dragonlady7 | Jan. 9th, 2021

Jan. 9th, 2021

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lookninjas https://lookninjas.tumblr.com/post/639795644559704064/1108-with-apologies-to-mary-oliver-the-soft :

1108.

With apologies to Mary Oliver – the soft animal of my body is doing just fine, but the sharp animal of my mind is running out of places to sharpen its claws (Your picture was not posted)

this is it this is the dynamic, the witcher

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lambert & aiden & reinforcement (Your picture was not posted)

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this activated my flight or fight response

HIGHLY CURSED

oh man one time i got a good deal on those retractable measuring tapes? The kind that’s a little hard circle object and then you pull the tape out one side, and it retracts when you’re done? Those things are great. it was like a pack of three of them for super cheap and i was delighted because i love them convenient little shits and yet always lose them so I was really excited to get a mutipack.

I got them and was delighted and put them in various of my sewing kits, and used one for something little, it was fine, and it was only a bit later when I had to measure something larger, of course with my mother present, that I got it out and used it and was like… wait this… isn’t right.

I looked closer, and realized that whoever had made it had clearly been told that a foot was 40cm and they should go from there. Because the metric side was fine, but the standard side was…. well, if you make your foot be 40cm long, you’ve got some problems with your inches.

Absolutely hysterical. We all had a really good laugh, in the moment. I didn’t throw them out but I lost them immediately anyway so it was just as well. Would’ve been really great for a prank someday but like. Uh.

Yeah it’s so fucking cursed to have a ruler that’s wrong, especially when it’s subtle enough that you don’t immediately notice. (Your picture was not posted)

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neshamama https://neshamama.tumblr.com/post/172972875528/in-1950-american-artist-james-hampton-1909-1964 :

in 1950, american artist james hampton (1909-1964) rented a carriage house in washington, dc. over the next fourteen years, hampton, who at the time worked as a janitor, constructed a massive, glimmering sculptural work out of recycled and found materials, such as old furniture, aluminum foil, and discarded light bulbs collected on the job. hampton’s work was posthumously titled throne to the third heaven based on an inscription by hampton. throne to the third heaven expresses the grand religious vision of the artist whose landlord had no idea his garage had been transformed into a studio housing a mystical masterwork: an astounding vision of deliverance, freedom, and cosmic glory.

from 1945 to his death, hampton also compiled the divinely-inspired book of the 7 dispensations by st. james, an 108-page text written in a language of symbols and codes that some scholars call “hamptonese.” though scholars have identified patterns in hampton’s writing and correlations to hebrew and christian scriptures, they have yet to ‘decode’ the book’s language or meaning. so far, studies indicate the st. james text could be deciphered–its content bears an organization and theme that resist the possibility of merely voicing incoherent, indecipherable gibberish.

hampton was described as soft-spoken, humble, and reclusive. he did not exhibit his work or regularly share it with others; his few friends were unaware of its existence until the iridescent monument was discovered by the landlord once hampton had died. despite the mystery that persists enshrouding james hampton, his work, his writing, and his vision, the two silver words at the top of his central throne ring clearly and powerfully decades later to all who read it:

FEAR NOT.

Oh the thing is, this is installed in… one of the Smithsonians, I’m not sure which– and I saw it, completly unprepared, I’d never heard of it before or realized it existed– and it is. It is a whole room, it is gleaming and glittering, it is– it is an absolutely breathtaking thing and is simultaneously made obviously of salvage and also has this unmistakable power and weight to it, there’s this– it’s holy, somehow, it’s just– overwhelming.

FEAR NOT. (Your picture was not posted)

can't wait, the witcher, fic exchange

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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.

In this post you will find the schedule and the very slightly updated rules.

Schedule

Signups: January 9 - February 14, 2021 - I will be posting a running list of DNWs during this time so if you remember or are reminded of any additional DNWs that you don’t want, you will have unlimited opportunities during this time to submit additional DNWs for your prompt.

Claim Period 1: February 18 - 23, 2021

Claim Period 2: February 25 - 29, 2021 - for those who didn’t get any of their first round picks

Posting Deadline: April 15, 2021

Rules

The update to the rules is that the upper word count limit on fics and the upper page count limit on comics has been removed.

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 of more than 1000 words
Art: You may give at least one complete illustration (finished linework and flat b/w) OR at least 5 rough sketches OR one comic 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!

update: Signups are now live https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHocxg7KfEJQsS5zCsIAXCftNrNtOcHvo9Y3PFFZo_W5kRWg/viewform !!

I’m going to try like heck to get a prompt that fits in with the thing I was going to write for EBB before I found out I couldn’t tell the story I wanted by their guidelines. But even if that doesn’t work, I have a lot more ideas, I bet I can figure something out. (I’m writing the Aro Eskel story whether or no, believe you me.) (Your picture was not posted)

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So one of the things I saw in some of this Fandom Discourse was that the people in favor of blanket, heavy, subjective censorship on fandom events seem not to actually understand what a DNW, or Do Not Want, is. There seems to be a widespread issue where people are conflating people’s DNWs with their triggers.

This has come up because in fic exchanges, the traditional thing to do is that an entrant in the event will write down their requests, i.e. the things they would like to receive, and also, separately, they’ll write their DNWs. The things they Do Not Want to receive.

DNW is just stuff you don’t want to read. And it can be for any reason. Of course if I have any triggers, I’d put them there.

But I’d also put down things I just really don’t want to read about. I don’t want to read about weddings, for example, for many reasons but not least among them is that I tend to find them tedious and occasionally upsetting. I don’t like high school A/Us. I don’t like secondhand embarrassment. And I don’t like psychological torture that doesn’t resolve, or hopeless endings. I really don’t like Reader or self-insert fics. Not a fan of songfics. Really not fond of excessive woobification of characters– which I know some people like, and I can get why, but personally it gets on my nerves.

This is a place where it is appropriate to be general and subjective and say things like “no Dead Doves please”. That’s not censorship; if you don’t want to read that stuff, you can just say so; someone who’s hellbent on writing a darkfic isn’t going to pick your prompt. An individual requesting not to read something is completely different than an institution blanket-banning it, and it’s a bad-faith argument to pretend not to understand the difference.

At any rate, none of these DNWs are moral stances. I’m aware this is fiction; no matter what kind of material someone puts in a story no real person is actually getting hurt by it. Tagged properly, nobody’s going to be exposed to even fictional depictions of stuff they find upsetting. The tagging’s the important part, and that’s what this is about, in part.

But more broadly*,* I think that there’s even debate around this plays into a weird purity wank thing about triggers, where somehow people’s triggers have become some sort of moral high ground. But there’s nothing moral or amoral about triggers. The important thing when dealing with them and with DNWs and with squicks and with people’s preferences, even, is being honest, being respectful, and being clear.

Censorship tends to incentivize lying, making people tag stuff more mildly than it really is– I think it’s much more of a risk that you’d accidentally be exposed to something upsetting because the author’s trying to avoid getting kicked out of something they want to participate in. Personally I’d rather tag something more intensely than it warrants, and maybe disappoint a reader looking for something harder, than to give it a lighter tag to skate by and maybe have an unprepared reader find themselves in over their head.

Being clear and honest about stuff is just the most respectful approach to this. That’s where it’s appropriate to be subjective– on an individual level. (Your picture was not posted)

there's always an anti, has this person never worked under a poor manager before, to have such faith in the world, Anonymous

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The part where you’ve got to go to the mods and rely on their say-so of what counts as “explicit”? That’s a subjective call, right there, and one that I’d maybe chance for a short work, but not one like I’m planning to write.

I’d rather rely on my own judgement and then tag accordingly, especially for a long complex work, but your faith in that whole process is super -touching.

I personally would not attempt to do justice to a subject that complex while also laboring under an additional burden of needing to meet arbitrary censorship guidelines. I’d rather do what the story needed, and if it wound up super-dark, tag it honestly based on the end result.

But if your story’s just not that complex, then I guess you are built different.

Takes all kinds to make a world and I wish you well, but it’s not an experiment I care to make. (Your picture was not posted)