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WARNING: Contains depiction of transphobia and misogyny

dimishez(leth) marriage commissioned by @nezumasa

COMMISSION INFO || KO-FI

with bonus shez's bare chest for their first night together :)

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side note, teaching myself to pronounce that last one felt like learning a new fucking language

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Entitled white women I swear to God

People have been doing book clubs since forever. They do not put George RR Martin on the phone so he can join the chat.

Oh, thank you, kindly court jester jingling into my life under the brave banner of anonymity, for illustrating the exact problem of current fandom.

(This ask is about this post about private fanfiction "book clubs," for those of you who are not following my jester's ire.)

The bedrock of the problem entrenched fandom is having with the newer "TikTok fandom" element is that we have a fundamental disagreement about what fandom is, and what is the social relationship between the people who write fanfiction, make fanart, etc, and the people who read that fanfiction and enjoy that fanart.

(I am not going to use the term "content creator." Because that term is not applicable to fandom, fanfiction authors, or fan artist. Kill the capitalist in your brain. Content is hummingbird nectar made with artificial sweeteners. It resembles the real thing at a distance, but it is devoid of nutrients. It will fill you up so you're not hungry while starving you. Generative AI can produce content because it's empty; it doesn't mean anything. It doesn't even want to engage with you. The sole purpose of content is to get you to sit still long enough for the people who own the platform to squeeze whatever it is they want from you out of you and then abandon your malnourished husk until the next time they can get something from you.)

George RR Martin is not a member of fandom, and the relationship he has with his readers is fundamentally different, because his relationship as an author is explicitly a professional one. When George RR Martin sells a book—not to his readers, but to a publisher who acts as intermediary—he is given a lengthy contract outlining the terms of the sale. How much he will be paid, what can be done with his work by who, etc. George RR Martin is not your peer.

Fanfiction authors are your peers. They're your next door neighbors. They write fanfiction to connect to other fans in celebration of a canon everyone involved loves. Nobody makes a single red cent from writing or sharing their fanfiction. George RR Martin has sold 90 million copies of his books, and he gets money for every one. Because TikTok has trained you that people who are putting their creations out there are monetizing the experience of you reading or watching their art, the "TikTok fandom" element has you sorting your peer posting fanfiction on AO3 into the same category as George RR Martin. But your relationship with George RR Martin is a professional one, and the expectation from fanfiction authors and artists is a social relationship.

When you have a private book club reading and discussing fanfiction without ever telling the author or, God forbid, leaving a comment about how much you enjoyed the story—which is the expectation entrenched fandom authors and artists who view fandom as a social relationship—you think you're reading a mass produced novel from someone who has already been paid for it several times over, but this isn't even Walmart vs. local mom and pop. What are you actually doing is going to your neighborhood block party, picking up the cake someone made and brought to share, and taking it back to your house to eat with friends.

We are your peers. We are your neighbors. We are doing this for free because we want to talk to you about our common interest. No, it's not "payment." We offer our work for free, and you have the option of treating us like vending machines or ChatGPT or Walmart. This is a social relationship; you have this option just as you have the option of leaving your shopping cart in the middle of the parking lot instead of walking it to the cart return. You have that option just as you have the option to stick your chewed gum on a park bench or park your car across three handicap spaces or take a shit on the floor of a public bathroom. How you treat your peers and neighbors, how you treat the people in your community, is up to you.

You can keep stealing cakes from block parties. But don't be surprised when people get fed up with it and stop having block parties. Then you'll be stuck buying cake from Walmart or consuming artificially sweetened hummingbird nectar from ChatGPT while vultures raid your corpse for data.

Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk, court jester. Now get the fuck off my lawn.

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And the three current idiots , what animals would they be ( for you)

they already have canon animal motif that I quite agree with

tsurugi is a crow, yumi is a leopard, and jun is a reindeer

(ofc i also see tsurugi as a mutt for kink reasons)

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opening with my pfp, idk just a comfy doodle based on a tweet i saw

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as a pink lover. The ""universal""" hatred of the color pink by young girls is due to the heavy expectation of femininity forced on them. It is an expression of frustration at gender roles. It is not internalized misogyny. No you will not inevitably start liking pink as an adult and if you do that is not healing your inner divine feminine or whatever we're saying now. Its a color. 😁👍

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I have a question for you , if the three old idiots ( touma, tooru and iori ) where animals , what would they be ( in your opinion ).

touma is a mutt i mean a dog, tooru is a bear for gay reasons, and iori immediately makes me think of a crane because he wears a white suit and have slender legs

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dinner time

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an underrecognised tragedy of AI slop isn't just that any piece of contemporary art could be AI, any news reel could be AI, it's that now just any video of something vaguely nice and whimsical happening in the world could be AI

this is about the trampoline bunnies

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chibi misono in a grape costume :D

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working on a tsurumahi doujinshi but you get tsubaki instead on the very first page

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in superman 2025 ethical billionaire lex luthor very clearly hired goons from diverse racial backgrounds to help him kill superman proving that haterism is all-inclusive

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I like both ship gang ✌😔

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if people are going to assign nuclear family dynamic by making dazai atsushi's father then the least you can do is make it accurate to their character by depicting dazai as the father who gives his child up to the social services because he doesn't believe he should be allowed to be in charge of raising kids (this is ofc ADA era Dazai as opposed to PM era Dazai who made sure Akutagawa and Q would suffer alongside him)

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Apple trend + Sloth pair!

I actually wanted to do all the Servamps and Eves together but i realized it's probably too much for me so i just settle down with the sloth pair

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what do you mean Promises, Promises didn’t have this scene

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i always headcanon Vongola having a front business of Italian Luxury Brand and because he was already introduced to the general public as a potential heir back when he was a kid i think xanxus' casual outfit when he's not out assassinating people should scream preppy rich kid even though he has the face of a gangster

like this