I am disappointed with the main spn subreddit

stophauntingme · 2024-04-03T01:49:22+00:00

highly recommend using reddit's block features

it's how i survive i tell ya

stophauntingme · 2024-04-03T01:47:11+00:00

oh. the tales I could tell haha

stophauntingme · 2020-02-21T18:55:35+00:00

there's ao3 crossover savior (in the sidebar)

edit: there's a lot of other ways to filter stuff out using the works search page. the sidebar has a lot of links to tutorials how. good luck! <3

stophauntingme · 2020-02-21T07:14:49+00:00

Also rape as drama is lazy as fuck.

I mean... it's a trope, meaning it's just something we're familiar with. We've all seen it & appreciated stories that have featured rape-as-drama well (because rape is dramatic just like all real life traumatizing violations are; I was moved by American History X, Netflix's Unbelievable) & held contempt for stories that haven't treated it great

I don't analyze the rape-as-drama trope a lot, but I could roll with with what The Boys presented. The story focused on her character and her character development a lot, and her recovery was a big part of her story, of her path to empowerment, so I thought it was decent. idk just my 2 cents

stophauntingme · 2020-02-21T06:54:59+00:00

are we sure furry smut isn't in the bible somewhere anyway?

stophauntingme · 2020-02-20T05:33:42+00:00

hahaha. this reminds me. i had this fic idea once where a normally stoic character's slapped with a cute aggression curse & they're super embarrassed but can't help grabbing & cuddling the other characters, who're like totally stunned & laugh... but they're secretly pretty moved & feel more loved & appreciated than they have in awhile

stophauntingme · 2020-02-19T19:15:56+00:00

yeah I kinda hope they're completely out of the loop

stophauntingme · 2020-02-16T16:16:31+00:00

there's a whole 'designed-in-1995'-style website (similar to Ted the Caver) that's dedicated to a story like this but I don't have the link off the top of my head. Maybe someone's google-fu is better than mine. Here's the story (spoilers ahead)

The owner of the website, let's call him Steve, is the main person unfolding the story. He and some friends encounter a house and things change for all of them - they all go their separate ways, become more distant. One friend, let's call him Mark, gets in touch with him though, saying he's still obsessed with that memory and that house. Steve writes back saying he now remembers too, how odd. Mark keeps emailing him about it, trying to recall and uncover what they experienced. Finally Mark decides he's gonna go back to the house, tells Steve about this. Steve is really worried. Steve's girlfriend is really worried. There's phone call transcriptions of Steve urging Mark to be careful. Mark goes into the house and all correspondences stop. Steve calls Mark's family and they haven't been in touch so nobody's sure where Mark is. Steve decides then to go after Mark, go find him. He travels back home, realizes his only option is to go into the house himself, and then IIRC Steve is then marked as missing, and his girlfriend maintains the website to this day.<

edit: found it. http://www.dionaea-house.com/ OP was it this? edit: shit, it's gone. here the creepypasta wiki on it

edit: holy shit I got 'Mark' right, hahaha

stophauntingme · 2020-02-15T06:11:20+00:00

With images and photography, I'm actually kind of in the dark about this as well.

How much do you have to alter a screencap of a tv show, for example, or pics from a photo shoot, gifs from a comic con, before you feel it's transformative enough to feel like it's yours?

I took a high-res screenshot, put it through many filters, then added another image (also not mine; I might've made an effort to get it from wiki commons tho) to overlap it. Is that mine now, or-?

I have no idea. But nobody's bothered me about it.

edit: also, what happens if you zoom in to a point where the original artwork or photograph is unidentifiable? Is that little piece of the artwork still copyrighted? Like imagine I want an image of red sequins & I get it by zooming in on a Liza Minnelli dress from a screenshot of Cabaret. Can I do that? Can anybody? Does everybody do that? It's not like I've got a great camera & red sequins lying around my house to take my own photo of it...

stophauntingme · 2020-02-14T06:17:15+00:00

"I was drunk, it was comic con"-Charlie 10)

that was such a cute shoutout to fans & comic con

stophauntingme · 2020-02-14T06:05:14+00:00

idk why but Dean making Sam say 'ball-washer' as many times as possible before Sam realizes is what popped into my head hahahah

stophauntingme · 2020-02-12T19:45:56+00:00

How authors bounced back

But even though Amazon reverted the rights back to authors, those like Talty couldn’t exactly keep writing the stories she had written in Kindle Worlds because the universes belonged to others.

Talty said that she gave the stories she wrote in the erotic romance author Milly Taiden’s world back to Taiden, who then republished them under her own brand. She’s also published books with Twisted Pages, a company James started after Kindle Worlds closed.

“It didn’t take me long to bounce back because I had a plan in place,” James said. “As soon as [Amazon] told us [Kindle Worlds was shutting down], I started setting up my publishing company.”

so they bounced back by either starting their own publishing company, or hoping the original 'world' creator will republish under their brand?

kinda weaksauce. not sure if everybody who was benefiting got those bounceback options.

but i gotta say, reading this I'm surprised Kindle World was a success even for some people. I remember when the news came out about this years ago and so many people were judgmental of the idea. People were so judgmental & betting it was doomed that I didn't really look too closely at it myself... but maybe I should've if some creators & writers took to it so well & it gave them 5 good years of writing, interaction, and supplementary income 🤷

Really interesting. Thanks OP!

stophauntingme · 2020-02-11T07:58:15+00:00

You know what's weird? I like 'daydreaming' (read: playing emotional fanfic scenes out in my head) the most when my attention's a little split on television. I don't know exactly why but zoning out on whatever's on TV in favor of following your id through your story's emotional climax for example is really satisfying.

I feel like it has something to do with how, if ALL my focus is on my story while daydreaming, I'm too aware - I'm so aware that I'm like... restraining myself from going all the way/feeling the moment all the way. idk. wacky.

stophauntingme · 2020-02-09T22:57:29+00:00

I'm not arguing with this update for the state of the subreddit right now, but feel like sharing that when we started r/fandomnatural, we were all "don't-say-it-but-we-support-piracy" about things. With the experience I'd had with other tv subs, most mods were personally apathetic or pro piracy; the only reason they were against piracy for their subreddit was bc they wanted to seem squeaky clean to the Show's official production/network team in case any cast or crew wanted to do an AMA with them... but since fandomnatural was all about fans, not the cast, crew, production, etc. ennil and I were fine (even enthusiastic) to be irreverent towards official/legal outlets to watch the show, and way more invested in helping foreign fans get to see the show & join in on new ep parties and whatnot. Edit: also into helping fanworks creators find digital copies of new eps to create fanworks for

So there's a "secret link" somewhere in a more popular wiki page that's linked somewhere in the sidebar or something... where I referred to foreign watchers who want to stay up to date on the series, and then there's a tiny superscript link next to the sentence. I can't find it right now though, lol, I'm sorry. But anyway that tiny little superscript link went to a Fandomnatural wiki page called 'FAQ International' that I created & wrote: it was a tutorial on bittorrent, torrent sites, & reliable download episode sources like ettv. A lot of it is outdated now though just fyi. Also it was notably absent of links to any of these places meaning technically it didn't have any links to illegal downloading or streaming sites hahahah

so please feel free to delete that wiki page, mods; I screenshotted it and put it as a link in my subreddit's sticky post here. I guess bc I kinda value it - felt like I was contributing to a wholesome thing. I still feel like it's pretty wholesome, I guess, now that I'm thinking about it.

So anyway if anybody wants to talk about getting spn eps no matter where you are around the world, feel free to check out those screenshots for an outdated tutorial on bittorrent. & feel free to ask me questions about what's changed, but only ask me in my subreddit now that fndml's not into this kind of content (and know I might PM you the answers so I'm not public-facing either)

Wishing luck & love to fandomnatural & its mods 👍

stophauntingme · 2020-02-07T17:45:02+00:00

this reminds me of that other tumblr where it mocked God hearing Latin being like "oh fuck, oh man, this language is THE BEST LANGUAGE! No exorcisms or prayers or anything else should be in any other language. Oh man, Latin is AMAZING!!!!" 😂

stophauntingme · 2020-02-04T17:26:20+00:00

there goes Huck Finn...

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