wingslovesfiction:

posingasme:

Hey. The following is not meant to be critical of anyone’s ships, kinks, tastes, curiosities, so long as it doesn’t harm anyone. The following is a clarification request.

#wincest refers to Sam/Dean as adults in a romantic and/or sexual relationship.

#wincestiel is the same with the inclusion of adult Castiel.

#weeCHESTERS is Sam and Dean as children, with no implication of any sexual or romantic situation between them or anyone else with them.

#weeCEST is the brothers, underage, engaging in a sexual and/or romantic relationship between one another and/or someone else. (Extreme weecest refers to their very young age.)

Please please please please please

Tag appropriately. Please.

Also: in fanfic, especially in AO3 tagging:

• a / between characters’ names means a romantic and/or sexual relationship;
• a & between characters’ names means a relationship that is neither romantic nor sexual. It’s for when you’re depicting a friendship or a familial relationship.

Yes, / was used on other fanfic sites differently, too, I’ve seen it used to list all the major characters, for example, but this is what it means on AO3 now. So please, don’t put a / between e.g. the names of a parent and child, unless you really mean it as incest. Don’t forget that & exists.

(Also, only tag stuff that really is relevant to your post/fanwork.)

art-is-the-word:

yooonbora:

xpropriate:

Privileged folk ridiculing safe spaces is so funny as if men don’t refuse to enter “girly” stores and have “man caves”, as if white people don’t avoid black neighbourhoods, as if straight people don’t ostracise gay people from their social circles, like who’s really the one with the safe spaces lol

that’s the thing about power dynamics. Your boss has no problem entering your work space randomly, while you can’t enter his office as freely. Same mechanic is happening here, only that when you refuse to let your boss (privileged people) enter your space (safe space), they feel offended because they think they’re entitled to entering your space all the time.

OH MY GOD

neil-gaiman:

elniboristo:

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.

Then again, Good Omens is just Black Books fanfiction and there’s no denying it.

Not just fanfiction, but the special magic kind of fanfiction you can only make happen when you write it over a decade before the thing that it’s fanfiction of exists. That’s what makes it so special.