Shout-out to my fellow Fandom Olds who lived through Strikethrough/Boldthrough on LJ and knew this day would eventually come here on Tumblr.com also
Especial shout-out to the heroes at AO3 who designed their whole operation knowing that every other platform fandom used would pull this bullshit sooner or later
Somehow, it seems to come for every place that isn’t maintained by fandom-savvy people and built specifically around a core of protection for freedom of expression. Which is why I’m not super stoked to see so many people bailing to Twitter, of all places. Jack can’t even handle nazis, and its reporting system is notoriously flawed and prone to abuse.
Oh, is it Purge O’Clock again?
I’ll be posting links to my presence on other platforms soon.
In response to a number of political things happening in the Real World that I don’t post about here but I think about… and that this response will continue to be necessary for, probably.
Wow more relevant 2 yrs after original posting. *sigh*
In honor of Inktober VC Day 5 (VC Locations) please enjoy some pics of me exploring some of Louis’ old haunts! The top 3 are all SF, and the bottom are in Carmel.
That’s the thing that people keep forgetting: when the gothic romance novels first came out, they were pretty punk. They were very highly charged. They were sort of improper. They were bold and overt. For lack of a better analogy, they were like the Sex Pistols of that era.
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