#take my work with a grain of salt bruv

[gizzberg]

hi, i found your blog through your super cool and colourful tf2 stuff! i LOVE the colours and your art is super cool too! (it motivated me to wanna draw again lmao)

just a quick question though, any tips on making a tf2 oc/persona? i’m struggling to pick a custom class out for them…… i’ve got the design down but the class thing is just super hard when i’m not sure what other terms could fall under ‘mercenary’, hah.. ;v;

(you don’t need to answer this btw, i just wanted to tell you your content is fucking awesome, i love colours)

Oh thank you, I'm glad you found my sfm comic and posters pleasing :D although I hope you didn't cringe that much at my digital art.

I will wish you all the motivation in the world to be able to draw more stuff!! >:]

In terms of creating a custom class for your tf2 oc I don't think I'm the right person for the job. I've only made 1 custom class and that's my boi "Tracker".

Maybe this will help ya... Mercenaries are just hired soldiers who are paid to fight (according to google) but it also means: hired service who's serving merely for pay.

So technically a custom class like the Janitor could still count as a mercenary if ya wanna find a cheat around the word. For example Scout is not exactly a soldier nor an ex-military person. He was just hired to become a mercenary in order for the land war between the two Mann brothers to continue.

Anyway you could always take my word with a grain of salt cuz I ain't a professional at this XDD

You can also look at other people's tf2 ocs for your brainstorming.

But hopefully this helped you a teensy bit.

(sorry if my bad is English)

[iamapoopmuffin]

18 19 22 23 for the violence ask game! Uhhh either naruto or teen titans because i think those are our only shared fandoms? Lol

Bet!

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on... The Storm Twins, my beloveds, I don't care that they only showed up for one and a bit episodes, and the main episode with them in was cursed as fuck, I love they.

19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like... ...mpreg... The main reason I like this is because of the creative ways people come up with to make it work, and my favourites are the ones that actually go really in depth with the medical side of things or have a unique twist to the overall story. I steer far away from omegaverse stuff because, well, there isn't any of the creativity I like there, and extra far from anything overtly sexual or fetishistic. It's very much the exploration of how things could potentially do that in universe and the effects of this happening as well. EG my thing of realising Beast Boy could change sex when he changed animal and messing with that.

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores Uuuuuhhhhh side characters ig? I get way too attached to side characters and background bitches, which I know plenty of other people do too, but yeah, I guess that's my thing lol. I mean, do you remember how I would write fics about the most background one off bitches I could find in Naruto? Like these random ass Hidden Sand dudes? Also not for either of the fandoms listed but I see a lot of people saying the tweels in Twisted Wonderland would be awful with or hate kids but I'm pretty sure one of the events I missed showed them actually being good with little kids, but I'm going off screenshots I've seen so take this with a grain of salt

23. ship you've unwillingly come around to Uhhhhh Limiting myself just to Naruto and Teen Titans, I suppose it would mostly be canon couples I never saw but ended up accepting for a semi canon compliant next gen, like Herald and Bumblebee or Shikamaru and Temari (which I started just not vibing, ended up loving, then the Boruto series made it toxic and now I hate it and everything sucks), but typically I don't have many ships I reluctantly come round to. Or, those that I did are mostly Sonic ships I hated as a child but now love, EG Shadamy and Sonadow (but none of that soft cutesy domestic nauseatingly in love crap for the latter ship, it ain't them bruv) and a couple of BNHA ones maybe, but BNHA ones that I don't even know why I was so resistant to them because they're really valid, EG Erasermic.

[ifonlysj]

heyyyy i'm a relatively new elf and i loooove sungmin but i have a question. you said sungmin "made a mistake in the way he treated fans who were supporting and even helping out his wedding". what is that about? i only know that he got hate for marrying which is bullshit but what happened with supportive fans? thank you, love your blog

hey anon! as promised: here is my opinion about how sungmin handled the situation~ and please take it with a grain of salt and form your own judgement.

just wanted to remind everyone reading this that i still think sungmin should come back to super junior too! if there is something you wish to correct/disagree with under the cut, let me know nicely. we don’t have to fight, okay? let’s do this like civilised people :)

it’s known that leeteuk and heechul have acknowledged that fans would rather hear about dating/marriage news from the members themselves rather than through articles and rumours. this of course makes sense, idols who have “asked for their fans’ blessing” have seen a much better response from their fans than those who got “exposed” by dispatch/sasaengs/whatever. sure, this isn’t a blanket generalisation, but you kinda get it right? i wouldn’t want malicious rumours about someone i like getting involved with someone else, not because i am “possessive”, but because i think the relationship between an idol and their fans can be trusted so that you know, we can celebrate together and stuff.

there are also other rumours about the ‘controversy’ surrounding his marriage, but they were mostly cleared through an article on naver. you can find it here. it should be pretty accurate, because sungmin posted a link to it on his instagram as an instagram post. 

here’s something that i don’t know if it’s been cleared ; sungmin allegedly changed his signature by replacing the star he normally uses with ‘Mi’, which is a nickname for saeun (his wife). this part is really a little bit weird. i don’t think he should have done that, considering how the fan who requested for the autograph has a name that doesn’t resemble ‘Mi’ in any way or form. you can find the original post on pann here. look at it this way, you travelled all the way out and did x number of things and basically worked hard so you could meet someone you liked, and the person gave you gift, that was actually a secret message for someone else. that’s just... not right. again, anything regarding sungmin and the controversy has been grossly warped by people to the point where it is difficult to check if anything is right/wrong. correct me if you want. 

something else; sungmin’s apology letter was released ahead of his army discharge. he handwrote it and apologised for hurting fans by getting married before his enlistment. i think he missed the point. fans aren’t stupid. korean fans aren’t stupid. i believe the ones who are possessive and think they own him is a minority. but i think it’s understandable that these fans felt angered by how he handled it. he didn’t apologise for the signature and he didn’t apologise for ’sharing’ his fan gifts with his wife.

this is a difficult post to make and this part is the worst bit of it, because i’m going to share about why i felt uneasy about his marriage. i’m not saying i’m against it. i’m just. i don’t really know, i had really bad feeling about this when the news first came out. disclaimer: i do not pretend to speak for fans or for anyone at this point, this is just my personal opinion and maybe you disagree with it and that’s okay. this is how i felt about it in 2014-5 and it was a long time ago. with age comes wisdom LOL and honestly i don’t feel anything when i think about it now. 

i felt uneasy when the news broke out because of the timing of it. the timing was, quite frankly, quite terrible. there are some issues that made it worse that sungmin himself couldn’t control, but i don’t think it would have hurt to think it through a little more before releasing the news. 

sungmin confirmed he was getting married in between super shows. i don’t know what kind of impression that gives you, but i’ll be frank: it gives me the impression that he’s acting more individualistic and not putting his group activities as a priority in his life.

for international fans, this could seem like a shock to you. of course he should put his personal life first, he’s in love! he’s finally found someone he likes enough to get married, and we should support him because we want him to find happiness. that’s an opinion, and you’re entitled to it. but what we’re looking at is the confucian principles of community and society that are upheld by most of the korean community. this is a culture that mandates military enlistment laws for all males (with very few exceptions). so really, through their perspective, the outrage could be perhaps more understood. it is also important to know that when the news first broke, the general opinion ranged from congratulatory messages (that hoped for a better public opinion of idols getting married/falling in love), to speculations if it was a shotgun marriage and if saeun was pregnant. consider that sungmin had not enlisted in the military at this point. for korean men, entering the military is a rite of passage into “manhood”. it was already bad enough for idols themselves to still enlist, and fans were already dreading his enlistment. to suddenly spring the news of marriage on them? it made the timing of the whole thing even worse. what’s worse is that the fandom was trying to support them, but sungmin antis and even some of sungmin’s sasaeng’s gave false reports about the whole situation (see: rumous about the wedding, etc.). 

something to understand in korean netizen culture is that they literally live in a culture where paparazzi are so normalised and entertainment journalism literally puts out close to fifty new reports, news, and scandals out every day. on top of that, korea is notorious for their efficient, workaholic cultures that spares no time for research. imagine being bombarded with news about sungmin’s ‘misdeeds’ every week and every month. obviously your impression of him worsens. then he goes to enlist in the army, effectively disappearing, not making a statement until he nearly discharges, then going back to promote himself as per usual. you only have ten minutes a day, maximum, to see the news. you don’t have time to check for yourself on the internet what is happening. if you’re a fan, you go on twitter to check with the big fansites what is happening, and then you see that they are all quarrelling between themselves about writing petition letters. every single thing sungmin does gets uploaded as ‘breaking news’, paparazzi zoom in onto the other sujus’ “apologies” and “opinions” regarding their fellow member, and public opinion builds the impression that sungmin just doesn’t give a shit about his group. and remember! he’s literally getting married and having a honeymoon in between concerts, when the rest of the members are practising/rehearsing/working hard on TV to get more acknowledgement. gosh, sungmin really is throwing his group under the bus all for love... 

that’s a thought process i went through. i can hardly emphasise more about how this shit isn’t about me getting pressed and possessive about how he’s my oppa and he shouldn’t get married because i’m going to marry him one day. it’s not! it’s about me loving suju to the point where sungmin seems like he’s just going off on his own without caring about the group image. quite frankly if any of the sujus reveal tomorrow that they are dating someone, my response would be something like: “oh thank God!”, and if next year they say something like “y’all, we’re gonna get married”, then i would be like: “FINALLY!” because the sujus deserve nothing but happiness and i just want them to be happy after all the shit they’ve been through. [of course sungmin deserves happiness too. everyone does.]

i started rambling but... i just want to say that i really wish sungmin eased us more into it. the whole thing was aggravated because of how saeun handled it on TV also. sungmin enlisting right after was a good move, considering the damage already done. it would have given the whole thing to die down a bit, for fans to think things a little bit more through while sungmin basically removed himself from society for a bit. but while he was gone, saeun said some shit about how sungmin is really touchy and good with skinship, how sungmin drank 9 bottles of soju just to get the courage to ask her father for his blessing, and so on. that’s not right sis. why would you keep making headlines about your man when you should just lie low and wait for the hatred to pass... she then went on to like really controversial pictures, like the one where someone is slapping someone else. the slapper is labelled “international ELFs” while the one being slapped is labelled”K-ELFs”... that shit just ain’t cool bruv... obviously this started another internal fanwar, and i’m pretty sure a lot of ELFs have bad impressions of her. idk i feel like the sudden attention went to her head or something... why would you talk about alcohol... gosh...

anyway i don’t hate her or anything and i’m happy that she brings our boi happiness but i just don’t have a good impression of her... maybe she’s a really nice person IRL but you know, she’s a celebrity and we’ll never meet so i won’t pass judgement on her.

that’s... kinda it i guess? congrats if you made it all the way to the end. i just wanna rehash the point about sungmin returning to super junior. i think he should. he’s been away for long enough and i think that’s enough ‘punishment’, but i do think it would make it easier for the public to try and accept him again if the both of them just admit to what they did wrong in the past and apologise and then just move on. that shit is old as heck, i think. there’s what i think happened. lmk if i made a mistake or missed something, i wrote like 60% of this post thinking back to that time period and considering how, uh, i don’t live in korea, there might have been something i missed. the other 40% is stuff i searched online to double check, but you know. take everything that isn’t an article with a bucket of salt. lord knows how messed up everything is after those sungmin antis started spreading rumours and stuff. 

if you need a clarification about something said above, you can send me a (nice) ask and i’ll answer!

one last thing, i’m not saying what the sungmin antis did to sungmin (with regards to trying to kick him out of suju, threatening his wife, etc.) is justified by whatever i said above. i’m just saying it makes it a little bit more understandable. but it doesn’t make them entitled to such actions and i 100% believe that their actions are unjustified.