#may this fandom never change

[oneluckygoose]

The Life series! Where rules are folly, and the real lesson was the… *double check the script*… birds we made along the way- where did they get that many wings???

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[thesauce8]

i always hate when people say thag the uchihas are more sensitive because theyre predisposed to mental illness as if theyre dramatic or respond disjointedly from their circumstances. im inclined to say theyre some of the only characters who behave believably in accordance with their trauma. like sasuke was literally psychologically tortured when he was 13. do we think thats gonna turn someone into a football loving go getter? they use characters whose trauma barely gets shown as a standard when its not that the uchiha are dramatic but that naruto just doesnt get much focus on the trauma that he should undeniably have.

[redpandavvstuffs]

"We need more clomplex female characters!!!"

Yall mfs couldn't even handle her 💀

[macaquebusiness]

Help the sonic the hedgehog fandom has dragged me back in.

Anyways I’m a sucker for Dad Shadow and Silver being his son

[mattastr0phic]

[biblicalhorror]

Funniest part of what nsbu has done to the d20 fandom is seeing people getting very earnestly upset about canon G13 slander. Like, getting completely unironically upset at the woman who CREATED HIM for calling him an incel and therefore canonically making him an incel

[torchickentacos]

The pokemon anime subreddit fascinates and frustrates me on equally deep levels

[a-most-beloved-fool]

fanfic writer interview

tagged by: @spirkme915! Thanks for the tag <3

what fandoms do you write in? Star Trek, pretty much exclusively. Only TOS and DS9 so for (and I haven't even really finished anything DS9, I just have plans and WIPs). I may branch out a smidge someday, but I'll probably stay mostly in Star Trek.

how many words have you published in 2024? 4,763. I am a very slow writer lmao. Honestly even answering these questions feels like overkill with so few words published, but c'est la vie. I'll just pretend that I'm a Real Fanfic Author™, and if I do that for long enough, I eventually will be.

what is your greatest achievement this year? Posting anything at all! I had hoped I would, at the start of last year, but I hadn't really expected it. Now, I'm very glad I did (and that I joined Tumblr!).

what are your top three fics you've written this year? I only wrote two! So. Those.

what was your biggest pit of despair moment? I've had a fic that's been sosoclose to done since. like. July. And I have noooot finished it. So, probably that one. I wound up getting wildly discouraged with it, and have just kind of been, um. ignoring it. in the hopes that it'll start feeling salvageable again soon. It's not bad, I know it's not bad, but I can't actually convince myself that it's not bad, and I can't find the right ways to finish the few areas that still need more meat on their bones. I am fighting the urge to just up and delete half of it

what have you learned? That it feels really, really good to receive comments! I've also been slowly figuring out how best to wrangle my brain into Actually Writing, but it's. a work in progress!

did you beta any fics? any faves you want to shout out? So far, I've not had the chance to beta for anyone.

what three fics have you read this year that you love? Um. Oh god. Just three?? I suppose I'll say We can only be who we are by @jennelikejennay, Vision Awry by @walkingstackofbooks, and there may be a power cut (and maybe i love you so) by granspn (who afaik doesn't have a tumblr, but if they do, lmk and I'll tag them too)

(My bookmarks are always a good place to look for fics I've particularly enjoyed, so if ever you are in need of a rec list, that's a good place to start)

what ideas are percolating for next year? Oh, I have so many WIPs. There are a few in there that I'm very excited about, including one where Kirk drags Spock out of Kolinahr early and one where Spock is pining so obviously (to everyone except Kirk). I'd also kind of like to get a DS9 fic or two (and/or my mcspirk fic) published this year, but that relies on me being considerably more prolific than I was this year, so we'll see what happens. (Though, I should be getting ADHD meds at the end of the month, provided that my EKG checks out, which. will hopefully make things a bit easier lmao. I'll need to fight my brain a little less.)

If I am very, very lucky, I'll even be able to get a fic done for the KS Spring Fever. I've got an idea, but, well. Deadlines are rough, and the mind is fickle. I'll do my best (and anyone reading this has permission to hassle me about it and hold me accountable)!

who do you want to thank? Pretty much everyone who has given me a warm welcome on Tumblr & in the Trek fandom, @spirkme915 and @walkingstackofbooks in particular! I have... never really tried to join a fandom space before, and am also Bad And Lousy at starting conversations and getting to know people, so I'm really very grateful to people who have gone out of their way to be friendly and welcoming. <3 Even if all you've done is Exist As My Mutual or Occasionally Reblog My Posts, I am sending you internet hearts <3 <3 <3

tagging: uhhh @walkingstackofbooks, @purple-iris, @wwillywonka, and anyone else so inspired

[fix-me-sixteen]

how are people already making this about haymitch ships

[thatswhatsushesaid]

the "things i sometimes feel compelled to do 🤝 things i am never going to do because it is just too much fucking work" venn diagram with this in its middle: revisit my old nmj meta with ~updated thoughts~ now that my general feelings towards him have mellowed

[vqmpunk]

random but in seeing ur old designs for ur ocs all i could think was "to be loved is to be changed" bc that applies sooo much to you redesigning your ocs. i literally have done the same and i feel the same way about having redesigned several ocs💙

changes were definitely needed, and in my personal experience with drawing Ocs — i was never able to have characters to connect to, like…at all. most of my characters were white and i rarely ever drew any black characters/Ocs.

this is also another reason why I don’t care to draw a lot of white characters anymore because that was pretty much my whole norm forever. like dude, i’d even whitewash my own sona 💀

But once I really got into my main Ocs and I knew I wanted to do more with them than just use them to help me with my own personal trauma and just for comfort reasons, a lot of the things my Ocs had before isn’t what they have now.

they all be wearing me out sometimes but in a way? I love that. it shows how much time and effort i put into them. i’m just grateful other people like them too because i would have never expected anybody to like my my Ocs at all!

[karinyosa]

listen i can’t prove that asp bloggers by and large seem to know brinker was based on gore vidal now because of me but brother i will say it was not like that back when there were like 4 asp blogs and all the fanart was anime

[kryptonite-week]

Two quick questions for you: how much leeway is there in how we interpret the prompts (for example, could we interpret Pink K as an aphrodisiac instead of a gender/sex swap)? And, are we allowed to write crossovers (I had a random idea for Gold K, but it requires a crossover)?

We're not the creativity police...or are we? 🚔 no, we're not lol We want everyone to have fun! You can get as creative as you want, you can make interpretations, and you can include things that are not specifically stated as prompts (just make sure your creation has something to do with the Kryptonite of the day 😅)

[altruistic-meme]

someone stop me before i get it into my head that trying to crochet a granny square blanket is a good idea

[itstokkii]

now that im back here's a little something for the kind definitely grown up adult souls who bullied me off for a week <3