New post up at kittens_and_spitefic! Um, Flowers? No, Thank You! It includes things like what even do you do with flowers after you get them (do you save them? Compost them? What?), would a potted plant work better (especially as a metaphor of some sort), flower language, and special attention to masculine people receiving flowers for once.

If anyone wants to dial-in on Hurt-Comfort by leaning into "Miraculous holders getting animal characteristics" and someone giving Adrien lilies, this would be an opportunity 👀

Oh hey, that's right! It's time for the next kittens_and_spitefic public post soon!

Okay, this month is SFW; maybe sick!fic? (The sub-genre of hurt/comfort where Character A is under the weather, and another character(s) take care of them.)

Edit: New post is now up! What do you mean, "this post borders on ablism"?!

Today:
- Work
- Second work jacket now has breast pocket
- Quality-of-life updates have been made to kittens_and_spitefic

Tomorrow:
- Work

Tuesday and Wednesday:
- Make corn bags

Any day that's not today:
- Finish brain slugs

Tonight:
- Shower
- Sleep

Last week for Community Thursdays, I was too burnt out to do more than make a general recs post on queerly_beloved, and didn't even record it here. This week, though, I posted a proper rec for the podcast and graphic novels, The Adventure Zone: Balance! (Why yes, I did just finish listening to the full storyline for the fourth time. Time for the bonus episodes!)


I also did some maintenance at kittens_and_spitefic, clarifying and updating some rules/policies (public), making a post where users can request help wording their prompts (community locked), and making a prompt post of my own (community locked, 18+).

I think I probably have more maintenance in my future, though, to figure out how to approach prompts that would welcome both SFW and NSFW content. Having people make two separate posts, one age restricted and one not, seems like a recipe for confusion at best. My current thought is to separate the content request types into "NSFW preferred" or just plain "NSFW" and 18+ age restriction for posts where the nature of the request/prompt is NSFW (requests for certain sexual positions, for example), "SFW only" sticking with posts where the requester doesn't want any NSFW content, and a new "Mixed ratings" tag for posts where the prompt is open but not limited to NSFW content (requests that add a suggestion of something that would be hot at the end, but the prompt itself need not include), and having people use the new content-hiding arrows for any NSFW fills for those. Like what I'm doing with the public topic suggestion post.

I'll admit, this is slightly more figuring out than I was hoping to do after launching the community, and I don't quite relish updating again quite so soon after the previous announcement, but it has been less than a month, so honestly it's probably not too bad. Good to get this stuff figured out ASAP, even if it wasn't before the community launched properly.


Anyway, yeah. That's what I have to report for Community Thursdays this week!

Just gonna stick this here so I don't forget it:

Spoiler tags that work in the comments!



In other news, I'm getting kittens_and_spitefic up and running! Dreamwidth apparently only let me make one post with the "Don't show on reading pages" part marked, so uh. Sorry in advance for minor spammage!

Edit: Okay, I think that's it! Kittens and Spitefic is officially-ish live!

Edit 2: Oh yeah, I did make my own "sharing images on Dreamwidth" tutorial; here and here. I'll have to see about migrating and possibly combining these entries over here.

Edit 3: New icon for Kittens and Spitefic! This is the comm's default icon; I've got a different one just for modly business.

Welp, I got the account kittens_and_spitefic registered as a community! There's literally nothing there yet, but I'm sitting on the name and no one else can have it now.

I'm currently working on the rules, and I think I'm going to change my mind about the boy-wizard-with-a-scar-and-glasses series; or rather, I'm going to be changing my mind about everything else. I tried a couple of times to write up the rule about posts for that particular fandom being locked to the community by default, and just... couldn't make myself do it. It's both easier and kinder to go all-or-nothing with this as well, so I'm going to have all request/prompt posts be locked. I... think that's something I can set up in the community itself? But I think I'm going to make it a rule, either way.

I'll be leaving (some? all?) mod posts unlocked, like a pinned post explaining the comm and linking to the rules, and a couple of example posts, but other than that, locking by default just seems more straightforward. (Current plan is to use the imaginary fandoms from Anime Twine Con for the example posts, but I might make one Any/All Fandoms instead.)

Still working on requirements for wording prompts for religious representation. My go-to mental example is someone who wants to see Spock practicing more Jewish holidays and trying to work backwards from there, but I still feel woefully underqualified to figure this out. IDK, I may have to all-or-nothing this as well; goodness knows I want people to be able to ask for the representation they need in whatever manner they need to, but even if I can think of a way to enforce wording that doesn't accidentally bash whatever religion someone wants more representation of except Messianics, would the prompts be something I'm comfortable with the community hosting?

IDK, input welcome.

Edit: I think might have it now? Came up with it at work while rolling hamburger buns.

When prompting for religious content, particularly for a minority religion that you are not a member of, please word your prompt with care. When in doubt, stick to the practicalities involved. "How would Spock know when to celebrate Sukkot while on a space ship in the first place, let alone what would be involved in setting up a sukkah? It'd be way too much trouble!" or, "Hardly anyone even worships the Greek gods these days, there's no way that Percy Jackson would end up meeting a follower of Poseidon, let alone hanging out! The odds are just too low!"

Still kinda nervous, but it's the best I've got at the moment. Input still very welcome!

(Tentative name is tentative.)

As I said in my second update on yesterday's post, turns out the person I got in contact with was not actually the comm's owner/creator! They did tell me that the comm's creator is pretty much vanished from LJ—and also that said creator got caught sending anon hate. So for both of those reasons, I am not at all concerned with getting in contact with the comm's actual creator to get their permission/blessing/what-have-you, and will be going ahead with mine regardless. I am currently unsure how, or even if, I should address the issue of my comm's inspiration; I'm leaning slightly towards a note at the bottom of the comm's profile just to cover my ass, mentioning both the original comm and the comm owner's bad behavior without naming names, but I'm open to suggestions.

Up next is one of the harder parts of running a comm, for me: Coming up with the rules! I want "prompts" to be open to most stuff, but this means that some "prompts" have the potential to be, uh. Stressful.

For example, if I want to "prompt" for trans interpretations of characters, I might post a fake rant about trans headcanons being "bad"/"not canon"/etc, which is, uh. Well, it might be unfun for a lot of people to read! And yeah, that sort of thing definitely fuels spite decisions in headcanons and fic writing and so forth, but even when the prompt itself is done ironically(?), that still has the potential to be a bad surprise for someone scrolling through their reading page.

So I think I'm going to have a rule that says people need to put anything micro/macro-aggression-ish under a cut tag, at minimum, put the aggression that it is in the cut text (for example, transphobia), and then tag the entry with "bigotry in the prompt" or something? Does that sound reasonable?

And then after that, I need to figure out what content I won't allow. "Nothing pro-Nazi" is, as far as I'm concerned, a given, but it's somewhat easier to weed that out/prevent it than, say, "Nothing Radfem", which a lot of people have more trouble recognizing. I want to disallow racism as well, but I'm not entirely sure I'd always be able to recognize it when it comes up, either.

Anyway, yeah. Coming up with rules for this stuff trips me up and gets me tangled in my own thoughts a bit. Aside from that, though, I am pretty jazzed about the positive reaction folks have had to the comm idea 😃 There is much potential fun to be had...

Edit: Still working on other rules, but I'm going to start with having all rant/prompt posts go under cuts, not just stuff that is potentially sensitive. The potentially sensitive stuff should still get a warning in the cut text, just to be safe, but more general "I hate your favorite character" rants are also not necessarily a fun surprise on your reading page, even if they are written with Opposite Day rules.