Sometimes I wish I could drive home just how little of Chinese fandom culture actually makes it onto Tumblr at all, much less circulates in western Tumblr circles, and I've finally got a solid example.
On this list I reblogged a not long ago, Poyun, which I started reading on Bilibili the other day, has the 93rd most popular ship on all of Lofter, with over 15,000 posts. By comparison, the 93rd most popular ship of that same year (2020) on Tumblr was from Haikyuu, and from 2021 the 93rd most popular was from Miraculous Lady Bug - which is to say, even if you're not into, it's a fandom you've almost certainly heard of if you move in fandom circles at all. Like, those are two fandoms with known, huge followings. Likewise, Yan Xie/Jiang Ting is a big deal ship on Lofter.
I started reading the manhua a few days ago, so I know I'm gonna be posting some of the manhua art to @cnovelartreblogs so I was like, I should check the main tags and queue the art (even if it means I might be exposed to spoilers), and then I won't accidentally duplicate other people's art posting efforts or anything.
Now, granted, I've seen some evidence that tag search is more broken than usual the last few days, but even so...
#po yun: there are maybe 30 posts in "most popular"
#破云: there are maybe 20 posts in "most popular," and they're basically all the same (as in, people tagged both)
#poyun: about the same number, and the only 3 pieces of fanart I can find on the whole platform (@drawulan you don't know me but you are a BLESSING to C-Novel fandoms with small followings on Tumblr. A BLESSING, YOU HEAR? I LOVE YOUR ART.)
Y'all, we have no idea how little we actually know and see about what's popular in Chinese fandom.
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absence of feelings voiced is not absence of feelings felt
zero beat moment. i have many not-really-canon thoughts on this silly robot
hex translations under the cut
"can you guys SHUT THE FUCK UP for a minute??"
"i'm booooored…"
"all of you guys are morons and your plans are stupid"
"why does anyone even still care about beat when i'm RIGHT HERE"
"man who even gives a shit"
YES it is just him moping around and thinking mean thoughts towards rokkaku group (he is not allowed to complain out loud but that will NOT stop him from having strong opinions in the privacy of his own code.)
have a :zeap: as a present for opening the readmore
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question!
i've been wanting to stray away from lu for a while now and do my own thing with wars n ledge and the rest of the links (mainly bc i feel restricted by jojo's rules/don't agree w her takes, and wanna pursuit my own stuff), but there's one big thing holding me back, and that's lack of views to put it bluntly
if i make my own au and don't tag its content as #lu, then it will most definitely get a fraction of the attention my lu content does. and i know it sounds self-centered of me to worry abt something like that, but i put months of work into the fics i post. i put days of work into each art piece i post. if i work on something for months and then 10 people on ao3 read it and an astounding 0 of them even leave a comment, that will be Devastating to my motivation And confidence
what im asking y'all is this: should i finally make my own au to separate myself from lu and risk the plunge in notes, or should i stay in the lu fandom and suffer?
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Header | Icon | Abyssal Lights | A Scaled Tale | Wire For A Life | Into The Deep End
Character Tags
Genshin Impact - GI
Magical Girl Transformation 💙 - Childe
Moraless Motherfucker ☕ - Zhongli
The Bard 🎶 - Venti
Firework Goldfish 🎆 - Yoimiya
Snowflake Princess ❄️ - Ayaka
The Original Elsa 🌨️ - Kaeya
Boo! 👻 - Hu Tao
Firey Falcon ❤️🔥 - Diluc
The Original Wanderer 🍁 - Kazuha
Gremlin ⚡ - Scaramouche
Prince Of Chalk 💠 - Albedo
The Princess And Oz 🪶 - Fischl
The Last Yaksha 💚 - Xiao
Dandelions On The Wind 🍃 - Jean
(more tba)
Overwatch - OW
Just Some Guy 🤠 - Cassidy
Dubious Doctor 💉 - Moira
Mercy 💫 - Mercy
Dragon Man 🐉 - Hanzo
Dragon Boy 🐉 - Genji
Kitsune Kiriko 🦊 - Kiriko
Streamer Bunny 🐇 - DVa (may be changed if I think of something better)
Guns n' Roses 🌹 - Ashe
(more tba)
Demon Slayer - DS
Set Your Heart Ablaze 🔥 - Rengoku
Peacock ✨ - Uzui
Sakura Mochi 🍡 - Mitsuri
Snake Simp 🐍 - Obanai
Amnesiac Babey ☁️ - Muichiro
Emo 🌊 - Giyuu
Poison Butterflies 🦋 - Shinobu
Windstorm 🌪️ - Sanemi (may change later)
Giant Rock 📿 - Gyomei (may change later)
Sunshine Incarnate 🎴 - Tanjiro
Flaming Thunder God 🌩️ - Zenitsu
Dyslexic Boar 🐗 - Inosuke
The Perfect Demon 🌸 - Nezuko
Baby With A Gun 🔫 - Genya
Sayonara 🪙 - Kanao (may change later)
(more tba)
General FNAF - FNAF
Rotten Rabbit🐇 - William Afton/Springtrap
Rotten Rabbit 2.0🐇 - William Afton/Scraptrap
(more tba)
FNAF Security Breach - SB
Freddy Dadbear 🐻 - Glamrock Freddy
Pizza Lover 🐔 - Glamrock Chica (may change later)
The Best 🐺 - Roxanne Wolf (may change later)
Anger Issues 🐊 - Montgomery Gator (may change later)
Sunshine ☀️ - Sundrop (may change later)
Moonlight 🌑 - Moondrop (may change later)
A Total Eclipse of the Heart 🌗 - Eclipse (may change later)
Once In a Blue Moon 🌙 - Lunar (may change later)
Felony Speedrun 👦 - Gregory (may change later)
Little Engineer 👧 - Cassie (may change later)
White Woman Jumpscare - Vanessa
Bunny Woman Jumpscare - Vanny (may change later)
Decommissioned 🐰 - Glamrock Bonnie (may change later)
Sea Dog 🏴☠️🦊 - Glamrock Foxy (may change later)
Peepaw Willy 🪦 - William/Burntrap
Glitch Bitch 👾 - William/Glitchtrap
DJ Spider 💿 - DJMM
(more tba)
FNAF Afton Family - AF
Child Murderer 🔪 - William Afton
Zombie Arsonist🔥 - Michael Afton
Ice Cream Clown🍦- Elizabeth Afton (may change later)
Just A Baby🧸- C.C. Afton (may change later)
Friend Tags!!!
Moots Pt. 1
Moots Pt. 2
My OCs!!!
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For a while now I've had an idea for a Chase/Kyrahlise fic that I'm super excited about. It would have: an art heist, playing around with psionic magic, fucking things up for a terrible person, hints of backstory, disguises, Kyrah planning and Chase improvising, what happens to the art of those who lost a war, and more! No matter how much I love the idea, I haven't been able to start writing it. Which is strange because normally I just start writing something if I'm excited about it.
I chatted with my partner about it, and he speculated I was holding off because it would be longer that anything else I've written so far. However, that doesn't hold up because I've been working on a fic since March or so that will have six chapters and be much longer.
Then he pointed out that it would be significantly more plot heavy that anything else I've done. Well that hit the nail on the head. It's a little silly because I know the plot really well since it's been noodling around in my brain for quite a while. Though I think if I write an outline I'll be good to go. So far I haven't bothered with outlines because everything I written has been so short, and as I like to call it in my head "no plot, just vibes".
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..... listen. listen. i'm thinking about interlude noir pt 1 again
i may or may not finish this sometime?? idk but i'm just gonna throw some words at this tumblr post before i have to go think about other things
Watching him was fun.
Scarlet could show up at almost any hour and there he would be, sitting at his desk, working away. In early, out late, the most dedicated officer on the force. A shoo-in for Chief at a comparatively young age, bright eyes and helping hands, and somehow, this long in the force with his sense of justice intact. Though she wouldn't, Scarlet always knew that she could tell him anything and he'd believe her, though he always seemed to want every detail he could wring out of her. A smart man, too smart of a man for this line of work; Scarlet had worked with the police for long enough to know what they were like. Except for him.
Sometimes when business was slow, she would sit in his office and listen. To the music he played, to the conversations he had, to the way he muttered to himself while doing paperwork. The way the other officers talked about him, the way they talked to him, the things they'd never say to his face but would spit at his car as it pulled away on a case. If she were less experienced with this line of work, she would have dared to follow him on a case or two, but something told her that he wasn't any different on the field -- not like the other officers, at least. Some of her girls had slipped her their notes after coming across him, told her what a gentleman he was even on the worst of crime scenes, even when he didn't know where their loyalties lied. One of them had winked at her once, called Scarlet a lucky lady to have such a man around her finger, and at the time she'd laughed it off. Playing the flirt was easy with these men, and the things that made him interesting made him an easy catch.
At least, until it... wasn't really playing the flirt, anymore.
He was still fun to watch, yes. But he was fun to banter with, too, fun to poke and tease. She would brush her hand against his and she could almost see red in his cheeks, ask for a light and pretend not to notice how he only pulled his good one out for her, sit in his chair before he got back and watch him try every way to do his work that didn't involve asking her to move. And before she knew it the laughs he got out of her were real laughs, the nicknames affectionate rather than cutting, the poise of her shoulders relaxed because she was. Her girls said she seemed happier, these days. Sharper. Like there was finally somewhere she could rest.
Scarlet was not supposed to be resting, when she visited him, but apparently... she was. Not that she had any intention to tell him, because she was sure that if he thought he'd stepped over a line he'd have a heart attack.
At least until he invited her over.
It was with a voice she didn't think he was capable of, a softness she'd never seen out of him, a whisper half to keep the other officers out of their business and half because he seemed afraid she would say no. Said he was worried about being seen together, for both of their sake, but that he wanted to treat her a bit. Seemed afraid to call it a date, but that... that was alright with her. They could get there later.
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