Opened Ask Box (+anon option) for your HIV characters narratives requests for a day (20th-21th march of 2024)
noticed that i've never seen a character with HIV presented in media (besides That Films there it is all about tragedy around it). let's do smth about it.
for a day my ask is open specifically for your thoughts about how do you want HIV characters to be portraited in a not-sad way - some warmth romantic moments, maybe some inside jokes with friends, cute moments of life from your experience. not necessary real life things - characters in fantasy? cool, will listen about hiv in vampire world with all ears etc
How it will be: you send your request or thoughts, like "i wish it would be HIV-positive character in the show which would do things such - " or "me and my partner both hiv positive and we have that thing - " etc. I will read it and choose some things to draw as little sketches, make a screenshot and slap the text on images.
Default option is anon, If you want your @ being on sketch - write about it in letter
you have experience - i have art power, let's combine in art love machine
p.s. if it will not reach hiv people on this day and i will got no letters, will make it open for longer
so real quick just wanna ask why are there 67 of you little brats/aff (/aff means affectionate right? no one's taught me internet slang I'm dying) are watchin me ramble about nonsense all day
like guys I'm not that interesting I'm a little creature a lil hobbit rearranging furniture and hanging old pictures on the walls I'm not that cool I swear and I'm pretty sure that once yall figure that out you're gonna stop watchin which i mean fair enough but like
WHY ARE YOU GUYS LIVING IN MY PHONE PLEASE I NEED TO KNOW
recently I discovered that Kawayoo, one of my all-time favorite Pokemon TCG artists, has some art of Loudred floating around and it's the best thing I've ever seen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (implied)
Characters: John Watson, Jim Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes
Additional Tags: Episode: s02e03 The Reichenbach Fall, Reichenbach Falls, John falls instead of Sherlock, John Watson Loves Sherlock Holmes, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Open to Interpretation, No beta we die like Sherlock Holmes, (though not in this), Angst
Summary:
What if It wasn't Sherlock who fell, but John instead? After all, Moriarty promised to burn the heart out of him. Best he learn to keep his heart out of other people's hands.
Tbh I feel like 'John falls instead of Sherlock' has so much angst potential and it could be used more. (Aka the age-old 'I wanted it so I wrote it myself')
I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -
I am fine with "the audience" -
downloading my fics
printing my fics
copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics
sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3
making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss
doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc
I am not fine with "the audience"
doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity
feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever
Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.
"But if college was free, then people would abuse that and get useless degrees" hell yeah I would! If I could go to college without debt I would make it my job to get a degree in every little thing that interested me. I'd get a doctorate in film studies. I'd have a bachelor's degree for every science I like. I'd try to learn at least 5 languages with varying results. I would learn something "useful" like coding and then follow it up with a ""useless"" degree like art history. I'd be the world record speed run holder for getting every degree possible.
But I can't afford college without going into massive debt, so instead I spent the last 5 years trying to figure out what I am passionate enough about to consider going into debt over, because unfortunately being passionate about everything is extremely expensive to pursue.
Hunter Schafer at the GQ Global Creativity Awards, dressed in a custom hand-painted Marni gown inspired by Vincent van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' (11th April 2024)
genuinely i think it's important for adults, especially in the plague times, to play pretend in our day-to-day lives. when i rub my back down with tiger balm so i can sleep without pain, i imagine i am a valiant knight tending to an old injury i received from a dragon. when i go to the store to pick up eggs and milk, i am a lone cowboy riding into town on a mission. when i turn my collar up against the wind i am a femme fatale who's killed 4 husbands and is scoping out a 5th. when i stomp around in the snow i am a doomed polar explorer. if being a little bit silly about my walk to the pharmacy helps me remember that life can be full of joy and whimsy, then so be it.
I want to see characters being taken care of in an explicit and worshipful way. Home-cooked meals. Hair brushed and braided by gentle hands. Little gifts just because.
I want to read about characters who are not used to kindness being bombarded by acts of service. This trope works romantically and platonically. Give me found family and acts of service - all the ways a character is wrapped up in wordless, explicit care after years of cruelty and having no idea how to handle. I need it.
You may be a minor and have parents that are overprotective of you or worse, are neutral about the whole thing or is supportive of one side.
But you don't need to speak up about Palestine on your own post. You can always reblog a post with the click of a button. Reblog posts just like this one.
I know it's hard to do much and I know you're sometimes feeling like you aren't doing enough. But you can take it with little steps at a time.
Don't stop talking about Palestine. Your voices need to be heard.