occurs to me that I do have quite a resource that I could share with people who might find it interesting so: here’s a gdrive mirror of my article hoard, a compilation of academic articles (and a couple books) on:
superhero comics
popular culture
norse mythology
tolkien, particularly the silmarillion
various sci-fi/fantasy literatures
two or three articles on danmei
hp lovecraft
go forth! and if you have article recommendations please send them to me
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6:40 pm
"Babe, wake up."
You sleepily hummed, "...What?"
"Wake up."
"Why are you awake?"
"The sky is awake, so I am awake, that is why-"
You immediately interrupt him, "Please stop and go to sleep."
He whined and clung onto your arm, "But babe, I have to ask you a really important question!"
"Can this not wait until morning?"
"Nope, it cannot!", even if your eyes are closed, you know he has that stupid grin on his face.
You sighed, there is no point in arguing with him after all, "What is it?"
"Would you still love me if I was a worm?"
. . .
Peeking at the digital clock on your bedside table, you pulled the covers closer to your chin.
2:47 am.
"No. I hate insects."
He gasped, "Excuse you, worms are not insects!"
Deeply sighing, you turned away from him, "Insects, invertebrates, doesn't matter. Both are disgusting."
"Even butterflies?"
"Especially butterflies."
He huffed and snatched the cover from your side, "I thought you loved me!"
You sighed again and pulled back the covers, "I do love you. and I will continue to love you forever. As long as you're human. Isn't that enough?"
Maybe a little bit of flattery will help you to get your sleep back?
You knew he got flustered, but it is him, your beloved boyfriend, and he knew how your brain worked.
"No, you need to love me in every form."
"Life is not the bee movie, babe."
He turned away from you, "You are so mean."
Your eyes finally opened.
The topic was finished(?) and you could finally fall asleep, but was it worth waking up with a stingy boyfriend in the morning?
Definitely not.
You buried your face in his back and wrapped your arms around his waist, "I'll love you if I was a worm too. We'll be a worm couple and have worm babies. Happy now?"
He didn't say anything for a few seconds before clearing his throat, "Y-you are just saying that."
Grinning, you planted a kiss on his nape, "Goodnight, babe."
GOJO, Yuuji, RANPO, Dazai, NIKOLAI, Kaiser, Bachira, Kurona, Reo, ATSUMU, Oikawa, Bokuto, free to add!
I always liked this idea, but the flow of this drabble is so bad TT so might edit someday, thanks for reading anyways<33
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Double edit: actually, that's enough of that.
Edit: I was expecting maybe thirty notes tops. This is a surprise, and one that doesn't delight me. If I hear about any harassment stemming from this post, I'll be more pissed at the harasser than the person this is about.
God. Dammit.
I hate this, let's just out that out there! I'm unhappy that I'm talking about any of this, I'm unhappy there's an issue that's come up at the intersection of media preservation, respecting authors, and one of my favorite book series. And I'm unhappy that I've censored the names in the screenshots I'm about ti post! I'm not happy that I'm helping to slide consequences away from someone who thought this was an acceptable thing to do to a modern working author. But I'm even less happy this is something that happened in the first place, and I'm VERY unhappy the original post has been deleted without a whisper of accountability or apology.
And here's a partial screenshot of the IA page, which has since been removed. I get the excitement to share something you love with a new audience. This isn't the right way to go about it.
First, if Martha Wells' patreon is still in place, I encourage everyone in the strongest possible terms to go sign up for it. It'll charge you one dollar. I've been a member since probably 2018, and I mistakenly believed it was locked to new members (it's labeled 'Currently Closed To New Patrons') until I had reason to look it up last night, when I tripped across this reddit post from earlier this year.
Now. I was looking it up because of this sudden patreon message:
Even if the patreon goes away, I still recommend that people sign up. Explore the stories! They're very fun! Even though the patreon has been dormant for years, I've loved having that repository in place.
In fact, in the interest of full disclosure, what kept me from immediately reblogging last night is that I've felt the same archival urges! I bound a hard copy of these stories earlier this year, and let me quote my own words from that post:
I live in a state of perpetual low key stress over the impermanence of digital media and that goes extra for sites that aren’t designed to work well as archives. I hope, desperately, that someday Martha Wells publishes more raksura, maybe even including these stories! I will buy it immediately. No thoughts, wallet empty. I own all her other raksura books in literally three formats, fingers crossed that by printing this, I can actualize a formal official printing of these stories by the author 😂
So. Archiving, yes. But especially with a living, working author, I would never DREAM of posting a public free-for-all with IA and mediafire links. My most charitable interpretation is that OP thought it was fine since the stories were "free," even though the writeups acknowledge that access costs a dollar. Ao3 is also free. Reposting someone else's fic is still understood to be a dick move.
Last night i was left kind of stunned, and I was hoping to see some kind of response from op this morning taking responsibility, and was... disappointed to see that the post was just deleted. The IA listing was deleted too, and I hadn't actually looked up the mediafire post yet but I'm guessing it's also been nuked. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if there was anything more in the comments, so I found a surviving reblog. And there was!
So I'm writing this post because I'm... frustrated. Taking down the files is a good step. Posting them publicly was a worse step, but hey. I still more than understand if Martha Wells still deletes her patreon. I don't understand what sending her files of her own stories is meant to accomplish, but whatever. Ascribing a profit-driven motive is driving me up a wall, though. She's financially stable. I read her email, and what i see is frustration that even though it only cost a dollar to access 62k of her work through her own chosen location, control of her writing is being forcibly removed from her. I'm sure that seeing copies sold by third parties wouldn't help, but I don't think that's the root issue.
This is a fandom-heavy website, I'm sure most of us have seen posts about not reposting art when you can share directly from the artist's blog. I've seen posts about stop copying your ao3 faves over to wattpad just because you like reading there better. At a fundamental level, I read the message from Martha Wells as a deep frustration at having no way to share her creative work without someone removing control of it from her hands. And I don't know if there's any way to really take back that damage.
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"Do you ever play make believe? Pretend to be one way, when you are really the other?"
just a rough doodle i did yesterday while i was practicing lighting and coloring. im not really a big digital drawer so i've got lots to work on
maybe someday i'll finish this...
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