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unforth · 8 months
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Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.
That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.
That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.
That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.
That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.
That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.
That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.
None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.
I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.
If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.
Celebrate fan work!
To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.
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yenvengerberg · 2 years
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the fact that anyone dying can cost a nation up to 6 billion pounds is actually absurd
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steddierthings · 1 year
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So the response to Part One of my Sad Steddie Scenario was overwhelming in the best way? Like, y’all. You said the nicest things. I read and squealed over everyone’s comments. Thank you so much for all the responses, reblogs, and likes. As one person said, I’m kissing you all platonically on the mouth right now (or high fiving you or smiling really big in your direction, pick your poison). 
I never planned to write a part one the way I did (it was just going to be a quick couple paragraphs of summary, but here we are!), but so many people asked for a part two, I got motivated. Someone commented they were curious what Robin’s reaction would be, so this is some of that.  
“I don’t know where I went wrong,” Steve groans, head buried in Robin’s pillow. 
After he left The Hideout, he had no idea where to go. But his body decided for him and without intending to, he found himself tapping on Robin’s window. Despite the fact that he’d clearly woken her up, she opened it quickly as soon as she saw his face. “That bad, huh?” 
Now he’s wallowing across her bed as she paces, awake and determined. Steve rolls to his side to watch her.
“Ok, let’s figure it out,” She says, snagging a pen and pad of paper from her desk. She opens the pad to a blank page and stands in front of him ready to take notes. Steve smiles at how Nancy-like she looks, even in an oversized Cure t-shirt and flannel pajama bottoms. Even when he’s aching, he can never be completely sad when he’s around her. “Tell me everything that happened from start to finish. Everything you said, everything they said. Any weird looks you can remember, anything.”
“Rob, I barely remember what I said to you five minutes ago.” He went over the entire night in his head a hundred times on the way over. Aside from when Eddie said...what he said, and the disaster that came after, the rest of the night was a blur. 
“Ugh, Steve, can you just try? I need you and Eddie to work out. I can’t be the only adult friend you have!” 
“Hey, that’s not fair! Nancy’s my friend.”
“Nancy’s your ex.”
“Tomato, to-mah-to.” Sure she’s his ex and they had that whole weird...thing in the Upside Down and now he’s with Eddie and she’s moving to Boston with Jonathan in the fall. But they still talk. Sometimes.  
“Steve.”
Steve quirks his lips, but it’s resigned. “You gettin’ tired of me already?” 
“No, dingus.” Robin’s face softens. She stops her pacing and sits next to him on the bed, bops him on the head with her pen. “I just want you to have people.” Steve catches her hand, smacks a kiss to her palm.  
“Fine,” he sighs, scrubs a hand across his face, and tries to think. “I don’t know, I was late because of some stupid shit with my parents and that put me on edge--”
“I didn’t know your parents were home. Steve, why didn’t you call me?” 
“They literally came home as I was leaving to see Eddie. There wasn’t time. Anyway, Eddie didn’t seem upset that I was late, at least after I explained. His friends gave me a little shit but I bought a round, and everything seemed fine.”
“Hmm.” Robin makes a note in her pad, then taps her pen to her lips, thinking. Her eyes widen and she points the pen at him. “You let them talk? You didn’t join in?”
“I mean, a little? But they were talking about their game the whole time, I didn’t have much to contribute.”
“Eddie talks to you about Dungeons and Dragons all the time and you always pay attention and ask him questions.”
“Yeah, But that’s because I’m talking to Eddie. I want to pay attention to everything he has to say.” Eddie gets so excited about things. He’s interested in things. Steve’s never excited. And Eddie’s the first thing he’s been interested in in a long time. 
“God, Steve, you kill me.” Robin motions like she’s going to strangle him. 
“What? What’d I do?”
“You’re the most emotionally unavailable guy I know and yet you come out of nowhere saying the most romantic shit.”
“Is that…bad?”
She smiles at him, mushes his forehead with her fingers. “No, it’s just very you.” She turns back to her paper, writes some more. “Now, is there anything else you remember about the conversation?”
“Not really? It was hard to hear everything they said over all the noise, so maybe I missed something. Oh.” Steve winces. “Eddie told me I called one of them the wrong name a couple of times.”
“Yikes. That’s not great.” Robin makes a face as she writes the new info down on her pad, including a few ominous underlines.  
“Yeah,” he really did fuck that part up. He’s going to have to apologize to...Jeff. “But I don’t remember them correcting me, so that seems like it’s only partially my fault.”
“Yeah, maybe,” Robin says skeptically. “They definitely should have corrected you.” Steve knows she’s throwing him a bone. He should’ve remembered the guy’s name. Eddie was right, it was a douchebag thing he would have done in his other life. 
Robin flips through the pad. Steve didn’t realize he’d said enough for multiple pages of notes, but it was a small pad, he guesses. “So far this doesn’t seem like you did anything to warrant a big blow up fight in the parking lot. When exactly did it start to go wrong?”
Dammit. Steve had been hoping they could figure out what happened without delving into why he lost his shit in the first place. “Well…”
Robin narrows her eyes. “Well?”
“I got mad at Eddie first. He said something that…pissed me off”--hurt him so badly he’s still struggling to fill his chest with air--“and I didn’t react well.”
“What did he say?”
“It’s not important, but it was something that I’d asked him never to say, and he promised that he wouldn’t.”
Robin gapes at him. Steve gets it. He’s told her literally everything about his life since Starcourt. He tells her about his dates, his encounters with his parents, hell, he tells her when he’s constipated. Not telling her that he’s asked his boyfriend never to say something to him is a big deal. 
“Steve, what was it?”
“It was nothing, it doesn’t matter, but he’d promised, and then he said it anyway.”  
Steve feels like a little kid, complaining about a broken promise. He feels like the first time his dad promised he’d be at Steve’s tee ball game, but stayed late at work for a meeting instead. But you promised you’d be there, he’d whined in his dad’s office later that night. He couldn’t stop crying even though he knew how much his dad hated it. Promises don’t mean shit, kid, unless you get ‘em in writing, his dad told him, not even looking up from his newspaper. Now pull yourself together, this is embarrassing.  
Steve hadn’t believed a single promise from anyone since then. With one exception.
“Okay, so what did you do?”
“I may have snapped at his friends a couple of times, tried to drink too much, then he made us leave. But when we were in my car, he said it had been bad the whole night, and I swear, Rob, I thought I’d been doing okay up until he said what he said.”
Robin looks back over her sparse notes. “Yeah, Steve, I don’t know. Unless you remember more, I don’t think we’re solving this one.
Steve slams his head back on the pillow a couple of times. “Fuck.”
“You knoooww, you could always ask him.” Steve immediately shakes his head. 
“You didn’t see him. He was pissed at first, but then it was like he was just…done. He called me ‘King Steve.’” Steve can tell her that. She knows how much he despises being called that, knows how much hearing it from Eddie would hurt. It’s easy to tell her things the hurtful things he knows she would never say. But how can he tell her what really happened without sending her on a spiral of guilt and shame? Or maybe she wouldn’t feel either of those things. Maybe she wouldn’t even recognize the behavior. He’s not sure which outcome would be worse. So best he keeps his mouth shut. 
“Fuck, did he really?”
“Yeah.”
“That asshole. God, I could wring his neck for that alone,” 
“Don’t do that, please. I don’t have enough cash to bail you out.” 
Robin laughs, like he was hoping she would.  
She studies him for a moment then reaches to turn off her nightstand lamp. She tosses the pad and pen in the vague direction of her desk and nudges Steve to the other side of the bed where he tugs her blankets over him. She slips under the covers too, snuggles into him Steve will end up on his stomach stretched away from her eventually, but they always start off with her head on his shoulder, his arm tucked under her, holding her close, sharing secrets as they fall asleep. 
“What did he say to you, Steve?” Her voice is a whisper in the dark room. “What could have been so bad?”
Steve shakes his head, the burning behind his eyes starting up again now that things are dark and quiet. 
“Do I need to kick his ass?” she asks, and he can feel her smile pressed to his neck. 
He wants to laugh but it gets stuck in his throat. He simply pulls her tighter.
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Part Three
This part is finished! Wrote some of it drowsy on Benadryl so we’ll see when I wake up in the morning if everything made sense. 
A bunch of people asked to tagged for part two, I don’t know if I’ll get everyone (the Benadryl is hitting me hard), but I’ll try, Please let me know if you’d like to be added or removed.  
And finally, thank you all again for the warm reception for my first Steddie ficlet. Happy New Year!! 
Tag list: 
@thosemessyvibes @afewproblems @soulminyg @paperbackribs @ramyayaya @doilooklikebees  @occasionalartthings  @minjintea @kodaik97 @miss-hit @mydaroga47  @anunashamednerdgirl @lexyvey @theysherobinbuckley @hotluncheddie @sifutoph 
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super-license · 10 months
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CHARLES CLIPS THAT LIVE IN MY HEAD RENT FREE — PART 1/?
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yeet-me-out-tonight · 7 months
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im not okay
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Have to lift that last person!
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cerise-on-top · 1 month
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Hi! Hope you're having a lovely day ✨️
Valeria and Gaz with a fashion designer s/o! Dressing them up and using them as a practice model to test new designs... this has nothing to do with my need to put Valeria in a suit, ofc not
Anon, you're so galaxy brained for wanting to put Valeria in a suit in all honesty! She'd look so good in one because women always look good in suits!
Gaz and Valeria with a Fashion-Designer!S/O
Gaz: He’d honestly be so flattered you wanna use him as a practice model. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a very pretty man and he’s well aware of that fact, but he didn’t think he’d ever get that sort of privilege. The first time you measure him he’s a bit confused, but complies, asking you with a chuckle about what you’re doing. However, as soon as you present him with a jaw dropping suit that leaves every other one in the dust, he’s a big fan. While he may have supported you from the very beginning as soon as he heard that you’re a designer, his support skyrockets as soon as you present him with the first piece of clothing for him to wear. He feels so very fancy wearing it. He may be used to wearing fancy clothing from time to time when invited to certain occasions, such as weddings, but he never really paid much mind to that sort of thing. Once you’ve put the first article of clothing on him, he’ll ask you if you wanna use him as a practice model again at some point. Only if you feel like it, of course. He hopes you’ll say yes, he loves how creative you are and the things you create. You’re a lovely designer who puts their heart and soul into it all, and it shows. Although unprompted and despite it being a bit silly, he’ll also pose and do that one walk models do where they sway their hips. He feels pretty in your clothing. If he can afford it, which he likely can, then he’ll even buy some of the things you’ve made. And yes, he will 100% wear them as well, doesn’t matter if it’s a fish tail or if it’s a shirt with a dragon on it. He unironically loves it and will wear it whenever he can.
Valeria: She chuckles a bit when you ask her to put on some clothing you made. Valeria is a very attractive woman, and she knows it, so she’s not at all surprised when you ask her to put on a suit. She’s worn those before, and every time she has she was turning heads left and right. If you blush while seeing her in a suit then she’ll chuckle and trap you against the wall before letting you continue whatever it was you were doing. Like Gaz she wholeheartedly supports you, and she’ll own every single article of clothing you’ve ever created. While she may not have the time to wear them all every time, you will catch her wearing your creations from time to time, if there’s no danger of them tearing. Valeria’s glad that you trust her enough to want her to try on all your prototypes and will gladly pose like a professional model for you and you only. The first time you measure her she, too, would be a bit confused and would ask you regarding what you’re doing, but afterwards she’s more than happy to model for you whenever she can. She doesn’t have a whole lot of time for that, but the things you do for love. If you ever want a real, professional model, she can arrange one, though, it’s no problem for someone like her. Besides, she has a pretty good eye for fashion as well, so she can give you some hints regarding what could look good and what might be a complete no go. You don’t have to do as she says, but she will point it out if you do. If she ever does find herself having the time and there’s a fashion show that shows some of your clothing, then she’ll watch it and jokingly tell you that she looked better in your clothes than all those models did. If you ever need some creative inspiration then I’m sure Valeria can help you as well, she’s seen plenty of things and is always more than happy to help you. Besides, she can get just about anything as well, so you really don’t need to fret if you wanna feel the fabric of something yourself.
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pearlcaddy · 1 year
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locklyle week 2023 🍞 firsts
first sight + you had me at hello [insp]
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foxaoxarts · 1 year
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BEE KISS TOMORR- *dead* /j
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If anyone wants to watch me drawing this like a little victorian child then the timelapse is below the cut 🤣
(FLICKER WARNING. It's all through out so be careful!👍 )
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c0zyrainfall · 5 months
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I like how he offered to take a bomb for her.
And she just gave him a handkerchief and words of encouragement
And yet he still "needs" to repay her, mhm yep sure that makes sense
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breakbeatbun · 8 months
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y'all have gotta learn to act normal about other people's characters
just bc you think they're hot doesn't mean the person who made them wants to know if, or how, you'd fuck them. i feel like that's common sense. it doesn't make it OK now just because it's not a real person you're sexualizing. you don't know what they mean to the person who made them, and if you do, well what the fuck, then.
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forcebookish · 6 months
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the really annoying thing about the people who are like "bluhh bluhhhh homura is unhealthily obsessed with madoka bluhh" is like well yeah she had to relive her death 90+ times for twelve years?????? and then after madoka became a literal god, aka someone she and other magical girls could literally worship, when homura finally got to be with her again, an alien trapped her in another neverending loop where she stewed in her own misery, loneliness, and despair for an immeasurable amount of time?? and she's fucking fourteen??? like???????? jesus you're so "obsessed" with being morally pure you forgot what empathy is
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michsmeesh · 8 months
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have u ever drawn modern au jovier? love all ur work btww^__^
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i have drawn them already but i'll gladly draw them again and again and again and again and
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gothamsglam · 5 months
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pray for my camera roll guys
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dollypopup · 1 month
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listen. . .words TRULY cannot explain how vindicated i am feeling in the fandom after all these interviews and snippets
do you even KNOW how much hate I got for writing Come Over Here and Profound for Me? where Penelope was guilt spiraling over all she did as LW? and people accused me of being a 'psychopath' and needing therapy (as if being in therapy is a. . .bad thing?) and being oh so unfair to Penelope because she was beating herself up a lot and her friends were hurt and betrayed?
and then we got the clip of her talking down to herself, about how embarrassing she is and how no one wants her and 'of course you wouldn't want to court me' and how sad he was about how lowly she sees herself.
how absolutely baffled I was over the narrative that every new male character would be a suitor for her? how little sense it made and how Penelope was for us unseen girlies and her being a diamond would be weird and ooc and unfulfilling?
and then it was revealed that Dankworth is Prudence's husband, and that Anderson is a hit with the older ladies, hinting he's there for Violet (as a continuation of her Queen Charlotte storyline) and that Debling is in a grand total of two episodes and that even Adjoa Andoh said the season was for the wallflowers.
how confused i was over monolithic 'Penelope is a girlboss and never did anything wrong!' narratives that happened over and over in our fandom and that Colin would grovel and beg and cry to be in Penelope's good graces again over one comment?
and then the clip came out and the person she was actually dragging was herself and the worst thing she called him was 'cruel' and just about one day later she's staring into his eyes and telling him how beautiful they are and how they shine when he's kind
how peeps insisted he'd be just fine when the truth comes out that Penelope is Lady Whistledown and that he'd find her clever or already knows or wouldn't be upset at all?
LINK
Interviewer: 'How do you think Colin would react if he found out she's LW?' LN: 'He would react. . .worst out of everyone in the ton' NC: 'She slagged off a LOT of people! I'm like 'Girl, you should be worried!' LN: 'He's also a sensitive boy! We'll see, I'm sure'
i'm not gonna name names. . .but some of y'all owe a LOT of people in this fandom a LOT of apologies
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naffeclipse · 8 days
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What story do you plan on doing next?
I'm not sure yet! I want to take it a little slow right now and write some shorter fics while thinking about what big fic I want to write. I'm a little tired of writing in the Arctic setting so I might try something different.
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