#// i have been in this fandom for what feels like ages so i have things hoarded and i'm just going to start posting it

[cosmictyto]

One thing about Nimona (the character) I feel like people criminally underplay in the fandom is the realities she’d face as a centuries old being. 1,000 years. That’s, roundabouts, 38 human generations come and gone. Like, yeah, when we meet her she’s this fun, spunky, confident punk teen. But there is SO much time between the Nimona we see in that flashback with Gloreth and the Nimona we meet along with Ballister.

Like, she was around before the kingdom was actually a kingdom. She was around to watch the wall, specifically designed to keep her out, be built brick by brick. She got to live through the canonization of a girl she used to call her friend, watched how their story was further warped by time. As humanity changed, grew, and advanced she was THERE. She’s literally older than punk or metal as a subculture, and was there when it came into existence!

Like, who was Nimona before punk/metal music? What did she like, how did she dress? What did she do for fun? Was she always this little rebel? Did she have times where she tried to conform before giving up on that? How has her identity and philosophy changed over the years? Did her and Gloreth ever meet again? Did she ever come in contact with other Goldenloins? What was growing up for her like? (Because I get the feeling she just ages incredibly slow. So for most of her life she’s been a semi-perma-kid on the streets.) Idk. Feels like there’s a lot of room for headcanons and stories, there.

[stealingyourbones]

Out of all of the people The Ghost King Phantom expected to relate to, it definitely wasn’t the scrawny red headed photographer of the Daily Planet. Jimmy Olsen has gotten so many temporary superpowers over his time being Superman’s friend. Hell, he once gained a 4th dimensional being’s reality warping abilities when he was given said dimensional being’s powers during a fight. Sure there’s a dozen or so heroes with the same amount of powers he has, but none as suddenly granted to them as a all powerful god that can relate to a teenager.

[eddiemunsonsmum]

Just saw this comment on a story posted a month ago.

*cries in Eddie Munson Solo Series no one wanted to read, interact with or request for*

No shade to the person that commented this on their own fic if you recognize it. It's not their fault. I'm not mad at them. More crying in the tags.

[moongothic]

I love the crocodad theory a lot but I fear that the fandom will start misgendering him or respect the character less because of transphobia.

Oda have written queer characters before who are respected by the fandom such as Bonclay but for Crocodile its another story. He is their alpha male badass character and adding queerness to his character might make them mad. Not that I care about those bigots feelings but its already not easy to navigate this fandom without queerphobia being thrown in your face.

Ppl can digest a queer character who fit in the stereotypes but once they dont, its another story.

Same, people are weird as fucking hell and gross about Crocodile maybe being trans already, we can be sure it would get worse if him being trans was confirmed in the story, there would be absolutely no avoiding it

But at the same time...

Transphobes are gonna be transphobes regardless, and I don't want that to become a reason for any storyteller to not create trans characters. I don't want Oda to bend over backwards to please the transphobes when they're the ones in the wrong. If anything, I want Oda to just go all the way with the message of queer liberation and freedom in One Piece. Like it's not perfect, but it's already there, but it's so subtle many queerphobes have been able to ignore it this whole time and I don't want Oda to let them ignore it anymore. I want him to rub it into their faces so hard they'll start complaining about "Oda going woke"

And like, let's be real. If Crocodile was trans and Oda pulled it off just right (without falling into certain pitfalls that he's be stumbling with this whole time with queer rep), that could unironically be like. Great not just trans rep but trans masc rep in particular

Like maybe it's just the media I've consumed but trans masc rep is typically very non-existant and/or very much like Yamato, who, while valid as hell, might not be how many trans masc people want to be seen as by others (as in, "confused girls")

We've known Crocodile as a character for 23 years at this point, and for the first 8-9 years of that he was very much seen as A Manly Cis Man (like you said) without a hint of a doubt (until Impel Down). If it turned out he had been trans this whole time, that would force people to rethink how they view trans people.

As just regular fucking people

That person you knew for years turned out to be trans? So what? What does that actually change about them? It's still the same person deep down. Those are the things Oda could force people to think about.

And honestly? If that helped convert even just a single transphobe, or educate someone without an opinion on trans people, to just letting trans people live their lives in peace, I think it'd be worth it

But like, yeah. The transphobes are gonna be loud regardless. It fucking sucks, and I hate the fandom for it. But, damned if you do, damned if you don't, there's no avoiding it. And I think the potential positive impact would outweight the already festering negativity.

[thetisming]

im actually really worried that im not that interested in &j anymore like ivd been having a hard time writing about it and talking about it online and i mean i talk about it a lot irl but idk like people have been knowing more than me and im starting to feel so incredibly inferior that it's hard for me to enjoy it

[imflyingfish]

Fish you are so good at building to me your the Bdubs of people I know

Pheo ;w; ty

[littlestarprincess]

. . . I hate when people mistake "the narrative doesn't explore this female character's interiority" with "this female character is dumb and helpless".

It's better when they say "passive" because at least that is something you can concretely see or not see, but . . . when you don't see anything of a female character's thought processes and default to assuming she's "dumb and helpless" that says more about you than anything else.

[pyrriax]

ANYWHO goodnight tumblr i'll be back on the art grind tomorrow i think 🙏

[shiroi---kumo]

[danielhowellscurls]

been rewatching old videos all day

[beck-a-leck]

I need to go to bed. I have to work tonight and I need to go grocery shopping before that so I can eat lunch.

But the writing... the STORIES. They demand to be told.

[dimonds456]

sorry if i've been quiet, the anxieties have me.

but I have therapy tomorrow :) so hopefully things only go up from here.

[eternal-moss]

Sneak preview of Akademiya Collei TM for a comic I’m doing

[aeide-thea]

i've said this before on here, albeit more euphemistically, but it really is funny to me how fixated my subconscious has gotten on the very specific scenario of 'getting fucked in the cunt without getting misgendered'???

like historically that particular configuration is so, so low on the list of things i like—i like getting fucked in the ass and i like getting my mouth on people pretty much everywhere and i like fingering them and i like fucking them and that's without getting into any of the kinky things i also like [which are not especially hardcore imo but like. the way america is going who the fuck knows what counts as hardcore anymore, also frankly that sort of ranking is problematic in a bunch of ways we can talk about if you want]—

but it has nonetheless loomed very large in my imagination lately even though it's like. the least satisfying thing i can do with my body by a long chalk, because like. don't we all want to show someone the things about us that we feel/fear are dealbreakers and have it turn out that somehow, miraculously, they're forgivable and we're lovable and desirable as our own real, imperfect, acceptable, accepted selves, just as we are…

[mybrainproblems]

brain is just mii waiting room music as i consider where i've ended up in my supernatural fandom journey

[goblin-enjoyer]

I swear why are half the things i like/fandoms im in made of mostly younger people while the other half are mostly older people? what are the zoggin odds with that?

How it feels being 20 in a fandom with a bunch of 30-40 somethings.

VS how it feels being 20 in a fandom with a bunch of 14-17 somethings.

like am do i just have extremely odd luck with things i like or is this just what being 20 is like?