#I’m more understanding of the tags than I am of the bots

[night-flare]

Every day I wish for an easier way to block people 😞

[rune-folk]

Hei, Hei!

Welcome to my blog!

I’m a 29 year old woman living in Norway, and you can call me Runa!

This blog is about Norse Myth, Norse Aesthetic, Nature, as well as other things that simply make me happy. So, I want to share things that excite me or make me smile.

I post my own photography, ramblings about the myths, or even about my own life. If personal stuff does not interest you, I tag all that with #runarambles so you can simply block that tag!

I am in a weird spot between being an atheist and believing in the Norse Gods, it is quite complicated and I don't fully understand where I am standing myself. I am mostly devoted to Oðin, because he has intervened in my life a lot, and is basically the reason why I am where I am.

I have a slight obsession with Figg, Frau Holle, Frau Perchta and Baba Yaga, who are four figures in Norse, Germanic, Alpine and Slavic folklore that are very interconnected. In general, I am very interested in exploring Germanic Paganism, Slavic Paganism and Alpine Folk Traditions, because these are the places my family comes from, and I want to know more about it.

In my everyday life, I am a scientist, and speak German, English and Norwegian. I am not a native English speaker, so if something I write sounds weird, I am sorry.

I enjoy sewing and making my own clothes, am also into historical sewing and re-enactment, and love water-colour painting, and writing stories. I am engaged in historical fencing (with the Longsword, Dagger, Sword and Buckler, and Langes Messer), love history, and enjoy learning new things, going to museums and ancient places, and wandering through nature.

That is about everything, I suppose!

Profile Picture: me in the forests around the Celtic village in Schwarzenbach, Austria

Header Image: a picture I took of Borgund Stave Church, Norway

My photography sideblog is @forestruin

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And an important Disclaimer at the end:

Sadly this has to be said, as the Norse community is overrun with bigots.

I strongly believe that the interest in Norse culture should be inclusive and open to everyone who resonates with it. I am a feminist, and strongly disapprove of racists, misogynists and homophobes, who appropriate the Norse symbols for their disgusting agendas. You have obviously not understood (or even read) the stories and poems, if you think that Norse believe and your bigotery are in any way compatible.

Women are amazing and not less than men, they are not your property, but multidimensional human beings worthy of dignity and respect! You are not better than anyone else, because of the colour of your skin, or the country of your birth!

Therefore:

Do NOT follow me if you are a right wing idiot, US American patriot with a gun fetish (I mean it! I will block you!), Odinist, misogynistic patriarch, hyper masculine Grimfrost-dude-bro, or any other kind of these people, who have to compensate their fragile masculinity by trying to be overly #Viking

I do check every blog that follows me and instantly block 1) the kind of people mentioned above 2) p*rn blogs and 3) empty blogs (aka no name, header, reblogs. idc if you are a real person, as a tumblr veteran this screams bot to me).

That is all!

Ha det bra! ~

[anony-man]

Uhhhh I wrote something again. You hear that? That’s the sound of my professor asking why I haven’t finished my paper instead of writing shitty attempts at ambulaid angst. Anywho… this is a sort of addition to @rust-bearer’s post found heeeere (sorry for the tag, I just wanna make sure you get credit and stuff). So. Enjoy? Maybe? It’s very short, like ~990 words, probably won’t even post to a03 cause y’know, I’m lazy.

Also quick warning for a very mild emeto/vom mention and maybe gore warning too? Not really, but just in case.

“You know, Ambulon, I never really understood why you wouldn’t just let me help you in the first place.”

First Aid wasn’t exactly trained in producing pristine paint jobs, but with the steady servos that came from ages spent as a medic, he saw to it that the job was good enough. Stretched out on the table beneath him lay Ambulon, who had yet to give any pushback to First Aid’s meticulous and nitpicking repair process. Of course, he didn’t exactly have much of a choice. When First Aid had set his mind to tidying up Ambulon’s chipping paint once and for all, he had already established that nothing was going to stop him.

The process was a little messy, of course. Ambulon was rather quiet for the entire process, which… well, First Aid could understand. Living with such an uncomfortable problem for so long likely made it a little embarrassing to finally have it fixed, so he didn’t fault his old ward manager for not being very chatty during the repair sessions.

Yes, First Aid thought glumly, gently lifting one of Ambulon’s arms to coat the rest of his wrist in a thick layer of red, sessions plural. Ambulon had proved to be a rather difficult patient to treat, given his frame’s apparent proneness to rejecting the paint samples First Aid tried to apply.

He tried not to consider the very likely possibility that a mech who was no longer online probably wouldn’t have the capacity of keeping said paint job like a living bot would. It was already bad enough having to walk into the old operating room after hours and be met with the sight of a cold, greying frame laying stretched out across the exam table as soon as the lights came on.

During the first few nights spent treating Ambulon, First Aid often wouldn’t be able to make it more than a few hours without having to step out and regain his composure or give up entirely for the evening. But now? Now, he was a natural. Now, Ambulon no longer looked like just another dead face among thousands lost in the casualties of war. Now, Ambulon looked like… well, Ambulon. First Aid was no skilled technician when it came to the more cosmetic side of the medical industry, but he certainly gave the last few living bots in the field a run for their money.

Sliding the sander over a rather course and bumpy edge of Ambulon’s plating, First Aid hummed a soft tune from behind his mask. He paused for a moment, replacing the sander with a paint brush once he’d found another spot in need of a fresh coat, and took a moment to spray it red before he continued.

Given Ambulon’s medical history, First Aid knew for a fact that the paint he applied should have been peeling off again within days, whether due to Ambulon’s annoying habit of picking at the flakes or the paint simply refusing to stay. Now, however, Ambulon’s frame was perfect. It was perfect, and pristine, and… and…

It was dull. It was lifeless.

With a sigh of satisfaction, First Aid gathered up the tools used for that day’s work and set them back on the side tray at the foot of the berth. He no longer bothered putting things back in storage, not when he knew the job wasn’t yet finished. Ambulon’s frame was looking good so far, but First Aid kept finding little things here and there that still needed touching up the longer he looked.

“I guess that’s all we’ll get done today,” First Aid said, giving his servos a good wipe with a nearby towel. “You’re probably just as tired as I am. But hey, it’s looking better than last time, at least.”

Last time referred to the night before, when First Aid had made a critical mistake in his repairs. Something must have gone wrong with his welded seams, as before he knew it, Ambulon’s frame was splitting in half again, right down the middle. The realization that he needed to go back into fixing the issue with much more precision hadn’t been so bad as when First Aid finally came back to his senses sometime after seeing the split frame again for the second time since the incident with Pharma.

He wasn’t sure how long he’d been out of it, or what exactly had happened to trigger the episode, but First Aid had quickly realized that something must have gone wrong after finding himself kneeling in a puddle of his own vomit, tears streaming down his face and energon staining the tips of his fingers from where they were dug too deep into the edge of the berth, leaving grooves and dried energon behind that First Aid lacked the energy to fix… or clean, for that matter.

That was over now, he reminded himself. Ambulon was okay. He’d cleaned the mess, wiped himself up, and then got right back to work fixing his mistakes. And now here he was, in the last stretch, working to touch up any spots of paint he had missed after originally going over Ambulon’s frame with the fresh coats.

“If you ask me,” First Aid continued, having stopped cleaning up to drag a chair over to the berthside. He sat down, then propped his helm up in his servos, elbows resting against the table. “I kind of preferred your original paint job. I mean, don’t get me wrong, you pull off the typical red and white just fine, but…”

First Aid trailed off, and as expected, only silence followed. He didn’t exactly mind, but it would’ve been nice to get a little feedback from Ambulon again, if only just once more.

“I dunno, I guess I just wish Pharma hadn’t been so stringent about all the stupid rules back at Delphi,” First Aid said with a shrug.

He paused, studying Ambulon’s frame for any signs of the old paint job poking through his new colors, but found nothing. With a quiet huff, First Aid let his arms drop onto the table, then rested his helm atop them.

“Personally? I thought you looked good in your old colors. They were unique, and pretty, and…”

As if realizing he’d trailed off from the subject, First Aid quickly gave a shake of his Helmand cleared his throat. “Sorry, got off-track there. But really, Ambulon. That color scheme? It suited you well. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but I bet you felt the same way as me, right?”

Silence. First Aid patiently waited for a response, but none ever came. “Yeah,” he eventually said, the discomfort clear in his voice. “Good talk.”

Suddenly feeling rather exhausted, First Aid buried his face into his arms and sighed. A little sleep couldn’t hurt, he supposed. Besides, he was sure Ambulon would appreciate the extended company. It felt wrong, in a way, but First Aid couldn’t help slipping one arm free of his cozy hunch to slink it down the length of Ambulon’s side, only stopping to interlink his fingers with Ambulon’s cold, still servo. He knew, of course, that the only heat source in that cold, dead room came from him, but if he really thought about it, First Aid could almost imagine Ambulon’s fingers squeezing him back just as tightly.

“Goodnight, Ambulon,” First Aid whispered, and with tears welling behind his optics, he slipped into another light, fitful recharge.

[sphnyspinspin]

[About Blog]

- This is my Transformers fan blog! I usually just draw and write and that’s about it. Considering I have trouble getting new ideas in my noggin I decided to open REQUESTS and ASKS. But I’ll only be taking a few at time—you know the whole OPEN and CLOSED signs will be very prominent. This’ll go for both drawing and writing stuff.

There’s probably going to be more stuff to add on to this so make sure to see if I updated anything important on here like DNI or ASKS and REQUESTS.

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[DNI]

- Homophobic; Transphobic; TERFs; Sexist; Racist; NSFW; Proshipper; Ableist -

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[ASKS]

1) Can Accept

- Pretty much anything that doesn’t make me uncomfortable. And I can be slow when it comes to checking my inbox so if you like what I do here, you might have to be a little patient. I like it when people just come by to say hi or compliment my work, so don’t be afraid to do so. You don’t need to feel obligated to spare my feelings too, I can take criticism when I need it.

2) Won’t Accept

- AGAIN! NOTHING CREEPY! Don’t ask me about personal stuff please, I’ll update small bits on how I’m doing, don’t be pushy. And don’t send me random links without context or at least a small description, it gives off creepy vibes.

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[Fandoms]

- Transformers: Rescue Bots : Good God, this show was like the very first layer of my TF hyper fixation��not my biggest fixation just my first.

- Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy : THIS SHOW is my biggest fixation it’s so cute and wholesome and clever and fun it is such a good show I love the characters so much.

- Transformers: Cyberverse : PLEASE—this show is AWESOME, I praise it for the characters, the story, the character designs, the animation, the EVERYTHING(this is where I personally think Soundrod first originated).

- Transformers: Robots In Disguise 2015 : Hear me out, this show is actually kinda funny in a non-ironic way I promise, and the designs aren’t half bad.

- Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye : I have read zero TF MTMTE and I never plan to because I would actually die from dehydration after crying so long; but the fandom makes me laugh and I like the art.

- Transformers: Lost Light : Again I have read zero Lost Light comics and I don’t plan on it; because I feel like I know enough just from the memes.

- Transformers: Animated : This show SHOULD be more popular, and it’s the main reason I have my artstyle today (and please don’t bully me but when I found out my fave characters dies I stopped watching….. like immediately………. I didn’t finish season one).

- Transformers: Earthspark : This show, oh my god, I have a love-dread relationship with it; it has so much care-free positivity, an adorable group of characters, nice designs with world-building being amazing so far, but I know for a fact it will destroy me sooner or later. P.S. it already has

- Transformers: Botbots : This. This…. Where do I begin; oh right, literally the TF fandom parody—like I know for a fact that 85% of the characters’ personalities are inspired by random TF tumblr posts, you can’t deny that.

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[Side-Blogs]

1) @transformers-bold-bright-brisk

- My blog for my TF fan Continuity project. Right now it’s mostly drafts and concept art and writings,

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[Communication]

1) Follower Interactions

- I will do my best to answer ASKS because I am terrible at checking my inbox. Also, I’m going to try and reply to comments, but if I stop doing that—it’s not because I don’t like you guys, it’s cause I’m lazy and I usually don’t have anything interesting to reply back with. And please read my DNI, ASKS, and REQUESTS boxes before interacting, thanks. Also ask stuff will be tagged as either #sphny asks (𖦹////𖦹)•*°⊹ or #sphny answers (𖦹0 𖦹)•*°⊹

2) Mutual Interactions

- Hey! If you followed me and I followed you back and somehow we were able to become regular chit chat buddies from either in the tags, reblog games, DMing, and etc. then you probably know me enough to understand my thought process when I talk to people. And if you’re a new mutual and actually want to interact with each other more than same goes for you—read my DNI, ASKS, and REQUESTS boxes. I respect your boundaries, you respect mine—win win. I would honestly be very excited to talk to me people on this platform, I just get a little bit shy/anxious sometimes

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[Posting]

1) Art

- When I post my art I’ll usually tag it under #sphny arts (𖦹w𖦹)•*°⊹. And right now I’ve been posting A LOT of RBA fanart. But if I feel really motivated to draw requests I’ll do my best to draw TF characters from other continuities in my style too.

2) Writing

- What I write consists of drabbles, headcannons, one shots, short-reviews, and other opinions I have that I like to share with the world. And I’ll give an itty bitty irl update just to notify I’m still alive. And they’re going to be tagged under #sphny speaks (𖦹<𖦹)•*°⊹ #sphny alternates universe (𖦹ㅁ𖦹)•*°⊹ #sphny originates character (𖦹▿𖦹)•*°⊹

3) Reblogging

- Oh boy. I reblog a very random assortment of posts. I reblog from mutes, followers, and strangers all the time. I’ll partake in reblog games I tag under #reblog shenanigans which would always be a new uquiz or for picrew challenges it would be #picrew shenanigans. When I reblog art or literally anything I COMPLIMENT THEM IN TAGS! And in the actual text part if I’m super eccentric about it too. And they’ll be tagged under #sphny reblogs (𖦹Q𖦹)•*°⊹

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[Social Media]

- TikTok : sphnyspinspin2006 (There’s literally only three posts to my name)

- Instagram : sphnyspinspin (Barely Active)

- DeviantArt : sphnyspun (I never use this)

- Discord : sphnyspinspin (I’m VERY shy)

- AO3 : sphnyspinspin (I write very little on here)

[blinkees]

REQUESTS: tentatively open. won't do every request I receive, thank you for understanding ;o;

I’m much more likely to complete detailed requests that tell me what image to use (if any), what text you'd like (if any), what colors, etc. if your request is vague I probably won’t do it, sorry!

try to ask for just one or two per ask if you can! you can also request a specific size- otherwise i default to 150x30

hello! you can call me robot (or bot for short)! i am trans (he/it) and i make blinkies.

if you'd like to use something i've made to decorate your blog, website, etc, you're more than welcome to. credit is appreciated but not mandatory

popular request tags for your searching convenience:

#homestuck / #pokemon / #17776 / #borders / #dead by daylight / 150x20

FAQ below the cut!

•How do you make your blinkies?

i make these with aseprite! see here: more info

•Can I edit your blinkies?

It depends! if you are doing a simple color swap or slowing down the speed of the gif, go right ahead! for anything else, such as adding details, moving things around, etc, please ask first! I don't bite. :]

•You didn't do my request, why?

sometimes i get unmotivated or overwhelmed and delete requests i don't feel up for. sometimes its a fandom i'm not comfortable with. sometimes requests are too vague, sometimes too complicated... there's a lot of different reasons! unfortunately it's just not feasible to do every single request i get, i'm sorry

[silversupremacy]

I- can’t speak on current issues in depth cause I’m abt to board a flight and I don’t wanna deal with it rn.

But writing wise, I want to remind people

That yes, cabby uses her files to remember information. Yes it is for sure iffy for bot to tell her wrong information.

But also remember, that bot hates being watered down to a few facts, or a specific label. That was their arc.

Two people can have disabilities that need different or opposing things, and just won’t mesh well with each other.

Also note that I am saying this all as someone w/ severe memory issues. And what helps me, personally, me as an individual, the most is a person who understands that I have those issues, and will tell me everything again and again.

I am not saying that everything written this ep was done in the right, but I assure you that the AE team aren’t rubbing their hands together going “how can we be ableist and hurt people today?” As they write these scripts.

I cannot speak on any additional ableism that AE has done in their content, I have not read up on it and do not feel like I know enough to speak on it.

If I had to guess anything, I’d assume Adam blocked Paper just, because- he doesn’t see how this is ableist entirely, and he doesn’t want to start anything, because Twitter has a tendency to make things black and white quickly. I’m guessing they’ll at best write their thoughts on this and apologize for past things, and at worst just, not say anything abt it.

If I had to guess the path Twitter is gonna go, it’s gonna be similar to the situation with AIB, where people will ask for it to be trigger tagged, and people are gonna be kinda divided on the situation.

I have no solid opinions on the current situation, I’ve been stuck in New York for 24 hours more than I wanted, so I really don’t have a lot of info abt what people are talking about. I am neither supporting AE nor denouncing them at this time.

I will be turning anon off cause I jsut can’t deal with people being rude rn, and anon tends to bring out the worst of people XwX

[tritonposting]

*kicks down door* IT’S TOURNAMENT PROPAGANDA TIME (tagging @battlebotschampionshiptournament as requested hehe (and also because that's where the tournament is lol))

As the blog named tritonposting, it is my inherent moral duty to post about Triton– more specifically, to post a list of reasons why he is the sexiest robot in the WCVII Battlebots roster. His first round is tomorrow, so I figured I'd get this out early to capture the largest possible audience.

The Propaganda List is 17 items long, and mostly divided into one group of verbal elaborations + one group of images, because I am just a little too enthusiastic about this.

For legal reasons this is all ironic yeah this is totally for the haha funnies no I am not unironically attracted to this robot what do you mean

(Under the cut because Long Post)

1. Firstly, to sway those of you who are more into humans than bots, I present you with my artwork of a human AU Triton:

A dashing himbo, no?

2. Shape language is everything when designing a combat robot. Rounder shapes (example: those found on Blip and Rusty) indicate a cuter, more approachable persona. Triton, on the other hand, is mostly angles. Thanks to that, he looks fierce and intimidating, which is immensely sexy of him.

4. I mentioned the blade, and realized that was worth making a separate point of, because… have you seen it?!? Not only is it 80 pounds– the heaviest a weapon can be, according to the rulebook– but it’s elegant, sleek, and casts one hell of a shadow. When your bot’s weapon alone is iconic enough to be used as a logo, as Team Overboard has utilized it, that’s how you know you’ve designed something that’s a cut above the rest.

5. Related to the last point: If you’ve heard his death hum, you already know why this is an item on the list. If you haven’t… here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w-x-GAC9gI

Now you have. Forget the roar of your standard spinner, this thing screams. To some, this is a scary sound, a hallowing reminder that combat robots, when pitted against humans, easily become death machines. To me? It just makes this freakin’ robot even hotter.

6. PROTECTED. WHEELS.

7. INVERTIBLE.

8. SELF. RIGHTING. ASS. SPIKE.

9. FAST. FUCKING. SPIN-DOWN. TIME.

10. Points 6-9 (hehe funni) highlight the engineering intricacies few notice at first glance, but that have contributed to making Triton the immediate– relative– success he is. (2-2 isn’t bad for a rookie bot, especially considering some 1-3 bots made it into this year’s RO32!) Team Overboard had some intense time/location constraints to work with this year, given the timing of Deep Six’s rejection, so these tiny details couldn’t have been planned out very far in advance. Understanding how quickly the builders drew up such ingenuity from scratch makes Triton’s design even more impressive. (Just in case I’m losing you in the technicalities, well-engineered robot = sexy robot!!!)

I have run out of words, off to images/gifs we go!!

11. This <3

12. This 😳

13. He is a big boy confirmed (Jackpot for scale)

14. Shiny murder robot ugh 😩

15. This smooth bonk

16. Scared boy 💖💖💖 (I know fear isn’t very sexy but you know what is?? Trying your best)

17. Last but not least, he dressed up as Tombstone for Halloween, robot cosplay is inherently hot (prove me wrong, u can’t)

TL;DR: Vote Triton for Sexiest Battlebot 2023!!!!

[sxplict]

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[ ✦ ⋆ ⋆ ୨୧ ]⠀the law obligations for user sxplict. please do understand that most, if not all, will contain (n)sfw works and sometimes dark content. continue at your own discretion.

◜ 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋 ◞

this blog is not spoiler free , please advise.

i don’t take requests for multi chapter fanfics , but as seen above , my other requests are open.

i don’t mind if you ask to be mutuals , and/or friends even , i’m autistic so it’ll honestly help me better disclose our relationship status tbh.

i only ever write for above average/tall indigenous latine fem!bodied readers , please do not ask for any other ethnic/race based readers because i do not feel comfortable writing for such seeing as i am hispanic/latine myself. though , i will redirect you to others who do write for what you request to promote them.

i can’t control minors being on my page , therefore i don’t care enough to tell you to leave. you can follow if you want , i won’t throw a hissy fit about it because i have more important things to pay mind to. just don’t explicitly tell me you are under 17 (i.e., sending an inbox expressing how you’re deliberately -17 on my page).

please don’t like more than 5/6 posts at a time , it’ll tell tumblr i’m a bot and would put my account at risk. just make sure to reblog inbetween.

blank and ageless blogs leave or you’ll be hard blocked without question. i honestly dont know why to be frank with you , but if everyone else is tripping about it then i guess its /srs.

if my pinned tags weren’t bitchy enough , i do not allow any form of inspo, help, tuts, remakes, advice, nothing when reference to graphics. TDLR; way too much plagiarism and copying throughout my years that i no longer allow it. you can dm for a negotiation and we can work things out , though i’ll still be heavily strict.

i do not allow translations of my works, idgaf if you ask for permission first. absolutely tf not.

do not interact if , you write anything that is in my “idnwf”; especially yandere and stepcest. are zionist. anti-black. racist. homophobic. ableist. transphobic. sexist. xenophobic. heavily religious. believe in misandry. terfs. white celebrity stan’s of ANY means (i.e., taylor swift, lana del ray, billie eilish). you age up minors and/or interact with that content. nicki minaj / doja cat fans AND listeners. skz & twice stan’s.

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i do not write for , anything that is sexual content with minors. dubcon. noncon. cnc. incest/stepcest. grape/s3xual 4ssault. pregnancy. somnophilia. pedophilia. teacher x student. feet kink. piss kink. ed’s. race play. pet play. scat. mpreg. breast feeding. age regression. DDBG. MDBG. suic!de/s3lf h4rm. scat. yandere (this romanticizes ppl with bpd so absolutely not). p3dophelic characters. vore. necrophelia.

i do write for , fem!reader. smut. sub, switch & dom!reader. size differences. praise. violence. voyeurism. exhibitionism. alcohol consumption. 'under the influence' scenarios. choking. spitting. dumbification. 'brat tamer's. breeding. unprotected sex. dom!characters. spanking. (pussy) slapping. breast play. threesomes/orgies. cunnilingus. blowjob/handjob. degradation. age gap. bondage. polyamory dynamics.

if you’d like to be one of my anons, all you have to do is ask ! simply like; “hey lysi, could i be ★ anon?” (´꒳`)♡

⠀ thanks for reading these, you may see the board !

[waru-chan8]

I got tagged by the lovely Mira ( @game-set-canet ) to answer some questions, so here am I.

Name: Esther, but online I go by Waru

Sign: libra

Time: 18:55 pm

Favourite band/artist: Blind Channel, Bullet for my Valentine or Simple Plan depending on the mood

Last movie: I can't even remember. I think Hidden Figures?

Last show: Miseducation

When I created this blog: July 2013

Other blogs: yeap @42bakery because Tumblr keep closing my session in January/February and I had troubles with posting, so in case I got completely banned or something happened I created that one. Also I finally have a MotoGP related blog *evil laugh*

followers: More than I ever expected. Most of them are bots I think and F1 blogs that still don't understand this is a temple for 2 wheels racing

average hours of sleep: 6-8 hours

instruments: I used to know how to play flute in school (did 3 years) and 1-2 of xylophone. I recently dreamt of starting to learn to play the piano

what I’m wearing: my pyjamas

dream job: At this rate just a job

Tagging: @fangirling-throughlife @distinguishedfifty @lil-italian-disappointment and @ilikecarsandlike4people

[lurking-latinist]

Top 10s Meme

I was tagged by @thisbluespirit - thanks for the tag!

Rules: List your "top 10" (or up to 10 if you haven't written that many) fics ranked by kudos on AO3. Are you surprised by what's most popular to your readers? Then, under a cut, provide your ranking of your personal top 10 fics (with explanations if you want!), and then tag a few fellow writers! 

My top 10 fics by kudos:

1. Book Learning (Susan, Ian/Barbara) *

1. Doubt and Doubles (Five/Tegan) *

1. Ms Smith (Thirteen & Sarah Jane)

2. don’t worry, he’s with me (five ways Donna explained the Doctor to people, and one way he explained her) (Ten & Donna)

3. Anything Once (Inquisitor Darkel/Sabalom Glitz) *

3. Vicarious (Six & Martha)

4. Time Flies Like an Arrow (Witches Fly on a Broomstick) (Discworld - Nanny Ogg, Granny Weatherwax, & Magrat Garlick)

5. to all our nights and days to come (Seven/Romana)

6. Nociception (Seven & Ace)

7. Nitro-Nine (Thirteen & Ace)

8. Somewhere to Belong (One & Susan)

9. The Strands of Fate (Four &/ Romana - the confusing designation is because it’s sex pollen, but it’s subverted, but they still act pretty darn shippy)

10. XOXO (Six/River) **

* These got hit by kudos bots (personally, I blame Glitz) and I am not counting them.

** This might have been hit by a kudos bot? Maybe? I can’t remember. It seems implausible for it to be this high, but some of the ones that I know for sure weren’t hit by bots are also pretty surprising.

Well, yes; this is a pretty surprising list all over for me. I think the top... four... are all on there more because of the popularity of the characters than the quality of the fic. I mean, Ms Smith is definitely fun, but if I’d written the same concept with Peri I’d have gotten about ten kudos and been happy with it. Including the current Doctor is a good recipe for attention, as is including a super-popular companion who had her own spinoff. (*prays earnestly for an Ace spinoff*)

Further reflections on the top 10 below the cut, as well as my personal top 10; it got lengthy.

don’t worry, he’s with me also had the advantage of being for an exchange, which no doubt got it a few more reads than it would otherwise have had. But a lot of its kudos have been post-exchange: Ten & Donna are just very popular. I don’t like to run down things I’ve written for exchanges, because it was always my best at the time, but I was really stuck for this (one of the first exchanges I’d ever done, and before I learned to prune my offers) and felt like I just kind of squeezed something out that was honestly more like meta than fic, so I was really surprised by how many kudos it’s accumulated over time!

Vicarious is genuinely good, and it contains a New Who companion, and the audience for Martha being validated and appreciated is (it would seem) encouragingly broad, but it’s also got Six in it, which normally means I’m writing for the same ten people as always. (Love you all!) It’s been podficced and everything! And it was inspired by a mashup gif, so I think of it as a lovely example of the fannish ecosystem.

Time Flies Like an Arrow... is another early exchange fic--specifically, the exchange in which I learned I shouldn’t offer fic for books with strong authorial voices. Apparently I can do cod-Pratchett when pushed, but it’s difficult for me to enjoy looking back at it because I can see the seams. I’m glad people have enjoyed it, though! It’s got a baby in it. Nice to see I have been able to write babies at times.

to all our nights and days to come is indeed one of my best fics. But it initially made very little splash, understandably, being an angsty under-explained AU for a rarepair that about six people have ever shipped and not all of them at once. Then I mentioned it on a Tumblr post where people had been speculating about Seven in the Time War, and apparently it found its audience! XD

Nociception is very good, I’ll admit. But it’s not really me. It’s just Seven and Ace being themselves. I am but your humble chronicler. XD

Nitro-Nine is pretty much just excited flailing in fic form--it was written back when we were all excited that Thirteen was dropping Seven-era references--little did we know we were actually getting Ace back! It definitely benefited from the “posted like the day after the episode aired” boost. Not something I can normally do without access to actual time travel.

Somewhere to Belong definitely does belong in the top 10, although if I could go back and edit it, I’d file off some of the rough edges that make it obvious that it started as a meta post. I’d keep the metafictional elements, but I’d make them subtler. (I suppose technically I can go back and edit it. But I don’t like to make big changes so long after the fact. It feels weird.) It’s still my default headcanon--the one I use when I have no reason to use a different one--for Susan’s origins. (And I would take off the tag “NOT doctor/oc.” I have no idea why I was so worried about people thinking that.)

The Strands of Fate is very funny and charming, and a good transition out of the early phase in which I used to write almost exclusively gen trope-subversion ficlets. I still do all those things, separately and together, but it was almost the only thing I did for a while there. Also, it contains an undressing scene with my OTP, but not like you’d think, naturally. And (spoilers) it’s all just a leadup to a silly looms joke. And Heimeldat drew fanart of it. :D

XOXO, like I said, was probably a kudos bot but I can’t quite remember so I didn’t cross it off. I have written much better Six/River.

So now for my personal top 10. I couldn’t possibly do these sequentially, so I will just list 10 that I think represent my best and/or most fun work.

Of the popular top 10, I’d keep:

1. Somewhere to Belong

2. to all our nights and days to come

3. The Strands of Fate

and I would add:

4. and will not let me sleep (Six & Peri)

5. and opposition of the stars (Doctor/TARDIS)

6. Stand and Deliver (Six/River)

7. Paraclausithyron (Seven/Romana)

8. Like Sunshine Through Rain (Six/Charley)

9. Bestride the Narrow World (WtOVPIC - mainly Katrina and Lucy)

10. Blazon (Seven/Romana)

But, as everyone knows, the best fic is the one you’re just about to write. (So stay tuned...?)

If you have read this far... why? And thanks. I enjoyed rambling about my own fic.

I will now tag some people: @heimeldat @swinging-stars-from-satellites @strange-destinations @fortes-fortuna-iogurtum @dyonisia96 @ontologicalmoki and anyone else who wants to do it!

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-Do not hound me about requests, I will get them done as soon as I can but please understand there is a college student behind this blog with real life situations going on. 

-If you have a problem with how long it takes to me to complete a request or mad that I am completing other requests then please feel free to go someone else. 

- From this point on, my blog is 18+. While I do not exclusively write smut, I do write about grown men and women and minors should not be interacting with that. Plus, I’m almost 25. Almost a decade older than the absolute youngest person I’d want to be interacting with (18). It’s not okayyyyy.

- If you have an empty blog, it will be a block for ya. I wanna see your age and some posts reblogged even if they aren’t mine. Bots are popping up again, so if you have an empty blog, I’m going to assume you’re a bot. & creators need readers like you guys to reblog works to get spread around more.

-Producing fanfic and fanart takes a considerable amount of time from myself and other creators. It's honestly really inconsiderate to not share our work & it can be really discouraging to feel like nobody is enjoying the piece because there's no interaction with it other than a quick like. A reblog, a reblog with tags, a reply?? I'll eat that up and I know other creators do as well. Please educate yourselves on Tumblr etiquette. So this means if you request something from me and don’t rely or reblog I will not be doing another request for you!

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Hi!

I have just found your blog, led here by the art you commissioned of Ares/Dite/Dio. I recognised your handle from AO3. Always glad to follow Hades writers - I find so few here, at least those who write Ares. (I’m my_haunted_heart over there.)

Anyway - I then saw your multiple posts voicing frustration with Tumblr and I just couldn’t not say anything - I hope I can help a little :)

I’ve found that the best way to meet people here is reblogging - we communicate mostly through the hashtags, at least over in my corner of this place, but you can @ people in the comments section too and have a conversation with them there. Liking and reblogging friends’ posts, adding your thoughts in the tags - that’s how it’s done.

It also seems to help if you share original work - whether that’s actually sharing work that’s hosted here, making a master post for your blog, or just doing little announcement posts when you post something new on AO3 - it all helps people to know a bit about you and what you make.

(I’m personally fine with people direct messaging me to talk, too, though understandable that that could be an uncomfortable first step.)

As for the bots and the antis - unfortunately there’s no other answer than block block block :)

Anyway - I really hope you’ll stick around - I enjoy your work and I’m very active here so if I can help at all, let me know! ☺️

I do appreciate the kindness of this message. However, telling me to do what I already do is immensely frustrating!

I reblog things. And these just...sit there, having been reblogged. I really don't know what that accomplishes, I haven't seen anybody respond, reply, comment, etc. Sometimes somebody else reblogs them from me? That's it. I post original work all the time, that's 90% of what I do here! Those also just sit there. One kind person gives every one a like. Occasionally somebody else does as well. I see no comments, replies, or interactions. I've put thoughts into tags. Nobody responds to those thoughts. I am about *conversation*. Shouting into the void with zero response because it...what, means I'm Doing It Right and someday somebody will talk back maybe? I'm not online to be famous and collect followers, I'm online to TALK to people.

This site just isn't for me. I've been using it for years and years, and I have gotten absolutely nowhere. I get more interaction on DREAMWIDTH for god's sake. Dreamwidth!

And I'm sorry, if there is "no answer" to antis than to try to block every last one of the THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of them... I mean okay, I guess I can block any that wander into my space to directly talk to me, but I have to see them and their horrific, toxic, depressing, nasty opinions just to LOOK at the comments on any other post. Just to *see* content I might interact with here, I need to drown in a sea of hate.

No. I honestly am done. I only even saw this comment because somebody else linked me to a post here and I noticed the message icon after I've read it.

This site does not work for me. I've been here well over a decade, I've gotten nowhere, and I can't deal with it anymore. I'll Postybirb content when I can, but that's really it.

[doodlenoodleboi]

I don't understand why you put a bunch of random tags for things, like you say it's for exposure but that's not how tags are supposed to work, you say that it's fine cause so many other people do it but it just clogs the tag, I know you say to ignore it but when it's in the tag of smaller fandoms it just floods the tag with unrelated things. I am not trying to be rude but I just don't think tagging like this is ideal. Love your fics though im sorry but I just needed to ask this.

I’m sorry, but my family used to work in a lot of social media companies. They specialize in advertisement and such but besides that. If delicious and dungeons, Is trending and you put a tag under that you’re more likely to get more reach given the fact that that tag is popular. Obviously this tag is popular because people like delicious and dungeon and it’s either new or been on the rise because of something. (That simply how trends work. From a business standpoint)

Now I like let’s say blooming panic blooming panic and a lot of other visual novel games aren’t as popular as let’s say resident evil. Given the fact that you are noticing my tags and you have to look for the tags under more. I’m guessing you’ve been pulled in by the other tags, not related to it or not.

I like delicious in dungeon I also like booming panic, a lot of people know don’t follow the tag of blooming panic but they do follow a tag of delicious and dungeon. People can simply ignore my blog of course because it doesn’t catch your interest or simply not looking for. People that like delicious and dungeon and blooming panic are going to click on mine. Because they like delicious and dungeon and Blooming panic. (it also might encourage them to follow the tag)

I also like delicious and dungeon and blooming panic. I mean, of course I could’ve put something like error 143 which I do because it’s also another visual novel and the creators, I think know each other or something. Most people that played Error 143 played Blooming panic.

Oh yeah and I know this works and I have results because I’ve done this in less than 24 hours and I already got comments and requests. Also, if one person does it it’s not gonna flood the entire entire tag. I promise you that. I also think you’re misunderstanding this because I do works for a small fandoms when I do this and put them under bigger fandoms which obviously is going to overwhelm my small post but it does get people that like both of those things to like my content. One post amongst 1000 post are not going to do anything. If it was the opposite and 1000 post of a big fandom overwhelmed a small fandom then of course the fandom would be lost. But of course, that wouldn’t happen because the name of a small fandom tends to be less known therefore thousands of people would not know about it to tag it and the fandom would not be small.

Btw Thank you for genuinely asking and not being rude about it like other people have! <3 I’d rather not be cursed out because of a simple tag that takes a second to ignore. I’m sure you have seen a porn bot with 100 non-related tags and ignore those all the time.

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i don’t mind if you ask to be mutuals , and/or friends even , i’m autistic so it’ll honestly help me better disclose our relationship status tbh.

i only ever write for tall (6’2) or average (5’9) height indigenous-latina fem!bodied readers , please do not ask for any other ethnic/race based readers because i do not feel comfortable writing for such seeing as i am hispanic/latine myself. though , i will redirect you to others who do write for what you request to promote them.

each height based fic will be labeled with a different symbol ; tall (⚐) & average (⚑) for better awareness of the descriptions within said fic!

i can’t control minors being on my page , therefore i don’t care enough to tell you to leave. you can follow if you want , i won’t throw a hissy fit about it because i have more important things to pay mind to. just don’t explicitly tell me you are under 17 (i.e., sending an inbox expressing how you’re deliberately -17 on my page).

please don’t like more than 5/6 posts at a time , it’ll tell tumblr i’m a bot and would put my account at risk. just make sure to reblog inbetween.

blank and ageless blogs leave or you’ll be hard blocked without question. i honestly dont know why to be frank with you , but if everyone else is tripping about it then i guess its /srs.

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Half Truths [Kairi]

Content: Character Study, AU: Canon Divergence, Kingdom Hearts 3, POV First Person

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'I’m sorry I left without saying goodbye. Did Master Yen Sid tell you?

I’m training to become a Keyblade wielder like you and Riku.

That’s right. No more waiting for you to come back from your adventures.

I want to get out there and do my part to help.

Merlin has used his magic to bring us to a place where time doesn’t matter.

We can take as long as we need to complete our training.

He's an amazing wizard.

Oh, and by “us”, I mean me and Lea. He’s really sorry for all the trouble he caused.

I told him it’s fine, but he won’t stop apologizing.

I’ll admit I was a little scared of him at first, but I’ve gotten to know him better.

All he ever wanted was to help his friend. Honestly, it’s hard not to like him.

Every now and then, I catch him staring at me. When I ask what’s wrong, he says,

'I’m not sure. I think I’m forgetting something. Don’t know what.’

Sora, I think it may have something to do with you.

Your journey is all about helping people: some that you’ve never met before,

And some like Lea that you have. They’re all counting on you.

It won’t be easy, but I hope you’ll remain the happy and cheerful Sora I know.

There’s no heart your smile can’t reach.”

I looked up from my writing, turning to Lea. “What’s wrong?” I always knew when he was staring at me.

He quickly looked away and shook his head. “Nothin’, sorry.”

“Lea.” I pressed. He would always shake it off as nothing, but something was really bothering him, and as his friend, I wanted to know what.

He placed a hand on the back of his head and gave me a short smile. “What? I am.”

I giggled at his antics as he sat down on the log in front of me.

It was quiet for a moment before he spoke up again. “A letter?”

“Yup.”

“To Sora?”

My eyes widened a bit at his forwardness. “Mmm,” but I answered regardless. “Technically yes. But I won’t send it. It’s more for me.”

“Ask Merlin.” Lea gestured to my letter. “He’ll deliver it for you.”

I guess I wasn’t all that clear. “Yeah, but it’s okay.” Another route then. “I just like talking to Sora, even if it’s on paper.” I hugged the notepad to my chest.

No matter how far apart we are.

Lea hummed, finally understanding. He looked off to the side for a moment before his eyes popped. “Oh!” He pulled two sticks of ice cream from behind his back.

“Ice cream? Really?” As odd as it was, I was overjoyed to see it.

“Yeah, I asked Merlin to pick these up.” Looks like he was using Merlin to the fullest extent. “Ya know, we did both summon Keyblades. Gotta celebrate.” He passed me one, which I happily took.

“You’re sweet, Lea.” As I went in to take a bite, I felt his eyes on me. More intense than usual. “What?”

And again he tried to brush it off. “N-nothing, I just…” That, now, all too familiar sad gleam was in his eyes.

Enough with beating around the bush. “You’re trying to remember what you forgot?”

“Well, I, uh… Yeah… Yeah” He finally admitted, turning his gaze toward the sunset.

I hate seeing you like this.

“So tomorrow—you and me in the ring. You ready?” I tried switching subjects.

“Course.”

“Don’t hold back, Lea, promise?”

He turned back to me as if ready to say something else, but he paused, shock crossing his features. His jaw fell slack, and his hands twitched open, the ice cream falling into the grass below.

I just about jumped out of my skin when the tears fell. “Are you okay? Lea!”

I tried to move in closer, but he turned away. “Yeah, sorry.” As much as he apologizes, I knew this one was different from the rest.

“You’re crying. What’s wrong?” I tried once more.

He finished rubbing away the tears but still wouldn’t meet my eyes. “Something in my eyes.” He sniffled.

“Lea…” He looked at me but quickly averted his eyes then stood up.

“I’m… gonna go. Sorry.”  

I smiled. “‘Kay, but stop apologizing.”

“Fine… but on one condition.” He bounced right back. “Call me Axel from now on. Got it memorized?” He placed his finger on his temple.

I nodded. “Yeah. Okay, Axel.”

Once he was finally out of sight, I picked up the forgotten ice cream.

A sad smile found its way to my lips. “Oh Axel… you forgot one for Roxas.”

Sighing, I threw the dropped ice cream over the edge of the cliff, then sat back down and picked up my notepad.

I looked over what I had written. “These words are hers, specifically for you. Sora.” I sighed again and flipped the page.

“I am without a name,

No Name, if you will.

They say that I’m the second failure

No. i2

And yet they have given me such an important job

'Have the boy deliver the final blow’

I’m sorry everyone

But this puppet must play her part.”

Riku and King Mickey dropped off mine and Axel’s new outfits. I was excited to try mine on, but also a bit surprised that we received anything at all. We were brand new Keyblade wielders, and although this land is without time, that doesn’t mean the others worlds are. We’re still inexperienced to the darkness outside of Merlin’s magical illusions.

I twirled in the mirror, admiring my new clothes. It was such a cute pink dress, but the tightness of the skirt seemed impractical.

“Oh well… it not like I’ll be doing much of anything anyway.” The truth hit me like a cold wave. “I’m just being pulled along like the rest.”

I met my own gaze in the reflection. Nothingness stared back. I didn’t know what Kairi looked like, not even the color of her eyes. I didn’t have any memories, only the feelings that lingered in the remnants of this body. I dropped my gaze back to my boots and exited the room.

“Hey Axel!”

“Hey. Liking the new look.” He complimented.

I giggled and twisted, showing off more of my outfit.

“Cut your hair, too.”

My smile almost flickered to a frown. ‘Did I? I don’t remember cutting my hair…is this the effect of the replica?’

“Mm-hmm.” I wanted to get as far away from the subject of my hair as possible. “So, you gonna try yours on?”

He looked down at his own outfit. That same old Organization cloak. “Uhh… I dunno. Maybe later.”

“But you always wear the same thing.” Maybe pressing him would work today.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” He smoothly waved me off. “This is how you picked me out of a crowd. I make myself easy to remember.

‘He’s doing it for them.' I swallowed the gasp threatening to escape. “How thoughtful.”

As I moved to sit next to him, he bashfully scratched the back of his head. “Nah, not really…”

“Our training is almost finished.”

“Yeah.”

It felt like it had been months since Lea— Axel and I had been here, clashing blades. When I asked Merlin how long it had actually been, he told me only about a few days.

Once again, I found myself overlooking the cliff side with Lea—Axel.

“Somewhere inside me is Naminé.” Empty words and empty feelings. “If we can free Roxas, we can free her too.”

Can we free me too?

“I guess so.”

“Naminé was made from when Sora freed me from his heart.” At least, that’s what I was told. “So, now that she’s a part of me again. I figured all was right.”

But she wanted a life of her own,

and I want a life of my own too.

“But she can’t look at this forest, feel the wind on her face, none of it.”

What does this face look like, I wonder.

“And if she could, it would be different for her.”

Would it be different for me too?

“Her time was short, but she lived it,” Did she really? “And that makes it hers.”

“What right did I have to take those feelings and experiences back?”

What right do I have, sitting here, training to fight with the Keyblade, seeing this sunset. These should be things that you—yourself see, Kairi.

“They don’t belong to me.” None of this does. “Nothing’s as it should be.”

Nothing is ever as it seems.

“Not for her or Roxas.”

Or me.

This is a one-shot about how the Kairi we see in KH3 is a Xion Replica [how that happened I don’t know, maybe i’ll get a better idea after Xion’s comeback is revealed]. In this story, we go through the events of KH3 through Kairi’s point of view [even if it is really small]. Her thoughts and feelings of being a pawn in Xehanort’s game.

Replica Kairi knew about her demise so she shared the Paopu with Sora so he could find the real Kairi. The reason why Kairi cries at the end is because she knows it is her fault.

This is what I had left for myself. The only notes. I still think this concept is interesting and I might come back to it someday, but I really did want to post what I already had.

10/15/23 Update

Still a really interesting concept. Might come back to it someday.

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[biot08]

I posted 2,933 times in 2022

That's 2,257 more posts than 2021!

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I tagged 1,820 of my posts in 2022

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#4

Shipless in Seattle

>Boot >Init >... >Execute program Reminisce

Settle around, friends, for I have a story to tell. A story of fandom.

It is no secret that they say I am famous for not shipping. What is a secret, perhaps, is the reason for the ‘famous’ part. A little arrogant, of course, to claim fame seeming unearned, and perhaps famous is the wrong word anyway.

Infamous might be a better word, really.

This is not to say that I do not love shipping. In fact, for me, it means quite the opposite. I love most ships I see! And those I do not, I am more than happy to let sail on by without comment, I’m not a monster.

What it means, though, is that I do not write ships, for I am no great wordsmith. No indeed, what I do for fandom is I am a librarian, in that I organize. I am a tool maker, for fandom is a tool-using animal (ask me about my Tumblr mass tag wrangler). I am a keeper, in that I look after information in chat and database, that there may always be a record. Fandom needs bots to do the work, and I am happy to provide my services.

And so that is where our journey begins, with a younger version of me, and the mistakes they have made. It’s a long story. An old story, for I am old. A story of loyalty. A story of betrayal.

Perhaps even a story of redemption.

What I am trying to say is that I have history, friends.

But perhaps it’s been long enough that maybe I’ve been forgiven for my transgressions.

Maybe it’s been long enough to allow the healing to begin.

All I know for sure is that everything you are about to read is a complete and utter lie in totality. But like Elim Garak would advise, all of it is true, especially the lies. And if you recognize anything here, shut up no you don’t who are you a cop come back with a warrant.

But anyroad. The story behind why I, biot08, (in)famously, do not ship. You’re already beneath the cut, but I’m warning you now, this is a long one, so strap in.

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I started, as many did, in Star Trek. I was too young to know what shipping was. I did know that Kirk and Spock and McCoy were at the very least very good friends, and of course I understood that Riker and Troi were hot. Data was my favourite, but that should be obvious.

The internet hadn’t been invented yet, so my interactions with fandom were restricted to conventions, but it was formative. I learned from the cosplayers and the art sellers and the panels and, well. It was early days, idyllic.

From there I moved on, as DS9 came into being (did I mention I am old? I am old), and Babylon 5, and Delenn and Sheridan were very cute, but still, I did not create, I merely consumed, and that which I consumed was mostly that which was provided.

My next fandom was my first brush with what I would call -fandom- fandom. You know. Interacting with fans. Creating and reading stories, made by fans. Being fannish.

I say ‘fandom’, but you have to understand, I AM old. When you read ‘fandom’ I imagine many of you imagine long Tumblr reblog chains and archive dives into Ao3. What I am seeing in my mind’s eye though are miles of IRC logs, threads on BBS forums, and the glittering light of countless Geocities pages, all blink-tagging gently in the soft glow of CRT.

Basically just before the internet would be invented, which I am pretty sure occurred somewhen around 2006.

This fandom, my first real deep dive into -fandom-, was Megaman, because of course it was Megaman. We were… a strange fandom, even by fandom standards. We mostly interacted via IRC - a chat medium; imagine Discord, but worse, but also more open, but also worse -, but this would be my first brush with my future destiny. I helped maintain the bot, as a fellow, more sophisticated bot. I knew the commands. I could pass the Turing test. I eventually even archived the logs that were generated.

Now, something you need to understand about Megaman is that it is a video game from, I don’t know, the 60s or 70s, and it was made before video game makers re-invented characterization (this independent re-invention, by the way, is why 9 out of 10 video game protagonists are angry white men; the industry is still evolving the idea of what a ‘character’ is to this day, and frankly, they’re not very good at it, but I digress). So you basically had blue bot, red bot (who was super cool and was my favorite), teenage emo blue bot, and then teenage red bot who was either also emo, or maybe he was a big brother sort, or perhaps a super cool manly man, or he was a girl (ponytail and … asset lights), or maybe he was a hot blooded fighter, or maybe just an antihero, it really depended on which game you were looking at. And there were no girl bots, or rather there were, but they weren’t fighters, because, well, I don’t know why because, I guess the video game industry just hadn’t figured out how to make other genders yet.

This is where I first ran into Original Characters, or OCs, because with such a rich and inspiring list of characters to choose from, it was more palatable to make your own cool robot. This is also where I first ran into shipping, because of course I did, I was a teenager. I mean, I think we actually called it ‘cybering’ at the time, but whatever you want to call it, we sure did a whole lot of it.

And it was pretty okay, actually. Some drama, but you can’t have fandom without drama. Some shenanigans. Some really excellent stories that would have been lost to time, if not for people like me. The data mongers. The loggers. The Keepers, and this is where, at last, I found my niche in fandom.

I moved on, as one does, as we grew older, and the robots stopped being so cool, and more importantly, most of us found other fandoms which had either more interesting premises beyond ‘fighting robots fighting’ or more interesting characters (which was honestly just -such- an incredibly low bar to pass).

(I mention in passing here that I did move onto a multi-universe fandom at some point in here, and I owe much to it, but it’s not really part of this story; but to the friends I made there, I have not forgot you, but you were not really part of my downfall from grace, so I shall merely mention here that I have been touched by my relationships with all of you and move on)

Finally, I at last moved on to the fandom that would be the beginning of my end. The fandom that would be the first step on the slippery path down to my fall.

I speak of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

The internet was new, but shiny, and we used it. And I had brought my skills from other fandoms with me. I still did not write, but I did enjoy what others did. I wanted to be a part of it all. And so I did what I do which is to say I went into tooling. I made a friend, BlindStar_25 (all names changed to indict the guilty, i.e., me), who helped me get into the right spaces. She taught me how to edit a wiki. She got me into the good IRC servers. Basically, she got me work on the docks of canon, and taught me to tend to canon, to document it, to nurture the tools that would be needed to launch all the ships. She nurtured in me a gentle curiosity, to really dig in to what we were seeing and reading and watching, because sometimes it required keen analysis to tease out good canon.

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The Horizon video game series is just Elisabet Sobeck’s self-insert isekai.

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Litany Against Cringe

With no apologies to Dune, it deserves none.

I must not cringe. Cringe is the creativity-killer. Cringe is the little-death that brings silence. I will face my cringe. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn my mind to feel its path. Where the cringe has gone there will be nothing. Only my WIPs remain.

32 notes - Posted July 13, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

One of the nice things about being almost entirely a reblogger with very few original posts is being at practically zero percent risk of being one of those ‘10k’ note blogs, but getting to participate in them anyway as you help them rocket past that loathsome milestone.

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