#they're so tiny!!!

[keithsandwich]

@kissmetwicekissmedeadly I'm in love with this Picrew!!!

[pzdragon666]

I HAD TO- I COULDN'T RESIST SHOWING THIS SNEAK PEAK! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!

@kyamo18 @chamm0y @splashscreenofficial @mr-playlist @kiyuu-draws @bumblecow @lanth57 @radiatwave

[theballadofmars]

I love how mqf's oficial description is something like: a good heart who wants to help others but then you read the novel and his reaction to lqg trapping ten infected men who are crying in panic is "great now I can start to work in my experiments with decomposed people to find a cure" and gets out a lot of needles, which makes the man cry even harder.

Even if we only get bits of the other Cang Qiong sect leader's we can reach the conclusion that no one there is normal, sqq is just biased.

[demaparbat-hp]

Slow mornings in Ba Sing Se.

I needed something soft today, so here's a little sketch for @nerdylizj's breathtaking fic Forgetting is a kind of mercy.

[miraluking-respectfully]

MEAN TO HIM!!!

[tawnysoup]

(You nod furiously.)

[justsmth2]

kids! :3

[madamemiz]

saw a post recently about the sun and moon fandom and how non-selfship content is rare, and how that's frustrating, and it struck me, like... how rare that is. genuinely in all my 20ish years in online spaces, i've never seen a fandom that not only welcomed selfship but actively encourages it, when usually the rule of thumb is that it's tolerated at best and despised at worst

so why is this fandom so selfship centric?

the answer is a combination of factors, of course, but I think it was mostly just a perfect storm of the right character with the right traits at the right time. many people between about 23 and 33 were and still are experiencing intense childhood nostalgia that's being perpetuated by online culture and various media, often through a distorted or slightly unsettled lense. the daycare attendant is fun! they're childish, but decidedly not children. they're not human, unattainable in reality, but plausible enough in the age of ai that they make you ponder. they make you long to nap and play and color and do all the whimsical things you wish you could take a week off from your dull job and do! but there's something... off about them. an element of danger that's intriguing. they're dangerous, but what if they aren't to you specifically? or, if they are, what if they overcame that, just for you? what if you were worth it?

people our age are lonely, and if not, often working through issues they didn't have time to contemplate in their teens and early 20s because they were still living throigh the issues. younger people too, of course, but it's especially rampant in the aforementioned age group. past college and college friends, too caught up in work to make new ones. if the dca really clicked with you as a character, it's kind of fun to imagine what it would be like to hang out with them. what if they were your friend? what if they were more?

which leads to my last point--cringe is dead and we stomped on its corpse

maybe it started with a few people drawing a y/n with the dca, and wow the art is cute! who's the cute jester character? ... is that a self-insert? huh. and then more people join in. is that allowed? yes! and the crowd cheers for it too! the right people drawing the right character dynamics at the right moment, drawing others like a moths to a strange robotic flame

ultimately, the fandom attracts so much selfship because that's the bedrock, the foundation the rest of the fandom built its home on. almost all of the common tropes and characterization have roots in selfship fic and art. the dca's popularity very much kicked off from that, and seeing other people using them as an outlet for their loneliness, friendship, romantic or sexual desires, or even just for creative character and plot setups that are only tangentially related to canon actively encouraged others to join in, in a way that could only happen while riding the funerary coattails of cringe culture

it's very much a lightning in a bottle fandom, the likes of which i doubt we'll see again for a while

[eepy-bells]

I love his silly little dance when he's killing people and desecrating wolverine's corpse😭💖💖💖

[canisalbus]

HELLO I NEEDED TO SHOW YOU MY HORRIBLE DOODLE THAT TOOK NO TIME AT ALL

INSPIRATION STRUCK AND NEEDED TO HAVE AT LEAST A DOODLE TO REMEMBER THE IDEA. OKAY, BYE NOW.

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[spirk-trek]

outta my way!!!!!! my girlfriend is HURT!!!

[itsallaboutbl]

#height difference

[yuviur]

A little thing I made for a friend. They're microscopic you know?

[lucabyte]

Different standards

[scottstiles]

Girl, I am outta here. There's a DVR at home full of unwatched TV waiting to remind me how ridiculously single I really am.

[guaxinimraccoon]

What do Alex and Elisa look like as kids? Or teens? Just younger...

AAAAAAAAAA those took longer than I anticipated, but there you go! I had so much fun designing them younger!!

Also I couldn't resist and HAD to draw them together as teenagers

Alex can't fool anyone with his spiky looks