#I'm more active on Twitter and Discord nowadays

[somenerdfromwhatever]

I haven’t seen The Owl House but can we just talk about how Disney did this show dirty?

Let me preface this by saying that, as of the time of me writing this, I have NOT seen The Owl House in its entirety l yet. I could be in the progress of it after posting, but honestly as an outsider looking in given the entire Season 3 fiasco, Disney did this show dirty.

Like three specials only? Nothing more nothing less? With that happening due to outcry because originally it was going to get canned after the release of Season 2?

I don’t think it was a fair deal to end with three specials. Season 3 should’ve gotten the fanfare it deserved even with the outcry. Like, it is the weakest compromise possible even with mass support.

I’m going to paraphrase some bits of what I addressed to people on discord and additional information I learnt.

I’m surprised there wasn’t more of an active effort to fight back against the cancellation since it first blew up upon announcement. Like “doesn’t fit the branding?” Didn’t Gravity Falls face something similar? By that logic, this doesn’t make sense at all. I feel like Disney’s “brand theming” excuse is really dodgy, and it seems like there was some foul play involved. But I didn’t see the fandom actively pushing back, even the creator, who did speak out about it. (Note: I haven’t been on Twitter for over a year and a half, so I might not be fully aware of everything.) If I watch it and it’s as amazing as people say… given how I am passionate about things in this world, I won’t let Disney live this down. It’s like treating art as a joke just to fill their pockets and the corruption the industry has over artists. We saw this last year with the strikes and given the current state with the companies running the industry nowadays (the streaming bubble, and that the whole cartoon mass purge thanks to Max)... artists are now having their creativity die out because of industry folk like Disney.

If there was pushback, I’m glad there was at least some effort to score these three specials. But if this is how far it went, it feels like an unfair compromise. Three specials aren’t enough, honestly. Even if they’re good, it doesn’t negotiate anything at all as it still feels like Disney did this show dirty. Let me be clear here as well: I am NOT beating down anyone who has taken the effort to get this. Why the hell would I do that? I'm happy you guys managed to get your voice out there and left and impact. Those three specials were hard fought, I just wish there was more because honestly, it isn't enough. And if the resentment I'm seeing is anything to go by a year later, I say keep fighting. I am also not beating down Dana, the showrunner. Dana is an amazing creator, and the fact that she stood her ground at all with her cast and crew is incredible. My problem is with the corporation, with Disney, and how they put her in a position where that fight couldn’t be won in the way it should have been. I understand the fight it takes to get your foot in the door of the industry. If I were to turn around and beat down someone like Dana, who fought for her vision just like I’m fighting for mine? I would never live that down. It would stain me for life. Considering the industry itself is small and how I am going into it in post-production, sometime down the line, I will be faced with working with her. The last thing I want is burning a bridge inadvertently. I can understand why she acted the way that she did with her crew, it's just with a lot more vocality and support, things might've been different.

Like I don’t get Disney’s thought process here. You have a big, popular show, and then you “old yeller” it, giving it this slow death and then dragging it out with this… in my honest opinion; weak compromise. That is scummy and why us artists and creatives need a reform to the entertainment industry where we drive the vision and what Disney and others do come second.

At best, it did what it was supposed to do. At worst… it’s not enough.

With everything that the fanbase done including the cast, crew, and even Dana, while I'm happy they managed to end it, I feel like there should have been more active effort. I do notice there is still a lot of resentment and I mean A LOT OF RESENTMENT. I noticed a lot of the fandom got a hashtag trending, some fanart mailed into Disney itself, but I'm surprised there isn't like a full on physical protest. Online can only do so much. Like imagine a D23 but everyone is in their cosplay of the show with signs having references to whatever the show has going on. I mean, sure, it is unheard of, but consider the compromise, how it was censored in other countries, maybe even how mistreated it got during the making of Season 3. Go to the heart of where decisions are made. If you feel strongly about the compromise, take that energy and turn it into real action. As an outsider who is about to come on, I feel you so much. I hope the show is really good when I watch it, but in case if I don't, you guys really deserve better. Honest. I could be wrong in all this there's more to the story then I realize, so please go easy with this. Thank you.

[empirelead]

Happy 10 Year Anniversary

And I missed it by two days since I started roleplaying as Kuvira on 10/17/14.

As you can see, I haven't really committed for the past year. For that, I apologize; as you can already tell if you follow me elsewhere, my interest had shifted but that doesn't mean I no longer love Kuvira. She's still my pookie baby kitty cat meow meow skrunkle munchkin girl.

I do wanna be active on here again. I do missed writing Kuvira. I especially missed writing with y'all. But it has been hard trying to get back into the game, ya know? Since, like I said, my interest shifted. Not going to lie, I found myself feeling lighter and less depressed now that I'm not longer really active in the ATLA/TLOK fandom in general. And it might stay that way for a little longer until I get that spark back.

If I do roleplay, it'll be on my BG3/OC blog. I'm planning to remake.

I still got a ton of good memories I made roleplaying as Kuvira, so thank you to those who wrote with me and stuck around. You guys are the best and I love you all. If you wish to keep contact with me, feel free to follow me on:

Twitter

Tumblr: @larissel (though, I'm more active on Twitter nowadays)

or

My Discord handle is larissel.

[ardenssolis]

Name — Shi

Pronouns — she/her or they/them

Preferred comms — Discord buuut I don't like giving my Discord out unless we've been interacting and talking for a while nowadays, so I am trapped in the hell known as IM until then. Honestly, though, I have a tendency to get into writing or doing other things and forget anyone talked to me sometimes either way so--- 😭

Name of muse — Ozymandias

Experience in RP — I've been rping since I was a kid back in forever ago before I even really knew what rping was. It all started on a chat site and I wasn't sure what was going on but I liked it LMFAO. I think it was probably about middle school-ish time for me. 6th grade I guess??? So a while.

Best experiences — AAAAA many! I think some of my best experiences rping was when I was doing things with my friends on Twitter and Deviantart. They always inspired me to draw and we were constantly designing characters / joining art rp groups back then which helped me improve drastically. Ughugh I miss doing things like that sometimes.

Pet peeves / dealbreakers — Godmodding. The quickest way to make me drop a thread is making Ozy do something or saying he did something without consulting with me. That's a pretty big dealbreaker for me as I've been put in really uncomfortable situations as a result of people doing this. Also instantly coming at me with ship ideas is a bit of a put off if we like...have literally done one thing / I barely even know you. I had that happen day one of me making Ozy and it almost made me want to leave before I even did anything. Only time I will shake you around and be like, "yeah let's gooooo!" is if we've known one another a long time / I'm comfortable enough to do that.

Muse preference ( fluff, angst, smut ) — That depends. I love writing things where it's deeply discussion based over beliefs, philosophies, and the like. Emotionally charged threads too since that gets my muse really going, but it doesn't need to quite be angst so IDK AAAAAA. Fluff is okay sometimes, although Ozy isn't exactly 'fluffy' most of the time and it's a 50/50 with him and his fickle moods. Smut is nice to write every now and then too because there can be a lot of characterization in intimate moments like this. I don't think I have any kind of definite preference when I think about it -rubs chin-

Plot or memes — Memes usually (or just throwing unprompted stuff in my inbox)! My attention span is absolutely terrible. I like plotting but I have a tendency to slowly lose interest if it goes on for a while as I like getting the barebones as to what we're going to do, have some discussion, then jumping straight into making a thread. Discussing things as we go along and have things already started is just more fascinating for me.

Long or short replies — I loooove long replies, but those tend to be done at a slower pace unless the muse is really gripping me by the throat. I remember the days when I wasn't working and I could get through like ten threads a day or something but thinking about that now has me like, "how did I even do this?" So a nice mixture of short and long is nice! That way I can pick and choose what I feel like replying to that day.

Best time to write — In the weeee hours of the night mainly -- and with music! ////

Are you like your muse — Not even remotely amg. Ozy's too much of everything. He's loud, he's arrogant, and his confidence levels are off the charts on a good day whereas I prefer to be left to my devices, avoiding conversation or faking it till I make it with people, and then dying when I get home because boy was that too much extroverted activity for me FKJSDFHKSDFDS

Tagged by: @lobiita (thank you turbo!)

Tagging: Take it!

[inanimate-insanity-headcanons]

Rules, Info, and FAQ

Rules:

1. No NSFW asks. This account is run by a minor and is followed primarily by minors. 2. I reserve the right to not publish headcanons that make me uncomfortable. This very rarely happens, but if I find an ask too dark or suggestive it will be trashed. 3. For a look at the kind of people we do not welcome, please see here.

This is really all you need, but for more info please keep reading under the cut.

Info:

1. Characters are tagged as "#[name] [source]" [ex. #suitcase ii] 2. There are also tags such as #headcanons or #not a headcanon 3. For the sake of simplicity headcanons that reference a whole team will just be tagged as "#[team name]" [ex. #bright lights] 4. As of now, all object shows are allowed. The name is simply for nostalgia, since it started off as just an II blog. Feel free to submit from any show! 5. For info regarding the collective of pet/family headcanons, please see the "if you're new" section.

FAQ:

-Are mod applications open? Nope, just me, sorry!

-Who are you? I'm YPA [he/she. It stands for Yang pet anon, and I was as long time anon on this account before eventually gaining ownership sometime in mid 2021. For my main account, feel free to take a peek at @y3esy!

-Why hasn't my headcanon been posted? a] I deleted it [hasn't happened yet] b] tumblr messed something up c] I simply haven't gotten around to it

-What's your favorite object show? I used to be very into Inanimate Insanity [hence my name], but now I tend to spend my days rewatching ATCOE for the most part.

-YPA, where have you BEEN!! It's hard to say nowadays. My interest in object shows is still very prevalent, but I get easily distracted and overwhelmed. I'm much more active on my twitter and discord, @y3esy and @cylinderlightyaoi.

-Is there anywhere ELSE I can find you? Of course! I run an OSC hangout server where you can share headcanons without having to submit them first. Sound interesting? Check it out here.

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How the blog looked originally

Uploaded 6/21/24

[lywnx]

hello!!!! I'm thinking of starting commissions and was wondering if you have any advice? I don't want to do anything super serious yet, my skill isn't good enough yet, but I figure for 7 bucks someone somewhere may want something I'm willing to draw.. idk you do comms and your art is very pretty so I figure you'd be a good person to ask

AWW thank you!! this is gonna be a bit long sooooo!! more under the cut!!

the first thing is to not undercharge your work. some artists start by selling their work for 1usd, 2usd and think this might make others more interested bc its cheap right? but thts not how it works. the price you put is how much your comm is WORTH. when i first came back to instagram (with NO following) my prices were $10 for a bust, $15 for a halfbody and $25 for a fullbody. keep in mind i worked faster back then but my quality wasnt the same that it is today. so generally u should aim for similar prices, this way youre not losing too much and not underselling yourself. even if it doesnt take long to draw, people are still paying for ur knowledge and time. doesnt matter if u take 20 mins or 3 hours. n its likely to get peoples attention too, since a $15 piece might be better in quality than a $1 piece right? once youve got a stable income, you can start by upping your prices. i always like to tell people to keep a difference between prices since each piece is very different. a fullbody by me costs $95 today, for the fact the composition takes a bit to create, its a more complex piece, etc. so dont go with 15 - 20 - 25. try to go with 10 increments at the very LEAST. 'oh but i am not getting as much comms anymore!!' ur working less for more money. now ur taking ONE $40 commission instead of 3 $15 commissions. another thing is, giving how all social medias are not fit for artists right now, things will be a bit harder. when i first started i had access to twitter and instagram algorithm wasnt so bad. nowadays, differnt story. but do NOT let this stop you. take advantage from all sites available to you, promote your art everywhere. a good tip is to be present online. interact with your public, others, share their works, create a community. this is what matters the most. this is what will get you far. i also reccomend discord serves tons (u can join mine! its on my carrd), as u can reach even more people. try to keep ur social media as active possible. but also REMEMBER TO TAKE BREAKS. ur mental health is also important and burnout is something serious. no matter how hard this can be, u got this. remember, that artist that gets $300 in a comm also had to start somewhere. u can do this.

[koi-star-vera]

Ngl, I'm really just the most active on discord (koivera_flames), twitter (Koivera1) and Wattpad (Chaotic_Nights) than anywhere else, I really love to be more active in other places but it's either a place I have bad memories in or I really don't know what to do in there

All I ever do nowadays is look around, speak out thoughts, roleplay, chat with friends (on discord but I'm never in big/public servers, they frighten me) and write stuff on wattpad though it does seem like not much since it takes a while to write. Currently writing that one oneshot request I have on my spr oneshots book that's quite angsty (1x / reader platonic) in a somewhat consistent but slow manner, I hope I don't mess this up because I've had uh shortcomings with some oneshots and the last 1x / reader platonic angst I ever wrote had the messiest ending I didn't desire for it so, I'm hoping that I'll do better with this one.

[auspicious-voice]

A Post about the Future of AUSPICIOUS VOICE

Hi, I thought of making this post as I've been going to making changes to what I'd like to do with this project in the future.

If you're interested, read more under the cut. Nothing too bad and all, I promise. It'll be split into sections, and this might be the last time I'll address this for now.

Change in Vocalsynth-related Activities

As I've had a more sporadic schedule with uploading UTAU media, I've been developing more non-vsynth related interests that I find to be more enjoyable than just using plain old UTAU. It's been helping me branch out of UTAU quite a bit, really.

Covers

I've already stated in a previous post that I wouldn't be uploading covers every week and that I would upload whenever I can (on a sporadic basis), but now I've decided that starting next year (2024), I would like to make the effort to upload something once in a while - if I have the energy for it. At best I could be uploading something once a month, but I don't know. Making covers takes a lot of energy out of me nowadays and it is isn't really fun just working on them non-stop. The me from 5 years ago would've had more time and energy to pump out more covers, but I just can't really afford having that taking up so much of my time now.

Much like my recent uploads, if I were to upload a new cover next year, it will most likely be complete with art and a PV to go along with it. I've been practicing simple mograph using Alight Motion and After Effects in my free time, so maybe that'll be an advantage :)

Anniversary Uploads

The tradition of making video uploads celebrating my UTAUs' anniversaries will still be up and about, and I have plans for Maria and Mario's 9th and 10th anniversaries, especially the latter. The only anniversary I missed was in 2018, when it was 3 years since Maria and Mario were released to the public.

They might just be simple PVs at this point, but what I'd like to do is try to update Maria and Mario's fullbody artwork for their 9th anniversary, and maybe special designs for anniversary purposes. I've been meaning to make a retrospective post, but that'll come before their 10th anniversary.

And after their 10th anniversary, I will still upload anniversary covers because at that point that might the only UTAU-related thing I'll ever upload LOL.

Community Activity

When I was really active in the UTAU community, much of my community interaction was through Twitter. I don't use Twitter anymore for the sake of my wellbeing, and with that my interactions with the community significantly decreased over time. I only talk to a select number of people in the community at this point, mostly on Discord. Any inquiries about this project are to be sent to my e-mail, preferably over DMs.

Of course when it comes to YouTube and BiliBili uploads, I try to heart and reply to peoples' comments - while I am not able to reply to all comments, I appreciate them nonetheless. So my community activity is pretty much minimal at this point, and you'll probably just catch me working on animatics, OC projects, and other kinds of things that I enjoy doing apart from UTAU - if you're into that kind of thing that is.

UTAU as a Hobby

This one's a doozy, I guess.

Truth be told, I'm falling out of UTAU for the past couple of months. It's not that I find it boring - from making voicebanks to covers - it's just that I don't have the time and energy to use it anymore. In fact, it's more like a waste of my time when I could be working on other passion projects. When I first started out in 2014, I couldn't imagine myself falling out of the hobby anytime soon, but that's becoming even more of a reality.

Well, UTAU will end up being a smaller hobby of mine because my love for vocalsynths still goes strong - in terms of songs that is. I find myself finding new producers whose works I actually enjoy listening to instead of just hopping on cover and voicebank usage bandwagons because that's the Hot New Thing going around. I'll probably be that one person who just compiles a playlist of vocalsynth songs I like and then listen to them like there's no tomorrow. Maybe some cover inspiration will come out of that, or something.

As for new hobbies and interests that I've picked up... Keyboards is one small hobby that I'm interested in! I have my own custom keyboard that I modded but I'll have to lube the switches in the future. And new interests are mostly mecha/robot related, but to be fair the first media I ever consumed had to do SOMETHING with mecha, so it did...come full circle.

So with that being said, with old hobbies of mine becoming either irrelevant or something I'd like to indulge in (but not as much), the new interests and hobbies that I've picked up are something I'm more invested in. 2023 has been a pretty weird year in a good way, I guess.

Project Plans

No, I won't be shelving this project next year. It will still be alive and well, it's just that the activity on this project will be smaller than ever.

Voicebank Development and Status

I won't be quitting voicebank development just yet; Maria and Mario's DiffSinger voicebanks are currently in development for God knows how long, but I've been working on them at my own pace and my free time. I think it is safe to say that once I release these voicebanks, I'll be done with voicebank development once and for all, only working on small maintenance updates if I have to. Much like making covers, making voicebanks takes a lot of time and energy to devote to.

I want to make Maria and Mario's DiffSinger voicebanks sound good, and so far I'm about halfway done with recording Mario's dataset as of writing this post. Maria's dataset progress will start next year, hopefully. I'll try and figure out the whole multispeaker schtick but GOD Colab does hate me.

Maria and Mario will still be available for download, and I don't think I will discontinue them anytime soon. I would love to see them being used in all sorts of audiovisual work even when I'm not actively working on this project.

New Voicebanks...?

As Maria and Mario are the only UTAUs associated with this project, I don't have any plans adding new UTAUs. When I first started this project in 2014, it was all about Maria and Mario and how much I wanted to make lots of song covers with them - mostly the songs that I loved.

I did have plans for adding in new UTAUs for this project, but that won't be the case anymore. Devoting my time and energy to two UTAUs is already enough.

Site Updates

I won't be updating this site as much from this point, simple as that. I'm satisfied with the way this site looks, so no needless site revamping!!

The only times I will post here are when I upload a new cover, so no fan content promos and all, unfortunately.

Signing Off

So this will be my last post about the future of AUSPICIOUS VOICE. It'll be a smaller project compared to my other ones, and once I'm finished with Maria and Mario's DiffSinger voicebanks, they'll be the last voicebanks I'll ever release for them. Cover uploads will come by once in a while (or once a month if I feel like it), and this site will see very few updates. Also anniversary uploads are still a thing, and my interactions with the community are still at a minimum. And Maria and Mario are still available for download. :)

With that being said, UTAU's one hell of a ride, but I'm at that point where I'm devoting my time towards other things that are worth my time and energy. Out with UTAU (for like the most part), and in with OCs, animatics, and other bits of media I like doing best!

See you later,

- HIRA

[risaonda]

so hi! if ur seeing this that means my queue is actually officially empty and this is the last thing that's gonna post. i am ditching tumblr so fast because simply put i do not enjoy using it anymore and it actually like actively makes me mad being on here nowadays, and i decided i'd rather just like. use my time to do literally anything else lol

i know i have that other post up but i'm turning notifications off for tumblr bc i'm sick of getting daily (and multiple throughout the day as well) notifications of bots following me ^_^ so i will just put my discord here now since i won't actually see any messages: my venus wenus of course#6436 (i never updated my username and as of me writing this that still works so TEEHEE) feel free to add me on there :^)

as for other places i've ended up using twitter a bit more of all things? it will never be x to me sorry. still not on there a lot but i'm there more than i am here so lol i'm petalblast over there. i probably won't ever post art there tho so my instagram risa.onda would be a good place to keep up with that instead (of course it's entirely at the mercy of. me making art, i'm working on getting back into the groove)

THAT SAID...i thought abt it and my story/oc sideblog here (url of @petalblast as Well) i'll probably still use to post story/oc specific stuff for the sake of keeping it all in a place together but again, that's at the mercy of me making any of that. i'd prefer to be on here as little as possible at this point so whenever it does come up i'll most likely just drop a post and then dip out again. but i definitely do want to go back to working on that so who knows, maybe i'll hit a burst of inspiration and have a lot to post in the future

this blog will still be up of course but it just probably won't post anything from this point on. rip to a legend, absolute ride and i love u all hope to keep in touch, hopefully everything everywhere gets better at some point or at least stops absolutely barrelling down the hill at the speed of light bc i know i'm not the only one so so tired LOL. sorry this was so much more text than i expected to write anyway byeeeeeee <3

[magicalgirlpictureencyclopedia]

So, I'm still trying to figure out what to do with this page, but I feel it may be best for me to migrate here rather than using the MagicalGirloftheDay account a lot on Twitter. It's very odd that nowadays Tumblr for me is fairly quiet, but my Twitter and Discord experiences lately in the magical girl community have been really parasocial? Thankfully, my DM's are only open to followers on there, but with 7K+ followers in comparison to the 133 here it's a lot more peaceful. To anyone who does follow my page there, it was down last week due to this kind of behavior (ie me trying to make things work with friends/followers, but it doesn't :/)

I think messaging for submissions and such is fine, but people being upset when I can't talk to them, sending me their medical information unprompted, begging me to talk to them, etc, was/is the typical experience on Twitter. Last week I decided to distance myself from someone who has done these things, as it's too much stress to have friends who are followers that seem to expect me to available to their emotional needs 24/7. The entire incident spiraled, and due to it happening during ACEN weekend it took me until Saturday morning to try and calm down. Telling people you muted them, get angry, etc (esp bigger accounts on their social media) as if it's their responsibility is beyond toxic. This was also someone I continously had issues with, but I think the other stuff along with the recent messages made me opp out of the entire friendship. ACEN was supposed to be relaxing, and dealing with someone else's expectations honestly ruined the trip for me.

Anyway, I'm stating this to say that when this if the page does become more active to not do these things. Do not beg me to message you. Do not dm requests for money, and then do it under the guise of mental illness. Do not flood my account every 30 seconds because I'm not responding, as I'm nearly 30 years old, I work regularly, and am not always near my phone. Do not also do the "um, actually" magical girl fandom stuff Twitter is infamous for, where you come to correct me on stuff I'm correct about, either. This is not how you curate friendships or acquaintanceships, and I'm not so sure why people think this will get them into anyone's social graces instead of being blocked.

Please... just be normal and not dm big accounts on Twitter and Discord weird shit/guilt trip messages. Even when making friends not tied to the Twitter mg space, it seems the more demanding ones always end up in my Discord space to carry the behavior there as well. I guess I'm too patient with people and need to remove people the first time they do these things instead of talking things out, as it's ruining my mental health.

[themostefficientwaywithwater]

does anybody else here remembers old online forums? those made with vbulletin, that were about a certain videogame, a certain manga or anime, or a certain hobby (although they usually had a miscellaneous section or channel). does anybody else here miss them too?

because with the uprising of social media (twitter, facebook, reddit, tumblr), there's less and less each year. the ones still standing today are mostly dead. people just use discord or reddit nowadays, so the activity is low or straight-up nonexistent.

and now internet feels. ephemeral. even in reddit, if you make an interesting thread, no matter how popular it becomes it'll stop getting interactions in less than a week. when you made a thread on a forum, it could stay active for weeks, months, even years. now, everything must be instant. only the now exists.

it also feels more... impersonal. because these interactions are not long term, it's difficult for me to see people instead of just... users. content makers. these are not platforms that incentivize interactions besides a like and a repost. comenting is there, but with those other ones, is almost never used unless you really have something to say. in forums, all you could do to interact with someone was to post. to *talk*. even if it was just to say that you thought their drawing was pretty. now that we have a shortcut for these interactions, is very difficult to actually speak with people about your interests.

maybe i'm just being the cranky old man that yells at cloud. maybe it's just nostalgia talking. but i feel like the internet is more isolating than before, made for quick content and quick interactions. that saying of "what you release to the internet stays forever" no longer is true. if it weren't for internet's archive, thousands of websites, thousand of conversations, of works of art, of history, would be forever erased. nothing stays anymore. if i wasn't tired i would give a lengthy explanation about why it's actually capitalism's fault, but today is a long day that is far from over.

but i know something changed about how internet works. and is not for the better.

[ryuuseirune]

As someone who likes DoL a lot (240 hours logged since last year)... I've never felt like there's a shortage of fanmade content for it. Many of my favorite artists on twitter are DoL fans and regularly draw art for it. Typo (typpo8), Tnso/rabbitguy, and Baiwa/Frog (byebyefr0g) have posted some cool DoL stuff if you're looking for recommendations. There's so many DoL fans online if you know where to look! It has a massive Chinese-speaking fanbase, so if you understand how to navigate Chinese fandom tags you can probably find even more. I feel like I see Sydney stuff at least every other day on the bird app lol.

I've also played a bit of CoC, but I've never seen it in the wild. So... I looked it up to see if there really is a shortage of fanworks, and found that there's actually quite a lot. On rule34, there's like 1.8k results for CoC 1 + 2 and only 1.6k for Funger 1+2. On Sad Panda/exhentai, there's a 432-page ongoing CoC comic that was last updated 3 days ago (September 30, 2024) and 73 other user-uploaded media. In comparison, funger only has 19 entries on exhentai as of the time I'm searching. (DoL has none, in case you're wondering).

I think it all depends on what sites you're on and the people you engage with. What kind of people like the media you're searching for? Are you considering all avenues? As someone who has scoured the deepest parts of the internet to discover pornography that suits my (incredibly specific) tastes, sometimes you'll find hidden vistas around every corner. Discords, surprisingly active forums, image boards (aka booru), Reddit communities, mastodon instances (aethy, baraag)... the list goes on and on.

If you're having trouble finding fandom spaces, I think all of the sites I mentioned above are decent options. It's really easy for fanworks to get lost on larger sites, so I'd stick to the smaller sites if possible. And, if you still can't find anyone after exhausting all your English options, maybe learn a couple languages for fun. (I'd say just kidding, but I'm really not.) Go join a super topic on Weibo. Support Japanese artists on Fantia and Pixiv. There's 2ch.hk if you speak Russian, though you might need to dig a bit before you find fandom stuff lol.

Also, I was talking with a fandom friend about image boards and she actually didn't know they existed, which made me realize that there's probably a lot of newer tumblr users who are unfamiliar with imageboards as a concept. They're basically sites exclusively made for uploading visual media (images/videos/gifs) and sorting them via functional tagging systems, usually with an entirely separate forum section for discussion.

There's a lot of imageboards out there with a lot of different uses/fanbases. I mentioned Rule 34 earlier, which has a lot of stuff for Western cartoons and Overwatch but it's also probably the most well-known image board nowadays just because of its iconic name. Danbooru and Gelbooru are the most popular ones for anime-adjacent stuff. There's also joibooru, which allows captions to pictures. Don't use Sankaku Complex (does that site still exist?); its tag search system is horrid and it doesn't provide image sources (not cool!). If you're a furry, e621 is good because it lets you sort between types of furries (canid, bovine, avian etc). Ehentai technically isn't an image board since you can also share files other than images, but it's been around since 1999 and has one of the largest databases of manga/doujin like... ever. And it has sooooo many images. If you're not using it as a fan of 2000s-2010s manga/anime/games, you're missing out. Its sister site exhentai hosts more extreme/controversial content, and you need an ehentai account to access it - otherwise you get a picture of a Sad Panda. Hence why users colloquially call it Sad Panda. You can also find scans of certain official media on there, so I'd consider getting an account if you want to scrounge up a high-quality PDF of that Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver guidebook you got from the Scholastic book fair when you were a child... just saying.

Anyway, all this to say... never give up hope in finding the porn you want. It's out there somewhere. And if it isn't... I guess that means you've just gotta make it yourself! Or pay someone else to. Or both. (If I revealed how much money I've spent on commissions over the past three years, I think I'd feel a moderate amount of embarrassment at my poor financial management.) I hope you find what you need, anon. I've struggled similarly but just know your people are out there somewhere.

do you ever think about how even though sex and sexuality is a HUGE part of fandom culture and often the main appeal for many people, it's considered weird to be a fandom-level Fan of something that is objectively meant to be porn? like, i somewhat get it with 3-episode shows that clearly just exist to be fetish material and have no real depth, but when it comes to genuine works of art like Corruption of Champions, or Degrees of Ludity, your usual fan spaces have so little room to work. i find it odd, seeing as horror doesn't seem to have the same issue? there's a LOT in Fear And Hunger that you just straight-up cannot depict on tumblr, but that doesn't stop people from drawing tons of fanart and openly loving the characters. but for so many amazing porn games, it's total radio silence.

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There are fanvids of CockyBoys on AO3. There are some regulars at ye olde slash cons who are always ready with the live action porn recs. Tagame is pretty popular.

You phrased this like it was a general question, but you're talking about something very specific: porn games.

I think the fanworks makers who like CoC hang out on image boards full of dude users and f/monster noncon content. At least, that's where I remember seeing it mentioned.

[jyushimatsu-falls-in-love]

Rating: T (swear words, Ichi's a pervert) Relationships: Ichi/Homura (or Homura/Ichi, rather :P) Characters: Ichi and Homura Summary: Ichimatsu catches a bad fever, and Homura takes care of him.

I should’ve uploaded this here hours ago orz

This is my super last-minute entry for @jallematsu‘s Bottom Ichimatsu zine!! (contains NSFW and BLmatsu) I was told SFW entries were allowed despite the R-18 rating, so I decided to write up a quick something for it. Something incredibly self-indulgent and sappy, might I add =///w///= (seriously though this has to be one of the most self-indulgent things I’ve ever written thus far for the Ososan fandom hhhh I love domestic Ichimura fluff ♥ I should write more next time)

Many thanks to @hypercatt for being my beta for this fic!! Your comments made me really happy huhuhu ;///v///;

Please enjoy, and tell me what you think!! ( ; ▽ ; )/

[bscully]

Hi! First of all, I wanted to say I really enjoy your analysis of Berserk. Secondly, I wanted to ask, do you engage at all with the Berserk fandom outside of Tumblr? Personally I have found that I can only stomach discussions about Berserk on Tumblr or with friends irl. The takes and humor (constant jokes about SA, specifically at the expense of victims) on Reddit and Discord, for instance, are so rancid. Is SK.net any better, or is it more or less the same as the subreddits? I'm just trying to figure out if there are any online spaces with Berserk discussion that's similarly nuanced to what you see on Tumblr.

Hey there thank you for the ask,

In the beginning I mostly interacted with people here on tumblr. Then the pornban happened and the fandom was really quiet for a while. Nowadays I'm very active on twitter, a rather cozy and welcoming community (also lgbta friendly, from what ive seen) actually formed around my account @/HandOfSchnoz over time. I don't like those SA or Donovan jokes either, majority of them happen at the expense of victims tbh. AFAIK r/Berserk Reddit and official r/Berserk Discord are partially moderated by members of SK.net. You just gotta look at what kind of atmosphere is being accepted/nurtured there and snoop around a little to figure out why I am not active on any of these communities. I was "dogpiled" once by their admins (read: members of SK.net) for doing a mistake on reddit, and they made fun of a particular article too (I wrote it in 2019 and the chapters to come actually solidified it even more). I am not the only one this has happened to, either. These communities are too busy making fun of any new theories and enjoy making fun of the people who come up with them. There is an extreme bias because of this. Also shows how little they actually understand of Miura's work. I entered the fandom in 2017 and I feel like I understood more in this brief time than these communities as collective did in the +10 years they existed.

Nuanced discussion may actually get you in trouble on SK.net. Then again A) I don't have heard good things from it based on hearsay and B) members of their community haven't treated me kindly either, so I am biased. Before I do a recommendation, you should go see for yourself (but brace yourself at the same time, since there is usually a true story to rumors)

There might be other Discord communities that seem to be good, such as the Berserk n Chill server. I only was briefly active on it, but I remember reading some good convos on there. If you're having problems connecting with the right fans, throw yourself out there and make your own community!

[appocalipse]

About thr less and less fandom interaction

In general the fandom slows down after a few months of the release of a show or season, so it's normal that fics will get less notes or the amount of fics that are written goes down significantly, because the initial hype is slowly dying. Which is sad to see, people nowadays (at least I'm guilty of it) can't hold their attention onto one thing for a longer period of time. It's also due to that we are constantly getting new stuff because of streaming. Netflix and co, come up with new stuff every month that is good so it's easy to get roped into other stuff and lose focus on that one thing.

I've been here since 2019 (not on this blog but I had another before) and basically in 2020/21 and even in the beginning of this year the ST fandom was not very active, there were less fanfics or interactions (from my perspective as I was also in other fandoms). In 2020 there was a short time during the pandemic that was pretty active, because most people had to stay home, rediscover the show etc. I found many new blogs during that time that are still around, but in those two years there were times, where they were barely online because there was no new content really.

Plus like others said, fandom nowadays is so much more spread out on different sites. For example many people here also use Discord, they have their groups there. Then we have tiktok, which no thank you for me because the takes I've seen give me a headache. Reddit is also huge, like twitter, tumblr and various fanfiction sites to publish your stuff. Sometimes I wish we could have less places, to have a tighter community.

Tumblr is my fav site despite the glaring issues we have on here, I def think due to the new labels some content gets lost because not everyone has them on but I like the vibe here more than on twitter or tiktok.

Also in terms of fics, we just had promptober/smutober a lot of stuff was posted this month, I think it's natural people wanting to get a break, recharge for 12 days of Christmas for example.

A year from now we will even have less content, until the new season starts and depending on the end of the show the fandom will slowly die out over time, as sadly as it is.

You've said it all! I agree with everything. Sadly, the fandom will probably start dying down, especially after the final season. </3

I'll be here for as long as I can, though. I love tumblr, l love the vibe as you said and for me, it's the best place to post fics and interact with the community. I think the only thing we can do for now is enjoy the time we have left, make it count, reblog, leave comments, interact…

Also, the anon earlier was saying that the interaction was dying down in all fandoms, I think, not only for ST. I have no idea why, though 🥺 I'm hoping it'll get better as we approach Christmas, seeing as people will probably have a little more time to read/write.

[thealexchen]

Do you have any tips for dealing with online hate? I know I shouldn’t let it get to me, but I got called an abuse apologist for liking chloe by someone with a pretty big following and it’s been messing with me a lot. I don’t condone Chloe’s coping mechanisms and I know she’s made a lot of mistakes, but I don’t think she’s irredeemable and I feel like it’s really unfair and cruel to call people who relate to her abuse apologists…

Wow, yeah. I’m really sorry to hear that happened to you. I don’t have a ton of advice because I fortunately have not received any severe hate messages, but here are some habits I learned that have improved my overall experience on social media:

Be clear and curate your experience: You’re not obligated to take anyone’s shit. If you expressed to this person your intentions and told them what you told me (you don’t condone her behavior, it’s cruel to call someone an abuse apologist, etc.) and they still won’t listen, that’s their problem, not yours. It’s perfectly alright to unfollow, block, and move on. And you don’t even have to block people who are actively harassing you; there’s no rules for unfollowing or blocking and you can shape your content consumption in any way you like.

Remember it’s fiction: Fiction and media are powerful, influential tools that can change lives and start meaningful discussions, but at the end of the day all these stories are just ideas hatched by people. Characters, and their stories and behavior, aren’t real and aren’t affected by any audience member’s opinion of them. They are also not always reflective of the author’s perspective or intentions. Fictional characters do not have the same psychological impact as real abusive people. Similarly, liking imperfect characters doesn't mean you're a bad person, problematic, or an abuse apologist. Flaws and mistakes are what make characters interesting, nuanced, realistic, and even likable. There’s no such thing as a perfect, unproblematic person or character, and it’s all a part of what makes us human.

Don’t take it personally: If this person’s accusations aren’t just limited to you, it’s likely they don’t actually have a problem with you but are just looking to start drama with anyone who disagrees with them, and their followers just reinforce an echo chamber. Those kinds of people are especially unproductive because they don’t care about the harm they create, only clout.

Changing platforms: Whatever social media site this hate is occurring on, you’re also not obligated to stay there. I’m on Tumblr because it’s long past its prime and has become a (shockingly) chill place where I can just blog about my interests and chat with others. I used to be more active on Reddit, but I got tired of the LiS2 hate and joined Discord. Even then, I’ve been through my fair share of bad servers and nowadays I’m only active in about 3-4 small, private servers where I know everyone. I have no plans to join Twitter, Instagram, or Tiktok because they seem way too big, overwhelming, and time-consuming. I honestly don't believe I'm missing out on anything. We all have limited free time, and you never have to sacrifice any of it on people or social media that make you unhappy.

I hope this helps! Have a great day! ❤️

[sinoftheabyss]

Hey, everyone, this is your Local Demon Lord, SiN, here with some life updates and places you can find me more actively, especially with my 22nd birthday just around the corner.

Life has been weird. I've gotten into a lot of series that I enjoy immensely, one particular standout being Bofuri. I also got super into hololive, and Ina has been my oshi since her debut. Also very fond of Fauna, Zeta, Risu, Korone, Fubuki, Towa, and Chloe.

Anyway, as for IRL, stuff, I got my driver's license and a part-time job, and I'm honestly surprised I'm surviving right now, but I'm also in a better place mentally. I've got two TTRPG groups, one of which meets every Wednesday, and I have a lot of fun with them. While I'm a bit more… shy online nowadays than I was as a teenager, I do still have some folks online that I talk to often. Offline, I'm also working to deal with my anxiety and depression, not to mention being autistic.

As for where you can find me, I'm primarily active on my Discord account (SiN#8279) or my Twitter (handle Shiny_Shinigami), so if you search me out, you'll probably find me. It's not hard to figure out if it's me or not, since both my Twitter and my Discord have something Manticore-related at the moment.

Anyway, yeah, just wanted to catch people up to speed while I go back to being primarily inactive on this account. Hope to see any old mutuals around the Web. Stay safe, guys, because I sure am.