#20+ years going strong

[rainosa]

Happy 20 years of Danny Phantom!!! It’s hard to believe I’ve been with this fandom since I was 13, but I have to say that I’ve enjoyed every minute of it, truly this community is the best online community I’ve ever found. I have my waves of mucking around with other fandoms, but truly DP will never leave me, the people are just too amazing, and the fanworks are astounding. This fandom will always be close to my heart 💚

[the-monkey-ruler]

Hii, uh, i made a post saying this is a SWK x Y/N ad for a coffee shop, not sure how accurate that is (i also assumed it was perhaps a film?) maybe you can correct me ? 😅 Sorry to bother, thanks again

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@rinnie-roo This is DEF not an OC!

This is based off one of the most popular JTTW movies to ever come to light A Chinese Odyssey which is something I have talked about before.

The woman in the picture is Zixia, a candlestick of heaven, who's performance in the movie was so popular that she even made an appearance in nearly 10 other movies. She is without a doubt a fan favorite considering that even nearly 30 years later she is considered the BLUEPRINT to Wukong romantic interests.

This is legit the movie that made Wukong Romance movies a THING she was so popular. Before the 1995 most JTTW movies were action/adventure which was great but this was the movie that made Wukong a tragic hero. He experiences heart break and lead a whole generation of new JTTW fans adoring him and even learning to Bio of Wukong which lead to Immortal Demon Slayer which lead to Black Myth Wukong.

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

So @moonmanatee and @tackytigerfic both tagged me to do a year in review. Thank you so much!! In 2024, I published exactly 1 fic. Apparently I started it in August 2023, and I finished it in November 2024. So. Over a year of working on that fic. It came in fits and starts at first, but after a while, we did get comfortable with each other and progress a little better.

I started it about a month before the end of a three year relationship. Coping with that has been difficult for me, and I wonder if some of that grief seeped into the story. In a lot of ways, it is a story about grief over the end of things and trying to find your way into a new life. It’s also a very like. Stubbornly joyful story. That’s how I see it, anyway.

I was actually thinking the other day that I think my drarry fic is my strongest work, and I am particularly enamored of this newest one (I have 126 works on AO3 and 23 of them are drarry). I’ve been pondering that, and I decided that the reason my drarry fic feels more engaging to me is because in my older stuff, the pairings tend to be very insular with each other. In my drarry fic, they’re not just falling in love with each other, they’re falling in love with the world and with themselves. They’re opening up and reaching for new things. For instance, in this new fic, in addition to discovering each other, Harry and Draco are also discovering Shakespeare and Austen and pop music and the simple joys of the supermarket. They’re not turning away from a world that hurt them, they’re gassing each other up to meet the world and find the beautiful things in it.

I think at first I was talking to myself about my hopes for my relationship with my ex. She moved across the country to live with me, and I wanted to do the whole bride wedded to amazement thing with her. And eventually I decided or I realized that no matter what, no matter who is with me, I want to be the bridegroom taking the world into my arms. And I definitely expressed that in my writing about love and relationships and self discovery and grief. Let’s make ourselves at home in this world! Let’s be in love with discovery!

ANYWAY, my new fic is called Queen of the Weeds, named after a line from this excellent poem called In Perpetual Spring by Amy Gerstler (hat tip to @oflights on whose blog I first read it). I was very attracted to the first line, “Gardens are also good places to sulk” because Draco is licking his wounds.

This is an 8th year fic that starts maybe ten weeks after the end of the war. Draco has been coerced into returning to Hogwarts by the Wizengamot, even though he feels like there isn’t much left there for him. But Harry is still interested in him and helps him get interested in the world and his future. They get to be teenagers, just setting out to explore life together, and I love that for them. I had so so much fun writing this fic, and I feel that I really made friends with the characters.

I have no idea who to tag, but if you’d like to play, please do!

[cakemoney]

there are six color-slices on the orrery wheel. there are six main types of rolls (other than magic and mark) based on the original kids on bikes/brooms concept. there were six heads (including evan's) during the confrontation with evan's shadow entity in the first season

i normally don't post specific theories because i get embarrassed if i'm way off but thinking emoji

[wonderkeef]

To all of the artists who have been drawing Kelsey as fat-strong, I just want you to know you're doing the work of a long-forgotten god and it makes me very happy

[starrysharks]

magical girl ward

[phightingconfessions]

Holy shit I love that this community is so supporting of chubby characters! The horrors of fat phobia I've seen in other fandoms is crazy especially the regretevator discord server the mods there are just scary..

EXACTLY!!!! like obviously theres still gonna be those people that get some violent rage and hatred over seeing someone draw a character fat but ive noticed theyre mostly.. a minority in the phandom? not even a VOCAL minority i just barely even see them and ngl its actually really refreshing

[taikawaititisbellypudge]

Can't believe tonight marks the beginning of the end of the second show this blog was made for 😭

[andoutofharm]

“This is what we’ve been looking for since the day we met. Time. That’s what the Good Place really is — it’s not even a place, really. It’s just having enough time with the people you love.” - the good place, 4x12

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[swallowtail-ageha]

Culture war far righter tolkien fans already mad at the new middle earth anime even if all we know is one (1) trailer because it stars a female main character jesus fucking christ its incredible how committed they are to being a living breathing strawman

[stiltonbasket]

absolutely love the wrh raises wwx au! is there a reason that the sunshot campaign is happening so many years later than canon in this au? did wwx play any role in delaying the start of the war?

Yes! It's my personal headcanon that novel!Wen Ruohan only started the war because he realized that his own sons were nowhere near as talented as Wei Wuxian, Lan Xichen, Lan Wangji, etc; but in this verse, Wen Ruohan postponed the start of the war because he had Wei Wuxian.

As in canon, Wen Ruohan destabilized the Nie sect several years before Wangxian met by murdering Nie Mingjue's father, and Lan Xichen never stood out as a threat because he dropped out of the competitive cultivation circuit to raise Jingyi when he was only 23. Lan Wangji stopped attending tournaments the same year LXC did, so Wen Ruohan paid very little attention to the Lan sect until he stumbled across Jingyi night-hunting with Jin Ling about fifteen years later.

At that point, Wen Ruohan was reasonably confident that Wen Xu would be a decent successor; but Wen Xu and his wife had three daughters and refused to keep trying for a son, and Wen Chao had been unable to father any children despite having a wife and several mistresses. What was worse (to WRH) was that Wei Wuxian was unmarried—under Wen Ruohan's own orders—and had no heirs other than Sizhui, who was categorically incapable of fighting anything but fierce corpses/yaoguai because he was terrified of injuring or killing another person. As a result, Wen Ruohan finally attacked the Cloud Recesses when Sizhui was about 17.

[crescentfool]

with the year coming to a close, i hope that anyone who's reflecting about how the year went remembers to be kind and fair to themselves with how you evaluate the year as a whole.

i think there are definitely times when life throws things that are... Not So Great at you. whether if it's some external circumstance that surprised you, or maybe your mentality wasn't at it's best. i wish for anyone who's encountered those kinds of challenges to be able to triumph over them and be able to say that they got through it.

heck, it might still be a work in progress even though you've kept chipping away at it, and that's ok! the results will show themselves eventually as you work through it! and i hope that we can all remember to be patient with ourselves as we go through these processes (learning, healing, etc.), because damn, it can be frustrating when you feel like you're "not there yet."

knowing that life can be rough at times, i think it's unfair to yourself (and others) to discount and downplay any progress you've made this year- whether if it's something that you did for the first time, or maybe you came to a new understanding and insight that you didn't have in the previous year.

it's not to say that you should undermine the validity of your experience with hardship, but to take the time to remind yourself what makes life worth living. to recall what moments were the most satisfying to you- and use it to strengthen your resolve for the next year and beyond. no amount of hardship will ever take away from the fact that you deserve to have hope that things will get better.

i hope that looking back on the year, you don't leave out the things you cherish. that you can remember the good that came this year. whether if the small victories are things like meeting someone new, trying something out for the first time, or making some strides in a long-term project/obligation...!

i wish everyone a happy new year! may it be prosperous, and that your life can move in a direction that's close to what you want out of life. you're all going to do great! remember to congratulate yourself for what you did well! despite everything, you're still here, and that's wonderful. never forget that!

[shanicetjn]

To the peeps that followed me because of my Wonka fanart:

Thank you so much for your support and all the nice words. I'm hoping to draw more of himb when I take my next little break!!

I tag the artworks with #HonkaBonkaWonkas- Just putting it out there for you guys..! :3c 🎩🍫💜

[unnonexistence]

perhaps by the time I'm middle-aged people will stop mistaking me for a teenager

[edge-oftheworld]

when I was in high school there was a tendency whenever there was an attractive boy to simply fan over him. in a way that talked over everything he might say for himself and created a narrative that completely ignored, the fact in some cases, that he was really struggling—or if he was struggling, to pin all the blame on the girl he’s dating and completely ignore the thousands of other factors (no it can’t be mental illness or unaccommodated disability or systemic abuse or exploitation and if he is in an abusive relationship we won’t ever consider the factors that put him at risk for that)

and I’m not saying this fandom is like that. I get the need for privacy around some things and how in public conversations sometimes it’s a lot more respectful to stick to the positives (everyone who does that, I admire you) or even the struggles that are talked about publicly, show respect by not reading too far into them. there’s a time and place for that. but sometimes I feel like our only options are shitty and ableist gossip or totally ignoring the systemic and structural issues we know exist in something like the music industry until someone dies and then we’re looking for someone to blame. friends, there is a point where the respectful thing is to listen to what someone says and come together to make things better. and you can learn how to have that conversation respectfully. please do

[newtafterdark]

"Hey Newt - how are you feeling after watching "Netflix One Piece"?"