I Actually Drew The Basic Pose For This Before I Knew Who I Wanted It To Be...but After  I Tried To

Stuck between my inner fangirl and my outer shell...

I really hate when this happens. I have a lot of sketches I would love (and really want) to share.....but my outer shell is not used to letting anyone, no matter how anonymous, see that side of me (well, I guess there is one person....but she worked really hard to see it.) So, While my inner fangirl is like, "But we want people to see how crazy we are!" my outershell is all like, "Not all of us. What if someone decided they hated us for it?" And my fangirl replies, "Wasn't the point of this tumblr to let me out and express this mad part of ourselves despite what anyone may think?" .....and now that I've typed all that out and sorted one part.....how much art in one post, or at one time would be considered spamming?

A New History of Fandom Purges

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.

...So I just really wanted to draw chibi art...and I'm not actually sure how this happened...

I dunno what I'm doing. Have another sterek sketch.

This image would not leave me alone....so I sketched it out in PS CS5, but I need to take a break....and I wanted to post the WIP....I'll probably change a few things as I line it and stuff. 

Art for "foot, meet mouth“ By  jonphaedrus on AO3. ♥

Go read, it’s super cute!

I have so much to say about these I almost feel bad...but I'll try not to over type.

I hope it will be noted that faces=optional in my art. Also, I draw girls way better then guys, so most of my anatomy is overly curvy...I'm working on being able to draw more then just girly looking men. But for now...eh What you see is what you get.  

I'm embarrassed to say, but need to clarify, first and last art is supposed to be Destiel.....supposed...middle is s/k. Which is hopefully more recognizable. I'm still working on making people look any kind of realistic.

NSFW? I think clothes are overrated....but I'm not yet comfortable with too many details...also working on my confidence.

P.S. I have a bit of a wing fetish....expect to see them a lot in my art.

....I decided they both needed to be adjusted, cleaned, and colored. ♥

My shoulder is killing me, so I had to stop for today.

Older drawings....but I thought they would be alright for a first arts type of post....and a learning experience.