#i might regret posting this but COME ON

[finitevariety]

yeah, you're right, they should have made him gregnant instead

anon turn on your location I just want to talk.

'as evil as Shiv'. be serious. be serious with what you say. 'He wants to love and be loved'...and Shiv doesn't? Her whole arc is wanting to love and be loved, but being unable to understand and perform love properly due to her whole situation. It doesn't make her good by any stretch, but it doesn't make her evil either. And she still tries! She's honest with Tom on her wedding night even though it brings her no advantage, and she begs Logan to save Tom even though it brings her only disadvantage.

[sonseulsoleil]

people will really say fiyeraba is underdeveloped and boring and forced heterosexuality and then turn around and ship fiyero and boq based on one look from dancing through life

[lemon-wedges]

"To your future career in the circus" 🤡🍷

[vicompte-de-latarteaucoing]

I guess I tried....

[demonir]

if he has 5000 fans I'm one of them, if he has 100 fans I'm one of those, if he as 1 fan I am that one, if he has 0 fans I have died and gone to hell to see him personally. I rest my case

[the-kneesbees]

i wish real life romance was like the movies..who cares about "talking stages" just grab my face and kiss me in the rain. fuck.

[petricorah]

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[measlyfurball13]

This is going on the main blog because it's way too controversial for the Sonic blog, but- I wish the Sonic fandom could treat Eggman like how the Hollow Knight fandom treats the Pale King.

The Pale King, AKA, a character who is objectively a bad person and who did Horrible Warcrimes Things To Children, but is allowed to have multiple fan interpretations. No one's denying the Crimes but he's allowed to be interpreted as a nice person or a mean person fanfic-by-fanfic. Some fics write him as a great dad, or at the very least a dad who's trying his best. Others (the ones more closely aligned to canon, arguably), write him as a horrible dad, or sometimes not even a dad at all.

Levels of meow-meow-ification with this character are also regulated in this way. Fics range from "he did nothing wrong!" to "he did everything wrong" and there's no fighting about it. It's a very effective institution of "don't like don't read".

There isn't any fighting about this. Nobody in the Hollow Knight tag is writing essays about "um Actually??? he's a horrible person so if you think otherwise. . .". All views of this character exist simultaneously, and people enjoy these different interpretations of this character side-by-side, jumping from "good dad" fic to "bad dad" fic with just a single click.

And GOD I wish that were the case for one Dr. Ivo Robotnik Eggman. I want to click on one fic where he's torturing children and then click to the next where he's giving them nothing more than an evil cackle and a pat on the back. This dude can contain multitudes.

"But Eggman has more canon!" bro the Sonic fandom has been ignoring canon it doesn't like for the past two decades. Why should we stop now??

[optiwashere]

I've been jumping back and forth between my (Mostly) Good Playthru of WOTR and my Asheera replay of BG3, and it's so interesting having these games shown in stark contrast so close to one another.

I am frothing at the mouth for Anevia/Irabeth fic though. Gotta go digging...

[rabiddanesyndrome]

Since me and @santongkabayo (I’m sorry for exploding your dms xd) are creating an f1 warrior cats au I wanted to share kittypet lance I quickly drew

[hxney-lemcn]

Just hit 100 works on ao3 😭 that’s not including the stuff I deleted or left on Wattpad. I’m literally insane

[cherries-and-knives]

Saw a tik tok saying Gale was a ‘pick me’ and can I just say- BITCH WHAT. The tik tok was about how he ‘literally said he wishes he could be in more pain so Katniss would love him🙄’ ……WHAT. He said she only notices him when he’s in pain- NOT THAT HE WANTS TO BE IN MORE FOR ATTENTION. This was so cleARLY pointed at KATNISS, who was struggling with her feelings. Gale pointed out something OBVIOUS. Katniss only wanted him when he was in pain because she loved him and couldn’t stand seeing him like that, which got confused as potentially other more ‘romantic’ feelings for him. Katniss is a protector, this is made clear from the BEGINNING. FROM THE FIRST PAGE OF THE SERIES. So this way of thinking makes perfect sense for her even if she doesn’t get it for a while herself. Anyways. Gale wasn’t a pick me. Some of y’all need to think of him as an actual person instead of listing as many horrible things about him as possible just because he was in a ‘love triangle’.

[helianskies]

ugly maths.

i hate maths, right. i don't usually like numbers, and if i do like numbers it's gotta be an 8 or a 48 and nothing else.

thing is, i've recently caught myself doing maths again. ugly maths. the kind of maths that, really, i've been trying to avoid as much as possible because, well, it's ugly!

you... wanna see?

okay, fine... but don't say i didn't warn you!

ugly, see? look at all those numbers! not a 48 in sight!

huh? what's that? you don't see what i'm on about? oh... oh! hang on, lemme just—

better? yes? no? no? okay, what if i—

mmh, yes. ugly numbers. see it now? can you see why they're ugly?

here, i can make it worse.

these numbers are ugly. the maths they make me do is ugly.

now i'll level with you: the worst ones by far are the yellow numbers. the maths they make me do it the ugliest.

why ugly?

because it makes me ugly.

those numbers turn me into not only a suddenly number-obsessed fool, but a fool who also cannot understand these numbers and what they mean and why i feel like they reflect on me and my ability.

87, 75.

the thoughts are as follows:

• the orange numbers are big, so why are you being ugly about the yellow ones? you should be happy with what you have. so many nice big numbers! not everyone receives that.

• is it that there are two different audiences for these two different fics? perhaps. they are quite different works, with different appeals, and different themes. maybe you are reading too much into it.

• why are you obsessing over numbers anyway? you don't like maths! you left maths behind when you were 16, put it down!

okay, okay, fine! i'll put the maths down. right here, in fact!:

that 87 was an 83 at the start of the year. the 6161 it is attached to was a 5453.

4, 708.

ugly maths.

the 75 is a nice number. in fact, compared to 87, it is beautiful, radiant, enchanting. at the start of the year, 75 was 48. wow. now that is one sexy number!

27.

mmmm.

6161, 1061.

5100.

87, 75.

12.

mmmm.

you know, my most favourite comment left recently on a fic of mine was 2 characters long: :(

it made me :)

well, actually, it made me >:) because it was left in response, presumably, to one of the key scenes in a new chapter which left the exact impression on someone that i hoped it would.

they must be the only one who reacted like that, though.

1.

have i mentioned that that 87 and 75 include author responses?

i won't try to do more maths, there. it might not end well for me. the maths is making me tired enough as it is, and i have an early start tomorrow.

oh! but, that being said, i have another set of ugly numbers to show you, so keep 87 and 75 in mind.

ready?

838, 245.

(want a hint? the green numbers!)

838, 87. 245, 75.

9.6, 3.3.

ugly maths. it's ugly again, see? i don't like it. i'm seeing numbers within numbers within numbers, and i can't seem to stop!

the numbers make me ask new questions:

• why is it not good enough?

• people seem to engage more with one fic over the other, so shouldn't you prioritise?

• is all this maths this really good for you?

no, it isn't.

i want to avoid ugly maths. ugly maths makes me want to tear my hair out. it makes me want to start from scratch. it makes me want to grab someone and scream. it makes me want to cry and press a button that has tempted me many times before when the numbers become too ugly to bear.

ugly maths turn me into an ugly person.

ugly maths make me obsessive, paranoid, anxious, regretful, vindictive, spiteful, alone.

i hate maths. i hate numbers, just like, it feels, the numbers hate me.

[skunkes]

i think about that person who said they like the way i draw knees every time i draw knees

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Also hoping things at work pan out the way they're looking bc it's so surreal to know I'll be in a position where people are gonna be looking up to me

[taonpest]

I may sound stupid but I hope this AI art trend will just be a really bad time just like NFTs were.

I don't get how AI bros can think of themselves as artists. I get the frustration of not being able to draw, I've been there, and I guess I had the "privilege" to have the time to learn but.

Please.

To any frustrated person out there

It's never too late to learn how to draw.

Pick a pencil, draw that cool action scene you have in mind, copy Hatsune Miku's box, imitate that fucking lime mouth drawing, anything. It won't look good, but I swear it will if you keep going. For god's sake use that frustration to fuel your motivation. It takes only passion and training to become an artist, talent is a fraud.

Idk, art is the thing that makes us human in my opinion. And I can't imagine a world where there's no comics, no novel to read, no movies to watch, no music to listen to... I'm so sad that artists are always always treated so poorly when they make life worth living. Can you imagine a world without them? Life would be so monotonous man... Artists deserve more respect and recognition.

Someone pulled many all nighters to make this manga you enjoy, someone took many hours of their free time to write that fanfic you're reading, someone bit their fucking finger and went crazy while making the fanart you look at for only 5 seconds (hi that's me sksksk)

Anyway, my fellow artists, writers, musician... In fact when I say artists I'm not only talking about people drawing, I'm really talking about anyone producing art in any form sksks

Anyway. You guys, I love you all so so much and everyday I'm thankful you were born and you make what you make. I'm so proud of you for that, you're all so strong and admirable. Please keep making art, I don't say this just as an encouragement, I say it as someone who really enjoy and admire what you make. You're making me happy, you put little stars in my eyes and my heart. I swear I tell the truth when I say that you make someone go wah with your art, you are shaking someone's world, you are changing an aspect of their life forever with what you make. I know the amount of effort and love you put in your art, I know the horrid pain you're going through while making it, I also know the joy you feel when you're done making it. We share all that together and I think that's wonderful. There is such beauty in our struggle and that's something AI and their users can't understand.

I love you all, deeply, and I'm so thankful for everything you do. 💖