#ugh i'm tag rambling

[jorjorend]

remembers I have an art tumblr every 2 months

[labotor]

my bougie dwarf LoF rook Tyarva and her sugar baby silly charming professor who she adores so very much <333

[housederiva]

Is it just me or is there way less fanart being made for this game than the previous ones? Kind of makes me sad, I remember with dai I could check the tags every few hours and find something new weeks after launch, now I only can get away with only looking a few times and week and miss nothing.

I don't think that's Veilguard exclusive.

Things I and my mutuals draw now are getting less notes/reblogs than they did even one year ago, regardless of the fandom. Fanfiction is getting less comments and kudos on ao3 too (not that they were getting many comments in the first place) Less gifs are being made because gif makers weren't getting reblogs. Hell, most of the post I make have a huge discrepancy between likes and reblogs and add polls into that? A thousand people voted on something and only a dozen people reblog it. It's a hollowing feeling when you realise you're calling out to an empty void, I don't blame people for creating less art because of that.

I don't see a vast majority of the people who follow me in my notes because I have likes disabled. Multiple times someone has sent me an ask apologizing for spamming me with likes and I don't understand it? That is not a bad thing And unless you reblogged anything along the way, I didn't even realise you were doing it in the first place. And the people whose notes I do see are not annoying in the slightest, I love the tags you add and I'm sure the original poster does even more so

I'm not trying to shame anyone Into interacting with the fandom spaces they're in but the whole point of Tumblr and what makes it a blogging platform and not social media is that this is a show and tell website. You're supposed to look at something you think is cool and then wave it around for your followers to see and then they pick it up and do the same regardless of how old it is

When you reblog an ask game from someone it used to be common courtesy to send that person one of the asks from it. Folks used to leave comments analysing paragraphs from stories people wrote and theorising about what would happen next on every chapter. We used to send each other asks just asking about our ocs unprompted

If there's no interaction or community when you create something, then what's the point of creating it? It sucks that fandom is morphing into something to be consumed and thrown away the second it's more than a week old unless you're one of a handful of blogs that got lucky and picked up traction at just the right moment

I'm sorry for the rant but I get emotional when I think about the decay of fandom spaces for too long. And this goes without saying, but you guys can reblog anything on my dash if the button isn't disabled on it

[ladyinthebluebox]

wE wAnT cOmPaNiOnS tO bE mEaN aGaIn!!!!!!!!!!

my siblings in the maker, you can't handle Taash calling Emmrich a death mage couple times or [checks notes] ...asking Neve about her clothes [?????????????]

[puppyudderly-dreamy]

idk i do like hearing peoples perspectives and arguments about transfeminism, but i believe what i believe about it because the arguments for it are effective and the evidence we have supports their conclusions. yea they also help me conceptualize events in my life through a transfeminist lens but that is what theoretical frameworks are For, they begin with the evidence and describe the experience.

i think semantic arguments and talk of empty unity and dismissing through sexualization are just as much tactics of argumentation and to me they're are highly ineffective in doing anything but making the people using them look good to an uninformed observer. its the reason we say a lot that some people here have a "vibes based politics" because it's clear from their arguments and rhetoric that they think of these arguments as a way to display an image rather than to actually have a discussion.

thats why im pissy and get upset and block people, they're just wasting peoples time for their own egos rather engaging with any of these concepts or acknowledging that what they know might not be totalizing. the desperation to have a perfect unsullied and intelligent image is why posts like mine pointing out a subtle dogwhistle will get backlash that amounts to telling me i'm making it up. i am communicating to them that there is a piece of knowledge that they might not have considered or even known is offensive to them so they reach for reactionary defenses instead of treating the trans woman in front of them like a person

[mbirnsings-71]

Tumblr bare with me here my hands did not want to draw but I wanted to at least sketch out a noob neighbor design so I can put some doodle plans into action on Friday or Sunday >:3 Now if anyone needs me I'm gonna play minecraft again-

[userlaylivia]

just to let everyone know: I saw a ent doctor and there's something going on with my ears so I have to have them cut into my eardrum and get a tube put in on December 9 and usually it's done in my doctor's office but because of the pain I'm in i wouldn't tolerate it so I have to be sedated so it's surgery and I'll be out of it probably that day so if I'm not here that day you know why <3 it's a very simple and routine surgery but it's still nerve racking and every surgery has some risk no matter how small it may be so wish me luck!! ily guys 💗💞💕💖💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡

[artisticallygay]

Do people still like Papyton anymore or

[kurokoros]

still mad that we didn't get Vecna possessing Steve. haha silly Steve who asks stupid questions and everyone dunks on as if he's not an athlete and one of the better combatants in the group. Steve, who knocked out a trained soldier at 19. Steve, who has been beaten to hell every season and gotten right back up afterwards. just goofy old Steve.

but what if Steve wasn't actually Steve anymore?

[makethiscanon]

Am I having a meltdown that My Hero Academia is coming to a close and the fandom's gonna slowly trickle out like many before it? Very much so, yes.

[silverselfshippingchaos]

if i had a nickel for every time i liked a young cool y.akuza dude that had dyed hair...

i'd have three nickels.

[kingofthewilderwest]

Folks who've followed me for some time may know I dislike the word "canon." That it's my constant soap box topic. That I feel it misses the point for people to be zealous about what materials do and don't fall into "canon." Discrediting officially released materials because there are an arbitrary amount of plot or tone inconsistencies, because they're for children, because they're made by X person instead of Y, etc., comes off as missing the point. Instead of trying to create an unalterable timeline and list of facts, like we're in history class, like we as adults neeeed a certain amount of "rationality" and "objectivity" to engage with fiction, I like to acknowledge:

The purpose of storytelling is storytelling.

And sometimes lore doesn't need to be consistent. Sometimes lore is better and sicker and sweeter if it's treated as additive. We don't need to determine one objective deal about it to acknowledge something came from an official source and I can expand my love and understanding of characters, theme, location, etc. without getting my panties twisted over whether it just gave me two origin stories about how Sally and Jochebed met.

I'm saying this as a meta analyst who's the biggest slut for synthesizing. But I can have a good head on my shoulders, evaluating what does and doesn't count as relevant to my specific investigation, without getting hung up on an objective "pass" and "fail" list. Maybe the materials that sync in my system are fluid pending on what I'm looking at, and maybe I can have a better appreciation of the characters, setting, themes, etc. if I'm not so caught up in My One Objective Golden Timeline. It all feels artificial and like forgetting what story is for.

Anyway. Y'all have heard that before. I'm rambling today because, like. Honestly it's fuckin' hilarious one reason my philosophy came about is because of my childhood writing chaos.

I have always been a writer. My mother was incredible and saved my earliest stories. Like we're talking four-year-old, can't even write a complete sentence, the only words on page one are "Cat cat meow meow oh no oh no no no cat" in all caps and in marker. I have things from four years old and six years old and eight years old and ten years old and twelve years old and on and on. And unlike other people who flinch at their older works, I embrace this as identity.

By the time I was six or seven, I had started introducing worlds and characters I'd keep with me forever. And when you grow up with characters, you write and rewrite and rewrite an revamp and rewrite and redo to reflect your new states of maturity, your new ideas. But, inevitably, you can't keep track of your revamps, and if you revamp the revamp to restart on a clean slate, you instead add another layer of tangles. And if you create an encyclopedia about your creative shit to keep track, you have to contend with and make arbitration over contradictions, which again creates another layer of tangles, which again opens the door for more inconsistencies, which again creates....

And by the time you're in your thirties, you've engaged with these characters 2+ decades. The same character might've been revamped, redesigned, renamed, renamed, renamed, placed into different settings, fused with other characters, interacted with other characters from previously different stories, reseparated into her own timeline, and on and on and on again. There is no "canon" by that point. There can be no canon.

But there's story, there's intent, and there's fantastic times ahead.

I'm doing a project where I take my earliest, most "iconic" collection of works, and I rewrite them. I preserve their OG intent, settings, characters, events, vibes, and themes best I can, no mind how childish—but give them the polish I'd always dreamed they could have, now that I'm an adult. Instead of worrying about whether Zahnoh and Cheacabrr are two years apart, three years apart, five years apart, or eight years apart; whether they met at a pawn shop or at a racetrack or were elementary school classmates or knew each other forever because their parents were childhood friends; whether Cheacabrr and Campriacheenia were childhood friends or met as adults as fully-fledged enemies; I don't give a flying fuck. We are past the point where I can be "consistent." I ask myself, "What would be best for this story I am currently telling?" and I tell it. I've even added more "contradictions" because storytelling is a living art, and the story would flow better and handled themes better if I changed this factor yet again.

So how did Zahnoh and Cheacabrr meet? Yes. All of these are true. All of these are very, very, very established lore. I'm not going to denigrate any to a "defunct" tier because they're important. They communicate important things about the characters and world and tone I've built. They're all stellar iterations. If my current project gets far enough, I might even create multiple revamps and swap details out again! There will never be something restricting what I want to say.

This is more awesome than making another Ultimate Canon Arbitration Encyclopedia entry sweating, "Do I make Cheacabrr born this year or that year? This year or that year??? This year or that year???? Which story is purer??? Which story is the gold standard? Which details should I retire???" Doesn't matter. In my ongoing project, Zahnoh and Cheacabrr have an unprecedented age gap to emphasize Zahnoh's manipulative side in Cheacabrr's rise to fame. In another story, they're going to be close in age to emphasize a healthy platonic spin. It's so fun. And it's a great way to embrace my identity as a storywriter from start to end. ^.^

This is, by far, not the only reason I have my soapbox about "canons". But ain't it funny how one person's own projects leak into their philosophy. XD

[breezypunk]

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[iamthepulta]

The best thing about Italy and Europe is that linen just- exists here. I can go buy a shitty cheap 100% linen dress like I would go to Fry's and buy a shitty cheap 100% polyester dress in America. Absolutely revolutionary for my wardrobe. I can't actually buy wardrobe enhancements because I have a carry-on suitcase, but the fact I still have the option is amazing.

[v7lgar]

good morning i'm on the road for one hour and there is 6 hours to go w these two

and mira tried to pee on me but SHE didn't (thank fuck) and yaman is busy w sniffing mira's butt

[mbirnsings-71]

something something Tango Tek :D!!