#2014 was SUCH.... a Different Time.....

[otiksimr]

for your art suggestion request I have brought you…. Kamata-Kun!!!!

I love my little guy so much.

#Shin Godzilla is such a good movie #recommend to everyone who hasn't seen it as of now #Watching Shin Godzilla and Godzilla (2014) is a freaking experience #Those two movies have wildly different perspectives on the same creature ? #concept? #EIther way fun times #Shin Godzilla is practically the definition of preventable disaster #my art #fanart #Shin godzilla #godzilla

[catilinas]

thinking about pararhymes <3 my favourite pairs atm are absolute / obsolete and traceless / truceless

#absolute/obsolete has been my fave since like. 2014 reading antigone for the first time #for reference. pararhymes are words with the same consonant sounds but different vowels. e.g. blood / blade in arms and the boy #beeps

[thefirstknife]

Hi Bel,

I keep seeing comments about people complaining about the quality of destiny’s writing and story in the last few weeks. I haven’t really engaged with destiny since season of defiance, what’s currently gotten everyone so riled up? I thought that people were enjoying Season of the Deep/Witch in terms of narrative, why is Season of the Wish causing people to deride the destiny writing staff again?

I don't know!

Deep and Witch have been absolute bangers in every aspect to me. I've been enjoying all interactions and lore tabs we've received. A lot of them are stuff that we've never had before, a lot of reunions and closures, a lot of development and interactions between characters who you wouldn't really think would have much in common.

Sloane's return and healing from what she's been through has been fantastic, Drifter opening up with her to help her because he also got help from others was fantastic, Sloane reuniting with Aisha and Shayura brought me to tears (Shayura's descent into madness was triggered by immense trauma of Sloane staying on Titan and Titan disappearing), everything with Sloane and Zavala...

Witch was just incredible in every single way; the focus on Eris, the amount of Eris and Ikora content!!!!! Everything about Xivu and Savathun and their interactions together!! Eris finally fulfilling her goal she promised Savathun YEARS ago, getting that closure.

Wish so far has been equally great to me. All the new stuff about Ahamkara is amazing, finally giving us proof for long-standing speculation about Ahamkara and how they aren't universally evil creatures and expanding on them as a species. I love all interactions we've had so far; finally we have Petra back, Mara's singleminded focus on figuring out how to defeat the Witness and her continuous work to improve as a person, ALL SJUR MENTIONS!!!!! I won't talk about the "leak" because we have no context for it so I will wait for the full story to be revealed before I can pass judgment; something that I think should be a lesson to learn from this entire year. Maybe wait for the story to finish before judging the story.

Literally everything this past year that involves Osiris, but especially this season now that he's back in his element with the Vex. And of course every little detail we get of him and Saint. Osiris honestly shaped this year for me with everything that he's done to uncover the biggest mysteries. I think a big reason is that a lot of people just don't like Osiris, which I consider a massive skill issue.

Other than that, I don't know what are the issues people have besides just not being interested in any of these storylines and attributing it to a nebulous "bad writing" claim. I also genuinely believe that way too many people get wrapped up too much in fandom, imagine storylines they want to see and then get disappointed when the actual story doesn't go there. Almost like people forget that this isn't their story and these aren't their characters. A lot of it is also fandom completely warping characters into not what they actually are and then feeling like the canon story is the one that's wrong.

Whatever is the reason, I guess everyone is entitled to their perspective of the story and everyone is free to explore the story in different ways through fanfics and AUs and whatever. I do that too!

But I would definitely ask people to be normal with how they engage in criticism, especially in the current state of affairs. Writers are developers; they experience a ton of harassment and negativity from the community and also from inside the company. And they are online: they can see what we're saying. It's been documented that community commentary has been used to harass writers:

Imprint this into your brain and never forget what these people had to go through. Let's not forget also the way people treated Seth Dickinson on social media when he was active with Destiny fans. "Fans" were actively arguing with him about his own work (telling him that HE is wrong) and were utterly disgusting towards him when he tried explaining what he wrote. His works are now hailed as the best writing in Destiny and people want him back. If I were him, I wouldn't want to come back ngl, not with how he was treated and not with how fans are still treating writers (and hey, Seth wrote LF Collector's Edition! So he was back, technically, this year!). Let's not forget that a lot of writers are members of various marginalised groups. And I'd definitely not want to go back with zero support from leadership.

Which is also an important aspect for all developers, including writers: sometimes they have orders they may not like, but can't argue against. They do the best they can with what they're given, the time they have and directions they receive. And with that in mind, I am enjoying everything we've gotten this year, obviously with some specific complaints about things I didn't particularly enjoy (like the universally mid reception of Defiance; I've spoken about my gripes with it before, a big one being the shafting of Suraya who should've at least been mentioned in a lore tab).

I can tell that there is passion in their work, even if maybe they would prefer to do more with it, but can't. Maybe even if they want to take different routes, but can't. But from what we got, I can feel that they care about this world and these characters. I can tell that someone lovingly wrote about Sloane and her friendships with two grieving women. I can tell that they deeply cared about Sloane's friendship with Zavala and that they loved showing us Saint and Drifter caring about a fellow trauma survivor.

I can tell that the writers are immensely careful and loving towards Eris; everything she went through was crafted with love and passion from both writers and her VA. Eris' story is such a fundamental aspect of Destiny and I can tell that this was important to the writing team and that they gave her everything they could to do justice to her character and her arc and her healing and her release from the cycle she was trapped in for so long.

I can tell that there are writers who care a lot about Osiris and Saint and their relationship. I can tell that someone cared a lot about expanding on Ahamkara and giving them more personalities. I can tell that someone cared DEEPLY about Sjur and Mara and that her repeated mentions are the passionate work of writers who want us to remember her.

I could go on. And I know that not everyone sees it this way, which is fine; we all have different ways of perceiving stories. I enjoy discussing things we in the fandom disagree on and I enjoy hearing different perspectives! Unfortunately, this has recently become rarer and rarer. And for the love of god, please try and treat writers with some respect, especially now, especially those who are still working and doing their best with the shitty situation they're in. None of the cries of "poor devs" ring true to me unless the same is given to writers, instead of treating them like punching bags.

#destiny 2 #long post #for the record: yeah i also have some gripes with some writing decisions. it's normal #but i feel like those are things that i can learn to accept or let go or even have my mind changed with a different perspective #or by just accepting that the writing team was limited in some way and that this was the best they could do #it happens to every story at some point #and yeah capitalism is the death of art. destiny's story would be better from start to finish if it weren't a shooter mmo #but that ship has sailed a long time ago. like. in 2014. #it's honestly a miracle that we got even a fraction of the stuff we got considering the target audience of fps mmos #and it's fine if this just isn't good enough to some. happens #but i think we can move on without being shitty about devs yeah? #in all likelihood writers may even agree that some of the stuff they had to write isn't the best or isn't what they wanted #calling them bad writers over circumstances we don't understand is just shitty #just like it's shitty to do it to any other dev over bugs in the game or badly implemented features or whatever #none of these people are sitting at their desks maliciously laughing while deliberately creating 'bad' things #and this is especially bothering me for writers because of how atrocious people are to artists of all kinds #almost like writers had to strike this year to be respected and treated as people that matter

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: made a HUGE amount of progress this week (for context—purple is unfinished & yellow is finished; last week all of them were purple) … i am in the home stretch here

#and then… it will be time for me to say goodbye i think #some darkstar politics in here #driven by an essay I read last year titled tinted blue: Air Force culture & American civil-military relations #everyone has a different idea of what modern warfare will look like #1 & 2 are from the same section obviously… i just think it’s interesting #& i wrote elsewhere in may maybe that ice & mav would be on opposite sides of this debate #ice with his big picture managerial perspective… it’s good for warfare… mav with his specialist pilot loyalty POV #obviously their conversation predates the russia-ukraine war which has shown drone warfare in its fullest to date potential #4. is… idk. does it help to tell you it takes place in 2014? #3. * #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #top gun #top gun maverick #top gun fanfiction #sorry for the like defense ethics conversations if that’s boring #i just think that stuff is philosophically so interesting

[wanderingcas]

suddenly feeling so nostalgic for supernatural fandom pre-2016

#WHAT A TIME MAN. WHAT A TIME #not that post 2016 wasn't good too #just. it hit different #i joined the tumblr fandom in 2014 so i can't speak for before that but. yeah #i can't even explain it #the jokes the vibe the energy the friendships #i made some of my friends that i STILL talk to today around that time!! #and this all isn't to say the fandom today isn't fun to be in it was just different back then #in bad ways too lol #but i'm nostalgic!! just!! #I CANT EXPLAIN MYSELF #sam rambles

[touteytout]

another character template thing for uriyah.... i change half of these facts every couple of months but its still fun to fill out

#uriyah (oc) #also she doesnt really has a set timeline but most of the time i draw her its when shes in her mid twenties? so around 2014-2018... #but the only things thatd be different now (2024) is maybe a bachelors and a (shared) house... also no more drugs and smorking (yippie) #ough its so embarassing to write abt my ocs like yeah i guess heres my little guy.... she smells like smoke and still uses windows 7......

[icewindandboringhorror]

#AND leave your reasoning/arguments behind what you picked in the tags if you have any. this is a very serious topic!!!! #also these are the Official titles of the images to me. like I will reference ''gordon ramsay big hammer'' as a full title #kind of like how that one weird image of a cat from an old painting is just called ''blort cat'' to me #and some of my friends know what I mean when I say ''blort cat'' #polls #i know gordon ramsay isn't even like a funny meme topic anymore (kind of like how 2014 or something was the last time #anyone cared about guy fieri in a joking way or etc. or how it was popular to make fun of bendecit cumbperatbs for a while #or etc. etc. These images are NOT about gordon ramsay The Man #theyre more about the Essence. the vibe they portray. If you get it you get it..) #these are two different people with two different energies.. 'big hammer' is stern.. focused.. confident. quietly threatening #'rather large knife' is shorter in stature and less imposing but still smugly wielding his weapon. vibing. a nonchalant smile with a hint #of pain somewhere underneath. Big Hammer is more agile and sprightly but Rather Large Knife could hit harder #and block better with his enormous blade. etc. etc. so on and so forth

[celestial-sapphicss]

reblog and put in tags the prominent musical artists phases in your life

#im just intrigued what music would consume you beyond repairrrrrr #if you're not acting a little crazy while consuming music are you really doing it right???? #bon's queen gifset of sand made me think of this so bon if u see thissss #prior to 2013 i was a bollywood girlieeee and bollywood is almost entirely playback singing which an entire different thinggggh #2013 - enrique iglesias #2014 - maroon 5 #2015 - coldplay #2016 - sam smith #2017 - ed sheeran & calvin harris #2018 - Queen & george ezra #2019 - p!atd (i KNOW) & khalid #2020 - harry styles & idkhbtfm & troye sivan #2021 - billie eilish & conan gray & hozier #2022 to present - taylor swift #vi.txt #the embarrassment i feel when i remember some of the absolute unhinged stuff i have done in some of then phases AAAAAAAA #i have never truly been a normal fangirl smh especially as a fucking teenager #in class 9 my friends and i LEGITIMATELY CUT A BIRTHDAY CAKE for shahid kapoor IN THE CLASSROOM during recess infront of all #he wasn't even really that popular at the time WHICH IS EVEN MORE STUPID GOD THE THINGS I HAVE DONE #and like i wasn't even that big of a fan but my closest best friend at the time was into him hence so was i #although in hindsight it was just because i had started exhibiting gay feelings subconsciously but wE wErE jUsT tHe bEsTeSt oF fRiEnDs ufff #im not wiser of course i can be tempted to be that unhinged again #the reblog game is just an excuse for shitposting this in the tags tbh #idk why i am even making this post tho #only friends has rotted my brain tbh #ALSO in 2015-2017 the internet stand up comedy scene was booming in india and that phase was truly even more embarrassing for me #it was the reason i joined instagram and the CRINGE i feel when i sort my likes and comments from oldest to newest GOODNESSS #truly an insufferable fan rip my mom and my friends #such a core teenage girlhood (genderneutral) experience methinks #if this flops.....you never saw it heheh

[sunforgrace]

I appreciate we’ve since freed ourselves from the shackles of One Blonde One Brunette since we’ve left the 2010’s behind. two brunettes should be able to kiss sloppy

#so much fanart of blonde dean. his ass is not blonde #just because he had that hair color at age 4 in the pilot does not make a blonde for life #as well as Height difference and pair the spares which meant if there was a brother character you simply must find another side character #to ship them with lest fandom large accuse you of giving them nothing. henceforth the my-strade sa-briel era of 2014 #remembering that time an anon sent me an ask complaining about my use of brunette because it’s feminine. well maybe I just like typing the #extra t and e #now if we could only free ourselves from the blue eyed industrial complex* [*I say as my brown eyes ass stares deep into the eyes of cas #images kicking my feet and giggling]

[leapdayowo]

Trying to get a short paper written before midnight for class that is about the differences between the fnaf games and the movie. I love this class and I love being in college :3 fr it’s surreal talking about this stuff academically

#it’s only three paragraphs long so very very brief and only tackling major points #about the plot and what is the same and different #high school was such a nightmare and college can be at times but it’s less of a nightmare because we talk about this kind of stuff #in my classes and there’s more of a choice which makes it more enriching #fnaf phase refuses to leave I have 2014 markiplier playing in the background #totally don’t have another paper I’ve been ignoring due soon..

[stitchwraith-stingers]

surprised i have not seen someone make a fnaf movie animation based off the 2014 animations ... i need my ms paint circle tool shakey lines in celebration for waiting on this movie for like 9 years

#calico.exe #fnaf #fnaf movie #HONESTLY we need to bring back more pmvs i barely see them #its mostly theories and stuff i see on youtube if i get reccomended ... the 2014's were different man #yeah it was known as the worst fandom back then but lord was it a goldmine for cool little animations #something something time is flowing and im having a mental crisis

[roseyboy]

as of this year my blog is a decade old so That's weird

#personal #2014 was a whole different time and human

[malrie]

the way these blacklisted tags are actually antique. older than most second graders today. you don’t get what it was like back then… do not cite the deep magic to me witch…I was there when it was WRITTEN

#my unblacklisted ones? pipabeth of course. jasipereo…. #don’t come for me abt solangelo it was different times in 2014 post-boo I promise #but also. JFJJWNWEJFI #wait are the valdangelos alive still did they survive at all

[sendme-2hell]

Just started watching The 100 (so I can read the fanfic) and let me just say it’s so insanely distracting when tv shows have the men all look grimy and normal-ish and the women are all in modern makeup. Like how am I supposed to take this seriously at all

#the 100 #2014 was a different time fr

[tomwambsmilk]

something something I think the discourse around whether or not its acceptable to criticize fics and in what context in part stems from the way online fandom has changed and now resides primarily in spaces where it's extremely difficult to effectively curate your own experience, and even the platforms which give you some tools to do that (like tumblr) are still fundamentally public platforms rather than closed/intentional communities. older fandom spaces resembled discord servers more than tumblr or twitter and so older fandom etiquette vs newer fandom etiquette have been shaped around different kinds of spaces. and this even extends to fic platforms - in the past most fic was hosted in spaces dedicated to specific fandoms or interests (with some exceptions) or even subsections of fandom, whereas now most of it is hosted on ao3 which, while it does give you strong navigation tools is also fundamentally a very open and public platform. don't have the presence of mind right now to trace the specifics of how this effects current day fandom discourse but I think it HAS to be a major factor

#my first fanfiction exposure was from a website that was dedicated to fic from only one fandom #unfortunately that website is defunct now #and a lot of my early fic experience also came from curated LJ lists #with links to like. personal websites and random blogs i would never have stumbled across organically #i was 13 at the time and already a lot of these reclists were outdated + full of broken links #idk I think a lot about how my early fandom experience circa 2012-2014 looks entirely different from my 2023-2024 fandom experience

[ganja-hq]

Wait a minute. I just thought back to my child psych ward days and good golly gosh did they. commit a lot of hmmm,, medical malpractice,, that might've had some effect on my psyche

#they put me in an adult high security psych ward at 14 didn't give me any therapy instead they got me hooked on benzos #they didn't have enough nurses so whenever nore than one patient was having an Episode they'd just tranq everyone and put em in the cage bed #fun fact this was the same hospital where Hans Asperger did his thing #at a different hospital i was yet again in an adult ward as a minor in which i received no therapy and spent all day alone in my room #i stopped taking my meds at some point and they did nothing until it triggered my first and only psychotic episode #this was 2014 so it was fnaf themed :/ #those same guys would just let me weigh myself whenever and didn't stop me until i was weighing myself like six times a day #omg i remember now one time i came to the nurse's office because i was dizzy and weak and basically passed out as soon as i walked in #hit my head pretty hard but i woke up to them just berating me for passing out? #AND IN THAT SAME WARD some grown ass man flashed me (STILL 14) and when i told the doctor they made ME move wards #which obv includes switching doctors and treatment plans because why would the two wards communicate with each other #brooo #there was actually so much fucked up shit going on? #ganja's diary