#whimsify

[definitelynotnia]

woke up and read a Mary Oliver poem

this day better be full of whimsy and tranquility or so help me god

[athymelyreply]

I suppose I’m Caesar today because I feel like I’m being stabbed. At least it’s an apt day to have a chronic pain flare, so “et tu brute” and all that

[dykesbat]

keep forgetting what word I whimsify as a joke. it’s

[sewerratzz]

i can however start my acorn hat, since i brought my brown yarn !!

ykw i should’ve brought my black yarn with me i coulda started my long boi enderman plush !!

[skywise-earthloved]

What have you done recently to play? Not practice or plan or organize, not creating with a set goal, not confining yourself to boundaries that express themselves in disappointment or frustration or 'not-enough'-ness.

But play.

Painting with abandon, skipping without purpose, dressing with the goal of laughter, singing without technique, creating with no goal you can "fail" to achieve. Making a lump of clay into a silly little face and squishing it. Rolling down a hill. Putting stickers on something, playing with googly eyes.

When have you done something simply because it was fun? Something silly, something nonsensical, inelegant?

When have you whimsified your life last? If you can't remember, it's been too long.

Do me a favor and do something today that makes you smile, whether it be in satisfaction, pride, mischief, or joy.

[figfiggyfigure]

GET WHIMSIFIED

AHHHHHH THE WHIMSY

[butchgrantcurly]

guys they fucking whimsified barry oak

[starryserenade]

When I saw that the Topolino comics were making an adaptation of The Little Prince, I was soooo sure Minnie was going to make an appearance as Mickey's precious rose, and/or that we were going to get some whimsified version of that tragic ending.

The end result was still lovely--gorgeous gorgeous artwork and a really creative, beautiful story. But that doesn't mean I wasn't a little bummed that those other elements weren't at all present.

[rustedbread]

Yall would have gotten a vague vent post from me but I realized I couldn't whimsify it enough for the vagueness to work, so, SAAADDLY you all ain't getting that

Oh and I'm doing fine, if you need that to be assured

[macmjeese]

snow is universally a whimsifier.

I need more of it in my life

[deaddovestellnotales]

At the cost of sounding like a cynical bitch, I really hate how Tumblr must whimsify every trope out there.

What if I want darkness in my stories. What if I like that edge and having my heart broken by the stuff I read or watch or play.

Maybe I am odd for this, but I see a good nice dark trope on here and in a blink it gets turned into something cute and whimsical and completely unrelatable to me.

[dykesbat]

FINALLY FIGURED OUT THE WORD I WHIMSIFY OH MY GOD

[smallfacesarah]

It's pretty normal for me to have some looming conflict about my sexuality pretty much at all times. I'm always questioning the way I feel and if I really do like women, but for some reason when my feelings are confirmed it fills me with so much dread and guilt.

So I reserve myself to men because it's comfortable and it's what I know. But I'm always left disappointed by my relationships. I'm left wondering am I enough for a wlw relationship? Would it be different? Would it be better? Would I feel seen and heard and understood?

Am I whimsifying this thing - this relationship I won't allow myself to have? What if I'm disappointed again? What if it changes my identity and I become less confident or comfortable?

It's so frustrating

[whimsified-govnah]

"Whimsify me Govna"

"Whimsy Unleashed" A story that reads like a Tumblr shitpost, co-authored by ChatGoose and I.

[skywise-earthloved]

[puts a flower on your head] HA get whimsified BITCH

[metroid963]

There's also the AU's that mash together stuff that is wildly thematically and tonally incompatible. Like that one fanfic that had a bunch of chaos marines from 40K crashlanding on the pony world from my little pony and getting whimsified. Genuinely one of the best fanfics I've ever read. (It's called Iron Hearts for those interested)

Least favourite fandom trope or I guess fandom phenomenon in general is taking something that's already a romance and running it through a gamut of generic ass AUs. And that's... That's the entire fandom.

Like my siblings in Christ that's already a fairly fanservicy romance-centric show/book, why would you strip it of any nuance it had in the first place by turning it into a coffeeshop/college/Regency/whatever AU.

But I never got the appeal of AUs in the first place so this combined with the fact that... Canon is already giving you all the sappy romance you may want? I just don't get it!

Okay so as far as AUs go I find I enjoy them in basically three cases

Something like an intellectual exercise, transposing the story to a dramatically different setting and genre and then seeing how closely you can match the character relationships, arcs, and the shape of the plot in an entirely different idiom.

Fanart that's essentially 'look how cool this person looks in this costume' with no real further thought behind it.

Bizarre and delightful things that are doing Dr. Moreau surgery merging two entirely distinct stories into one whole that's basically its own unique thing (the example here I'm thinking of is the novel length exploration of 'what if bug and body-horror filled 2010s superhero web serial worm was also the Count of Monte Cristo and sets in steampunk dystopia 1820s France.')

So like yeah agreed the AUs you're talking about I just fundamentally Do Not Get the appeal of. Which I usually succeed about being understanding and sanguine about unless I'm looking for new fanfic to read for once and scrolling through pages of them yes.