#because i'm obviously going to inflict my irl friends with it

[tinydragondreamer]

if i did a livestream of playing baten kaitos: eternal wings and the lost ocean, would anyone be interested in watching it?

i still have to figure out technicalities but like. just to gauge interest

[hippolotamus]

💞🍭🤲 for the fic writer ask pls

Hello, lovely 🥰

💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language

I'm going to assume this question is asking about what is important to me as a reader. First and foremost, I would say The Basics™️. For fanfic, are the characters "in character"? Obviously I love a good AU so it's ridiculous to expect canon compliant behavior, but (I think) it should be believable.

Also, I'm the last person who would (or should) ever come after grammar. At the very least, spellcheck is everyone's friend. That being said, more eyeballs on a piece of writing never hurts. Because ewe don't want a grate peace of fic using the write spelling of the wrong words.

🍭why did you start writing?

In general I've always had a story to tell. I've been writing silly little things since I was a kid. I got bitten by the fandom bug, and into fic, after finishing a binge of Schitt's Creek and feeling that giant, aching crater of a hole in my heart when I reached the finale. After reading a fair amount of it, I had an idea and (eventually) thought Why not me?

🤲what do YOU get out of writing?

Oh, this is an interesting question. A few things. Writing is an escape, a way to disappear into something I'm passionate about that has absolutely nothing to do with "Real Life". My IRL job doesn't often come with a sense of accomplishment (projects get postponed or there's no real defined End Point), so writing helps provide that.

It's also a way to bond with friends. I mean, how cool is it to gather a few besties and say 'Hey, I wanna make some words!', set a timer for 15-20 minutes and then celebrate how many words y'all made in that time period?

And, tbh, sometimes a lot of times it's therapy. What else are blorbos for if not to inflict our own personal traumas and unresolved issues on? 🙃

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[south-park-meta]

I use to like kyman as fluff bec of fandom amazing adorable art until i saw ginger cow everyone claiming he'd change for kyle be better for kyle was so very very wrong he is super sadistic he gets off on Kyle's anger and post covid proves that too . i find their hate and times they save eachother fascination and view kyman as a hateship would love other fans to embrace it as the insane dark yander it is but its not to be .

I'm not an anime fan so I can't comment on the last thing haha.

There are enough reasons that I think people interpret Kyman as romantic that it's not something I'll pick at much on this blog as someone who doesn't like it.

Like: South Park is hyperbolic, so the actual cruelties inflicted need to be dialed back to be more realistic, and maybe dialed back enough that it's more standard pigtail-pulling fare. Like, obviously still not great, but more likely something that can be worked through. South Park itself goes back and forth in how much it resets and how much trauma is carried over from one episode to the next, so I kind of get it even though I take most of the show literally when I interpret it.

I also think part of it is just that Cartman is a charismatic character. He IS funny, loud, gregarious, whatever, and those qualities aren't something that you're going to get with others. (I mean I do think Stan's funny, but is he this bombastic character Cartman is? Nope). In those cases maybe it's easier or more appealing to just kind of...brush aside all the actively monstrous crap Cartman's done. Or maybe it's not even intentional and because he's so likable as a character it's easy to be blinded to the fact Cartman's a terrible person.

And part of it is people just don't get abuse. From the outside it's seen as 'why are they putting up with this'? and from this inside it becomes normalcy. This leads to people either seeing Kyle as complicit or equally as bad as Cartman/the relationship not being abusive because he could just stop being Cartman's friend, or possibly even people seeing the relationship as normal because it reflects their own experiences.

And part of it is just...fanfic shit, knowing it's unhealthy irl but romanticizing it fictionally. And there's probably a lot of other reasons, too. There's quite a bit to it so I'm never going to be someone who just completely dunks on Kyman, but there is enough romanticizing of abuse that it is what's made me wash my hands of it even being an abusive ship to being pretty much just 'nothing' to me, personally. I've written a bit of it one-sided but I'd probably never post it anywhere hahah.