#it's always fandom depending

[accidentalseer2020]

Being back on tumblr after being away for years is weird as all hell. Is this a midlife crisis, but like.. make it fandom?

[howlsofbloodhounds]

this may sound a little strange but when it comes to the utmv fandom and in universe meta aware characters interacting with ones who aren’t aware, I like to approach it more from like a religious or spiritual belief standpoint. so like, to others, characters like killer and ink seem either really religious or spiritual (ink) or really superstitious/religious/indoctrinated (killer). ink believes in creators, but to killer, those creators are actually more like players.

[jils-things]

my mains in ranked matches C:

[bushmonsterr]

soft spoken 🧡💚

[re-colligere]

Having a childhood ship have a resurgence and making art for them now older and with new skills is honestly what life is all about. This is just a message letting you know you’re winning with drawing disear keep it up and tysm <3

HAHAA YEAH exactly, it truly is something special and I'm definitely having the time of my life over here. Thank you so much!! Glad to hear people are also enjoying my silly stuff for them.

[ragnarlothcat]

I know I’m a chronic overthinker but I’ve been in the same fandom for three years or so now and I was reflecting that writing seemed so much easier when I first started out. Just looking at my output since 2021 shows a clear trend: I’ve been writing much less and it’s been taking me way longer.

I figured that I’d gotten a little burned out and that three years is a long time to focus solely on the same two guys making out and that there’s a limit to the number of situations I can put them in before I start to get bored. But I don’t think that’s quite my problem because even now, a million years later, I have ideas for dozens of fics and AUs that would be interesting to explore or funny to write.

No, it’s that I’ve let the larger fandom overwhelm me and it’s left me constantly second-guessing my writing. And I don’t mean that I’ve gotten nasty comments or asks, because I haven’t! All the other fans have been consistently wonderful and fun people with really valuable insights. And it’s not that I’ve been obsessing over stats or comments or worrying about going against popular headcanons. I mean, I’m just as excited as anyone else to see an AO3 email in my inbox but I’m also perfectly happy posting niche fics for an audience of me and my three weirdest friends.

It’s more that after so long engaging with other fans and other fics and the general meta, I’ve ended up writing too self-consciously. I’ve read so many interpretations of canon events, analyses of characterization and comparisons between fiction and real-world politics over the years, and I’ve enjoyed them because I genuinely care about these stories and these characters! I like seeing what everyone else thinks and then considering their points of view, no matter how bewildering they might seem at first.

But now it feels like I’m writing almost defensively, like I have to justify every choice I’m making based on this enormous and contradictory body of information. Three years ago I’d have written a scene in a few thousand words and moved on to the next plot point with my momentum intact. Now I’m constantly wringing my hands over things like physical details (I guess he’s not exactly a redhead) or broader social implications (is this trope misogynistic?) or finicky logistics (these locations are too far apart for this scene to make sense) or controversial character nuance (does writing this guy as a kind, doting husband make me an abuse apologist???) and the result is that I’m paralyzed with indecision and a ridiculous need to support everything I write with a lot of context that isn’t especially fun to write or, I suspect, especially fun to read.

I’m aware that this problem is entirely in my own head and that no one has asked me for any of this. And it’s not that all those questions aren’t interesting and important things to contemplate. But I miss the days of sitting down at my laptop and going “wouldn’t it be funny if these dorks played a video game together?” and then writing exactly that.

I don’t know. Were my fics better three years ago? I kind of doubt it. I’ve looked back at some of them and if nothing else I now have a better grasp of what tense I’m supposed to be using. But I definitely had more fun writing those older stories, which maybe feels more important.

[artsycooky13]

wanted to draw some hermits since i was binge watching a couple episodes here and there- first time drawing them seriously with my own design

[marzipanandminutiae]

just saw someone get accused of CP for shipping a 17-year-old anime character with a 20-year-old anime character

the internet was a mistake

[no1ryomafan]

I really wish getter fandom at least eng wise was bigger so I could hypothetically calculate the fans of each character even if it’s very clear Ryoma and Hayato are the most dominant-mainly Ryoma but Hayato fans aren’t uncommon-but I love how like OG characters are arguably the most popular due to these two mainly yet in most canons get doomed by the narrative:

-Ryoma is absorbed into the getter or is left to fight it forever

-Hayato is usually the one who makes it to the end but at the cost of being alone

-Musashi has it the worst by being designated dead character, he always dies no matter what

-Benkei just the guy that’s there for all the Musashi fans after he dies (but sometimes he dies too)

-Saotome family is Saotome family, at least two or all of them die by the end

And then the other teams and cast only get super screwed in the manga but go team pretty much got a good ending every single time anime wise even if we never got the proper versions of them adapted.

[o0kawaii0o]

No idea if this will gain any traction but it's worth a shot :')

[engelsschwert]

Okay, Reynauld and Dismas height comparison discourse seems to start up again and it pisses me off. People keep using ingame screenshots to try and guestimate their size difference.

Guys... guys... you know Dismas slouches and has his knees bent, right? And you know Rey basically stands like a fucking flag pole.

Also why are you so obsessed with proving who is taller and who is smaller? Make your own damn headcanons. Make Dismas five feet and Reynauld 8 for all I care, or the other way around, there is no one stopping you if you are into that stuff.

And to put an end to the discussion right now on 'who is taller' in game, I'll attach a screenshot of their in game models under the cut, the result will shock you!

Yea they are basically the same fucking height

And yes I used the backstory model because the helmet adds like 2 inches and I didn't want to leave room for speculation

[cerealmonster15]

Hello!! :D if you’re still taking art reqs for the drawing meme maybe 1A or 2A for Autumn Oak/Linda Stampler please?

THANK YOU!!! :] 

YES this is how i know i've made it as a dndads fanartist - the rite of passage of receiving the autumn/linda request jsklfjdsl MILESTONE ACHIEVED!!!

i had to kinda fumble around my brain a bit to come up w/some designs so maybe theyll change!! who knows!!!

[send a pose prompt!]

[suddencolds]

getting into a new fandom and finding 0 fics for it on ao3 😭 is it over

[bookishtheaterlover7]

Are you sure you want to use ai?

I mean...

Depends really, half the time it looks cool, the other half...

😆🤣🫣

[moophinz]

I’ve made a short, tiny piece of criticism regarding fandom’s behavior of being super demanding and not engaging with the thing they demanded. But there’s something else that’s been bothering me for a while now…

This fandom feels very baby. In that way, I mean that it feels super young. So young, that certain popular people on Twitter who would have been called out for numerous counts of various flavors of poor behavior in other fandoms get strangely shared around a lot here. I don’t find much in the way of deeper analysis topics or video essays. Memes (that if I may be honest) have been used to death and beyond still get repeated— even when it’s completely unwarranted. The worse of the meme brain rot crossover with steep bigotry people tend to overwhelm and act incredibly disgusting in some corners of the fandom and on official posts.

Like with any thing or community or what have you, there’s people who seek engagement bait and spread negativity. I’m surprised at how successful it can be to do that in this fandom on Twitter. It creates such a rotten atmosphere. All in all, a lot of these things have been pushing me away from the community even though I only joined into this series in 2021. It feels like some kind of tide turned for the worse.

Yes, this fandom is in fact relatively new in a way. It’s existed for almost two decades but exploded some years ago with a continued high stream of sudden growth. But there are certain things that I’m still astonished by.