#and i am *very tired*

[londondziban]

Barty and Evan used to definitely promote themselves as a package deal when dating people (like "you have to be approved by my best friend and get along with him or we will not work because I'll always choose him" type of situation) and it kept sabotaging their relationships because each partner was either never deemed good enough or the approved partners couldn't get along with the other.

And they definitely complained to Regulus, Dorcas, and Pandora like

"We don't get it. Why do all our relationships fail?"

And Regulus, completely over both their shit just responds like

"Because all your exes could tell you two are in love. Merlin, just date each other."

So, they did because the moment this option was brought up to them, who were they to ignore it?

[isfjmel-phleg]

I walk in to work tonight to use what's still not working at my place and as soon as I enter from the back I am socked with the noise of the video my co-worker is blasting from far across the building. No students on this floor now that I can see, thank goodness, but why. how can someone be like this and live with himself.

[silverskye13]

Your writing plus my partner have actually given me confidence and will to start writing on my own again! It's hard but I'll try my best as always. There's just one thing I hugely struggle with and that's world building </3 Are there any tips for that you might have? Personal experiences or websites that help organizing stuff? My adhd sadly makes it very hard to focus on things for longer than a day. Any advice or just reassurance in general would be amazing and I hope you have an amazing rest of your day! ~Fanon

Hey!! Congratulations on joining the writing club!! I hope you enjoy it. I am cheering you on very excitedly. Waving my pom poms in the air!

As for world building tips:

Unfortunately I don't have any tips on how best to record your world building. Most of mine end up in a document in google docs. I know my sister keeps her world building in a little wallet-sized notebook, so she can add to it anywhere. I recommend starting a document just for throwing your thoughts in [or labeling a notebook and taking notes on your own world.]

As for the world building itself, most of my world building involves asking questions about the decisions until they make logical sense.

An RnS example would be: I've put churches in my world. This started out as a character trait for Tanguish [he needs roofs to run off of] but for the world to have depth, there needs to be a better reason. Why are there many churches in this world? Because the universe takes a helsmet after so many respawns, and the churches represent a society coping with this. Most religions in real life cope by offering an idea of an afterlife -- something a helsmet can't have. What would replace afterlife as something important to people who know they are doomed? Memory is a good replacement, the idea that someone will remember you when you're gone. It offers solace to people who already feel as though they are secondary in the universe. Legacy is also something we strive for in everyday life, and is relatable and believable for worldbuilding. What would a religion dedicated to Memory look like?

And so it goes.

I personally have a lot of fun with it. It feeds the little animal in my head that played make believe in elementary school. Definitely if you have trouble remembering things! I would find a reliable way if note taking. Even just texting it to yourself will do!

Wishing you all the luck fanon!

[queerfandomtrifecta]

that feeling when you’ve been overtaken by a new hyperfixation for weeks and weeks you’re simultaneously annoyed and exhausted by how much of your brain it’s monopolizing while also trying to ignore the nagging dread at how empty you know you’re gonna feel when the dopamine inevitably runs out

[scummy-writes]

I'm unsure of how to word this without it sounding very blunt, but sometimes that's a bit needed.

I think the thing that bothers me the most with unrequested criticism about characterization and similar on fanfics/fanart, is the assumption that it was made for You.

I don't mind compliments on what I write, or even genuine (kind) questions about why I may believe a character would act in xyz manner. I love talking about writing and the thoughts we have about these characters.

But people coming in with the assumption that I write solely for you grinds my gears. Am I happy when others enjoy what I write? Yes! Do I like showing what I've written to others? Yes!!

But coming into my space, with the assumption that what I create must be catered to your likes and dislikes, is annoying and rude. This blog doesn't exist for you, it exists for me. I am sharing my thoughts on these characters in the scenarios I write them in. Even when you're sending in a request, it is a request to see my take on the characters and scenarios given as a prompt. What I post are scenarios I wanted to share with others. Not for others.

Unless you are directly paying me to write specific content For You, then I don't want to hear that you've disliked something I've written because it doesn't line up with what you wanted.

[queenofthelanternfish]

Inspired by your art style, I made this drawing

this looks really great thank you so much!!! 🥹

I love the highlights in the hair and the glow affect in the eyes in particular. good job! 💕

[n4mless]

Just finished watching the new qsmp stream and love Elena. But so many thoughts about her and the federation.

First Elena. Did she become Elena in the federation or was she Elena before? In her backstory it seemed like she already looked like the other workers despite not being apart of them yet. (This might just be a consistency thing and it being very unnecessary to make a different Elena just for her to become a white bear) Also so her possibly taking part in unethical experiments and not seeing a problem with it. Her also saying that these experiments lead to big discoveries in science, of which we have a few examples.

1. Happy pills. Anti-depressions are a thing, they may not work well but they certainly don’t do what ever the happy pills do.

2. Hybrid experiments(I don’t know much about this) but from what I do know it was very traumatic and kinda useless? What purpose would a duck hybrid serve to help the federation?

3. Whatever that green thing was in the backstory. It looks like the color of infection to me, but it could be something else.

So the examples we do have both do nothing to help science or people, and cause immense trauma for the parties involved. Also looking back at history unethical experiments often do not lead to anything. First thing that comes to mind is unit 731(one of japans horrific war crimes) and how useless it all was in the end. So I don’t trust her when she says how helpful these unethical experiments will be to science because that sounds like a lie to me.

Now The Federation

Obviously the federation is bad. The unethical experiments, cucurucho’s weirdly violent approach to everything, trapping people on a island and not allowing them to leave. But watching the streams shows a different more goofy side of it, the workers are all friends, they talk and make fun of each other, they slack off on their job. But bad people live very normal lives outside of being bad. (Not saying that every worker is bad, but also so not saying that just because you are forced or tricked into doing something bad it isn’t your fault) Bad people don’t spend their entire day grumbling about what evil thing they will do next, they party, they make jokes, they have other hobbies. To me the streams show a different side to the federation but at the end of the federation has done horrible things and seeing some workers waltz about won’t change that.

This has also given me some thoughts about us as the viewers part in this. I’ve seen people refer to this a propaganda, but for who? The islanders aren’t watching these and we the viewers don’t have much of a say in anything that happens. We got to vote in the election and we are the voices in their head but outside of that we have no part in the story. We can’t talk about what is happening because that would be metagameing so what point would changing our opinions do? What are they trying to gain by making us like the federation? What point is there in humanizing the workers(other than to make us upset at their murders, which honestly is quite a good point)? What are they up to?

Also first post yayyy!

[sdwolfpup]

I've been thinking a lot lately about why 'Larry Lannister' bothers me so much, and it finally hit me the other day that it's because I genuinely love show Jaime as much as I love book Jaime, and to see an enormous chunk of the JB fandom hating a character I love -- one who is theoretically part of our shared OTP -- is demoralizing.

People in this fandom hate lots of characters I love (Ned Stark, step right up!), and it doesn't bother me, but this one hurts because... listen, I know as well as anyone that the show ending for Jaime was disappointing and upsetting and felt wrong. And it makes me furious! But it doesn't make me furious at Jaime. I'm mad at D&D; I'm upset for Jaime. But I feel like calling him Larry Lannister and writing him off entirely is abandoning him to his canon fate, which is exactly the opposite of what fandom does. I think people are quick to do it because there is also book Jaime, but book Jaime isn't exactly the same as show Jaime, and there are things I like better about show Jaime than book Jaime (and vice versa, since people get touchy about this; I was a book fan long before the show came out).

Of course fans are all going to respond differently to source material; there are book fans who've hated the show and everything it stands for for a while, and show fans who never got into the books and never will, and fans like me who loved the books and the show and hold the two canons in our heads in a sort of amorphous, two-headed blob of a source.

I think having the two canons that are so close to each other but different in some critical ways has been a blessing and a curse for this fandom. The blessing is that it's made the characters more identifiable as concrete archetypes; IMO there are fundamental things about Jaime and Brienne (and Ned and Arya and Tyrion etc.) that carry across both canons that have become my defining characteristics of these characters. And that makes it much easier to write them in all of these many wonderful AUs we get, both canon-based and beyond. But the curse is that there's so much more internal disagreement, and with one canon being closed so disappointingly and the other being open with no idea (or chance of knowing, IMO) of how it's ending, I completely understand people embracing the canon that hasn't actively hurt them.

But I also hate leaving behind characters I love, even if it's for similar characters i also love.

So that's why it bugs me. I don't want to leave show Jaime behind, spitting on his metaphorical grave as I go. I'm not interested in punishing him for choices that were made by writers and showrunners. I want to bring him with us and take care of him and tell him not to worry because he belongs to the fandom now and we're going to give him the story he deserved. He and Brienne earned that.

Idk, I'm not trying to change anyone's mind on the ending of the show, it is what it is and what it was hurt, I don't disagree. And I'm genuinely glad people have book JB to be their happy place! I'm just expressing my feelings on the show characters, in case there are any other show JB fans still hanging on in the fandom, heh. You're not alone! We can wrap show JB in blankets and feed them soup in our little cottage in the woods.

[fangirlingpuggle]

Half asleep RWBY ideas after seeing theory of Ruby going and getting another role in the ever after, the I remembered remembered her character song ‘Red like Roses’... paining the roses red. What if Ruby gets the role of the queen of hearts?

Either that Ruby and cat somehow being connected, due to similar powers and merging and returning to remnant taking a more trickster/chaotic puss in boots role or something... also curious cat and Ruby going for relic of knowledge/crown.

Sorry if this makes zero sense I am super tired.

[eliduremaybe]

I Am Learning To Draw Water

It Is A Process

[zigraves]

As we approach a second season of TV Good Omens, I have to know...

... how the FUCK can I keep the endless fucking “it’s queerbaiting/ bad rep” vs “how fucking dare you it’s immaculate” Wank off my dash?

I’d like to still see the odd gifset, maybe enjoy some fanart & fic, I just do not have the patience for a six-screen long screed about how It’s Problematic or No It Isn’t.

[curtailedwhale]

I have made. So many freezer meals. Maybe I can start using them now.

[sinclair-wax-fan]

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[akaluan]

I just.. want to say.. please, PLEASE consider your phrasing when you leave a comment on a fanfic that hasn't been updated in years. I woke up to a comment that was, generously, meant to be encouraging but honestly comes off as a bit guilt trippy. It doesn't help that this fic has had this happen to it SEVERAL times already, to the point where I kinda go =| any time I see a comment on it from a name I don't recognize.

In other news, A Pack of Misfits won't be getting any updates until I'm less Annoyed At The World about it and the comments it apparently tends to generate.

[queeriboh]

also I'm gonna be real and honest here. I used discord for about 3 years before I was able to give my username out to friends without having to stop and go open the app, remember where the account button was, and check to make sure I really remembered my randomly assigned number correctly so

[boyquet]

I just want to remind people that it’s 2024 and we didn’t “go thru a pandemic” we are “going thru a pandemic” present tense. It is still happening. People are still get sick, still becoming disabled, and still dying. Covid hasn’t gone away and I beg people to not normalize getting sick with it.