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Detective Conan + Tumblr text posts
Are these funny, am I funny yet (I blame @cookies-super-secret-blog for that last one. Alternate versions of some of these under the cut.)
#DCMK#Detective Conan#Case Closed#Tumblr text posts#Text post meme#DCMK meme#krou content#Do not follow me for DetCo conent you will be disappointed#This has become my single most popular post. Holy hell.#I've been streaming the series to friends so I'm having to restrict myself to shots from episodes they've seen#but overall it's these've been pretty fun to try to make lol#Two of these had to have subtitles covered up because that's the only means I have to get the screenshots I want </3#Kudo Shinichi#Edogawa Conan#Mouri Ran#Mouri Kogoro#Kudo Yukiko#or should I say#Edogawa Fumiyo#(I am never using this tag again lol I don't think anyone uses it)#Shinichi Kudo#Conan Edogawa#Ran Mouri#Kogoro Mouri#Yukiko Kudo#One of these days I will have more. One day.
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wholeheartedly and with as much gentleness as possible, i truly think there needs to be more discussion about downpour in the community as it is now. for a variety of reasons.
#not main tagging this right now but#some tag babbling. like#some of yall are unnecessarily cruel about downpour. seriously.#you don't have to like it but you can also stand not to tear down someone's work like this#if every word out of your mouth is just about how much you hate downpour. why are you still here?#and i mean that genuinely. it's unpleasant for you and for everyone else. and i say this as someone who still prefers vanilla's lore#at the same time i think it's a real issue where some people take downpour as gospel and assume things about other people's creative choice#even though downpour is a DLC and it's hard to make certain claims about canonicity because of that#it has been publicly acknowledged as being an official AU. multiple times. by the MSC devs themselves#downpour is a fan made passion project that was worked on for years and years before it got DLC status#it was never meant to be scrutinized in the way it is now. i think it's more appropriate to regard it as like#a really popular fanfic most of the fanbase has read#i just feel like. a lot of the community conflicts i've seen stem from downpour's messy existence as a DLC that was originally a mod#and i think it's valuable to have community discussions about that. but also this is tumblr. so. i'm probably asking for too much
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There was a murmur of assent from a small cluster of hobgoblins round them, which was broken by a high, thin laugh from the other side of the circle, and the cold air which followed the sound drove the hobgoblins into a tighter bunch. The wandering Will-o'-the-Wisps which had been straying dispersedly among the stones drew to-gether and moved toward the hobgoblins, who were on the south side of the circle, but the north side was not therefore dark; it began to shine with the blurred radiance of touchwood and corpse lights. From among the stones slipped queer, plasmic, shapeless forms, not unlike dis-torted shadows of the hobgoblins themselves, and the more dreadful to them for that. In ordinary times they would have trusted to their simple counter-charms and stood firm, but few, dispirited and war-weary as they now were, they drew back from the circle, and the corpse lights grew from a crescent to a horseshoe, and then closed into a ring. The thin laughter rose higher, and was answered from the sky by a distant droning sound, the whiffle of wind through the dry twigs of broomsticks. The whole air hummed with the sound, so that panic came upon the little bunch of good fellows, and they broke and ran helter-skelter in twos and threes. It was well for them that the things in the circle were waiting to greet the broomsticks, or they would have had little chance of escape.
~ Katharine M. Briggs, Hobberdy Dick (1955)
#OH MY GOD I COOKED INSANELY HARD AND PROBABLY NEVER AGAIN#THIS IS MY MAGNUM OPUS#...that will probably won't get more than 3 notes given that it's fanart from something obscure#speaking of which... context: this is fanart of a lost 90s anime adaptation based on a kids fantasy book called hobberdy dick#(keyword: kids fantasy. so please don't make fun of the name there's nothing inappropriate that's just the name for the green guy)#BUT STILL I'M SUPER PROUD ON HOW IT TURNED OUT#now gonna use literally any popular tag i can think of i typically don't use much but gotta get that reach#artists on tumblr#art#fanart#hobberdy dick#妖精ディック#digital art#digital watercolor#watercolor#fairy#fairycore#house elf#hobgoblin#goblincore#90s anime#anime fanart#fairy art#fantasy#fantasy illustration#illustration#fantasy art#pink octodoodles#will o wisp#book fanart
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It's again that time of the week where I have to go and report the spam and/or porn bots from the tags I follow because every time I see one of their posts on my dashboard I die inside a little bit
#wren text tag#aro/ace tag and the spam bot war here I am#also in the StS tag like bruh it's not even that active why do I see 1 spam bot in the first page already#how the fuck did you find this tag. It hasn't been trending in years.#not gonna say the fandom it's dead but like#there are 6 people actively posting here on tumblr (<- forgotten hellsite)#and 1 of them is like a general news blog abt the serie#(and one of them is me lol)#I love joining fandom 30 years after they first aired so in the end their popolarity is already gone and I'm left here with idk#3 other people that have made the same bad decision as me lol#like virtually I wouldn't mind to idk post my art also on other websites like uhhh Twitter or uhhh Instagram#(looks at the list of websites that don't use AI) OH yeah definitely not them#The StS fandom on twitter be thriving btw. I think it's because its platform is used by a lot of Asian fan... unlike tumblr#and the serie is still a lot more popular in the East#I'd give Twitter a chance but I don't like the platform. Everytime I log in I see some drama or AI art getting 40k likes and I close the ap#also fandom discourse like hhhhhh
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I just want to say, bringing down another character/ship to praise your favorite one, doesn't make me agreeing with you, it makes me hate the favorite character/ship of yours and despise your childish personality... just saying :)
#Like you're so upset that the other character/ship is so popular and well loved (for a reason btw)#And you can't even bear to see it#So you bring that character/ship down to bold another one?#And expect me nodding my head and agree with you?#and it's literally a lie...#just want you to know real people sympathies with these characters and it's written from irl people so your shaming them#but your brain is so tiny you can even understand#I'm literally talking about all the characters/ships in this fkn fandom#And it doesn't help the fact that more than half of this fandom is +30 years old#shame on all of you#rhysand#lucien vanserra#nesta archeron#These three supposed “fans” are tiring me#Specially Nesta and Lucien#You're not helping me to like these character#You're making me hate them#And Rhysand's tag is all full of hating Nesta#Just stop#Before joining the fandom I loved all the characters#But now...#This fandom is so fkn rotten#It's disgusting#fandom fuckery#fandom bs#anti acotar fandom#And idk why tumblr thinks I enjoy these kind of posts#Like I don't want to filter Lucien's tag!!
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tbf it's a rare pair because oda's cannot write women as people disease is getting worse
I wouldn't say it is necessarily true about all female characters? I found some of the women introduced late in the story quite complex and fascinating - Pudding, Reiju, and Big Mom (who, I think, is a far more interesting and terrifying villain than Kaido) come to mind. You're probably right about Tashigi specifically, though, it seems like Oda doesn't know what to do with her at this point. She seems to have been introduced to sort of be to Zoro what Koby is to Luffy, a foil growing and evolving alongside him but on the other side of the barricade, and/or be proof that women can become great skilled warriors too, and then she doesn't really get to do either :/ But I can fix her have watched enough mediocre TV in my life to be used to loving female characters for the potential I see in them rather than just for what writers allow them to be
#also a counterargument: zoro/tashigi *is* a popular ship judging by her tumblr tag#(it's a mystery to me why tbh. they don't seem to even like each other#if you want to ship her with a strawhat nami is right there and has a weakness for the eyes of a female marine)#so i don't think it's about the way she's written. probably rather about the age gap lol#asks#anonymous#gella talks one piece
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I was watching RotG and suddenly I could only see the meme with the increasingly large dominos. With the small domino being 'Pia watching RotG' and the big domino being 'Efnisien, Gary, Anton, Temsen, Gwyn and Augus all starring in the same a/b/o fic'. Does RotG hold a special place for you, thinking of all the stories you've written since?
Hmm,
Yes and no? There's an even smaller domino you're not seeing which is that I had written original characters and stories before this, and Augus in particular was based off an original character I'd written before (and not published) so like, Rise of the Guardians didn't *invent* him, I did, years before I ever watched the movie. But there's also dominoes that drove me out of the fandom, and it was my bitterness re: the fandom that prompted the writing of original fic in the first place.
So let me tell you a story, anon. If you don't want to know how toxic the RotG fandom could be, I recommend you just walk away now and know that no, actually, RotG doesn't have a special place in my heart, knowing I wrote original fic to initially escape the way some small pockets of that fandom treated me. Otherwise I would have written RotG fiction for far far longer, because as the old-timers will remember, I actually had a couple of longfic ideas lined up to go immediately after SAL that I abandoned because of well...everything.
I actually spent a while after finishing SAL kind of hating Rise of the Guardians because of some nasty drama and meanness/spite towards me, particularly in the last few chapters, and it took about 2-3 years before I could even consider watching the movie again or write for the fandom again. And then by the time I'd come back, all of my original stuff was established, and I felt a lot more comfortable, and a lot more 'fuck the haters' with some of the stuff I had previously had to deal with.
(Fandom wank beneath the cut, lol)
For example (self-harm and suicide mention) one person would specifically post graphic horrible self-harm photos complete with blood tagged into the RotG and blackice tag/s specifically to coincide with my chapter releases towards the end of SAL - and she was a BNF in the fandom in her own way, so *everyone* kind of knew who she was and what she was doing - and she blamed me and my story for the self-harm, and so I had people coming to me going 'do you realise what this story is doing to this person, don't you even care.' And of course I felt horribly guilty and distressed, but I was also at this point around 7/8 chapters from finishing the story, wanting to give everyone a happy ending, and after posting the last chapter I broke down and cried because I was just so relieved that I didn't have to be tormented by this specific person anymore or see these images as a survivor of suicide attempts and self-harm myself.
But also just crying out of sheer distress because of how horrible those last few weeks were, because like, if it wasn't for the readers I would have walked away due to the pressure and bullying and coercion to get out of the fandom just because I had a story that some folks enjoyed reading. That was a level of targeted hate I'd never encountered before, and have never encountered since.
Around that time a couple of small hate groups started up about me, and I would get messages like 'you realise there are hate groups about you, right?' and I'd be like 'please don't tell me about this, people can hate me, leave them alone.' Then there was the time I just got - over around 10 days - about 100+ messages telling me to kill myself because of SAL and how 'horrible' it was re: it's 'really dark themes' which I find hilarious now, but back then, was actually really stressful when it coincided with someone literally *harming themselves* or posting old self-harm photos on days I posted a chapter, talking about how the reason she was doing it was because she hated that my story was so popular when it didn't deserve to be.
Like, no, I did not have a special relationship with Rise of the Guardians by then, or the fandom. I hated it. It's why I stopped writing for it when previously I literally had so many ideas I wanted to write for Jack/Pitch. For years after that. I would remember the good memories I'd made with SAL, but a lot of readers followed me into original works. And otherwise, all I remembered was being forced to see those photos and this person's tags if I went into the tags to look for fanart to share and promote. I'd made some very good friends (some very best friends, actually), and some of us got the hell out of that fandom as fast as we possibly could to escape these people.
So like, I would love to say that like, I feel nothing but fond memories thinking of the influence Rise of the Guardians has had on me, but no fandom that I've ever been in has ever had this kind of level of underground viciousness that developed as the story gained momentum.
When I wrote The Golden Age that Never Was I was truly detached from the fandom and the movie. I was writing based on my memories and feelings of the characters. I didn't look in the tags like I used to, and instead looked for when I was mentioned directly. I had a spike of anxiety every time I got an anon message while writing it, and I had to like...avoid fics and a bunch of other stuff to get through it.
I have watched Rise of the Guardians since and I do really enjoy it, but...I don't see the dominoes the same way you do anon, probably because of the way it all happened in my head, though I do think putting original writing on AO3 happened partly because I was in a hurry to get out of the RotG fandom. So in a way RotG is connected to that, but like, only because I was fleeing and abandoning all of my Pitch/Jack ideas as I went (to the point where people remembered them and still asked me about them years later and I was like 'haha oh no sorry I'm not writing those oh well maybe one day!')
Chances are high I actually wouldn't have written original fiction if my love for Rise of the Guardians had still stayed strong. I was ready to write two very specific longfics, and had done worldbuilding for both, and was talking openly about them, but towards the end of SAL I bolted from the fandom as fast as I could. The hate I got from specific corners of the RotG fandom is one of the reasons I started writing Game Theory before SAL was even finished - to cope with how I felt about the end of SAL and the hatred I was getting there. When some of those folks said 'omg I'll never read a story about Augus' I was literally like 'oh thank fuck, I'm going to be left alone now.'
Like...I got diagnosed with Fibromyalgia like 6 months after that, I cracked teeth because of how stressed I was, and I still have crowns in my mouth and teeth removed because of that whole period. I was sleeping an average of 3 hours a night.
...I feel a very special fondness for the people who supported me at the time, especially my good friend Silvia, who is still my beta and friend today. She is responsible for far more of the dominoes that have led to this moment than Rise of the Guardians could ever directly be. And I am extraordinarily grateful for the readers who have found my stuff since. Now the majority of readers of my original stuff have never actually seen Rise of the Guardians or read my RotG fics, and like, actually sometimes that's really nice, if a bit weird.
I have never, in my life, encountered a fandom that could get as toxic as pockets of Rise of the Guardians got, and I'm including Dragon Age: Inquisition in that, which had literal blocklists of asexual people, so you know I mean business! But as a final point, I do want to say the majority of people there were amazing, absolutely amazing, this is truly a case of a few bad apples spoiling the whole experience, and I'm still to this day gutted it happened like that, and have zero surprise a lot of people left the fandom all at once, at the same time, because of it.
#asks and answers#personal#lmao not gonna tag this into anything important#SALverse#shadows and light#basically yeah... even when i rewatched the movie#i can't help but remember what happened#and those images#of literal self-harm being posted on tumblr#and tags viciously implying i was the worst person#for the crime of writing a story that got popular#like i didnt' PLAN for that to happen and i certainly didn't know#as a result#i'd be told to kill myself over a hundred times#one of the reasons i just don't give a shit about antis these days#is that i know they're just bullies#but being a *direct victim* of that bullying with those specific triggers#was like...yeah#anyway there are so many people from that fandom who i love and think of fondly#but the movie will always remind me of *that* time#and even writing this post has left me feeling like choked up and anxious#like i used to feel all the time back then#i have complicated feelings for RotG#and it's a shame because the movie is truly gorgeous and savagely underrated
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people can use this site however they want but there's something almost- idk, sad? about how few people are actually using their blogs. you can turn themes on and have skeletons dancing in the background. you can make everything hot pink. your blog is your scrapbook and you can put whatever you want in there. tags are okay at organizing things so you can have just a whole archive of cool shit to look at later. i know people complain a lot about people liking stuff about reblogging for engagement, and on one hand i get that- it is WILD to see a drawing i spent hours on get only 12 reblogs and 60 likes. Absolute culture shock compared to my previous fandoms. but i don't think you should reblog anything to make artists happy. i think you should reblog things so you can find them again. i think you should queue things to appear on the dash at specific times on certain days. i think you should reblog things so when you're talking to your friends about xyz post you saw you can look in your blog's archive and find it again. i think you should reblog things so that your dash is filled with one really sleepy cat. with the loss of reblogs there's the loss of engagement, which Does hurt the community-focus that makes tumblr so appealing, but idk i just wish people were more excited about the incredible amount of customization that tumblr allows and took advantage of that more
#if you're ever nervous about reblogging stuff just remember that people can always turn off reblogs#and also pls theme your tumblrs after silly fish or weird cube people or dnd#just anything that's fun to you have fun!!!#this is the silly cringe website please join us and be silly and cringy#i need to go to bed i think#but i also keep thinking about how i enjoy myself the most on this website when people reblog things from me and add commentary#comments/replies are great sure but they really bring the conversation to a halt and doesn't allow anyone else to chime in#idk some of my fave followers are the people who only like stuff#but when there are *only* people liking things it really feels like you're just yelling into a complete void#and then it's harder to find more content for things you like too#because the people you follow aren't reblogging things youd like to see#i have to delve into the main tag for my fandom content a lot because the people i follow are usually just making og posts#maybe i just need to find people who reblog things more but idk#i love it when fandoms become little communities but it feels like that's been stifled recently#which is what my actual gripe is i think#maybe ill delete this in the morning maybe not im just full on rambling at this point#getting a lot of likes feels like twitter validation#and reblogs feels like 'im putting this cool thing up on my very big fridge'#i don't want a popularity contest i just want to share cool shit >:c
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Yeah, you should only create for yourself, but if I'm putting it out there I would like to know that I'm not just endlessly shouting into the void
#you ever feel like this about your original posts? cause I do#idk like. I would like to DISCUSS my thoughts with someone but it never goes that far#and I realize I don't have the most popular opinions all the time but shit you'd think some people would agree enough to reblog every#once in awhile#idk I'm feeling insecure about myself lately. this is okay to reblog btw I'm just venting my thoughts in the tags#em rambles#idk there was a time I felt like I had a place and served a purpose and provided content for a very small circle of fandom#but now I honestly can't tell who's there anymore#maybe that's why I've been struggling to write. I've always written for myself first but a big motivator for me was getting to share#that with people who would really enjoy it#but now idk#I'll never leave tumblr but sometimes I wonder why I even bother posting original posts anymore lmao
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be honest, is my theme bad? 😭 yours is very pretty, i feel like mine is very discoordinated though i don’t know
-@moose-code
hi lovely!! thanks for calling mine pretty!
i don't think it's bad at all!! i actually really adore the colors, the blue + yellow is very nice! it has nice contrast! also, everyone has different taste in what kind of theme they like! i'm also a visual arts major + graphic design minor so i spend a lot of time learning how to make things look visually pleasing which does make a difference i think?
if you want to be very picky about your theme, which you don't have to be, i think that the only thing that i personally would change is the second picture you have in your pinned (if that's something you're counting as part of your theme) solely because it is so neutral and desaturated in color, so it doesn't blend in with the other images you're using (which are generally more warm in tone). you could either find a new picture with warmer tones or you could edit the photo by upping the "warmth" setting! this should be able to be done in your photos app, ik for sure it can on apple iphone, but it's a basic photo editing setting so it should in any built in photo editing on your phone! but that's all! i really like the dividers you chose and the overall vibe + again, i love the colors i think they're nice and unique!!
#also making themes is just hard! i've genuinely had years of practice atp and my style has changed and become better over that time!#and yours will too!#. >> asks !#. >> mooties ౨ৎ !#. >> nat ౨ৎ !#you don't have to read the tags after this its just me blabbing and being a design nerd!#one thing i've also noticed#is that kpop blogs (where i originally come from on tumblr LOL) often have very specific and trendy aesthetics!#and due to the nature of the fandom#they have more eastern specifically east asian influences on their aesthetics#and because that's what i'm used to that's what my theme is based off of!#but generally western media focused blogs tend to have a different vibe with often less detailed/extravagant themes#which aligns more with slightly older tumblr theme trends because (i think) kpop wasn't always very popular or influential on here#whereas popular western media obviously was#I COULD GO ON BUT I SHOULDN'T YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THE TAGS !!!#ofc that doesn't mean there aren't total exceptions to all of these things#i just find it so interesting
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if you’re ever worried about your fic not being good enough, i beg you to scroll through literally any ao3 tag and you will see - and i mean this in the nicest way possible - that your work doesn’t have to be great or even by many accounts ‘good’ for people to enjoy it and engage with it in a meaningful way. the two cake effect is so so real. if you write it, people will read it.
#i think a lot of writers get hung up on the 'if it's not a fandom smash hit then it wasn't worth writing' which leads to a lot of people#thinking that if they aren't at the level of more popular writers - many of whom are pro writers irl or who have been doing this for years#then people don't want it and that it's not still enjoyable and memorable for much of the audience#it's a mental doom spiral i myself have struggled with in the past but the reality is 99.9% of fic won't go down in history#or inspire a dozen other fics and fanarts or fanmixes etc or get talked about for years on discord servers and tumblr tags#but what would you do if that 99.9% disappeared or was never written? has every story you've ever read been a mind blowing epic tale?#no but you almost certainly loved/liked/enjoyed/was moved by much of it anyway
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I've been working on a world building project for the past few months and I'm finally ready to share it with folks! Welcome to Lookout Basin!
Get the PDF here: https://uncertaintycrossing.itch.io/lookout-basin-national-park-vgfall2023
(Free/pwyw)
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Dive into fun at Lookout Basin, California's first paranormal National Park! This all inclusive visitor's guide can help you and your family plan a fun trip to the West Coast this fall season. Find thrill seeking fun with our hiking trails through anomalous areas to our boat tours across an active graveyard. Have a more relaxed visit with our Sphinx riddle nights or ghost educational programs. With a variety of activities across the park, Lookout Basin has something for everyone.
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Inspired by Mystery Flesh Pit National Park, Fablehaven, SCP Foundation/Wanderers' Library, and various folklore stories, Lookout Basin National Park, Visitor's Guide Fall 2023 is a non-traditional storytelling exercise, where the world of Lookout Basin is explored through the park advertising. The entirety of the Lookout Basin universe will be explored through weird ways of storytelling, with other oddly formatted books and an interactive game planned in the future.
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#art#drawing#digital art#illustration#world building#national park#horror#supernatural#digital illustration#I also made a sideblog for this but I don't think it's going to get popular enough on tumblr to warrant that lol but we'll see#debating if I tag this with scp since I think that community would like it#maybe later i will
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I also want to know why it has an arrow and gradient. Maybe it means trending? But really I have no clue.
NO I'M SO CONFUSED like i was like "yeah maybe it's just because it's popular rn let me check the other ones" and i went to check the tags for other games/media and. if that's the case ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT TWST IS MORE POPULAR THAN GENSHIN RN?? I WON'T BELIEVE YOU
#it's probably a good thing because we're trying to reblog more of twst creators' works rn#but i still doubt that's the case because again hsr and genshin tags don't look like that rn and i'm sure they're more popular#i'm not sure about the other tags i follow like pjsk but i don't think they have that arrow and gradient?#i'm not even gonna talk about milgram the tumblr fandom is tiny#lina's ask box time!#lina's friends!#friend: taruchi! 🌊
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actually now that the clique thing is a few days old, i didn't really get involved for a reason and I don't feel super strongly in either direction
but I will say that like. while there's certainly a problem of less interaction on the fanworks/posts from less popular blogs, this isn't really a byler exclusive issue? this happens in most fandoms these days, interaction is just on a decline in general which IS. a problem but not really a "byler tumblr is cliquey" problem. in regards to any actual cliques I wouldn't say they don't exist but I don't think it's "the popular kids" themselves doing this. I don't know if the rest of you have some other bloggers in mind that I don't know about, but as someone who is mutuals with a fair amount of who I thought were the popular blogs, they are always very nice and welcoming to me, and actually easy to talk to once you just. see them and talk to them as a normal human and not an omnipotent fandom god. so this is all to say that if there's a clique issue I think it's from the outside. I think maybe people are perceiving these bigger blogs who all happen to be friends as these untouchable idols in fandom and it's. making it cliquey from the outside. like are they a clique or have you just convinced yourself they wouldn't want anything to do with you and isolated this group from everyone else. this isn't to say that people can't be assholes of course just that I don't think any of this is intentional
#I think a lot of post interaction problems are also just probably coming from the fact that I don't think anyone checks the tag anymore#I certainly don't. I just keep up with what my mutuals are posting#and my mutuals are posting their work and they're sharing their friend's work or the work their friend shared from someone else#so if you're a little known blogger it can just be harder because. your posts just aren't making it as far you have a few followers#and they have even fewer. and so unless you get an anomaly popularity boost it'll be harder for a post to get traction#also “it's a clique bc all the popular blogs are friends and only associate with each other” well they have been friends for months#or a year now. and also probably were not as popular when that friendship started#so it's more like. a friend group forms and then when one of you gets a popularity boost so do the others bc you're friends#and then next thing you know it's a friend group of popular bloggers#anyway. all this to say get out and make some friends! either I'm right and this will actually fix the problem#or there really is a clique in which case why tf would you want to associate with them anyway#but genuinely this is rich coming from me actually known to most as godawful at talking to people irl#but it's really so simple to make tumblr friends it just requires you to be a little brave and genuine#if you see someone posting a lot of cool stuff follow them!! and then get in their askbox and talk to them about something#if they have an au you really like talk to them about that if they have some music they've been posting about check it out#and tell them what you thought!#just like. be friendly and open they'll probably respond in kind and next thing you know you have a really cool friend#anyway if you're one of my mutuals and you saw me like a post the other day or whatever that might feel contrary to this#well the other day I was just watching things go down lmao#I didn't care what any posts said I was busy with my own discourse lol#(and also if you're ANOTHER mutual wondering wtf this post is about don't worry about that)#idk I think I just. haven't really witnessed cliquey behavior but I see posts about this with enough notes#that sometimes I think. well you guys gotta be experiencing SOMETHING so idk. idk#I guess this is another “some people just have friends” post#anyway I think a good thing to remember here also is that we're arguing about popularity on Tumblr Dot Com. brother we are bloggers#and we're calling it cliques. like a highschool movie
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"#and people can be so fucking performative about mertina but that's another topic"
can you talk more about that? I have noticed some people on reddit resenting Faberritana’s popularity because three of them are white (and one is viewed as the epitome of pretty privilege) and another is a slender, lighter-skinned and mixed-white Afro-Latina (aka Hollywood’s “acceptable” version of a black woman, akin to Zendaya) and while that’s a discussion to be had, imo some in the fandom take it too far and suggest that racism, colorism and fatphobia are the main reasons why they're the four most popular female characters on Glee in general and idk that also rubs me the wrong way.
Yes of course, because it can be a controversial topic but honestly fuck whoever takes issue with me saying this.
Like, let's start off with this: I get that the Faberritana thing can be annoying. I myself find it grating, particularly when I see stuff from the height of the Glee fandom 2011-2012 and it's very clearly centering on Faberritana, at the expense and exclusion of the two other main girls who are less conventionally palatable for, let's be honest, racist and fatphobic reasons. And Glee itself was very, very bad at centering them. So like, I Get It. Faberritana feels like elevating the three white ladies of the group and "allowing" Santana to also take on that fan favourite role. I'd wager, because of the queer storyline and yes, Naya's undeniable conventional attractiveness. Although I do take issue with the baffling backlash people like Zendaya face because shifting the blame onto women of colour for Hollywood deeming them more screen appropriate is in itself fucked up. Particularly in Naya's case because her mixed heritage was constantly ignored to boil it down to something more easily consumable, such as in the context of Glee her being the token Latina and her Blackness all but erased. But anyway.
The answer to this being this, like you say, taking it too far and creating a counter movement is just all wrong. To me. Not only because putting some women down to elevate others NEVER should be the fucking case oh my god it's 2023, but because appreciation for Mertina being born out of spite towards Faberritana enjoyers is... not real appreciation. I could start stanning St Berry sooo hard but if it's just because I find Finchel more and more repulsive, that ain't gonna be the great win for St Berry I sometimes see people posit Mertina appreciation as. I know this sounds strange but it's the fandom equivalent of trying to make an ex jealous via your rebound. You're not actually taking the rebound's feelings into consideration. Alright okay out of left field simile but you get where I'm coming from.
I think that's what annoyed me the most in my reddit days, which, *shudders* are thankfully over. This childish need to counterbalance to take extreme. X ch is popular? Well I don't like them so there must be a moral reason as to why they're The Worst, actually. Y ship is well-liked? I'm going to passive-aggressively show appreciation for Z shit all while implying that all who support another ship hint hint wink wink are Wrong and basic. I think all who spent time on the sub will be able to relate to this. But like I say, that's not real appreciation. If you feel like showing appreciation for, say, Mertina because they're statistically less like to be talked about with the same fervor, good! Please do that. But make it come from a place of authenticity or I, for one, will not be able to get fully behind it.
It's slightly different on tumblr. One, because you curate your own dashboard and experiences and I've fortunately seen the love get spread around a lot more. There are entire blogs I associate with loving Tina (hello tumblr user @tina-cohen-chang) and though Mercedes love is less "centered", I guess, it's ubiquitous as far as I see. And sure, some chs will always be more appreciated than others, but I don't see people throwing a hissy fit about Artie not being even close to being as popular or Klaine, or similar things. Liking the Glee boys is basically synonymous to liking Klaine + Sam + Mike but people never used the term Klainesike so I guess that's okay. And to be clear, it is okay! Like who you like, call it what you want. I'm happy to see things like Tina week or the relatively smaller but constant portions of Mercedes love. It's never the people complaining about Faberritana supplying it, though, which is why it's so performative. You don't have to be a content creator, no one does, but also no one owes you anything and supporting less fan favourite-y chs out of pure spite just makes you look like an ass.
Circling back, even with all this said I too find the unironic use of the Faberritana portmaunteu cringe and I do think Mertina deserve more appreciation. And I think there are layers of racism as well as the show's own issues playing into why that isn't the case. They were less featured and that in itself is a problem. And that's worth investigating within fandom circles. But that's never what happens when the people of reddit complain about Faberritana's popularity and instead it just becomes this resentment party where no one wins but they give themselves brownie points for even pretending to like the Black and Asian women of the show. Congrats I guess, real win for intersectional feminism right there. Really kicked racism in the gut with that.
Basically it just becomes grating, far more grating than unironically using the term Faberritana, when people get into petty passive-aggressive counter-movements in fandom. It becomes not about love for Mertina but bitterness that chs they happen to not like are popular. And I know I just said in my reply that I don't vibe with what I perceive to be inauthentic appreciation of chs, but I also don't like when fans start policing within fandom. So I'm not doing that with anything I'm saying, in fact what I'm trying to get at is to enjoy and let enjoy. Heaven knows I don't have the energy to spread all my Glee love equally and that's okay. I do try to express the love I have for chs other than Santana, or other than my usual suspects but at the end of the day, I know what I like and I like it because I want to enjoy it. Getting sort of off topic, anyway, so just like stop be an ass about people's love for things and mind your own business. If your own business is liking thing X then that's great, enjoy the fandom content and create your own if you wish, but why be mad about what people like about a 10 year-old show, particularly if you're too lazy to actually have those discussion about race and gender and other larger societal issues. You know?
#i also just HATE what the subreddit has done to the term 'pretty privilege' lmaoooo but that's another topic#yet again another topic lmao#this is why i'll never be rid of glee#glee asks#anon#i guess this needed to be said#tbc if you disagree i don't automatically think you're an asshole i just wonder which point you disagree with and why#glee subreddit#imma tag it as that because i am complaining specifically about the sub#if anyone does this on tumblr i just don't follow them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#you could say it rubs me the wrong way too#because it's truly JUST about being bitter that chs they don't like are popular#cue mertina singing cxg's i feel like this isn't about me#damn that's a good joke it should have gone in the post#ah well real ones who read the tags will see#this is a long rambly post so maybe that will be like two people#hi ❤#glee fandom
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Suddenly got real curious... You can't take back a Kudos so I think most people actually seem to wait until the entire work is complete—but if I read an unfinished work that makes me go insane, you KNOW I am commenting asap.
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