#general fandom stuff

[gatherexboyfriends]

it fries me when people dislike ships for no reason and instead of being like "i dont like it, it does nothing for me" or "i see them as just friends" like a normal person they have to come up with ridiculous stuff like "they're so sibling coded" (why would siblings need to be coded) "it's toxic" (they argued once) "they're clearly in a lavender marriage" (this one is funny but it's still coping in some cases unfortunately) and try to make others dislike it for those reasons im sorry but you're stopping no one and you look like a child

[goldenprophetwrites]

WTF WHY WOULD TIKTOK SCARE ME LIKE THIS

(IT’S NOT SHUTTING DOWN DW I IMMEDIATELY CHECKED THEIR TWITTER FUCKING HELL)

[replllyy]

I understand you might not like men. But maybe stop screaming about them, I think you'd have a much better time in fandom if you blocked everyone else and enjoyed what you enjoy instead of trying to start something.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

[roseaesynstylae]

I think everyone has a minor character in their fandom(s) they just attach themselves to, for reasons they don't really understand, and want more content for them. (Mine is Camie from One Piece.)

[achannn4221]

I don't know what I would do without you.

[imclou]

can't believe fnaf brought me out of art hibernation man what a turn of events

[emiplayzmc]

Doodles based on conversations about Twisted Glisten and Rodger with @tdlizardowo :3. Mainly with the Mini AU thing I doodled the other day where Rodger does solo runs down to the Twisted floors to meet with Glisten.

|| "Well, what do you normally do when I'm gone?"

|| "Wait for you to get back..."

Based on an idea we had that Glisten literally just. Sits outside the elevator waiting for Rodger to return whenever he leaves. Probably sits with his head turned to the side so he can listen against the wall for the elevator moving in the shaft.

|| "he's gonna come back for this isn't he

he wouldn't leave this it's his favourite briefcase he wouldn't leave it

if he comes back for this that means he comes back for me right

he's coming back right

|| please please please please please don't leave me alone again please"

We also made the headcanon that when Rodger was first going to see Glisten and trying to get his trust back with him, Glisten had such low self esteem and such high anxiety at that point that he thought literally anything was holding more importance in Rodger's eyes than himself. So Rodger would catch onto this and leave items down there with Glisten, the latter of whom would basically hold them hostage until Rodger came back (I also think sometimes Glisten would outright take to nicking stuff off him to hold hostage as well, something he felt was significant enough that Rodger would come back for it had he lost it).

Rodger would slowly get Glisten to realise that, by doing this little habit and being nonchalant about whether an item goes missing or he leaves something on accident, that he really isn't caring about whether he leaves stuff down here or not - notes, a briefcase, research, whatever - it's *him* that he's returning for, because helping Glisten and keeping him company until he can find a way to cure him or get him safely up to the lobby without other Toons being worried or scared of him is the most important thing to him. Glisten is more important to Rodger than some silly items. :)

(Also I choose to believe the briefcase has lore as being a birthday / debut anniversary gift from Toodles to Rodger that she convinced her Toon Handler to help her get for him)

Also the OG SpongeBob scene for the first image :)

[naturecalls111]

[arcanegifs]

Here's more comparisons of Arcane Gifs before and after I color and sharpen em!

[jomeimei421]

Felt a bit nostalgic watching RT shut down…Here are the og faves again for old times sake 💙

[kiwisandpearls]

me when I find a cool x reader fic that’s tagged as gn reader but halfway through the fic the reader is referred to with she/her pronouns and is called terms such as “sister”

[random-lil-illing]

i had a vision,,, asexual dps fans what do we think

[riant-draws]

not rw but so I finally watched transformers one it was amazing and incredible and ough reminded me of my old transformers (prime) hyperfixation, haven't drawn this loser in years but somehow still remembered how to XD

he's so expressive and fun to draw istg

sketch from 9 years ago, comparing is fun:

[habken]

For newer Tumblr artists do you think it's best to post as much art as possible or to stick to a niche (i.e. a ship or specific character)? And if they do stick to a niche how do they not get like stuck there (my biggest fear lmao)

I think you should worry less about posting for other people and more about what makes you happy. If everything becomes about what’s going to get your art the most attention, it’s not going to be fun anymore

[bugwolfsstuff]

'Apollo will just forget his lesson and go back to old habits after a few years. He wont change—'

Okay explain why you think that other than 'hurr durr he's a god and they don't change' because that's a stupid fucking reason. That's Hermes' mentality and he is NOT a good role model (I love him tho)

And honestly presuming someone will always go back to being a bad person after they tried to better themselves because time has passed/their upbringing is straight up a bad mindset to have in general. You WANT people to be better. Prematurely deciding they'll give up and stay bad is how you make sure they stay bad.