#fandom related question

[infinite-beginnings]

My George video!!!

In case you were curious about the latest book he has read and his go to hype song.

Also DBDA Fandom, we have a job to do now 😅

I also shared with him that I lost my grandfather to Parkinson's Disease recently and he had some really really sweet words to share (I didn't include that part of the video but I just wanted everyone to know how kind and thoughtful he is)

[danandphileselevel4]

What are your fav danisnotonfire videos?

Thanks for the question anon!

I feel like I have to include an old school and a more recent video. I’m also going to cheat and assume you’re asking about all Dan videos and not just pre rebrand to Daniel Howell.

My old school pick is FANDOMS:

Because it speaks to me and how Dan and Phil have ruined my life (affectionately). It also reminds me that Dan gets it and deep down he is a fangirl just like all of us. Shout out to its kind of sequel video “Fictional Friends” as well. I wish Dan would do a 2025 update video essay on this topic tbh.

My more recent pick (and this may be controversial) is Louise teaches Dan to be a Daddy:

First of all, my take on Dystopia Daily was - you’re giving me literally any Dan content?? Yes please. I get if some people at the time didn’t like the tone but I will take anything. Dan is an actor and comedian and he was playing the character up (mostly). Also, the people who thought he was “mean” to Louise in this video.. listen she would not be there if she didn’t want to be. He would not post it if she didn’t want him to. They are friends and adults. I’m an old school watcher of the Brit crew and OG YouTube as well, so any collab Dan does I love to see. This video was SO fucking funny. The amount of giggles it gave me!!!

Honorable mentions: Basically I’m Gay (BIG) because I’m an emotional sap, but we just had the anniversary and my pinned post on my page highlights my specific thoughts on that video.

What are your favorite videos? :)

Send me any DNP related asks!

[anextinguishedstarx]

I need help figuring out archive warnings for an ao3 fanfic (NSFW | mlm | probably non-con | MINORS DNI) because the plotline is kinda complicated and idk how to categorise it.

Someone help me out :')

[js-tlk-art]

Alfred senses a disturbance in the force.

One more season two moment that's stuck in my head. You could have just said "no", Uhtred.

Also, @kingslionheart mentioned under my last post that all of Uhtred's lovers are kinda like female versions of Alfred, and funnily enough I had a conversation about the same topic with my friend who introduced me to the fandom.

One thing I can't get over in this context is how in book 2 Uhtred literally compared Iseult to Alfred. He was describing his lover's body and the best comparison that came to his mind was Alfred? No, not suspicious at all.

[ocmakerofcanada]

Has anyone else in the tmnt fandom ever talked about these warriors who first banished away the Krang many years ago in the ROTTMNT movie?

They had to have been part of the Hamato clan. I mean, they share the same colors of those masks that our turtle bros wear in the show. And why else would Splinter would already have the warriors weapons?

Maybe we can learn more if the creators of ROTTMNT do anything more along with that upcoming comic that everyone in the fandom is getting so hyped up about.

[drukkaris-blog]

This scene is so adorable and all, their little conversation, Mike reassuring El she doesn't need hair to look pretty. Even expressing how happy he is to have her back home, which says a lot about how Mike feels about El at this point. Everything is normal again for them even if a second later it falls apart.

But

I think it's rather important to remember how this could have been their first kiss if they weren't interrupted. The fact that El tried to initiate the kiss, she knew how she felt for Mike in that moment. Even if she couldn't properly express it through her words, she expressed it through her actions and what she felt. Love is a feeling, it's not something you have to learn about. I can't say this enough because a lot of people try and claim Mike was the one who kissed her first, which he did, but to say he took advantage of her because she didn't know much about anything??? It's so gross and shows the lack of attention you guys have when it comes to this show. Or how you view El as a character, even now nothing has changed. Y'all still treat her like the little girl she was in S1, saying she needs to be independent, or single to be independent, like no, stop degrading a female character instead??? El's independent arc was written from the moment S2 was confirmed, she has been independent since than. She even stood up to her abuser in S4 and confronted him about EVERYTHING.

She has sm character development y'all just refuse to acknowledge it for a m|m ship. Which is extremely sad.

[theblackswan-and-thewhiterose]

Hi! I hope this question is okay to ask but could you tell me what languages you speak?

Sorry if this is a little too personal. I was just curious.

Oh no, I don’t mind at all.

My native language is Italian, but I am also fluent in Austrian German (basically German but with Austro-Bavarian dialects if that makes sense??)

I know English, but I can understand it better coming from someone else’s mouth than speaking it myself.

Writing in English is much easier for me, but I sometimes have to use a translator because I’m not yet familiar with some words and I struggle to remember.

[str3ssedb3rry]

i need me some more friends who relate/kin creepypasta characters

i wish i could relate to creepypastas too like some people do but i haven’t found one that makes me go “holy shit that’s so me” completely

i’m not exactly as familiar with otherkins etc so feel free to educate me on it because i would love to learn about it!

(going on a small rant here but i think the most distinctive time i remember having a kin/something similar was when batim’s alice angel & now that i think back to it, i was definitely using it as a coping mechanism as a kid)

(i don’t think i even knew there was a term for it? so i would really appreciate it if someone could help me understand it better :D)

[aliusfrater]

almost all s8 opinions regarding sam make me want to tear my hair out but what do you make of the takes that we can't really blame sam for s8, mainly not looking for dean/quitting hunting because it was "out of character"?

not just the you know who shippers who say this either btw I've seen so-called sam stans say the same

the evidence to this claim always seems to be that jared supposedly didn't like it either (which may very well be true idk the source) but I have to wonder if jared only said that or something similar because fan reactions to s8 sam began affecting him too

quite simply, i just don't agree with or enjoy interpretations that genuinely and earnestly refer to it as sam 'not looking for dean' in any context that's intended to be from sam's point of view because that's very much what dean considers it to be because he knows that he wasn't dead in the soul-had-left-his-body sense and he considers sam's adherence to his own perceived death as abandonment which is the major culprit of his own, sam's as well as the narrative's perpetuation of the idea that sam 'didn't look for him'. like this exact idea from sam's own pov is touched on in the first episode of season eight when sam is at his most confident in his independence away from his and dean's relationship:

then based on bobby's reaction to sam's own recount of dean's death to bobby in 8.19, it does seem evident to me that sam neglects to retell his own pov and he tells bobby that dean was in the same purgatory they were currently in, which is why bobby reacts with disbelief (because if you knew where he was, why didn't you attempt to save him?) and why sam's response is to bring up the previous 'agreement' he and dean had about death.

i have my own qualms about bobby's disillusionment re: the agreement as a 'non-agreement' and that he 'taught [sam] that' based on the actual events of 6.01 and the fact that bobby does indeed leave dean out of hunting at sam's will and the only plausible point at which it could have become a non-agreement is during the 6.11 and 6.12 conflict that is regaining sam's soul (without sam's consent, twice fold, but i consider soulless!sam to be more of a direct victim of being resouled than i do sam because of his active agency against it. sam's agency was preceded in his dying wishes and are therefore passive). bobby's reaction does, however, add to the already narratively skewed perspective of sam's decision where there is already that prioritisation of dean's 'didn't look for me' on account of the fact that bobby's own role as patriarch does narratively match dean's, along with bobby's position as a character who is narratively third to sam and dean's relationship (which then then bleeds into both sam's and the fandom's own interpretation of it, i think; sam also begins to doubt his decisions more which is also related to how the trials turn into his own suicidal ideation).

the conflict regarding which brother takes on the trials is very much foundational within sam's own view of a light at the end of the tunnel and his desire to leave the life and dean, at multiple points, within conversation about why he should be the one to do the trials, reiterates sam's own desire for normalcy away from hunting, within what dean himself desires for sam's life, which bring us back to the root of the issue that is dean's fear of abandonment (8.03, 8.14).

sam's own desire or attempt to leave the life seems to be fundamentally Wrong or is at least disproved of until dean approves of it/whenever it's part of dean's ideal for sam. 8.01, "so… free will, that's only for you?" the greatest sin is to disobey your patriarch; i think the culprit here re: sam's own person, just like it was with season four and the beginnings of soulless!sam, seems to be sam's rejection of the dynamics of his and dean's codependency in favour of his own attempt at independence. there's also the idea that dean would rather complete the trials that have a possibility of death than have sam go through the trials, die, then 'leave' dean to face the idea of living a life without sam—and he attempts to make this decision by on his own, without sam's input.

generally, i don't believe sam needs any excuse(s) to live a life outside of dean but the narrative's own facilitation of sam back into the non-role (the struggle to fit into the role) of his and dean's relationship, the dichotomy of monstrosity, the cycle of abuse, the patriarchal structure etc. etc. after his attempts at independence are endlessly interesting to me and although this isn't yelled at you through explicit exploration, i do consider aspects of sam's history with mental health to be relevant within several aspects of season eight, but mostly being related to sam's decision to leave hunting specifically within the context of the year between seasons seven and eight (especially after all that is seasons three to seven) as it's explored through character mirorring and subtextual acknowledgement in 8.08. ultimately though, i think the major aspects of sam's decision to leave revolve around 1) grief and sam's avoidance of his grief, which is pretty well represented by his initial reluctance to name riot and explored through sam and amelia as mirroring characters (how blatant it is pisses me off a little),

and 2) the very basic building block regarding sam as a character that is his desire to leave the life. quite generally, i think the fact that through dean's own conflation of family and hunting (on account of john's own pov that through choosing college over hunting, sam had also chosen college over family) as well as dean's own pov prioritised through his and sam's relationship along with the previously mentioned structures, the idea that sam, too, is therefore unable to leave the life or subvert any of these structures without it being perceived as leaving dean or forsaking family is pretty neglected within a lot of interpretations of sam as a character. i think dean very much keeps sam tethered to the life either through sam's own ability to choose dean and their conflated lifestyle over something/someone else (later season one, season two, three, later nine to fifteen) (there's also the guilt tripping) or as a result of being preoccupied in a way that inhibits his idea of normalcy (his monstrosity in seasons four and five), but on account of the dynamics and his and dean's relationship, sam is unable to reject their codependency which perpetuates hunting and SamAndDean as existing synonymously (an ideal that originates and is emulated from john's ideal of their family within the ultimatum of forcing sam to choose either their family and hunting or his aspirations then viewing sam's choice manipulatively, since he's one the that fabricated and fored the choice upon his child, as abandonment). i mean, even when sam was hunting without dean as soulless!sam, on account of the agency and autonomy sam was able to achieve due to the differences between s!sam and sam's priorities due to the difference between then (the soul lol), s!sam's rejection of his and dean's relationship did become evidence for his monstrosity. which is, of course, punishable by (possible) death should dean decide that the dichotomy will not stretch to accommodate said monstrosity.

season eight, to me, is when these characters first start feeling a bit like cardboard, especially due to how wittled down to its core sam and dean's dynamic is represented. this is the most boring and basic version of How They Work at this point in the show and even then people explain their simple and cardboard-ish behaviours away with explanations like saying they're 'ooc'. sam's state of mind is pretty straight forward if you know where to look; sam taking his entire family's death as his sign that he's able to leave the life is not out of character to me at all. kill the supernatural appointed patriarch in your head.

[always-a-joyful-note]

Welp. Tag tagged by @justplaggin for the game

rules: spell out your name or url with songs

I couldn't resist, and thank you very much for it, Jay/Plagg!

To challenge myself, I'm gonna see if I can stick to songs from anime East Asian shows/stories

A - All-in (Alien Stage)

L - Last Dimension (TRIGGER)

W - wi(l)d-screen baroque (Revue Starlight)

A - Artistic Partisan (ALKALOID x Valkyrie)

Y - Yumemiru Architecture (Kagehira Mika; Enstars)

S - STRONGER & STRONGER (Zool)

A - Ame (MEZZO)

J - Joker Flag (IDOLiSH7)

O - OMEGA (STEREO DRIVE FOUNDATION; Yuukoku no Moriarty)

Y - Yume Shizuku (Re:vale)

F - Forever Note (MEZZO)

U - Until it Dies (覃云; Link Click)

L - Lily (Luck Life; Bungo Stray Dogs)

N - Now and Then (Re:vale)

O - Or the Beautiful Golden Drop (Knights; complete version out on May 22, so have the game version)

T - THE POLiCY (IDOLiSH7)

E - Eccentric Party Night!! (Five Eccentrics)

19 songs...and I tried to find ones that I genuinely enjoy right now (RIP to me making this challenge harder), so hence, the above mostly-Japanese-dominated list.

No pressure tags: @bobisnolongerhere @lizzieonka @rosencrantzsguildenstern @msperfectsheep-posts @mahounonbinary @praise-the-lord-im-dead @nitunio @akitchenknife @teslathelame @koi0boi @mihai-florescu @forebodinglight @imissthembutitwasntadisaster and anyone else seeing this because i am now incredibly curious about what songs you will choose (im so sorry if I forgot someone)

[saysflora]

David Moscow as David Jacobs (Newsies 1992)

[kaiz0n3]

This is my Easter/420 shitpost

Motherfuckers can't stand a man who grazes(It's weed)

[fictionalcreator]

[tcf chapter 269]

“There had been a lot of complaints even when he was Kim Rok Soo and became the new team leader because he only gave short orders to the employees, mercenaries, and ability users.”

Hold up, stop, wait a goddamn second, hold the fucking phone—I knew his backstory probably wasn’t normal because he was way too used to warfare so mercenaries are surprising but not earth-shattering, but what was that about “ability users”???

I was assuming that Kim Rok Soo was originally from our planet Earth, y’know, like a fool. Did this one line casually upend that assumption?? Unless he meant, like, normal skills?? But, no, that phrasing makes no sense in a normal setting!

Kim Rok Soo who the fuck were you?!?!

[starry-miki]

Saw someone on twitter did a fan wallet set for twisted wonder land character themed and I was like yeah, I’m do that for 5 of the obey me casts so cast your votes and the top lucky 5 are going to have a wallet character themed design, it will be the next posts once the top 5 are decided 😚

Thirteen, mephisto, and Raphael are also included just ran out of space for them in the poll 😗

I just need something to restart my creative juices 🫠

Edit 1: the poll votes will be decided this Monday afternoon, I know the poll is supposed to be up for a full week but uhh I kinda wanna work on it soon, so after this Monday at 12:00 (pm), I’ll will pick the top 5 characters with most votes to start on their wallet themes. But you may continue voting, if the votes change in favor of another character then what it showed on Monday when the voting official close I might make a part 2 for that character(s) 😗

[ningadudexx]

commissions opening soon!!

ill try to open comms this weekend!!

things have been a bit overwhelming for me this summer since i havent been feeling the best, so i haven't been able to open comms that much, but i wanted to try and open comms again before the next school semester starts! (*_*;)

I'll have 5 slots open, and may open a 6th if people are interested :)

thank you for reading, i hope everyone has a good week!!

[luckyashes-art]

I SHOULD DRAW SOMETHING FOR CHRISTMAS