Aspiring writer, avid traveler and perpetual dreamer.
Plot bunny enabler. Suffers from an overactive muse and starts to write too many novels and fanfictions without finishing the previous ones.
Okay folks. I don’t want to be making this announcement, but since I just found out that someone was putting my fic(s) on youtube without my permission, here we are.
I do not give anyone permission to put my fics, in any format, on youtube or any other platform than AO3.
I do not give anyone permission to repost my fics anywhere, add them to anthologies, or post them on any other website.
So if you see my work anywhere other than AO3, with or without credit, please let me know as soon as possible so I can report it and get it taken down, especially if the person in question is making money off of my work.
However!
I have stated repeatedly in the past that podfics, translations and fanart are fine, but I prefer to be asked first in the case of podfics and translation - mostly so I can tell you if someone else is maybe already working on that particular fic’s podfic/translation in a particular language. I also require you to put a link back to the originals with the “inspired by” tab on AO3 and to state clearly that you’re podficcing/translating my work. And please tag me in your fanarts, because I will absolutely flail at them!
In regards to the pirate code/lore, because I’ve been asked multiple times in comments/on tumblr/on discord:
While I’m super happy that you’re enjoying my worldbuilding, please note that the pirate code, its tenets and the oaths and associated traditions, as depicted in my fics, are my original creations and not something I’ve agreed to let others use in their stories as is, since I’m also using them in original writing projects that I’m working on.
I don’t mind if any of you want to use some elements of my works as inspiration for your writing, like the idea of a pirate code or pirate culture and traditions, but please do not use the specifics as described and worded in my fics. Create your own instead, or research historical pirate traditions for more inspiration!
When it comes to the main Watashitachi wa Roger kaizoku desu (we still stand proud) series/verse and cast (AKA anything to do with Shanks and Buggy, or original events or characters mentioned in my fics that aren’t in canon) I’m currently not giving anyone permission to write in the verse because I have plans for them, I just haven’t gotten around to writing them/posting them.
Outtakes focusing on other characters reactions to the mess that is Marineford, or “characters reading the fic” fics are more than fine (and I’m super flattered and honored!), again as long as you ask me first, link back to me and let me know where to read it, but expanding on things like Depa or Buggy’s capture by Shiki are things i’m planning on doing in the future so please leave those to me
The same goes for my OC’s, though I might give permission in specific circumstances, but once again: ask me first.
I know the saying goes ‘better to ask for forgiveness than for permission’. Not in this case. Ask the youtuber mentioned earlier how I responded to that.
Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.
That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.
That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.
That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.
That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.
That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.
That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it’d succeed.
None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.
I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I’ve seen, but I feel like a lot of people don’t really get how much labor goes into curation, too.
If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren’t necessarily the direct action of creation, they’re doing a lot of fandom labor, and it’s often largely unrecognized.
Celebrate fan work!
To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.
My brother randomly told me something that really made me think.
About what “Protect the youth” has become. Idk what it was like in other countries and I know that it very likely could have been stricter than it was in my country back then. But generally:
He was like “When I was 16, there were two kinds of adult content: Horror movies and explicitly depicted sexual content. The first made me have nightmares, the latter generally wasn’t of much interest to me because it wasn’t something I, as a 16 year old, could relate to. And other sexual content that was helpful and interesting WAS freely accessible. So whenever I saw an "18+” label somewhere, I just completely ignored that content because I knew it wouldn’t be interesting at all to me.
But NOW, what’s declared 18+ is even an excessive amount of swear words in streams! NOW, when I see an “18+” label, I don’t know if it’s horror movies that’ll give some 16 year olds nightmares, if it’s completely unrelatable porn, OR if it’s educational sex ed, a 20 year old talking about their really healthy relationship with their partner (that includes intimacy), education about consent in BDSM (which affects 16 year olds as well, there’s no age limit to curiosity), a live stream of wholesome musicians who happen to drink a couple of beers during kind of therapeutic talks, or simply people who aren’t puritans and say “fuck” a lot! An 18+ label isn’t worth anything anymore!“
And yeah… That’s just it.
People who talk about body changes during their (first!) puberty are even labelled adult content. Even though puberty very much happens BEFORE adulthood. It’s helpful content for minors. And it’s labelled "adult” to “protect the youth”.
Nothing means anything anymore.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and trying to articulate something about it that I haven’t been able to articulate, which is that there’s a certain cultural domineering-type homogenizing that’s going on, and I just crystallised what it is.
It’s the american bible belt imposing its culture on everyone, everywhere. Offline locations that would never have been influenced by the US Bible Belt are now having to interact with that culture in order to use the internet at all, and it’s causing a mass international degradation of culture, and this “everything not suitable for Sunday School is 18+ and also banned” is part of it.
There’s this post I read once upon a time, and it was written by someone who spent their childhood mistreated and bullied and rejected by their classmates.
The post concerned a memory they had of watching the movie Dumbo during class. The old Disney animated movie about a flying elephant who, among other things, suffered bullying and ostracism.
The poster talked about how they, of course, identified strongly with Dumbo. But they were utterly BAFFLED by how their classmates, their bullies, ALSO identified with Dumbo, and vocally supported him against his oppressors.
The poster wonders, “couldn’t they see that I was Dumbo? that they were treating me the same way Dumbo was treated?”
All too often, they don’t.
Even a bully can reliably recognize injustice when it’s done against someone they value, or by someone they disvalue, and rally to their chosen cause, and not notice, or not care, or outright violently reject, that they’re doing the same thing to people who they don’t care about as much as their chosen charges.
Dumbo has more charisma than that weird kid in your class, apparently. (Also, the narratives and other cues in movies tend to be pretty good at nudging you to embrace this character, this viewpoint, and reject that one, but that’s another essay.)
But that’s what I think is going on here.
Not that Donald Trump has uncovered a shiny piece of moral character amidst the unwashed socks of his soul.
But that he’s latched onto a shiny feel-good stand-up-to-oppression moment that safely belongs to someone else and doesn’t affect him, and/or wants to watch a disfavored rival fail and be torn apart by his former subjects.
And he doesn’t get that he’s the same as the problem he’s railing against. He can’t. He is the good guy.
He isn’t remotely a moral paragon here. He’s just the class bully who’s developed sympathy for a movie elephant, and is going to turn around and go back to bullying Minnesota, the Federal Reserve, Colorado, the White House architecture, Venezuela, Greenland, Denmark, and New York City (among others) without the slightest bit of cognitive dissonance about it.
There’s a difference between a female character who exists in a story and has a romantic relationship with a male character versus a female character who exists in a story to have a romantic relationship with a male character
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it’s good for people to know about this website, which from a cursory search seems to be legitimate, but there are two things about the original screenshot which seem to be incorrect.
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