I can do to help? Coffee? Tea? Hot chocolate? Tylenol? Aleve?...” Jack asked at a thousand words a second causing you to chuckle and his endearing behavior. You cut off his adorable ramblings with a light laugh and a gentle hand on his arm.

“Jack sweetie, my love, I just wanted some cuddles, that's all, relax. I’m just fine, I'm all bandaged up.” You gesture to your ankle which Jack looks at.  

“Okay…” Jack sighs laying down on his side. You quickly join him also laying on your side so that your back is facing him so you could be the little spoon. He wraps his arms around your waist and chest holding your back close to his chest. “Is this okay?” Jack asks, nuzzling his nose into your neck. His warm breath tickling your neck causes you to giggle.

“Perfect Jack.” You sigh in contentment. You hold Jack's hands in yours, holding them close to your body. You can feel Jack take a deep breath against your neck. You wished you could stay like this forever.

“Please be more careful for me.” Jack mumble quietly pressing a light kiss to your neck. 

“I don’t know if I can if you aren’t more careful yourself Jack.”

“I’ll try to be more careful than…” He nuzzles deeper, holding you closer. 

“Thank you Jack, I love you.” 

“I love you to Y/N. I don’t know what I would do without mi Luna.” He presses on last kiss to your jawline before the two of you succumb to sleep.

#jack russell x reader #jack russell #jack russell imagine #jack russell one shot #marvel one shot

[arcadekitten]

(Just noticed your last ask was mostly about Rune LOL, guess I'm keeping the train going.)

What is Rune's sexuality? Just asking 'cause I do think he is one handsome man but I don't wanna get too ahead of myself.

Also, what do you imagine your child characters (mainly Ryo, Embry, and Necrotary) would be like as teenagers? You don't have to go too in depth on this, just some fun food for thought!

I'm sure there's words for it (I described him quite recently as a playboy LOL), I think Rune is simply the kind of person who likes to have fun dating a lot of different people(and genders) but commits to none of them, nor feels very seriously about any of them. If you ask him, he's open about it and will tell you he dates for fun!

As for the kiddos, hmm...

I have imagined how they might be, growing up to teenagehood-young adulthood, but take all this lightly as it's not totally canon yet or anything!

I think Ryo keeps his very sweet nature to him. He's a lot more educated about the world and the dangers it holds, but doesn't let it stop him from trying to be that sun-shiney boy he always was! Dresses very farm-centric/nature-centric still.

Embry has always been a bit of a smartass to me even when not dealing with a monster in their basement and I think that follows them growing up. They definitely aren't "mean" by any stretch of the mark, but they will take the opportunity to make a sarcastic comment if given to them or point out when someone is being factually incorrect. They still love gardening and art! Their fashion style varies, but I'd probably put them in a mix of flowy clothes and grungy clothes.

Necrotary has always been a liiiittle bratty and that, too, follows her as she grows up! Unlike Embry I can even see her being perceived as a bit mean to people who aren't already her friends. She's a bit self-centered and focuses on making herself happy first, but she also always sticks up for her friends if she feels they're being treated unfairly and is definitely capable of being knocked down a peg or two enough to apologize if she's done something really wrong. She dresses very goth.

#rune #ryo #embry #necrotary #ask

[moonshinemagpie]

bad writing advice is bad

reminder that the writing advice you just saw was probably bad!

free yourself from it!

i see so much terrible writing advice online every single day, and i'm still trying to figure out how to talk about writing myself without falling into the giving-advice trap.

i often see advice that's factually incorrect but sounds real good. i see advice that's actually just the writer explaining their own personal preferences aloud in an authoritative tone

But the worst advice to me is that which condemns writing techniques that are actually helpful

example: this week i saw a graphic in a facebook writer's group that said something like, YOUR PEN IS NOT A CAMERA LENS. YOU CANNOT ZOOM IN AND ZOOM OUT WITH YOUR PROSE.

studies show! that when we see information presented in graphic form we're much more likely to process the information as True and Important. sure enough, all the comments on this post were from writers pinky promising not to ever apply cinematographic imagination to their 2D prose, no siree.

this particular bad advice caught my attention because 1. it was so random? like what??? and 2. one of the most helpful pieces of writing advice ive ever received is the exact opposite of this.

a screenwriter once told me he writes his scripts by imagining scenes unfolding shot-by-shot, like they've already been filmed. i immediately applied this to my prose and it fit snug as a glove. it's a visualization exercise that greatly enhances my descriptive writing.

and here was some Facebook rando weirdly, oddly, very specifically telling me not to do the thing that has helped me continuously for ten years.

so!!! the writing advice you see online is bad probably!!

#writeblr #writing

[hippienerrd]

77′: Elvis x Reader

Description/Disclaimers

As you may know August 16th, 1977 was the date of the passing of the king of rock n’ roll himself, Elvis Aron Presley, at least that's what the public thinks...

What happens when the man the myth and the legend, Elvis Presley, decides to include you, as his lover, in his plans to fake his death, run away, and start over, away from responsibility, debt, and fame.

this is a work of fiction inspired by the many mysteries and conspiracies surrounding Elvis’s death in 77′, though some of these make a lot of sense in my opinion and some don't, as stated before these are still mysteries and are not necessarily correct or incorrect, that being said if anyone shares an opinion please be respectful of that and don't put them down. If you want a peaceful debate surrounding this topic or just someone to talk about it with or work your thoughts out with, my DMs are open.

if anything is factually incorrect please let me know, id like this to be as though it follows a conspiracy through and in a way proves it possible and would like it to be as accurate as possible, I'm doing my research, watching interviews with Pricilla, Lisa Marie, Vernon, members of the Memphis mafia, or anyone else who was close to Elvis at the time or had previously been close to him. source recommendations are always appreciated, you can leave them in the comments of this post or send them to my DMs   

#elvis #elvis aaron presley #elvis presley #austin butler #austin!elvis #elvis fanfic #king of rock n roll #1977 #vintage #retro #retro fic

[unwanted-editor]

Whilst reading yet another fanfic, I came across this line by the author:

“… her fire wasn’t the usual orange flame that we see- it was instead blue Fire still, just a bit cooler, a bit gentler.”

1st- The sentence would flow better/ be more grammatically correct if it was written “… her fire wasn’t the usual, orange flame that we normally see; it was instead blue fire- just a bit cooler, a bit gentler.” Still, though, even if the sentence was written this way, it would still be factually incorrect- which brings me to my second point.

2nd- Blue fire is hotter than orange fire.

This bugged me, so I scrolled down and looked to see if anyone had said anything in the comments section. Which, someone had:

Reader: “… Just an fyi, blue fire is actually hotter than orange/red fire. Of course if its magic then I guess ignore whatever rules you want.”

Author: “… Haha, seriously just thought that it sounded cool. But, that’s and interesting fact! Yupp, please assume it’s another one of those ‘magical’ reasons. Thank you!!”

(Please note that the reader was being nice and respectful about the criticism! I took it out, because there were potential spoilers/irrelevant stuff, but the reader began by complimenting the writing and expressing interest in what might happen in future chapters. This is exactly how you should go about giving constructive criticism!)

The reader was right, of course. Blue fire is actually hotter than even white fire! And the hottest fire is a white-blue flame.

“When all flame colors combine, the hottest flame color is white blue.”

“The color of the blue flame indicates that it is even hotter than white. Typically, blue flames can go up from 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.”

However, there are actually two different ways to turn a fire a different color- temperature, which we’ve already discussed, and the fuel’s chemical composition.

So what chemicals can be used to turn a fire blue? Here is the list I have come up with: Copper Chloride, Copper Halide, Bismuth, Arsenic, Cesium, Germanium, Indium, Niobium, Phosphorus, Selenium, Lead, Tin, Tantalum, or Zinc.

As you can see, there’s actually quite a variety of chemicals that could be used to create blue fire (although the exact shade would need specific ones). However, I have no idea how the chemicals effect the fire temperature, because as one of my previous pictures stated, “… blue flame is typically fueled by natural gas, and natural gases tend to burn hotter than organic materials such as wood.”

“But Unwanted-Editor! None of that matters if it’s magic!” That is correct, my dear readers, magic is a handy little tool that we can use to ignore science and logic. And truly, I would be content with letting it be, if not for a line just a little bit after the one I read that initially got me into this rant:

“Blue fire was known to meld and carve”

Meld. Meld!

Now, the author isn’t incorrect to say that blue fire is used to meld, but melding (and I assume the author is referring to welding) is bending metal to your will. Logically, don’t you think that the fire would need to be at a higher-than-normal temperature in order to actually do that? Yes. Yes it does.

“Temperatures high enough to produce blue flames are unusual in campfires, which is why they are more often seen when metals are used, as in welding.”

Now, magic can excuse a lot, but I draw the line at having a low-temperature-blue-flame-that-can-also-be-used-for-melding/welding. It just doesn’t make any sense, especially since the magic of the world we’re in relies heavily on the balance of things. Please, if you’re going to make the dragon breathe blue fire, than at least do it right.

Anywho, if you look at one of my previous pictures, you can see that I was already on Chapter 16 when this all happened, so clearly the author wasn’t actually a terrible writer. In fact, I even finished the fic and started the Part 2 of the fic (unfinished) that the author had written before I made this post. So, Kudos to the author for still engaging me, even when my brain rebelled against certain things! Thanks for being brave enough to share a piece of your heart on a public platform, and best of luck on all future writing endeavors!

Sources:



#editing #ao3 editor #fanfic editor #volunteer editor #nonprofessional editor #editor #editors on tumblr #ao3 fanfic #ao3 writer #ao3 author #bbc merlin #merlin #merlin fanfic #blue fire #science #logic #magic #dragons #minor mistake #alls well that ends well #intense googling #link #website #website link

[hellsbellschime]

I admire your hard work in putting together these amazing YouTube videos. I don’t know how you have the patience with some of the people in the comments section. I mean I know that most people don’t think that deeply about anything but like you spoon feed it to them and they still miss it. GRRM himself confirms so much of what you say and holds up the Dany blot essays and still they defend a slaver and tyrant. It’s kinda terrifying when I allow myself to think about it.

Thank you! And honestly they don't know me personally so it's not personal, most negative comments I get are dumb or straight-up factually incorrect so it's hard to take it seriously, and frankly there is obviously some weird parasocial thing going on with many fans where they get irrationally upset and personally offended if you criticize a character they like. So the long and short of it is that it's about them and not me, and if they get something out of being weirdly aggro towards me because my opinion about an imaginary person differs from their opinion about an imaginary person then god bless 'em.

#anti stan fuckery

[strategicsmmarketing]

Social Media Research

Hello all!

As you may have realized, I am a college student. As a college student, research takes up a lot of my time. It is pretty much a necessity for anyone who attends a university. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the arts, in business, in STEM…you are ALWAYS researching for one reason or another. It’s exhausting for sure, but thankfully modern technology makes it much easier than it once was.

Today, I will be discussing three research papers I found and their practical applications in the marketing world. To keep a common theme, I decided to focus specifically on luxury brands.

When A Luxury Brand Bursts: Modelling the Social Media Viral Effects of Negative Stereotypes Adoption Leading To Brand Hate

The internet, being a free place with little accountability, is littered with incorrect “facts” that can overtake the general online population. When rumors are spread enough, it can be hard to figure out what is actually factual and which sources are trustworthy- these instances are referred to by The World Health Organization as infodemics (Pantano, 2021). It is common for people to trust the information that they see on social media, especially when it is delivered to them by a celebrity (Pantano, 2021). It has also been found that users are more likely to blindly believe the information in a social media post if it has a large number of likes (Pantano, 2021). So: theoretically, if a well-liked celebrity endorses a brand and that same brand also has a lot of likes online, it is probably considered a trustworthy and good company by the general public. This paper, linked here, discusses research done on a Dolce&Gabbana marketing campaign from 2018 where the brand used stereotypes to exploit the Chinese market (Pantano, 2021). Their Chinese #DGTheGreatShow campaign depicted an Asian actress eating Italian food (Dolce&Gabbana is an Italian brand) with chopsticks, which consumers found offensive (Pantano, 2021). This is apparently a common tactic for D&G— make controversial advertisements in order to spark debate and garner brand interest, and even Stefano Gabbana himself expressed on Instagram that the Chinese audience didn’t “get” the ad…which, of course, earned him more backlash (Pantano, 2021). Consequently, Chinese e-commerce and luxury retailers removed D&G from their platforms (Pantano, 2021). Since you can never truly get anything that big off the internet for good, it is expected that D&G will continue to be affected by this extremely poor choice in marketing for years to come (Pantano, 2021). As far as the initial controversy goes, it took about a month from the peak of negative comments for the discussion to go away; since D&G did not handle the “contagion” immediately, it blew up more and took way longer than expected to blow over (Pantano, 2021).

So what can we learn from this? First and foremost, make sure your risky marketing campaigns go through and are approved by a diverse group of individuals. I cannot imagine there was any person of asian heritage on that D&G marketing team considering they still published it confidently. Furthermore, you know how Stefano Gabbana doubled down on his racist campaign and told people that they didn’t “get it”? Definitely do not do that as part of your damage control plan. And definitely do not think you are above backlash just because your company is considered “luxury,” you might just lose a whole continent of people’s support (and more, but I’m especially referring to the asian retailers). Oh, and finally: if you do start to receive an abnormal amount of negative comments, contain the issue and get rid of the content as soon as possible…it will still spread, but it will never be as bad as if you keep the campaign going.

The Common Values of Social Media Marketing and Luxury Brands. The Millenial and Gen Z Perspective.

You may have noticed that luxury brands do not tend to hugely market themselves on the internet. One hypothesis as to why this is: luxury tends to associate itself with authenticity, exclusivity, and hedonism (Dobre et al., 2021). Marketing luxury items on social media could take away part of the mystery and appeal of feeling included in a secret club of sorts once a person buys an item.

To test the relationship between luxury brands and an online environment, the authors of this paper studied a sample of consumers in Romania (they found that not many research papers regarding luxury brands were based on Eastern European markets) and received, in my opinion, some predictable results (Dobre et al., 2021). Firstly, it was found that the perceived value of luxury brands that are present in social media positively affect consumer intentions, as they were more likely to purchase the brands online, visit the brands’ websites, engage in the brands’ social media posts, and more (Dobre et al., 2021). The research also found that the use of social media by luxury brands positively influences the brands’ perceived value, according to the input of Generation Y and Z survey respondents (Dobre et al., 2021). Overall, it was concluded that there is no natural incompatibility between luxury brands and general online marketing, but that the brands need to use the right tools in order to make up for the lack of a physical store (Dobre et al., 2021). Highlighting aspects such as company history, product craftmanship, and brand values with visual aids is a good place to start (Dobre et al., 2021).

From this study, we learn that luxury brands can generally do nothing but benefit from social media as long as they use it correctly (learn from the previous article and don’t be racist, for one thing). They should make up for the absence of a physical store by posting content that is informative and valuable to their consumers in ways that are less common for everyday brands…talk deeply about brand values and perhaps even show them in action, for example. Lastly, Generations Y and Z (who are becoming the biggest purchasers of items across the world) consider luxury brands with social medias to be more valuable. So with all this in mind, if you are part of the marketing team for a luxury brand and are debating whether or not to join social media, definitely do it! I would say: Hold yourself to a higher standard than other everyday companies that are online, and find a way to give your social pages a competitive advantage.

Unpacking the Relationship Between Social Media Marketing and Brand Equity: The Mediating Role Of Consumers’ Benefits and Experience

Digital technology influences approximately 80% of the global luxury market (Zollo, 2020). This aligns with the idea that Millennials naturally expect brands to be marketing themselves and creating dialogue online, and positively respond to those that interact with them (Zollo, 2020). The writers of this paper wanted to closer study the affects of social media marketing on luxury fashion brands’ brand equity, and surveyed a sample of 420 wealthy university students to do so (Zollo, 2020). It was found that cognitive, social integrative, personal integrative, and brand experience mediate the relationship between social media marketing and brand equity (Zollo, 2020). The group concluded that social media marketing does not always positively affect community participation, and in fact it can sometimes cause discontinued use of the brand’s social communities (Zollo, 2020). They also noted that social media marketing tactics are more effective if they can satisfy specific consumer benefits and create positive experiences, and thus they suggested that luxury brands on social media should analyze the personal motives of their consumers—such as implementing elite and fashionable marketing strategies (Zollo, 2020).

What we can learn from this is very similar to the second article’s lesson: luxury brands should put in a lot of effort to pin down exactly why consumers buy from then, and then they should greatly lean into that on their socials. Marketers should make sure the posts provide value to consumers in a unique and interesting way, while also promoting the “elite” values that feed the customers’ egos. It IS dangerous for these brands to market with a simplified plan, since the expectations for them are high and followers could easily get bored if they are posting like every other company nowadays. Luxury clothing marketing teams, therefore, have it harder than teams for stores like Walmart and American Eagle…the former is practically walking on a tightrope and need to stay perfectly balanced the entire time; one wrong move and you could end up like Dolce&Gabbanna! (Although, let’s be real…they make so much money that I’m sure they’re doing just fine in the long run).

Dobre C, Milovan A-M, Duțu C, Preda G, Agapie A. The Common Values of Social Media Marketing and Luxury Brands. The Millennials and Generation Z Perspective. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research. 2021; 16(7):2532-2553. https://doi.org/10.3390/jtaer16070139

Lamberto Zollo, Raffaele Filieri, Riccardo Rialti, Sukki Yoon, Unpacking the relationship between social media marketing and brand equity: The mediating role of consumers’ benefits and experience, Journal of Business Research, Volume 117, 2020, Pages 256-267, https://doi.org/10.1016j.jbusres.2020.05.001. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296320302885)

Eleonora Pantano, When a luxury brand bursts: Modelling the social media viral effects of negative stereotypes adoption leading to brand hate, Journal of Business Research, Volume 123, 2021, Pages 117-125, ISSN 0148-2963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.09.049. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014829632030624X)

[skarletterambles]

I don’t care if it’s supposedly an AU, you can’t tag them as “original characters” when they still look exactly like their canon selves.  Especially when you also tag them with their canon names!  WTF?

Is the huge corporation who owns the franchise going to come after you for it?  No, but it’s still wrong (both in the sense of “confusing and uncomfortable” and in the sense of “factually incorrect.”)  If I worked for the huge corporation and was at least partially responsible for creating those characters, even understanding that my work technically belonged to my employer, I’d be quite peeved to see them tagged as someone else’s OCs.  I know first-hand how difficult it is to create good, fleshed-out, compelling original characters (much less original universes...cough cough.)

Is it possible to take a canon character and transform them so much that they become functionally the same as an OC?  Yes.  But then you file off the serial numbers by changing names, appearances, and key traits until a person who was familiar with the original source material wouldn’t immediately recognize the character’s origins.  (I detest using this as an example, but look at Twilig.ht and 50 S.had.es of Gr.ay.  James didn’t do much worthy of praise, IMHO, but at least she successfully transformed the characters enough that Meyers didn’t have a legal leg to stand on, despite everyone knowing darn well 50 Shad.es started as Tw.ilight fanfic.)

Anyway, it’s not that big a deal, in the grand scheme of things, and it’s not really any of my business, which is why I’m ranting vaguely on my sideblog instead of rudely commenting on the artwork in question.  And I admit the fact that the art is for a ship I don’t ship makes me less inclined to think kindly of it to begin with.  But still.  Respect creators and don’t tag your AU version of their canon as “original characters.” 

#a fandom which shall remain nameless #personal vent post

[thebluespirit83]

debunking pro-snape/anti-james arguments and putting it on the internet because clearly i hate myself. buckle up. this is gonna be a VERY long post. im ready for the amount of hate i will get; im willing to take one for the team. 

1. james forced lily into dating/marrying/etc him 

this literally never happened? because its almost as if lily is her own person who is able to stand up for herself-

“I wouldn’t go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid,” said Lily.

“LEAVE HIM ALONE!” Lily shouted. She had her own wand out now. James and Sirius eyed it warily.

She turned on her heel and hurried away [from james]. 

-and so she would not allow someone to walk all over her. its almost as if james (canonically) matured as a person, and she appreciated this, realised he was a good person and got feelings for him? because james’ only negative traits were that he was conceited and a show off. people are able to mature and grow from these things! james did this! he did not ‘force’ lily to go out with him!

2. james and the other marauders bullied snape

you know what, i cant even disagree with this one. you’re right - they did bully him. but lets look a little bit at the context. 

sirius and james were both upper class, naive white rich boys. they are idiots. they were both stupid smart teenagers!! they were popular! and while this does not excuse the gross bullying snape was subject to-

Pink soap bubbles streamed from Snape’s mouth at once; the froth was covering his lips, making him gag, choking him

Several people watching laughed; Snape was clearly unpopular ... Snape was trying to get up, but the jinx was still operating on him; he was struggling, as though bound by invisible ropes.

-it (unfortunately) makes sense with context. james and sirius also stopped bullying people, and even expressed discomfort/regret with the way they acted-

“I’m not proud of it,” said Sirius quickly.

“Of course he was a bit of an idiot!” said Sirius bracingly, “we were all idiots!

[sirius talking to remus] you made us feel ashamed of ourselves sometimes

A lot of people are idiots at the age of fifteen. He grew out of it.

-when they were younger! i’d also like to point out these little lines i noticed when i was finding quotes for my argument which snape stans like to ignore:

James and Snape hated each other from the moment they set eyes on each other

I mean, he [snape] never lost an opportunity to curse James

there was a flash of light and a gash appeared on the side of James’s face, spattering his robes with blood

wow, look at that. the hate they felt for each other was mutual! snape also jinxed james! but oh wait - james was the one who matured! snape was the one who bullied his son twenty years later because he looked like james! 

3. snape didnt abuse the kids at hogwarts 

here’s a real argument i saw when looking through some pro-snape posts: ‘snape wasn’t an abuser, because abusers don’t let their victims retaliate, but snape did let the kids talk back to him’

what. the. fuck?! 

this is the dictionary.com definition of abuse: ‘to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way’ or ‘to speak insultingly, harshly, and unjustly to or about’. i’m pretty sure snape did both of these things-

“I don’t need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!”

“So,” said Snape, gripping Harry’s arm so tightly Harry’s hand was starting to feel numb.

Snape threw Harry from him with all his might.

[hermione’s teeth]  "I see no difference."

‘Idiot boy!’ snarled Snape [at neville]

-on multiple occasions. i’d also like to remind you guys that neville’s worst fear is SNAPE?! his TEACHER, a figure that is supposed to be there for emotional and educational support is his worst fear in this entire world?! above the woman who drove his parents to insanity? over failure, over his abusive grandmother, over everything? his teacher? and for the pro-snaper that used this quote-

Nearly everyone laughed. Even Neville grinned apologetically.

-to claim that it was a joke, it isn’t a joke. because when snape came out of that cupboard, he was terrified. yes, it’s an embarrassing thing to have as your boggart, but the point is is that it is. he is terrified of that man. 

4. james only joined the order because his wife was a muggleborn and he ‘had to’

this is just factually incorrect. james had been sticking up for muggleborn rights since he was in school, far before he started dating or even became friends with lily: 

“Apologize to Evans!” James roared at Snape, his wand pointed threateningly at him.

“I’d NEVER call you a - you-know-what!”

so this is literally not true!! plus, at least he did join the order, whatever his reasons where (which were canonically good). snape didnt join the order. snape was friends with someone who suffered discrimination in society, and instead of using his privilege to help her and support her, he joined a group that was set on murdering people like her. when james had a friend who underwent oppression (remus/lycanthropy) you know what he did? he illegally became an animagus. 

5. snape had to be a death eater to survive at hogwarts as he roomed with blood supremacists

this is the shittiest excuse i have ever seen in my entire life. as a poc, this comment really reminds me of the argument ‘i was raised in a racist white household! i cant control my beliefs!’

you can always control your beliefs. i understand not going on big rants about blood inequality in front of a bunch of supremacists, and i understand wanting to blend and fit in (especially because he was unpopular and needed the support the slytherin boys provided), but i will never understand then becoming an active member of the group yourself. he got the dark mark. he helped voldemort. he was a death eater, and a proud one at that! no-one forced him to join. this argument literally makes my blood boil. 

6. snape had a lot of trauma from being raised in an abusive household

okay? so did sirius. so did neville. luna was bullied at school, just like snape. harry lived in an abusive household. did any of those people bully children? did any of those people join a blood supremacist group? and dont get me wrong, im not calling any of these people perfect - they all had a lot of flaws - but none of them hurt another people to the extreme that snape did. 

7. snape saved the trio’s lives many times

this is the absolute bare minimum. ‘oh wow, he didnt let harry die!! what a king! he should be respected and praised! we should excuse all of his other actions because he didnt let people die <3′ 

8. snape is not a perfect person, he also did good that many people overlook

you’re right, snape did do some good things in his life. but unfortunately, for me and many others, doing a couple of good things doesnt excuse all of the shitty, abusive things he did too. we’re not ignoring them - we just dont think they’re good enough reasons to forgive him. 

‘but james and sirius hurt others! you ignore all the bad things they did in favour of the good!’ you do the same thing with snape, first of all. second, they did a lot of good stuff. james’ and sirius’ only crimes were being annoying. for being a bit of a dick, conceited, knew they were hot and were a bit entitled. while these things are annoying as fuck, they were also stupid teens that eventually grew out of their behaviour and became better people. not perfect! better. while snape just stayed bitter at the marauders, long after their deaths, and even took his anger out on an innocent child. 

9. people only hate snape because he was poc and queer coded

as a poc and queer person, please stop. this is a very bad excuse. being poc and queer (which im pretty sure he isnt, but anyway) doesnt excuse you from your actions. plus, a huge amount of harry potter readers are poc and lgbtq. why would they hate snape for those reasons?! 

so thats all i got for today. im not gonna go into a deep snily/jily thing because i literally cannot be bothered. anyway im done. i need to go revise, i’ve already spent long enough on this. 

#i wanted to put this in the pro snape tag #but i will be slandered so much if i do #hate on me if you want i dont care #harry potter #the marauders #james potter #pro james potter #sirius black #remus lupin #peter pettigrew #anti severus snape #long rant #lily evans #jily #flowerpott #anti snily #wolfstar

[ladycrimsonandblack]

savage

Luffy doesn’t kill.

Or, perhaps, this statement is factually incorrect. People have certainly died at Luffy’s hands. Mooks, beaten until their insides bled. Grunts, tossed around until they ended who-knows-where. Foot soldiers, flattened until they were one with the ground beneath them. Luffy regularly mows over hundreds or thousands of people when fighting to reach his goal, and it is impossible to tell just how many never survive the encounter.

He never comments on Zoro and Robin, who quite often do kill. Nor does he pay any attention to the fact that Sanji, Chopper and Nami avoid it as much as possible. Luffy does not seem to care how they end their fights either way, as long as they’re alive and victorious at the end of it.

So, perhaps, it is wrong to say that Luffy does not kill, but the fact remains that he doesn’t, not when it matters.

Their enemies, the big ones, the powerful ones, are mostly still alive. While Luffy does not seem to see anything wrong with carelessly mowing through the droves of mooks and grunts, he takes care never to kill the ones he truly aims for. He beats them half to death, sends them flying or tosses them around until they stop moving, but he always stops short of killing, control impeccable.

The crew never comments on it. They don’t have to. If Luffy wants to leave a trail of living enemies behind them, nobody minds or questions him about it. Luffy wishes it, so Luffy does it, and if it becomes a problem later on, it will be dealt with at that time. All of them are confident that such obstacles can be overcome, should they ever appear.

It is Trafalgar Law who asks, after Dresrossa and on their way to Zou. Trafalgar Law, who is nakama, but not really crew, so he does not understand what it means to follow Luffy’s lead.

“Why didn’t you do it?” he asks, gripping his nodachi, dark expression feeling very out of place in the middle of the party.

“Huh?” Luffy asks, his mouth filled with meat.

“Doflamingo,” Law spits out, having waited days to get Luffy alone to ask the question burning inside his brain. “He’s still alive. The Navy took him.”

Luffy tilts his head in confusion. “So?”

“Why didn’t you kill him?!”

“Oh,” Luffy says, suddenly understanding, “that. But why would I kill him? Don’t you hate him, Torao?”

Law’s grip on his sword tightens. “Yes,” he says, as if it wasn’t obvious by the end.

“Then it’s good that Mingo is alive.” Luffy nods as if that is the end of the conversation, and returns to his meat.

Law doesn’t let him. “No, it’s not. He should be dead! He should suffer for–“ Breaking off, he turns his head away and looks at the party surrounding them, grunt escaping his lips.

“But it wouldn’t hurt if he’s dead,” Luffy points out.

“What?” Now it’s Law’s turn to look at him in confusion.

“Losing,” Luffy explains. “It wouldn’t hurt if he’s dead. Nothing hurts when you’re dead. Losing your dreams only hurts if you’re alive. So Mingo is hurting now, and that’s okay, because he hurt Torao first.” Chewing, he adds, “And if he comes back, I’ll just send him flying again. So you don’t have to worry, Torao. It’s better like this.”

Law stares, speechless. Luffy seems to interpret it as agreement, and turns around to wander off and stuff more food into his mouth.

Law never does look at Luffy the same, after that.

#one piece #my writing #ficlet #inspired by that one sbs interview in which oda says that luffy never kills people bc he thinks that would be letting them off easy #when losing their dreams hurts them more #which is probably the single most savage thing i've ever heard #especially in the world where dreams are everything

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[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

Hey! I literally love your last post so much but I'm confused about the rebels bit (never watched it). How does Rebels criticize the jedi? Thanks!

Aw, thank you! (Lol, this is such an old ask I don’t remember what that post was, but here goes).

Well in s2 Ahsoka, Kanan (a survivor from Order 66) and Ezra (his Padawan) all go to an old Jedi Temple to talk to Yoda about Vader and his Inquisitors (Darksiders who hunt the few remaining Jedi and kidnap Force sensitive kids). Yoda is only there spiritually and the three of them get different visions. Ahsoka sees Anakin as Vader, and Kanan has to fight several enemies and eventually admit he can't protect his Padawan from the world, only guide him (which prompts the vision to finally make him a Jedi Knight, as he survived Order 66 as a Padawan.)

And Ezra... Ugh. Ezra had a previous encounter with Yoda, in which he got his lightsaber crystal. Basically Yoda asked him why he wanted to be a Jedi, and Ezra had to do some self-examination and eventually realized that helping and protecting people made him feel alive, which greatly pleased Yoda who told him he might become a Jedi after all. That's a really great exchange and I love the character development Ezra gets, as he starts by saying he wants never to feel powerless and eventually realizes that's not the right answer.

But in this second encounter, as Ezra asks how they can defeat the Inquisitors, Yoda basically says that fighting is rarely the right path. And to illustrate that, he says that line about the Jedi being arrogant and joining the war swiftly "in their arrogance," which really bothers me. He also says they were "consumed by the Dark Side", which is why they're now gone. In all fairness, he also mentions that they were motivated by fear, which is partially true. 

Now, I write analyses and I try to be intellectually honest about them, because ignoring contradicting stuff weakens your argument instead of helping you. Except this time, I really can't accept this quote. I have an excuse, Lucas wasn't involved in Rebels so it's not the highest canon in my opinion (the 6 movies + TCW are, here are the quotes justifying my position), and I feel like that assertion is out of character for Yoda, ignoring his ST ghost appearances, and also plainly factually incorrect.

I understand that Ezra really needed to be taught not to always seek to fight. At this point, he's still an emotional kid who occasionally struggles with the Dark Side. Not fighting is important to a Jedi's path, so I can understand Yoda's intention. But the example he uses? According to Lucas, the Jedi were drafted in the war. That's not jumping into a conflict out of arrogance, that's literally being dragged there against your will. And sure, there’s Geonosis, but how exactly is rescuing a bunch of your people that’s getting slaughtered by a Sith Lord the same thing as arrogantly jumping into a fight? Like, what’s the option here? Not go, and let an innocent Senator and a bunch of Jedi be murdered?

It's like Rebels!Yoda isn't acknowledging that the war was fake and that a Sith Lord engineered it as the perfect trap (which is recurring problem in Rebels; at one point Ezra, Kanan and Rex have to fight an old Separatist tactical droid and Ezra "solves" the Clone Wars by pointing out that nobody won except the Empire, so really they were on the same side all along, and he gets praised for doing what "a bunch of Jedi, senators and Clones couldn't do," ie getting both sides to talk to each other – except wtf??? setting aside that the Jedi and Rex were aware of the war being fake by the end of it, and that the Separatists were openly led by a Sith Lord and attempted to commit genocide several times in TCW and did commit mass murder, and reduced like several worlds to slavery or starvation and were backed by the worst big corporations you could imagine, the war would NOT have ended if the two sides had tried talking it out. 1) The Senate made it illegal 2) the big corporations arranged for terrorist attacks on both sides the one time they tried to negotiate so the war would drag on and they'd get more money out of it 3) Sidious. Was. Controlling. Everything. What. The. Heck. Would. Have. Been. Accomplished. By. Negotiating.)  Plus the question of whether or not the Jedi should even fight is like... constantly raised by the Jedi during TCW, so I really can’t see it as “oh wow we didn’t even take the time to think and we got killed because of it, we really sucked.” 

Seriously, there’s this S6 quote: 

MACE: Are you sure we are taking the right path? YODA: The right path, no. The only path, yes. Designed by the Dark Lord of the Sith, this web is. For now, play his game, we must.

Like yeah, totally rushing in and being eager to fight lol. Nothing to do with being boxed in and having no alternatives. 

So yeah that's bothers me and I don't think it jibes with the rest of canon. I don't remember Yoda telling Luke (who, in the beginning, is as eager to fight as Ezra is) that the Jedi "disappeared" because of some fault of their own, or because of an eagerness to fight. (Seriously, pussyfooting around the fact that the Jedi were slaughtered grates me.) The OT never, ever, ever implies that the destruction of the Jedi Order was their fault - and unless you assume that the OT is “pro-Jedi propaganda” (*laughs in dumb youtube comments*) then I don’t see Rebels weaving it into its narrative as legitimate.

Again, choosing alternatives to fighting is a great lesson on a personal level, but it doesn't work on the scale of the Rebels/Empire conflict - or the Jedi/Sith one. Ezra should often choose not to fight because of what it'll do to his soul. The Rebels should not stop fighting because there is no cohabitation with something as evil as the Empire. Imo Yoda is always presented as wise enough to know the difference. 

The last thing that makes me think it's out of character is Yoda's spiritual journey in TCW s6. He gets all of his flaws thrown into his face and has to conquer them – he has to face his literal Dark Side and he wins. And yet at no point during that arc is he ever made to conquer his ‘Jedi arrogance’ or whatever. He has to face his worst fear (first vision, all the Jedi dying), let go of his attachments (second vision, him having to accept that he can’t live in a perfect world where everything is beautiful and no one is dead), and reaffirm who he is as a Jedi (third vision, refusing to give up on Anakin and trying to save him rather than to kill Sidious) but at no point is he ever made to recognize that wow, the Jedi are the worst for fighting. 

I’d argue that the very purpose of the visions showing him Order 66 and Anakin falling are to make him accept that these things are completely beyond his control - and as such, not his fault. He doesn’t get to fix things, because the fate of the Order is not in their own hands. It is, in fact, in Anakin’s (from a thematical/narrative standpoint). Yoda has a hard time with it (actually he almost shuts down when he first sees everybody dead and his first reaction is to say that he failed them, so I can’t accept Yoda blaming his grandkids for dying) but he accepts it in the end, when he tells Mace and Obi-Wan he’s not certain one ever wins a war, but they might still find ‘victory for all time’ (referring to balance aka Sidious’ death in RotJ). 

So anyway that’s my beef with Rebels!Yoda. Not hate on Rebels though, there are many parts of it that I really, really love - but some of them kinda infuriate me, and this is one of them. 

#ask #anonymous #yoda #yoda appreciation #in defense of the jedi #long post #meta #more like me ranting #my meta

[headcans-oneshots-and-stuff]

Asian!Batsis Headcanons

Requested by the amazing and breathtaking @insomnianeverland 

Hi! I enjoy your stories! Can I request an Asian Batsis, or an Asian reader x batfamily/Young Justice /DC???

A/N: I myself am not Asian, so if I write anything that’s factually incorrect, please let me know! Also, this is a bit different from the rest of my work, but I hope you’ll enjoy it nonetheless <3

Let’s- for the sake of this- go with the story that you grew up in Japan and lived there until you were around fifteen or something (just around Tim or Cass’ age), until Bruce had some JL mission there, which resulted in the loss of your family and Bruce asking you if you want to come with him to america and have him adopt you (you obviously say yes, because if you don’t this is where the story ends)

So that’s how you became the newest member of the batfam

(please roll with me for this one:) You can’t speak english when you come to america so Bruce, who is the only one in the batfam who can speak japanease (as far as I know, I tried to look it up for the rest, but I found no proof that any of the others can. The closest I came was that Cass speaks chinese, but that’s still a different language)

But then you got closer to Cass who is very used to communication without words

And the rest of the fam (there all hella clever) quickly (as quickly as that can go) teached themselves some basic Japanease to be able to talk to you and either Bruce or a Teacher employed by Bruce (this is unlikely tho, because of his secrets) teaches you english

They just all want to get closer to you, because you’re so different from their normal life 

You don’t want to become a vigilante like them, really rather having a gentle and loving demenaour. You just want to enjoy your time with your new family and pet all of Damians pets

Not that you can’t get angry

ohhh you can

And like it is for many people who don’t speak the language that is spoken around them as their mother tongue (As trilingual I can very much relate), when you get into a stage of blind rage, you often accidentaly switch over to Japanease 

The people who understand you are horrified everyone else is confused

Considering that you greq up in a completely different culture with different celebrations and traditions, they do their best to include that in their normal life and in their calanders, always making sure to make you feel like you’re home

Sometimes Bruce even goes so far as too randomly book week long trips to Japan when he notices that you’re especially sad or homesick

If anyone ever dares to make racially inspired hate comments torwards you and one of your family mebers is near...

Depending on the severity of the situation going from: “A bad, obviously racist joke that makes you roll your eyes” to “actually degrading you and acting like you’re less of a human being”. If it’s somewhere around the end of the spectrum...

All hell breaks loose

With Jason, Damian and Cass you’re lucky if the encounter doesn’t end with blood on the offenders side (which can be especially hard if you’re in either Cass’ or Damian’s class). Especially because Damian and Cass can relate to that, both having been the target of comments like that before too

Tim, Babs and Bruce (who can’t really risk his image by beating up someone (even tho he would if it’s especially bad)) are the kind of people to completely ruin someones image in the media or, when the person is unknown, on the internet, making sure they won’t ever get a job again

Dick and Steph will firstly make sure that you’re okay, spending the rest of the day with you to take your mind off of what these people said

Duke also knows how it is to be racially profiled and he’s not too far away from beating someone up, but he often considers you first and takes you away, distracting you like Dick and Steph would, and making sure that the person learns a lesson

Harper would just straight up destroy their car or trash their apartment (Sometimes with literall trash since she says birds of a feather flock together) 

All in all they take no shit from anyone in general, but especially not with you, you’re somewhat of the familys baby (even tho you’re older than Damian)

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[khaleesiofalicante]

This may sound very weird, but forgive me because I'm in mood for economy analogies because *studies*

I can't help thinking that particular parts of fandoms somehow work as the stock market. Idk if you know how financial bubbles work, but we're basically artificially inflating plots and characters and whatnot in between installments, and when the final thing comes out we get disappointed because that's not what we led ourselves to believe through 12-months worth of headcanoning and theorising.

I think our understanding of characters the less in contact we are with the source material, which in turn could influence us believing the author is writing ooc characters more often than normal. Take how the fandom sees Kit, or Ty, or Eugenia, or Grace. Maybe it's just me, but I can't see that in canon.

And that sort of frustrates me, now that I think about it, because of course people are going to be disappointed when their somewhat specific expectations aren't met. And of course they're going to blame the author.

Idk, maybe it's because I'm also an amateur writer of original fic, but comments like 'xyz author did xyz character so dirty, so they're now mine' (dirty, and not when it comes to things that are just factually incorrect about cultures/sexualities/languages/etc) or 'fanon xyz is so much better than canon xyz'. Perhaps it is because the idea of people saying that about my characters and my decisions to write storylines makes me, not angry, but sad?;

Perhaps I'm exaggerating, so I'm asking you: how would you feel if someone said any of the above about David? Or criticised the way you wrote lbaf because they --unsurprisingly because everyone is different-- thought of a different way to veer the story?

I understand constructive criticism, especially done on issues you aren't 100% aware of, but if you just *dislike* an author, don't stay in the fandom to shit on them and then dote on the characters that have come out of their minds, because:

If they're a horrible person, you are still helping them --however indirectly-- by promoting their content (even if you downloaded indirectly).

The publishing industry, as everything capitalist, works by demand-offer. Something as little as shitting on an author pushes for an increase in demand ('I'm going to buy/pirate this book to hate on the author and promote their horribleness so that more people will hear of them and read their books; surely some of them will get the books illegally but many will buy them' --think of Harry Potter despite JKR's transphobia and so many people hating her). Really, you're just making their pockets thicker

If you truly want them to fail, don't consume their products. Less demand=less money=less opportunity to publish=less success=you get what I mean

Instead, promote other books you like better, nurture fandoms that are probably small by joining them, etc

If you just dislike the way they write, try not to get fixated on the characters nor the author because it sounds like something very unhealthy. And I've unfortunately gone through that

And maybe this is because I just dislike meanness in general, but criticism needs to come from a place of respect? At least the typical I-don't-actually-respect-you-but-I'm-not going-to-curse-at-you-because-I'm-polite. Especially if the author is doing more than average authors: chances are, they made an ignorant mistake they need to be talked about, just not cancelled for (mostly self-projecting because I recently wrote an Indian wedding I had many mistakes on, I was asked in a respectful manner to change whatever I had wrong, and was so glad to learn of traditions of a country so foreign to me while correcting mistakes my stupid misunderstanding wrote).

But, yeah. Thoughts?

First of all, this is very nuanced. Thank you for sharing this with me.

I share most of your sentiments actually.

A few thoughts on few things you addressed.

1. I also wonder why people are in the fandom if they hate the author or character or series so much. The rationale of "if you don't like it - then don't read it" seems so obvious and simple to me. But I guess, it's easier said than done. Maybe it's because they still have hope? They wish there would be some sort of change? Maybe they just like critiquing things? Maybe that's just how they consume media? I don't know. It never made sense to me. So, I tried not to bother myself with it.

2. I generally dislike meanness as well, so I feel you. Something I learned by going to an extremely strict school was that - you don't have to be mean when you give feedback. It is 100% possible to give criticism without being rude about it You can call someone out without being an asshole. It's not the calling out that is problematic, but rather how people go about it. I think it's an overall social issue, you know?

Think of the way some teachers give "feedback" to students. The way some parents give "advice" to children. The way some bosses give "coaching" to their employees. All of this is supposed to be well meaning, but the way they say it results in more bad than good. Their delivery is bad, so it defeats the purpose of constructive criticism/advice.

People DO NOT like to learn from a place of inferiority. Whether we are talking about learning in the classroom or in life or on tumblr or fandoms or wherever.

When you are trying to 'educate' someone, do not make them feel stupid. It's an awful thing to do. Your insight and feedback should not come from a place of (intellectual or moral) superiority. Because then, you are not trying to educate someone, you are trying to belittle them.

You don't make them more aware or woke. You make them feel humiliated and embarrassed.

So, that's that.

3. About David/LBAF - If you have noticed, I have already received quite a bit of criticism for lbaf - especially focusing around malec. I think as an author, I have learned how to differentiate between useful and useless criticism. For example, I've got a lot of crticism/feedback in terms of language (French) and culture (Spanish) and that is useful criticism. That's something I can actually work on and improve and learn from.

But criticisms about "no Alec wouldn't do this" or "you are writing malec wrong"... I don't find that criticism to be useful.

I can only write how I see malec. I cannot perceive how my readers see malec. As the writer, the challenge is to convince my readers that my way of perception makes sense - that this is behaviour is not unrealistic or out of character.

But of course, I cannot convince everyone. And I am fine with that. I don't think I would have been a long time ago. But I am now.

So if someone thinks 'I did *insert lbaf character* so dirty', then that's their perception. I cannot control how they think. I can only control how I write.

And my writing has a purpose. Everything that happens to everyone in lbaf has a purpose. If I made a decision as a writer (good or bad), I want my writers to believe that decision had a purpose.

So, yeah. I believe in my writing, so I try to ignore those who don't. It's easier said than done of course. But it's a process like anything else.

This was very interesting. Thanks again. Very Ravenclaw of you <3

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[kinomiakai]

do you have any tips on writing sasuke and naruto? specifically things like inner thoughts and dialogue?

Oh!!! This is such a cool question, thank you so much anon. This...actually got really, really long, but I hope it’s actually helpful!! This is just the way I write them, so take everything I say with a grain of salt!!

I’ll put it under a read more because it got so long haha :)

General advice:

For dialogue, generally, I feel like what actually helped me a ton was when I had to transcribe a bunch of interviews for school. You have to include everything, the body language, the ums, the stutters - so I’d actually really recommend trying that? Ideally finding something that isn’t edited, like a livestream or something, and trying to write down a few minutes of what the person says perfectly. It’s actually really, really hard!! Your brain automatically deletes the repetitions and stutters and spare words, so forcing yourself to identify them really helps with figuring out how people talk and writing more realistic dialogue. An example would be something like:

“I went to the—like the—the, um, ba—the store in the back alley, you know?”

(Things in there: (1) repetitions of “the”, (2) people say “like” a lot and your brain tends to delete that, (3) same with ums/uhs/other noises of thought, and (4) the way your brain can skip ahead to the next out-of-order word and you back up and go back to finish the thought. That happens a lot!)

You do have to balance it with readability, I find, because some people stutter a lot (especially if they’re in thought), but writing it all out like that really helped me learn how people talk, so I really recommend it!! I think if you can hear their voice saying it in your head, you’re on the right track.

For things like inner thoughts, it’s…sort of like dialogue, but less restrained. Inner thoughts are really fun because you not only get to play with being an unreliable narrator, but you also get to have people’s thoughts betray themselves. You can control your thoughts, but only to some extent, so something I really like to play with is cutting off a thought that’s about too admit something the character isn’t ready to admit (but something that they know, deep down). Like:

“Of course, his shirt did…smell nice. Like him. And there was something warm and settling about being here. Not that—not that this felt like home, or anything, it was just nice, and comfortable, and he just wasn’t used to these sorts of things so of course he—

He shook his head.

Never mind. He ought to get out of here anyway.”

Inner thoughts also are fun to tell a bit of a story with. You can contradict yourself or correct yourself, and a metaphor can sort of change the more the character things about it. Your writing doesn’t have to be perfect because thoughts really aren’t—but they will probably be real run-on sentences hahaha. Dashes and commas everywhere!!! The thoughts never end!!

Character-specific advice:

A big part of how I write Sasuke and Naruto depends on the AU it is set in. I’ll write generally about canon here, but obviously things change if Sasuke grew up with a family, if Naruto got some therapy - they might be more in tune with their emotions, they might be more explicit about the way they feel or more honest. A good example of this is in Something Good, where Sasuke is much more honest about himself and emotions and all that than he would be in canon—this is really only because he had Itachi and actually got help for his trauma. This effects Naruto a lot in AUs too because he doesn’t always have the same tendency to really repress himself, the way he does in canon. So you actually have a lot of wiggle room, as long as you’re focusing on the way your characters have lived until they got to this point.

Another bit to think about: my ability to really delve into character’s heads comes from the fact that I write Third Person Limited, which is third person but in specific perspectives as opposed Third Person Omniscient, which has the sort of free-floating narrator where you can be in everyone’s heads all at once, so it will definitely read differently.

For Naruto:

Naruto speaks more casually:

 He swears more, but not as much as Kiba

 He tends to slur some words together, saying things like kinda and gotcha and sorta where Sasuke wouldn’t

Where Sasuke might say something like “this was certainly…powerful” Naruto would say something like “this was real fucking strong!!!’

More exclamation marks, more straightforward, more sort of loud?? Types of thought and dialogue???

Naruto is grammatically incorrect! Spell check is often angry with me about this

Naruto will be the first to notice something is wrong with someone else and spend loads of time thinking and assessing it

Naruto will be the last person to acknowledge and assess something that is wrong with himself

His head is pretty straight forward, he’s less likely to use metaphors and flowery comparisons to describe things

E.g. Sasuke’s eyes were just—weird. Like the could see right through you, right into you—Naruto felt like some part of him needed to hide, because if he kept looking for a second longer Sasuke would know everything—

He looked away.

He tends to repeat himself and not really describe the way he feels, because he doesn’t really understand it. This also goes for positive emotions!! There is a lot of “huh I felt something. Anyway,” with Naruto dfsfs

Naruto expresses a lot of affection by doing stuff for people - this expands past Sasuke, but can come back to bite him. He’s eager to say yes to favours but this links back to him putting others before himself/wanting everyone to love him

For Sasuke:

Sasuke speaks more formally, but not as formal as Itachi

 Also mostly grammatically correct, uses mostly full punctuation in text messages (Itachi uses full punctuation, Naruto is probably all chatspeak but I write it as partial chatspeak to make it easier to read)

Sasuke’s head will run away with itself all the time

He’s quite poetic and romantic, he’ll speak in much more metaphors

E.g. “Naruto’s eyes were like the sky. Like breathing in the air after it rained—when it was cool and crisp and alive, when the world awoke again after it had all been grey. Something in Sasuke certainly felt…alive.”

Sasuke’s more of an asshole

 He’s sarcastic and sort of eyeroll-y at lots of stuff, including himself and his own thoughts. He tends to be more pessimistic and negative, too!

Exception: Naruto. Naruto is amazing and Sasuke secretly believes he can do literally anything. He will NEVER say it out loud unless Naruto forces him out of it (read: in moments where Naruto is being negative/down on himself/being out character in a way that Sasuke feels like he’s a bit scared and needs to shake him with something honest and true) but he will say it in his own head because he can’t control that. Take that, Sasuke

 He can be real judgy—e.g. in Enter Naruto where he calls Itachi’s coat pretentious.

He can be even more judgy about himself. He’s pretty hard on himself and will frequently put himself down in his thoughts, which he thinks about as factual statements

E.g. “nothing compared to his brother, of course, but Itachi was perfect and Sasuke was still...just himself.

 Now if only his father could realize that, too.”

E.g. “And Naruto looked at him as if it was true, but Sasuke knew it wasn’t. Sasuke had chosen this path, and he’d walked down it. Naruto seemed to think he could simply turn around, but Sasuke…knew better.”

He speaks less, which is helped by the fact that you can totally call him out if you’re writing his POV, or you can use Naruto to call him out because Naruto knows him like the back of his hand

His affection is more quiet?? More nonverbal, in general, than Naruto’s. Not that Naruto is like super good at expressing himself either but he will get closer than Sasuke will out loud

That said, Sasuke is really fun to write as not being able to control the way he seeks Naruto out, through small intimate actions like folding his clothes or wanting to spar or sitting just a little too close to Naruto on the couch. Sort of partially unconscious expressions of love - Sasuke is all over those. (He doesn’t have to be, but it’s really fun to write him that way; you all know how I love writing deeply-in-love Sasuke)

Their fatal flaws when it comes to writing Third Person Limited: both of these assholes are really unlikely to comment on specific details, so you’re gonna have to write from somebody else’s POV if you really want to hit home about how cute Sakura’s new outfit looks. You’re only gonna get to describe it if she’s like...asking Naruto about it in some way, or if Sasuke is being a judgy dick about it or something shfsdkhfd

BUT, they will notice those things about each other, especially if they are in love or are starting to fall, and it’s one of those quiet little ways you can play with to make their emotions evident.

I feel like I could actually keep going about all this but this is SO LONG and I might start repeating myself, so I’ll stop here. Thank you for the ask, anon, I hope it was helpful!!! It was fun to answer :)

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