#I'm so much happier here

[thequeenofsastiel]

Anyone else ever have a hyperfixation that you hated having for whatever reason but took a long time to escape, and once you escaped it you never ever wanted to look back, and if you ever do it's genuinely emotionally and even physically painful and you're terrified to think about it at all out of fear that you might get sucked back in which is regrettable because you feel proud of your contributions to the fandom?

[teaboot]

tranny freak :)

[lazylittledragon]

hi i'm unw el l

[the-nothing-maker]

mélisande gives me gender envy

Honestly, same

[theminecraftbee]

okay, so in a rare moment for me, there's a discourse thing i want to bring up, and that thing is. okay. so on iskall's stream there's this thing that can happen where someone brings up a criticism of his content or vault hunters. frequently it's self-evidently wrong, but sometimes it's not. and then iskall spends the next thirty minutes shadowboxing this guy, explaining himself, and completely derailed. and this is an iskall trait we all know and sigh bemusedly about, because he cares about the community and wants people to understand his intentions! he wants the community to understand his decisions!

however, it's not the community as a whole he's fighting; he is in fact, arguing with One Guy, who often doesn't represent the wider community, and who normally won't have their mind changed. hell, sometimes it's believable that they're satisfied having just managed to upset iskall, and they'll leave, no change to their mind, perfectly pleased that iskall's responding at all (that's what i firmly believe the people who poke at the 'you don't upload enough and that means you're falling off and a bad person' wound are trying to do, at least).

in the vault hunters community, we refer to this as iskall getting One Guyed, and it's typically viewed as bad, because it ends up focusing an entire moment on a single guy's negative opinion as opposed to on the larger picture. and it's an understandable thing to have happen! but it's frustrating to watch from the outside.

and so now i am looking at that cat poll. and the way everyone is still shadowboxing someone who has since apologized. and the way i would have never ever known about any of the negative comments about jellie if it weren't for fellow mcyt fans constantly putting them on my dash to dunk on them. and it's like. if you look through the notes most of them are just... normal? it's only a tiny few of people (and the pollrunner, who has since apologized) who were being dicks. it's a very, very ignorable demographic.

but. well. there was One Guy. and we had to correct them.

and folks, i don't know how to say that i almost never see "lol mcyt is cringe" type comments unless one of you puts it on my dash. both because i don't go looking through the notes of things that are likely to have them or go looking for reasons to be upset and because it's just... not that common! very frequently these days it is, in fact, One Guy!

i have almost never seen that poll on my dash without at least one instance of the One Guy. instead of being for fun, it's mostly become about explaining ourselves to someone who will not listen and will not change their minds, and treating this as a the whole of the Other Side of that poll, when most people are being... fine. they're fine! the majority of the people voting for the other side are doing it for perfectly normal reasons that don't require fighting about.

and man. let me tell you. after spending as long as i have watching vault hunters development? it can be just as frustrating to watch a fandom get One Guyed as it is to watch iskall.

[ministarfruit]

"my oshis graduated" outfit swap

[m-for-now]

Friendly reminder that in the Demigod Diaries (which is canon I believe not that it matters at this point), Leo Valdez genuinely refers to Jason Grace as "surfer-dude handsome"

[sysig]

for requestober ! my heart's been aching for yanderapy for a while and i would like to get something about them :3 i don't have a specific prompt . i do like to see them more on the angsty-unhealthy-relationship side lol like some of the requests you made last year . overall , just seeing anything about them would be nice . X3

Day 1 - Sodium Chloride Couple

[sisterdaniellasgayawakening]

they're seriously so smiley. like shut up we get it (please never shut up <3)

[shannonsketches]

something something foils moving in opposite directions Goku's always happy to seek and fight stronger opponents because he spent most of his life being the strongest guy in the room and Vegeta wants to be the strongest/is always exhausted to find stronger opponents because he spent most of his life having to navigate his survival around the whims of the strongest guy in the universe room and so Goku has a foundation of safety and stability and so spends his time craving challenge and adventure and Vegeta has a foundation of challenge and adventure and spends his time craving safety and stability and the overlaid section of their venn diagram is that the only way they know how acquire and maintain those things is through battle

[neonwizardheehee]

Bought the House of X and Powers of X comic and boooii it's so gooood!!!!!

Cherik working together!!! Krakoa is SO gd beautiful I wanna build it in Minecraft and live there <3

So many gorgeous panels/art and quotes and ohhhh so much lore it's insane

My brain is really itching and i LOVE it sm and i want to talk about it ahhhhHHH

[soulsdontbreaktheybeeend]

you know, my mutuals are literally a part of me. All day. Like I be at work doing my little work things and suddenly mutuals pop up in my head. And I'm wondering, how their day's going. I hope you're having a good one, I hope you're drinking enough water today, I wonder what you're doing right now, are you also thinking about the fictional character we love right now?? Or wait you're living in a different time zone. I hope you're having a lovely and deep lil slumber with sweet and wet dreams. Then all the art, writing, chats, tags, asks or whatever come into my mind and I keep thinking about them and I be all like 😍🥰😍🥰

Nothing else makes me feel that way. It's so special here. I have so much love for you. You make me a happier person. THANK YOU!

[chrisbangs]

i finished thesis, won an award, and have graduated.. hello 👋🥸

[suniside-crossing]

(( life update: i moved out of the house and into the nearby stationary rv so i could have my own personal space, and i gotta say, it's improved my mood a LOT. i feel way more cheerful and optimistic than i did being stuck in the living room with my grandparents having the tv volume maxed out and keeping me from concentrating. maybe i'll finally feel good enough to start writing on here again soon! ))

[ckcomics]

Ink Test: There's a Snake

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

haven't had to make one of these for a while...

um okay anyways i'm not doing too hot mentally today!! so i'm gonna take a break for tonight and ask that you please send me Foul Legacy asks (or Arlecchino. honestly i'll take anything at this point) because lord knows i sort of need them