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WHA fandom is like: Here's a great manga that deals with teaching children and respects them as people and has wonderful art and handles delicate topics respectfully and has interesting thoughts about the world and the what and how needs changing as well as a well developed world and deep and complex characters also if all of that doesnt pique your interest here is qifrey he's a slut

ALL* content warnings for trigun and trimax

my boyfriend and i have been compiling a warning list for trigun and trimax for anyone interested in starting the series, especially those finding the series through the trigun bookclub (over @trigunbookclub ) . it's taken quite a bit of work and im proud to turn it loose :]

i've tried to keep these as spoiler-free as possible for any new readers. while i read both the official dark horse translation as well as the @trigun-manga-overhaul translation, ill be using the overhaul translation by and large for clarity (and because im biased, and prefer the overhaul, and please go support their work). if you're using a different translation, please note that chapter titles and the language used will be different.

general warnings for TRIGUN are: frequent abuse of alcohol; frequent loss of autonomy, ie people being forced to do things against their will; passive suicidality; body horror; gun violence and corrupt authorities typical of the wild west genre; assume lots of blood and heaps of shooting. more specific warnings will be under the cut.

[Vol 1, Ch 01, "The $$60 Billion Double Dollar Man"] misogyny, sexual harassment towards women. [Vol 1, Ch 03, "Hard Puncher"] nondescript facial injury. [Vol 1, Ch 04, "Bang! Bang!"] heavy drinking. a child lies about their aunt being abusive and their uncle being a pedophile. [Vol 1, Ch 05, "Assault"] character is drugged. [Vol 1, Ch 06,"Die Hards"] character chokes a child, tosses child across room, and then rams a gun against their teeth. character almost pulls the trigger. [Vol 1, Ch 07, "Rem"] harm to a child. [Vol 1, Ch 08, "Duelists"] harm to a child. [Vol 1, Ch 09, "Between Wasteland and Sky"] harm to a child. organs are rendered. child is burned. [Vol 1, Ch 10, "Little Arcadia"] the arcadia arc centers around a conflict between a parent and their child. [Vol 1, Ch 11, "Son"] implied death of a child.

[Vol 2, Ch 01, "Blood and Thunder"] implied intent to harm a child. implied decapitation. [Vol 2, Ch 02, "Diablo"] someone is grabbed by the neck. [Vol 2, Ch 03, "Fragile"] character's arm is shot off. nondescript eye trauma. [Vol 2, Ch 04, "Scars"] character is heavily scarred. impaling. character is shown crucified with missing limbs. [Vol 2, Ch 05, "Murder Cafe"] loss of autonomy. women are enslaved. rape implied in text. misogynistic language. character is made to rip their heart out. organs rendered. copious amounts of blood. [Vol 2, Ch 06, "A Gathering of Demons"] copious amounts of blood. [Vol 2, Ch 07, "Demon's Eye"] copious amounts of blood. instance of vash misogyny where he jokes about groping someone. [Vol 2, Ch 08, "Fifth Moon"] character is shown to commit suicide, though their death isn't visualized. birthing scene. character is shown being mangled in a bloodless manner. loss of autonomy. character shoots themself to escape someone. [Vol 2, Extra, "Day In, Day Out"] narrowly avoided vehicular accident. misogynistic language. [Vol 2, Extra, "TRIGUN Pilot"] instance of vash misogyny where he upskirts a girl. facial gore.

I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.

(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)

The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.

So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.

I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.

First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?

And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:

Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.

Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.

I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!

Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.

Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).

Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.

So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.

They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.

I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.

Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.

Here are the first sets of recipe cards I did for the Yugioh Cookbook Zine!

OCG 60 Minute OneDraw on Twitter for Level 9 monsters

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SakuraCon 2023 Trigun Stampede Panel (Attempted) Masterpost!

There’s SO MUCH good and new content leaking out of this event, mainly on Twitter, that I wanted to collect as much as possible for us all to salivate over and save as references. I’m including as many angles and clips as I stumble across! And also I’m going to put this under a cut and add anything new that I see (and feel free to let me know about anything I missed on any platform and should be included!!!)

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I actually have so much green lantern nonsense to post its insane (<- dude who will forget to post on tumblr)

OMG! I finally finished Kuroshitsuji’s realistic portraits list. I calculated it took me 2 years and 195 days! On my list were 63 portraits but meanwhile I did some extra fanarts. Thank you all for support in this challenge. I think I couldn’t bring that to the end if not yours kind and motivational words. Much love ❤️