#and get even mildly popular

[vocalsynthbdays]

Bebo Akapane’s birthday is coming up on October 29th. Just a heads up. He’s not that well known but theres one person who makes covers with him! Im friends with said person btw!

- Bebo’s voice provider

oh thank you for letting me know !! i absolutely do not mind posting about unknown synths; ive got some with like literally zero covers, or with no wiki nor db entries, so ill gladly post about bebo !

[cable-salamdr]

Nah man this 8ft black and white thing wandered onto my lawn AGAIN this is the third time I’m calling his husband to come pick them up!!!

(dsmp posting in 2024?? When the last thing I’ve drawn digitally of them was in April 2022???? Wiiiilllddd. What am I even doing.)

[atalana]

supergiant you can't keep toying with my heart like this re: aro mel

[xmoonlitxdreamx]

for other reference: my roadhog ships are much less varied, sorry;; my roadhog ships are roadrat (truly mainly this), roadhog/lifeweaver, vaguely some degree of mercyhog, and vaguely toadhog. But i also imagine roadhog being kinda down for whatever as long as junkrat is there too. (????)

[mamawasatesttube]

the roulette wheel of which of one's given fics actually get attention on ao3 vs which really don't is so strange. i guess people overall generally prefer short fic (which i already knew but definitely am seeing further reinforced!) and also don't tend to read things tagged for heavier angst so much? but it's kind of funny that the fic i wrote in like an hour and didn't edit at all last night already has more kudos than amok tim, which i was working on in bits and pieces since august and edited a fair amount. the mystery of what does and what doesn't attract people's interest continues on...

[loderlied]

prev rb shana is def one of those people lmao.

[cinnamon-phrog]

Chat there is a disturbance in my bones most unsound [I realised I might be iffy sharing the trio with non-friends]

[stoneheart-paramour]

just had a fucking realization. i named the primary location where the AU happens, "Telestrata". i was thinking to myself, "ok so it's 'tele' as in 'far', and 'strata' as in 'stratum', to represent the distant and vertical layout of the region".

and i just now. right this minute. remembered that Aventurine's full title is "Aventurine of Stratagems" and i don't know what i'm supposed to do with this. this is a genuine coincidence but it's also forcing me to think about the implications!! and i HATE thinking!!

[ottiliere]

I love crawling out of the depths, opening up tumblr, and seeing your art. I love it.

it is quite interesting how social media can fall to the wayside, and people on the internet can just disappear forever if they really wanted to! I admit I struggle to keep up with "public accounts", they are uniquely stressful and I solute your hibernating tenacity. always lovely to see you resurface regardless, thank you very much for the lovely compliment...

I will say in case any of my dear followers were wondering where i've gone for the past month and a half, for weeks i've been pondering how to even broach the enormity of the topic that is: I made the mistake of thinking about my most favorite character for more than 2 minutes in one sitting. I intentionally go out of my way to avoid this and have many strategies to evade this occurring because every time I do enter a sort of hermetically sealed mental chamber where it's just me and him and his life and I begin to ignore all points of previously established social contact and also my health indefinitely. It's difficult to convey the emotional experience of this or its psychic magnitude. and it's hard to say "guys i really love this character!" because that's just words. you can't see it. the 10 years of obsessively thinking about some guy so intensely on&off cyclically until you've made 20 different worlds he's living in... how does one convey the depth of these without artistically depicting them as you see them to be...? i am trying to figure it out. currently planning a longform comic for my favorite and several smaller comics for others, but logically an individual can understand this takes a while... he and I have had multiple rendezvous over the past decade and I wish I had more "historical" art to show but for many of these years I have been a bit too physically disabled to draw, the past several weeks have been spent attempting to recreate his ideal form as he exists in my head. he is starting to come around!

I typed up three separate disquisitions last month to try and explain my feelings on him and none of them felt like the proper vessel to communicate this concept. which is likely for the best. the obvious answer is "just draw him". fine with this being the case, difficult when I have so many drawing ideas I'm now sitting on 100+ works in progress and they just keep accumulating since my brain generates these like an old laptop you leave in the corner of your room to mine bitcoin. in a way I'm content with this being a very "personal" experience thus far, shared with me and those in my inner social circle (really cannot emphasize to my readers enough how fandom can poison your constitution without self-checked moderation). however... I yearn to meet others who are as passionately involved with him as I am, because I think we could coalesce our ideas, and passion, into something beautiful...

^dio brando

[yourhoeshorses]

Wait a second... can someone with more understanding of fandom cultures explain something to me?

Do people ship characters because they believe they are going to be a cannon thing????? I thought it was just for fun?? I'm like, oh these two characters seem fun together, what if they dated. I just be mixing and matching these bitches I legit dgaf if it actually happens or not.

Maybe it's just whatever weird end of tiktok I'm on, or maybe it's just something I never picked up on until now, but like,,, people will say, "oh these ships are invalid cuz they won't be cannon" OK????? AND??? It's just fun

Like I remember being a kid and watching shows and my friends being like oh did you see that (insert ship name) scene???? Like girl I don't care. Two characters could never have interacted and I'm gonna ship them.

And that's all I thought it ever was? Is it like,, different now or some shit?

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

im only about a thousand words off have posted more words on ao3 this year so far than last year and the year before combined... and im so so much happier with ever single piece of writing!

[windupaidoneus]

hiii cat blinks @ u .. dimitri for the bingo if ur still doing these

youre in luck...... i love having opinions!!!!!!!!

dimitri is. a tough one. i think he has a lot of potential & i can easily imagine a world in which he's given the treatment he deserves by the writers. i used to not like him because 1) i fucked up pretty much everything pre-timeskip support wise & only recruited lorenz which was pointless anyway bc he was gonna join me regardless. lmao. lol., but this means i didn't get the Better version of post-timeskip dimitri, & 2) i associated him with the classmate who lent me the game when i first played it bc he'd pretty much told me like, "yeah you Have to start with blue lions bc i'm such a huge dimitri fan" & like. the flaws that i found in that classmate very much made me go "oh i see why you like dimitri" in a very uhh negative light!!! but now it's been a few years i can def see the good in his character beyond being the guy the most annoying pedantic victim complex-having white cis dude youve ever met would latch onto. he is not dimitri. he will never be dimitri. dimitri is far better. & i i like him despite the mental illness & trauma being written the way it is. fire emblem does Not have a good track record with writing mental illnesses so it'd be unfair to hold it against him specifically when he's a victim of the writing etc etc ... all this to say if he needs a hug i can give him that & i'm sorry about all the miseries & stuff. OH ALSO GIVE ME THE OPTION TO SPARE HIM IN VERDANT WIND WHAT THE FUCK

[iohera]

the way people talk about fall out boy on this website is weird. if you say stuff as a grown adult like "if you don't like (album) you suck" and that people are fake fans if they don't like a certain album or albums, even if you think they're underrated, then you are probably not appreciating the band on a musical level but rather on a strange parasocial fandom level. which like, fine, i'm definitely guilty of that at times too but some fall out boy fans take that shit too far lmfao

like, they're just a band. no one has to like everything they make, and honestly that's probably a good thing. acting like you have to defend these multimillionaires against any even very mild criticisms like "i don't personally like every album in their discography" is a bit silly in my humble opinion! it is, as they say, "not that serious"

[darkwood-hollows]

anyways i think it's really fucking weird that when people treat creators, blog owners, artists/writers, etc. in the rudest, most unreasonable way the dialogue becomes "well that creator/blog owners/artist/writer shouldn't be online" and not "maybe we should treat other users online with respect and dignity."

[korattata]

jfc

[alpaca-clouds]

Why the media CEOs will always learn the wrong lessons

Yesterday a friend and I talked about how the entire (AAA) game industrie looked at BG3 being as popular as it is and going: "Oh, we need to produce 100+ hour games, I guess! Those sell!" Which... obviously is not why it is popular. The game is not popular because it has 100+ hours of gameplay, but because it has engaging characters, that are well-acted and that work as good hooks for the players. Like, let's face it: The reason why I so far have sunken 160 hours into this game is, because I wanna spend time with these characters - and because I wanna give them their happy endings.

But the same has happened too, just a bit earlier this year, right? When Barbie broke the 1 billion and every Hollywood CEO went: "Oh, so the people want movies based on toy franchises! Got it!" To which the internet at large replied: "... How is that the lesson you learned from this?"

Well, let me explain to you, why this is the lesson they learn: It is because the CEOs and the boards of directors at large are not artists or even engaged with the medium they produce. They mostly are economists. And their dry little hearts do not understand stuff more complex than numbers and spread sheets.

That sounds evil, I know, but... It is sadly the truth. When they look at a successful movie/series/game/book/comic, they look at it as a product, not a piece of art or narrative. It is just a product that has very clear metrics.

To them Barbie is not a movie with interesting stylistic choices that stand out from the majority of high budget action blockbusters. It is a toy movie with mildly feminist themes.

Or Oppenheimer is not a movie to them with a strong visual language and good acting direction. No, it is a historical blockbuster.

And this is true for basically every form of media. I mean, books are actually a fairly good example. In my life I do remember the big book fads that happened. When Harry Potter was a success, there was at least a dozen other "magical school" book series being released. When Twilight was a big success there was suddenly an endless number of "teen girl falls in love with bad boy, who is [magical creature]" YA. When the Hunger Games was a success, there were hundreds of "YA dystopia" books. Meanwhile in adult reading, we had the big "next Game of Throne" fad.

Of course, the irony is, that within each of those fads there might have been one or two somewhat successful series - but never even one that came even close to whatever started the fad.

Or with movies, we have seen it, too. When Avengers broke the 1 billion (which up to this point only few movies did) the studios went: "Ooooooh, so we need shared universe film series" - and then all went to try and fail to create their own cinematic universe.

Because the people, who call the shots, are just immensely desinterested in the thing they are selling. They do not really care about the content. All they care about is having a supposedly easy avenue of selling it. Just as they do not care about the consumer. All they care about is that the consumer buys it. Why he buys it... Well, they do not care. They could not care less, in fact.

So, yeah, get ready for a 20 overproduced games with a bloated 100+ hours of empty gameplay, but without the engaging characters. And for like at least 15 more moves based on some toy franchise, that nobody actually cares about.

And then get ready for all the CEOs to do the surprised Pikachu face, when all of that ends up not financially successful.

Really, I read some interviews yesterday from some AAA-studio CEOs and their blatant shock and missing understanding on why BG3 works for so many people.

Because, yeah... capitalism does not appreciate art. Capitalism does not understand art. It only understands spread sheets.