#generation loss fandom

[showf4ll-media]

I have another complaint and it’s directed at people who draw/write Ranboo being helpless and scared and pathetic.

Honestly, did you learn nothing from DSMP about him having 3-dimensional characters? This is the same thing that pissed me off back then. Please just look at EP 3. He was scared because who wouldn’t be in that situation?? But they were still determined to get out and showed an ability to be ruthless while still being compassionate and competent.

Even in the first two episodes he still had the name bite to him- just not to as serious as a degree since those episodes weren’t supposed to appear serious.

I’m not even saying to turn him into some cold blooded killer or someone who only cares about escape. Just for the love of god stop making them so one dimensional and pathetic. It pissed me off with DSMP and it pisses me off now.

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[dance-like-an-idiot]

before the box closed ranboo said "thank you"

i wonder how they view the audience now

edit with clip:

[pancakeke]

"autistic/neurodivergent people don't fuck" is another one of those red flag beliefs that tells you the holder doesn't interact with real people in real life

[showf4ll]

I haven’t been active in the GL fandom for more than a week and I’m already so sick of the complete lack of media literacy, especially when it comes to Hetch. Most of the stuff I keep seeing that is Hetch content is just one-dimensional and him being evil for the sake of being The Villain of the story.

Make him jealous that Ranboo gets to be The Hero.

Take it further and make him really just enjoy the game of fucking with his victim until it’s time for an ultimate decision to be made.

Make him just be another pawn under Showfall’s control in the end. Make him have to had tried his best to get Ranboo out only to have to watch as he can’t control himself sighing off his option to live.

Or just make more escape ending where Hetch gets to join in too.

Please, I just beg of you stop making Hetch art boring one beat shit just to add more to Ranboo’s story. PLEASE give my guy some love too, he can be such an interesting character to analyze.

[art-from-the-juice-box]

gen loss dump part 2 :]

i have a gen loss playlist so the last two was me hitting randomize and drawing a pic based on the song before it finished. the second one technically isn’t that cause charlie’s inferno isn’t on apple music cause they hate me so it’s way more of the song out of spite because they wouldn’t give it to me.

[cenazias]

Generation loss block print zine!! First pic reads left to right, top part first and then the bottom part :3

[antimony-medusa]

Is that— bells ringing? Keyboards clacking? The sound of two thousand stressed writers pancing furiously about the floor? Ah yes, Yuletide.

Hello. MCYTblr. I am back again.

You are looking fine today as we move towards the end of the year. Is that a new cologne you're trying? New shirt? New glasses? It's working for you. How have I been? Well.

Well.

*I smack the wall, curtains spring aside, revealing my flip chart presentation that I've had lying in wait*

It is time for me to talk to you about Yuletide again. I was here earlier during tag nominations, but it's sign-up time, and I want to make sure everybody has a change to participate in this if they want to.

What's Yuletide?

Yuletide is an annual mega-exchange for small and rare fandoms. It runs in the close of the year, with a 1000 word minimum for gifts, with gifts revealed anonymously on the 25th of December and de-anoned on the 1st of January. It is easily the biggest exchange in multi-fandom-exchange-world, and last year more than 1,350 people signed up.

Why does everyone sign up?

Well, it's tradition, for one. There are a lot of people that only do Yuletide as their big exchange every year. It's a big holiday spectacle, it's really fun to see it operate and see pinch hits come out and get nabbed in minutes, and people kind of put on their holiday outfits and turn out for it.

For another thing, if you are in a small fandom, it's the one exchange where you can actually have a shot of getting a gift for an obscure manga fandom, or an out-of-print book, or a tv show from the eighties. If your fandom has five people in it, the odds are higher than average that two of them are signing up for this exchange, and hey presto, suddenly you're matchable in your fandom for an obscure podcast.

For another, and this is the biggie, the fact that this is an exchange for small and rare fandoms has led to a certain tradition and vibe for the fandoms that people nominate. People bring their most obscure and fun ideas, going, "hehehehe wouldn't it be fun if someone wrote a story about this", and into the tag set it goes. There is SUCH a spectrum of fandoms in the tag set.

This year there are 4,263 fandoms and 16,735 characters in the tag set. Let me just skim through and look at some of them.

There are commercials, web sketches, art pieces, songs, music videos, board games, podcasts, a dizzying assortment of anthropomorphising different places, items, and ideas, and RPF from a marvelous variety of historical periods (so, y'know, historical fiction if it was published professionally). There are people who nominated tik tok sketches. Twitter threads. A bridge. Book binding techniques. You ever wanted to write a romance between Knitting and Crochet? That's in the tag set, and someone wants to prompt you to do that. Happy Yuletide.

So if you are at all the sort of person who likes a prompt challenge, BOY is this one just a MARVELOUS one. I know I personally am going to be signing up for Humans are Space Orcs (tumblr post) and Fandom Exchanges (Anthropomorphic) amid my more traditional fandoms.

And as for my more traditional fandoms, and the reason why this post has the tags it does (I would get to it eventually)— there is a lot of MCYT in the tag set! I put out a post saying GUYS, the smaller fandoms might apply for this, and BOY did people show up for it. I scanned through it, and the MCYT (and adjacent) that made it in is:

Karmaland SMP

Legacy SMP

Lifesteal SMP

Moonlight SMP

New Life SMP

Outsiders SMP

Rats SMP

SMPEarth

SMPLive

Witchcraft SMP

Pirates SMP

Mianite

Slimecicle Cinematic Universe

SBI Rust

Generation Loss

You could make an entire sign up, 3 minimum requests and 4 minimum requests, and only select MCYT fandoms. The wild thing is that you can only select a max of 10 fandoms to offer, so you actually couldn't offer all of the MCYT. ZombieCleo Witchraft SMP is in. Tommyinnit SMPEarth. Clownpierce Lifesteal. Tubbo SBI Rust. Oli Rats SMP. A wealth of options for the block folks.

So come, join me! What's that? You say this sounds excellent, you're in? You want to know how to sign up? Well this post is already long enough so I'm putting the rest below a cut.

You sign up on the collection here, using fandoms listed in the tagset here. Before you do so though, I'd recommend you check out the blog, especially their "how to sign up" post here, because even if you're used to exchanges, the way Yuletide works is a little bit different. Let me do a quick breakdown here.

Requests

# of Fandoms

You have to select a minimum of 3 fandoms that you are Requesting (a gift that you want made for you), up to a maximum of 6 fandoms. Each fandom has to be unique. For each fandom, you can request between 0 to 4 characters in that fandom, and 0 means "literally you can hit me with anybody", and the up-to-4 characters are the people you definately want to show up in the fic.

AND MATCHING

This is one of the things that Yuletide does differently, because most fandom exchanges do "or" matching, where they match you on either characer A OR character B, (maybe you only offered character B) and you can pick among any of the selected characters on the person's request to write for. Because Yuletide does AND matching, you will only be matched if you offered every single one of the characters the person has selected, and then you get to write for every single one they have listed in their fandom, unless they say differently in their letter. If they requested character A and Character B, you get to deliver a gift that includes them both, according to the rules.

Bu like, in practice, a lot of people are a bit more like "you can pick only one of these guys if you'd like", because that is how everyone is used to things running in most other exchanges, plus people don't want to be too picky, so you can specify in your letter if you definately 100% want characters A, B, and C, or if you're fine with just A, or just A and C, or whatever constellation of characters you're chill with.

This year they have added optional freeform tags you will click on, that will specify either A) use every single one of these guys I selected. B) I have specified in my letter which guys I need for sure and which ones you can swap, C) Dealer's Choice Of Guys Go Crazy.

DNW and Optional Details

Yuletide is an "Optional Details Are Optional" (ODAO) exchange, so technically you could request (or receive) an offer that just has the characters and then you get to go absolutely buckwild for the two month writing period. Most people, however, do not want to do that, so that is where you'll put in Do Not Wants (anything that would ruin the gift for you, from major archive warnings to kinks that you don't vibe with to headcanons you loathe), and some prompts and/or likes for your person to jump off of.

DNWs absolutely must be abided by, and breaking a person's DNW is grounds for getting turfed from the exchange. Following a person's prompts or lists of likes is technically optional, but definately best practice, and y'know, part of the whole spirit of the exchange. Most people are doing their best to adhere to both the DNW and the Optional Details when they do their gift.

You can just format your DNW and Optional Details on the Ao3 signup page (easy, fast), or you can link them offsite in a letter (fancy, you can do formatting, people do them in google docs or dreamwidth pages (the traditional and more accessible option)). There's a tradition of people posting their letter links here, so that people can get an idea for what sort of prompts and signups people are offering, and make sure they're matchable to people with especially fun ideas. Note: you do have to duplicate the data if you're doing a letter, cause if you put your DNW in your letter but NOT in your Ao3, the mods won't enforce it.

And while we're here, that last link is to a community blog that includes a place where you can promo your fandoms to lure people into signing up for your guys, or participate in mini-challenges within yuletide for people who specificially want poly relationships (Three Doves Challenge), or characters of colour (Chromatic Yuletide), or horror/darkfic (Crueltide), or smut (Yuleporn), or art (Wrapping Paper), or even more. There's even a poetry challenge!

Offers

# of Fandoms

You have to sign up with a minimum of 4 fandoms, to a maximum of 10, for fandoms you are Offering (a gift you are willing to make). You must offer at least 2 characters for each fandom, to a maximum of 20— but there's also an "any" tick box if you want to go full "hit me, I like a challenge" and you'll write anything (in the tag set) within a fandom. Each of your fandoms must be unique.

Writing Period:

Signups are open through the 21st, with assignments out by the 23rd, and then you have until the 18th of December to deliver your gift.

Important Notes

You must be 18 or over to participate in Yuletide (because you might be matched with someone who requests smut), and signups close on 9pm UTC on Saturday, 21 October.

There's a known issue where the safari browser isn't letting people sign up properly, (when you get an exchange this big sometimes things break), so they say to either sign up on mobile or use a different browser. So that will be fun for me.

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And that's it! Yuletide! Just under a week left to sign up, and 351 people have signed up as I write this letter at 1:30am. I just refreshed it and now it's 352. You can sign up on the Ao3 page here!

JOIN ME EXCHANGES SUCH FUN LETS GO.

[numberoneceofan]

"uhmm.. genloss shipping is weird.... why do people do tgat.."

[fridgrave]

i can't fucking believe this

i was drawing q!charlie horns for TWO MONTH just to see him adding this feature to his genloss sona

[conarcoin]

MCYT-related fandoms that should be Yuletide eligible

Yuletide is an annual holiday fic exchange for rare fandoms! Nominations are currently open, more information here. You must be 18+ to participate in Yuletide.

Bolded fandoms were nominated last year. This only names canonical fandoms, but you can also nominate fandoms that aren't canonized on AO3.

The list is long, so if you want the shorter list of ineligible fandoms, those would be: 3rd Life SMP | Last Life SMP Series, Dream SMP, Empires SMP, Hermitcraft SMP and Lifesteal SMP. Everything else is eligible.

100 Hours Hardcore SMP

30 Day SMP | Free Trial SMP

Afterlife SMP

Aimsey SMP

Area Unknown SMP

Art of Survival SMP

Bear SMP

Cogchamp SMP

Color Crew (Video Blogging RPF)

Content SMP

Dominion SMP

Enderbomb (Webcomic)

Epic SMP

Evolution SMP

Fable SMP

Fairy Tail Origins (Web Series)

Fuga Impossível (Web Series)

Generation Loss (Web Series)

House Builder Gang | HBG SMP

iDots SMP

IvoryCello's Prison Escapes (Web Series)

Kaboodle SMP

Karmaland SMP

Legacy SMP

Mer SMP

Mianite (Web Series)

MindCrack RPF

Minecraft Diaries - Aphmau (Web Series)

The Misfits (Podcast)

MyStreet - Aphmau (Web Series)

My Inner Demons - Aphmau (Web Series)

New Life SMP

Ordem Paranormal (Web Series)

Origins of Olympus (Web Series)

Origins SMP

Outsiders SMP

Pirates SMP

Rats SMP

SadSMP

SDMP | Sleep Deprived SMP

Shady Oaks SMP

Showtime SMP

Siege SMP

SkyBound SMP

Sleep Deprived (Podcast)

Slimecicle Cinematic Universe (Web Series)

SMPEarth

SMPLive

SOS SMP

Stampy's Lovely World (Web Series)

Team Crafted

The Cube SMP

The Group Chat - TheGroop (Podcast)

The Haunted - RejectedShotgun (Web Series)

Tiredtwt (Video Blogging RPF)

Tortillaland SMP

Vault Hunters SMP

WHITEPINE - IvoryTV (Web Series)

WitchCraft SMP

X Life SMP

Yandere High School (Web Series)

[showf4ll-media]

THE SPIRIT OF THE WAREHOUSE!!! (WIP)

Gl!Ghostboo lets go!!

[monowritestoomuch]

Ultimate Fandom Showdown Round 1: Group 10

Imagine Neil Gaiman finds this

[ghostinglia]

hi!!! i’m gonna be on here more so wanted to make a post like this:3

i’m looking for some more mutuals!! i like posting fanart and posting about my OCs i love my OCs a lot…. i love chatting about their stories and lore and building their characters! i have fandom OCs as well!! aside from OCs, i mainly babble about my fanart and special interests! some more things i like below ;3 (more about me in pinned post!) (some art examples further down)

[starii-void]

something something jason piper parallel with jason medea

-both couples influenced into being somehpw by hera (both turn out. badly)

-both jasons die a horrible death

-piper and medea morally gray powerful sorceresses (w/ charmspeak according to HoO) x jason and jason the basic 'hero' archetype

-neither of the women truly wanted to be with the jason (dangit hera)

-tragic in general

[showf4ll]

ESCAPE AU THAT I MAY OR MAY NOT FLESH OUT. WHO KNOWS.

Song is Brutus by The Buttress

Little ramble below.

My original idea was a short animatic that I may still do that featuring Hetch to this part of the song:

It was going to be more in-line with canon and the general perception of Hetch, or maybe just him being extra envious that he spent so long with Showfall only for some random fucking guy to get the title of The Hero.

I like how this turned out more though. I love the idea of Hetch and Ranboo just getting to be two powerhouses forcing their way out of the facility. (Spoiler; in this au Hetch doesn’t escape. Smile.)