i couldn’t think of a better way to communicate this so its this . my struggle

the ride never ends

As we sit on the cusp of changes to the Internet, after your other activities to support Internet freedom, archive your fandom stuff.

Save the electronic files of your favorite online fandom works. Consider print-outs of your favorite online material. And save paper ephemera from fandom events.

Why save? Because you put the effort into a fanwork. Because you may be surprised when a fandom stays alive for years, or gets revived, or when an academic asks to cite your work. Because it’s stupidly hard to find items on Tumblr. Because, lo, in ages past, many fandom archives have risen and fallen, taking favorite fics off the ‘Net. Because it made you happy, makes you remember. Because you never know.

What can you save?

• Fanart
  
• Stories you wrote
• Epic comments on stories you wrote
• Stories you love that other people wrote
• Meta and meta-related discussions
• Translations others did of your works
  
• Physical items: paper ephemera, clothing, accessories, art prints and drawings.

Behind the cut…saving from Tumblr and AO3, delving into lost web sites, how to save computer files for the long term, and why I’m glad I saved physical fandom items from 10+ years ago.

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I made this post a year and a half ago. Please read the many comments in the reblogs from archivists and long-term fans!

Signal boost.

Sometimes in 2025 you see something that makes you want to get on your knees and plead, in earnest, "don't feed the trolls"

I've been feeling that way ever since 1993 when I got on usenet

it never gets better

Any tips on how to tell if someone is trolling vs being a genuine dick from the bottom of their heart? It's hard enough for me to tell in person, but online is even harder.

You can't always tell, because most trolls ARE genuine dicks, even if the thing they're saying in the moment isn't their true opinion.

But here's the thing. In neither case will having an argument with them improve your life or change their mind.

I don't waste my time arguing with people who don't believe that science is real, for example. If actual scientists can't convince them, neither can I.

Yeah, that makes sense. I try to just block people nowadays, but ten years ago my brain had me convinced that if I don't change their minds it would be my fault if their ideologies lead to them tangibly harming people, and that by not arguing that meant I was agreeing with them. It was real bad and I'm glad my brain doesn't do that specific thing as much anymore.

There wouldn't be a "wrong on the internet" meme if people didn't feel that way. Especially when you first get online and you realise how much more misinformation and spite and grossness there is than you ever knew before!

It's just something you have to get over, because there will always be people on the internet who are very, very wrong and terrible. And sometimes I do get into arguments when someone's horrible take genuinely makes me mad. Like that thing about government "incentives" for people who have late chronotypes to "voluntarily" move where they will actually be allowed to work good hours. Everyone does snap sometimes.

But the important thing is to realise that no, you are NOT actually obliged to argue with people's bad takes.

Trolling and internet callouts of the type "so and so was at the devil's sacrament" are literally a way to get you to waste your time, so walking away from the troll and being happy and doing whatever you want to do is the way to win against them. <3

most difficult problem of writing fanfiction is when you need a character to express the particular surprised/dismayed/disappointed sentiment of going "jesus christ" but this isn't a lore friendly thing to say and there's nothing lore friendly that conveys quite the same emotion

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It was a Tuesday in 1981 when the San Francisco police kicked in the door.

Inside the small apartment, they expected to find a hardened criminal. They expected a drug kingpin. They expected resistance.

Instead, they found a 57-year-old waitress in an apron.

The air in the apartment smelled sweet, thick with chocolate and something earthier. On the kitchen counter, cooling on wire racks, were 54 dozen brownies.

The police officers began bagging the evidence. They confiscated nearly 18 pounds of marijuana. They handcuffed the woman, whose name was Mary Jane Rathbun.

She didn't look scared. She didn't look guilty.

She looked at the officers, smoothed her apron, and reportedly said, "I thought you guys were coming."

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Hello dear friends I have made a ✨plot template✨ which can be copied directly from here to any other Notion page or simply gazed upon below. I've been finding it extremely useful as a person who usually refuses to plot because it takes the magic of discovery out of writing—I think it hits the balance of loose enough to allow a lot of that discovery feeling while providing enough structure so that you don't stop dead for a week trying to figure out what happens next. Perhaps it will also be useful to you?

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Good Mythical Bingo!!

To celebrate Season 29’s upcoming release, I designed a bingo card template for any mythical beasts who want to play bingo with the new season!

Below is the template and my own premade card. Feel free to use either of them!

a lot of artists dont know how to draw bullets and to be real it bothers me a lot. here's my simple guide on bullets

Special shoutout to the DavidPro Phantom Blood opening where the bullets are fully brass, flush with the casing, no rim, perfectly undisturbed primer, and fired whole out of some webleys.

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