WOLFSTAR GIRLDADS!!!!

Okay so this is cassie (oc) she’s wolfstar’s adopted werewolf daughter, i’ve seen this headcanon floating around and it just made me really soft. I made her a while ago with some friends and she’s very special to me, so bc of that i also ask that if you use her please give me credit. It would make me really sad to see her get stolen:(

Also this background took fucking forever omg but it was worth it🤍

they are so gd cute it makes me SICK

source: whoisflattery

AO3’s actual rules regarding their tagging system

Because apparently some people still can’t get it through their thick heads that tagging is a courtesy and not a must, I made a compilation of what AO3 has to say about tags in their ToS.

Most of this is about the Archive Warnings, but I’ve found that there is little difference in the use between them and the General Tags.

the ToS FAQ in question:

Tagging and rating is ENTIRELY up to the creator’s discretion.

Creators are, of course, encouraged by AO3 to use the appropriate ratings and warnings. But they are not required.

I highlighted a line in blue to also show what exactly is most encouraged to warn. People treating trivial tags like “Top [character]” as triggering content for them is invalidating towards the actual triggering content, i.e suicide, sexual harassment, and abuse.

Even then, Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings and Not-Rated exist if a creator simply chooses to not use certain tags.

Readers are not entitled to tell creators how to tag their own works.

As highlighted (in blue), the only reason AO3 may decide to intervene is if an Archive Warning is misleading. Which means if a work has content from any of the Archive Warnings and is not tagged with them. Not even with the “Choose Not To Use Warnings”.

It’s the readers’ responsibility, not the creators’, to exclude the latter warning from their search if they do not wish to come across works that may have content from the other warnings.

You can see what AO3 says about it here:

I will clarify that this is still about the Archive Warnings. Which are Major Character Death, Underage, Rape/Non-Con, and Graphic Depictions of Violence. If any of these aren’t included in a work that contains it, but the work does include “Choose To Not Use Warnings”, rules have not been broken.

AO3 can update fanworks as they see fit if they lack any of the categories highlighted in blue.

Nowhere does it say that they will add “Top [character]” just because the work contains it. That’s still the creator’s prerogative.

What's not okay is complaining in creators' comments demanding tags they chose not to include, and then crying about it elsewhere when they're denied.

People create things because they're passionate about it. Art is about sharing what the creator likes, freely given. Views and hits should never be the primary goal of creating. Feedback is nice, sure, but when it's the only thing people think the creator cares about, then we may have a problem. Nothing lasts if what we only care about is what other people have to say.

Each one of us is responsible of curating our own internet experiences. Not giving grief to others when they post things we do not like.

Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.

This needs to be reblogged today.

Consenting to see adult content doesn’t mean you should have to see a bunch of shit romanticizing incest and pedophilia you walnut

Except this is the last line of consent before the actual work. So if you’re at this button you have already done the following:

1) chosen to go onto AO3 in the first place

2) chosen the fandom you wish to read about

3) had the chance to filter for the things you do want to see like a specific pairing or a specific AU

4) had the chance to specifically filter out any tags you don’t want to see like, oh I don’t know, incest and non-con and dub-con and paedophilia

5) had the chance to set the rating level if you wish to remove any explicit content at all

6) have read the summary of the story, which aren’t always great but are the only indicator of what the story will be like writing wise so something about it was good enough for you to click on it.

7) have read the tags of the story which will tell you what is actually in the story. If you have used filters to remove stories with things you don’t want then there shouldn’t be anything in here that’s a shock to you but maybe there is. That’s why the tags are there for you to check for yourself.

8) Then you have to actually click on the story. You cannot see anything other than the summary or the tags without personally deciding that you are going to open and read this story.

9) Only here, at step number nine, do you get to the adult content warning pictured above. You have been through eight different steps, the last six of which have also been opportunities for you to see that this has adult content. And AO3 has *STILL* stopped you to ask one last time “are you sure you want to read this because it has things that only adults should see in it”.

If after this point you are reading incest and paedophilia then it’s probably because you specifically went looking for it.

You walnut.

This is the most beautiful thing that I have seen about ao3

“You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.”

Stop complaining with writers when you dislike a story FGS

This also works when stories are tagged, oh say, infidelity. If you don’t want to read about someone in your OTP being unfaithful (I.E., HAVING SEX WITH A DIFFERENT PERSON), don’t read that freaking story. The tags are there for YOU. So stop complaining when the story contains exactly what the author says it contains. Freaking hell.

If I go to the supermarket, walk down the fish aisle, pick up a salmon fillet, pay for it, take it home, put it in the oven, wait for it, take it out, then take a bite…

I cannot complain to Tesco that I don’t like fish.

One of those fandom things that I love is when there’s new characters around and, with the unwavering confidence of an old farmer appraising cattle, fanfic authors take one good look at them, tilt their imaginary hat, and go “Aye. Praise kink, that one. Mighty case of praise kink if I ever saw one.” And everyone else just “aye.”

Not to mention the plot tropes.

“I don’t think the Highschool AU is going to come in too strong this year. Fandoms a touch jaded for that. But the hurt/comfort is growin’ thick as weeds and twice as fast. It’ll be a good harvest, fer sure.”

@cynaram

“I hear over at [neighbouring fandom] they’re putting the top field into fix-it fics.”

“Yes, ‘twould be.  They had a hard season last year, a right hard season.” 

“You think I ought to plant a little Sailor Moon Wild West AU? Don’t know if anything would come of it. Might not make it to harvest.”

“Won’t know until you plant it, will you?”

“Ah, a heritage crop.”

The shipping forecast.

The Fandom Almanac

No idea who's interested in details of my irl life, but I really wanted to share that thanks to my cute boyfriend I've started LARPing this year for the very first time and it's been so much fun. In a move that surprises literally nobody I'm the official tailor for our new warband and taking it as my personal quest to make everyone look badass, and this week I bought my very first sword.

That's right my darlings I own a sword now, a good quality foam sword perhaps but a sword that I am learning to use, and holy shit this fills me with so much joy. I also have armour, actual proper brigantine armour with all the metal plates etc that covers my full arms and shoulders, and I'm making myself a gambeson as well.

Pics will be posted eventually once I've finished sewing my kit, that is both a threat and a promise.

Feel free to add more info in the tags + please reblog for a larger sample

Being an adult and seeing other people with their kids really makes you understand why and how so many cases that you'd think are obvious examples of child abuse go unnoticed and unreported. It's not that they're not protesting loud enough when they're in distress, but because they also do that when there's no life or death situation at hand. You wouldn't notice a child being kidnapped when you've learned that they'll also fight their parents kicking and screaming when they simply do not want to go into the car. Not because being in the car hurts or because being in daycare is a traumatic experience, or because sitting in the car would be in any way a worse state of being than standing on the street next to the vehicle.

Just fuck this specific transition in particular.

Actually, in my experience of child abuse, it's the suspiciously quiet and well-behaved child you ought to look out for.

My siblings and I were model children in public because we knew full well that if we weren't we could end up missing skin on our buttocks. If one of us started getting upset over anything, the others would look at him with mingled fear and anticipation: we knew he was cruising for a bruising, and horrifying as hearing a sibling wail in pain is, there's also the thrill of knowing it's not you—you're GOOD.

Yeah, it's like drowning: People don't know what it looks like, so they assume that the ones that aren't screaming are fine.

It's strange though, honestly. As a parent I can tell you, whenever my kids do this - throwing a tantrum as if their life depended on it, I think: Oh god, hopefully no one thinks I am doing bad stuff to them. I mean, they scream like they are skinned or something...

Worse if they happen to hurt themselves, especially when it's something constantly used as cover for actual abuse. Like... my boy REALLY slipped and hit his head against the cupboard receiving a tear on his forehead - and we went to the doctor's as soon as we could (late at night you have limited options), and we fully expected to hear from CPS after.

The good thing in our country is, that caretakers are actually educated about the signs of abuse, meaning they do not just look at a single injury and point: "Hah! Got ya!" but take the behaviour and history of the child into account. Still... there are so many people much less educated. As a parent you sweat blood at times...

being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made

“One weird, silver lining positive from the WGA's strike has been a sense of calm over a reality that has plagued me with anxiety for years — the fact that despite having a great agent, manager, and lawyer, despite having been in hundreds of rooms with top execs and producers, despite having pitched countless networks, and despite having sold multiple pilots and pitches, I still work in food and bev. For so long, it felt like such an embarrassment in so many ways because it felt like I was the only one who was biding time in between sales with a side hustle. When I would tell people at work that I wrote television, they'd look at me like I had ten heads, or like I was delusional. They couldn't IMAGINE someone who *actually* wrote television would also be asking them what temp they wanted their salmon.

But the reality is, TV money goes fast, especially when it's just a pilot sale. And if shit doesn't get picked up to series, that money only lasts for so long. Being responsible meant swallowing my pride and keeping a job that was more consistent and steady but also gave me the ability to take pitch meetings, to write on my down time, do rewrites, answer e-mails, and take notes calls.

And for so long I thought I was a minority in that regard. Like I had done something wrong to not be successful enough to rely solely on my career as a writer.

Yet the strike has pushed SO many stories to the forefront of writers doing the exact same thing I've done, GOOD writers, great writers, writers who shit I watch all the time, whose names I instantly recognize, whose reputations in this industry precede them. So when the studios leaked that the goal was to bleed writers dry, to make it so we lost our homes, I had to laugh. Writers like me will literally do anything to keep the dream of writing alive. It's in us. It never goes away, no matter how many steaks you server, how many martinis you mix, how many cold calls you make, how many Uber passengers you pick up, how many pizzas you have to deliver. We always always always find a way to make it to that next great hope of a pitch, a sale, a green light.

And that's how you know that the CEOs are so fucking out of touch with reality. With the industry. With the POINT of the industry the point for most (not all, but most) has never been to be filthy rich, or own a yacht, or even have a membership to SoHo house. It's been to make something we love. To see it come to life, and make other people happy, or sad, or angry, or scared. To take this story you have kicking around your head and turn it into some epic journey. To be part of the process of making worlds and characters come to life. To tell stories.

The CEO's point has been to make as much money as humanly possible. And so they think that's all there is motivating writers. it's not. It never has been. Just because those CEO's wouldn't wait tables or mix drinks or drive a Lyft in order to keep a dream going, doesn't mean the rest of us wouldn't. The CEO's don't have a dream, they have a lifestyle. And I promise you a dream is a much better motivator than a yacht or a Porsche.

Try to bleed us dry, guys. Just because you'd let your own dream bleed to death, doesn't mean we would. We will always find a way to keep it alive.”

—Stefanie Williams, a tv writer on strike

Reblog if you write fanfic and would be totally down with your followers coming into you askbox and talking to you about your fic

or anything really

supporting artists and writers and humans in general is so important actually. leave a few comments or give a nice compliment to those who have touched your soul. so important actually

Dragon riders

Oh my god, I am scared.

I just posted my second original work on AO3, and the first where I did my own world-building. Now it is out there for you to dissect. If you want a taste of it:

Dragon Riders

Please mind the tags

A snippet under the cut.

Tbh the massive outpour of hysteric posts that follows every time ao3 goes down is hilarious, even if I’m right there with everyone