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艾莲·乔 by 镜丶GORK

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額 お触り禁止 by Darek Ergot Mak

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HALLOWEEN by Byungttal [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

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Fandom Problem #6220:

My fandom has a female character who happens to be physically strong and angry. She is also super girly and most of her interests are conventionally feminine. All of her love interests have been male and it hasn't even been hinted at that she's into girls.

Fandom: "She's a trans boy/demigirl/lesbian!"

How is this mindset progressive?

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day 37: vulpix

support me on kofi!

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Fandom Problem #6208:

characters are not people. you don't have to stop lusting after fictional characters just bc you're not a teenager anymore. characters don't age, and ESPECIALLY when you are a fan of/into characters as a teenager, that attraction isn't gonna go away just because you age. and frankly, anime teenagers very rarely even remotely resemble actual teenagers, and the twst hotties are no different.

just leave ppl and their fictional crushes alone for the love of god lmao

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general techniques to avoid gross shipping of your characters

have most characters be non-minors, around the same age range. this is mostly to minimize underage nonsense.

while family relationships are important, save them as background elements, explored every now and then. focus mainly on the bonds of non-related characters and how their different backgrounds play off each other.

limit the overly edgy tone, where pain and suffering are near-romanticized. try to emphasize wholesomeness, health, and the various ways characters can have good relationships despite their differences. a lot of nintendo franchises are good examples.

avoid creating significant characters who are utterly irredeemable with harmful ethics. (for me personally, i limit elements such as abuse and discrimination for background conflicts while presenting more interesting, morally gray arguments, where either side is right/flawed) if you’re going to have a villain, either make them team rocket goofy or classic disney fun.

just. try not to have characters + relationships rely on racial tropes. if you overly rely on a tough dark-skinned / dainty light-skinned formula, you’re going to see some racist shipping. mix it up. round ‘em out.

same goes for gendered tropes. if a dude is downright violent and irresponsible and a level-headed girl has to put up with his flaws without him facing consequence, that’s a downright unbalanced relationship. and do keep in mind that if two boys utterly despise each other, people will absolutely take that a certain way. again, with #3, try to play off disdain as comedic or with exception rather than constant seething hatred.

obviously these aren’t hard and fast rules, and what/how you create will vary. but it’s how i generally approach my work

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Some of y’all gotta discover the joy of making your own OCs.

No seriously. Make your own blorbo it is a magical experience.

And in more seriously ness… POC (speaking as one myself) deserve to have original characters and original stories - not just the same characters racebent over and over again so lazy mfers can say they did something

Fandom Problem#6020:

Im just going to assume everyone who screams "JUST MAKE UR OWN CHARACTERS!!!!!1!" at people who want to add poc to monochrome white casts are privileged white people at best and racist at worst. I'm sorry I have a favorite character I already like that happens to be white and can't invest the time nor energy to create a whole new ass character for the same world to fill the same space of my favorite char when I can just..........have my favorite character in a different shade. jesus fucking christ.

And I'm only talking about racebending WHITE characters, mind, as there are a disproportionate amount of them and it wouldn't hurt if a few were.... not white. For example: musical fandom. stage musical is a different medium to movies. remakes of movies, even if they modernize and upgrade and cast poc into white roles, are still gonna have the same cast when you watch them over and over whereas you can watch 5 different shows of a musical and not get the same show twice unless it's a recording. you're gonna have actors and actresses of many ethnicities playing the same characters. heather duke was played by a white actress in the movie, an asian actress in the off-broadway musical, and lately she's usually black in west end. is that an issue? she's still the same character so to speak, but are all those iterations of heather duke not valid because they're not white republican shannen doherty? (granted, musical heather duke is a strange case because she's the ONLY character whose race is consistently changing but i digress)

make your own character, if I wanted an oc or a self-insert I'd write original fiction no one would read.

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Fandom Problem #5852:

"Why are all of the artists and writers not updating anymore?"

Because there's hardly any interaction anymore and a large chunk of readers scroll through works liking them or dropping a kudos as if we're on instagram. No comments. No reblogs. No "hey this was good! I lliked/loved it a lot!"

If you think writers are being "entitled" or "greedy" check yourself. People spend days months, and even years using THEIR free time to write FREE content and post it for others to enjoy. They could spend that time doing something else, and a lot of writers on here are starting to do that.

It's not entitled or greedy to ask for some type of feedback or interaction with their works that readers apparently enjoy but hardly ever show it.

I've even seen someone say, "I don't wanna ruin the vibe of my main blog!"

Make. A. Side. Blog.

That's one of the reasons we have them!

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Peace girl

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"The Forest"

An illustration I painted and turned into an animated gif. This was very tedious but I like how it turned out.

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DANDADAN (2024) 1.03 | “ババアとババアが激突じゃんか ” • It's a Granny vs. Granny Clash!

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who's gonna recreate this with me 🥰