#anyways​.txt

[pinkfey]

ik it must like suck to be really into a piece of media where everyone unanimously loves one couple that u aren't a fan of but critters take it too far bc what is there to even hate abt imodna.. that they're wise and sexy?? that laura has perfected yearning?? ur all so lame !!!!!!

#some of the backlash is so intense #beauyasha dealt with a lot as well but i don't remember it being as immediate as imodna #and it's 'allegedly' because everyone makes the show about them but i think u guys just hate gay women. tbh. #like ur lesbophobia has carried over into c3 #and like another thing i notice is this hatred for imogen specifically bc 'it feels like everything is about her' #which is firstly like.. not true.. matt is a good dm and knows how to divide time and arcs and weave things together #why is everyone acting like he's devoting every waking moment to her do u all just not pay attention #but ig when ur spending all this time hating someone ofc ur going to notice when they get the spotlight more #and secondly. so what !! did u have the same feelings towards vax?? fjord?? if not then why are u upset. #and thirdly. honestly cannot relate. i love her main character energy it's my favorite thing abt her #kind of cathartic that they're so mad though. vengeance for all the vax x percy years. #okay wee rant/complaint over back to avoiding critters like the plague #laura is sexy imogen is sexy imodna is solidified in my top two cr couples 4 life <33 #anyways​.txt #cr posting

[ackee]

something ive realized about social media is that people like Character Design but they do not actually like ocs. you can make a zillion designs of like, a humanized fish or can of soda or flower or whatever and get thousands of likes. but once the novelty wears off and you actually want to Make something with the characters and give them a story (mini comics, a longform webcomic, animations etc) its like pulling teeth.

outside of your mutual circle, you will get one or two reblogs thats like "#i dont know what this is from but—" like they are just incapable of realizing there is art outside of fanart. i no longer blame people that go "oh this isnt my oc its actually just my au/take on [popular character this looks nothing like] from [big media everyone loves]" bc you literally cannot get people to engage w/ your art unless its a one off design or already connected to something .

man. idk where im going with this besides it feels like there's nowhere for ocs that arent gimmicky and marketable and it SUCKS !

#txt #anyway wishing badly deviantart didnt suck or something. this cant be all there is for oc luvers.... #going back in the mines of the oc tag to find more oc artists wish me luck

[ocdhuacheng]

So laios and fallin have been ostracized by society since they were children, Marcille has lifelong grief from constantly outliving her loved ones that leads her to dark magics, kabru’s village was destroyed by monsters, senshi and mithrun both have horror movie level backstories, izutsumi was sold as a freak show attraction, and then there’s chilchuck, who is a normal ass divorced middle aged man. And somehow he’s the most shady and secretive out of all of them

Edit can y’all please let me live I didn’t make this post bc I think chilchuck doesn’t have his own trauma or doesn’t experience racism or that being a union boss is a walk in the park or whatever I made it because him lying that he cheated on his wife to get the others to stop asking about his family was funny as fuck. Come on.

#edit: GUYS THIS IS A JOKE POST STOP TAKING IT SERIOUSLYYYYYYYYY #WHY DO YALL GOTTA BE 'well actually☝🤓' #LIKE I KNOW ALLAT ALREADY.. I SIMPLIFIED IT FOR COMEDIC VALUE LET ME LIVEEEEEE #anyway. #divorced father of three and he acts like hes about to be put into witness protection #literally obsessed with him #.txt #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #<- just to be safe for anime onlies

[aspharah]

hey bro can we like adopt paralleling themes and symbolize opposites but in a two sides of the same coin kind of way? it doesn’t have to be weird. wait what do you mean thats gay

#swear 90%+ of my favorite ships r like this #for example #stevebucky #moicy #blackbonnet #ineffable husbands #and um. can i say it #kavetham #haikaveh #beiguang #xingyun #wriolette #anyways bye #soapbox #txt

[fatmasc]

So often on fat positivity posts i see ppl leave comments like "yeah being fat isnt bad! If its not harming ur health then why should it be a problem?" And while i get that theyre well meaning it really annoys me that STILL fat ppl cant exist without our health being a qualifier. Guess what: some fat people are unhealthy. So what. Get over it.

#and then theres the forever conversation of 'health as u know it is often a lie anyways' #fat #.txt #fat positvity

[idolomantises]

I just finished rewatching ATLA and I have to say…

Absolutely insane to me that people were insisting that Azula not getting a redemption was “misogynistic” and some kind of writing mistake. The girl told her dad to commit mass genocide.

#txt #I genuinely think a lot of ATLA discourse would not exist if people just rewatched the show instead of letting their memories be warped by #fanfiction and memes #like I’ve seen Azula fans give iroh a lot of shit for calling her crazy #but they don’t mention that right before this she SHOT HIM IN THE HEART #anyways I love Azula and I’m glad she wasn’t redeemed. more of this please

[bumpereatspants]

at some point in life you realize the best way to solve a love triangle is to make them polyamorous and you never look back

#kandreil #yoohankim #karlnapity #aftg #orv #I cant think of more rn but #like theres so many examples #the witcher #the raven cycle #bllk #blue lock #anyways #kevandreil #royjamiekeeley #operation true love #senpai is an otokonoko #senpai wa otokonoko #txt

[rollercoasterwords]

the tiktokification of ao3

or: some of you fundamentally misunderstand ao3 and it really, really shows

i was talking about this with a friend a few days ago and since then i've seen multiple posts of various sorts that have just made me think about it more, so. here is me breaking down a disconnect i see particularly with younger members of the marauders fandom (i say marauders specifically just bc that's the only one i'm plugged into):

okay, so i've seen many (usually younger) marauders fans either talking online about how they wish ao3 was more like social media (specifically regarding algorithms) OR talking about ao3/fanfiction/fanfic writers as if they are operating under the same etiquette/guidelines/assumptions they would bring into social media platforms. this ranges from being mildly irritating to genuinely harmful, and i want to talk abt why.

first - you have to understand that social media, in this day and age, exists in a profit economy. and when i say social media here, i'm referring to platforms like tiktok, twitter, instagram, etc. all of these platforms exist in a profit economy where content is a product that can be monetized. this leads to a few important distinctions:

people posting on these social media platforms are generally posting with the intent to get their content seen by as many people as possible, as quickly as possible

they post with this intent because once their content is consumed by enough people, it becomes a product that they can monetize

therefore, if that content gets popular enough, these people can become influencers, where content creation is an actual job and their audience are, in a sort of vague and obscured way, similar to consumers purchasing a product

because of the profit economy surrounding social media, there are certain assumptions + forms of interaction that bleed across almost all social media platforms. the ones relevant to this little essay include:

operating under the assumption that anyone posting anything on the internet wants to go viral, ie. be seen by as many people as possible as quickly as possible in order to grow an "audience"

these influencers are creating content for us, their audience, so they should want to please us. they should also be trying to appeal to the broadest possible audience. therefore, if we dislike their content, we have a right to make that very, very clear.

in that same vein, we have a general right to critique content creators, as they are making a profit and we are the consumers purchasing their product--much like you might feel entitled to a certain standard of service in a restaurant where you are paying for the food.

when you carry these assumptions over to a platform like ao3, it creates problems. why? in a nutshell: because ao3 exists outside the profit economy

ao3 is a non-profit. it does not have an algorithm because it is not trying to sell you anything. this means that the writers posting their work on ao3 are not making a profit. we are not influencers. we are not creating monetized content to sell to a consumer-audience. where consuming content on other social media platforms might be comparable to eating at a restaurant, reading fanfiction on ao3 is more like coming over to someone's house and eating cookies that they made for free. you are in their house. the cookies are free, given as a gift. so what happens when those assumptions outlined above start to bleed over from other social media?

assuming that anyone posting fanfiction online wants their work to go viral -- i've seen this with popular fic writers getting questions like, "are you worried x isn't going to be as popular as y?" those questions are usually not ill-intended, but they demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding about why writers post work on ao3. it's not to go viral. it's not to build any sort of online following. most of us who post on ao3 have jobs or schoolwork or other commitments, and writing fanfiction is something done for fun, out of a love for writing. those sharing their work online might be seeking community, but that is fundamentally different from seeking an audience, and in no way involves internet virality. if someone is posting fanfic on ao3 with the hope that it'll "go viral," then they likely either won't continue writing fanfic for long or will reach a point where they have to re-evalute their motivations, because seeking joy and validation by turning your art into a product for consumption just isn't very sustainable.

influencers are creating content for us, so we have a right to let them know if we don't like it -- nope!! fic writers are not influencers. yes, even the popular ones. no matter how much other people might blow their work up on social media, fic writers are still outside the profit economy. they are not creating content for an audience. they are not creating content for you. they are writing because they love it, and they are generously sharing it. if you don't like it, don't interact with it. you are never entitled to loudly and publicly proclaim how much you dislike a fic. i talk about this more here

we have a general right to critique fic writers, the same way we do with content creators/influencers -- again, no. you should not be treating fic writers the way you would treat an influencer on another social media platform, no matter how popular they may be. this is not to say fic writers are beyond all reproach; rather, it is a call-in to check your entitlement. fic writers are not little jesters entertaining in your court. they are not subject to your whims. they do not have to do things for you. they do not have to write things you like. in that post i linked on point 2, i talk about what etiquette might look like if you're really concerned that a fic writer is doing something harmful, but that is not what i'm talking about here. i am talking about the proliferation of negativity i have seen, especially on twitter and tiktok, where people essentially just talk shit about fics or fic writers as though they are entitled to have those fic writers working to please them. this is gross, and it needs to stop. you wouldn't go over to someone's house, eat the cookies they baked to share, and then spit those cookies back in their face and start shouting about what a shitty baker they are. or maybe you would--in which case, congratulations! you are Not A Good Person.

anyway, at the end of the day, a lot of this can be boiled down to: Because ao3 exists outside the profit economy, fic writers are not influencers, and you should never be treating them as though they are. i think i see this disconnect largely with younger people just because they've maybe only ever really understood social media within this sort of influencer-consumer-culture economy, and genuinely don't understand how to interact differently with the internet. so, consider this post a call-in to reevaluate the way you interact with fic writers and the etiquette you use when it comes to engaging with fanfic on ao3! i promise that ao3 being different from social media is a very, very good thing, and also a very, very rare thing, so let's treasure it and focus on fostering community rather than trying to morph it to fit the mould of influencer-audience dynamics that we see almost everywhere else <3

#tldr: fic writers aren't influencers #stop acting like they are #it only creates problems!!!! #anyway if you have engaged in some of these behaviors that doesn't make u a bad person #it just means u should maybe shift ur perspective moving forward #capitalism is a lifeless desert that grows every day and ao3 is a little oasis #let's all enjoy it while we can #instead of trying to place it within a consumer economy #ranting and raving #txt

[geezmarty]

we all know that wyllstarion goes crazy as hell but you really have to think about it from Wyll’s perspective. You’re the most fairy tale brained man on earth whose life is a continued sequence of romantic and heroic ideals set up to fail. You want to be a heroic duke and save your city but wind up making a pact with a devil. You want to use that pact for good and are almost (or straight up) tricked into killing an innocent. You go on the most princely quest of all to ask a dragon for his help and we all know how that ends. And then in comes Astarion jangling like the most weaselly evil court advisor, a vampire no less and you’re like actually fuck it this slippery eel is where it’s AT. and this time you actually do get a happy ending with it. it goes crrrrazyyyy

#sorry I log in once a month to make a yaoi text post sometimes it is what it is #wyllstarion #im also thinking about wyll 24/7 half of this post is directly lifted from the 8k meta doc I’m never posting. anyway #txt #bg3 spoilers #I guess? vaguely

[anglerflsh]

hold. I'm curious about this now

*chosen/proper name, not necessarily a dead/legal name

edit if you have more than one name and aren't attached to any of them pick the fourth option thank you love and light second edit if your view of your name is neutral or you feel like you'd respond to anything. fourth option too

#[.txt] #poll #I'm on an end of the spectrum because idc about the name I'm called except prefering it not to be aligned with my agab #but I have recently been told that to some people it's a really important thing so I'm curious as to how that rates to tumblr dot com #anyway #take in count that I also don't have a solid sense of identity so my view of names and of the self is: skewed 👍

[bladesmitten]

WYLLVEMBER DAY 16: minthara

#.txt #bg3edit #gamingedit #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 minthara #minthara #minthara baenre #bg3 wyll #wyll #wyll ravengard #wyllvember #* #userewbie #userfray #i cheated with this one and used model swapping mods :( #anyways i need more interactions with these two

[pinkfey]

moon and star incarnate moment !!

#i lied thissss is the most gorgeous oc i've ever made #anya plays the sims #ch: salylia dreneri #anyways​.txt #don’t look too close bc i had to bring ea lashes back in order to get the gold cracks #AND DONT LET THE CC FOOL U !! she has a hooked nose #so proud tbh i rlly didn't need to touch up all that much. all she needs is the partially gold patch of hair and she's like. dead on. #i will go into detail abt the gold + gold hair but. another day. #i'm like dropping hints i'm obsessed with morrowind. i'm obsessed with morrowind.

[catmask]

i know everyone said 'replies from sideblogs could go bad' though personally i was excited for them (for topic specific sideblog running purposes) but i do think we should be able to send asks from sideblogs too tbh. it could also get exceptionally ugly very fast but i think that for all the topic-specific blogs like ask blogs, for systems who have headmates with diff sideblogs, and for people who want to make friends in smaller communities focused on niche topics unrelated to their main i feel like it would be worth it

#besides its not like IMPOSSIBLE to find someones main blog from their side #it typically just takes some sleuthing #and like you can block sideblogs anyway . if im not mistaken blocking a sideblog also blocks the main acct...? #so if someone wanted to make like multiple burners to harrass someone i dont even think taht would work #theyd have to make entirely new tumblr accts with brand new gmails #im open to conversation though there might be something im not thinking about #txt #scratchpost

[devoti]

cosmic persona quiz

tried this out and the results were kind of super accurate, so i wanna know everyone's too, naturally :p

tagging: @euseokz @lisztomqnia @pradadoie @explicitlyfine @peachsayshi @tetsuskei @tetzoro @scarabrat @kentoangel @fyodorloveclub @sleepygetou @saeue @fedyenkas-main @nkogneatho @zorosdimples @gojoath @kannra21 @izvmimi @likelilacwine @angelcent @st4rlingz @shujistars @missworld1994 ++ everyone interested ♥︎

#txt's (－‸ლ) #anyways i hope i am compatible with all of you so that we can continue this polygamous marriage

[choiliner]

YEONJUN & BEOMGYU | DEJA VU (2024)

#userhev #ayabestie #0x1zone #usersemily #useryeonbins #rosieblr #userzaynab #majatual #userfairy #ninqztual #usergyukai #tuserflora #kpopedit #kpopccc #mine #choi yeonjun #yeonjun #choi beomgyu #beomgyu #beomjun #txt #tomorrow x together #ult tag 💖 #i hate that they didn't upload this in 4k what am i supposed to do with a 1080p mv in 2024 #ESPECIALLY A WIDESCREEN ONE #the height of this video is literally 752 pixels do you understand how bad it is #anyway. this scene was specifically for me

[pansylair]

living in the aftermath

#illustration #serpent/caecilian worm things y’know #yeah #started writing descriptions for the alt txt features late this spring #so the new posts are starting to get em #anyways time to try n sleep nighttt