#and then i strayed from the source material

[tailorofdeath13]

You are part of the problem.

This was and still somewhat is a safe place for all. Fandom, in general, should be a safe space for all. It's fiction. It is made up.

The only part of your little speech I can agree with is where you talk about showing fanfics to persons who are related to the fandom.

I think you just hate creativity. These stories you refer to kept me mostly sane and literally alive when I was at my lowest. You don't get to shame me for that. You don't get to tell me that I am the problem because I love reading people falling in love or finding/building a family or, or, or.... the list goes on and on.

While oversexualization is an issue, saying that the entire fandom now is just pwp is really an overkill. I don't really know any other fandom besides this one, but I think every other fanfom has pwp. Hell, some published books are literally just pwp.

And I think you have missed some chapters on fandom etiquette. Read and let read. You don't see me coming on here bashing on headcanons or ships or stories I don't like. I scroll past them, or I close the ao3 tab when I encounter something I don't like. That's it. No one forces me to read something I don't find entertaining for my tastes. Or if I find something out of my comfort zone. I just stop consuming that piece of media, whether it be a fanfic or anything, really.

And it is rather vile of you to come here and say we shouldn't touch these "well written" characters. I could write my thesis on all the ways JKR's world building and character writing are not good and actually are really problematic. At this point, I think the goal is to stray as far away as we can from the source material.

And by the way, "just using the names" is so incorrect. We all characterise these characters differently because we are different people. I know, shocking.

You can't expect an entire fandom to have one mind. We think differently. We live differently. We have different experiences, so that's going to show up in our fanfictions. And that is the beauty of it. Reading the thousandth Drarry fic and watching them fall in love in every single one of them in different ways with different characterisations is beautiful every time.

And I don't even want to comment on your apparent queerphobia. But I have to.

You not liking queer characterisations is absolutely fine. But a lot of us are queer. And we want queer representation. The real world out there is getting more awful each day, so yes, we are going to queer the shit out of these characters. And we are going to give them stories. We are going to give them a voice some of us don't have. We give them the happy ending we need. There are a million different ways a person can deal with real-life problems, and one of them is escaping to fiction. Yes, sometimes it reaches an unhealthy level, but I am not talking about that.

And then let us get back to the beginning: this is fanfiction. Fictional. If I want to ship Walburga and Euphemia then I sure as fuck will do. If someone headcanons Sirius as genderfluid, then fuck yeah. If someone says their James Potter is desi and gay as fuck, then hallelujah, amen, who are we to say otherwise? It is their headcannon.

And if you have a problem with diversity, well, that sounds like a you problem. And it is your job to work through that.

I could go on and on until the Sun sets and the Moon rises, but I don't have the brain today to do a more in-depth post.

MY TAKE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HP FANDOM AND WHY I STRONGLY DISLIKE IT

The Hary Potter franchise became a popculture phenomenon in the past two and a half decades. The most popular books of the century, whatever you want to call it. It has great value as a fiction and I can't help but to say that I'm extremely disappointed in the fandom that I've been apart of for approximately half my life. Every good fiction that is as widely available is turned to a massive perversion and I hate it with all my heart and soul. Can you just write and draw your disgusting porn using another names, it doesn'tmake any sense to use well-written characters that have nothing to do with your porn story for your pedophilia fantasies? Can't you just use (sigh but I have to say her name) Rowling's universe, credit her for that, and use another names? Why on Earth would you show an ACTOR (A REAL PERSON?) a fanfic about the character that he played many years ago being the MASTER OF A YOUNG GIRL WHO HAPPENS TO BE PLAYED BY A FRIEND OF HIS? Can we stop normalizing that because it's not and it shouldn't be normal?

I don't even want to start with the marauders fandom (at least in tiktok) and what it turned into. It started with snupin, jily, blackinnon. Why the fuck would Barty be with Rosier? Why on Earth would Sirius and Snape date ever? I know y'all want representation but you really think Regulus is trans? There's absolutely ZERO indication he ever felt uncomfortable in his body. You really think Sirius, borderline insane Sirius, bitter and bad ass as fuck, riding motorcycles, bullying and humiliating racists, biggest rebel in the series, has naked women on the wall Sirius would be the cutie patootie, dresses in a skirt overfeminine guy? Headcanons are cool when you don't have enough information and decide to fill the gaps on your own, not to absolutely dismiss everything. At this point you are not trying to develop their story but you are making up absolutely different people. You just use the names. You abounded the idea you started for - that you love the characters and would like to know more about them, that you see qualities you admire or find interesting in them. It ruins the whole concept. Years ago, it was fun to fill the gaps, to write what you think'd happen in their era but not it feels like it's out of control and not in a good way.

I'm with open hands for discussion.

[mrtequilasunset]

Okay I've had this project open for like. Way too long now and I've hit a brick wall with it but i still would like to share what I have so here's this idea I've been mulling around about the disco skills being court jesters. I only have the psyche skills done but hopefully soon I'll have the inspiration for the others and also fully color these. Enjoy

[flamboyant-king]

I re-isaac'd my Isaac designs so Isaac can Isaac freely. Also a continuation to Jacobs Drawing.

[gaylight-prairie]

Deer

[plutoons]

low quality late night self indulgent doodles. maybe i'll just make godpoke a sphinx... i just have to at this point

[making-your-fave-in-fr]

Can you make Subject Delta from Bioshock?

I made Subject Delta from Bioshock in Flight Rising!

M Bogsneak (Glowing Light eyes) Olive/Stitched | Murk/Foam | Stonewash/Basic

Cobalt Steam Mask, Deepwater Fins, Stoneshatter Drill, Electrician's Power Pack, Silver Steampunk Wing Armor, Silver Steampunk Wings, Silver Steampunk Vest, Silver Steampunk Gloves, Silver Steampunk Spats, Silver Steampunk Tail Bauble, Black Lab Coat, Classy Pants, Glamorous Scarlet Spats, Powered Implants, Dusk Rogue Tail Binding

[kaurwreck]

I'm sincere when I say I don't know how y'all have the energy to scrutinize Mori treating his successors like they're competent when the Port Mafia's skill users have been culled thrice over within seven years by men who can't act right (Rimbaud, Verlaine, Shibusawa, Gides, Fyodor), and the longevity of the tripartite framework relies on Mori not patronizing who's left.

Especially considering, like, there are foreign military police in modern Japan, British Somaliland appears to still exist, and Ango has seemingly kept Taneda in a medically induced coma for an irreversible amount of time so that he can unilaterally leverage Taneda's fictional authority within a very-historically-real cabinet in the Japanese government that hasn't existed irl since the Meiji constitution.

Like, I'm not asking anyone to engage with media in any other way than the way they enjoy most. It's just. Has anyone else noticed bsd!Russia appears to have annexed bsd!Abkhazia and bsd!South Ossetia.

All of this to say: you don't really have to beat the same dead horses if you don't want to. If you do, then by all means, lay into Equus with your whole chest. But, also. There's a lot in bsd the fandom scarcely, if at all, touches, and the incongruity between the work's layers and worldbuilding and even niche fandom engagement with the material is stark.

[cyrussoleil]

i think if i keep including my art program in my posts i can get away with never drawing a background

[sigmas-split-hair]

I don’t want I need BSD fans to realise that “Dead Apple” and “the soukoku scene” are not interchangeable words

Like yeah I thought that the scene was hinting towards something too, but you all do realise that the movie is first and foremost about Atsushi, right?

[perfectshepherdlawyerherring]

happy birthday 6.19.24

[dmdumouchel]

All I’m saying is what Christine saw when the mask was removed couldn’t have been all THAT bad, certainly not bad enough to faint

[starbound-rewrite]

Your Starbound rewrite looks cool, but why did you change Stolas's name? Is he not the actual Goetic demon in this version?

Yeah, this version doesn’t take place in Hell! because it’s Stella’s story, the I.M.P. plotline wasn’t really relevant, and from there setting it in Hell just muddled the worldbuiding. So instead we’re getting a generic fantasy-monarchy setting, but with furries that have species symbolism!

[general-marzipan]

If you couldn’t tell by my numerous emesis blue reblogs, i watched it for the first time today and i have been changed forever i love this film so much

[hilacopter]

some folks are gonna hate me for this but I think people get maybe just a teeny bit too riled up about characters being ooc in fan content/fanon

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

(major s-class heroine spoilers)

made the mistake of briefly considering reed/hestio, and then thinking about how hestio might react to learning that the mass murderer in front of him was once his extremely kind and upright friend who always gave too much of himself to others. i got socked in the gut by the throwback to my own grief when discovering that reed=tesilid.

like. what and how much has he gone through that he has thrown away the morals and self-sacrifice he internalised so much. what do you mean he killed his younger self in the most cruel and painful way he could think of. what do you mean that even he himself was not kind to himself. that, even after a hundred lifetimes, he still hasn't learned the slightest shred of self-love and is acting only in self-preservation. what do you mean that he has been running on fumes and desperation for several lifetimes? he probably hasn't had the time to even grieve and cry for himself. has there been anyone who could even do so for him? what do you mean he's tried every means possible to save the world, and then just himself, and then had no choice but to try to kill himself, but even that didn't work so now he's forced to try to kill everyone else too. what do you mean that this isn't just an issue of mental health and of convincing him that life is worth living? there is genuinely no conceivable path forward for him. maybe the world should just burn or something idk.

[winterlleaves]

expression studies off of 2 panels from csm. everytime i use the g-pen it has a 98% chance of turning out good