#so fucking nostalgic that I can't

[just2bubbly]

take me back to last October when we crushed everyone so hard on our home grounds and won 11 consecutive matches, and everything seemed possible and the passion was so INSANE home

[w1lmuttart]

Romance dawn trio save me,,,, romance dawn trio,,,,, save me romance dawn trio,,,,

[drunkonduty]

Its 4:45 am rn rewatching ew

Transgender real

[denerturee]

Alejandro freaking out is so AMAZING!!!

[heffrondriving]

oh so NOW y'all rushers wanna talk about James Diamond/Jett Stetson and Jo Taylor/Lucy Stone?!??!?!!! NOW y'all wanna go and totally get behind that like it's the next big revelation?!!??? WHERE WERE Y'ALL WHEN I WAS OUT THERE FIGHTING FOR MY LIFE ALONE IN THE FRONTLINES COVERED IN BLOOD AND RELENTLESSLY HERALDING THESE DAMN RAREPAIRS WITH EVERY INCH OF MY BATTERED CONVICTION AND YET NO ONE FUCKIN LISTENED?!?!!!! ISTG I'M GODDAMN CASSANDRA RN FINALLY WATCHING FORETOLD PROPHECIES GET FULFILLED AND YET. THE VINDICATION FEELS ALL TOO LATE AS THE LEGACY I HAVE BUILT IS ALL BUT FORGOTTEN NOW

[jula483]

jumpscare..............

[feathers-little-nest]

One of my greatest motivations in life is definitely my danmei release calendar. All of my hopes and dreams in one place

[wienerlicious]

sure the economy sucks and i can't afford a house or kids but at least i was born at the perfect time to be the target demographic for twilight

[katyspersonal]

I never caught up with the Undertale AUs much (was overwhelmed with the hype and by the time I played the game myself I developed "keep to self and 5 close mutuals" mentality on fandomry already) but one thing I found the most interesting is how fandom developed that meta commentary thing with Error!Sans and Ink!Sans stuff. Iirc at least one of these got changed into an OC detached from the fandom but you can still find traces of the past online, but basically the versions of Sanses represented THE two extremes of fandomry nobody would want to fall into!

Ink represented the most uncritical, the most insufferable creative indulgence possible with no pressure to ground it into what makes the original itself to begin with. The guy that won't distinguish between a fanwork (AU most particularly) that knowingly takes a few creative liberties and a "fanwork" that is literally just someone completely remaking story and personalities of the characters into what they prefer more. A guy that would never say "Just make an OC already!" and will fight anyone who tells you this, a guy with 0 standards for fanworks. Basically missing the point of the fandom: to be fans of the original! He is also an emotional junkie and engaging with AUs is his most effective way to feel any pleasure, so he is also a meta of creatively bankrupt fans who permanently demand to "consume content" regardless of what it is xD

Error, on the other hand, is an absolute prick that sees canon divergence in any way shape or form as something inherently bad (an "abomination" that should not exist in his own context). Like, you know the guy that thinks redesigns, ships that aren't canon, AUs and such are "disrespectful to the author"? Error is this kind of guy. Not even just a cringe culture guy, a guy that simply hates fun and creativity, and God forbid fans actually DO something interesting with the source material instead of.. what, literally Just Staring at it for eternity? (Also the funniest fucking character because he himself is a diversion from canon lol In fact, diversion of ANOTHER diversion!)

Like, yeah the meta is not all there is for the characters, they both have their own origins and story within the setting (iirc it was actually the focus, and how it became a meta was coincidental). But they literally were defender or all AUs and destroyer of all AUs respectively, I thought it was super fun how Undertale fandom came up with the way to give faces to the two extremes fans of anything should not fall into. It was smart, I guess?

And it is not like fandoms (all of them) changed in this regard, most people still agree that "you should not feel pressured to stay 100% accurate to canon and I beg you people to revisit the source material at least sometimes are two statements that can and should coexist". In terms of my current fandom: Ink would fully encourage evil perverted manipulative griffith Miquella portrayal because "yay all creative valid :)" and Error would harass you for drawing Godwyn consort instead of canonical Radahn consort fsdhfdshsh And any true fan will disapprove of both of these, right?

P.S.: Just realised that I am talking about this like an old man who reminiscences on the trends of his youth when UTDR fandom is still interested in the popular AUs including these ones, so I am just here like:

[giantkillerjack]

Anastasia the Musical sucks so bad. They really said "We're gonna cut the best song from the movie - just axe the absolute banger that is 'In the Dark of the Night' - because we are being SERIOUS and GROWN-UP now. We are A Big Historical Realism Musical Now. This is FOR REAL, okay!? We don't have a SILLY villain like Rasputin! We have Gleb! [Please Just Clap.] We are HISTORICALLY GROUNDED. -- Anyway, here's a musical unironically glorifying the Russian monarchy~~ 💖😌💖😌💖😌💖"

[caernua]

girl help i started pillars of eternity and i feel another hyperfixation coming

[priapussdick]

dude......

since last july my brain went into vegaspete brainrot mode and it just got stuck there. i honestly think there hasn't been a day that I did not thought about them. struggle is real🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️

[thethingything]

"why do I feel so weird and awful" says man who already made a post half an hour ago that included the reasons he feels weird and awful

[karanan]

I'm going to my friends' wedding in a couple of days, it's gonna be a smallish one in the town I'm from, just behind the house I grew up in by the old harbour and I'm so excited!! They have picked the date of an Ostrobothnian holiday (the best one), which traditionally marks the end of the summer house season and is celebrated with big bonfires and fireworks. I'm fucking stoked, I grew up right in that area and my lovely friends will be there and the bride and groom are fantastic people that I love dearly! I met the groom through my brother a handful of years ago and we quickly became good friends, he's a marine biologist and has a huge heart and strong conscience. The bride I've known forever, we were neighbours and friends as kids but we didn't talk for years and years until I started hanging out with her soon-to-be husband. She's super funny and congenial, always down to listen to your complaining and sharing in shit-talking. They are sincerely so sweet together, in a way that's not beyond lovingly making fun of each other. They usually host boardgame nights among our circle of friends and their house always feels so welcoming and warm. Just hanging out with them feels like home.

I've only been to one other wedding as an adult so far, and I'm really looking forward to this one as well!

[astramachina]

Why is that YA can get away with so much in comparison to Adult fiction?? Like, aside from "no graphic sex" (tho there's been some pretty spicy scenes in some I read during my youth), the only hard line that cannot be crossed is "protag can't be older than 18" (tho New Adult pushes that to 20/22, I believe). You can have the most fucked of body horror, the most gruesome deaths, and gratuitous amount of gore and it's all good for an age-range of 13 to 18. Some of these "extreme Adult horror" books wish they can be on this level.

[leatherbookmark]

ooooh apparently the pjo show is out? or is it just the first episode? i'm not sure but. hm!!