#this is about personal/non-fandom stuff fyi

[toxicanonymity]

When you engage with confessions accts, you're encouraging this kind of parasocial hater behavior

Note added for context: A "confessions" account has been posting anon hate mostly toward writers in the pedro pascal fandom. A parasocial hater of mine discovered it and has been going to town. I posted this after a revolting analogy they used (screenshot at bottom of post).

Obviously I am disgusted that anyone would post such a deranged analogy just to stir up fandom drama. FYI many of these are from the same individual who has been fixated on me for a while and i know others have their stalkers too. We block them but when a "confessions" acct is active, they have a platform. I'm sorry to everyone who has been attacked.

warning: hate, trivialization of abuse & genocide, gross stuff.

the screenshots below are all from after I blocked this person

I normally don't address things like this, but that's only because I'm trying to keep it off your dash and off my blog for reasons including not wanting to give the hater a larger audience for their message. Normally I block/delete. But thanks to a blog dedicated to posting anon hate, some of this is already on the dash, and additional context could be illuminating.

a couple weeks ago, this person chimed in on my non-fandom post, and their comment made me uncomfortable. Their blog tagline was antagonistic. They weren't being earnest. I checked to see if they followed me, and they didn't. I wrongly assumed they followed me from a main account since they were commenting on an un-tagged, un-reblogged post. I replied, taking issue with their comment and asking them to keep their thoughts to themselves rather than coming at me from a sideblog. But I now realize they were simply hate checking my blog.

These first ones are from their burner after I blocked the account that started it:

(Blocked the burner too)

They were saying this last bit preemptively - I've never talked about stalkers here until this post you're reading rn. I didn't include all their anons in this post, just enough to show they clearly out themselves as being the same person.

Sometimes they will act like they're laughing and pretend to be multiple people. They also sent asks targeting att*********h and made comments off-anon before she deactivated this wk. In other asks they use large font to praise a former writer (jr****t) and insult everyone else - they sent one of these off-anon and reblogged another.

This post i'm making may only make it worse idk. I want to trust people not to automatically believe and repeat accusations, but my experience leaves me pessimistic.

I won't be dropping this creep's url in this post: This week they have repeatedly changed their url anyway, along with their display name and blog appearance. I had never heard of them.

Now the ask that prompted this post, idk if it's the same person or not but they def sent multiple asks

Note the "our" 🙄 typical hate stalker tactic pretending to be more than 1 person. I used to get "we are laughing" asks after like every post I made.

I haven't included nearly all the hate in this post, only the last one which crossed the line pushing me to make this post and all the others to illustrate how one person can go so wild. In other posts, I was sexualized without my consent (TOS violation) and it was really gross. And then miscellaneous hate.

Note - yes you can share this if you want. It's already out there anyway. Also feel free to DM for the known urls but do NOT contact them / rile them up.

Update - the anon-hate account referred to above, pedgeconfessions, has deactivated after violating multiple TOS including doxxing (not of me) which can put people in real world danger. It wasn't the first such acct this summer and may not be the last.

[sugdendingle]

Welcome to today's unhinged B*mmy thoughts:

Gotta say as a queer person I'm so done with that part of fandom calling me homophobic because I don't like a ship. Or because I don't think T*mmy treats Buck right. Or god forbid I don't think making a daddy kink joke in the same breath that Buck is talking about his father dying makes since.

Also B*mmy shippers this you???

Being so afraid of Eddie being queer and people relating to a fictional character you actually felt the need to make an entire video celebrating how much you want him to be straight. You do realize him having relationships with women doesn't automatically make him straight right? Because fyi up until very very recently all Buck has ever had has been relationships with women.

Oh and I don't know how it is that we're somehow fetishizing a ship many of us have been invested in for years. That we ship because we love the bond between Buck and Eddie and their family with Chris. Is there smutty fanart/fics sure but most of our fandom is centered around the love these two men share and us wanting to see that turn into something even deeper than it is. I also think it's insanely hypocritical to accuse Buddie shippers of fetishizing when a lot of you B*mmy stans used to be Buddie shippers. Only as soon as you got to see two guys you think are hot kiss Buddie didn't seem to matter anymore. You chose to care about a ship with very little substance because it has the physical stuff you wanted to see vs Buddie which has all the emotional depth your ship doesn't. But sure we're the ones fetishizing a m|m relationship. Okay.

I'm also just really tired of you all acting superior and like you're somehow the boss of the 911 fandom because your ship is canon. Is it fun to have a ship you love become canon? Yes. Would I love for Buddie to become canon? Hell yes. But canon ships have never been more important than non canon ships especially when it come to fandom. People have always headcanoned ships that weren't canon some that would never ever be canon no matter what. Especially when it comes to lgbtq couples. Yet now that Buck is dating T*mmy (which btw they've never confirmed they're even in an official rs) somehow it's not okay to ship him with Eddie. Or to have theories about them getting together. Or to dislike Buck with someone other than Eddie. Nevermind the fact that most of you B*mmy shippers disliked every other woman Buck and Eddie were ever even with. Somehow that was okay because they were women but it's not okay now that Buck is with a guy and it's a ship you like.

Also this you too???

But sure we're the homophobic and toxic ones in the 911 fandom.

[themotherofhorses]

Hi guys, it's Vic! Also known as:

Round TWO at addressing the extreme racism in the CoD fandom!

So it’s both odd and funny that my Indigenous fem!OC has pissed off so many random people, especially with the fact that I created her to ship with Ghost.

(A fictional character that has NO canon love interest, FYI. Sorry to bust y'all's little bubble. Well, there's Mara and Urban Tracker....)

Anyways, I really don't care if this post sounds bitchy in nature. I really don't, not anymore. Some of y'all need a damn wakeup call. Several months ago, in December of 2023, I made a post (here) regarding the sudden influx of hate I began receiving following the posting of my OC, SilentDove Reyes. For around two weeks after that post, the hate died down, and I felt motivated to create more content involving Dove and Ghost.

Until the hate picked up again with every little thing I posted that related to my OC x Ghost.

However....this new hate incorporated the MMIW. A bold ass move, in my opinion.

If you are not aware, the MMIW stands for "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women." Alternate spellings include the MMIWG & MMIWGTS (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirits). As of 2023, statistics indicate that Indigenous women face a 10x murder rate than any other race/ethnicity. I have made a previous post regarding the issue, seen here. The unfortunate truth is that young Indigenous girls are more likely to be SA'd and murdered than to attend college. Let that sink in for a moment.

Now, I am an Indigenous woman. That is no surprise there; I fashioned my OC to provide myself (and, by extension, others) with Native representation in a franchise I greatly enjoy. What IS surprising, however, is that me doing so has pissed off so many people. I'm very certain some of y'all must descend from Andrew Jackson, or John Wayne cause, christ on a bike driven by a pike.

Here is a screenshot of a hate anon I recently received:

Listen, I don't care who you ship Ghost with. I really don't. I've blocked numerous shipping tags, remained mindful of the content I'm interacting with, and surrounded myself with fellow mutuals who also have personal OCs. It is really that easy.

What I do care about is the fact that some of you CANNOT separate fanon headcanons from canon material.

Exhibit A:

So let’s clear some stuff up!

Soap x Ghost is NOT canon.

Ghost being queer is NOT canon.

And, most definitely, Ghost being a woman abuser who would harm/abuse/murder a woman (either physically, emotionally, psychologically) is NOT canon.

What IS canon is his and Soap's strong bond. In my eyes, that is a brotherly bond, reminding me of a big brother/little brother relationship; in my fanfiction, Soap is Ghost's children's uncle. In fact, his son (second-born child) is named after him.

You are, of course, free to view them as romantic; what you are not free to do is attack OC creators/non-shippers for not perceiving them like that.

That is just fucking weird and delusional behavior. Knock it off. You're giving your fellow normal shippers a bad name.

ALSO! Let’s clear things up!

1. I’m not straight — I’m bisexual and demisexual.

2. I’m only half white (Spanish, with Mexican heritage). I’m QUITE LITERALLY an enrolled Native, so I guess the best way to describe me is “biracial.”

3. It’s y’all ruining the canon gay representation by shipping Laswell—a GAY woman—with Price, despite the fact that she canonically has a wife.

4. My OC does not have a “dumb fucking name.” Her name is an Indigenous name with a specific backstory to it; it’ll be explored further in future fanfics once I find the motivation to return to writing.

Anyways, I highly doubt this will be the last post I create regarding this problem; apparently, a nice chunk of the fandom has this intense animosity towards fem!OCs, fem!Y/Ns, and BIPOC!OC creators. Alright. With that being said, I invite anyone who has similar experiences to share yours, either in the reblogs or in separate posts.

As sometimes we say during pow wows:

“The floor is all yours.”

Thank you!

[el-bellanaris]

It's been a long while since I really wanted to think about Veilguard but that article really brought a lot of it back up. For me personally I took a long break from really engaging in the fandom because I felt like it was making my enjoyment of these games too toxic and too muddied with other peoples opinions.

This time also helped me personally really boil down why I do not like the game and why I will not accept as a sequel to the previous games for my own personal enjoyment of a series that I love. Because for the most part there isn't some minute detail that ruins the enjoyment for me but a list of broad strokes that just reduce the game to being so unrecognisable as a dragon age title. (Also as an fyi I just have yet to play da2, so its not mentioned in my list)

Anyway these are:

A story founded on complex choices - not choices being added to the story but being the baseline that each mission should involve these as a core element

Combat built on team work - having a team of 3 with my character meant something in previous games. I spent hours trying to utilise my team in origins to beat an impossible boss with no health potions and each member of my team was useful and carried their own weight even as I was controlling their actions. In Inquisition there were countless times where Cassandra was the only reason I succeeded in a battle. But in Veilguard, I killed like 90% of the enemies and I actually started to hate my own team because of that.

Being able to get to know my own team on my own terms - just generally being able to talk to them at camp. I like Solas cos I enjoyed conversing with him in game. I could analyse why characters said stuff, where these ideas are rooted in their own self. If I was new to a game asking characters questions meant that I would understand more of the world. I would also purposefully spread them out because I looked forward to talking to my companions and I didn't want to run out of things to say to them

Also just generally complex characters - characters who had opinions, who existed in a bigger circle of life than that of my characters existence. Characters who said things that made me angry so I'd bite back to see how they reacted. Alistair who turned me down the first time I asked him to join me in my tent cos for him our relationship wasn't deep enough. He needed more from me before that was okay. This moment actually made me check myself and think more deeply about what buttons I press cos he wasn't just gonna be a yes man. Blackwall is one of my favourite characters and he at certain points in his story made me so angry at him. And there are many characters with downright awful opinions that I still love cos these opinions colour their character

A complex and rich world - Never has a game series made me want to buy a book that is essentially a history text book to understand their own world better. I read so much of the world of Thedas that I lovingly have on my bookshelf. A lot of it isn't perfect, I dont like many of the world choices but in its messiness is a richness and love for the world that exists. In Veuilguard, the chantry - non existent. The templars armour just generic outfit that the elves of all people wear. What happened to the blade of hessarian? These games didn't just have things for cool shapes and colours, they meant something. Sera was coded to wear human outfits even as a elf cos she wanted to rebel from her "elfyness."

Deep relationships - Relationships weren't linear, that didn't exist because I agreed with those characters but because I built a trust with them. I disagreed often with my favourite characters and that never actually made me dislike them, it made me understand them more. I couldn't even bite back when a character in Veilguard was talking down to me for absolutely no reason. My friendships with Morrigan, Cassandra, and Zevran mattered to me must as much as my romantic relationships. Finding out what pissed characters off and how they acted in different circumstances was fun and engaging. Getting a cut scene meant something because it was a result of choices I made not a checkpoint in a list of events. I included this in addition to complex characters because the characters were complex regardless if I talked to them or used them in battle but relationships used to only exist if I pressed the buttons to make them exist.

With every single point I mentioned here, they inspired me to spend hours reading wiki pages, articles on game websites and lengthy tumblr posts that had every piece of dialogue. And then even more hours thinking about what this information meant. A table showing the companion reactions to my big choices in Inquisition inspired me to really just think about each character to discover why and what that meant in reflection to them. I spent two hours trying to understand the history of the Elves not because Veilguard inspired me with its own interesting way of acknowledging it but because the content of the game actually made me angry with how it approached the topic. Literally nothing else in the game actually inspired me to read more, to be curious. If anything the game actually expects the opposite and accept whatever is being literally said to me.

Now none of the old games were perfect by any means. They were messy, they made me angry with deliberate choices. I hated aspects of them and have my fair share of criticism but I love them still because the foundation they were built upon as a game is something that I loved and enjoyed. So what am I even playing for if literally every aspect of the dragon age games that I loved is missing? If I wanted a different game to play I would buy a different game.

[moonncheese]

Hello!!! Here's a quick introduction of me:

My name is Atlas but you can also call me Mars, I like both names so use whichever one you feel more comfortable using on me!

I'm 18 (birthday is February 23), I identify as Agender as well as AroAce and perfer if ppl used They/It on me

I'm an artist from Venezuela who can't consume anything like a sane person

I originally came from Instagram and then moved here for EXTREMELY personal reasons I won't talk about for obvious reasons.

I love to read, write and also draw and u have a lot of ocs I would love to share with yall!

BYF:

-Pls know that while my main focus is ocs most of them are fandom ocs and ofc I have some oc x canon so if you're not comfortable with fandom ocs or oc x canon then I suggest you just ignore my acc

-While I will be posting my own art, I'll also be sharing my own personal opinion on things, whether it's just me talking random or me sharing an opinion I have on a certain topic so don't expect art 100% of the time

DNI:

-Basic dni stuff (homophonic, transphobia, racism, ableism, harassment, etc)

-Ppl who genuienly believe that non sharing is gatekeeping

-Ppl who actively post a lot of nsfw without warning (and I don't mean just a blur I mean specifying in their bio that they mainly post 18+ content as well)

-Ppl who's first thing they tell me when we meet or barely know each other is smt that's very inappropriate (idm inappropriate jokes but if it's an explicit joke and we aren't close then I'll just feel uncomfortable about it)

-Ppl who hate on fandom ocs and oc x canon

Boundaries:

-I'm okay with inappropriate jokes or comments but only if they're light, unless we are rlly close I'm not comfortable with explicit jokes or comments

-A lot of my ocs are (ofc) queer so if you're unable to respect that pls don't interact with me

-My dms are free for anyone to use tbh but that's not an invitation to be weird or rude

-Basically just don't be an asshole to me. If you show me respect I can show you respect as well

Fandoms I'm into:

-Bungo Stray Dogs

-Genshin Impact

-Honkai Star Rail

-Wuthering Waves

-Danganronpa

-Minecraft

Fandoms I want to get into/Currently getting into:

-Twisted Wonderland

-Zenless Zone Zero

-Cookie Run Kingdom

-Pokemon

Yall are free to text me whether it's to talk or ask me smt, I love talking to ppl!

FYI the character drawn is my sona, I'll make a full refrence sheet for them dw

If you have any questions about me or my ocs btw yall are free to ask me whether it's in the question box or dms

[ravenclod]

1, 12, 16, 22 Project Sekai!!! :D

OKAY !! fyi ive not finished all main stories yet. hence the vbs bias (its not intentional im sorry)

i. yap. a lot. im sorry. im bored and opinionated.

1. the character everyone gets wrong

an shiraishi.

her fans - amazing. they get her.

most non-an fans dont get her though. she feels heavily like an afterthought, or just there to emphasise akitos personality, or to be in yuri with kohane. she is one of my favourite characters and id say better written than the bad dogs, or at the very least equal to them.

put some respect on her name AND her issues.

BONUS : SHIZUKU IS NOT JUST A PRETTY FACE. SHES WONDERFUL AND HAS DEPTH<3

2. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

kohane & ichika

dude. even if nothing else. their vocals. oh my god. their vocals are SO GOOD. ICHIKA IDK MUCH ABOUT YET BUT HER VOCALS MAKE HER AN EASY FAV FOR ME.

kohane is actually very very nicely written to be a supportive character for the rest of the group, and fulfills the role very well. she actually had a lot of growth, and its not the "introvert->extrovert" type shit. its her genuinely gaining confidence in herself, and alongside that confidence in her place in VBS, which in turn helps out her friends. its very nice but ppl dont recognise it so much bec its subtle

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

hi ruikasa. maybe im biased cuz ive not done wxs stories but . how is it SO many peoples hyperfocus. same with akty a bit. i get why they like it but not why SO many OBSESS over it /no hate intended.

more valid complaint !!!

characterisation of toya being dumb (social wise). i get it when people r trying to write autistic coding, or its bec of his upbringing, but a lot of the time they deadass just make him stupid. like trust me in this situation he would be understanding so much more than youre allowing. i know many autistic people and none of them are like that. its so frustratingly exaggerated, and unrealistic to most if not all people.

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

the !!! friendships !!! between !!! everyone !!!

oh my gollies i could go on yaps forever and ever about how this fandom is so so so heavy ship focused it makes me wanna tear my hair out. and i LIKE that the canon doesnt confirm any ships , because it allows for an exploration in all aspects and forms of friendship and the difficulties that may involve (its one of the main reasons im looking forward to doing the FULL l/n and mmj stories !)

they arguably write friendship very well for the most part, better than a lot of the other stuff they write HAJAJS and yet people only only ever focus on the romantic connotations.

like with vbs, its either the vivids and bad dogs or polysquad, never just the gang. hanging out. or 2 of them chilling (platonic akikoha my loves)

ESPECIALLY the fandom w mizu5/ena5???? hello??? its about their FRIENDship brother there is no romance here YET. I LOVE MIZUENA BTW BUT OH MY GOD. THERE ARE MORE PRESSING THINGS IN THE STORY.

IM SO SORY FIR THE YAP KIFFON WAAAA

[frannyzooey]

Hi Kelli! Tumblr errored out while I was sending this the first time so I think it didn’t go through but if you did in fact already get this feel free to ignore the duplicate! (Damn you, tumblr)

I really appreciated reading your thoughts on age gap a little while ago and had a follow up question for you. What are your thoughts on the idea I see circulating sometimes that age gap fics are alienating to folks who don’t want to read them or feel like they can’t identify with it? I never see myself as “reader” personally, but I know some folks do and would never want to perpetuate a problem or make anyone’s experience in fandom less cozy or welcoming. It’s definitely something that makes me nervous to post any of my writing (even the majority non-age gap stuff) especially in the Pedro fandom space, and I know the argument that everyone curates their own space and can choose not to read something probably applies here, but it still makes me hesitate.

I did not get this ask the first time! *shakes fist at tumblr*

FYI: the other ask, for reference ❤

So, I have not come across this particular sentiment but I have seen my fair share of hate on age gap for various reasons, and I wanna touch on a couple things in this ask because you are being so brilliantly vulnerable sending it in ❤

First off: the main thing I write is age gap: Weeknights, In the Dark, The Secret, Dave/Nanny, Dave/Intern, SDLN. Now let me tell you something else: I am 38 years old.

You would think that I wouldn't be able to identify myself in those stories because of my age: I'm not in college, I'm not in my 20's, I'm not some young, pretty thing. I also don't want to envision myself as a younger person, I also have nothing against aging and it's not because I secretly loathe older women.

It's the dynamic.

In truth, I find them soothing/cathartic to write about/read because they describe something that was missing for me at not only that age, but to some extent now as well: care.

To read about a situation in which an older person cares for and desires the younger one: that is something I seek out because I like it. I'm soothed by it, it's my favorite daydream, it's a situation that I have always been drawn to. I have always been attracted to someone experienced in the ways of the world taking care of me, in whatever form that takes shape in.

Will everyone in the fandom find it soothing? No. In fact, some might be triggered by it, or have their own life experiences that tell them it's inherently wrong, or like you stated above, for whatever reason they just don't identify with the desire to read about it.

However - I do. I'm not everyone, and I get that, but I write (and consume) for me, and for (hopefully) others who are like me to enjoy.

The act of sharing your work is a very vulnerable thing, and to pair that with posts about how some people will never be able to identify with the things you want to write about in a very shame filled manner of speech makes it even more scary, and I get that.

I really do, I've felt it and it’s a hard thing to have to see and feel.

However, in order to post online in any fandom, you sort of just have to say "self, this is important to me, so fuck it."

They can read it, or they can not: that's up to them. If they don't identify with it, then they can go seek out other media that they do identify with. If they don't like it, that's not on you. There are plenty of stories in which I don't identify with the reader for various reasons, but I either enjoy the fics for different aspects of the story, or I scroll on by.

I have a lot of opinions/theories on why people make posts like that but I won't bore you - at the end of the day, you create the content you want to consume, and don't let anyone make you feel bad about it. ❤

[skellymom]

FYI to my clone fandom peeps and non clone tumblrites:

I am an artist (not just a fan fic writer) who owns a small business in their home and has a vendor space in my downtown city! Please follow and support a small business owner who wants to quit their 9-5 (really it's weekend night shift) job.

Sorry I don't have any clone art right now. Just starting to get serious with online promotion of my work (I'm a local creature). But, tagged the fandom as I'm sure many of you have other interests.

I'm looking into starting a Kofi account and possibly listing items on my Etsy (if they aren't too problematic). If anyone has any suggestions, advice, or warnings about certain platforms for artists and their work PLEASE MESSAGE OR COMMENT! I NEED FEEDBACK!!!

Thank you for supporting, or at least perusing a small business!

This is mostly a gallery of past works posted right now. However, I will be starting to post new stuff as well.

This link to my personal FB account. There is more up to date content and work there!

Message me if you see anything of interest. Some items can be reproduced or custom make and I can take paypal orders and ship!

PLEASE REBLOG TO HELP OUT A SMALL BUSINESS.

[rimeiii]

I hate beating up a dead horse (and in fear of incurring the wrath of the fandom once more) but the way WHB handles content warnings is just...

Where are the detailed content warnings? Not just for the angels, but for everything? Because honestly, I think the game would've garnered less backlash for having them - a "this game is made for mature audiences, viewer discretion is advised" screen before logging in would be the bare minimum honestly.

Say what you want about the angel cards including dub/non-con content and the cards themselves veering towards that sort of territory but at least give a fucking warning about it? I've always criticized the devs for not having 18+ rating all across the board when clearly mature games like Limbus Company get the 18+ rating. If WHB is NSFW because of the sex and kinky stuff, Limbus is NSFW because of the immense amount of gore and dark content.

"But they have content warnings-" ONLY FOR SEX. AND PAIRED WITH 16+.

It would be perfectly reasonable to assume that, for people who played this game without following any of the pre-release contents, with this combination THERE WON'T BE ANY DETAILED DUB/NON-CON.

This is in Indonesia's Google Play Store, and if it's different in other regions, then it also begs the question - why the FUCK is it not just rated 18+ across the board?!

Limbus Company, the closest comparison I can think of being with their devs (Project Moon) also being a Korean indie company that created a gacha with mature content that has a staff team the size of a high school class (in fact I wager Limbus has less staff working on the game because around half of their staff works almost exclusively at their merch café), only had warnings for extreme violence and strong language, but at least they had the decency to put more warnings in their earliest trailers and the game website - and it's always common courtesy in the fandom to warn potential players with one particular image I'll show down below, containing a list of the game's content warnings.

Oh, and they're rated 18+ across the board, including a Mature Content Description on Steam.

And sure, you can make the argument of "well you know what you're getting into upon looking at the card art", but therein lies the issue of not warning at the very start of the game - nobody knew for sure what triggers would be in the game upon startup.

Whatever way you slice it, dub/non-con is a genuine trigger for other people despite it also being a kink (I personally don't get it and it's a no-no for me even in fiction, but you do you). Adding clear content warnings would literally harm no one and helps people avoid things they know they don't want to consume. Yes, despite the in-game context clues providing hints, a clear indicator is still preferable.

Take, for example, the Lobelia summer skin controversy in Granblue Fantasy. People already know Lobelia as the twisted Evoker who not only murdered his own parents but recorded their dying screams of pain in his conch shells, doing the same thing to his countless victims afterwards. All of this is mentioned during the Fate Episodes to recruit him. You want to know the problem with his summer skin, Danger Beckons by the Shore, though?

There's a home screen voiceline where he offers one of his conch shells for the player to listen to, wherein you will hear the pained and tortured screams of one of his victims as she's attacked and later on eaten alive by a shark. Keep in mind, this sort of voiceline wasn't even in his base art, and while his Fate Episodes had tortured screams it wasn't even half as bad as this particular voiceline.

It's even given a content warning in the wiki.

For a rather significant amount of players who bought the skin, the inclusion of this voiceline despite the subtle warning in the skin blurb (which, fyi, is only accessible AFTER you bought the skin) hampers their enjoyment of the skin when they put it on their home screens then tap Lobelia - which many people who get character skins do. Mostly because there wasn't any clear indicator of the scream and a lot of people never appreciated the sudden jumpscare scream. The fact that Lobelia is a psychopath and doing this shit is in character for him should also be able to stand together with the fact that including a scream out of nowhere is pretty scummy and not a good time. Especially for non-JP speaking players, who essentially got jumpscared by a scream out of nowhere, as they never understood the fact that Lobelia was offering one of his conch shells.

Back to the rating issue, though. Why not rate WHB as 18+ if you're going to include content that could very much be considered controversial, like non-con? Like, say, Limbus Company (which I hate bringing up again bc fuck kjh)? Which not only has the warnings in the app store but plastered in the earliest trailers (still viewable on Steam and Project Moon's YouTube channel but not on the Google Play Store) and the official game website?

And sure. Some of these trigger warnings sound silly (reference to traffic accidents is more or less Charon driving Mephi like a maniac iirc based on the content we already have in the game). But I did genuinely appreciate the warning because let's talk about the first three Cantos after the prologue, hmm?

Canto 1 already includes cannibalism, war, torture, and body modifications, among other things! Canto 2 has references to alcohol and gambling, as well as mentions of homicide - despite being a lighter Canto overall! And in Canto 3, we experienced discriminatory violence, more body modifications, enforced ideologies and/or actions, and religious torture and violence among other things!

I can stomach gore easier compared to non-con and even I appreciate the warning, particularly with regards to Canto 3. Kromer's fascination with everything pure (i.e. no body modifications), all stemming from seeing...something...in the basement of Sinclair's old mansion, the cult behaviour that led to mass murder and torture by the faction she leads (up to and including brainwashing as detailed by Kleinhammer Heathcliff's Identity story) Kromer's obssession with Sinclair and him standing beside her as an ally...it's all genuinely so unnerving, and are story beats the game handles really well despite how disturbing it all really is when you stop and think about it.

"But you should've known considering the game's aesthetics-"

Maybe, especially considering one of Gregor's launch cards is literally this, and most if not all Uptie II arts are gory at the very least.

However, again, I have to underline the importance of content warnings - this time with an irl example.

I have a friend who was interested in Limbus Company. I've talked extensively about Gregor and how much I love him, and it started because I have a drawing I made of him in the back of my phone case and Liu Gregor's Uptie II art as my phone background at the time. They said they were interested, then I had to explain the sorts of contents she would encounter in my native language, Indonesian.

"Blood and gore, violence, a lot of mental health issues - Gregor has PTSD and his chapter depicted it pretty well, human experimentation, homicide, so Nagel und Hammer is basically the Inquisition and kills people to 'purify' them, oh yeah cannibalism is also a thing-"

"Stop, stop, I'm not playing if that's the content I'm going to see. I don't think I can handle it."

This same friend was also interested in playing If On a Winter's Night, Four Travelers - a free point-and-click adventure game that deals with themes like depression, homophobia, racism, and suicide. She was willing to try that game out because it wasn't as gory as Limbus Company. For context, the Mature Content Description for this game on Steam:

In both cases, I had to personally explain the content warnings in Indonesian since my friend isn't the most fluent in English and she has a far lower limit for dark content compared to me, but I did send that image of content warnings for Limbus Company and urged people to read the Mature Content Descriptions on Steam for anyone who wanted to try any of the two games and is fluent in English. Why?

Because it's basic human decency to try and keep people informed of any potential triggers and content they might not be comfortable seeing.

Either way, main takeaway from this issue:

Dub/non-con might be your kink, but it might not be for others - it might be uncomfortable or downright triggering as all hell for others, in fact. So, clear content warnings (in particular for any and all triggering content) harm nobody, especially as it helps people avoid story beats where their turn-offs and, more importantly, their triggers.

[prettypastelpetals]

RANT (TRIGGER WARNING)

There's been so many blogs in a row on my feed writing rapish and just plain horrifyingly sad shit. Whatever happened to writing regular angst or smut or literally anything else?? Why are we writing this character raping, spewing mysogynistic shit and whatever other horrifying things??? Just because the character is big and scary you want to write about the OC or reader being defiled for a fic?? I don't want these kinds of fics across my feed, but the writers doing it i've liked past fics and now I don't know what to do, because sadly, most of the fandoms writers have written some form of what is called Dub non-con or non-con...... Which is just rape guys. T^T Plz stop this trend, I hate it. As a person who went through an abusive relationship and SA, i hate getting reminded of it through the media I chose to get away from it in. It's also so popularized in romance/smut books where the male lead is supposedly Morally gray but they always make him abusive in some way and the MFC likes it....... I'm literally at my end here guys.

Being Morally Gray doesn't mean the ML has to be terrible to the FL. My Brother in Christ, you can make him a villain all you want i'll still find him attractive even covered in another persons blood. But forcing the plot line to move on and create more misunderstandings because you want to write smut is stupid. Literally wrtiting the FL going "I just want to talk to him" and that ALWAYS leads to sex is irritating. I want the main characters to have more thoughts than just how hot and fuckable the other is. It's getting to be a problem here. Like I like smut and angst, but you have to actually plan it out.

You can make your men villains without making them rapists..... Just FYI. I don't know what is going through other womens heads that fantasize this stuff, of a man forcing himself on you that you think of because he's hot....... let me tell you, he could be the love of your life and it's STILL a TRAUMATISING experience. And for the people out there writing it and reading it because "It heals them or helps them", YOU NEED HELP.

This is not normal, unless you are writing it as part of the story and it's supposed to be there for development or storyline purposes. It is never ok to write the MALE LEAD as the rapist. A scenario for this would be the Main characters past boyfriend or a random man, maybe a family member or friend.

NOT THE MALE LEAD.

I really hate having to tell people this, but it seems the fanfiction world has devolved into everyone just writing smut and nothing else.... I want storylines! I WANT PASSION, DRAMA, EVERYTHING.

Also for those writing books and shit, make the groveling better. Ya'll say "He'll grovel a lot" and all he does is give puppy eyes and tells her he loves her and she gets with him. I WANT TO SEE HIM SUFFER THE SAY WAY SHE DID. I WANT TO TEAR HIM APART WITH FEELINGS THE WAY SHE AND I WERE. You HAVE to make the groveling worth it, because i invested so much time into this book and it wasn't worth it half the time. I want the man on his KNEES for making me cry for the shit he did. I want GOOD reasoning and character development. It shouldn't be something that happens after 15 chapters of nothing but pain and then they get together and it ends. Thats boring and leaves the readers hanging becuase we never really got the climax.

I think you should put it like this.....

say its a 25 chapter book. the first 10 chapters are pain, the next 10 are the groveling/fixing shit and the last 5 are them getting together with the epilogue. this can be adjusted, but keep it equal. Sometimes make the groveling longer for the type of angst happening.

If it's bad enough that the main character is considering death/Suicidal than the groveling NEEDS TO BE DEVESTATING TO THE MALE LEAD. He NEEDS to have huge moments of despair and realization and they need to work together after that.

I feel like I should make another rant on Female leads needing to be more than the "I'm not like other girls"/"Strong female lead" archtype that is a bitch to everyone for no reason other than being edgy. Cause you know what I like more? A female lead who is KIND and feminine without being hypersexualized. Whose sweetness hides her dark past. Because that storyline will always pack a harder punch that the jaded bad girl who lashes out like a wounded animal.

For reference..... match-ups for couples.....

Jaded Bad girl X Jaded Bad boy is okay....... you gotta be really good at writing it....

Sweet girl with Jaded past X Jaded Bad boy is fantastic, give it a little more like the boy bullying the girl without knowing her past and shit goes on.

Sweet girl X Bad Boy is still top teir.

Bad girl X Sweet Boy isn't one of my favorites, but plenty of people like it. I personally don't like golden retreiver type boys, but that's because I have a softer personality.

again, opposites can sometimes make a story better than pairing two of the same types together. Just because it's Mafia doesn't mean the female lead is going to constantly be fearful and screaming just because she's girly.

And FYI, being kind and soft and sweet can be just as much a strong female lead. And I think she's often the better female lead. Stop trying to make every girl Katniss Everdeen or Tris Prior....

Theres nothing wrong with kicking ass in a dress or skirt and heels.

[chaos-monkeyy]

Updated pinned post!

Figured it was time, the original one has just gotten too unwieldy to keep updated 😂 Also, I have some new shit on the go!

My links:

AO3 for all my fic - Patreon to support (but don't join right now, I'm on something of an unwilling writing hiatus) - Medium for original works

tumblrs: porn sideblog - personal sideblog

My main tags and warnings:

So you can search or filter as you need, details below the cut xx

#chaosfic - my own writing.

#chaos answers and #chaos babbles - my ask replies or posts about my writing, fandom stuff, live read or watch reactions, and random thoughts.

#smut - explicit post content or link to a fic with explicit sexual content.

#(kink) - more hardcore than just smut, blanket tag for most kink, except for...

#omo - holding / wetting / desperation (it’s the pee content folks; and sometimes it's just #p/iss); and also...

#in/cest - pretty self-explanatory.

#its TMI time - real life sex and kink topics (whether my own or in an ask).

#dark fic - heavy non-con (the DDNE level stuff), or angsty/whumpy major character death, etc.

I tag posts by their fandom, and by ship and/or individual characters as applicable. I'm pretty good about tagging consistently for spoilers or by season / book / etc. when it's for newer stuff!

When it's not about #fandom, #writing, or #writer problems, I tag it as #random. Or #cats. I like cats. And also #polls.

Also, just FYI, I rarely bother using tumblr's mature content post thingy. I don't trust them not to just nuke anything helpfully self-flagged for Mature Themes one day 🙃

[ayukaze]

hey me again, no thanks i'll stay anon since mimato shippers are super aggressive and bitter. Guess i don't have the right to argue since i am anon, so i'll just say koumi, jyoumi, and michi are all good ships with great quality and not-usually pervy fanart, and yeah the mishirou account's doing too much but hey at least they've yet to start begging+spamming on twitter saying "fuck you toei", while tagging every digimon tag possible in both english and japanese for the whole fandom to see right?

You're literally coming into my inbox and insulting me and then telling me that Mimato shippers are bitter and aggressive?? We've been the most bullied side of the fandom for so long, of course, we don't tiptoe on eggshells anymore, if you come for us we will fight back!!

Do you even know what Taiora fandom pulled during Mimato Week last week? Do you know how many times we have to go into the Mimato tag and see people bashing the ship, how many fanarts/fanfics have been deleted from every fandom site because of hate comments and reviews? We've been backed into a corner for years, and now that we have created a fun space for ourselves you lot have to come in and invade whenever you see us doing events and such. We are not bitter and aggressive, we are tired of the bullshit way the fandom has treated us for so long, anyone would lose the patience to be nice after what we've endured.

And pervy fanart, lmao are you 10 years old???

Please, the correct term is NSFW and the site called Pixiv that you claimed is a win for Koumi post tonnes of NSFW art of Mimi with every character so I don't know how Mimato shippers doing the same makes us evil - oh wait! Your next statement explains it, Koumi event mod is in the wrong BUT we are further in the wrong by your standards! So no other shipping fandom stirring up shit has to answer to anything but Mimato shippers must control themselves lol! What happened to letting anyone ship whatever they want? And as far as the tagging Toei is concerned, EVERY single Non-So/ra/to shipper has done that at some point, brave of you to assume that it's only Mimato fandom doing that. And since you did bring up the Reboot yesterday, there was a aggressive S/ora/to/Ta/ka/ri account on twitter that sent death threats to the Digimon anime's official account in replies and qrt's almost every week while the series was airing. And fyi, tags are meant to be used the exact way you just mentioned 🤣 Everyone posts whatever they dislike about the series in the main tags, for example, the Tri slander has always been off the charts in the Tri tags. But again, I get it, this behaviour is wrong only when Mimato shippers do it right?

Now I understand why you're refusing to come off anon, because you're probably one of those preachy blogs in the fandom that says stuff like "i support all ships uwu no hate to anyone uwu" but doesn't actually support all ships. Because you will hold the ship you hate accountable for any tiny mistake they may make while let the behaviour of other shipping fandoms slip under the radar.

You have a lot of audacity to continue to stay anon and disrupt my day and demand justifications from me over your own perceptions and opinions. Very easy for you to get on with your reputation in the fandom despite being a full bitch, while I am viewed as the "bitter and aggressive" person because I don't take shit sitting down.

[caldybclader]

introduction post

hi my name is either cal or poli but you can also call me callie or calum. i'm currently 15 years old and i come from poland

policarpo fictionkin (fictionflicker, psychological)

i like homestuck, 31 minutos, homestar runner and some other stuff

any pronouns

shoutouts to my friend who is kind of like the tulio to my policarpo (ok what did i just write here LMAO i spoke some secret code here probably)

ah the childlike wonder of discovering the color function

Q&A about my ask box:

"do you take art requests?" no sorry

"can i talk with you through asks?" use dms lmao but i don't think i'll use them

"who is the capara sonia rq person?" well i don't know myself but they go around asking 31 minutos fandom artists to draw capara sonia with specific stuff like no shell, boxers, snail friend etc.

DNI:

-Ń$FW, Pr0shitp, 101ic0n, 1nc35t, ź00ph1l1a, overall any [non-consenting/illegal]ph1l1a or anything else disgusting

-any f37ish accounts

-terfs

-crypt0

-idk insert basic criteria here

-gonna be honest selfshippers/yumeshippers are on thin ice. reminder that i'm a policarpo fictionkin (even if not always) and despite my kintype being a 44 year old (in calculation, that's not canon anyways) puppet man i'm still 15 years old and i feel kind of icky about it. if you exist and you selfship with my kintype then it's ok i'm not gonna immediately block you and if you interact with me normally then it's also ok just don't go too far. tldr "if you selfship then it's okay just don't be weird about it towards me"

fyi i will also block if i overall feel uncomfy

[lost-girl-2021]

🤗

What advice would you give to new fanfic writers that are just getting started?

I actually really wanted someone to ask this question. I'll answer from two different POVs, a reader and a writer.

As a reader, something that turns me away from fics is punctuation/spacing. Something I learned in school was that every paragraph should be around 5-7 sentences. Obviously, with fiction writing, it's a little looser but try to steer clear from page-long paragraphs. They can be hard to keep up with, sometimes.

Usually, as long as it's nothing crazy, I look past spelling errors and stuff, but I personally use Grammarly (the free version) and just have it enabled on my laptop (it's also great for school papers if you're still in school, FYI). I honestly don't look over my writing more than once most of the time, but the big stuff is marked in red and I can usually catch it before posting.

Also, if you don't feel comfortable/don't want to swear in your work, just don't. I've seen some other people say similar things (and I don't see it nearly as often anymore) but when people use "#%@*(" instead of swearing it pulls me out of the fic. There's non-swears you can use as alternatives and they flow better in my opinion.

As a writer, I'd say don't force yourself to write things sequentially. A lot of the time when I get the initial idea for something, I write a scene and work my way around it. For Days Into Decades, I wrote my beginning, then wrote some nonsensical scene that'll end up as my ending, and did some big scenes scattered throughout as my middle. Now, I go back through my doc and reread what I've written to pick and choose what I want/don't want to use.

Also, don't write on social media when you're creating a post. What I mean, is use something like Google Docs, which saves automatically, in case your device crashes or lags and deletes everything. The amount of times I've flat-out rage quitted something because I've lost like 2k of thoughts is uncountable.

I really like Google Docs and work pretty much exclusively on there when working on my drafts. I'm bad at labeling my docs, but trying to work on it more given the sheer amount of 'untilted documents' I have to search through when I'm looking for a specific old project. It also just works well with what I'm using, because I have a Chromebook (mostly because it's the closest I could get to a Nokia-level of durability).

At the end of the day, what really helps is keeping with it. I cringe at the thought of this, but my OG fanfic was a PJO x Avengers Tower AU with my own OC named "Paxton, but everyone calls me Pax". It had clipart and I used Pic Collage and I had a linked Instagram filled with Batman memes. No part of it made sense and because I wrote on my (barely functioning) 2015 Samsung (in 2017) it was riddled with spelling errors and every other sentence was an Author's Note filled with random emoji's.

My writing compared to then, even compared to a year ago, has completely changed. I've probably written at least five pages a week since I was thirteen. Now, almost twenty, I feel really confident about my writing style and the things I publish. I also usually ask for comments so I can get feedback on what I've written (and because I really like talking).

If anyone has any specific questions or wants me to check out their work (doesn't have to even be fanfiction, or it can be for a fandom I've never even heard of) feel free to DM me. I'd be happy to check it out when I'm free.

[bye-bye-firefly]

I’m really glad that ao3 doesn’t have an actual pro-ai policy at the moment! I’m planning on doing some research on what Unseeliekey brought up just to at least understand what he’s talking about. I was honestly really confused and freaked out reading what he was saying. But yeah, I’m sad too. You’ve got the right to remain right here with me and it’s a little more fun when I’m with you are two of the fics that made me not only get pretty into Saiou but also made me more attached to DR and into reading fanfiction in general. And it’s just like really upsetting to see something that had that much of an effect on me be gone and know that not everyone who is in the fandom or will get into the fandom will be able to see that.

I also really hope that there’s some sort of way to glaze works too. Making stuff inaccessible to guests is always sad. When I first started reading fanfiction I was a guest and like a lot of people don’t use accounts for various reasons and it’s just sad to think about account locked stuff. And it would be so nice if the ais would just Not. Like why can’t they???? Why???

Anyway, right now I don’t think there’s any full proof, everyone will be able to be happy way to prevent the ai scraping but I’m sure you’ll figure something out that’ll be alright for at least what can be done at the moment. Your works are very cool. I really, really love them. They bring me lots of joy. Thank you for all the joy. It’s super awesome.

okay this is a REALLY long answer because i went on a whole rant so im going to cut this for people who are just scrolling normally. but also im totally going to put this into my pinned tag

a lot of what was said was like. Half true. my counterpoint to him saying that ao3 supports cp or rape or sexual assault is that no matter where you go on the internet, you will find shit like that. EVERYWHERE. ao3 doesnt support it i really seriously doubt that anyone outside of those spaces supports shit like that but ao3 is an ARCHIVE. and when you put things in the archive, you are allowed to submit whatever the fuck you want. setting rules on what could be put into the archive automatically means that other fics, which explore the topic in a critical, non-fetishistic way, are ALSO up to scrutiny. fics that explore the psyche of trauma victims? they might not be allowed. regular degular fetish content, no minors involved? completely up to scrutiny. im really not a fan of censorship OR some of the shit on the internet, but i can only control ONE THING and thats what i allow myself to see. i really dont like people saying that ao3 deserves to be taken down because of that because then that would mean twitter deserves to go down, social media as a whole deserves to go down, and just generally i dont trust people who push the "think of the CHILDREN" argument. you see republicans push that when theyre trying to ban trans or gay people out of existence so INSTANTLY alarm bells start going off in my head, not to imply that i think every single person who pushes that argument in this context is republican or right-wing. just bothers me and looks like a red flag

and to instantly get it out of the way im not involved in the fucking proship/anti discourse that whole distinction feels like destruction of critical thinking antis are often puritanicals and would kill me if they saw what i write in nameless and gasp at published books that delve into topics they think are off limits and many of the proshippers ive come across are weirdos who think that its totally normal to write romance between minors and adults in a positive light like its NORMAL and that we shouldnt think less of people who do that but fyi i am totally thinking less of people who do that and im totally thinking less of people who hate me for writing my unhealthy/toxic/abusive/codependent relationships that dont even fetishise those kinds of relationships like GET OVER IT!!!! BE NORMAL!!! GO OUTSIDE LICK A DOORKNOB KISS A GIRL DO SOMETHING!!!!!

if there is ever any advice i can give to people its to form your own opinions and dont try to put a strict solid label on your opinion because sometimes you will betray your label and youll think to yourself "am i even really that thing......." people are complex and hold many different opinions that sometimes contradict one another and thats fine. logic your shit out dont fall for charming little labels that pin you strictly on one side of an argument it makes you less likely to actually reach a point where you have a strong opinion that makes sense AND can compromise and thus bring someone more onto your side. forever

ANYWAY YEAH! i settled on making it so my osomatsu san fics go account only on the 20th and then also some of my older danganronpa single chapters go account only with them, but the multichapters im currently working on will go account only when theyre finished, with exceptions for when theres rumours going around of a scrape. makes me so oo oodofooafgofjgj mad GRRAAGGHGHGGHG

but thank you i am glad to bring joy to people's lives. readers and comments bring me a ton of joy and im glad that i can give that back to everyone ^_^ i seriously cannot thank readers and commenters enough like i never feel like i get it across well enough how grateful i am for everyone who reads my stories and gives me kudos and the people who comment like. it brings me so much joy that i cannot properly verbalise EVER

[sanctum-of-the-stars]

*˚✧ 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒! :･ﾟ✧:･ﾟ

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hi, I'm Sanctum - i'm some really confused creature who draws things. mostly dragons, knights and one particular elsword character...

i like elsword, fate series, arthuriana, wings of fire, legend of spyro, and loads of other things i wont bother to list.

oh, also. im queer, formerly plural, and otherwise neurodivergent. and i do not, in fact, like discourse. so respectfully, i ask that you don't bring it here please. thank you in advance!

And another important bit: I UNAPOLOGETICALLY POST GAY ADDS.

do what you will with this information. :)

[ Toyhou.se | Artfight | ao3 (WIP) | comm sheet (WIP) ]

(Top userbox by @tazmaboxed, add-related ones are by @addcests.)

formerly both a personal blog and an art blog, i'm going to be shifting this one over to just an art blog. if you for whatever reason want to see my deranged ramblings (about fandoms or otherwise) or reblogs and are 18+, you should maybe head over to @chronophel idfk.

vvv tag list under the cut here! (wip) vvv

Tag List, for easy curating - I won't be offended lol

resources - things that are helpful.

sanctum's scribbles - my art tag, includes everything from 2025 onwards.

chapel of ramblings - venting/personal ramblings tag. i say weird shit sometimes by the way, just fyi.

sanctum's miscellaneous hoard - non-fandom reblogs from 04/16/2025 onwards. may include stuff drawn by other people too.

sanctum's elsword hoard - elsword reblogs from 04/16/2025 onwards. includes stuff drawn by other people.

sanctum's fate series hoard - fate series reblogs from 04/16/2025 onwards. includes stuff drawn by other people.

sanctum's hsr hoard - hsr reblogs from 05/05/2025 onwards. includes stuff drawn by other people.

sanctum's knight hoard - misc medieval stuff reblogs, from 04/16/2025 onwards. includes arthuriana and other medieval fantasy stuff as well, not just actual history... this includes stuff drawn by other people. sometimes paired with the fate series tag.

sanctum's arthurian fanart - my general arthurian fanart tag, does not include stuff drawn by other people. Just posts from 04/16/2025 onwards, as per usual.

sanctum's elsword fanart - my general elsword fanart tag, does not include stuff drawn by other people.

sanctum's hsr fanart - my general hsr fanart tag, does not include stuff drawn by other people.

sanctum's add fanart tag - Specifically for fanart of our favorite manic pixie dreamgirl---I. MEAN. Add from Elsword. Yes. Anyway, this does not include stuff drawn by other people.

sanctum's galahad fanart tag - Specifically for fanart of the specialeststestest grail knight, from 2025 onwards. This includes ANY piece I've drawn from that time onwards with ANY variant of him from ANY fandom or person's interpretation. This does not include stuff that's drawn by other people.

TAG LIST WILL BE EDITED DUE TO THE NEW SIDEBLOG.