![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Thankful for Speed bumps
Nov. 29th, 2024 08:21 pmStill couldn't find the flash drive, looked in the car again when I loaded it to go to the laundromat, nothing. But as I cross the street and see the speed bumps I thought 'if it's between the center console and the seat I'll never get my hand between there.' So I hit the speed bumps hard. Sure enough it jarred the flashdrive out from that exact spot. I have it back and I am THANKFUL.
Before I hit fannish 50 and do my recs, let's talk something terrible happening in fandom again. The last time I talked about this it was Laura Bailey and a few other critical role actors getting death threats (in her case because she was a VA for a villain and others because they had a critical fail and their characters died) and because of Valentino cosplayers being physically attacked. Now we have Joel Perez, the voice actor for Valentino getting death threats for sharing Valentino/Angel art and again for playing a villain
I have no idea WHY fans in the 2020s can't fucking separate acting from reality but if you want stories with tension and bad guys SOME ONE has to play the baddie. That doesn't mean they're bad or they support the shit their characters do. To all the fans out there, take this from someone who's been in fandoms for 40+ years, being awful to actors who play villains does NOT make you a hero. It's cruel. As Joel said, it's performative. if you feel that strongly about protecting sexual abuse victims go out there and do something real, not harassing fictional characters and the actors that bring them to life.
What do these fans want? The roles to be voiced by real serial killers? AI actors? That latter is happening fast enough. Pretty soon with the way fans are threatening the lives (and in Laura's case the life of her infant son) of the actors, they'll be willing to let the computers voice them and we all lose.
In happier fannish news but I'll put it under a cut ( Helluva Boss S2E12 Mastermind dropped today )
Here's my story for the week (only on AO3 at the moment as I forgot to put this on this flashdrive...)
Title Touches My Foolish Heart
SummaryAngel wonders why Husk is always there to patch him up after a hard day on the job. Husk clues him in.
Written for cozy_coffee in comment_fic for the prompt any, any, Knife Wound and for spikesgirl58’s six word challenge and the six words were Frozen, Native, Deprive, Bible, Net, & Hero. Also written for the allbingo prompt of radio music and the lyrical titles challenge for the prompt of Romantic song using The Way You Look Tonight by Frank Sinatra. You can find the song here.
A Long Way To Run FAKE
Drive To Change The Owl House
Love's a gamble, and baby I'm all in. Hazbin Hotel
incomplete Star Trek: Voyager
A Confession "Mr Rowl" - D.K. Broster
No Bond Stronger Hazbin Hotel
Cold Weather Blues Torchwood
Do Si Dos and Aliemande Left Buffy the Vampire Slayer
...The Wonder Of Hope Prodigal Son
Soap vs Flash-bang Call of Duty
Second Chances Hazbin Hotel wip
Melancholy Persona 5
Not Feeling Festive FAKE
Patching up hands and hearts Call of Duty
If On A Winter’s Night Teen Wolf
And oh I DID finish the 50K for the month
Tidbit
Tim shook his head. “No, but I’m more about ghost stories. Demons freak me out.”
Grace mentally scratched him off their list. Al had brought them to this point rather masterfully and she was glad of it. She turned her attention to Nick as he answered Al’s question.
“I have a few stories but like Tim I want to give demons a wide berth, just in case they really are real. There is this weirdo on campus though. Ah man, what was that dweeb’s name?” Nick tapped his chin. “Give me a minute, it’ll come to me. You might have seen him. He always has this handcuff on one wrist, just the one cuff, and he has long dark hair, wears an Indiana Jones hat.”
Dan groaned and slung his hair back, a pained expression on his face. “Robert.”
Nick flung his hand out. “That’s it! Yeah, he came to one of our paranormal investigations and that was all he could talk about, summoning demons by accident with what we were doing.”
50661 / 50000 words. 101% done!
Before I hit fannish 50 and do my recs, let's talk something terrible happening in fandom again. The last time I talked about this it was Laura Bailey and a few other critical role actors getting death threats (in her case because she was a VA for a villain and others because they had a critical fail and their characters died) and because of Valentino cosplayers being physically attacked. Now we have Joel Perez, the voice actor for Valentino getting death threats for sharing Valentino/Angel art and again for playing a villain
I have no idea WHY fans in the 2020s can't fucking separate acting from reality but if you want stories with tension and bad guys SOME ONE has to play the baddie. That doesn't mean they're bad or they support the shit their characters do. To all the fans out there, take this from someone who's been in fandoms for 40+ years, being awful to actors who play villains does NOT make you a hero. It's cruel. As Joel said, it's performative. if you feel that strongly about protecting sexual abuse victims go out there and do something real, not harassing fictional characters and the actors that bring them to life.
What do these fans want? The roles to be voiced by real serial killers? AI actors? That latter is happening fast enough. Pretty soon with the way fans are threatening the lives (and in Laura's case the life of her infant son) of the actors, they'll be willing to let the computers voice them and we all lose.
In happier fannish news but I'll put it under a cut ( Helluva Boss S2E12 Mastermind dropped today )
Here's my story for the week (only on AO3 at the moment as I forgot to put this on this flashdrive...)
Title Touches My Foolish Heart
SummaryAngel wonders why Husk is always there to patch him up after a hard day on the job. Husk clues him in.
Written for cozy_coffee in comment_fic for the prompt any, any, Knife Wound and for spikesgirl58’s six word challenge and the six words were Frozen, Native, Deprive, Bible, Net, & Hero. Also written for the allbingo prompt of radio music and the lyrical titles challenge for the prompt of Romantic song using The Way You Look Tonight by Frank Sinatra. You can find the song here.
A Long Way To Run FAKE
Drive To Change The Owl House
Love's a gamble, and baby I'm all in. Hazbin Hotel
incomplete Star Trek: Voyager
A Confession "Mr Rowl" - D.K. Broster
No Bond Stronger Hazbin Hotel
Cold Weather Blues Torchwood
Do Si Dos and Aliemande Left Buffy the Vampire Slayer
...The Wonder Of Hope Prodigal Son
Soap vs Flash-bang Call of Duty
Second Chances Hazbin Hotel wip
Melancholy Persona 5
Not Feeling Festive FAKE
Patching up hands and hearts Call of Duty
If On A Winter’s Night Teen Wolf
And oh I DID finish the 50K for the month
Tidbit
Tim shook his head. “No, but I’m more about ghost stories. Demons freak me out.”
Grace mentally scratched him off their list. Al had brought them to this point rather masterfully and she was glad of it. She turned her attention to Nick as he answered Al’s question.
“I have a few stories but like Tim I want to give demons a wide berth, just in case they really are real. There is this weirdo on campus though. Ah man, what was that dweeb’s name?” Nick tapped his chin. “Give me a minute, it’ll come to me. You might have seen him. He always has this handcuff on one wrist, just the one cuff, and he has long dark hair, wears an Indiana Jones hat.”
Dan groaned and slung his hair back, a pained expression on his face. “Robert.”
Nick flung his hand out. “That’s it! Yeah, he came to one of our paranormal investigations and that was all he could talk about, summoning demons by accident with what we were doing.”
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}