allspnships:

Which Supernatural fanfic/RPF that you wrote in 2017 is your favorite?

We want to know.

Head on over to our submissions page, tick the “fave fic 2017″ box and fill in the following on your submission (note: your submission must contain all of this or it will not be posted):

Title and author name: (put this in the “title” box on text post submission)

(In the body of the post:)

Fic link:
Relationships: (if it’s Gen fic, just put Gen)
Word count:
Rating:
Warnings and key tags:
Summary:
This is my fave because: (explain why you’re proud to have written this fic)

And hit submit.

Rules:
Only one

Supernatural fic/RPF submission per writer. Crossovers allowed. All
ships allowed. Reader insert allowed. Gen allowed. WIP allowed.

NOTE:
Only fic that doesn’t feature individuals under the age of 16 in
explicit sexual situations (this raises to 18 for RPF) will be posted.
No other content restrictions apply.

Happy Holidays and New Year, and may your muse be with you in 2018.

~ @dreamsfromthebunker and @mayalaen.

Jessica on Twitter

super-sootica:

dinosaurrainbowstarfish:

super-sootica:

deathtwonormalcy:

lets report this homophobic asshole .what with people this holiday?

Report and block, if you’re going to check out to verify, trigger warnings for hate speech, homophobia and wishing harm on others

I checked them out and they’re way worse than I expected, be safe friends.

Guys please signal boost this! 

I know we fight amongst ourselves but this is different.  This is bullying and hatred in it’s purest form and ignoring it won’t make it go away.   They are launching a full attack over the holidays across various social media platforms

We only just got rid of them on tumblr.   Report & block!   They are in people’s asks already using their hate-speech, unabashed and full of violence.  Report and block.  Get them out of our community

Jessica on Twitter

How to be a writer 

1) Have ideas 
2) Talk about ideas 
3) Research ideas
4) Daydream about ideas
5) Attempt to write ideas
6) Whine about how hard writing is
7) Cry 
8) Finally find inspiration at 3:13 am and write like mad
9) Cry b/c it’s all unintelligible nonsense 
10) Have another idea 

I am genuinely sorry to bother you with this, but I am hoping you can help settle what is becoming a very unpleasant multi-fandom argument-is Crowley canonically gay? Some people feel he is, some people feel he may be bi/pan, but there is quite a lot of nastiness floating around Tumblr aimed at people who wish to write fan fic about Crowley having romantic interest in people other than Aziraphale. Any insight you could offer into these characters would be much appreciated. You’re a treasure. <3

neil-gaiman:

I suspect that I’m about to step into something I would be wisest to keep well away from. But what the hell, it’s that time between Christmas and New Year’s. And nobody’s yelled at me over the internet since I said that the TV Aziraphale doesn’t use a cell phone. *

Canonically, which is to say using the text in the book, you don’t get any description of Crowley’s sex life. The only thing the book says is “angels are sexless unless they specifically make an effort”.  You can infer, and (more to the point) you can imagine, and lots of people have chosen, not unreasonably, to ship him with Aziraphale, but you are still Making Stuff Up. It could be Making Stuff Up that happens between paragraphs, or Making Stuff Up that isn’t mentioned at all, but it’s still Making Stuff Up.** (And using the kind of eagle-eyed textual analysis that Bible scholars used to decide exactly what a piece of four thousand year old verse definitely meant also counts here as Making Stuff Up.)

Which is the fun of fanfiction, and part of the tradition of fanfiction. As is, I’m afraid, grumbling at people who do not see that your ship is the only true ship, and choose to ship anyone else with anyone else.

If anyone decides that The Relationships in Their Fanfiction Are the Only True Fanfiction, it seems to me they are missing the point. The point is Fanfiction exists so that you can imagine, enjoy and fill in the gaps. The point is that you can change things and have fun with them. And the stories are absolutely true… for you.

The TV series gets deeper into Crowley and Aziraphale’s relationship. It’ll be canonical for the TV series, and not canonical for the book.*** 

If I were to Pronounce on things that are not explicitly stated in the book, I still wouldn’t be telling you if Crowley was Canonically Gay. I would be telling you what I think, because it’s not canon unless it’s in the book. It won’t be TV canon unless it’s on the screen.

So, do not worry what other people think, and do not worry about what they say. These are not things on which people can be right or wrong, or on which anything can be “settled”. 

Make fun fanfiction. Enjoy yourself. Make things up. Share them. That’s the point.

*People would only bother him on it. And if anyone gave him one as a present, it would be still be in its box, on the same shelf as the still-unboxed Kindle.

**Which was what Terry and I did when we wrote the book. And what I had to do for the TV scripts when I needed to take the story into places the book hadn’t covered.

***They don’t contradict each other, but there is territory covered by the TV series that isn’t covered by the book, particularly about Crowley and Aziraphale in bygone years. Also the Present Day in the book is probably the early 1990s, and the Present Day in the TV series is 2019ish, although 11 years ago in the book wasn’t particularly 1978, and 11 years ago on TV is post-ubiquitous cellphones but pre-smartphones.

Oh great archivist of fanart, I have a question: Is it possible to tell when the trend started to depict boyking!Sam with a crown of thorns?

trisscar368:

Hmm

For the fandom history side, apparently there’s an LJ community titled “Sam is my Demon Jesus”
that was founded in October 9th 2007 – 3×01 aired on October 4th and
that is the first place anyone used the term “boy king”.

There’s plenty of savior imagery around Sam in-show that predates that; and evil!Sam goes back to 2×14, with a healthy dose of “oh what if he went evil” in the fandom going back to s1.  There could be dark!Sam+crown of thorns art that predates s3.  But that specific combo, savior/messiah + Boyking, can be tied back to 3×01 and probably that LJ community.  (Their profile pic is that weird smiling Jesus statue with Jared’s head on it >.>)

As for the first painting/piece of art… that’s a little more complicated.

I cannot date what we have archived, because a decent portion of it is from deactivated blogs.  Unless there’s a way to access Tumblr’s metadata on the original posts, all I can do is guess as to how old things are.  No way to find the first one there.

We also are limited to archiving what’s on tumblr, or things off of DA/LJ that we have permission to archive to tumblr.  So I’ve got a very limited pool of data that I’m going to come across naturally for that era.

Most of the fandom artists seem to have migrated over to tumblr at some point during 2011 or so (one of the major LJ ToS issues was in 2010, so…), but not every fandom artist brought all of their art to tumblr.  Some fandom artists are just on DA, some brought select pieces over to create a portfolio or posted what people requested, and some just started posting new art.

I’m also pretty sure that LJ didn’t have a tag system back in 2007.  So
trying to find art from that era is going to be… just as difficult if
not more difficult than finding meta from that era :/

There’s a lot of fandom history and old art I’ve got no access to, and no way to preserve; DA and LJ make it pretty easy to just erase things from existence when you delete your account, unlike tumblr’s pseudo-archive format.  If the first painting with a crown of thorns belonged to a deleted account?  It’s gone.

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bisexualdemondean:

Hey, I’ve had a few people recently tell me that I should set up some sort of tip jar for people to send money to if you want to support my blog. 

I don’t need the money, but another anon suggested setting up a donation account for a charity, and that sounds like a much better option.

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Stay badass. 

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