#it disappointed most of the fandom which is insane to me bc i think it's a masterpiece

[daz4i]

borderlands is like the series that probably has the most wrong fandom for what it wants to be. like it's a huge fictional universe with so much lore, it has really good and emotionally impactful stories. sometimes. bl3&tftbl2 dni, awesome queer rep, solid characters with touching bonds; and then most of the fandom is like. gamer bros who only care abt farming and misgendering nb characters ig

[shiraishi--kanade]

Disappeared for rehearsal but your anger is totally justified and honestly as a wxs fan I am so so disappointed in the ones who start hating on vbs for this and completely misinterpreting all this and callig it useless for no other reason other than spite. Grow up oh my god.

Ofc i also was excited for limited tsks5 (but moreso for the possibility for long haired rui bc samurai-ish set?) but it's not like. The end of the world. Idk i just feel like this is such childish behaviour and you, especially as a vbs oshi, deserve to be mad bc honestly. The twitter community is so tiring. Prsk twt fandom stop idolising n25 and wxs and acting like everything else is a problem and bad and not worth it challenge absolute fail!!!!

And you're def also a big reason i grew to understand and love vbs more and always talk with sense and u know a lot of things so if you were excited and this is making u mad than it must even worse so I'm so sorry. Pls be sure to take time to yourself if you need it to not interact with anyone who's acting Like That bc your enjoyment is the most important!!

I'm excited tho!! I do need to catch up on vbs stories yo understand all of this better, bc i have an idea but not like. A clear one. And this definitely is a very good motivation because !!!!! THIS IS SO BIG!!!

Oh trust me, I was excited for Tsukasa5 being limited as well (multiple reasons, aside from what you've said: while I understand the reasoning behind this set being lim, I genuinely wish it wasn't because it'll likely lock side stories and generally nice story moments from some players forever which is unfair, and I don't think shouldn't have been lim in the same way Canary event or Our Happy Ending or Saying Goodbye to My persona weren't; I'm also pissed off by, as I already said, VERY BAD TERRIBLE NO GOOD precedent for the greedy and unfair gacha this banner sets up). It's majorly messed up from Sega's part to do that with him, but it's not because they hate WxS as characters or something, it's because they know they can put a limited event, a WLE (semi-limited) and then a fan-favourite unlimited banner and still get profit from all of it, possibly more than they would if the distribution was better. It's not them hating WxS fans (if anything, VBS fans are more screwed), it's just corporate greed that we need to stop personifying.

I guess I'm just majorly disappointed, more even in the VBS fans being... Like this than the outside reaction. VBS have always been a running joke withing the fandom let's be honest, not a lot of people take them and their (very interesting) themes seriously at all (which is partially why LUtF had so much backlash for suddenly getting serious as if VBS weren't already that). Others' reaction to The Event was always something that I could predict, the amplification of it by the malicious planning is unfortunate but understandable. It's the in-fandom panic and the discovery that people who claim to be fans genuinely do not read the events, do not read the events' synopsis, the events' short summaries and then proceed to have insane takes and spread them as truth that got me upset the most I think lol.

That said my rage is amplified a lot here, mostly for laughs. I am majorly annoyed and miffed because I was expecting at least the VBS fans to be hyped and excited so we could all celebrate, but oh well. Forgot I have different definition of "a fan of a unit" than 90% of the fandom. I still know a lot of people who are on the same wavelength as me and we can get hyped together though, so like I said, it doesn't upset me too much, just makes me want to whack some people with a comically oversized hammer. I'll be just fine.

Thanks though! :D

Edit: hope you had fun at the rehearsal by the way!

[purrvaire]

that character thing for jack rackham??

the way I want YAAAAAAY TIME TO GUSH OVER MY PRINCESS thank you my friend you made my stupid ass very happy

• favorite thing about them

where do i BEGIN. i literally saw jack on screen for a minute and texted my best friend what the fuck. he's my princess. no one has ever princessed so much. im obsessed. sorry, got off tracks ANYWAY his wit, his humour and most of all how caring he is?? like, he takes care of everyone and particularly Anne and Charles and he does it with the utmost devotion? im going insane

• least favorite thing about them

he didnt wear the silly sunglasses anymore. a tragedy. honestly, i could make essays about what's wrong with any other fav from bs (see: silver and flint) (silver) but jack is the daughter who never disappointed her mother - it's me im the mother

• favorite line

"A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history."

But also "if you're going to act like children, then I'll be you daddy". I laughed out loud at 1am. God I miss him

• brOTP / OTP

putting in the same category bc the confines between platonic and romantic are almost non existent if you ask me: anne and charles. like, they're his family, his girlfriend and boyfriend, his best friends, his partners, his ride or die. and he's all of the above for them!!! God!!!!!!

• nOTP

honestly idk?? i haven't seen anything that made want to carve out my eyes yet

• random headcanon

i dont have particular headcanons uhmmm does it count when I said to bestie I believe Jack was a Pokemon in another life? I think it does

• unpopular opinion

idk which opinions could be unpopular i've not being long in the fandom and i usually mind my business it's an incredible state to be ngl

• song I associate with them

dont have one if we dont count you're my honey bun sugar plum everytime he's on scene. i cant say it enough, he's my ultimate source of joy fr

• fav picture

first picture: i would die for him my fashion icon

second picture: PRINCESS COVERED IN BLOOD!!!!!!!!!

[sirenemale]

💋🖼🗺 WARRIORS ASK GAME BEAM

THANK YOU FOR INDULGING MEEEEE

💋 : is there any ships out there you absolutely hate for genuinely no good reason at all. like its not problematic in the slightest, if anything it's one of the better ones, you just cannot bring yourself to enjoy it

I dont think there's any that make me see red or anything, just a lot that are really really nothing imo. I think there's a lot of kinda just for fun or sweet ships that don't really have enough chemistry for me to care abt, which is so fine I just like dynamicsss. Then again a lot of that is down to a lot of wc characters being kinda blank slates (esp side characters) i can buy into most things if someone is insane enough abt their headcannons for it.

WAIT I'm lying,and hollyleaf and fallenleaves. I think he's boring!!! he should've been more toxic genuinely. This also stemms from me being a giant hollyleaf head and liking her being a bit of a bad person, I don't really see why this relationship with some super patient ghost guy would really make her turn around on anything. She had multiple patient people in her life yknow. I think him being clingy, desperate not to lose the only cat to see him on decades, would be way more interesting. Maybe she's being eaten alive by guilt, bc she's contradicted everything she believed in and is trying to justify it to ease her own stress. And fallenleaves is like overly forgiving of it to the point it upsets her. I also just think her narrative turn around was too easy and she wasn't really taken to task by anyone which is disappointing. Like I hate the idea of Holly's turn around being in part to a pseudo ghost boyfriend who's nice to her and her learning mother hood hard bc nursing a fox cub ect. I want it to come from herself and admitting to what she chose to do in her spiral. I think part tof what really gets to her is others disappointment, and silence, and like leafpool in the berries scene where she's got this controlled kinda disappointment and grief. Like hollyleaf wants a bigger reaction to rally against to justify her own extremity but she isn't getting it. Ashfur is someone who gave that to her. she wants to be a bigger victim than she was, she can't take the idea that everything was always out of control and starclan never had anyone's interests in mind. Not just her. Or that others suffered more than her (leaf and squirrel). Idk I think having some guy try to justify it to her to keep her with him would really force her to hear how it sounds.

Also most of this is like part canon remembering and part like, projection and fan interpretation bc wc stuff is a fascinating melting pot of Nostalgia and canon, and headcanon more than any fandom I've seen before. Partly bc the maps and animations create a soft canon that ppl get into instead of the books. I'm trying to write an essay abt ittttt. I also kinda have this pet theory abt hollyleaf being written in the same veign as male characters in the series where their emotional turmoil is used to demean, punish and flanderize female characters (leafpool and squirrelflight in this circumstance) and I think it's interesting. As well as her never being really held to account for how she treated anyone, she's allowed to keep hating her mothers, she got away with murder and attempted murder ect. She also was allowed to be ambitious and never had a mate which r both things Erin's almost never let female characters do without making them into like evil hag harpies ect. I'm very interested in breaking down their specific gender Flanderization bc it's such a clear pattern they use in the books over and over bc they hate women a LOT.

Anyway I told you these would be long. I like hollyleaf regular amounts

🖼 : first amv/pmv you ever watched?

Fuckkkk. Mr brightside was a really defining one for me. I don't remember the first but duckfeathers, gamakichisora, silverwolfynight and ryulovestsute were surely there.

🗺 : first map you ever watched?

This also wasn't the first but this had such a foul grip on me. I almost wrote an essay abt it when I was like 10 or 11 or something. I wasn't allowed to bc when we handed in our song choices for review the teacher told me it was about suicide and I had no clue I was like it's actually about warrior cats. (Songs and their wc amv or map were basically 1 to 1 for me)

[professorchaos]

Realizing because of your tags that myself and the friends I trust with South Park opinions all have worked with kids for many years. I'm sure much of the audience are parents now too. I don't really see many of the fandom opinions; I track a few specific blogs that are thought provoking but that I trust to think critically. So it is disappointing to hear how many people don't get it, but also kind of heartwarming to recognize the connection between us adults who know what kids are actually like, and can seperate the two. I also think it's part of what makes the simple stuff sweeter; appreciating that they're still kids underneath it all. - kennymcnuggets

this message honestly made me feel a massive sense of relief LOL it is really nice to know that there are other people out there in this fandom who know + care about children... i'm not working with kids at the moment but there are kids around that age in my close family (some of whom i live with) and it makes it extra painful to see people just with the most insane things to say all the time, doesn't it?

i feel like most people (in general!) would benefit greatly from thinking back to the thoughts and emotions they experienced during childhood and adolescence a little more often... i think kids are amazing and funny and weird and the show does a really good job of portraying the way it is to be a child (i see people talk about how it's "disturbing" to see them as children sometimes because they are often in "adult situations" which i find frankly bizarre- and also, as an abuse survivor, on some level personally insulting lol). we live in this world all together! for some kids there is no luxury of illusion. for most there is less than we like to pretend. if you think that children don't swear, or watch the news, or grieve or have big thoughts, then i'm very sorry to say that either the children in your life do not trust you enough to discuss their reality with you or you are simply not listening. but you are also not talking to them like people if you assume malice from the random things they parrot. they're learning! they wanna know other peoples' opinions on things so they can form their own! they say outrageous things just to get a feel for it! it's really scary getting to the point where all the horrors start to make sense.

(tangentially i thought it was funny that people were genuinely upset at kyle and tolkien making cringe tiktoks lol... um... sorry guys that's. that's what kids are doing right now. matt and trey know this because they have children. if you don't like it i'm sorry. delete tiktok is all i can say to you).

sorry for ranting a little! i'm just happy to hear from you on this bc the attitudes one sees round here and on twitter all the time are crazy-making... thanks for the breath of fresh air.

[deathbyobiwan]

five fandoms, five ships / which do you like best

thanks for the tag @cottonraincoat! took me way too long to get around to these so i'm just combining the two in one post lmao.

when i watched the agent carter show i absolutely fell in love with it. it's been a few years so my memory could be foggy but i adored the depiction of her character and her friendship with jarvis is one of my favourite representations of male/female friendships.

sam obisanya is just. such a kind and good person i can't help but adore him, and his relationship with his father makes my heart warm. seriously go watch ted lasso i beg.

and i mean i am slightly ooc-ing hector bc he is. an ancient greek man. but his depiction in the iliad wrecks me. i went into reading the iliad expecting to dislike him but oh my god he is the epic's true hero.

and okay now for the ships... i cannot lie i haven't been super into shipping for most of my life so i'm not sure i can make it up to five, but i will try...

obi-wan kenobi/anakin skywalker (star wars) wow how surprising. i think i got into reading this around 2021 but didn't start writing it until 2023. they are truly insane about each other and i am insane about them, simple.

valjean/javert (les mis) i did not get this until this january when i saw les mis again in london and the tension between them was indescribable. javert kind of gives owk-era vader in that he has a job he's supposed to do but his obsession with this one guy (that he can still technically argue is duty-related) is getting in the way of everything.

roy kent/keeley jones/jamie tartt (ted lasso) ted lasso is my favourite tv show of all time and i wish these guys had worked out as a throuple. s3 was disappointing overall but jamie's arc over the whole show really won me over on him.

queen charlotte/king george iii (bridgerton/queen charlotte) queen charlotte is hands down my favourite season of bridgerton and the relationship between charlotte and george is really part of that. i weep every time i see or am too heavily reminded of the scene with them under the bed.

erm erm erm cinderella/prince charming (cinderella iii: a twist in time) i will always be a cinderella iii stan and their relationship in this is so sweet and joyful. i really would recommend the film for an easy watch (zero knowledge of cinderella ii required) it is super cute.

this has taken me so long to do i have no idea who has and hasn't done it i'm sorry :,( but please if you haven't done either yet and would like to go ahead!

[sappymix1]

Ok like kinda random sorry but this is a constant bit of brainrot I had and I saw you saying something sorta similar to it so here I am.

Also, sorry this is so long. I talk about this constantly but its one of my favorite things in concept and is super interesting and really gets me going. And also it's super frustrating

The way the larger dsmp fandom treats dream absolutely drives me nuts. Like, in my eyes, he's changed so much. Like, was he a good person when he was younger, no. But that is mostly due to his environment and then some continued ignorance, but that's normal. When you're raised to believe one thing, it takes a lot to unlearn. And he has. He isn't the same person he was when he was 16, even 20 y/o him is very different

But what drives me absolutely insane, especially as an ex-sbi main (I still love the cc's but the fandom is awful), Wilbur is Dream's foil.

So like, but foil I mean the English literature concept of two characters/people who are mirror images of each other but at some point made a slightly different desicion and therefore turned out different

Honestly there so much I could say about all this, like about the environment they were both raised in and how SBI and dteam as a whole are actually very interesting foils but this is just about Wilbur and Dream

Wilbur when he was Dream's age, was pretty much exactly like Dream. Just, not a good person, saying things he shouldn't and whatnot. Wilbur has said he doesn't like who he used to be. Wilbur changed, and his fans accept that.

But Wilbur stans will praise Wilbur as this morally better person, more *pure*. And he's not, he's the same if not maybe worse (I have a friend who is very disappointed in some of Wilbur's inaction when it comes to his friends but I never noticed this so I won't comment, just this might be a more general feeling)

Wilbur has the infamous line of "teenage girls can't enjoy anything" which great amazing agreed needs to be said.

But they sing a different time when Dream says that he supports stan and stan culture because stans get a bad rep. They say that stans are evil and are crazy and shouldn't exist. But teenage girls makeup a huge part of stan culture. Pick one. You don't get to cheer Wilbur and boo Dream for the same statement.

They look at Wilbur and see only good. And then they look at Dream and see only bad, when he was the same age as their precious golden boy when he made similar mistakes. The only difference being Dream was unfortunately more online and for Dream age 18 was only 5 years ago and for Wilbur that was 8 years ago.

This one has a little less meaning, but this opinion would get me flamed alive on twitter. I would rather listen to Roadtrip over all of Are You Alright. The only song I liked on there was cause for concern and they mixed it poorly.

And twitter would flame me for having an opinion cause it's Dream and Wilbur.

And it drives me insane. I hate it, your streamer is no better nor no worse than mine (sidenote, I hate the concept of morality among the streamers cause they're just people at the end of the day and yes some of them can turn sour but overall most streamers are pretty solid)

But it gets worse cause once, maybe end of summer 2021, a video surfaced of Wilbur saying the t-slur. And yes there was immediate backlash, but also there was "lets wait and see what Wilbur says" meanwhile for anything Dream does, there is no grace offered. The same people who extended an olive branch to Wilbur flames Dream alive and then refuses to listen to a word he says. I hate it, I hate that side of the fandom and what it's become.

Sorry for this mini-essay lmao. Honestly I could go on for hours about all of this but this is probably more than you wanted to read on a Friday night kekw

🪐

hey king not sure why you sent this to me specifically bc i can’t even think of the last time i said anything abt wilbur but slay! speak your truth

but also the point about are you alright is SO REAL like wilbur’s music/lovejoy is for the most part on my opinion a bit better written than a lot of the drusic both lyrically and in regards to like musical complexity or whatever but genuinely other than the last few things he’s put out, i’d listen to mask and road trip anyway because i hate the way wilbur uses his voice and i hate the way they’re mixed soooo much like i don’t get why they made the choices they did because so many of these songs sound good live!! but the recording is a mess

[facelessxchurch]

That honestly disappoints me. With all the other insane shit he did I think it would honestly have been a lot better if for phase 3 Landy pulled a blanket reset and had Darq just resurrect the entire dead cast. At bare minimum this would have made the events of phase 3 highly unpredictable and therefore more interesting to me. What are your bets for the other person she rezzed?

Ghastly was Darquesss remaining shred of humanity bc he meant a lot to Valkyrie while they shared a body, so it's gotta be someone who was important to Val who died pre-DotL.

Anton Shudder - He died with Ghastly, so it would only make sense he would be resurrected along with Ghastly. But since his death always got overshadowed by Ghastly's in both canon and fandom I think that is rather unlikely.

Carol Edgley - She is Valkyrie's family and her death kinda was Val's fault. Would be nice to see her get a second chance at life, but I think it's unlikely bc I don't view her as that useful for future plots, plus no one really cares about Carol.

Gordon Edgley - He is a family member and was taking in an advisor role to Val and Skul. I think he is the most likely one bc he had the strongest connection to Val and his knowledge/research could make him valuable to future plots. Plus, he is one of the characters I can't fucking stand bc he's one of Landy's self-inserts and I don't want him to come back, which boosts his chances to be the resurrected character by quite a lot.

I think there was another character I considered but I straight up forgot who it was lmao RIP-

[pop-punklouis]

Hi hope, sorry this is a bit of a rant so feel free to ignore if you want, I just am feeling like H is kind of out of touch with the fandom atm, it’s not the stunt stuff bc I know he doesn’t ‘choose’ to do it, it’s a product if his closeting and his contracts, but just like doing the whale at his concert and talking abt the pandemic like it’s in the past just doesn’t sit right with me. So many ppl are still struggling. I’m struggling and I don’t even have it that bad compared to others but like his pandemic and my pandemic are NOT the same thing. And he says “you’ve changed my life” like thank you fans for making me rich and famous... like that’s not why I love your music dude, that’s not why I’m a fan and why I support you. Sigh, sorry love I really like your blog and always enjoy your take on things and I really don’t wanna bum you out, but anyway thank you for listening 💕

hi bb.

you can rant to me whenever! x i totally understand this stance and frustration. many people have been feeling distant from harry, lately. in my opinion, 2020-2021 has been a year that has caused him to be incredibly separated from the fandom. his impersonal persona has been building for a while, but i firmly believe that this year has been the tipping point for many fans. and i think a big portion of that is because of how he’s come off during the pandemic which has been insanely disappointing. he’s come across as an entitled, rich brat much of the time that hasn’t been counterbalanced with seeing the other side of him many people know and adore. only seeing this one side for over a year will weigh on anyone, and i don’t blame them. i’ve had my fair share of upset with him and complete and utter confusion about certain decisions he’s made. and that’s perfectly fine to admit. i’ll be honest, i never though harry would be the one who would’ve been the most careless during a pandemic out of all the boys, and yet here we are 18 months later. on top of what you mentioned, i also was highly uncomfortable with the poem by charles bukowski that seemed to be narrated as harry’s intro to his tour. featuring a poem that has a line that reads “To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art” in the middle of a pandemic that you’re touring in and putting even more of your fans in danger feels so far out of touch with reality it boggles my mind. i understand what he was going for regarding the tour intro— and i would’ve been inclined to not think much of it if it had been in different circumstances. but, dude context is key and it seems like a lot of his decisions lately that have upset people in this pandemic is because he hasn’t thought about the context of those actions in a pandemic.

like you said, most of the frustration doesn’t come from his stunts or what he’s contractually obligated to do. no one is pointing a finger at him for things that he could be barred from changing. the upset comes from the other actions that we’ve continuously seen, unfortunately. everyone knows i don’t hate him— and criticizing any of the boys should never equate to thinking someone hates them. i absolutely adore harry, but i haven’t felt connected to him in a long while. ever since march 2020, i’ve seen a steady shift in what people expect out of celebrity and how they engage with celebrity. it’s gone past the mold of traditional promo and branding, and it has become almost expected for an artist to feel authentic to who they are for there to be a much bigger connection to them and their work. harry styles™️ works under the old, traditional mold of celebrity and that just doesn’t cut it anymore. they have to evolve and stop believing this foundational rockstar approach is going to sustain him indefinitely. it won’t, and the cracks are only getting bigger. i’m hoping with whatever dates he does do with this tour, that that changes the perception a lot of people have started having about him as tour!harry is where he feels the most personable to his fans instead of a corporate machine. yet, the first show back felt stagnant and rushed. so, beyond anything, i hope it doesn’t stay that way and there’s that genuine warmth we all know of harry onstage going forward *big shrug*

[franeridart]

Anon said: i love love love LOVE how you just draw gojo leaning onto getou, hiding his face in getou's neck or back or chest <////3 im just so heartbroken over those two

So glad to hear you like him clingy as much as I do!! TT^TT as far as I’m concerned he wasn’t clingy enough in canon, so I’m fixing it as much as I can with every new doodle haha

Anon said: whenever im sad i just come to your account and look through your art :")) it brings me so much comfort :')) also i gotta mention that the teacher getou art you've made has healed my broken heart bc of jjk and now that is the only canon i accept thank you very much gege akutami has nothing on me

GAH GETO-SENSEI MY ONE AND ONLY I’m happy he makes you as soft as he does me, he’s such a comfort to me ;;;; and thank you for liking my stuff!!!! Means the world to me to hear it ;A; <3

Anon said: I miss your krbk sm 😔 No pressure intended!!!!!! I still love and support u and ur art!!!

Man I miss them too!!!!! @ hori when are you bringing my loves back from the war I’m here waiting good sir!!!

Anon said: v v curious on your thoughts on what’s currently going on in bnha manga :)))

HMMM what are my thoughts on it? Well, let’s split it in two: Deku’s side and Todoroki’s side, because that’s how it’s split in my brain atm, and allow me to start from the second because it’s easier to get through for me

I’m in love with everything Hori is doing with Todoroki and everyone involved with him - that’s to say his whole whole family and Hawks and Jeanist too, all of it, I’m so into it it’s no joke at all. Always been in love with how he handles Enji’s character and his interactions with his family and the latest developments didn’t disappoint me at all, wasn’t very much into Dabi right after the “reveal” but the more I think about it and about the story from his pov the more behind it I am, forever and always head over heels for Shouto’s way of dealing with a situation that’s as complex as one would expect from a protagonist of their very own story you could really make a manga out of the Todoroki’s family plot from Shouto’s pov alone, it’s incredible I can’t state how in love with it all I am enough. And Hawks, don’t make me start on him I’ll straight up never stop, absolutely and most definitely my favorite pro-hero I would trust him with my money and my kids 100/10 just assume I’m constantly crying over him. Also Jeanist is just hilarious so bless him and his presence in an otherwise too heavy story

Deku’s side........ well, the main problems I have with it are that one, I don’t really understant the need to keep ofa a secret from the class for the biggest part of the story when the reveal wasn’t forced upon Deku, didn’t have a huge impact on him or his relationship with the others (his leaving wasn’t directly caused by him coming clean after all, he wouldn’t have had to leave earlier had he not kept it a secret and he would have still left at this point had the class already known all along) and didn’t, like. Matter. All that much. Two, this manga is called my hero academia and I’m genuinely starting to wonder why. What was the point of all the arcs set inside the school anyway? Most of the characters growth (Deku’s especially) and the progression of the main plot happened in the arcs outside of the school anyway, and at this point it’s clear we’re not going back to the school after this or even seeing anyone graduate. What of Shinsou? What was the point of his plot when we’re not even gonna see him being active part of the class in a school environment? I’m just confused about it all, I guess. Three, which is really my biggest problem with it all, is the way Deku’s set on saving Shigaraki. It’s not like I don’t like a story in which all the villains are saved and the good guys win and love prevails and all that, call it corny but they’re exactly my type of stories, but I’m not sure I can get behind it when Twice died like that, and Midnight did as well, and Aizawa lost a leg, and Nighteye died, and Hawks might have lost his wings, and Shirakumo ended up Kurogiri and it’s still unclear whether he can be saved, like... why does Shigaraki get to be saved when so many people suffered like that? And it’s not only about them suffering by his hands, it’s about Hori and how he was ruthless with so many characters but lets the story show arbitrary kindness to Shigaraki alone, it’s all... well. Unfair. The way I see it. At this point I at the very least expect kindness for Touya as well, here.

That said if I pick the chapters one by one by themselves I do enjoy them very much. I just don’t gotta think about the big picture lmao AH but it’s all a personal opinion, of course! I know people who enjoy the way the story is going and I can see where they’re coming from, this is all arbitrary tastes and preferences on my part, I’m aware of it!

Anon said: Hi hi! I finally got into jjk AND finally caught up on the manga and i appreciate your doods soooo much more now!! They’re so great!! But imcurious, is there one specific moment in the story where you Gojo and Geto became IT for you? Just genuinely curious!!

THANK YOU happy to hear you liked jjk!!!! And that’s!!! a great question, I’m not sure I have an answer actually? I binged the manga in a day and a half, you see, and when I binge stuff that fast I rarely stop to overthink things - I did ship them as I read too since, well. They’re in love lmao but I shipped them in the same way I shipped itafushi or yuutoge after I read the prequel, you know? Just a general aknowledging of how good they were together. The main point with satosugu specifically was probably that satoru has been my favorite character since the beginning of the story and suguru got there as well as soon as I read their backstory, so once I was caught up they’re the ones I ended up spending the most time thinking about, both by themselves and together, and that ended up making me a bit obsessed..... just a bit lol

If I had to give one specific moment that got me by the heart and squeezed the hardest it’d be... probably Satoru’s “my soul knows otherwise”. And the way his voice alone could bring Suguru back, even for just a single moment. The thing about satosugu for me!!! one of the many things about them, but the main thing for me, is that they love each other. Be it platonic or however you wanna see it, they love each other. Despite everything and after it all, even if Satoru had to kill Suguru, even if Suguru killed so many and betrayed Satoru and they went their separate ways in the harshest of ways, they love each other. It’s insane, isn’t it? That they’d love each other so much they could pass over everything and anything. I’ve seen the “best friends become enemies” trope so often in shounen manga, but this is the first time I see it treated like this - with love so strong that they never blamed each other or turned that love in hate. The way satosugu do it is all-encompassing! It goes beyond the world and their differences and death itself! So if I had to pick it’d be that one, because that scene happens after it’s all over, and it all went to shit and way beyond too already, and still their souls resonate with each other and answer to each other and that sends me insane, just thinking about it. Like, god, they really still love each other. Satoru’s mourned for Suguru for a year, Suguru’s been dead for a year, they’d been separated ten whole years before then, and still! And still!!! It’s so tender I don’t know how to deal with it

Anon said: “What’s a god to a nonbeliever?”—That tag is going to haunt me for a while. The entire tag section for your latest Gojo and Geto drawing is meta-worthy.

THANK YOU it’d been eating at my brain I had to write it down somewhere why are those two like that

Anon said: Do you take commissions? No pressure! ✨❤️

Not right now!

Anon said: How do you feel about sukuna ? like/dislike or thoughts on him

AMAZING QUESTION I love him. I have absolutely zero clue as of why so don’t ask me to elaborate, I’m literally that marge pic with the potato when it’s about Sukuna, I have no meta thoughts about him nor deep reasonings behind it - by all accounts, I should dislike him! But he shows up and I’m like nghhh king, so that’s where we stand. It’s Sukuna, you know. I just think he’s neat.

Anon said: sighs time to get into another fandom bc i simp too hard for ur art 😔

HAH thank you for the trust I hope you’ll like ror if you do get into it!!! hahaha

[kim-ruzek]

I like Brettsey, but I'm not the biggest Brettsey fan because I'm not a big shipper, honestly (so I like Stellaride and Burzek as well and feel nothing for the other OC ships), but even I have to admit that they did them; the individual characters and the fans are so dirty with that break-up. I don't think the writers realise how shitty they have been with all the baiting and saying stuff they don't mean. I'm disappointed but not surprised, but honestly, this is how I've felt about OC for a while now:

Making Violet's whole storyline about two men-Gallo and Hawkins

The constant miscommunication or lack of communication with Stellaride and Brettsey

Dragging the slow burn with Brettsey on for way too long.

Replacing Mason (Chris Mansa) with a white male actor.

Saying they had no more storylines for Dylan Scott even though he's what made Med feel like it was worth watching again.

Pushing Ritter and Kevin to the background and only using Kevin for a race storyline.

Notice how it's the black characters they keep treating like crap.

The constant back and forth between Kim and Adam.

The lack of acknowledgement that Kim and Adam, two white cops, are raising a traumatised black girl (one acknowledgement isn't enough.

Having three opportunities during season 10 of CF to cast people of colour or LGBTQ individuals and instead casting 3 white heterosexual characters.

The list goes on.

I think that's when you really know that as writers when you've messed up, when people who like the characters but not really a big shipper can appreciate how dirty they've done them!!! The thing that annoys me most about all this bloody baiting and shit is that they had ample of warning Jesse was leaving, and yeah they probably wanted to see if he just wanted a year break or if it was indeed long term but there was plenty of time to do the storyline and have the conclusion be like this but in ways that actually makes sense with the bloody characters!!!

But yeah, as disappointed and frustrated it makes me, it unfortunately doesn't surprise me. But that kinda makes it more disappointing, that it didn't exceed the incredibly low expectation I have for these shows.

And YES omg the Dylan Scott thing has pissed me off so much, because I think a lot of the fandom can agree, that he brought a new life to the show and actually made med more worth it! But no, off he goes!

And don't even get me started on how they continually push Ritter aside-- literally did he have only one line (about violet's bloody love life at that!) last episode??

And pd continually just using Kevin for race storylines -- and then not even reflecting on the biases and problems poc face in every episode, just once in a blue moon when they remember Kevin is a character-- it just really pisses me off. I am hoping this season he gets a storyline outside of it, because he is so long overdue but I'm not very optimistic because I thought the Celeste storyline last season would be but nope!

I do agree they need to address the two white cops raising a traumatized black girl thing more, but that I'm even less optimistic about. The main problem is they decided to bring her in before burzek has sorted themselves out, which means, especially with too much focus on other characters, whenever any episode is on them, the writers decide to continue the insane miscommunication and conflict between them rather than idk, doing a much more interesting storyline about interracial adoption? My hope is that now it looks like burzek is sorting themselves out that we'll get more storylines around that but I very much doubt it since this is cpd after all !!

Tbh when I got into one Chicago I did get into it knowing that most likely it will not deal with race well but I am a huge shipper-- I watch things for the romance really, and that's everything -- so I accepted that but honestly it's-- ESPECIALLY fire bc pd has always been pretty damn shit and definitely has been since s5-- gone supeeeeer downhill recently and it annoys me so much!

Thank you for sending me this!!! Even if I got a little ranty! 💖

[stomp-that-ho-regard]

the existence of the "cr discourse" tag itself makes me kinda sad honestly bc of the culture of fear it contributes to. if you scroll down for like 5 minutes you'll see that every other post in that tag is tagged w some kind of hedging like "not maintagging to be safe" or "oh this isn't really negative I'm just tagging discourse to be safe" meanwhile the post itself is something like "I wasn't a huge fan of [x moment]" or "I wish more people in the fandom recognized [y fact]" like ... do you not realize how sad and toxic it is that people are scared to maintag even the most milquetoast criticism of a thing they like ....

I was thinking about this a few days ago.

It’s the combination of toxic positivity and canon worship that has fostered this fear. Fans are genuinely afraid to post their honest opinions in the main tag because they know at the barest hint of criticism, they will be dogpiled. This is not how a healthy fandom space functions. This is NOT NORMAL. 

It’s not just a problem on here though. I’ve seen this same kind of thing on Twitter, and it’s usually ship-related. Tweets that have anything positive to say about Beaujester, are typically prefaced or followed with some kind of praise for Beau/yasha. Like, “I love BY, they’re great together. They’re perfect. But BJ was done dirty.” or “I really miss BJ. Don’t get me wrong though, I love BY. It’s amazing!”

It’s the same fear. The feeling that you have to add a whole ass disclaimer to your opinion, which is insane. (It even happened to me on here. Right after ep108, I had to work up the courage to post in the main tag, and I put a disclaimer at the top saying, “This is not a hate post, I’m just venting.”, because I was worried I’d get ripped apart.)

Those kinds of ‘disclaimer’ tweets are usually coming from people who multi-ship, or used to multi-ship. But because a majority of their followers/mutuals are BY’s, they feel they have to be very careful about what they say and how they say it. They cannot express ANY kind of affection for BJ without blowback, so the disclaimer is tacked on in order to avoid that. (I know I’m making assumptions here, but that’s what the situation looks like, because why else would they feel the need to qualify it?)

So it’s not just being critical of character interactions or wishing there was more focus on a certain story aspect, or even company decisions. It’s fairly innocuous ship stuff too. And as I said, the toxic positivity and canon worship has created a whirlwind of hostility. It’s almost hilarious how ironic it all is. That in the larger CR fandom’s quest to make this a positive, uplifting, ‘safe’ space, they have actually turned it into a cesspool of negativity. They achieved the very opposite of what they wanted.

The cr discourse tag reminds me why I’m grateful that, even when I watched the show, I never really got too involved with the fandom.

Well, I’m glad you've been able to avoid that, anon. I wish I could’ve avoided getting too involved. It’s easy to fall into fandoms. And it can be fun and is usually pretty nice... until it isn’t. They all implode at some point. But the spoiling of the CR fandom has been more disappointing then most, because it’s sold itself as something different; more open, more loving, more inclusive. But there’s way too much ego floating around for any real love or inclusiveness to exist. People are too obsessed with ‘being right’; the ‘right’ opinions, the ‘right’ behavior, and policing other fans with some made-up ideas in their heads about what the cast really wants. They act as if they’re the casts’ mouthpieces.

It’s exhausting.

[dogstarblues]

honestly not just a YA issue I’ve seen some insanely boring fantasy that’s just ripoffs of bigger series or a rehash of tropes that have already been done to death in the 90s

my dear i said in my post everythings already been done. rehash of tropes is not my problem its the execution. and YA has a specific writing style that is rampant. which is why i specifically said YA as an AFTERTHOUGHT. theres boring fantasy and then theres a hollow sentence and dialogue thats barely passable. like i know abt terry goodkind! one of the most egregious cases of direct ripoffs and a garbage cobbling of tropes!

but the thing abt YA fiction these days is that its all the same stylistically. i got so excited by Raybearer and A Song of Wraiths and Ruin (what the FUCK does that title mean btw) and Children of Blood and Bone bc i thot that authorship of color would revitalize a marketing group with deeply incestuous stylistic writing. and you know what? its the same shit with african-influenced flair! utterly disappointing. much of YA has a lack of craft. just LOOK at sjm. many of the newer writers dont challenge their audience. bc YA is abt marketing. you know whose from the old guard who has bangin' dialogue? Holly Black! ill still read her work bc shes been at the craft for a long time. even her earliest work was complicated and dark, and at many points, lovely. you know whose out here being challenging? courtney summers and melina marchetta. look at donna jo napoli or francesca lia block or meredith ann pierce if you wanna see real stylistic differences or challenging themes in writing with the targeted high school age group.

queer YA too, yes queer YA still sounds like the same shit. bc a lot of ppl who write YA only read other YA authors who do the same shit! its WILD.

however that post wasnt abt YA it was abt fiction writers at LARGE who have frail egos and insecurities that ignore craft in favor of suffering under the delusion that what theyre making is entirely singular, that what they can produce is unique. and i did say that isnt the point of writing. or at least, it shouldnt be. the point should be: because you love to create. the goal can factor in, yes! like im making a series of short stories that i want to get published abt black queer and trans characters who are somehow directly or tangentially connected to a university for studying magic. studying magic at school? its been done! a series of interconnected short stories? its been done. see: brides of rollrock island. but im not making it bc i think its so unique that i dont want to be influenced by other writers and it has to be protected. im making it bc i love my craft and i want others to engage with what i love. i want to share myself.

im also writing a fanfiction rn for the first time since at the latest 2015. why? bc im in a discord for fans of a 900page literary fantasy and they love to share what they create bc they love the material so much that they study the book to develop a sense of dialogue and characterization and try to present that in their fanfic. bc they want to do it justice! bc they care abt craft! its a tiny fandom! the most hits ppl get on their fic is 217! there are only 50 fanfics for the book at most on AO3! but they do it bc they love writing and adore the material. the discord is popping off every hour of the day and theres only 111 ppl on it. but theyre creating! and i love writing and i think this act of close-reading the material will help me develop my writing!

it wasnt abt YA. it was abt writing.

[leviathiane]

Fic Writer Wrapped - 2021 Edition

Tagged by my lovely bogger, @chromiwrites 🦐 🦐 ♥️

How many stories did you complete?

9 SFW, 5 Not SFW,,, a whole, total 14 fics,,,,,,,, (Completed, at least)

What is your total word count for the year?

A decent 111,636 total! 90% of it being SFW 

What fandoms did you write in this year?

Avatar the last airbender, Haikyuu, Hollow Knight, BOTW, Age of calamity, and LOZ in general, Omori, Undertale, Deltarune, Danganronpa, and One piece :) She may be busy but she has the RANGE

Did you write more, less, or roughly about what you expected?

LESS. MUCH LESS. Being trapped in my home has reduced my motivation by leagues. I had been heavily dependent on my campus library to be productive,,,, and now I Cannot Have Her.......

What’s your favorite story of the year?

Deeply Whelved, with An Exercise in Grief as close seconds. Deeply Whelved has been the most fun for me, but An Exercise in Grief was basically the culmination of all my feelings from Age of Calamity in one fic. I cherish that fic. I Cradle it. I would kiss her if i could. maybe I will. maybe ill print it out and put on some nice lipstick and--

What is your most underappreciated story of the year?

ALSO an exercise in grief. and beholden to. those two fics are some of my most emotionally charged fics I have, but because they are slower paced and methodical rather than fast-paced panic they dont preform very well. even though I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM DEARLY 200 hits WHO i am all of those 200 skjdhbads

Biggest fanfic-related disappointment of 2021?

My general inability to follow through on my promises for updates,,, especially for pyriform. I got a lot of commenters on that one asking for updates... one reached out semi-recently to check if i was ALIVE. which, granted, if extremely funny, bc i had just updated another fic like a week before but STILL the guilt is real

Biggest fanfic-related surprise of 2021?

Uhh probably my return to the Undertale fandom, tbh. It wasn't too outlandish, I suppose, since Deltarune is so closely linked to it that the chapter two update would naturally lead me back to undertale again... but goddamn, the intensity of which I rocketed back into that fandom is that which I haven't had since the game CAME OUT in 2015. It doesn't help that there have been a great many incredible fics made since 2015,,,, particularly all of nilchance's stuff. I went absolutely insane over their shit and still reread it all the time,,, I drool over that series. 500k+ literally does not make me falter at all when it comes to that hoe, I've reread it front to back at least 4 times in one month i--

Oh, not to forget all the new people I inevitably met while fandom hopping! I've met a lot of really cool people within the hollow knight community, to a surprising degree. I'm very picky with who I bother to be social with, especially long term, so it's very nice to meet more folks 🕷

Something you look forward to working on in 2022?

UPDATING MY EXISTING LONGER FICS. particularly got my eyes on Guiding instinct and deeply whelved. Updating pyriform would also be nice lol, but we'll see.

I'm also excited to do more original stuff! I don't post any of it just yet, but the past year really raised my confidence for being published. I don't think I'll be able to share anything of mine that gets officially published here, as I don't really want to link my fic stuff to more professional serious stuff, but I'm very excited to expand a lil further >:3c

Tagging @whirlybirdwhat, @oriigami, and @ruthlesslistener!

[renegadeontherunn]

2021 fic review

tagged by @dashedwithromance! thank you liss!! muah

total number of completed works: 27!! literally all my fics but three ajskldasd

total word count: I’ve posted 77,771 words, but plus wips/unreleased stuff (based off my brief word count calculations) is actually more like 100,000 aljsdkl

looking back did you write more, less, or the expected amount of fic this year? definitely more. I wrote like 2 fics before 2021 and this was the year I actually started writing and posting stuff. I think I posted more than I ever thought I would or at least more than I thought I would in a year

your own favorite story of this year? I think I’m gonna have to go with if i’m lost, then how can i find myself? which I feel like I never shut up about aljsdkads; but yeah it’s my longest fic and I worked really hard on it for quite a while and I feel like it really packs an emotional punch, or at least I feel that when I think about it, so yeah!

did you take any writing risks this year? I wrote my first star wars fic this year! I’d also say doing collabs this year. I’ve also loved the idea and thought it was so cool that that was even a thing and I was fortunate enough to do quite a few collabs this year and it was really intimidating honestly especially since I worked with like. fic writers I’ve spent years reading and like really looked up to but they were all a ton of fun

do you have any fanfic goals for the new year? yes, definitely! I want to write/release my first multi-chapter and I think I also may try to dabble in other fandoms? idk I worry about getting voices right when I do that, but I think it could be really fun to try. plus I also want to keep writing while at school and try not to put it on the back burner as much as I did this semester

most popular story of the year? if we’re talking hits, then it was 22. white lies, red blood which actually surprises me I feel like I always forget about that one ajldskads but the one with the most kudos is i’m only me when i’m with you idiots

story most under-appreciated? I’m honestly shocked and insanely pleased with the reaction I’ve gotten w my fics I didn’t expect that at all alsdkasl but if I had to pick I’d say moonlight sonata which is kind of a cheat answer since it’s a massive collab I did and so just a portion of it is mine but I absolutely love it and a ton of work was put into it and it’s honestly just a really cool fic (and I don’t mind any like less popularity/appreciation of it! the process of planning/writing it was so much fun, but yeah! there were a ton of really amazing writers who worked on it, and I can’t say too many good things about them, so yeah :))

most fun story to write? okay so I wanna say moonlight sonata again alsdk;ads bc it was!! but instead, I’ll say take my hand, hold on forever bc it was just a purely self-indulgent fluff fest and I really enjoyed writing it :’)))

most unintentionally telling story: I honestly don’t know what to say for this one hmm I feel like the answer is either neither or all of them alkjsd;s maybe words that you never told me (it’s not enough to say i’m sorry)? sometimes I insert like. my own mannerisms into fics especially when I’m writing ahsoka so, sure, let’s go with that one

biggest disappointment: I’m not really disappointed with anything, I’m super happy w what I’ve done this year! I do wish I had kept up with my prompt fills more than I have but I know I’ll get them done even if it takes a while aljsdk;asdk;l so I’m not really disappointed by it! 

biggest surprise: honestly I think my own capabilities. like I surprised myself with what I could do and like I wasn’t ever expecting to have written as much as I have or like. agh this sounds so self-centered but I honestly wasn’t expecting the quality of my fics to be what I feel like it is! like I’m pretty proud of what I’ve been able to do and I wasn’t expecting it at all so :’))

my favorite part of fandom this year: is this even a question? the people!!!! oh my god I’ve met so many absolutely wonderful and just. gah the best people ever and that actually might be my biggest surprise because I really wasn’t expecting there to not only be so many friendly, encouraging, supportive, hilarious, and wildly talented people but also that I would talk to them???? and be friends with them???? literally the best thing ever I love all of you so much thank you for making this year online absolutely incredible :’))))

no pressure tags! @katierosefun @meep-morp-s @just-another-dreamerr @pandora15 @imadetheline 

[hongism]

thank you to the one and only ultimate top thot on top @honeymoonjin for tagging me i love u ma’am 🤧🤧

first creation and most recent creation of 2020: most recent would be mists of celeste 34! first creation uhh whew let me thing waY back it was this seonghwa drabble on january 1st whew!

one of your favorite creations from 2020: feels like floating 100%!!! it was my first full-length long mxm piece so it’s very sentimental and special to me! a close second would be liquorice and ivories! they’re both very special and precious fics to me, and i can’t believe that i was able to write them and be proud of them because that’s quite rare for me but! they’re definitely special and dear to me!

a creation you’re really proud of: um these days it’s feels like floating, under my skin, and mists of celeste!!

a creation that took you forever: feels like floating ;-; good god it didn’t take a LONG time in terms of time, but it was laborious and took 5 days of nonstop writing and that felt like it took me forever! 

a creation from 2020 that received the most notes: as you wish! unsurprising but aiosdjfiodjf lil bit disappointing 

a creation you think deserved more notes: honestly i really wish ‘the little things’ series got more notes, but i understand why it didn’t and that it’s mostly because it’s a sfw series and that’s not really what garners notes most of the time, but im very proud of that series and it’s very much a comfort series for me so i wish it could have gotten more !

a new fandom you joined and a creation you made for it: i was already a stay but i started writing for stray kids this year!! my first creation i ever made for stray kids was ignition :3

a creation you made that breaks your heart: um two hearts connected! it’s an old one but it’s golden and i love it a lot and it was really heartbreaking to write and i loved seeing people’s reactions to it!!

a ‘simple’ creation that you really love: the little things! it’s a very simple and basic concept but it’s so fun to write and i enjoy it to pieces and i really adore everything about it and im looking forward to writing more for it!!

a creation that was inspired by another one: i don’t believe i have one!! maybe sway with me? i was inspired to write a vampire au after reading this fic on ao3 as well as this one!! they’re both two of my all time favorite stories!! 10/10 would recommend!!!

a favorite creation created by someone else: my absolute favorite fic i’ve read this year has to be licensed to survive on ao3 which was recommended to me by an anon and oh my GOD i am SO beyond grateful for that anon because this story is truly phenomenal on every level and it’s insanely good and i will never be over it!!

some of your favorite content creators from the year: oof this will be long brace yourselves! @honeymoonjin @baekhyyun @dreamyhan @starrdustville @wheresmymoniat @sanshine ( and @thanxx bc i love all ur creations biba :3) @inkigayeo @vocalyunho @hwacinth @j-sope @monotape @parkshwa @jungwoyoung @felixity @lee-haengbokkie @barsformars @sweetheart--sannie @closer-stars @atiny-piratequeen @atiny-dazzlinglight @blueish-sun @atinyinwonderland @queen-of-himbos @kimnamshiks @wintertae @jinned @kkulmoon @introtae @prksnghwas @thelargefrye @promisesox @lovingonrepeat @daybreakx @kireiwoo @sleepylixie @mikoto-ica-fics @nightshade-minho @hanflix @ppersonna @cest-la-tae @hobicomeholla29 and goodness sosososo many more gif makers!!!

and for good measure, another couple more creations of yours that you love: goodness i don’t even know what to put here fshjakjhfd um !

colours of love! sway with me! the little things! mists of celeste! feels like floating! under my skin! power grab!

tagging: um HMM well i am gonna tag anyone who wants to do this and everyone included in my fave content creators (only if you haven’t done it yet!!)