#and i appreciate every single one

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

[unikorpi]

Slowly getting the itch to draw again, I'm scrolling through reblogs on my previous art and animations for a little extra boost

[spookberry]

girl of all time

[lesbiandardevil]

anyway hi im back again with more doodles ! please donate here to help feras and his family and get a doodle in return !

[emblazons]

"This is only the beginning— the beginning of the end."

STRANGER THINGS SANS VISAGES S04E09 - The Piggyback (Part II of II)

[loloavy]

One year anniversary and Nouma's birthday!!

Hello everyone, loloavy's here!!

I making this post to say thank you so much to all who supported and send nice thing to me during this one year, you people are too nice and sweet I can't- lol

Also big BIG Happy Late Birthday to my best friend @noumasblog , please please please send her a nice birthday wish, she's fighting demon over there! Thank you for being my friend dude and sorry for all those lousy moments.❤️❤️

I honestly didn't expect myself to stay this long in this blog because I honestly usually delete it after a month or two, so I decided to draw a small party to celebrate!🎉🎉 Apologies for not answering your asks and not post much, I honestly insecure with my art lmao.

Here's some song for the party I guess hehe

[tannnnblogs]

Cooking something up and posting a wip so I'm forced to finish it

[imaybe5tupid]

if you see absolutely anything that has kabru in it. And are unable to stop yourself from making it about L/abru (even when Laios doesn’t even appear or is irrelevant to the content in question!) and reduce kabrus entire deuteragonist-level character into wanting to fuck laios. I’m stealing something out of your house!!!!!

disclaimer: If you ship l/abru and gaf about kabru and don’t do this then this post isn’t about you 🤓

[xemmez]

my secret of gaining all of my confidence to be “cringe” is that i accepted i don’t want to jeopardize my harmless happiness to fit into societal norms. i’m already an intersex transfem aroace person who is in a relationship and uses neopronouns, society will never try to accept me as i am as soon as things get a little difficult.

all i’m doing while doing things like fursuiting or drawing furry art or making weird positivity posts is really accepting the fact these are the things that make me feel happy and that’s okay. i am not harming anyone, i am simply being another layer of authentically myself in a society that isn’t generally built for that level of self expression.

but, i will always support anyone who wishes to bloom into their authentic self against the world. detach yourself from self-hating ideals, take a step away from the social constructs you’ve become accustomed to seeing, and embrace the fact that you can live in so many different ways than the norm would have you believe.

you’re not a bad person for being what other people deem as “cringe” material. if anything, you’re someone who would make others feel safe who may be wishing to accept that part of themselves. you will find others to befriend.

live authentically, live happily, be cringe 🌈💕

[safe-from-sharp-teeth]

I;M SORRY,,

[stiffyck]

Decided to check out an old fandom I was in and I looked up some fics on ao3 and ofc as I usually do I tried looking up any aromantic fics- and there was a whole total of 8 fics out of the 20k that had the main guy aromantic-

I got real excited because EIGHT? THATS A LOT FOR THE FACT THAT I SEARCHED FOR SOMETHING AROMANTIC.

Isn't it sad that tho I got excited over 8 fanfics out of 20k that included someone like me

[athina-blaine]

genuinely don't understand people who gripe about someone getting into dunmesh for m/m pairings as opposed to f/f when none of them are even close to being the main point of the series

[wyrmswears]

REQUESTS???? AUGHA AUAGSHSBX X

UH UHHH LIBBER!!! MAYBE HER RAIJŪ FORM? (IS THAT HOW YOU SPELL IT?)

(if you are new here, this is the au)

you won me over with this one

[beyondourstars]

it occurred to me that I've never drawn KH4 Sora

[hydrachea]

It's my headcanon as well as @followerofmercy's that the state of Blade's hands makes it difficult to type and text. And so, I present to you, Silver Wolf's solution: pre-written short messages.

[zinnie-zoloft]

One thing I love about the depictions of abusive parental figures in DBDA is that they’re complicated

Charles mentions missing both his parents, not just his mother. Despite how awful his dad was Charles still loves and misses him. His mother is still with him and according to Charles they’re happy, or at least as happy as they could be after losing their son with no explanation. His father is terrible, but he’s not just terrible, he was clearly enough of a father and husband for them to still be a family.

Esther, despite being a pretty straightforward villain, isn’t completely uncaring towards Monty. Despite torturing him, the first thing he does when he’s human is smile back at her. He’s genuinely shocked when she stabs him because he trusts her enough that he doesn’t think she’d kill him. And she doesn’t, she just turns him back into a crow and lets him go home. Anyone other than Monty would absolutely be dead after talking back to her like that.

They aren’t just pure evil uncaring monsters, most abusive parents aren’t. They love and care about their children, but that doesn’t stop them being abusive.