Tag: fandom

Hey, so, obviously you’ve made it through fandom purges and migrations before. How do you do it? I have blogs full of content that I don’t want to just have disappear, but it seems like there’s just mass panic right now and everyone’s going to scatter in the wind to different platforms. Was the livejournal–>tumblr transition like this? I don’t want to become one of those stories like “oh, they dissapeared in X purge and never showed back up on the new site”.

LJ to tumblr was more gradual in my fandom corner. LJ to IJ and DW, now those were a mad rush. I’ll warn you in advance, Anon, the moving process is going to sound laborious when I lay it out here, but as a matter of small actions over the course of years, it’s not as burdensome as it appears.

1. Trust no website. Terms of Service can change in a blink. Servers can fail. Hackers can strike. Site owners can decide ‘screw this’ and unplug the whole damn thing. Never think of any site as permanent. Five to seven years has been the lifespan of any non-fandom created site as a peak fandom hub in my experience, for exactly the kind of thing we saw at LJ, and are seeing at tumblr now. Until we own the servers, migration is fandom tradition.

2. Keep your own backups. So far as you are able, don’t delete your own files, get some external storage, keep your Dropbox active, check on your externals a couple times a year for file integrity and to add to the stash. Download reviews and discussions you like. Copy paste into docs and stash them on flashdrives for old times sake. It’s not foolproof, technology can fail, but don’t rely on the platform to keep all your copies for you.

3. Multiplatform. Even if you only tweet once a month, or visit your dreamwidth for Christmas, keep a presence at secondary and tertiary hubs. Makes it more likely other people who have scattered will run into you, and that you will run into them. Multiple platforms can also serve as backups for your content.

4. The split model of posting. Tumblr had images, writing, meta, memes and crack all in one bundle. Pillowfort might too. But until that’s fully viable, consider going back to the old-fashioned method of putting art on an art site, fics on a fic site, discussion on a discord or journal. Might feel like you’re spreading yourself thin if you’re used to tumblr’s one stop shop approach, but the immediate goal here is to save our content and find each other again. Cast the net as wide as you’re comfortable with handling. Either a fitting option will eventually turn up for fandom to gravitate towards, or you’ll find yourself comfortable in one or more of your new fandom neighborhoods.

5. Export and import features. Some sites offer them and it’s good to take advantage even before the writing goes on the wall. For backup purposes if nothing else.

6. Revisit the old haunts on occasion, if you haven’t been kicked right out. Post your ‘forwarding address’ to remind anybody still straggling around where you mainly are now, if they want to find you. (For this reason I do not recommend deleting your profile on your own. You don’t want name squatters moving in either.)

I hope this helps some. Even ‘half-packed’ as I was, I have backing up of my own to do and can only hope we’ll all be able to stay in touch with the coming distance. Good luck, everyone.

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Dog breeds are all just…. fan content that humans made of God’s ‘The Wolf’

Chihuahuas are just…. Wolf Chibis

Border Collies are Farm AU

Huskies respect canon a lot but like… goofier

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Borzoi:

Anime Proportion

Anime style

  • Curvy
  • Very Long Leggy
  • Alien Face
  • Very Skinny
  • Very Tol
  • Wild Hair
  • Tail Sometimes

God: “Is that supposed to be a wolf?”

Human, holding a dachshund: “It’s just my style.”

In 2037 God sues us for copyright

People are so willfully ignorant. Do they do this just to feel better about themselves

The thing is, aside from the very young ones, they’re not wilfully ignorant at all. Far from it, although they put up a good show. They’re deliberately misusing terms and mischaracterizing fandom to rally the uninformed mainstream crowd to their side. Trying to force us to bow to pressure from outsiders who have no clue what’s going on in-house. It happened at ff.net. It happened on lj. Fuck ‘em if they think I’m standing by while they try coming for AO3.

allsortsoflicorice:

razziecat:

cherrynat:

do you ever read a piece of fanfic that is just so fucking spectacular that makes you actually feel things? 

boy, i swear to god, i’m so goddamn grateful for every single one of you writers, yall literally giving us entertainment for free almost every goddamn week; and this is not only for those gracious magnificent bastards that are practically gods because they’ve perfected (and keep developing) their craft, this is also to that little (and equally amazing) writer that is just starting and might not be the best at it, you my friend keep writing because practice makes perfect, don’t stop writing if that’s what makes you happy. i just want all of yall to know that i appreciate you so goddamn much and yall the fucking best

to every fanfic writer out there: i love you, u crazy motherfucker

I really needed this today.

So much spectacular fanfiction, not enough time….

If anyone complains about olds in the FFVII fandom they’re automatically disqualified from using any of the resources/information or viewing the fan art/fic we’ve accumulated since before they were born.

ardwynna:

Exactly. Most people who came in with compilation and stuck around have been a delight, but any more of those who want to spit on our work, say we’re fandoming wrong and claim they understand the source material in the ‘one true way’ can take a hike.

While I’m on the train of thought of Douchebags in Fandom Who
Brought Nothing Good to My Experience of It,
let me run by a few notable specimens over my time here, from the early 2000s to just a couple years ago.

1.      
The one who showed up on ff.net to offer harsh
critique unasked for, never had anything good to say, and had a profile that
said, “I’ll just be here doing critiques until I get my own story up.” They
stuck around a few years leaving snarky commentary, never published a damn
thing, at least under that pseud, and eventually dried up and disappeared from the fandom.

2.      
The one who screamed at everyone that we weren’t
seeing what she was, that she understood Yuffie and Vincent better than anyone
else, literally said that she had no respect for anyone who didn’t do things her way, that our
reviews weren’t good enough for her fics, that she understood the nature of
maturity and we didn’t. Then she called the mod a Fucking Mog Licker about 500
times in a row.

3.      
Ye old raging homophobe. (Also hated any fic that deviated from canon, and then when he started writing it himself, had the nerve to claim he was the only one doing it right).

4.      
The one who summarized his fic along the lines
of “Far outstrips every other fic I’ve read at this site, no American writer
can produce anything close to mine,” and had a very bland and plodding story
that I can’t remember the name of and have never even once seen mentioned
again.

5.      
The one with the Big Boob obsession who thought
reviews were actual payment for fics and threw tantrums when we didn’t deliver all
the Cloti he wanted even if it wasn’t a Cloti fic because  “I’m the one leaving reviews here!”

6.      
The one who claimed to have publishing creds,
thought fandom was supposed to kiss his ass for it, and ‘graded’ fics in an
attempt to establish himself as an authority over the rest of us. Thought we were all shit to begin with.

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If there’s a moral to this reminiscing, it might be: Don’t
come in here thinking you’re God’s gift to fandom and don’t treat your potential audience like shit.
The arrogance will outlive anything else you do, and probably even your name.

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trisscar368:

Rule one of fandom: there are some things that only exist for us.

Don’t send actors fics

Don’t give them explicit art ever

Don’t tag them in rpf questions or theories

Don’t try to bring them into fandom drama of any kind

Don’t hold them responsible for what the producers and writers decide

They’re still people.  They have private lives, which do not include fandom.

I can’t believe in 2018 we still need to reiterate this

I have dealt with this already in the past two years NOT AGAIN.

PLEASE

We’re going to have to keep doing this because there are always people new to fandom, there’s less public shame about fanfic these days and tumblr isn’t great for picking up social mores through observation like lj and forums allowed, but yeah, it’s like parenting you didn’t sign up for, that never, ever ends.

Do you ever think you’ll stop drawing fanart? No offense it just seems like the kind of thing you’re supposed to grow out of. I’m just curious what your plans/goals are since it isn’t exactly an art form that people take seriously.

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talesfromthemek:

linzeestyle:

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Ah, fanart. Also known as the art that girls make.

Sad, immature girls no one takes seriously. Girls who are taught that it’s shameful to be excited or passionate about anything, that it’s pathetic to gush about what attracts them, that it’s wrong to be a geek, that they should feel embarrassed about having a crush, that they’re not allowed to gaze or stare or wish or desire. Girls who need to grow out of it.

That’s the art you mean, right?

Because in my experience, when grown men make it, nobody calls it fanart. They just call it art. And everyone takes it very seriously.

It’s interesting though — the culture of shame surrounding adult women and fandom. Even within fandom it’s heavily internalized: unsurprisingly, mind, given that fandom is largely comprised by young girls and, unfortunately, our culture runs on ensuring young girls internalize *all* messages no matter how toxic. But here’s another way of thinking about it.

Sports is a fandom. It requires zealous attention to “seasons,” knowledge of details considered obscure to those not involved in that fandom, unbelievable amounts of merchandise, and even “fanfic” in the form of fantasy teams. But this is a masculine-coded fandom. And as such, it’s encouraged – built into our economy! Have you *seen* Dish network’s “ultimate fan” advertisements, which literally base selling of a product around the normalization of all consuming (male) obsession? Or the very existence of sports bars, built around the link between fans and community enjoyment and analysis. Sport fandom is so ingrained in our culture that major events are treated like holidays (my gym closes for the Super Bowl) — and can you imagine being laughed at for admitting you didn’t know the difference between Supernatural and The X Files the way you might if you admit you don’t know the rules of football vs baseball, or basketball?

“Fandom” is not childish but we live in a culture that commodified women’s time in such away that their hobbies have to be “frivolous,” because “mature” women’s interests are supposed to be marriage, family, and overall care taking: things that allow others to continue their own special interests, while leaving women without a space of their own.

So think about what you’re actually saying when you call someone “too old” for fandom. Because you’re suggesting they are “too old” for a consuming hobby, and I challenge you to answer — what do you think they should be doing instead?

#I love the fact I’m ‘weird’ for writing fic but some guy painting a team logo on his beer belly is normal

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This is massively important.