Tag: from the mun

theelectricfactory:

Hello, all!

By now, you’ve heard the news and probably seen more than a few posts like these. Now, I won’t go on with speculations about what is and isn’t going to happen. It’s anyone’s game at this point, to be honest.

What I will say is that if you’re interested in keeping up with me/the sideblog/updates about Canalave Library, there are ways you can do so, and this is a link list full of where to find any of us when.

Canalave Library

Discord: https://discord.gg/3Rkz2eb

Forums: https://canalavelibrary.boards.net

The Underground fanzine: https://issuu.com/canalavelibrary

Minty

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/MintyElectronica/

FFN (desperately needs updating): https://www.fanfiction.net/~mintyelectronica

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EleFiction

Discord: (see the CL’s server and pester the Head Librarian)

(I also have an Instagram available only to friends. DM if you’re curious!)

The Pokédex According to Bill

A mirror will soon be available at https://bills-pokedex.music.blog . 
(Sucky URL, I know, but WordPress was the easiest to import to, and Tumblr won’t make a backup for some reason. 😦 )

{Morning reblog but also a note of clarification because I was asked last night: Bill is unlikely to go anywhere. These are just precautions. And a little “please don’t hesitate to pester the mun on other platforms, you lovely people.” ;)}

theelectricfactory:

Hello, all!

By now, you’ve heard the news and probably seen more than a few posts like these. Now, I won’t go on with speculations about what is and isn’t going to happen. It’s anyone’s game at this point, to be honest.

What I will say is that if you’re interested in keeping up with me/the sideblog/updates about Canalave Library, there are ways you can do so, and this is a link list full of where to find any of us when.

Canalave Library

Discord: https://discord.gg/3Rkz2eb

Forums: https://canalavelibrary.boards.net

The Underground fanzine: https://issuu.com/canalavelibrary

Minty

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/MintyElectronica/

FFN (desperately needs updating): https://www.fanfiction.net/~mintyelectronica

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EleFiction

Discord: (see the CL’s server and pester the Head Librarian)

(I also have an Instagram available only to friends. DM if you’re curious!)

The Pokédex According to Bill

A mirror will soon be available at https://bills-pokedex.music.blog . 
(Sucky URL, I know, but WordPress was the easiest to import to, and Tumblr won’t make a backup for some reason. 😦 )

I love the sun vanished! I would probs send some stuff about it but I don’t want to send you unrelated stuff, but that’s still cool!

{Right??? It’s such an imaginative series. Like, I fell in love with it with that first video. There’s so much effort put into it that it’s amazing, and even now, after all these months of posts and speculation floating around, we still don’t fully know what’s going on. I mean, beyond that whole thing about the lights, but I don’t really want to spoil anything.

I really need to catch up with the side accounts, though, ngl.

(As for sending stuff about it, please feel free, either here or on Discord! 😉 )}

OOC Ask: Are you worried about the impending Tumblr Purge and getting taken out by mistake?

{To be honest, not entirely for a few reasons.

First, there’s the fact that there’s already been a purge, and it sounded like people could get their accidentally-deleted blogs back pretty easily. This of course isn’t saying that it’s definitely going to be easy should mine get accidentally deleted, but it is a little reassuring.

Second, this entire situation reminds me of the old LJ purges. Like, it is eerily similar, my folks, from LJ selling out to a big corporation that immediately turned it into a toilet (Six Apart, in its case) to a massive purge going down to get rid of the absolutely, 100% illegal everywhere sort of porn. I’d survived that (like I said—old hat here), so I figure there’s a good chance I’ll survive this too.

Granted, Tumblr’s making policy changes that are a mite stricter than the ones LJ enacted before its purges, not to mention stuff that’s perfectly fine (particularly stuff about sexuality and not necessarily adult subjects at that) is getting flagged, so it’s hard to say for certain that anyone’s safe just by following the two usual rules of “don’t post anything that could remotely end up being flagged as adult content” and “don’t piss off anyone who would flag you to be petty” (which were the two biggest lessons I’d learned from the LJ Strikethroughs).

Third and finally, though, I’ve always been a bit of a preparer because I like being able to roll back onto my feet if things go sideways. In particular, I’m doing the following:

  • Making a dummy account to add as staff here. Because this is a sideblog, this is more or less a safety net in case something happens to my main. That and I can hoard a URL to replace this one if need be.
  • Looking into my options for mirroring this blog.

    Word of warning for those of you considering doing this: WordPress (the name I’ve been hearing a lot lately) will either force you to get a really stupid .home.blog name or to find a place that will host your blog for some coin. I mean, WordPress’s cheapest recommended host is literally $3 a month. If you’re cool with that, godspeed. If not, I’ve personally been looking at Blogger/Blogspot. Old school, but it’s just about the only free blogging platform that’s still somewhat recommended these days. Still, be careful if you do post adult content because you’re going from the Yahoo overlords to the Google ones. If that still won’t deter you, here’s a post about transferring from Tumblr to Blogger: http://www.analyticsforfun.com/2014/04/how-to-move-your-blog-from-tumblr-to.html

    This one might also be a mite simpler: https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/import-tumblr-blogger-10881.html

    (But of course, I’m also open to suggestions for free blog hosting. Because, you know, even though I’m an adult, I’m way too cheap and lazy to pay for a hobby blog. Even if that is what most people do these days.)

  • Encouraging y’all to follow me on Twitter/Discord. Shameless, I know, but if this blog gets punted into the dark void, these are the best ways to check in and see if/where I’ve set things back up.
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/EleFiction
    Discord server: discord.gg/3Rkz2eb }

Anniversary Event!

bills-pokedex:

{Speaking of things the mun is planning, did you know that this blog will be celebrating its third anniversary on December 31? Weird, I know! How could we even keep going this long when we’ve run out of pokédex entries to write, like, back in July?

In any case, the original plan was a combination of things: first, a temporary Discord channel wherein people can waltz in and interact with Bill and Lanette in real time. This will still probably be a thing, but the details have yet to be hammered out fully. (Deets will be released later this month.)

The second thing was to release the blog’s bible, or my notes on the “canon” of the blog, through a series of posts.

That one. That one had to be tweaked. Because lmao real life sometimes, guys.

So to make a long story short, from now until December 31, the mun will be taking meta asks. That means any question you’ve got about the world, the characters, or the mun herself is fair game. Ask aaaaanything you’d like, so long as it can be answered OOC, not from Bill or Lanette’s perspective. And, you know. So long as it’s SFW. Unless you’re asking about the weird stuff Bill’s into.

To make sure the mun sees your ask and doesn’t just fail to answer it for three months like she normally does, please insert #META into any ask meant for this event. These will be considered top-priority asks and thus will be answered as soon as the mun gets them (although asks will still flow out from Bill and Lanette regularly as well). These will also be inserted into our new tag, #the canon according to Bill, which will be linked in our FAQ/info and serve as a new blog resource.

Tl;dr: Send asks about the world/cast/mun of this blog, labeled #META, from now until the end of the month to get OOC explanations and notes.

Have fun!}

bills-pokedex:

theelectricfactory:

theelectricfactory:

Canalave Library is an open, supportive Discord server and forum for Pokémon fanwork creators. Whether you draw fanart, write fanfics, create fanmusic, or something else entirely, we welcome you! No applications required; creators of all skill levels can join!

Here’s what we have to offer:

  • A 65+-member community full of fan authors, fan artists, and more
  • Places to share your work and WIPs, as well as get advice or chill out
  • Daily and weekly events, including word/art wars and roleplay events to hammer out your WIPs and OCs
  • Biweekly workshopping events
  • Monthly art/writing challenges
  • Quarterly (free!) fanzine, The Underground
  • NaNoWriMo events
  • Weekly voice chats (designed to encourage you to keep working … or to connect with your fellow fans)
  • And more!

Interested? Find us on Discord or Proboards! Our links are in our info.

Hope to see you there!

Hokay, now that we’ve got the post that is guaranteed to be searchable (lmao thanks, tumblr), here are the links. 😉

Discord server: https://discord.gg/3Rkz2eb
Forums: http://canalavelibrary.boards.net/

{Pardon the mun while she shamelessly advertises.

Also! There may be a channel in the future for chatting with Bill and Lanette, should there be interest in that? It’s definitely one of the options being considered for our third anniversary holy heck}

Thank you so much for everything you do!!! I run a pokémon headcanons blog myself, and sometimes when I struggle with a question, it helps me to read through your lore and see what you’ve said on the topic. You put so much thought into (almost) every answer you give! Happy almost-anniversary!!!

{Aww, thank you so much! 😀 It’s certainly been fun to run this blog for this long. And also? I’m really glad to hear these posts have been helpful to the community at large. Like, aaaaaaaaa, yes, indirectly helping someone else to create something awesome!

(Feel free to dunk your headcanon blog into the asks, by the by! I’m curious! :D)}

#META since you mentioned it i have to ask: what kind of weird stuff is bill into, exactly? (realized i forgot the #META the first time, sorry about that!)

{Haha, no worries!

In all seriousness, Bill’s interests are … pretty much clean. Sure, he’s a scalie, but he’s part of that huge chunk of the furry fandom that … pretty much has no interest in the subculture’s dirtier sides.

But to get a little further into it, Bill’s (sex-positive) ace(/panromantic) but curious. As in, he doesn’t really have actual fetishes, but he’s pretty much willing to try a lot of things, just because it’s in his nature to ask questions and experiment with everything if it’s brought up to him. So you could literally tell him, “Hey, how do you feel about being handcuffed to a pole while I drip hot candle wax on you, and by the way, you’ll need to wear this rubber mask of Professor Oak while I’m dressed as Delia Ketchum,” and his response would probably be, “I have no idea why that would be pleasurable, and I actually sort of want to find out now.”

Or in other words, Bill’s not really into anything, but you could still probably get him to do anything. Within reason. Like, he won’t do it if it’s very clearly illegal. Or extremely dangerous. In that order.

But as a casual thing to do with partners? Nah, if anything at all, Bill much prefers just, you know. Vanilla stuff. Although he’d very much prefer just taking Netflix and chill literally, if we’re honest.}