Monday Update, Yey!🌙 The Penultimate Chapter Is Up, And Its Summary Even Rhymes Lol!

I think my dark undereye circles are adding to the aesthetic actually.

there are some pigeons that roost in a traffic light by my house and it delights me every time i see them

Hey Tsuki!

Thanks for adding chapters to 'Lessons' with every update! Can't get enough of those two idiots!

(also: looking forward to the spicy epilogue hehe *rubbing hands*)

Have a nice weekend 🤍

Oh to open my Tumblr and to see this 💜💚💖🥹 Thank you, Val! @youre-ackermine

I am slightly embarrassed at my inability to accurately set the final chapter count, especially with this one 🫣

p.s absolutely loving the striked out text 🤣 dirt, I love to eat dirt with anything to do with these two idiots, and I'm so glad that you do too 😌

Happy weekend *checks the calendar* or perhaps, more apt to wish you a happy Monday, in advance, and a good start to the rest of the week too 💐🥰

In the quiet moments, I hear what my heart desires 🤍

Pansy x Neville

Oh to go back to the days when you were jumping in a creek for fun and not because you’re a fugitive trying to save the person you love :’)

I don’t like wading into Ao3 debates, but I want to give my professional opinion on Ao3 with regard to archives vs. libraries.

I am a professional librarian (MSLS) and I have worked in both archives and public libraries and a lot of the confusion and concern I see surrounding Ao3 is a fundamental misunderstanding of How Archives Work.

An archive is a collection related to a subject. That subject often a person but sometimes a field or concept or project. And the purpose of an archive is to keep everything. And I mean everything. I was going to say “short of biohazards” but since I know there’s a sealed R. Crumb Devil Gal chocolate bar in the UNC Chapel Hill archives, we really do mean everything.

When a collection of materials–which are usually unique and original and can be photos, manuscripts, letters, recordings (audio and/or visual), notes and notebooks, objects, published books, whatever–on and/or from the subject arrive at the archive, they are examined, preserved for longevity, accessioned and cataloged (added to the archive’s records), and added to the archive. You measure collections in linear feet. As in, once it’s all preserved and boxed and secure, you note how many feet of shelf space it takes up. And some of y'all on Ao3 have a lot of linear feet to your name (and I’m proud of you).

This is an archive: it is designed to preserve the original materials related to a subject. That is its purpose. Archives are how we have the original scroll manuscript of On the Road, for example, or the Lomax recordings of American folksongs, or Tijuana Bibles, or James Joyce’s loveletters to Nora.

Now you, a member of the public, can access some archives. Some are easier to access than others. The one I worked in was open to the public; good luck getting into the British Archives without a good reason.

So now apply this to Ao3–which is an archive both in name and in purpose. It is intended to preserve fan-created content long term. And this means everything, whether you personally like the materials or not. It is a repository for as much as possible.

And the “whether you personally like the materials or not” is important, hence why I mentioned Jim’s loveletters and Tijuana Bibles in particular. (RIP Jim, you would have loved pegging.)

If it’s made by fans and it exists, we should keep it to document the history and progression of fandom. That is the point. We have lost enough materials related to the subject of fans of media and we don’t need to lose any more.

The fact of the matter is that Ao3 is only one facet of the OTW, which preserves other fan-related materials (convention booklets and zines, for example). Somehow Ao3, an archive on the subject of fanfiction, has been divorced from the rest of the project, mostly by way of “purity culture” and panic over “dangerous” fiction.

The fact that you can go through an archive and find interesting information is the other side of archives. No, they shouldn’t be like the banker’s box of old letters stuffed in my closet. Yes, they should be organized and as accessible as is appropriate for the state of the materials.

It’s really, really cool to find stuff in an archive, I’m not even going to lie. I have done it before and I will do it again. And yet there are other items in an archive that I might not want or need or be interested in at all–but they’re still there. That’s the cataloging and accessioning: to keep up with what’s there, to stay “on topic” with collecting, and to be able to find things in that archive. Bless the tag wranglers who are doing the cataloging at Ao3.

The pearl clutching seems to come from 1. the creation of “dangerous” fanworks and 2. public access to those “dangerous” fanworks. These are issues of “purity culture” and opinions on censorship and should not involve Ao3.

Ao3, under the umbrella of the OTW, is a documentation and preservation project first and foremost.

I'm texting like a young boy who got drafted to the war and is writing letters to his lover over seas. I'm telling stories.

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"duble texting is desperate behaviour." OH SO YOURE BORING. SO YOU HAVE NOTHING TO SAY. SKILL ISSUE. I'm a yapper. I will yap. I'll quadruple text if i need to and I NEED TO because I have a whole day of experiences to share bitch. I'm texting like a young boy who got drafted to the war and is writing letters to his lover over seas. I'm telling stories.

commission by lacampanule on insta

I finally need to share the beautiful pokopiku commission I got from alora a while ago 🥺 I'm still so much in love with it!

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