#I FOUND OUT THAT I KNOW PPL ON TUMBLR WHO I KNOW ON TWT/AO3

[hxrringtonss]

WHY DOES IT TAKE ME LIKE LITERALLY 6 MONTHS TO DISCOVER THESE THINGS

[actualbird]

zak, how do you find things like fanarts and other kinds of ship content for tot that's not mc x one of the boys? asking bc recently i got into marius x artem but aside from some fics on ao3, i can't never find things like fanarts or just posts about them. i feel like I'm looking in the wrong place? kajsjs but i only know of the tot tumblr fandom.. 😭😭

heyyo anon, and hehe welcome to martem!!! theyre a cute ship, i enjoy the fics of them on ao3 :DDD

that being said, yea it is kinda difficult to be finding art and posts about any of the nxxboy ships. frankly, the only reason i can find stuff myself for marluke is cuz vjJKHVJKH I JUST (to some degree) KNOW OR KNOW OF EVERYBODY WHO SHIPS AND MAKES STUFF FOR MARLUKE HAHA. theres not very many of us, so it's easy for me to just follow Everybody whos ever made a marluke thing HJJKSF

one thing that can help tho for hunting art and content is through tags!!! i discovered a lot of great marluke arts here just by searching their ship tag #marluke or #mariluke (idk what divergent tagging evolution happened that marluke is more commonly used on tumb but on twt, it's primarily mariluke)

if im not mistaken, the common tag for marius/artem is #martem on twitter. sadly though, it doesnt seem to be the common tag on tumblr and idk what the martem shippers are using here DDD:

still, if it's any help maybe as a jump off point, heres a bunch of fanarts i found by searching through #martem on twitter!!

so many fanarts by user melrw22: one. two. three. four. five. six. seven.

this cute art by user pul8ang!! (who also has made a bunch of marluke arts too <3)

this ADORABLE COMIC THREAD by user SpringgOnyo

tho overall, my advice for finding more stuff for the nxxboy ships is tbh to reach out to any shippers u can find!!!! say hi!! if they made a thing u like, tell em u liked it!!

all of the nxxboy ships are very much rarepairs, in comparison to the other ships. there really arent going to be very many people, but the people who Do ship the ship are most likely gonna be extremely passionate about it. or at least, thats been my experience meeting and talking and making friends with other ppl who like marluke!!! small bunch, but very passionate. talking to the ppl around who ship the ship can both help u find more stuff of the ship and you might get a friend along the way too!

i hope this could help somehow! and wishing u the best on ur martem content hunt :D

[scifiphan]

okay this is going to be a bit of a rant because i haven't found a place where I can talk about this (hope you don't mind ah) but oh god i witnessed the entire twt shitshow on my tl i didnt say anything cuz twt phannies (stan twt in general actually) have pathetic superiority complexes and are so up dnp’s asses they have no awareness whatsoever. i hate how twt fandom culture doesn't let you criticize anything ur faves do and put these celebs on a pedestel. honestly, anush literally didn't say anything wrong dnp have a communication problem we all know that and its extra sucky how after 10 years of giving so much to the fans and the fans being so invested, they just thought it was okay to end things without proper closure. like, i understand why they did what they did now but it still doesn't sit right how they just swept everything under the rug and said sayonara. also twitter started this whole 'dan is suffering mentally ur being so selfish by saying he doesn't care' narrative which also so fucking insensitive??? he's said it so many times that he doesn't let his depression define him or hinder his work and for stans to use that as a justification for poor communication is just shitty.

i shall not be opening the dan howell can of worms just yet because oh boy.... i have so many thoughts about daniel james howell and how the twitter phandom treat him that i could right an entire essay.

but piggybacking off ur rant, i really really really hate stan twitter. yes i do spend most of my social media time on twitter but goddddd i hate the self-centred superiority ‘my opinion is the only right opinion pls don’t argue with me or i’ll doxx you’. and not only that, talking to twitter phannies is like ur talking to a brick wall.... they just refuse to listen. and like even tho i have every single dnp related word muted on twitter, I STILL SEE THEIR DUMBASSERY. like an ex-phannie or still-phannie-but-adult will say a genuinely good opinion, albeit controversial, and boom next thing you know the 13 year olds come to cancel you.

as for dan and phil themselves..... it doesn’t sit right with me either. like dan and phil were notorious for having a loyal fanbase. for almost an entire fucking decade dan and phil and the phandom dominated social media spaces... phan always ranked in the top of the tumblr tags... phan was always so high up on ao3... phan was something everyone knew, either by watching youtube or social media osmosis. like they were so fucking integral to western internet culture of the 2010s and then they just get up and leave?? destroy what could arguably be the most loyal youtuber fanbase... well not arguably, the phandom was the loyalist fanbase. and now what do they have? older fans who are annoyed at them, annoying kids, and ppl who r just too lazy to find another interest (if ur in the 3rd category pls find a new hobby.. pls). i think dan and phil royally fucked up by throwing away that loyalty and throwing away that relevance. yeah, all youtubers eventually become washed up but dnp had the potential to at least settle into youtube irrelevancy with a smaller, yet loyal fanbase. but instead phil decided to sell out and dan fucked off into nowhere and the phandom was left in shambles. so yeah, thanks dnp