#awesome you say

[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.

[rocketbirdie]

good morning

[knifearo]

being aromantic is like. hey btw you're going to live a life that is the culmination of most of society's worst nightmares. sorry lol ✌️ but then you turn around and take a really good hard look at it and it turns out that living in that nightmare is fucking awesome and you get to wake up every day and take that fear that other people have and laugh and hold it close until it's a great joy for you instead. and being happy is a radical act that you define instead of someone else. and you're sexy as fuck that's just a fact of life i don't make the rules on that one

[sceebybeeby]

must've been the wind yesterday..

[ID: Drawtectives fanart, set in the art gallery in Midnight Alley. Skeet Autobahn, who's a light-skinned man in a beret, is fanning himself, nervously avoiding eye contact and sweating. Grandma is working on a painting, while York watches, rubbing his chin. Rosé smiles, while offering a piece of cheese to Porcino the rat, who sits on her shoulder. In the background, Eugene is touching his finger to the green spray paint on the wall. End ID.]

[punnifullife]

Happier days

[zipsunz]

at first sight, a similar feeling

[randomminty]

Five billion octopath 2 scribbles i feel sick

[dreamyluigi]

some doodles based on this fic by @roscolate ;w; because holy shit this tore me apart, my heart ached then exploded it's so good

[umblrspectrum]

you'll never guess which movie i finally watched after 2 years of being lazy

[iheartsteve0704]

now do we think they interviewed mary livanos here before or after she had to take her headphones off becuase the unholy kissing noises????

[lazycranberrydoodles]

everybody go home. this is my magnum opus

[relaxxattack]

arcane: cops are inherently corrupt, there are no good cops because cops who "try" to do good are vetoed or killed by their own cohorts, being in the police force and having violence normalized to you will turn you into the worst version of yourself. there is no excuse for your actions and no atonement that can make up for this, but you must move forward and attempt to do better by the people you have wronged.

arcane fans: it's copaganda if you like the lesbians in this show 😡 but i LOVE all the murderous men who experiment with torture 🥰👍!!!!

[ibetittering]

It's embarrassing how long the text took

[calamarispiderart]

everything i do is derivative

[erinwantstowrite]

if you want people to get into the canon comics and lead everyone away from fanon misinterpretation (which is a losing battle because there will ALWAYS be this) then why not be helpful instead of being a dick about it 🤨

the comics are hard to get into because it's hard to know where to start, and there's so much content that people are able to fill themselves in by reading fanfic or watching something on tiktok or seeing posts about it on here. perhaps instead of telling people they're stupid for not realizing your favorite character is being mishandled by others, you could write up a list of your favorite comics and/or how, if you could read them for the first time again, you would order your favorite comics to get the best reading experience. and also write your own fanfiction and draw your own fanart or make a passionate post, answer questions politely

[mizukkay]

I've dreamed of you for so long.