#The Rules Of Engagement

[vodkassassin]

I feel that I should clarify, that when I said I'd hunt them for sport, I meant that in a derogatory way because you don't deserve to be treated that way.

Is this regarding the “stop commenting like you assume the author is dead” post? I’m not seeing your addition for some reason (then again, it’s tumblr, so maybe I’ll see it in five years lol).

Your thoughts are appreciated, but tbh all I really want is for people to stop feeling so entitled to authors’ works. I feel like there’s been an uptick on young people coming into the fandom scene and not really understanding that they can’t treat fanfic authors the same way they treat content creators who make income off the content they make — because the fact is that fanfic authors don’t make money, they legally can’t make money, off their work.

In my assumptions, the majority of the people who comment “update now please :)” grew up in the era of content creators, and they therefor have a certain mindset on how these things work, and they don’t understand that it actually doesn’t work that way — not for fanfic authors, and uh, not in real life with real people too (but that’s another issue altogether that deserves its own separate post).

Then again, that’s a generalization and those are in and of themselves unfair. Im sure that there’s plenty of people of the older brackets too who know full well what they’re doing when they word their comments to instigate pressure on the author, and they don’t care. I want people like that to just stop commenting entirely.

I almost quit writing once because of comments like these so even though I’ve by now learned to ignore them, I guess I just feel incredibly protective of all other authors who might get these comments. The creative act of writing for oneself is an enjoyable hobby and they are kind enough to share the results of that hobby for free for anyone to read. It just upsets me that people think they can treat us that way. It’s disheartening.

Anyway, while I don’t condone the violence, that original post I made was a hope that it could reach those people who make comments like that and educate them on why it’s actually NOT flattering or a desirable comment, and hopefully encourage them to stop.

I just hate the thought of an author seeing those comments and thinking of quitting like I once did, or worse: actually quitting and guillotining all the potential wonderful stories that live inside their beautiful, brilliant minds.

#ao3 etiquette #ao3 authors #reader engagement #the rules of engagement

[overworkedunderwhelmed]

The Rules of Engagement - Chapter 17 Teaser

The room was big but it wasn’t that big. The fourth movie in their mini-marathon  still had another hour before it finished downloading, so they had both decided to take a nap while it finished. It was still another hour before dinner time and they still had spoils leftover from Marinette’s earlier raid to the dessert section of the buffet a bit earlier.

Not that Adrien had even managed to fall asleep.

Not while he kept glancing over at Marinette’s sleeping form, then staring up at the ceiling desperately hoping that he was right. 

He inhaled slowly. It was time to figure this out, once and for all.

Close proximity was driving him crazy. If she was his Ladybug, it was almost unbelievable that he had managed, not only to find her, but to wake up cuddled up to her every morning.

If she wasn’t, he clearly had a type.  The time was coming all too quickly for him to decide whether or not he should send her back to Paris as soon as they got off this cruise and have Nino chase down the real deal…or if it was time to offer Marinette the guest bedroom at his place permanently.

New chapter posts on Sunday!

#ml love square #adrinette #ladynoir #miraculous ladybug #chat noir #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #fake dating #just one bed #for days #ml fanfiction #the rules of engagement #4 more to the end now!

[alice112935]

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#blog intro #hellsing #hellsing ultimate #hellsing oc #RABBIT HOLE program #side blog #the rules of engagement #sorry for the long ass intro #lol

[theblackestofsuns]

"The Rules Of Engagement"

Semper Fi #7 (June 1989)

Michael P. Palladino, John Severin and Phil Felix

Marvel Comics

#Semper Fi #Michael P. Palladino #John Severin #Phil Felix #Marvel Comics #Great Comics #Great Comic Art #Dollar Bin Finds #The Rules Of Engagement

[ale-arro]

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

#replace this with any other type of significant relationship too #also! this book actually rules btw i really recommend it #i didnt read it when it first cane out bc i was like. well i am already pretty familiar with asexuality and not rly interested in 101 stuff #but it turns out it doesnt feel 101-y at all its a super awesome piece of queer theory and also chen has Good opinions #and not weird watered down ones that i am sometimes wary of in aspec communities (frankly especially ace ones) #i think maybe if more people approached asexuality the way chen does (including and maybe even especially ace people) #i would be more inclined to still ID as ace #but anyways! #aro #aromantic #<- tag selections that reflect how i personally engage with this quote #also #described in alt text #also also #j tag #:/ #aro media

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

finally at that age where i'm thinking i should get a tattoo. not bc i feel strongly about it, just seems like a waste not to. i've got so much skin i'm not using

#feels so selfish like. all this skin what am i saving it for? #open to design suggestions! (please make me regret this offer) #maybe some deep sea horrors. a pretty watercolor of a gulper eel #once saw a person on the subway with various Skeleton Tattoos on all their limbs #i respected their commitment to the theme #but more than that i respected how all the skeletons were engaged in Activities #dancing in a ballgown. juggling its own (and two other???) skulls. swordfighting. being a mermaid skeleton #ANYWAY. the only reason i haven't already gotten tattoos is i just couldn't be bothered #i'm old enough to know i don't have any strong-but-potentially-temporary feelings driving me towards it #aesthetically i prefer decorated to non-decorated surfaces. but i'm not artistic or thrilled with commitment #honestly it feels like sheer laziness. indecisiveness--nay. immaturity!--that i HAVEN'T gotten a tattoo yet #letting all this blank canvas go to waste. tut tut i need to grow up and be an adult and get a tattoo sleeve already. #really i've put off my responsibilities long enough #(in fairness i DID at one time have 18 different piercings) #(but i took most of them out bc they interfere with wearing headphones and/or shoving my face in my pillow during Sleep Time) #(i only kept the nape piercing bc oddly enough it ended up being the most convenient. and the least painful to get now i think about it.) #(neck piercing? no problem. normal pair of earrings? Tribulations And Suffering. i don't make the rules i just poke them with a stick.)

[arctvros]

high school sweethearts to college fiancés

#pls note all the little details in the back!!! #long distance is hard #the countdown on the calendar #the old plane ticket #iwa’s seat number is oikawa’s jersey number #yes i do think they would get engaged very young #sorry but they’re soulmates i don’t make the rules #iwaoi #hq iwaizumi #iwaizumi hajime #haikyuu iwaizumi #iwaoi fluff #iwaoi fanart #hq oikawa #haikyuu oikawa #oikawa tooru #haikyuu fanart #haikyuu #haikyuu!! #haikyuu time skip #timeskip iwaoi #arctvros

[muzzleroars]

danse macabre

#ultrakill #gabriel #v1 #gabv1el #doodle tag #rise and fall au #fallen gabriel #love thinking about gabriel losing his mind for a minute after becoming a full fallen angel #where he just really indulges in his anger and pent up violence all for himself #he rebels against everything he ever was and how stifled he has been his entire achingly long existence #no more rules. no more grace. he's goring demons and tearing machines apart limb from limb #needless to say. v1 is NO moderating force lol #it loves running around like this with him far more reckless than it could afford to be before #and finding a love that engages in its cruelty with it to its full extent makes it just as bad #he does eventually come back to himself as this just isn't him #but i love them having a full villain era where they become actively avoided #(but hell won't let their prey get away...sad!)

[doctor-dt]

papyrus teaches frisk his special attacks!!!

#guns #cw guns #letpapyrussayfuck #dude i went thru like 3 different sketches for this #bc the thought of him being a gun guy would NOT leave me alone #btw thats probably too dark for a shooting range but imagine its in papyrus' house #my fbi agent seeing me google 'handguns for beginners' 'how to hold handgun' 'can minors go to a shooting range' #my art #frisk #papyrus #undertale #lpsf #also the rules of the creator's post said i could add #letfrisksayfuck #bc they're in it and engaging in the same activities as papyrus #XD

[zafyrus-owo]

I still miss 196, and to be honest it'll never be exactly the same, but I hope we can build something amazing here anyway

#196 #r/196 #rule #hopefulpost #reddit refugee #community engagement like never before! #notes #shitpost #microsoft paint

[shyjusticewarrior]

Jason crossing his arms at his little brothers

#dc #dc comics #comics #comic books #batman rebirth #batman comics #batman 2016 #rules of engagement #knight terrors robin #knight terrors #comic pages #comic panels #parallels #character appreciation #jason todd #red hood #batfam #batfamily #batkids #batsiblings #batbros #bat brothers #duke thomas #the signal #signal #tim drake #robin #red robin #jason peter todd #character dynamics

[overworkedunderwhelmed]

The Rules of Engagement - Chapter 15 Teaser #1

She patted the seat beside her as Kagami sat down beside Luka.

“Are you alright?”

He smiled softly. “Your plan worked perfectly. It was great thinking!”

“Yeah, I’m a genius.” Marinette quickly dismissed. “You look worried, though.”

Adrien sighed. “Alya and Nino didn’t exactly seem pleased to have to deal with each other.”

Marinette’s jaw dropped. “Really? They seemed fine at the bar the other day.”

Adrien nodded. “I was a little surprised.”

Marinette shook her head. “Nino has always been really nice. I went back through my old diary after we ran into each other the other night, and he was sweet enough to ask Alya and I out to the zoo just after she started school there. He was always really quiet but he’d been nice to me. I don’t think I ever heard Alya complain…”

Adrien’s arm shifted behind her. “I think I’ll feel better once we’re on the ship and far enough out that our parents can’t find us for a little while.”

Full chapter will be posted Sunday afternoon on Ao3.

#adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous ladybug #adrinette #ml fanfic #ml fanfiction #ml big bang #fake dating #fake engagement #the rules of engagement #I've been waiting for this chapter since July last year...

[gffa]

DICK AND DUKE JUST SAT THERE AND WATCH ALL THAT PLAY OUT AND MADE COMMENTARY.  THAT’S HOW YOU KNOW JASON IS REALLY THEIR BROTHER, THEY WATCHED THAT SCENE WITH JOY IN THEIR HEARTS.  THEY ARE ALL AWFUL, AWFUL CHILDREN.

#lumi.txt #dc #batfam #dick grayson #jason todd #damian wayne #duke thomas #alfred pennyworth #batman: the rules of engagement

[harrietvane]

So, in Busman’s Homeymoon, Lord Peter buys Harriet Vane a mink cloak worth 950 pounds (according to the Dowager Duchess’ journal entry), but he buys Tallboys for “only” 650 pounds.

Even bearing in mind that real estate really did used to be cheaper, do you understand how that is possible? Or how to find out more about relative purchasing power? I used an online calculator website which gave me some figures, but it still seems insane that one could buy an entire Elizabethan farmhouse for 2/3 the price of a garment! Very curious to learn from others who understand this better than I do.

Ah, I see my esteemed colleague @oldshrewsburyian has also had some interesting thoughts on this, so I'll link that here as well before I begin.

So, it's a legitmate question, and there's no catch-all simple answer (in the gotcha sense of 'why didn't i know that bit of cultural Truth'), but there are mitigating factors that take it from a ridiculous price comparison, to merely outlandish. Even taking into account that the coat is quoted in guineas, not pounds, and that PW says the bank valued Talboys at £800 via a mortgage (the paid price was a discount, for paying in cash quickly, which is Plot Relevant), it gets us to roughly the same place, value-wise. Or shall we say PRICE-wise, rather than value, as I'll get into below. There's several factors at play here - they mainly relate to class, and spending power:

-The house is Not That Great, in terms of the kind of property that PW would usually be buying. I mean it is still a large-ish house, big enough to have 2 adults and small children in, but it's not what would be on his radar normally. The only reason they know about it, it that it's near a place where HARRIET grew up as a child. It's not getting any high marks in particular Beauty, Convenience, or Quality - the main reason HV's drawn to it is sentiment, rather than anything else. They both know that they will have to significantly add to it, and alter it, in order for it to be a comfortable home. That would usually be out-of-budget for someone in Harriet's position, who would expect to buy something that meets her needs 'as-is'. Most people looking at buying that house would be Harriets not Peters, so it might be a tough sell.

-The house has no power, and limited plumbing: There's dark references to DRAINS by the dowager duchess, it's entirely possible that this house has no modern plumbing at all - they make the comparison that the huge palace the Wimseys grew up in wasn't plumbed until recently, but then again they do have about 800 servants, whereas Talboys is just a regular house: they will have Bunter alone (at first), with an assist from Mrs Ruddle. There's mention of "a cistern" with some basic valves, but the scullery is mentioned as having a copper, from which hot water is "scooped into a large bath-can" - a copper being, simply, a large metal basin over a fire, in effect. No running hot water, maybe no flushable loos - it's a factor. They also talk specifially about having to electrify Talboys themselves - it's candles and lamps until then. It's fancy camping. By the mid-1930s, a lot of middle-class buyers would expect a little more convenience in both water and wiring, unless they had significant support staff, which Talboys would not be expected to house.

-There's probably no farm! It's a farm house - not a wider land purchase. People like PW's brother the Duke are wealthy primarily because they own land, not because of the big palace they have (which eats money, rather than generates it). The land is what gives them spending power, because other people are paying them rent to live on it, farm on it, or both. PW's own personal 'younger sibling' wealth is also mentioned somewhere to be primarily in real estate (assumed to be in London) - sad to say: he's a landlord, and that's why he's rich. Talboys, on the other hand, as a purchase, would not, in almost any way, be expected to generate revenue through either farming, agriculture, or charging rent. Until they invent house flipping in 80 years, or until the motorway goes through in 40 years, there's not much expectation that Talboys would increase all that much in value.

-Lastly, there's a massive disparity in what The Market Will Bear when we compare a basic residence vs a luxury item (like a mink coat) in the mid-1930s. This is not particular to that time, though. Like any first-year economics student will tell you, the price of something is not it's intrinsic value, it's what someone is WILLING to pay for it. If someone is willing to pay such a price, that's the price it will be. So, we're not comapring Objects, we're comparing Buyers: the the main purchasers of a slightly run-down farmhouse located nowhere special are Harriets, and main purchasers of mink coats are Peters. Talboys is priced for Harriets. The mink coat is priced for Peters.

Compare for example, a contemporary parallel: the Hermes Birkin bag. It's a leather handbag with a starting retail price of about USD 11,400. Just for the bag. Then, you have fancier versions of the fancy bag, eg wikipedia tells me one version sold at auction for USD 380,000 in Hong Kong in 2017. Now, the Harriets of today are not buying a Hermes Birkin handbag, but they are probably trying to buy slightly run-down houses outside urban centers for (one hopes) slightly less than 380k. The Wimseys of the worlds are clearly buying Birkin bags. In that way, it's actually pretty easy to get to a place where Person A might buy a single luxury item for X pounds, and Person B might buy a whole residence for X pounds, and neither feel like they'd done something insane. The key here is in a Wimsey/Vane marriage, they run up against this concept immediately, and repeatedly.

There's a good reason the first epistolary section of the novel is almost entirely taken up with money chat - the ring, the purchase of shirts from Burlington Arcade, the marriage settlement, the gift from the bride to the groom, the mink coat, the bitchy exchange between Helen and Harriet about HV being allowed "six free copies of her book" to distribute. These people come from 2 fundamentally different experiences of the world. They might have gotten engaged using the word 'Magistra', specifically to emphasise their fundamental equality (in the context of learning and the mind, to begin with), but it can't be denied: there's gaps that need to be bridged. They both know parts of their married life will be spent in attempting to do that, hopefully to their mutual satisfaction. Mention of a mink coat for 950 guineas is a nice, neat shorthand for illustrating what's still at play between them here.

#dorothy l sayers #and this isn't even getting into the delicious things like #a) helen being considered unspeakably vulgar by calling attention to the price of HV's ring but #b) peter being considered friendly and polite by openly stating what he paid for talboys #like these are some delicate class rules at play here! when to mention money and when NOT to mention money! context matters! #here's so much going on - this is (I feel) what DLS means when she says she couldn't simply marry them off #they'd have to really engage with what that would mean #and then she wrote 2 whole novels about it #replies #fromthedeskofcripslock

[the-owl-tree]

wc fandom is lacking in a lot of ways but i gotta say the lack of acceptance of more fun out there au’s kills me. in other fandoms people will be like what if bert and ernie were a mermaid and a pirate and they traveled the world together and everyone’s like omg what if they were a mermaid and a pirate meanwhile someone makes a slightly more fantastical au here and that confessions blog gets like 10 asks about how people should just make their own original stuff

like

#deer rambles #anyways what if cinder was a mermaid and holly was a pirate what then #if you say people should correct original content you must ask why you feel entitled to see it #and you must ask if the artist was kind enough to share #would you engage with it and support it? #of course the rule of engagement is a two way street #no one is obligated to share and no one is obligated to engage #but if you demand on someone sharing then i kind of expect engagement

[moonshynecybin]

#its giving king consulting with his advisors about a rival kingdom (ruled by valentino who TRAGICALLY broke off their engagement 8 yrs ago) #callie speaks #motogp #marc marquez #face card insane