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madamemiz · 1 year ago

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sad: falling out of a hyperfixation

tragic: watching your beloved friends and mutuals fall out of the hyperfixation while you're still in it

#oughhhhhhh #this is about the dca fandom but also about every other strong fixation ive had over the years lol #i know it's normal and inevitable esp for less popular works or minor characters with little canon content #and there's nothing wrong with smaller communities of course those rock #but there’s just something special about getting into something at the same time as a lot of other people all at once #and existing in this chaotic fandom space that's just bursting with creativity and passion #i've been in fandom spaces for as long as some of you have been alive and i've only come across that sort of unbridled joy like #a handful of times at best #it's just a heartbreaking feeling to see real lightning in a jar fandoms like that wither away as people drift away #(understandably so!)#anyway don't mind me i'm just having thoughts #musing about fandoms past as well #that i too eventually moved on from but remember fondly even if im not active in anymore #also my music just aint hitting right so im just sitting in silence which makes me more Contemplative(tm)

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hummingjay · 2 months ago

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Got mad I was dying in hitman freelancer and had to draw a starling in 47's suit to calm down

powder (the starling above) belongs to @sosadraws, who you should check out (both powder and sosa)

#GOTT right before i finish the level i die #come on #i wasn't originally going to draw powder #but halfway through i was like #you know who would be mad enough to do something like this after sucking #the babygirl (tm)#signalis #signalis fanart #star #starling #star signalis #starling signalis #powder #powder signalis #my art

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merlins-strawberriesandroses · 7 months ago

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Freylin lovers… all four of you out there…. please talk to me abt them. I will love u forever

#re-inspired by the fanfic I just read of sapphic freylin #SAPPHIC FREYLIN SAVE ME #anyway even if it isn’t sapphic freylin #if you like freylin in any form!!!!!!!! even if not it's necessarily romantic/typically romantic! I need someone to gush about them with #I used to like them a very mild amount once upon a time.....#but then that changed once the Thinking tm started #it's about the themes............ transformation..mostrosity.... understanding each other in a way few others seem able to #about exoneration through the other #which kind of doesn't sound like the right word but I mean it in the sense that exoneration implies the accusation of sin/guilt is flawed #(unlike something like absolve.... which implies forgiveness for sins rather than the fact that there was no sin in the first place)#idk if that makes sense but I hope. the general gist comes across #anyway I have lots of thoughts about them but it will take time to write them all out #but pls tell me someone thinks about them as much as I do #look I know why they aren't a popular ship and I understand. but STILL #I need to know if there are others out there!!!#Freya #Merlin #freylin #bbc merlin

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rawliverandgoronspice · 6 months ago

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I don't get why people hate the timeline so much, its not like you can't pretty much completely ignore it when you play the games. The only time it even approaches mattering to the story is when there is an explicit sequel like botw and totk or zelda and zelda 2

Hey sorry your ask got lost in the sauce of my broken tumblr, but: yeah!

I mean, I get why in some sense. It's been a heated point of debate and I think some people understandably resent the space it has taken not only in fandom discourse, but in how people began to understand the game and its narrative aesthetic choices. There is such a thing as over-rationalizing everything to hard logic, and sometimes it's just not the fandom for that --especially when you begin to forget it's all just fan theory and start to forget what the games are supposed to be like and evoke beyond just strict facts displayed in a linear way.

What I think bugs me with TotK in particular is that it both evokes and relies on continuity and the idea of a timeline, of archeology, of history itself, while being so loose and vacant with it that it both is doing Timeline Shit while also completely failing to understand why some parts of the fandom were invested in Timeline Shit to begin with.

But that's just my two cents of course!

#asks #tloz #timeline #totk critical #thanks for the ask!#I do... feel two ways about that myself #I think pure evocation is genuinely one of zelda's greatest storytelling strengths #that mood is sufficient and enough in itself and doesn't always need justification #it is the way the games center story --and that's genuinely wonderful and a strong take on narrative in games #as something freeflowing and accompanying gameplay rather than the opposite #and to ignore that and focus on hard facts all of the time kind of misses the point of the games' stories to a degree #BUT #I also get quite annoyed at the weird condescencion towards fans that do decide to engage with the stories more factually #especially since this is either revelatory regarding some of nintendo's choices #(that the aesthetics of evil are so tied to The Desert TM while taking so many inspirations from european fairy tales for example)#(it's not neutral even if we ignore ingame “lore”)#or just a great fodder for creativity and narrative play #and it is a part of the IP too!! just as much as dungeons and items and musics and curiosity-driven exploration!!#I do have beef with people not resonating with that aspect thinking others that do so are just stupid or childish #and that you can only have an enlightened relationship with zelda if you like it “the right way”#(which is somehow always mechanics/logic-driven which is. interesting to me.)#(or in a completely passively aesthetic way as in “I like fairies they're pretty”)#but you know it's the weird Triforce Shirt Dude stigma thing #that notion that you can (and must!) Love Zelda Deeply and Defensively #but you cannot be *passionate* about Zelda #then it's weird and immature #I don't know I feel like there's a lot to analyze in that arbitrary dychotomy #anyway sorry for the mega novel in the tags!!

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hopecomesbacktolife · 2 months ago

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not me reading this definitely m/f romance novel but reading heavily into every interaction between the main character and her best friend…

#and like. don’t get me wrong I love a good m/f romance!!! I picked this one knowing it’s m/f and excited to read it!!!#all I’m saying is. look. she keeps going on and on about how beautiful and chic her bff is and how she knows her bff is a romantic at heart #and hoped her bff eventually finds a great love someday. while contrasting this w/ MC‘s ex lmao. girl I am Getting Vibes #girl you sound like me when I was closeted and I know I’m playing myself reading into it but it could woRK SO WELL #‘she (MC - recently dumped by her ex fiance) came here anxious about possibly running into her first ex - with her best friend in tow - to h #ave a holiday vacation and forget their jilted loves. but what they didn’t expect was for something real and hot to bloom in the arctic nigh #ts under the stars… and in their hearts. but will they admit it to each other? to themselves?’#<- see I have a tagline AT THE READYYY #anyways.#personal #enjoying the book a lot anyway but I have to laugh a bit like. girl (@ author) why write sapphic vibes in the m/f romance novel #the boulder is conflicted #tm tm tm #you can’t just describe your totally platonic best friend as looking ‘stunning’ by noticing the contrast of her outfit hair and lips and the #n describing her laugh poetically noting how her hair falls over her shoulders and saying that ‘’’others’’’ seem ‘transfixed’ by her. girl—#novel is called #christmas at frozen falls #btw #and like it’s very much m/f and marketed as such and as I said I love a good m/f but I am getting Undertones And Vibes and the supposed love #interest is not selling me on his potential so far so I am like. girl your gorgeous ride or die all in best friend is right there!!!#anyways lol

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aces-to-apples · 3 months ago

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It's very nice that Lucanis's writer intended him to be on the ace spectrum, I'm happy so many people are thrilled and feel validated by that. Not me though, that's not gonna affect my writing of him in the slightest lol

#if i ever get around to it lol #fascinating how many romance-complainers are crawling out of the woodwork to take back their complaints though #like OH because he's ACESPEC it's totally fine that it was a non-explicit slowburn feat. the world's most traumatized man learning to trust #but when it was JUST the world's most traumatized man learning to trust and let himself care and love y'all pitched a fit #something something the messy and ugly parts of mental illness are still acceptable targets #for people who want to enact cruelty but know aspecs are no longer considered The Acceptable Targets(TM) right now #some people: 'i can excuse ableism but i draw the line at acephobia!' me crunching on popcorn: 'yOU CAN EXCUSE ABLEISM?!'#by apples #lucanis dellamorte #dragon age: the veilguard #da:tv spoilers

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unnonexistence · 2 months ago

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just started reading book 3 in this series and page 1 is taking no prisoners hgdshdslk

#YOURE DAMN RIGHT HES UNDESERVING #for like a solid half of book 2 i was going ''im going to strangle this man''#i think the worst part is how oblivious he is to his own shortcomings #like if he was cruel that would be one thing #but no he just. does not see women as people. and it never occurs to him that there could be anything amiss in his view of the world #krista d. ball said 'this man does not deserve a first name' and she was RIGHT #anyway please read the ladies occult society books by krista d ball if you like regency settings #specifically with a lot of detail. i cant speak to how Historically Accurate(tm) it is but there is clearly SO much care put into all of it #like describing the logistics of having dresses made and suchlike #it reminds me of in little women when they talk about needing new ribbon for a bonnet or something but like More of that. i love it #eliza does a lot of very careful budgeting because she has to #oh uh. content warning for several kinds of abuse. for sure financial & reproductive abuse but possibly other kinds as well #i feel like im not really selling the series here but it is SO interesting #focused on all the little ways women eke out some independence in a society that systematically denies them any #also theres magic #as of the end of book 2 there are bickering lesbian ghosts #im pretty sure anyway. lesbianism not yet confirmed but like. frankly i would be very surprised if theyre not gay #characters who were never married but are still somehow divorced.#i should also say it isnt Romance it is Historical Fantasy #i think there is going to be a romance at some point. but it is definitely not the main focus & it's possible there wont be one #im rooting for mr sidney sinclair at the moment but we dont know him that well yet. he might turn out not to be trustworthy #anyway. good series. enjoying it #bookposting

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unproduciblesmackdown · 2 months ago

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maybe bsol is that time jen tepper mentions when she was so upset about a review of a show of joe's that she broke a glass (&/or threw it out a window)

#could be anything ofc but i sure went sighhh i'll read the nyt review for science; i'm already assuming it's a piece of shit #(it was; thus predictably; a piece of shit. even the nyt rave for a show i liked was basically a piece of shit)#the only thing that makes raves higher quality is they might have actually bothered giving more info abt the show #& otherwise have devoted more thoughts & less space to just the critic's dogshit directionless griping. but barely; so #anyway i was like oh i can search twitter easily for a word as distinctive as bloodsong (except also a ship name for some videogame)#then i was like oh my god at a post from jenashtep about like oh it's the anniversary of two days in a row Events #first when the nyt bsol review was published second when i went to your apartment to make sure you weren't dead #(wait she didn't say To Make Sure You Weren't Dead she says Because I Thought You Were Dead....throw a glass situations)#like well damn also hmm....(also first thing the nyt would've covered at all i think. tbs never played in ny....or nj evidently)#one can only imagine. bsol is so [it does feel very christmas extravaganzay to me in ways. not the same lord knows but]#that like I'm riled fourteen years later finally listening to a boot which leaping into the arms of someone lifting up an Audio #same as xmas like sure i can't be like oh it's about this that the other precise moment though there are ones that extra rile me #can't say it's so obvious like i could Elevator Pitch explain to a rando why i Gasp or get weepy or just have some very special experience #plus i've never even gone lol. the way they can't stop the xmas show b/c it's a musical that just crops up a weekend a year lol #i'm so already like oh of course this is something i'm obsessed with forever now :) unsurprisingly & like it's so idiosyncratic god bless #(also unsurprisingly bloodsong seems to have been broadly warmly received; save by the Newspaper Of Note(tm) taking a dump & calling it a #day like will was saying abt tbs l.a. like oh audiences loved it local online coverage loved it just the less than halfassed review by the #Big Paper didn't & was like ''why isn't this a whole other thing'' called it a day)#anyway like hey I'm absolutely on fire for Outlaw for Not In Your Soul You Don't for Last On Land for Friendship Song to name a few #for what ended up being my proper angle of entry like oh that means a funny little villain then? (yes) like boy is that a banger alone #think thusly nominated for off bway relevant awards; got more than one nom....hey for one thing fourteen yrs later a rando can be obsessed #like that same rando cherishes the memory a livestream livechat interview where i said Black Suits Forever & they put that up onscreen so #joe had to pause like sorry i got distracted someone said black suits forever that's a line from the show & it's So that that show of mine #that never played in new york....like That's Right lol. i'm slamming the xmas fanart up to your window for year three joe Joseph the Show #(he did also see the bsol fanart which i more discreetly made a reply given he saw that Yay Krampusfucking reply last year lol)#anyway uh um. oh yeah wait also bloodsong is lifechanging sort of to me personally i'm just like. so relatively evenkeeled about it like #well of course :) & it counts as lifechanging when i get anticsful Posting. & it's lifechanging Any shows Any songs that are any kind of #impactful. speaking of like individual numbers in cabaret shows or the entire show or the album or concert or anything #as i reblog Outlaw again yelling or go god damn one Understands how last on land is the penultimate song on album #or i say to myself Whenever I Eat A Noodle; I Like To Think About The Hwheat That It Used To Belong To

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catsconflictscopicsandchamomile · 11 months ago

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*already feral about The Boys s4 leaks/spoilers*

*goes looking for more s4 leaks/spoilers*

*finds a SHIT ton of controversy and drama over one specific set of purported "leaks" re: a certain character (he's not gonna die dont worry)*

*finds someone's VERY long and well-received post, mapping these spoilers onto an arc said character had in the comics*

*reads reviews of the comic arc/spinoff series in question*

*articles keep talking about this one specific shock-and-gore panel that was So Deeply Affecting somehow*

*"....okayyy sure I'll google it"*

*its not THAT gross. I mean its GROSS but not HORRIFYING*

*however the implications of the panel re: certain things that have been changed for the show are. holy shit. holy crap. holy FUCK. oh those are some IMPLICATIONS WHAT THE SHIT*

*HER NAME WAS *WHAT*!?!!!??!*

...I'm going to go lie facedown on the floor and listen to bagpipes nonstop til s4 drops

what the actual fresh fuck

#the boys #hughie campbell #literally an article from ~2011 analyzed (no pun intended) the symbolism of The Panel(tm) re: The Boys comics #and NOW THAT EXACT SAME READING APPLIES IN THE SHOW #*BUT TO A DIFFERENT CHARACTER*#that feeling when you KNOW something's coming but can't tell anyone and can't do anything but sit there. tense. hoping ur wrong #but also kinda wanting to b right #Butcher Please Dont.jpg #vague The Boys s4 spoilers

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snowstories · 11 months ago

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The problem with BOTW is that it's obnoxiously popular in the LOZ fandom to the detriment of other games but also unfortunately it's genuinely really really fun to write fanfic for.

#it really hits that perfect fandom balance of good but not THAT good you know #its base is really interesting and you can do a lot with it. there's a lot of freedom to be had playing with its characters and concepts #contrast and compare to Link's Awakening which imo has a way better story and is my most beloved zelda game #but also like. what do i even have to add. how do i write fanfic for it when it has such a great bookend #like i don't even really want to do AUs or change the ending #the reason I like it are the Themes(TM) and changing the story too radically or changing the ending risks losing that #don't get me wrong i can and have written link's awakening fanfic. i am writing link's awakening fanfic right now #but it's a lot harder to come up with concepts bc it already does such a good job with all its stuff #on the other hand botw does not utilize its story potential much yet establishes enough it's fun to expand on #so with link's awakening i'm like ok. how do i put marin in Situations this time when the game's already the best Situation she could be in #and with botw i'm like 'so here's three different link and zelda role reversal AUs'#'this is the one where zelda is transmasc'#'this is the one where urbosa is fighting ganon link is dead and riju and zelda are on a roadtrip'#'and this is the one i'm planning a 40k hubris fic for'#being a fandom hipster is all fun and games until you like something popular #at least i still don't care much about link #my posts #loz #botw

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imminent-danger-came · 2 years ago

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Here's a clip comp of all the times MK repeats the things the people around him say! Or at least all of the times I've noticed!

#SO WHEN I SAY MK FUNCTIONS AS A MIRROR #I ALSO MEAN THAT HE LIKE. REFLECTS THE THINGS PEOPLE SAY/DO TO HIM BACK #spent a lil too long on this video but that's okay #when don't I spend too long on something #Update for people invested in my fanfic adventures: my fic is currently at 1.3K!#I should finish up soon #It's a Red Son pov. And MK is NOT okay TM #But that's fine cause we have a Red Son #And he's surprisingly okay at comforting people #It takes place like. RIGHT after the s4 special ends at the beach party #MK and Red Son wind up at the suilian cave #And uh. Obviously things are in disrepair #There's gonna be a convo about the way MK's view of Monkey King has changed the same way Red Son's view of DBK has changed #Just like. Understanding how they actually are rather than the pedestal they originally put the two on you know?#I know myself so it'll probably end on a somber note #But more like. hurt/comfort then it's kinda sad/ominous at the end #I can't believe my first fic is a Red Son pov. Like idk who I thought it would be but I'm surprised it's Red Son #But Red Son is actually a BLAST to write #He's no nonsense but he has his own nonsense. It's great #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk parallels #monkie kid #lmk MK #my videos

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bitegore · 3 months ago

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Odd to me that the whole "x trans group has it worse, actually" people seem to both be really optimistic about how cissexual cisgender society views trans people of every stripe, just about different groups. Like they don't see any of us as one of them. There's still regular degular transphobia and its fucking everpresent for literally every trans person there is. There's no passing so successful that you opt out of society beong transphobic on literally any side.