#don't @ a fandom old - we're too old

[ay-miphae]

Ayreontasiatober days 1-2: Favorite Avantasia Album

Happy Inktober to all who celebrate (me) aka the only time of the year I consistently post art. My fandom friends and I have been COOKING so be prepared :))

I’m working off two prompt lists this year - one put together by @starsirrah a few years back (that I’m doing in full) and one that several of us put together! 

Today’s prompt is favorite Avantasia album which would have to be Ghostlights my beloved. For a story album it’s pretty vague, though I find it pretty amazing how the lyrics can not only follow the story of a distressed Victorian man and a mind control cult but ALSO hit really close to home about what’s real and not and about rationality vs. spirituality. Plus it’s banger after banger. Anyway this was a lot of fun so enjoy ^^

(My dad, knowing nothing about TMOT/Ghostlights, saw this one and said it looked Victorian so mission accomplished I guess?!)

[inwhichitumbl]

Really struggling to just enjoy being in my new shiny fandom right now because it all feels so toxic. I can't form an opinion about LFj because I don't dare look anything about him up with the way things are, and I don't have enough from the show to really form an attachment to Tommy as a character. I find him incredibly difficult to read on screen, which is on me. I just can't get a fix on who Tommy is.

I so want to enjoy Buck's story in canon, and be happy about bi Buck (and I am!). But I can't go into the tags because there's so much vitriol being thrown around. I would really like to just find a little corner where Buck/Tommy and Buck/Eddie fans are just getting along and speculating about next season and having a fun hiatus thinking how broken Eddie Diaz is and how much he loves his son. And Buck going out on dates with Tommy, or the firefam all hanging out. Is there a secret tag where everyone is just getting along?

And this isn't even about shipping buddie. The existence of Buck/Tommy does nothing to lessen the connection between Buck and Eddie for me. Their relationship is so strong, even just as friends. Like, I'll happily read super intense Buck+Eddie fics just about how much they love each other without it being romantic or about sex (hi, have you met me, I'm ace). They're each other's person whatever that looks like.

And whether Buck stays with Tommy or not for however long in S8, I just hope that it gets to be the story Buck deserves. Because that boy deserves someone who loves him but also will let him be his ridiculous golden retriever self without suppressing that urge and will lift him up but also be there to support him when he needs it.

And I hope that Eddie manages to properly process his grief and maybe spends some time single and healing rather than diving in to relationships too quickly searching for that nuclear family he thinks he needs. I just have a lot of emotions about Eddie Diaz ok.

[fvaleraye]

"I'm fallin' into hell, and taking myself down with me."

A piece we did a little while ago of some OCs that we forgot to post. technically this is a redraw of an older piece, but we don't even remember if we posted it here. Either way.

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[rogue205]

Okay...

I'm going to be that person but am I seriously the only one who thinks that Quynh is not going to just suddenly forgive and forget ~500 years of torture by constant drowning, built-up rage and the resultant insanity/instability all because Andy cries and says she's sorry?

Because I don't think she would. However I see a LOT of that in the fandom.

I refuse to believe that Andy is going to die in the sequel so her and Quynh will eventually reconcile their relationship but it's just not going to happen in X number of minutes.

[snackugaki]

idk life being life and art block being art block but

damn, some of y'all either got no fucking manners, can't mind your business, can't keep your shitbird mouths shut when there's nothing nice in there to start, bumming out people I know because clinical foolishness is going around

here's a wip I guess; tmnt (general) fans I fuck with you and sorry ig for not bullying some turtles for the giggles

tmnt (rise) fans... guys are on some thin motherfucking ice, fix your posture if you can't fix your fucking attitudes

[bluejayblueskies]

keeping this vague for now as the christmas special is still a patreon exclusive, but putting a tasteless caricature of fans who "hate Arthur and love John" and are "heading home to complain on the internet" into a supposedly lighthearted episode and slapping a laugh track behind it is not the inside joke "i'm laughing WITH you not AT you" that HG thinks it is

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

i could draw anything but i decided to draw this. carlo and rocco in 1932 aka my headache

[shannonsketches]

me when y'all tag my silly comics as 'canon'

[xhanisai]

Ah, you know what’s kinda depressing?

Obviously as you can see, fandom interaction has died down so much because of people wanting to avoid leaks and spoilers and are probably waiting till this season is complete before they watch it. People who create are getting less and less traction and are getting discouraged.

Imagine how much worse it will get for the seasons to come?

What made the ML fandom so fun is how it’s full of amazing fan-content and how everyone is so interactive and fun. That’s not gonna last if people are gonna have the anxiety of being spoiled and if people aren’t interacting with the posts they like. 

Such a shame.

[knifefightandchill]

It's always a bit concerning when different meta turns into something akin to discourse.

[lz-01]

since you can’t have nice things, i’m now hiding all my works on ao3 til this craze of feeding people’s fics into AI generators like ChatGPT dies

i don’t want my writing -- pieces that i’ve spent hundreds of hours of my life working on -- going to feed some fucking AI so piece of shit rich fucks can use ChatGPT to generate stories and scripts instead of paying writers a fair fucking wage

get your heads outta your collective asses

[lepakonpaska]

[happy rambling in the tags because i love my job so much ✨️🌻]

[writerobscura]

Instagram 5.14.2023

☝️The fujoshis when some bara-sign carrying fool comes along thinking its all about him because he met some homophobic yaoi-fans once (and yes, when they gush over your gayness to the point of cringe, that's homophobia.) Fujos aren't 'fetishizing' you, they're enjoying comics and films and have no idea you exist until you show up tossing commandment tablets at them like some fucking delusional Moses descending Mount Misogyny. If the 'girls you've met' have made you feel objectified, then they're creepers and everyone is fair game to them, not just 'you and yours.' In ten years, they'll be lusting for something else. Fujoshi are just fans of BL & geikomi, genres written and drawn by people of all genders that are lgbtqia themselves.

[incarnadinedreams]

I've always found the 'MXTX says this is how you should think about morality' arguments to not resonate at all with me because like... Well first of all, that's not how I interpreted any of her comments that I've read (in translation) anyway. But I haven't obsessively tracked down every comment and interview and catalogued them either.

But also. Not to sound overly dismissive but at the end of the day MXTX is just some random lady that wrote a very entertaining book on Chinese Wattpad. It's a book that I enjoyed very much (obviously, considering... waves hands vaguely around), and that doesn't mean there aren't thought-provoking themes and angles to it. There's plenty to dig into, if you're interested in analyzing and thinking about them.

But I simply Do Not Care about her opinions on reader's morality more than any other internet rando or random book author. I don't go full 'death of the author', in that I do consider authorial intent in many ways, but I also feel no obligation to agree with the author's intent even when it is clear what their intent is.

Sometimes opinions conveniently align by coincidence but I simply don't have to agree with anything to enjoy a cute murder mystery/torture-revenge-war-crimes-and-soup-eating themed BL webnovel and it's more fun this way.

[thedreamparadox]

thanks for singlehandedly feeding the nights fandom

I actually came to the realization a few days ago that I (by number of fics, not necessarily by word count) think I am currently the most prolific NiGHTS fic writer on AO3 and I do not know what to do with that information.

We are a handful of people and a shoelace fandom on that site rn it's kind of surreal.

[asidian]

A little heartbroken by the news, not going to lie.

But I'm going to keep creating for this fandom, because the characters have made a place in my heart, and I suspect they'll stay there for a good long while. This show and the fandom have been such a joy to partake in during a really rough time in my life, and I appreciate that more than I can say. I appreciate all of you who make the fandom what it is, too.

I guess in the end, Season 2 gets to be whatever we make it. So you know what? Let's all share our Season 2s. Nobody's going to stop us or tell us we're wrong.

So here we go. The Season 2 in my heart, in no particular order:

Desire shows up and puts Charles Rowland through the absolute wringer. He is losing his entire mind, he wants Edwin so bad. This boy has 17 different crises and finally a realization that he has been head over heels for some decades and he is just an idiot, actually

Payneland confession and a first kiss

They get Niko back from the Neitherlands. She's some flavor of undead, and she is having a grand old time, actually

Jenny sets up a butcher shop in London and goes on a date that doesn't try to kill her. With the Night Nurse

Crystal has a corruption arc with David buried in her soul-tree soil and at first they don't realize what's going on, but in the end the boys find a way to go into her heart-space and help her resolve the problem

The boys dance on-screen with some of those skeleton choreography dances

Mick mysteriously also has a shop in London. It straddles time-space and also realms. The characters are all ????? but no one ever figures out wtf is going on with that

Tragic Mick saves the day like a big damn hero with a bazooka like in the comics

The Cat King is around, generally being his trickster self, causing problems for funsies. He dies again and comes back as a fluffy white cat with glam white fur clothes

Charles gets kidnapped somewhere and Edwin has to go and save him. It's very dramatic and parallels S1 Ep7

Monty makes a showing in crow form. He has so many cute bird mannerisms. He gets fluffy in the London cold

The boys return to St. Hilarion's. They find their respective remains and come to terms with their deaths. They decide that, however tragic their deaths were, it led them to the only place they'd want to be: together

Crystal and Niko lay the boys to rest side by side, under the same headstone