If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.
If you aren’t able to do that, then you need to realise that your actions are making fandom unsafe for creators. That you are stifling creativity.
Like vaccination, fandom only works if everyone respects these rules. Creators need to be free to make their fanart, fanfics and all other content without fear of being harassed or concern-trolled for their creative choices, no matter whether you happen to like that content or not.
The First Law of Fandom
Don’t Like; Don’t Read (DL;DR)
It is up to you what you see online. It is not anyone else’s place to tell you what you should or should not consume in terms of content; it is not up to anyone else to police the internet so that you do not see things you do not like. At the same time, it is not up to YOU to police fandom to protect yourself or anyone else, real or hypothetical.
There are tools out there to help protect you if you have triggers or squicks. Learn to use them, and to take care of your own mental health. If you are consuming fan-made content and you find that you are disliking it – STOP.
The Second Law of Fandom
Your Kink Is Not My Kink (YKINMK)
Simply put, this means that everyone likes different things. It’s not up to you to determine what creators are allowed to create. It’s not up to you to police fandom.
If you don’t like something, you can post meta about it or create contrarian content yourself, seek to convert other fans to your way of thinking.
But you have no right to say to any creator “I do not like this, therefore you should not create it. Nobody should like this. It should not exist.”
It’s not up to you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not like, to create or not to create. That’s censorship. Don’t do it.
The Third Law of Fandom
Ship And Let Ship (SALS)
Much (though not all) fandom is about shipping. There are as many possible ships as there are fans, maybe more. You may have an OTP (One True Pairing), you may have a NOTP, that pairing that makes you want to barf at the very thought of its existence.
It’s not up to you to police ships or to determine what other people are allowed to ship. Just because you find that one particular ship problematic or disgusting, does not mean that other people are not allowed to explore its possibilities in their fanworks.
You are free to create contrarian content, to write meta about why a particular ship is repulsive, to discuss it endlessly on your private blog with like-minded persons.
It is not appropriate to harass creators about their ships, it is not appropriate to demand they do not create any more fanworks about those ships, or that they create fanwork only in a manner that you deem appropriate.
These three laws add up to the following:
You are not paying for fanworks content, and you have no rights to it other than to choose to consume it, or not consume it. If you do choose to consume it, do not then attack the creator if it wasn’t to your taste. That’s the height of bad manners.
Be courteous in fandom. It makes the whole experience better for all of us.
if Broadway doesn’t want bootlegs floating around then they need to get their act together and make legal recordings. you can say all you want that theater is meant to be enjoyed live, but the fact of the matter is not everybody can get to NYC to go to a Broadway show. not everybody can afford to take the time off of work and buy a plane ticket to NYC and buy a night in a hotel AND get the ticket to the show. people want to see the shows, that’s why there’s a bootleg market in the first place, but it’s unreasonable to expect that everyone has the time, money, and ability to make it out to the one place in the world to see something on Broadway, especially if it’s a limited engagement. so record that shit, slap some subtitles on it, and sell it so we can buy it legally.
Reblogging this every time I see it. Copyright is important for creators but it should not support cultural elitism. Affordability and accessibility of cultural content is key unless we want to live in a very divided society.
I kinda want to laugh at the idea that burning the heart-shaped herb means the plants are gone, like FUCK…have you ever weeded a garden in your LYFE?? You WISH burning plants killed them, holy shit. Those plants’re gonna come back even thicker AND they’ll have extra fertilizer from the ash compost. They’re vibranium plants, those roots run deep.
Attendants: Are you sure? That’s gonna set us back, like, a whole six months…
Erik: YES I’M SURE. I WANT THEM GONE.
Attendants: …We’re just not gonna mention that this won’t actually get rid of them.
Basically, I think the whole nation of Wakanda was like, “We’re gonna humour this guy to achieve our own ends until we can find a way to get rid of him.”
“I sent someone to kill you. You sent someone to kill me. Even Steven.”
It begins when Hannibal sends Will to Tobias. When Tobias shows up in Hannibal’s office declaring he’s killed two FBI agents, Hannibal infers that Will is dead and kills Tobias in retribution. His relief when he sees Will later is palpable. Teary eyed, he says, “I was worried you had died.” This is the moment that Hannibal realizes he actually prefers a world with Will Graham in it, and that Will truly has the potential to be Hannibal’s equal. This motivates the Quid Pro Quo he strives for with Will.
Hannibal manipulates Will into jail and ultimately frees him. Later, Will manipulates Hannibal into jail and ultimately frees him.
Will sends someone to kill Hannibal. Hannibal sends someone to kill Will. Arguably it’s because Will enjoys killing murderers, so it can be viewed as a present. Will gives Hannibal a present in return: the meat (which they eat together) and the display/imago (which they pretend to investigate for the FBI).
Hannibal manipulates the events that lead to the death of Will’s child with Margot. He makes it up to Will by giving him Abigail back later. (He makes it up to Margot later by providing her with Mason’s sperm.)
Will saves Hannibal from Mason Verger. Later, Hannibal saves Will from Mason Verger.
Will betrays Hannibal by staging an FBI sting operation instead of running away with him. Hannibal betrays Will by gutting him and running away with Bedelia instead (incidentally, this is why Will is so vitriolic towards her: he’s jealous that she did what he didn’t).
In his hurt, Hannibal also kills Abigail and asks for Will’s forgiveness, knowing that he’s tipping the balance of the scales too far.
Will’s body heals. He fixes the motor of his sailboat and sails it across the Atlantic to Italy to find Hannibal because he had “wanted to run away with him” and he’s “curious about their meeting.”
Hannibal sends Will a valentine of his broken heart – the inverted Three of Swords card (in which three swords peirce a heart), which means forgiveness. He is both offering Will his forgiveness for Will’s betrayal and asking again for forgiveness for his killing Abigail. Will tells a hidden Hannibal that he forgives him.
When Will finds Hannibal in the Uffizi museum, they are mostly equals (although Will still owes Hannibal an imprisonment and release at this point). But both are forgiven. Will says he and Hannibal have begun to blur. They are conjoined. He’s curious if either can survive their separation. He defines his past as “before Hannibal” and his future as “after Hannibal.”
Leaving the Uffizi, Will tries to kill Hannibal but doesn’t succeed. (Chiyoh says Will wants to kill Hannibal because if he doesn’t, he’s afraid he’ll become him.) Hannibal says Will’s forgiveness comes with a knife. So Hannibal amends his own forgiveness into trying to kill Will (by eating his brain) but doesn’t succeed.
After saving Will from Mason Verger, Hannibal turns himself in to the FBI because of Will’s manipulation (by rejecting Hannibal, he ensures Hannibal will stay near). Three years later, Hannibal sends Dolarhyde to kill Will’s wife and adopted son. Dolarhyde fails, but Will still loses them because he realizes he can never go back to that life now that he’s been inside Dolarhyde’s head and fantasized about killing his wife. Will manipulates the circumstances for Hannibal’s release, finally evening the score for his own jail time and release.
At this point in time, Hannibal owes Will a family.
Dolarhyde shoots Hannibal and stabs Will. They kill Dolarhyde together. Hannibal says, “this is all I ever wanted for you, Will. For us,” thus giving Will back a family (his very own “murder husband”!). “It’s beautiful,” Will replies.
They are now, finally, 100% “even Steven” in their reciprocity. Will then maneuvers them both off the cliff together.
"Technically, you killed him." 