Reblogged jellyfitzjelly
Reblog if you’re over 20 and still read/write fan fiction.
I’m curious!
Reblogged superbattrash
i do not have the strength to block all the bots. welcome ladies make yourselves at home i guess. im a feminist
Reblogged superbattrash
Trinity at it's finest
Reblogged superbatdisasterblog
huh, it looks like tumblr had this as the default settings for me. if you don't want these to be yours, you might have to go to settings and change this!
Adding that this is not, as I expected, on the Dashboard tab, but on the Account page
Took me bloody ages to find this and change it.
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Anonymous asked:
Hi, I'm sorry to bother but do you know about this?
https://mobile.twitter.com/hitthebookspost/status/1557621677508513792
If you don't, I hope you can read this, and maybe you can repost about this...
Again I'm sorry to bother but this woman is like Umbridge in Harry Potter. Really. It's terrified.
Yes, I've seen that. I've been pondering how to talk about this, as I've seen other authors/blogs bring it up.
It's no secret that I love and use ao3. I've been on fanfiction.net, LiveJournal, Dreamwidth, etc etc in my time. I've seen fanfiction purges and policing, and it's almost always to users' detriment.
There are many topics and stories I don't personally agree with. I know the adage "don't like don't read" is a bit overused, but I stand by it. Personally, I hate reading stories about underage sex/abuse. It grosses me out. I stay away from stories about graphic sexual assault and rape; it triggers me.
But that doesn't mean I want those stories wiped off the internet. And who am I to really draw that moral line, anyway? If, say, I purge ao3 of pedophilia and any underage sex, will non-con and dub-con be on the chopping block next? Who decides that?
Proponents of "curation" on fanfiction sites make a similar, parallel "slippery slope" argument. They claim that easy and visible access to topics like child abuse or incest will lead to inappropriate behavior or beliefs in real life. It will legitimize these topics, and encourage such actions.
I don't think I need to tell most people that reading about something doesn't mean you like it, endorse it, or want to perform it in real life. Nobody ever asks men who read American Psycho if they maybe shouldn't have, in case they start killing women left and right. Just because I read a story where siblings sleep together (hello, Game of Thrones?) doesn't mean I want that to happen in real life!
The candidate referred to in the tweet seems to be not so subtly endorsing fandom censorship. You can read her interview at the link above, and it's chilling. She seems indifferent to the nuances of these discussions, ones we've been having for years on tumblr and in reaction to fandom purges.
Fanfiction is censored, corralled and contained when it looks bad for owners, companies, and sites. When advertising interests hesitate to put their ads next to graphic smut, capitalism reacts accordingly. IOS hides things on tumblr mobile because it's about money.
And that's exactly what ao3 was created to avoid. It is user-owned and operated. It is literally -- literally -- an archive of our own.
I support the hell out of ao3, and I always reblog posts encouraging others to do so if possible. We finally have a goddamned "safe space" for any kind of fiction under the sun -- any -- and we're risking it over a candidate who appeals to misinformed, underinformed moralism.
I can't blame new fandom members for getting caught up in it. Especially teenagers. They're still figuring out where they personally draw the line. Of course they're clumsy, and apply that filter to everyone around them. It's human nature.
I encourage every reader and non-reader alike to consider where their opposition to certain topics and stories stems from. Is it personal? Moral? If this story was a book at a library, would you ask the librarian to toss it in the shredder? Or would you simply put it down and walk away?
In the United States, even atheists and non-Christians are still unconsciously performing Christian, moralistic values. We do things for the sake of the "children" that make very little, logical impact on perceived ills. We are all (even me, and I'm Jewish) subject to this line of thinking, even if we reject it.
My opinion at the end of the day is that well-tagged, well-described, age-gated content should be allowed to exist on ao3 with very few, if any, limitations. If you don't like the tags -- great! The system worked! Read something else.
"Don't like, don't read" needs an update. In my mind, I've been calling it "bag it, tag it, don't wag it" which I know is silly, but it covers all the bases. Put your content in the correct category (explicit, etc) tag it correctly (sexual assault, etc) and don't shame others for what they choose to consume.
Anyway. If you're a member of ao3 (donated 10$ or more in the last year) you're eligible to vote in the board elections. I highly encourage you to do so. You can learn more about the discourse at the link above, or at ao3's elections page.
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Even though Batgirl is in the final stages of post-production, Deadline has confirmed that Warner Bros. and DC Films will not be releasing the movie on any platform, including theatrically.
This falls in line with the mandate put down by the new WB regime to cut back on the feature films premiering on the streamer and deciding which films will be released theatrically and which will be shelved, and sources close to the project say word came down this week that Batgirl did not make the cut.
Warner Bros. had no comment.
The film stars Leslie Grace in the titular role, Brendan Fraser and Michael Keaton reprising his Bruce Wayne part and was expected to bow sometime in 2023. As for the exact reason behind the shelving, sources say the film did not fall in line with the new strategy being implemented by DC Films as well as HBO Max. The studio is looking to make theatrical tentpoles with budgets at $90 million-plus, and from early footage seen this did not fall into place with that model. (Batgirl was greenlighted at $70 million budget.)
See. It's moves like this that make me side-eye Zaslav as a CEO. Under his management, 90% of CW's shows with diverse, BIPOC, and queer characters have been axed.
Note that the Batgirl movie is done and it's in post-production right now when Zaslav shut it down.
He's also an infamous penny-pincher and he wants to basically keep all HBO originals on a $35 Million budget.
Network TV isn't made that low. Also, he's been clear about his disinterest in HBO Max. It's pretty much sure he wants to axe HBO Max by now.
(But also, it would have been more profitable if they released Batgirl on any platform. But no, he's just keeping it under lock and key. I wonder why.)
Zaslav doesn't care anything but for the bottom line and he sure isn't a friend to shows/movies that have a lot of diverse and queer rep.
If we thought the old Warner Bros execs were bad, they have nothing on Zaslav, who has never worked on scripted shows and movies before.
Warner Bros as we know it, is never going to survive whatever Zaslav's planning.
Reblogged batman-katflap
msodds99
I’m sorry for occupying superbat tag w witcher au (it will happen again) p2: it’s geralt + yennefer
Reblogged melony-lemony
I love how within the Justice League and other hero circles Bruce is like considered the cold and analytical one whereas in his own comics both his villains and allies are like “,,,bro u are so soft u will not last one second,, u cry over everything u are so weak and soft and emotional” like its so FUNNY its like they see two different people
Reblogged jellyfitzjelly
I've become obsessed with mer Bruce🧜♂️ having seen the recent posts on here. So when the below pic popped up on Facebook my mind instantly went to Bruce, which gave me serious feels........so I have to share it, just to spread my emotions to other people. Sorry.
ohoho i’m being plagued by thoughts™️. (if tumblr blocked the image for you it’s of a mermaid being dissected. it’s not graphic just boobs) i thought about this all night and while it’s not exactly like the pic its pretty similar.
mer!bruce being captured saving his pup that was entangled in a fishing net. he is the first live mer to be caught (people only know they exists cause they wash up on the beach every so often) and is sent to a lab/aquarium (idk) to be studied. marine biologist!clark works there and is part of the team studying him. clark is kryptonian and is the only person who can understand bruce, and he promises to free him and reunite him with his pups.
#I do not need new ideas#I really don't need new ideas!!!!!!!#I have WIPs to get back to#but my brain can't stop thinking what if......#what if.....mers where the only source of food left#Clark team saves them#cos they know if you ask nicely mers will get fish for you#Bruces pod and clarks team save they world#But no im not gonna write it
Reblogged broosepayne
Sometimes all you can do is try. Even if you succeed or not, trying is already a very brave thing to do. Don't be afraid to be proud of yourself for trying.
