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not to be a killjoy but it's still crazy to me that it's considered mean to be like "maybe you should read / play / watch the source material before creating fanworks and diving into the fandom" bc every time i see somebody going "i havent played disco elysium or know anything about it tbh but uwu here's harry and kim kissing" idk maybe you should engage with it. maybe you should play the anti-capitalist surrealist game where you investigate the murder of a mercenary who led the gang rape of a foreign girl and process that for a bit? and then you can do cutesy mlm or whatever idc. but like at the absolute bare minimum you should understand what the source material involves otherwise we get the phenomenon of people joining a dragon age server and wanting content warnings for like, mage racism. like it's fine to ship and transform the genre into whatever but if you arent comfortable with discussions of the actual source content itself then maybe the fandom isnt for you and a different one is. peace and love.

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sometimes I read a radioactively bad take and just sit there like "not only do you not understand this story but you fundamentally do not understand how stories work in general, and you have never considered that your discord with every piece of fiction you come across could possibly be a problem on your end"

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Life Story

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a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features

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You know, until like 2023 or something I actually had no idea Hideo Kojima directed Boktai.

Like Kojima posted on Twitter that he was working on multiple projects, one of which we now know is Death Stranding 2, and another was a unique work "like Boktai" and I was all "What a strange comparison to make I don't think anyone's talked about Boktai in decades. Who made that game anyway?" and then googling it and realizing of fucking course the vampire hunter game that required you to use real life sunlight by playing with your gameboy and a solar sensor outdoors was created by Kojima why was I so surprised

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I disagree so deeply with the notion that the impulse to create transformative content only bursts into being when the original work is mediocre/generally pretty bad but has a lot of "wasted potential", and I wish people whose fandom presence works like that didn't go around advertising their perspective as the norm. I have never been enticed to write fic about a piece of media I didn't enjoy in a significant manner. to me making fandom content is about appreciating what a story contains, so much that I want to play with the elements it presents for longer than any movie/book/tv show/videogame could ever allow, so I take them and start making my own shit with it.

I'm not saying this is the "right" way to do it, everyone knows their own reasons for being in fandom and nobody owes anyone an explanation of their motives to create. I just deeply resent the normalization of a culture of rejection/contempt for the original work in which a fandom is based of. from my experience this does nothing except creating bitter fandom environments where people seem more focused in talking about all the ways in which canon let them down than in doing anything else.

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So good news is that the house we moved into back in October has FINALLY finished its renovations. Bad news is that we've very nearly reached the ends of our collective funds as we're still struggling a bit with employment. Any and all help at this point would be of great relief.

So I've been trying to avoid this but we've been having difficulties finding jobs and are quickly running out of money... So if anybody can donate/share our GoFundMe link, we would *really* appreciate it guys!

https://gofund.me/ab0fa710

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People will claim to be a fan of some thing and then hate all of the themes and motifs and story lines and plot lines and protagonists and antagonists like man I don’t think that you actually like it here

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That's great man

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There's one more week until we move, so if there's any assistance that can be provided to help get us through the remaining days and while we're on the road, please do if you're able to.

So I've been trying to avoid this but we've been having difficulties finding jobs and are quickly running out of money... So if anybody can donate/share our GoFundMe link, we would *really* appreciate it guys!

https://gofund.me/ab0fa710

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We are just about basically out of money at this point and won't be able to cover essentials for next week, so if there is anything that can be done, please help in any way you can.

So I've been trying to avoid this but we've been having difficulties finding jobs and are quickly running out of money... So if anybody can donate/share our GoFundMe link, we would *really* appreciate it guys!

https://gofund.me/ab0fa710

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Little bit of an emergency bump as we’re coming up on moving day and we’re skimming a bit close to not having enough to cover bare essentials, so any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

So I've been trying to avoid this but we've been having difficulties finding jobs and are quickly running out of money... So if anybody can donate/share our GoFundMe link, we would *really* appreciate it guys!

https://gofund.me/ab0fa710

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So I've been trying to avoid this but we've been having difficulties finding jobs and are quickly running out of money... So if anybody can donate/share our GoFundMe link, we would *really* appreciate it guys!

https://gofund.me/ab0fa710

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Still wild to me that it took 20 years for Fate/Stay Night to get an official international release. This is the visual novel that spawned a globally successful franchise. It is the origin of the iconic Saber. It has gotten 3 different anime adaptations, all of which have enjoyed varying degrees of international popularity. It is the basis for popular gacha mobile game Fate Grand Order. I know visual novels don't have much popularity outside Japan and tend to get dismissed as cliche dating sims, or porn games, but that's still just...so weird to think about. When I first read FSN some years ago, I had to find a website where I could totally legally download files for it and then play on an English fan translation. Because any official copy I could get would be absurdly expensive, and would also be in Japanese, which I can't read (at least not yet, I plan to start learning soon). And only now, two decades later, do we actually get an official release. And I'm really glad it's getting a remaster and stuff, don't get me wrong! It's just weird to think about is all.

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Aniplex we need to fucking talk about these zero effort Steam short descriptions. You get 300 characters to write these I promise you can describe what these VNs are actually about.

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#MAHOYOSWEEP DOES IT AGAIN, SUCCEEDING ENOUGH TO FORCE ANIPLEX TO ACTUALLY CLEAN UP THEIR SCRIPT THIS TIME

#TSUKIHIMESWEEP TOMORROW

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Hey guys, my opponent just fused their entire side of the board into a gestalt entity, which is currently dissecting and calcifying my pieces such that they fit into its twisted vision of an eternal, perfect state of the universe. What's the best counter in this situation?