#fandom has become finding a discord tbh

[pink-bandana-writes]

Donnie with a Streamer S/O

Here's some headcanons! Love this sweet nerdy guy. <3

Warnings: None?

Donnie with a Streamer S/O

Donnie is like…the best boyfriend ever for a streamer.

He understands all of the programs and setups and computer stuff you could possibly need.

He programs your stream deck for you and helps you mod the games you play.

He helped program your LED lights with special sequences for your streams. Overall very helpful.

He moderates every stream and protects you from hate raids.

Protects your personal info with his life. It is off of the internet forever. No one’s gonna find where you live.

Also, in general, just very fun to play games with.

He likes all of the games you like, and even if he doesn’t, he’s willing to get into them because it’s something you care about.

He’s probably an avid discord user tbh.

Your fans have never seen him for obvious reasons, but they all love Donnie and shout him out in your chat when they hear his voice in the background.

Might even stream with you using one of those v-tuber things to conceal his identity.

If the boys ever do reveal themselves to the public, Donnie gets very popular. He might even surpass your sub count.

I could totally see him becoming a beloved internet celebrity.

There’s jokes about how he’s good at everything. He’s a member of every fandom, plays every video game, knows everything.

Becomes the Hank Green of the video gaming community.

He’s a very strong advocate of accessible technology, only having three fingers on each hand himself.

Works to develop custom keyboards and controllers for him, his brothers, and anyone else who needs modified tech.

Helps you make merch for your brand: t-shirts, stickers, cups, plushies, you name it, he has it designed ASAP.

He’s quick to shut down haters in your chat.

Knowing Donnie, he’d be able to get all of their info and roast each one specifically.

I feel like he probably is good at Minecraft. He has all the crafting recipes memorized, knows how everything works and makes all kinds of cool stuff with the redstone. He’ll protect you from all the monsters and kill the Creepers before they even get near you.

Meanwhile, you’re running around planting flowers and befriending bees. (Mood.)

A very, very wholesome relationship. The whole internet is lowkey jealous.

Who wouldn’t be? Donnie’s the best.

Taglist: @thelaundrybitch, @turtle-babe83

[femmefighter]

Fandom ask thing!

How’s about 2, 3, 16, and 17?

Well, am I LATE in responding to this! Sorry, real life and my real ADHD brain came between me and answering these earlier. BUT I'M HERE NOW!! Shuffles through archive to find the actual questions so I can answer... 2. A headcanon you weren't sure about but have now come to like. Alien-genitalia Ahsoka. I've never minded the HC of Ahsoka being dual sex or having a penis at all, but my head used to spin at some of the ideas I read about. "What do you mean, she has a blue tendril?!?!" Now, I'm like, "c'mon, surprise me. Let's see what your imagination can cook up." Yes, I will continue to write my own Ahsoka as my vanilla genitalia, sorry guys. I never said I was the one with the imagination.

3. A character that fandom has helped you appreciate. Cali don't yell at me for this. Satine Kryze. I smashed through The Clone Wars whilst on a solo camping trip with my dog along the Australian eastern coastline last year. When it would get dark and the mosquitos would come out to play, my dog and I would retreat into my epic swag-tent in the back of my ute, and I'd watch TCW until I was ready to sleep. TBH I had come to TCW to learn more about Ahsoka and Bo-Katan having just met them in S2 of the Mandalorian. All the characters I then got to meet was a bonus SW education. Satine I enjoyed as a character, especially with her obvious modelling off Cate Blanchett's take on Queen Elizabeth I. But, I ended up rolling my eyes a bit at her being used as that trope of 'that tool to hurt Obi-Wan deeply but show he doesn't turn to the dark side'. Yes I still cried like a bitch when she died in his arms, but still. I'm sick of women being used as features to strengthen a man's story arc. It was through fandom *cough* the LesBo discord server *cough* that I learned to appreciate Satine more for her pacifism politics despite her own classic bubbling Mandalorian anger issues, as well as her deeply complex, tumultuous relationship with her younger sister, Bo-Katan. Satine, you deserved better, and I wish I appreciated you more in my first encounter with you. Time for a Clone Wars re-watch, I think.

16. A tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate. That the characters in SW grow up, grow old, and grow in and out of certain roles or stereotypes fandom like to place them in. I think it's that 'found family' doesn't need to represent the traditional Western family nucleus. I see so much of fandom calling Hera and Kanan the mum and dad of the Ghost crew, and I'm not saying that's wrong, but it doesn't allow the natural growth that characters are allowed to have as they get older. Or maybe more that, fandom doesn't allow the characters to grow out of that. Hera is a natural leader, and summarising it as 'mum' vibes does her an injustice, as people much older than her respect her leadership and follow her to hell and back because of her natural command presence, her compassion for the people she leads and her steadfast belief in their cause. People seem to forget that characters like Zeb or Mon Mothma, who are 15/20 years older than Hera, follow her lead in times of crisis or even just daily run-of-the-mill military operations. Hera was a runaway 18 year old girl with just her ship and her murderous droid verses the galaxy, and she ends up a General of the Rebellion/New Republic. That's more than mum vibes, that's BAMF vibes.

On the other side of the equation you have Sabine and Ezra, often depicted as Hera's 'children' in Rebels. Yet they become adults With only an 8 year age gap between Hera and Sabine, it's natural that Sabine would grow into more of a little-sister dynamic with Hera, which they try to show in the Ahsoka series with Jacen calling her 'Aunt Sabine'. But people seem to prefer still calling Sabine a 'girl-failure' of a kid rather than the traumatised, 30 year old adult woman with complex relationships she now is. Pigeon-holing characters into nuclear family roles I feel either permanently infantilizes some characters unfairly, or makes them the chronic 'mum/dad' characters that aren't allowed to be seen as fun, rule-breaking or sexy. The characters in SW grow up, are changed by their experiences, relationships and traumas, and I find that beautiful. I wish more people did too.

17. The thing in canon that everyone loves that you also love. Sabine Wren being an artist as well as a killing machine. It might be an odd thing for me to fixate on, but growing up in a left vs right political society, I was often ostracised for being in the military but also being queer, left-voting, a seamstress and creative. Apparently, two such components of my identity were not allowed to co-exist in the one person. So naturally, I found it a breath of fresh air seeing in Rebels, Sabine spray painting anti-Imperial graffiti on a wall one moment to shooting or blowing up bucketheads a moment later without blinking an eye. Her painted armour, literally bringing those two 'opposing' sides of her identity together that makes her who she is - love it so damn much.

Anyways, I've probably taken all these questions too seriously and have possibly also pissed off half of fandom with my take on these. But at least I've had fun doing so. 😂

Thanks for the ask!!

[damnfandomproblems]

@ 4234:

Not sure if they're checking for any responses, but mostly I wanted to agree. I haven't been in many fandoms, but even the main one I'm in now is alot more "cliquey" compared to years ago when RP and ask blogs were still really common. Now, alot of RP is mostly in Discord, and while I agree the messaging is easier/better than on Tumblr, Discord groups feel more closed off and gatekeepy at times. Plus my OTP is a NOTP for alot of people in the fandom, and I'm not interested in the juggernaut ships, so I get left out of alot of fandom events.

Tbh, I know it's not for everyone, but I've done better in a multi-fandom server I joined compared to any of the servers that are specific to the fandom I'm in. The one I joined I only did,cuz the admin is someone I already knew from my main fandom. I knew they were fair and kind, and they had modding experience in other servers, and it's been overall a great experience, until the server unfortunately died a while back, just due to the admin and other mods having irl stuff come up and take up all their time.

The only other server I've had a good time in was one that's specifically for fic writers in the fandom, which has events and showcases fics of people in the server, so it's alot of us pumping each other up and infodumping about our ideas and AUs.

Something I've had to learn to look out for when going into servers is in rules. Channels that state people's triggers and squicks is well-meaning, but unfortunately, in every server I've been in that had that turned into a wankfest sooner or later, usually with 2 or 3 BNFs in the server attacking each other or smaller creators in the server, using things in the trigger and squick list to harass or claim they were being harassed. Similar wankfests happened if the server has a list of topics and/or ships that aren't allowed to be talked about. Even if someone doesn't mention a forbidden topic/ship in the server, if they post stuff about it on Tumblr, Twitter, or ao3, they usually end up getting attacked in the server or just straight-up banned.

The servers I had/have good times had few if any forbidden tropes/topics/ships. If anything, it was only asked they only got mentioned in certain channels. The few times any wank came up, it got shut down within the same day.

Unfortunately, I don't have any advice for navigating fandom on Tumblr (and I avoid fandom spaces on Instagram and Twitter). I tend to just keep to myself on here, only ever talking to 2 or 3 people and not even all that much.

I hope you're okay, #4234. I'm in a small fandom, too, and I know that gossip runs rampant, so people end up hearing about callouts, even if they don't see the actual post. I've never been in that situation, so I don't know if this is good advice or not, but I'd suggest only sticking to talking to a few people for now. There will be some people who will refuse to interact with you, but even if others aren't actively reaching out, there are others who don't believe the callout, whether cuz they know the person posting it isn't credible or they've become skeptical when it comes to callout posts in general. So there will still be people willing to hear you out, if you choose to stay in that fandom and try making friends in it again.

Definitely close your asks (or at least close anon) if you haven't done that already, and depending on the level of harassment you're getting, I'd suggest making your posts nonrebloggable. I'm not sure if you're a creator in the fandom, so I know it can hurt to keep creating and not get any notes, but it's better than people reblogging your art, edits or writing only to add hurtful comments to keep harassing you.

I might not know who you are, but I'm rooting for you and hope you'll find a space in fandom (current one or another fandom if you decide to move on) that welcomes you.

Posting since this is a response to a previous problem.

[scales-n-art]

What advice do you have for someone hoping to start making money with art? I'm new to everything so building an audience and engaging with them feels like me shooting in the dark, let alone getting them to request commissions or join a Patreon!

Hi there!

I think you have the biggest part of it already figured out tbh. If you're aiming for it to be a side hustle kind of thing, then building an audience is definitely one of the best ways to go about it if you wanna stick to online. The way it's been for me, it's all been through fandoms and niche art. I drew a ton of fanart for Shadowhunters back in 2017, but it wasn't until I got into making fanart for Attack on Titan (mostly merfolk AU stuff) in 2018 that I really became more "visible" as an artist. Back in 2017 I had some commissioners, but from 2018 onwards is how I truly became a full time artist.

There's people who have the fortune of making it big with their own original art from the very beginning, and that's wonderful. But it's not something I can give you advice on, because I haven't figured that out myself, and it's not how I got here either. I know it's possible, however, so that's definitely always an option too.

As frustrating as it is, I think there's no real way around it. You need an audience who's interested in what you have to share, and a lot of it can become making art that caters to what your audience is interested in. So be very careful with how you go about it. I'd say just draw what YOU like, what YOU want to see. Most likely, there are others out there who want to see the same thing too. Algorithms online make it harder for people to find you, and it's very tiresome to adapt to them, but there's no way around it except keep pushing, keep trying, follow other artists, make friends with them. Comment on art, share art, join discord servers, talk with people. Interaction will take you a long way in this circle!

If you're not afraid of taking your art outside of the online market, there's always conventions, exhibitions and bazaars/markets in most cities, where you can take prints, stickers and other merch with your creations. They also work wonderfully as contact makers. You'll get to meet other artists in your area, and they can help spread word about your work, and you can do the same for them, aside from directly putting your work literally out there for people to see.

If you want advice on how to become a professional artist, getting studio jobs and such, I'm definitely not the right person to ask. I have no experience on that other than applying and getting rejected or "saved for later". Not that I've tried much tbh, I've been ok enough with freelance work.

I've worked mostly on commissions for individuals who just want a specific piece of their favorite character, and I've also worked on commissions for self publishing authors and one major awarded, published author in my country as well. All of it, just because I started an askblog about Merman!Levi when I was bored, depressed, and going through Big Shit irl. So an art journey can have many crazy looks.

I'm not sure how helpful this will be, because I'm honestly not the best example of How To become An Artist. I've had so many ups and downs, currently going through a major down. And the only thing consistent about my journey, is that I haven't given up. So I guess that has to mean something, as cheesy as it may sound.

I wish you the best on the journey though ❤️

[frenzyarts]

furry fandom really is just about connecting w people tbh! the term "fandom" is kind of a misnomer here bc the community has gone past being "fans" of any particular thing. think of it like a gathering of people who like anthropomorphic animals in general

as for where to start you don't really HAVE to have a fursona but generally it's easier to find folks to chat with if you do. your 'sona sort of becomes You in the eyes of the community? maybe just,,, post art in the furry tag or even scroll through it and go from there?

(personally i got my start in the fandom by joining discords but i uhhh. do not recommend that lol)

-🐺

Interesting 🤔 I have a fursona but I don’t always want to draw myself so maybe I’ll do art of an oc instead

Thanks for the info!!

[heroicintention]

𝑲𝑵𝑶𝑾𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝒀𝑶𝑼𝑹 𝑷𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑵𝑬𝑹 𝑾𝑬𝑳𝑳 𝑪𝑨𝑵 𝑷𝑶𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑰𝑨𝑳𝑳𝒀 𝑴𝑨𝑲𝑬 𝑾𝑹𝑰𝑻𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑻𝑶𝑮𝑬𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹 𝑨 𝑳𝑶𝑻 𝑬𝑨𝑺𝑰𝑬𝑹 . . .

NAME : Puff. also known as Puff Almight && Princess Pygmy Puffskein the Third. (don’t ask about the first and second)

PRONOUNS : she/her

NAME OF MUSE(S) : there’s… there’s so many but some of my mains rn are Carl Grimes, Beth Greene, Rick Grimes, Lizzie Samuels, Gabby Kinney, and Jason Todd 💕

PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION : i am far more available on discord as i am on it… a lot. it is my preferred, my absolute darling of a social. however finding new writing partners on discord can be hella taxing so i’ve made my great return! however if you want my discord and we’re mutuals, feel free to ask!

EXPERIENCE / HOW LONG ( MONTHS / YEARS? ) : i started at 11 and i’m 25+ now so that should tell you it’s been a while. i started my first tumblr rp blog the day i turned 18, and this one is… a good few years old now 😅 (like I had mutuals that had been inactive for six years ffs)

BEST EXPERIENCE : i’ve had so many amazing experiances tbh and some of my best friends are online— but crossing my fingers i can meet a good few of them at a con this year (woo woo!!) my best experience tho has to be the server i run though. i’ve been able to see so many people work together, create bonds, and become genuine friends through love of fandom and genuine kind natures and i’m so happy i’ve had the ability to already meet some of them in person, exchange gifts, and have almost year long snapchat streaks.

RP PET PEEVES / DEALBREAKERS : when someone wants to write just for smut. vaguing. using interest in fictional topics to badmouth people. i don’t care what you write as long as you tag your shit i’m negl. i’m too old for this, and i’ve probably already read it in a published book anyhow splatterpunk fans put your hands up

MUSE PREFERENCES FLUFF, ANGST OR SMUT : i enjoy all of it tho i am pretty picky in writing smut given a lot of bad experiences with partners that ended up… only wanting to write smut. angst is PROBABLY my fav, i love making my muse a problem.

PLOTS OR MEMES : i honestly have a hard time plotting because i question how interesting my plots are… so i do prefer memes.

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES : anything but a one liner. on discord i’m super fond of text chat && short form but that’s usually in tandem with multi para. on here, i would prefer at least a paragraph tbh.

BEST TIME TO WRITE : whenever i have access to my phone, laptop, or a pen and paper honestly.

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S) : some of them i definitely have similarities to (Beth, Gwen, and— i would like to think— Snorkmaiden). but i also write a lot of very masculine men, violent as shit screwballs, and some plain problem children. while i do put some of myself into all my babies… i can’t claim to be like them.

Tagged by: @vulpineobedience

Tagging: anyone who wants to introduce themselves 👉🏻👈🏻

[gildead]

it's @chounaifu's turn to jumpscare me... with positivity!

Rex’s Gardening Service here. Loamy Soil: Hi Vetra, what’s it like being the funniest person on this god forsaken website??? Okay but seriously, fuck, you are so FUNNY and you’re SO MUCH FUN to talk to on Discord. When you first followed me on Gold, I was like “no fucking way lol” because I could NOT believe that somebody was RPing such an obscure Creepypasta character! I thought he had been forgotten to the sands of time. I still cannot believe that such a silly joke like Banana Proton has become. . . . Canon lore. This is why I love RP, honestly. You help remind me that not everything has to be serious and rigid— that we’re here to have fun and laugh together. Thanks for making me laugh! Sun Light: Let me preface this with: it is SO hard to write muses with horror themes, especially when people are turned off by it. I appreciate your drabbles, and the layers of suspense that are attached to them. I ache for Gold whenever I read them. At the same time, you keep this happy air around him, despite the struggles and hardships he’s faced. It’s a lot of fun. He’s a lot of fun. This blog is a lot of fun. I’m really glad that you’re active here! Drizzle from the watering can: Talk about some of your favorite RP threads!

REX WHAT THE HELL THIS IS SO NICE...?

gonna answer the RP threads question under the cut because otherwise this post is gonna get long as hell. this isn't even a comprehensive list of everything.

literally anything with wolf and @koopaklaw (and @peachycrown), to the point where a certain Wolf quote still lives in our heads rent-free.

for that measure, literally anything with my main fox at the time, especially when he came to rescue my wolf (the mun knows who they are but i'm leaving them anonymous so the space furry fandom leaves us alone)

Also ANYTHING with Lucina and Henri's Chrom. Literally both of them being trans was such a big brain move on our parts, tbh, but I think a standout has to be Lucina trying to dance around the Morgans' existence with Chrom to prevent fucking up the timeline.

ALSO LUNEA. SHOUT OUT TO LUNEA. that thread was so good.

Ripley's Byleth and my Edelgard talking about church doctrine and how fucked up it is.

Bri's Ferdinand and my Edelgard post-killing Ludwig von Aegir.

There was a really good Edelgard one I did over Discord DMs. Unfortunately, it was with the antisemitic purple rat's Claude, so that one no longer counts.

Triandra fighting both @madeimpact's Pit AND @sternenteile in different threads because I had to change nOTHING about their lore to make things work. They're so versatile.

@gottgenug's jeralt and my shez, especially the one where jeralt finds out about arval. i love the dad.

Basically all of Reginn and Eitri's threads because Book V of had no right having such good worldbuilding. Also I hadn't written a villain in a while back then so Eitri was a lot of fun.

deep cut here, but my Rowdyruff Boys and @molinguish were. so so good.

Another deep cut, and maybe a weird choice considering the context, but during the ending of 2020 when The Great RPC Fuckening of November went down, a certain thread featuring Bunnie squaring off against the antisemitic purple rat and beating his ass was my happy place for an entire month. If you know, you know.

Gold and ALL of his fellow creepypastas shooting the shit has been so good. We need more creepypastas. It's 2023, embrace the cringe.

Of course, Gold and his little found family of @wariodemambo, @rosadolces, @queenshokora, and Papeeno @thetravelershub (feat. Peepaw @emptyzone).

And, an honorable mention since it wasn't a real thread, but:

YOU. ME. BANANA PROTON.

[dr-fumbles-mcstupid]

PREACH! When I first started shipping none of the people in that fandom thought the ship would *ever* become real. And honestly it's crazy weird that people think a lot of the ships will become canon.

And the entitlement some people feel over a show and what the creators do is unreal.

I really liked Voltron when it first aired, but after the disgusting way fans treated each other and the creators I couldn't engage anymore.

It is like 95% positive your ship won't become canon (she-ra changed my mind on it being 100% to not become canon tbh)

Your ship is not more valid bc it has a "chance" of becoming canon.

All ships are good. Open up your eyes to multishipping and stop shitting on other fans.

Stop feeling entitled to shows you didn't create. You are sad or angry because you didn't like that something happened or how the show ended?

That is why we have fan fiction. Go change it yourself.

I know I sound like an old lady screaming on my lawn "back in my day!"

And there was still wank and fans hating on each other, but it was not justified by the chance a ship would become "canon".

And it could be my rose colored glasses, or that I wasn't in the right areas of fandom to see it (I was like 16-17 when I moved to LJ for fandom, like peak Stargate Atlantis times) and I didn't find out about the fandom wank community until later and I wasn't active there. But the authors I followed did not do that shit.

And it wasn't as vicious to people who shipped a different pairing. And by and large we had ship and let ship, and your cup of tea might not be my cup of tea. (yes there were other issues, racism in some things that are *still* an issue today, so yes I know it wasn't all fun happy times).

But like I get tired these days, going into discord servers and seeing these arguments about which pairing is more "valid", and people telling other people why their tropes or kinks are "not acceptable" and it just sucks.

Maybe sit down with a fandom old and talk to them. You'll learn some things, and maybe just maybe they could help better current fandom.

i will say, the worst thing that happened in fandom was when shipping just became “i ship this bc it’s gonna be real” and not just “i ship this bc i think it’s a fun dynamic to explore idc what the writers are doing that’s not my business”

[thisislittlerunaway]

I dislike the double standard in this fandom when Luke got hate for papgate but Nic doesn’t. But I think I can explain why. Hear me out (or not, it’s just my personal opinion so I’m free to voice it and you’re free to disagree anyway)

Understandingly, the fandom is upset with Nick being with anyone else other than Luke, because we were made to believe Lukola was a thing, so that S3 could sell, so that Nic (and Luke and Shondaland) could be successful.

In response to pap gate, Luke didn’t seem to have anything done to crisis manage apart from staying silent, so he and his girlfriend became the ‘bad guys’. Nic, meanwhile, cleverly lead the fandom to think that the problem is with whoever took the photos/videos. Yep, that’s their fault everyone. If they had respected Nic’s privacy, we wouldn’t have got water tight evidence that Nic clearly isn’t dating Luke. Meanwhile, let’s keep coming up with more theories l to explain why Lukola must still be secretly in love. How the fantasy still goes on despite this, I really don’t get.

Because of this, I find Nic less relatable after seeing her reaction to her own pap gate. I don’t have to be a celebrity to know that me being famous (hypothetically of course) means there is always a risk that people take photos of me in public places (even private ones sometimes), regardless of my consent.

Being a very smart and determined woman, Nic understands every crisis needs a fall-guy whom people can take their disappointment out on, and she knows enough what to do to not be this guy.

Her strategy is to put the blame on the fan who took the photos/videos, which is brutal. Nic’s friend group also supported this with their cryptic / overt messages on SM. This type of domineering behaviour is so shit to the fan who came from a place of admiration. By the way, has anyone called out the paps who took photos of Luke and A, or spoken up regarding their privacy yet?

This sudden advocacy for celebrity’s privacy (which is ironic considering that fandoms are usually held together by gossips and discords) is further elevated by Nic’s fans (some/most also identify as Lukola’s fan or Polin’s) who seem to think everything Nic does is holly. I like Nic and was obsessed with her after S3, but I’m not one to blindly accept that she’s a saint. Tbh I don’t get a good feel about this whole JD thing. It doesn’t match how I initially perceived Nic to be. But hey, what do I know?…

I’m regretting the effort spent on shipping Polin/Lukola this summer thinking I noticed something special, but maybe I was just a fool. I’m regretting falling down this fandom rabbit hole, which now seems to exist in a very different realm from reality. But in my defense, this was not completely my fault. Aggressive PR (lowkey deception?) is pretty much to blame as well.

At the end of the day, Nic is a clever person in show business with a clever team, both seem very determined to do anything to succeed. Nic and Luke are humans and humans are imperfect. While both are free to do anything they want to, such as dating very young 20-somethings, one seems to get away with it for knowing how to manipulate the public, while one has absolutely no clue and sadly becomes the target of bullying, that’s it.

[lcngliive]

Was that [TOM GLYNN-CARNEY]? Oh no no, that was just [ROBBIE BISHOP], a [ORIGINAL CHARACTER] from [THE VAMPIRE DIARIES]. They are [TWENTY FOUR] years old, use [HE/HIM], and [ARE] aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. Too bad they can’t stray from this city for long.

how long has your character been here

robbie has only been here for about two days.

what is your character's job

nothing currently, but he'll most likely open up another shop like the one he had back home.

where has your character been pulled from in their fandom

from after his death - tho he has no idea he's actually dead.

has any magic affected your character

nope!

and any other information you might find useful for us and the other members to know!!

OKAY hello, sit down bcs this is gonna be a wild ride hehe !

his full name is robert, but he goes exclusively by robbie - Robert is only for the parents when he's done something wrong lol, which was most of his childhood and teenage years

third oldest of the siblings

back home he ran a bakery with his wife, they're both witches and they sold the typical shit you'd find in a tourist shop - the whole love potion thing etc, etc - do they work? who knows (most of them do)

was a very curious and rambunctious child growing up, never without scraped knees or holes in his clothes from climbing trees or doing other things that he shouldn't

def a rebel of a teenager - protesting about civil rights and using magic to make things happen in favour of the different causes he was supporting

has def been arrested more than once (more like 10 times but shhh we're not counting hehe)

robbie loves his family with a deep ferocity, he'd quite literally do anything for them - has probs started fights on behalf of them before tbh

met his soon to be wife one day while he was out causing trouble and the two became friends and eventually started dating -

they had the baby first and then decided to get married lmaooo, always does things backwards -

meeting his wife def calmed down the wild streak in him, made him more balanced and so did becoming a father, they have a house away from the bishop home, a dog named tater and plans for another baby (but we know how that went lmaoooo)

the connection for his wife will be something that I'll be writing up very shortly and sending it to the main, so if ur interested in bein his wife pls hmu and i can give you the vibes :)))

we all know the details abt the bishops - they're another gemini coven, marley and mason were supposed to merge nd shit and mason went blabbing to the wrong people - aka vampires who wanted to fuck up the family

and fuck them up they did :((( the bishops all went for what they thought was a normal family night, but nope, the vampires killed them all

robbie's wife and child were supposed to be there with him that night, but the kiddo had a fever and was fussy so they stayed home while robbie went to see his fam

so - I'm playing him rn as him just remembering going home - no remembering death or anything like that - so which family member is gonna break the good news?? hehe

here in dc

robbie is going to be very confused and think that one of his family members has done a spell and it's backfired

will 100% not be able to cope with the fact that he's supposed to be dead - esp given the fact his family was supposed to join them, so they would have been dead too

is gonna need someone to show him around and tell him abt technology and shit ???? so pls give this man some friends hehe

wanted connections

his wife - gonna make this an official wc, BUT if anyone is interested and wants to hmu before i send it in, yall can dm me on discord or even on tumblr!!

friends - all of his friends were back home, so it would be good for him to have some new friends - witchy friends, just normal friends, other supernatural friends?????

people who work for him - robbie is gonna be opening up his shop again here, so if you wanna work in a quirky lil bakery, have at it !! he'd love to have some other witches and just anyone working tbh!

[margridarnauds]

💕, 💭 and 💛 for the fic writer asks?

💕 What is your favorite fic that you’ve written?

That's a tough one, honestly! There are some fics of mine that I think are technically better than others, some that are more meaningful in other ways. Sometimes, a fic of mine will get a better reception than I anticipated, but it's almost never the ones that I put my heart and soul into. Sometimes, I revisit a fic years later and I'm proud of what I did, sometimes, I never look at it again.

I would say...possibly Metempsychosis. Mainly because, imo, it has some really good writing from me in it, but also because it's a deeply, deeply personal fic. Nannerl's story became really important to me, both the tragic side of it (which is what almost ALL writing about Nannerl focuses on), and the happy moments. This is a woman who's lost everything at various points in her life, but she still finds a way through. And that's a lot more important to me than the common narrative of Mozart's Tragic Sister.

It was also coming at a very good time for me -- I go into the background to it in the author's note, as far as it being written when I had gone about 28 hours without sleep, for a fandom event that ultimately never happened five years before, I'd had a ~five hour bus ride, and I was facing a long plane flight back to the States, but what I don't talk about is that it was written at the tail end (...well. not quite the tail end) of a very long depressive episode that had been ongoing since 2021, when I joined my department and other things happened. I had been left feeling like there was nothing I could contribute, I'd never be able to write again like I used to, I couldn't make or keep friends long term, that I was inherently unlikable and the only thing that I could contribute was my content creation (and even that was going by the wayside, since my program made it impossible for me to write or publish as consistently as I used to and I felt like the quality of my most recent fics wasn't living up to the quality of my earlier fics...which, tbh, I still believe to some extent), that I owed everyone an apology for not being able to do anything because they deserved more, especially when I had so many WIPs that were likely never going to get published.

It was, quite possibly, the lowest low of my life up to that point, and that's including the year of Hell in middle school when I was bullied non-stop.

And then, in some random gate in Heathrow Airport, I hand-wrote out the skeleton of a fic. One that I thought was never going to get written. For a fandom I'd never written for before. Edited it, did some adjustments, and published it shortly afterwards.

💭 What inspires you and your writing?

Oh, interesting.

I take bits and pieces from everywhere -- paintings, sometimes. Classics. Operas. Museums. Folklore motifs. (Never Campbell's monomyth, on the record.) The last few years have made me somewhat solitary and reclusive in a fandom context -- I don't join Discord servers often and, when I get super into a given ship, I usually don't even read fanfic consistently, mainly out of a fear of being influenced or accidentally copying. (Re: the latter, I'm a purist in the sense that I really like to develop my own take on characters' dynamics with one another, and I can't always do that if I'm in a fandom environment where headcanons quickly become canon. Re: the former...well. Too much of a fear of things going wrong. I said that it was ALMOST the tail end of my depressive episode, not quite the tail end yet.) I talk with friends, I get deep into the source material, and I see what I can try to pull out.

Sometimes, for my historically relevant fanfics, I'll read about something that happened in history and go "Oh, that's interesting" and make a note of it, or read a fact in some book or another. I might watch a musical or read something and think that there's a gap that needs to be filled and I'll try to fill it.

💛 What is the most impactful lesson you’ve learned about writing?

I suppose it's always striking to see the full RANGE of what is most impactful to people, what people are drawn to. Even the fics that I think are flops for various reasons usually have at least SOMEONE to like them, even if that person isn't always me.

Another, and it was hard-earned, was that rules don't really matter. When I was a teenager, I was bored out of my skull hearing every single bit of writing advice I got, even into a creative writing class in college, saying "write like Hemingway write like Hemingway write like Hemingway" when my natural style has ALWAYS been more 19th Century Gothic Romance Writer Getting Paid By the Word. It was stifling. And it wasn't necessarily bad ADVICE, it was badly GIVEN advice, because it was treated as an absolute. As I got older and started to work on writing more, I gradually realized that, fine, you should be careful of word count, but I also then proceeded to toss that bit of advice out, never paid attention to it again, and never bothered with it. I sometimes seek out writing advice now for scenes that I find technically confusing (battle and sex scenes in particular), I still am constantly trying to improve my style, but I don't care as much about making my writing follow a list of rules for what Good Writing Looks Like.

[bigbeautifulcartoonpeople]

These are some conversation I've had with several people in discord:

1) Other Person: Idk if this is an unpopular opinion, but find myself being more anti harassment then anti anti. Like im proship but I also think that people, when they tag correctly, should be allowed to talk about why they don't like a character, a peice of media or a ship... I think that also ties in to WHY im proship. People should do what they want but I don't want to see anti xyz or even a tonne of ship stuff in the main tags.

Me: Tbh same, that was actually the way of the internet before all this proship and antiship and anti-antiship shit started. Literally people liked what they liked, criticized what they didn't and moved the fuck on. The people who demonized, shunned, suicide bated, etc. other people in fandom were the people looked down upon and excluded from fandom. Now it's just okay to hurl death threats and the like over literally 2-D pictures, characters and even stories willy-fucking-nilly. Like seriously, I don't think a lot of people have even looked at a library otherwise they would start trying to burn them down because they lack such common sense and awareness over the fact that fiction is QUITE LITERALLY not reality. Consuming it doesn't make you IT, but the sad thing is is that this isn't even a new way of thinking, it's only newly been on the internet and is now spreading like a cancer/wildfire.

Purity culture has always been a thing due to Catholicism and Christianity and the like, claiming video games cause kids to be violent, even further back, metal music made kids devil-worshipers and violent, even further back, IT the book made people murderers and that Stephen King(the author) is a murderer himself! Hell, the ideology is still standing strong with conservatives believing that if their kid consumes queer media that will somehow magically make them queer and that's just not how that works. If you go into media thinking murder, incest, etc. is okay irl beforehand, nothing is going to change about that except figuring out you are okay with it irl and not just on paper/screen. Same with queer kids, they were already queer or questioning before they consumed the queer media, they're just figuring out what the words are or what it looks like now that they've consumed it and can now define themselves.

I'm genuinely growing more and more concerned that people really do believe that fictional characters are real. Like, if they just believe hard enough it makes it so, and that because they think that the fictional characters are real anyone who'd want to hurt them, sexualize them, put them in harm's way, etc. are awful people cause they believe you would do that to real people and, to them, that fictional character is real.

It's so fucking concerning because I am becoming more and more aligned in the belief that people shouldn't be handed the internet until a certain age cause technology and screens and the wide wide web are rotting kids' brains, holy fuck

2) Just casual discussion:

Me: Antis are ruining fandom space and it ain't even our fault, wtf

Person 1: creating unnecessary drama too! they...outed...a 12y old...sexual fantasies from a PRIVATE conversation

Person 2: These guys need to realize they're not the fucking police it's none of their business what other people do online unless it's ACTUALLY illegal

Person 1 in Response to: they...outed...a 12y old...sexual fantasies:

that was some years ago, and i didn't know proship and anti discourse

for ppl that love to say legality isn't morality, they sure love to bring up the law "it's illegal!!"

"no it isn't, [proof]"

"legality isn't morality"

Me: I'm seriously starting to think the majority of antis are minors, like kid/tween minors, cause the lack of reasoning skills, inability to tell fiction from reality, and basically little sociopaths sound both like antis and children and that's starting to make me super fucking uncomfortable. Cause there are so many parents who will hand their kid an ipad or even a whole ass phone at like 4 or 5 and then they're left to their own devices (pun not intended) and expected to figure the wide wide web out on their own...like, THEYRE FUCKING CHILDREN, we are A) not responsible for parenting your random ass child in place of you, B) expecting adults to interact with is adults and will reply and interact as such.

And so we've got LITERAL CHILDREN with no moral compass established being told that x, y, and z people are the worst possible people to ever exist ever.... Kids already take everything to the extremes, and that shit is only gonna make everything worse for us and everybody else just trying to enjoy fandom

Person 1 in Response to: I'm seriously starting to think the majority of antis are minors, like kid/tween minors, cause the lack of reasoning:

yea, kids usually see black and white

they don't notice the grey also cause they're easily convinced, and when they're convinced, they're gonna keep insisting

Me: Like, for example, I was watching a Jacksepticeye vid yesterday and he was looking at reviews of him on this website and read a review of a literally EIGHT YEAR OLD who said that they had been watching him since they were a toddler and jack was shocked....I WOULD BE TOO, like who just hands their kid the internet and say "salavi, go be kids, go have fun", like NO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING????? At the very least try to curate your child's experience or reach on the net until they're about 13 or so, like I promise shitting out a kid is not the only step to being a parent, I promise you

Person 1 in Response to: Like, for example, I was watching a Jacksepticeye vid yesterday and he was looking at reviews of:

since....they were...a TODDLER??

Me: Yep, and the kid didn't even see anything wrong with it, seriously, somebody needs to start trying to be parents and it shouldn't be the people who didn't ask to be, aka random adults on the net

I'm starting to find evidence on twitter of antis encouraging each other to shun friends and family for not being one of them and I am deeply concerned. This is some cult shit.

"should I shun my friend for being proship even though they're my only irl friend?"

"Should I shun my mother for being proship?"

The answer to both of these is GET HELP. You are being brainwashed into thinking that your friends and family are dangerous when you know that they wouldn't hurt anyone. See a therapist, take some time off the internet, reevaluate your situation. Fiction does not take precedence over your loved ones.

I'm tagging this with "antis please interact" because I think they need to see this too, and hopefully it helps someone. Your loved ones are not dangerous because of their taste in fiction.

[angelucifa]

Hey, folks.

Dunno how to begin, but I’d try anyway now. So here we go:

A really uncomfortable incident has happened in a Deadendia forum on Discord recently, as many of you Deadendia/DE:PP fans may have heard, and I’m so sorry I was the trigger. I won't go into detail further, so to cut a long story short: I posted some fanarts being inappropriate for some poeple viewed with hindsight on various social-media platforms like Instagram or Twitter, but haven’t thought about I would cause feelings of anger and displeasure in this whole fandom which I now regret.

So if there are some users in that Deadendia forum on Discord being involved in this incident here on Tumblr being able to read this now:

I’m so sorry that I may have left some of you unhinged here, so I apologize to you all for what I’ve done, to Hamish Steele , to everyone possibly left inhinged! It really wasn’t my intention to do harm to Hamish and to everyone else feeling uncomfortable now by my actions, I basically did my fanarts just for fun without any bad purposes (that wasn't even porn or worse, which I'd find REALLY creepy for my taste tbh). „Just for fun?“ you may ask now? Tbh I’m struggling to find an exact answer, but all I can tell you: I just wanted to  find some other fans hoping to be able to exchange interests in this series and graphic novels with, especially with some poeple about my age (I actually joined this forum because someone sent me an invitation link and with expectation to find other fans to be become friends with, because I know DE:PP/Deadendia hasn’t a range in popularity so big like the popularity of others like Spongebob or Family Guy for example), but stupidly disregarded there are many minors in this fandom, too. I just didn’t think about that, but now know I’ve made a fatal mistake with my actions retrospectively, but unfortunately I’ve learned that the hard way. I’d say the subject concerning some fanarts of Courtney is a grey area with a line being so narrow and  unremarkable you'll have to take care not to cross, which seem to have happened to me now coz I just overlooked that line.

I don't demand you to accept my apology or to affiliate me again, I just try to take a stance to let you know I feel so endlessly sorry for the damage I may have done althought I’m hoping you’d forgive me nevertheless. I also may just have scarped and hidden  instead and fake nothing would have happened to hope it would pass out of mind someday, but it wouldn’t help myself, nor would it help you, because you deserve to be told what has come into my mind to do that, and because I owe you an explanation and an apologize. I just want to let you know I’m neither a pedophile chasing after minors and a transphobe nor do I disrespect the religion of others (to get on to that pic of Badyah without her hijab), so stop calling me that! I just didn’t expect it would be construed this way. I can only tell it was a big mistake and I'm so sorry.

But I don’t envision myself as a bad person after all, because all that wasn’t even my intention to do harm to you all. I only can confess my fault and learn from that, because everyone makes some mistakes occasionally, making mistakes goes with life to learn from them, no matter how heavy they may have been, I’ve learned from my mistakes the uncomfortable way. I only can take my stand on these happenings and apologize, but I know I can’t make you believe me and accept me again. I really haven’t done that because I would find Courtney sexually attractive, because I really don‘t after all, I don’t feel any sexual fondness for her, I’m actually in a relationship with someone being a few years older than me. It just should be fanart, no more, no less, without any bad ulterior motive or else. Believe me or not, that’s for sure something I can’t influence after all, and I know that.

I’m feeling so miserable right now for getting you in this uncomfortable situation, you have to know. I even thought I would never feel pleasure in that series and graphic novels of Deadendia again. So I’m actually still waiting for the second Deadendia book I ordered a few days ago to arrive to me home and now it feels like I won't even enjoy reading it without being reminded of that incident and that’s a real pity in my opinion. So I can only try to make the best of that mistake I‘ve learned from for the future, because I can’t turn back these happenings.

Therefore: I apologize for all the trouble I’ve done to you with my actions, that was never  anything I wanted to achieve.

So to not let it escalate any further there was nothing else to do for me but to delete all fanarts being inappropriate everywhere, that will be the best for everyone. I know, it won’t make this incident unhappen again, but this and my public apology to you would help me (and probably you, too) to come to terms with all that.

This fandom should be a safe space for everyone I never wanted to destroy, also for me coz I became a fan because of the great representation in this series and graphic novels and Courtney became my favorite character because of her wierd characteristics. And I also became a fan because I recognized myself in Norma because of my own past experiencing bullying and exclusion in my schooltime (i. e. because I grew in circumstances of financial poverty). So this series also gave me comfort in difficult times I had to deal with and I’ll remain a fan after all, but with trying not to do harm to anyone with inappropriate fanarts or else in the future.

But to be fair I have to say the way you reproached me for having done this trouble to you wasn’t the right way neither. I approve that you wanted to make me take notice I made a mistake, but I wish you’d have found a more appropiate solution to do so instead of sharing some fanarts of mine to everyone on Discord without my permission to show me up kinda as a sick-minded minor chaser and transphobe who I am not and throwing some bad accusations towards me which aren't even true. You could have written me personally what I may have done wrong without the presence of everyone instead. I could have been someone being mentally very fragile who won't bear that happened incident any longer and therefore can’t find another solution for himself/herself/themselves than committing suicide in the end in the worst case. So would you like to be responsible for the death of someone you kinda witch-hunted? I don’t think so!

I would be so glad if you would like to communicate with me after all that trouble anyway, so if you still have any questions or feel the need to write me in general anyway, feel free to contact me, but only on condition that you’ll do it in a respectful manner towards me!

[user-needs-new-hyperfixation]

Sorry to anyone who has been messaging me here, on Discord, etc and not getting responses. It's hard to explain, but when I get a certain kind of burnt out, one-on-one conversation becomes overwhelming to me in a way that just shrieking on my dash or Twitter isn't. So I realize it might seem like I'm dissing people when I'm clearly online but not answering messages...the reality is I'm just struggling to talk except via memes.

And stressing myself out over not keeping up with convos really steals the joy I find on tumblr etc, because tbh my fandom accounts are my selfish place. They're my escape from family and work where I can just...not talk if I don't feel like talking. So I'm going to let myself have that. But just know it's not that I'm ignoring any specific person for any specific reason. Y'all are the best, I am just an untreated bundle of assorted disorders and I need my me time.

[keebwee]

LMAOOO OK SO my entire friend group that im in a discord server w/ (i fuckin love them sm) met through wild kratts tumblr. i had a side blog where i made wk content. i left the fandom bc tbh i do not like the fandom atmosphere (its small so gross stuff is easy to find) but the characters are so fun to me. we talk abt them a LOT and zach has become this little pathetic wet cat of a man. i decided to make him kiss goreth as a joke and then it just stuck LMAOOO

for goreth!! (if you haven’t done this already lol)

🌺💼✨🌼🌂

HEHHEE. OLD MAN. OLD GOAT MAN. love him

🌺: Do they have any love-interests? - you know the answer. you knwo the fucking answer. yes. LMAOOOOOO

here's a list of the one's i remember:

eggman, baron draxum, splinter, zach varmitech, sans, dean from iron giant, james randal (this ones more of a joke than the others), professor oak, professor sycamore, literally all the male pokemon professors, hop pop, ford cruller from psychonauts, kraven from the spider-man insomniac games SPECIFICALLY, finnegrin from the dragon prince and i know theres more but im forgetting them. plus unnamed husbands who will never be designed ever but exist nonetheless

💼: What do they do for a living? - thats a great question. he's just rich he has daddy's money, plus he's also like ... the leader of an entire district in the hidden city. he gambles a lot and wins thanks to myrtle rigging the games for him.

✨: How did you come up with the OC's name? - i made him after bund and wanted his name to fit in with blood und death. i thought of gore, then gareth, and combined the two and BOOM. goreth.

🌼: How old are they? (Or approximate age range) - between 100 and 300 years old :3

🌂: What genre do they belong in? - probably fantasy . i dont know where else to put him. this is a hard question LMAOO

[solradguy]

I’ve seen you mention a lore server for Guilty Gear a couple times, is it possible you can share the link?? I’ve been trying to find a Guilty Gear server for a while. And also a quick question, but since you know a lot about the topic, are there any other ways I can contribute to the fandom rather than scans and translations that pertains to finding or salvaging lost media? My skillset is rather small but I am good at what I do know!

OH yeah, sorry, I should've shared the link for this ages ago. There are a couple GG servers (that I'm in) so I'll include them in a readmore at the end of this post, since Tumblr displays links as huge giant things.

As for contributing to the fandom, scans/translations are definitely the biggest thing, but there's always editing the wiki. Some of the pages are missing art or have little typos/oddly worded bits here and there. I don't know or talk to anyone who works on the wiki, but I get the impression that the team that does is incredibly small. I'd do it myself but I'm purposely avoiding it because I know I would get hyperfocused in a bad way...

There is a LOT of ancient GG fan content barely hanging in there online, like the stuff @xrd digs up and shares here occasionally. I think archiving stuff like that is really important. Saving backups of like pretty much any GG stuff online in general is important, imo. I can't count the number of times I've gone digging for something and was only able to find one archive/host for it online. The guides/encyclopedias suddenly getting erased from Archive.org the other day is a good example of what I mean. If Volcanic Fighter didn't have them in his personal archives, those scans very possibly could have become lost until someone else bought hard copies of the books and re-scanned them.

A bunch of Daisuke/Katano interviews I don't have manuscripts either, if that's something you'd be interested in preserving or working on. A couple of them are on the lore server but they're mostly just article links and not .PDF/.TXT compiles of the actual text of the interviews. They wouldn't need translated right away, but saving them and digging up the ones the server doesn't have, especially the really old ones from either magazines or websites, would be a worthwhile endeavor. It would definitely make it easier for a translator to work on later, having a text file of these articles.

I'm not sure what else you could work on tbh... But maybe poking around the lore server will give you some ideas or inspiration for a project.

Here are the server links:

GG Lore Rev - Main archive/lore server but has channels for like art/ff, memes, casual chat, etc

Robo-Ky Containment Chamber - Art-focused GG server. Really casual, lots of GG Tumblr regulars in here

The Missing Link - GG1 server. These guys make patches for Missing Link ("Minus R") and sometimes host ML tournaments. Relatively slow server, but I really like ML and I love that it has a dedicated community just for it