Update On The Next Chapter Of The Groundhog Day AU:

Update on the next chapter of the Groundhog Day AU:

Cut a big ol' chunk of the middle of the chapter, made some decent progress so far rewriting it to be much better, now, and am getting tentatively hopeful that the next update might even happen before the end of the week.

It is probably the chapter that merits the most tag warnings, but hopefully the dark humor lands again for other people.

Either way, though, I at least am having a delightful time with these losers and their quest to make each other miserable and become even worse people right now. Really gotta dig that hole deep before they start clawing their way back up, lol.

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In the ATLA world. No politics in the comments please.

As much as I agree with anti-censorship conversations in fandom spaces, because fiction is not reality and censorship of art is nearly always a tool that is or will wind up being wielded by conservatives to suppress works by or depicting anyone that strays too far from "acceptable" conservative social norms, those arguements rarely get at the heart of why I think censorship of fanfiction, in particular, is such an extra ridiculous conversation.

Fanfiction is a hobby.

People who write fanfiction and engage with fandom spaces may be young, may be writing in a second language, may be very inexperienced writers, may be people who lack a lot of research and/or editing resources for their work, etc.

All of this adds up to a much greater likelihood in fandom spaces that you will come across: poorly written stories; awkwardly conveyed themes and flat, poorly written characters; all sorts of unfortunate words/themes/character choices/etc that might look, at a glance, like Bigotry; all of which were still written in good faith by decent people who simply aren't great writers.

All of this also dramatically increases the likelihood of encountering the type of stories that hurt and/or marginalized people write about their own experiences as a way of exploring scary/harmful/"bad" things - like rape fantasies, like messy reactions to abuse, like racism or misogyny or homophobia or any other bigotry - in a fictional setting where they have all the real world control to determine how those things play out on the page for the fictional characters.

Combine point #2 with point #1, and of course there are going to be plenty of fics that wind up making lots of people uncomfortable, but which are actually written by the very same young or hurt or marginalized people that fans of censorship claim they are trying to protect.

And it is absurd.

So many of the calls for censorship by fandom antis overlap heavily with respectability politics.

So many of the calls for censorship are effectively saying that unless you are a good writer with significant access to time and resources - including, oftentimes, access to marginalized people who are willing to put in significant editing/advising work on your behalf - that you shouldn't have the right to publically engage in amateur hobbyist writing spaces.

And the people who will be most hurt by the above will always be the most young and vulnerable and marginalized members of those hobbyist spaces.

And that's not something I can ever get behind.

Every time I reread a bit of Spinning Silver, I notice new ways the Staryk king is 100% a panicking, highly reactive dufus who does not know what he's doing at any point in the book any more than Miryem ever quite does.

Miryem and the Staryk king are peak clown-to-clown communication; to the point that they come to understand each other on a deeply personal, cross-cultural level - enough to realize that they are actually well-matched in terms of their values and long-term goals enough to actually fall in love with each other - all while still completely missing like 90% of everything the other one is trying to say at any given moment.

I love them and I love this book so much.

This one is so old I don't even remember when I started but tried finishing it today. Still experimenting on how to blend skintones with pastels. Also I don't even go here, I haven't even watched this movie, but I saw a lot of pretty gifs and fanart and his look captivated me so here we are XD

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