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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Deadloch (TV 2023) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Abby Matsuda/Kate (Deadloch TV 2023) Characters: Abby Matsuda, Kate (Deadloch TV 2023), Sven Alderman, Dulcie Collins, Eddie Redcliffe, Cath York (Deadloch TV 2023), Aleyna Rahme, Skye O'Dwyer, Vanessa Latham, James King, Phil McGangus, Daniela Kehlmann Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Case Fic, Graffiti, Stakeout, Trapped In A Closet, Abby taking charge, supportive kate, Shyness, Kissing, Co-workers, Mutual love of forensics, Bringing each other pastry, Mild Language Summary:

With both ma’ams away in Darwin, Abby’s left on her own to solve a serial graffiti case before it starts to affect Deadloch’s booming new murder-tourism industry. There’s lots of pressure coming from the mayor, and the general populace is as helpful as ever. Meanwhile, all Abby really wants to do is kiss a girl—namely Kate.

*** Kate smiled when she caught sight of the bakery bag. It was Abby’s favorite kind of Kate-smile, the one where Kate’s whole face lit up and her eyes turned an even warmer shade of brown. Abby’s heart started to race again because that’s just what her heart did when Kate smiled at her. Stupid heart.

“Mm,” Kate moaned happily as she pulled the tart from the bag. “You’re too good to me.” The way she said it—Abby’s breath caught in her throat as if her lungs had forgotten how to work. All her vital organs were stupid around Kate.

#deadloch #deadloch fic #abby matsuda #deadloch fanfic #deadloch fanfiction #yuletide fic #abby matsuda/kate #pg13 #f/f fanfic #f/f romance

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Johnlock fic: Just marking time, waiting for you to come along

Just marking time, waiting for you to come along (2644 words) by Lenore Chapters: 1/7 Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Silent Witness (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Mrs. Hudson (Sherlock Holmes), Sarah Sawyer, Jim Moriarty, Greg Lestrade, Sally Donovan, Philip Anderson (Sherlock), Anthea (Sherlock), Nikki Alexander, Clarissa Mullery, Original Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Case Fic, First Meetings, Action & Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Bisexual John Watson, Forensic Pathologist John Watson, Divorced John Watson, Sherlock Struggling With Sentiment, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Canon-Typical Violence, Murder, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, Implied/Referenced Misogyny, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, implied/referenced nonconsensual drug use, Implied/Referenced Brainwashing Summary: What if Sherlock met John years after his return from Afghanistan? An AU in which John is a forensic pathologist, Sherlock is Sherlock, and there’s a devious series of murders to solve. Sherlock set off down the riverbank, focused on Dr. Watson the entire way. There was something sturdy, confident about him, each move carefully considered and precise. His expression was serious, intently focused, utterly absorbed in his work, as different from Anderson as was possible to imagine. The doctor’s colleague said something that drew a smile from him, and his eyes crinkled at the corners. That was—appealing. Oh, John Watson was going to be trouble in a wholly unanticipated way.

The story is complete, and new chapters will be posted weekly.

#bbc sherlock #sherlock fic #sherlock fanfic #johnlock #sherlock fandom #sherlock bbc #ao3 fanfic

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End OTW Racism: A Call To Action

A fan protest against the lack of action from the OTW on addressing issues of harassment and racism on AO3 and within the organization

This is a Call To Action for Fans of Color and Allies

AO3 has acknowledged that they have a harassment & racism problem that its parent organization, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), needs to address. Currently, people can use AO3 to harass others through fanworks, comments, and tags. Just a few examples include: racist Untamed “spitefic” that used anti-Indigenous slurs and was written specifically to lash out at fans of color; a Transformer fic that used its Black-coded character to reenact George Floyd’s murder in July 2020; someone naming a fandom scholar who criticized their Nazi omegaverse fic in the tags of the fic specifically to incite harassment to the scholar; writers using racial slurs against commenters who pointed out racism in their hockey fic; and so much more.

In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, the OTW committed to addressing these issues. It has been nearly three years and they have not yet implemented any of the changes they promised, other than a blocking/muting tool that was already in development before 2020. We need to hold the OTW accountable to their own promises. (See the section further down on “Why Are We Doing This” for even more detail.)

As fans, together, we are powerful. We are organizing to protest the lack of action on promises made by the Organization for Transformative works to deal with issues of racism and harassment on their platform, Archive of Our Own.

We call on fans to do any or all of the following actions any time between May 17 to 31, 2023 to send a message to AO3 and OTW that we will hold them to their promises.

On AO3

Change the title of ten (or more!) of your most recent or most popular fanworks to include ‘End Racism in the OTW’ in the beginning, and provide a link to this post in your summary or first/top creator’s note

Post a new fanwork any time between May 17th to 31st with “End Racism in the OTW” either as the title or at the beginning of the title. The fanwork does not have to be long - it can be a 100-word fic, a quick sketch, a podfic of a ficlet, a 20-second vid/edit, a short piece of meta, etc. In the summary or first/top creator’s note, provide a link to this post

If updating any WIPs with a new chapter, add ‘End Racism in the OTW’ to the title and provide a link back to this post in your summary or first/top author’s note

Update your AO3 icon using the profile pic graphic in our Social Media Toolkit

Plan to maintain these changes until May 31, 2023, or longer if you wish

Send a message to the OTW asking for an update on their 2020 commitments!

For Readers: leave encouraging comments on fanworks with the "End Racism in the OTW" title to show your support of this initiative.

On tumblr

Reblog this Call to Action with the tag #End OTW Racism

Update your profile pics and banners using the graphics in our Social Media Toolkit

Follow this account for updates and signal boost our posts

On Twitter

Follow @/EndOTWRacism (remove the backslash) and signal boost our pinned tweet

Update your profile pics and banners using our graphics, and change your display name to include #EndOTWRacism

Use sample tweets and graphics from our Social Media Toolkit to tweet about your fanworks, and use the hashtag #EndOTWRacism

Help us make this a long-term campaign - sign up to help with other anti-racism projects and future actions!

What Do We Want?

Since their June 2020 statement, OTW has been working on updating their Terms of Service (TOS) to address racist and bigoted harassment, but with little transparency and only the vaguest of updates. It has been three years since their commitment to this update - we want to see the results of their work implemented in the next 6-12 months. Their TOS updates and complementary policies should include:

Harassment policies that can be regularly updated to address both on-site harassment and off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users, with updated protocols for the Policy & Abuse Team to ensure consistent and informed resolutions of abuse claims

A content policy on abusive (extremely racist and extremely bigoted) content; by abusive, we are talking about fanworks that are intentionally used to spread hate and harassment, not those that accidentally invoke racist or other bigoted stereotypes

These points are not particularly new and are not our own innovation; please refer to Stitch's article written over two years ago, asking for several of these very things.

OTW has also already committed to various process-based actions for longer-term works towards centering antiracism, including hiring a Diversity Consultant. The last update that OTW published said that the consultant would be hired within the next five years (after already having had three years to work on it since their original commitment). That is not soon enough. We want to see the following process-based actions implemented:

Hiring a Diversity Consultant within the next 3-6 months

Committing to a policy of transparency on this topic, with quarterly updates on the progress of these projects including challenges and their plan for overcoming those challenges. These quarterly updates should be published on OTW News page and newsletters, not solely discussed in Board meetings

Why Are We Doing This?

16 years ago, Astolat famously published her manifesto calling for a fandom Archive of One’s Own. In that time, AO3 has grown to be a central pillar of fandom, likely far outstripping its founders’ original vision. It is more than just an archive now; it is a central hub of the modern fannish experience. AO3 and the OTW must continue to grow and evolve with fandom over time to remain a healthy and functioning pillar of fandom. To that end, there are several areas in which the organization, as it admits itself, is lacking.

In June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the uprising of the Black Lives Matter Movement, The OTW published a “This Week in Fandom” referencing the works of Dr. Rukmini Pande and Stitch, among others in which they discussed ‘making change for a better society’ through ‘conversations about race and racism’. In response, Dr. Pande and Stitch submitted a letter to the OTW calling for a more formal public statement than an offhand reference in a News Roundup that only served to call for thoughts and discussion without any indication the organization intended to do anything, policy wise, to address the issues being raised.

Eventually, the organization did remove the references to the works of Dr. Pande and Stitch and then made an official statement on the issue of racism within the organization and AO3. In it, they identified several things they would be prioritizing to combat harassment and benefit users. Some of those have been implemented (notably those that were already under development). However as of this writing, little else has been done especially in regards to:

Improving admin tools for the Policy & Abuse team

Reassessing the current mandatory archive warnings with the possibility of implementing others

And, most importantly, reviewing the Terms of Service (TOS) to allow the Policy & Abuse team to address harassment that is currently not covered by the existing TOS

By their own admission, the current tools and policies of the OTW are not sufficient to deal with issues of harassment and racism.

Several people who were involved in the founding of the OTW, including previous OTW Board members and staff on the original OTW Content Policy Committee, acknowledge that the founding of the OTW in 2008 and early board iterations failed us as a fandom by not doing enough, and by not even considering the way racism is perpetuated in fannish spaces, despite a long history of racism in fandom.

It has been nearly three years since the original commitment by the organization with little visible, measurable progress on these three crucial issues and a complete lack of transparency on where they are in regards to even beginning to deal with these issues. In fact, in Q&As, it was heavily implied by a member of the board that those calling for OTW to deal with issues of racism (which OTW had already acknowledged as a problem!) were not really fans but outside agitators.

This has cast significant doubt on the organization's sincerity and commitment to their stated goals, and on their position as leaders of a central fan tent-pole. Fans of color are not outsiders. They are right here, members of our community, and they are being harassed and targeted and driven out while space and platforms are being given to racists.

We, as fans of color and our allies, find the current state of fandom and current actions (and lack thereof) unacceptable. Fandom is our space, all of ours. We, as a fandom, have a right to a racism-free space and have a duty to our fellow fans to create that space. Unlike so much of the world, this is a space we can control and make better. It is a space we must make better. To read even more about this movement, visit our FAQs.

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Dreamling fanfic: By the Laws of Magic

It's been forever since I've posted on Tumblr, but then, it's also been a while since I finished a fic that wasn't for Yuletide. So...

By the Laws of Magic (32125 words) by Lenore Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling Characters: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Hob Gadling, Lucien | Lucienne (The Sandman), Jessamy the Raven, Alex Burgess, Paul McGuire (The Sandman), Original Characters Additional Tags: Rescue Fic, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Art appraiser Hob Gadling, Post WW2, Friends to Lovers, Romance, Fluff and Angst, Magic, Hob visits Fawney Rig, dream reality, Fairy Tale Elements, Courting Rituals, Claiming, Marriage Summary: It’s 1959, and Hob Gadling is working at a London auction house, amazing his colleagues with his uncanny knowledge of art and artifacts from the 14th century on. When he gets the assignment to catalogue a family library at a place called Fawney Rig, he looks forward to a working vacation in the country. What he finds is a house with a preternatural chill where odd disturbances happen daily, an ornate carved door with a secret clearly hidden behind it, and visions of his mysterious stranger every time he turns around.

#dreamling #dream/hob gadling #dreamling fanfic #hob gadling #dream of the endless #the sandman fanfic

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Highly recommend injecting a little whimsy into your life. Say hello to gravestones. Pretend the raindrops on your window are racing. When small children stare at you, wave. My grandfather had a studded belt that started losing its studs. He replaced them with googly eyes. Do what you can to make your life a bit lighter

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Reblog if you are a fanfiction author and would like your readers to put one of your fic titles in your ask + questions about it

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

2: What scene did you first put down?

3: What's your favorite line of narration?

4: What's your favorite line of dialogue?

5: What part was hardest to write?

6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?

7: Where did the title come from?

8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?

11: What do you like best about this fic?

12: What do you like least about this fic?

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

#fanfiction #ask me

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“Our documentary is not just for hockey fans. It’s for anyone who cares about the place of women’s athletics in our society, and, ultimately, anyone who cares about the ongoing fight for gender equality.”  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1803843886/nwhl-history-begins http://540films.tv/

#hockey #women's hockey #nwhl #documentary #kickstarter #fund my friend rachel #boston magazine

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Support women’s hockey (and my friend Rachel)

An amazing thing happened this fall: for the first time women can now play professional hockey and be paid for it. My dear friend Rachel, who is herself an amateur hockey player, is making an awesome film about the NWHL’s first season. Check it out here: 540films.tv/  

If you can afford to donate even $1, it will help to show the world that there is support and excitement for women’s sports. If you can’t afford it, check out the site anyway for some very interesting stats on sports media coverage + salary cap by gender. 

#women's hockey #NWHL #youcanplay #support women's sports #women's sports #documentary film #hockey

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Minority Report (TV 2015) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Underage Relationships: Arthur/Dash Characters: Arthur (Minority Report), Dash (Minority Report), Agatha (Minority Report) Additional Tags: Protectiveness, First Time, Incest, Visions, Backstory, Blue Lagoon Fiddler's Neck style Summary:

Arthur will never let anyone hurt his brother, bourbon doesn't make anyone smart, and everyone on Fiddler's Neck has something to hide: OR a story of beginnings.

#minority report fanfiction #brocest #arthur/dash #agatha #lbackstory

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Minority Report (TV 2015) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Arthur/Dash, Dash & Lara Vega Characters: Arthur, Dash, Lara Vega Additional Tags: Incest, Visions, Porn with Feelings, Rescue Summary:

Sometimes Dash gets trapped in the victim's experience of a crime, and Arthur is the only one who knows how to rescue him.

#minority report fanfiction #brocest #arthur/dash #lara vega

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Books by Ursula K. LeGuin, Nisi Shawl, N. K. Jemisin, Ann Leckie, and more!

#science fiction #to read

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You know what I would pay to see, an action movie where they got a lot of old female action heroes together like Lucy Lawless, Gina Torres, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Fisher, Nichelle Nichols, Lynda Carter, and have them all be badasses together, it could be a squad movie, like they where all comrades in arms back in the day and they’re getting back together for one last mission

#i would watch the hell out of this movie #why don't fangirls run the world

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baby editor looking for work

Hey everyone! My name is Nick and I’m looking to pick up some freelance copyediting and line editing jobs in the future. However, outside of classroom stuff and beta-ing fic here, I have no real experience, and in this kind of field it’s a “need experience to get experience” kind of deal. 

I’m looking to build a resume, and in order to do that I need some clients. So I’m offering myself up for editing. If it is fandom-related I can work for free since I don’t feel great about taking compensation for fandom work; if it is a fandom I’m involved in, I can also offer some level of content editing. If it’s original work then we can talk about rates and such privately; I don’t charge anything close to professional standards (which is $30/hour for copyediting and $40/hour for line and content editing) since I’m just starting out, but I do need to make a living. If you’re interested, shoot me a message here and I can send you my email (and since tumblr tends to mess up with messages, if I haven’t responded within 48 hours please resend the message).

And if you aren’t in need of an editor right now, it would help me out a lot if you could reblog this!

[btw, if you don’t know the difference because it can be confusing: A line edit addresses the creative content, writing style, and language use at the sentence and paragraph level; a copyedit addresses flaws on a technical level. they’re pretty similar and can overlap a good deal.]

#copy editing

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#lovewins

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WHEN WILL THESE STUPID ARTICLES EVER END?

Penguins Need to Trade Malkin

It��s time for Pittsburgh to move Evgeni Malkin (Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports) For years, the Pittsburgh Penguins have been at the top of the list of Stanley Cup contenders in the Eastern Conference. With the likes of Sidney Crosby, Marc-Andre Fleury and Kris Letang, the Penguins were…

Via: http://thehockeywriters.com/penguins-need-to-trade-malkin/

#hockey writers aren't GMs for a very good reason #hockey #too early for this bullshit

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Ugh, I really hate reblogging this nonsense, but it’s the only way to point out that the article referenced in the post makes INSANE leaps of logic. Also why is homophobia being lumped in with supporting Putin and the war in Ukraine? And even if all of this were true, why are the problematic political beliefs of Russian hockey players being singled out? I’m sure if we delved into the world views of North American players we’d find plenty to keep us up at night. The xenophobic bullshit in hockey fandom seriously needs to stop.

Some Russian NHL players who are homophobic OR support Putin/war in the Ukraine

Alex Ovechkin:(x)(x)(x)(x)

Evgeni Malkin: (x)

Pavel Datsyuk:(x)

Sergei Gonchar:(x)

Semyon Varlamov:(x)

and here’s an article with a whackload of stuff

here’s a timeline of the events in the ukraine and this is the wikipedia page

these are all the ones I could think of but if anyone knows someone else feel free to add on

#hockey fandom #your logic is flawed #xenophobia #i call bullshit

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*Mic drops*

#sidney crosby #pittsburgh penguins #nothing personal patriots fans