#Announcement I guess

[magbay]

‧₊˚🖇️✩ WCIF'S ARE CLOSED ₊˚🎧⊹♡

i know this was kinda of expected since i haven't been active that much, but it's only temporarily, i wanna focus on getting all the lookbook links up before answering any more wcif's (to avoid repeating myself over and over), after that i'm gonna clean my inbox so i can start the year with no pending asks! thank you for understanding in advance!! 💜

[oonaluna-art]

I wouldn't consider myself someone who is too tempted by things like badges. However, when I saw there was a moon phase badge, as an account called Oona LUNA, I thought it was too good to pass up.

[ofduskanddreams]

a not-so-brief announcement:

I have a lot of unfinished WiPs. Having so many WiPs (entirely my fault: too many ideas + not enough time) has been a large source of anxiety for me in recent weeks, to the point where it's been difficult for me to write at all.

Logically, I know that I'm doing this for free in my free time—I am under no obligation to create other than the one I set for myself. Realistically, I often feel like I'm letting you all down when I don't post/write enough. I know it isn't true, but it often feels like my value to this fandom is measured by how much content I can contribute to it. I've only been here for a little over a year, and I still often feel like a new kid trying to prove their worth.

Thinking this way sends me down a very unproductive spiral of putting pressure on myself to write/create and feeling guilty when I can't do as much as I want (my self-imposed expectations are also too high.) Instead of being a fun creative outlet, writing fic hasn't been enjoyable recently. That saddens me.

I hate feeling this way, honestly, because I love writing, I love storytelling, I love this fandom and these characters and the community I've gained here. I want to be here and I want to be writing because I have so many ideas and I love the stories I've already told/started to tell. But I also need it to be fun for me.

My list of WiPs, combined with all of my tangled feelings about writing, currently have me feeling like Sisyphus standing at the bottom of the hill trying and failing to catch a glimpse of the top around the massive boulder in front of him. I don't know how to find the joy that I've lost, but I do know that taking some of the pressure off of myself is a good place to start. This brings me to the reason I started writing this post.

The modern AU fic I started writing for Elucien Week has, in that classic turn of events, turned out to be far more extensive of a story than I intended. I estimate a total of 7-8 thick chapters. I have 10k words already written but that's only the first 1.25 chapters.

For the sake of my mental health, I will not be posting what I've written so far tomorrow as I originally had planned. I just can't deal with another WiP hanging over my head right now, I'm sorry.

I'm also going to give myself a break from writing/posting writing for the next few weeks because I think that my being burnt out is likely a major contributor to why writing fic hasn't been fun. I'll still be around, don't worry. Hopefully, this break will give me time to catch up on reading everyone else's fics.

Wow, it turns out I really needed to get that off my chest. I know this was long, thank you for listening <3

[gallonwghost]

It has been decided

I now have a pintrest

Also side note, I made another one but I messed up the settings and had to delete it, also I'm using the uk one bc the us one kept crashing on me

[bliss-wily]

A little PSA of sorts under the cut:

tw: mentions of things that can be perceived as inappropriate

Please no more unsolicited IRL pics of the nsfw nature in my inbox/submission box please. Just because I’m 26 doesn’t mean I wanna see that. I’m just putting this out here in case anybody else receives anything as I know there’s a lot of minors here and I don’t want more people seeing this sort of thing.

I know I said to ask away but uh…please not that. Keep it wholesome please and thank you.

[gayfraggle]

ayyyyy so I made the NSFW blog

@acefraggle

I'm only posting the link incase any of you are interested. only adults please, I don't want to taint the innocents that might follow my blog.

It IS technically just a blog that I'll use to post any art I'm comfy with sharing but don't want on my main and is most likely not going to be frequently used

[jacks-little-jacky]

Sometimes I search for Jack content on Tumblr (all the time) and get mad that there's not more content of him

And then I realize me, who as a whole blog dedicated to him, is doing everything but bringing out the content she wants to see.

Be the change you want to see I guess.

This is official: My black clover oc x Jack shorts will get posted here too. Always tagged and in the title as usual but there should be an itty-bitty increase in content from my side.

[chloe-the-troublemaker]

Well tomorrow is my birthday! I can’t wait!

Thanks for putting up with me for idk how many years on tumblr, but I’ll see if I can post some art for y’all tomorrow, even if it’s my birthday.

[whoreojessy]

announcement

Hello dear friends.😃 I'm trying to post more for the next time but I'm busy till Monday sooo I can't write till Tuesday... I guess I'm going to post some pics but I'm not going to write. In the moment I also don't have the creativity to write so if u have an idea please tell me. I'm open for request (and my legs for Evan).

Cya my dear friends😙💕

[sexymanbattleroyale]

question

So due to other contests citing me as inspo/reblogging my stuff, I know a lotta you are now interested in this contest, but it's. Well into round 3 so I can imagine it sucks to be to too late for backing your favorite blorbos. Additionally I'll admit the wiki has a noticeable number of new entries that are funny to me, SO I'm considering either

a losers bracket that will likely run after this one, hopefully it won't drag in TOO long if that's an issue

Same but it runs during the main one and the winner of the losers bracket can either be the runner up, or a final competition happens

Losers bracket but I also insert a few new paring ups

My original plan which was to have one last bonus competition for the winner and I do none of the above things

so um. Thoughts?

[magbay]

hi guys just wanted to say that ill be posting more cc links from other lookbooks and stuff!!! i figured it was a better way than to answer millions and millions of wcifs abt the same skirt akskskkss, but pls be patient with me i have to do some digging to remember the stuff used💜

[freelancer-team-2]

If/when we hit 200 followers, I’m gonna drop a lil thing.

can’t tell you what it is but y’know it’s comin if/when I hit 200 incase your wondering, it will still include the standard state of the Martian union address + maybe a special appearance from a comrade. Not sure who yet

[jacky-rubou]

fics and stuff of that nature are going to be a little slower on my end now, on the account of a new job I'm starting (after months of all day free time haha) so please be aware of that.

[zeldotsbrainrot]

Hi friends,

I'm aware that people like teeth and tummies in a not-always-wholesome way, and I was aware of that concept when I fulfilled some of these requests. I am speaking for myself and myself only, I don't care if you're asking for this kind of thing with sexual intentions from me. For the time being, I dont post explicit nsfw, but if you ask for stuff like this, it's fine with me because I think anything you'll get from me will be quite tame anyway, and if I think your request is crossing a line I will either let you know or fulfill the ask anyway and tag my posts accordingly.

Keep in mind, I am not a minor, and I am and was 100% aware of what's going on here. A lot of artists are in my same boat, and a lot of artists explicitly do nsfw and fetish content. There is absolutely no reason to bother minors or ask for this kind of thing from unassuming creators.

-Z

PSA for TF2 Fanartists

(And... really for everyone on the creative side of the fandom, but artists are the ones hurt by this the most.)

I've been seeing some really concerning stuff here that is going unnoticed. Granted, I don't think this is any artist's fault--if anything, the artists are the victims here. But that's why I want to make you guys aware of this, so you can protect yourself from this sort of thing.

"This sort of thing" being a little something called fetish mining.

Fetish mining is when someone with a specific fetish attempts to trick someone else into providing them with content for their fetish... without letting them know that's what they're asking for. Outside of fandom spaces, this can look like someone with a foot fetish approaching someone who is selling socks, and asking them to "model" the socks for them--they're not actually interested in buying the socks, they just want to see pictures of feet.

Within fandom spaces, however, they often take the form of someone repeatedly requesting something featuring a very specific body part of a character, or repeatedly requesting art of a character performing a weirdly specific action. (The repeated part is important here--someone could just say "oh hey could you draw this character shirtless?" once, and that would probably be fine. There's a chance it could be a fetish thing, sure, but it's significantly less likely. Same with a really random request--someone could request something really specific, but if they only do so once, it's significantly less likely to be a fetish mining request.) They might also provide an excuse like, "oh, I think this would be really funny! :)" or "this is a joke request! but it would be hilarious if you drew it"

So what are some examples of this?

Well... they might look a little something like this:

[ID: Two screenshots of two different anonymous asks. The first one reads "HEAVY TF2 TUMMY" with multiple red exclamation points afterward, and the second reads "Sniper tf2 teeth" followed by multiple red exclamation points. /end ID]

(I was going to feature another but then realized it wasn't anonymous, and I'm not comfortable putting an actual blog on blast.)

If these were just one-off asks, that would be one thing, but if you look up these things, you'll see dozens of these asks.

As well, there's nothing wrong with drawing Heavy shirtless, or drawing Sniper baring his teeth. Having fetishes for stomachs or teeth is not wrong, either, nor is specifically requesting fetish art (so long as the artist is okay with such requests)!

The problem is that the specificness of these asks, combined with how frequently these asks get sent, are signs of fetish mining.

(Though another problem is that... this isn't always a 100%-for-sure sign of fetish mining. Some people have special interests that might not be a typical thing like a fandom or hobby or branch of science, but could just be something oddly specific like stomachs or teeth. These things are okay and are not bad! But requests relating to these things can, unfortunately, look identical to fetish mining.)

And again, fetish mining is a person sneakily asking for someone else to provide them with something that is fetish material for them--something that is sexual for them--without letting that person know that's what it's for.

This makes it a form of sexual harassment.

I feel like a lot of the fandom is... not really aware of what's going on, here, and it's distressing. These are very likely bad actors trying to take advantage of people and get away with sexually harassing others (including minors). This is not okay. No part of that is okay.

The best thing to do when faced with a request that seems oddly specific is to look it up, and, if there seem to be multiple requests of this nature, to ignore it--do not fulfill the request. Do not encourage this behavior. (Unless you're okay with drawing that kind of content, but like... if that's the case, then tag your work appropriately.)

Don't feel bad if you've fulfilled some of these requests in the past--you didn't know, and being tricked is not your fault. But now that you do know, you can hopefully better protect yourself from this kind of thing.

[gallonwghost]

Yall think I should change my user? It's only here tho, not my wattpad

[approximateknowledge]

might make a massive infodump post on one of my oc species in the near future

the zeskoppo (singular: hoppo; that's and exonym btw, for reasons that will be obvious) must be known!