#ooc: (skill issue)

[court--of--owls]

I lied.

I'm just not an English speaker.

-🪡

...🪶

[carlyraejepsans]

Do you have beef/opinions on finaglc? Asked bc of tags from a few days ago. It’s been years since I read that one…i remember it being A Lot but that’s about it.

you ever read some really wack papyrus characterization where you don't even need to check the author's other works cuz you just Know they write f0ntcest

[fernsensei]

so uh. my expirience with ultrakill

and more, more, more to go

[monstersinthecosmos]

I really hate posting or acknowledging fandom drama unless it serves to support or encourage people who are feeling down about it but this is a tricky one for me to translate because I'm mad af!

Let's take a deep breath.

The thing is, about fandom! When you first get here, or get to a new one, or whatever! It's weird, there's etiquette built in, there's invisible rules. But the main thing is like, we're all here because we can't be normal about our blorbo, right?

And it's okay if you project on your blorbo! It's okay if your version of them isn't completely canon-accurate! It's okay if you are isolating a single aspect of their personality/backstory to play with because it speaks to you! YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DO THESE THINGS.

It's also okay if the canon has conflicting information! It's okay if a theme went over your head and you don't consider it! It's okay if you're the only person in the fandom who notices a certain quality and you're the only one talking about it!!

There is enough room here for all of us!

The ENTIRE POINT of fandom and fanworks is to ask questions about the characters, to dissect them, to put them back together. The point of transformative fanworks is to TRANSFORM! If we weren't so deeply invested in these universes and didn't have questions and didn't want more content about all the blank spots, we would just CONSUME THE CANON LIKE A NORMAL PERSON AND MOVE ON WITH OUR GODDAMN LIVES. We wouldn't be bothering to write fic and make art and RP and decode meta! We wouldn't be making this into a hobby and talking about it all day!

It's from LOVE.

So.

I get it, it can be intimidating showing up in a new space or into a new hobby. And sometimes we can step on toes if we don't know all the invisible rules and etiquette. But what I can promise you is that you don't need to make room for people who are rude to you, who try to tell you that their way is the only way, who consistently want to insult you for asking questions, noticing themes, playing with other versions of the characters.

We are ALL HERE to be silly and dick around and have fun, and when someone is being an asshole about it, I think it looks worse for them than it does for you. One of you is minding your business and having fun and the other one is trying to tell everyone what to think lol.

Please protect yourself from bullies; don't let someone police the way you read canon, or the way you speak about your fav, or the fanworks you create. These people are not your friends, and they are not your audience. You do not need their acceptance to have fun and make things.

Fandom shouldn't be this fucking exhausting, yall. It costs zero dollars to be nice to people and let them enjoy their fucking blorbo in peace and you look like a fucking asshole when you don't shut the fuck up about it and sow discord in a shared space.

People's horrendously OOC takes do not affect you at all even a little bit not even when they're so so so so so OOC that you think you need to be Fandom Professor rising from your well to shame us! It cannot and will never hurt you, so leave them the fuck alone and let them have fun!!

[cringefaecompilation]

i really don't like that i'm being so negative over these crossover episodes but like

[francismosses]

I regret taking a picture of me crying and posting it on tumblr I look absolutely hideous Im fucking deleting that

[morningflew]

sorry to the people who can’t do it but i can in fact take a female character with three lines of information in the source material and make a whole backstory and personality for her even just for fun

[fair-fae]

I'm really happy I've gotten back into gposing for a lot of reasons, but a selfish one I have to confess is that's really validating to see people appreciate Faye as she is meant to be after I spent six months RPing with someone who constantly tried to fit her into a mold and pressured me to change her to suit their tastes.

[palespawn]

astarion begging the pc for permission to kill someone is actually something that can be so personal

[nemone-anemone]

// Halloween Nemone Halloween Nemone Halloween Nem

[daybreakrising]

i have spent my entire afternoon gaming and i was vibing until my dumb ass decided we were gonna give imaginarium theatre another chance, and subsequently gave myself a stress headache-

gonna go cook dinner bc my dumb ass also hasn't eaten all day and then i wanna try and be productive in some form here

[bithand]

Vauquelin's biggest brag is the Crossroads sentinels don't consider him an "interloper"

[hiswrlds]

I'll reblog this again when ppl are actually awake but hello, this is peach w/ a friendly reminder to be cringe & free

[plushanon]

Problems with giving several dozen rotomblr users plushies: I have forgotten which I have and haven't sent them to. Oops

I really shouldve been keeping better track of how many friends I've been sending out

Anyways if you haven't gotten one (or want a second!) Let me know because I am mildly scatterbrained about anything that is not making plushies :)

[francismosses]

Hey guys just letting yall know this acc contains oc x canon ok BYE

[moonlight-eternal]

hey there! think I found a book about you and how you fell into this world, check it out!

[File attached: A PDF copy of Chapter 23 of the Silmarillion, titled "Of Tuor And The Fall Of Gondolin"]

...What did I just read?

That certainly is no history of mine, nor of any man or city known to me in Lordran or the lands beyond. A compelling tale, nonetheless, and it doth seem incomplete at both beginning and end, and so rapid in its pace that ten volumes of the Annals might be written upon any paragraph. My name, however, is Gwyndolin, and this beareth not upon my history nor my life.

Woe be upon Maeglin, the betrayer, and though he did meet his end in the sack of his uncle's city, cast down from the walls by Tuor, Ulmo's champion who did deliver notice unheeded that the curse of the Noldor doomed five hundred ten years before did near fulfillment, though he did surrender the hidden paths under duress only, in captivity in Angband, yet still did the covetousness in his heart for Idril and his lack of care for the borders Turgon set bring him to reveal Gondolin to Morgoth, and through him thereby many lives were lost, and may he find no peace.

Woe too upon stubborn Manwë who redeemeth not the Noldor even before the counsel of Ulmo, and to the Valar in the West I say: skill issue. To be a living god among one's people cometh with the weighty task of their protection, as I myself have dedicated these past three thousand years to do, even as all my kin departed to the West of mine own world and cared no more for Lordran nor its light.

...Dost thou possess a fuller book, of which this was but a chapter? I did plan to leave Dendemille and resume my journey, having tarried here perhaps overlong, but I confess now a curiosity to learn as ever I do of all that availeth itself to me. Surely it could not hurt to remain just one more day, to read.