Day: August 9, 2016
THE FIRST SUPERNATURAL FANFICTION APPRECIATION CHALLENGE IS COMING AUGUST 14TH THROUGH AUGUST 20TH.
There are 141,576 works on AO3 listed under the Supernatural fandom. On fanfic.net there are 115,000 and on Livejournal there are more than we can even fathom. Fanfiction is and always has been a crucial part of the Supernatural fan experience, but more often than not, the authors who take hours, days, week, months, even years to write these fictions get little to no feedback. It’s time for that to change.
THE CHALLENGE
For each day of the week, fanfiction readers will choose fics that fit a theme. The list is below:
Favorite Author Sunday: Choose an author to feature. You can choose one that you love in particular, or choose a few!
BONUS CHALLENGE: Read a fic of theirs you’ve never read before and give it kudos/likes/comments/ect. Rec it on your blog afterwards.Long Fic Monday: Pick your favorite ‘long fic’ (over 10k words).
BONUS CHALLENGE: Choose more than one to feature on your blog and let the authors know you promoted their work.Team Free Will Tuesday: Choose your favorite “TFW” ship (Wincest, Destiel, Sastiel, Wincestiel, or Gen) and promote your favorite fic.
BONUS CHALLENGE: Read a fic from a TFW pairing you’ve never read for before.Short Fic Wednesday: Choose a ‘short fic’ or ‘drabble’ (under 10k words). BONUS CHALLENGE: Try writing your own drabble and post it!
Underappreciated Fic Thursday: Choose a less well known fanfic that has 500 notes/kudos/reblogs or below.
BONUS CHALLENGE: Go to the first page of AO3′s ‘Supernatural’ tag and read the first fic you find there. Leave a comment if you liked it!Wayward Friday: Choose a fic with SPN women as the main pairing/group. (Ex. Jody, Donna, Alex, Anna, Cassie, Kali, Billie, Jo, Claire ect.) They cannot be the side pairing to a M/M one.
BONUS CHALLENGE: Let a femslash author know that you enjoy their work. This is one of the least reached areas of fandom when M/M gets way more attention than F/F pairings. Let’s give them tons of love!
Open-Ended Saturday: Is there a fic that didn’t fit the other categories? Feature it now!
BONUS CHALLENGE: If you’re a writer, self rec yourself today. You deserve to get recognition for your work, too!THE RULES:
You can use any form of media to promote these fics. Write reviews, create art, design graphics or gifsets to accompany your fics of choice. Anything you feel will give this fic more recognition goes.
Tag #ficlovechallenge when you post your promotion. Everything in the tag will be reblogged to the official challenge blog (under construction!).
Please put a link to the fic you’re recommending in your post.
Tag your ships! This is a challenge for all ends of the SPN community, but we want people to be able to blacklist ships they don’t want on their dash. Be considerate of your other fanfic readers.
If you’re lost on where to begin, this is a template you can go off of:
Fic Name:
Fic Author:
Word Count:
Link to Fic:
Thoughts on Fic:This format is not required, but for those who are unsure of what to do, this is a good beginning point. Remember, you don’t need to create art to participate. You can write a review, praise your favorite fics, and tag your authors! An example post will probably be on the challenge blog when it’s up and going too.
You do not need to post for all days if you do not want. Post whenever works for you!
The big rule: in your post, link to the fic! We won’t accept it otherwise.
Questions? Comments? Ideas? I’d love to listen to them all! The best way to get a hold of me is through Tumblr IM because asks can get eaten. Promos of this are greatly appreciated! If this goes well, possibly it will become a bi-monthly thing? If the interest is there, I could bring in a few co-admins and do this again. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves 🙂
That is all I can think of right now! I’m positive they’ll be questions, so feel free to ask them. The blog won’t be on default theme for long, and I’ll update you all when it’s ready to go. Let’s give fic writers love!
They say they hate it, but I think they love it.
Robert Singer on fans not liking bad character decisions but watching still after the fact (via SDCC 2016: https://youtu.be/P4RV-CeBdUs)
Yeah that’s definitely why there are 140,000 fics on AO3 alone correcting your bullshit decisions and why hundreds of mini-fics and codas pop up on Tumblr after every episode. Because we secretly want it all exactly as-is~ you fucking moron
(via apocalypse-patisserie)
Wow, this is actually terrifying. This is the same fucking message as ‘Blurred Lines.’ It’s the same misogynistic, dismissive shit that female fans have been hearing all their lives from show runners and gatekeepers. What utter horse shit. What disrespectful, ugly behavior and what a stupid thing to say. Way to completely ignore and demean your own fucking fanbase, you clod.
(via ozonecologne)
Can you imagine the changes to the workforce and how we treated workers if no one HAD to work to survive?
Like often I see these complaints about a universal basic income that are like “well then no one would work!” and I think there are lots of people motivated to have more money even when they have enough to get by, but I also I think, that’s kind of true, if regular employment looked and functioned the way it does now.
But with UBI if both employers and society wanted people in certain jobs those jobs would have to offer more than just “you need us to survive”. They’d have to offer satisfaction and community and purpose.
Imagine the changes places like WalMart and McDonalds would have to make to how they run their enterprise if they had to woo and entice their employees into wanting to be there. Imagine the end of “the customer is always right”, both because employers know their workers won’t put up with and because consumers are forced to have a respect for workers choosing to do this with their time to make the community function when they don’t have to.
Imagine the progress to automation and technology now that we don’t have to worry about unemployment as a result. So instead of a store having 40 employees, they have 10 and automated self check out and price scanners and store apps you can pay on, and automated self-driving bots to keep inventory and restock at night. (And that’s when you don’t just order online, shopping in-store is now inherently a Boutique experience).
But those ten remaining employees are So Valued by the company, and so carefully educated and trained and respected as experts in what they do. People go “you could do that when you grow up, help people shop and find what they need and know what products are best for them.” And it wouldn’t be an insult like “you’ll wind up flipping burgers”, but instead a respected option “you can help people have warm fresh food in one of the oldest and most prestigious international groups in the world, and look at their travel programs and free clubs and classes” (McDonalds wins the Fast Food Mario Kart Tournament every year, their team is best in the nation and if you want a good esports program you work at McDonalds).
Evidence shows people would still work. Evidence shows people want to improve their situations and want to have structure in their lives. Evidence shows the only populations who take advantage of a UBI to not work are students who choose to focus more on their studies and new mothers, who choose to spend more time with their kids.
But it would increase the bargaining power and social power of the average employee by so much. They’d have the option to walk away. And employers would know it and consumers would know it and employees would know it. So if we wanted it to keep working, employers would have to start catering to their employees wellbeing and health and happiness as well as their wallet.
And it would be so good.
This is exactly the kind of future that I want, and it always amazes me at how much pushback there is to the idea that people don’t have to work to live.
Imagine all the talent that’s wasted because they went and got a job in order to pay their bills; people like Rebecca Sugar are at this very moment toiling away at JoAnnes and Walmart, they could make just as amazing content if they had the chance. The only difference between amazing creators we love like Alex Hirsch and Noelle Stevens and everyone else is that they got a CHANCE and lucked out enough that it took them somewhere. There are more people who never got the chance because life got in the way and money is necessary for living. I feel so bad for all the amazing creations, books, music, art that is lost because people feel that you ‘have to earn’ a ‘living’. As if creating art isn’t living.
I was thinking about queer Discworld headcanons and it led to consideration of marriage in Ankh Morpork and here have some headcanons
#nicey nicey#are there also common-law marriages?#they were done in elizabethan england#and it would make sense for people in ankh morpork who cant read or cant be bothered to go to a temple or w/e#so they just make vows in front of a witness and that does#also it would be an opportunity for Hilarious Misunderstandings#like when tudor people got married by accident via @misterquark
I actually had headcanons about this and forgot to say!! Yeah, I definitely think AM has common law marriage. I was thinking of it in terms of marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute, rather than declaration de presenti (probably bc habit-and-repute is the form that common law marriage still takes in most of the US states where it’s legal, of which there actually are some, so that’s what I am familiar with) but I bet both totally exist (apparently you used to be able to do both in Scotland at one point?)
Anyway so I think it’s very common to just move in with your spouse, call yourself their spouse, and live together as spouses and that is one form into which you can enter a marriage (I feel like there’s Fake-Accidentally-To-Real Marrieds potential here somewhere) or you can go up to a couple of witnesses and be like “we’re married okay? okay cool*” and, as you say, Hilarious Misunderstandings
side note but I bet in Lancre, marriage by declaration in the presence of witnesses is the most common thing? if you Really Want To you can get the king to do you a certificate or something but most people don’t bother about it
*i know TECHNICALLY it’s more complex than that but that is, i feel, the gist of most marriage vows
yess i love the lancre one omg!! isnt there a bit when he says nanny was only actually married to some of her husbands? also i bet a witch can marry people and they wouldnt need a piece of paper bc if one half tried to pretend it wasnt real the witch would Remember
smol bab at dinner last night
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