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martuzzio · 2 years ago

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A continuation of the reblog graph post I made a few days ago, but this time I'm comparing my Hermitcraft art to my CoD art specifically

The left graph is for this CoD post, which currently has ~2.5k notes with ~300 reblogs

The right graph is for this Hermitcraft post, which currently has ~2.4k notes with ~650 reblogs

I've added some of my thoughts as to why this is happening below (put under the cut to not smack you with a wall of text lol). TLDR is at the end if you just want to read that. Let me know your thoughts if you have them! :)

About CoD (btw all of this disregards my artistic ability, I'm just talking about fandoms right now)

The art I make for CoD is based on the newest game and focuses on how cool/hot the characters look, with little to no depth to the art otherwise. This attracts the Ghost simps (myself included lol) to like the post and possibly look at it later, but not really do much more than that

The above point happens because 1) the newest CoD game is very VERY fresh, like not even a month old, so it doesn't really have an actual fandom yet, and 2) the CoD games have a huge bubble of influence on society (much more than mcyt). These two factors mean more people will dip their toes into CoD fanmade content, but not really stay for long. A large portion of the new fans will slide in, do a mass liking spree, and leave when the hype is over. Some new people, like me, will stick around and become part of the fandom :)

The people in the actual CoD fandoms (who have been interested in the various CoD games for years) might like my art and reblog it because they appreciate it (thank you if you do :D), but my art isn't really for their game/fandom. Those fandoms are strong and thriving, but they're small compared to the huge influx of people obsessed with Ghost right now lol

An example of this artificial inflation is the notes on my art of Ghost/Roach. The people who reblogged with tags were very happy to see it and were very kind (thank you!), but the post got less notes than my other CoD art because all of these new Ghost enjoyers have no idea who Roach is lmao (or just don't like Ghost/Roach)

There aren't a lot of reblog chains in the CoD screenshot above because most people who reblogged my post weren't seeing it on their dash already reblogged from someone else. Most of them likely searched for the tags I used on my post and saw the original in the search feed

About Hermitcraft

HC's been around for what feels like forever and trends on tumblr and twitter a few times a year, which is a MUCH bigger influence than most fandoms out there. The bigger the fandom is, the more people will be interested in reblogging and talking about people's posts instead of just liking them and moving on

I'm established within the fandom, with around 2.5 years of HC-related content under my belt. This entire time, since 2020, I've seen the same friendly faces reblog my content (thank you, you know who you are :D) alongside new people. When you post for a long time in the same fandom, people start to remember you. You become part of the fandom itself, a contributor instead of just a consumer, and people start to reblog more

Because I and a lot of my mutuals/followers are in the HC fandom together, it's very likely that a lot of people will see my art on their dash already reblogged from someone else instead of seeing the post from me directly. That's why the HC screenshot above has so many crazy reblog chains - someone reblogged my art, and then someone else who also likes my art reblogged from them instead of me

TLDR; my CoD posts get a lot of notes, but not a lot of reblogs, because the horny hype train is real and I jumped on it at the right time. My HC posts (at least some of them) get a lot of notes AND reblogs because the fandom is large and I've established myself within it here on tumblr

#hermitcraft #call of duty #sorry for how blurry the screenshots are

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dechagnys · 4 years ago

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My muse is: canon / oc / au / canon-divergent / fandomless

Is your character popular in the fandom? YES / NO / IDK ( depends on who u ask lol )

Is your character considered hot™ in the fandom? YES / NO / IDK. ( again depends on who u ask )

Is your character considered strong in the fandom? YES / NO / IDK.

Are they underrated? YES / NO / IDK

Were they relevant to the main story? YES / NO

Were they relevant to the main character? YES / NO / THEY’RE THE PROTAG

Are they widely known in their world? YES / NO / IDK

How’s their reputation? GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL

How strictly do you follow canon?

hm. I follow canon to the point until I don’t. in terms of phantom there are a lot of different interpretations and versions you can pull inspo from and I tend to mix between the leroux novel and the alw musical , and just kind of take the bits that I like and go from there. the two are pretty different in terms of how raoul is characterised so I’m not totally faithful to either one of them , however I don’t think I disregard some of the negative traits in either characterisation either ??? I try to reflect them in a less fuckboy way.

SELL YOUR MUSE! Aka try to list everything which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutuals

raoul loves so hard. he is just a smart , brave man who loves and respects those who deserve love and respect. he’s shy and kind and fiercely loyal and is generally considered to not be worth one’s time because he does not put himself on display. he’s a thoroughly unique twist on a classic victorian hero archetype , by which I mean instead of being the bold , aggressive , rough-tough-no-emotion type , he is a man who is very much in touch with his own feelings and his own emotional health. he is still a strong leader when it is required but is generally more a lover than an aggressor.

Now the OPPOSITE. List everything why your muse might not be so interesting (even if you don’t agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?)

okay. so , the phandom has generally been getting better , especially recently after the livestreams of both RAH and LND , but raoul is still very much of background consideration in terms of fanmade content. generally , the r/c dynamic is considered less appealing than the e/c dynamic which is understandable because beauty and the beast narratives are pretty sexy , but it tends to be at the expense of raoul’s character. this also applies to most phantom adaptations which take great pains to develop the e/c dynamic and give raoul barely , if any , character in general. ( ie. most of the phantom adaptations don’t even give the raoul character the name raoul ) this , however unintentional , has given raoul the general reputation of being a , to use an academic expression , soyboy cuck. which he is , at face value , but lack of character development means he’s really not anything more than that. this leads people to assume he’s a wonderbread boy with zero character which leads to the general aforementioned shelfing. I won’t claim that raoul is the most interesting character in the story because he’s of course not , the phantom is objectively WAY COOLER than he is but that doesn’t mean raoul’s not interesting. anyways raoul de chagny is my oc

What inspired you to rp your muse?

I’ve mentioned this on a previous ask meme but I love me a good soft boy. a man who is pretty much completely driven by his love for his SO to the point that it’s at the heart of all his motivations. really just a total simp. a boy who doesn’t like being yelled at but also would let his SO yell at him like a dog. a tall man with a short gf. a man who would let his gf peg him anyways I’m really into the dynamic and raoul is that to a T. I’ve always really liked him as a character , after being exposed to phantom through the 04 movie I was just really drawn to raoul and more exposure to this character arcchetype developed my interest in him.

What keeps your inspiration going?

- memes - salt - love for my wee baby boy

Some more personal questions for the mun. Give your mutuals some insight about the way you are in some matters, which could lead them to get more comfortable with you or perhaps not.

Do you think you give your character justice? YES / NO.

Do you frequently write headcanons? YES / NO. ( not as much as I really should since I appear to have a lot to say about him )

Do you sometimes write drabbles? YES / NO. :(

Do you think a lot about your Muse during the day? YES / NO. / SOMETIMES .

Are you confident in your portrayal? YES / NO.

Are you confident in your writing? YES / NO.

Are you a sensitive person? YES / NO.

Do you accept criticism well about your portrayal?

yes , to a point ?? I’m pretty firm in my general characterisation of raoul and I haven’t had any complaints so far , but if it turns out I’m actually being problematic about something then by all means I’m open to that criticism and would change it. I don’t think anyone really cares enough about my muse to give a fuck tho lmao

Do you like questions which help you explore your character?

it’ll take me 84 years to respond but hell yeah.

If someone disagrees with a headcanon of yours, do you want to know why?

yes.

If someone disagrees with your portrayal, how would you take it?

honestly I think I’d be upset at first since I really love my portrayal of raoul but I would understand , because of the varied interpretations of his character it’s natural people would read him in different ways.

If someone really hates your character, how do you take it?

it’s fine lol , I think at this point I’m used to raoul being cucked in the fandom although that sentiment is generally going away , ALW really played himself when he streamed LND and all the comments were talking about how stupid the changes to raoul‘s character were. if it’s specifically my characterisation , I mean I wouldn’t be thrilled but I’d understand. if you really don’t like me then pls softblock me and don’t vague about me ????

Are you okay with people pointing out your grammatical errors?

that’s a little but of an overreaction but I guess not ??? I tend not to make a lot myself but I am pretty stupid and I type too fast for my own good so it’s bound to happen. however I suggest people not make a habit of calling out other people’s grammatical errors because you cannot assume english is everyone’s first language and if you call someone bad at english whose native language is not english ??? you’re a douche.

Do you think you are easy going as a mun?

oh god I hope so. I mean. my zodiac is cancer and I’m the most cancer-y cancer ever. if any one of you says one mean thing to me I will start crying , I mean it.

tagged by: @wldbirds tagging: @fantomoir @wandersung @corpsemade @wshdreamer @marblecarved @dubovoye @intoxicatiing @aleximedicus @partiallystcrs

#ooc / YOUR HAND AT THE LEVEL OF YOUR EYES !! *#/ * this was fun !! reminded me of how much of a simp raoul is for christine #/ * and how much of a simp I am for raoul

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eluxcastar · 7 months ago

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Why did it take me so long to respond you may be asking

Well you see I looked at it, read it, and then fell asleep and by the time I woke up I was so busy I didn't think about it until now 😭

House of Wolves is literally THE Harbinger piece ever I don't think anything will ever tickle my brain like seeing them all decide that trying to rip each other apart is the best option which is EXACTLY what they'd all do because they're all such like conflicting personalities. They all secretly hate each other and got shoved in one big get along shirt (and this side note was what prompted me to make Brighella just as volatile because she would kill several of the Harbingers given the choice starting with Dottore and specifically him because they're such different people that they couldn't get along if a million years passed)

Anyway this is about loverboy and apparently J Michael Tatum which RUU ARE YOU SURE THAT YOU DON'T JUST HAVE A THING FOR THE GLASSES WITH THECHAIN BECAUSE I MUST DIRECT YOU TO PANTALONE'S GLASSES so fair though because glasses make everyone hotter

I haven't heard the other voices except the Russian one 😭 which iirc that was a fanmade one (unless they made an official one? Not to my knowledge) THEY COOKED like Pierro's Russian voice 🤌 AND PANTALONE OMG but I went to listen to the Japanese voice just so I could complain about it and tbh I'm inclined to agree. That voice doesn't suit that twinky man too deep

I AGREE ON THE TEMPER because he had to simmer for a while and now he's been microwaved to perfection 🙏 he was younger once and naïver and had a bad temper all of which tbh are probably why he got loverboy's father killed but with time he's become a better guy when it comes to hiding his emotions and regulating them

YES exactly kinda he's like loverboy's strict mom or a teacher like eat your vegetables so you grow big and strong twinky boy I want you to collect lots of DEBT and break lots of fingers for me in the future ☝️ loverboy is getting there anyway—exposure is making him desensitized—but he needs encouragement, a push in the morally bankrupt direction that might benefit him but will also really benefit Pantalone and at a time when their relationship is almost entirely professional that's his greatest interest

I don't believe it was someone of importance, a coworker who loverboy got a little too comfortable and a little bit stupid around and said a word too many which in a line of work where being a grimy snake is beneficial is not a good idea 👍

I have apparently taught you another expression I hope you enjoy my vulgar way of speaking 🙏 BUT YEAH LIKE. I KINDA WONDER WHY HIS FATHER EVEN STAYED 💀💀 and tbh I feel like it makes sense loverboy does too. He flip between loving and hating him as all half orphaned sons do because he's angry, he feels he may always be angry at him, but he also loved him. It's a contradiction that just exists because sometimes he thinks of all the things he did with him and sometimes he thinks about how much it hurt to not see his father for long stretches of time. That's also so real because like I got this exact feeling with Brighella I was like if she was canon I would want her to step on me this is like the third time simping for my own characters but in my defence everyone else simps for Neru too so that one isn't just me

he'd whimper so cute though and so PATHETIC like that real wet moppish cry-adjacent whimper

The revisions 🙏 I refuse to accept anything but Liyue Pantalone mihoyo can take that over my dead body I am reading some respectfully because it FITS I might throw it into the lore I'm currently writing

I also wanna add I feel like when loverboy hesitates to the point Pantalone has to step in he'd probably get a bit pissed because does this man have no survival instinct??? And that helps lead to Pantalone microwaving him, take that vision for a test, fix loverboy's earlier mistake, and set him back on the right path. At that point, he's a subordinate, so if he dies, then all Pantalone loses is another Celestia-approved wet mop and there's plenty of those to go around.

An interest, maybe, but not as intense as when loverboy comes back. Their first meeting is strained by hierarchy and loverboy is as bright-eyed and busy-tailed as a fatuu can reasonably get in his position.

I also agree with THAT YES it is the development of taking in everything those three years gave our dear loverboy—good and bad—and trying to use it somehow while he tries to carry on with life once he leaves. Three years of being surrounded by the craziest people he could ever know that sticks with him and most especially the interactions he has with his boss because they were the strangest.

They're what he dwells on until he inevitably goes crawling back to the Fatui now equipped with a spine to demands Pantalone take him back and fulfill his offer no matter how much time has passed

Another side note while checking the masterlist of loverboy tomfoolery I noticed there were TWO versions of one of them ⁉️ other person cooked I loved it I experienced loverboy

Ok lets go SImply reblogging your oneshot for my req isn't enough i need to analyze and annotate the entire thing like a literature professor and tell you Everything. (✿◡‿◡)

pantalone might be ooc

He's not!!!!!! by which i think this is fairly a Really Good portrayal of the guy considering the 5 sentences we know about him. He's strict!!! frankly a little scary!! And also chill and positive about loverboy!! But it felt Just Right!!!! ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

descriptions of blood

description so good i might as well have killed that man myself

...pretend that his lore has a spot where this fits perfectly

I think i can make it fit!! would you be cool with making minor changes if so?

"You're very good at what you do."

Imagining the same voice as sebastian michaelis saying this with the sexiest buttersmooth voice is eviscerating me. Very self-indulgent but praise kinks will always slay so hard.

...on the verge of stabbing him a moment ago.

This,, and the small thing i wrote about loverboy launching them both out the window to escape an onslaught of assassins in my other req. get you a ship where one of them has completely normal knee-jerk reactions to kill the other <3

...as he crushes their hand beneath his shoe without mercy

Fatui Harbingers - House of Wolves - KIERU 0:15

...Instead, Pantalone looks unfazed by it all, stopping as he reaches the other side of you, free of most of the blood. He greets you with a knowing smile as he usually does.

hey ririto this is so ominous and eerie for some reason not known to me. Just the backdrop of grey and snow and probably a gruesome corpse right next to loverboy and Pantalone has a silent smile through everything. Delicious sentence 10/10.

"I knew making you a banker was a good idea,"

THIS IS SO. The confidence and quite calm assurance that pantalone says this with is SO. You'd never be sure whether to lean into it and let out a sigh of relief,, o r back up further becuase it sounds so good but all in the wrong ways.

...thumb brushing across your bottom lip slicked with blood.

fellas is it professional to feed double edged words of honey to your young inexperienced subordinate while kneeling in front of his battered and bruised self who killed someone for you,, and run a gloved thumb across his blood soaked lip. ( ͡• ͜ʖ ͡• )

"Who knew you had so many other talents,"

you are infusing these dialouges with crack cocaine giggling kicking my feet while being slightly concerned because Sir. What do you mean by that.

"Ah ah," he says, a harshness seeping into even just that sound. "Stay." You stay put,

thank you for making loverboy so Ouppy.

"Lord Harbinger," you try to say

yes,, this could be a minor thing to adjust: i think we could actually fit this oneshot somewhere AFTER he gets his vision,, and BEFORE Pantalone becomes the Harbinger Regrator. Can be a valid reason for Pantalone to see that reader failed to kill the assassin from their shitty negotiation meeting,, and wanting to newly test him again after he had his vision + ambitions awakened to see if he can get past the fear of killing NOW. (Even then,, maybe due to inexperience/unfamiliarity of using visions, reader didn't think to raise his advantage of supernatural powers against another visionless man in this scenario.)

I'd think his first kill was one of the factors that caused him to leave after his 3year duty, not sticking around for Pantalone's promotion to Regrator.

"You are much like your father."

Top 10 things Not to say to someone with daddy issues-

...they're as wet behind the ears as you are.

Dear diary, Today i learned a new speech of expression

...Pantalone's hand that rests on your chin moves... "Now, try again. Dear banker, whatever do you mean?"

this whole paragraph. What on earth do you mean 'ooc pantalone'. This is the MOST pantalone thing you could've written. Strict and intimidating about improving reader's meek attitude. a Push in the right direction.

"Is this a test?" you manage, words muffled by the way he squishes your face like putty beneath his fingers.

(thank you for making loverboy so Ouppy) x2

...and you know who, regardless of how 'anonymous' that source may have been in his words.

I MAY BE STUPID. （；´д｀）ゞ I CANT TELL. who you are hinting towards 😭😭

"Hold this," he adds, an unnervingly tender instruction for the way he was just behaving.

There he is. its reminding me of: the same pantalone that washed reader with a clock in my very first req to you.

...looking probably about as pathetic as you think you do.

POV: You're Pantalone looking down at Loverboy.

I forgot how much of a bug-eyed wet dog loverboy is before his time-skip "character development" so to say. Thanks i love him.

"next time someone approaches you from behind, don't wait to stab them. Don't reach for your wet knife with your wet hands, either. Both of those things will get you killed."

I think pantalone is entirely having too much fun with observing Loverboy try climbing the ropes to how REAL fatuus run business.

"Come now. You want to go home and back to Liyue, don't you? I'm tired of this cold."

Σ(っ °Д °;)っ back to liyue??? Loverboy is Liyuean??? pantalone stays in liyue??? I ALWAYS THOUGHT arlecchino called pantalone a bitch in Signora's funeral for "never leaving the comfort of his homeland?" Whuh-?

ALL IN ALL,, CLOSING THOGUHTS,, GOOD FOOD RIRITO DINNER HAS BEEN SERVED, ATE, AND LICKED CLEAN 10/10 ILY

I GOTT THIS JUST BEFORE I WENT TO SLEEP AND ONLY JUST GOT THE TIME TO ANSWER IT BUT I KNEWWW YOU WOULD GET THE HOUSE OF WOLVES REFERENCE

That is true actually and I realised after I posted it that like, wtf is in character for him?? 😭 he's said like two things and while I have memorised those things they're not a lot to go off but I'm glad you enjoy him (ﾉ´▽｀)ﾉ♪

Also if you can make it fit, feel free ☆(≧∀≦*)ﾉ I sorta only had a vague idea of where it might go, but at that point in time, loverboy works abroad in the Northland Bank. I'll also throw in that he travelled there for that job and unfortunately does not come from Liyue 😔 (unless he's supposed to?? I got the impression he was from Snezhnaya) it was more a "I bet you'd love to be back at a desk job rn" or something to that effect, loverboy is going back to the bank once things are settled where he belongs but Pantalone isn't going with him (hence why they're in Snezhnaya when this happenscause I also interpret at as him not liking to leave Liyue)

I'm so glad the J Michael Tatum love never stops but also you're so right praise kinks absolutely do. I also noticed that them trying to kill each other is like, a repeated theme so far 😭⁉️ LIKE WHEN PANTALONE WENT TO FIND HIM LAST ONESHOT HE WAS GONNA KILL THAT FUCKER

Confident possibly mildly degrading Pantalone is literally my favourite thing, like I chew on him. I chew on him being unnervingly calm because what would he have in the eyes of a wet mop boy besides an unwavering poker face. Get yourself a man who uses the blood of your enemies like your lipstick and knows he made good choices stationing you at his shady probably money laundering black hole of debt he calls a bank

Yk I agree actually I was trying to figure the timeline out in my head and realised it would've made more sense to happen before he was a Harbinger so I agree with this revision that actually makes it fit the lore and if I ever decide to make it a longer multichapter fic I'll definitely fix that 💀 t'was a victim of laziness

YES YES THIS Pantalone basically shaping him up so he doesn't literally die and being strict with it get so him. He'll prompt him to say it again but won't let it slide because that behaviour isn't going to be beneficial, especially not with someone who may be working under him long-term

I went back to read the part about the anonymous source line came from, and I think I figured out what happened here, so allow me to explain (;ﾟдﾟ) Ok so, it has a bit to do with the weird way I wrote this because when I said I wrote this on the train that was half a lie. I wrote some of it on the train and the rest at the library where I also edited what I already had because the spelling mistakes were atrocious. I did write down who it was but cut it when I decided it cluttered the story a bit which retrospectively was also a mistake because I didn't think about the fact it would seem like I was hinting at something at the time (ﾟ▽ﾟ*) the shorter, boring answer is that there's no one Ririto did a big silly and cut context in the chaotic editing this suffered

LMAO NOT THE CLOCK AGAIN

I love him the wet mop boy. I was like I want him to be at least a lil pathetic rn because his concerns are completely different. He's thinking about how to not die, and how much he misses his mom and his much fatui dick his dad must've been riding before death to think this career path was worth it (slash JOKING but he is still wondering why his father would have done this job willingly) that and I think men who whimper are cute thanks for coming to my Ted talk

HE IS ENJOYING IT and I love it sm

Hehe I am glad to know you haven't gone hungry today (^o^) and such high ratings for the banker and loverboy

#☆ — riri says.#♡ — ruu.

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