#I realize this isn't from a fandom

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID: an 11 panel comic featuring characters from the owl house. Panel 1- a cloaked Darius sneaking around a wall. panel 2 he peaks around the corner, saying "well? Did you retrieve...the package?". Panel 3 Hettie Cutburn (who has old Hollywood style text announcing "surprise Hettie Cutburn!" next to her) says "Darius! Of course! Took some digging but I found them eventually. Tell the boy I say 'hi!'". Panel four- she hands documents labeled "classified" to Darius. Later, Hunter (post timeskip) walks through a door in Darius' home, saying "hey Darius, hey Eber, I'm ba-". Next panel- Darius, Willow, and Eberwolf on the couch. Hunter says "...willow?", She replies "hey hunter!", he asks "what are you guys doing?

Darius says "oh nothing...except looking at pictures of you as a baby!" Holding up the documents from earlier. We see two pictures of a younger hunter framed like panels- the first is of hunter as a baby/toddler aged hunter freshly sprouted out of the ground with a blanket around him, covered in dirt, while the second one shows a young scout Hunter covered in bandages receiving his sprig plushie. Darius' narration reads "courtesy of Hettie Cutburn- she found the only surviving copy of your early life medical records and gave them to me". Willow says "aww, you were so cute!". The final panel shows Hunter looking embarrassed/stunned as Willow takes a photo of the documents, and Darius says "I'm considering it an early father's day present- so, thank you, Hunter". End ID]

MERRY DADRIUS WEEK!!! Thank you to @sergeantsporks for hosting! There's other prompts I wanna do but they'll probably be late (maybe I'll do them in bulk and upload them on the final day). Til then here's a silly comic!

#the owl house #toh #dadrius week #hunter toh #hunter deamonne #darius deamonne #won't tag eber and willow cause they're barely there #also i realize that op isn't really a fan of hubtlow i. literally forgot while making this the brainrot was so strong #it's not explicitly romantic though so hopefully it's not obtrusive. i know ships are allowed but i don't wanna annoy anyone yknow? #anyway this was 90% an excuse to draw baby hunter even though it was 90% me practicing drawing Darius #he's fun to draw! i just struggle w drawing him consistently but like. i do that w/ most characters from illustration to illustration #i finished this right under the wire. executive dysfunction and exams really got my ass #but it's finished now! not perfect but i haven't really made a proper comic since my final piece this year #on account of that one took me like 6 months #i needed comic recovery time 😭 #also hope the ID isn't an issue for anyone since it's a bit spartan. i was trying to trim down it's length since a) it's long as fuck #and b) this fandom is- respectfully- whimpy as hell abt image IDs #but anyway yeah! happy dadrius week #and also happy fathers day if you celebrate! #i got my dad 'do androids dream of electric sheep' and he was really happy w/ that :]

[general-illyrin]

I recently re-read (again XD) @that-angry-noldo's incredible fic about Finrod knowing he's being played by Celegorm & Curufin, but choosing to trust them! Afterwards, I began thinking about what sort of masks they would wear to the ball, and I figured Celegorm would wear something like a full-face wolf-shaped mask. But you just know Curufin would be audacious enough to wear a mask with gems reminiscent of the Silmarils in Finrod's halls.

#This is why he isn't wearing much jewelry; he doesn't want to take away from the impact of waltzing in with the 'Silmarils' on his forehead #Also I think this would only develop the more secure in his position at Nargothrond he feels and the weaker he thinks Finrod is #And I think Finrod would realize this #so I can't imagine how he reacts the first time this happens #(bonus points if it happens near when Beren shows up asking for help) #my art #curufin #silmarillion #silm #silm art #silm fanart #tolkien #tolkien fanart #the silm fandom #the silmarillion

[essenceofarda]

Once i had a fic idea (that I still wanna get back to writing one day) that was the REVERSE* of the "Girl falls into middle Earth" trope, so instead it was "Prince Eldarion of Gondor falls into modern day Earth", and lives for a very confused time in modern day America, where he falls in love with a modern-day woman who he ends up taking back with him to Middle Earth when he Does manage to return, and so the fic would cover two timelines so to speak, or more...

take dual place in both like,,, modern day Earth where he's grappling with the craziness that is technology and modern day... everything, and then also in Middle Earth where she is grappling with "holy shit he was telling the TRUTH about where he came from????????" etc and it was... yeah sure, ridiculous, cliche, and probably something no one would be interested in reading, LOL, but it would satisfy that itch of mine to write a SUPER Self-Indulgent lotr fic 🤣🤔

#lotr #lord of the rings #tolkien fics #lotr fic #lotr fanfic #lotr fanfiction #my writing #I still might write it 👀 #tbh i've decided 2024 is the year i finish some fanfics 👀👀 #but also like... just get invovled in fandom more bc i kinda strayed away from it from 2021-2023... #and i feel like i'm happier when i'm creating fandom stuff #I don't know if it's bc it tends to be more unapologetically self-indulgent... #or whether the constant feeling of 'if i'm not monetizing this its worthless' isn't applicable to fandom stuff #but yeah.. i want to do more fanfic writing and fancomic writing and #just all in all more fanart #i mean it kinda IS still a girl falls into middle earth but more it's a 'girl follows her husband to a magical land and suddenly realizes #he's not crazy' lol #but you get the drift haha

[apopcornkernel]

thinking about how 200~ notes is seen as criminally low for fanart posts but most fic writers i know would be overjoyed with even just half of that. or a quarter, even

#its me im most fic writers #poppy speaks #this isnt to hate on anyone; i just realized that we (writers and artists) have pretty different standards in terms of engagement #like the artist im rbing a 'support your content creators more' post from probably has a higher... baseline of notes? if that makes sense #meanwhile most of my writer friends' posts barely crack 50 #actually sometimes it's not even past 20 or 30 notes #actually #this is probably because most people relegate fanfic reading to AO3 #and reading fanfic directly on tumblr or other socmeds isn't that popular an option #because AO3 is already there #and art is generally just more accessible tbh #gifs too #i think most fic readers only begin to read fic for a fandom when they're in a little deep #most casual fans meanwhile just rb a couple textposts art or gifs and then move on

[five-of-cr]

here's the thing about matthias: he isn't the honorable, reformed hero some of the fandom seems to see him as.

yes, he was raised by a tight-knit family of comrade soldiers and decides to betray them in the end. of course that took incredible strength. i don't deny that. but we also need to recognize that the drüskelle are not just some rogue cult. they are a core part of the fjerdan government, who is trying to wipe out the grisha because they are seen as dangerous. that's literally just genocide. however indoctrinated someone is, this is something that is evil from every angle, even if the character can't or won't see it.

and look, i love a good redemption arc, but matthias is such a passive actor in his. he falls in love with nina against his will. she changes his attitudes toward grisha because she's beautiful and kind so all grisha can't be bad, right? this a classic example of the trope of separating the "good ones" from the rest, where you cherry-pick specific individuals to point to as exceptions to a group's nature, which is still implied to be evil. you have to do a lot more than fall in love to truly unearth and address the roots of bigotry.

tbh, this is my biggest critique of the books as a whole. i loathe the "love conquers all" trope that pairs together a character from the oppressed group and one from the oppressors, letting the one show the other through the power of love that being bigoted is not nice. it puts all the responsibility on the former to prove their humanity, and gives all the credit to the latter's ability to be persuaded to recognize it. and then it inevitably leads to forgiveness, because the character has "earned" it by changing their views, once again making the victim seem like the villain if they don't absolve the oppressor of their past "mistakes". also, it's incredibly unrealistic for someone to fall in love with a person who actively hates them and considers them sub-human. in real life, people have to work on their bigotry before that happens, not use the relationship as a plot device for character development.

i think the idea of writing a character like matthias is neat. i think portraying someone's struggle to throw off the suffocating, hateful dogma they've been fed all their life is a story we need more of. i think personal growth of this variety should be celebrated, because otherwise people would never change. but i don't think the people, fictional or real, get to do this without facing profound consequences. it is not enough to feel sorry. it is not enough to apologize. it is definitely not enough to fall in love. and i think writing that lets people off the hook like this grossly oversimplifies power and oppression, and ends up being a feel-good way to romanticize people who cause a lot of harm.

a last note: my opinion is 100% influenced by my being bipoc. matthias is a classic aryan supremacist, even if being aryan isn't the thing he's being supremacist about. my gut reaction to that type of character is always going to be mistrust, both because people in real life have given me reason to be mistrustful and because characters like these are often written in a way that makes you sympathize with oppressors. i don't think matthias earns that trust, and i don't see why i owe him my affection as a reader.

#i know i'm usually a 'haha silly little textpost' blog (and don't get me wrong i still am) but this has been on my mind for a while #to be clear i don't think you have to hate him as a character to be a morally upstanding person #and there's nothing inherently wrong about relating to him either #but i do think we as a fandom (a very white one at that) need to acknowledge this #especially because it carries over beyond fiction #stories are powerful and the messages we take from them stick with us even after we close the book #plus even by the end he still is very bigoted #and i realize that he would have had more time to work on himself if he hadn't... y'know #but that's why i like fanon matthias a lot better #he's usually further along in his unlearning process or he actually has to experience that process in a realistically painful way #in fact i really *like* matthias fanon where he actually grapples with his hatred and comes out a better person for it when it's done well #i.e. when he isn't simply forgiven by everyone (especially nina) because he says sowwy #i am thankful to leigh bardugo for creating this universe AND i think she fumbled the matthias redemption arc #nuance!! it exists!!! #ok rant over #also absolutely NO calahan hate on this post #in this house we do not equate characters with their actors #soc #soc spinoff #matthias helvar #helnik #nina zenik #sab #six of crows #save six of crows #save shadow and bone #shadow and bone #crooked kingdom #grishaverse

[sekwar]

I will no longer repress my interests

#sekwar's art #artists on tumblr #patapon #patapon oc #shiru #i drew this because of the realization that this year marks a decade of posting art online #from deviantart to tumblr and my failed attempts at newgrounds and instagram #10 years seems to be a theme for 2024 isn't it? #and on june 30 2024 that's the 10 year mark #now i'm not leaving on that day! i'll merely reflect on how far i've come #and if tumblr dies this year i have a backup plan thank god #anyway i think i'm at the point where i'm no longer afraid to post about patapon #i have a pretty tumultuous relationship with the fandom and the only way i could get over it is to just #make patapon art and post it on tumblr #so here we are #i had to scrap a few ocs of mine due to bad memories or because i just didn't like them anymore #now i have just ten left and we're building it up from there #if i get any more ideas that is... #also i'm trying a new art style! i never drew with coloured outlines before #so i'll mess around and see what sticks! #ok i'm going to bed

[thedeadestmeme]

screeching and crying right now. i've really been out here seeing the aroace flag and thinking it's the c!tommy flag. please remove me from existance i'm so sorry

#bro i realized the truth from an aroace FNAF pic on pinterest that said 'go fuck urself' #i'm gonna cry #bro why am i like this #/nsrs /j but like [screeching cat meme] #please tell me you guys remember the c!tommyinnit flag #i am so sorry aroace people #i love you but i saw the colors and went 'lmaooo i can't escape this fandom. it keeps popping up everywhere' #this isn't meant to be cringe #it was an iconic moment in history and very funny of us at the time #but the void should delete me from existing for a while #oh my godsssss i'm gonna cRYYYY #/nsrs /lh #c!tommy #dsmp

[drewsaturday]

slightly mean little fandom rant that may not be very coherent because i am admittedly in a state of disorientation but like. anon is off so it's not like i'll have to experience consequences if i misspeak.

i hate being in that weird space of not having any new fandoms that have good communities, but any newer communities for my older fandoms are just insufferable to me because... we've already had these exact conversations about 7.2 times each by now minimum, whether it's discourse-related or just a silly headcanon, and it causes the only contributions i can actually make to be combative because i'm tired and these lengthy conversations are unnecessary to have for Me to come to the Right Conclusions.

and then i become insufferable as a result because i am just as annoyed by everyone else's earlier stage of fandom development, which they can't help, as they probably are at me and my comparatively elder fan jadedness because the repetitiveness of these experiences just is not hitting in the ways i need my fandom experiences to hit rn, where i'd ideally get to grow with people on similar levels as me?

it's like you guys are in kindergarten and i am a college freshman looking to advance the stuff i've already spent years building, so it would be mean of me to say "you are all so stupid" instead of appreciating your new enthusiasm at the world and its possibilities but god. we are not the same. and finding people who are the same, at least for those older fandoms, is a rough time because the amount of people who stick with a thing as long as you have is going to dwindle year after year if you've even had a slightly comparable starting point in the first place.

it would just be easier if i could join new communities for shows as they drop but... i'm either not into anything popular enough to have other fans at all in fanon environments, they are TOO popular and so i can't really connect to anyone, or binge watch culture makes community impossible to form at all... OR i am the annoying new fan that is as insufferable as the older fans and there are no other new fans around to match that energy either.

obviously the solution really is just dragging pre-existing friends into things as much as you can but... sometimes i just miss the lightning in a bottle novelty of being able to join a space at its beginning where everyone is about at that same level looking to hang out with other fans and make friends for a few years until you all exhaust that magic and hope you find another lucky place to plant some roots.

#txt #i am grateful i do have some friends and friend groups from older fandoms that have withstood time or that we just are on the same level #but like . i still have so many little gaps in my heart from places that became inactive or friends that i fell out of touch with etc that #i just. am not able to bring anything new into because i am reliant on the internet for my social experiences tm #and sadlyyyyyyy i'm just not matching with anywhere that has potential friends 2 adopt #maybe i need to try non-fandom communities but that means i need to develop new hobbies and i don't have time rip #actually. i am Realizing. in many cases the Perfect Communities i have found #i ended up being the one to start which y'knowww comes with bias #but i kinda forgot that if something isn't out there i used to have the time to just do it myself #and in recent cases where i've realized there's an absence of community for things i like #if no one else has done it i know i can't shoulder that responsibility rn so nothing happens #obvs it has not always been me - there have been a few started by other ppl too #it's just something thattt i can't do anything about rn but is a helpful littel realization i suppose

[moononastring]

Just because your personal headcanon doesn't line up with what happened in the actual book doesn't mean the book is bad/wrong. It just means the author wrote what they wanted and what is true to the character and not what you wanted.

You can make your guesses and yell all you want about what you think is right but canon is canon whether you like it or not. Your headcanon is not canon so rereading the actual books might be helpful to differentiate between what is true and what you made yourself believe is true. The author will always know their characters better than you think you do since those characters wouldn't exist without the author.

#gpost #fandom wank #just in general #people think criticizing the text is a whole ass personality trait. #it's why no one likes being part of anything anymore #but also this isn't for people who genuinely just have fun with things #because those people realize 'hey i'm going to crackship or make up things or fic or headcanon that I know would never happen' #'but I'm going to do it because it's fun without me bashing the author because they didn't do it in the book' #people these days always post with the 'I'm right and if you don't agree you're stupid' #and my gal pals #my hot mamas #we're on this website for no other reason than to be weird #also these books are never that deep and I'll keep shouting it from the rooftops #if y'all had fun just reading and enjoying the story for what it is the way the author writes the story FOR FUN #we'd enjoy this place so much more #this isn't some platform where we have cult leaders and 'influencers or some shit lmao #this is fucken fiction #biggest advice (and this is to myself first): except nothing so that way you won't be disappointed #I dont' even wanna think about what's next in terms of events/plots/ships because ya know what? #You never know. You really never know. #So I will take what I am given and either enjoy it or not. #sorry for this random rant on this fine Monday #but just been my thoughts lately.

[ladyseidr]

i'm literally trying to figure out why my brain decided my jeremy has a new jersey accent 🧍

#☽—— ⸢ ooc ⸥ #f n a f / #.tbd. #literally had the 'wait is this even My Idea??? did my brain steal this & not tell me????' thought LMAO #i don't even know anything abt how the fandom perceives him so like what. huh. #no but i've been thinking abt him ( + potential dynamics with The Michaels ) #and realizing that i was just defaulting to him having that accent in my head???????????? #i mean okay sure i guess him being from NJ is canon now #me when 99% of the muses i write in hurricane are not in fact FROM utah #( even my henry isn't LMAO )

[charlotterenaissance]

taking screenshots of my own posts and edits that i made here for tumblr so i can sort them nicely on pinterest but making sure to keep my handle on it because i believe in crediting artists

#am i little salty i keep seeing screenshots on pinterest of stuff i've made here #carefully cropped or even image flipped to hide where it came from #and it's just kinda like. i made that. but the average peruser isn't gonna know that #yeah a little. i mean. i know that unfortunately it comes with making stuff but still #no one's gonna realize it but me and considering we're not an overly large fandom it's easy to find it #it is kinda funny though. i saw a couple of my charlotte edits but cropped so weird like #they were trying to make it look like something new #anyway. credit artists

[aethersea]

The thing about the Joker is that he sees himself as The Only One Who Understands That Nothing Matters. Life’s a joke and all that's real is the punchline, and he’s always the one with the last laugh. And this lends itself really well to a fourth-wall-breaking character who winks at the audience like Bugs Bunny, because he KNOWS nothing is real and no consequences can truly touch him!

But, and this is the Key Thing about the Joker, that never happens. He never winks at the audience. He’s never actually in on the joke. And that’s because he’s not funny lying to himself. Things matter to him all the time actually! Everything matters SO MUCH, because the Joker thinks he’s the center of the whole entire universe and when people aren’t paying attention to him, he doesn’t laugh about it, he throws a massive temper tantrum.

And it’s not that he wants the spotlight, exactly. It’s that he wants to be vindicated. He wants to prove that his worldview is the correct one. He wants to prove that he’s right, and always was and always will be. Because he really does believe that he’s infallible.

But you can’t tell a good joke if you don’t know how to laugh at yourself.

#finx does fandom #dc comics #batvillains #dc meta #for the record I have never read a comic book in my life #so my joker opinions come from secondhand fandom + the heath ledger version #but this post is brought to you specifically by the young justice cartoon #the joker has just appeared for the first time and there was this moment #where he could totally have looked at the audience like he was on the office #and just....didn't #because he can't do that. he's not capable of it. he's not on that level. #and that may also be down to this version of him just not being very good #personally I have not been impressed with his jokes so far #and......hmm I can't decide if the heath ledger joker could ever pull this off #knee-jerk reaction says absolutely not – he's too driven & determined to ever really understand that he has an audience #that he's fictional; that he actually ISN'T real #but then I realized I can absolutely picture him doing it #but that's not really an assessment of his character so much as of his vibes #bc it has been a long time indeed since I watched the heath ledger joker #so. who knows! #guess I'll have to watch those movies again sometime #that said I cannot deny that it would be Rad As Hell if the joker actually looked the audience in the face and dared them #(us) #to come up with an actual refutation of his worldview #I hope they do that in the comics at some point bc hell yeah

[wundrousarts]

Fun Fact: If you use Twitter at all (in its dying days...), go check out the Nevermoor Quote Bot if you haven't already! It tweets out a Nevermoor quote every hour, pulling from the books and any extra chapters. It currently has 1016 quotes, and who knows how many Silverborn will bring.....

#nevermoor #nevermoor fandom #I just realized I don't think I ever shared about it on here lol #nevermoorbot my beloved. I don't want to lose youuuu </3 #took me like a year to deep dive the books + gather quotes not only bc I was busy and it was a lot but also bc I got distracted theorizing #was I perhaps too generous in choosing quotes? maybe. but it's not my fault that like every single part of the series is literally perfect #also despite the bank it has to choose from I feel like it does a ton of repeats which is. kinda annoying! #but I don't have the energy to trim it at all. nor do I think I would want to get rid of any of them tbh lol #anyways I hope that twitter and the nevermoorbot and cbdq stick around for silverborn and stuff to be released so I can add it #but who knowsssss #I might have to look into alternatives if it ever goes down </3 #anyways I love qrting stuff from this bot to my 2-5 nevermoor followers bc the fandom is NONEXISTENT on there which. oh well. #also this isn't a fun fact i've realized but IDGAF tbh!

[alto-is-a-cloud]

Screaming crying tearing my hair out every time someone refers to SS Link as a cute pretty boy uwu

Like have you played the game

Did you look at it did you see the things he does ??? OR WERE YOU IN A TRANSE THE WHOLE TIME YOU PLAYED IT SO YOU HAD NO RECOLLECTION OF SS BESIDES HIS APPEARANCE ?

He looks sweet, yes ! But he's a little bitch ! You've fallen right into his trap of forgetting every questionnable thing just because of his big luscious lips !

And then his love for zelda made yall forget about the fact that he killed a mfing god ??

Can we have anything in this world

#feeling very much like candace from phineas and ferb rn #'mom #the whole fandom portrayed SS Link as a big softie #AGAIN' #please i just want to see him behaving like any other link once in a while #why does he get special treatment 😭 #also not saying he isn't a big softie #he definitely is #but he is a lot more #huh this is making me realize he actually is getting the 'girl treatment' #yanno the misoginist one #where a full fledged character is reduced to their relationship ? :) #in most fics his whole thing is that he loves his zelda #and he ends up a big softie w a sword #EVEN BEING SOFT TO THE SWORD SMH #and it IS his character ! yes ! but NOT THE WHOLE CHARACTER ! GIVE ME SOMETHING MORE MAKE HIM WHOLE MAKE HIM SOMEONE !! #anyway i have feelings for the fic 'to isolate by poltea and sky_squido on ao3 go read it #sksw #loz #ramblings

[queernobi]

"The problem with fandom is how controlling fans can be about how you consume it, like the antis--" actually the REAL problem with fandom is that people end up forming a huge part of their identity, as well as an entire community, on a consumable product, and consuming a product in such a way will inevitably lead to toxicity within such a community.

It will lead to ridiculous infighting about the "right" way to consume a product, with folks completely willing to ignore any serious, socially damaging issues within the work, and others hyperfixating on those issues like they're the worst things currently happening on the entire planet.

Fandom as a whole inherently leads you to unhealthy ways of engaging with consumable art. It's not any subsection of fandom, it is fandom in its ENTIRETY.

I realize how difficult it is for people in fandom to accept this, speaking as someone who has found myself deep in fandom at times myself (and still sometimes engages in the same type of bullshit!), but when almost every studio is creating work that caters almost exclusively to fandom-type nonsense merely because they KNOW that that shit will create loyal, easily exploitable consumers, I feel like it's time to actually address the elephant in the room and accept that fandom as a whole should probably not exist.

#fandom #i saw a tweet from some weird person saying radicalization occurs because of antis in fandoms #and i need y'all to realize the issue isn't anti or proshippers or whatever ridiculous fandom drama you want to dredge up today #it is the very foundation of how fandoms are formed #i understand how empowering it can be to engage with art on a community level #but with capitalism there is no way to do such a thing that won't inevitably lead to toxicity or infighting or straight up reactionary bs

[amngtheflowers]

In the light of your brightness

#granblue fantasy #gbf #granblue #lucio #lucilius #fanart #i realize now the lucio tag is also home to characters of the same name from other fandoms so uh hi #if you see this and you're from a diff fandom i should probably clarify that this isn't inc*st #given the state of fandom