#putting this in the main tag so people can see it and know that their art styles are cool!

[fanonical]

okay so here's some actual pointers for askblog etiquette

don't put every damn thing that you post in the main tag for the fandom. that's for intros, calls to get asks, that kind of thing, not literally every post

try and make it clear when your character is an oc, and give a bit of background in the bio or a pinned post or something so that people know who you are!

be respectful of other askbloggers. don't bombard them, and try and keep your rp within everyone's level - don't send nsfw stuff to a blog that doesn't usually rp nsfw, for example

talk to your fellow rpers ooc when you can! that can help make the rp better!

try and give a more wordy response where appropriate. people are following you to see you, after all

be careful about sending personal ooc details, especially if you are a minor! don't tell everyone everything about you! that's just good internet safety!

[averycutesalamander]

i have extremely neutral opinions about SMAUs (social media AUs) but i just thought about what Boothill's role would be in one and im kind of losing my mind about it.

his account handle is @.silvergunshura and he literally only posts clumsy nature photos and occasional pics of his gun. a handful of videos that are just the sound of the wilds. never puts any captions or tags on his posts. extremely long unacknowledged absences with no schedule. double-digit amount of followers at an absolute maximum. absolutely no interaction with his audience. or anyone else on the platform actually. quite frankly he doesn't pay any attention to his following in the slightest. bro simply cannot be bothered. for all he cares he is sending these photos to the void and there are no other users on the platform.

and then he posts one (1) video of him at the shooting range nailing bullseyes left and right like it's nothing. barely half of his body is in frame and most of his face is covered by his hair. someone with a decent following shares it and his entire fucking profile EXPLODES because people will NOT stop talking about how hot he is and it kinda snowballs from there. people go through his entire backlog only to find ZERO other posts with his face or body in them. the best they get is little snippets of his arms. people are frothing at the fucking mouth trying to figure out who he is and nobody knows because he literally hasn't said a single word in his entire posting history. people make theory posts, which obviously gets more people invested in this new mystery. his comments are filled with people speculating about who he is and what the fuck he's doing. someone posts a massive spreadsheet detailing all of the identifiable locations in his posts, and they're literally all over the galaxy. immediately afterwards they're cancelled for some vague allegations about them being a shady intelligentsia guild member guilty of multiple human rights violations and everybody completely forgets about the spreadsheet.

Boothill posts a single blurry photo of his hand feeding a chipmunk and people lose their goddamn minds. he follows this up an hour later with a photo of the same chipmunk sitting on his shoulder that is somehow even blurrier than the last and it briefly trends on the front page. a week later he uploads a video of him playing a harmonica by a campfire, once again barely in frame, lit only by the flickering fire. people brighten the video in a desperate attempt to get a better look at his face, but there's nothing identifiable. someone posts a slightly unhinged video examining the tiniest pixels in every screencap of him that they can find, claiming that he's definitely a halovian because of some extremely blurry details, and you technically can't deny it as a possibility because there are no clear shots of where his halo or wings would be. naturally this severely divides fans, and several other theories about his species pop up over the course of a few days. many people are called morons from all sides.

the REAL drama comes when he posts a picture where he's holding what looks suspiciously like an extremely precious meteorite-formed gem that was stolen during a private IPC auction two weeks ago. this post is also notable because it's the first time he's used a caption and it's literally just "lol". naturally people quickly connects the dots and realize that he's BOOTHILL, that crazy motherfucker with the vendetta against the IPC, and why the fuck is he posting nature photos and videos of him feeding birds and shit. silvergunshura fans are instantly divided by discourse about whether or not it's ethical to be a fan. "silvergun fans dni" and "silvergun antis dni" become staples in the bios of people invested in the drama. a bunch of fans start using his substitute swears, and whether or not this is ironic is extremely debatable. the business of cyborg modifications has a moderate boom. anti-IPC sentiments have a notable increase, but now the people doing serious exposés and earnest discussion about the humanitarian crimes of the IPC that are concealed from the public are constantly called simps. there's a brief stint with a handful of Boothill copycat crimes that are all solved within the week.

people unsuccessfully try to hunt down any other potential socials to no avail, but this does spawn a massive wave of fake accounts on a million different platforms, which obviously successfully baits a ton of people. the drama gets even spicier when the moderators shut down his account. one of the mods gets doxxed by an outraged fan. even more fake accounts pop up. Boothill comes back less than a week later as @.silvercowboy244 like nothing happened. his returning post is a crooked picture of a sorta weird looking tree, and he's pointing toward the top left of the frame. the caption is just "bird?" and nobody can figure out what the FUCK that's supposed to mean, because there's no bird visible in the picture, nor is there a bird nest in the tree. conspiracy theories and decoders are immediately chomping at the bit trying to figure out if it has some kind of secret meaning.

tons of people try to use his posts to pinpoint his location for clout or the bounty money or to find him in person and beg him to let them give him head, but he never posts them exactly when they're taken, and nobody can figure out what the fuck logic he's using to pick his next destination. there's an IPC investigation. his accounts keep getting banned but he keeps coming back like a cockroach. dedicated fan archives are made to preserve all of his shitty photos. he never acknowledges any of the drama.

if you're fortunate enough to know Boothill personally and you ask him about all of that weird shit with his socials, he just shrugs and says, "yep, i keep gettin' locked out. can't remember passwords for shirt." if you ask him what he thinks of all the drama surrounding his online presence, he gives you the most bewildered expression you've ever seen on his face. "what the fork are you yappin' about?? what do you mean i got "band" ?? disk horse??? docksing???? i think you've got a few screws loose buddy" and he promptly forgets about the entire ordeal and goes back to posting blurry nature pictures like literally nothing happened.

edit: here's part two-ish lol

[raintailed]

I love all the different ways people draw slugcats. It's like a triangle chart between "slug alien," "kity," and "in-game."

I love the slugcats that are speculative biology aliens. I love the slugcats that are beasties. I love the slugcats that are just beans with stick arms. All are sluggy and i love them all

[hypermoyashi]

Hey, so, Trigun fandom. I went through my bookmarks this morning and noticed yet more fics I loved have been privated and/or deleted. I can't speak to individual writers as to why, but. Overall I have noticed a trend where I will put a lot of work into something, only to have it received with little to no fanfare--that, or I'll run into people who've read my work but never once interacted.

Leave kudos. Leave comments. Follow your favorite writers. Rec their fics on social media. Send them nice asks. Say hi to them on discord, if they're there.

There will always be a few writers who plug away regardless of how quiet the fandom is, but I promise if the trend of silent readers continues, you will eventually lose your favorite writers to other fandoms, or they will stop writing fic altogether. So that one story that rattles around your brain rent free? The story that made you smile when you were having a bad day? The story that made you cry in the best of ways? Make sure to tell the writer that!

[dervampireprince]

I just rewatched moonknight and your audios are literally the only thing keeping me alive in that somewhat dead fandom THANK YOU 😭😭🙏

i do feel adrift making moon knight stuff still so thank you

[cathymee]

maybe it's to maintain a sense of tension & turmoil that would eventually reach an explosive peak, a sense of tug-of-war, a back-and-forth to hammer home the ideals they want to deliver and for the viewers to chew on, but although these arguments regarding hiroshi & his stance as a man torn between his loyalty for his country & the loyalty for his Filipino friends and lover is of course important, how they write these scenes & the points they present from this week alone is getting too repetitive...? literally the argument scenes from last night & tonight between adelina & hiroshi is basically the same; the ideas were the same, the dynamics were the same: the aggressive, radical adelina, bristling rage and fear over the injustices she's seen thus far, and the cautious, inspiriting hiroshi, all hopefulness and reassurance one moment as a lover, defensiveness and sternness as a japanese soldier in another. this debate will be ever-present ofc, it is one of the series' biggest conflicts, but it is unfortunately so easy to tell when it is a.) being pulled up as a main topic to move the plot along / be a necessary conflict for character development/introspection / be the conflict to deliver the morals & messages the writers want to send to their viewers, or b.) when it is being pulled up only for the drama and filler to pass the time. like watching the characters sit down to argue for 10 minutes, do other things for the plot for 2 minutes, then sit down again to argue for the next 20 minutes. lol.

[slightlytoastedbagel]

actually On Your Feet gave us two good things (well. three if you like Realize which I do). Kohane's "it's frustrating" line and the great crack fic idea of Vivid Bad Squad getting cancelled online for skipping school to yell at The Kotaki Taiga as he was about to go back to America.

[tmae3114]

NOTHING makes me feel as much like I might somehow be living in a different reality than everybody else than seeing the way some people talk about A Certain Specific Animated Webseries That I Like

"it has so many female characters and yet hates women" "it's terribly written" "it's a shambling corpse of what it once was" "how does it keep getting made" "nothing in it makes sense!" "it's completely shallow and exists only to service shipping"

I have NO EARTHLY CLUE how they are getting these things out of the incredibly well made science-fantasy epic I've been watching for the past decade

[soupspkmncorner]

hey is anyone out there still an acnh player in 2025 . does anyone have any ideas/inspo for what to do with a slim horizontal alley between two major areas because most small decorations will be obscured by the bottom cliff . currently adding some hallway/wall items and such and theres some ivy (loveee ivy) but it still feels so boring and i dont want to connect the two upper areas

[waywardstation]

Oi. Oi.

I'm just drop gonna this here. Not to bring down the mood but just as a plea.

For those of you participating in Mantit Monday, TAG YOUR STUFF ACCORDINGLY!!

Few people on my feed have expressed being uncomfortable with this tradition and have been unable to block it because not everyone is tagging their stuff sufficiently.

I personally think it's awesome. So much skilled artwork has come across my feed. But the last thing I want is for this wonderful thing to be seen as a pain in the tuckus for our fellow fandom members.

Be Kind, Keep Your Tagging In Mind.

--Warden Anon

Thank you for the reminder!!! PLEASE TAG YOUR WORKS FOR IT!!

We’ve discussed this in the discord and made sure we’re all using the same tag so that it CAN be blocked. But there are also people participating who are not in the discord not using them, who I’m sure are simply just unaware of this and don’t mean anything by it. This issue was actually brought up yesterday because we’re aware not everyone wants to see it ^^;

So again, if you’re participating in it, please use the tag #submas mantit monday so that it can be blocked for people who don’t want to see it!! Thank you!!!

I think this Monday was my last mantit Monday anyways. I’ve run out of ideas for it. ^^;

[helmetjellyfish]

realized i've somehow never made a minato & asumi post despite them being some of the characters i think about the most in the story. i want them to be friends who get lunch together every other saturday

[goblin-enjoyer]

I swear why are half the things i like/fandoms im in made of mostly younger people while the other half are mostly older people? what are the zoggin odds with that?

How it feels being 20 in a fandom with a bunch of 30-40 somethings.

VS how it feels being 20 in a fandom with a bunch of 14-17 somethings.

like am do i just have extremely odd luck with things i like or is this just what being 20 is like?

[ryctone]

I know I don't usually rant about stuff I don't like but listen; I honestly don't care what you ship (as long as it isn't, you know, gross- you know what I mean) you are having fun and that's what matters, but please please PLEASE tag your ship art/discussions correctly so that not only the people who like the ship can see it, but ALSO for the people who have the ship filtered DON'T HAVE TO!

Even a simple "[character] x [character]" tag can suffice, otherwise people may just block you bc there's not really a 'mute blog' button here!

[codecicle]

wanted to apologise for possibly being someone who fucked up ur tl with 18+ slime posts (coming to grips with how tagging works on this here webbedsite!) please take my sincerest (anonymous) apologies ur a cool goober 🙏

ay man it's alright!! really!!! i understand most of the 18+ people are coming from websites like twitter or tiktok so they don't quite understand how it functions :-) if you ever need a tutorial or any help with understanding the culture here, shoot me an ask! it's insanely different from other social media and i completely understand its weird to adjust to and navigate. peace and love + have fun with your slimeposting ✌���

[anonyanonymouse]

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[grimvisionary]

you want to look at my stupid gay little tests into getting back into drawing.