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[obsidianpen]

unpopular opinion: admit it or not but no glory would've been more popular on ao3 than blood & gold if it wasn't locked, considering it's popularity on tiktok. even big accounts on tiktok about fanfic recommendations and stuffs, recommends no glory and their videos is always a hit. don't get me wrong i'm a blood & gold fan, like seriously. but i think no glory is more closer of getting popular along side of manacled, like seriously check tiktok and search no glory and all videos are hits. everytime i search blood & gold on tiktok hoping if some people read it, i barely see any videos compared to no glory. is this a sign to read no glory?😭

well this is certainly part of the problem - something being popular on TikTok is NOT a surefire sign that it’s a good story. There are a LOT of amazing fics that aren’t on TikTok. Like most of them probably. And honestly, I’ve seen some pretty atrocious ones get posted about and reccd there, particularly in tomione. Cough cough.

let’s talk about the tiktokification (and adjacent, instagramification) of fanfics! Like all things, I think there are good and bad parts of this. I think it can be fun when readers like a story so much they make a TikTok about it to hype up the author. That’s how the exchange of fandom is supposed to work: the writer makes and shares a story with the world for free; the reader says thank you by providing feedback in the form of a comment or in this case, reccing it on social media, maybe even going as far as to make a fun video or edit. Fine. Fun. Go at it.

(side note to give special thanks to all fan artists; I think I speak for most writers when I say this is the BEST???? Fanfic inspiring fanart is the best exchange ever, true fandom love)

where I find a problem with TikTok and all that is when writers themselves are hyping up their own work on social media like it’s a job, making catchy funny videos with the intent to reach many people as possible and blow up - on a site that where posts can be monetized. It feels very cringey to me. Like, ulterior motive-y. Sorry if I’m offending anyone with this take, feel free to disagree and do your thing!

but on to No Glory’s presence on TikTok - truly, this was a surprise to me when I first saw it. I don’t agree that it would be ‘manacled popularity status’ because… it’s harrymort. It’s a far cry from Draco and Hermione, that’s for sure (not that I can’t and won’t make a solid argument for how canon compliant - though admittedly very fucked up - harrymort is!). I think it’s fair to say that No Glory is a bit of a ‘despite the’ situation, meaning, it is somehow popular despite having graphic torture, death, trauma, rape, etc. And none of those things are done lightly, nor are they ever excused (the murderer/rapist is not pardoned for any of his bullshit nor is he coerced into doing any of it; he is a Villain, capital V). So yeah, it’s surprising to me that it is as popular as it is, given all that AND that’s it’s a WIP, seeing as there is also (I think) a big trend for people only reading completed fics (these folks are almost missing the point of fandom and how it works and they suck, but that’s a different rant).

I’m losing the plot. Er, I don’t think NG being locked for a while would have made TOO much a difference, but maybe it would have - I’m sure people were sharing it with those who didn’t have accounts and so it probably would have more ‘hits’ or whatever if it hadn’t been. But all in all I don’t think it would be ‘manacled popular’. Because Harry is a (poor young) man, Voldemort is Voldemort, the age gap is both much too large and much too small (if it were an inhuman number of years, book tok logic says it becomes okay again), and everything is so fucked and unforgiving almost all the time. And not in the cute ‘I can fix him and everything!’ way. In the ‘there is nothing that can make him redeemable ever so I’m going to disassociate until I implode over and over again’ kind of way.

[byn3s]

my parents are out here talking about how people are killing CEOs while im tryna bounce on one

[the-fogblast]

ONE TIME I SQUASHED A BUG AND IT REMINDED ME OF YOU

What kind of bug

[neon-catarina]

itty bitty boy :) (you can hold him in your palm!)

[catboythanatos]

i shaved my head but ive had this one picrew icon for so long im not ready to change it so i went back to remake myself in it. heres the bald update

[hearty-an0n]

ive been watching this stream for five seconds and i can already feel myself being dragged back in

[fredlikesrats]

urgh the barfight scene the barfight scene

[2leggedshark]

He so fuckin BIG..

[cinnabeat]

nvm i no longer have a bad feeling kill this bitch immediately chihiro

[lioftb]

a man stopped me during my walk (only 9pm) and asked for my name, my address and my Instagram and i probably said no ten times and he wasn't taking it as an answer i turned back and ran for my life fr i feel so violated wtf was that

[eyesontheskyline]

Oh nothing just me sharing my very own "help my porn is turning into an angsty character study" vague outline with @sequinsmile-x and getting called out for being a parody of myself.

[marcsnuffy]

tell me Kaneshiro wrote this without telling me Kaneshiro wrote this

[kiwi-fartist]

hi chat, i really wanted to talk about th

*creature walks across screen*

did

did you guys see that?

[calkale]

subtle as hell glen he’ll never know you want him

[kittenwithabass]

yeah this guy was a sick baby

[thefourpointedstar]

bored so im going to write some randomish idea's of TheFourPointedStar ok so basicly The Four Pointed Star can travel to any multiverse-timeline-universe Because its all stacked ontop of eachother???? It can basicly go everywhere ever???? Oh but its difficult to traverse the spaces inbetween universes--- Or the gaps if you were, because you cant just go nowhere. also alot of Stardust™ (Tiny fragments of the FourPointedStar because it was shattered, keep up) is in the void so whomever is looking for the shards has to jump off the edge of a multiverse and or universe (imo multiversal gaps are allot bigger than universal gaps bth) Also due to the nature of the fragments of the FourPointedStar they are always... er- the light from them travels instantly to anyone, no matter the distance. Moving on TheFourPointedStar can take idea's and mechanics from worlds, and impose those idea's onto other's. oh and like inside TheFourPointedStar the floor is endless-- You've heard this before have you not? There are trillions of people inside TheFourPointedStar at any given time, They are basicly livestock, Passively generating WIllpower and other sparks-- Have i explain willpower and sparks? I dont think so! Ok so willpower Powers the FourPointedStar, Giving it drive and other stuff, The sparks instill emotions and change the perception of others. And perception is everything to TheFourPointedStar. All of my oc's have a connection to TheFourPointedStar and have some amount of it inside of them-- Its like radiation or microplastics, Get nearby and you are already... infected? Its basicly a parasite draining the willpower of anyone its connected to-- OH AND!!!! It stops any mind altering "attacks" Like booze, And other drugs-- AND prevents mindcontrol of anykind-- Basicly it protects your mind no matter what... no matter what. (this is a opt in feature, You are still allowed to get absolutely sloshed if you so desire... but No matter what you will be immune to mindcontrol... Unless you disable it directly BECAUSE) TheFourPointedStar has so MANY FUCKIJG AI's IN IT- And a built in computer--- and browser (you have to manually connect it to a universe's internet but outside of that theres the entirety of 2030's internet preserved inside of it... But you'll get bored of reading and watching slop after the 7 billionth ai cooking with gorgon brandy show. so just connect it to some random world and watch some anime-- Or better yet go to those worlds and fuck shit up like the horrible trickster god you are.) oh and have i mentioned that you can reset everything ever with it???? Back to zero-- Or one as it were???? one universe one timeline???? and its never ever been used???? (outside of the time where Bob got sad that his husband Alousko died [but not really] and nearly reset everything???? but was stopped and shattered???? and that happened like uh... lets go with 47 years before Eshuary was born from his three dads {They broke themselves into three pieces and did not do the sex because selfcest... ew to a that extent and also one of them is asexual |It was Kertzweil and the selfcesters not to be were Alousko and... T... t.. um...oh! Terminus[Terminus was alousko for a couple weeks before his personality drifted too far-- he was basicly a copy without his shadow, so basicly without his soul-- and he was drifting away from what he once was due to him developing a soul- er i mean Shadow. its basicly the same shut up!!!!]}) (got that was long winded) um... i have nothing else bye!!!! this was written at 4:am!!!!!!!!!!