Hello once again, and a reminder that I have to keep in mind as well: the popular conception of a thing or a character is often not what that thing or character is. And while it's easy to spot when there's obvious lying going on that leads to accusations like queer books or critical race theory being "forced" upon children in school settings, we have to be equally aware of the more subtle things that want to make Captain Kirk into Zap Brannigan.
A character that was supposed to appear once in Deep Space Nine ended up becoming a regular because the actor cast to play him came prepared and was very well-liked by everyone. Kind of like how Roman Torchwick stuck around in RWBY, or Axel became something more than just one of the Thirteen, and so forth. Sometimes bringing yourself into any role you get turns out really well for you.
The Archive of Our Own will be implementing methods for blocking user interactions. This is good, and looks like it's tied to an account primary key, so that simple renames and pseuds won't be able to evade it. (Presumably, a person creating an entirely new Archive account would be able to evade the ban, at which point someone flags them up to Policy and Abuse for a ToS violation.) The news post also has a refresher on how someone can create sutom work skins for browsing the Archive that will mute the presence of a user, a work, a tag, etc. so that it will be silently screened out of search results. Which, looking at the CSS, means that the option in the list is still loaded from the database search, but is simply "none"'d out of visual existence. (I wonder if that also works on screenreaders.)
For as much as someone's favorite demagogue wants to bemoan the "cancel culture" at the direction of a "woke mob" going after people for not being sufficiently aligned with their extremist beliefs, if you actually listen to people who have removed creators and properties from their lives, it's much more a matter of grief than anything else. In the transformative works world, it becomes a question of whether or not to continue to do things in the fandom as a specific "fuck you" to the creator that has turned out to be terrible, or whether to give up the fandom because there's no way of separating or reclaiming something for yourself.
And sometimes, the fans do far better for parts of the canon than the original and the official deuterocanon does.
( All This And More )
Last for this entry, the virtue of archiving and keeping the record of your culture and fandom, because the people who are going to study your culture and fandom are going to learn a lot from the stuff that you think is ephemeral, or not of the best quality, or something silly and indulgent. And because not everyone keeps their material online forever, so the more copies of a thing there are, the more likely it is to survive to a point where it will become an important cultural artifact. For as much as that post about studying My Immortal as a serious work of literature is a shitpost, there's a grain of truth - it very well could be the lucky thing that survives long enough to be considered an example of serious literature, much like how we study Shakespeare, dick jokes and all, like it's a serious corpus. (And don't have record of many of the contemporaries that would let us judge Shakespeare in his context.)
A series of new gender possibilities, according to various drop-down menus found on the Internet.
And getting to have some fun with your fellow Senators about a visit of BTS (the K-Pop group) to the White House and who should be going to meet them. Because yes, there's still the need for some levity in between the seriousness.
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A character that was supposed to appear once in Deep Space Nine ended up becoming a regular because the actor cast to play him came prepared and was very well-liked by everyone. Kind of like how Roman Torchwick stuck around in RWBY, or Axel became something more than just one of the Thirteen, and so forth. Sometimes bringing yourself into any role you get turns out really well for you.
The Archive of Our Own will be implementing methods for blocking user interactions. This is good, and looks like it's tied to an account primary key, so that simple renames and pseuds won't be able to evade it. (Presumably, a person creating an entirely new Archive account would be able to evade the ban, at which point someone flags them up to Policy and Abuse for a ToS violation.) The news post also has a refresher on how someone can create sutom work skins for browsing the Archive that will mute the presence of a user, a work, a tag, etc. so that it will be silently screened out of search results. Which, looking at the CSS, means that the option in the list is still loaded from the database search, but is simply "none"'d out of visual existence. (I wonder if that also works on screenreaders.)
For as much as someone's favorite demagogue wants to bemoan the "cancel culture" at the direction of a "woke mob" going after people for not being sufficiently aligned with their extremist beliefs, if you actually listen to people who have removed creators and properties from their lives, it's much more a matter of grief than anything else. In the transformative works world, it becomes a question of whether or not to continue to do things in the fandom as a specific "fuck you" to the creator that has turned out to be terrible, or whether to give up the fandom because there's no way of separating or reclaiming something for yourself.
And sometimes, the fans do far better for parts of the canon than the original and the official deuterocanon does.
( All This And More )
Last for this entry, the virtue of archiving and keeping the record of your culture and fandom, because the people who are going to study your culture and fandom are going to learn a lot from the stuff that you think is ephemeral, or not of the best quality, or something silly and indulgent. And because not everyone keeps their material online forever, so the more copies of a thing there are, the more likely it is to survive to a point where it will become an important cultural artifact. For as much as that post about studying My Immortal as a serious work of literature is a shitpost, there's a grain of truth - it very well could be the lucky thing that survives long enough to be considered an example of serious literature, much like how we study Shakespeare, dick jokes and all, like it's a serious corpus. (And don't have record of many of the contemporaries that would let us judge Shakespeare in his context.)
A series of new gender possibilities, according to various drop-down menus found on the Internet.
And getting to have some fun with your fellow Senators about a visit of BTS (the K-Pop group) to the White House and who should be going to meet them. Because yes, there's still the need for some levity in between the seriousness.
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adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
