#i'm yelling at me not y'all

[arcane-vagabond]

Tomorrow will probably be dedicated to writing the drabble requests in my inbox. No more chapter updates until I get these story plots finalized!!!!

[copias-juicebox]

A big round of Applause for Ashley!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[thevillainsfangirl]

There are some ships that you just know would be 100% canon if they were an M/F ship, and that's mainly what pisses people off the most in these situations.

It isn't just about the ship; it's also very much about the homophobia (whether the creators know it or not) that is preventing the ship from being canon when they otherwise would be.

(Addition.)

[anachronistic-falsehood]

ok this could be so nothingburger and maybe im complaining over nothing but ive been thinkin abt this lately like a lot but is anyone else a lil bothered when ppl blatantly ship shilo bathory with like. anyone. bizly said shilo's aroace and the only other aro rep i have in fictional characters are lilith from toh and that fuckin radio demon ass from hazbin hotel and lilith is literally the only one i ever see that's Not shipped with anyone ever. there r other characters to make yaoi of. guys please

[starving-mimi]

copies

and now as a sidenote, it's time for mimi rambling/ PSA ! (which might sounds dickish here and there)

I've seen an absolute sudden increase in "daily [characters] blog"[which consist, for those who don't know, of drawing a certain character or thing everyday (or trying to)] and as somebody who's been posting daily for over 2 years (if you ignore small breaks i took on rarer occasion here and there) I feel like I'm in a position where I can say things about these kinds of blogs.

if you're the owner of one of these kind blogs or think about making one, this message's for you

to current owners of such blogs:

do not FORCE yourself to draw/post everyday, much less MULTIPLE TIMES a day

even though it's the goal of these kinds of blogs, do not tell yourself that just because it has DAILY in the name, you NEED to post everyday. Use queue if needed, don't post if you don't feel like it.

You're going to burnout sooo quickly if you just draw slop because you don't want to skip a day, no one LIKES slop posts made just to fill in the day, trust me, i have many! No one is going to hunt you down for forgetting a day or even mention it to you or anything! (or at worse if you know you'll have a period of innactivity, make a post about it to your followers that you can later delete if you really want)

Don't try answering requests as soon as possible just because you don't want to "disappoint" people or whatever! you owe people nothing, and especially not a "quick reply", again, you'll burn out if you force yourself into doing people's request

also this might be more of a personal opinion, but, please keep it to posting once a day (or like twice if absolutely needed), if you're just going to post a ton a day, might as well just post to a main where you just so happen to also post daily (also lazier posts made only because you want to rush multiple drawings every day are just bruh.)

to people considering making one of these blogs:

honestly, don't. You want to challenge yourself into drawing everyday? Do that on your main blog! You have too many doodles/art and want to post it all? Post it on your main! Don't put yourself under the limitations of having a blog specifically for DAILY posting, especially for a SINGLE character. Even if you love a character, you WILL get bored/burned out/just out of ideas for what to even draw with only ONE character

Sure it's cool and everyone else is doing it, but you're also putting yourself under unnecessary stress and limits. Not only your art, but yourself will suffer of these limits eventually

You trust and know yourself enough to know you WILL post daily on that blog? AND won't let it take so much over your life and schedule that you feel terrible when you don't post/decide to abandon it? Then make one, who am i to stop you ig

You wanna make one on a whim because everyone else is doing it and it looks fun? But you don't know if you're going to actually hold up to posting everyday? Yet again, don't. Don't make one. Just post on your account, let people know you by your username, not because of some gimmick (like I mean, ppl know me as (starving-)mimi, not as "daily dst funny" or whatever, do you really want to be only known as "that person who draws [character] everyday" and not as yourself? If you do then ig go make one, but I think it's much nicer to be recognised for who you are than to be just known as "that person who draws a character daily")

tl;dr: don't put yourself under the curse of silly daily posting on a whim just because everyone else is doing it and it's the current trend, and don't post slop art just because you don't want to skip a day POST SLOP BECAUSE YOU WANNA TORTURE PEOPLE WITH IT BHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA cough, i mean. cough.

this might all seems very obvious, but i think people don't realise that daily posting isn't always as fun as it seems :')

TL;DR FOR THE TL;DR post daily cuz you got too much stuff to post that is just too good to all dump in a single post, not just because everyone else is doing it and you find the people daily posting cool and want to get in on the trend

[emmavakarian-theirin]

in todays "it's probably not that deep but--" lucanis post:

i'm gonna start this with a bold statement:

lucanis doesn't think about rook (much).

hear me out. in inner demons, when you are in his mind, we see these ideas of how he thinks he's perceived by everyone, and how he perceives people; family, contracts, enemies. all these people are conjured in his mind, in this prison he's yet to escape. his own mind is as dangerous as he is.

when you find him, he immediately asks "what are you doing here, rook?"

he immediately knows it's you. it's not an idea of you, not a trick or the mind, it's you. "rook can't be here." and with romance specific dialogue, he says "you should go. it's better i stay here than risk losing you."

so does he want rook out of his head to stop himself from coming up with reasons to keep rook away from him entirely? is he afraid the longer rook stays and learns his mind, the more rook will fear/distrust him?

and with that, does he then do his absolute best to just not think about rook when they're not around? not just because of the demon inside him, but himself? the culmination of the training and contracts and backstabbing and torture he's endured, leaving him to think he's too broken and messy and professional for friends or anything more? as a man that has little left to lose and is afraid to do so, he's just as - if not more - afraid to gain?

that rook is the one solid and neutral ground he has and therefore doesn't want them involved in a tortured mind? and that, if romanced, that's half the reason why there's an almost kiss because he panics, "i need to clear my head"?

and then tearstone island happens, and rook is gone for weeks. they're not around anymore. the only way to see rook is to imagine them, think about them. and all lucanis can think about is how he'll never see rook again. rook's lost despite his efforts.

at that point, what's left to lose but himself?

[plethomacademia]

OK I opened a new scrivener file called "the one where the translator breaks" and now i will look at the blank page while winding a ball of yarn, this is the closest i have gotten to writing in ages

related, when i opened scrivener, it opened to a gale/roland i had forgotten i started called "a quick study" and it's frotting in a library but i never finished it

[candlecove-weaintdeadyet]

Much as I'm glad for signs of life in the fandom, the HeyKids Archive Wiki lowkey highkey annoys me lol

Like I like the found-family aspect of the "show" as much as the next trauma-riddled neurodivergent queer former weird kid, but the Archive leans into it a bit too much, I think? Like. Where's the unsuitable-for-its-audience nightmare fuel? Where's the writers/actors getting sex jokes and profanity past the censors????? Where's the cosmic horror undertones-you know, the thing that canonically ties Candle Cove to Local 58?! WHY DOES THE SKIN-TAKER GET A REDEMPTION ARC AND ENTER A HEALTHY LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH HORACE?!

Like, I'm sorry, Candle Cove would NOT have been a progressive-for-its-time, wholesome kids' show that actually teaches the audience life skills and age-appropriate morals, that show would have been what would happen if The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack were made with a budget of $20 and a shoe string and Thurop Van Orman was being tormented by horrors beyond human comprehension and I think we as a fandom have forgotten that.

I know I'm swinging a bat at the proverbial hornet's nest by saying this, but I am very much a mid-2010's Candle Cove fanon truther. That shit should be horror-comedy at best and 'I can't believe they let this air' at worst. It should be dark it should have jokes that fly over the child audience's heads and it should be, dare I say it, problematic.

[kindlythevoid]

Rewind Gift

I'm going to pretend it's still Christmas, and since unfortunately I do not have my chapters up and ready to go, like I did last year, in honor of Merlin's finale and as my Christmas present to you, I have one (1) paragraph from the next chapter of Rewind that I would like to share with you :D

[Arthur] wondered if that was how Merlin had always seen magic, as something to be explored and discovered rather than as a weapon to be used. He remembered Merlin showing him the dragon in the flames, when he first had to prove to Arthur he had magic. Arthur remembered the fear in his heart that day, the horror and dread in realizing that his dearest friend had been corrupted, had betrayed him, only to find out that it was Arthur who had been wrong. It still didn’t sit right with him, those few days before he had died. They turned over and over in his mind, a constant reminder of what he had to get right, of what would happen if it went wrong. 

And, also, because I really love you guys, here is the first paragraph of a 5+1 that I've been working on, which may or may not be dubbed as the "Mysterious Chapter Twenty-One" which deals with Arthur meeting/interacting with other servants in the Castle. :)

Arthur remembers the first time he met Gerty. Not in the past life, not in this life, but when he was a boy. He’d been taking food from the kitchen for as long as he could remember, always scared of the woman who could wield her ladle as swiftly and ferociously as he had seen the knights of his youth wield the sword. But while he had knowingly turned a blind eye to his Knights’ antics concerning the kitchen, especially when caught, Arthur himself had only been grabbed once.

Not sure when the actual chapters will be out (for the story at least; the 5+1 is still a bit off as well, although it may get posted during my "off season"), but I've got about three thousand solid words down and about another two thousand words of assorted scenes floating around, so I feel on track for getting it done before the end of the year. I hope this was a suitable gift, however, and Happy Holidays to all and to all a good night!!

[snackugaki]

i'm alive i just keep forgetting that posting WIPs is fun, easy, and valid

[gideonisms]

this job has so far been extremely uneventful which also freaks me out because I'm like. What's the catch when is it going to start attacking me

[crossbackpoke-check]

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

[darkshrimpemotions]

I'm making this a new post because unlike some people, I don't like putting relentless bullshit in other people's notifications (I am speaking of the OP, I could not give a fuck less about the replier's notifications, since they clearly don't care about ours). But I'm replying to this:

@ineffably-human said: So first of all, this is not the only show in the world with meaningful lighting and costumes because that is literally the job of lighting and costuming if they try. And those people can try even when the writers do not. (And we only know if something is meant if they tell so.)

Second, a fandom is a community. I hope you understand how hurtful it is to tell people they suck and wish ill on them (however minor and funny 'I hope your bacon burns' is, that's still what it is) and tell them to get out so you can have fun (this is less funny and something I have seen) because they don't agree with whatever opinions are going on in your specific corner of it. And conversely I hope no one has made you feel unwelcomeforliking the finale, and if any of us have, me included, then that's our bad. I get the frustration of seeing something other people aren't. But trust me, we're hurting that a show we loved is gone and we can't even feel satisfied in how it went out. And if we feel betrayed by how we feel the show's queerness should have been handled, that's all the worse. Making us out to be a hate-spewing problem is kind of messed up. This is less just about you and more about an overall trend, so I'm sorry for going off a bit, but I hope you understand why I did.

Literally where did anyone say this was the only show to ever do anything. What. Because OP certainly did not say that.

But yeah I gotta say this is a wild ass thing to read after a solid month of people who share your opinion on the finale being loudly insufferable on finale-enjoyers' posts, not to mention calling people who enjoy the finale delusional, self-hating, homophobic, and worse when at first we were simply saying "hey, I felt represented by this as a queer person. I felt loved and seen by this as a queer person. And maybe it's not cool for y'all to write it off as The Most Horrible Queerbait Ever To Exist and write US off as self-hating and delusional for enjoying it, just because it wasn't specifically representing YOUR queer experience."

But yeah, a harmless wish for your bacon burning is so so so so terrible and harmful, I'm SO sorry, how will you ever recover. /sarcasm

Literally learn to make your own posts you insufferable assholes, I am NO LONGER ASKING. Because yeah, fandom IS supposed to be a community, but none of y'all have been acting like it is one with the way you've been behaving, so don't try to lay that at our feet now. I have zero interest in being in community with people who are not only determined to be miserable themselves but to shit on everyone else who isn't miserable as well. I've been having a great time with the people that DON'T want to be assholes every minute of the day, but the Venn diagram between them and people whining about the finale being queerbait are basically two circles that do not touch.

I'm just so incredibly unbelievably COMPLETELY done with this bullshit because it IS a trend. A trend of half this fandom being so loud and obnoxious and needlessly mean about the finale to the point that the tag is basically unusable, so when you act like you haven't seen it in your reply, I simply do not believe you. At this point I've blocked more accounts than I ever followed in the WWDITS fandom in the first place, explicitly because they keep showing up in my notes and on my posts and on my friends' posts with their whining about how much they hated the finale. So for someone to come in a month later like "omg why would you be mean" is just. Fucking LAUGHABLE. God.

[indighostoast]

Anyone else's live reaction to people enjoying your writing is just:

"Huh??? HUH? YOU ACTUALLY. LIKE IT?? HUH? LIKE- WHATTTTT?"

[theflyingfeeling]

...😭

[naomiknight-17]

Oh my god I thought we were past this

Tiny Tim's collar has a code and a phone number on it so if he gets lost, people can call the listed company and inform them they've found a cat with this code, and the company can inform me. A vet or rescue scanning his chip would reveal the same info

Every time I post pics of Tim where you can see any part of his tag, people message me like "Oh nooooo you can see YOUR phone number on his tag you are doxxing yourself you should edit it"

It's a 1-866 NUMBER

IT SAYS HIS CHIP NUMBER AND THE COMPANY WEBSITE RIGHT BELOW IT

If you can read the number you should be able to read the company website! And the chip number! And deduce that it is not my personal information!

I hadn't received such a message in weeks. I thought it was over. I thought I was free. Then today it started again

And I KNOW people are just trying to be nice and look out for me. I KNOW. But it makes me feel like they must think I am stupid!! I KNOW not to post my personal info on the internet! I am cagey about talking about the CITY I live in/near let alone MY PERSONAL PHONE NUMBER

I HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY ON THE INTERNET FOR 20+ YEARS I KNOOOOOOOW