On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”
On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.
Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…
HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!
1992 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed
1995 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites
1995 - Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere
1997 - Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites
1998 - AOL goes after X-Files fansites
2000 - Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites
2000 - Anne Rice anne rices again
2001 - Tripod Massacre
2001 - Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN
2001 - The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks
2002 - FFN bans porn
2002 - FFN bans RPF
2003 - Gryffindor Tower implodes
2004 - FFN bans script format
2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic
2005 - Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded
2005 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again
2006 - Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes
2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal
2007 - Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids
2008 - Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it
2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites
2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted
2009 - Marvel gets scans_daily deleted
2009 - imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly
2010 - FFN forums purged for inactivity
2010 - DeviantArt purges adult fanfic
2010 - Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN
2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence
2011 - China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org
2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn
2012 - Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic
2013 - Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content
2014 - Quizilla shuts down
2014 - China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors
2014 - Blip.tv deletes vids
2014 - Viddler deletes vids
2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank
2016 - y!Gallery deleted
2016 - Elfwood goes offline
2016 - Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic
2017 - Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama
2017 - Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad
2018 - Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs
2018 - Tumblr announces NSFW ban
2018 - Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning
2019 - China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed
This is only a small taste of the many times that:
Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.
Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.
Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.
Fans grudge reported each other.
Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.
It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.
Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.
This is why we need AO3.
And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.
Lil bonus pages for ep1, mostly becuse I wanted the Goyles and One to interact a bit more
first / prev / masterpost
Hiiiiiiiiii everyone in everywere and mister @moringmark
Travel log : 11-12-19
This is a great idea I've been thinking about since I saw the design announcement of sending an egg into space.
the situation of sending the egg into space just for sending it seemed very short
Why?
is why I like to think about things, maybe.
So,I planned the entire mission to colonize an uninhabited planet with the optimal conditions for the development of the wells.
First healthy eggs are collected and fertilized making sure you have 2 feet of breeding:
two females and one male that would be 4 females and 2 males, this ensures a stable genetic variety. the second is an incubator that gives them the rotation, humidity and temperature necessary for the chicks to occur.
Third would be to ensure a constant supply of food that mixes with the local fauna and flora but also give a balanced diet to chickens and their future offspring
also a water tank that collects the humidity of the environment and is stored in addition to having a pump included for when it is necessary to water the plants or fill the drinking fountains.
Also a seed germinator for the first seasons or emergency.
Also things for birds, such as shelter, drinking fountains, medicines, nests and various things... 🤔
The ship has several layers of protection to ensure a safe trip through space to the destination planet, all-terrain tires and an AI that monitors the internal and external conditions of the ship and crew with robot arms to take care of all animals and also with a self-repair protocol.
And I think it's all, I can't draw more why my hand hurt but I hope you like it
and the mission is called: EGGNIZATION
(because is a colonization with eggs 😅)
I also made a small flag why every mission needs a flag!!!
Moonface out.. peace ✌️
end of travel log
We win
I’m not the best with words, so I’ll try what I can, but It’s almost impossible to describe the sheer amount of joy I had yesterday evening because of the takeover
The excitement you could feel from everything that was happening was so strong that at one point I thought “damn, I wanna partecipate in this as well” after quickly remembering that I was the takeover.
Never would I thought that so many of you joined, the dedication in every fanart, meme, animatic, fanfiction, edit that I saw could be absolutely felt through your work and passion.
Seeing all the fandom joined together and so passioned and joyful for something so small as my silly comic kind of teared me up. It motivates me and brighten my day knowing that some of you find comforts in my update
In just 2 hours we were able to make the fandom tag trend, and it reached number one a couple of hours later.
But! Even for just a little, you did the impossible!
More than 700 posts have been posted during the takeover, and I’m absolutely STUNNED by all that you created!!
A deal is a deal! Prepare yourself, because tomorrow you are in for a treat.
You all deserved it! Just for your information, even if the tag didn’t succeed to trend, I would have gave you the double update anyway, no way I would have left all your dedication unrewarded.
Have a small Spicynoodle doodle for now as my appreciation of all of you! Thank you again from the bottom of my heart!💜
I lied y’all it was 26 panels of soysauce duo Hurt/Comfort.
(There will be an art Q&A at the end of it so BE SURE TO BE THERE LIVE!)
MK: is baby
Me, on the ground: I love him, I love him to death
SBP - Second Star ( PREV / FIRST / NEXT )
Next Part is coming on May 4th, 1PM ET
Wiiiiiiii will revive with new content and more ZADr, forever in this fandom forever is my favorite channel
reblog if you agree
I get asked a lot for tips with coloring black people, so i put together a little tutorial! (and bumps my kofi if you found this helpful)
Shadowpeach AU pt9+10
I've decided to do another part to make up for the 2 month wait
Credit to @kyri45 as the artist!
All voices done by me
Well, i have created an AU wooohoo~
It’s a pretty simple one, a yandere Dib that will kill anyone that touches the alien he now “owns”, going to some points of hurting Zim for not doing what he said.
Zim here is a poor irken that was send to Earth to try and conquer it, however when he meets Dib he inmediately calls his tallest to take him out of there, but the tallest insist on making him stay on there.
That’s what i have so far, with time i’ll go adding more stuff~
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This is another really old one that I still really like, based off of the fanfic ‘step, two, three’ by Pittedpeaches on ao3 :]
I believe this is my first time trying to render something seriously, some of the colors turned out a little muddy but knowing this whole thing was created using my extremely limited knowledge on lighting is inane to me
these two lego bricks shaped an entire era of my existence lemme tell ya that
Closeups: