#i know the wakfu fandom is dead but

[sass-squat]

Whoever has the most votes I'll wind up drawing! 🤗

#wakfu #wakfu yugo #wakfu ruel #wakfu percedal #wakfu evangelyne #wakfu amalia #wakfu adamai #is this a dead fandom? #does anyone know when season 4 is supposed to come out? #i have so many questions #i recently remembered this show existed and am hyperfixating again #help pls

[secret-engima]

I have tea and a soap box let's spill something shall we (Wakfu Rant)

*sips tea*

I've been in this fandom for like. A month? more? Depends on how long it took me to work through the show. I've not actually interacted with the *fandom* at all, just the canon stuff and my own spiralling insanity. But while I'm here I might as well make enemies /s. Therefore:

Oropo is a much more compelling character deserving of redemption than Qilby. Qilby:

Had a loving literal goddess mom and a bunch of loving siblings.

A beautiful planet and thriving culture he could go anywhere and do anything on

The capability of going into space without any technological aids once he got bored of the Eliatrope world and started to suffer the effects of his eidietic memory thing. We know for a fact that Eliatropes and their dragon sibs literally don't need so much as a helmet to vibe in space, they could have gone out there any time, explored the cosmos a bit, found cool things as souvenirs and brought them back to show off to his siblings.

While this is very clumsily and blatantly retconned in s4, in s2 Qilby is very open and blatant about the fact he willingly picked a fight with Orgonax with the INTENTION of forcing his entire people to flee their world into space just so he would have more company than Shinonome. An entire world and no doubt thousands of Eliatropes and who knows what pieces of their history and culture were lost because this man, and I remind you again that s2 Qilby taunts Yugo with this fact no matter how s4 woobified him, wanted to FORCE his people to join him in space rather than just let manning the fuck up and going out there with his sister on a buddy roadtrip.

Seems very convinced that some or all of his specimens in his lab are the last of their kinds, which at best means he intentionally targeted dying species on alien worlds to capture and put into jars for literal eternity which is all kinds of animal cruelty (assuming some of them aren't sentient!!) and at worst means he is the reason they are the last of their kind because Qilby wanted his souvenir to be Unique.

when his people finally found a new world to settle on and be happy and try to reclaim their culture, he instigated a SECOND GENOCIDE, this one taking out not only their home world but literally every. living. adult Eliatrope (and dragon considering the propensity for dragons to have Eliatrope twins as stated in s1). Literally thousands if not millions of people are dead, thousands of children are orphaned and left trapped in a realm where they cannot *grow up*, the vast majority of his own siblings are dead and oh look at that. He's stuck in sensory deprivation hell. Man. If only there was some course of action he could have taken that would not have led to him fighting his own siblings, losing his arm, and getting stuck in the white void of horribleness. Man this truly is a tragedy of fate. Definitely no way he could have gone back into space without the Zinit. Definitely could not have just hopped on Shinonome's back with a packed lunch and gone out there on his own knowing he would have a loving family to come back to whenever he got lonely. Man.

upon breaking out of the White Void Of Horrible he is even more mentally unstable (and yes I know he's mentally ill during the above events, that does not excuse his actions when he is aware enough of them to gloat about them to yugo later) and immediately decides that he's going to kill this entire world in order to leave and he's going to take his siblings and the few surviving eliatrope kids with him by force.

has ANYONE other than me noticed the incredibly dark and horrific implications of him apparently planning to kill Phaerys and Yugo (and Adamai likely). Yugo says he couldn't go through with it and I'll believe that, but the fact he apparently consciously PLANNED it. Am I the only one who saw that scene and went "if he kills them, then they go back to the dofus and hatch without any memories, which means he will be able to RAISE AND GROOM THEM in the Zinit to believe that whatever Qilby says is right and do whatever he wants, like galavant in space for eternity".

S4 can retcon as much as it likes to make the Orgonax thing an accident and Qilby a mama's boy (which I freely admit was funny and I would have enjoyed in any other villain), but going off s2 and moving into s3 I REALLY cannot see why people like him more and hate Oropo.

And even if we DO count s4's retcon that made the first incident an accident the SECOND WAS STILL DAMN WELL INTENTIONAL. And Qilby is still responsible for the death of thousands twiceover on top of the death of an entire culture. All of Eliatrope history, culture, science, medicine, *music*, *STORIES*, it's all gone save for whatever the Emrub kids happen to remember (and the kids will not remember it accurately because they are children). All their architecture is destroyed, all their native cuisine is GONE and so are the ingredients to make them. All because Qilby wanted to force them into space WHEN THEY DID NOT WANT TO GO and HE COULD HAVE GONE ON HIS OWN AT ANY POINT WITH SHINONOME.

Speaking of Oropo! Let's look at what we know about him for comparison!

Was created by accident and is intimately aware of it.

was thrown back in time and lived most if not all of his life perpetually terrified of changing history or accidentally erasing himself and his siblings

Not only saw all of his siblings die off over the years but had their energy absorb into him in something that is no doubt extremely traumatizing to undergo. if any of you have watched the Oropo-centric ova, man for a mastermind manipulator he sure do look like he wanna cry and throw up and curl in a little ball when two of his siblings die in front of him and he is forced to assimilate their life energy.

"Supposedly" staged several key villain creation events which I personally press x to doubt because it's so clunky when mixed in with s1 and s2 lore BUT if we graciously assume that he did then gee. can't possibly be a factor of the third bullet point and his terror of erasing the timeline with his own existence can it? Can't possibly be Oropo falling into Every Heroic Time Travel Trope Ever where the hero ensures a certain event happens in order to maintain the timeline in key points hm? Even if it's a bad idea?

Has been successfully and lovingly married? partnered? mated? to a badass half-dragon wife for literal centuries and every time they are on screen together before the Dramatic Amalia Bullshit they are loving and balanced and give off so many Old Married Vibes and then THEY RESUME that dynamic for the few seconds on screen they have before they both die.

Adopts and raises hundreds of orphaned demigods who apparently were more than happy to live in the Tower and follow him throughout their lives, and in fact show no sign of abuse or manipulation in their behavior until the finale when Anakam decides it's time for everyone to think Oropo is horrible

is actively DYING when we meet him and not just dying but faced with the prospect that there is no happy ending for him. He will never see his loved ones in the afterlife, he will never know peace, he will be assimilated by his creator Yugo and at *best* be essentially digested into raw wakfu and at *worst* be a ghost stuck in the head of a man he has extremely complicated and negative feelings about for the above time travel and sibling trauma.

Adamai EXPLICITLY MENTIONS THAT OROPO IN S3 IS ACTING OUT OF CHARACTER when he goes into his more Blatant Villain Moments. Which sure, could be "the mask" falling to reveal someone "oooo evil" but isn't it far more likely he's acting out of character because he's dying and having a crisis about it.

canonically hates violence, but was so desperate to ensure his loved ones would have a better world he was willing to resort to turning himself into a suicide bomber to "create a better world". Was this a good idea? no. but ppl apparently love to point out how Qilby is mentally unstable to justify his behavior soooooo like. Why is that excuse not applicable to the guy who's literally spent his entire life being uncertain he's even real and has a right to exist but is real enough to DIE and never see the people he loves again and therefor go off the rails in his attempts to make something better for them?

in s4, the same season that makes Qilby sympathetic so if you count that as canon then by gods you better count the Oropo moments as canon, Oropo gives Yugo a reprieve from the literal life sucking torture he's in, helps him get a new outfit, and lets Bouillon play fight him (because again, Oropo hates Doing Violence) to keep him distracted and SANE while his body is being horribly tortured. In the end Yugo even confirms they are real and a part of him which is literally all Oropo wanted in his dying speech if you rewatch the finale and boil down his fury to its bullet points (he is a clone without a future and literally says stuff along the lines of just wanting to be REAL and wanting Yugo to ACKNOWLEDGE him).

For a supposed mastermind villain who wanted Yugo dead Yugo sure does seem Super Duper Alive in the months/two years/whatever timeline Ankama is using this hot second since he created the clones and was therefore *no longer necessary* for Oropo to keep alive.

At the end of the day Qilby actively chose HIMSELF over the wellbeing of others and got multiple siblings killed as well as two worlds and an entire civilization/culture wiped out. OROPO set himself on a path of similar destruction and then ACTIVELY TURNED BACK because he was faced with the choice of his ambitions or HIS LOVED ONES and he PRIORITIZED THEIR LIVES OVER HIS OWN AND HIS OWN GOALS where as Qilby not only did not do that, he didn't do it TWICE. TWICE. Oropo's death count is miniscule and he chose to sacrifice himself rather than lose the people he was doing this for and Echo knew he would make that choice, which means she also knew his love of them was genuine. You cannot compare that to Qilby and tell me Qilby is in any way better.

Okay rant over I'm going back to planning my wakfu canon rewrite and my various Echo/Oropo oneshots thank you and good day.

#Secret Engima Rambles #wakfu #Oropo #wakfu oropo #wakfu qilby #SE rants #if anyone comes in here talking about the manga or the games don't even bother #if its information that the writers of the show cannot be damned to put IN the show then it does not count for the purposes of this compari #also if you like qilby that's fine? #s4 qilby was entertaining #but Oropo is best boy and Imma kill canon on this hill #thanks #long post

[voidvendetta]

KICKS DOWN YOUR DOOR

YOUR FANDOMS. HAND EM OVER!!!

AUUUUGHHHHHH!!!

it a LOT buddy. Get. READY.

Getting into and active: self explanatory

semi-active: might come back too, will Reblog if I see it

hardly active, love: special place in my heart

hardly active: never got into that much as a fandom, or parted from it.

FNaF (active primarily for sun and moon)

Half life vr but the ai is self aware (getting into)

Team fortress 2 (getting into)

Pyschonauts (semi-active)

Sam and max: Freelance police (active)

Rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles (semi-active)

The magnus archives (active)

welcome to night vale (active)

Camp here and there (active)

alice isn’t dead (semi-active)

Little nightmares (active)

Inscryption (getting into)

Omori (semi-active)

Invader zim (hardly active, still love.)

undertale (hardly active, still love.)

deltarune (semi-active)

spiderverse (mostly active)

Popee the preformer (hardly active, still love)

Steven universe (hardly active, still love)

will wood (active)

the scary jokes (active)

lemon demon (semi-active)

jack stauber (semi-active)

hozier (active)

the muppets (mostly active)

Sesame Street (most there for bert and Ernie)

splatoon (active for a friend)

mario (semi-active)

cuphead (semi-active)

welcome home (semi-active)

amanda the adventuer (semi-active)

bendy and the ink machine (semi-active)

baldi’s basics (hardly active, still kind of love)

hunter x hunter (hardly active, still love)

sonic (semi-active)

moomin valley (semi active, love.)

BIGTOP burger (hardly active, love)

garfield (hahah funny)

smile for me (semi-active)

little shop of horrors (semi-active)

carmen sandiego (hardly active)

puss in boots (hardly active)

over the garden wall (hardly active)

don’t hug me I’m scared (semi-active)

MY OCS MUAHA IM THEIR NUMBER 1 FAN (ACTIVE 24/7 365)

portal (Getting into)

wakfu (almost never active, love)

the nightmare before christmas (for Halloween)

coraline (hardly active, love)

Percy Jackson (hardly active, love)

FANDOMS I WAS IN AND NEVER AGAIN

MHA (no No NO NO NO NO)

Miraculous (fandom is okay ig but show issss not.)

SOME UNDERTALE AUs (if you know, believe me YOU KNOW.)

Fandoms that I MAY get into

Octonauts

arcane

the owl house

hermitcraft

The penumbra podcast

the Stanley parable

monkey kid

Malevolent

Beetlejuice

oingo boingo

MY MOOTS OCS I WANNA KNOW THEM GIVE THEM TO MEEE

I’M REALLY CONCERNED FOR MYSELF WTH even if these are all fandoms i’ve had since a kid JEEZ

#Save #mega save #voids voice #asks #beloved mutual’s asks #fandoms #my fandoms #MIGHT UPDATE??

[ungodly-amounts-of-godly-trauma]

minor bracket contestants

32 of them! see all the teams, the contestants, and the fandoms below. i likely won't be including who's in the teams in the polls due to character limits, but the fandoms will be there. if you want to suggest better team names, my askbox is open!

x-laws (shaman king) consists of lyserg diethel and iron maiden jeanne

every eliotrope (dofus and wakfu)

team savior (savior) consists of seyeon, wohn, and juyi

raistlin majere (dragonlance)

marie korbel (skullgirls)

hitori uzune (hatoful boyfriend)

team blaseball (blaseball) consists of jaylen hotdogfingers, parker macmillan, and also every single blaseball character!

team dragon quest (dragon quest 9) consists of everyone especially the unnamed protagonist

owen carvour (spies are forever)

fai flourite (tsubasa reservoir)

artorin damara (the hands of the emperor)

tanya von degurechaff (the saga of tanya the evil)

dio (virtue’s last reward)

nimay (queer dungeoneers)

mark heathcliff (the mandela catalogue)

renarin kholin (the stormlight archives)

the sanshuu middle school hero club (yuuki yuuna is a hero & washio sumi is a hero) consists of yuuki yuuna, tougou mimori, inubouzaki fuu, inubouzaki itsuki, and miyoshi karin

tsubaki kasugano (mirai nikki/future diary)

neku sakuraba (the world ends with you)

team abc’s lost (abc’s lost) consists of richard alpert, benjamin linus, and john locke

mad rat (mad rat dead)

velvet crowe (tales of berseria)

doomguy (doom series)

maelgwyn (friends at the table)

guren squad (owari no seraph) consists of ichinose guren, hiiragi shinya, goshi norito, juujou mito, hanayori sayuri, and yukimi shigure

sinbad (magi: the labyrinth)

cale henituse (lout of the count’s family/trash oh the count’s family)

elder kevin price (the book of mormon musical)

merle highchurch (the adventure zone)

team oc (brain) consists of salty, thorax, arden chimestock, and vandium! if you created any of these four, respond to this post letting me know so i can easily keep track

the sinners (limbus company)

harry watling (inside man)

#masterpost #(un)godly trauma #minor masterpost #minor bracket

[decapodsrandomfandom]

big ol’ fandom list (in no particular order or size. Some of these I’m more love with than others.)

BIG INHALE

FNAF

Ready Player 1

Project Hail Mary

Good Omens

NATM

Six of Crows

Pokémon

Ducktales (New and old, scream at me about either)

Luca

Dragon Prince

Owl House

Amphibia

ATLA

Wakfu

Hilda

Stretch Armstrong

Little Vampire

Centaurworld

How could I forget Glitter Force 

Tales of Arcadia

Glitch Techs

CRK

Mmmmmmm MMMMMM miraculous 😔

I FORGET EVER AFTER HIGH YALL-

Harry Potter (Big L for me as a trans guy)

Kotlc 

Everything riordan

TMNT (2012, ROTTMNT, and soon to be TOTTMNT)

The Amazing Digital Circus

Adventure Time

Ghosts (USA bc I’m a loser)

Various Webtoons

Helluva Boss

Steven Universe

Infinity Train

Carmen Sandiego

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

She-ra

Monster High

The Ghost and Molly McGee

Not listing the extensive list of Disney crud I could rant about for hours, but know that Wall-E and Big Hero 6 are my fav Disney movies.

Voltron

Everything a Netflix-raised Gen Z could ever need, including Sonic Boom and Prime.

Kid Cosmic

Total Drama (Island and Action only, everything else is dead to me.)

Spiderverse

Heartstopper

The Hollow

Dead End: Paranormal Park

Yes, I will talk about HTTYD if the need arises.

Rare find for all the insane people still reading: The Book of Life.

Nimona

Wander Over Yonder

MANY MUSICALS HOLY SHIT, basically any mainstream musical? I love. I’m a basic white boy, I’ll eat up SIX and Hamilton, drink up that Greatest Showman and Chicago,

#masterlist #IM NOT TAGGING SLL THESE ISTG #Yes I love some of these far more than others #Yes I can elaborate if you guys want #fandoms #some of them are childhood favs (glitter force) #and then they’re thrown in the pot with the likes of helluva #this post will be able to wrap around the Earth one day

[hymn-of-muse]

wills/wonts

a list of things i will and wont do, take it as a guide on requests!

WILL DO - general

canon x reader scenarios

oneshots

stories (you can requests stories on their own or request stories through additional posts (making a part 2 and so on) from oneshots)

imagines

canon x canon ships though this really depends on the ship

AU writing

angst

hurt comfort

fluff

neutral, trans, nonbinary, masc or fem reader

qlw, qlm, qlnb ships

nonhuman reader/au

disabled and/or ND (x) reader

+child reader or parent reader (esp for the regressors and cgs out there)

prompts or tag games

crackships and joke fics

matchups

WILL DO - fandoms

transformers (prime)

the umbrella academy

critical role specifically c1 / TLOVM and c2

DC including young justice, comics, animated justice league etc

Marvel including mcu, comics, xmen etc

the owl house

genshin impact

tower of fantasy

star wars including prequels (ep1-3), sequils(ep4-6), clone wars, rebels etc

star trek including ds9, voyager, enterprise and so on.

little witch academia

shera and the princess of power specifically the one from netflix

wakfu

lego ninjago specifically the early content as im not too familiar with the latest seasons from nya being the water ninja onward.

Stargate SG1

Mortal Kombat

DND honor among thieves

HTTYD

resident evil

doctor who

terra nova

honkai star rail

legends of chima

WONT DO - general

proship content toxic, abusive, pedophilic and/or incestious ships are a huge no. i dont do adult x minor, i dont do bully x victim, i do NOT do yandere or anything romanticizing people with bpd or old.

smut i will not write sex scenes. i can write implied stuff but i wont go any further that that, i'm not comfortable writing that out, but i am fine with writing tension and flirting and stuff

real people dead or alive, im not writing about real people.

pr.gnancy(e) topics unless canon in a setting (like season 3 of wakfu), im not doing any of that. no x with child reader or anything.

no x oc while i may write fics with my own oc's im not comfortable writing for other's. (at least not unless we're close friends and i know the oc) most of my fics involving my own oc's are just me sharing their story anyway, usually not a romance canon x oc plot.

WONT DO - fandoms

bnha/mha

fnaf

youtubers

celebrities

hamilton the musical

Harry Potter

WONT DO - ships

perc'ahlia (percyxvex) just personally uncomfortable with this ship

reylo (reyxkylo)

lloyd x any of the ninja

kaeluc (kaeyaxdiluc)

any of the Hargreaves ships they may be adopted but theyre still siblings.

this is very prone to updates!!

i also do headcanon posts over on @/beecanons and a lot of the stuff there also applies over here!

if theres anything youre unsure of, please ask!

inbox does not close, request anytime, i just get to them slowly!

#wills/wonts #wills and wonts #for pinned #fanfic request #fanfiction blog #fanfic blog #fanfiction requests #request rules

[wishingstarinajar]

I am going to ramble a bit but I will hide it under a cut because it's a bit long. It will be about the previous fandom I was active in around two years ago and how it affects me to this day. It's also about popularity and putting others on a pedestal.

If this sort of ramble isn't up your alley then feel very free to skip over this post! I don't mind. If you want to read more about it, just check under the cut.

The Franchise And Its Creators

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THE FRANCHISE AND ITS CREATORS Around mid-2014, I joined the Wakfu and Dofus fandoms, a small-ish fandom as a whole but popular in certain circles.

For those who don't know, Wakfu and Dofus are (online, console, mobile, figurine, card and board) games, comics, animated series, specials and movies created by a French studio named Ankama. These two franchises are intertwined with each other as they play out in the same universe but in different timelines. I myself dabbled around in the animated part of the fandom; I was a huge fan of the two series and the Dofus movie.

There was very little catering to the international part of the fandom when it came to the studio's attention and interactions. There were no English dubs or subtitles; international fans had to rely on English fan subtitles on ripped/pirated episodes of the show and movie, same for the franga/comics. Merch was hard to get. A lot of articles related to the shows and whatnot were in French only, which is understandable because it is a French-made product. But there's no denying that the international fanbase felt a little neglected back then.

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MY FANDOM JOURNEY

Because I was very interested in the lore of both franchises, I had to do a lot of digging and translating to be able to fully indulge in it all. I went full in! I dug deep, created OCs, art and also tried to write fanfiction. I also shared news and info about the series and movie; I ran a fan blog dedicated to sharing things with the international part of the fandom. I was also often approached about lore, particularly for a few of the canon characters and one of the races that play a role in the Wakfu franchise; the Eliatropes. It was fun, it felt good to help other fans out, it was nice to make friends and be creative with others about similar things.

Eventually, the character and art theft began. We all know this is a 'normal' part of fandoms, so I won't hammer too long on it. My issue with it was the fact that my main OC, a female Eliatrope, gathered a lot of attention because female Eliatropes were a rarity in the Wakfu franchise. They existed but didn't get a moment in the limelight, except for one that even received her own game (Islands of Wakfu) but it was so obscure that a lot of fans didn't know about its existence. My OC was somehow mistaken as canon by plenty of folks and many others started to use her as a template to create their own (female) Eliatrope OC. I didn't mind, as long as they weren't straight-up copies and I tried to be supportive by answering lore questions and give feedback whenever it was asked for it (which happened a lot). Of course, copying and theft happened more often than not; over the five years I was part of the fandom, I sent out almost a hundred DMCA reports for art and character theft (like true theft; I could handle some similarities or one-time occurrences). One particular case went to the extreme but I won't beat that dead horse any further; it brought me enough misery to last me half a lifetime, that's all I'll say on it. I kept a lot of the negative experiences behind closed doors and dealt with a lot of it quietly to not bother, worry or burden anyone else with any of it. I wanted a positive and supporting environment for my followers, even if the truth wasn't as pretty.

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ANKAMA'S STRUGGLE

Over the years, studio Ankama increased attempts to cater more to the international fanbase of its animated properties (articles in English, English dubs and subtitles, etc). However, the studio's struggle to garner the attention of international supporters (aka companies and sponsors) didn't go too smoothly, and to make matters worse, they were also struggling with finding a platform in France to broadcast the Wakfu series on after wishing to take a different and more mature direction. Ankama wanted more freedom with the Wakfu show, like less censorship, a serial rather than episodic, and it not being aimed at a young audience like its previous contractor demanded Wakfu to be. Ankama even turned to crowdfunding to get certain projects (like new Wakfu seasons) off the ground and let's just say that those crowdfunding projects are best described as tiny dumpster fires; they weren't pretty to watch. The first one was a disaster with plenty of displeased backers and the following crowdfunding attempts often didn't meet the end goal due to bad past experiences or the lack of interest.

Luckily, Netflix breathed some life into the international Wakfu fandom, which was great! But it was still received badly (mostly due to the awful English dub and sound mixing of the first two seasons and special) that the third season Netflix made possible was not getting the attention it deserved. It was also a rushed product due to financial and time constraints on Ankama's part. Netflix eventually declined a fourth season and it all fell a bit apart from there. Ankama turned to crowdfunding once more to try and make season 4 a reality. Last time I checked (which was quite a while ago), it did decently enough to make season 4 a reality. (Please don't ask me about it, I don't know anything about it.)

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THE PEDESTAL

While all this was happening behind the scenes, I was starting to struggle with the reputation I built up in the Wakfu and Dofus fandom over the few years I was a part of it. The best way to describe it is that I had grown exhausted.

Aside from dealing with the theft and answering people's questions daily, I wanted to be treated as an average fan but I kept getting put on a pedestal. People went as far as to call me by titles (like lady Wish and miss Wish) more often than not. To be called and treated as such made me feel alienated, like as if I wasn't considered real. I often asked to just be called Wish, no titles/formalities required, and that I wasn't as 'popular' as they believed, but the majority of the people didn't seem to listen. People were either afraid or refused to interact with me because they considered me 'too popular', or simply wanted nothing but my validation, feedback and/or free art. I also had my fair share of haters and people that didn't approve of my 'status' in the fandom. Join the club xD I wasn't very happy with it either.

I really started to dislike being called 'popular' because it had such a bad impact on the people around me (and my own mental wellbeing). Friends started to become jealous of the attention I garnered and it dragged me down every time. At times, it would turn toxic. It was never my intention to make my friends feel like they meant less because they surely didn't. To learn that they believed others were only friends with them or only looked at their art/writing because they were good friends with me hurt so much. It still does. I refuse to believe that was fully true because I was (and still am!) surrounded by very creative people and they all deserved as much attention as I was getting, at times more. I wish others saw it that way too.

I was also heavily chained down thanks to the role (model) I played in the fandom. Too many people (especially young ones) looked up to me and there were a lot of expectations that I felt forced to meet. I started to lose the energy for it, but if I dared to stray a little from the path, the pitchforks and torches would come out. It was very restricting.

In the end, I felt stuck. Things started to grow toxic. There was a point where I began to dislike the franchise because of the bad feelings it brought me. I couldn't even get myself to watch the series or movie anymore. I focused less and less on the canon side of things and more on my own ideas, which was one of the only comforts I really had left in the fandom. I started to shut myself off, which upset a lot of people. I am sorry for that, I wish it didn't happen that way but I was at my wits' end.

When I realized and also accepted that I was no longer enjoying myself with canon or fanon, I knew I had to move on or stuff would end badly. It was a very tough realization and decision to accept and make; I literally dedicated five years of my life to the fandom. I spent hours a day digging for info and news to translate and share, doing 'research' for my fanfics, answering questions, and whatnot. I truly lived the fandom day in and out. It was the first fandom I ever actively participated in to this degree. What the heck was I going to do without that?

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THE NOW

Abandoning the fandom was a scary step to take but not one I regret. I left the Wakfu and Dofus fandom behind me in late 2019. I feel freer now and so much happier. I no longer have the burden of expectations, being a lore guide or be forced to portray a certain role model weighing me down. I am no longer on that f*cking pedestal. I can finally explore interests that aren't exactly child-friendly without a big part of my following pummeling me down for it. (Don't worry, I always try my best to keep it in the appropriate places.)

Do I still like Wakfu/Dofus and all the stuff I've created with it? Yes, I do but I also want nothing more to do with it. Aside from the friends I've made there and also stuck around on my new adventures, I left the fandom behind me.

I still get approached at times about how my Wakfu OC, art and writing inspired someone and ask me if I could give them feedback for their own ideas or give them advice/information on Wakfu/lore. I am extremely humbled by it every time. It's great to see someone feeling inspired and be creative. However, I've moved on. I've left interacting with the Wakfu/Dofus fandom and fan-made stuff far behind me. I haven't touched it for almost two years and it shows on all the social media I share my art and writing on. I at times wish people could be considerate about the fact that I moved on but I also know and understand that not everyone knows my reasoning or my side of the story. I try not to be too harsh on it.

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MY ADVICE

I don't hate anyone for how things turned out; a lot of it was my own doing by not saying no or taking a stronger stand.

It did teach me a lot of things, especially about caring for my own well-being and putting others on pedestals. Please be mindful when you treat someone like others treated me before; it's not healthy, for yourself and the person you put on that high pedestal. Take everything in moderation and consideration, that's all. Everyone's human, everyone has feelings, and everyone deserves a sense of being. Even your favorite artists and content creators. Don't treat them like an otherwordly being that you have to worship.

In turn, if a fandom or something you enjoyed is making you unhappy nowadays, you owe it to yourself to make or find a change. Be good to yourself, always!

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Thanks to anyone who read through this ramble. I needed to get this off my chest. I am not asking for advice, neither pity or whatever else. I just wanted to share my thoughts on past experiences because I have a feeling others might be going through something similar.

Thank you again, please take care.

#wish talks #wish rambles #edited with some format fixes

[the-sprog]

I posted 1.622 times in 2021

166 posts created (10%)

1456 posts reblogged (90%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 8.8 posts.

I added 138 tags in 2021

#danny phantom - 58 posts

#randy cunningham 9th grade ninja - 16 posts

#rc9gn - 15 posts

#spider-man - 9 posts

#randy cunningham - 9 posts

#non binary - 7 posts

#secret trio - 6 posts

#american dragon jake long - 6 posts

#eurovision - 6 posts

#animaniacs - 6 posts

Longest Tag: 131 characters

#one of the easiest but that takes lots of time is braiding it and then wrapping it around your head and securing it with bobby pins

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

I'm watching wakfu and I'm fucking dying.

I realized that basically every fantasy name (especially the races) are French words but backwards. Even some names are, like Rubilax if said backwards is Excalibur.

But then I went looking for all the races names to check and.

One of the races is called Osamodas.

Why.

Why Osamodas.

65 notes • Posted 2021-07-13 20:18:07 GMT

#4

I almost finished American Dragon: Jake Long (look at me, I learned the name of the show!) and I gotta say... It's a little boring. Again, just like Danny Phantom, it suffers from "monster of the week" formatting, because of the time it was produced in.

But, it does benefit from the fact that it has little to no lore to establish, since it uses mythical creatures, most of which are already known to the general public.

Danny Phantom, however, had to build a world, which it didn't really do, not fully, and to without rasing more questions.

Randy Cunningham, on the other, other hand, was a little in the middle. It did build a great lore and an almost fully flashed world, but unfortunately it suffered the fate of being cancelled too early. So it set up stuff for more lore, but never got the chance to explore it. However it does kinda work as a self-conclusive show.

I would LOVE for rc9gn to get a Danny Phantom-like fandom, because it'd be great if people created new stuff like the DP one does.

65 notes • Posted 2021-06-11 06:37:27 GMT

#3

I become patriotic one time a year. That time is Eurovision night.

Vote 24 👀

176 notes • Posted 2021-05-22 21:11:59 GMT

#2

Danny is Schrodinger's boy.

At any given moment everyone lives in a universe where they don't know if Danny is dead or alive, until they check.

He's always half-ghost, so he has the same powers and characteristics in either form. Becoming Phantom is just about aesthetic.

He has no control over weather he's considered alive or dead. Every once in a while he'll check his pulse and find nothing, then he checks again and he feels his heartbeat.

Tucker and Sam make bets about it.

Sam wins most times.

Danny is confused as to how she does it.

178 notes • Posted 2021-06-21 10:37:21 GMT

#1

I need a phandom (Danny Phantom one not Dan and Phil one) veteran to tell me why the ship name for Dash and Danny is Swagger Bishie. Where does it come from??

191 notes • Posted 2021-04-27 07:08:42 GMT

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[fishoutofcamelot]

(for the ask thing) any book/tv show/movie/song recommendations?

BRO! I heckin got you man! Now, I’m gonna skip the song and book recommendation bit because that sorta thing isn’t really my scene. BUT! In terms of TV? My rec list is like a mile long. I’m gonna include a read-more line, actually. 

BBC Merlin: You know I had to put this on the list. But the fact that you’re on my blog means you’ve probably watched this one, so I won’t go into detail about it. Available on Netflix

Mob Psycho 100: Just a cute, sweet story about a bunch of psychic kids trying to kill each other. A story with this much fighting has no right to be so wholesome. Mob is just a good boy, he doesn’t deserve all this! Fair warning, its messages about identity, self love, and growth WILL make you feel Emotions. Available on various anime pirating websites

Red vs Blue: The found family game is SO strong in this one. By far the best found family plot/dynamic I have ever and will ever experience. The characters are all so solid, yknow? Like it took me three rewatches to understand the plot, but I didn’t even care because I loved the characters SO MUCH. It’s also really, really funny (although some of the jokes have aged a bit poorly tbh). Basically about a bunch of space marines who goof off and accidentally dismantle corrupt governments along the way. Available on Youtube

Supernatural: Is it cringey? Yeah. Does the fandom suck? Also yeah. Is Destiel overrated? BIG yeah. But it’s got monsters, magic, family, and a plot that doesn’t revolve around romance - and really, what more could you ask for? And sure, a lot of people don’t really like the later seasons, but idk I actually prefer them. Season 15 has me THRIVING. I mean come on - character vs author?! Fighting the guy who literally wrote you into existence because he doesn’t want to give your story a happy ending?! Say what you will about Supernatural, but it’s one of the most imaginative shows I’ve ever seen. Available on Netflix

Avatar the Last Airbender: You like stellar animation, intricate worldbuilding/magicbuilding, and a perspective on war that is surprisingly mature for a kids show? Check it out. This show is without a doubt one of the best animated series of all time. Go on. Watch it. It’ll change your life. Available on Netflix

The Umbrella Academy: Time-travelling assassins. Superheroes. Ghosts. Talking monkeys. Murder mysteries. Baller soundtracks. This show will never give you what you expect. I don’t even think I could properly describe it to you. Available on Netflix

Detective Conan: An anime. It’s about a teen detective - think Nancy Drew but bloodier - who witnesses a crime and is fed an experimental poison in order to keep him from telling anyone. But instead of killing him, the poison turns him into a 6-year-old. So now he’s got to solve crimes and take down a criminal organization while in the body of a child. Naturally, shenanigans ensue. Fair warning, the main character becomes a bit of a Mary Sue in later episodes, but the first 300 or so are pretty fun. A few episodes are available on Netflix, but not any of the good ones. You’ll need an anime pirating website for that

Knives Out: My favourite movie ever, of all time. It’s a murder mystery that both subverts and pays homage to its parent genre in all the right places. It’s funny, it’s intelligent, and has a spectacular ending! Although I do wish the fandom would stop being so horny for Ransom, I mean he’s literally racist...No clue where you can find this tbh, I saw it in theatres

Derry Girls: Now I’m not normally a big fan of realistic fiction/sitcom stuff. Despite how funny they are, I’ve not even watched The Office or Parks and Rec because that normal daily life stuff just doesn’t peak my interest. And yet, somehow this story about a group of Irish high schoolers just has me enthralled. Very funny, very well-written, give it a watch. Available on Netflix

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: Another anime. Phenomenal animation? Check. Fascinating plot and characters? Check. Detailed magic system that gets my lore-obsessed heart fluttering? Big heckin check. So basically two kids try to use Fantasy Science to bring their mom back to life, only the experiment fails and has some pretty nasty consequences - one boy loses his arm and leg, while the other loses his entire body and has his soul bound to a suit of armour. Now they gotta go through government conspiracies, ethical dilemmas, and Daddy Issues to try and get their bodies back. Available on Netflix

The Disastrous Life of Saiki K: Yet another anime. I know, I know, I’m a nerd, get over it. This show doesn’t have a complex plot or even complex characters, tbh, but what it does have is some amazing humour. It’s extremely funny, and it’s also just a nice show to kick back and relax to. Basically this guy who’s so op that he could rewrite the laws of reality on a whim is stuck dealing with relationship drama in high school despite being very, very asexual and very, very tired. Mostly he just uses his powers to avoid people and eat junk food, which is honestly a mood. Available on Netflix

Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Honestly I’d recommend almost anything that’s Scooby Doo-related because that was my childhood obsession. I used to have like 20 of the movies on DVD before my mom gave them all away. To this day I still love Scooby Doo, and watch it whenever I get the chance. But if you ask any SD fan, they’ll probably tell you that Mystery Incorporated is the best, most intelligent, most creative installment in the franchise. And they’re right (although I do wish there was less relationship drama...) Available on Netflix

Evil Genius: This is a documentary series about the Collar Bomb Robbery. Now, despite what the above list might indicate, I actually watch a LOT of documentaries, and if I were here to recommend all of them then we would be here all day. Not really ‘funny’ like the other entries on this list, it’s actually rather tragic, but definitely a cerebral viewing experience. Available on Netflix

Screwball: Now this is a documentary that IS funny. It’s about drug scandals in baseball. But the dramatic scene re-enactments are done with child actors that are all wearing fake beards and pretending to be drug dealers. It’s not only a fascinating subject, but it’s got amazing editing and visuals that have me in awe. Available on Netflix

Behind the Curve: Yet another documentary. This one’s about the rise of the Flat Earth movement. You’ll spend most of the time on the verge of having a stroke because of how stupid it all is. Available on Netflix

The Movies That Made Us: Okay okay okay last documentary on the list I swear. This one’s exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a series talking about the behind-the-scenes production of iconic movies like Home Alone and Ghostbusters. I eagerly await the second season. Available on Netflix

Monster Factory: If you’re familiar with the McElroy brothers and their brand of humour, you’ll love this. Griffin and Justin team up to make the most disturbing avatars they can create using video game character creators. The origins of the Final Pam meme. If I had a shirt with a quote from Monster Factory on it, I’d die a happy man. Available on Youtube

Baman Piderman: The dumbest show I have ever watched, but it’s so adorable and stupid and I love it so much. It doesn’t really have a plot, but later episodes allude to the presence of one and I’m upset because there are so many mysteries/questions hinted at and we’ll never get answers because it’s been abandoned. PLEASE watch it. Available on Youtube

Stranger Things: Okay, season 2 was a bit of a let-down imo, but season 1 was ICONIC and the Scoops Troop subplot in season 3 deserved its own freakin spinoff. I’m not joking. I didn’t even like s3 all that much, but the only reason it’s my favourite is because the Scoops Troop plot was so great. People call this show ‘horror’ but I don’t think it’s scary enough for that, although it is admittedly kinda spooky. If you like 80s nostalgia and the horror aesthetic, then I’d give it a watch (Do it for Scoops Troop. Do it for Robin). Available on Netflix

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart: Despite my overwhelming love for this film, I’ll be the first to admit it’s kinda mediocre. The plot is weird and the romance feels forced, but despite its flaws it manages to be one of my favourite movies. Mostly I just like it for the unique concept and beautiful ending. Also the music is off the par man. Probably because the writer/producer of the movie was the lead singer for a French band called Dionysus (what? I do my research). Available on Netflix

Wakfu: I haven’t seen past season 3, but so far it’s pretty good. You go in thinking it’s just a wholesome action/adventure show about a kid who can create portals - but then it just. Sucks you in. From its bopping theme song to its fantastic found family to the unique worldbuilding, you very quickly fall in love with it. It’s got a cool plot and also talking dragons, and it doesn’t get better than that. Available on Netflix

Mystery Skulls Animated: Technically not a TV show so much as it is a series of animated music videos with a plot, but I’ll be damned if this isn’t one of the greatest things of all time. It’s basically Scooby Doo but if Shaggy got possessed by a demon and killed Fred, causing Fred to become a ghost hellbent on revenge-killing Shaggy in return. And if Scooby was an ancient Japanese spirit that bit off Shaggy’s arm, forcing him to wear a metal prosthetic. Yeah, MSA is wild. It’s only got three videos out so far, with a fourth one coming out this October, but there’s already so much lore! Available on Youtube

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared: Ah yes, yet another cringey entry on this list. But you know what? Cringe culture is dead!!! And despite its fandom being...like that...DHMIS really is a cool show. Think if Sesame Street was like haunted or something. The episodes about creativity and telling time remain the most unsettling, imo. Definitely worth a watch. Available on Youtube

Inanimate Insanity: Oh boy. Am I seriously recommending you dip your little fingies into the object fandom? Yes. Yes I am. This show is so obscure it makes freakin Detective Conan look popular. At its core it’s a parody of Total Drama Island and Survivor but with anthropomorphized inanimate objects as characters (hence the name). Season 2 is actually really, really good and surprisingly competent. You just gotta get through season 1 first. Available on Youtube

The X-Files: Wow, a live action series on this list? Who woulda thought??? But seriously, this show is really fun. Memes and jokes aside, I love it. Scully and Mulder are fun characters with great chemistry (both platonic and romantic), the Lone Horsemen are hilarious, and every episode is a unique adventure into the most creative acid trips the human mind could conceive of. Phenomenal from start to finish (if you ignore the last season). I have no clue where you would watch this. Pirate it, probably

Buzzfeed Unsolved: Two idiots investigate cold cases and haunted locales while being utter dumbasses about it. You know the “hey demons it’s be ya boi” meme? That came from these guys. Available on Youtube

Kingdom: Ngl, I didn’t go into this expecting zombies. Or for it to take place during Korean feudalism, for that matter. But mediocre dubbing aside, this show has such a clever concept. It takes the zombie apocalypse genre and gives refreshing, unique twists to old tropes that they feel like something new. Seo-bi is my wife and she deserves all the love and appreciation in the world, and those are just Facts. Available on Netflix

My Hero Academia: Superhero high school anime. I personally am not a fan of later episodes/arcs, but the first three seasons are pretty dang good. Diverse, colourful ensemble cast that you easily grow to adore, interesting commentary on disability (although I’m not qualified to give any actual takes on that), and a school curriculum that makes me very, very concerned for the wellbeing of these children. Plus all the superpowers - aka ‘quirks’ - are super imaginative and, well, quirky! I just wish people would stop shipping the main character with his childhood bully...You’ll need to pirate this one too lmao

Danny Phantom: The highlight of this show is its ‘phandom’, because unlike someone (*cough* Butch Hartman), we’re not a bunch of cowards. It’s about a guy who messes around with his parents’ lab stuff and accidentally acquires the ability to die! Well, half-die. He can turn into a ghost and fight other ghosts. Although the show never explores the existential, traumatic fallout of being kinda-sorta-dead, the potential for something deep and emotional is there. Plus there is a LOT of accidental subtext for a Big LGBT+ Metaphor. So much so that the Trans Danny theory is basically canon. Uhhh not available on Netflix anymore so it’s time to whip out your pirate hat, matey

And there you have it! Like I said, I have a lot of TV recommendations. And I just KNOW I’m forgetting a ton, but this is already really long so we’ll have to cut off here. 

Thanks for the ask! <3

#ask #fish post

[minatsuki-on-main]

for the character thingy, koku! (tho u already talked abt keith/koku i wanna see ur opinions on koku only)

(Ask meme)

What I like about them: He’s really morally grey. I like it when protagonists aren’t obviously good people and have their own faults. His resilience to suffering and how passionate he is about the things he cares for are also good things about him. 

What I dislike about them: 

“YUNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!”

Christ, dude. Calm down.

I’m also a bit mad that he had no second thoughts about how shitty the reggies’ lives must have been and kept killing them off indiscriminately. I’m not saying it would have fit the plot for him to act any differently, but still...

Favourite moment: Maybe this is a bit of a morbid choice but when he attached his friends’ limbs to himself. It was great to see he would push himself that far.

Least favourite moment: The fight against phantom Minatsuki. It’s still hard for me to watch. I know he needed to defeat him but my gut feelings can’t take it...

A situation with this character that I want to see explored more: If he ever used his eye for anything we haven’t seen in the show, and also how he got to the point where his guilt was eating him up so much he had to erase his own memories. I have a thing for mind manip themes.

An interesting AU for this character: At one point Bananas45 on AO3 wrote a music school AU and I was particularly happy Koku was in it since he can play violin in canon. 

A crossover: This really comes out of the blue but Dofus/Wakfu universe and he’d be an Eniripsa because his transformation sort of looks like that. Maybe Osamodas too because that’s even more similar, but I feel like Eni powers and personality would fit him better. 

OTP: Haven’t left keithkoku hell and won’t anytime soon.

Other ships: Kokuyuna is, again, just a thing that exists, and it would be hard to explain what I think of it... I get the vague feeling that if it was overwhelmingly popular and people started bugging me that I should ship it I’d start disliking it, but that’s not something that can happen in a fandom this small, so right now it’s just more of a funny thing to me. They’re both kids who are maladapted to the world and probably a bit socially awkward so that’s entertaining. Koku/Izanami is just very tragic from being one-sided and the main reason I’d support it would be to make Izanami happy. Laica/Koku is just sin but I’m not gonna deny that it has appeal at this point. Nothing wrong with Minatsuki/Koku either but it would probably make Laica so dead inside I’m reluctant. Oh, also, I know Kirisame/Koku is gonna be a thing in s2 and I can totally get behind that, but it really depends on what they do with it.

BROTP: With Lily. Cute adoptive siblings.

NOTP: I’ve had horrific visions of what it would look like to romantically ship him with Lily. No and thank you.

An assortment of headcanons: 

He likes being in pretty places, especially if they’re quiet and there’s nobody else there, both in nature, like woods and fields, or nice views of Cremona. Yet another reason he’d like going on trips a lot, during Spring or Summer in particular; it’s pleasantly alive and unlike what he remembers the weather being during the Jaula Blanca attack. 

Expanding on this; he generally likes silence. And quiet people. He really doesn’t mind Lily talking a lot, but it gets too much sometimes.

He’s not completely in his right mind when he’s fully transformed, also because it usually happens when he’s really upset. It’s a bit like having zero control of your own actions, while they’re still yours, as in it’s what you would want to do, but it doesn’t feel like you’re the one doing it. 

He hears his friends’ consciousness a lot inside. It can get outright MPD-ish.

He drinks coffee with a lot of milk and sugar and it makes Keith feel personally offended because it ‘desecrates it’.

Once the s1 plot is over, he starts getting really interested in all the research behind his creation and things they did at Jaula Blanca. He spends his free time looking into it, it’s like a journey of self-discovery. 

#ask meme #anon #ask #koku #Anonymous