redgeryon37
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*rubbing hands together like Doofenshmirtz* you Better bury your gays... somewhere I can't find them... I'm coming for them...
Texas has these days where the sky is so blue, you imagine you could scoop it into your palms and take a sip. Blue enough to touch, and surreal enough to quench some undefinable thirst.
It was under these skies that Sarah Jane “Spider” spent her adolescence, and learned to differentiate colors.
AN ALNST AU IM GONNA SOBBBB
@gremlinblogs
I think the funniest jumpscare I've ever experienced was when I was like 17 and touring a university with my class and they had a dental program there and they also had motion activated lights and we were following the guide down a hallway and they had a bunch of fake dental office rooms and as we passed each room the lights were activated and they were all empty except for one which had a dummy on the dental chair with an unhinged mouth filled with realistic teeth and let me tell you the experience of walking in front of a window only for it to light up to reveal that was so genuinely horrifying
something something despite the all horrors and tragedies of the world, love was there and that's all that matters
this au is my new roman empire
a jayvik dbh au that has been on my mind for a while, really interested with the idea of viktor being the one to pull the "reanimate ur partner from the dead" shtick
aka, oopsie the android you created because you couldn't get over the death of your partner actually possesses a will to live and shatters your view of the line between humanity and machinery!!
heavy is a feeling I like
oh my god this is incredible
i fear i locked in too hard with kagehina….
i love You
in 2025 let’s bring back being enthusiastic on ao3. leave a comment on every chapter. leave kudos and, if necessary, leave “double kudos” in the comments. tags and notes on bookmarks. the whole nine yards. let’s show fanfic authors how much we love them.
Not one but TWO of the quotes in here are from books on my to-read list... I will reblog this because a. it's neat and b. as a reminder to myself to read them
my bad.
Letters To Milena, Franz Kafka // My Poems: Selected Poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, Marina Tsvetaeva // Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami // Night Shift, Stephen King
when jeremy tries to make small talk on the drive home from the airport and makes the mistake of asking jean's major
End OTW Racism: A Call To Action
A fan protest against the lack of action from the OTW on addressing issues of harassment and racism on AO3 and within the organization
This is a Call To Action for Fans of Color and Allies
AO3 has acknowledged that they have a harassment & racism problem that its parent organization, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), needs to address. Currently, people can use AO3 to harass others through fanworks, comments, and tags. Just a few examples include: racist Untamed “spitefic” that used anti-Indigenous slurs and was written specifically to lash out at fans of color; a Transformer fic that used its Black-coded character to reenact George Floyd’s murder in July 2020; someone naming a fandom scholar who criticized their Nazi omegaverse fic in the tags of the fic specifically to incite harassment to the scholar; writers using racial slurs against commenters who pointed out racism in their hockey fic; and so much more.
In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, the OTW committed to addressing these issues. It has been nearly three years and they have not yet implemented any of the changes they promised, other than a blocking/muting tool that was already in development before 2020. We need to hold the OTW accountable to their own promises. (See the section further down on “Why Are We Doing This” for even more detail.)
As fans, together, we are powerful. We are organizing to protest the lack of action on promises made by the Organization for Transformative works to deal with issues of racism and harassment on their platform, Archive of Our Own.
We call on fans to do any or all of the following actions any time between May 17 to 31, 2023 to send a message to AO3 and OTW that we will hold them to their promises.
On AO3
Change the title of ten (or more!) of your most recent or most popular fanworks to include ‘End Racism in the OTW’ in the beginning, and provide a link to this post in your summary or first/top creator’s note
Post a new fanwork any time between May 17th to 31st with “End Racism in the OTW” either as the title or at the beginning of the title. The fanwork does not have to be long - it can be a 100-word fic, a quick sketch, a podfic of a ficlet, a 20-second vid/edit, a short piece of meta, etc. In the summary or first/top creator’s note, provide a link to this post
If updating any WIPs with a new chapter, add ‘End Racism in the OTW’ to the title and provide a link back to this post in your summary or first/top author’s note
Update your AO3 icon using the profile pic graphic in our Social Media Toolkit
Plan to maintain these changes until May 31, 2023, or longer if you wish
Send a message to the OTW asking for an update on their 2020 commitments!
For Readers: leave encouraging comments on fanworks with the "End Racism in the OTW" title to show your support of this initiative.
On tumblr
Reblog this Call to Action with the tag #End OTW Racism
Update your profile pics and banners using the graphics in our Social Media Toolkit
Follow this account for updates and signal boost our posts
On Twitter
Follow @/EndOTWRacism (remove the backslash) and signal boost our pinned tweet
Update your profile pics and banners using our graphics, and change your display name to include #EndOTWRacism
Use sample tweets and graphics from our Social Media Toolkit to tweet about your fanworks, and use the hashtag #EndOTWRacism
Help us make this a long-term campaign - sign up to help with other anti-racism projects and future actions!
What Do We Want?
Since their June 2020 statement, OTW has been working on updating their Terms of Service (TOS) to address racist and bigoted harassment, but with little transparency and only the vaguest of updates. It has been three years since their commitment to this update - we want to see the results of their work implemented in the next 6-12 months. Their TOS updates and complementary policies should include:
Harassment policies that can be regularly updated to address both on-site harassment and off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users, with updated protocols for the Policy & Abuse Team to ensure consistent and informed resolutions of abuse claims
A content policy on abusive (extremely racist and extremely bigoted) content; by abusive, we are talking about fanworks that are intentionally used to spread hate and harassment, not those that accidentally invoke racist or other bigoted stereotypes
These points are not particularly new and are not our own innovation; please refer to Stitch's article written over two years ago, asking for several of these very things.
OTW has also already committed to various process-based actions for longer-term works towards centering antiracism, including hiring a Diversity Consultant. The last update that OTW published said that the consultant would be hired within the next five years (after already having had three years to work on it since their original commitment). That is not soon enough. We want to see the following process-based actions implemented:
Hiring a Diversity Consultant within the next 3-6 months
Committing to a policy of transparency on this topic, with quarterly updates on the progress of these projects including challenges and their plan for overcoming those challenges. These quarterly updates should be published on OTW News page and newsletters, not solely discussed in Board meetings
Why Are We Doing This?
16 years ago, Astolat famously published her manifesto calling for a fandom Archive of One’s Own. In that time, AO3 has grown to be a central pillar of fandom, likely far outstripping its founders’ original vision. It is more than just an archive now; it is a central hub of the modern fannish experience. AO3 and the OTW must continue to grow and evolve with fandom over time to remain a healthy and functioning pillar of fandom. To that end, there are several areas in which the organization, as it admits itself, is lacking.
In June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the uprising of the Black Lives Matter Movement, The OTW published a “This Week in Fandom” referencing the works of Dr. Rukmini Pande and Stitch, among others in which they discussed ‘making change for a better society’ through ‘conversations about race and racism’. In response, Dr. Pande and Stitch submitted a letter to the OTW calling for a more formal public statement than an offhand reference in a News Roundup that only served to call for thoughts and discussion without any indication the organization intended to do anything, policy wise, to address the issues being raised.
Eventually, the organization did remove the references to the works of Dr. Pande and Stitch and then made an official statement on the issue of racism within the organization and AO3. In it, they identified several things they would be prioritizing to combat harassment and benefit users. Some of those have been implemented (notably those that were already under development). However as of this writing, little else has been done especially in regards to:
Improving admin tools for the Policy & Abuse team
Reassessing the current mandatory archive warnings with the possibility of implementing others
And, most importantly, reviewing the Terms of Service (TOS) to allow the Policy & Abuse team to address harassment that is currently not covered by the existing TOS
By their own admission, the current tools and policies of the OTW are not sufficient to deal with issues of harassment and racism.
Several people who were involved in the founding of the OTW, including previous OTW Board members and staff on the original OTW Content Policy Committee, acknowledge that the founding of the OTW in 2008 and early board iterations failed us as a fandom by not doing enough, and by not even considering the way racism is perpetuated in fannish spaces, despite a long history of racism in fandom.
It has been nearly three years since the original commitment by the organization with little visible, measurable progress on these three crucial issues and a complete lack of transparency on where they are in regards to even beginning to deal with these issues. In fact, in Q&As, it was heavily implied by a member of the board that those calling for OTW to deal with issues of racism (which OTW had already acknowledged as a problem!) were not really fans but outside agitators.
This has cast significant doubt on the organization's sincerity and commitment to their stated goals, and on their position as leaders of a central fan tent-pole. Fans of color are not outsiders. They are right here, members of our community, and they are being harassed and targeted and driven out while space and platforms are being given to racists.
We, as fans of color and our allies, find the current state of fandom and current actions (and lack thereof) unacceptable. Fandom is our space, all of ours. We, as a fandom, have a right to a racism-free space and have a duty to our fellow fans to create that space. Unlike so much of the world, this is a space we can control and make better. It is a space we must make better. To read even more about this movement, visit our FAQs.
early high school
"yeah i might be in love with my straight best friend but im taking ap physics so idk about that rn"
this is a post that you would make
gremlin's daily thoughts 01/08/25
guys my moms button maker makes those small buttons
im defo gonna make a Spider-Man button but I wonder what else
doctor who, criminal minds, OMFG I CAN MAKE SOME RUDE ASS BUTTONS
im so excited 😆
*whisper* kageyama toss toss pls toss kageyama toss pls toss kage-
equations are so freaky man... like wdym I can do whatever I want to you as long as I do it to both sides... freaky ahh numbers....
im going to write you into a fucking luigi mangioni fanfic
asanoya this asanoya that,,,,, me personally i ship asahi and some damn prozac
asanoya this asanoya that,,,,, me personally i ship asahi and some damn prozac
thoughts empty except for just how absolutely feral yamaguchi would go against any girl/boy that broke tsukishima's heart
II. "Each"
He lay very straight
in the fantastic temperatures
of the red pulse as it sank away and he thought about the difference
between outside and inside.
Inside is mine, he thought. The next day Geryon and his brother
went to the beach.
They swam and practiced belching and ate jam-and-sand sandwiches on a blanket.
Geryon's brother found an American dollar bill
and gave it to Geryon. Geryon found a piece of an old war helmet and hid it.
That was also the day
he began his autobiography. In this work Geryon set down all inside things
particularly his own heroism
and early death much to the despair of the community. He coolly omitted
all outside things.
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
obsessed with this concept
i remember the time i was eating breakfast cereal with the tv behind me. and all of a sudden. with absolutely no warning. i hear david rossi. naturally i think, THE HELL?? CRIMINAL MINDS HAS NO BUSINESS BEING ON THE CHANNEL FOR FOX NEWS.
it was an ad.
anyways thank you joe mantegna for blessing my tv on a fine sunday morning.
(no one: me: HOLY SHIT ITS JOE MANTEGNA my confused grandpa: who tf is joe mantegna)
my inner monologue part 1
when you got that mucus in you and you turn into the hawk tuah girl but instead of spitting on a thing you spit into a trashcan like a rootin tootin point n shootin cowboy
Sendai Frogs, hanging out for the first time:
Kogane: Wait, so "Mad Dog" isn't even like a proper nickname?
Kyotani: NO! it's just something that asshole Oikawa called me. And I hate it. I've always hated it.
Kogane: Well if it's not your preferred nickname we can always give you something better.
Tsukki: Yeah, you really hate it?
Kyotani: YES. It's so annoying. I hate nick names in general, just call me-
Tsukki, the worst person to tell when something annoys you: Mad Frog.
Kogane: Ohhhhhhh Mad Frog
Kyotani:
Tsukki:
Kogane:
Mad Frog: I fucking hate both of you.
new fic on ao3
hey y'all!! please check out my new fic "A Prozac-Taker's Guide to Leading a Boys' Volleyball Club". I already have the rest of it outlined!!
A Prozac-Taker's Guide To Leading a Boys' Volleyball Club (1540 words) by redgeryon37 Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Haikyuu!! Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Akaashi Keiji & Bokuto Koutarou, Akaashi Keiji/Bokuto Koutarou
P.S. If you liked this, take a look at my other, longer fic, Mutual Weirdness, and Call It Love
haikyuu is incredible man…
you ever think about the fact that some people exist not to become stars but to lead others towards the light? ….
hinata was so moved by the little giant that his life found meaning the moment he came into his life (and the little giant never really ended up becoming a pro volleyball player in the first place despite his drive and talent!)
nekomata sensei’s “all we have to do is to lower the net!” shaped kuroo’s entire existence. it left such an impression on him that kuroo turned it into his goal in life: helping as many people as possible discover volleyball.
kuroo himself never going pro but becoming instead a bridge between people and volleyball (which he loves so dearly he wants to make it everyone’s business).
takeda sensei’s “He Who Would Climb a Ladder Must Begin at the Bottom” (which he says to hinata during his first year) became so meaningful to him that hinata hanged it on the wall of his bedroom in Brazil.
sugawara becoming a teacher and getting emotional when facing hinata (to whom he used to set when kageyama refused to do it) and kageyama (who quite literally took what had been his place up until the moment he came) and their growth.
you might think you will never end up doing anything great. instead, i believe you might not end up doing something grand, but whatever it is that you do in life it will always be great and you simply never know whether that one thing you said once or that one thing you once did will ever become the driving force behind someone else’s dream.
i burst into tears whenever i think about haikyuu and the importance of people.
awkward loser Kageyama,,,, you will always be my no. 1 (he's just like me fr)
Lol manga Shoyo is hilarious, him casually roasting Kags always cracks me up