I’ve been around for a really long time in various fandoms, and no one ever writes this stuff down. I’ll start. Please add to the list. We can’t expect people to follow “rules” they don’t know exist.
if you like something, reblog it. Help the artist get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you.
if you want more of it, support it. This can be via commissions, reblogs, recommending the artist to other people, shouting in the tags, or sending the artist asks/messages.
if you hate it, keep scrolling. Keep the hate in a message window with a friend, not in the artist’s notes.
if you want to use it, ask permission. Artwork is beautiful and you want to show it off. But please ask the artist before you throw it into your header or your icon.
if you use it, give credit. And not just a post where you say “Do you like my new icon? X made it!”. Put it in your blog description, that way when someone rolls around your blog three months from now, they also know where your icon/header came from.
Fanfic
if you like something, reblog it. Help the author get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you.
if you want more of it, support it. Kudos are fine, but if you want more of the thing you like, you should comment. Subscribe to the story or the author. Send them a message about how much you like what they wrote.
if you read it, kudos it. Or give it a thumbs up. And this is just if you managed to get all the way to the end. If you finished the story and you actually liked it? Comment and reblog.
don’t demand content. Be patient. Stories take time. You can encourage without being demanding. Show your love for what’s there without telling them to post more often.
be gentle with criticism. Some people want it and some people run away from it. If you don’t know what type of person the author is, it’s best not to go there. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.”
Fandom
ship and let ship. You love your ship and other people love theirs. No one needs to “win” when we’re all going to end up in tears anyway.
if you hate it, stay out of the tag. This has two meanings: 1) don’t deliberately put hateful commentary in a tag and 2) if you hate a tag, don’t go and read through that tag just to make yourself angry
if someone makes you something, appreciate it. Read and comment the fic. Like and reblog the artwork. Pimp it out and tell them how much you loved it. It’s a gift, treat it like one.
if it’s a gift, put some effort into it. You signed up for that exchange three months ago and now it’s a week before you have to send the gift and you don’t have the time or the inclination to do the thing. Well too bad. Someone out there has been working hard in your gift, so you should do the same for them.
none of us are “better” than anyone else. We’re all trash for our particular show/film/book/ship/artist/what-have-you. My fave is no better than yours and yours is no better than mine.
actors are not their characters. They are people. Treat them like people.
*gently slams the reblog button*
Not on my own account, but writers I know have been on the receiving end of more unwarranted and plain rude crap than usual lately…
Ignorance honestly. Pay attention to the violence in the world and see how it’s not as one-sided as you really think it is. Being violent to just be violent is never the answer and blindly following others a.k.a the mob makes you part of the problem. We are the generations that refuse to grown up and it has hinder us to think like this post above. Take responsibility!
Seems like we are taking responsibility. You know who isn’t taking responsibility? The corporations who have been very busy pillaging the world and setting it on fire since the Industrial Revolution. We’re going to teach them that all the money in the world doesn’t save them from the consequences of their actions. 5 people shouldn’t own half the wealth of the entire goddamn planet when there are over 7 billion of us.
We are in a world where we cannot afford to live in our own homes, the cost of living has gone up for everyone. Housing, food, medicine? All of those have grown more and more expensive in our lifetimes. Yet what we are payed to live off of is barely enough for most of us to survive. People live in fear of getting sick because that will place them into debt.
Most recently in the news, Verison has been throttling fire fighters services while in massive emergencies to make more money, placing hundreds of people in danger if not thousands. Children of immigrants have been placed in concentration camps that are comparable to what we’ve done to Japanese people during WWII. American citizens of color have even had their own citizenships placed under question even after they’ve shown proof. Nazis roam the streets in and threaten violence everywhere they go. School shootings have run rampant here in the US for over a decade and there is hardly a week that goes by that I don’t know of another that just happened (Most recently near my own home in Colorado AGAIN)
We are tired, we’ve played the peaceful pacifist and that didn’t work. Now our world is on the cusps of a dystopian nightmare yet again and our government is turning a blind eye to our suffering. If they didn’t pay attention to us when we were peaceful, they’ll come to regret it when we cannot handle their malicious ignorance anymore.
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