#oh fandoms. never change

[catofoldstones]

tbh, i was a very casual game of thrones viewer and my fav character was sansa stark and I was absolutely uninvolved with the general viewership/fandom so i assumed that while sansa was not one of the more loved characters, she was somewhat neutral/under-the-radar. therefore you can imagine my surprise when i find out this year (a couple of months back actually) that not only is sansa one of the most talked about characters in a negative light, she actually one of the most viscerally hated ones too.

[lazylittledragon]

i am losing my entire shit right now, this single panel caused a nuclear disaster in my ig comments when someone said "halsin just saying 'astarion's partner' instead of his name feels icky"

which is such a fucking reach by itself but descended into this in about 5 seconds

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[that-wizard-oki]

Perhaps one of the most notable aspects about the Wiz/Pirate fandom is that I don't think I've ever seen anyone re-create a beloved (typically male) non-human character and proceed to draw them as your typical tumblr sexy man.

Not even to drag the people that do/have done that- like I was a teen girl once, I get it- but It's almost intriguing to me because there are so many Blorbo's in this universe that I feel would get the tumblr sexy man treatment- Bat, Kane/like any of the Armada leaders, Spider, Dasein, Pork & Beans, just to name a few.

And yet, here we are. When I see blorbo art of Bat, he is still very much his normal bat self. Not one of you have drawn Kane as a white guy in a steampunk suit, he is very much always a robot, unmasked.

And I enjoy and respect the hell out of it tbh.

[riacte]

being a fan of false/ren/both atm is kinda weird and surreal in these times because you have to carefully tread around in your mind to avoid thinking about upsetting things (which consist of like 50% of the total stuff in your head) and you have to rewire your longtime neural pathways but it’s necessary and doable lol

[emioliravioli]

umm rate the birthday invitation i guess???? my mom really wanted me to draw something, so i just.... did this lol

[albino-parakeet]

Everytime I go into the Chaos theory tag and see someone saying "TRAILER WHEN??!"

This video plays in my head. (Warning loud maybe?)

Feel I should add context: Its a screen cap from JWCC Season 4, of the kids screaming around the fire. I think the video was made during the wait for Season 5??

[hplonesomeart]

Hey!! So turns out a video I made between a certain “well beloved but highly sensitive/emotionally reactive T.V” and an “orange haired inkling-turned-human” has managed to sweep my YouTube channel and accumulate 100k VIEWS!! THAT’S A LOT OF PEOPLE ACTUALLY?? My most widely viewed video EVER to exist in this moment in time?? AAAAA?? Not even mentioning the various comments and staggering increase in subs! It’s so much more then what I expected or even prepared for—might even be the most impactful thing to happen for me this year <3

…aside from graduating high school + the social connections I’ve been fortunate to make lol

BUT THE POINT IS I’d been closely monitoring the YouTube growth through the entirety of October. It’s make me smile like a dork, gawk in astonishment, dance frantically in my room from the energy boosts, and grow courage to stop being so selective/self-conscious with what I wish to share with the world! It’s kept my ambitions going!

I needed to find some way to celebrate the occasion and express my thanks—because I can’t NOT acknowledge this milestone jksjskp. Typically I try to avoid getting tunnel visioned focusing on the metrics/numbers. Mr. Puzzles had already demonstrated how much those things can mess with the minds of creatives. Caring too much about chasing views or placing your artistic value in attention seeking gets damaging. But at same time…it’s hard to deny the sense of pride the 100k achievement has filled me with. I understand that reaching 100k views doesn’t immediately make me any “better” or “worse” then I was before. I’m still just me! It only helps me feel seen by others—and that’s all I really needed. To hear some nice words & receive reminders that my ideas are cared about. So thank you SMG4 fandom for that, seriously thank you.

Please accept this Mr. Puzzle drawing as a way of sharing the happiness around. He’s so entertaining. Love him for simply existing. So glad we can all collectively be super attached to him (and the rest of the SMG4 cast of course). Can’t wait to see more incredible artworks from the fandom :)

Just incase anyone is confused by my vague description over which “animated video” I’m referring to here—hopefully this photo will help clarify lol. It’s this one!! Sorry about not outright stating the title at the start, I got carried away with writing!!

I’ve been in an odd place mentally when thinking about it. Wondering to myself if any of the attention is deserved considering it’s not even fully colored and could be dismissed as “low effort” content (despite taking several days making it). It’s easy to get into a trap of comparing yourself to others and questioning how much of the videos success is based on your skills, sheer algorithm luck, or only because you used popular characters and catered to a specific fandom. And then judging yourself by looking at other peoples videos. I’ve seen several artists post higher quality works then my own but it somehow gets less views. So why did mine succeed when others (who should have gotten just as much attention if not more) didn’t? Sometimes you feel like you’ve unfairly robbed them of that chance to be seen. However I’ve realized that I can’t ever expect views to be consistent—and comparing is pointless. So why worry about it or feel inadequate? I mean it’s pretty common for funny cat videos to go viral, so who am I to question the system lol. “Popular” YouTube videos can range from a passion project which took 7+ artists…to a clip of Toad singing Chandelier or a nonsensical Vine sketch. Anything can happen when it’s the internet! And just-so-happened my video was chosen. I should stay glad about that and get rid of all the overanalyzing. So that’s what I’ve chosen to do :)

[cali-kabi]

~ Little vent callout (you can ignore or read it if you want I’m just so paranoid)

6 years ago when I made my first art account on insta, this user found my art account and keeps asking me and harassing me and my mutuals to make free art for him. (I dislike a certain pokemon falinks because of him) He’s such a manipulative and guilt tripping jerk. And when he messaged my tumblr a few days ago he’s STILL trying to get me to forgive him. Like I almost had a panic attack had anemia back then (I went to the doctor/hospital a few times because of my stress) and I feel like you want me to forget the harassment you caused me and many others (some people I know deactivated because of you) leave me alone I don’t want to forgive you for the trauma you caused me and many others.

If your mutuals with this person because of their “changed” ways I don’t care I don’t know what to tell you, just giving you a heads up that they still randomly ask you for free art after becoming friends with them. I find that suspicious. Before I blocked them I looked into their profile it seems to me that their still asking for free art (art trades now right after becoming mutuals with the person) (Artists your health is more important) please if this person finds your profile and talks to you don’t talk to them about or even mention me. I don’t want to hear anymore excuses from him. Their new is @/starpoyo99 bluesky and tumblr @/damiankirby99 just please don’t interact to them or talk to them about me.😓

The first two screenshots are from me and bottom two are from my mutual

In this screenshot you see their guilt trip behavior (sorry my words their back then I didn’t know some were typos I was saying I was busy helping my friend out) He has an obsession with me tagging him in my art I TAG MY FRIENDS NOT JERKS

Second screenshot when I mention I was sick I mean I had anemia.

Third screenshot my mutual needed to do commissions and not wanted to doing art requests (free art)

Fourth screenshot (from mutual) Again the guilt trip manipulative bullshit sorry for the swear word

I wish I could share more screenshots but I deleted them and those were way worst than this…

I know this is like 5 years old but this behavior is unacceptable

[dolokhoded]

what's the buzz, tell me what's a-happening ???

[patheticjayce]

I *can* be critical.

I just choose not to be, because I use up too much of my brain power in real life, I just want to come online and go "blorbo neat"

[impostorsshow]

I'm actually so obsessed with him it's not even funny if i'm not listening to a TikTok or music directly related to him I can't focus free me free me

This is @/cherubpuppet's OC for a object show [au? pitch? wip show? How do I categorize this] and I've been destroyed by the fact that ruler art is infinitely superior [and 10x longer] and i don't have a good enough grasp on lip gloss's personality to make fanfiction so I am frozen in "want make fanart but fanart takes effort :["

[iamumbra195]

Don't you love it when you get back into your childhood hyper-fixation that you remember very fondly as an adult and realize how fucking depressing the actual story is now that you have the capacity to understand it beyond cool fighting and characters, humor, and awesome friendships?

[ask-the-demigods-and-co]

first of all NICO! if that even is your real name- (/J) i KNOW 'The Neighborhood' isn't an emo band- it's just a way of expressing myself- second of all- AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! PIPER! YOU ALSO KOW THE NEIHGBORHOOD!??!? okey-okay-okay- but- . . . . WHAT- DO YOU THINK ABOUT 'Arctic Monkeys' . . i KNOW you probably won't like him- but- HEAR ME OUT- . . . . . Alex turner- _Child of Aphrodite_★

"Who pissed in your cereal this morning?" -Nico

"AHHHH NO I FREAKING LOVE ARCTIC MONKEYS I HAVE ALL THEIR ALBUMS ON VINYL AT MY DAD'S MY FAVORITE SONG IS KNEE SOCKS!!" -Piper

[cigarette-room]

everyone: he would Not Fucking Do That

me: he would if he was in love

[ssaalexblake]

Look okay not to be that person but everybody blaming Chapel for Spock acting weird like she wasn't doing her best to return him to normal to not fuck up his Vulcan ritual with his fiance despite him being far more open to her than ever before, meaning she's literally doing this dangerous stuff to cure him despite how she'd personally benefit if she didn't because it's a) her job b) she feels responsible this happened because He chose to save her and c) she cares about him on top of both of those things and doesn't want him to not be himself, only for him to go to her Anyway at the end of it all. Him go to her. Not the other way around.

He made Himself weird, he doesn't lack agency, this is not her breaking him or whatever the hell you want to call it.

He went to her.