Lady @Lady@cat.family

@pastelsinmysky nobody is good at every part of art, which is hard because sometimes the things you like and notice aren’t the things you are good at yourself. nobody criticizes picasso for not being good at photorealism you know?? but maybe picasso himself secretly wished he was better at it, we’ll never know. but if you get to know yourself better and discover your strengths you can make stuff that's good enough that it doesn't matter. or stuff that wouldn't even be possible any other way

characterization is difficult in fandom because everyone is sooooo character-focused all the time but. there are other ways of writing and other kinds of emphases a story could have. and i bet some of them you have a gift for too

idk. i think being good at writing is less actually developing skills and more just learning about who you are and how you express yourself and embracing it. and sometimes it sucks because you really wish you were different and could do these different cool things other people are doing but. changing who you are is a very slow process and you have to be kind to yourself in the meantime. and no type of person is bad

love that Ao3 has a very clear and obvious reminder of anti‐lesbian sentiment on every single search page

well, fewer of them write het, but lesbianism is still in fourth place

for real though i’m just going to be reading from the #EndOTWRacism collection (<https://archiveofourown.org/collections/EndOTWRacism>) for the rest of this month

i’ll share the good ones and pretend the bad ones i haven’t read yet

guess that decides which one i’m reading

@Satsuma @Forestofglory oh see i think fandom-at-large has ALWAYS been the kind of structureless freeman is critiquing in her article

AT BEST it grew out of exactly those same feminist consciousness-raising groups and book clubs freeman is saying aren't enough, and at worst it was a boys club where status was defined primarily by proximity to celebrity

@Satsuma @Forestofglory do you think monopoly leads to internal destructuralization? it definitely has disrupted other kinds of fan organizing but i'm not sure you can blame Ao3’s own disorganization on that

like i see the problem with Ao3 is that it basically scaled up the informal networks which were being used to run things like Yuletide to a level where it stopped being effective

@Forestofglory @Satsuma excited for #EndOTWRacism primarily because they seem to be a step in the right direction in that respect

if we can get sustained organized movements of fans that do what we want, we can rely on OTW less and less

@Forestofglory yes although i was ranting to @Satsuma that i feel like this is symptomatic of structurelessness in fandom organizing in general

i think we need to fix fannish organizing before we can fix OTW

@clarfonthey i've never heard another name in math but Unicode gives it an informative alias of “angled dash (in typography)”. Wiktionary notes “When used in a symbolic logic context, this symbol can be called tilde” but that's not going to be helpful for disambiguation

why did ICANN approve this

wait google seriously made a .zip TLD?!? lmao why

https://youtu.be/4T1fvc06cp0