#idk im in my feelings about it rn

[your-local-neighbourhood-kat]

Seeing the way the friendship is magic fandom has evolved over the years in terms of meme culture is so fun to see.

The year the older zoomers entered the fandom space as active content creators was maybe around the same time (or a bit after) the finale premiered and you can see the effects of that in the newer music and the art and the comics and the stories-

Seeing the differences and similarities in millennial fandom culture and gen z fandom culture is just fun to see in general; but in this case especially, seeing people my age (and even people who have JUST joined the fandom) make their own contributions with a lot of really impactful and cool and funny work- and very actively keeping the silly cartoon horse culture alive even after it's ended as someone who has had this show as a massive hyperfixation on and off since maybe 2014 is really cool to me

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

[rapidhighway]

sanic ✌ for the au perhaps? idk

[wetterfishguts]

hi alenoah nation... *drops this and runs away*

[el-loy]

ponytail cluster...

[pineappical]

would calling this something like "the sun to his earth" be a little bit too cliche? maybe...

[edenfire]

✨️🌟 he is looking at akira 🌟✨️

been working on various projects and I've been missing my boy;;;; so ofc I had to doodle up something quick for him🥰💗💞

also just assume that every piece of art I create includes implied shuake lol

[cogdominium]

saw a post in the corporate clash tag that caused me to black out and make this

[definitely-jax]

[ganondoodle]

i cant lie, im also beating myself up about not being able to get excited for the new game, or anything anymore it seems, while it can be fun to criticise things, some things you just dont like so badly that the frustration knowing it could be so much better but isnt and you not able to change it outweighs any fun- i dont like being a 'hater', i hate totk, but not bc i hate zelda but bc i LOVE it and want it to be better (though im starting to doubt my ability to do anything good with it too..)

and with the new game trailer (like, i still hope its better than im fearing rn) i feel similarly as when the next totk trailers dropped after the first one (which DID excite me), all of them gave me a sense of dread bc it seemed to go into a direction i wouldnt like, i tried to tone that voice down to enjoy the game, but then .. i was right

i dont want to be an annoying complainer about everything new, but maybe i am and i dont like that thought, i dont want to spoil anyones fun, i want to partake in it :(

[ricky-tiki-tah]

Damien didn’t always need his cane to walk, but it was less conspicuous to always have it and have it seen as an eccentricity, than to only use it when he needed it and be seen as a weak mayor.

This carried over to Dark, who needs the cane more often. It took a while for them to realize that none of the other egos saw them as weak for using their cane.

[writterings]

the thing they don't tell you about most mlm romance books is that they fucking suck ass

[skunkes]

[skitskatdacat63]

I would commit murder to see the interview these pictures are from

[mostlymaudlin]

one of my favorite things about carry on fandom (at least as it has existed since i joined in 2021) is that no one gets hung up on like... writing expertise or fics being "out of character." this is especially impressive because there is SO MUCH character analysis that goes on in this fandom, and yet it never translates to dunking on interpretations of characters that ppl disagree with. there's just genuine joy over the face that people are out here writing and sharing and putting their own twists on stories.

in general, everyone is just so encouraging abt art, and that's such a wonderful environment for people who are new to writing/sharing their writing. and for people who are not new but still feel nervous about putting themselves out there. it's really special! i think it's similar for visual art too

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

🖤🩶🤍💜