Hi! I saw your fics on AO3 and thought you might be interested in our fanfiction documentary. We’re crowdfunding now on Kickstarter and we’re trying to get the word out. We’ve got 11 days left on our campaign and we still have a ways to go. It would be awesome if you could check it out and possibly contribute and share!

hey PSA lovely peeps – the kickstarter for this is here, and it looks very interesting and cool!

it’ll be nice to have a film about fanfic and fandom that doesn’t make us all sound like weird alien bugs 🙂

Ship Sizes

redhothollyberries:

blackkatmagic:

omniship-armada:

Supercarrier: fandom flagship.  Everybody and their dog ships it.  The fandom is glutted with artwork and fic.  You cannot escape this ship.

Dreadnought: massively popular.  Nearly everybody ships it.  You can, with dedication, in theory, reach the end of the AO3 archive for the ship’s tag, but it’ll take a long time.

Cruiser: pretty popular ship.  Not everyone ships it, but everyone knows about it.  Has a good amount of fic/art, and probably multiple ask blogs.

Frigate: just plain popular.  Feels like it could use more fanworks.  New people to the fandom might not know about it, but they’ll stumble across it sooner rather than later.

Gunboat: bit of a rarepair.  It might have an ask blog or two.  A couple big name fans ship it.  Probably only takes a few weeks to get through the entire AO3 backlog, and one new fic gets added during that time.

Tugboat: rarepair.  Almost never seen except as a side pairing to a more popular ship.  You can usually get through everything on AO3 in a matter of days.  You’ve forgotten what it is to be picky about what you read.

Rowboat: less than a dozen people ship it.  You all know each other.  You exist in an endless cycle of the same five people desperately producing art and fic and one person who constantly contributes headcanons.

Canoe: you are one of maybe three people who ship it, and there’s a not-insignificant chance you’ve never encountered those other two hypothetical shippers.  You spend your days paddling furiously in hopes of keeping the ship afloat, dreaming of the day you upgrade to a rowboat so you can finally rest.

*cries*

Come on, you have the ability to sway a lot of people, so all rarepair you propose quickly upgrade from canoe to Rowboat xD But… yeah, they’re gonna stay rowboats xDD 

but, hey, look at the bright side! you created so many rowboats ships that you have a whole fleet of them!

fenrisesque:

stop mkaing christmas icons of canonically jewish characters

stop making christmas icons of fenris

of thorin

of gimli

of steven

stop!!!!

so I saw this and wanted to boost this for my fellow people of the lotr/the hobbit fandom: it takes a 3-second google search to find that the Dwarves in Middle Earth are coded as Jewish, Tolkien himself admitted as much (many times, in fact)

so can we keep this in mind this December? 

(when it comes to Elves or Gondorians or Hobbits doing Christmassy things, sure go wild.)