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crabsnpersimmons · 26 days
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READING YOUR TAGS AND IT WAS ONE OF MY POSTS THAT CONVINCED YOU TO JOIN????? I AM SO SO HONORED!!!! ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I AM SO GRATEFUL YOU'RE IN THE FANDOM, YOUR ART OF THE DCA IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!!!!
IT WAS!!! IT WAS THIS ONE: https://www.tumblr.com/cacaocheri/737396340539146240/the-dca-fandom-is-genuinely-the-healthiest-fandom
and like even before that i loved seeing your comics of Sun and Charlie (and occasionally Moon)! and all the energy and excitement of the fandom! just bursting with creativity and fun!
AND THANK YOU!! i'm happy to be here :')
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bumbleboa · 4 months
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I have been talking a lot about how I want to be less precious about my sketches but still end up hoarding everything in files that never see the light of day because I think they don't measure up (to my own expectations).
But you know what? This is fanart, it's not meant to be polished since it's just for me and maybe someone else gets a kick out of my doodles as well, so let's end 2024 with a bit of a sketch dump from my files.
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cherry-bomb1985 · 14 days
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I feel like The Father and Hell both understand and experience love in all the worst ways.
The Father sought to create a life form that would follow and love him unconditionally. It wasn't enough that he had a great cosmic kingdom of angels who are unquestioningly loyal, no, he needed something that knew suffering and mortality and the threat of oblivion, and would still find love at the end; love for him above all else. But after numerous implied failures at that, in his desperation, he instead created the threat of eternal damnation to force them to love him in order avert that fate. Lucifer's words must have been like a splash of cold water, but by the time he realized sheer magnitude of suffering he had unintentionally set into motion, it was too late. He could not destroy Hell; he could not stop the cycle of violence.
That guilt drove him to seek a death that, from the looks of it, eluded him in spite of the hollowness consuming him. And now he is... somewhere, helpless to stop his experiments from consuming one another and themselves in a glorious show of blood and violence.
And then there's Hell itself, who seems to recognize love as an act of violence and cruelty. It is something that derives joy only from the suffering of other living creatures. God gave it so many toys to hurt and break and reform, and Mankind gave it new ones. Why would it understand love as anything but? It gave Minos a facsimile of the son he is most ashamed of, and delighted when he cast it, once more, into a labyrinth. Gabriel flattened all the souls within it's confines beneath his heel and gave those that did bend false hopes.
Now there's V1, tearing its way through the remaining layers and creating a spectacle of violence like nothing Hell has ever witnessed before. How could it not love them all for all the entertainment they've provided?
But deep within its recesses, hidden away from the eyes of Heaven, there was a Gutterman. A machine built for war, who eventually came to love that which it gave it life at the cost of their own. Enough to give the human welded within their coffin the mercy that both Heaven and Hell had denied them; enough to write a single love letter to them, even knowing that it would never be read by its intended recipient.
So, as things turn out, you /can/ teach a machine to love. And they will understand and experience it more sincerely than God or Hell ever could.
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thepoisonroom · 14 days
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frankly we need more acknowledgement that sometimes you have an first/early/formative gay kiss or sexual experience and you're like wow that sucked ass maybe i got it wrong but actually sometimes gay dating and kissing and sex just aren't very good. as is true for all dating and kissing and sex. many such cases
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aphel1on · 7 months
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not sure how to phrase this but something i have been ruminating on recently is that xue yang is strangely fragile. obviously he is also incredibly resilient. he survived, and continues to survive, impossible things. he has a million barriers between himself and the world, but none of this actually matters when it comes to what he feels. everything is personal to him. everything pierces straight through all that armor and goes right to his battered heart, the heart that no one else believes he has. that even he is not fully cognizant of. the world strikes and strikes and strikes and so he strikes and strikes and strikes back, even (especially) when the wound is something other people would not think worthy of retribution.
xue yang would never realize this- would be outraged at the concept of it- but the way everything, everything is something to rally a defense against is in itself a form of fragility. he does not know how to let go of things, or let them pass him by. passivity is death. so he is ruthlessly cruel and violent. he projects himself as a lunatic untouchable by anything you might possibly do to him, and on some level he even believes this. but in actuality he is one raw emotional wound. he never learned to separate himself from his emotions, much less process them. the volatility is not so much insanity as it is the constant lashing out of an animal in a trap, and the trap is the world, and the trap is himself, and he is never going to get out. and like so much else, this pain is just part of the background radiation of his life. it hardly registers. to be able to register the hurt, you would have to be able to register a time in which you were not hurt.
i feel like it is a fragility that could blossom into such tenderness, given exactly the right set of circumstances. how at the very first touch of softness in his life he fell into a domesticity from which he never recovered. how much was there, still, to be salvaged from the cruelty. on some level i am always thinking about the little apple bunnies. about the meal for daozhang and the straw in a-qing's bed.
it was too little, too late. it shattered like glass when the world intruded back in. but the tenderness was there. no one, least of all xue yang, knows what might have happened had it been unearthed in him any sooner.
#he is easy to hurt. this is a fact. it is also anathema to his own self conception as well as the model of him in anyone elses minds.#xue yang#yi city#mdzs#aphelion.txt#xy#Contact is crisis; every touch is a modified blow#<- xycore anne carson quote. if you even care#meta#i guess? idk#it is always character analysis hour in my head#with a disclaimer that whether or not someone experiences empathy is NOT correlated to their morality#i dont think its necessarily that xy is incapable of empathy it's that any empathy that might exist in him is deeply deeply repressed#bc he views it as a death warrant. he (at every moment in his head and really quite often in reality) is on trial for his life#and it would be suicidal to give a shit about anyone who is not him.#especially since he knows- down to his bones- that no one is ever going to give a shit about him EXCEPT FOR him#the one chance he ever got to escape this cycle of brutality came with an expiration date built in by consequence of his past atrocities#and he only first started to comprehend anything about his own emotions after it was all already irrevocably fucked#in canon he is doomed. in fandom i am always picking him up and putting him somewhere kinder#shakes you by the shoulders do you understand what he does to me. do you. do you#if you tell me im excusing his crimes i will kill you w my lazer beam.#this isnt ABOUT THAT. this is ME BEING UNHINGED ABT HIS PSYCHOLOGY in a moral vaccuum.#i'm not saying 'hes sensitive uwu' but like i kind of am. unfortunately it mostly just motivates him to murder people#OH and when i connect the fragility to the tenderness i dont mean that i believe hes like. secretly soft#i mean that being as he is so deeply impacted by people's slights against him. he is just as deeply impacted by people's kindnesses#and he's not incapable of reciprocating it. he is INCREDIBLY fucking bad at it. but not incapable#ok i have to post this before i feel compelled to ramble any longer in the tags. jesus#got consumed by my a-yang feelings on a sunday morning sorry#not sure why i worded it as 'continues to survive' other than a constant subconscious denial that xue yang is dead
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peligin-eyed · 4 months
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I am wondering if there is some overlap between FL players and people who were at one point into Homestuck, so: hello Fallen London folks!
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sunsetzer · 1 month
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On one hand, I want a final fantasy 6 remake, because the game is criminally underrated and the amount of fan content (which is all absolutely fantastic btw) is Not Enough for my neurodivergent, hyperfixating brain.
On the other hand, that would inevitably encourage more people to join the fandom, which would be great, except it seems these days the bigger a fandom gets the more toxic it becomes, and I really like what we have going on over here in our little corner. We all just love the game and its characters and nobody fights about who should and shouldn't date who or who you shouldn't like because they're ~problematique~. Nobody's trying to make one ship morally better than another, nobody's calling anyone names or threatening to doxx people who don't agree with their opinions. It's so peaceful and I love that for us. We're just vibing. Moisturized. Unbothered. In our lane. Flourishing.
#as someone who was in an extremely toxic and chaotic fandom and lowkey still traumatized#to the point where I'm afraid to mention which fandom it was/what my ship was#i have to say#i genuinely love it here#i was nervous at first sharing my ships and headcanons but everyone is so chill i was worried for nothing#thank you to everyone I've interacted with who has made this fandom a healing experience for me#i shudder to think about what some of the people i interacted with in a previous fandom would do with ff6#probably would take edgar's flirting at face value and call him problematic for objectifying women#instead of considering the narrative and what we know about him and the way he actually treats women#my man drinks loving and respecting women juice he's not a creep#or that weird moment with relm that admittedly made me double take before i realized what he meant#theyd have a whole campaign against him lmfao#bc those people boil characters alive until they're just a formless pile of tropes and stereotypes#and seem to disregard all positive aspects of a character they don't like which is fine#but then they go and try to force other people to think like they do and ugh#theres a lot of silly moments in the game and aspects of these characters that make them well rounded and realistically flawed at times#and i fear that would get lost in the chaos if the floodgates opened after a remake#maybe im just jaded lmao#im jaded and i have anxiety so im always thinking about The Worst Case Scenario#the collective positive spirit of the dwellers in this fandom might actually foster a positive space if more people were to come in#ff6#my post#i was gonna say maybe this is bc we're mostly adults#but that falls flat when i remember how some of the most toxic and immature people in some fandoms are grown ass adults#who bully each other and younger fans#and some of the most mature and cool people were actually younger#maybe ff6 fans are just built different lmao#also idk how old anyone else actually is there might be teenagers here i just don't think about it a lot
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frog-chemicals · 4 days
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Shoutout to Quinton Reviews for once again rearranging my brain chemistry
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throttlegainwell · 3 months
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Truly astonished (in a good way!) to discover that there's a whole Degrassi: Next Gen fandom out there. Catapulted me back twenty years. I'm impressed.
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the-acid-pear · 7 days
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I never tried the option myself bc it'd probably mean skipping the Reason You Suck speech at the end (fire for speedrunners though) but I Love that you can frame your Phoneys in 3, especially so if you've already killed the previous two. Like yeah couldn't send you off to die so i'll let the goverment do it for me 🧸 like its just Peak evil imo.
#luly talks#i do relinquish in the pain and the agony but dont get me wrong the thought of any of them 3 getting jailed makes me SO sad#rog esp since he's the one im writing about and the biggest nerve wreck#gingi voice they'll be the last one to pick the board game for prison-game-night..........#actually yknow i wonder if rog would end up almost believing it after all when you try to gaslight him for the shits and giggles#(as in: telling HE was victim of the bite of 87 and the like) he tells you to not do that bc his brain is already scrambled or something#so there's a chance perhaps he'd believe it if he had everyone constantly accussing him of it?#not like it'd matter much i have no hopes for the dsaf justice system i know its been 35 years since jack got framed but still#i just remembered when the option popped up i said ''god im really becoming steven 😭''#first time i made the joke too was when i said ''imagine your boss sucks so bad you turn suicidal'' no clue what the context was#OH YEAH JAKE SAYING HE'D RATHER FUCKING DIE THAN KEEP WORKING HERE yeah. poor guy.#anyway im derailing my own post again uhhh. yeah. yeah i dont trust any phoney is avoiding the death sentence#dsaf#roger jones#dsaf roger#btw just for the sake of yapping longer i truly cant decide whether harry or jake would survive better in the enviroment#probably jake to be honest. I mean Harry has a lot of experience inside freddy's but he didnt really live outside it muhc#jake is so confrontational though#hey did you guys watch the hit movie felon? sure that guy wasn't framed but. i feel like jake would end up w that attitude#except for. you know. everything else that happens in the hit movie felon.#hey actually forget about this game go watch the 10/10 movie Felon from 2008 starring Val Kilmer and Stephen Dorff#because its one of my all time fave movies and probably the saddest i've seen#not bc there arent movies that are more tragic but bc no movie was able to break thru my walls of idgaf and make me cry anyway#yeah you thought i couldnt bring up my movie fixations on my different fandom posts well you were WRONG in fact#im gonna go tag my other post i left untagged yesterday bc my ass was Cooking
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purrfectlycontent · 10 months
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someone who loves you
Relationships: Most Ancient Dream & Secretive Plotter (Omniscient Reader)
Characters: Most Ancient Dream (Omniscient Reader), Secretive Plotter (Omniscient Reader)
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Secretive Plotter Identity Spoilers (Omniscient Reader), Most Ancient Dream Identity Spoilers (Omniscient Reader), Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Family Feels
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In which a young boy finds a hand to hold in the darkness and a weary man learns to love once more.
He was used to the darkness.
It was a small desk corner that comfortably supported his body. It was a closet that housed his clothes. It was the only place he could go where no one would be able to touch him. It was safe.
This darkness was not safe. It was all-encompassing. It was suffocating. It was lonely.
It was the only thing he knew how to do. The thumps that could be heard on the other side of the wall made him flinch. Maybe if he wished hard enough, he would be able to mistake the noise for his own pounding heartbeats.
“Dokja-yah. Just hide and stay quiet, okay?”
He was scared.
The boy slid down the wall and curled up with a whimper.
“I—” His voice cracked as he whispered to himself. “I am…”
…Yoo Joonghyuk.
No, that wasn’t right. He could never be Yoo Joonghyuk.
A gruff voice called out to him amidst the darkness. “Kim Dokja.”
The voice was one that commanded the attention of crowds. It was impossible for him not to know who it belonged to.
Kim Dokja’s eyes finally focused on the person in front of him. He sat up, stock-still, and hurriedly wiped the tears from his eyes. “Ahjussi.”
Yoo Joonghyuk’s brows furrowed. “What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing! I just…” The stilted words clogged his dry throat as he mumbled. “Had a nightmare.”
He was ashamed that Yoo Joonghyuk saw him like that.
Guilt bloomed in his chest as he stared at the real Yoo Joonghyuk who stood before him. The strongest person he knew. Someone who lived through 1,863 lifetimes and overcame every single obstacle he faced.
In contrast, Kim Dokja was a weak person who used Yoo Joonghyuk to protect himself from his own shortcomings. It was despicable.
A nightmare was a nightmare. He didn’t actually experience a real situation, but something his mind conjured up whilst sleeping.
Yet, it felt so real.
Kim Dokja stared down at his trembling, unblemished hands. He couldn’t remember the last time his pale skin was free of imperfections.
Yoo Joonghyuk cleared his throat lightly. The boy looked up at him, impossibly small for his age.
The tear streaks on his face were the only marks that outwardly showed the sorrow of a child so young.
Despite his anguish, his eyes glistened as though he was looking at a star. It was a gaze Yoo Joonghyuk had yet to get used to.
“Come with me.”
Kim Dokja’s hand hesitantly took his. As they made their way down the hall, he spoke quietly. “Ahjussi?”
“What is it?”
“How did you know I…”
His mouth closed shut as a faint smile spread on Yoo Joonghyuk’s face. “You are my sponsor, after all.”
Unlike his own, Yoo Joonghyuk’s hand was calloused and scarred. He clutched onto it like a lifeline; he didn’t think he could ever let go.
Right. The reality he lived in was different from his nightmares. The darkness didn’t feel as lonely as it did before.
They stopped in front of a door similar to the one that led to his bedroom. Kim Dokja watched curiously as he opened the door.
“You may sleep with me tonight,” Yoo Joonghyuk said cooly.
“Really?”
The young boy’s face twisted into something between shocked and hopeful. He pulled on the ends of his shirt.
For some reason, Yoo Joonghyuk was reminded of Yoo Mia.
His hand unwittingly ruffled Kim Dokja’s hair as an obscure emotion made itself known once more. “You won’t be alone anymore.”
It would take time for the boy to grow comfortable and realize that he wouldn’t be abandoned. In the meantime, Yoo Joonghyuk contented himself with the first bright smile Kim Dokja ever gave him.
How sad that the others missed it.
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probablyhuntersmom · 10 months
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sysig · 5 months
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I'm almost finished with this notebook with it's horrible paper, and I just finished the first page of my Big Project
#Oh yeah - it's all coming together#Hgggg I am so sick of this notebook! It's wack as fuck!#It has made editing a Chore for the past eight months >:0 Not fun or meditative At All#Even worse is that the paper feels good to draw on but the cleanup is just! Awful!#I've just been completely ignoring my non-lined homemade notebook because it feels bad to draw on lol#The rest of the doodles for this year - yes that's how far the queue is backlogged rn lol - are still on that paper#But at least I'm like ><this close to being done with it ugh#I've got two blank pages and then like three half-doodled on pages that I'm planning to just knock out#It looks so weird 'cause the pages are all out of order lol - the first page was in March and the last in November#But like the next page after the first is /also/ November lol#Like it's largely in chronological order but it jumps around quite a lot! It was an interesting experiment#I also think it's funny since the first page got some fandom stuff that didn't come back around until now but it Looks chronological lol#I think I'll do it again but with some modifications - if I run out of steam/interest/motivation then I can fill it in however I want#Keeping it on-theme is fun but I find myself pushing ideas when I don't actually have any :P That's no good#It's not Always bad - I like quite a few of my spacefiller ideas! But if anything that just proves that finishing things out to make room-#Well like I said it was fun lol#And! As stated! I finished the first page of my big behind-the-scenes project! >:3c#Man I haven't worked on a comic proper-like in uhhhhh#It's gotta be at least five years lol geez#It's been a weird rhythm to try to fall into lol I'm Way out of practice - but it's nice to see it come together!#Lotta steps to get it into the shape I want - hard to sustain - but slowly and surely I've got this one :)#It'll be good to finally have it Out haha
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Also thinking of doing a poll of solely characters fandom likes to derail/character assassinate/demonize, but I'm sure someone has done that already and idk how well I'd manage it
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mostlyanything19 · 1 year
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I have just the weirdest relationship with Check, Please these days. Every time I think, hey, you never actually finished that comic, I go back and try to pick it back up but I just cannot get myself to engage at all past the point where the focus shifts to all these new characters and new teams and a Lot of just Jack & Bitty stuff. It makes complete sense for the comic to go that way and it is also just the way of thing that as Bitty gets to be the oldest Haus member he spends his time with all these new people bc everyone else has graduated, and also with Jack bc that’s his boyfriend. It just doesn’t grip me the way it did before.
But then here’s the other thing, and that thing is that I was just stupidly attached to these characters for a long time and that has gone nowhere. I just said “whatever” and spent the couple bucks to get one of these little extra books Ngozi has put out in the intervening years and there’s some pictures of the old crew in there and I just got so giddy about them, like. it was like seeing old friends again. and then... at the very end just hidden away quietly there’s this one little unassuming comic strip thing where -- and I had not heard a thing about this, I didn’t know --  where we actually do, at long long last, find out Shitty’s first name? And I almost teared up? I have no idea if I’ll ever read the comic to the end but that there felt so much like something coming full circle, like a little bookend at the close, that I suddenly feel like I have finished it, after all.
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hallastudies · 2 years
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bitches will click on a fmv after binge watching their newest obsession, not pay attention to the title, and then either 1. physically ascend, 2. feel themselves tear up, or 3. some kind of combination of the two after hearing the first few seconds of aforementioned fmv. it's me, i'm bitches
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