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oh no my pornography is turning into an angst-filled character study

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Reminds me of when people complain about there being lack luster female characters in shonen anime’s, an action/adventure genre targeted at 14yo boys lol

Fandom Problem #10,262:

Certain Tumblr users need to get a better grasp on the concept of "target audience".

Example: the Barbie movie.

I'm not claiming it's a perfect cinematic masterpiece above any criticism. But when people talk about how the message is too "basic" or that it doesn't go far enough with its themes, please try to remember that of course it seems that way when you've spent the last decade of your life on Tumblr. Of course ideas "women are criticized no matter what they do and that's unfair" and "patriarchy hurts men too" have been discoursed to hell and back for years here. But they're not making it with "Chronically Online Tumblr Discourse Veterans" in mind, they're making it for moms and daughters going to the movies together. For a lot of them, this could actually be the first time they've had these sort of ideas laid out in front of them to thing about.

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New scam just dropped and this one seems particularly pernicious. 

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Working on the design for Seamus from my story Blood in Moderation (wip)

Seamus is the oldest grandson of the high chief of the Aüfmen people. The Aüfmen encourage competition and feats of valor. Succession for high chief, of course, follows along family lines—but during each rite of chiefdom any are allowed to challenge the chief-to-be for the burden to take their place. The only stipulation is that one must be an Aüfmen.

None plan to challenge Seamus, he fights like a madman and his magic is just as potently wild. Considering his linage and skills as a raids-men, Seamus has more than won the support of his people and all the rival tribes.

But none could have guessed the upstart, Vanganese, princeling happened to be the son of Seamus’s own uncle—who had left and never returned after a falling out with the chief. Jeffery, an insufferable and unscrupulous low-lander, who looks nothing like an Aüfmen. But he wants Aüfmen raiders for his civil-war.

Wonder who’ll win.

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🔹 Someone else's fiction cannot cause you physical harm.

🔹If someone else's fiction is causing you emotional or psychological harm, or distress, you can put it down and not read/watch it.

🔹Your emotional well-being is not the responsibility of fiction writers.

🔹Someone else's fiction is not about your personal trauma.

🔹When reading or watching fiction, you always have the power. You can always stop. You are never reading fiction without your own consent.

🔹Fiction writers are not responsible for other people's mental health.

🔹The content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author.

🔹Just because someone writes about bad things happening, doesn't mean they want those things to happen.

🔹Don't like? Don't read.

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What are your thoughts on Gnomes?

7/10 creature

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Enchanted (2007)

I wonder if anyone has ever done a "reverse" isekai. Like, the teenaged fantasy protagonist suddenly finds himself in the modern real world, and needs to try to navigate school, a real job, bills, and so on.

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Jessica’s magic is extremely self-repressed, she has little if any ability to access it - let alone control it - and in such a moment as this (an extreme life or death situation) it’s bleeding out of her eyes like tears.

Another concept art wip dump for my dark fantasy story Blood in Moderation (characters from right to left include: Damian, Tiffany, Callum Jeffery, Jessica, Damian again, Callum again)

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Another concept art wip dump for my dark fantasy story Blood in Moderation (characters from right to left include: Damian, Tiffany, Callum Jeffery, Jessica, Damian again, Callum again)

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Mongrel.

╢Personal work and characters╟

Something significantly more recent! Even think it's one of the last full scale pieces I made on the PC before jumping to Procreate. One thing I find both fun and challenging in general is using pale colors and still keep things intimidating or hostile.

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so the whole “I can’t follow your don’t like, don’t read guidance if you don’t properly tag your fics!!” thing is coming back, and I have thoughts.

the above guidance applies even if a fic isn’t warned/tagged. ao3’s tagging system is not 100% perfect and never will be. no manual system is. you will always have missed tags or — rarely, please repeat that with me — bad actors mistagging things on purpose.

part of being able to manage your own experience online isn’t just heeding warnings or tags. it’s being able to set yourself up for success when you encounter something triggering or uncomfortable in the wild. because you will. on accident, via malicious tagging, or maybe you missed a tag or forgot to read the new warning on a fic.

you will encounter your squicks or triggers in the world. your job is to BACK OUT of those situations as quickly as possible. read the room and make a judgement call.

is the main character about to get tortured and you have a thing about amputations? when they bring out the clippers, that’s your cue to dip.

if you can’t handle reading non-con, clicking on a fic with “dark” and “dub con” tagged is a risk, proceed with caution.

the author didn’t tag [trigger] but you’re reading the fic and have a bad feeling it might pop up.

the fic has “chose not to use archive warnings” and no other triggers/warnings tagged.

people in some online spaces will tell you that if everyone tagged their fic perfectly with every single trigger (instead of using “chose not to warn” which, again, is MORE than fair to use on its own) from the get go, nobody would ever get triggered again.

but that’s just simply not true. sometimes we don’t know we have a trigger until we encounter it. sometimes we thought we could handle something and we can’t. sometimes our trigger is so specific, asking the average author to tag it ahead of time is beyond impractical.

so yes, don’t like, don’t read. but also — don’t like, don’t continue reading. know your triggers, know what topics you can’t handle, and back out as soon as you see them. know that it will happen, inevitably, and have a plan.

encountering triggers isn’t fun. take care of yourself, recharge, and remember that anytime you prioritize yourself and your own mental health, you’re doing the right thing. even if it means missing out on a fic or two.

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You should draw that thing you really like but are afraid people will attack you with hammers for. 🌻 You should do it !

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PSA: AO3 HAS BEEN INFECTED WITH AI BOT COMMENTS.

Have you seen one of these dipshits? If you post regularly on ao3, chances are YES, but more likely you didn't notice nor suspect it was a bot. Sometimes they start off nice, or even praise you before getting nasty out of nowhere, like so:

But much like Grok, their newest obsession is nazism.

I don't know where they come from, or what purpose this could possibly serve other than suicidebaiting random people in the internet, I guess; but apparently they've started parroting names from real users to send these comments and shifting their general length to go by undetected. Maybe those are scrappers trying to train 'reviewbots' to be sold as part of some scam service promising to give feedback for newbie writers, who the fuck knows.

Here are more examples of the tone and backhanded compliments you can find in these:

If you regularly post on AO3 or interact with writers in it, please pass this along so they don't feel insane receiving bombs in their inbox. This is ridiculous.

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I will wildly misinterpret his characters right now, come the fuck at me 😌

it's not really an insult about your writing, i just don't think it's ever going to get popular the way idk percy jackson has. it's a nice hobby of yours but i don't think you have to worry about fandoms misinterpretating your characters

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Been a second since I did any work on my original story Blood in Moderation, so here’s a sketch dump of concept art WIP’s, these are all my OC’s

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