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Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn’t just an artefact of the television serial format. Rather, it’s because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don’t really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they’re as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn’t actually happen to anyone else; it’s literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis.

on fanfic & emotional continuity

Writing and reading fanfic is a masterclass in characterisation. 

Consider: in order to successfully write two different “versions” of the same character - let alone ten, or fifty, or a hundred - you have to make an informed judgement about their core personality traits, distinguishing between the results of nature and nurture, and decide how best to replicate those conditions in a new narrative context. The character you produce has to be recognisably congruent with the canonical version, yet distinct enough to fit within a different - perhaps wildly so - story. And you physically can’t accomplish this if the character in question is poorly understood, or viewed as a stereotype, or one-dimensional. Yes, you can still produce the fic, but chances are, if your interest in or knowledge of the character(s) is that shallow, you’re not going to bother in the first place. 

Because ficwriters care about nuance, and they especially care about continuity - not just literal continuity, in the sense of corroborating established facts, but the far more important (and yet more frequently neglected) emotional continuity. Too often in film and TV canons in particular, emotional continuity is mistakenly viewed as a synonym for static characterisation, and therefore held anathema: if the character(s) don’t change, then where’s the story? But emotional continuity isn’t anti-change; it’s pro-context. It means showing how the character gets from Point A to Point B as an actual journey, not just dumping them in a new location and yelling Because Reasons! while moving on to the next development. Emotional continuity requires a close reading, not just of the letter of the canon, but its spirit - the beats between the dialogue; the implications never overtly stated, but which must logically occur off-screen. As such, emotional continuity is often the first casualty of canonical forward momentum: when each new TV season demands the creation of a new challenge for the protagonists, regardless of where and how we left them last, then dealing with the consequences of what’s already happened is automatically put on the backburner.

Fanfic does not do this. 

Fanfic embraces the gaps in the narrative, the gracenotes in characterisation that the original story glosses, forgets or simply doesn’t find time for. That’s not all it does, of course, but in the context of learning how to write characters, it’s vital, because it teaches ficwriters - and fic readers - the difference between rich and cardboard characters. A rich character is one whose original incarnation is detailed enough that, in order to put them in fanfic, the writer has to consider which elements of their personality are integral to their existence, which clash irreparably with the new setting, and which can be modified to fit, to say nothing of how this adapted version works with other similarly adapted characters. A cardboard character, by contrast, boasts so few original or distinct attributes that the ficwriter has to invent them almost out of whole cloth. Note, please, that attributes are not necessarily synonymous with details in this context: we might know a character’s favourite song and their number of siblings, but if this information gives us no actual insight into them as a person, then it’s only window-dressing. By the same token, we might know very few concrete facts about a character, but still have an incredibly well-developed sense of their personhood on the basis of their actions. 

The fact that ficwriters en masse - or even the same ficwriter in different AUs - can produce multiple contradictory yet still fundamentally believable incarnations of the same person is a testament to their understanding of characterisation, emotional continuity and narrative. 

Artist Documents Tender Notes Over Acrylic Illustrations From Her Travels on a Moleskine Notebook

American artist Missy H. Dunaway documents her travels across the US, Europe, Turkey, and Morocco with extreme romanticism and poetry. Dunaway illustrates on her Moleskine journal a beautiful scenery with acrylic paint from her time in a specific location, then autographs each painting with a sweet excerpt of nostalgia.

She often composes goodbye notes on her journals, as she bids adieu to each city. Each cityscape portrait reveals a tender thought or memory of heartbreak or a desire for wanderlust.

Some of the lovely anecdotes read:

“Standing in Asia. Looking at Europe. Thinking of New York.”

“I moved to Istanbul (alone). I’ve been looking out my window more than usual.”

“I’ve discovered I have the gift to feel at home jus about anywhere.”

“I’ll press you in a book.”

“I was staring at the blinking lights  of an airplane and waiting for sleep when a shooting star passed across my view, clear as day. I haven’t seen a shooting star in a whole decade.”

We highly urge everyone to click on each image to read the stunning passages. You can find these notebooks and more of her original work in her Etsy shop.

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Women have more power and agency in Shakespeare’s comedies than in his tragedies, and usually there are more of them with more speaking time, so I’m pretty sure what Shakespeare’s saying is “men ruin everything” because everyone fucking dies when men are in charge but when women are in charge you get married and live happily ever after

Dear Fandom, 

I’m writing this because because there has been drama. I am not writing it aimed at of the specific root of the drama, but at the sick oozing puss that has seeped out of that drama. I’m writing this because of the hate. The hate that’s spread from that drama and touched the lives of so many people I know and care about. 

I don’t like discourse, anyone who’s followed me for a while knows I like to stay out of it and promote the more positive side of things, but it’s gotten to the point this time where I’m angry. I’m angry for friends and I’m angry because none of this should have happened, and yet here we are sitting in a pool of anger and frustration and hurt. 

So I have a few things to say. I have some questions and I have some thoughts, and lastly I have a challenge for you: Fandom. 

This probably does not apply to most of you, and I’m unsure if it will sway those of you perpetuating the hate, but I need to say it and I hope you will at the very least listen. 

I have to know, Fandom, when did you forget why we were all here? When did you forget that Fandom is about community? That community means a melting of ideas, personalities, and most of all a meeting place of People? When did you allow the flood of images and text to erase the fact that behind all of that are real, living, breathing, humans? Of different ages, races, genders, and personalities? 

I joined fandom because I didn’t want to be alone. I joined for the joy of being able to share in this experience (and in my case it’s Batman) with you all. I sat down and said “I love this and I want to talk about it with people. I want to get excited about or whine about or simply engage in this thing with others”. We all did, right? We all wanted to see someone else’s excitement burst out of them. Wanted to see what others would create. Wanted to create for others. Wanted to have a group to talk to about this cool thing we’ve found. 

We came here for passion, and in many ways I think that has become warped. I think that somewhere between passion and engagement we forgot that Usernames/Icons = people. It’s an easy thing to forget. It’s something I’ve forgotten and I’ve regretted that. I have to remind myself every day that the people I interact with online are like me, they’re someone excited to share in this adventure that is fandom. I also think this forgetting is a cause of the grumblings that bleed from a fandom. We forget that it’s another person on the other side of the screen and lash out. 

What I don’t understand is the utter venom with which some people spread that anger. What drives someone to tell another person to kill themselves? What drives them to threaten harm or wish rape upon someone? How can this hate be so visceral? What good does it do to anyone? 

In looking at these question, I find myself looking at the reason for Discourse. I believe that a lot of discourse comes from good intentions. I think that many times one person enters into discussion with another with the intent to converse, and then it snowballs into something worse. And I think that internet culture has created a space where we gang up on a single individual for being “wrong”. Call it purity culture or cancel culture or whatever term you have for it, it only serves to take good intentions and turn them sour. It only serves to hurt. 

We have somehow lost wanting to talk about what’s right in the face of needing to be the one who is right. And I think that’s created a lot of the trouble we have. 

I think that we, in this wide world of letting everyone see everything, have lost the blessing of personal conversations. I think we have forgotten that some people know less. Some people are young. Some people will never be swayed. And sometimes, yes, we are wrong. 

Something we have gained–to our detriment– is the idea that the internet is here for us. That creators are here to give us what we want, when we want it, and how we want it. And the thing with that is that it’s backwards. 

It’s up to you to curate your online experience. Websites are built in with age restrictions (not that anyone follows them, but again: up to you). Most creators I know are good enough to tag things properly. To give warnings. To tell people Hey! Lookout! But even if they didn’t it’s not up to them to curate your experience for you, Fandom. That’s your job. That’s what the unfollow button is for. That’s what filters are for. That’s what the block button is for. That’s why that sweet bunny Thumper said all those years ago “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all”.

If you don’t agree with/like/enjoy something, then why on Earth are you engaging with it? 

Let’s say you like a creator and honestly do want to engage with the content, and still disagree. Why on earth are you sending hate? Why send threats? Why be so cruel? If you want to talk about something: Talk. If you’d like to sway a creator’s point of view: have a discussion. Before you go and tell someone they’re wrong, consider how getting that ask would feel if it were you. Be aware that that person is a Person and maybe they will never agree with you.

This isn’t me saying don’t engage, and don’t converse, it’s me saying that when do, do it the right way. Do it considering the other person. Do not do it so you can have the pleasure of knocking them down a few pegs (even if you utterly disagree). Do it with kindness, not hate. Perpetuating hate against someone is wrong and not the answer. And if you absolutely cannot message someone respectfully, then yes this is me saying don’t message them at all. 

Here’s the thing about hate. It’s toxic. Hate is gross. Hate only breeds worse things. Hate turns misunderstandings into Discourse. Hate turns attempts at peace into floods of anons in inboxes and the screaming voices of (one or two maybe three) people into a repetitive thud thud thud of thunderous terror and fear and that sick swimming pit in your stomach. 

Hate brings out the dregs of humanity and it puts them on a show for their own benefit. Hate online, (on tumblr, but probably everywhere) is for the benefit of the one spewing the poison. It is so the hater can sit back and crow about how they have hurt how they have won how they have conquered over the little back text on the little white screen and how their words have become the victor.  

Hate does nothing good. 

We are all different and have different opinions and that’s okay! It’s good to be different, and challenge each other (in a positive way). Just remember that no one is perfect and no one should be held on a pedestal. 

So here is my challenge to you, Fandom: 

Be kind

Be gracious 

Respect others

Give someone the benefit of the doubt 

Remember that we all came here for the same reason

Do not spew hate, pause a moment and consider your words

And because it bears repeating: Be kind 

Literature Asks

Quotes from literature to inspire you when writing!

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” - J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew”

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.” - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.” - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“I took a photo of us mid-embrace. When I am old and alone, I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.” - Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.” - W. H. Auden, “The More Loving One”

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” - John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Who, being loved, is poor?” - Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” - Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.” - Toni Morrison, Beloved

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” - Alfred Tennyson

“I’m watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don’t deserve them. Her warm memories. I’d like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.” - Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“I don’t want you to miss all the things that someone else can give you.” -  Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“You can love someone so much… But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” - John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” -  Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Just… isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” - Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I’m just so thankful for our little infinity.” - John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I hope, or I could not live.” - H.G. Wells

“I hadn’t expected that a tiny glimmer of hope for the future could transform someone so utterly.” - Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel

“Your eyes are full of language.” - Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters 

“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture.” -  Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone.” - Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel

“I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.” - Ian McEwan, Atonement

“You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.” - Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind

“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.” - Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“He doesn’t want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn’t love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.” E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

“The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.” - Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” -  Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.” -  P.D. James, The Children of Men

“I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.” - Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong 

“Above, the starts shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe” - Stephen King

“The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss.” - Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

“If it weren’t for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it” - Nicole Krause, The History of Love

“I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world…” - Frank O’Hara, Having a Coke With You

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” - Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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 You guys know this EngMano fanfic on livejournal where everyones shocked that England and Romano are in a relationship and theyre sickeningly sweet together. But are actually lovingly throwing insults at another. Know that ??