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Sigh..
Soooo yeah.. I am genuinely surprised by how hard Tumblr is trying to destroy itself. Tumblr THRIVES on random reblog chains getting progressively cursed, someone making a random post about their fandom, a lot of personal interactions, people osmos'ing unfamiliar fandoms and characters through mutuals-in-law and other stuff like this. Like.. there are 0 reasons to make it another Amino.
Not to mention how much it nurtures things that RUIN fandoms, like "fandom leaders", "cool kids" groups, fandom trends, gospel headcanons etc. So, imagine if like, a cunt that hates your ship or your headcanons on a character or anything like that 'claims' the fandom community first! So now everyone that dares to have different tastes and interpretations from them will be excluded from active discussions because many users, instead of checking fandom tag and 'wild' dashboard will hang out in community bubbles instead and not see the takes which that bitchy control freak admin dislikes! People that disagree with that community's admin will be left with no choice but to create their own space, and either 1) Tumblr will disapprove multiple spaces for the same theme 2) their community will be less active since most fans WILL naturally prefer the one that came first or 3) in general, fandoms will suck more because of large amount of "us vs them" moods.
Nothing is worse for a fandom than giving someone power to decide who "belongs" in it and who doesn't. And there is NO way to prevent the situation where it is specifically a control freak that will exclude people with "wrong" ships or "wrong" headcanons that claims community. Like, yeah, different 'sides' of the discourse-torn fandom (so, ANY fandom lol) having to fight for audience because this audience can't be active in every community, even neutral ones that'd like to see any ships and any headcanons!
Did Tumblr staff not THINK about what this could mean? Like, do they want dens of scumbags proliferating behind the scenes? And don't even get me started on the morality of sanitising the posts into 'OnLy ReLeVanT cOnTeNt uwu' when so-called "meaningful connections" are formed EXACTLY when a blogger breaks the fandomry-posting routine to get personal or political, to show more of themselves! People don't need a new space where they can "escape" "uncomfortable" topics or news (cough cough), because they already have this space. This space is called 'their friends'! Once again, proves how corporations have NO idea now actual humans work.
#this is like the exact reason I hate public discord servers but x10 times worse#way to make fandoms worse#tumblr#tumblr communities#internets#clown world#the only good part about it is that now there will be a realistic way to avoid fandom trends since only individualists stay 'outside'#like now you can be SURE that bastardisations of your fav will go in the 'community' and not in the wilderness#no more girlboss or group mom female character takes no more innocent sunshines#no more zero nuance takes on an interesting and complex villain on your dash#.....well yeah it HAS benefits#the flaws just outweight them
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PSA to printed zine makers
As a 37 year old who's been running a sole proprietorship for the last 10+ years, I just want everyone who is planning to run a fandom project that involves accepting money for printing & shipping costs to know that you're actually running a small business and you need to plan for taxes. It doesn't matter if you don't make any profit: that is business income and the IRS will see it as such if you get audited.
If you only take enough money in to cover the cost of printing & shipping then you can write that off as a business expense and probably not pay taxes on it, But in order for that to fly you actually have to do business accounting, especially if you're doing it at scale. Like, you can probably skate by without reporting a $500 project; I absolutely would not fucking risk it with a $5000 project.
Back when I was producing shows there were years when I was where I made $20k in ticket sales only to turn around and immediately pay $18k to my performers. I only made $2k for myself, but I had to report the entire $20k, because it was ALL INCOME. (I only paid taxes on the $2000, because that's how writing off expenses works!)
Yeah this is boring grownup shit and I'm getting my boring grownup fingers all over your fun fandom, but boring grownups doing boring grownup things are the reason fandom spaces exist at all (paying for servers is deeply boring), and I'm way more fun than an audit
#don't find this out the hard way#get a small business license if you want to do it more than once#small business taxes are annoying#but getting audited is way worse#this advice is US-centric but the gist applies in other countries too#fandom#zines#also have contracts#if money is changing hands you gotta make that shit official
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admiration for his muse or whatever!!1 thank you BoB for the mental illness <3
#gravity falls#gravity falls fandom#gravity falls stanford#gravity falls ford#gravity falls bill cipher#bill cipher#gf bill cipher#gf stanford#stanford pines#billford#gravity falls fanart#gravity falls stanford pines#god how do i tag!!!#ANYWAY. CRAZY ABOUT WHATEVER THESE TWO HAVE GOT GOING ON BETWEEN THEM MAKING ME SICK IN THE HEAD OR WHATEVER...#bless fords little heart he was down BAD#bill was too but just. worse. in worse ways. all the worst ways LMAOOO#everybody point and laugh the dream demon can't cope with BLEGH WEAK MORTAL FEELINGS!!! what a LOSERRR#ford pines#love you ford pines
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No but like every time I think about Splinter and what he had to go through just to keep the boys alive, my heart hurts for him so badly. Is he perfect? No not at all, but none of them are and by god does he love his sons.
The fact that all of them are alive, and grew to thrive despite the circumstances surrounding them is a testament of how much Splinter loves his boys. He raised four babies following the most traumatic time of his life, all alone with nothing but the sewers to house them (to hide them.) I feel like he’s not given the credit he deserves for all he’s done.
And I get that it’s easy to hold up his flaws and faults when it comes to parenting, I myself like looking into them because flawed characters are super interesting and said flaws make them more realistic and engaging, but he tries, and again, so many others would have given up on the boys or failed along the way but Splinter didn’t.
He’s their father, for all his faults he did his damndest to make sure they survived.
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt splinter#rise splinter#he’s not perfect as I’ve said#and he’s got a whole slew of flaws and faults#but he’s a person - we are all flawed#he loves his sons dearly dearly dearly even if he struggles along the way to show that#parenting is not easy! especially as a traumatized mutant who is forced to do it alone#side note but I think this is one of the reasons why it kiiiiiinda ruffles my feathers to see so many people assign parentification to Raph#and in turn make Splinter out to be way worse and way more distant than he is in canon?#like idk I just don’t see what so many others see ig but maybe that’s just me#i guess my thoughts are like- let parents have flaws without villainizing them?#they’re still parents even if they mess up?#we can discuss the repercussions of a parents actions on a child while not casting that parent as an awful person#parents are peopleeee#I could go on but yeahhh#idk it bothers me seeing splinter’s efforts undermined when he’s been through so much#idk if ppl realized this by now but I love me some flawed characters#tho I do think in this fandom the ones whose faults are discussed the most are like#Splinter mostly then Draxum then Leo#of the main cast#and in Splinters case in particular his faults are made to cover his good qualities which makes me sad#because he is SO INTERESTING#they’re all flawed characters and tbh so interesting because their flaws are ALSO their strengths in many aspects
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Guys.. my bill personified.. my childhood crush has come full circle
I like to think this form is mostly just to make fun of Ford or to experiment on himself. Bill doesn't actually know how to use this form..
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....Therefore he comes off a bit uncanny valley at times (he also just. Does not care about his appearance and it changes OFTEN when he finds a feature interesting)
#did you guys see his ford underwear HAHAHA#sorry if you cant read his text I like the idea of his voice looking different in writing? idk#tw g0re#slight nudity#tw scars#i tried not to be TOO gory...but trust me he does WAY worse with this form.#bill cipher#billford#the book of bill#bill ci the triangle guy#bill ci the demon guy#bill ci the all seeing eye#gravity falls#gravity falls ford#gravity falls fanart#gravity falls bill#gravity falls book#gravity falls it is good to be back#does this mean i make fanart for adventure time again help /j#also please dont hate me bc i made him a twink or smth.. sorry tumblr rotted me 😭😭#human bill cipher#human bill design#gravity falls fandom#gravity falls stanford#bill x stanford#stanford pines#billford fanart#gravity falls headcanons#tw scabs#trigge
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@vanweek2024 day 6 - spare
vanny goes bowling !
#my art#vanweek2024#this was the only prompt i prepared before the week started lol#the perspective might be Bad but idc. the colors might also be Bad but again idc#couldnt think of anything for the other definition of spare so... bowling it is#vanny#vanny fnaf#glamrock bonnie#anyway it's honestly so funny to me how i've been posting all this van stuff and the most popular post for it has like? less than 100 notes?#but i know the second i start posting 🌞🌜 stuff again that number will shoot back up#which just means my 🌞🌜 stuff is too easily consumable and i need to make it even worse ♡#i do have a lot of complex feelings regarding the 🌞🌜 fandom and the way van and ness are largely ignored despite how intertwined their#stories are. but i feel like if i talk about that i'll get harassed LMAOOO#and also these tags aren't really the place for it anyway#eyestrain#eye strain#<- oh i almost forgot HDKSKF
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can i just say. and this is probably a niche hill to die on. that i am so gobsmacked every time someone vaguely hints at the idea that jotaro doesn't care meaningfully for the other crusaders, usually particularly kakyoin and joseph, when those two actually tend to be the ones he reacts to being hurt the hardest
like he cares for his loved ones!!!! that literally plays into his character motives in every single part he shows up in!!! stop lying to me!!!!!!!
#me.txt#jjba#i'm going to ramble in tags actually. excuse me#ok. rereading sdc and so confused at the general perception of jotaro and his friends/family. he's not NEARLY as flat or as dickish#i understand that the anime (particularly the dub) tends to slander him but even then he still clearly cares for them! i'm confused#i also understand that a lot of people dig against jotaro and kakyoin as a dynamic because 'they're popular' and that generally disliking#popular things across media is a thing that i've seen consistently everywhere but the discredit to them simply as a DUO and not even as a#pairing is so..... odd..... like they're considered to be a duo that clicks for a reason. i enjoyed them even before i got into the fandom#every time i see someone say jotaro is overrated/dull i take a shot and assume they're an anime-only or only read the manga like once btw#joseph and jotaro also have a neat dynamic and they obviously both love and care for each other. like they're not going to go around loudly#or anything but literally the entirety of the lovers and the prelude to the dio fight IS jotaro being worked up over joseph getting hurt#equally i don't know if it translates to the anime as much but joseph is VERY complimentary when it comes to jotaro. like he sings his#praises so often and reminds everyone that he's his grandson so frequently (d'arby the gamer is a good example of this). either way it's so#peculiar....... there's not enough avdol and jotaro content btw (also in canon) because jotaro obviously looks up to him and avdol jokes#around with him on the occasion they interact after their intro which doesn't start very well. it's very cute#i do think an important thing to note about jotaro's character is how he acts AFTER his intro because he's so drastically different. early#jotaro and later jotaro aren't the same character and i do not mean this in a character development way. excluding the jail incident he's#completely different and probably shouldn't really be taken into account (especially considering the amount of slapstick in araki's intros)#and i think that's really???? what people center on for his character? Which sucks balls bad!#anyways. i could ramble more about this if asked i have so much to say but sigh. jotaro cares so much for his friends and family he's not a#flat fully cold asshole character regardless of whether you watch the anime or ova or read the manga. you just have poor media literacy#i wouldn't recommend watching solely the anime for his character though. the dub also changes a lot so it's... questionable#i love the anime and it's still important for him though. also adds neat stuff. i need to stop myself. i have many thoughts on the matter#jotaro kujo#joseph joestar#noriaki kakyoin#adding in case anyone sees: i am not saying that he is perfect about this. in fact he is very ass about it with jolyne and holly and that's#very important. he also is in fact an asshole sometimes. NOT as much as you guys are making him though!#please don't get me started on how much of a dick etc people make kakyoin to veer away from the 'woobified' characterizations of him#in fact i think that's bad if not worse because it CLAIMS to be in character. hes a prim asshole at times but not that angry or dishevelled
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I don’t know if maybe it’s just me, but is anyone else seeing a rise of people claiming that they could do a better rewrite of Voltron and then immediately say they’d make K/L cannon or Adash/ canon?
I don’t know about anyone else but I genuinely don’t think making ships canon would make the show better.
In fact I think It’d make it worse.
And considering shiro isn’t even mentioned in these and if he is it’s just to be Keith dad…. Is telling.
#listen do what you want but I’m really tired of people genuinely thinking they can do better and then forget the main story of Voltron#I’m being so dead serious#Voltron was never supposed to be about ships or which ones would be canon#it’s about 5 teens/young adult forced into space to be the ‘hero’ against a empire that’s been around for more than their entire life times#and the fact this shit keeps populating the shiro tag is what pisses me off more#I feel like I’m the only one in this fandom that enjoys ships for what they are: FUN#I have tons of ships!!! I don’t want any of them to be cannon!!! even if I love them so much!!!! why? because ships don’t need to be canon!!#you can just simply enjoy having your headcanons and making art/writing and have it be fun!!!!#nothing has to be canon#I don’t know why especially this fandom is so obsessed with it but it’s driving me CRAZY#and what makes it worse is that every time they talk about making K/L cannon is that ���it deserves to be’#NO IT DOESNT#IT REALLY DOESNT#VOLTRON HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ROMATIC RELATİONSHİPS#UNPOPULAR OPINION BUT IT REALLY DOESNT#you want to do a re-write do it! but dont do it just because you want to make a ship CANON#because that’s not re-writing it’s just fan fiction#you are just writing a fanfic#I want to re-write Voltron too but I actually want the show to improve and be BETTER AND LOVE ITS CHARACTERS#I WANT THEM TO BE BUIKT UO THE WAY THEY SHOUKDVE BEEN#ships don’t belong in canon#sure is it maybe nice when it happens cool but let it happen without dismissing the other characters#not because fans wanted it#also stop fucking populating the shiro tag lest I come at you with a lead pipe#Voltron#voltron legendary defender#vld
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actually like... buck is not christopher's dad. he really isn't. he's helping eddie parent but he's not actually a parent himself. and i think trying to exaggerate buck's place in chris's life for the buddie of it all not only does a disservice to eddie as a father a lot of times but... to the buddie of it all. the fact that buck is not at all chris's dad right now but that chris and eddie are not only unfazed when he does but frequently invite him to touch the boundaries of fatherhood - that eddie says you were there for him when i couldn't be - speaks to the weirdness and all the things about them that they can't really name, and it doesn't really make sense to name it preemptively. buck is not christopher's dad but he wouldn't have to think twice about stepping into that role alongside eddie and eddie would let him - that's what's so insane!
#like i understand the sentiment but buck is very much not actually parenting chris. he COULD. he is closer to parenting#chris than anyone else has ever been probably even though he's not actually parenting him THAT'S WHAT'S INSANE#just can't stop thinking about the anon who talked about fandom's tendency to inflate buck at the expense of eddie#and i think there's a way to talk about buck+chris without doing that. i wish we did it more. it makes things crazier#what's actually happening on the show is 10x worse than popular fanon interpretations#*
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by far the worst take i've seen so far post-ep19 of Junior Year is that having a week-by-week live play would have allowed fans to essentially influence the direction of the story in the way they want it to go and that would have resulted in the cast being more sympathetic to the Ratgrinders (ie getting them a redemption arc)
why do you feel the need to try and control this story? YOU ARE NOT THE ONE TELLING IT. if you want to tell a story please go write your own, or go write fanfiction to cope or whatever but you don't get to say that the players are telling the story wrong when it's their story they are telling
#not only would this actively make the story worse#but i truly don't understand why people think that this would then force the players to do what the audience wants#like i'm gonna assume that the people who want this are the same people who complain too much about bits (or at least there's heavy overlap#who's to say they wouldn't double down on their decisions and then you'd just have a whole new reason to be mad#also as stated earlier in really no way do i believe that audience influence would really benefit the story#like there is something about how attached the audience gets to certain things that the cast/crew couldn't predict because it is recorded#but i truly don't think there's many instances where fan influences to the author(s) has been in service to the story#because the second you do that you are controlled by the audience and any time you go against that then you've “betrayed” them#it just goes back to a lot of the conversations about audience and specifically fandom entitlement and the way that people consume “content#also to be clear i saw this take on d20 twitter which i do think has a whole different flavor of toxicity than d20 tumblr#fantasy high junior year#fantasy high#dimension 20
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see, it was thinking about jason and roy as they were prereboot, about their potential and how they could get together, about how I would get them together, that inspired in me a kernel of curiosity about the pairing. canon is always the jumping point for me with ships, one way or another. every post about how roy! would never!! even LIKE jason!!! because [insert something that mr. cheshire would NOT find to be a dealbreaker sns] it gives me another push to iron out the plot I'm building just to get them fucking though, so that's nice.
#also if you bring up the “age gap” i'll just laugh at you#sorry but you can't treat jason as a Deathstroke 2.0 Fully Grown Man Divorced With A Mortage#that attacks these pwoor pwoor children (teenagers 2 years younger than him)#(that willingly put themselves in way worse situations than fisticuffs)#and simultaneously act ''grossed out'' that roy has some years on him#you realise that right?#also i just don't give a fuck. sometimes age gaps don't matter. sometimes they actively make things interesting. i literally do not care#talking to the void#my thoughts#dc#dc comics#jayroy#jason todd#roy harper#fandom nonsense#bitter lau tag
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Oh, so, like, the entire first season's establishment of the characters and their interactions don't actually matter in Helluva Boss. Okay, cool.
Like, I get that characterization develops over time and the writers come up with new ideas and places they want to take the story, but. So much of the Stolas/Blitzø stuff recently isn't character development: it's retconning.
#I'm just salty because i was heavily invested in the unhealthy dynamic as i interpreted it#instead of the unhealthy dynamic the show decided on.#uhhhh. yeah I'll throw this in the crit tag#helluva boss critical#I'm mostly just not invested in this show anymore. alas! but i do still very much enjoy the art and animation style#every time there's shiny glowy eyes i go 😍#anyway it does just take a tiny amount of editing to have this come across how i would very much enjoy#where Stolas is just. hypocritical#he wants love and a relationship so badly#and that's such an interesting characterization and I'm here for it!#if we also just. acknowledge the way he was SO obsessed with sex while Blitzø was awkward about it#like there is a lot of mention of that - Blitzø says he thought that's what Stolas wanted from him#and is confused about why things are changing!! (i love it so much)#but the show seems to take Stolas's side instead of allowing that 'yeah‚ he doesn't recognize how his internal emotions were never seen‚#because all Blitzø sees are Stolas's external actions - exactly the problem that Stolas is having with Blitzø not communicating!'#AND i still think there should be more emphasis on 'hey yeah it was really fucked up to manipulate Blitzø into sex like he did'#the crystal didn't magically fix it and they should have issues with Blitzø not understanding his worth to Stolas#because from his POV: Stolas really does only want him for sex‚ is paying him with access to the book and human realm‚#and has repeatedly sexualized him And seemed ashamed of it when other important people knew#(compared to how he acted towards Blitzø around other Imps) (which makes it seem like he doesn't care about what Imps think at all)#Stolas can be sad and his emotions are interesting but not when all of the fandom I'm seeing is taking his side#me at all times always: i think these characters/this ship should be worse!!!
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Man, you're still here doing this. Props to you. I left this site nearly ten years ago but I'm glad I can come back to see some mekakucity kids doing a new thing in the same style. Thank you.
thank you both! maybe i havent seen as active as id have liked the oast couple of years but i refuse to let this place die haha, it's been going almost as long as ive been into kagepro, so it's a special little thing to me :)
in the wise words of that one magazine,
#also ive been doing good! hope everything's been going well for everyone else in the fandom too!#mod post#currently im just trying to find an easier way to draw more often w/o Making my migraines worse but#im sure I'll find a way eventually#i may go hunting for old kp posts with like. scans and stuff in the meantime though
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Unpopular opinion but Steve telling Nancy he would date Robin if he could is creepy as hell i wish we talked about it more
#not in a cancelling steve way more like Oh this could be some interesting conflict way#like imagine Robin finding out the person she trusts the most is saying shit like that 😭#worse even. steve still having feelings for her#like how do you even solve that. its not like he can turn off his feelings and he doesn't plan to pursue her or anything#but Robin would be sooo uncomfortable#i love putting my babygirl through awful situations sm 🥰🥰 cancel me idk#though tbh some ideas i have for her would send me straight into fandom jail lmao 13yo's would be making callout posts about me
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Nick Burkhardt affected by Cracher-Mortel. Grimm —3.01, The Ungrateful Dead
#grimm#grimmedit#tvedit#scifiedit#dramaedit#horroredit#nick burkhardt#nikolatexla#i only have 2 eps left in s4 and i can't believe im gonna say 'this show used to be so good'#it's still good. it's just they're trying to make adalind and nick happen. which is not gonna happen for me.#i don't know if the fandom loved juliette at all but i strongly believe the fandom wasn't able to comprehend the fact that#whatever juliette did was because of her being a hexenbiest. it completely caught her off guard. she clearly tried to fight it off#and she got worse when more and more people came at her#and the way they made her burn the trailer (which really triggered me) they really want us to hate her#all im gonna say is... juliette go girl give us everything
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a pet peeve of mine is when ppl/creators say asexual when they mean aroace, i know its expecting a lot of the average person but man i wish people would use the word aromantic more i cant help it
like i totally adore aro, ace, and aroace characters yes more please but i just wish people would use the correct terms cuz then people will ship these asexual characters romantically and people will get mad at them or (ive seen it more rarely but) people will write aromantic characters having sex and people will get mad at them like babes they are two different things! a person can be both absolutely but i, as an arospec person who is not asexual in any way and feel stupid amounts of sexual attraction, am here to tell you that you need to differentiate sometimes like ill give you a handy guide
arospec/aromantic = not feeling/rarely feeling romantic attraction
acespec/asexual = not feeling/rarely feeling sexual attraction
aroace = both
there are combinations and complexities and each real person is going to describe themselves differently, but stop acting as if people with romantic headcanons for ace characters or sexual headcanons for aro characters are bad people because theyre not
#honestly imo i think any headcanons for any characters are fine#cuz fandom is not canon and will not ever be#and you can easily block ppl/tags you dont like#but some stuff people get mad about is just nonsensical to me#and the ways terms are used even by creators who just clearly#havent done any research into aro and ace identities is even worse#anyways this was kickstarted by a couple things ive seen around#but i finally figured id just make this post#aromantic#asexual#queer stuff#devo speaks
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