#some of my fave artists do this too i'm not excluding anyone

[jeniffercheck]

i know many artists have no control over the marketing of their own music but "secret tracks" & vinyl variants piss me the fuck awffff like you're not preserving the art of analog music it's just a cash grab to destroy pockets of tweenagers' parents and every one else who loves your music too much to not participate

[kissmetwicekissmedeadly]

Ikemen fandom, I want your attention!

There's something I wanted to discuss for a long time now. Do you also feel like it's about time we abolish the term "content creation", especially while talking about the fandom challenges hosted around here?

Now, the Ikemen fandom is a somewhat tight-knit community that offers tons of positivity and support for making fanworks. I'm far from the thought that anyone here means any harm while calling others (and themselves) content creators. The truth is, ever since I was a fandom baby - and I'm not sure if the fact that I'm not a native English speaker plays a role in that - I looked at the term as something that simply combines the many forms of fanworks and has a positive connotation to it. It's making things easier when you want to include everyone. You want to say writers and artists and others but there are so many more forms of art and you don't want someone to feel excluded just because you haven't named their medium. And people here are so talented they rarely ever are just one thing. But sometimes we don't realize when a word can be harmful. If you call it content, that implies that it's been "produced" - and if it's produced, then later it can be "consumed". You can read one such post about this issue here that puts it in words better than I can.

That doesn't mean that if you're using the word content you're necessarily supporting this narrative, it simply means that someone can (rightfully) feel offended by that. Here we're used to seeing it around, and we won't think anything about it. But new people are joining our space all the time. Not to mention that Ikemen Villains is soon to release in English, undoubtedly bringing forth a new fave of fans. I can't tell anyone what to do, but I know I don't want to accidentally offend someone. It's a big deal for me, because I put a lot of passion into what I do here. The challenges are born out of my wish to inspire - firstly myself and then others. But it would be meaningless if I'm doing harm in the very title of one such post.

All of this I could discuss solely in front of myself, deciding on how I'm going to proceed with this, but I wanted to make this a public post in order to bring some awareness and hopefully do something positive for our fandom - in case you simply never looked at it this way when it needs to be, in case it really is as important as it seems to me right now. See it as me giving it advice, please! Not telling you what to do. I'm not judging anyone. I just want my friends to value themselves.

Now then, what do we think about a little change in labeling those challenges? I thought of "creative challenge". A double C instead of a triple C after your challenge's name. Not too big of a change but still an efficient one imo! While the people who create are creatives, the ones who create fanworks.

Let me know what you think of this whole thing, even if anonymously - my asks are open. I can't promise to be around much but I'll get to them eventually!

[matchamenace]

I posted 880 times in 2022

That's 880 more posts than 2021!

38 posts created (4%)

842 posts reblogged (96%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@bcyoureallthatmakessense

@dxncingwithastrxnger

@electricwalkman

@theamiableanachronism

@1980s-jean-ralphio

I tagged 648 of my posts in 2022

Only 26% of my posts had no tags

#fave - 71 posts

#fanart - 34 posts

#lovely mutuals - 31 posts

#matchamenace - 29 posts

#halloween - 26 posts

#matcha blogs! - 22 posts

#shane madej - 19 posts

#fall - 18 posts

#spooky season - 18 posts

#matcha asks! - 18 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#everytime i think about him i get the weirdest mixture of joy and sadness and i just wanna curl up in a ball and cry and/or possibly vomit

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Who is your stranger things tumblr bestie :)

Oh man I don't have just one bestie, but the peeps I'm closest to are probably:

@dxncingwithastrxnger

@bcyoureallthatmakessense

@claire-de-lune

@purpleangelsele

Of course there's plenty of other blogs I adore that I just haven't interacted with as much, but perhaps one day that'll change 😌

7 notes - Posted November 26, 2022

#4

Got covid booster #2 this morning. Already starting to feel cruddy. 😭

8 notes - Posted November 14, 2022

#3

MY DARK DASH IS BACK

OH THANK GOD- MINE TOO 😭 I don't know how I ever tolerated light mode in the past ahaksks

8 notes - Posted November 16, 2022

#2

Fuck, Marry, Kill

Hopper

Murray

Steve

🥰😌

OH FUCK WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME CLAIRE??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

AHSHSJDJDJDK OKAY!! Kill Murray for sure (he's one of my least favorites, sorry not sorry 🙈) Fuck Hopper 😜, Marry Steve 😘

Ok this actually wasn't hard at all lmao. Just very telling... 👀

11 notes - Posted October 25, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Who are some of your favorite Mileven blogs and why? Let’s spread some positivity and smiles on this fine Friday🌻🐛🌼 then tag 3 other blogs to keep the smiles going.

Oh goodness!! Let's see here agsjsksksk

@dxncingwithastrxnger ABSOLUTE KING 👑🔥🔥🔥 Nothing but good vibes and the fluffiest fics and headcanons you'll ever read!! 🙌 They put SO much thought and care into their posts and are just such a pleasure to interact with 😋💕 Honestly my go-to if I'm looking for lighthearted, feel-good content. (ILY ALEX!!!!!!!! 👋)

@purpleangelsele ACTUAL CINNAMON ROLL ✨ (Sweet with a hint of spice 😎👉👉) Probably one of the friendliest people I've met online lol! Doesn't matter what I post, I can always count on Sel to give me some sort of engagement and I fkin love it!! 🤣 As for their content it's mostly fun and cute headcanons, but they definitely don't shy away from the occasional hot take or petty post 😌 Tons of personality. Great sense of humor. LOVE THEM!!! 💜💜💜

@mikes-pineapple-pizza Incredibly articulate and astute observations!! 🙌✨ Has a knack for breaking down a variety of ST topics (including, but not limited to Mileven) in a way that's intelligent, but also very chill and unpretentious. Idk. Their content just really speaks to me and I think they're super cool. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Fr tho, this person could make a podcast just analyzing anything in the show and I would EAT IT UP!!!! 🔥🔥🔥

@claire-de-lune Ah man the duality of Claire.... 🤣🤣🤣 Deliciously petty, but simultaneously has some of the sweetest and unique headcanons to offer! 🥰 A VERY passionate Mileven defender who won't take shit from nobody, but an absolute delight to have on your side 😜💕

@lenorahills @fricchead @rllybritrlly @pumpkingface BITCHIN' ARTISTS!!! Each have such cute and unique illustration styles, and it's ridiculous how excited I get everytime they post new content asksksk 🙈💕 As an artist myself, I could not recommend them more 🙌

Anyway I think I'm gonna end descriptions here, but here's some other Mileven blogs I adore:

@truessences @teafiend @flamingfalcon3 @bcyoureallthatmakessense @pjo-fan17 @elsmike @crisperia @reganx2 @mikewheely

It definitely doesn't end there, but I'm feeling lazy today, so I sincerely apologize to anyone I might've excluded! I still love and appreciate you all!!! 😘

25 notes - Posted October 15, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[koujaaku]

hi! hope it's been a great week ❤️ since xue yang is your fave, would you share some of your fave xue yang-centric fanfic and fanart? also, do you have any personal headcanons related to him, and are there any popular opinions/headcanons/characterizations of him you've seen in fanon that you dislike? also! do you like novel, animation, or live action xue yang the best? any or all of those as you please 😄 take care and have a lovely weekend ❤️❤️ 🔎Oh! I'm curious, yeah!🔍

*vibrates with excitement* uH OK, SO--

(jsyk, XueXiao is my MDZS OTP, so that’s going to reflect a lot in the answers/links I include below! just a quick heads up in case that ship is not your jam, which is totally okay!)

MY ART: I’ve got more under my art tag/twitter, but if I had to pick a few to highlight, there’s the scene that broke my heart the most, some fluff (because it’s what I’m weak for), and an AU that plagues my mind constantly. (also I’m one of the artists featured in the XueXiao Banquet zine that will be available at the end of the month, so keep an eye out!)

OTHERS’ ART: I could feature dozens and dozens of artists, but a couple works that I adore oh so much belong to yilingpatriarch, moobiess, kevinkevinson, alyruko, delsinsfire, airin-marine, and baoshankaro (the official illustrator of the MDZS novel’s Russian adaptation)!

FICS: so I’ve only got four included on my fic recs page (I’m always open for more suggestions!), and they are finalizer’s “piece by piece”, Sour_Idealist’s “all I ever knew of love” and “life’s illusions I recall”, and Lise’s “Defanged”.

as for which Xue Yang is my favorite...... I honestly love the manhua and CQL depictions equally for different reasons??? manhua!XY is easier to draw, and I deeply love his color scheme, attire, and cute bangs/high pony... but Wang HaoXuan is gorgeous, an incredible actor, and brought such an unexpected but spot-on soft depth to Xue Yang’s character that I’m constantly blown away by and forever grateful for... manhua!XY and CQL!XY are completely different and yet both so utterly Xue Yang, so I guess--! it’s too hard to choose I’m sorry--!

as for headcanons... I’ve mentioned before that I’m hella weak for fluff, I crave that domestic intimacy and vulnerability... so while it may be ooc, I’m all for AUs where Xue Yang leaves behind a life of murder and crime (or never gets around to it in the first place) and settles down for a nice, quiet life with Xiao XingChen. that’s not to say that I excuse or ignore his canon character’s actions! I acknowledge that Xue Yang is an incredible villain and I wouldn’t change anything about him in the novel... but it makes the soft, sweet AUs that much sweeter. <3

and regarding headcanons I don’t vibe with... I respect others’ opinions because everyone is entitled to their own, but a little part of me dies inside whenever someone says something along the lines of “Xue Yang isn’t included in this Yi City gang art/fic because he SUCKS and deserved to DIE.” like... I’m not here to convince anyone to accept/love/condone Xue Yang and his choices, but he is an integral part of the Yi City gang??? that’s like talking about the Venerated Triad and excluding Jin GuangYao because he was evil??? 

anyway. I love all four of the Yi City arc characters, I love the arc itself, and I just wish everyone could have lived as one big happy family! lol