#this is niche af content anyways

[new-haven-psych-ward]

Kamen Rider Geats episode 30 poorly summarized via memes with as little context as possible:

[beardedmrbean]

Thank you for liking my collection, perhaps other people will too

But I saw that post about how funimation is shutting down and it’s capitalism fault…but bitch it’s streaming service exclusively for ANIME. A huge niche

Also to the reason why, their both are shitshows. But Sony owns funimation and bought crunchyroll, two anime streaming services

Now crunchyroll(which is a shitshow too) got popular

Like been to your local Walmart?

There a section at Walmart dvd area dedicated to crunchyroll in mine

So while this sucks (especially it seems that Sony isn’t going to let people transition their Funi stuff to crunchyroll) it not shocking

Now their a mess, let compare this to Disney handling of Disney plus and Hulu

Now yes Disney plus app is have a hub for Hulu now. Which thank you, because I have the Disney plus bundle (I sharing it with other people. SHIT THE MOUSE IS COMING FOR ME!) but it sure as hell more convenient for me to use the Hulu hub than go out to another app to watch Hulu content

Though it FUCKING funny how my continue watching can have Disney plus alongside with seienin anime

But anyways, I can see why Sony did that because, both streaming services are niches and crunchyroll is just bigger

But I’m 23, any anime consumption…

Bitch back in the day most westerners anime fans had to watch cable TVs blocks like Toonami. Like my tv consumption were in flux. I didn’t have cable all the time and watch a lot of dvds especially in road trips. A lot of my anime consumption started by watch adult swim aired anime. Or if my family a little bit of money. Cable box where I watch Digimon on Disney old block Jetix

Actually the photo I sent you will probably help your other anime fans on how I consume anime

But anime streaming services…are niche af. Yes anime went mainstream in the west, but they can easily be gone instantly. Actually one of my favorite Drifters was taken off it streaming services. But I was able to get the blu ray

Sorry for the essay…I’m just SHOCKED on how bad certain people over reliance of streaming services is because I still really the twilight years of renting (grew up near a family video)

Thank you for liking my collection, perhaps other people will too

ya like I said I recognized the obvious ones, never really did much with anime.

As for all the services, it's a really weird thought that's come into my head watching all of this.

Most folks out in tumblr land probably won't remember when the "Bell System" was broken up.

The phone system in the US was a legal monopoly, until it wasn't a legal monopoly and the Fed broke it up into regional things and also opened things up to competition for a bit there were hundreds of different phone companies popping up offering the best price on local or long distance and all that good stuff.

Then they started to get absorbed by the bigger ones, still no return to the monopoly since that's not allowed but went from on choice to oddles of choices back down to just a few choices none of which were terrible.

Cellphones did that too when they showed up, was never a monopoly but there were tons of regional outfits selling service, that all got slowly bought up by larger and larger companies.

Cable and satellite TV as well as internet too.

I think we may be seeing that with streaming services, not really any tiny fly by night groups doing streaming services but there's only so many that can be out there before they stop being profitable, especially the niche ones.

Which I think that merger and the price hike that is coming with it is a thing that was basically inevitable, the price hike will reverse if history is any indicator, at leas so long as people remain pissed about it and don't sub.

That or they'll sell packages so you can customize what you want.

Either way I'm still with you on the need to rely less on streaming services, I feel the same way about the cloud, which I refuse to use, I know how to work around all that if the need arises.

[shiftingdiariesofophelia]

little update for you guys:

so i’ve had literally no time for shifting recently 💀 I haven’t even attempted in a month or so.

and i know everyone’s like “make time!” or “shifting is easy just do ___!” girl i’m telling you i’m up at 6 in the morning and my day isn’t over until 11, then i need to go to sleep and do it all again the next day. having responsibilities sucks ass.

BUT- in the meantime, I’ve been exploring potential DRs and making pinterest boards and cute little spotify playlists and basically it’s the main way i’m attached to shifting right now. My living situation has changed (positive) but that’s a whole other mess and basically Ophelia has NO time ❌

So updates might be slow until i move into my dorm in August, but anyway here’s a new list of some of my drs in case anyone is looking for a new place to shift:

So, I have my Hogwarts DR right? But honestly, it’s not really my main focus at the moment. i’m really just trying to get to my waiting room before i decide where the hell i’m going. this dr is cute and adorable and feels very homey to me. i’ve actually considered permashifting there tbh. it’s the world i’ve scripted the most for and what ignited my shifting journey.

Then, I have a Fame dr. kind of obligatory at first but the more i was getting into it, the more shit i’ve added and i actually love it now. it’s a mid-2010s and onward fame dr, so it’s like 2015 where i’m shifting. i’ve scripted to start out on broadway (OBC for katherine pulitzer in newsies), eventually working my way to the acting industry and then the music industry. i’ve got at least three albums planned and I even have an idea for a directorial debut limited series. I’ve also scripted myself into movies and shows that don’t exist in my cr so i’m excited to see how that goes!

I have some ideas for a marvel/Avengers dr. I’m a Greek demi-goddess with questionable parentage, but I insert myself into Tony’s life right around the first Iron Man. With weird time mechanics and whatever I just want to be besties with peter parker and train with strange and bucky tbh. extended found family is what i live for

I’m working on an Avatar: The Last Airbender dr lmao. i wanna be a fire bender so bad it’s unreal. I’m also adding separate countries under the same nation. like yes, there’s the earth kingdom and fire kingdom, but they have separate designations sort of like the southern and northern water tribes.

I’m thinking of a pjo/camp-half-blood dr because that would be cool as hell. going on quests with the gang and having powers?? i’d probably script some stuff in or out but the idea is really cool to me and i was always a percy jackson kid

lost in space dr !!! if you don’t know what i’m talking about there’s an original series from years ago or there’s a netflix reboot but basically this is a found family dr that takes place in space/alien planets and there’s a robot. maureen and john robinson are so mother and father coded it’s unreal.

hawkins, indiana dr but not “really” a stranger things dr because i don’t want to traumatize these kids or be traumatized myself lmao i’m basically just living in hawkins but all the friend groups are the same. also i’m dustin’s older sister because he’s adorable.

youtuber dr where i’m in weird/conspiracy core youtube and make those sorts of videos. i wanna make content with some of my more niche weird faves like wendigoon, nexpo, etc. this is really niche for a dr but i think it’s gonna be fun as hell.

bridgerton dr, y’all fr need to get in on this. new pretty dresses every day, men competing for my hand in marriage, elitist politics, orchestral music, flowers everywhere- it’s just going to be a good time i know it.

The 100 but specifically seasons 1-2 (MAYBE 3). Less death and more fun but with some scripting i think the idea of a society run by delinquent teenagers from space who are also fighting barbaric remnants of a destroyed civilization sounds cool as HELL bro. But i finished the show and the plot after the time jump isn’t what I want so i’m gonna script the hell out of the actual plot to make it fit what i want.

Trap House dr ! (another youtuber dr, shockingly) with the trap house circa the late 2010s. ghost hunting with sam and colby, talking shit with jake and corey, doing stupid shit and partying and just having a good time bro. i’m also scripting out Elton 🙈

narnia dr but specifically from LWW through the golden era of narnia. ruling over a mythological land with the pevensies, exploring the lands as far as they go, learning the lore with the other places in the world narnia exists in (where the telmarines come from and the other nations), i just think it’d be cool as hell.

and i want to figure out how to make like a zombie (potentially TWD or TLOU) dr without it being traumatizing 😭😭 stay tuned for how that works out lmaooo

[choshasan]

This might just be me but...

TLDR: just me complaing for A WHIKE..

As someone who's been a ✨️ C ᵣ ᵢ ₙ G ₑ ₒ ₜ ₐ ₖ ᵤ ✨️™ for the past 18 years,

I feel it was so much easier/better being an otaku "back in the days" than it is now.. like, it was this niche thihg, and sure, we got bullied af.. but like... I'll take getting bullied by some dumb kids any day compared to having to deal with the toxic ass comunity that the anime comunity has grown to be..

Like.. we've always been weirdos, and people argued over opinions and shit, sure.. but... we were weirdos together and like.. idk it just felt so much less toxic than the current, post pandemic / 2020 everyone has seen some anime or read some manga and ~everyone~ shares their opinions and shit.. like... idk.. I personaly don't like hearing the takes of "uncultured normies" that are "just going through a phase" or just casually watch anime / read manga or are just following a trend.. like... my brain is having a hard time phrasing all of this coherently, but like... I preffered when I could be a degenerate and get bullied by "normies" but have otaku friends that were degenerates with me, than being to scared to openly talk about an anime / manga / game because haha idk who's safe anymore and if someone interprets just 1 thing I said wrong, I might just get doxxed! :D yk? Like.. bro, the toxicity of anime getting more mainstream has made me terrified of admiting to the anime and manga I like, like, Sure! I will 100% recommend you Blue Period, or Dr. Stone or Haikyuu!!, but by god even with anonimity, I'm **terrified** of admiting that my fav anime & manga ever is BNHA, or that I play Genshin or that I like Mahito from JJK or that I actually really like authors that are strange / sadistic-ish like Akutami sensei, Fujimoto Sensei, Horikoshi Sensei, Isayama Sensei, etc... or that I like Vocaloids...

And like, I don't mean by any of this that I dislike "normies" turned otaku, or otaku that are more lowkey, we all appreciate it in our own way, I'm very loud about my being an Otaku, but obv I don't expect all otaku to be like that.. I genuinly just mean like, I hate the ones that have an "anime is popular so I like anime now", or such, phase and come into anime communities and destroy them and are super toxic, like, I get liking something but.. that doesn't mean you have to interact with the comunity, even less with content you specifically dislike; its so easy to block and ignore people rather than engage in angry discourse or drag / shame people just because *you* don't like something they said.. and like, because of those people, Otaku get a worse wrap than we used to bro... like..?? Like, I genuinly believe if "normies" didn't get involved in the BNHA comunity, we wouldn't be regarded as terribly as we are today, like, yea, stuff would still have happened, but like.. the guy that tried to fuck a frog to bring tsuyu to life (by the way, not the firet anime comunity to do something like this, sadly) would've just been ignored, the girl who smeered her bloody tampon on a bakugo poster would've been ignored, the *supposed* death threaths to Horikoshi sensei (which by the way, nowdays have no evidence of having actually ever happened) wouldn't have been popularised as much as they did, and we'd have been fine, like yea, there's some weird fans, every community does but like, for some reason, it feels like when "normies" come into comunities, they *have* to like dwell on the weird stuff that happens and can't just be like, okay.. some people are weird.. that happens, I hope that person gets help, anyway, now for some good content! :D

And like, bnha isn't the only communuty I'm part of that I've seen beibg destroyed, like, I **love** Oshi No Ko, and it feels like people who didn't like it because of the twincest, couldn't just like.. drop the manga and be like, ah.. okay, damn, too bad, that's not for me. They like just **had** to make content about it and complain non stop about it, and like.. idk it felt like people reacted like its the first time in manga/anime history this happened, when like.. it's really not. It has always, and will always happen.

Also, I've gone on multiple rants abt this in my life, idk if I've talkee abt it on here but,

I get so pissed off by people that like.. think they can change japanese media, because they don't like it.. like... there has always been themes of; LGBT, P-dophilia, Incest, traps/femboys, S.A., S-cide, and other such things that people insist on complaining about. And y'know what?? There's some in western media too, you're not special~

Also, people need to fucking check themselves and do some reaserch before they say shit about manga/mangaka, cuz, I find it fucking disgusting to see grown adults get dragged for drawing teens in skimpy outfits / odd poses // any sort of fan service in their book, that are specifically aimed at teenagers, often times teenage boys since Shonen are generally the biggest victims of this. Like yeah, they're gonna draw girls with big boobs and small clothes, what do 12-18 year old boys care about? BOOBS. Now I'm generalising, but you get the point. Drawing/writing something doesn't mean *you* are attracted to that, but sometimes, you gotta draw stuff to get sales, because your entire fucking living relies on your book selling. And there is such a double standard, cuz, in the same episode, you can have the guys shirtless in the hot springs or changing rooms, and the girls but no one will say shit about a bunch of 16 year old guys being in the same state as the girls, but everyone will lose their shit about a girl having a slightly unbottoned shirt tho!! Like, we see Bachira (blue lock)'s naked, bear ass, multiple times, no complaints. Kirishima (bnha)'s hero suit straight up doesn't have a shirt, but :0 Omg momo's hero suit shows some skin!!!!!!! Thats badddd thats a 16 year old girl!!!!!!! Stfu. They're equivalent. Complain about both, or neither.

Also, I genuinly wanna know when the meaning of Loli/chota was changed?? Cuz it used to be a term for child looking **Adults**, who often even were like a million years old, it wasn't meant for any short character and it was even less for kids. Like.. Ciel Phatomhives isn't a Chota, he's a child. Nezuko isn't a loli, she's 14.

Anyway, I guess I just wanted to rant and complain 🙃✨️ I shall now get back to being a strange degenerate on my own ✨️

[robinsnest2111]

I've been endlessly expanding on a silly winterbaron au idea with a friend in our dms over on twitter that I randomly came up with a few days ago and at this point I really want this to be A THING but I can't put into eloquent words the specific vibe I want to convey and my art skills are still too wobbly to make any solid fan art 😔

all I got are the messages with a few vague snippets of how some scenes could play out and 2,5 unfinished sketches orz

just... a soft and silly and self-indulgent winterbaron trucker au... 🥺💗

[hawopro]

Thoughts of a rare soul who enjoyed DMBJ’s Time Raiders 2016 adaptation (1/2)

[SPOILERS]

So I got into DMBJ bc of Reboot Zhu Yilong’s Wu Xie, I’ve been comparing all the Wu Xie, and came to check out Luhan’s. I just didn’t expect to fall in love with Jing Boran’s ZQL/MYP and catch feels for Pingxie?? Once again falling into niche fandom life??

Apparently within the niche DMBJ fandom, there’s a tinier, almost nonexistent niche for Time Raiders, so I have to rant about it.

Incredibly long post, so here’s a summary:

Action, A-Ning’s insole blade

My favorite Wu Xie adaptation

MYP whump and his damned smiles

A-Ning & PangZi + Badass tomb-raiding crews

Questionables things, prop & plot

Pingxie + 2/2

Foremost, this is an action movie. The action sequences are very nice, even with the occasional flying/floating people/objects in cdrama. As an action movie nerd, I approved and gave it 6.5/10 (and my standard is The Old Guard okay.) There’s everything--swords, guns, grenades, A-Ning’s insole blade. I particularly enjoyed ZQL vs Da Kui & Pan Zi, and ZQL vs A-Ning cut.

Characters are pretty fleshed out for a movie, motives and development are clearly established. 

I really like this Wu Xie, personally I think he came closest to what I imagined to be novel’s WX. He is inexperienced, incredibly curious, and daring, but knowledgeable, he thinks outside the box and pulls his own weight, even aiding the crew. He’s BABY, naive, kind, and cheeky af. Refer to How to make friends--a guide by Wu Xie.

But by the end, you know that he matured, he’d seen deaths, hell, he broke his promise to take care of MYP, he grew up. STILL, he made me so protective over him, I finally understand how the entire Reboot casts feel about ZYL’s WX now.

Zhang Qiling/Men You Ping is still mysterious, indifferent; he’s very lost in life, has a goal but almost no will to live. Still OP af, but the WHUMP--so much ZQL whumps with bloody mouth, self-sacrificing tendency and everything. But he appreciates his experience more after knowing WX, like even without shipper eyes, you can tell he cares for WX--the first person who insisted to be his friend, who told him ‘I’d take care of you.’

I like drama MYP but, I completely fell in love with this angsty boy who needs some good sleep. Also probably bc of HIS DAMNED SMILES!! I’m a sucker for poker-face characters who can smile/laugh naturally. Bonus that he only did so with WX! Refer to ZQL smiling at Wu Xie.

I also dedicated an entire gifset on him because uhh I accidentally got attached?? LOOK AT HIM HE’S BEAUTIFUL

ANYWAY 

Here is our favorite forced-to-cooperate gang again. Sadly, the Iron Triangle dynamic isn’t developed in here at all. 

A-Ning has a bigger role than Pangzi, she’s still freaking competent, badass af, almost equal to ZQL. She is not so heartless at the end, obviously cares for her men, somewhat for WX. Seems to have a mild connection with ZQL over their fighting prowess LOL, and somehow bonds with PZ. 

Pangzi is still comedic relief, unfortunately, has little motives and developments. His interactions with WX are hilarious though. They’re dorks together. Although, I found an easter egg: PZ wearing pot on his head again.

I appreciate the side characters in this movie a lot (especially Pan Zi with his kickass martial art). I think they made very badass tomb-raiding crews, both San Shu’s and A-Ning’s; it's clear that (some of) these men know what they were doing, and they aren’t afraid to die. 

Also the props in here, holy cow, elaborated af. CGI is better than drama, but can always be improved... 

BUT the time period is confusing as hell? This looks like old-school vibes, but they had incredibly high tech, drones and holograms? Uhh okay. Xie Yu Hua’s people used drones in The Lost Tomb 2, but this is a whole new level of sci-fi blue-screen computer stuff. And it’s probably very historically inaccurate, bc what queen back in the day had steampunk technology installed in her tomb?? The coiled machinery-ness bothers me. Ignore it if you can. 

English is only better than The Lost Tomb 2’s English hahaha, but not so unbearable that I had to give up the movie. What hit me out of the left field is WX’s flute ability?? LMAO he pulled a Wei Wuxian bc what the heck? How does that even work? But I let it slide.

The plot is very basic: heroes go on quest, heroes face typical mastermind villain and powerful endgame monster. Featuring not-immoral-enough-to-destroy-humanity Hendrix, also known as, can’t-say-no-to-WX-baby-face Hendrix. And final boss: worms-queen with armors and tentacles and everything.

There are plot holes, but it’s an action movie, come on, nobody watches action movies for the plot.

But if you're a shipper, you should watch this movie for the SOFT AND WHOLESOME Pingxie content! 

I didn’t expect it. I honestly didn’t watch the movie for Pingxie because I didn’t even ship Pingxie prior to this. I knew it existed, I liked the idea of it and I would read fic of it, but I didn’t feel a lot for it until now. 

And then BAM, pokerface MYP with a very visible soft spot for WX? Hell yes. Worried and protective MYP who will catch WX when he falls? Also there.

MYP telling WX about his existential crisis of forgetting who he is? “If I totally lost myself one day, there’s still someone who would remember me.” WX insisting on being MYP's friends, and walking around recording memories for him with his little camera?“You won’t be lost.” YEP.

MYP and WX saving each other? “I said I’d take care of you.” Oh, for sure. Not to forget my standard for (b)romance: prolonged eye contact, smiles, so much smiles, and HANDS! They're all there!

Now, there are even more subtle things that told Pingxie’s story on a deeper level, which I talked about in continuation post 2/2 here.

Anyway, I know Time Raiders isn’t related to the main story aside from the characters and certain tropes. BUT as someone who just dipped their toes in DMBJ, out of everything I’ve seen--Lost Tomb 1, 2, Reboot, I’m in the middle of reading Book 3-- this installment is my favorite, barely beat out Lost Tomb 2 and only below the novel. 

[kuronekonerochan]

The laziest compilation of thoughts about the mess that was Alice (spoilers)

I finish a lot of shitty dramas. Like a lot. I could review them, but I won’t bc there’s too many and I’m too lazy (when you ff some dramas from 45min to 5 per episode it doesn’t really count as watching too many dramas bc it’s really a commercial break, lol). Some I watch for the so bad it’s good content, or love hate watching or just to have something to watch while I eat, even if they’re boring af. It’s also a tiny bit of ocd bc I need to see how they end (even the ones I drop I check out the finale). I only drop the ones that as Marie Kondo says *Do Not Spark Joy, more specifically...annoy me and make me cranky.

I sometimes bitch about it on DMs with ranty spoilers without structure and that reference other unrelated dramas or shows, because ADHD and my mind refuses to stay on topic, which would make it probably unintelligible except if you are in the niche who happens to have watched the other unrelated dramas, so it’s probably useless as a review.

That said, here are some random disconnected thoughts about Alice.

MAJOR SPOILER ALERTS BEWARE

(this is like partly copypaste of DM rants bc I am that lazy biatch. Also, fair warning I will seem super harsh or this drama because that’s the thing about a bitching dm versus a proper review... I am not bringing up all the points and talking about the good and what I liked as well as the bad, it’s just the bad...and although the drama is imo a mess, it does have some good in it. So if it were a review I’d always argue pros and cons...ranty thoughs who cares about pros? boring..I will not be bothered with devil’s advocate).

This was fascinating to watch, interesting but not good... but like a trainwreck.

I continued watching this mess despite the headache inducing convoluted plot (I watched a lot of timetravel stuff and I love it...encompassing all the theories about it, from butterfly effect, to effectively changing the future (with characters forgetting it or keeping it in memory because “eye of the storm” theory, the “efforts are futile and you can try to change it but the future is set in stone”, to “small changes can be made but big events are fixed points in time”, to “every change creates a new time line” and multiverse, etc... and trust me, all of them can be done well when well written or turn out a confusing illogical mess and that has nothing to do with the theory chosen, but with presenting how time travel works for that story and what the basic rules are and sticking to them...or when something happens that contradicts them, come up with an explanation as to why that happens.

 I don’t mean the drama should be an exposition borefest with too much pseudosciency jargon...but this drama gives you too little in the way of rules and the viewers sort of figure out how timetravel works (which is not bad per se, huge fan of show don’t tell...but there’s a limit to how much they cannot tell or the characters chose not to ask just for the sake of plot and not without any logic to it). Anyways, the little “rules” that we gather along the way...the writing doesn’t stick to them and keeps contradicting itself without addressing or explaining it and hoping we’re so confused we don’t notice. Some dramas you just say “eh, forget it, it doesn’t make sense, let’s turn off our brains and enjoy it”, but here if I wanted to try and follow what was going on at all it required “brain on” mode for their convoluted plot twists...which also made me aware of so may plotholes the time road should have looked like Swiss Cheese. I could go into them...but I cannot be bothered and the list would be extensive and still incomplete, so I will just put 3 here bc I can’t help it:

 1) Hot Daddy with emotional turmoil the entire drama of “Oh no, I abandoned her in 92 and regretted it, it happened 1 year ago for me, and now I find out she died in 2010. How was she, did she suffer? What did she know? Oh god, if only I were a time traveler eventually going rogue who could show up and talk to her any time in the timeline between 92 and 2010...Alas, I have to live in misery with the consequences of my actions...there is just ABSOLUTELY no way of solving this. I guess I’ll just keep making unauthorized time travel journeys from 2050′s time agency back to the year of 2020 and only 2020 to constantly be blindsided by murder attempts on everyone everywhere without having a clue to what’s going on when I could simply go back to before 2010 and talk to the one person who is proven to know what is going on.” Here is where there could be a bullshit reason as to why he could go only go to 2020 and not before, but the drama didn’t even bother.

 2) They say Tae Yi’s mom was originally a time traveler who settled with her physicist dad in the past, eventually making way for her to discover time travel herself. The mom is missing and this is never addressed again. 

3) The book...who wrote it? Because I have guesses but they never outright answer it... and if the biatch author knew that stuff why the alice in wonderland stupid analogies?

 Coward, or petty, or both.... or maybe just a chaos gremlin godlike entity who wanted to watch them all squirm, like the author from Extraordinary You...and that I could get behind, but sadly they don’t go that metaphysical/theological with the plot...which is honestly the main problem with this drama. It seems ambitious in concept but it’s never explored decently in any way, not in the pseudoscience, not in the philosophical sense of the meaning of time/space/existence, not even in its relationships, with the constant back and forth and weirdness of it.

Besides the timetravel migraine, we had the weirdest directing, that made the relationship between the leads feel a bit too incesty...which was the main reason I kept watching this drama...morbid curiosity of how they wrapped up this mess of a plot AND especially the relationship payoff...would it keep being weird with trope romance drama scenes like the female lead and second female lead facing off and being jealous, or that weird hair washing that felt more sensual than maternal? I knew it wouldn’t happen but my inner chaos gremlin wanted kdramaland to grow some balls and go full “predestination: oedipus edition” with this mess. Alas they sort of did, mostly didn’t. Even that angle was a whole inconsistent mess: there were times where it felt too romantic, then for a short minute I misguidedly shipped the journalist friend, then it seemed the dude was ace, then they calmed their tits with the whole weird romantic vibes and it got platonic cute, then with the memory merge thing finally motherly vibes, then I shipped the journalist again for 1 sec only...and then the ending:

Alice ended with the lead solving every problem by shooting himself (technically) in the head...and that's the second meta perfectly fitting ending for a drama with a good cast and terrible writing that drove itself into a corner this year, after the sleepless princess ended with the leads jumping off a cliff. I don't think it's a self aware choice of the writers, or an admission that they themselves know it was bad, but the irony is delicious.

Spoiler for the ending: he undoes timey wimey stuff from when his mom first got killed in high school and closed the time travel door. So he became an architect and new Tae Yi just woke up in her bed remembering everything, but in reality she had just come back from a conference abroad and had never met him. So mom TaeYi didn't die then, but never got back on screen after the time undo so who the f knows what happened to her. 

Also, if new Tae Yi remembers, does that mean hot daddy from the future does as well, but he is just stuck in the future without a time door to ever see them again? The drama doesn’t care answering that and forgets his character is even a thing...I will miss you, my fave who looked emotionally and literally constipated 24/7 (it doesn’t care answering much at all tbf... a little known fact about the time travel paradoxes according to the physics of this world is that besides doppelganger chickenpox it induces severe lazy writing).

Anyways new Tae Yi went looking for architect (? okay...I guess) ML after she woke up, at first he didn't remember her, but it ends with him meeting her, apparently remembering her and they stare at each other... you know, like any bad traditional romantic kdrama finale....so there is still THAT vibe. 

Honestly, the usual romantic ballad score for scenes between the leads WAS NOT the most intelligent choice for this drama in specific but boy did they stick with it (not to mention the ending song... that goes, in english “we be like Bonnie and Clyde we ride or die...which...k, sure)...so technically the ending was exactly the cliche post amnesia running back to each other and staring for the final scene while romantic music blasts trope. Take it as you will.

[beca-mitchell]

hello i would like a full fledged essay on the history of the fics in this fandom pls

ok ok so keep in mind that i wasn’t in this fandom, not really, from 2012-2017. i occasionally read fic, but not a lot and i didn’t really know the people in-depth (still don’t), but these are my observations because i have now read so many fucking bechloe fics and i have seen so many things...experienced so many things. please note that these years are ~estimates and they’re based on how often i saw author names/usernames in AO3 and based on posts I’ve seen on Tumblr.

2012-2014 (recall that PP2 was announced in 2013, months after PP1)

When Pitch Perfect (2012) came out, a lot of people were still migrating over from fanfiction dot net as well as LiveJournal. Tumblr was pretty popular back then still and it was easy to find niche fandoms online. I wasn’t really around for the Pitch Perfect (2012) era of fandom and fanfiction but you can trace the stylistic choices in the PP1 era fic as those which were carried over from previous generation’s fandom practices. We’re talking Glee writers (who also borrowed their fandom practices from previous generations—know your fandom history!) who made their way into the Pitch Perfect fandom. In my opinion, the types of fics you’ll typically find in PP1 era are fics exploring the lives of the characters after the events of the movie. The reason, of course, is fairly obvious: there is only one movie and therefore not much source material to go off of. You know what else you can find? Great character-study fics because there wasn’t a lot of canon content at the time—the perfect breeding ground for character study!. And it is exactly these fics—the fics that were first posted—that inform how we understand the characters today.

It is also interesting to note the time period—in 2012 there weren’t a lot of great wlw moments in media and for a lot of “new” and “old” people in fandom, Beca and Chloe was just...prime shipping material for obvious reasons. And it felt meaningful that even the actresses seemed okay with it.

2014-2016 (PP3 was announced in 2015, shortly after the release of PP2)

PP2 era fics became more of a “marathon” AKA I feel like this is when all the long fucking fics came out. You’ll find fics that are “one-shots” but also have over 20k words. Maybe even over 30k words. These fics aren’t really character studies but often were a retelling of sorts of either PP1 or PP2, informed by the canon choices in the second movie. You can also see the rise of “creative” posts to match fics too, including gifs, photosets, etc. Thus, the second movie also welcomed a new kind of fandom that felt more interactive, so you see that reflected in the fic itself and of course the fandom practices. Most fics were popularized on AO3 though there are (were—RIP to deleted fics) fics on FF that were popular as well. Anyway, think lots of multi-chaps, references to inside jokes in fandom, the occasional character study fic, more AUs. Between PP2 and PP3, there was a boom of fics. I think PP2-era might have been one of the biggest times to be in fandom, based on the ghosts/whispers of posts I still see on Tumblr and what the most-kudos’d fics are in the Beca/Chloe tag on AO3. Though there’s a healthy amount of PP1 era fics.

This was an interesting time in media because of everything going on in the world. Also post 2013 we had already been introduced to a lot of great WLW ships from OITNB and OB and during this time we would only be introduced to so much more. The 100, Carmilla, Faking It...more to come. So Beca and Chloe were only another ship (notably NON CANON) to take into account.

2016-present (queerbait era af)

And well, it seems like we’re still kind in the remnants of PP3, though I would say this is PP3 era 2.0 at the moment. It’s a mix of all the above, just with less abundance because we’re dwindling. I say this for all ships too, not just Bechloe. But anyway, here we are. All of us being hapless fools still holding out for the promised kiss and fighting over whether Beca is a bottom or a top. 

There are just so many other great ships out there for fans to squabble over. it’s hard to gain traction on a ship that has no new content. We’re out here still somehow existing with stuff and fandom from RWBY, She-Ra, Wynonna Earp, Supergirl, Killing Eve. It’s tough out here but we’re surviving.

The PP1 era fans would laugh at us but u know what, that’s okay. We’re a family.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

let's see those Prime Numbers for the ask meme

2) favorite albums?

well i was Ready for kesha’s album Warrior to come out in iiii think it was the end of 2012 or early 2013?? i snuck out to that tour in dc that summer also. totally solid album and it was fun to have something so fun during a totally Not Fun period lol. i was also pretty into owl city at the exact same time lmao, that’s Blatantly for when you’re depressed lol...and i also eventually saw that guy on tour when a new album came out in 2015, and that was fun too, and was Enjoying Myself a factor in the tipping point of “ah jeez i gots 2 get outta here” that i had in the next month? maybe! and uhhh i listened a lot to the phoenix te amo album. that one wasnt tied to anything at all but i have heard it So much. super short and also rock solid and relistenable. and then here we are and the bmc obcr is a gift to the world b/c a) it exists and b) Cuz It All Slaps and c) it’s so fun to either sing or dance along, or cry along if it’s the agtikbi reprise and d) lgw... and e) all the eternal, well-mixed wroland vocals

3) favorite memes?

oh god lmao idk......real earlier 10s stuff was the I Say Hey he-man meme, and the “that really rustles my jimmies” meme which was real underrated......there’s been plenty of Memes where i’ve been like “this one is funny to me Every Time” but of course now looking back on it it’s like. what’s a meme??? Vine

(skipping 5 & 11 cuz that’s the Entirety of someone else’s ask and i don’t wanna just have to scrap theirs completely and i’ll get to it next!!)

11) favorite fanarts?

you know what, there’s continuously been a ton of amazing fanart where i’m like, i’m so glad i’m seeing this, & this is Artistic Fuel, and marge simpson anime has really been just this Standout Experience lmao like......idk for as Inspiring as it is, there’s only a couple things i’ve drawn that are Directly inspired, but i just flip for it all the time and like, it’s supremely expressive and like, comics that aren’t chronological but more like a Collage Of a Moment / Concept which i think is super cool and also i love when stuff reminds me that it doesn’t have to look ~super cleaned up~ to look great.

13) favorite people you know?

oh god this one really got out of control lol i started like, talking about everyone ever from this past decade. so for Convenience i’m interpreting this as “people *i* know, but they don’t know me” so that i can cheat and say will roland, voted person of the year 2019. by extension, essential supporting crew who helped us reach this point, like john simpkins or joe iconis. leave it at that!! it’s 5am and you know i’m not lying. who knew where going “wow, This guy” in late 2018 would have so much Value.

17) a fandom you wish more people were in/you had more people to talk to about?

oof hmm.......amnesia tdd didn’t really have a “fandom” even though it obviously got a lot of attention, it’dve been fun if it had though lol. it’s tricky to answer this one cuz i always prefer like, smaller fandoms and/or finding the Niche or some other way of just like, interacting with a small corner of things, so i’m never like wow god damn wish i’d been absolutely in the thick of it with this thing. i’ve been in Corners n Niches and it’s been fine by me, really

19) a fandom that you had the best time in?

HMM lol.........marble hornets sure was fun but like, a lot of that was just the content itself and not necessarily The Fan Experience, tho i sure got a lot out of it in a ton of ways. i mean tbh that’s true of each thing i’ve really Gotten Into majorly, i go hard af and then walk out the other side with these #connections or #experiences like whoa where’d these come from lol!! but really like, overall, i’m probably having the best time right now. the “fandom” is basically just our agenda lmao but like i said i’m always having the best time when it’s a pretty niche deal, And the sheer variety of Contents n Characters to draw from here is super nice, and the fact that it’s like, oh yeah and i’m finally recognizing this should’ve-been-obvious entire Passionne i’ve had since always, and that’s great too, and like, also just having the Variety Of Live / Current Unfoldings that go down.....like, everyone havin fun with the Joe Iconis Xmas Xtrav was entirely great. and just the Engagement level is basically the best, cuz like there’s the times where maybe i’ll get a zillion notes and that’s definitely fun in its own way but i always enjoy just the way smaller amount of ppl who are Particularly Enthusiastic, and like, there’s times where like, maybe i’m *technically* in this larger circle of ppl but like, totally more of like a Tangent or peripheral to that circle or whatever lol........this feels like a really solid balance of like, being sorta in this orbit of people in a chill way, but also definitely the direct interactions Existing, which is always important lol but hasn’t always been a constant throughout my Fandom Experiences at all

23) who were you at the beginning of this decade?

2009-2010 was a real distinct year lol i was in my second year of college in the middle of my teens, when i’d hardly really been getting to Explore My Interests Freely up to that point and still wasn’t, but all of a sudden it’s like goddamn i have to figure out my major???? and i’m like, obviously in the middle of only just now Really getting to figure out my identity in this deeper and more genuine way, thanks to being lucky enough to Live On Campus and be away from home like, 2/3 of the year, but i was just like, oh god i’m in Stress Hell now all the time cuz like. i’m trying to figure out my whole thing and what my ~Career~ should be and i just have no idea but am like, trying super hard all the time lol it was not successful and i was just really stressed about it all the time. i was def quieter back then.....pretty lonely at the time, i did not get into mh and gain the presence of any Online Friends until late 2010, and i hadn’t yet been sort of accepted by a small faction of theatre people via my roommate’s connections.....i wasn’t at all Out yet, and was def In Progress of figuring it all out.....i didn’t have nearly the Self-Esteem i have now lmao, it was Not a great time and in a lot of ways ‘09-’10 was the start of a downturn into Worse Than Usual Times, though in Other ways it was definitely an upturn lol like. the latter related to stuff that was important to me / who i am, the former tied to the situations i was in and the godawful morale that resulted

29) a time when the worst case scenario happened but you pulled through?

well by the end of 2012 i had my Wrath Parent deluxe mad at me big time, AND i was stuck at home all of thee time with that (not at all hours but. every day.) it was terrible!!! tf was going on in 2013, cuz that shit was definitely like, a gross blur of a lot of indistinct misery. and then, relatedly, when it was so shitty in 2015 that i was like fantastic, i am so officially sick of this i’m outta here. i revisited some Misery Posts from that period lately for someone stranger on twitter’s project or something, and boy i was having a bad time Summer Of ‘15 lol, things not getting better at home And a job that was so shitty that it was like..................bye. lol. and then i spent a year living out of a minivan. which was real lucky in ways b/c like. infinitely better than if i had not had that minivan. and when that broke down i was also then lucky enough to have this friend who was relatively nearby who’d also been willing to just like, set me up to Not have to ask the lgbt center where that trans-friendly forest zone a couple cities over was. nothing as dramatic as it could’ve been, fortunately

31) a time you were scared?

hmmm when leaving The Parents Home overnight, that was intimidating. bit of completely jumping into the unknown there, and also like, when you spend your lifetime assuming that Someone’s Arbitrary Wrath will be uponst you always, it’s hard to shake that sense of dread and doom, like ah jeez i am really potentially bringing hell on myself here........and like i mentioned with Start Of The Decade, there was just a ton of fear there all the time lol, trying to figure out virtually overnight The Whole Of Who I Am And What I Want when i’d only just even gotten to start......also i wanna say i maybe came out in 2011?? and i sort of also felt obligated to come out to my parents also (plus i think i was giving them like, one last chance to surprise me and be decent and kind of Grow Up themselves even tho i was the like, 16 y.o.) which yknow, kids you do not have to come out to anyone at all. someone was talking the other day abt how they didn’t think lgbtq “discourse” had evolved as much as you’d hope over the past decade, but idk about that, it's only a little bit of a wildly complex topic, and for starters Online Trans “Discourse” of a decade back was wayyyyyy in a vastly different place than it is now, leaps and strides really. so the way to ~really~ do it was presented kind of more rigidly i think. anyways i did it via email and was incredibly stressed to even open the reply a couple days later lol......which ended up being really weird and vague, and then there was a phone call where no one brought it up, and the only result was increased ire and resentment :( ........and then there was still like, cops encounters! near or not-as-bad-as-they-could’ve-been vehicular collisions! but tbh generally my reaction to the latter was underwhelming, except for one particular time when i was a passenger and also tense af for the rest of the ride. that’s it for Immediate fear really lol......oh wait one time i was at this decent sized Convention Panel Event and when i’m nervous i can Only talk more (it’s possible!!) and i snuck into line for the q&a and Right when i got to the mic (intimidating) they were like oop we’re low on time, lightning round!! :’] that was obviously more just a crapton of l’anxiete

37) a fashion that fell out of style that you wish would make a resurgence?

were Gladiator sandals this decade? the strappy deals that like, went up the ankles / calves? that was in fashion for a year or two and i’m into it. i like sandals and that kind of drama

41) something you learned a lot that not a lot of other people might know about?

i don’t know that i learned way a lot of anything that’s real in-depth knowledge and niche lore.........i have learned Nothing

43) an important relationship (of any kind) you had?

i had???? lmao well either way let’s say current relationships count and like, pretty much everyone in my Sphere i value a lot! i never like, have or have had a ~close~ ring of ppl around me lol like i thought it was lucky if i talked to someone Every Day (and not at all the Usual thing) and now it’s more likely that i talk to two people every day and maybe that sounds sarcastic but it’s not at all lol. i know my social stats aren’t impressive but i so appreciate what i get to enjoy and have. and other Connections might be way more like, we are friendly acquaintances, we talk on rare occasions, we haven’t talked at all in ages, we talk but only to trade cute pics of cats, Etc etc, but i seriously do appreciate all of everyone who’s cool who i get to interact with in any way and like, be in each other’s spheres and Not just like, absolutely on nobody’s radar. also obviously soph you are here in that list in case i wasn’t implying it good enough lol it is 5am and god knows deciphering what i say at any time can be its own challenge.....ur Epic Highs and Lows of bmc 3.0 is so good lmao

[slashtakemylife]

Very late but here’s my personal journey with Adashi

One year ago I was at work, I was still just training and we had nothing to do atm so I was scrolling on twitter, so I followed the Voltron account and then is when I saw it, yes the famous tweet, I thought I saw wrong but no I clicked on it and it was a normal tweet like any other followed by all the sdcc panels tweets

I was soooo over the moon!!! I wanted to scream and shout and jump and everything!!! But I was at work so I silently screamed, I was sitting on a desk chair so I kept sliding my feet on the floor and just wiggling my legs because I was soooo excited!!!!

It wasn’t until I was home that I saw Shiro was trending and not no.8 or 5, but 1!!! And the trend said Worldwide!!! People, I’m from Mexico so trends are from here and of course massive popular things like GoT or Orange and stuff but I never saw voltron as more than a small specific niche of people so the idea that we were trending and enough for even me to see was so amazing

I swear I stayed on my bed, just watching it, feeling the moment just staring at that list and giving it a refresh and seeing Shiro, Shiro my fave character be so loved, I saw the power of representation since all this love was because of the Shiro announcement so I couldn’t believe it, I felt like I was part of something beautiful

I knew vld had a big LGTB audience and given what happen with Korrasami I wished them good luck, but to see it happen to my favorite character, it brought so much potential character development, know Shiro’s backstory, see how he is in another setting, now not just as a Garrison member, a paladin and a war survivor but now I’ll be able to see his soft side, his family and closed one side even more

I love Captain Holt in Brooklyn 99 but my favorite moments are when he shows affection for his husband, I felt I could get that and yeah I felt great for the LGTB community, they wouldn’t get a presumed, allegedly, out of show confirmed character, they and we would get a big on screen presence and Shiro is perfect for it, this big male man is also gay and in love and it changes nothing

I trusted these guys, I saw people said they promised rep and they were part of the group that made Korrasami so now a few years later here is the payoff, a beautiful on screen stablished and interesting relationship, I had my reservation when I hear they had broke up but I trusted these guys

Now onto a bit bit more personal, I have a nephew (by a cousin not my sis) and for what I see his parents are young people but I’ve never heard their posture on LGTB so it could go both ways, I lean more on acceptance, still both their parents (aka my nephew’s grandparents and one is my uncle) are very religious and one has outright said in MY home how WE shouldn’t go to starbucks because they supported the LGBT community, they also had issues with my nephew’s parents because when they left him with them they would teach my nephew their religion, a religion that is not the one they have so they had a big fight on how they tried to influence my little nephew behind his parents back or approval, my biggest fear was that they teached him to hate and there was no one to teach him otherwise and as I’m not a so close relative I didn’t know how to even start the subject

One day they stayed at my home and while me and my sis were asleep in the same room (since they used the other) my aunt went to our room to “spend time with us” by putting her religious music and reading the Bible to us, both of us were dead asleep so we barely even noticed but she did the same in the living room were my poor nephew was bored af, so my sis and I suggested we go to our room and watch something, all we could think of a kids show was Voltron, that was when only S2 was available, so now back to that day when Shiro was announced I thought, I have a perfect excuse to open the subject with him, or even if I’m not there he could see it (I didn’t know if he kept watching it but if he did then he could see it from the comfort of his home), and in Shiro! The leader, the guy you look up to, the guy who’s compassionate yet strong

I had my reservations since S3 to 6 were so wack but if he could just reach S7 that would be perfect, well now I’m glad to say he wasn’t interested in voltron and it was amusing enough to watch while he was with us but not enough to continue watching on his own and I’m so glad I never told him he should give it a try, now honestly I’m in square one and haven’t talked at all with him about the LGBT community but I also don’t know how, anyway that is another issue

Adashi was a whole new experience, I’ve had other ships but they are really popular so I had no issues finding content, with adashi we became a rare pair real fast after S7 dropped and then sank more with S8 and people leaving VLD pretty much for their own mental health

It was new for me because I had never experienced this new wave of people wanting to control and regulate fandom, I’ve never seen ship wars at this scale and so full of hate and honestly some pretty dumb reasons, I saw idiotic views from both sides of the war and that is what keeps me away from twitter

Still thanks to Adashi I saw the struggles the LGTB community had on rep since vld was compared and explained so detailed and understandable, I know more and understand better thanks to adashi

By searching for adashi meant learning on vld and I also understood why I never could fully love vld the way I did Avatar or Korra, I understand more about writing and tropes

More than that, having my ship become a rare pair meant that I had to step out my comfort zone, I began writing again, I researched to better my writing and my biggest accomplishment so far:

It’s always been an ambition of mine to learn how to draw but my lack of natural talent, my insecurities, lack of will and easiness in which I get desperate I feel I’m not progressing meant I never really truly tried but by being so thirsty for content (and having the correct time and place in my life) I began to try and all I have are two fanarts but those mean so much to me because they mean that I’ve TWICE defeated my insecurities and made something I’m proud of

I’ve met interesting people and feel even made new friends, I’ve reach out to people they way I’ve never done before and even used the skills I have to contribute with the adashiversary

That doesn’t mean I don’t get heartbroken all the time, adashi is bittersweet, we rose at the same moment we sank, thanks to being in the bottom is helping me rise but the pain and suffering wasn’t necessary and it was completely avoidable

It feels wierd, it’s like thanking your abusers for making you who you are but I think we all agree we would rather never have been abused, we all here are trying to make best of this truly awful reality

But I also appreciate so much all the strong adashi warriors that hadn’t given up and that keep me strong as well

[a-third-attempt]

Mod Rambles: Airports

Hey folks,

I had a conference this weekend and so I haven’t been able to complete any of my drafts. But I’ve been writing a lot in DMs, so I’m just going to post some of that and come back stronger next week instead of trying to rush something out in the next 24h. (Fair warning: it’s not really a story, it just kind of ends.)

Hope that you’re safe. My asks and DMs are open if you need someone outside your main circle to talk to.

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I was in Jönköping, Sweden, catching a return flight, riding the bus to the airport. An important thing to understand about this airport is that it was fucking tiny, it had like 4 gates total.

Now, I was dumb af and sigalled the bus to get off about a mile early. So I'm just like, well, better start walking. I was expecting to hit a bus stop and ride the rest of the way there, but it turned out that I walked faster than the bus frequency that it didn’t matter. Maybe a bus passed me near the last stop but at that point I didn't really care.

And then I... walked up to the front door. There was a little decent-sized roundabout and a sidewalk leading up to the automatic doors and I just walked in. If you think about it, it’s actually kind of hard to do that, usually. Big airports aren’t really designed with foot traffic in mind, you know? But surely, if you were young and able-bodied and dedicated, you could eventually walk into or out of an airport into actual civilization...

right?

Anyway, you have all sorts of “deep” thoughts in college that are actually dumb, so I just kind of forgot about this experience, I guess.

The way I remembered it was this— fast forward to me having a real job (well, kinda), and for the first few years I was traveling a lot, and at one point I realized I'd missed the last train, and I was panicking about how I was going to get to my hotel. I don’t have a smart phone so I couldn’t call an uber, and I was #pooraf so figuring out a taxi wasn't even on my radar.

Somehow in my panic my brain grabbed onto this memory in Sweden. I got turned around a couple times but I eventually made it out and got there, and it was really interesting... It was possible, but definitely tricky. Signage was not particularly useful for me as a walker (hence, the turnarounds >.<) and I had to do a small but uncomfortable amount of walking in the road.

I got intrigued by the challenge, and also how much insight it gave about how much goes into designing a space for foot traffic. So I decided that I would keep going, to just try, every time I had to go somewhere, to walk out of airports successfully. At this point I've probably racked up 8-10 airports, a few of which I have extremely strong opinions about. (FUCK O'Hare, what the actual fuck. Sky Harbor isn’t so bad because there’s a special-service tram, but I definitely missed it the first time I went— if you try to go purely on foot you end up spending a lot of time on roads.)

I’ve given serious though to starting a blog about this, it feels like the kind of content that might be weirdly escapist for some people (I'm thinking mcmansionhell as a model) and the topic is so niche that I’d be surprised if there are too many folks who have more experience with it than I do

(I guess I mean, too many Americans. I don’t know how the general situation is elsewhere just because I wasn’t really paying attention to airport layouts when I did my travel outside of the country— but the two airports I’ve visited in Europe with this in mind were relatively small, and perhaps it’s more normal idk.)

Unfortunately, work travel slowed down in 2019 and then 2020 happened >.< and my memory isn’t good enough for me to make the sort of content that I had in mind for the old airports. I’m hoping that post-Corona I will have reason to fly around again, but things are pretty uncertain. (In particular, feel free to steal this idea; I don’t think it’s secretly a gold mine that I need to protect my rights to XD)

Either way, it’s just been one of those weird little experiences that we all have that I’m always going to carry with me. And if nothing else, I’m never going to get stuck at an airport wanting of transit >.<

[chorrianderr]

Dude. You really shouldnt be supporting miracide. She calls people our age(fictional, but still) "hot" and how much she loves their "fat tits"????

Sorryy Anon it takes me a long time answer! School is kinda hectic rn so I don't have time to open Tumblr, loll

Anywayy I've been waiting to answer your ask so here we go *cracking knuckles*

1. Why am I alright w/ Miracide drawing kids our age and call them sexy and stuff!? Wth man!?

Alright first, chill dude...the characters are fictional, they don't even look that realistic (Be it in canon or fanarts)

Despite JJBA's charas being around the same age as me, as a teen I don't feel any connection or resemblance with them, be it in looks or other things. Thus, I don't feel sexualized by Miracide's art of JJBA charas.

I mean- sure, me and Giorno are 16 and both of us go to high school, but that's about the only similiarities we got.

Like...Just look at him! Giorno is ripped af, he wears pink uniform with a boob window, his goal is to join the goddamn local mafia (granted it's for a noble cause but still), he killed people with no remorse, becoming the boss of said mafia and finally freaking turn bullets into flesh!

By the end of Vento Aureo, we don't even know if the guy still goes to High School or not.

Also, it's important to note that nobody from JoJo looks like real teenager. The only ones who close prob are the Duwang gang. Even then, there are still way too much differences and the 'Sexy' Josuke/Yukako Miracide drew probably are already adults too, considering they're not in uniforms.

2. Fan contents actually is pretty niche and there're a lot of ways to avoid them.

Almost all creators I come across always put taggings and warnings be it on their blog or contents, so it's not that hard to avoid their works if I don't like or don't agree with them.

Sure, learning how to filter content takes time but when you're involved in fandom space it comes naturally.

Because like I said before, there're taggings everywhere (except maybe a few assholes who don't do it) and with the rise of teenage like us in Tumblr, the amount of guide post about fandom etiquette and how to filter things also increased.

Something that sooner or later you will find!!!

Now, on to the next point

3. Fandom culture is common but individual fanart and fanfic's impact on the world actually is not that big, moreover compared to original media.

Take GoT or even Sherlock (TV) for example, how many people in America watch it? A freaking lot

Yet just how many of them actually manages to dedicate enough time to create works based on it? a freaking lot too, but there are still wayyy much more audiences who watch it casually or even dislike fan works completely.

Now, how many of those fan works contain problematic stuff? Maybe only around 0.9%, a tiny fraction from such a wide range and big amount of works.

Not to mention the creators who create those stuff and the audiences who consume them, usually are already aware that they're not ~UwU Pure~ content anyway.

Which is why I'm not overly concerned with fan works that are labeled as "Problematic".

Original media on the other hand...got me worried more often because most of them gets away with shitty things easily despite reaching a much wider audiences-- those who might not be aware of the problematics stuff in that media.

Just look at the amount of movies/tv shows with teens wearing sexy clothes or caught in sexual situations,

How the TV Show/Movie try to package it as something 'relatable',

How right now I feel like I don't live up to my youth, because my HS life is different from those shows

...How all of these BS are just marketing ploy to reel in viewers with sex appeal and unrealistic standart

Sure, I might sound unfair to original media....

But y'know what, Anon pal?

I would rather worry about powerful directors who said their content are safe despite looking sus af, than harmless fans who put danger sign and warnings all over their works.

4. I feel like comparing Miracide (and countless other fan creators) to RL creep is trivializing my experiences

I can't speak for everyone obviously, because I'm sure there are those who doesn't feel the same way.

However I've had a man subject me to unwanted romantic advances despite my repeated refusal, older guys looking at me and my friend inappropriately (sexualizing us from afar), strangers creeping into my friend's DMs. And many other shitty things

Those experiences might seems small but they still scare me to this day.

To equalize Fan artists who only create works that can be avoided f-ing easily and don't directly affect anybody but the characters in fiction--

With The creepy bastards who harass me and my friends in real life, real time...feels like a slap.

((Like my problems are nothing but fandom discourse))

Clearly my experience is not the same with other teens and you are allowed to disagree with me.

But same with how my personal experience doesn't represent everyone, some of these people also need to realize that their opinion doesn't give them the right to act like they're the spokesman of our entire generation.

If you don't like a Miracide and other fan creator's work or action, sure, don't support them

Don't buy their merch, don't give them donation

Block those contents you hate, talk to your close friends why those stuff are bad

Don't interact or promote these fan works, artist, writers or whatever

You are allowed to think of something as problematic

Acting like an invasive piece of pest and coming to people's inbox and start calling them names however...

ain't it, chief.

[alien-bodies]

"I’m really glad the whole fact the Doctor might be into vore is being replaced with a chair from Gallifrey like we really dodged a day in online hell with that one!!! Thanks chair!!!" I mean...I know what all these words mean individually...but together...? Could you possibly explain/give a bit of context? Which Doctor would be into vore?

I read this message and instead of reacting with a typical “jesus christ” I immediately recited the entire Apostles creed in my head so here we are I guess hafjsdhkgjh

So this morning I take a groggy browse down this blue hellsite and stumble upon these posts from @3rddoctor (who I’m not tagging on purpose could u imagine). She will often liveblog reading niche af Doctor Who stuff bc she reads the ebooksand can easily take screenshots and write an amusing caption, then reviews them after bc she’s like the master of analyzing the Master. (I was going to summarize those two posts but the summary got way long so uh Read Them lmao). Ya anyway I consider reblogging the second one just because I can’t believe I read “The Doctor refuses to confirm or deny a vore fetish” with my own eyeballs, but decide nah. Which was alright because I saw them both like 4 more times in the next hour and a half. Not only that, it isn’t restricted to one Doctor, it implies at minimum he’s been into vore since being Four.

Knowing the Classic/EU Who fandom, we have the weirdest fuckign memes based on the most obscure details, and I was thinking “hoo boy here we go, The Doctor’s Into Vore Is Canon is gonna be a feverish, inescapable phenomenon, lesser in power than the Fanny Pack/Bum Bag Event but still formidable and brief”. This fandom already has an impressive stockpile of vore content thanks to the cinematic masterpiece The End Of Time, but now the Doctor’s into vore too??? I’m thinkin there’s gonna be some terrible post abt 8 voring the goo snake!Master, a “Doctor/Master - vore” moodboard, captioned screenshots of unnervingly specific moments where the Doctor suggests he’s into vore, the usual you know. Then everyone will forget about it and we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled 1 vore post/week.

HOWEVER, today is the day the highly anticipated Gallifrey: Time War was released! And since a hefty cross-section of the Classic/EU Who fandom is also in the Big Finish Gallifrey sub-fandom, a fair number of potential meme perpetrators were busy listening to it and posting funny lines and references live (while tagging them “Gallifrey spoilers”, which is polite for everyone else listening later on, but hilarious for anyone who hasn’t started because it’s impossible to have a single clue what’s going on). At some point everyone listened to the bit where I THINK someone pins someone else to the wall with. A Chair. One of them was probably Narvin? But everyone went hog wild I’ve seen posts referencing the Chair like 15 times??? It rapidly sent me slingshotting back to my conspiracy days because of the notion the writers knew exactly what they were doing and knew exactly how much the fanbase would pick up on the Chair!?!? I remain baffled and intimidated, the usual when exposed to the Gallifrey fandom honestly

And thus, the universe timed everything right in that the Doctor Who’s Into Vore Confirmed meme couldn’t pick up the required momentum before the Gallifrey Chair meme came crashing in like a tidal wave. I don’t know whether to thank or besmirch the name of the universe, because I am one of the few weary people who Know, but don’t share this knowledge with the fandom At Large because we never suffered through the revelation together. But you, dear anon, have allowed me to share the burden with another soul, for better or worse.

TL;DR: enemies that vore together stay together, the BF Gallifrey fandom is as per usual on another plane of comprehension, there’s a chair

[yukipri]

I never experienced art theft until one of my works became unexpectedly popular- since then, I've found my work reposted, redrawn, and used as reference for cosplays. It's been exhausting, both seeing it, and not knowing WHERE I should stand on the issue. I've let redraws slide (with credit), but I plan on not allowing future ones from occurring. How do you deal with art theft? How do you continue drawing without thinking about the disrespect thrown at you during bad/failed confrontations?

I am so, so incredibly sorry this happened to you, and empathize very strongly with you. Art theft SUCKS, few things can be quite as demotivating as a creator than having something you’ve worked your ass off on swiped by someone else. And unfortunately, given the current internet culture, if you continue as an online artist it’s inevitable that it’ll happen at one point or another.

Because sure, of course part of the reason why we create is because we want to, but a large part of the motivation for sharing it is to hopefully get some response that people like it, whether it be in the form of likes, reblogs, comments, asks, tags, or anything else. That is the tangible PROOF that our work touched someone, and for someone who put in zero effort and has no idea how we felt while creating to receive all of that instead of us…sucks.

I think where you stand on the issue is up to you, and it’s okay for it to change. YOU always have the right to decide how you’re comfortable with people sharing your art, and your feelings are valid regardless of how they change.

Ironically enough, I just had another art theft on Instagram (my Anniversary post) super recently, so I was like HAH when I got this orz

This rant got a bit long, so the rest beneath cut but here’s a rundown about how my feelings towards art theft have evolved over the years.

For example, over the years I’ve gotten much, MUCH stricter. My earliest online art, I just put it up, no url, oftentimes no signature, no warnings in the comments or my blog bio. Admittedly I was starting out and didn’t have much viewers anyway, but the point was I still had Trust at the time.

Then the art thefts began. I started adding my url to all my illustrations, even if it was just small in the corner, as this’d let people at least find my website. Most people are too lazy to type out a url though, and I’ve seen people asking “Who drew this??” on art theft comments EVEN WHEN THE URL IS LITERALLY RIGHT THERE…

And then people started cropping my watermarks. I made my url bigger, and started adding an additional “DO NOT REPOST” to the image itself. I used to allow reposts with credits on platforms I’m not on, like fb, until I realized that people were then reposting from THOSE communities without credit and putting them into their videos and fics and I just…decided it wasn’t worth it.

I switched to no reposts PERIOD. I have lengthy disclaimers on all of my art that leads to an even lengthier FAQ post that, should people wish to look, leads to even an even more detailed post about WHY art theft sucks, as I’m explaining now.

(EDIT: ALSO, reduce the quality of the images you upload, and NEVER upload the full resolution, and try to keep you unmerged original files. This is for several reasons: no matter how much an art thief reposts your work, they’ll never have access to the higher resolution, and if they ever decide to try to print to sell for profit it’ll be shitty quality compared to anything you make with the original. ALSO, you having the maximum resolution with no watermarking with additional unmerged psd files will be proof that you are the true creator should you need to prove it, which I’ve heard is sometimes necessary to show when your art is stolen at say, an artist alley)

I also used to bother trying to talk to art reposters. I’d comment on the post, try to send messages, etc. It’s fucking exhausting, and while there are some exceptions, the VAST majority of art thiefs will feel attacked and immediately get rude and defensive. (the failed confrontations and disrespect you mentioned orz) If it’s a large community, they may even try to gang up on you. I’ve unfortunately experienced this most frequently in communities centered around other languages (mainly Spanish) because of different mainstream attitudes towards art reposting etiquette combined with a language barrier.

You will, and no doubt already have, encountered people who will argue with you, like the people I describe above. “You should be grateful for the bigger audience!” “We just want to appreciate your art, how can you be so horrible?” “We’re all fans together!” “This is fanart and doesn’t belong to you anyway!” Etc. etc. etc. It’s exhausting, it’s repetitive, it’s neverending, and you already felt awful before it even began and the stress just continues to build.

So I personally have just begun reporting people, if the service allows it. Use DMCA takedown request forms (and YES, even if it’s fanart it’s still yours if you drew it). This is stressful too because it sends your real name + info to the reposter (and wow I clearly can’t trust these people to begin with, why would I want them to have that???) but most sites (facebook, instagram, certainly tumblr, twitter) are very efficient and responsive, and in the end the relief of receiving that email that the art has been taken down is worth it. Especially with facebook, they also send a scary official warning email to the reposters which I sincerely hope will help educate them and discourage future art thefts.

I try to avoid posting public urls because yes I’m aware how mob mentality Tumblr can get, but sometimes it’s just too much. There’s no convenient form of getting my content removed (perhaps bc it’s in a compilation with a ton of other content), or for some reason my attempts to communicate have failed. In those times I have occasionally asked my followers to help, with a reminder to PLEASE always be polite and respectful, regardless of the offense. Y’all have been amazing, and this has saved me many nights of crying in the past.

I will sometimes also write lengthy posts (like this one!) to help educate. Because I do feel that art theft will continue so long as people don’t understand what it does to artists, and it’s up to the community as a whole to make that change, which also depends heavily on the consumers not just creators. A lot of art theft really isn’t intentionally meant to harm, but IS super ignorant.

But in the end, all I’ve ranted about so far is how I’ve dealt with actually removing/dealing with the shit. But the emotional pain, it builds. Sometimes, when it’s too frequent and the stolen art gets way more attention than my original that I worked my ass off on that basically flunked on my own platforms, I feel a bit of me break.

And in the end, it’s up to you what that threshold is, where posting art and feeling good about it is overwhelmed by the pain, fear, and anxiety of art theft. I’ve crossed my own threshold too many times, and once had to take an art hiatus because of it (fandom was BH6). This lead to a break in my productivity and motivation and my eventual complete departure form the fandom. I’ve seen many other artists just stop posting art entirely or moving everything to private. It’s terrible, but my feelings are with these artists, and I feel so, so sorry that they were hurt so much to the extent they had to do this.

With my current fandom and followers, I feel that regardless of how niche an audience my content tends to be geared for, I have a community that is really satisfying for me to create for, one that is responsive to me and gives me tons of feedback. This is the number one reason why i continue to feel motivated to post a ton of online content despite the risks.

The takeaway form this long meandering post: Posting online is a hobby, it’s for fun, and I don’t make any money off my public audience (unless they come to Patreon! LOL!), so I’m a firm believer that once the anxiety + misery starts outweighing anything positive you personally may get from sharing online, which for me heavily depends on my audience and their responsiveness, there’s no reason to subject yourself to that anymore and you are in no way obligated to stay. There are various methods to more efficiently get rid of art thefts without dealing with them in person which is stressful AF, and also ways of marking up your content in ways that may look less aesthetically pleasing, but will hopefully discourage art thefts, and at the very least give them very little leg to stand on should they do it anyway. How forgiving you are in art thefts also depends on you, but the more forgiving you are, the more it can get away from you. And in the end, YOU as a human are more important than any complaints about art looking less pleasing or the feelings of art thefts who don’t get to do what they want with YOUR hard work.

Sorry this was so disjointed and literally just me spewing at you, but I hope some of it was helpful ^ ^; Please let me know if I can give you any other advice, and I’m sorry again that you have to deal with this ;_;

(and to respond to your second ask, I do try to respond to most of my asks, but sometimes it takes a while (sometimes even months orz), especially if it’s one that requires a lengthy detailed answer like this one ^ ^; thank you for your patience!)

[mcmansionhell]

50 States of McMansion Hell: Oakland County, Michigan

Greetings friends! Believe me - believe me - this house is going to make up for Monday’s missed post (I’m going to move away from theory next week but more about that later). This may be one of the tackiest McMansions in McMansion Hell history. Behold, my friends, behold! 

This incredible chateau, built in 1994, boasts 5 bedrooms and 5.5 baths, totaling around 5,300 square feet. You can be the king or queen of this counterfeit castle for just around $1 million USD!

Without further ado:

The Royal Foyer

Not only is this room the pinnacle of logic, but it made me realize how long it’s been since we had a true brass n glass chandelier! For those of you on the West Coast who don’t know about Dillard’s, giant round windows/entrances are their thing:

Photo by Michael Rivera, CC-BY-SA 4.0

The Great Excellent Room

The ratio of floor area to ceiling height is rather boggling, even by McMansion standards. 

Kitchen

The apples and oranges joke was a test to see if any dads out there read my blog. 

Sitting Room 1

The funniest thing about the trim is that if they did continue it, it would run into the types of the windows. Oops, indeed. 

The Royal Dining Room

Liberté, égalité, fraternité! If you like French Revolution jokes, friend, oh boy are you in for a treat. 

It’s worth mentioning here that ya girl has primary source material related to this room: 

The funniest part is that the furniture in the McMansion dining room is a dang knockoff of this insane Italian furniture found in the 1986 International Collection of Interior Design. It’s almost like the people who built this house aren’t *actually* royalty!

Master Royal Bedroom

One has to wonder about the people who decorate their houses to look like royalty, especially the niche practitioners of “Dictator Chic.”

Master Bath

Dear Every Frat Dude in the University of North Carolina School System, I am Throwing Shade Directly At You

Princess’ Bedchamber

Guys, you guys, France has elections now. Little Alliesonn and Anndrieah can still be your little princesses - no need to re-establish the monarchy. 

Bathroom Two

AHA!

Image via The World’s Best Ever 

Rec Room

Who put in that fireplace?! Who looked at that and said “I have completed my task effectively and am satisfied with my work”?! Guillotine! Guillotine! 

Mystery Room

I’m not sorry. 

Well, that does it for our lovely tour of this McCastle - now for our favorite part: 

Rear Exterior

Those balconies are sus af. 

Well, that does it for Michigan! Stay tuned for a post Next Monday in which I delve into the nitty gritty details of architecture (what is that random ornament/window style/etc. called anyway?) and dissecting these monstrosities by comparing them to the great houses of the past. Be sure to come back Thursday for a Minnesota McMansion! 

If you like this post, and want to see more like it, consider supporting me on Patreon!  Also JUST A HEADS UP - I’ve started posting a GOOD HOUSE built since 1980 from the area where I picked this week’s McMansion as bonus content on Patreon!

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Copyright Disclaimer: All photographs in this post are from real estate aggregate Zillow.com and are used in this post for the purposes of education, satire, and parody, consistent with 17 USC §107. Manipulated photos are considered derivative work and are Copyright © 2017 McMansion Hell. Please email kate@mcmansionhell.com before using these images on another site. (am v chill about this)

[natto-axolotl]

yo, actual chinese person who has had an on and off relationship with jttw for ~10 years here!! (under cut for reading ease)

rlly, the best thing you can do is read the actual novel!! there's good english translations here (link, link, link and link) as well as the 1986 television series (it's in mandarin tho but it's arguably my fave interpretation) if you think you can take it you can read the novel itself in chinese (i have the pdfs), but your best bet would be either an english translation if you aren't fluent in mandarin or a simplified version in mandarin if you're like me and only barely literate in mandarin. LMK was made with cultural sensitivity and appealing to audiences in china and surrounding areas in mind, so the creators probably did read the novel and You Probably Should, Too (trust me 100 chapters sounds LONG but its amazing and inspired an entire anime)

that being said, there are other cultural bits you need to keep in mind when you make LMK content (i.e. be mindful of the fact that the characters are heavily chinese-coded and drawn with yellow skin which is a bit yikes, the fact that JTTW has a lot of buddhist imagery so you do need to do some research on that bit) but don't take my word for it. i'm not completely representative of every EAsian person, so it's best to ask around and do your own research on JTTW before you come to a conclusion. i'm still learning a lot about this novel, and i still try my best not to infringe on things outside my realm of knowledge. but just knowing that "holy shit, people are actually interested in journey to the west and other super niche chinese things after being bullied all my life for being the asian kid" is super heartwarming!!!!! so go forth and make the LMK content

bonus random things only slightly related to this post:

nnnot a big fan of the english names for the LMK cast esp xiaojiaos, i mean MEI????? lego ffs ive see so many chinese coded characters with the name mei

if you ever make content of the LMK cast celebrating holidays commonly celebrated in east asia (i.e. CNY, midautumn festival, dragon boat festival, yuanxiao, laba, etc.) i would wholeheartedly die for you

honestly you can go fucking off the rockers with the aus so long as you keep certain cultural things in mind, i assure you for every crackheaded lmk au idea you have theres probably 5 other adaptations of JTTW that are even more out there

i cannot begin to tell you how well known jttw is in china because there's no good parallel for it in america, you could ask anyone on the street in china and they'd have a good grasp of JTTW and probably other assorted chinese myths

the chinese mythos pantheon is there (guanyin pusa/bhoddisativa guanyin, the jade emperor and chang'e are recurring figures so we do have a set cast) but it's pretty loose and i don't know of any good compilations, so your best bet is scrounging around on the internet and maaybe pirating and translating chinese schoolbooks lmao

anyways i hope you find this information useful and i wish you good reading!!!

(p.s. if you read all the way to the end and you'd like to learn chinese AND read JTTW at the same time here's wukong shizi, an app that basically built my childhood self learning experience alongside duolingo)

(pp.s. if you can comprehend mandarin which already, good for you! then here’s ximalaya, which has a rlly good simplified audiobook of JTTW. click download on android, which downloads the apk file and boom you have what would usually be a china-exclusive app!!)

Hey I wanted to know your opinion about something. I know is a little controversial but I dont know who to ask.

I just started watching lego monkie kid and I really really like it! And I like to make some fanart of it but also it made me want to start reading jttw to understand some of the things from the show.

But I'm scared of making fanart or talking about me linking it since I dont want offend anybody because is such a cultural thing (and even when I want to do my research to not offend anyone there are a lot of adaptations).

I'm a little scare about posting since I have seen a few tags about "this is for only the people who grew up with the show/ story" and I understand that they dont want their icons to get whitewashed since there are a lot of religions and religious figure involved.

Should I abandoned the fandom or is there anything I can do to both be respectful and enjoy it? Are there any rules we can follow to not offend anyone? Since they are religions/cultural figures we shouldn't ship? Did I had to had read the book before hand because if not shouldn't be watching the show? (That one is something that I actually heard) I know is a little extreme of a question but i really need to know all the rules. I promise to do my research before posting anything but I still needed to ask.

The only advice I can give you are the ones I myself follow, altho they are not perfect.

Do a lot of research every time you want to draw/write something. If you can talk to someone who is from that religion and culture, do it. If you can’t, you can try to make a post saying “I want to write something about A, this is what I found doing research. Is this right? Did I misunderstand something?”

We are talking about an actual religion that’s still being practiced today, so I tend to not use/talk about actual gods that are in that religion.

Personally, I don’t think you have to read the book in order to like or understand the show.Without reading the book you just miss some easter eggs and small details, but the book isn’t fundamental.

And one thing to remember: Always be respectful, and that doesn’t just mean doing research, but also listening if people say “Hey you got this wrong, it’s actually this” or “I’m from this culture and what you said was disrespectful”.

If anyone wants to add more or give better advices, please do!