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“I’m just a girl” first of all you’re a grown ass woman second of all free yourself

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Bless the fact that the BG3 community collectively was like "yeah hair bun Gale is canon Gale"

It's such a small detail but it does so much for him

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just realized i never posted this gale??

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my favourite wizard again | nsft on my Patreon

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Thalia and Astarion, one of two illustrations I did for wonderful @elenyae. Thank you so much for this request!!! I love how this picture turned out. Cozy, sensual, tender, and those leaves in the background? Oh, my heart. It was a pleasure to draw this, considering how much I got attached to Astarion in the last playthrough. Lovely! If you are interested in a commission please send me an email to point.maitimo@gmail.com

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🦋🩸 free chin rest.

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finally finished :) a lot of hours, a lot of fun!! + details!!

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Entitled white women I swear to God

People have been doing book clubs since forever. They do not put George RR Martin on the phone so he can join the chat.

Oh, thank you, kindly court jester jingling into my life under the brave banner of anonymity, for illustrating the exact problem of current fandom.

(This ask is about this post about private fanfiction "book clubs," for those of you who are not following my jester's ire.)

The bedrock of the problem entrenched fandom is having with the newer "TikTok fandom" element is that we have a fundamental disagreement about what fandom is, and what is the social relationship between the people who write fanfiction, make fanart, etc, and the people who read that fanfiction and enjoy that fanart.

(I am not going to use the term "content creator." Because that term is not applicable to fandom, fanfiction authors, or fan artist. Kill the capitalist in your brain. Content is hummingbird nectar made with artificial sweeteners. It resembles the real thing at a distance, but it is devoid of nutrients. It will fill you up so you're not hungry while starving you. Generative AI can produce content because it's empty; it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't even want to engage with you. The sole purpose of content is to get you to sit still long enough for the people who own the platform to squeeze whatever it is they want from you out of you and then abandon your malnourished husk until the next time they can get something from you.)

George RR Martin is not a member of fandom, and the relationship he has with his readers is fundamentally different, because his relationship as an author is explicitly a professional one. When George RR Martin sells a book—not to his readers, but to a publisher who acts as intermediary—he is given a lengthy contract outlining the terms of the sale. How much he will be paid, what can be done with his work by who, etc. George RR Martin is not your peer.

Fanfiction authors are your peers. They're your next door neighbors. They write fanfiction to connect to other fans in celebration of a canon everyone involved loves. Nobody makes a single red cent from writing or sharing their fanfiction. George RR Martin has sold 90 million copies of his books, and he gets money for every one. Because TikTok has trained you that people who are putting their creations out there are monetizing the experience of you reading or watching their art, the "TikTok fandom" element has you sorting your peer posting fanfiction on AO3 into the same category as George RR Martin. But your relationship with George RR Martin is a professional one, and the expectation from fanfiction authors and artists is a social relationship.

When you have a private book club reading and discussing fanfiction without ever telling the author or, God forbid, leaving a comment about how much you enjoyed the story—which is the expectation entrenched fandom authors and artists who view fandom as a social relationship—you think you're reading a mass produced novel from someone who has already been paid for it several times over, but this isn't even Walmart vs. local mom and pop. What are you actually doing is going to your neighborhood block party, picking up the cake someone made and brought to share, and taking it back to your house to eat with friends.

We are your peers. We are your neighbors. We are doing this for free because we want to talk to you about our common interest. No, it's not "payment." We offer our work for free, and you have the option of treating us like vending machines or ChatGPT or Walmart. This is a social relationship; you have this option just as you have the option of leaving your shopping cart in the middle of the parking lot instead of walking it to the cart return. You have that option just as you have the option to stick your chewed gum on a park bench or park your car across three handicap spaces or take a shit on the floor of a public bathroom. How you treat your peers and neighbors, how you treat the people in your community, is up to you.

You can keep stealing cakes from block parties. But don't be surprised when people get fed up with it and stop having block parties. Then you'll be stuck buying cake from Walmart or consuming artificially sweetened hummingbird nectar from ChatGPT while vultures raid your corpse for data.

Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk, court jester. Now get the fuck off my lawn.

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While Dadstarion is a cute concept, I’m convinced this is how it would go in Act 1 😂

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Hans talking about Henry's cock nonstop for 2 games and now! finally! Henry talking about Hans' cock for once

ok Henry. how do you know how Hans holds his cock though ..?

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rock Les 🖤🩸

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Astarion bbygrl

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people I'd like to get to know better

tagged by my darling @cursedhaglette. getting around to it a million business days later lmao

☀️ Fun Fact: I can dislocate my left shoulder at will. I loooove to garden. Last year when my fiancé and I drove upstate for our anniversary trip I legit cried as soon as I saw mountains. I fucking hate NYC; it's honestly terrible and idk why anyone lives here. Expensive and smells like piss and someone would sell you out for a hotdog in 2 secs.

🎵 Last Song on Repeat: Goodbye to Romance by Ozzy Osbourne. Goodnight, sweet prince of darkness.

🎥 Currently Watching: I was watching The Handmaid's Tale. Season 4 kind of started sagging so I dropped it lmao.

🎬 Last Movie: I genuinely can't remember. I don't have the attention span to sit through a movie!!

📖 Currently Reading: Was listening to the audiobook for Clash of Kings but GRRM's writing actually bothers me? It's horribly misogynistic and why do I need to know when everyone pisses and how the steam rises as it melts the snow???? Do I *need* to know about everyone's junk? Not really. If anything it lets me know I tend not to like smut written from the male perspective, I guess. I'm rereading Interview With the Vampire lmao

🎮 Currently Playing: MEDIEVAL DYNASTY WITH MY DARLING MIA AND OUR BOYSSSSSS :pensiveshake:

🍫 Sweet/Spicy/Savory: They literally all have their place and I cannot choose between them. Sometimes I want all of them. Sometimes I want none of them. I tend to not like spicy as much tho.

💔 Relationship Status: I'm getting married in a month, so I guess taken?

🧠 Current Obsession: Medieval Dynasty. Daydreaming of a better life in a cozy house nestled in the mountains in Upstate NY, with land and chickens and a garden and a greenhouse so I can garden all year round. Lighting a fire pit on a crisp fall evening, or the fireplace during the winter as we're snowed in. Manifesting a WFH job so I can actually do all of this lmao

🔍 Last Google Search: It was something for work yesterday--finding journal articles that explain if Armodafinil is contraindicated in patients that have a history of arteriovenous heart block (answer is yes, as are most stimulants. but benefits vs risk should be considered)

🎨 Currently Working On: I'm always chipping away at Sonnet and will sometimes write out little worms that threatened to eat through my brain if I don't. The last year of my life has been a fucking whirlwind in so many ways that writing has taken a backseat honestly.

tagging @olivedrop, @amoremagnificentbastard, @bardic-inspo, @gilded-glitter, @mj-bites, and whoever else would like to play!!

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best m/f dynamic is a flamboyant bisexual show-off desperately in love with an extremely practical girl who’s difficult to impress 🤩

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Once upon a time…