#Rose-colored glasses

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Dipper´s boyfriend is sweet and dorky and cute and everything everyone ever wanted for Dipper, and they´re so happy together it´s almost ridiculously cheesy. There´s, of course, the tiny little detail that Wirt might or might be a demon from another dimension but hey, nobody´s perfect right? In which Dipper´s family try to get him to realize his boyfriend is a demon but he´s so grossly in love his nerd brain has stopped working

Author: @that-one-girl-behind-you

Note from submitter: first part of the DemonicBae-verse

[koalas-koalas-everywhere]

Jane's "really?" after Lisbon agrees to dance with him. ✨✨✨

His huge smile afterwards. ✨✨✨

Lisbon keeping her eyes open instead of picturing someone else. ✨✨✨

[matt-w-blogging]

I see your "character with rose-colored glasses so all red flags just look like flags," and I raise you:

Character with rose-colored glasses so all flags look like red flags

[renegadesstuff]

They are too cute 🥹 and this scene ❤️

[storm-neko]

💞

[dwuerch-blog]

What Do Your Little Eyes See?

I saw this online quiz – and took the test. The results of the quiz would tell whether I am an Idealist, Realist or Surrealist, based on the color selections I made throughout the quiz. I’m not validating the merits of this quiz, but I think it “nailed it” for who I feel I am and always desire to be. I’m sure I didn’t start out with those qualities, but I obviously developed them and have BECOME…

[hyunpic]

HYUNJIN | I LIKE IT

[crocodiller]

...It didn't work. First - Previous - Next

[hrtzbeat]

wake up

[wickedwitchofthesouth]

Isnt it funny, and isn't it ironic that Scott summers who is objectively the most glass half empty kind of person in the word is the one who can physically ONLY see the world through rose coloured glasses.

[academic-vampire]

𝐿𝒶 𝒱𝒾𝑒 𝑒𝓃 𝑅𝑜𝓈𝑒 🥀

[nobleriver]

TWD: The Ones Who Live - Finale Opening Scene + Blurred/Faraway

Requested by Anonymous

[koalas-koalas-everywhere]

Actually, I need to go back to the dance in Rose-Colored Glasses, related to Lisbon dancing with her eyes open despite implying she'd pretend she was with someone else.

They were almos alone in that dance floor. The lights were turned up. It was not a romantic atmosphere at all. Yet, the thing that makes those things romantic is that they imply intimacy. You're lost in the middle of a throng of bodies, in the dark so it's hard to see. You're alone in the crowd.

Here, they're dancing after a murderer's been caught. The party's almost over. There's no where to hide. There's no conceit. It's the two of them dancing cheek to cheek in a brightly lit gym (?) to Lisbon's favorite song, eyes open.

[spacecasehobbit]

After seeing yet another popular tumblr post with thousands of reblogs bemoaning the state of comments on fanfics these days - more specifically, the supposed lack of commenting these days, as opposed to The Good Old Days - I have decided that this is in fact a hill I am willing to die on. I'm making a separate post about it rather than reblogging the latest iteration, though. This is hardly the first time I've seen these types of discussions, and my issue is with the mindset in general, not any of the specific people who hold it.

In the most recent version, the entire post with all its various arguments and assertions was plenty frustrating across the board, but it included one line in particular that cut beautifully to the heart of my issue with this type of discussion. The line in question:

"fanfic authors now are treated like content mills, and not like valued members of a creative community who thrive on interaction."

Once I read this bit, I had to stop, take a few deep breaths, and then go make my own post before I imploded over the sheer level of NOPE this line inspired. And okay. The thing is... I want to say this as gently and kindly as I possibly can, but I need to be real blunt for a minute, too.

That line I quoted sounds like a wannabe social media influencer.

It sounds like a person who thinks fandom is - or should be - comprised of fanfiction writers, aka Valued Content Creators, and their respective communities of readers, aka Content Consumers, a strictly distinct group from fic writers, for whom they create fanfiction content and who in turn pay them back with attention and validation in the form of comments and praise.

It does not sound like a fanfiction author who enjoys the creative hobby of writing stories based on characters and worlds from existing stories, engaging in their hobby within a community of other likeminded creators of fan content.

Frankly, fandom has always been worst when it starts obsessing over Big Name Fans who wind up treated like elite fandom social influencers, instead of hobbyists engaging in a fun hobby together based on mutual interests. A shift towards the idea that every fanfic writer should be effectively a social media influencer whose community consists of fans reading the content they oh-so-lovingly create (but only if they get enough positive attention from passive consumers, presumably readers who don't write their own fic or expect comments back from the author in return) sounds like an absolutely awful direction for fandom to take.

I don't want fanfiction and fandom spaces to turn into another social media space full of Our Valued Content Creators, all fighting to build the largest "community" of passive consumers turned devoted followers.

Again, that sounds frankly fucking awful.

The people who only read fanfiction are not your fanfiction community, because they are not engaging in the shared community hobby of writing fanfiction. Your fanfiction community is, perhaps, the other people who are also writing their own fanfiction based on someone else's original work.

So perhaps if comments really are declining on fics these days, instead of asking why passive readers aren't heaping praise on every fic they read and making sure it all happens where the Valued Creator can hear it, you should ask yourself how many other fanfics you've commented on recently, and then go comment on another one if you're still feeling down about your own work.

Or, I dunno, find a fic author you admire and send them a message on tumblr, if you've already commented on all of their fics that you read and enjoyed.

Or start your own discord for likeminded fans, or find a way to set up your own fandom forums centered on your personal fandom interests and invite other fic authors to come join.

Or, like, anything that involves reaching out to the actual community of hobbyists you can reasonably consider to be a community you are actually a part of.

Aka, other fanfiction writers.

[artfodinner]

Cigarette Duet

''It's just a cigarette and it harms your pretty lungs.'' ''Well, it's only twice a week so there's not much of a chance.''

[thefirstflowers]

whenever I start doubting that BT are breaking up soon I remember that this is how Buck looked at Tommy in the last episode

and for absolutely no reason at all, lets also look at how Buck looked at Eddie in that same episode (in some instances after Eddie did/said the same thing Tommy did)