#just a vent into the void

[tsarscur]

Also not to contradict my previous post but there's been an alarming tendency of YouTube guys leaking into GWAG and posting their Patreon previews there.

I get it - YT has been becoming increasingly difficult to post any "spicy" content on but GWAG is a porn subreddit - sure there are always exceptions to the rule like the "But Master" series that hadn't become "porn" until part four, but I'd like to see you try post the first three parts on YT - and if you only post "technically SFW" content I feel like it's not exactly your place. There are quite a few GWAG VAs who have Patreon, but they don't post previews on Reddit - they just advertise it on their page. On the other hand, those kinds of previews would also often seem out of place on say r/lgbtpillowtalkaudio because most of them aren't vanilla and/or "cosy, sweet, soft, soothing" - they're functionally kinky porn just without the porn part.

An exempt from GWAG Wiki:

Also, this is less of a technical thing and more of a feeling, but knowing those kinds of guys (from YT) I FEEL like if they were actually posting their full content on GWAG they would... not necessarily get banned or reprimanded but face moderation - they're not especially good at tagging their stuff properly.

All that said, I trust in GWAG mods more than I trust in any gods, so I'm sure it's going to be okay at the end.

[fluffybluemonster]

Something something we are the other in the political landscape that more than half of voters don’t want to think about apparently. Whether or not they hate us or want to ignore us when they vote, how can you when you created the other when you made and took a stance in the dichotomy in the first place. How can we be polarized when any day you might wake up and be disabled. Or when one day you might experience horrible unfairness in your life and wish you had community and understanding but bc you didn’t stand for oppressed people in the capitalist hellscape you have no one to stick up for you as a person when the capitalist machine eats you too. How can you hate us when we are you.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Some of you people sound exactly like the fundamentalist adults in my life who were dead sure that Obama was going to abolish religious freedom and term limits and turn the US into a single-party state when he got elected in 2008 as opposed to like. being a pretty standard-issue federal politician with policies they didn't like. You know that, right?

[lilianade-comics]

desperately trying not to crash out and deactivate my Tumblr before the DP fantasy zine drops

[ailithnight]

Just saw a tag someone reblogged with and I...

Do y'all think the DPxDC fandom is dead? Dying?

How do you miss a fandom that is still here?

Y'all do understand that fandoms only die when people stop interacting with them, right?

And, I'll admit, I haven't been seeing as many round robins and prompt fills lately as there was a year or so ago. And that's been a bit sad. But, fuck, life is hard; from what I can tell, many of us are adults; we're living through some pretty major events right now; and sometimes interest and hyperfixations come and go. Can't fault anyone for not being here and interacting as much as before.

Besides, for every username I feel like I haven't seen in a while, I've seen 2 or 3 new (or new to me) names pop up and start posting and reblogging quite a bit. I think we're hardly dead if there are still people to discover still posting.

I don't know, it just... feels dismissive I guess. I'm still here at least. Still reaching out. Been reblogging a lot of stuff lately from myself, hoping something'll reach someone new who wants to add on and keep it going. Cause that's always been my favorite part of this fandom. The back and forths and round robins. Bouncing ideas around and building something new out of the old blocks.

You don't gotta miss it. I'm still here and I know some other folks are too and all those old blocks, the prompts and headcanons and aus and round robins. S'all still here, just waiting for people to come and play with us.

[yandere-sins]

you guys ever feel so unloved that not even the yandere fanfiction hits anymore? :/

[zukosdualdao]

the “just following orders” crowd when it comes to azula is so aggravating to me at this point. A) you realize that line’s been used to attempt to justify atrocities throughout history, right? it’s not the flex you think it is.

B) so many of these people show their hand because they apply that ‘logic’ to azula but not zuko. and to be clear—they shouldn’t! zuko trying to capture aang may be “following orders” but it’s still wrong. the difference is that zuko actually LEARNS this and atones for it. a huge part of his arc is realizing he CAN’T justify the wrong he’s done by following his father’s orders.

so the hypocrisy is kinda staggering.

[mikufanclub]

i dont caaaaaare about drawing for fun rn which is so sad cus i feel like if im not drawing my life means like nothing. i dont amount to much but it gives me a sense of.. feeling good idk.. validation..... progression... i need to be put down

[maryymaruu]

[basementstalker]

I don't want just anyone. All those posts crying about how they'll take anyone, if only someone could just love them, or even just pay attention to them- I understand the pain of not having someone. I'm not trying to poke fun and I'm sorry if it comes across that way. I can't just want anyone though.

I want you. You're not replaceable. I want to learn all about you, slowly, whatever piece I can get. Your insides and your outsides, the top of your head to the tips of your toes. I want to spend time with you, soak up the atmosphere around you. I want to seek you out and find you and collide with you and collapse into you and we can shatter into a bunch of pretty shards of glass, glue ourselves into a new shape.

Such big words for some rando online, huh? I want to prove the truth of them to you though. I want to at least try.

[angelpuns]

Deep deep fear that one day all my friends are gonna decide they just don't wanna talk to me anymore for whatever reason and unfortunately, I won't get the memo and will keep trying and that'll just make them hate me more :(

[falmerbrook]

I often worry that I look like someone who only likes things for "shallow" reasons (shipping, memes, jokes, shitposts, ooc headcanons, etc.) but I'm also too shy and scared to ever try to post more serious thoughts on fiction online ever. I spent so much time in lit/english class feeling like my interpretations were always wrong or not focused on the right things, and so I'm just left to assume that those faults of mine probably carry over to now and the things I like as well. So while I really enjoy analyzing and picking apart things I like in my head, I'd never post those thoughts online out of fear of looking stupid, but I'm also worried I look stupid not posting any real serious thoughts. People seem to assume that what someone posts online represents the totality of their being or thoughts sometimes. I also think I don't owe anyone a certain way of enjoying things, but I also know that people can be judgmental assholes about it (which is simultaneously why I don't want to post sincere analysis and why I feel like I look stupid not posting it).

To make it clear I think there is nothing wrong for liking something exclusively or partially in a "shallow" way, I also don't think those are actually shallow ways of engaging with something, and I like things in those way too, but I know others can be assholes about it and I have a lot of hangups over how I'm perceived by others

[garr9988]

I just found out the hot-ass mutant man Quarry from TMNT 2003 is actually a woman named Sydney.

It's not my fault, Quarry had a flat chest and was voiced by a man while mutated. Why??? They could have give Quarry a female VA, they pitched his voice down anyway!

I'm a trans ally, I promise, but I'm homosexually devastated

[strangertheory]

I can't tell you the number of times I'll see fans say "this thing happened in the show which seemed to make no sense!" and I want to politely and respectfully scream "it actually makes very intentional and symbolic sense, you just don't understand it within your frame of reference because you've assumed certain things about these characters and this universe that aren't necessarily true."

[sleeplessv0id]

I have no hope of a normal way to go about making friends. I have been corrupted, the ultimate power of Autism unleashed.

like, everything I do that normally my friends wouldn't bat an eye at, nothing. The jokes don't land, and when they do, the laughter is AT me, not with me.

Only then, once I'm quiet, speak only when spoken to, once I've boxed myself up, will they give me the time of day.

After that? I have to prove myself "enough" CONSTANTLY in whatever way so they won't leave me. An old dog performing tricks to keep from being replaced with a newer, cuter puppy.

I'm more confident now, yes, but I can still see just as well as I did before the blank stares before meeting the others' eye, how they look at me, I can hear it in their giggling at what is supposed to be a joke but is really at me.

[devondespresso]

i will not dedicate hours to explaining that & pairings are not the lower-focus version of romantic pairings, i will not dedicate hours to explaining that & pairings are not the less important version of romantic pairings, i will NOT--