#why can't you paste on a tunglr post

[dragoninatrenchcoat]

vines me & my bff STILL quote daily bc we're millennials (written as quoted, not as they actually are)

Rebecca, it's Not what you Think I Won't Hesitate Bitch

I'm an adult I've got a wife kids a house and a mortgage and if i drop a bag of my favorite chips on the ground i Don't cry about it 😭

i wanna get chipotlay i said a HEALTHY SNCK RBBCBKCSCXHC

i so paol... you're on air

more like hurricane TOR-TILLA

where's all the pipis? ohhhh yeah! pipis room.

Road work ahead? 😐

I'm not racist, but asian people HHHXXXHHXHXHHHXHXH

It's called beano? My body can't digest plant fiber-

Pointguard

[maryellencarter]

it is well past midnight here so i should probably not be Trusting Feelings About Things, but i was pondering why i get a major anxiety attack every time i consider commenting on a fanfic (even leia's solo fics), and i think it really boils down to the number of different fanfic interaction behaviors i've repeatedly seen viciously attacked on the tunglrs. even if a particular author explicitly tells me they'd love to get x or y type of comment/interaction, i can't seem to get past the "but it is Badwrong and makes me a toxic person" :P

like, a brief noncomprehensive list:

* "kudos without a comment means you actually hated the fic and didn't finish" -- ??? if i got to the bottom where the kudos button is, i have read what's above it and probably did not wander off looking for the brain bleach. i really can't comprehend this mindset. who goes around leaving kudos on fics they're backbuttoning out of unfinished? do i need to make a tumblr poll and find out i'm in the Incredible minority here?

* "commenting just an emoji is lazy and not a Real Comment and means you actually hated the fic and couldn't come up with anything nice to say"

* "keysmashes are offensive and babyish, Use Your Words"

* "a one-word or one-sentence comment means you're only commenting because you think you have to and you don't think the story is worth any more than that"

The only comment/interaction type I haven't seen multiple authors say they hate is the long essay comment with lots of quotes and excerpts saying exactly what I liked. And I don't have the fucking spoons to leave those on every fic, even if I had all the time in the world and it was remotely feasible on mobile.

So I don't comment.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the other people who are targeted by the increasing number of "you have to comment, preferably on every chapter, or it's your fault authors stop writing" posts have the same... I'm going to call it trauma. It's fucking trauma. If you've been in fandom long enough, you've been in range of so many contradictory "all comments are good! except for Those Losers" posts that you're all too aware you may be upsetting your favorite author more by interacting Wrong than if you just read and lurk and never interact at all.

(I've literally seen people I respected complaining about how hurtful some logged-out interactions were that they didn't know were from me, because they interpreted my best low-spoons efforts as meaning I hated their work. I know we're all on the mental illness website here, but if you're going around rejecting anonymous attempts at positive interaction because you default to assuming they're insincere... well, you sure aren't encouraging people to talk to you logged-in.)

Maybe I will make a poll. Not in the middle of the night. But sometime.

[fenrhi]

Oh thank GOD I'm not the only one with Thoughts on Dance Dance Danseur. I watched it week to week and the brainrot only grew stronger!

Oooh, is this in reference to this post? Yeah, Junpei and Luou really give me intense brainrot, and since you were kind enough to give the opportunity to ramble about these two, I will gladly take it.

(By the way, I think you sent me anime asks in the past under a different username and icon? If that's so, hello again and I hope you have been faring well)

Anyway, let's go back to DDD:

One thing that surprised me is that people on Tunglr don't really seem willing to talk about Junpei and Luou's relationship, even though gushing about cute fictional boys being cute together is something of a national sport on this hellsite.

There are SO many things to talk about, but I'll start with Junpei, because his development is the most "in your face".

His first meeting with Luou is straight out of an old romance novel: he sees Luou dancing under the moonlight and can't take his gaze off him. It's so cliché it hurts. But then he quickly discovers that Luou may been an incredible dancer, but he's an unlikeable person. Junpei says "I can't be with friends with this kind of guy!" and then the rest of the season is dedicated to proving him wrong. That's also why Chizuru's words in the last episode hurt so much: Junpei wasn't "playing buddies" or "pretending", he really thought he managed to form a special bond with Luou.

And it sure was a special bond: Luou is the first boy his age that shares his passion and makes him grow that much as person. It's the way Junpei realizes that Luou is "cooler" than he will ever be because he can show his classmates he loves ballet without feeling ashamed. It's the way Junpei is moved to tears by Luou's dance and later says "when you danced at school, it changed my life". It's the way Junpei protects Luou by making himself the centre of attention or a shield.

It's the way Junpei WANTS to learn new things with Luou at Oikawa School and proposes to pick him up every morning and ride home with him every night.

......It's the way Junpei ultimately decides to sacrifice his own happiness (and Miyako's, poor girl) in hope of helping Luou.

Junpei did all of this for a boy he met two months ago. Like, damn. Talk about character development. Why is Tunglr sleeping on this is beyond me.

As for Luou's side of things... it's easy to think he only has negative feelings for Junpei (take a shot everytime Luou looks down on Junpei or call him "monkey" and you're in a coma in five minutes) BUT.... despite everything, there are times where Luou's actions betray him. He clearly values Junpei's opinion and judgement, like when he asks him which Oikawa student were better than him and during the friendly dancing competition with Misaki and Yamato. He also gets to experience the life of an "ordonary" boy with Junpei: for example, eating in a restaurant with other boys his age.

Luou would rather die than admit it, but spending time with Junpei was a good thing for him.