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Updated the Keira/Lambert/Aiden etc thing Dusty Corridors https://archiveofourown.org/works/28276716 with a short chapter, because the next bit’s chapter-length on its own. So I’ll have another update shortly.

This one introduces a new-to-this-series character, and one who I haven’t written at all before, so that’s exciting.

Keira mostly is trying to get shit done and not pine, but. Y’know.

She let herself sit in the moss for a moment, and stared at her hands, which Lambert had healed, with the Sign she’d taught him. He’d held them so gently, his callused hands so big and so warm, and she– well, she fucking missed him and it had been less than a day and she was being a big baby.

He and Aiden were probably fucking right now, and it was just as well she hadn’t left herself any clever little spells to spy on them with because she would absolutely watch them and that would be wrong.

(Would Lambert put his hand around the back of Aiden’s neck like he did for her? Would he hold both their cocks and rub them like he had for her? Probably he’d spit on his hand first, and–)

She forcibly broke off the train of thought and made herself stand up. Her chest hurt so badly, and she had given up at trying to diagnose what was wrong. She had known, he had told her he’d only ever loved one person, and then for some reason she’d damn near killed herself to get him that one person back, and she was an idiot and didn’t understand her own decisions about this and that was that. (Your picture was not posted)

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i try to organize my writing-ahead so that my chapters when they get posted can be consistent lengths right around 5k, so i can mash chunks together until they work correctly. but at the moment i’ve got a 2.6k chunk, and then a 5.7k chunk, and if i just post the one it’s too short, but of course, if i post both, it’s too long.

i think i’m going to put up a short chapter and then pretty directly put up the one afterward. i do want them to be separated, because the second one is a new idea and a different POV and long enough to be fairly complex.

ok so i talked myself thru it and didn’t ask any questions or anything, so this is a pointless entry, but anyway. hi! hi everybody. happy new year. here i am. let’s keep going. (Your picture was not posted)

an update on the Aro Eskel fic progress

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I think I’ve mentioned on here before how I had an idea for an Eskel-centric fic in which I could explore my headcanon that he’s aro. (Oh yes, about a month ago I posted about it here https://bomberqueen17.tumblr.com/post/637063423992184832/youve-mentioned-that-you-might-make-eskel-aro-so .)

Well, I saw a post ages ago that there was going to be an Eskel Big Bang event, and I got all excited about it. Because, I mean, this is a thing I’m going to write anyway; I don’t have extensive experience with fic events but I always wish I could participate in them. And this is so, unusually, perfect for a Bang– it’s going to be 20k at least! It’s a complicated long story! It’s in continuity with my other stuff but not directly, it’ll have its own storyline.

So I was pondering about that in the back of my head, as one does, apart from the various other distractions of the season (and my own personal stuff, alas, thanks by the way to everyone who’s been supportive), and I’ve worked on dropping a few advance hints in the chapters of the Keira/Lambert/Aiden thing https://archiveofourown.org/series/2048918 I’m currently working on, to set it up when I get around to it–

and I’d been thinking I should go sign up, and then I saw the FAQ post they just put up about it.

Months after announcing this as just a general Eskel-centric Big Bang, they’ve now put out rules that ban certain types of content. Like, outright ban! Not just make sure you tag, not hey we’re gonna separate by rating– no, absolutely can’t be entered into the event. Here’s the post https://eskelbigbang.tumblr.com/post/639172965356978176/rules-and-faq, and here’s the relevant quote:

The following content will not be allowed in the Big Bang:

- rape/non-con * - *graphic torture * - *incest - underage - hard kink

So that’s a bit of a shock, in an un-themed event, to have so many content restrictions. If they’d said from the beginning that this was a fluff fest or something– but it’s just being presented as a normal straight-ahead character-focused event.

Here’s the thing. I’m not particularly a darkfic writer? I write hurt/comfort, mostly, with boatloads of Found Family feelings, as much angst as I can cram in without breaking anybody permanently, and happy endings. That’s what I do. The plot outline I’ve got for this fic is, like most of the stuff I do that’s not AUs, is stuff that’s pretty similar to the canon. It’s going to involve Eskel getting terribly injured, and there’ll be a succubus as a major character, and there’s going to be a plot point involving rescuing a child from sexual abuse. Dark stuff! I plan to tag the heck out of this fic! But it’s all pretty similar to things that happen in W3 and in the books.

I can’t… have these canon-similar events in this bang. I couldn’t even just do a straight retelling of canon events, in this bang. That’s not allowed! Succubi are dubcon by their very nature (which the mod clarifies https://eskelbigbang.tumblr.com/post/639370836817690624/its-unclear-what-you-mean-by-dubcon-one-person in another ask answer). Gore’s not allowed, which– I mean– this is a game where a common fight-finishing move is dismemberment, and a man’s head explodes onscreen in the Netflix adaptation. I’m planning on dealing realistically with the aftermath of a brain injury. The accidental child acquisition hinges on rescuing her from abuse. The succubus needs to be a succubus to be the character that she is and for the plot to work.

I can’t write any of that for this. Maybe I could argue some of it in, maybe I could argue that since the abuse of the child is mostly offscreen– but it’s not entirely, the succubus is a witness, and she needs to be for it to work– it’s complicated. I can’t reliably pick out the forbidden content without hamstringing the entire plot.

What it comes down to is, it’s not worth the risk. I can’t commit to working with an artist, and then get myself into the structure of this event, devote hours, days, weeks of my time writing this fic, only to have the mods decide that I need to delete or rework some part of it, or decline to let me post it, possibly screwing over whatever artist I’ve matched with– not for fic I’m writing for free and in my own time.

So I can’t write this fic for that event.

I mean, I was going to write it anyway, but I’d been letting myself look forward to maybe, for once, actually getting to participate in one of these here events that everyone else seems to do. Working with an artist– what a treat that would be! Being a part of something–

Well. It’s not to be.

I’m disappointed, really. It wouldn’t sting so much if they’d said from the beginning that this was going to be G-rated or fluff-only– but it’s not, they’re still presenting it as a straightforward character-focused event.

I suppose the part that’s the most irksome is that they’re justifying having such extreme content restrictions that the canon material itself could not be included by saying it’ll be “more inclusive”, when like. Basically everyone I know in this fandom is excluded by this!

Including the original author.

:( does anyone know any artists who want to work on a project with me (Your picture was not posted)

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A dad story from about three days after he died, which I’ve stuck into a separate post and queued for later, please indulge me whenever this pops up.

Mom related a story of having gone to the woodshed to fetch wood and discovered– well, very recently, she’d declared that their dish drainer was too rusty, and it was time to get a new one. Dad had procured a new one, and she’d presumed thrown the old one out, but then she discovered the old one in the woodshed. He had not thrown it out. He had wedged it into a gap in the wall, and then had arranged splitting wedges in it, because it was perfectly suited to hold them neatly so they wouldn’t get lost or damaged, and the fact that it was rusty made absolutely no difference. She sort of sighed to herself, but has left it like that, because he was right, it fits nicely there and does the job well.

That’s the kind of hoarder Dad was. He hadn’t saved it and thrown in into a pile somewhere, saying it would be useful someday– he had saved it and put it to immediate use. This is the kind of thing that makes me a terrible hoarder because I had that example and yet can never think of what the thing would be useful for in the moment so it winds up in a pile for me… no good. Ah well. (Your picture was not posted)

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I mean. The canon itself is already an absolute mire of things that would not fly. We are obviously not just drawing on Netflix, since Eskel does not appear yet in Netflix.

I’m getting a lot of people making a point of telling me that the content isn’t banned, only the graphic depiction thereof, which a) is not what the guidelines actually say, and b) is suspiciously subjective. (Someone has been trying earnestly to tell me and anyone in the notes who agrees with me that the novels are not graphic, which uh. I know I’ve only read excerpts thereof but said excerpts would disagree with you.)

But, for the record. Eskel so far has not appeared in Netflix; he is a book- and game-verse character. The books are arguably not graphic in their depictions of violence (? Not sure how one argues this, but people are arguing, so I’ll grant them this point), but absolutely contain dubcon, noncon, incest, and the author’s eggregious nipple kink, among other things. The games feature dead sex workers and all kinds of graphically-depicted shit including coercion and mind control and dubcon and actually you’re expected to actively participate in some pretty ill stuff. In the game, Eskel only appears a few times and spends much of the one appearance making fun of himself / being mocked by others for his potential proclivities for bestiality (depending how you define succubi but uh they’re definitely making a joke about Lil Bleater there).

It’s completely wacko by all objective measures for there to be such broad content restrictions on such a dark canon, is what it boils down to.

The other thing I’m getting a ton of in reblogs is the specific phrase “shitting on” or “shitting all over” the mods, for having dared explain that I feel excluded, so like. Firstly it’s really odd that everyone’s using that specific phrase, and I am starting to suspect a bizarre fixation?

and secondly, I could not possibly have been more polite in my disagreement, so it’s crystal fucking clear that any dissent at all is beyond the bounds of politeness. Which also is a pretty good red flag, for me.

I couldn’t be happier with my decision to nope out before I even signed up for that.

But I remain disappointed in the entire thing, because I love the Witcher fandom as a whole and the way it’s treated me, and while I’m happy to churn out fics on my own, I would have loved to be involved in a more organized thing. (Your picture was not posted)

Why censor a fandom event?

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Do the mods for a fandom event have the right to make restrictions on content? Sure. They’re volunteers running their own event.

But. Fandom is a culture that we build together. If we were just people enjoying media in our own homes, we would not be a community. But we’re not. We talk to each other, reblog each other’s amazing art, comment on AO3, squee in Discord channels over ideas, and so on. That’s what makes fandom great: we build it collectively. And like any culture, we have some shared norms. For example, since AO3 is a big influence on our culture, tagging has become a cultural norm in fandom. We tag for the “big four” warnings on AO3, and increasingly, tag more and more details of content to help people find what they like and avoid what they don’t.

Fandom events like Big Bangs shape fandom culture, too, though. They bring together people who might otherwise not know each other, and have a tendency to dominate the fandom conversation for a time. Restrictions in a Big Bang have a chilling effect on content creators. That means that some work will not get written because of these restrictions, and also that people’s opinions towards this kind of content may be influenced on a larger scale. I personally find this unfortunate, as some of the things on the restricted list are things I’ve written about, uh, a lot. But aside from just me, there are larger implications to consider. Read more about the history of strikethrough and content restriction https://centaurianthropology.tumblr.com/post/172451529095/olderthannetfic-maleccrazedauthor to learn about who is harassed and excluded when fandom culture turns against “questionable” content.

I posit that restrictions like this are not always The Norm™ in fandom events, nor should they be. In a fandom like the Witcher, whose canon includes everything on the restricted list, most of them graphically, I believe content of a similar nature should be welcome in fandom content. I ran my first Big Bang in 2009, and have participated in half a dozen bangs and reverse bangs since. None of them had content restrictions (here’s an example https://c-im-bigbang.dreamwidth.org/ of a Big Bang without content restrictions that’s been running since 2011). Some Big Bangs do; sometimes this is dependent on the canon content, more often it depends on who has power and influence in the fandom. Here’s a case for why not to include restrictions in future events.

What are these restrictions meant to do?

As I understand it, these restrictions are meant to make things more inclusive by allowing more people to participate. Are they successful in that? It’s possible they allow different people to participate. As with many things, there are competing access needs here. More on that below. But let’s look at what “making things more inclusive” means in practice.

*Problem: We want to allow participation from people who don’t want to come into contact with dark content. *

OK. Let’s help participants avoid coming into contact with dark content if they don’t want to. How might they come into contact with dark content?

1.) People might hear upsetting conversations in Discord chat

Solution: Ask people to post in the appropriate channel. Use a “walk away” rule to encourage people to leave the channel if a conversation comes up that they’re not comfortable with. If you want to go further, you could have people warn for certain topics, or restrict darker topics to a specific channel, though this runs up against a different issue (see below).

*2) People might see content in the claims that they don’t like, or don’t want to work on. *

Solution: Usually in a Big Bang the artists look at a list of summaries and tags and choose which fic(s) they’d like to work on. No artist is going to be forced to work on anything they don’t want to. Even artists who enjoy dark content are often illustrating something other than the darkest, most graphic, or most explicit moment of a fic. In a claiming situation, you can have writers tag their fics, just like they would on AO3, to allow artists to filter out content they’re not interested in or that they would find upsetting.

2.5) We won’t find any artist to work on certain pieces.

Solution: This happens sometimes. You could put out a call for more artist participants, allow artists to claim a second piece if they want, or you may have to tell a creator that there’s not a match for them. That is a bummer, but this happens sometimes, especially in fandoms where writers vastly outnumber artists. But in no scenario will any artist be forced to write for a piece that squicks them.

*3) People might see content in the Big Bang collection that they don’t like. *

Solution: This one’s pretty easy. Tagging. Tagging has been used on AO3 since its inception to help people avoid content they do not want to see. People don’t have to engage with content they don’t want to see if it is properly tagged.

*4) The mods don’t personally want to engage with the content. *

Solution: Find a mod who will, so that mods who don’t want to don’t have to! You can get a volunteer to do this, I guarantee.

5) I want to encourage the creation of lighter or SFW content.

Solution: I get that. Say so! Explain what content you welcome, and phrase what you’re looking for in a positive way (e.g. “We require that content be T rated or below and have a generally positive outlook and an upbeat ending.”) rather than what you don’t want. Be clear, specific, and up front about it, so that you connect with the creators you’re hoping will participate.

*6) I think this content should not exist. *

This is the one I can’t help you with. If the reason you’re banning content is because, consciously or unconsciously, you think that it’s morally reprehensible, or that the people who make it are bad, I do not have a solution to offer.

Competing Access Needs

I’m not going to get too far into the weeds on how making a list of restricted topics is impossible, because others https://undomielregina.tumblr.com/post/639427866071908353/what-is-a-hard-kink have addressed this point. No matter what list you come up with, someone out there will find something you failed to list, but that you feel should be restricted. What to do? If they’ve already completed a fic, tell them to leave? Tell them they have to change it? Let it slide? There will be endless questions about what is and isn’t allowed, which is time-consuming and exhausting for mods, and paralyzing for creators. How do I know if this scene is un-graphic enough? Will I need to revise my whole fic? Will I get kicked out entirely if I write the wrong thing? Will some participants get preferential treatment or the benefit of the doubt because of their identities or their connections?

Censorship brings up competing access needs. Someone doesn’t want to see non-con. Someone is writing non-con fic to work through their own trauma. Someone is writing it for other reasons. Can you accommodate all these folks? I would say yes, in the ways detailed above. But when you start restricting content (as in Strikethrough or Boldthrough, discussed in the history link above), you’re not wielding a scalpel. You’re wielding an anvil, and you’re gonna crush things you didn’t mean to crush. Again, check out the history link to see who gets crushed.

So… what to do?

Do I think people should change the rules for the events they’re running? No (john mulaney we are well past that.gif). As I said, people who are running their own events have the prerogative to restrict them for whatever audience they’re hoping to reach. Questioning fandom practices is not “shitting on” anyone (and hey–no scat allowed).

What I would really like is for Witcher fandom to have a think about how we want to proceed as a community. What should be the norm? Witcher fandom culture (in its current form, i.e. big) is still relatively young. There can be variation, sure: Discord server vibes vary wildly, for example. But in the big events or activities that we hope will be open to the largest part of the community, how do we want to intentionally foster the maximum amount of great content about our favorite things? There are ways to be inclusive that do not involve censorship, and I believe we should use them. (Your picture was not posted)

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kink cw

god not to immediately get involved in wank in the new year but i’ve been thinking about a dreamwidth post i read ages ago and now can’t find (i think by a kink-bingo mod, but again, i can’t find it) about how non-kinky people will often declare their boundaries to be “no hard kink,” with no explication of what the fuck “hard kink” means, or a brief explanation that leaves a significant amount to the imagination, with the implicit assumption that everyone has the same boundaries and ideas about kinkiness that they do, in a way that ends up making absolutely no fucking sense and kind of indicates that the person saying it has not, actually, thought very hard about kink and what their actual boundaries are.

Keep reading https://laurelnose.tumblr.com/post/639425336909643777/kink-cw

You know, I was also thinking very hard about this today, and I think I might have the same post? I bet you it was this thingswithwings​ post written in response to a kinkfreezone comm https://thingswithwings.dreamwidth.org/82725.html or at least some of the discussion http://thingswithwings.dreamwidth.org/83103.htm that stemmed from that particular wank, anyway. Might also have been this Eruthros piece https://eruthros.dreamwidth.org/278486.html grouping some of the rather unhappy-making kink-critical comments from Yuletide letters. Mighta been SurveyFail but we all REMEMBER SurveyFail, right? Probably not SurveyFail.

(fucking SurveyFail, kids. I still teach folks about it in a “remember your research subjects are people and quite often they are researching you back kind of way when I’m talking about human research.)

Anyway.

It’s not like I’m not mostly lurking and betaing in this fandom right now, but I keep seeing people tossing out interesting, complex story concepts and then going “but look, I’m not going to risk investing a bunch of time and effort into this thing just to be nixed at the last minute.” And you know what, that’s fucking valid! It’s a shame that the organizers haven’t thought through what they do and don’t want to have, and that they weren’t clear about the kind of event they were comfortable running from the very beginning.

it definitely was not SurveyFail, but you know, I think it was at least partly the eruthros piece! it might also have been a little bit this one from implicated2 abt refusing kinky yuletide content https://implicated2.dreamwidth.org/25538.html. I’ve read enough kink discourse that these things all kind of bleed together after a while, lmfao.

I actually saw someone say only writers seem to be upset about the whole thing, and in counter to that, I was intending to sign up as an artist, but the thing about BBs is they are so heavily weighted in favor of artists—like, 20k of fic and 2-3 illustrations is not at ALL an equivalent time investment—that of course the writers are more upset, they stand to lose significantly more if they get nixed. plus, as the artist you can pick and choose which bits you want to illustrate to a significant extent, and often the art for darkfic can be relatively PG-13, so if you don’t have personal triggers or squicks it’s kind of not a big deal who you get paired with. the BB life is simply better for fanartists in general, imo.

but yeah, this was just… so poorly handled. everyone needs to do better with the way they approach content limits, and this kind of thing absolutely needs to be communicated upfront. (Your picture was not posted)

Here’s the thing.

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Not being passive aggressive this time, just… blunt.

I was excited when I first saw that there was going to be an eskelbigbang​! I was writing Eskel fic when there were less than 20 Eskel/Geralt fics on AO3, and it’s been so great to spend the last year watching the growing Witcher fandom latch on to and fall in love with this character–and now a big bang! Sweet! I am feeling a bit better lately, getting some writing mojo back, and it would be fun to have an artist create stuff for a story while I’m writing it–that’s very motivating, having someone else invested in your story like that before it’s even posted! It would be a big help to me and doubtless lots of other authors, to help us write and finish something to be proud of.

So I popped into their Discord, where I noticed that “dead dove topics” were banned even in NSFW channels, and I began to think, uh, maybe this event is Not For Me. Maybe I do not get to join in the fun. I’ve already been kicked out of at least one Discord for wanting to discuss the fic which convinced me to OTP Geralt and Eskel while I was writing it; I don’t want to set myself up for that again, and even if I managed to follow that rule enough not to get kicked out… that’s a pretty unwelcoming vibe, knowing I would always have to be on my Best Behavior.

And then–months after announcing this simply as an Eskel Big Bang, which I took to mean, as it normally does, that any long fic centered on Eskel would be welcome, and artists and fellow authors would simply scroll on by the summaries of fics that didn’t interest them for any reason–the mods announced the content rules for the bang, which forbid, no matter how correctly tagged and warned for: rape/non-con, graphic torture, incest, underage, hard kink and, as of the last ask they answered on this topic, also any variety of dub-con including intoxication before/during sex, and sex with incubi or succubi.

(In case you are wondering: yeah, Eskel IS the witcher who canonically both has used fisstech–in-universe cocaine–and had sex with a succubus. Off the top of my head I can’t remember if he explicitly said that he did both things on the same occasion, but that is the most common fannish interpretation of what he said.)

So now I’m feeling really unwelcome in this bang, since forbidding “hard kink” as far as I’ve seen generally works out to “kinks the mod(s) personally find disgusting or upsetting” and that’s the kind of slippery slope and kinkshaming that I do not feel even a little bit comfortable around, never mind the rest of the restrictions. It’s entirely likely that I would have written a fic that didn’t run afoul of any of those limits–but knowing that I would be subject to the mods’ personal, subjective judgment of what’s too kinky, or too graphic, or not good enough consent, or too much focus on, e.g., teenage Geralt and Eskel’s sexual adventures, would be enough to paralyze me. I just could not sign up for such an event and expect to succeed in writing a story.

Which is why I’m finding it really ironic that the mods, when questioned about these restrictions, are defending them by saying that “we’re trying to be welcoming of as many people as we can, and some people are uncomfortable with those things.” Because by definition, when you start forbidding content and making rules like this, you are making it clear that quite a lot of people are not welcome at all.

Now, of course, the mods are the mods; it’s their event to run as they see fit. But if they intended it to be restrictive in this way–if they intended to be running a Vanilla, No Archive Warnings Apply Only Eskel Big Bang–then I wish they had been up front about that from the start, because damn, you guys. I was really excited.

Everyone’s like “but the restrictions are to make the event more inclusive” and like

if you are excluding the writer who is the whole reason most of us new Netflix-based fans even fucking know who Eskel is

then you did not think this through. (Your picture was not posted)

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Rules:

Hello Witcher friends, and welcome to the Fisstech and Succubi Eskel Celebration Exchange! Since we’re all still stuck in our snowed-in crumbling fortresses isolated by forbidding mountain passes, or at least trying not to catch the plague from our neighbours, now seems like the right time to warm ourselves up by creating fanworks about our favourite witcher! No, not that grumpy White Wolf guy, he already has a bard to sing his praises. I’m talking about Eskel.

Fisstech and Succubi Eskel Celebration Exchange Rules

Each person who signs up will get one fanwork and give one fanwork. You MUST sign up to create a fanwork if you want to receive one.

What counts as a fanwork?

• Fics: You may give one fic between 1000 and 10000 (1k and 10k) words

• Art: You may give one complete illustration (finished linework and flat b/w) OR 5 rough sketches OR one comic not to exceed 3 pages based on the giftee’s requests.

• Some other form of fanwork if the recipient requests it and the creator is willing to produce it. If you have some other form of fanwork in mind, you should be specific in your request form, and you should provide several alternatives in your request form (including fic or art) in case there is not a creator who is able to produce the type of fanwork you’re hoping for. A game-accurate suit of armor or a five-tier cake is likely more difficult than a playlist or a moodboard.

Your work should:

• feature Eskel as a character;

• be tagged responsibly; and

• follow the prompt you chose and respect the DNWs your prompter listed;

but other than that, there are NO HOLDS BARRED AS TO CONTENT IN THIS EXCHANGE. Do you want to request something light and fluffy where Eskel gets a lot of very nice things and nothing hurts and everything is beautiful? Great! Do you want to request something canon-compliant where Eskel suffers terrible facial scarring and then later does fisstech with a succubus? Great! Do you want to request something dark where Nilfgaardians overrun the North and the Emperor keeps Eskel as his sex slave? Great!

Please share this announcement far and wide and stay tuned for the full schedule for this event, coming tomorrow!

I had been thinking I couldn’t write a thing for this (the thing I have in mind is so specific, and so long) but I just noticed the Other Fanwork thing and… I… have a fantastic idea for an embroidery project? weirdly enough? that i am dying for an excuse to make? so anyway stay tuned folks this may come out on the sunny side. (Your picture was not posted)