LSDLN Stickers are Live in the Ko-Fi Shop!

These were created mostly as test samples so there are limited quantities, but we're a small fandom anyway! Get your own little Marcelo that's Diego Vegezzi approved (no, really) or share your love of Europe with Eduardo Strauch (perfect for that friend you have who went to Europe once and still hasn't stopped talking about it)!

Each sticker is roughly 3" on the longest side and are die-cut on vinyl with a laminate gloss finish. That means they're both UV and waterproof! The rainbow text on the Eduardo sticker is printed in glitter.

All stickers are shipped via standard mail. This means no tracking info but keeps costs to a minimum based on general demand/feedback.

More designs with characters/actors are in the pipeline. I hope you enjoy, my lovelies!

Despite issuing a press release on November 14th advising of rotating strikes, as of November 15th, Canada Post has issued a nation wide strike action shutting down all mail and parcel service.

All sticker orders are shipped entirely through Canada Post in order to keep shipping costs minimal and fair. It is unfortunately not financially feasible for me to pivot to using international courier services such as DHL, FedEx, UPS, etc. (Doing so would mean $20+ shipping charges for $1 and $2 items.)

As such, I have had to close my physical goods store on Ko-Fi. I'm not happy about it, but it is also important to support unions and workers' rights.

You can continue to support me by either sharing my work or donating to my ko-fi. I hope to be able to resume offering items when service is reinstated.

okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.

they’re sharing

it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.

it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people

but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.

bonding with friends over your favourite fictional little guys

What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.

impossibly jack abbott got MORE FUCKABLE as the episode progressed and ended up THE HOTTEST MOST UNHINGED DOCTOR I HAVE SEEN IN DECADES NAY AGES

Love it when inspiration hits. Hate it when it's not for the project I actually wanted to work on. No, I'm not supposed to start something completely new - I've got to finish this first. please. come on... writing inspo don't get sidetracked.

reblog if its friday and you made it

When the 'save' button doesn't take me directly to my files

dreamwidth makes me feel like a baby. did you guys use to blog like this

Yes!!!! And we liked it that way! You could make a post and it wasn't vague! It was a full on rant about your roommate who you know follows you. But you had privacy filters on so only your fandom friends could read it and none of your IRL friends.

You never had to worry about a personal post blowing up. You posted your fandom stuff in communities and your random thoughts of the day we're restricted to your own blog.

Comments! You could have a whole conversation that made sense. Do you know how long it took for us to get nested replies on here?

Community! Not just Communities as in the feature but a community! You would make a post and everyone would comment on it. Directly! It didn't feel like a derail by having something to say and you didn't have to hide things in the tags. And you could reply! And it went directly to them and not buried under 20 other reblogs of replying to other people. You could post fic and actually get comments and start a conversation. I legit think a lot of fandoms issues as a whole is because we don't have a lot of platforms where having conversations like that exists anymore. It's very much just us screaming into the void.

Tumblr was never supposed to become the fandom platform it did and it's ill equipped to function as such. Which has resulted in a lot of fracturing and isolation.

I'm not saying it was perfect or with drama. Just that when the drama hit, it was always juicy and complex, instead of just two complete strangers screaming at each other because of a misunderstanding

I am totally willing to accept unexplained light sources in movies if that means those movies won't be dark as fuck for the 90+ minutes they run

The light! Comes! From! The same! Place! As! The music!

"without modifying" how dare you insult the hard work of our landlords

He never asks questions.

He hates other people asking questions (hence why he hates Solas).

He has the ability to control minds and burn ideas and feelings out of existence.

He's one of the candidates to be the Maker, thanks to all the sun iconography.

Also, from a Doylist perspective, the corruption of Faith into Tyranny is the single most thematic Dragon Age narrative in the whole quadrilogy.

i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

this is GENUINELY one of the best character development sheets I've ever seen. Cuts right to the core of what you and your readers will glom onto, doesn't waste time on details that don't directly affect the narrative. Stupendous. Effervescent. Finally, some good fucking food

i hope this email finds you last seen by european whalers in baffin bay, awaiting good conditions to enter the arctic labyrinth