Chinese fandoms are currently experiencing an actual Purge right now. Every fandom. Accounts are getting banned, all shipping wars has been put on hold. Everyone’s hiding their porn and moving them to ao3.
There’s reward money involved. A recent update to censorship law raised the maximum reward for reporting illicit online materials to 50k yuan (7000 USD), so some people are reporting porn like crazy right now, and apparently, BL fandoms have been especially targeted, where some even more tame things got maliciously misreported.
Anyway, it’s a mess. Content creators are just disappearing off the face of the internet left and right. Expect an influx of Chinese porn fics on AO3.
Well… if there’s one thing out of this mess… nothing bands warring ships/fandoms like censorship…
Hey guys, if some awesome person in China translated your fic into Chinese or created fan art, you really should spread the word! This could affect someone you know!
This is also a call out to all you fuckwits that repost art on Tumblr, twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Your negligence hurts people.
^^^
This is literally shitty and it has become worse and worse
Hopefully it will stop before long but just take care of how yiou take your stances on ao3 or what’s happening with Tumblr
A chinese homoerotic novel writer is sentenced to 10 years to prison because of “illegal publication”* and “spread of obscene materials”. After that, China government set up bounty for reporting “illegal publication”. Everyone on weibo, lofter etc. is deleting thier posts.
China is using this act as a way of controling the freedom of speech, it’s not just a matter of “no homo”. They just use the fandom content creators as an easy target and a way to scare people off from writing and publishing things the government doesn’t like.
China is living the Nineteen Eighty-Four novel. Please don’t post chinese fan works, especially not with their original chinese artists/writers right now. You could literally ruin their life.
* in China every book has to be approved by the government before
publication. Anything against the government or with “the wrong idea” will be banned. Their government didn’t pay too much attention to fan books before, but in recent years, they are tightening their grip on their people. Fandom and their activities as a whole has become a target because 1) fandom and their creative community make self-publishing a thing and China doesn’t like that the people know it’s easy to print stuffs (to spread unwanted information/ideas etc. 2) fandom and their creative community is the easiest and obvious target because of the general anti LBGT+ envirnment, general public will support the gornment for “cleansing the society from obscenity” withouth thingking about 1)
I’m in dire need of help right now, so I’m opening commissions and tarot readings.
Lineart/Sketches: 20$
Basic pieces: 35$
Shaded pieces: 45$
Character ref sheets: 60$ +10 for NSFW reference bits.
For all pieces: +10 for each extra character, +15 for NSFW
Readings:
I use old Rider Waite, Labyrinthos and three card spreads. I will use custom spreads by request if given a link to the requested spread. My deck is an heirloom Rider-Waite that’s been in the family for three generations, and it’s a blunt little fucker.
Daily three card spread: 5$
4-6 card spreads: 10$
6+ card spreads: 15$
My wages are being garnished and my paychecks are 2/3 what I usually make thanks to that.
I was deferred from donating plasma due to taking hormones. (basically bc I’m trans, idek)
I got a phone call saying I make 180$ too much to qualify for food stamps, because they look at gross income, not my situation.
I don’t know what to do until I get this garnishment taken care of, and I’m still waiting on paperwork to come in to get on a loan rehabilitation program, but even then, it’ll be a few months until they stop. I’m tried of asking for help. I know you guys are tired of seeing me ask for help. But still. I need help.
Please do what you can to help my friend here. They’ve had such a shit hand of luck and are willing to work so hard to change things. I know it’s the holiday season, but hey, you can always commission a sketch for a gift for someone, right?
If you can’t donate or commission anything, then please signal boost and help support an ex-military trans member of fandom!
so I had to make a lamp for pottery and sculpture II so I worked on my project all day today and every time people looked at me weird bc they were expecting like a bedazzled lampshades or some shit and I’m not about that so I got finished and went over to my teacher holding this huge motherfucker
and everyone was just staring at me like “what the fuck is this thing??? what???” and then I plugged it in