"Day after day that I'm gone you anxiously wait for that call it's almost as if you would miss me."

[nausicaa83]

News and links, for I'm stuck here for another couple of hours and I'm bored. :D

The biggest Sherlock community, sherlockbbc is on hiatus. The community in itself was great, the users are amazing, and I met so many friends there, but I wasn't the only one who had a problem with the mods' administration, and now they decided to shut everything down for a while. So, for anyone who needs them, here's a bunch of helpful links for all your fandom needs. ^^

Communities
bbcsherlock
johnsherlock
fyeahmystrade
221b
holmesian_news
221b_recs
holmes_finders

On Tumblr
An Army Doctor
Fanfic Recs
Blanket For Your Shock

My personal recs would be my Bookmark Page on AO3, obviously.

And my Tumblr is here, just in case. I think Tumblr isn't a proper instrument for a fandom: it's great to share links and recs, but you can't properly comment and discuss with other users, at least not without spamming everyone, and I'm convinced that should be the core of it. But yes, if you're looking for links and recs, that is definitely the place now.

I'm trying to follow everyone from my f-list on AO3 and tumblr too, but in case I somehow missed you, drop me a line with a link here. ♥

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On real life news, nothing much happening, but for Sakura still taking her syrup, and me crossing all fingers that it works because if I have to carry her another time to the vet during the next week she'll just pack her bags and leave. Definitely.

And Game of Thrones keeps getting better and better with every new episode, while making me cry for minor characters I didn't even notice I loved so much until now.

Tomorrow I'm going to visit a couple of friends I haven't seen in months, I'm so happy! We have so many things to talk about, and I missed them a lot! *___________*

Comments

[tsuki-yagami.livejournal.com]

Ho letto dello hiatus della community ma,seguendo un pò pochino in questi ultimi mesi,non ho ben capito a cosa sia dovuto,specie visto che la community mi è sempre sembrata un posto abbastanza tranquillo e con utenti diligenti,ma magari mi sbaglio xD peccato però,non mi piacciono certe decisioni prese così :/

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Gli utenti sono adorabili, ma le moderatrici sono sempre state fuori di testa. In più di un'occasione hanno aggredito degli utenti, comportandosi da unici veri arbitri e padroni del fandom. Anche il fatto che nessuno potesse postare senza che ogni entry venisse prima approvata da loro era un pò folle.

A me avevano scassato parecchio i cosidetti quando si erano impuntate a voler inserire "slash" come warning nelle fic. Così come si mettono avvisi per stupri, torture, abusi, si sarebbero dovuti avvisare anche i lettori delle fic che trattavano di omosessualità (e non sto dicendo scene di sesso, intendo proprio il semplice fatto che si parlasse di due uomini che si innamorano). Avevano anche bannato un paio di utenti che si erano giustamente rifiutati di seguire questa stupida regola.

Per quanto mi riguarda, meglio così. Ci sono tante altre community da esplorare, in cui i moderatori sono sani di mente e non se la tirano manco avessero scoperto la cura per il cancro. :D

[catnap99.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the list of links! I heard others were having problems with the moderators. I don't know why it has to be so hard. I would like to look for other places to read Sherlock fic because I think just shutting it down is ridiculous.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! There are so many wonderful communities out there, they deserve all the publicity they can get. *_____*

I had my own problems with the moderators there - first when they insisted to put "slash" in fic warnings and attacked everyone who didn't, and then when they got absolutely batshit crazy with the #believeinsherlock campaign. I'm sure a hiatus would do everyone a world of good. They'll get some rest, which I assume they needed, and we have so many comms to explore. \o/

[nyxviola.livejournal.com]

Questa non l'ho capita.
Boh, sarà che io sono una n00b ma non avevo notato particolari cose strane. Ho visto molto di peggio nel fandom di Bleach...
Comunque, grazie per i link ad altri luoghi in cui cercherò di farmi la mia pera quotidiana di slash.
Io non ho tumblr, ma mi piace guardare quelli dedicati a Sherlock...però non ho mai capito come funziona come posto...

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Qui era un problema di moderatori, quindi era impossibile da notare a meno che non ti avessero preso di mira. E comunque su tutti vince il fandom di Avatar The Last Airbender, è una serie stupenda e i fan la sprecano a fare shipping wars. Roba da matti. Bleach in confronto è un'oasi di pace, credimi.

In sè Tumblr non ha molto senso, in succo si rebloggano post che ti piacciono perchè altra gente li veda, ma allo stesso tempo i commenti che vengono lasciati sono visibili solo dal punto in cui li hai rebloggati, quindi è quasi impossibile avere una conversazione decente (persino cercare di spiegarlo dà il mal di testa). Inoltre a ogni commento dovresti rebloggare il post di partenza per rispondere, finendo per spammare tutti, è un casino.

Diciamo che è un ottimo posto per vedere belle gifs, e avere links a fics e cose così, ma per chiacchierare con gli altri fan bisogna spostarsi su lj, dreamwidth, et similia.

[nyxviola.livejournal.com]

OMG, se mi dici che in confronto Bleach è un'oasi di pace, per ATLA deve essere davvero un delirio! Le shipping wars di Bleach sono notoriamente abbastanza feroci e con livelli di demenza spettacolari...(sottolineo che sono gli het shippers a fare il delirio, e poi dicono delle yaoi fangirls...)
Ah ecco, quindi era una cosa dei mods. Eh, capita spesso in realtà. Che tristezza però. Vabbè che il fandom è bello perchè è vario...
Ah ma ogni tanto su tumblr vedo che qualcuno dice che non va bene rebloggare fanart....o sono io che ho capito i proverbiali cazzi per cadenazzi?

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

A giudicare dalla mia esperienza nel fandom di anime e manga, sono le het shippers che si scannano, casomai le yaoi shippers sono più "shippo chiunque con chiunque, basta che abbiano un pene e respirino" :D

No, intendono che non puoi scaricare una fanart da un altro sito, fare un post su tumblr e non metterci la fonte, spacciandola per tua. Ma se è l'autore stesso della fanart a metterla su tumblr, allora va bene. E' tutta una questione di cortesia, in modo che all'autore vadano tutti i fan. Da parte mia, aggiungo che è anche l'unico modo per risalire alla galleria dell'autore e scovare tante altre belle fanarts.

Che poi la gente lo fa solo per avere più notes sui loro post, il che equivale a chi si scanna per avere più Mi Piace su Facebook. Viviamo in un'epoca con strane priorità...

[nyxviola.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha ha oddio, devo dire che la tua definizione delle yaoi shippers è molto adatta! XD
Umh, ok...credo di iniziare a capire come funziona tumblr. Credo... XD

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

L'età media su tumblr è un pò bassina, quindi a volte ho dei flashback piuttosto pesanti del liceo, ma resta comunque divertente. Devo aggiungere però che se mi chiedessi di mollare un social network a mia scelta, punterei subito su tumblr, è il più sacrificabile di tutti.

[nyxviola.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha i flashback del liceo...brrrrr, cosa temibile! XD Però del resto, ormai è così...certe parti del web sono monopolizzate dai ggggiovani. Più comunemente da me chiamati bocia. XD

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Bocia, mi fa venire in mente Fiorello che parla dei ggggiovani. XD

[nyxviola.livejournal.com]

XD non c'è gusto ad invecchiare se non si fanno battute sui più giovani ogni tanto.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Allora a giudicare da quante ne faccio io, ormai ho un'età mentale di 80 anni tondi tondi. :D

[lotherington.livejournal.com]

Fantastic list, thanks so much, love!

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

The best thing that came out of this is that I had no idea there were so many fascinating comms here on lj, and now they're going to get so many new users. *__________*

All this "fandom is serious business" attitude over there was getting so old. I always say, even when talking to myself: "did you find the cure for cancer? did you invent the pacemaker? no? then get off your high horse, it's not important"

It always helps to have some perspective in life, and I'm sorry to say it, but the mods over there completely lost it when they started attacking users because of the #believeinsherlock campaign. =_=

[lotherington.livejournal.com]

For me it was obligatory beta week. I don't tend to use betas unless I'm required to do so for a challenge so I was really tempted to create a sock account with an anagram of my username and credit that. In the end I just waited to post, but yeah, you've got it in one with their 'fandom is srs bsnss' mentality.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

YES, THAT TOO. I can't believe I had forgotten about it. What was that all about? It made no sense, and it only felt an awful lot like bullying the other kids in the playground. Like when I was in kindergarten, and there was this kid who decided all the rules of the games, and we couldn't play in the yard unless we did it the way she wanted. Except that she was 5, while they don't have the same excuse.

[catnap99.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe that beta week either! I thought, are they just trying to discourage people from posting? As an avid fanfic reader, I don't require someone have a beta for pete's sake! I was pissed because I'd rather read someone's sweet little h/c peice that has some typos in it than never read it at all because it wasn't beta'd. I can live with typos, missed grammer, whatever, and for some people English is not their first language. This was a fan site, right? Not a major publishing company.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY.

[scruby.livejournal.com]

Your fics are amazing. Long Ago and Far Away is one of my favorite fics ever. If because of them you haven't posted there for a week then fuck them.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

*applause*

[scruby.livejournal.com]

fandom is serious business lol that's the last thing it is.

[nefertina86.livejournal.com]

Sherlockbbc was the first and most of the time the only community I visited constantly. The place is great to discuss and to find some fab artworks and craft-stuff and FanFictions and stuff.

But it became "too much" for me, to check every entry every day, so I stopped visiting this site, just had look from time to time.

I think it must be hard work to run a community like that... but what happened about the "ibelieveinsherlock"-thing? The mods of the community attacked the fandom, because they are doing something like this? Didn't hear about that, but it doesn't sound very nice :/ Cause I think "ibelieveinsherlock" is a very nice and funny idea!

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

The main problem was that they decided to make it a moderated community. That is, they had to check and approve every single entry, with over 11000 users. It's absolutely insane, no other big community does that. Anyway, they started having some debatable rules, and even banned some users who didn't follow them. I didn't like the attitude, but as Sheldon Cooper says, cathedra mea regulae meae, so I let it go.

As soon as the #believeinsherlock thing started, they made a few angry posts, that it was illegal, that spraypainting walls is a crime (they sort of made it sound like slaughtering a kid, but anyway), and that if anyone had even tried to submit a entry about that campaign they would have been banned forever and ever because they're bad fans and they make angels cry. Or at least that's the general tone of those posts, definitely over-the-top. Never mind that Steven Moffat himself tweeted about #believeinsherlock, and he was happy about it and the free publicity they got.

I think to the core it was simply a matter of "this is serious business". They acted like they were the fandom equivalent of Moses, having the keys to the Sherlock Fandom and deciding who should be in and who should be out. Ok, that makes them sound like Moses and Noah. You get the idea. :D

I think fandom should be happy-go-lucky, with a place for everyone, all you need is love love is all you need. Anything more than that, and it becomes petty bullying. It's stupid, but it can still hurt people.

[scruby.livejournal.com]

lol that place... I checked it a lot for fics but the thing is it's not a fic comm, it's a general comm for Sherlock and there were hardly any discussions there, mostly fic. In the posts they made for discussions there were hardly comments. I get it that a place with so many people needs strict rules but I think they were a little up-tight and the huge rule section with the red font was a turn-off. Why put it on the top there? Put it in the info page or something.

Maybe they should said no fics, icons etc here like in ontd_football, and make it a comm for news, discussions and fun. ontd_football has a lot of members and the posts are not moderated. Though that place is no fun anymore but that doesn't really have to do with that.

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

You're right, it was so hard lately to have some good discussions about the show there. The best I had were on private journals. They did get lost with all the rules, it was becoming the fandom equivalent of the first half of Full Metal Jacket. ^^"

[bemblebee.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links! I couldn't believe it when I saw the comm was on hiatus - it's such a big community. I hope the break helps, I have found the mods to be a tad OTT at times. Incidentally, talking of places for your fandom needs, I've just started this message board - http://slashfiction.socialparody.com/forumlist - so anyone who wants to share Sherlock fic, etc, there is welcome ^_^