#Not me learning reblogs don't show up in feeds like I thought lol

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Excited to see the result?

Second chapter of Detroit: Lie or Die is ready to be read!

Connor meets P!

Disclaimer: Results of Poll had no effect on the outcome of the encounter. I had already planned how this would go beforehand.

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Hi! I'm new-ish to the jegulus/rosekiller ships and gonna be honest I'm really struggling to romanticize and ship characters that were/are death eaters, so I want to hear you takes on it and how you think it should be approached. Love the mini fics, they make up about 90% of my feed lol and I'd love to learn your approach! Thank!

Hi!

Well first I just want to say that you for like respectfully asking because so many people are so rude about it honestly.

Second, I think it's also important to say that you don't have to ship someone or force yourself to like anything! If you don't like a ship or can't understand it, it's totally okay to not read it!

I guess for me, it's many things:

I think this fandom has morphed into it's own entity outside of canon. I think that's both because that happens with most fandoms and also because of JKR and everything she's done. So now it's kind of at the point where canon Regulus exists somewhere, but not here, not to me. Same with Barty and Evan. I've created my own version of them, and I don't think James would ever be with a Death Eater. But he would be with my version of Regulus (and the version a lot of other people write). I skip over those fanfics where he is, and that's the best part about fandom- if you don't like it, you don't have to read it. But fandom is used to reimagine canon, so it doesn't have to be canon. You can reinvent anything you want.

I think it's important to recognize that we actually know very little canon info about these characters. The only character we spend a lot of time with in canon is Barty. Evan is mentioned once and Regulus is only mentioned a few times. So we simply don't know a lot about them. Yes, they are canonically Death Eaters, but we also know that canonically, Regulus was a defender of house elves and left the Death Eaters to try to destroy Horcruxes. We also know that Barty was very unloved by his father and joined the Death Eaters very young. These are flawed characters, not inherently evil characters.

People often use fanfic to explore characters- their flaws, motivations, backgrounds, and more. I think most depictions of these characters don't show them as perfect. They explore those flaws.

The fics that I read and write feature a Regulus, Barty, and Evan who either are in an alternate universe and are not Death Eaters, or a version of these characters that does not want to be a Death Eater. Other people might read different things and I respect that, but in my headcanons, Regulus, Barty, and Evan are NOT blood supremacists. I know they are in canon, but I don't like reading canon- that's why I read fanfic!

I think there's something to be argued about the fact that a lot of people accept Drarry as a morally acceptable ship, even thought Draco was a Death Eater. And I think the reason why is because we get Draco's redeemable qualities. We haven't gotten them from Regulus, Barty, and Evan but the people who ship them imagine that those qualities exist.

I think it's important to acknowledge though that all of this does not excuse the canon ideals of Death Eaters. It also doesn't mean everyone should ship these ships. Some people can't, because of their canon origins, and that's completely okay and valid! The thing that's not okay is sending hate to people about who they ship, and that's what tends to happen in this fandom, especially with the jegulus v jily debate.

Let me know if you have questions!

Also a reminder that any hate in the comments/reblogs/my inbox will be deleted!

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constantly comparing tumblr to dreamwidth is kinda just exposing how much i use tumblr exclusively for social media these days lol, like i probably should exist elsewhere as well more than i do.

but dreamwidth being entirely original posting rather than the ability to reblog (or reshare or retweet or whatever) is making me think a lot about what was so nice about deviantart socially.

on deviantart it was all original content. these days you do get a lot of muddied algorithmic weirdness mixed in based on other people's own interactive activities, but at least a decade ago it was slower paced and all original? so it made it easier to actually connect with people because you weren't seeing some random person's post in your feed, but someone you personally follow and can personally address.

it's harder to do that with reblogs cluttering the dashboard as well sometimes, even though i do think there are x-kit ways of showing only originals... but even then i think people worry about coming off Weird/Stalkery if they're responding to original posts in such a frequency given that the norm is to have to wade through reblogs for a slower ride.

dreamwidth can get cluttered with more news-related posts from fandom update accounts and so forth as well so it's not all posts from people you want to get to know better unless you curate it that way, but it is so much easier to actually stumble upon those posts because they're not hidden 92389 reblogs down, basically.

i guess there is something to reddit being like this as well, but reddit doesn't scream social to me since it's more common to follow subreddits than people imo. you have to kinda get lucky and recognize people in the comments of communities you both frequent if you want to pick up on individual people to get to know better i guess? and reddit gets kinda surreal at a certain point because you rly don't know anyone so if i spend too much time on there it feels ungrounded because these are all so many different people but all i know about them is this half sentence they've said and it's hard to remember there's a different person behind each comment whose thoughts and personality etc i do not know in the way you can sorta learn about people on tumblr.

anyway. not to sound like someone who gained consciousness a mere week ago and does not understand that different social platforms have (or at least used to have) different purposes. it';s just that tumblr and twitter and other places have this constant stream of reshared content are very good at the whole happy chemicals thing bc the posts never really stop, but i do wonder what that does for social perception mentally compared to something slower and more personal like dw. i do think it is nicer and easier to take in with more of the "social" part that social media used to feel like it had.

[wincore]

hiya moon!! i sent in an ask a LONG time ago about - i don’t actually remember but your writing style and colors? i cannot remember but if you do, hi it’s me 🙇‍♀️ i don’t have spotify wrapped but i have apple music and my top song was friend to lover by standing egg before i got into enhypen in october and suddenly fever is my top song ☠️ and i’ve also listened to like 1900 hours of music this year haha. that also answers another question!! i got into enhypen and they’re probs gonna be the last kpop group i keep up with tbh. i watched haikyuu this year and excitedly waiting for season 5 if that ever comes — and the way of the househusband too on netflix!! was a lil disappointed in the animation style but i learned to like it :-) OH AND JJK duh how could i forget that hahaha

side note, i’m happy you came back to this blog for a little bit — albeit it was tarnished some. i follow you on your other one (sorry if that’s something you didn’t want disclosed) so im happy to see your presence even just a little!! all the animes you reblog look v interesting like what even is dr stone? hahah but hopefully this is a lot for you!!! i hope you’ve been well moon, and you have a healthy and content 2022!!

I DO REMEMBER !!! i thought about that ask for days pls!! no one has ever described my writing style like that, how could i not remember? darling, NINETEEN HUNDRED HOURS ???? you are immediately crowned ruling sovereign of apple music, they should pay you at this point 😤 oof i feel like me n my friends are getting old bc we can barely keep up with the new groups TwT but i do see a lot of enhyphen posts on my feed and they seem very sweet. also, i get to vicariously experience stanning them 🤩 i'm pretty sure i've heard fever? if it was the fire one, i've definitely heard it!! and i'll give friend to lover a listen, it sounds super cute Ｏ(≧▽≦)Ｏ

haikyuu!!!!! i have so many memories with this and i'm so glad i picked it up again 。（＞ω＜。） i couldn't wait for new seasons so i ended up binging the manga tho and it's just as amazing! furudate never disappoints. and who's your fave?? do you have a fav team? i honestly love way of the househusband so i was also slightly disappointed but then i heard that they wanted to make it look like a manga? it's still enjoyable for me 😊JJK PLEASE !!! you have great taste, dear anon 😌 (would you like an identifier/emoji btw sjdjss) i read the jjk manga so no one could spoil me and ended up hurting myself smh gege is ruthless 😐 also was drawn in by how pretty gojo's eyes were animated but now that mf just gets on my nerves 😩 i just want his mans geto ty

oh don't worry!!! you can def bring up that blog i just want people to follow it only if they're interested in anime/my personal life LOL omfg dr stone is one of my top animes for this year !! i'm not saying this bc i'm in stem, it's genuinely one of the best in terms of plot and lovable characters. i've watched it like thrice showing to all my friends HHH and hjsdhk i don't mind some tarnishing i was having the time of my life blasting that anon :p it might've clogged your dash a bit so sorry abt that :( and please, you are incredibly sweet!! i'm so so so glad to have you back on my blog, you're such a pleasure to talk to 💕 hope your 2022 is spent as fine as wine and ages just as well till next year !! 🥳🎉