#tagging this as that bc it is kinda fandom discourse

[basket-of-radiants]

Ok hi!!!! I love all your takes on the characters and it's rlly interesting! I also think moash is a very nuanced and fascinating character. I'm kinda mad at him after he tried to convince Kal to k!ll himself but I think he's a great charcter with lots of depth and your pinned post was so interesting because it said so much about moash! Anyway sorry bye!!!

Hello!!! Thank you!! I apologize for inflicting that post on you, but I'm glad you read/enjoyed it! ty for letting me know <3<3<3

[oddogoblino]

I went on a big rant and deleted it for my own sanity but man- I hate how pr*sh*ppers will cause problems and then be upset when people try to find solutions to get rid of them. You aren't a hero. Stop trying to convince yourself and kids that you are. Just- fuck off man. "It's fictional", quit playing, we know that's the only excuse you have because there's nothing you can say to justify it.

I hate this god damn fandom. I dont even hope for their deaths, maybe they can change afterall. They're right in that regard, its fiction, they have the time to make the change since they haven't done/before they do something irredeemable. I just wish that filtering tags automatically blocked anyone who used them. Filtering the tags doesn't do anything if I still have to run into these people to know to block them.

[guckies]

Saw someone talk about the politics on qsmp saying it shouldn’t have been made a thing…

But it was made to build plot and question relationships dynamics? Qsmp showed that it involves heavy lore and that lore isn’t gonna always be sunshine and rainbows.

Some were also comparing it to dsmp and that it’s been really negative plot overall. The only reason the dsmp politics were ruined was because twt people took it too seriously which ruined it. Dsmp is just one bad example of many smps. So if the lore is being ruined it’s cause it’s being took too seriously.

Keep in mind there has been several smps where a government or politics are involved and they still worked out fine. Like have they watched Karmaland or Hermitcraft or even smpEarth.

The short end is that if you can’t handle any of the lore and/or the exploration of relationship dynamics, then it’s time to log off and search for something else to be interested in because it’s just roleplay content at the end of the day.

[an-android-in-a-tutu]

There was a bit of a tiff that went down yesterday among some of my spnblr colleagues, and I'm not gonna really comment on that directly, suffice it to say I blocked the person involved ages ago bc they always act like this and I find it uncomfortable and unpleasant. But I think their behaviour is notable nc it's an example of a phenomena I've been noticing more and more lately, that I'm sure smarter and more attentive people than me have already described but I'm going to give it a shot anyway.

It's essentially the belief that if you present yourself as the passive/receptive partner then your aggressive sexual advances are no big deal and just funny jokes. The obvious related thought is the idea that women can't harrass or sexually assault men, but it goes beyond that imo.

I saw a post just recently speculating on how it's funny to talk about how you want to have so muc sex if you're a bottom but if you're a top it's creepy and makes you sound like a predator which is like. Mind boggling to me in terms of the unexamined bullshit at play. And to be fair people on that post were quick to point out that using sexually aggressive language to describe what you want someone to do to you is just as much harrassment as the other way around, and that people are far too permissive of this kind of behaviour. No one made the inverse observation that "wanting to put your penis in someone" as stated in the post is not inherently creepy or sexually predatory.

Like, topping and bottoming are a morally neutral acts. I feel like this sentiment goes around once every few months but we have got to let go of the idea that penetration is inherently violent and dominating. Especially if the inverse belief is allowing people to excuse genuinely out of line behaviour because they think being the receptive partner somehow makes them inherently non-threatening.

I mean that was imo a not insignificant part of the recent booktok drama abt a woman essentially sexually harrassing a hockey player. And there was absolutely more going on, not least of which being her getting rewarded for her behaviour initially, but I think a big issue is that we kind of apply the "punching up" model to situations like this, her target was both a man and a celebrity, the balance of power tips heavily in his favour so her actions become permissible. And for some reason there's this continued perception of bottoming and topping carrying a power imbalance. But if booktok lady had been screaming at Hockey players that she wanted to fuck them in the ass, that wouldn't be any worse that yelling at them to fill all her holes. It's the same shit.

So like, if you say, have this habit of using extended graphic sexual metaphors about how, say, people disagreeing with you about a fictional character all want you to suck their huge dick so bad but you don't want to and actually their dick is super small and pathetic anyway. You haven't actually cracked the code of how to avoid being a creep bc it's your mouth and their cock and not vice versa. And when you start actually replying to people with shit like this instead of just keeping it to your own blog? Sorry but just because it's about how "Everyone Else" wants you to suck their fat dick doesn't distract from the fact that you are the one opening conversations with other people with graphic sexual language for no reason.

(You also can't pretend not to be body shaming with your countless small dick comments by saying that it's just a metaphor and you're talking about BEHAVING like you have a small dick plbt plbt plbt that's a fucking cop out answer for idiot cowards. You are talking about people "metaphorically" having a small dick as a stand in for being pathetic. "I'm not bodyshaming I'm just using having a body like this as a stand in for qualities I think are bad!" What a fucking joke. But I digress)

And like I genuinely think this person just thinks they're doing a funny bit, and I don't think they need to be canceled for it or w/e but I do feel we all need to reflect on our assumptions abt sex and accept that the rules don't change bc of gender, or submissiveness, or who's sticking what in who. Unsolicited sexual comments are unsolicited comments, and while I'm not gonna pretend that tumblr is a sacred space where we can't make jokes about screwing and dicks and balls, there's always a line, and you don't actually get a free pass to cross it by being an uwu submissive bottom so spank me daddy.

Also if you're gonna make an extended sexual metaphor about what arguing about the cw's supernatural is like, I guess go nuts show nuts but be aware that you are gonna be broadcasting your particular sexual hangups when you do. Personally I prefer to put them in my fanfiction and get embarrassed when someone points them out. But hey, different strokes.

[cirrem]

also please please please i need more fanart of non-lifer hermits

like i just posted about how i was looking to watch people like beef and jevin and currently watch zedaph welsknight and hypno and its a pretty barran wasteland.

like, search any of them up on tumblr and tell me, how much of the fanart and posts are about them, and how much is just "i did something for all the hermits" or "they interacted with grian/scar/mumbo and i made fanart"

welsknight is an exception bc helsknight i think and people really like the "good knight vs evil version of himself" sorta dynamic i think. which do whatever you want and yay welsknight fanart! but when was the last time helsknight appeared outside of being a playing card? i know i only watched some of his season 9 stuff before watching s10 consistantly but i feel like theres a lot of focus on very few things

[pangyham]

if you don't want people to rb there's also an option to disable reblogs on the post itself, if you click on the settings option when writing it

ARE YOU SERIOUS

[crowfanity]

Sorry for posting so much about Palworld but no I'm not

[olderthannetfic]

It kinda upsets me when people like...immediately assume badfaith of someone, especially someone who might be "new" to fandom or not understand certain etiquette.

Non-fanwork on ao3? IDK, if it seems like a good intention but just dumb intention - like one of the "manifestation" fics , etc. Just tell them it's not appropriate for the archive.

Patreon/kofi advertising? Polite reminder to tell them to remove it.

Someone posted AI? Maybe just put a kind reminder of the harms of AI. Not calling them slop or anything. (I know that AI isn't even against the TOS, so that's a bit of a different context, but yeah.)

Someone misunderstands a tag, or discourse, etc, bc they don't understand the meaning or aren't familiar with it? Just explain it to them or link to tv tropes or fanlore or whatever.

Like sorry but hard to swallow pills but a lot of people really are too unwilling to read TOS. Which, skill issue, yes, but tbh usually it's pretty easy to tell when someone is being malicious vs just not knowing. G-d knows I embarrassed myself to hell and back at some of the things I posted at 13. (Not saying all these people are young either of course, just saying like....yeesh)

And obviously no one has to explain anything to anyone, but I think if you DO want to tell them off, you should either do it calmly or just report it (if it's something that can be reported) or block them - rather than coming off as harsh and aggressive.

Like yall cant call this the neurodivergent website and then get really irate when someone might not understand a social cue or concept or something like that.

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[ohprcr]

Hello! I've followed your art journey throughout the years on several social medias (though I tend to made and then deactivated accounts as often as breathing due to my impulsiveness haha). I want to start learning art seriously, inspired by you. And tbh I usually got motivation to keep going by putting my progress on the internet, even when no one is looking nor gives me validation, it just feels like I did something rather than keeping the progress to myself. Like, I need a visual tracker.

So I'd love to know your opinion on the pro and cons of the social medias you use to share your art? Especially instagram, twitter, and tumblr (Since I plan on making one each). What kind of culture and rules I must abide, what notice I should take. Which platform is the most comfortable for you? And do you always post the same artworks on all your platforms or you have your own classification on what kind of artwork you'll put on instagram, which one is for twitter, etc? Thanks in advance!

Hi!

First of all thanks for asking me! It's so nice to hear that you're planning to share your art ^^ This is probably gonna a bit long and mostly based on my personal experience, but I hope this helps!

The first socmed I use to mostly (and solely) post art was Instagram. My interactions there are mostly reconnecting with art mutuals from the deviantART days and some RL friends/family. I used to post regularly on Instagram but with how the algorithm works now that they're under Meta, I rarely participate in trends or post reels, and I mostly just post finished art and some speedpaint videos. But if you want you can def use the reels feature to create process video, etc. I like the carousel/stringed together image format and it can be utilized to post a lot of images in one post (up to 20 for now). I also use instagram as some kind of portfolio, with how it present a clean grid. I have RL friends and family following me there so I mostly just post general art, nothing too suggestive.

As for Tumblr, I've had it for quite a long time and it can be traced back to the ol'fandom days haha. I don't participate much in fandoms anymore, but I think it's always a good thing to post either original or fanart with proper tags on Tumblr. The comprehensive tagging method lets you scrounge and filter posts under the tag, so my older posts usually still circulate on other people's blogs even years after it was posted (which I'm grateful that they still enjoy my old stuff!). I mostly post finished art on Tumblr, sometimes multiple images in one post but it's a bit limited compared to Instagram. i don't post videos on here. I also use Tumblr as an archive bc it's much easier to track back my old posts.

The most recent socmed I use is Twitter. Maybe it's already a known fact how the site is kinda falling off after it changed to X :" but I still use it mainly to communicate with friends. I post more liberally on Twitter, from finished art, videos, animation, sketches and personal stuffs as well. It's also where my promotional posts get the most reach in terms of visibility (this includes commissions, merch catalogues, etc) and most clients I've had in the past found me there. I think the community is also more active on Twitter, but sometimes it can also lead to discourses/fighting that I don't rly wanna take part in :" I've seen people moving to Bluesky as well, though I personally haven't used it yet.

All in all I think I mostly crosspost my works across all of my socmed, with a few exceptions on each socmed. I hope this helps and happy posting!!

[afantasyoffiction]

a lil intro :)

hi hello to anyone who's checking this out!

i’m caitlin, an aspiring fantasy writer and maybe poet, english literature nerd and general fandom weirdo who likes to talk a lot about all my many many obsessions :)

i'm newish to actively participating on this site as opposed to watching thru the window of pinterest...but i think its time i stop pretending there are limits to my insane obsessions ya know

i talk about: writing, procrastinating writing, reading writing and characters in writing who drive me insane!

my writing: i write poetry which i will post on here occasionally! but my main writing that is intended for other ppl to read is fanfic, and my fantasy wip:

my fics that you can go read literally right now if you want:

just to sit outside your door - buddie post-hiatus wip

if I glued myself shut (you would find your way in) - buck's pov during the 'are his concerns your concerns', feeling realisation

you've haunted me, so stunningly - eddie pov during the post -lightning convo w buck, based on that amazing edit making the rounds rn

just to sit outside of your (ipad screen) light - eddie post-hiatus mini fic, feelings realisation

the witches wip: a ya fantasy book (one day trilogy i hope!) about a world where witches are gone, but persecution of them isn't. trying to save her innocent sister from execution, my fmc gets dragged into a storm of political plotting, conflicting agendas and strange powers beyond her comprehension. a book about family, and realising that what you thought was a bedtime story might still be around to haunt you... tagged with #the witches wip

my ao3: a_fantasy_2 - all the good stuff is copied above! tags are #shameless fanfic plug and #caitlin's original writing

my sideblog: the blog incoherency was getting a bit much even for me so i now have a side blog just for Bards of New York content!!! check it out here

main fandoms: i have been in a ridiculous number of fandoms so this is not all of them but these are my main ones - bold are ones im currently in the trenches abt :)

9-1-1 (but any more discourse will kill me. i just want chill buddie and general theorising and fics mk)

marauders (my og loml one true fandom its a canon event i fear)

good omens (book and tv show changed my life)

anything leigh bardugo but SoC and RoW especially

supernatural (its been a while but then again i'm fandom posting on this site so its kinda a given)

anything by chloe gong....(message me PLEASE. best ya fantasy writer and my literal writing idol)

EPIC the musical - i love this so freaking much, if you don't know what this is go find out u won't regret it

hamilton (i am in fact hamiltrash, unfortunately)

all for the game (despicable. and yet...)

Bards of New York (i have a sideblog!!! see here <3)

tagging system: i got one of those creepy teeth 'frequent poster badges', so i think it might be time for me to get one of these. ahem. on an incoherent blog, i declare order:

#caitlin writes and yaps abt it - writblr content (these will almost always have the 'writblr' and 'writers on tumblr' tag as well)

#caitlin's homebrew hallucinations - any writing or OC content from my wips or poetry i share

#the witches wip - specific wip content!

#caitlin the english major - literature posts

#caitlin reblogs from even cooler blogs and/or #caitlin's moot besties - reblogging my moots or other cool ppl!

#caitlin does ask games / #caitlin does reblog games - making a separate tag bc i LOVE these

#shameless fanfic plug - fics that i write on ao3 and want to share here

#caitlin rambles miscellaneous - anything else thats incoherent

fandom posts will all be tagged with their fandom and with #caitlin a fandom nerd

sound good? let me know if this actually makes this blog make any more sense mk team

please send me: asks/posts/comments about these fandoms, short fic writing prompts within these fandoms, writblr content, writing questions, or literature thoughts :)

(pls don’t send me requests for money or ai content. i will block and delete, here’s why. )

basically reach out if you just want to ramble about any of these things because what else is tumblr dot com for ... seriously what. actually what was this site made for it beats me

[ronanxing]

heyhey!! so first of all let me say you are easily making some of my fav alien stage fan art out there (i won't get specific here bc then i run out of new ways to gush in the tags of your work :^) ). writing bc I'm curious abt your feelings on hyuna and luka, since i believe you've focused on mizisua and ivantill so far :)

AAAAA thank you so much this ask made my day!! im so glad u like my fanart :'D and hyuna and luka....ooouuughhh............ more under cut i think i rambled too hard LOL

i think a good half of the fandom before wiege was like. fairly Neutral on them, and i was also kinda like that! i didnt have any particular strong feelings abt them, but i never once doubted they cared for each other if that makes sense 😭 i just didnt actively ship them

wiege though OIYHSHDJFJG....... yeah that converted me a little!!! i cant lie!!!! i feel a lot of things abt them now. the rs / ship is good from a character standpoint and i think it does them sm justice

ik there was like a lot of discourse on what happened w/ hyuna and her feelings towards luka, some ppl thinking it was a complete 180* but the love was lowkey always there ! and it being a contributor to why she cant forgive herself ooooousdug. DELICIOUS!

and luka being so enamored with hyuna and devoted to her even though hes. hes. you know. LUKA, its good i loveeee it.

i love that their relationship isnt so clear cut, and its complicated (esp from hyunas end DELICIOUS X2), but it left such a meaningful impression on them both as characters. like the love is there and its clear but wow its sooo messy. IMO they lowkey exemplify the "love and hate" / complex rs ALNST likes to put the most

but ok yeah sorry i have Thoughts but yes i am a hyuna and luka enjoyer, individually and their rs with e/o its GOOD. maybe not in a strong shipping sense like w the others, cuz to me its most appealing when its not Purely romantic (if that makes sense?)

but their dynamic is S tier! rly my only complaint is that we dont have more of them !!!

[broodwoof]

kinda personal

i have this internal tension over how to talk abt veilguard

bc if I'm honest about my joy, that's somehow shitting on ppl who hated it. if I express my joy in any depth, that's an attack on ppl who didn't like whatever aspect I'm praising

but if I do nothing except toe the line of the dispassionate middle ground then literally why am I here? I've become a conciliatory service rather than a person who started a blog to share my thoughts on things I love in depth and in my own time

and if I ever point out some of the shit the larger fandom does or certain, shall we say, hypocrisies in how ppl approach different characters, then no matter how carefully I've worded it I'm somehow vaguing everyone and also being contentious and belligerent and 20 other things, even when I'm very careful to be assessing things at the broader community level rather than the individual level

part of this is in my head, ik that. but other parts have happened. and at the same time, ik this is only the tip of the iceberg and that ppl braver than I are getting sm shit for being forthright about their love for this game

I just hate that it's a no-win situation. but realistically I'm going to carry on the way I have been. that means that, yes, sometimes I'll be salty about shit, bc this stuff rly does upset me. not bc everyone needs to agree about my blorbo opinions, but bc of the underlying stuff that it seems to indicate

like, take taash. ppl who post extensively about hating them do not make me feel particularly safe as a trans person, bc idk why they hate them. idk if it's transphobia or if it's just "this character didn't click with me." and I'd always be wary about that, but esp rn? with the western political climate being what it is? yeah...

or solas. do ppl hate him bc of what he's done, or bc he reads as ND, probably autistic? bc he does! like, on the "oh I'll forgive his war crimes" site a character with war crimes being loathed with as much intensity as he gets, I have to question if there are other factors underlying that. I have to question if my autism, through which I relate deeply to solas, will cause these ppl to hate and revile me as well. if they're just as willing to joke about killing other ND/ND-coded characters

or sera, or mythal, or vivienne, or bellara, or merrill, or anders, or fenris, or or or-

so, yeah, it's upsetting. not bc I'm "too online" (although I know I am Very Online), but bc of the rl impact/potential impact and the uncertainty all this hate/critique is generating

just a vent rly. I'm gonna keep doing my thing. I'm gonna keep blocking ppl who act up or whose whole schtick is 24/7 365 discourse even if I mostly agree with them. I'm gonna keep tagging my venting and putting it under cuts to make it easy to avoid. but ultimately this is my blog and yeah, I'm gonna say my things on it

[averagemafuyukinnie]

2 years and over 40k posts and I'm only making a pinned post now

TALK TO ME!!! i love talking even if im awkward

also pls tag me in things

i can't fit everything in my bio so here we go

you can call me kia (or other stuff) and i use he/it pronouns. i have a pronouns page if you want more info

my dc is averagemafuyukinnie

I'm taken!! idm flirting jokingly just dont do it srsly. ill probably yap abt my gf a ton

I'm a minor so don't be weird please!!! adults can interact tho it's fine. again just don't be creepy

I'm from italy and i speak italian, english, some french, and I'm trying to learn spanish

i mainly post about project sekai, but I'm also in other fandoms such as:

in stars and time (I'm still on act 2 so no spoilers)

needy streamer overload

bocchi the rock

toilet bound hanako-kun (rereading the manga rn)

assassination classroom

doki doki literature club

pokemon (kinda)

sk8 the infinity

vocal synths (vocaloid, utau, etc)

alien stage

tgswiiwagaa aka green yuri

epic: the musical

heathers

and probably more i forgot

some of my all time fav characters/ships are:

saki tenma

kasane teto

mafuyu asahina

ena shinonome

haruka kiritani

minori hanasato

miu takagi

telemachus

circe

tiresias

ryo yamada

kikuri hiroi

kangel/ame

siffrin

till

hyuna

jd

harusaki

ruinene

mafuena

mizurui

shihomiu

mitsuaya

polykessoku

ivantill

mizisua

leo/need

niigo

probably more

bolded ones are hyperfixations/main stuff i post abt

i also draw sometimes!!! you can find my drawings in the #kyrie art tag

i have a cosplay sideblog!! @antiiyou--0

i run @sakitenma-everyday as well as a few rp blogs: @hinomori-shihofficial @junior-high-mizuki-official @werewolf-enanan @transfem-saki-official @miu-takagi-official @honahona-ln @sup3rn0v4-mmj @mafurs @poketrainer-yuki. I also have a few other blogs id like to keep separate from this one

also my oc has a blog!! @aryuuseriousrn

if you need me to tag anything feel free to ask, i tag with "#tw [thing]". if i forget to tw anything feel free to remind me. I won't tag caps or swearing bc i use them a lot

for me, please tag emetophobia, graphic gore, graphic sh and animal death. ny catchall tag is '#neptune look away' but the normal tags are ok too

while i do my best to use tone tags when necessary, I'd prefer them being used as little as possible when talking to me (or just dont use them at all)

dni if you're lgbtq+ phobic in anyway (especially terfs fuck off), sh/ed blogs, pedos/zoos, zionists, pusu supporters, anti-endos, and if you think transandrophobia isn't real

do not drag me into any kind of discourse

[transmascbive]

GREETINGS!

my name(s) are bive, kris, and casper!!! (im so gonna make more names bc im stupid)

previous username was squidpaw

im just repurposing this account since i made it when i was 11 or 12 😭

ABOUT ME

transmasc nonbinary, aroace (cupioromantic aegosexual) polyamorous omnisexual (and kinda objectum)

wolf, bernese mountain dog, borzoi, and snow leopard otherkin

bive, dynamite, razor, barry ill, sly ill, preboot uni cornelius, isaac (tboi), cream (cometcare), dragonscale, asa (csm), and fuzz (jaarp) irl, please do not reality check me /srs

black neurodivergent artist (autism, add, adhd, ptsd, schizospec, ied)

currently working on a webcomic with my wife ( @objectfreakshow )

my favorite music genres are DnB, nu metal, and furry music

i used to be a thread moderator for a fandom site (funkipedia)

my f/os are denji, broly, sol badguy, and AM. i don’t share lols

@ambermoment and @thehammerhead ARE MY PARTNERS!!!!! check them out please

⚠️🐾 DISCLAIMER: i have very bad memory and i tend to lash out when i don’t understand something and i have a very bad temper. i do not mean to lash out whenever possible. if i do not remember you or something i/you/someone did, please feel free to remind me. 🐾⚠️

I ALSO DRAW GORE, UNSETTLING THEMES, NON SEXUAL NUDITY, PLEASE BLOCK MY SUGGESTIVE TAG TO NOT SEE THAT.

TAGS

#bivereblog - my reblogs 🐶💬

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#bivecomfort - comfort posts/reblogs

INTERACTION

interact if you:

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🐾 - like ultrakill, athf, htf, south park, object shows, oneyplays, fnaf, fnf, newgrounds, regretevator, mlp, pikmin, postal, guilty gear, anime, and tboi!!

🐾 - 16+ (my account is kind of suggestive so yeah)

🐾 - lgbtq+ (i love gay people /silly) or are an ally of sorts

please don’t interact if you are:

🦴 - other fictives/irl/kins of my irls (this is just for comfort and safety!) (fictives okay once we talk more/already friends)

🌙 - spive/oc x bive shipper (non platonic)

🦴 - exclusionists/discourse people

🌙 - i know you irl/you know me irl (UNLESS I LET U FOLLOW ME)

🦴 - minors dni blogs

🌙 - darkshippers (YOURE ICKY SCARY!!!)

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🦴 - pro-contact paraphiles/anti recovery people

[fast-burn]

ooo genuinely asking out of curiosity— what made you think there was a line for f1 rpf? In what way? I can kinda see it, I feel like there’s some very very popular kinks/tropes and then others you don’t see.

Also I’m not really into hockey rpf but I’ve kinda perused and know you guys have the most incredible fic!! I’m curious what are common tropes used in hockey rpf that you don’t see in f1? For example, I guess bc I’ve been in the f1 circle for so long I almost forget how it’s not “normal” to have sooo much omegaverse hahah

oh anon, i have many thoughts. can i interest you in a readmore?

okay so full disclosure is that hockey rpf has had people trying to doxx authors who post kinks they don't like, so it's not like it's free of problematic readers. personally i've had people write posts about how i'm a disgusting freak for some of the tropes/kinks i've written--mostly xeno/weird biology stuff. i've written some satirical stuff about it rather than let it get me down because tbh there are prudes in any audience. at this point i just don't go seeking people who write hand-wringing think-pieces about how my friends and i are the scum of the earth because really it's rooted in internalized misogyny, kinkshaming, and inferiority complexes; i simply don't have the bandwidth. but discourse like this has chased many people out of the fandom or caused them to unceremoniously delete their work. frankly, i've gotten off relatively easily.

but on the flipside--and maybe this is just time spent in the fandom?? god i've been writing hrpf since 2017--i've got a fairly loyal following who will read pretty much anything i've written. like if i wrote something completely balls-to-the-wall unexpected, it'd probably still get at least 50-150 kudos just on spec. i have a fic where the pairing is so rare that it's the ONLY one in the tag, and it still has 59 kudos.

the thing is that there's sort of a distressing trend of young people becoming more and more puritanical because of the diminishing youth space on the internet. i'm not the first to notice this or talk about it, so i won't bother with going into detail. but connected to this is the idea that fandom is rather cyclical as older fans move on (not all, but some) and new, younger fans come in. therefore, with a new cycle of fans nowadays comes a new cycle of...that. so it's pretty much all fandoms experiencing this. we've all seen the ridiculous outrage at ao3's hosting of """problematic""" content. i think this internal policing is why there's a lot more out-there kink content in original fiction on ao3 compared to fanfiction.

um okay onto hockey vs. formula 1! i need you to take this with an ENORMOUS grain of salt but based on a very very very small sample size, the more kinky the fic, the less engagement it gets. on one hand, this is sort of to be expected, since kink by its nature lies outside what is normative or standard, ergo hopefully people only read it if it's something they want to, or at least are curious about.

from what i've seen so far, i don't think f1rpf is that kinky?? to me, omegaverse is...okay, well it's kinky, but i also think it's become a kind of standard. i remember when omegaverse was new, but now i feel like it's a sort of fandom standard, at least for explicit fics. (are there g-rated omegaverse fics??? i simply filter out any search results for non-explicit fics.) my most-kudosed fic on ao3 is omegaverse, and to me that implies an acceptance of the trope to the point where it's become normalized. but i think there's a reason for that.

generally i think kink in fic is a way to explore and critique the source material in a sexy way. like for example, sports rpf in general has a lot of genderplay, either through omegaverse, or rule 63, genderswap, gendercurse, mpreg, male lactation, etc. which makes sense because generally Big Sports tend to be male-oriented, misogynistic, transphobic, and extremely segregated. and conversely, fanfiction and slash-fiction spaces, in their contemporary iteration, are largely the opposite. so hockey rpf, formula 1 rpf, football rpf, etc. will likely have a large amount of kink that engages with that concept.

but i think there's a lot more stuff to critique in formula 1 that, at least from my brief experience, has gone untouched. and maybe i'm just missing it because it was in the early 2000s or the 1990s? bear with me...

car-fucking/car sex: this is maybe my number one concern. why aren't they having sex in/on/around the cars? or WITH the cars? during a race? post-race? as a warm-up/cool-down? as a way to connect to the car/build the car? (see: carva universe) not just their race cars but also their stables of road cars. hello?? and nobody reacted to my suggestion that there should be a cronenberg-crash au. why not.

adrenaline junkie bullshit: like full jackass stunt nonsense. escalation to completely dangerous levels. deep sea diving, mountain climbing, parachuting, throwing a bowling ball at someone's nuts, etc.

bdsm: there is SOME--really really good stuff--but i want MORE. the way half of them like getting strapped into the seat but the other half hate it? but also the way that the adrenaline junkie bullshit feeds into painplay. and like the Whole Entire Concept of Discipline is just sports sports sports all over.

power dynamics and sexual ownership: while most sport rpf deals with teams, f1/motor is more individual-based. a driver is virtually owned by their team and it's extremely hierarchical. it's what creates these intense rivalries and shifting loyalties. also the cost vs. income difference for the lower formulas vs. f1. idk i just think there should be fics where teams bring that into play for sex reasons.

age difference: some ships come with it built-in, of course. there's this legacy of mentorship that i've noticed which is sort of a combination of coach/player and agent/player. then there's engineers and team principals who also have rich opportunities. mechanics are also often older than the drivers. and owners, sponsors, ancient pundits? so like...fuck that old man??

idk there's just a lot of dark, gross stuff happening in formula 1 and i think it needs to be turned into disgusting (affectionate) sex.

i am accepting recs, and i don't care what pairing it is.

that all being said, and at this point i'm second-guessing every single sentence i've written here, there's still a ton of new younger fans coming in. you can look at the charting of most popular pairings across the past 10 years or so and see it happening. and please don't get me wrong: the cycle of fandom is actually necessary and i love to have fresh writers and readers involved! just that, well.

if i've been in a fandom for x-number of years, i'm going to have to theoretically get more and more creative in order to produce something fresh and different. so unless i want to write some long, well-researched, plot-heavy character exploration through the romance genre, i'm here suggesting that we put a gearshift up someone's ass. okay? okay. but new writers don't need to necessarily go that far. so it's gonna be more tame, more vanilla. less kinky. and likewise, less willing to take a chance on a bit of strange.

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okay so i just stumbled upon your blog and the first thing i saw was the pianjeong tag.

i have to ask.

do you ship piandao and jeong jeong??? do other people ship piandao and jeong jeong ???? is pianjeong a thing, and if so, WHY ?????

i'm truly baffled but i want to be enlightened

(i know you sent this a while ago sorry, took me some time to figure out how to respond and gather all the links to fic)

yes, yes, and yes, though of course it's a pretty niche thing since it's about minor characters.

as to why - imo it stems from the fact that if you want to ship either of them with someone, the other is the most obvious choice. around the same age, fellow white lotus member, fellow ex-fire nation military, easy to interpret as gay. like no, they don't have any canon interaction, but it's easy to imagine that they've interacted offscreen.

for my part, i got into it in 2020 when my friend abby @rarepairnation came up with it while writing earth system history, a zukka fic with piandao as zuko's gay professor. when trying to find a character to be his husband, she landed on jeong jeong, and then decided to go explore that dynamic with spark from a flame and we said forever (but forever wouldn't wait for us). i'd always liked both characters - i'm a sokka fan so of COURSE i like piandao, and i thought jeong jeong was fascinatingly tormented - so i was drawn in.

i think i'm still into it so many years later bc the storyline and characterizations established back then are legitimately really good. there's kind of a pianjeong "canon" to me:

they meet as young men in the fire nation military. young piandao is desperate to prove himself worthy (backstory from an old nickelodeon lore site says his parents abandoned him as a kid for being a nonbender) meanwhile young jeong jeong is a firebending prodigy (from that same lore site) vaguely uncomfortable with the status & privilege that grants him. they both crave what the other has

piandao brings a sword to a fire fight and wins. they both find the experience exhilarating - piandao is thrilled to be defeating a powerful firebender, and jeong jeong is thrilled to have someone stand up to him (spark from a flame, an old phenomenon)

they start a relationship of sorts, kept secret bc of the homophobia in the military (army dreamers)

jeong jeong deserts, leaving piandao behind (we said forever)

piandao eventually leaves the military too, traveling the world and learning the truth of the war (beyond your darkness)

they both independently end up in the white lotus

piandao offers jeong jeong a place to stay at his mansion after the war and they reconnect. it's been so long and so much has changed and jeong jeong definitely isn't in the right mental place to be in a relationship but slowly, he gets better and they get close again (i'm your light, ghosts, diary of the deserter)

like, is this kinda just two OCs in atlaverse? probably. but i think another reason i've been into it so long is that it allows me to engage with atla without always having to deal with the broader fandom discourses that frustrate me. i think atla is a pretty good show so the way fandom tends to want to change or ignore canon doesn't really appeal to me. i'd rather just play around in the universe! also i started writing a lot of pianjeong fic in 2020-2021 and tend to be a slow writer so i'm still working on it, and that keeps my interest alive.

so yeah. feel free to join us in old man yaoi if you like :)