#To do that

[pasteilian]

I know it’s implied in the show that Donnie is the only one that got money but I’m 99.9% sure Mikey has something in the bank to— not only bank, I’m pretty sure that nigga got pristine credit. 

Not only was he able to get Draxx an apartment, he was able to get it within a month or less while living in New York. In short, MIKEY IS LOADED.

[spoonmoment119]

cub :D

[masked-alien-lesbian]

Yep, okay, it's official! I can't do Filthy Rich! Not even halfway through chapter 4 and I'm sick of the mc and I'm sick of Asston. I can't stand the mc mooning over a shitty LI, fighting another woman over said shitty LI that isn't worth fighting over. Not going to force myself to go through it!

[munster-murray]

the pub scene with Roy and Jamie is the most ooc thing I’ve seen in a piece of media in a WHILE. wtf was that??? that sure as fuck wasn’t Roy and Jamie.

[ghostb0o]

The group chat reacting after someone deleted our entire two-year+ long and very active discord channel of roleplay because she decided spontaneously to soft reboot the story:

[simm-mouse]

Who knew chucking old fruit into a compost dumpster would be a huge stress relief

[running-in-the-dark]

my dust allergy has gotten a lot better thanks to immunotherapy, but sometimes I'm reminded just how annoying it used to be and damn, it really sucks lol

I just rearranged our board game shelf (it's a 2x4 KALLAX shelf, so not huge or anything) - it took maybe 15 minutes tops. we haven't played any of the games in a while so there was a looot of dust.

and yeah my arms and face are itching so badly now 🙃 but at least I haven't sneezed once yet! and my nose and eyes feel fine! so overall it's not too bad.

[zombvibes]

just wanted to say that I love your deltarune AUs and I love how unapologetically self-indulgent they are. I feel like a lot of fan artists (including me lol) are held back from making fun concepts like that because they're afraid people may find it "too cringe" soo yea keep at it with promoting them because people should see more of your fun ideas :))

Thank you so much!! I try my best! *bows* TRUST, I used to be the same way (and I still am to a certain extent) so I definitely understand the feeling! …I wish I could give some advice that isn’t : “JUST DO IT AND FORGET ABOUT EVERYONE ELSE BECAUSE SOMEONE WILL LIKE IT EVEN OF THAT SOMEONE IS YOU (or me :-) ) AND BEING ‘CRINGE’ IS ACTUALLY REALLY FUN AND IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL” because I know that’s easier said than done but…you just gotta do it. And I think we need more “cringe” in this fandom!! I love “cringe”!!! Most of the time “cringe” is just “things i really like and enjoy making”. Which is the best kind of fanworks to make! Just have fun honestly— that’s what I do.

Plus I think it helps with the fact I love sharing my thoughts and ideas in the most annoying way possible so…just be like me!! ANNOYING!!!!

[livelaughlovefootball]

why can you send your own self an anonymous ask on tumblr that’s depressing 

[bittersweet-mojo]

finally finished the first season of the vox machina show and god in a tv format i forgot how much that first campaign was just. cliche. percy is the only character who isnt just a dnd archetype and the whole first season is about him because hes literally the only person with anything particularly interesting going on. i think crit role’s both success and downfall is its just the most marketably DnD ass thing to exist. its kinda boring. theyre so entirely by the books at times it just starts to look like the capital P Product that it is. and yeah of course its successful. its appealing to like, the kind of nerd who likes marvel and collectables. the kind of nerd that makes you money. its just cliche enough to cross the bounds of being too weird for the average audience. god i hate that its the standard because its just that because its good at existing in the capitalist hellscape of media we’re in. theres nothing particularly interesting about it other than being well produced and above all, Lucky.

[theswordwizard]

I don't think this is untrue necessarily, but I think that it's more of a factor that the idea of "fandom" has expanded to people who are more casual than true dedicated fan-types. You talk about Star Trek and Supernatural but those are both EXTREMELY long-running shows that happened to stand the test of time based on (debatable) quality, while managing to keep fans happy for the most part. There also, frankly, are just as many dedicated Star Trek fans today, if not more. That's because the shows are still coming out. There is constantly new stuff to watch.

There are countless TV shows and books and movies from the past that have had fan engagement come and go when it ended, just like we see happen today. It's the survivorship bias of fandom. The average "fan" watches something, is interested in it for a bit, and then they move onto the next thing after its ended, just like they always have. There is a very small portion of the population that is the kind of person to obsess over a single thing far past it's release. There is also not that much media that sustains that kind of long-term fandom, either.

Harry Potter had time to boom throughout the release of the books and then throughout the release of the movies, sustained by building a marketing and merch empire around it and siphoning millennial nostalgia. Star Wars had a movie series and now does TV shows. Bigger shows with more fans have them because they last longer, or tap into some niche or system that lets people project and have an easier time creating derivative fanwork. Homestuck is still going but notably waned during it's longer pauses since 2009. I cannot think of much media that had a big fandom and was only a single movie or book or something. That's how it's always worked, we just also had Superwholock and "Disney" as consolidated fandoms. (Also... if you're really desperate for a long-lasting fan experience... get into comics, regardless of the shows or movies.)

There is plenty of amazing work that doesn't lend itself to booming fandoms because they're complete and enclosed stories, and they still have broad cultural and artistic impacts regardless of "internet fandom." There is a real issue with tons of shows getting cranked out with only one or two seasons, but again I really do believe that there are plenty of shows that simply would not have gotten made in the first place or would have similarly gotten shafted before. Star Trek itself was almost cancelled before the first episode even aired. We have a huge media boom (mixed with terrible business practices) currently so the amount of shows this happens to is higher.

You're looking at the average normie fan and wondering why they suddenly betrayed you by not acting like a die-hard, but they never have been. And that's fine! The algorithms cater to this person but you don't have to cater to them yourself. You can build your own dedicated fan networks (which is how older fandoms worked and maintained themselves anyways, you just need to put in the work) if you want. Fan community requires actual community work. Fandom will wax and wane like it always does, just keep making work that makes you happy.

Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.

[roach-works]

speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don't say numbers. don't give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it's secondhand.

the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don't let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.

you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it's no fun anymore.

[sincenewyorks]

twitter historically sucks but man this is a banger of a tweet

[nikrei]

I keep seeing people use this image as a reaction to people's original posts:

Which I think is really incorrect, because with an original post they haven't come up to ur window, u've come up to their window.

So I made this, as a more accurate reaction for original posts:

[indigoisaspookyghost2]

“I'm in the middle of a several minutes-long "what if" scenario where I've imagined everyone in my family dying gruesome deaths, and I've attended their funerals, and I'm currently imagining how life goes on without them, and I am openly physically crying IRL” OH FUCK THATS PART OF MY OCD???????

dear people with OCD: the next time you have spiraling & intrusive thoughts, what-ifs, or catastrophizing scenarios, I am sending a cardigan-wearing 46-year old NYU professor directly into your brain and he says "Aaaaand scene!!!" and he claps his hands slowly. and he says "Wow. Wow. Powerful stuff. Evocative imagery. A little bit post-modern, a little bit hysterical realism in the vein of Don Delilo but let's pause right here." and you will recognize your thoughts as a perplexing avant-garde film shown to an audience of 15 liberal arts students who are now trying to get a good grade and sleep with their professor.