#I only retweet fanarts for support towards artists

[thesilverlady]

hey guys, I know I haven't been very active in this acc but life got busy and uni even more dreadful. I kinda hope that soon enough I'll be able to come back and create edits I had in mind.

I see some new ppl have followed me and thank you for that ♥ but I'd like to gently remind as stated in my bio, I love both canon & non canon ships. So if you can't tolerate any of these then pls I'd prefer to be left.

if you don't mind, then welcome I can't wait to get to know you and don't hesitate to dm or send me an ask. I'd love to have more fandom friends here 🫶

[megumifushlguro]

nal, are you available for a quick conversation? i would like to know why do you think that posting a screenshot of an OBVIOUS troll who compare misogyny to queerphobia is beneficial to us at all? you know who are the people who constantly minimize queerphobia and pretend to be the greatest activists against misogyny? homophobic gojohime shippers, so isn't it interesting how someone sent an anon message to your friend trying to minimize misogyny and uplift queerphobia in a very cartoonish way like they HAVE to be compared and one is more important than the other? also, why do you keep engaging with gojohime shippers who are homophobes and support homophoic rhetoric as a queer person yourself? you never have tweets about the homophobic gojohime shippers, never. they are homophobic towards a fictional ship but also towards queer poc women who ship the ship in question but that doesn't sound important to you. Ergo_pino just said in your tweet that they NEVER saw a homophobic gojohime but they always see misogynistic satosugu shippers and not only is very easy to show screenshots of gojohimes being "textbook" homophobes but also misogynistic and i never see anyone bringing up screenshots of the said misogyny from satosugu shippers, but anyways, you didn't respond their comment under your tweet so yeah, homophobes don't matter, right? also, i think it's time for you to ask your friend, who's a gojohime fanartist, about a certain famous gojohime fanartist who has retweeted romantic fanart of quanxi (canonical lesbian character) with a man and when questioned said it didn't matter because "it's all fiction!" because well, yes, it matters that a canonical lesbian is being shipped with man. also, ask your artist friend if they know about a gojohime artist who tweeted on their priv that they felt like "dying" when people kindly asked them if they could draw shokohime. sounds like someone has a problem with lesbians/sapphics but who cares, right? they ship gojohime and shipping gojohime is the peak of the feminist movement, right? and if you want we can talk on twitter dms about everything

you know what? sure, we can talk. drop your username and let's talk.

[olderthannetfic]

I don’t understand people’s distain towards black artists who race swap characters for fan art? screen redraws are popular, but the second a black artist does it and race swaps, the community loses their minds. Especially since this is a blog where the core principal is anti-harassment.

It’s especially shitty that you call those people sick in the head for doing so and get upset when they call you out in it. And than you have people(not you I believe) who call them thieves for doing so. Like for years black people are not only underrepresented in media but face harassment and less engagement compared to other artists.

One example is on twitter a black artist draw herself or her oc as Kiki from Kiki’s delivery service and she got attack and harassed by people who not only made racists versions of her fanart, but proceeded to send her graphic images, slurs, and threats.

Like no matter where I go, I see racism in fandom and it keeps being brought up again and again, but no one seems to care and just roll their eyes.

And it’s tiring.

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Have you seen this around here, anon? It's certainly very common somewhere. I've seen youtube videos recounting some of the more obnoxious overreactions to black people doing redraws. It's racist. People should draw whatever the hell fan art they want.

I have to wonder what "no one seems to care" really means in practice though. What does caring look like?

I agree that the people harassing that artist who drew Kiki are awful. I would never condone that behavior. But I also don't care about art of Kiki of any kind, and I'm usually not super interested in anything-swap art, whether it's genderswap or raceswap. Am I supposed to retweet the art with positive support? Am I supposed to go yell at the racists who caused the problem? I barely even use twitter. How are abusive fuckfaces who should know better my fault or my problem?

That's going to be the reaction of many: They're tired. They're busy. They didn't do the bad thing themselves. So what are they supposed to do about it?

"Fandom" is also a lot of different communities. When I see complaints about racist behavior, half the time, the culprits aren't even in the same type of fandom I am. It's like telling me that sports fandom is behaving badly. I know it is... and now what?

I think that's why people roll their eyes so often.

[lolchat]

please tell us ab roblox myths

gonna answer this before i head to bed but i'm tired so this might not make too much sense

summary of what roblox myths are: roblox myths are accounts (or legends of accounts) that have a dark horrific backstory to them and/or the person behind the account. most of the time- if not all the time- they will create a horror game dedicated to the story of their lore for people to explore and investigate to find out what it is. it's actually kind of fun if you like horror stuff and play roblox

HOWEVER

most roblox myths are shit behind their characters. like, a majority of them are pretty shitty and are only made to get the attention of roblox youtubers (mainly flamingo, nothing against him) willing to investigate their lore. that's not all of the cases, but since myths got popular a lot more have popped up and it's pretty clear they're just trying to get the attention of their favorite creator, which isn't bad, but if they're a bad person then... they're kind of, y'know, freaks once you get to know them.

basically, i became a roblox myth artist on twitter around 2018-2019 and holy fuck do i regret it man. i mean, not really, cause i met some of my closest friends from that community, but i feel like the shit i went through shouldn't have happened in the first place. but! this is a roblox community we're talking about, so shit is bound to happen

i'd try to summarize this whole thing but it's a disaster so i'll keep it as short as i can; i became close friends with a bunch of the people behind myths because they wanted more fanart from me, mainly. i'm not going to name drop one of them out of fear of him finding this, but one of the biggest myths at that time was pretty fucking lesbiphobic (towards me), ableist, retweeted a bunch of other horrible things and so on. yknow the deal

i would have definitely said something if i wasn't just an artist with quite a... small following compared to someone who has had 4.7 million+ people investigate his game, had thousands upon thousands of supporters and was friends with currently the biggest roblox youtuber on the platform.

he also told me how he kept his ex's personal photos and could leak all of her personal info if she tried something shitty, so i obviously didn't make him mad, as much as i wanted to. (pretty big power balance i'd say)

eventually he got called out for the stuff he said and did by multiple people who were done with his shit, deactivated his account, and left the myth for good i guess? don't know the whole story because he blocked me for ghosting him after he hurt me and i didn't want anything to do with him after that. also the more popular roblox myth artists at the time were kinda shitty too but that's a whole other rabbit hole

[mthought-s]

The Truth Behind Unpopular K-pop Opinions (video essay transcript)

[Voices voicing unpopular K-pop opinions]

[Unpopular k-pop opinions in robot voices] x3

An unpopular K-pop opinion is made up of three things:

An opinion

K-pop

And asking: Is it unpopular?

If a statement checks these three boxes, congratulations you have an unpopular K-pop opinion.

They started off being posted on anonymous confession blogs and forums. Some of the oldest Tumblr blogs and posts for these opinions are from 2011 to 2012, documenting over a decade of K-pop opinions. Unpopular opinions and confession blogs aren’t anything new. It's been a practice in online spaces for a long time for people to anonymously share opinions that could potentially be problematic or offensive towards others. Sometimes the opinions are completely neutral. Websites like Tumblr even have these anonymous options built into their websites with anon asks. It’s an opinion with no consequences, a statement for people to debate and discuss.

Today, they have spread to Twitter threads and YouTube videos. And they’re super popular. Actually, popular isn’t the right word. They’re super controversial. They’re provoking—not necessarily thought provoking—just provoking. They garner hundreds of thousands of views, if not millions, on YouTube. Then for Twitter threads, these opinions are capable of starting fanwars and conversation with possibly thousands of quote retweets.

Many fan accounts use them to stir up views and engagement, having thumbnails and threads that feature controversial topics. At times, these unpopular opinions aren’t actually unpopular. Unpopular becomes synonymous with negative where these pieces of fan content and engagement contain negative opinions to discuss, not necessarily ones that are unpopular and go against the majority opinion. For these opinions, it is also difficult to actually determine if an opinion is unpopular because K-pop fandoms are so large and diverse. In a way, these opinions are incorrectly labeled as unpopular. Instead, they are controversial. These are controversial K-pop opinions. For the sake of simplicity though, I will continue to refer to them as unpopular for the remainder of this video. Unpopular K-pop opinions are our gateway into conversation in K-pop spaces.

There’s many pros to these opinions.

They provide a place for people to express an opinion opposing the majority opinion. The majority opinion is very powerful because it leads to agreement and consensus. Unpopular opinions shake things up. They go against the majority. They cause people to question their biases and further research for reasons to defend their own personal opinion. That opposition against the majority can create conversation, leading to fleshing out people’s thoughts on their stances and deepening the understanding behind the topic that those opinions are based on.

Unpopular opinions can also bring light to issues. It provides a platform to be honest. At times, people don’t want to challenge the majority opinion in fear of being witch hunted and dogpiled on for pointing out an issue. For example, people in the fandom space might be using a potentially offensive term. The anonymity of unpopular opinions can provide a spark to a conversation where alternatives to a term can be found and the community can educate themselves further.

One more reason is that unpopular opinion Twitter threads, YouTube videos, blogs, and forums all provide avenues for people with similar opinions to find each other. People can build relationships with each other and create long, lasting friendships. It enhances the community experience of a fandom, providing a sense of commaderite between fans.

There’s also many cons to these opinions and platforms though.

These opinions are essentially gossip. Gossip has a thrill to it. It feels good, but it can be harmful to others. At times, unpopular opinions can begin to cross personal boundaries where they discuss the mental health, sexuality, political opinions, and other invasive topics of K-pop idols and the K-pop industry. Many people in K-pop communities find unpopular opinions invasive of the privacy of idols and disrespectful of their personal lives. Unpopular opinion accounts and blogs encourage people to speculate and possibly spread mis- or dis-information around the online space. This can harm the perception of a celebrity, causing discourse within the fandom.

Unpopular K-pop opinions can make people feel like they’re right for having the opinion they have too. These opinions are no longer viewed as opinions, but as facts for many people. They confirm biases and can create echo chambers where people say the same thing again and again. There’s no deeper thinking, only confirmation bias and ostracization of people who disagree.

While these anonymous platforms can be used to shed light on issues, they can also be abused to say things that are genuinely problematic and offensive without consequences. In some instances, unpopular opinion blogs have been automated where opinions are not reviewed by an actual person or a moderator before being posted. This can lead to opinions being posted that have slurs in them and viewpoints promoting harm to others.

Unpopular K-pop opinions exist in a limbo where there is both good and bad to them. They will always exist for a hot take rant or a structured essay. Although, there’s something shifting and changing in fandom spaces that has changed the view on them in recent years. There’s a new truth to what these opinions represent and why there’s so much push back against them now in particular. Let’s break down the truth behind unpopular K-pop opinions.

The current state of fandom is not ideal for these opinions to exist in. In the past, fandoms have been largely disconnected from each other. Instead of a fandom being one, cohesive group of people that coexists in one space, fandoms look more like this:

Online fandoms are separated by websites. There is overlap of users, but fans are usually mostly active on one website or platform for fannish activities. This would be called their main platform. Then, fans are further divided on websites by their interests. For instance, if someone is a fanartist, they’re usually around other fanartists because it’s the same interest. Overlap is more common with interests where someone can be a fanartist, but also a fanfic author. Someone can be into critical analysis of a TV show, but also be a merch collector. No one is ever in fandom for only one thing.

This is how fandom is usually organized. It differs from fandom to fandom, but this is the bare system of organization. Now, take this organization we’ve discussed already and increase its scale and intensity significantly. That’s what fandoms look like now. Instead of a disconnect between groups though, everything melts together. Cross-platform discourse, especially between Tumblr and Twitter, has become increasingly more common along with cross-interest discourse. Many spaces such as fanart spaces that would have their own discourse and are disconnected from the main fandom space, now meld into the main fandom space anyway. Discourse and discussion is not divided depending on what your interests are anymore, everyone is partaking in it whether they actually care about the interest or not.

In recent years, there has been an exponential increase in people joining online fandom spaces. Many old, already established fandoms and franchises such as Harry Potter and Star Wars had reboots. This allowed a wave of new fandoms to learn from them then build themselves. Add on an increase in internet usage over the years with the appearance of new media to support these fandoms and you have a much larger fandom subculture. Where a majority of fandoms used to be smaller, more tight knit, fandoms are increasingly becoming humongous, interconnected online communities.

And these communities don’t only exist online. In real life, we can see this fandom growth with the expansion of fan events. We see fandoms represented in concerts, passionately singing along to their favorite artist’s song. We see them in conventions, cosplaying and going from panel to panel to meet other fans. We see them in meet and greets, competitions, tours, and so much more. Fandom is bigger than ever, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This has led to millions of people having more free time and spending that time getting into fandom and learning fan culture.

More people means more problems though. Fandoms have never had a good track record of trusting each other in the first place, but more people leads to more mistrust. Stances and opinions in fandoms become more complex. There’s a necessity to clarify and thoroughly explain oneself in order to not get “cancelled” for failing to acknowledge something. You can’t just say anything because people that don’t know you will assume you said something else from what you did say.

In online fandom spaces, people assume intent and decipher posts in order to ensure the original poster’s morals are aligned with their own. Many look to not take the post at face value and look further to ensure the post they’re sharing has an author they agree with. This desire to know the original poster or op’s original intentions pushes people to fill in the blanks with assumptions.

Fandoms begin to generalize and hard-line opinions to compensate because taking the time to learn hundreds of thousands of people’s full, thorough opinions on increasingly complex and multifaceted topics has become more difficult. It’s easier and takes less mental strain and energy to assume intention than actually learn it.

This trend of an increasing interest and population in fandom culture has also led to other trends and changes in how fandoms protect themselves as opposition and complexity in opinion grows.

The fandom police or fanpol are a group of people within a fandom who engage in policing. Policing is to regulate, control, or keep people in order. In fandom history’s past, fanpol have existed with smaller groups trying to bring their version of order to a fandom. Usually these fanpol groups censor other people in the fandom by dogpiling, using disinformation in expose threads, and mass reporting. They’re not favorable groups of people, being unpleasant and downright vile in some cases where they dox and cyber stalk people who disagree with them. Fanpol has become synonymous with fandom bullies.

In today’s current fandom era, these smaller fanpol groups have expanded to where they’re not small, specialized groups anymore. These censoring and policing ideologies have become ingrained in the majority of a fandom or large, overwhelming groups of the fandom. It’s no longer just policing, it’s an entire change in how fans interact with each other. It’s an ideological change. Fandoms essentially police themselves now, no small group of people needed.

The truth behind unpopular K-pop opinions is that they are subject to a changing fandom environment.

Opposition is seen as hatred with hidden agendas to defame and slander. Fandoms want to protect themselves. They’ve begun to police each other on a large scale to do so instead of community building and actually knowing each other. Fandoms have become hypersensitive to opposition because more often than not, that opposition turns into hatred, harassment, and eventually a person who has awful, malicious intentions gains a platform and can’t be taken down. That hostility is a safety measure, a precaution that compensates for a fandom’s failure to bond with each other. It’s not necessarily their fault that they have failed though.

Unpopular opinions have always existed, but even though they’re unpopular they’ve become popular to do. In the face of growing hostility to opposition, the anonymous platform of unpopular K-pop opinions allows for expression. It allows for opposition to exist that isn’t malicious. Sometimes people just don’t like things that are popular or want to criticize something properly without fear of being sent death threats or being constantly harassed for that criticism. Mild unpopular opinions and criticism cannot exist in this current environment.

We are in a state of fandom where mild disagreement is treated the same as downright hatred. It’s faced with hostility and aggression for the reasons I specified earlier. Eventually, we’ll reach a state where mild agreement is treated the same as downright hatred. Where anything that isn’t enthusiastic, gleamingly positive support and showers of love are seen as malicious and attacks against a celebrity or interest.

And it’s so complicated. On one hand, we want to let these milder opinions exist and allow people to express how they truly feel. However, there’s more often than not, hidden agendas behind these milder opinions. There’s agendas to hurt and harm fans and idols.

The truth behind unpopular K-pop opinions is that they exist and have become increasingly more common to express because of this conflict. Fandoms do not know each other anymore and aren’t focused on community building, leading to a spike in hostility to opposition to protect themselves. K-pop fandoms don’t actually care about K-pop anymore in the way they’re supposed to care about it. They should care about their groups and want to build a fandom that loves that group. They’re not doing that though, so when they’re faced with harm from outsiders they don’t know how to combat it as a fandom. K-pop fandoms don’t care about each other. They care about clout. Unpopular K-pop opinions are used to gain their clout through rage clicks and clickbait. That’s why unpopular K-pop opinions have become popular. That’s the truth.

I was originally going to end this video right here. However, I don’t think I can end on such a depressing and hopeless note. If you look at my channel, I haven’t uploaded anything for weeks (months) because I’ve been consumed trying to figure out how to end this without sounding defeatist. I’ve been thinking about this for a long time.

So, here goes:

K-pop fandoms can break away from this fandom state where truth seems almost impossible to obtain and clout is seen as king by just choosing to be true to themselves. Be true to their goal as K-pop fans. Their goal is to love their idols, love the thing that brought them into the fandom in the first place. That’s the goal of every fandom. You’re in a fandom because you want to talk about things and enjoy something with other people.

It’s about appreciating the music, content, and interaction groups give fans. That’s why streaming and voting is so amplified to K-pop stans. They stream and vote to show love to their groups because their individual words and actions might never reach them. It’s how the fandom is capable of expressing themselves en masse to their favorite group so that way their favorite group can feel the love they feel for them.

And you can express that love in different ways too. You don’t need to vote and stream, that’s just one of the unique and direct options K-pop stans have. Fanartists express their love by creating art. Fanfiction writers write fanfiction. Editors make edits. If you’re not a creative, simply listening to the music, reading the lyrics, and engaging with others about the music and content is a way to express your love.

The truth behind unpopular K-pop opinions doesn’t need to be the truth anymore. We can change the fandom state by choosing to be ourselves. We can build a community and bond. We can protect our fandom spaces from malicious people and trust each other. You and I are K-pop stans, fans, whatever you want to call it, because we love our groups.

And if you’re just a random person watching this video, you can be in on this too. I hope you’re feeling what I’m feeling right now. I hope you’re feeling it, okay? We love them for who they are, okay? That is our truth and we should live it.

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[joeys-piano]

To the Anon who asked for my opinion on Reblogs vs. Likes

TL;DR → Hitting the like button is like telling someone you love them while hitting the reblog/retweet is like expressing through action that you love them. Both buttons express love and feel good in their own right, but one over the other carries a more meaningful weight behind it. Really, the happy scenario here is if both buttons were hit because you get the best of both worlds.

Also, to fucking Hell to the bullshit conventions of “cringe” and to its whole host of brethren that sprung up out of social media culture during the past few years and decade. If you’re going to give fucks over someone because of what they like, look at your fucking self and think of how you’ll feel if someone did that to you. Mind your damn business if someone likes and/or reblogs something that you find cringy. Honestly, it feels like the ones that stir up that noise want to be recognized for something and let me tell you, you’re being recognized by my fist against your jaw.

Reblogs are an essential part to a content creator’s growth, especially in the beginning of their journey and as they’re discovering their style and especially when they’re joining other platforms to grow and diversify their audience. Reblogging or retweeting a creator’s content into your space opens up an avenue that benefits three parties. The first party is the content creator because their work is given more exposure and this provides an entry-way for others to discover more of what they’ve done. The second party is you yourself because generally, people on social media share what they love, what they enjoy, what resonates with them, etc…

If there is a piece of content that amazed, excited, took your breath away or what-have-you, I would say it’s almost human nature to want to share that experience and have others experience it too. And lastly but not leastly, the third party that benefits is your audience. By reblogging another creator’s work and introducing your space to them, you’re helping your audience find more content that they might enjoy, that they resonate with as well, etc… It’s like a domino-effect: those people might reblog the work to their spaces, their spaces might reblog the work to more spaces, and you see this beautiful chain of events. 

As a content creator myself, I am inherently biased. I would prefer reblogs a lot more than likes. I am very familiar with other artists, writers, photographers, cosplayers, gift editors and all the alike who express that same sentiment. With the shifts that have been going on in social media during the past few years and the change in fandom culture as well, there has been a significant shift in the reblog vs. like debacle.

We see time and time again, likes are now the predominant button that people click on and then they go about their merry way. I’m only familiar with Twitter and Tumblr so I don’t have much of a say for other social media platforms. However, what I can say is that Twitter and especially Tumblr are communities that have grown and proliferated because of the reblog/retweet function. With the advent of newer social media like Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok or whatnot -- from what I could see as an outsider, those platforms are built more for the like function than for sharing. Or at least, those platforms share creator works not as directly as Twitter or Tumblr has. I could be wrong about that, but this is from what I’ve seen and am familiar about on those platforms.

Increasingly, something else that has caused the great rift between reblog vs. like how fandom and overall social media culture has changed. A lot. I don’t think this should surprise anyone but creating a piece of art or writing or gif edit or anything of the like takes time. Could take half an hour, days, weeks, months even? Content creators aren’t machines busting out pieces every second of the day. We have lives and when we can, we dedicate our time to creating what we love. Because there are so many of us on social media and we’re all sharing our works at different times, it’s no-question that we drown each other out and that a lot of people beyond our audiences even see or are even aware of what we made.

For content creators with an established audience or with an audience that is relatively large, they’re not as burdened by this fact because of their audience and you can count on a subsection of their audience is going to share the work and reblog or retweet it to their audience. For a beginning content creator or for someone that’s coming into a new platform for the first time is building on their preexisting audience from a different platform, that crutch is either non-existent or not-guaranteed. To these individuals, reblogs or retweets can make or break if they’ll continue using this platform or if they’ll continue creating. Because of lower engagement and because their work isn’t given exposure if any.

Likes are fairly decent. They alert a content creator that YOU enjoyed it, but a reblog or a retweet means so much more because in a way, it says: I love it enough where I want others to experience this too. I would even say that the like button is just verbalizing that you love something while a reblog/retweet is the actual action that expresses you love something. From what I’ve heard, action speaks much louder than words.

Earlier, I did comment that I was a content creator and that I would be inherently biased in this thing. That is true. However, there are instances and circumstances I can think on why someone chooses not to reblog what you created. Keep in mind that there are more instances than just the ones I’ll describe and that ultimately when it comes down to it, it is personal preference on whether someone wants to reblog/retweet your work or not.

Perhaps your work doesn’t fit with someone’s theme -- a valid statement, especially since social media tends to lean more towards aesthetics and having an account or blog that curates content of a similar nature. Perhaps this person can’t share for that reason but love the work regardless of that, so they hit that like button because it’s the only thing they can do right now. This person could create another account where they do just reblog things only, but handling a lot of accounts can get confusing and there isn’t much of an audience associated with accounts like that so….it’s up to you as a content creator on how you feel about that.

Another reason why someone didn’t reblog/retweet your work is because although they love the execution or how it was done, something about the content itself doesn’t resonate with them and that’s why they hit the like button only. I do this, especially with fanart. I’ll find an illustration that I love, but there’s something about the content itself that I don’t want to share in my space. Perhaps it’s a pairing or a character or something about it that subjectively, while I can objectively say it’s a good piece of work, I cannot share it for so-and-so reasons.

Another reason can be that if it’s a fandom piece, maybe someone isn’t familiar with your fandom but is liking it to give you support. Or maybe if it’s an original piece, someone gives you a like for support despite their disinterest or maybe the original work itself isn’t their thing but they want you to know that they saw it and want to support in a way that feels best with how they feel about it.

Another reason could be that: hey, I know people who use likes to bookmark content they’ve seen and are adding it to their queue. So the actual reblog will occur in a later time.

These are things to consider as a content creator, as much as we bemoan and give the dirty eye to likes because of the perceived lack of engagement in them. This reblog vs. like debate isn’t one-sided. It involves you and the other person, the person being whoever has glanced at your work.

Both parties cannot force the other to do anything. In general, forcing doesn’t do much of anything -- other than create arguments. Just as content creators cannot force their audience to reblog/retweet, the audience cannot force the content creator to create anything.

In situations like this, I think what would be more beneficial are encouragements and possibly breaking down the bullshit conventions social media culture has cultivated with the rise of “cringe”, with the rise blatant bullying against people because of what they like and the harassment that ensues because of antis and whatever the fuck they do to push a faux-agenda for cleaner and pure content, with the rise of gatekeeping because that shit exists, etc…

I feel that the reblog vs. like debacle is almost a result of other things that have bled their influence in this and that to make meaningful steps forward to a balanced reblog:like ratio, something has to be done about the issues I addressed and above and their subsequent brethren.

[bruclarkweek]

Hi I'm hoping to write some stuff for this, but the links for the faq and rules just bring me to your profile page. Do you mind putting the regular links somewhere? Thanks in advance and thanks for organising this event! 😄

hiya! sorry about that! tumblr can get super tricky with their links. the rules can be found here: https://bruclarkweek.tumblr.com/rules and the faq here: https://bruclarkweek.tumblr.com/FAQ. 

Also I went ahead and attached the rules and FAQ below for easier skimming: 

RULES.

1.) WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

Anyone is allowed to take part in this event. We will be collecting the works on Ao3, Tumblr, and Twitter if applicable. Hate in any form will NOT be tolerated. Bullying in this community-centric event will result in immediate disqualification, blocking, and banning.

2.) WHAT CAN I POST?

This is a BruClark centered event. BruClark in ANY form is accepted, whether it be in capes or out  of them. Please do take note that this is not a Batfam/Superfam event. As much as we love TimKon, CassKon, Dickara, etc. this is reserved for Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent *or alternate versions of them (Ultraman, Owlman, Flashpoint!Batman, etc.)

We’re accepting fics, multi-chapter WIPs, artwork, edits, and really anything else BruClark related. Please remember to tag and rate your works appropriately.

NSFW and dark/mature content is absolutely allowed. Please be sure to rate it appropriately. Absolutely no sexualization of minors is allowed.

We ask that all works be new and original. Please do not plagiarize nor reuse an old work.

3.) WHAT CAN I NOT WRITE?

Content that is homophobic, transphobic, racist, incestual, or underage will not be allowed in the slightest.

4.) HOW DO I SUBMIT?

Submissions open October 16th-22nd. Please do not post BEFORE Oct. 16th, but any time after is completely acceptable. We’d like to mention that we know how intense schedules can be this time of year. Later submissions will absolutely be welcome and treated with the same hype as all the others. Additionally, please don’t feel pressured to submit something every single day. Participate when you can or have the muse to! This is meant to be fun for everyone.

We cannot stress enough to please tag your works appropriately depending on site guidelines. Please understand that there are those out there who cannot read certain triggers. Be thoughtful towards your fellow fic reader/artist, and tag your things appropriately.

You’re more than welcome to post on any platform you like. Please give us 24 hours to reblog/retweet  your work. If we haven’t after a 24 hour period, DM us!

Ao3 Submissions: Please self-add your work to our collection: Bruclarkweek2022!

Tumblr Submissions: Use #bruclarkweek2022 to tag and @bruclarkweek to mention us!

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[cynthistic]

dont be so fucking salty that yoi was obviously the better anime. making fucking fanart and shit is just not only rude to the fans, but to the whole fucking show. honestly, you're a fucking prick.

Just gonna say right off the bat, ha lmao u thought i’d ignore this but no im too petty. 

Also to anyone who’s interested in my thoughts on the crunchyroll poll results below, please know I am a very vulgar person and that it’s gonna be a L O N G reply.  TL;DR at the bottom. 

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Fucking be tch fight me.  Not gonna deny being a prick tbh, I’m the pettiest and saltiest person I know.  It’s almost as if I make art to express personal disappointment towards something.  Amazing, art for expression is such a new concept.  Instead of telling me what fanart “attacks” your limited view of technical animation elements, maybe create some fanart congratulating YOI for the win. 

Right off the bat, your over-generalization of the YOI fandom astounds me.  What kind of bullshit “!!1! YOI MUST WIN ALL AWARDS! 1!!!” mentality do you have to group all fans with the likes of you.  And I can assure you many of the people I spoke to about this are huge fans of YOI AND feel the same way.  This is an ANIMATION award, not ANIME please read before bashing.  Am I glad that YOI won anime of the year?  Fuck yes, which show do you think I voted for.  YOI is beautiful in an emotional sense and game-changing in culture towards homosexuals.  Best couple?  Victuuri had my heart from day one.  Best boy?  Debatable (im bias towards reigen if we’re gonna be honest here he the tru mvp).  Being a fan of a show doesn’t mean supporting a show in every single category, especially not “BEST ANIMATION”.

Since we’re on the topic of ANIMATION let’s break down YOI first and dispel some ideas behind why people think it deserves the “Best Animation” award.  It told a beautiful story!!!  It has such emotional intensity in almost every scene!!  It’s wonderful in story telling!!!  And directly speaking, I agree with every single statement but story telling is an overview of a show that is highly subjective to each person.  OH BUT WAIT YOU KNOW WHAT ISN’T???  Animation.  Memes aside, YOI’s animation can not be judged purely on single screenshots cause i guarantee all shows will have shitty stretch frames.  However, the technique of storytelling that makes YOI emotionally compelling is not in the technical aspects of the animation itself.  Literally get off your high horse and just watch YOI without any audio.  Literally in every single skate scene, you’re never focused on the animation, only on the narratives and soundtrack of the routine.  Well rounded characters made the show and I swear to god the only reason you’re still focused on the routines is because of the characters and no more.  Aside from detailed butt grabs from Chris and Gucci lips from Victuuri, YOI’s animation is mediocre at best.  And this is on the good end of the spectrum.  “THAT’S SO OFFENSIVE TO FANS HOW COULD YOU?!?!11?”  This is a given fact with the low budget and rushed schedule to release new episode.  A cut in animation quality is EXPECTED.  The YOI team knew this and animation quality was never their top priority as opposed to a compelling and unique storyline so wherrrrr the fu ck is this insulting to fans. 

Now let’s discuss Mob Psycho 100.  You can disagree and hate the STYLE of the animation but you CAN NOT deny the efforts and advancement the show has brought towards the animation industry.  This show ASSAULTED MY EYES.  The emotional intensity of this show was expressed so much more through the animation elements.  Explosion of colors and constant rotating angles provide a whole new dynamic to every single sequence.  Go ahead and claim that “it’s only this way because it’s an action show” all you want but even without fight scenes, the timing of the shots are amazing.  The staggering in Mob’s sprint.  The hallway shot of the Telepathy club walking.  Such simple frames keep me fixated on the show much more than YOI’s parts.  It forces you into this overwhelmed state where you try to keep up with everything that’s happening in the scene and it’s so beautiful with the way it’s all represented.  Best of all, it’s PROGRESSIVE. 

Miyo Sato (click her name for her site) is an artist who works in a non-conventional way.  The whole ENDING SEQUENCE was animated by her.  Those weird sketchy, paintery frames? BY HER.  Do you understand how time consuming and painstaking this animation technique is??? DO YOU??  She essentially shifts drying oil paints around on a glass surface to create the the animation, individually or laid over a 2D animated shot.  It is so rare you see a HIGH BUDGET animation willing to take such creative risks as well as introducing a traditional medium as a technique.  Not to mention, Mob Psycho 100 is the epitome of creative expression.  It’s as if the animators gave zero fucks about the sensory overload for viewers and just shoved it in our faces.  Also my weeb ass basically worships Yoshimichi Kameda.  MP100 is an anime with with a HIGH BUDGET.  And again, you CAN NOT DENY that the animation is on a whole other league compared to YOI.  With the team presented and budget given, it was EXPECTED of them to create such a beautiful piece of art. 

Before you or anyone else try to accuse me of being “triggered af” look at who was sensitive af in the first place.  I feel very strongly about animation and the doodle was nothing more than a contribution to a running meme and gag between both fandoms.  Am I disappointed????  Fuck yes.  Do you see me bashing other categories cause my votes didn’t win????  At the end of the day, Crunchyroll released a fanpoll that was meant to be a fun “survey” of all anime fans.  Sadly, choices were VERY limited and I wished there were more options for each category.  I was upset that YOI was even considered for “Best Animation” and know VERY well that it was only added to appease the sudden popularity of the show and feed off of the energy of fans.  Unrelated to the two fandoms but I would have also wanted recognition for Ajin with it’s incoorporation of 3D animation.  It’s not everyone’s cup of tea and I highly doubt it would have won, or honestly, deserved to win over Mob Psycho 100.  But it would have been nice to have some recognition for shows that took a step outside of mainstream norms (not that there is anything wrong with that).  On top of that, my doodle was based off my disappointment behind the mentality that YOI had to win everything as if it was a competition for most backed-up fandom.  I’m just extremely upset at the fact that while it claims to be a poll for a “well deserved title”, it ultimately became a imaginary game of popularity.  Before you send another ask saying YOI was pretty good for its budget, ya it was.  But smh if you’re gonna judge the worth of animation based on budget then you’re gonna find yourself facing whether or not paying for specific element was worth the money.

TL;DR:

Fuck you im a tru YOI fan too fight me, I have credentials and official fan certification from my trash retweets.  Smh I can’t believe my disappointment offended a whole fandom, in which I, along with many other YOI fans who agree with the same points are in.  I love generalization.  Point is.  YOI is a beautifully well written show.  However, this was never a battle of fandom strengths and sizes, merely the decently to give credit to a show when it’s due.

xoxo im out bih

cynthia