“Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature
adult content.”
This? In particular? Pisses me off. I hate it.
I hate the implication that all porn is interchangeable and devoid of cultural value, so it’s no big deal when a decade’s worth of creative endeavor produced by a vibrant subculture is destroyed, because, whatever, it’s just dirty pictures.
I hate the disingenuous inability to see a distinction between a website that is about porn only, and a website that allows people to blog about all of their interests and aspects of their lives including sex and porn because those are normal parts of the human experience.
It’s the most tone-deaf bullshit.
This is my first real fandom space despite being a tumblr old, but I still understand the purges. When I lost my LiveJournal I lost all my personal posts of every private journal entry I’d made along the journey from frustrated housewife to fulfilled polyamorous teacher, every scene I’d ever had with my Master as well as processing the first Sir I had (who turned out not just to have a dick but to be dick, which is a whole other story I had processed there). The terror and delight at finding my way back to submission. Every scene I ever topped in was written up in there as well as every time I submitted and let go. The weeks of waiting for our gf to get her STI screenings from her doctor so we could really play. I still have my memories of those times, but without much clarity because the intersection of ADD with anxiety and depression means that my memory is pretty sucky. When I read those entries, I could for a moment be back in the exact headspace I was when I wrote them. Good for most of those things, not so great for the posts I wrote when in a self-harm space, but nonetheless I do miss being able to read all these things sometimes. However, I have gone on to build other things. I am sad but I am also resigned. if this all blows away, I will rebuild somewhere new.
Beneath the golden balm Settling on the fields Evening steals in calm And farmers count their yields The bee is in the lavender, The honey fills the comb, But here a rain falls never-ending And I am far from home.
Okay I am making a list of artists and their patreons. I know we can’t all afford to support everybody, but I wanted to make sure people can find people.
If you want to help, PM me any artists I might have missed!
This is what i have so far. I know I’m missing people so PLEASE let me know and I’ll add you or anyone you see I don’t have on here yet
Well it’s turning into more of a directory. So I’ve got artists, their twitters and Ao3s if they have them, patreon, ko-fi and shop links. Please keep sending me more
To make this easier, I made a google form so you can fill out your own info if you’re an artist. Please keep passing this around!
Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Greg Lestrade/Greg Lestrade’s Wife, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade Characters: Greg Lestrade, Greg Lestrade’s Wife, Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes Additional Tags: Annulment, Infidelity, greg is faithful, Biphobia, Divorce, Friends to Lovers, slow courtship, mystrade, Mycroft is a gentleman, Missy Lestrade has been given too many chances, First Meetings Summary:
Lestrade is a patient and forgiving man but even he has limits. Mycroft has been biding his time too.
I wrote this essay for the “future of fandom” issue of Transformative Works and Cultures. It is written as a design fiction, which is a cousin to fanfiction in the same way that speculative fiction is – it imagines a possible future.
It traces fandom’s past, through its present, and finally what the future might hold for a fandom community that continues to “own the servers.”
“As Henry Jenkins said many years ago, ‘Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk’ (Harmon 1997). We may not own the myths, but owning the servers is also a form of damage repair, where we’ve reasserted the values of our community. The future of fandom is particularly bright because of how far we’ve come, the path we’ve taken to get here, and the amazing things we’ve built along the way.”
I’m reblogging this in the wake of the announcement about Tumblr’s banning of adult content because the piece linked here was basically a fanfiction about the best outcome for fandom in this exact circumstance:
“What I hope this thought exercise emphasizes is that fandom is not helpless to external forces—to platforms, industries, or even policies. Though of course the realization of the optimistic legal and cultural changes I described here would make our work much easier, part of the story as well is that we can help drive them. The success of AO3 already suggests that we can do the impossible. And though we might only have influence and not control over the law or the media industry, there are some things that we can think about, like organizing around technical education for interested fans.”
In other words: All is not lost. The result of this happening ten years ago with LiveJournal was OTW and AO3.
Maybe we need a Social Platform Of Our Own. Maybe we can do that.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Victor Trevor/Original Female Character Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Victor Trevor Additional Tags: Past polyamorous relationship, Erotic Photography, First Kiss, Nude Modeling, Nude Photos Summary:
Photographs scattered across the floor… along with John’s preconceived notions.
In light of the most recent developments (re: a wide and ineffective anti-nudity measure), we should take a moment to appreciate the unpaid work of one man, who worked hard and plugged many leaking holes to keep tumblr afloat against all odds.
I am, of course, talking about the XKit guy.
Thank you, XKit guy, for helping so many of us make sense of this Titanic of a website.
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