#feel free to add your own examples

[katie-is-tired-yay]

Supporting characters who appear in a single episode of a tv show and have an enormous fandom presence I love you

Shout out Jess from Supergirl who was in one (1) episode and subsequently appears in a huge majority of supercorp fics

[reinanova]

how would you feel...

if fandoms erased canon queer identities?

if fandom said...

Rosa Diaz (B99) was straight/gay

Alex Claremont-Diaz (RWRB) was straight/gay

Nick Nelson (Heartstopper) was straight/gay

Jesper Fahey (SoC) was straight/gay

Nina Zenik (SoC) was straight/gay

Will Solace (PJO) was straight/gay

David Rose (Schitts Creek) was straight/gay

Loki (Marvel) was straight/gay

Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer) was straight/gay

Mazikeen (Lucifer) was straight/gay

Eve (Lucifer) was straight/gay

Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (House MD) was straight/gay

Jonathan Sims (TMA) was straight/gay

thereby erasing the bi/pan identities of these CANON bisexual/pansexual characters?

if fandom said...

Captain Raymond Holt (B99) was straight

Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor (RWRB) was straight

Charlie Spring (Heartstopper) was straight

Wylan Hendriks/Van Eck (SoC) was straight

Edwin Payne (DBDA) was straight

Nico di Angelo (PJO) was straight

Patrick Brewer (Schitts Creek) was straight

Breanna Casey (Leverage Redemption) was straight

Martin Blackwood (TMA) was straight

thereby erasing the gay/lesbian/queer identities of these CANON gay/lesbian/queer characters?

if fandom said...

Elle Argent (Hearstopper) was a cis man

Darcy Olsson (Heartstopper) was a cis man/woman

Viktor Hargreeves (TUA) was a cis woman

Raine Whispers (TOH) was a cis man/woman

Yadriel (Cemetery Boys) was a cis woman

Alex Fierro (PJO/MCGOA) was a cis man/woman

Loki (Marvel) was a cis man/woman

thereby erasing the trans/enby identities of these CANON transgender/nonbinary characters?

you'd be pretty mad right? but this is exactly what is happening with CANON aspec characters

There are some aspec characters that are respected (ie Jonathan Sims, Breanna Casey) but others are just blatantly ignored (Yelena Belova-Marvel, Jughead-Riverdale). So let me ask you again,

How would you feel if fandom said...

Jonathan Sims (TMA) was allosexual (bisexual but not ace)

Breanna Casey (Leverage Redemption) was allosexual (queer but not ace)

Isaac Henderson (Heartstopper) was alloromantic/allosexual

Yelena Belova (Marvel) was alloromantic/allosexual

Jughead (Archie Comics) was alloromantic/allosexual (this is what happened in the Riverdale show btw, his aroace identity was erased)

thereby erasing the aspec identities of these CANON aspec characters?

*alloromantic/allosexual refers to anyone who isn’t aro/ace-spec (it includes gay, straight, pan, bi, etc but only if they don’t identify as aro/ace-spec)

Think about it. Seriously. What makes aspec identities so different from other queer identities that they can be ignored? (The answer is they're not different, but aphobia is rampant in fandom spaces which sucks.)

Be respectful of aspec identities (and listen to us when we talk about canon aspec characters)

[justmoveyourhand]

Yu-Gi-Oh is bad LGBTQ+ representation

Not because I have a problem with it, but because all of the queer reps are evil and/or annoying AF in-game (pics related)

And that's not even getting into the shows

[actual-changeling]

no matter how many times they split up and then get kidnapped and/or attacked and/or held hostage and/or otherwise injured or incapacitated, they STILL keep doing it.

and not because they want to either! they hate splitting up! but they KEEP DOING IT ANYWAY.

they are literally the people in a horror movie that hear a weird fucking noise in the basement and then "go check it out", followed by "we should split up".

on top of that, as soon as they separate or one of them lands in the hospital, they also lose their shared braincell and go even more insane than usual.

scully threatens half the fbi to find mulder, insults spender and throws some death threats at him, everyone who sees her coming practically catapults themselves out of her way, no one DARES to say a single word when she's on the warpath for mulder. she kisses skinner when he gets her the info she needs and then accuses him of murder & betrayal later on anyway. again

meanwhile mulder not only yells threats at anyone and anything around him, he also loses his impulse control completely and starts physically hurting people to find/help her. he has the horrible habit of disregarding his own health and safety if it means scully is fine or to revenge her.

any perp who thinks "maybe i should kidnap one of them" is handing over his life because now there is nothing in the universe capable of stopping them from getting back to each other— and that includes gravely injuring and/or killing whoever separated them in the first place.

[sprucestairs]

I love the idea of a pjo and Hades cross over but the ones where it's implied that the events are occurring like. Simultaneously. Will never not be funny to me because of how different the gods look in each universe. Do they play eenie meenie miny mo to decide what form to take on a given day?

Like I say this with so much love in my heart: Hypnos switches between looking like a muppet and Just Some Guy.

[jako-trades]

It’s started to astound me how much Tumblr’s done that could probably NEVER work on most other platforms.

Example: I have never watched the movie Electric Dreams. I have never even HEARD of the movie, and from what I could find, it was just another poorly dated 80’s movie that barely anybody cared about, and yet this website has built a COMMUNITY for it. On any other platform, this would (most likely) sizzle out and die in a single instant. And yet here everybody is. making art, talking about it, and I’m astonished.

Keep doing you, Tumblr.

[hiyyihrts]

this is one of my favorite scenes in the series, and for many reasons, but mostly because of how raw and open it is. Violet’s apology to Anthony is something he’s needed to hear for years, and in this moment he’s just a child needing his mother to be a mother to him. He’s not the head of the Bridgerton estate, he’s not the Viscount, he’s Anthony- Violets son and child, and he needs that motherly touch and hold and to not be the figurehead in this moment in time for once. And in the same sense Violet perfectly encapsulating her grief with Edmund and how it’s changed her entire worldview since his passing, especially in the way she treats Anthony and the rest of the children as a result, is just so well done and executed near to perfection in my opinion. Violets advice to Anthony about embracing the unknown simply to be able to exist in a space with Kate rather than not have that existent at all is so raw and vulnerable. Violet makes it known that even though she carries this weight and guilt with her, she would go through it all over again if it meant she could have the life she loved with Edmund and have the children they did, because it would all be worth it. It’s just a mother and son working through their grief over their relationship and everything that’s influenced it.

[rouge-the-bat]

some people are so weird about talking about opression as if its just a very cut-and-dry idea that ONLY EVER affects These people and never anyone else. when thats. really just not how anything works.

and then people act like saying this is trying to silence people and not let them have a word to define their oppression or something and its like ??? thats not what is being said ??? have words for certain types of oppression absolutely! its good to be able to have a term to use to spread more knowledge about what certain groups tend to go through!

but oppression for different groups overlap. to claim that x thing only ever happens to y people is just fucked up, because then YOURE the one trying to silence other peoples experiences.

and of course, just having a word to define what oppression a certain group goes through isnt inherently saying no one else experiences it, but some of yall certainly act like thats what it means and that perception is only going to divide you from other people and what things they also go through that are the same or similar to yours.

and it can easily influence the idea in ones mind that x people is The Most Oppressed and everyone else is The Oppressor (when oppression is an action, not an inherent quality of any individual of a non-ideological group), even when theres so many people that are hurting right alongside you and yall can be supporting one another and FIGHTING FOR EACH OTHER instead of with each other. remember, people that are actively trying to oppress others will ALWAYS benefit from people being divided and infighting.

[genshin-projection]

i took a few liberties but... Sunday-inspired playlist!

some highlights:

master of the heavenly yard (off-vocal) (mothy/akuno-P)

portrait of the pirate F (hitoshizuku-p)

rock in god's shoe (sushi soucy)

worst case scenario (the hoosiers)

but never a key (dirt poor robins)

hello my old heart (the oh hellos)

rule #35 - microphone (fish in a birdcage)

into the unknown (over the garden wall)

collared (vane lily)

taixu (sasakure.uk , lasah)

ship in a bottle (fin)

a couple ender lilies OSTs

a few omori OSTs

a few hsr (penacony) OSTs

[fights4users]

Thinking of design again

I made a post before that I still standby that the Encom system is more contemporary 80s design meets a computer where as the grid is “cybercore” and I still stand by that, but this is me pushing a little further and looking at actual design. One of the best things I can recommend when it comes to writing/drawing inspiration for spaces in the digital world is Pinterest. He’s some examples

Encom-

A computer meets 80s contemporary and shapes!!! The Encom system is a lot more abstract than the grid , it’s much more it’s own world than a full reflection of the users. Shapes! Shapes! Shapes! Another aspect I absolutely adore is that it also leans hard into looking like aspects of a computers insides from wire to circuit boards. I can see conversation pits all the rage in the system instead of regular “normal” shaped chairs etc

Grid-

It’s the subway station, airport terminal to Encom’s space age hotel. A lot more late 80s, early 90s influence in how things are designed. Despite the system being mostly abstracts it’s actually the grid that’s much more liminal, it has furniture and mass to everything a very user vibe but also… not enough, huge spaces but not enough in them to feel right- everything looks uncomfortable even though you can tell what it is. Tron isn’t a “Cyberpunk” but I think people tend to call it that as a lot of legacy’s visuals are more generic and not distinctly computer?

[rhys-ravenfeather]

Underappreciated character dynamic: When you have a big powerful organization where the underlings are all serious business and the person actually in charge is just completely chill, or even nonchalant about their job.

[autisticpride]

once you start paying attention, it's really obvious how inaccessible places are

a while ago, i saw a post about public restrooms. i don't remember the post, nor everything in it, but since then i've been paying attention.

i often use the accessible stall due to claustrophobia, sensory issues, and the likelihood that i'll knock my elbows into something in the regular stalls. so i should be seeing restrooms at their most accessible. some of these examples i'm remembering from the post, some i've realized myself while i'm paying attention.

most single restrooms have no coat/bag hooks. many stalls also have no coat/bag hooks, despite having holes where the screws of the hook that used to be there was.

no restrooms i've seen have had hooks anywhere near the toilet (for medical devices, so people don't have to put their expensive medical devices on the dirty floor)

none have had an emergency pull cord (to alert staff that someone in the restroom needs assistance)

none have had sharps containers (for diabetics etc. also, no talking shit about addicts in the notes, safe sharps disposal is important for everyone who uses needles, regardless of reasons)

none have had grab bars on both sides of the toilet (only one on the wall side)

very few (or possibly none, it's hard to be sure as this is not a problem for me) have had unscented soap (allergies, migraine triggers)

very few have had hand sanitizer (useful for various reasons, including but not limited to the fact that the sinks aren't accessible to wheelchair users either). (those that did were single restrooms in restaurants, and they also stored some cleaning products there, which i think is funny but probably isn't great.)

multiple restaurants have had restrooms down narrow halls that have also been used for storage, making it completely inaccessible to wheelchair users

that's not even getting started on doors. heavy and sticking doors are way more common than they should be.

i don't think i've ever seen a public restroom with all of these, or even close.

if you want to be an ally to disabled people, start by paying attention to the bathrooms. they tell you exactly how often disabled people are considered in public spaces (almost never more than the law requires, often less)

[marshmellowtea]

y'know maybe people should in fact try harder to internalize the lessons that the children's shows they watch are trying to teach them lmao

[wouldnt-youliketoknow-weatherboy]

I saw this fanart and it got me thinking about why Cartman behaves the way he does. I think that, to put it simply, it’s because he’s insecure.

He doesn’t believe that he could receive love and affection as his true self. He has learned to think this through experience. There are multiple episodes where Eric is shown doing things such as dressing up as a girl or playing with stuffed animals, and he’s always doing these things alone. He’s secretive about it and gets upset when the other kids find out because he knows they’ll make fun of him.

He doesn’t believe that he can be loved, but he has realized that acting out will get him attention. And since he thinks that’s all he can get, he’ll do anything for attention, even if it’s bad attention. He thrives on it because he’s so starved for genuine affection and acceptance that he’ll take any form of recognition he can get. It’s like he craves love but deep down doesn’t think he deserves it, so he self-sabotages and pisses off the people closest to him, because even though they’re mad at him at least they aren’t ignoring him.

[ao3scrapesearch]

Alright! Sorry for being so absent today! I was building a tool so you can all check your own names on demand.

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[thingsidrawgohere]

Alright. I'm calling it done before it kills me. This is Second Head. It's an Art Book containing instances of the phrase "second head" in fanfics found on AO3. I'll explain much, MUCH more in the cut.

So when I say 'art book', I mean this is an intrinsic piece. I have no motivations aside from personal amusement and interest in outcome. A lot of money was lost/transmuted into free frustration in this project and I have no claims, obviously. I will prolly be the only person alive to read this.

THAT SAID. I have noticed in my years reading fanfic, there's a few linguistic shibboleths that arise in authors who also have experience in the mines. I think there's not a soul alive who hadn't wandered across a 'ministrations' when reading Narutos oral sexing. There's- Hold on. Here's some pix.

There's an impulse, I think, to in-group even when performing a creative act. A feeling that there are certain ways one Should go about the act, by virtue of seeing it performed that way. Especially so when 'training' at the act is often just Doing. Double Dog Especially when the act is exclusively for oneself with very little oversight. Which is to say, we make what we see and we make what we think we should make. At least, at first.

Now, I've been noticing 'grew a second head' (to insinuate surprise) in fanfic for some time. I've never seen it used Outside of fanfic. (Edit to add: I am not making the argument the phrase is from fanfic. Nor do I Believe it is from fanfic. Jesus Hopping Christ, people. That's not what this project is about.) That may speak to my own bad habits but it got me curious. So a friend and myself downloaded a mirror of AO3 from July of 2024. He did some code- Stuff to scan the mirror for "second head" and of the ~13 million works, ~70k (English) results were returned. That's a rounding error, honestly, but Far FAR more than I expected.

This book is 401 such examples that I personally selected for a variety of reasons. The number itself was arbitrarily chosen. Each page is separate fic, the roughly 300 words around our key phrase.

I don't think repetition or mirroring is a negative thing. I think it's quite charming. Nor do I think it's a sign of a 'bad' artist or 'bad' art. I think it's a signifier of personhood, of belonging, of enthusiasm. Of culture shared and wishing to share. I think it's real sweet. I always smile when I catch a 'grown a second head' in a work.

And it's really fucking funny when it's John Sherlock getting a sloppy toppy. Bless.

Edit: Fixed a very VERY funny error.

Edit: I am not making the argument that the phrase is exclusive to fanfic or, fucking forbid, FROM fanfic. I'm stating this Again because we skim here. Also- If you would like slamdunk my ass by stating the phrase predates the Internet or your GenX parents use it, please use 'sailboat' in your comment so I know you're specifically trying to kill me.

Edit Edit: You know what? Fine. I DO think this phrase came from fandom. I think ENGLISH came from fandom. I think YOU came from fandom. I think EVERYTHING came from fandom. The Sun, the Moon, the Seas- Fandom. Specifically Sonic Mpreg. The second head was Shadow the Hedgehog crowning. Congrats!