#thank you so much for clarifying!

[svsssfanonarchive]

I'm the anon! I wasn't meaning you specifically. I actually think you've been doing an amazing job at stating the facts without letting biases show one way or another. Mostly I'm referring to some tags I saw and the salty post, in addition to YEARS of seeing people on twitter acting snobbish and like the western fandom (in particular after the 7s novels came out) are lesser, ignorant, or a plague. Might've been a bit of projection on my part but the aforementioned notes and comments from others in your posts reminded me of those attitudes (or how if unchecked they could become as rancid). My bad that I didn't clarify specifically what I meant. I love your posts and that's why I would hate to see them be used by bad faith actors to delegitimize "western" voices. Yes, we need to be humble and come from a place of being open to learning and not imposing our pov, but it's also unfair when we're being subject to higher standards and scrutiny that other non-english speaking parts of the fandom are.

Ahh I see!

Even though SVSSS is a Chinese novel written primarily for Chinese readers, the fandom itself is massively diverse. All sorts of different people from everywhere in the world have found things they enjoy about this book, and it means a lot to them— and I think that’s neat.

No one should be made to feel like they have no place in the fandom, or aren’t allowed to create fanworks. No matter where you come from, what your background is, there’s no reason you can’t be an equal part of the fandom — and yes, this also includes western fandom.

One other thing: there is nothing wrong with ignorance itself either. Everyone is ignorant of everything until they learn. If western fandom is ignorant, but they are trying to learn things, then what good is beating people down going to do? Only take any joy out of learning, only creating bitterness.

Western fandom is still SVSSS fandom, still people who enjoy this book.

It’s important to remember this is for fun. All of this, all fan creations and fandom in general is because a bunch of people from all sorts of backgrounds all liked one novel. As a Chinese person, I really love that people actually care to learn about Chinese culture through things like this. To see people genuinely interested in a positive way, it’s really nice!! It’s refreshing, and while my own life experiences make me quite wary of westernization, it also gives me an appreciation for this genuine interest, and this embracing of learning. I’ve seen much more instances of western fandom actually wanting to learn and being interested and curious than being willfully ignorant.

Everyone has a place in fandom, no matter if Western, Chinese, or anyone else. There’s nothing good that will come of gatekeeping people’s enjoyment of a book or participation in fandom.

[noodles-and-tea]

Last part whoo!!!

PART 1 / PART 2 / PART 3 / PART 4

[zu-is-here]

[ ? ]

Aftermare Week by @bluepallilworld

Geno by loverofpiggies

Nightmare by jokublog

[fereldanwench]

lmao i was like 'i think i'm chill now' and then see WRONG OPINIONS about a CERTAIN GAME and nope I'm still annoyed

[spark-circuit]

me at my bookstore job to the 27th young adult straight edgy fantasy romance to come in this month

[velvetwarfare]

𝐖𝐇𝐘, 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃? 𝐈𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐈 𝐃𝐈𝐄, 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃?

𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐃.

[ 𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐘, 𝐕𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐌, 𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐌 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐅𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐒, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐄. ]

• 𝐇𝐀𝐙𝐁𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐋 / 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐔𝐕𝐀 𝐁𝐎𝐒𝐒 𝐌𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄.

• 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃.

• 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐀𝐑 [ 𝐎𝐂 ], 𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐄, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐅𝐈𝐙𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐈, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐒𝐎𝐍.

𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄 : Here!

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐎 : The lovely @stolsas!!!! 🖤

𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 : @voxxisms, @staticintone, @hellmxses

𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒 : @voxxisms, @unholi, @mothvalentino, @hazbinhive, @hashtag-bitch, @lettherebemonsters, @jc-helluva-mumu, @hellmxses

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐖𝐒. || 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐀𝐑. [ Character sheet. ]

[queerliblib]

happy 10 days ‘till your friendly nationwide queer digital library opens 🥰 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

[that-was-anticlimactic]

"can you stay?" + atsushi & kyouka

"can you stay?"

atsushi's voice trembles as they speak, and kyouka freezes.

"nevermind."

atsushi laughs almost immediately, blinking away the impending tears and wavng their hands in front of them. "sorry. you don't... that was stupid of me to say. i'm-"

"stop apologizing."

kyouka slides beside them, curling up against their side. she head plops on their shoulder.

they're warm and shakey, and kyouka feels soft on atsushi's neck.

"i don't mind staying."

honestly, she wanted to stay. no matter how many times she watches atsushi - her sibling by everything but blood - get stabbed, the more she fears for them.

it's a little foolish, she knows; she's been familiar with blood and death and gore since her parents died. limbs being torn off and blood slowly oozing out of the body doesn't scare her.

but it does when she sees it happening to atsushi.

(and she doesn't say anything, but atsushi isn't the only one who gets nightmares - she's just better at keeping them quiet)

"you're just a kid..." atsushi mumbles, breaths shaky and uneven. "you shouldn't have to-to comfort me."

even so, kyouka soon feels the cool pads of their compression gloves rubbing her wrist.

"doesn't matter," she says, because she knows you're still a kid, too only upsets them more.

"okay."

they whisper it so quietly the only reasons kyouka hears it is because of her assassin training.

good.

she snuggles closer still and listens to their heartbeat. it starts off quick, but gradually falls until it's steady.

and kyouka is able to fall asleep with the reminder that her sibling is still alive.

(send me a sentence (+ a ship/character) and i'll write the next five sentences)

[wereh0gz]

The character relationships in corrupted au drive me insaneeee

Anyways. Sonic and Amy

Amy's not taking Sonic's amnesia super well, even though she tries not to show it much. She loved him, still loves him, but now that he doesn't remember her, he's a lot... colder towards her. Not in an outright rude or hateful way, but he keeps his distance. He's a lot like how he was with her when they met for the very first time in the classic era, keeping their interactions at a minimum

And that really, REALLY hurts

Like, she gets it. He's got amnesia and doesn't remember her and everything they went through together, and there's very little they can do about that. But she can't help but feel a little heartbroken every time he looks at her weird, or turns away from her, or pushes her away. She wants to help so, so badly, but he won't let her in

She's fine with not being as affectionate as she used to bc it makes him uncomfortable. She fine with finding other ways to communicate when he can't talk (even if he often outright refuses to when given other options and shuts himself off) bc he's confused and overwhelmed and maybe even a bit angry at his circumstances. She gets it's hard on him. It's a lot! And it sucks! She knows it sucks!

And yet

She misses the Sonic she knew. The one she fell in love with. The one she's admired since the moment they met. She *grieves* him, but it feels selfish. He's still there, physically, at least. And he's suffering just as much, if not more. She should be happy he's still with them. She *is* happy

But he's not the same. Might never be the same again. And she can't pretend that he is or else it'll hurt more for *both of them*

So she leaves him be. She gives him space and waits until he's ready to come back to her

*If* he's ever ready

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

there are few things in this fandom that make me as peeved as the eye color shit

'well alex said ford's eyes are brown, so they're brown, you dumbass! you idiot! how could you possibly believe they're anything but brown?'

alex also said that stan is essentially every type of bigot under the sun, why aren't you taking that into your canon? he said that trump and covid are canon to the gravity falls universe. he said stan's middle name is 'danly' and everyone went 'nah that's not true'. you can't just cherry pick shit and expect everyone to understand and agree with your choosey system

[hp-lonesome-actual-art]

My emotions have been flippy floppy all over the place recently. Probably best to not get into the specifics about it. Summary is that I had two crying sessions in the past week which inexplicably stopped as soon as they started! Incredibly weird! Probably just hormones out of wack who knows anymore lol. It’s all been settled and I’m back to feeling good about the state of my life—so no worries. The fears mostly stem from insecurities or common concerns about the passage of time/changes outside of your control. My brain just likes to blow things out of proportion into worst-case-scenario to get me worried over nothing. Felt really awful in the moment but in retrospect wasn’t even that bad :P

So these were vent arts made earlier this week (actually only two days ago but I keep loosing track of time haha). I didn’t intend to make politics the focus of any of it. It just kinda got added in the end because current world events. But the actual focus was about the state of my social life online vs offline. I have trouble remembering peoples names…it’s easier when everyone has recognizable icons online (visual learner). Plus I struggle with being open about my interests irl…still searching for people to hang out with despite being months into school by now. I have some nice group project partners in my classes tho—so that helps lesson the worry greatly. They’ve been welcoming enough

[psychologicalwarclaire]

What inspired you to write SWWSA?

🕷️🕸️🐢👀

There were a lot of factors, but the amazing @drsmer definitely inspired me to actually put fingers to keyboard and WRITE

I'd be lying if I said Like Father Like Son didn't have SOME impact on it? It's not like "turtle gets kidnapped and trapped in Battle Nexus" is an original idea. If I'm being honest, I couldn't get through LFLS because it was too angsty for me (shocking, I know). It's weird, but one of my very first thoughts about Spider's Web was "What if I did LFLS... but better?" Is that terrible? It feels like a terrible thing to strive for...

I think a Separated AU bracket was going on as well, and I was seeing a lot of turtles who sound up fighting in the Battle Nexus. The Gemini Twins AU raised some interesting questions in that department for sure.

Definitely the biggest inspiration is the show itself. Specifically the episodes Bug Busters and Many Unhappy Returns where we actually get to see the Nexus and the turtles are under threat of "fighting" (being bumbling arena clowns) in it. I wanted to see more, but I really wanted a Disaster Twins fic instead of just one turtle being kidnapped.

Basically, Spider's Web is a conglomeration of my favorite troupes within the fandom. I wrote a fic I wanted to read, and that's what's most important.

[starflungwaddledee]

also i want to again apologise for how phenomenally behind i have been with reblogging/responding to artworks on here, including art drawn for me or propaganda for the tournament!!

i'm hoping to start getting to my backlog for this VERY soon, ideally within the next two weeks. so you may start to see an increase of this on your timelines. and if i haven't yet gotten to your artwork don't worry, i most likely have it in my drafts!!!

[sejjiplinth]

Sorry for the anon ask, but what do you think would’ve happened if Marcus had been alive during the games and Sejanus actually had to mentor him? I’m surprised no one has written it yet!

oh sejanus Definitely still would have broken into the arena to try and get him out 😭 i don’t think marcus would even consider leaving with him, but he still ends up protecting sejanus when the other tributes find them because they were arguing too loud LMFAOOO

(alternatively, marcus wouldn’t accept his sponsors so he’d be screaming, crying, throwing up, in that order.)

[arrowheadedbitch]

Ezekiel ain't nobody's favorite but at least he's god's favorite

[orkowhereheshouldntbe]

[ID in ALT!]

Hey everyone,

As of January 20th, I'll have been running orkowhereheshouldntbe for two years. It's been so much fun, and I've learned so much about photo editing and media. But I don't feel like I can keep up with the daily posts anymore, and I don't want to keep half-assing things in hope the spark comes back. In other words, as the bio warned, the joke's gotten old.

That's not to say this blog is going away - I plan on leaving it up, and I'll still take requests and suggestions. I may even make a post of my own here and there when the mood strikes me. But I think taking the burden of daily posts off my shoulders will help.

I could never have anticipated a one-off inside joke like this becoming such a big part of my life, or taking up so much of my time. I'm proud of myself for managing to keep things going this long, even with the breaks I've had to take. And I'm endlessly grateful for all the love and support I've gotten on my posts. I'll have a special video on Saturday, to commemorate the blog's anniversary, and as a gift for all of you.

This isn't a permanent goodbye. It's just a change from how things have been. <3