where there's smoke there's--

I’m saving the one I want to use. All of these were modified for WWE (fandom). Using Io Shirai here because the intent was to write stuff pre-IYO SKY ring name change.

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Getting back to this Fannish Fifty project and I found a way to talk about something while not breaking a community's TOS. (Although I think just talking about it while having a link wouldn't break the TOS.)

A friend sent me this quote tweet to a screenshot of tweets in regards to someone feeling like they haven't consented to consuming fiction with sex scenes. And I have to agree with the quote tweet (tl;dr: tweet says over the past 20 years the writer feels like people take fictional characters way too seriously). It really does feel like people are identifying way too much to fictional characters. It made me think of someone who was concerned about me "hurting" Rose Tyler years ago in a series of fics I wrote for Kink Bingo. (I took the works off the site because I felt my works I made for the community at the time weren't representative of the kinks I was writing about and because I had issues with the community and how it was run.) This person and I went back and forth on AO3 about the content of the fic (and may have employed a sock account to further attack me) to the point where, despite me changing the content notes of the fic to "choose not to warn," the person tried getting the Rose Tyler fic taken down off AO3. I was way more angry about the incident at the time but these days I'm so baffled someone would get so mad about a fic they could've closed the browser on or backbuttoned to read something else.

Once again formatting an old post, originally for Fandom Snowflake, for this. Adding some of my own metas (after deleting a spite!meta, more or less) and apparently I posted this without closing a tag on one of the older links? Whoops.

The downside of watching Burn Notice is that there are over 100 episodes, making it one of USA Network's few shows to reach that milestone. There’s also a TV movie. The upside is that, if you watch a few episodes, you do get what the show's about, despite the changes in Michael's burn notice arc over the seasons. The only thing that might throw you off is the addition of Jesse, a spy Michael accidentally burns in season 4. Other than that, well, feel free to jump into this show's canon anytime.

Some show related meta follows, although a lot of it is sorely out of date and mentions characters that have since been given the Chuck Cunningham treatment or have actually been taken out of or literally killed off the show.

First fandom overview @ crack_van by wizefics
Second fandom overview @ crack_van by jebbypal
Fandom overview @ smallfandomfest by iamrosalita
Sam Axe shipper manifesto @ het_reccers by rise_your_dead
Fiona/Sam shipper manifesto @ ship_manifesto by rise_your_dead
Fiona/Michael shipper manifesto @ het_reccers by abvj
Trigger Happy Lovers: A Fiona Glenanne/Michael Westen Ship Manifesto (1506 words) by merryghoul
Lying to Find the Truth: Jesse Porter Versus Michael's Team in Burn Notice (2826 words) by merryghoul
Analyzing the "Reckoning" (1931 words) by merryghoul

I have no idea if this is going to be a “theme” or not, but I remembered I still wanted to repost things from my journal from a decade ago and make some changes, especially since I wanted to lock down my LJ to prevent spambots from interacting with the journal. I’ve made it to 2013 and Yuletide reveals. So I’m redoing that post and not sounding petty while I’m listing the fics I wrote and worked on that year.

Under the cut, it’s Yuletide 2012 again! Fandoms: Boardwalk Empire, Burn Notice, Revenge (ABC TV show), and Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991), and I also betaed a fic for Arrow (the CW TV show).

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