#the funniest post in fandom history

[charlesoberonn]

[edwardseymour]

you’re basically the only tudor fandom blog i follow and it’s so fun to see the fandom drama with NO context at ALL 😭

you're not missing much tbh

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

idk fuckshit about bridgerton except that they cast the most beautiful people alive and play billie eilish vitamin string quartet covers because they're committing to the bit of being as inaccurate to history as possible which is iconic i guess but anyway all that to say y'all in the bridgerton fandom make the funniest posts on this site so congrats on the surprise gay or w/e just happened

[yunsound]

Update on the Ao Bing Zhuan drama

Oh my god this never ends.

Part 1 here , read for context

It's actually so funny to watch on XHS. Literally last night I came across an Ao Guang solo art (solo meaning no ships or anything implied, it was just Ao Guang being hot) and there was a comment like "Ying Long your husband is so sexy". I told them not to 嗑药 (keyao) which means not to bring up other ships under an art that's not tagged with that ship. The comment was three words long: 别磕药 (don't keyao).

Holy shit. Within 20 minutes, 6 comments from 6 different people calling me a whole manner of things.

Disgusting fujoshi Dilong shipper (no joke, they literally wrote this)

Fuck off and mind your own business, they're canon

I hate all Dilong shippers, Ying Long is his canon wife

No wonder your ship gets attacked, Dilong fans are so fucking annoying

All fujoshis leave Ne Zha fandom (which is funny because 80% of Ne Zha fans are fujoshis who ship Oubing)

Fuck you

Okay. Wow.

The artist of the post liked my comment but they didn't tell the others to stop, which I get- no one wants to be attacked either.

Funniest thing is I've never even shipped Dilong. Starting to see the appeal now though, at least compared to Guangying.

OKAY.

I think I mentioned this in the last post, but Ying Long's design copied a genderbend Dilong art's design of Ao Guang back when Ao Guang's human form was never shown. This is really ironic.

An update: Oubing is currently the top ship in Ne Zha by FAR, like, by FAR FAR FAR. No other ship comes CLOSE to how big Oubing is. However, Oubing fans have mostly been able to stay out of Guangying vs Dilong drama as well as Ao Bing Zhuan drama.

One of the platforms ABZ is posted on, however, posted two of the author's sketches. One of them is child Ao Bing. The other one is an unknown female character who wears red and has red hair. The caption included this: "Guess who Ao Bing's new ship is with?"

The female character lated debuted and is called Hong. She's a thousand-year old jellyfish spirit.

When I tell you the author couldn't have done anything fucking dumber than try to pair Ao Bing with some random OC girl, I mean it. Oubing makes up like 80% of the fandom. The other 20% consists of half Ne Zha Ao Bing friendship stans and half casual fans. Oubing is probably the only ship with a negative hater rate in the fandom.

If the author tries to pull some "Oh this webcomic is official content so Oubing is a ship that breaks up a canon ship so it's not allowed" I guarantee ABZ will be bullied so hard the author might never be able to do anything ever again. Oubing is probably one of the biggest ships ever in Chinese fandom history. It's also one of the most wholesome, un-problematic (whatever that means) and sweet ships ever. But Oubing fans are hardcore. Like, not rude, but will NOT take shit.

Aside from the unknown girl the author is trying to pair Ao Bing with, they changed the setting of Oubing. One of the biggest parts of Oubing is that they're each other's first and only friend since they're so isolated.

ABZ, however, has Ao Bing go off and make friends with a whole bunch of people- his brothers, (who in the movies are probably dead), a bunch of abyssal sea monsters, etc.

Also the author is one of THOSE Xiao Zhan fans. Not the normal ones- I am also a Xiao Zhan fan. The kind of Xiao Zhan fans that led to the 227 incident and AO3 being banned in China.

ALSO!!!

The most important part!!

I made a Ne Zha post explaining that Ao Guang, Ao Bing's dad and the poor dude caught in the middle of these ship wars, is usually portrayed as an ugly old dude. In fact, Jiaozi said verbatim in an interview that he was originally going to look like

this.

The comparison. Jesus Christ.

Jiaozi said that it was fanart and fanwork that gave him the inspiration for Ao Guang's sexy dilf design. Back in 2019 and 2020, ABZ wasn't out yet: the ONLY Ao Guang arts were all Dilong! Dilong art is the ONLY reason Ao Guang is a sexy dilf instead of whatever the fuck that is.

IDK, I think I've become a Dilong fan despite only seeing Dilong art like twice in my life just because I feel so bad for them.

[olderthannetfic]

https://olderthannetfic.tumblr.com/post/763295295256821760/could-you-or-any-of-your-followers-explain-to-me In terms of people collapsing any gender-nonconformity into a specifc model of transness, the one I feel like I'm seeing more and more in fandom these days is people assuming that any and all male characters who are the least bit feminine must be transfem, and the funniest expression of that to me is when people insist on this headcanon as the Correct Interpretation because the character is like.... a stereotypically queeny gay man. Like not even one who wears makeup or dresses or does drag. Just like, the "into scarves and theater and Liza Minnelli and has a limp wrist" classic queen stereotype. And it's not like those people CAN'T ever turn out to be trans or that it's wrong to headcanon any canonically cis character that way, but when it's a pattern you just really start to feel that like, maybe more of tumblr fandom should try meeting some more gay people offline and outside of fandom? And who are above the age of 40? Learn literally anything about queer history and culture that isn't directly connected to online fandom? Because it really seems like some of the people doing it are not AWARE of the existence of those kinds of gay men outside of media! Or even just that like, that media is coding something but that thing it's coding is not "transfem." As a millennial gay it's hard to get how people can be aware of queer media and not be familiar with literally one of the most common gay stereotypes, but here we are I guess.

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[church-of-lilith]

Ted Lasso winning a GLAAD award for Outstanding Comedy is probably the funniest joke to ever come from that show.

I love the show dearly, the characters will always have a special place in my heart, but their queer rep was a joke—and I don’t mean in an award winning way.

Colin’s storyline being focused around his straight counterparts rather than his actual journey and coming out

Keeley entering into a toxic relationship with a questionable power dynamic that ends up almost destroying her career

Trent’s two throwaway lines about coming out to someone twice and having a daughter that literally never got elaborated on

Ted’s seven layer dip story.

I may not be actively posting for that fandom anymore but any time someone tries to give them accolades for ‘queer rep’ I am activated like a sleeper agent. Don’t try to rewrite history on me. I was there when it aired. Sorry to all of the comedies with great queer rep who lost.

[aroaceacacia]

Hello! A friend has sent me in your direction to ask my bothersome research questions! (context being: I'm doing a project for school about how aro and ace characters are portrayed in formally published fiction verse in fandom, focusing on MCYT because-> my hyperfixation)

The questions:

How do you think the fandom's feelings on (romantic) shipping have changed over time

When and why do you think those changes happened?

How, if at all, do you think that history has affected how we deal with shipping today?

Something tells me that you might have some personal insight on the aroace parts of the fandom (why such a high proportion and/or writing characters as aroace) I would love to hear them! And if there's anything else you want to add I really appreciate it, thank you!!! (I have a list of people I will be sending this ask to, if you feel compelled to point me towards anyone I absolutely must ask that would also be appreciated. Thank you again!!)

omg hi I might be able to help! but i admit ive been fairly disconnected from mcyt for a while. All views expressed are my own and may not account for everyone elses perspectives or even statistical data

really when talking abt shipping I can only really start with 2019 at the earliest but mcyt has a longer history than that (i was a yogs fan in 2012-2014 or thereabouts but didnt participate in fandom and then didnt get back on the mc boat until 2019). also I think the youtuber shipping culture has had an influence on shipping as well.

anyway. mcyt fans even now are very skittish about shipping and a lot of it, as of 2019, was rooted in the anti-rpf culture we saw post-septiplier. i think. I never watched either of those guys. But it was this sense that RPF and shipping can Ruin Peoples Lives or friendships or whatever. (I think it's more nuanced than that.) And of course the infamous callmecarson serious stream in 2019 when he told off his stans for writing a danganronpa AU fanfic of him and his friends. I think that started a lot of negativity toward fans engaging in fairly normal fandom things, people extrapolating things out of what he said a bit. The nature of being a mcyt fan is that you're almost never a fan of just ONE thing within the genre so of course the sentiments branched out a lot into other fandoms.

Then with dream smp we saw the rise of the "boundaries" concept: fans asking creators what they are ok with and not ok with. And I dont hate that idea in concept but I personally dislike some of the execution. (I think fans should recognize on their own what a creator should and should not be privy to and take necessary precautions to keep potentially sensitive things hidden/separate from other fanwork. I dont think we should be asking them these things directly bc it just exposes them to it.) I dont think Dream was the first one to talk about boundaries, but he was the first one to provide a full detailed list of boundaries that I know of. In late 2020, he was also the first creator to suggest/introduce the bang path ! to denote the fictional characters being discussed on the Dream SMP, so that nobody thought he was actually abusing cc!Tommyinnit in exile.

But the fictionalization is important because over the past 2 years or so fans who disliked shipping said "these are real people", and the rise of clearly defined roleplay ("lore") in MCYT spaces allowed fans to say "these are characters". (In reality it's kind of both. It's like kayfabe I think. I'm not into wrestling but its kind of like that I think.) So then you have some fans shipping some creators whove said they're ok with it, some fans not doing it at all, arguments over whether less lore-heavy servers are RP or not. It becomes a minefield. Hermit fans create a boundaries list that says the only Hermits you can ship together are Rendoc and ONLY if you ship them with each other. The funniest development from this era was, of course, writing c!Tubbo and c!Ranboo (who were canonically married with a child) as "platonic husbands" simply because the actors were both 16-17 at the time. They were actually groundbreaking teen parent representation and we should respect that (silly!)

I think the biggest turning point for Hermit/hermit-adjacent fans was actually Third Life, and I'll say it loud and proud: Flower Husbands walked so everyone else can run and I'm soooooo serious. I remember when people tried to "/p" (platonic) flower husbands. Having Jimmy and Scott, two adult men, roleplaying a married couple in a series where every person was storytelling to some extent was hugely important. FH and Third Life in early 2021 gave fans permission to engage with the story as a story, with these characters as characters. Treebark cropped up a little later (we were simmering toward the end of 3L's run and then had such a great summer that it really began to crystallize in Aug/Sept of that year. Shoutout to Redacted) but was really only able to do so because of FH, and because of the way Ren and Martyn RPed so much.

Hoo boy this is getting long SORRY. I think by 2022 and 2023 Tumblr audiences specifically were getting tired of self-policing all the time and really started to just say "fuck it we ball block tags if you have to" and embraced a "what were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament" type of attitude. Specific catch-all tags for shipping started to emerge. On the other hand, twitter audiences stayed fairly conservative with shipping - they did Not like it one bit. This is still a problem in some corners of the MCYT fandom over there, afaik. Personally I think this is in part due to lack of a real tagging system; this is also why I think "duo names" exist as a kind of alternative to ship names (also because of standom crossover). The other aspect here is proximity to creators: everyone and their mother has a Twitter account, but Tumblr is our house, and if they want to play with us, they need to understand our culture. Twitter is more interested in keeping things clean in case the creator sees it because in all likelihood they will.

Quick sidebar to mention QSMP, which had several on-screen, developing roleplayed romances, including dates and a wedding, and all of them were gay and involved people from different cultural backgrounds. I just think that's neat. 2023 was a wild time.

All of that being said...... I actually dont feel like shipping (or the lack thereof) and its history has a very significant connection with aroaceness. I can see how the bunch of terminally online young people who gravitate toward MCYT content are more likely to be aroace than the average person just because it's a very queer fandom overall (I genuinely dont think a single friend I've made in this space is cishet). I can also see how MCYT content overall is kind of "safe" if you're averse to sexual or romantic stories in the media you watch, because most of the time, MCYT creators arent super comfortable roleplaying their cubitos making out with their friends on screen for an audience to watch (MythicalSausage and most members of QSMP nonwithstanding).

I feel like, from my experience with the fandom, rather than engage with these characters as asexual or as aromantic, it's sort of a de-sexing: either they are off limits, or they are Schrodinger's Sexuality, because they're a Real Person and it's weird to headcanon Real People. If they're a real person then they should be married to the person they're married to IRL, and we don't know them, so instead it's like sexuality does not exist. But the creators are still making dick jokes anyway. And that's because sex is a joke and isn't real 😁

Again, QSMP is a bit of an exception I think - I recall Cellbit's character being canonically gay and asexual (the creator would later come out himself as asexual). <- Some fans kind of ignored this/didnt touch on it, other fans deliberately included it as an aspect of characterizing q!Cellbit and his relationship with his husband. Mikethelink also said once that his character was off limits for shipping, I think?(because Mike is IRL married and his partner was an occasional guest and presence, shoutout Barb), so fans often interpreted this as q!Mike being an aromantic character. You see a lot of interpretations of q!Mike and q!Pactw where they're in some kind of queerplatonic relationship, sort of as a result of that. I cant talk about QSMP without mentioning jaiden jaidenanimations. I love u queen xoxox

Oh my god wait how could I forget the queerplatonic emerald duo era. Wasnt there discourse about that (people trying to ship queerplatonically because it was seen as less egregious than shipping romantically)

Anyways I think double life is a deeply aromantic series and I love the divorce quartet. Shoutout messy relationships and choosing who you want to be with under the terms you decide with yourself and the people you love.

EDIT TO ADD: i think tumblr culture has been more accepting of RPF as of late i think the next big development will be a rise in genuine mcyt RPF shipping. we saw some of that in the dsmp era (just bc that fandom was huge at its peak) but ever since it's been fairly fringe. I dont think itll ever be mainstream but i feel like we'll be seeing more RPF in the next couple years to come

[f1-primers]

i saw a post by @powerful-owl about how the f1 fandom doesn't have a lot of primers for new fans, and in the interests of sharing the love (having a new thing to obsess over) i've made this little sideblog. i'll reshare any primers i see/i'm tagged in, from the technicalities of tyres to ship lore to old race recommendations, and i'm going to start a list below of ideas in case anyone fancies writing them. HERE IS THE TAG LIST so you can find posts i've shared so far!

technical/sporting stuff

intro to the history of f1

calendar explained - changes over the years, sprint vs normal weekends, double/triple headers

teams - history of each team individually or one big post, a history of team name changes

teams - what a team principal does, what a race engineer does, what other positions there are and faces people might see a lot of

the structure of a race weekend/what the sessions mean - media day, practices, quali, sprint shootout, sprint, race

how qualifying works - sessions, things to watch out for, what teams/drivers actually do during quali

how races work - start process, intro to race strategy & stints, outline of pit stops, how they end, parc ferme > podium

intro to strategy - outline of pitstops, tyre choices, over/undercut, etc

intro to tyres - different types, characteristics of each ones, deg/wear etc

how the timing towers on tv work & how to read them (for free practice, quali & race)

what all the different flags mean

safety car 101

tracks - loads of stuff here: famous tracks, all the tracks on the current calendar, the different between traditional and street tracks, features of a track to watch out for

overtaking explained

technical explainer - drs, battery harvesting, slipstreaming, stuff like that

safety features explainer - halo, hans device, etc

technical terms/slang you might hear

what the FIA is/intro

stewarding/the rules outline

techical requirements - parc ferme, what can/can't be changed over a weekend, rebuilding cars after contact or crashes

pit stops - what happens, what's changed, double stacking, good/bad times, how it affects a race

common penalties - track limits, crossing pit lane entry etc

point system - how it works for sprints/races, how it's changed etc

car design - wings, sidepods, etc

intro to f1 physics - aero, downforce etc

liveries - iconic ones, current team liveries, history of team liveries

the pitlane, paddock & pit wall explained - including order of teams in the pitlane, who everyone on a pit wall is

team radio 101 - what is said, what it means, iconic moments

how weather & temperature affects races/driving

history of f1

most famous races

most famous championships

wildest stuff that's happened in the sport (overall or by decade)

team move dramas

an intro to all the driver's championship winners

'know your history' - big moments people will see referenced

most controversial events - on track

most controversial events - off-track, f1 politics, scandals

moments that changed the sport

fandom stuff

intro to current drivers & their whole vibe

intro to past drivers & their whole vibe

most famous ships in the sport and an outline

most famous rivalries in the sport and an outline

best/funniest team radio moments

silly things that have happened

teammate relationships - the good, the bad, the unhinged

slang & inside jokes you might hear

niche stuff - the orignal post that sparked this referenced an 'alex albon's pets' primer, daniel's tattoos, george's dad, etc. a gift to fic writers! so anything, as niche as it gets, is good

nicknames for drivers, TPs etc explained

iconic fandom moments everyone should know about

[bookwyrminspiration]

Okay, so in the ninjago community, there’s a few big fics/authors that most people learn about after a while in the fandom.

One of these authors is Lloydskywalkers, who is known for their very very very good fics…and for disappearing off the face of the earth in 2021 with no warning.

Turns out they lost her password and life happened. But they are back and writing fic again

The funniest part of this, though, is that they made a post with just a period and some tags and it got reblogged by the ninjago heritage posts blog

Anyway, thought it was silly but something you might enjoy hearing about

-⚙️ Zayn

Okay apparently I read this, thought I responded to it, but never did. And so it's been sitting in limbo since.

But that aside! That does sound like fun for everyone in on it. I always love when fandom gets so...meta? Not in a gatekeeper way, but it's fun to see people settle into it and get to know each other and then really build off of that.

In my fandom class that was one of the hiccups in the required fandom participation. It was meant to expose people to these communities, but it can't really account for the history and gradual development/integration that happens.

anyway. welcome back lloydskywalkers! wishing you all many fics and much creativity to come <3

[mslovett]

magazine matchups

vil x reader

you and vil were supposed to just be colleagues, but as your work kept pushing you closer and closer together, you couldn’t help but fall for one another.

a/n: this is another repost of a previously deleted fic I posted. also can’t believe i ever deleted this, this is like the funniest thing I’ve ever written (imho)

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His absence was something you barely noticed, just as his presence. You weren’t oblivious to it, however. It started out as a coincidence, the two of you ended up modelling for a few projects together, which had the internet going wild. Soon enough, it turned into free advertising, and your managers were intentionally pulling the strings so that you’d be working together. If anything, the nonsensical rumours that came out of it were kind of annoying - other than that, you had no strong opinion about working with him, or his personality.

He wasn’t exactly a constant in your life either, that’s why you almost didn’t notice his unannounced break from the public eye. You remembered him after seeing a now slightly old article about the SDC, ah that’s right, he’d taken a break from almost all of his work to focus on the competition, which had ended a couple of months ago. Despite this, you can’t recall him coming back to the limelight since.

Might as well check his magicam page, you thought. He still posted there, would it be weird to follow him out of nowhere? Eh, who cares- you did it anyways, and then went to bed.

As always, it felt like the sun rose far too early to wake you from your slumber. Your alarm hasn’t gone off yet, or you hoped it hadn’t at least. You checked the time, and you were fine, you didn’t oversleep.

In the meantime you should probably check the texts you got from Neige, your certified best friend who doesn’t usually text you at six in the morning.

“Hey, Y/N! You’re trending on magicam, so is you and Vil’s ship-name, did you know?”

Um, what? That was… strange? Honestly, you really wanted to see what was going on, but you’d be late for school if you let social media get a grip on you right now.

Break time. It felt pretty exciting to hear the bell ring this time around, since you’d been itching to find out what had you on the trending page, it’s not like you did anything either spectacular or offensive recently.

Damn, Neige really wasn’t lying, then again, you couldn’t recall any time he ever has. Your expression died down comically quick, as you kept scrolling through the tagged posts. Your fans were literally insane sometimes, to the point were maybe following someone new on your public account was a bit of a mistake. Basically all of your conjoined fandom was trying to theorise over Vil being added to the list of people you follow, which was otherwise only Neige and your manager. Really, it was a slight disappointment, but it was also kind of funny, at least the internet didn’t decide it was time for a dose of unjust cancel culture just yet.

A few days later, after school had let up, you went to hang out with Neige in town. It was a tradition between you two, a way to keep in contact despite your busy schedules. The two of you often cycled round different attractions or areas in the city, sometimes just opting to walk around and talk. This time, you were headed to the local museum. It was interesting to read about all the history loaded behind what seemed like a simple piece of pottery, or learn about how certain things were used to supplement both the lack of technology and magic of the older world.

It was mostly things you’d seen here before though, but you’d never paid much mind to the modern art section, you realised after thinking about it. “Hey Neige, should we go look over there? Who knows, they might have your portrait framed or something.”

Your joke was received with a light laugh and, “Sure, let’s go take a look!”

This section of the museum felt a lot smaller, but there were even less people willing to marvel at the paintings that adorned the walls. Coincidentally, the one other person that was there happened to be someone both you and Neige recognised. You wondered if he visited the place a lot, people don’t tend to look so blank whilst visiting a museum by themselves.

Neige turned to you, excited to ask if it’d to be alright to approach him. That’s right, you’d somewhat forgotten that those two knew each-other. “Yeah sure, I don’t mind.” As soon as the sound of his name filled the room, his head turned, and his expression looked mildly annoyed. Did he look like that before? God, you’d have to hope the two of you weren’t upsetting him. Your friend however, didn’t appear to notice anything out of the ordinary as he continued to make small talk.

Gradually, said small talk came to close, and Neige had invited him to spend more time with the two of you, though Vil politely declined. He was rather curt, but he didn’t seem like a bad person, if anything your opinion hadn’t changed since you first worked with him.

Before waving goodbye, you rushed to scribble your phone number down on a crumpled piece of paper to give to him. Momentarily, you pondered wether that was a good decision to make, as he almost stayed silent, but soon put on a smile and thanked you. It was an awkward first meet.

Vil turned away after the two of you had left, it was due time to head back to his dorm, despite his visit to the museum serving a different purpose than intended. For Vil, he had hoped to come about some inspiration in preparation for returning to his work but meeting Neige was a frustration in its own right, considering how a large part of his break was dedicated to self improvement after realising his envy was severely holding him back.

Regardless of his efforts, it was disappointing to see Neige thrive under the same conditions as him and yet thwart all the hardships that Vil faced. Whilst his perfection was his pride it robbed him of approachability.

You however, offered him your number despite how out-of-reach he often is to people through your slight uncomfortableness. He thought it was folly of you, but it was a rare boldness that wasn’t unbeffiting of you - having only experienced similar things from Rook, who sometimes took it to an extreme.

Maybe it came from you also being in the industry, but he found himself thinking fondly of it. When Vil arrived at pomefiore once again, he decided to follow you back on magicam, not unaware of you doing so a few days back, although he made no effort to add your contact to his phone. You were still asleep by morning, enjoying the extra time the weekend was granting you. When you did wake up, you checked your phone, a part of your usual morning routine. ‘Oh, he doesn’t hate me’ was what came to mind after seeing that Vil had followed you back.

Not having any plans today you thought to message him on the app, curious as to wether he’d reply. “Hey, how are you doing? Hope we didn’t bother you yesterday.”

After sending that short message you looked through your feed for a bit. Reasonably soon you got an awfully formal response back. Apparently he didn’t mind your presence the other day, which was nice to know. Now however, you were in a position of not knowing wether or not to continue the conversation or what to say. Reaching out to someone over something so minuscule without making an attempt at getting closer with them proved kind of useless, so the two of you briefly discussed your musings about school and work before cutting the conversation.

That was the last time either of you had talked to one another until the two of you inevitably crossed paths again, outside of the internet. This time, the two of you met at a more understandable place, a model’s holy grail, the skincare section.

Another thing to note was that this time, he was not unaccompanied, unlike you. His purple-haired friend was actually who drew your attention away from the ingredient list on the bottle you were looking at. Being a bit louder than intended, he was complaining about this excursion being a waste of time and effort. When you did turn around, you saw Vil glaring daggers into the poor boys soul. Maybe they weren’t friends as you’d initially thought?

Ignoring it would’ve been your best bet but as you heard Vil sigh and mutter something along the lines of ‘I thought we were past this’ you realised he was dragging himself and his possible-friend in your direction. The two of them started looking at the labels of product after product, after Vil had scanned the shelf for a short while. Vil looked quite nonchalant while doing so, but his friend seemed awfully confused when absentmindedly staring at the product. Considering you knew one of them, you thought it might be good to offer up some advice, and recommend a couple brands.

Vil was actually quite thankful for your help, due to him only using products that he’s created himself, he was only aware of what was currently popular rather than beneficial. And this wouldn’t have been the best way to teach Epel how to pick out certain products without any good examples. He thanked you, and invited you to hang out over coffee some time as a thank you.

It was perhaps a little overboard, but neither of you really minded, considering how it was starting to seem that you could become decent friends. And that was how you ended up here, finally settled in to a popular cafe, that at first proved to be a bit of a poor choice, specifically due to its popularity.

When the two of you met up, the people already around the place started to form a crowd around you. It was reasonable, after all people don’t see celebrities everyday, and whilst you were used to it, it could prove to be rather bothersome. Of course, both of you handled the situation well, but there was something so enchanting about how graceful he was with each and every person who approached him, and how he was able to express his appreciation all the while making sure his air of perfectionism never slipped.

When you eventually got a moment of quiet together, you made sure to learn a lot about each other. He wouldn’t say it out-right, but you could surmise that the purple-haired boy from before and a huntsman named Rook were his set of friends. It sounded like an interesting group, but cute nonetheless. You also figured out that a lot of his personal life revolves around his work, or maybe it would be better to say that they happened to coincide.Despite that, he still seemed less daunting now that you’d got to know him a little.

Naturally, you two hung out a lot more after that, and it was fun as you got more comfortable. You even got to do things like convincing him to pose for you to draw him because, “come one, it’ll be extra practice!” He didn’t look amused at all, but he still let you.

Sketching Vil was enjoyable, but he wouldn’t let you notice how he got increasingly anxious as time passed. Vil normally had no reason to feel anxious around anyone, he usually felt confident in himself, but the issue was that his confidence was surprisingly conditional.

It was strange though, the only person to ever make him feel insecure before was Neige, yet you didn’t make him feel threatened. He could only come to one conclusion as to why he was becoming increasingly sensitive to your opinion on him, and being as self aware as he is, the answer didn’t come as a shock to him. But acknowledging that he was in love was a scary revelation to make.

As you finished up your drawings and showed them to him whilst raving about how pretty he was, he calmed down. His appearance was the main factor in his confidence, and reminding himself that he would always have power in that regard soothed his anxiousness, but what really relieved him this time around was the fact that you weren’t judging him.

The next time you were on-set participating in a photo-shoot together, you’d known beforehand. You were both affiliated with the same company, and had managed to put two and two together when discussing your work schedule.

Things felt a lot more light-hearted than all of the other times you’d worked together. Seeing him there as you’d entered the room put a smile on your face.

As you’d taken your last shot together, and everything was getting cleared up, you went to take your arm of Vil’s shoulder, but as you were doing so, he grabbed your hand. You could feel him tense up, and the walls started to feel slightly closer than before. “What’s wrong?” You couldn’t help but be worried. You saw him take a second to compose himself, before he leaned closer to you and whispered a short confession in your ear, “I’ve happened to find myself loving you… Would you be mine?”

That was… unexpected.

But when you said yes, Vil found himself experiencing a joy he hadn’t felt in a long time, and enveloped you in a gentle, heartfelt hug. The two of you stayed there for quite some time, ignoring everyone else around you because they didn’t matter.

[emiko-matsui]

Hiiii dearest Tumblr user emiko-matsui!! I love your Dimension 20 posts, and I saw that you've been to TIT, the Dan and Phil tour. Have you heard about the RPF poll that's currently happening? The final round is ending in two days, and it's between PHAN AND JEDUS (Jesus/Judas). Phan is winning as of right now, but the gap is extremely narrow, and it's closing fast. I fear we have all voted already, and now we're running out of people who are willing to vote for Phan. I'm almost 100% certain that if we don't come up with something, we are going to lose.

Dan and Phil have seen the poll (someone showed them a screenshot of it in their preshow Q&A) and thought it was funny. They even got excited about winning!! If Phan wins, it would go down as one of the most hilarious, glorious things to ever happen in phandom (and fandom!!) history. We really need all the support we can get right now, and since you have the power to potentially expose the poll to even more people (and ask them to vote for Phan), I thought I would reach out to you about this!! The notes on this poll are the funniest thing ever, and there's plenty of amazing, hilarious, and creative Phan propaganda to reblog.

You can find the poll at @/rpftourney, if you'd like to help out!! If not, that's completely okay, as it is just a silly little Tumblr poll. Hope you have a lovely day <3

(P.S. seriously, I love your Dimension 20 posts, and I'm not just saying that to flatter you into agreeing to help out HDNDBDJ. I'm not usually bold enough to reach out to people like this, but this poll activated a new level of Silly within me. So I'm taking my chance to also gush about how funny you are <3 thank you for all the posting :D)

im on it cap 🫡 my followers can also go have a lil vote

[okifyouinsist]

tagged by @killerandhealerqueen (i just keep forgetting abt this one SIGH but i have free time rn and im committed)

1. why did you choose your url?

growing up, i just wasn't a social media girl purely bc of the fact that my parents were super strict and I assumed they wouldn't allow me to have it and I just never really saw the appeal anyways. Then later a few friends basically forced me to make my first account and because i wasn't very creative and thought i was the funniest bitch ever i made my first user 'ifyouinsist' and it just kinda stuck ig

2. any sideblogs? if you have them name them and why you have them.

nope. i fear if i had a sideblog id end up neglecting it and forget abt it or make it my new main blog and neglect this blog and this blog is literally my baby

3. how long have you been on tumblr?

well i've had an account since like end of 2019, beginning of 2020???? (im pretty sure) i didnt like use my account tho i just had it to look at other ppls blogs not my own, i only acc recently made up my blog up properly and started posting this year when it was like 2 am and i was on holiday to visit my home country and my mum and my aunts were gossiping and i was like whatever who tf cares how late i am to a fandom and the rest was history

4. do you have a queue tag?

nope, my drafts are a terrifying place and if they ever saw light id die

5. why did you start your blog in the first place?

to reblog pretty art and to compliment writers on ao3 AND on tumblr bc they deserve everything and more

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp?

logan sargeant. need i say any more???? hes my bsf in spirit

7. why did you choose your header?

loscar. LOSCAR. loscar. i am very much totally normal abt them i swear (lying through my teeth rn). they're just my everything unfortunately and sometimes i like to say the fist bump is their version of intertwining their fingers together

8. what’s your post with the most notes?

ik this bc it was the first i myself made and it was abt loscar obviously and i thought i was SO funny (im not) and its lowk still such a flop post but its MY flop post so here it is :)

9. how many mutuals do you have?

idk man im shy (scared of rejection) so i dont have a lot, like genuinely let me go see acc, oh ig its me and my 14 moots against the world i love you guys fr

10. how many followers do you have?

BYE my 26 followers are my 4 lifers fr (im such a flop this is hilarious)

11. how many people do you follow?

37 (sigh need to follow more ppl RN)

12. have you ever made a shitpost?

im gonna be so real idk what defines as a shit post but most probably yeah

13. how often do you use tumblr each day?

idk im acc really inconsistent like ill be MIA for 2 whole days and the next week ill be on tumblr like for most of my day when i can its very confusing like today ive not been on it a lot im academically locking in and all that

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

ummm no. like. if i see someone i follow getting hate ill send them a supportive ask and then at the end of it be like anon ur such a loser get a life but other than that. nope.

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?

im very much neutral abt them, like idc if i need to reblog it yk if i want to i will if i dont then i wont

16. do you like tag games?

YES (said in a very normal voice)

17. do you like ask games

YES. i love getting asks id cry if someone sent an ask (i have one rotting away from a moot rn i WILL answer it i swear)

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

can i say all my moots. i wanna say all my moots they're all famous in my eyes guys, i start tagging its gonna end with all my moots being tagged but like @killerandhealerqueen and @dwarvenchords were the first 2 ppl to come to my mind theyre both just the coolest fr

19. do you have a crush on a mutual?

nah. i have FRIEND crushes on literally all of them tho. wanna be their friends SO bad

20. what is the last song you listened to?

Mamichula- Bizarrap

21. what are you currently watching?

in my docuseries era rn watching breakpoint (STILL)(i only have time on the weekends rn SIGH)

22. sweet/ savoury/ spicy?

sweet. im such a 'lets skip the dinner and just get dessert' kinda girl

23. what is your current relationship status?

this is SUCH a complicated question to answer but heavily leaning more towards single

24. what is your current obsession?

sports. like just sports in general. like ive always been a casual fan of sports but i never used to take a deep dive into it but this year i decided to dive, and i dived VERY deep, so like motorsports, tennis, football, cricket, trying to get into hocky rn im collecting them atp. also. documentaries. like when i get time ill be binge watching like 5 documentaries i just love them sm

25. what are nine albums/ songs you've been listening to lately?

wish i could tell you fr, i mean, rn im re listening to SOUR by Olivia Rodriguez AGAIN bc thats the way my life is going SIGH, Olivia is my favourite basic artist fr, nothing compares to listening to SOUR for the first time in 2021

ANYWAYS, thanks again for the tag i really appreciate it, im gonna tag @ezisregrettinglifedecisions @fabeong @whatssthepooiintt

[emilydorp]

Ok hold on wait....i was reading your post about GTOP being fan service and now i got curious when you mentioned that one specific instance of K-VIPS being protective over GD like...what is that about??? Now i need to know lmao

Oh it is very.. amusing? Oh gosh you'll have a nice laugh. I'm sure this isn't the only time something like this has happened but it is the funniest (and lowkey fruitiest) (but then again Jiyong may or may not have held a crazy super queer party back in the day). Mind you, this was an intra-fandom fan war, and as is with fan wars, you had to be there to see it (I wasn't there myself either, but a friend of mine who's a GD stan since 2010 said it was cra-cra).

Well, basically, Jiyong may or may not have been wearing a thong, and we may or may not have seen it in full display, and Seunghyun may or may not have also seen it and lost his shit laughing, and it was the greatest thing to ever happen in the history of BB concerts, and International VIPs may or may not have lost their shit because of how AMAZING it was and starting spreading the fancam like their life depended on it and nicknamed this incident 'jithong' and KVIPs may or may not have gotten really REALLY pissed off at everyone spreading this and may or may not have mass reported people who were spreading it and Korean censorship may or may not have pissed IVIPs off and (*cries cuz she was too young to be into BB at the time*) it must've been a BLAST (my friend says she still hasn't recovered from that war). There are gifs but I can't find them (story of my LIFE tbh; I swear I saw those vids but I can't find them rn, so trust me bro) and they make it obvious that Jiyong realized and instead of being shy he OWNED ITTTT. But basically, KVIPs didn't want Jiyong's image to be ruined over this incident, since it is funny for IVIPs but S.Korea is conservative as hell. Anyways since I can't find the vids, here's a consolation prize (if I find them Imma let ya know.. or reblog them.. cuz I reblog anything vaguely about GTOP):

[who-heaven-shed]

sometimes I regret deleting my old blog (not always) because it took with it the absolutely funniest interaction I ever had on the internet.

One of my mutuals at the time reblogged a post about fandoms that are 'red flags' and their addition to it was "Egyptian History". Befuddled by this I asked "what did Egypt do?" and they simply responded "Slavery :/"

To this day I still have no idea how to even respond to that.

[olderthannetfic]

BTW, Yuletide anon

There is a long and proud history of How To Yuletide posts and an equally long and proud history of violently disagreeing with them.

Probably the funniest ever was Liviapenn's one that used Ghost Soup Infidel Blue (a fake fandom with reboot vs. original drama and other parodies of typical fandom nonsense) as an example and outlined the worst prompt of all time:

'Bad: "I would like a Ghost Soup story where Luke makes out with Angela's clone and Angela gets mad and seduces Moira just to make Luke mad, and then Ryan and Luke duel to the death with their lightsabers and it ends up in an Angela/Angela's clone/Moira threesome. And Ryan feels really bad and flies off to Mars forever."

On the old Yuletide Treasures archive, you could only add fics in fandoms that had been nominated... But then Yuletide moved to AO3.

I think you know where this is going.

Obviously, it was vitally necessary for me to write this terrible prompt, complete with "Note to self: write this part later" sections and then recruit a bunch of people to start reboot vs. original wank in the comments before my recipient woke up on Yuletide morning.

[srafieldmouse]

Betsy In The Quest Mystery [Au Inky Mystery]

It's a pleasure, my name is SraFielmouse and this is the funniest work I've done so far, it's just a contribution to the Inky Mystery fandom.

"What would the future of the Inky Mystery world and characters look like?"

A good question I asked myself reading so far, I've taken 40 stabs at my dark heart from Tap, Mercowe and all of Inky Mystery as each chapter progresses.

This is not a simple Au futuro idea (although its basis is), as that is an homage to some content creators who created a couple of comics I saw where they projected the idea of seekers with children (even Felix and Oswald had them, although they varied in each version).

And to find out how this timeline exists and why, there are two key characters: Yax Warner (Yup, a Warner. Please Yakko, Wakko and Dot be understanding, he has a good explanation... I think)

Betsy In The Quest Mystery is a timeline several years in the future of Babitim, the ink disease is a book historical event, the world has moved on and the lives of the seekers and those close to them have similarly been going through chapters of everyone's life history.

The butterfly effect occurs when the ink seekers, after so much time, manage to reunite, to see each other again, to catch up as family and friends, and to introduce to each other their children that they had never been able to introduce.

Betsy the Angel Demon is the daughter of Bendy and Alice, who have not married for any reason. She is curious and avid for ancient and rare knowledge (specifically Calix Amini), Cherry and Betsy together are a young and female version of her parents, what a surreal sight for her parents and other adults.

Cherry Soda is the daughter of Cuphead and Baroness Von Bon Bon, the most unlikely, surreal and bizarre couple for Bendy and Mugman. There is a secret behind their marriage and Cherry's birth (She is stardust or whatever, I apologize o_o).

Sea Tea is the daughter of Mugman and Cala Maria, yes they are married and sweetly in love. She is Cherry's friend and cousin, being a follower of her cousin's antics. She is very much like her mother, but with the personality of a starfish (cute but lethal when she attacks).

And finally, Walter the Lucky Buncat the son of Felix and Oswald, they are a meta couple (believe me here they are), living a mature love with the passion of a couple of horny teenagers. They are married and there is a long and complicated history behind their marriage and the birth of Walter. The child is a cat-rabbit.

Almost all the characters are not of my authorship, almost all of them belong to a different creator.

KarlaDraws14: Cherry Soda, Sea Tea and Betsy the Angel Demon.

VanillaBella: Walter the Lucky Buncat

SraFielmouse: Yax Warner

I may later post reference drawings of these characters for a clearer view of them, and don't get the idea that they are mine, I apologize.

So far as it got too long hahaha

We will read each other very soon.

See you later, take care of yourselves and a thousand blessings.

Translation with DeepL Translate (●w•)