From the Shinra Photo Book Project – a set of magazine spreads shot during the Before Crisis/Crisis Core era to impress the public and recruit future candidates to each department.
I’m slowly reviving this project – hoping to have something physical by mid next year. Do check the tag up there for previous updates.
Whilst attempting to look up something else entirely, I discovered this old LJ community that came about in the wake of the 2007 Strikethrough that many pro-ship journals have referenced in the past.
There’s just so much to cover here, and I post this so as people can see from the eye of those who lived through it the absolute foolishness we put up with and why we are so defensive against anything near this kind of purity crusade ever again.
And this here is a post, which covers the FanLib fiasco, but most interestingly in comments is the earliest ruminations over the creation of AO3 (in fact, one comment specifically states “I’m gonna go see if that archive still needs some help”) because no one believed the Six Apart staffer who said “oh no, we aren’t coming for you guys, I promise!”
A timeline of events/an open letter to Warriors of Innocence, which includes the following line that I’ll lift here for antis who won’t read the link before inevitably shitting over this post: “Let me make something clear, I don’t like child predation or pedophilia or child abuse or incest any better than most human beings. Hell, I won’t touch any story that doesn’t treat these themes seriously with a 10-foot pole, and the more “titillating” those stories are, the more likely I’m going to complain about them. Loudly. And in public. However, I can tell the difference between “real life” and fiction. The fiction tells you nothing at all about the person writing it. Just because they like writing about a subject you find distasteful, it doesn’t mean that they actually condone said actions in a real-life situation.”
If there are more links I’ve missed from this time, feel free to add in a future reblogs.
I cannot stress to young fandom how far reaching this was. You are lucky that AO3 and hell, even Tumblr exists the way it does.
I’ve tagged multiple people so as to get this out to the most possible folks and people can read this stuff for themselves. This wasn’t bullshit that pro-shippers have pulled out of our arses for the fun of it.
literally how is “jk rowling announced voldemorts pet snake is actually a korean woman” not a clickhole article like how on earth does she keep actually doing this
Nagini is not a Korean name that I know so I expunge this foolishness every time I see it.
Which on the one hand is great because the knowledge doesn’t really stick but then I’m annoyed/confused for the first time every time all over again.
Ardwynna's Place 