Tag: yes yes yes

futurelounging:

caitbalfes:

thelallybrochlibrary:

Six Ways to Support Fan Fiction Authors – The Lallybroch Library

I would add that reblogging fics (if you read them on tumblr) is a great way to support fic writers. Oftentimes you’ll see that fics have far more likes than reblogs, and likes are great, but reblogs help spread someone’s work so more people can read it. If a work has 100 likes and 10 reblogs, that means only a tenth of the people that enjoyed the story thought it was worth sharing.

I second that. If you’re a new writer reblogs are the only way for anyone to see your work. Always reblog if you’re especially impressed by a work.

widgenstain:

wyomingsmustache:

You know what I think the problem is?

People are mixing up the definition of ‘ship’ and ‘romanticize’

So when someone says “don’t ship x/y because it’s problematic”, what they mean is “These two/more characters have a dynamic that in real life would be harmful, so please don’t romanticize it and ignore the harmful aspects of it”.

But the trouble is, people like creepyships. I ship Director/Wash, and I one hundred percent ship it because it’s a creepyship, and I also one hundred percent make sure that it’s very clearly presented as creepy, from the cw’s to make sure I tag anything from that verse so I don’t inadvertently trigger someone.

And that’s shipping. It’s not always pretty, because sometimes you just want to explore the darker sides of humanity. It’s not wrong, because the characters aren’t real, they’re fictional. And fiction is and always has been an outlet for people to explore things that it wouldn’t be healthy for them to explore in real life.

In canon, Locus and Felix is an abusive relationship. There are loads of aus where their dynamic is reimagined, because people want to explore their relationship through a different lens. They’re not wrong, either. They’re taking characters they enjoy reading about and considering how things might be different if the setting was different. That’s the beauty of au’s. You peel away everything but the iron core of a character and see what’s left. A relationship that works in one verse won’t work in another. A relationship that works in one verse could be horrible in another.

All of those are shipping. Shipping is a very broad term: it literally just means “considering two or more characters in a romantic or sexual relationship” (it can also mean other kinds of relationships, but without any prefixes or modifiers that’s almost always what it means in this context).

Romanticizing is something very different. Romanticizing is looking at a ship and saying “hashtag-goals”. Romanticizing is looking at Felix and Locus’s relationship as it exists within canon and saying “that’s what I want, that’s what everyone should want”. Romanticizing would be looking at “not the right shade of blond” and saying that the Director’s behavior is correct, that it’s right, that it’s excusable.

But shipping =/= romanticizing, and not everyone ships a thing because they think it’s ideal. Sometimes people just want to enjoy their creepy ships. Some people just want to explore alternate dynamics. Some people just want to see i they can make something work. 

Stop telling them not to.

*dances-the-dance-of-yes-and-this*

Killing Net Neutrality Has Brought On a New Call for Public Broadband

rottenlittleboys:

berniesrevolution:

The Federal Communications Commission’s 3-2 vote to repeal net neutrality rules has many worried that internet service providers will now build the same sort of tiered internet that some other countries have — where individual providers can collude to throttle traffic to certain websites and services in order to shake money from consumers or the companies themselves — or both.

For instance, in Morocco last year, multiple internet service providers worked together to briefly block voice chat services like WhatsApp and Skype, in what was interpreted by some as an attempt to push consumers to subscribe to their phone subscriptions instead.

But Seattle’s Socialist Alternative Council Member Kshama Sawant — the prime mover of the city’s successful bid to enact a $15 an hour minimum wage — has another idea. She wants her city to simply build its own broadband network to compete with the private providers, guaranteeing a free flow of unthrottled information.

It may sound radical but it’s not unheard of. Today, around 185 communities in the United States offer some form of public broadband service. Because these services are controlled by public entities, they are also accountable to the public — a perk that anybody who has tried to get a broadband company on the phone can appreciate. (In November, residents of Fort Collins, Colorado, rejected an industry fear-mongering attempt and voted to authorize the creation of a citywide broadband network.)

In a Facebook post written Thursday night, Sawant urged the state and city to act.

“The FCC is doing the bidding of big business like Comcast, not the voters of either party, because public opinion is clear: 76% favor net neutrality, even including 73% of Republican voters,” she wrote. “Olympia should urgently pass net neutrality legislation in Washington State, and Seattle must invest in building municipal broadband, so no internet corporation has the power to prioritize making money over our democratic rights.” She included this graphic her team made to illustrate the idea:

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The concept of Seattle having a municipal broadband network was debated during last year’s city council and mayoral elections. Jenny Durkan, who won the mayoral election, argued that setting up such a network would simply be too expensive. Her opponent Cary Moon was in favor of a municipal system.

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Maybe we should strive for both the internet as a utility to be governed and have it still have net neutrality. 

Killing Net Neutrality Has Brought On a New Call for Public Broadband