Nanni

I sent a message to the OTW Board of Directors to insist on their responsibility to act on their commitments to address racist abuse and harassment on Ao3 as part of the #EndOTWRacism two week action.

A link to the call to action on Dreamwidth

A link to the call to action on Tumblr

In our white supremacist society any community, space, or organization that contains white people and is not explicitly and actively anti-racist will become a structure that shields and maintains white privilege and actively perpetuates white supremacy.

That is not acceptable to me. That is not what I want my community to be. We all have to act and speak up together, and make our communities, spaces, and organizations anti racist instead of racist, by changing what is acceptable in our communities, and what is not. What is valued, and what is not. Who is valued, and who is not.

Fans of color need to be valued. They should be. Their safety and their joy need to be valued as integral elements of fandom and fannish communities, not cordoned off as somehow 'special', 'different', an option that can be discarded. Fans of color are living people who live here.

That's what I want to be valued.

trope_bingo is doing an open amnesty round for their twelfth round, and they're having folks generate their own cards using An Owomoyela's bingo card generator if they don't have an outstanding card.

I don't currently have an outstanding card I'm pretty sure, so I went to use the card generator, because I cannot resist widgets, and also I've been intending to work on actually getting words down (on paper) and up (on the web).

The card generator is so cool! One of its pre-set list possibilities is the Arne Thompson story type typology! I am definitely going to have to play more with that! (And write Owomoyela a nice note. And their fiction sounds up my alley too!)

( Trope Bingo card under the cut )

One of my least favorite things is when people use what I usually call peripheral canon to verbally smack or demean other fans or try to interrupt their creative play.

Peripheral canon is stuff that is by the canon's creators or their authorized proxies, is the same continuity as the canon, and is official, but is not part of the central piece of the canon text. So things like tie in comics, tie in novels, novelizations, video games, design books, toys and toy bios, officially sanctioned wikia, and things like Pottermore if there is ever a thing like Pottermore that is not Pottermore. Sometimes creators' interviews fall under this category, depending on how the fandom treats them, but usually those are more Word Of God/Creator type stuff.

Peripheral canon is great! It offers such gems as the really creepy entry on centaurs in the HP verse in Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls calling Wendy a Warrior Princess From The Moons Of Venus, the existence of minicons in the Transformers Animated universe, and Big Finish's Doctor Who audios. Great stuff! Truly great stuff!

But people are not obligated to engage with it. (Honestly, if people contradict the actual mainline of canon with their creative play, that is okay too, but people getting shirty about people not having read/listened to peripheral canon is even more annoying to me.) Reading more of this stuff does not make you a better fan. If, say, someone writes a Transformers Animated story in which there are no minicons, they are not contradicting show canon, and that story is not automatically an au. Scolding someone for writing Susan Foreman as childless and not having encountered her grandfather again until his uh - - - Twelfth or Thirteenth depending on how you're counting - incarnation for contradicting canon is dumb. Telling someone that Elita-1 can't have been Orion Pax's good friend before the war because there's a throw away reference in a tie in that says she wasn't and by wanting that the Elita fan is hetwashing is - Obnoxious beyond the telling on several levels, actually. My point is, peripheral canon does not trump the central text, and it does not trump fans' creative play with that central text. Not everyone can access that peripheral canon (it's often expensive) and not everyone is gonna want to - it may not be in their favorite media, or they might want to play with the elements that canon leaves open or whatever - and you don't have to to be a fan!

People reeeeaaally need to stop invoking it intending to shut down other fans' creative play, instead of using it to widen that creative, collective play up.

Jerks.

Not anyone reading this. Just you know. General jerks.

Dear The Hobbit Fandom*,

What in the name of little green apples makes you think that hobbits would consider communal bathing inappropriate? There is direct canon* evidence to the contrary!

Getting a little tired of being thrown by this, but much love anyway,

Nanni

*Not to be confused with Hobbit fandom.

*Yes, yes, I know that most of the people doing this probably haven't read Lord of the Rings and there's nothing in PJ's films about it except a snippet of Bilbo's Bath Song entirely without context, but a lot of stuff that's only in the books has filtered through...

...How. How exactly does one deal with fandom plagiarism cases? Does anyone have any tips?

This has legit never happened to me before, I am completely confused.

Homestuck fandom, why.

... ... ....although people appear to like it? It already has four kudos on A03. Under someone else's account. What the hell.

EDIT: No, seriously, this is bizarre. That's entirely my story, my title, my summary, just with all my headers and warnings stripped out.

Oh, and my name. That's gone too.

This is the primary reason I noticed, I mean, I was like "Oh, wow, I used that same Ann Radcliffe quote for a - - - ... ....Aradia<>Sollux story oh shit don't let this be happening I don't want the drama." But. Alas. It was.

Okay, so. My commencement proceedings are coming up reasonably soon here and. This seems like a time for general joy and celebration? And what does general joy and celebration mean in I Wish I Were A Hobbit Land otherwise known as Nanni's journal?

MATHOMS.

Yes. Mathoms.

So, um. Any requests? Like, a fandom I haven't come back to for a while,or, hey, one I have! Or a pairing, or a character, or a phrase, or a continuation of something I wrote?

Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.

Questions from caiusmajor:

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So. My younger brother has, via strategems that consist mostly of - - - looking at me really hopefully, like. Like. I don't know, a kitten or something, it's other brother who's totally totally a puppy, anyway. Has gotten me to read Homestuck. This was a thing done against my better judgement. And drat it, now I'm kind of hooked and I haven't even got to trolls. Arrrrgh oh well. I like making said brother happy.

...That's also how I wound up watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. And partly why I'm periodically playing Final Fantasy XIII (I watched him play to make him happy and because I like FF games, and then there was Lightning and Sazh and arrrrrgh I was doomed I cannot resist a practical, stoic soldier who is secretly so angry she can barely cope on a mission to save her sibling and a sardonic, kindly man quietly grieving for his son whom he still hopes to save omigoooooooosh I want them to be BFF! ...Everyone else is awesome too, but they don't come in until slightly later. I was already hooked).

And um. Let's see. Mom made me watch Sherlock (I don't like it). And Community (It makes me happy). And then there's Pysch, which is actually kind of bland on the plot level, I personally think, but has Dule Hill in a major role and is therefore hypnotic. I could watch him all day.

No, Nanni, the world does not desperately need Skadi/Clarissant.

Go find your book.

Go look at your blog journal. Find the last Fandom-related thing you posted. The characters in that post are now your team-mates in the Zombie Apocalypse. How fucked are you?

Oh, hey, I have Scar and Marcoh. Excellent! ... ... ... Mind, this is bound to get extremely messy, zombies exploding from the inside out and that kind of thing, but hey! I'm unlikely to get eaten!