#i should queue this but i'm!!!!!!!!

[notsosecretlyalesbian]

Rachel Weisz as The Mantle Twins in Dead Ringers (2023)

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

[pigeonstab]

Ignition

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

Yes all they did was hold hands but it was gay sex TO ME. Ever think about that? Huh? In my heart of hearts it was passionate gay sex and that's all that matters

[sandushengshou]

[insp]

[deoidesign]

panels from my webcomic. the characters are also from my webcomic. believe it or not it's about gay time traveling vampires

[sorryiliketoscreenshot]

[cinematicnomad]

i think???? i've finally finished giffing the terror.

[sleepsucks]

[faerieomenart]

Jubilee! I wanted to practice lighting! Took only a few hours out of my day because I was in the zone. Alt versions VVV

Date drawn: Sept 3, 2024 :))!!

Left out my signature and only added my watermark. Still trying to figure it out...

[front-facing-pokemon]

[5qui99l3draws]

I'm relistening to rqg and gave in to the impulse to redraw this three year-old piece of fanart

[creativesplat]

I would also like to see some miphlink, if that's okay!

I was really struggling with what to draw, and then I remembered your ask from ages ago (dang ADHD brain...) anyway, sorry its such a late answer, but Miphlink inspired by Dicksee's La Belle Dame

[gay-edwardian]

Drawfee (and more specifically Karina) has utterly ruined the way I talk. I have friends who are older than me now and the amount of times I say or think some variation of "I'm just a little guy!/But I'm baby!/It's my birthdayyy!" is truly shameful.

And this is just the more regular occurrences. I live in fear of the day I'll slip up and say something like "I don't hate women, I just looooove men" (reader, I am a lesbian). What will these people who know nothing of Drawfee think when I accidentally type out "sometimes I think about the enormity of my mistakes and the pain and suffering it's caused those closest to me and wonder if it's really worth it to continue going... I'm Merobiba!"

[santiivans]

scribbles again (was thinking about the words ‘reverse orpheus and eurydice’ while reading idk)

Till asked the god for nothing, he only wanted to prove he could survive the realm of the dead, and yet the god sent him a wraith of a boy who kept following him around. Till refused to look at him, because he hated the gods and knew their benevolence couldn't be trusted. Even as the shadow boy kept saying “I know the way out” and “Please let me help you”, Till didn't turn around, pretended he couldn't hear him.

But then the shadow boy's voice became the one constant sound, something like a companion as Till tried to find his way back to the mortal world: “You are incredibly stubborn and proud and stupid” / “I know you didn't ask, but my name is Ivan” / “Can you talk about stars? I've forgotten what they looked like” / “If you're lost, just turn to me. I'm here.”

And it made for less lonely travels, Till thought but never said out loud. Because he was stubborn, and proud, and stupid– he never acknowledged the wraith that followed him.

But when Till saw the sun, when he realized that at last, he had made his way out, he was so happy that he finally turned to the shadow boy, to Ivan, who had accompanied him for the entire journey— to say, Look, there's the closest star,

only to find no one was there.

And in the wake of that absence, Till was left tearing through his mind for proof that the boy had been real, but there was only sound that had long faded. Had there truly been a gift from the god of the underworld? Had there actually been a voice who wanted to guide him, a boy who accompanied him? Or did Till make Ivan up inside his head?

Had he been alone, all this time?

In their dark realm, the god was laughing. Stubborn, proud, stupid boy.

[annahanover]

hey spies fanbase!!

how we feeling? decent? well! i'm here to make everything worse. i was watching spies with @richie-shitlips earlier today, and noticed this:

so. what does this mean? he was going to tell her about Chimera. he considered telling her. he was going to tell her, tell her that Chimera was still out there, the information about her family could still be out there, and then he chose not to.

this musical makes me sick /pos