#maybe some jank. ymmv. you know me by now.

[wastelandhell]

Male eyelash replacer, with a new hipoly model and it now takes hair tints. I wrote a bunch of shit and accidentally deleted the post so whatever. I included most of it in the readme anyways.

Only affects the vanilla eye colors, you will need to make a patch if you want to use it with eyes added by another mod.

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[whifferdills]

ravenskyewalker

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Sorry, words can't express how much I grew to hate the Tenth Doctor, and I was responding to someone who said she sounded like a female Tenth Doctor. I'm done with being policed for having opinions, and not liking what's going on. I'm leaving anyway as a New Year's resolution, because I'm beyond done with fandom. Just sad and exhausted, okay?

i don’t like Ten either. my first official flounce from fandom was during 10′s specials. i’m with you there. but like - aiight, you have your opinions, and maybe it’s just Tumblr doin it’s thing directing your comments straight to me but i’m not tryna tell you how to act, i’m just reacting to what i’m receiving as yr negative opinions on things i reblog because i enjoy them. because that feels bad, yanno?

and no one polices shit, lbr. some people have loud mouths, and you can ignore them. you can block my ass if it upsets you, no hard feelings, i’m just asking that you consider how important it is to shit on someone else’s parade. there’s no, like, laws, here. it’s not that deep. just common courtesy.

i’m sorry that you feel sad and exhausted. i know, fandom is jank. but there are always good groups of people who feel like you do, and i’d encourage making better friends who more closely relate to your experience before deciding to leave. fandom is what you make it.

I mean, the only time I've appeared to be the intended or desired audience for modern DW was with Capaldi's Doctor, but I've been constantly told he connected with no one, so I don't exist or am lying. I'm so tired of people saying he was no good, despite their not watching, but now they can watch, because she's female, and maybe exactly like Ten, and just... no, okay? Okay. Done now.                   

i get you, but. why toss the baby out with the bathwater? i know there’s a lot of people deciding it’s okay(tm) to watch now that Moff’s gone, and that’s a whole bag of nonsense. but 13 just got here, and in the spirit of the show i think it’s good to believe in them and their potential. ymmv

i’ve also seen zero comparisons to 10 so ya might wanna try unfollowing Ten/Rose fans/RTD-only fans like in general but esp here. i get it, tho. some times you just need to leave. i wish you luck and good health. if you ever decide to come back, we’ll be here with open arms.

[whifferdills]

I'm sure you think you're being realistic with your comments around fanfic and fandom and comments, but honestly, you just made me feel bad. You're implying that if you don't get comments your writing must be bad and that's just patently untrue. What is "killing" fandom and fanfic writing is that fandom has moved from zines and forums and fanlists and LJ and such to fucking Tumblr and everything has become passive. Passive participation results in less commenting less meta less everything.

i’m an asshole for making you feel bad, and i am genuinely sorry for that. i didn’t intend to, but it happened, and i hope you found something to inspire you.no one acting in good faith deserves to be brought down like that

what i meant to imply is that getting comments is a mix of writing what people want to read, and engaging with your current/potential readership enough that you can get and maintain a high level of hit counts and make them comfortable enough to engage back once they’re on the page. i’ve read wads of out-of-character jank with tons of comments, i’ve read absolutely gorgeous mind-blowing perfect fics with none. (and i’ve gotten relative ‘tons’ of comments on fics i think kinda suck, and none on things i think are some of my better work. i don’t exempt myself here.) quality =/= popularity.

i mean, i like to think my writing is on par with some people way more popular than me. the difference isn’t quality, it’s that i don’t, yanno, do fic exchanges or challenges or networks, i don’t self-promote or bother to sell myself, i have an inconsistent output of poorly-tagged weird shit with bad titles and incoherent summaries. because all that extra stuff takes work, and i don’t wanna, and i’m totally okay with 100 views, six kudos, a like, and on random special occasions, a comment or three (which i treasure forever and 100% do not take for granted).

but if i did want more comments, i’d do the work. ya feel? gotta hustle to get known.

and, hmmm. how much interaction did readers have with zines? i was a little too young to feel comfortable interacting with forums and fanlists, which both felt extremely insular, maybe someone else can jump in here. LJ was an absolute shitshow, the heyday of the BNF, where either you were popular/were friends with someone popular/got a cosign from a major rec community or you languished in obscurity. i will say that fic communities at least got you out there and gave you a chance to get lucky, and it’s something a Tumblr-based fandom is really missing. but, maybe it’s just me, cuz i’ve never been particularly popular, but i get way more feedback on Tumblr and AO3 than i ever did on LJ. i love kudos and hearts, they mean a lot to me, and posts shaming readers for ~killing fanfic~ by engaging in the ‘wrong’ way really, really grind my gears

(dgmw, Tumgler is also about who you know, but imo it’s way easier to make friends and network here than it was on Ye Olde Webbe. serious BNFdom does take a lot more work now, tho, mostly bc fandom is more accessible and there’s just. a lot of content being produced.)

also - maybe it’s just who i follow now vs who i followed then, but i feel like meta is in a good place right now. wank aside, i mean. the conversational back-and-forth of Tumblr seem p well suited to meta in a way it isn’t to fic. ymmv.

this is a ramble and a half i hope it made at least partial sense