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time-to-write-and-suffer · 4 years

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hi, i'm someone who was in the violet vineyard discord before it was closed (and then archived, then deleted). i joined semi-recently and the entire time it was like a regular writing server. not around for the drama 'cause timezones.just want to say that the reason **given to the people in the server** for its closure was related to the mirror sites thing. some people on vv didn't like tumblr in general, this was just extra incentive to leave. mods said "a lot of people are leaving writeblr and

vv is a tumblr-based community so we're shutting down." mina herself said she'd leave discord and writblrr cuz security. i personally did find their reasoning weird cause not a lot of vvers actually left writblr. ig cuz the mirror sites incident happened around the time that the drama happened it was convenient? (idk much about the drama btw, not one of the vvers involved) also, i haven't had any negative experience in vv myself. other people haven't said anythng to me either

im a fly on the wall ig. the dogpiling was limited to just a couple of people who had been mina's friends. most of us didn't really keep up with the drama? i didnt engage with the drama myself, i just backread sometimes. im going anon not because im scared of the mods but because tbh idk what's even going on,dont have much info to give, this is wild to watch and also probs a waste of time. idk all i can say is that the server itself was never culty, normal writing server.

also not really secret? anyone could send in an application to join. but again im a fly on the wall, this whole incident tbh is stupid to watch, tho honestly sometimes the behaviour of ppl clsoer to mina ws weird. didnt interact much w/them so didnt care. a lot of us didnt really even talk to mina? ever? idk i just dont think id call it a cult. it was sketchy&i agree the closure was clearly mina trying to cover her back, but as long as you didn't engage with drama it was fine.

First of all. Mirror sites? Huh what huh? Was it one of those that uploads people’s stuff to make money off of? Cuz that would be an ironic reason to close, wouldn’t it? Forreal tho can someone fill me in on this cuz I’m curious and I would like to know.

I personally think that she’d probably leave with much more fanfare if she hadn’t been called out, to make sure as many of her existing audience would follow her to her new destination. Obviously we can all only speculate on why it happened and why the server closed. AND SPECULATE WE SHALL. LIKE VULTURES WE DESCEND UPON THE CARCASS OF THIS ONLINE PERSONALITY. Until I get bored, that is.

Second of all: Yeah, I imagine the vast majority of people in VV were probably super chill and not involved in the drama, just based on how huge the server was. And while it’s hard for me to judge what the atmosphere in there was like since I wasn’t in it, all my judgments are based on like, the most extreme reactions in the server/on tumblr itself, which will obviously consist of the most vocal minority. For what it’s worth, the cult comments are a jab at those people and not the rest. Again, I had friends in the server.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience!

#writeblr drama #long post #Anonymous #vv drama

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lotrewrite · 7 years

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8/19 Chat Recap

Same as the previous recap - I'm mostly keeping the comments intact! Putting the more fun/general stuff above the cut:

SNEAK PEEK of the COLORED tarot cards: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jq1lm3nd64sx9d3/AAC5qUDB6EvTK28tqE1zffExa?dl=0

Playlist: I think we really need an official playlist for this? There's no depression in new zealand, yo ho, come on eileen, istanbul not constantinople...POC crossed with AC Black Flag music...XD Backstreet boys in the 90s! ep. 13 playlist has to be mercedes sosa; argentinian singer who had to go into exile during the dictatorship. I’m Henry the Eight I Am for the Tudor episode, plus Pastime With Good Company someone should make a playlist for all the episodes maybe when we're posting the episodes I'll make a music suggestion post each day :) that way people can suggest songs based on the final version

INTROS:

We should try to split them up semi-evenly, but also depending on who the episode focuses on.

1 – Mick?

2 – [Ray] [proposed]

3 – [Nate] [proposed]

4 – Sara

5 – Jax

6 – Lisa

7 – [Stein] [proposed]

8 – Rip

9 – Mick

10 – Amaya

11 – Jax

12 – Gideon

13 – Len

14 – Sara

15 – Stein

16 – Hosts

17 – [Ray] [proposed]

18 – Amaya

19 – Mick

20 – [Legion] [proposed]

21 – [Legion OR Sara]

22 - Len

Thoughts? There's only one Ray one so far, despite him having several Ray-centric episodes. Not sure what we would switch, though!

General Points:

can O!Len change his clothes? He had a beer from somewhere in ep6 I think, so can he have objects? i think it'd make more sense if he's 'full ghost' so to speak; I think he can't change his clothes or interact with objects until later in the season. As much as I'd love for more dress-up for Len, I think he works best as a ghost

Interesting consistency note: Because Anne gave away the spear piece, her life went to hell. That is a terrifying but wonderful thought. we have something similar with Ching and her history, because she also suffers defeats after her spear piece is gone And technichally the ship in new zealand sinks after they take the piece, too They could have had a chance to change their fates but they lost/gave away the spear pieces and thus couldn't

Stephanie Fisher - we should at the very least give her a shout-out for all her wonderful comments. I vote we give Stephanie some kind of award, not just for the comments, but for ALWAYS catching Damien Darhk's name and correcting it!!!!!

just generally, I really love the snarky Gideon we have. And Jax. I love Jax so much this season. and I even like Stein again! I wasn't a big fan of Ray, but I think we've managed to redeem him as well and Sara is actually the badass captain we wanted her to be

Sara's journey is soooo good. Ray here is isolated, but not so terribly self centered like he was on the show. Like, as the season goes, he goes from being traumatized and lonely, to struggling with his identity, to accepting his identity and...I guess, growing more comfortable with himself and others??

Oh, question: Does Gideon still call Rip Captain Hunter and Sara Ms Lance? Or Mr Hunter and Captain Lance now? I think I went with both of them being called Captain

MaryWisdom might just do a German translation; DaughterOfScotland can help

just checking, we're all having Queen Bee use the amulet for her powers, right? Yes

Episode 9 Turncoat was my favorite canon ep and I feel like it only got better Jax and Amaya were so much better here than canon's "cuddle for warmth pwp" I feel like the rat sequence in ep 9 is actually a really great lead-up to episode 10 btw since we're talking about Ray, I really hope somebody makes one of those little things that fly across your screen with Ray and his rocket boot, and maybe the poor rat too XD

Episode 10 Because ep 10 was /also/ AMAZING that intro sequence was gold from start to finish There was so much world-building, character-building, and humor I really liked the villain sequences too There's some great exchanges there! The interactions were really in character! Oh, and the Amaya sequences with the British? PERFECT I love how Amaya continues to question her own knowledge and keeps evolving it was just such a fun ride honestly I think the lead up to Ray using the cold gun worked too? Oculus!Len giving it the tacit OK was such a balm Len is SO BORED he just wants to see Ray totally fail and laugh and Ray screwing up just worked so well as symbolism for his identity struggles also, I am so sad this isn't actually visual/audio because now I want someone to put together a short clip with the Waverider flying away, then pan down to a ship and you hear the "yo ho" song

Episode 11 I'm a bit bummed we haven't been able to fit in Stein singing, but I'll look over it again and maybe we can find a spot Maybe we could get that into episode 11? I've had there's no depression in new zealand stuck in my head for almost two days now btw episode 11, any more comments, or should we go back to it next week once people have had a chance to look it over? prob the best to look at it again tbh

Episode 12 OH MY GOD 12!!! THE TERROR! it was so good KAKO YOU MADE ME SCREAM literally, my phone rang during the Mick scene and I legit screamed the way you worked in the movie references so organically was genius THE LEN REVEAL WAS PERFECT was the ending scene of 12 okay? the scene with Mick and Sara I liked it a lot that was beautiful I knew I was gonna love this episode the moment it was pitched, but you exceeded all my expectations <3 so well done it's perfect That episode is definitely going to turn heads. It is very different compared to the rest and will stand out! perfect for the mid-season finale Is there a way we can make it a real mid-season finale? aka not post for aday or two afterwards? Well, if we start posting on the 1st and it's 22 episodes, with a month of 30 days... if we started on Sept 4 and posted every day, I think we'd end up with it falling on a weekend Sept 4, posting every day, would make 12 fall on a Friday We could then restart the next Monday

Episode 13 I LOVE THE INTRO I like the "did you learn that in school?" mention. Because the history classes suck yes that is a GREAT cold open the episode was really powerful also, the umbrella scenes were hilarious it really was, the tension followed throughout and was quite perfectly cut through with the UTTERLY FLAWLESS umbrella scenes Also, bitching Legion. This is great, seeing as we want them to implode also: the Len and Gideon scene <3 basically everything was fantastic i know we need to add the rip intro scene, but is there anything else you think we should work on? there were a few suggestions, but those are already in the google doc - overall I think it was an incredible episode, and you guys should be proud - you dealt with a really heavy topic really well Quick question to eisode 13... the Spanish they all got the pill, but we kind of wanted to show the other side of it, like what it sounded like to the woman at the bakery Like the Legends go into the bakery - then we see the woman working inside and it's from HER perspective, and there's spanish dialogue and then it switches to english and we're back to the Legends POV If you wanted it from the woman's POV, maybe start the scene with the woman? as in, she's working inside the register, and then some guys come in and buy stuff and then stay with her a second as they walk out and she's kinda wondering what's up, then shrugs and goes back to work then we jump back to the Legends talking in English she picks up on Mick being distracted by something that's not there i keep craving churros every time I look at this episode I loved how you guys mixed in the light-hearted scenes in with all the heavy stuff yeah it was really well balanced RIP EXITS, PURSUED BY MICK!!!

Episode 14 Sara saves the timeline with a threesome XD nuff said LOVED the bit where Amaya realises that Sara is dancing with the King! So fitting, too, because of my episode following with all the Shakespeare :D I think... I think I didn't actually mentioned an abberation? Just the spear piece rip found there Alternatively Rip is using his Time Master skills to find a piece before it ever causes an abberation That was what I was going for. He finds it, or thinks he did ooh. i like that. but if it is that then i don't think you should mention the witchcraft rumors The rumors that she bewitched Henry had been around for a long time already. Thy say that tht's the reason he left his wife and Rip thinks it's related to the spear piece but it's just generally people being shit can I just say, I really loved all the scenes with Amaya and Jax? seconded My only thing to add is, and I think I mentioned that in the comments, that it would be great if you could fit the Legion in somewhere Yeah, I agree with you. I'll put it in that they arrive late and Len is like "I got this", I think Before I forget: can I suggest Sara to narrate the intro? the last one she did was ep4

Episode 15 basically Kendra's Old West incarnation and the New York Riots incarnaton exist at the same time OW!Kendra doesn't have a name, so she *could* be Josephine from the NYR 8 years prior and that would make that Carter Hannibal but then her Carter should be named Hannibal, not Shay :( his name could be Hannibal and then he goes by Shay Or he could've changed his name when they moved out west due to being wanted under his old name Just... don't explain it. Leave it for the reader to figure out. And wonder :P (for what it's worth, I thought 15 was delightful and SO GOOD at actually USING history the way a time travel story should) More next week

Episode 19 I could knight Ystina! that would be AWESOME!

#episode 9 #episode 10 #episode 11 #episode 12 #episode 13 #episode 14 #episode 15 #recap #fanart

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adorkable-stark · 7 years

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So, I'm alive guys (well, as much as usual). Why did I vanish AGAIN? Couple reasons: 1) I was taking 12 hours of very writing heavy courses so I was stressed. 2) The situation with my roommate completely broke down so I was stressed (won't go into details unless anyone just wants to hear me bitch about it, in which case grab your popcorn cause it's freaking insane). 3) I have an actual job doing actual stuff, and that added to my classes didn't leave a lot of free time which made me, you guessed it, stressed. 4) When I'm stressed, I can only take human contact in very low, but preferably relatively consistent, doses. Since I wasn't comfortable hiding in my room because of said roommate situation, I spent a lot of time at my neighbors', who are absolutely wonderful and sane, and I will be living with them next year. As nice as that was to have, that plus occasional hanging out with other irl friends/med fair practice (omgosh guys, it's so nice to have people who actually like me around) took up all of my limited social energy. 5) I was super behind on Sherlock, have been consistently behind on Steven Universe (which I post about on @adorkable-alchemist), and am WAY behind on Rebels, so I have been high-key TERRIFIED of spoilers. 6) Way back before my life was insane, I was pretty proud of the fact that I had a semi-consistent blog with a good amount of very nice followers who I interacted with decently often (when my awkwardness didn't get in the way). When I realized that I wouldn't be able to do that anymore, at least for a while, I stressed myself out. I am a hard-core people-pleaser, and when I think I might not be pleasing the people around me I hide from them. Not a single one of you has given me any indication that you weren't happy with me, but that's what I constructed in my head. Recently I've come to realize that it's not a bad thing to have an identity dependent on groups you are linked to (in my case it's heavily related to being Native), but my Tumblr involvement may have to be a situation where I step back and let it be a small part of my life, at least for now. That's basically it. I probably won't ever be as consistent as I used to be, and I may up and vanish again. My schedule has gotten a lot crazier and I really don't know if it'll ever improve. Part of my recent flakiness may be related to some possible medical issues (haven't actually gone to the clinic yet, so idk for sure), and if so that could get fixed. But if it's just life in general, it may never get better. I want to be on Tumblr and I want to be involved in fandoms, but I can't maintain any sort of consistency at the moment. It makes me sad, but if I want to be involved at all, I'm going to have to deal with it. So good things now! 1) I'm officially halfway done with my Bachelor's! Yay! *internally screams* And I have at least a hint of what I want to do after I am finally free from college (that being work for my tribe, possibly doing cultural preservation or NAGPRA work). 2) As I almost never talk about ever, I am (trying) to write a book series, and it is still nowhere near having anything tangible to read or even understand [insert more internal screaming]. But I have done lots of world building (or since I'm an anthropologist, culture building is probably more accurate) and have added quite a few characters, and a couple coinciding deaths, which I think has helped to give me some more structue and direction. To relate it to anthropology, I would say that if my story was a hominid it would be homo habilis; it vaguely looks like a person and can bang rocks together, but if you give it a couple thousand years it'll be stabbing people for personal gain and growing grains. 3) I have started playing D&D! My character is a bard who is basically useless unless you need someone to pretend to stab someone else and is slowly getting more and more bitter. It's hysterical and I love it. 4) I read the entire Court of Thorns and Roses series in about two weeks and HOLY CRAP!!!!!! I won't be posting about it for a while (unless somebody wants to come scream about it with me), since I'm only on the second Throne of Glass book (yes I know I did it backwards), but when I can safely follow blogs that post on it all you're going to hear about is HOW MUCH I LOVE RHYS DON'T EVEN TOUCH ME OH MY GOSH 6) I met a pretty guy. Maybe as pretty as Rhys (*swoons*). But idk if he even likes me (probs not), or if he's actually just a Tamlin (*glares*). Or maybe he's just a friend! We shall see. 7) I am growing out my hair. No I don't hate having a pixie, yes I constantly bitched about having long hair BUT I WANT TO WEAR BRAIDS WITH MY REGALIA DAMN IT 5) Apparently I use lots of parenthesis in my writing now (sorry). And I think that's all. I will still be ultra sporadic while I dodge Rebels spoilers, and maybe after that I will only be medium sporadic. Tl;dr: I'm a stressed out trash person who's about as flaky as a Pillsbury croissant and anyone who's still following me is a saint who deserves their OTP to become cannon. And I really love Rhys, okay? Night night! Love yall! -Maddie

#me #personal #blog update #i'm a trash person #sorry #sorry about that #seriously though #y'all are saints #bless #and #I FREAKING LOVE RHYS #LEAVE ME ALONE #but don't actually #come tell me how much you love him #and hate Tamlin the Tool #my phone keeps correcting Tamlin to Tampon #which frankly is more useful #ughhhh

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