#фандомное

[fapssa]

Мо Жань и хризантема #ЧеньФэйюй #АртурЧень Источник: https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5029631238275129 Dior. Осенняя колекция мужской одежды

[dark-seven]

Наконец-то купила себе прозрачную полочку для моих нендов, а то обидно: такая прелесть стоит, а бОльшую часть просто не видно. Сейчас намного лучше:

P.S. Стало понятно, что вся желаемая азиатщина на одну полку не поместится никак. Так что я уже присматриваю, как можно реорганизовать книжки на стеллаже. Нетривиальная задача, между прочим, так как по итогам прошлого года мне нужен как минимум ещё один стеллаж, а не вот это крохоборство по отдельным полочкам, к тому же уже заполненным!

[irvinis]

Results 2023

I haven’t celebrated the New Year for a long time, although here it is the main holiday of the year, celebrated with fanatical zeal. At this time, it is customary to formally sum up the results, so I will do the same. Only fandom, there is no point or desire to talk about the rest.

During GO1, I didn’t dare to enter the fandom - such a huge flow of content, so many strong authors, it was clear that there was nothing to catch here. But "ineffable friends/husbands/lovers"- as you wish - changed it.

Well, no success was achieved. This time, all the creativity went past the eyes of Mr. Sheen, and the secret of success within the fandom remained just as ineffable. The popularity of some things is surprising. Radar still has the same people, heh. I don't think I'll ever be able to break through my glass ceiling if I spend another 20 years on Tumblr.

However, these strong men are charming and will do well (they have every opportunity to do so!)

[superconductivebean]

#1130: sebastian sallow headcanons - 1

Imelda Reyes: >>>1 || >>>2 (nsfw) || >>>3 || >>>4 || >>>5 || >>>6 || >>>7 Poppy Sweeting: >>>1 || >>>2 || >>>3 || >>>4 Aesop Sharp: ask 1 || >>>1 || >>>2 Mirabel Garlick: >>>1

Once again raising my head from the Brainrot fog to share some character headcanons with the world. Brainrot is a fic I’m working on.

Tags: @myokk @rypnami @phinik @endeavour12345 @infernalrusalka @thriftstorebabayaga @theladyofshalott1989

Knows how to cook, to sew, to patch, to plant, to plough, and is no stranger to labour. Living in the Scottish Highland might have had put him far behind the enlightened and entitled upper classes and their usual mannerism but for Sebastian it matters very little;

The muggle world offers him very little to satiate his ever-hungry curiosity. He strays away from it, although never rejects anyone coming from there;

He is an incredibly easy-to-gain friend but that relationship will be transactional. Sebastian rarely sees friendships as burden-free; he will bargain his way in and you will have to consider a bargain your way out of this, however minuscule it may feel;

Brainrot: Transactional nature of Sebastian's way to get to know people and become their friend comes from the abuse of Solomon. Sebastian sees himself as an offering, and the more you seem to have, the more he will try to appease your particular need in, let's say, get to know the place, get a hold of your studies, or given an opportunity to talk your soul out. That being pointed out, he often doesn't realise this and may get either too distant or too close as he doesn't understand interpersonal relationships as something that doesn't always require transactions;

Brainrot: It was only a matter of time for Sebastian to become the best friend for Ominis, also coming from an abusive home. He is on good terms with Poppy, an outsider, and Imelda, an outspoken, outlier kind of person. He senses Leander is an outcast among the peers and Garreth always gets in trouble and maybe needs a mind that shares his ambitions for research antics. Sebastian has a very good sense for whom he can help — or exploit, depends on what he might potentially need from someone;

Brainrot: It doesn't mean he wouldn't help anyone outside that circle. Sebastian is very protective of the weak and is very sensitive to manifestations of injustice of any kind. Also a consequence of Solomon's treatment;

Sebastian is an idealist, a simple boy, which often leads to troubles because albeit being an idealist isn't destructive, when it causes to behave inconsiderate, well. Sebastian learnt life in the harshest of ways. Brainrot: It certainly made him less reckless over the years;

Brainrot: But it instilled him with grief. Whenever Solomon tried to humiliate him, Sebastian argued against it, as the uncle wouldn't differentiate between cases when Sebastian would truly be at fault and when he clearly wasn't. It became only worse when Anne was affected by a mysterious curse;

Sebastian was always taking hits for Anne. When she disappeared, he still felt obliged to protect someone but that she refused to be under his wing any longer…

Brainrot: Sebastian was only angry until it hit him that although he knew how to recognise Solomons, he could not yet realise he was growing his own rot of abusive traits. He didn't want to feel like he 'owns' someone's safety, because Solomon was acting like he did because of this. At some point Sebastian realised what he did to Ominis' secret was gravely wrong for their friendship. And he felt miserable pushing Julia — my MC — to research something even Fig didn't know how to approach in so little time before Hogwarts would had been sustaining attacks from Ranrok and his Loyalists;

As I wrote to @rypnami today, in words of Leander, wizarding world knows no lonely trees, only burnt down forests, and trees are often interconnected and interlocked by their roots. Sebastian had it rough, all these realisations and inner debates and conflicts — but he was never facing any of it truly alone (and if he would go into an exile of kinds, he would always know how to return);

Brainrot: He was never sent to Azkaban. Ominis couldn't lose a friend. Julia learnt what this place does to people, she'd never send anyone in there. Anne, essentially, wanted to be left alone and not disturbed, as she, too, needed time for her own realisations and conclusions — preferably made in separation from the brother's volatile character;

Brainrot: Due to plot reasons, the demise of Solomon Sallow came to be known but it was never investigated nor any verdict was made as the Ministry had more important business to handle: certain Victor Rookwood nearly put the International Statute of Secrecy at risk and caused an international scandal. One dead uncle wasn't worth its time and effort when people like the Malfoys or the Blacks could lose their access to France, and if the trade was halted, it would mean anything but a more or less peaceful life.

[zerzurianspy]

а мне выражать своё гневное сомнительное для кого-то мнение о котором никто не просил дороже одобрения общественного и фандомного

[superconductivebean]

#919: imelda headcanons post

Whilst writing something anything for my wlw OTP's and OT3 has me in a perpetual state of stagnant gaze at the nearly empty sheet, I thought, what if I go full delulu and out of the writing way again.

If you've been following me for a while, you might've noticed this tag, #utlitd brainrot. It is the reservation for my magnum opus fic, its abbreviated name, yadda yadda yadda. I don't post about it often assumed it'll be super tiring to have my ramblings look nice -- even though this work is my MC's entire storyline lmao.

Anyhow, while working on it lots I've become to sit on some ideas and headcanons and -- not sharing them. I'm a criminal for this. I plea guilty. Some headcanons are brainrot-derived and marked as such.

Assuming you've not scrolled past my little hello note, IMELDA REYES HEADCANONS:

Butch lesbian. Accepted herself rather well but she was soon to realise finding someone isn't just a challenge, it's a quest;

Half-Spanish, Half-Scottish. Her grandparents and part of the family left Spain, fleeing the tumultuous change of its regimen;

Was born in Glasgow, Scotland. If the family decided to stay in Spain or to move back, would've attended Beauxbatons instead;

Relatives from the father's side live in Seville, mother's side of the family is stretched across Orkney Islands;

Learnt to ride the broom there btw, she's well-accustomed to the weather and especially, weather changes. If to name one of the reasons she is an amazing Chaser, this would be one of them;

Not as much of a headcanon as it is a tiny essay but! She doesn't like Seekers for a very peculiar reason, if not to downright call it a fundamental difference between a skill-dependent play and a luck-dependent play. She often irates at Seekers: they bask in attention and praised for their skill -- but Chasers rarely have a fraction of that, as if they perform a rotten work! That's her opinion. Bar in the grand scheme of things, Seekers are the different breed of team players. They have to count numbers and be on a constant chase & lookout for the snitch in order to win in numbers. 150 points for the snitch is only 15 times quaffle gets through the rings; you could imagine a scenario when 150 points aren't enough if not for the Chasers' work;

This one is pretty much implied canon: she doesn't like Gryffindors because a Gryffindor caused her father a permanent injury ('took his knees out', gruesome), hence he's disabled and can't walk on his own -- and has been unable to walk since his school years. Imelda is unlikely to had seen him riding a broom ever in her life;

Brainrot: despite the disability, her father is an avid Quidditch aficionado, goes to her every match and makes half the fannish noise because His Wee Little Mija Is Winning. He's not coming to watch her alone, in fact, half the family attends Slytherin matches. It is an important social link for Imelda;

She doesn't have many friends, if at all, which is also an implied canon (an npc slips a mean comment about her, saying she had only a broom for a friend);

Brainrot: support of the family, nonchalant attitude and dead-set goals built Imelda a sense of confidence, she knows what she wants and needs, perhaps, however, she is lacking simple silliness of life and that she isn't anyone's friend but a background celebrity weighs on her;

Brainrot: moreover, her rigid training regimen, partly inspired her childhood on the Orkney Islands, partly enforced by the former Toyoashi Tengu almost-player Madam Kogawa became to feel mundane. As she would put it, there isn't an opponent worthy of her time and skill. As I will say, it isn't as much a need in a rival as it is an ask for a feedback;

Although Imelda notes compliments make people go soft and that no one tells her she did a great job, and that she couldn't care less, she isn't truthful to herself. She needs positive feedback. However, positive feedback isn't praise for her;

After Black cancelled Quidditch for the year, Imelda took it harsh. It meant she was cut off from genuine reaction of the crowd at her play, wouldn't receive family's (dis)approve of performance, and wouldn't even have chances to train on the Pitch;

Brainrot: Imelda feels isolated, to say the least. She is naturally sensitive and quite talkative, insightful and outspoken, however, the mean attitude may have caused people to stray away from her. She does take notice of it but never seek reconciliation, knowing not many people would like to befriend her, besides, a new friend would do game if plays Quidditch or willing to challenge her, too. Time is valuable to her, it's a resource she'd like to spend on a person willing to take on and press on;

MC's timely arrival signified a potential to have someone new to get a hold of after Anne Sallow's untimely departure from the school and effectively, from the Slytherin Quidditch team. Anne was a beater;

Brainrot: to Imelda, Anne was another important social link. They weren't exactly friends but Anne's mischievous nature prompted Imelda to spend more time with her, Sebastian, and Ominis, as both pastime from Quidditch and a way to catch up with studies. Their company introduced her to students she'd normally would've not ever interacted with: Everett Clopton, Ravenclaw Keeper, disastrously ill-disciplined but overall harmless individual, yet too nonchalant to her liking; Garreth Weasley, whom she jokingly berates each time he blows up cauldrons but finds his expertise otherwise valuable whenever she needs help with Potions; Poppy Sweeting, a girl that alerts her to something but she hadn't a clue to what for quite an amount of time, she just knew she wasn't an another meek Hufflepuff; I imagine, @catohphm's Danny, Ravenclaw Seeker, would've been introduced to Imelda, too;

Brainrot: if u thought her and poppy had slowburn mutual pinning 300k words until the first kiss kind of thing going on in my head u are not wrong it is basically canon to me they're so different and unsure about each gesture -- or a suspicion there was an one -- it's as cute as it is silly as it is u just name it im gonna cry

She and @boxdstars' Amara probably are in each other's support group even after they completed the Find Girlfriend quest;

Imelda could use more sleep;

A straight O-student in Herbology and a straight E-student in DADA and Charms;

Has a deep respect for Aesop Sharp: if he finds it in himself to go and teach a bunch of dimwits how to brew potions out of seemingly sheer passion for the subject (he's able to tell the colour of the potion is wrong while nose deep into grading papers), just like her father is always eager to attend her games despite and in spite of his injury, she totally can be as motivated for Quidditch. Whenever someone has anything disparaging to say about Sharp, she would admit, she takes it personally;

What she also takes personally are mean comments and the lack of genuine interaction, and appreciation for who she really is. She's stuck, however: she is mean when there has to be insight, she is brash where it needs to be reflection, she simply shatters when she is wrong or pointed out her reasoning does loops and meandering.

The girl is lonely and insecure, she is naturally abrasive but isn't a massive bitch bomb; stubborn, easily dismayed by a sass response, I would also say, she is very capable of being meek or show at least some weakness when privy because upholding a veneer of someone tough but who isn't really her is a very emotionally tasking endeavour.

and if u'd like more imelda hcs including nsfw ones feel free to send me an ask 👉👈

some tags: @thriftstorebabayaga -- look it is breaching containment again @ladyofsappho @celestial--sapphic @rypnami @endeavour12345

[superconductivebean]

#1222: ranty

currently im sitting at the high keep quest and i remembered that one too many peapol mention natty traumadumping at mc

to which i have the single one question:

can you follow alright?

natty mentions she has a story to be told from the very day you first meet her, quest The Girl From Uagadou. she doesnt tell you what it is about yet, as it's not something you'd tell to a stranger. you can only suspect it's personal and perhaps, hurtful

unlike of seb, who dumped his info, ominis' secrets, distate for solomon, etc etc etc, he also showed his uncle's usual demeanour too and gave you access to the undercroft as if these things are something you'd normally offer to a stranger just after you'd met them.

but no, the one dumping anything is natty who had warned and hinted thrice prior the dad story occurs and tells that story seeing creatures that invoke thoughts of death and the dead, and she's obviously hurt telling it because of how exactly the dad died.

[vishnya-gleb]

Просто пощу абсолютно всё фандомное, что мне нравится, и я планирую заспамить тут всё практически до основания. Ну, ладно, раньше 2022 вряд ли будет

[gola-salaga]

Я так поняла, что, чтобы вызвать хоть какую-то реакцию у тумблеровцев, я должна нарисовать чето фандомное

Вот держите, Антон Шастун

Было бы еще о�� славно, если бы другие мои рисунки (не по фандомам) оценили

(Реф брала с выпуска контактов с Надей Джабраиловой)

[superconductivebean]

oh boi, i left twittor a good year or two ago but the drama calls and i will answer

freewld2's friends in the replies: Tamayula lied because we said so!

Tamayula provides detailed explanations, shows video comparison, may very well post step-by-steps if necessary, and expresses their concern about that the poll's results can easily be thwarted because you don't trust in twitter polls, and rightfully so you don't.

Besides, what's that method even about?

You define plagiarism by, uh, mass voting and not by evidence?

Poll -- is a stupid idea overall but it becomes an utter shite on twitter.

Twitter by-design is a website that prioritise cheap engagement over civil conversation and investigation. That means, if you're not a research group using an account for outreach, you'll eventually notice people are spreading something because it made them feel angry or agitated, anxious or delulu. There is rarely other intent than to spread a feeling across the dash, hence the doomscrolling, for example.

See where am I going with this? freewld2's followers have a bias because they don't like Tamayula personally because on an emotional level, they're connected to freewld2's frustration. Their judgement is clouded, and because you can't expect a 800+ follower account to have everyone thoroughly informed…

freewld2's followers don't give a dime about neither the base of plagiarism allegations, nor they care about what plagiarism is. Send tweet.

They're negatively engaging with a frustration. 'Sides, as Tamayula's mentioned, switching between accounts, regardless of whether people would ever use that or not, is a valid concern; if a poll is something you want to use for the base of your final argument or for the conclusion, a possibility like this must be eliminated. Or made completely and utterly implausible.

That all renders twitter a very unsuitable place for anything serious -- unless, to take matters seriously is a staple. Send tweet.

You don't create just-polls and on twitter, these are redundant for the aforementioned reason. You make google polls instead and require a e-mail to sign up for a vote. Prior to that poll, gather evidence and in an ostentatious twitter fashion, place them in a thread -- or even better, create a google doc! That poll, however, wouldn't be a piece of evidence or a conclusion -- it'd be a community divider of some kind.

Meaning, why even bother to make an one.

If you have evidence cast in steel, you don't need polls to prove you're right and they're wrong. Plagiarism allegations isn't a debate of taste, like the pineapple pizza, or of visual perception, the the dress.

A research shared via google doc will also be accessible. People wouldn't be facing a wall when they'd go see for themselves:

--Screencap made at around 6:53AM, GMT+3 timezone.

---P.S.: Some people genuinely believe in if two different people came up with similar ideas, or took inspiration from the same source, or draw in similarly-looking styles, they're not coinciding. They believe, these two people are nefarious and are certainly stealing from each other -- even though you can't steal ideas and intents.

---P.S.S.: Does Tamayula sound one-sided? Yes, obviously, they're not a quiet fandom observer. Based on what I'd seen from the reply crowd, I'd like to ask them some of the mentioned questions myself, such as the necessity of the poll, -- but.

These claims are placed close to guru-following accusations. Keep you ad hominems sheathed, crowd.

Plagiarism allegations currently levelled against me and evidence of my innocence

I'm sorry for posting so many times on this hard topic. But yesterday @freewld (https://www.tumblr.com/freewld) asked me, "You reversed, traced and plagiarised my drawing, didn't you?" I received a DM saying. After discussion, I was given permission to publish a verified image of me and her drawing by overlapping them. Below is her art, all of which I have permission to publish.

The picture on the left is my illustration that is allegedly being used in this case. And the picture on the right is the one she claims was plagiarised by me.

She says: " When my drawing is inverted, angled and overlapped, there are a number of places where the lines overlap. I believe you must have traced my drawing because there are too many places where the lines match for it to be a coincidence".

See the verified image she created by overlapping our drawings on her Twitter feed. (another)

To be fair, I also made a verification image and video.

When two pictures are overlapped with respect to the line of Seb's right eyelash.

When two pictures are superimposed on the basis of the lines on both cheeks of Seb.

I draw every time using the screenshots I have taken of Sebastian as a reference, and probably she does too. I would argue that if I draw a picture with reference to a 3D model of the same 'Sebastian Sallow' character, it is only natural that the two pictures should be similar. If one tries to express his individuality - the distance between his eyes and eyebrows, the length of his nose and philtrum - in a drawing, it is natural that some of the lines will overlap.

In the first place, to claim 'plagiarism by tracing', most of the lines need to match, but there are not many places where the lines of the two pictures overlap completely. It is my contention that this cannot be evidence of 'plagiarism by tracing'.

I believe I have proven my innocence to the world with these two superimposed verified images and videos.

However, @freewld is using Twitter's survey feature to solicit third-party impartial opinions on the allegations.

This is the current voting result.

Incredibly, the majority of votes went to 'I think Tamayula plagiarised'.

However, using Twitter's survey function to solicit these views is wrong.

Twitter allows a single person to create as many accounts as they want, as long as they have an email address. (I currently have eight Twitter accounts myself.) And as we all know, email addresses can be created quickly and easily in any number of accounts. So, in effect, one person can vote as many times as they want.

And I've only been back on Twitter for about a week and have only about 200 followers. In contrast, @freewld has been running her account for 10 months since March 2023 and has more than three times as many followers as me. It is a voting system that overwhelmingly favours her.

With such a voting system, there is no way she can prove that I have plagiarised. It remains to be seen what the outcome of this poll will be, but even if the result is more votes for 'I think Tamayula plagiarised', I will continue to maintain my innocence and I will not apologise to her.

Finally. I have tried to be as honest as possible over the past few days and have continued to assert my legitimacy in Japanese HL fandom, but it is no longer possible for me to deal with this matter any more. I feel ridiculous about everything now. I hope everyone can understand my disappointment a little.

Thank you so much for reading this long sentence so far. I am taking a short break for just a few moments.

[vetcina]

хех, спасибо за такие слова, кто всё же что-то написал 🧡✨ приятно слышать, что у блога есть своя какая-то атмосфера

Потому что мне хотелось создать ощущение поздне-ранних часов, когда большинство людей спят, а на кухне есть пара человек, которые сонно зевают, щурятся и говорят свои мысли и чувства, о которых не сказали бы днём и в более трезвом состояние рассудка

Если кто-то читал "Дом, в котором…", то лучшим сравнением был бы Кофейник, с его атмосферой странного, но приятного места, в котором что-то происходит, даже если там никого нет

Наверное из-за этой книги у меня и есть дополнительная любовь к описанию всего и вся, а не только из-за личного восприятия

Хех, да, у меня в феврале день рождение 5 числа, если точнее. И мне теперь интересно, когда у вас такой день 👀

Рисунки не выкладываю, потому что на самом деле не так часто что-то рисую. Но если вам было бы интересно посмотреть что-то фандомное (к примеру со скелетами из Undertale, пиратами из One Piece или домовцами из "Дом, в котором…"), то я бы начать выкладывать это сюда, а не создавать отдельный блог для этого

Хотя могу и сделать пост-закреп, на котором будет немного информации обо мне и указатель на блог с рисунками 👀

@ghost-foxxx, @newpelmeshka отдельно ещё раз вам 👀👉🏻👉🏻🧡✨ и надеюсь вы не против такого ответа-поста

[serpentasha]

Есть у меня кинки, которых я не стыжусь (на самом деле немного стыжусь всех, уж больно они разлапистые, но некоторых меньше), и есть некоторые, ��оторые настолько гилти плэже, что в основном гилти.

Я старый слэшер и не знаю слов любви вкатилась в фандомы, когда ещё были насмерть прибитые раскладки, и с тех пор так и осталась раскладочником. Минимальное количество пейрингов я могу воспринимать в контексте "онименяются", и связано это не в последнюю очередь опять таки со стартом моей фандомной жизни, когда в слэшной манге условных нулевых были только пейринги типа жукоеси "шкаф и его томный твинк". Мои любимые пейринги именно такого типажа; так или иначе я поверну пейринг, как мне надо, и тогда-то наступит плэже. То, что не поворачивается, шипперить я не могу. Никаких аокаг двух шкафов.

И именно поэтому одним из центральных гилти выступает омегаверс. Он позволяет вынужденно засунуть персонажей в ту ситуацию, когда один все равно будет шкафистым шкафом, а другой - блядью томным твинком, и тащусь я от этого как удав по стекловате.

Но при этом в памяти все ещё живо, что омегаверс считается жанровым отбросом (наверное, уже нет, раз делают даже омегаверсные аниме, но память сильна), и от этого гилти становится только сильнее. В собственных то глазах не хочется представать фанатом жанрового отброса.

Плюс я реально прусь от разнузданного абьюза и люблю заставлять персонажей всячески страдать, а омегаверс даёт для этого совершенно законную основу.

*вздох* ничего не могу с собой поделать. Ну вот есть у меня типаж, и запихиваю я туда персонажей так, как мне нравится. При этом стыжусь с такой силой, что гилти сплошь замещает плэже.

Завидую людям, которые умеют дрочить на любимые жанры без капли сомнения.

Так вот. Сегодня утром я накидала совершенно неприличное омегаверсное рхэковое порно, и кайфанула до Луны и обратно. Я его допишу. Никогда никому не покажу. Но зато я теперь могу хотя бы в стол писать тот трэшак, который мне нравится, и бичевать себя немного меньше. Раньше уровень стыда был такой запредельный, что даже писать я себе такое не позволяла.

Сейчас, н��верное, проще с той точки зрения, что на дайри, куда бы я понесла свои трэшачки, было слишком много знакомых лиц, и эти лица узнали бы меня с этой стороны, и мне было бы сложно смотреть им потом в глаза ники. А выкладывать под другим ником ощущалось нелепо и неловко, хотя был у меня другой аккаунт на фикбуке, куда я носила специфические пвп.

Сейчас все фандомное окружение растеряно, а кто остался - тех я не знаю в лицо, и от этого как-то проще. Уже нет ощущения, что со своими откровениями вышел трясти трусами на красную площадь.

Я скучаю, конечно, по тем временам, но с какой-то стороны реально стало проще. Я болезненно чувствительна к чужому мнению, и даже один плохой отзыв - даже намек на него - насмерть вгоняли меня в неписец. Отношение к плохим отзывам осталось прежним, но теперь возможность огрести такой от знакомого лица меньше в разы, и от этого как-то спокойнее.

[superconductivebean]

Agree with the sentiment, but disagree with seen and service to the world—in the case of me, ofc.

I might be overthinking it given my background, but if to some me having fun is a lifechanging / fascinating sight, so be it then.

On Representation (in Fandom Spaces)

I finished reading an incredible novel last week (Wellness by Nathan Hill) and there's a passage fairly early on that hit me hard. So much so that it made me cry. At the time, I didn't quite understand why it affected me so much, but it finally dawned on me this morning. My analysis will be after the cut. Here's the passage (from pages 208-209): "It's a lecture Jack gives to his Intro to Art class, during the chapter on American landscapes, how painters educated in the European tradition saw the endless tallgrass prairie of the Midwest and literally did not know what to do with it. They had no training that might have prepared them to depict something so monolithic. They were accustomed to scenes with easy scope and dimension: trees in the middle distance for perspective, rivers and valleys that made for convenient vanishing points, mountains on the horizon as an anchoring weight, all of it evocatively defined in light and shadow. But what do you do with a tallgrass prairie, where the middle distance and the far distance and the near distance are all flat and featureless and identical? What these artists did, mostly, was ignore it. They kept traveling west until they reached the Rockies and were rewarded with landscapes that matched their schooling, which is why, in the canon of American landscape art, the prairie is so underrepresented. It's not because the prairie wasn't beautiful—most of the painters acknowledged, in letters and diaries, that it was very pretty indeed—but rather that the prairie did not accord with the traditional standards of what was specifically beautiful in landscape art. These painters came looking for the things they knew how to depict—forests and mountains and beaches—and when they found none of these, they declared the landscape 'empty.' They did not see what was there. Instead, they saw what wasn't.

Jack means it to be a lesson on the difference between reality and the representation of reality. Beauty, he tells his students, is a constructed, not intrinsic, condition. The things we think are beautiful are only the things that have been depicted beautifully. And if it's not depicted, it's not seen. It never enters the imagination. It becomes a nothing.

Which is why the west got Yellowstone, and the prairie got destroyed."

I like to remain a positive space in this fandom for everyone, but I am human and I have my down days. Today is one of those days, so I thought I would (respectfully) wax on about this passage in the context of LGBTQIA+ representation in fandom spaces like Hogwarts: Legacy.

Despite a growing number of creators depicting diverse, queer narratives, there is often a noticeable lack of engagement with these works on platforms like AO3. I sometimes come across comments from users—which I don't think are made with ill intent—about only reading works by popular creators. While I understand this to some extent, as both a writer and a dedicated reader in this fandom, when I come across this sentiment in the wild, it's like a punch to the gut. I know and support many beautiful works that, if you were to sort by hits, kudos, or bookmarks, wouldn’t be considered “popular,” but are spectacularly written with wonderfully fleshed-out characters, and these stories deserve just as much recognition.

Suffice it to say, these stories—more often than not—do not center on heterosexual relationships or cisgender perspectives.

When queer stories are not engaged with, they risk being rendered "invisible" in fandom culture. This doesn’t mean they lack value or beauty, but simply that they fall outside the established norms, just as the prairie did in the eyes of the artists in the shared passage. This lack of visibility isn’t due to an absence of effort or talent but reflects a broader issue where what is unfamiliar or different struggles to be recognized and celebrated.

In this context, it's disheartening to see the potential for LGBTQIA+ stories to expand the landscape of fandom, only for them to often be overlooked. We deserve to see a fandom where all perspectives—like all landscapes—are equally appreciated and supported.

To those of you who do write LGBTQIA+ stories, you are seen and appreciated. Please do not stop writing. I know it can be very difficult to seemingly write into the void. Don't give up. You are doing the world a service. To those of you who are willing to expand your worldview, go out there and read outside of your comfort zone. You may find a new appreciation for an underrated pairing or genre.

Ultimately, I know this uncomfy feeling of mine will pass. It always does. But if you made it all the way to the end of this, thank you, and perhaps do me a favor. Think of a pairing (or even a story that doesn't have a pairing!) that you haven't explored yet in this fandom. Don't sort by hits, kudos, or bookmarks, as it's likely there aren't many stories yet to shuffle through. Browse the summaries. Does one stand out to you? Give it a try! If you enjoy it, give that author a kudo, maybe even a comment. You'll make their month, I guarantee it.

I suppose that's all besides I love y'all. Yes, all of y'all. <3

[eskelada]

Уже несколько дней подряд снятся длинные яркие сны с сюжетом и что-то мне это не нравится.

Как включить adblock на сны? Хочу нормально спать без этих психоделичных мультиков в обстановке бабушкиной квартиры.

Ну или пусть хоть снится что-то фандомное: обнимашки с персонажами или ещё что-то в этом духе.

[eniokai]

Я не знаю, как вести тамблер. Изначальной идеей было постить сюда всё: от личного до фандомного, а по факту оказалось сложно писать о личном, будто это как-то не в тему совсем? + фандомное пишу на англ, (так как есть ощущение, что в ру-сегменте у нас полтора человека), а шит-посты на жизненные темы нет никакого смысла писать на английском, особенно если вспомнить мой уровень владения языком 🤡

Получается какой-то франкенштейн.

Оставить только под фандомы? Но мне так нужно было место для своего нытья о жизни. Что-то уютное и для себя. Я не знаю.

[deathsimz]

HI GUYS

If you are from Russia, Belarus and etc, here is my telegram channel

I post there too.