#//there isn't much fanarts or lots of people in the fandom but I was nervous to post anything and just went f it we ball

[lcs-scar]

Went past a bridge and guess who I saw

[mintaikk]

I was reading fanfiction and looking at fanart again, and while I find grumpy lover Blitzø funny, I don't think he's a grumpy lover. Have you seen the way he treats people he cares about?

My guy is literally ALWAYS doting on Loona. Constantly giving her affection, constantly giving her gifts, stopping whatever he's doing to go and help her, constantly protecting her, need I go on? Shes literally the only one he actually isn't a jackass to. Like, she can be completely awful, and here he is, defending her no matter what.

With Barbie Wire, while he did sabotage her job, he never once went out of his way to be mean to her, just insulting the people she works with and only getting mad at her because she didn't tell him he was out of rehab. And from what we can see, his is very clingy to her, to the point where it was annoying.

He was a dick to Fizzarolli, but that was before they knew what was going on and when they made up, he's affectionately mean to him and is determined FLABBERGASTED at the way Mammon spoke to Fizz. Like, bro had to take off his glasses to hear that shit.

Honestly, he's a dick to Moxxie, but paying closer attention stuff you can also see that he's still incredibly clingy to him and cares about him a lot, even if he finds him annoying (but also wants to sleep with him and Millie, and literally stalking.???? Yeah, ik it's cuz he wants what they have, but hope the show addresses that instead of it just being used as a joke). I think Moxxie is one of the reasons the fandom believes that he'd be a grumpy lover, but I think it's more about their personality clashes. Blitzø is a Chaotic shit-talking jackass who has crazy ideas for shit, while Moxxie is more reasonable, nervous, and down to earth, which Blitzø believes to be annoying.

For Millie, well, we don't see them have one-on-one interactions much (plz give Millie more attention she's literally so wonderful) but from what we can see, he thinks very positively of Milie and their on great terms, with both of them giving each other nicknames and them enabling each others chaotic behavior. The only downsides that I can see their friendship having is the fact that Blitzø literally stocks her and Moxxie and sexually fantasizes about her, despite Moxxie and Millie being married. Also, Millie referring to Loona as "her bosses hellhound" and treating Loona like a dog, but in the show, Blitzø has only seen her do that once and corrected her once, so I don't think he knows much about that.

This has turned into me analyzing Blitzø's close friendships, and sorry for getting off topic, but talking about how Blitzø would be annoyingly affectionate with Stolas again! From all this, I imagine that if Blitzø and Stolas ever did get into a relationship and get past all their bullshit and trauma, Blitzø would literally just be like, "Oh my Satan, haiiiii😍😍😍😍😍😍😊😊😊😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ how's my favorite prince doing 😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚I got you flowers and mice because ily so much❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. Remeber to take care of yourself and take your meds 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺I love you🥰🥰🥰🥰☺️☺️☺️😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️"

[craftyworx]

CRAFtYYYYYyyyYYYYYY!!!!! *AGRESSIVE SOBBING*

I TOTALLY GET WHY YOU HATE FANDOMS I MEAN I FIRST RESPECTED YOUR OPINION CAUSE YOU HAD REASONS TO HATE IT YES OFC I GET IT SURE TOTALLY-

BUT UGGHHHHH MAYBE IM MORE MATURE ABOUT THINGS I GUESS BUT I UFHHHHHFOJEKPNWNPKW/KINDA NEG

I checked out the ab tag cause idk there is some good art on there that I like to look at but the fact that I see little kids art and weird aus that idk are weird to me and some people's designs and giinkas I don't rlly like- but idk I maybe just like the canon stuff more?? And fandoms kinda ruin it...

But I like my stuff?? Like I don't have any aus that I made for it but I just like making silly creature designs for characters but it still stays the same as canon

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Maybe this made sense idkkk

YEAH NO LIKE im probably one of the best people to come to about this because FR.

I feel like being super sensitive isn't really a maturity thing, cuz like im an extremely sensitive person, and I hold my interests dearly. So like, if I see art of, say, tadc, my brain FREAKS OUT because what if this person likes tadc more than me! What if they get all the attention! Etc

Also if I see art that's even remotely better than my own, I freak out and feel as though these interests arent.. my own? Like im not special for liking them? Like im unoriginal or annoying or just plain stupid for liking the same thing as someone else

That's how it feels whenever I see tadc, ppt, and pressure art. Like a huge punch in the gut.

BUT DUDE. MISCHARACTERIZATION. OMFG. I GET IT. just about every and all craftycorn art I've seen is her drawing. Like yeah she draws a shit ton in get it, but that is 99% of her fanart, and everyone just has her exist to draw and be nervous LIKE STOP!!! SHE'S MORE THAN CRAYONS AND PAINT!

I have seen lots of Sebastian mischaracterization, jax, mommy long legs, etc etc etc. LOTS.

And liking your own stuff is AWESOME, even if it's something you would dislike if you saw someone else do the same thing.

Cuz thats what I do- I make my own stuff for funzies, but have it akin to canon as much as possible. I mean take tasc for example. The new episode finally helped me figure out jax, and even zooble more. I dont keep track of what I showed / told you abt my story, but based on what u know, u probably know that it is as close to canon as possible, but it's also like... it's whole own story. If that makes sense.

I dont call it an "au" because of how much it DOESNT stray from canon. I think of it as my own story. Yunno?

BUT ANYWYAS. Did u see something u didn't like, cuz im curious what prompted this lol /pos

[piko-power]

Okay, seriously, why are there people having slap fights over three fictional hedgehogs? lmao

It's fine to not like Sonadow, or Sonamy, or both, but what isn't fine is starting pointless discourses over the two ships, and being a jerk.

I've been part of the fandom for more than ten years, and I witnessed some dumb af arguments on the internet over some ships. Especially with Sonamy, Sonadow and even Sonally.

Not everyone can agree on some things, even ships. (Unless the ship is extremely problematical and gross. You know what I'm talking about, goddammit.)

I prefer Sonic and Sally as close friends instead of a couple, and there are fans who ship Sonally. Do I whine and argue at these people about "WhY mY sHip iS BeTtER?"

NO?? LOL

In fact, I think Sonally is pretty cute. And looking back at those old early 2010s Sonamy fanarts and fanfics which featured Sally being incredibly out of character and such a bully to Amy, (To be fair everyone in those old stories were out of character but especially Sally.) I just felt so bad for both Sonamy and Sonally fans from all that mess and so embarrassed to be into Sonamy because of how much toxic people there are trying to defend their ship just by being an asshole.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who likes Sonamy and who supports fans despite different opinions. That's how bad it is.

So bad, sometimes I feel nervous/ashamed when I bring Sonamy up. I love Sonic and Amy's dynamic in general but their relationship was always so sweet to me.

With all these arguments from then and now, it's no wonder how Sonamy, Sonadow, Sonally and pretty much a lot of other ships have a bad name. It's because of people like these that actual made me feel uncomfortable talking about a ship I enjoy.

That sucks.

I'm just tired of fans having pointless fights about, say it with me, fictional couples, and I just want people to simply respect other people's opinions. Is it really that hard? How many times do I have to make posts like these to make a point?? XD

There are people who like Sonamy but don't like Sonadow. There's no problem.

There are people who like Sonadow but don't like Sonamy. Again, no problem.

There are people who like both, like me. No problems here, your honor.

There are people who don't like both. That's fine. No problems whatsoever.

The only problem is being a jerk and trying to force others to like the same things as you do and/or force them to just stop enjoying things you dislike, with a hint of ✨gaslighting✨.

This is going on for too long and I think I'm repeating myself, so I'm just gonna say this:

Sonadow is really cool. I love their dynamic. They are idiots who fight every five seconds and I'd do anything for these rivals.

Sonamy is cute. Their dynamic is just as iconic. Amy is a big ray of sunshine who's not afraid to show her love for the blue hedgehog.

Ship wars are dumb as fuck.

This is not Twitter.

Please be nice. XD

You wanna hear something shocking??

Sonamy AND Sonadow are valid. 😲

[cosmicbrowniefan]

headcanons for will and mike in college PLEASE bc i personally think they’d major in english and art respectively and need more of it 🙏🏼

YES YES YES i love a good college au omg

you are very correct, they would major in english (mike) and art (will)

mike is roommates with dustin, and will is roommates with lucas

mike gets a job at the campus starbucks and will gets a job at the campus bookstore

and will ends up buying more coffee than he needs to and mike ends up looking at textbooks more than he needs to

and both of them are in the campus comic book club bc. they're nerds ok

neither of them go to parties very often bc mike gets annoyed by being around so many people and will thinks they're too loud

but they do both attend one party together, which is a party thrown by the comic book club after the release of a marvel movie that the whole club went to see together

and will bless his soul has never gotten drunk before

he has approximately two cups of beer before he's absolutely GONE

and he's really funny and sweet and clingy while drunk

and. flirty

very very flirty

and mike walks will back to his dorm that night and will is just flirting with mike the whole time, making mike blush super hard

will wakes up the next morning hungover and immediately panics because he can't remember much from the night before but he remembers being with mike

so will goes to the campus starbucks and mike just stares at him with this smirk and will smiles back shyly and apologizes while he gets his coffee, but mike isn't hearing any of it, and gives him his coffee on the house

anyway. moving past that

let's talk about the boys in class

mike is a very nervous student

as in he tries to write down everything the professor is saying word for word because he's incredibly scared that he's going to miss something

but all of his notes get jumbled and hard to read and that stresses him out even more

and one day he and will are studying together for their respective classes and will sees mike's notes and asks him about them and mike tells him his troubles with note taking

so will says that maybe it would help to take voice memos of the class and go back and listen and jot down the really important stuff

and mike says that he'll try that

and then mike goes to the bathroom and will takes pictures of his notebook

and a few days later mike updates will and says he tried the voice memo thing and shows him his new notes that are a lot neater and more organized and concise

and will smiles and says he's happy for him and then gives him some paper

it's pages of the old notes mike tried to take, but will rewrote it in easier to understand language

and mike just. malfuctions

bc no one's ever done anything that nice before wtf :')

i also have this idea that mike has a pretty popular ao3 account and will has his own webtoon comic

also will draws fanart for the same fandom that mike typically writes for

they're both fans of each other but don't know it bc both of them keep these things kind of under wraps due to the toxic idea that fandom culture is cringe and that you get too old for it (which is very incorrect)

they still have yet to find out that they're fans of each other's work btw

and let's do one more

will draws mike for his class

like. multiple times

and will's teacher just keeps seeing drawings of this boy and is like ??????

so one day this teacher corners will and asks him about the mystery guy

and will just says it's a friend

so this teacher asks every once in a while how his friend mike is doing

and one day will just smiles and turns red and looks down and says that it's actually his BOYfriend mike now

and the teacher is just like. yeah. about time kiddo <3

[fansplaining]

Following up on your fest episode: I'm trying to put together a fic/fanart prompt bingo in a small fandom with a lot of young fans who are unfamiliar with some of the old school fandom events, and I'm pretty baffled by the Ao3 prompt meme collection feature despite the help documentation. There's a lot of cool features but I'm not sure what is mandatory and what isn't (do I have to set a deadline if I want it to be open-ended? Do people have to sign up in advance? If they select a prompt, can someone else not use it?) I am super excited to introduce the practice of fests and prompt memes to my small fandom but I'm nervous that if it's not executed smoothly, people will not have much fun with it and not wanna participate in similar events in the future. Any advice for first-time prompt fest organizers?

Hello! Elizabeth here. Answering this on Tumblr rather than saving this for the podcast because I have limited experience with this kind of fest (Flourish has none!), and I'd love for folks with more experience to share any thoughts in replies/reblogs.

So! I cannot tell you what is mandatory (poking around on AO3 I'm immediately finding the Prompt Meme FAQ*, which seems pretty oriented towards participators, not mods) and I hope that someone can share any helpful posts (presuming they exist!) that break this down for you. But if all the questions you detail here are optional, then to make those decisions, I think you ought to base it on your/friends' experiences participating in prompt-oriented fests.

My two cents, with your specific questions: I think deadlines are good and helpful, and I think it's easier to introduce folks to this kind of fest if there is a set time period—when I think of the ongoing kink/prompt memes of yore, it's stuff on LJ and DW, where people were spending their social media time as well, and I think it's harder to keep something this open-ended on the AO3, which is not a place where people can "hang out" in that way. IDK, maybe folks are doing it successfully! But also, you know I love a deadline, so.... :-))

When I have participated in this sort of thing in the past, there is a set period for submitting prompts, but claims go up until the end of the fest, which feels like a nice balance of openness + deadlines. They've also allowed multiple claimants on a single prompt, which I like a lot; it encourages people to take ideas that really appeal to them, not whatever's left, and it's interesting to see different takes on the same prompts.

I think you could also be honest with folks and say you're new to modding and that this fest is a bit of an experiment, and then keep track of feedback from folks and any confusion you get from younger/newer fans. I also think being really clear about rules and guidlines are helpful for participants, so it's probably worth reading the FAQs of fests you or your friends have participated in and seeing the kinds of stuff people articulate there.

If anyone else has any resources/thoughts, please share them! And good luck organizing this @fairkid-forever!!!

*ETA: @naryrising very helpfully points towards this FAQ for modding, not participating. And see their reblog for additional info!

[ilikekidsshows]

First thing first, I want to say thank you for all the counterargument for the senti theory. Seriously, during all these time when people shouting THE THEORY IS CANON your blog always give me relief and I thank you wholeheartedly. Even when people ridicule me saying I'm in denial because apparently the 'staff being throwing obvious hints like crazy' and 'ambasador confirmed it has been building since s1' your blog always give me assurance that I need.

Second and lastly, I don't understand when people said 'the hints is there' because I never see it, what hints? Gabriel fidget with the ring is something similar with what I do when I'm nervous, adrien obeying his father is something a child would do, even more so in abusive situation and it's normal thing that has nothing to do with the whole senti being thing. I'm watching the show with my niece and nephew who is 9 and 11 which is the target audience for miraculous and they see nothing as well. So why would the show use something that the kids wouldn't understand or catch in the first glance? That just beyond my comprehension, actually the whole theory is.

Thanks! I've pretty much accepted my role as the chairman of the "People Who Don't Like SentiAdrien" Support Group.

This is actually something I thought about yesterday but I didn’t have the time to make a post then, so thanks for reminding me. A big thing about the "SentiAdrien story" is that it exists on social media, not in the show. And the Theory Stans get mixed up over this and think that the show has been obvious about it when it hasn’t. It’s partially because of their confirmation bias: they think it’s fact so everything is obvious evidence for it even when there are other explanations too. However, some of it is caused by an overindulgence in SentiAdrien content.

The SentiAdrien Theory really got going through season four, because the season four fandom is the perfect breeding ground for it. The episodes drop sporadically, Gabriel is acting erratically and the show seems to be full of high drama when said “high drama” is mostly played for laughs or solved pretty easily. This atmosphere has people expecting the show to be grimdark while also turning to fanworks to pass the time, and a lot of the fanworks are about the SentiAdrien Theory, since it’s popular and grimdark. There are fanfics and fanart about it and, most importantly, there are a lot of posts where people pick at minor details and build elaborate structures of symbolism and meaning out of them.

And the people who are into the Theory post a lot about the theory. Just like how seeing similar Salt posts again and again slowly makes you think like they do, the theory blogs wear down your disbelief first into “there wouldn’t be so many posts if it wasn’t likely” and then into “there wouldn’t be so many posts if it wasn’t basically canon”. I originally blocked the SentiAdrien tag even before I actively started disliking the theory simply because I saw SO MANY POSTS ABOUT IT. I had other shit to do than read the same points over and over again.

Just like people reading salt fics and salt posts start to believe the salt takes are canon, the people reading these posts analyzing how every single detail in the show is now evidence or foreshadowing for SentiAdrien get the impression that the episodes these analyses are based on are about nothing but dropping hints about SentiAdrien, so they think season four is about SentiAdrien when it really isn’t. There are so many posts explaining how all these blink-and-you'll-miss-it details are pointing towards SentiAdrien that people think: "of course it's obvious. It's basically been said word-for-word with how much hints there are!" when, in fact, every single one of those hints is questionable. It's very much not obvious to anyone who isn't a Theory Stan and constantly surrounded by Theory Stans telling them it's basically canon. The only reason I think about SentiAdrien consistently is because I'm in the Miraculous fandom on tumblr. If I was just watching the show on my spare time, I would not think it was even on the table as an option.

Because, here's the thing: no one in the show has raised a single question about Sentimonsters. The show isn't questioning the existence of Sentimonsters and what they are exactly. Any actual mystery show actually has at least one character wonder about the things the audience is supposed to be wondering about or has a clearl, definitive hint to point people in the right direction. You're meant to solve the mystery with the characters. Anyone who looks at Gabriel fidgeting with a ring will only think: "SentiAdrien Confirmed!" if someone outside of the show has told them about the theory beforehand. No one would immediately jump to that conclusion, at most they'd wonder "SentiAdrien? Maybe." The hints are less obvious than the Theory Stans think they are.

This tendency to overblow the SentiAdrien Theory is even worse with people who don’t actually watch the episodes, but just kinda absorb them through osmosis from posts made by the rest of the fandom. This is very common practice for the Miraculous fandom, since the new episodes are kinda hard to get your hands on at the moment. Because of that, there are people who haven’t seen the episodes and have only read about how this or that episode "foreshadowed" or “confirmed” SentiAdrien.

I’m not even exaggerating about some of the Stans being people who haven’t watched the season. I got someone telling me that ‘Ephemeral’ already revealed that Adrien was a Sentimonster, and several more claiming that the SentiAdrien plot has been carefully built up during season four and it’s continuing from what started in the episode ‘Ladybug’, you know, the episode I've mocked repeatedly for dedicating a whopping 59 seconds (not even a full minute) to building up sympathy for Sentibug.

Season four is apparently only about SentiAdrien despite the fact that one of the big themes the people actually watching the show have noticed is that Adrien’s presence in the average episode was greatly diminished in the first half, which is followed by Adrien getting demoted from being Ladybug’s partner in the second. I bet you can agree that an arc about how Ladybug and Cat Noir have an unequal relationship that focuses much more on Ladybug’s side of things is not the same as building up a story about how Sentimonsters are fully sentient and Adrien is one. These Stans are completely reconstructing the narrative of the show to fit their bias, which is: “I really want SentiAdrien to be a thing, so the entire season four that exists in my head is just about that no matter what happens in the actual episodes.”

[franeridart]

But he isn't dabbing

smh at u anon Dabi’s constantly dabbing in his soul, it’s, like, an intrinsecal state of being, a neverending condition of his spirit, don’t doubt the dab in him why do you think he picked that villain name the fact that it’s the word for cremation is pure coincidence tbh

Anon said:aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh my fav artist drew my fav boy my day couldn't have started any betterr, BLESS UR SOUL AND THANK YOU FOR THE DAB

Anon said: hOLY SMOKES YOUR DABI IS A+++++ and I would die for his shoes

GLAD YOU LIKED HIM!!!! 

Anon said: I just wanna say I really love your art? I know u get it a lot n stuff but like i love ur art style,it's so unique and ur colouring style is so pretty too. Your shippy art is just so wholesome and pure. And your poly art is a godsend a and the best portrayals I've EVER seen of poly ships in fandom. Bless u. Bless u for ur contribution to the fandom. Bless u for ur existence. Also i ask if it's weird that i kinda ship fatgum and rappa, i just really like rappa and don't wanna see him goooo

Thank you so much oh my gods ;A; this is!!!!! such a great nice ask I’m cry ;A; and also I dunno if it’s weird to ship them but if it’s weird I guess we can be weird together hi hello to the club here’s some good art for them I found on my dash yesterday and cried over

Anon said:A powerboat traveling at 24 km/hr relative to the water has a compass heading of 95°. A strong tidal current, with a heading of 35°, is flowing at 12 km/hr. Find the resultant velocity.

If you’re looking for physics answers anon you came to the worst place you could pick numbers and formulae are my worst enemy

Anon said:Hello!!! I just wanted to say that I absolutely L O V E your art!! It's simple but yet so pretty and unique and I just???!?! I just get happy whenever you post something and it really inspires me to draw too! I hope you have a great day!!!

THANK YOU!!!! HOLY SMOKES!!!!!!!! *O*

Anon said:I'll try to make this quick but, okay ever since I started following your Tumblr which was like about a year ago I originally did bc of Haikyuu and way before season 2 came out I begun watching bhna from seeing your fanart and talks about it, since then I never regretted it and I love this anime so so much I even continued reading the mangas when updated and everything and i've even gotten some friends into bc of you and I really wanted thank you for basically introducing bnha to me ily ❤❤

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I’m glad!!!!!!! Oh my god!!!!!!!! I hope you’ll keep on enjoying it for a long long time and make even more friends in the fandom, anon!!!!!!

Anon said:I was wondering if I could draw bakushima's children, Mako and taiyou? I thought they were super cute... credit for the characters will go to you of course!

SURE!! As long as you don’t change the designs and link back to me it’s more than fine!!!!! Thanks for liking them *O*

Anon said:Aizawa canonically had a bowl cut as a child I'm ehebdjd and I thought you needed to know this if you didn't already

I’VE SEEN IT I JUST. CAN’T DEAL. G O D. I think the Tokoyami part might be just speculation by the other 1A kids, I’m not sure, but Aizawa. W h y.

Anon said: Hello! I was wondering; how did you feel the first time you posted your art online? Were you really nervous about it? If you were, how did you get the courage to do it anyway? Sorry for all the questions, but I'm currently in a situation where I really want to share my art with people but am too scared to do it. I feel like my art might not be "good enough" to share with people online, or that people will hate on my art/ideas and call them "cringey".

Ah, the first time I posted my art online I was... between fourteen and fifteen and it was on a really small community made of people who were just learning to draw, like I was, so it wasn’t nerve-wrecking for me since I sort of eased into the whole “letting the world see my crappy art” thing, which means I can’t help with that specifically orz

What I can tell you tho is this: 90% of what I post I look at it and I’m like “w h y am I posting this” and “I’m the only one who’ll enjoy this” and “...man this is so fucking embarrassing” and so on. It’s nervewrecking and, uh, it’s that sort of feeling that doesn’t really ever go away completely - I have some comics that randomly come back around in my activities and I just sit there feeling incredibly ashamed I posted them to begin with and also wondering why people like it at all. 

So here’s how it is, some things, mostly the self-indulget ones, are gonna feel weird to share because you feel like no one aside from you is gonna enjoy them, and because they keep a part of yourself in them you might be scared people won’t like, and that’s normal, and it’s okay. Through personal experience, I can tell you that in most cases you’ll manage to find someone who’ll love what you drew and will think “OH BOI exactly what I’ve been waiting to see god bless!!”, but believing this regarding your own art might be hard until you start posting and see it happen, and that’s okay too. If it doesn’t happen, and people actually don’t like your ideas, that’s okay too - mostly, you make art for yourself, because you love it and it makes you happy, and as long as it made you happy using your time to make it won’t have been a waste. And if the lack of response is too much to bare, you can always just stop posting! No one is saying that once you start you gotta keep at it! It’s your art, you do with it what you want!

But you won’t know what people’s reactions to your art will be until you start posting it - so take a deep breath, feel nervous as hell, post it anyway. Wait a week. If after that you’ll still feel like posting it was a mistake, take it down. It’s not a definitive decision, you’re free to go back on it whenever - I’m sure it won’t be as bad as you’re thinking right now, though!