#with a big frown

[mysterious-trail-of-goop]

^this is what i mean when i say Damian Wayne has kitten energy

[golyadkin]

it's because i wouldn't let you kill the bounty hunter isn't it

[checkadii]

breaks down dancing swansea style

[kroosluvr]

i had a dream a while back that maruki's palace was a gorgeous grand cathedral (though dilapidated, abandoned, and overgrown) kinda like this. also in the dream i was goro akechi idk what that's saying abt my subconscious

[madamemiz]

saw a post recently about the sun and moon fandom and how non-selfship content is rare, and how that's frustrating, and it struck me, like... how rare that is. genuinely in all my 20ish years in online spaces, i've never seen a fandom that not only welcomed selfship but actively encourages it, when usually the rule of thumb is that it's tolerated at best and despised at worst

so why is this fandom so selfship centric?

the answer is a combination of factors, of course, but I think it was mostly just a perfect storm of the right character with the right traits at the right time. many people between about 23 and 33 were and still are experiencing intense childhood nostalgia that's being perpetuated by online culture and various media, often through a distorted or slightly unsettled lense. the daycare attendant is fun! they're childish, but decidedly not children. they're not human, unattainable in reality, but plausible enough in the age of ai that they make you ponder. they make you long to nap and play and color and do all the whimsical things you wish you could take a week off from your dull job and do! but there's something... off about them. an element of danger that's intriguing. they're dangerous, but what if they aren't to you specifically? or, if they are, what if they overcame that, just for you? what if you were worth it?

people our age are lonely, and if not, often working through issues they didn't have time to contemplate in their teens and early 20s because they were still living throigh the issues. younger people too, of course, but it's especially rampant in the aforementioned age group. past college and college friends, too caught up in work to make new ones. if the dca really clicked with you as a character, it's kind of fun to imagine what it would be like to hang out with them. what if they were your friend? what if they were more?

which leads to my last point--cringe is dead and we stomped on its corpse

maybe it started with a few people drawing a y/n with the dca, and wow the art is cute! who's the cute jester character? ... is that a self-insert? huh. and then more people join in. is that allowed? yes! and the crowd cheers for it too! the right people drawing the right character dynamics at the right moment, drawing others like a moths to a strange robotic flame

ultimately, the fandom attracts so much selfship because that's the bedrock, the foundation the rest of the fandom built its home on. almost all of the common tropes and characterization have roots in selfship fic and art. the dca's popularity very much kicked off from that, and seeing other people using them as an outlet for their loneliness, friendship, romantic or sexual desires, or even just for creative character and plot setups that are only tangentially related to canon actively encouraged others to join in, in a way that could only happen while riding the funerary coattails of cringe culture

it's very much a lightning in a bottle fandom, the likes of which i doubt we'll see again for a while

[gomzdrawfr]

Bagginshield vibe

[frownyalfred]

It’s funny to me when Lex Luthor hates Bruce Wayne (more specifically Brucie) and Superman because that means he’s beefing with like half the Justice League at a certain point. 2/3s of the Trinity and the Big Three. and he doesn’t even know.

[willowser]

katsuki is very sad and a little clingy when your baby is sick :(

[iridescentoracle]

i am so obsessed with how like. taken as read the ot3 are at this point. like on the one hand it feels like they've been building up to this for ages but on the other hand it kind of feels like i blinked and we skipped right past some Major Turning Point where everything got spelled out and we're just already in firmly Established Relationship-land. obviously tarvek is too well-protected for anyone to assassinate openly, look how angry his boyfriend and girlfriend are at the idea of anyone threatening him. at this point i'm half-convinced agatha's just going to refer to her boyfriends in passing to someone else and no one's even going to comment on it until van finds out twenty pages later and immediately starts making everyone pay up

[notedchampagne]

artstyleswapped

[beaulesbian]

⚔️ ONE PIECE || Zoro smiling & being silly - Fishman Island Arc ⚔️

[penofwildfire]

Thinking about Geo's childhood

[normystical]

was just watching chipocalypse now and thought of this

they're all absolutely pathetic men for these traits btw (amongst other traits)

(i mean to imply irrational hatred for someone btw like an unreasonable obsessive rage)

[frownsdaily]

day 38

[froggiebi-moved]

"There were no signs of you being autistic/ADHD as a teenager" dude i hyperfixated on Charlie the Unicorn for years after the craze had died down and had all the words memorised. I had the videos downloaded on my computer and backed up on my hard drive. Even now I remember all the words to "Put a Banana in Your Ear" because that was my favourite and would constantly break it out even when people groaned or rolled their eyes. Wdym "no signs" no neurotypical i ever met was that obsessed with Charlie the fucking Unicorn

[boinky-spoinky]

Doodle shenanigans

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