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The Three Laws Of Fandom - A Final Word

…before I turn on Notification Block and get my notifications page back to something like normal (with over 3300 notes this week, I’m missing too much else I want to see).

When I wrote the Three Laws of Fandom earlier this year (the title came from Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, not from any notion that these are in any way enforceable) they were written as something of a guide to myself, taking concepts I’d learned and thought were good from people who’d been in fandom many years longer than myself. People who’d been around in the early days of fanzines and lawsuits from authors, people who’d had a hand in creating Ao3 as a safe space for creators.

I never expected them to spread as far and wide as they have (almost 47,000 notes to date, the VAST majority reblogs and likes of the original post, with only a few dozen dissenters). I never expected them to get their own Fanlore page.

I certainly never expected to be accused of being a racist, misogynist, transmisogynist, biphobic, lesbophobic, homophobic, Nazi, ableist, paedophilic, rapist-defending piece of shit.

Yes, those are all insults that have been thrown at me. I’m a bit surprised that Islamophobia and anti-Semitism wasn’t included in the list but considering the Americentrism of Tumblr, maybe I shouldn’t be.

All the people who threw those insults, who took issue with the Three Laws for ‘giving a free pass’ to discrimination of any kind, who shouted about the Three Laws being ‘designed to protect creators’ missed the point.

Yes, the Three Laws are designed to protect creators. Here’s why.

Without creators, you wouldn’t have fan content to consume.

And every fan creator I know… LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ONE… has at some point received nasty bullshit comments on their work. From “where’s the smut, I feel cheated!” to “I don’t like your writing style” (at the end of a 70,000 word fic the reader read all the way through) to much worse; doxxing; demands that the writer kill themselves; continuous anon harassment (23 messages an hour?) right up to and including actual death threats in real life.

Here’s the thing that I think too many people are forgetting. This was originally said in a post by @scottstilesliam (which has since been deleted, probably because they got sent hate for it) but I’m borrowing the sentiment because it’s so well put. 

No ship, or any aspect of a fictional universe, is important enough to treat another real life human being badly.

As a fandom creator, I have long since accepted that I cannot please everybody. As a fandom consumer, you need to accept that not all fandom creators can please you. Thinking that they should is the most incredibly self-entitled mindset. People don’t all like the same movies, TV shows, books; why should they all like the same fanworks? Why should all fanworks be catered to YOUR personal tastes?

I’m going to add here an extract from a wonderful post called If you are anti-darkfic, you are anti-survivor by @itsbuckybitch . 

“If you accept that censorship is wrong, then censorship has to be wrong no matter who it’s happening to. If you accept that bullying is wrong, then bullying has to be wrong even when you really, really don’t like the victim. If you accept that people are allowed to write whatever goddamn fanfic they want, you can’t tack on a clause that says “unless they’re writing this one thing that I, personally, believe should not be written in which case the angry mobs have my blessing to go to town”. What kind of position is that? How are you going to ask the entire rest of fandom to accept your specific personal boundaries as an objective moral yardstick?

So to the people reblogging this all “I agree with this except for when it’s something genuinely bad being written”, please reconsider. If you agree with me that purity campaigners are hurting vulnerable people and creating a toxic fandom environment, but you still support their tactics under X or Y condition, then you are as much a part of the problem as they are.”

(If you’d like to have any Discourse with me on the subject of when it’s OK to leave someone abusive comments on their fic or nasty messages in their anon (Hint: never) that post is Required Reading before I will even discuss the subject. As is this post and this post, oh, and the Ao3 Terms of Service while you’re at it.)

Other than this post, I’m done with responding to the Three Laws. I’ve said everything I need to say. Yes, I’m a white, het, ablebodied, non-American  cisfemale, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a point, and throwing slurs at me to try and discredit me is an ad hominem argument. I refuse to lie about any of those things in order to try and somehow increase my ‘cred’. Yes, I see things in fandom I find disgusting all the time, and yes, I talk about those things and why I find them problematic and unpleasant, but I don’t shove my arguments in creators’ faces, or encourage other people to go bully them. 

Fandom is an opt-in environment. We choose to be here. We choose what we consume. There are always going to be things in fandom, as in real life, that we find distasteful. 

But here’s the thing. That trope you love so much in fanfic? That’s someone else’s squick. Your OTP? Their NOTP. 

If every single fandom consumer gets to point to something and say “I don’t like that, it’s not allowed to exist!” the entirety of fandom would disappear in a puff of smoke.

This is why doing your best to follow the Three Laws is important. They are designed to protect EVERYONE’s favourite creators. Including yours.

I’m going to close with two statements that too many people seem to forget when they decide that they’re going to attack creators for ‘endorsing’ things they disapprove of.

Fantasy does not equal Reality

Depiction does not equal Endorsement

Think very hard about that before you accuse someone of being racist, misogynist, transmisogynist, biphobic, lesbophobic, homophobic, Nazi, ableist, paedophilic, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, rape-excusing or any other insult you can dream up.

After all, Agatha Christie fictionally murdered over 90 people, but I’ve never heard anyone claiming that she was a mass-murdering sociopath.

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Presented without comment.

EXCEPT to say- commonplacecaz.

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LATE POST

My entries for Jotakak Week 2020 (week 2). Sorry for posting this late as I just realized today that I have Tumblr hahaha. Don’t worry, I really post them by order on Twitter. I post this so that yall can see that I can do this kind of artstyle!

#jotakak fanart #jotakakweek2020 #jotaro x kakyoin #Jotaro Kujo #Jotaro #Kakyoin #Noriaki Kakyoin #jotakak #jojo fanart #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #jjba #digital fanart

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New Oneshot Fic!

Hello people! It’s been a while since I post here as I am putting my efforts in an original story right now. Right now, here’s the very short fic that I made for our boys when they were kids! I totally enjoy writing this while some ppl are sleeping.

TITLE: Ball-Catching

WORDS: 900+

RELATIONSHIPS: Kakyoin Noriaki/Kujo Jotaro

TAGS: Fluff and Angst; Childhood Memories

LINK

#jotakak #jotakak fanfic #jotaro x kakyoin #Jotaro Kujo #Noriaki Kakyoin #Kakyoin #JJBA #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #jojo fanfic

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CHAPTER 2 of Secrets in the Garden!!

It’s been a while since I last post in this Tumblr. After an entire month of focusing on my original story for an annual competition, I will present to you the second chapter of Jotakak Week Fic!

This is the continuation of the story with additional two chapters to post to spice up the tensions!

LINK

If you haven’t read the first one, go here!

#jotakak #Jotaro Kujo #Jotaro #jotaro x kakyoin #noriaki kakyoin #JJBA #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken #jojo fanfic

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When Jotaro isn’t home

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Get in the robot Nori 

I wanted to do some eva fanart, ended up drawing this （−＿−；）

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New Story has arrived!

This fanfiction is an entry for Jotakak Week 2020! 

Title: Secrets in the Garden

Rating: Teen and Up Audience

Tags: Victorian AU, Forbidden Love, Angst, Dancing, Confessions, Running Away

Summary: Noriaki was adopted by a middle-class family in Great Britain after he ran away from Japan as a stowaway at a young age. His sheer curiosity about the world led him to meet a young boy Jotaro who made his life go merry go round. Unfortunately, with future planned by the Joestar family, will their forbidden relationship keep in the gardens?

Link

#jotakak #jotakakweek2020 #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #jotaro x kakyoin #victorian au #jotaro kujo #noriaki kakyoin #kakyoin #jotaro

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tumblr artist aesthetic

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Final Chapter of Fly Me To The Moon Without Plastic Love!

Final chapter of Fly Me to the Moon Without Plastic Love just arrived, the last chapter that you all waited for as the fix-it story concludes!

Fanarts are made using ibispaintl with Adobe Photoshop for edits. 

Click here to see the final chapter!

#Jotaro Kujo #Noriaki Kakyoin #jotaro x kakyoin #jojo fanfic #JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken #jojo fanart #jotakak #jotakak fanfic #jotakak fanart

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Teen Kakyoin using an artstyle inspired by local digital artists.

#jojo fanart #noriaki kakyoin #kakyoin #jojo bizarre adventure #jjba

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A weird thing I thought about XD

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My Fic just hit 1k hits and why it’s a big deal for me (Long Blog)

Seeing my fanficiton reaching this number of hits, kudos, and nice comments makes me a happy person especially I always have an anxiety of posting my creative works since when I was in fifth grade (I’ll be in eleventh grade in August so count how many years I have that anxiety). 

You wonder why I post this and you think that I am boasting it? No! 

When I post my old original story in Wattpad years ago in my now deactivated account, I didn’t know much how to write. I just put bunch of dialogs and other stuff that I can’t even reach 1k words per chapter as long as the story flows. Although my classmates liked it, I received questionable words from my readers. Though I had a lengthy series in mind during that process, I discontinued writing because I doubted my skills. 

Then, I wrote a fanfiction for a certain anime fandom about a very popular ship in ao3. Its theme is ABO dynamics and I had a clear plan for it but I didn’t know that I added a sensitive content that I received some backlash because of that. Also back then, I joined Nanowrimo 2018 and I typed a follow-up story about it. Because of, yeah, backlash, I deleted it (below is my blogpost about it). 

Afterwards, I made a post hiring beta readers so that my story would be free of very sensitive issues , but I catered none. Because of this, I quitted the world of fanfic writing.

Then, one year and three months past, I stumbled at ao3 again after I began to ship Jotakak because I was very desperate for Kakyoin Lives fanfics. I felt the beauty of each fanfictions that I read in Jotakak tag that I wanted to make one. It happened that I missed going to school due to quarantine that I listened to Les Miserable songs that I Dreamed a Dream made me think of Jotaro, so I quickly opened my laptop and typed while listening to the instrumental of that song and cried during the writing process. Before I published the fic, my hands were shaking in the middle of the night while adding the horizontal dash in each scene breaks, put notes before and after the story, and adding tags. I added warnings in both tags and texts as a lesson from an unintentional mistake that I made in the past.

I looked at my inboxes every night during my writing sessions about the status of my fic, and it unexpectedly turned out to be well. The comments are uplifting, number of kudos rising up. Because of this, it built up the confidence that I lost years ago and I want to thank you all for that!

Because of this fic getting the attention, I got a lot of fanfiction plans in my Evernote and an original story in preparation to write starting this Monday until mid-July. I also set a main goal to myself of why I make stories: to type out imaginations for the sake of people’s emtertainment and awareness.

That’s all for this lengthy blog post. More stories will come soon and I hope you all stay safe in your homes!

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KONO DIO DA

Dio Brando - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventures Fanart (with ZA WARUDO)

Buy this art on: https://www.redbubble.com/people/lucasbrenner

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unfortunately I didnt have time for making a comics, so here is a single doodle!

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Abbacchio talking to Giorno and then looking at Bruno