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the-one-who-lambs · 6 months

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Me: I don't know if my ideas are worth sharing, I'm losing engagement from my readerbase these past few months so I must be doing something wrong, I don't think I've really accomplished anything as a writer.

Some person in my AO3 comments hyped as FUCK for the Risen Lamb/Fallen God rewrite:

#hannah's rambles #negative kinda #I've been really feeling down about nearly everything i make lately and it's bothering me a lot #There was this not quite-well-meaning anon I got a few months ago that seemed to compliment me on the surface #But seemed very backhanded #Basically informing me “oh youre basically the most popular writer in the fandom. here are some ways im going to compare you to others”#and i tangentially kinda knew how readers viewed me as a good/semipopular writer but i just ignored it #because i primarily do it for fun #but it made me realize what readers actually do consider in works when theyre looking for a fic they want #and i feel like i've peaked already in a lot of ways #ugh #sorry for kvetching at yall but i feel like y'all deserve to know part of why im just not writing as much lately #sometimes i try to hype myself up so i can still feel like anything of mine is worth reading or writing in the first place #but it's not working anymore

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royalarchivist · 6 months

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Quackity: Oh, it's gonna be so cool to see how this develops. I'm excited, I'm gonna try my best. I'm not the greatest at Minecraft whatsoever, I did nerf Green Team a little bit by accident on the second day. My bad! But, you know, I'm so ready to just grind out and see what we can do, and I just–

I wish everyone saw it with the same amount of, like, kind of enthusiasm. I think all of this and all the development and all the potential arcs, that's going to fcking allow for something absolutely incredible.

And if anyone ends up clipping any of this, something I do want to say is I implore people to view everything with a lot of enthusiasm. No stress, no anxiety, just a lot of enthusiasm. Because, again, this is going to allow for a lot of cool things in the server. Not just now, but in the future, too.

#Quackity #OiBagi #QSMP #QSMP Purgatory #Purgatory #Green Team #Bagi #Alright last one for tonight I got things to do #But Quackity did say ''if anyone clips any of this'' so I wanted to make sure I shared that final message he gave everyone #Because I agree!#I know fandoms can be toxic and people can have POV brainrot #But I hope everyone is still able to remember the reasons why they love QSMP so much #and I hope they're still able to find enjoyment -- if not with the event itself then with your streamers #I personally wasn't a fan of the Debate part of the Election Arc #But I still enjoyed myself because the people I watched made it funny or they poked fun at it or they avoided it completely #Don't be afraid to block people or mute / block tags or anything #And for the love of god stop using Twitter if you can #I've significantly reduced my usage (even though I love seeing fanart -- though many fanartists are moving to Tumblr; which is nice)#I primarily use it to keep up with the update accounts and see what the CCs are up to #But anyways. Take care of yourselves guys. The toxic people can be loud but they are just a very vocal (very annoying) minority #Love and enthusiasm is always the majority. After all; that's why we're here in the first place!

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ct-multifandom · 9 months

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I don’t usually make posts like this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-intellectual junk lately, and I really think we need to put the word “pretentious” up on a shelf until people learn what it actually means.

It doesn’t describe someone who likes artsy-fartsy deep meaning media. People who are pretentious are fake. They’re posers trying to be sophisticated and unique, not like other girls. They pretend to only like stuff they think will make them sound cool when they talk about it. They want to act like they know something you don’t, and they want attention for it.

By definition, if you genuinely enjoy something, you can’t be pretentious. If it resonates with you, and you analyze it, and you don’t care what people think, that’s the polar opposite, actually. If you love obscure experimental prog music, if you watch underground high concept indie films through English teacher eyes, if you spend hours in a modern art museum reading each piece as a vessel for storytelling, if your backpack’s full of poetry books that inspire you, if you play underrated games that were someone’s passion project, if you have an interest in studying the classics or the masters, you are not pretentious.

Of course, some people just don’t like some stuff, and that’s fine, but that’s not what this is about. Don’t let anti-intellectuals shame you for enjoying things just because your interests are inaccessible to them, because they refuse to be brave and put effort into critical thinking. You’re not stuck up for refusing to overlook the craft of artists.

#anti intellectualism #media #movies #books #music #critical thinking #my friend who primarily listens to one very popular band once said that people who listen to obscure music are annoying and pretentious #which rubbed me the wrong way because 1 she knows that I listen to obscure music and 2 it’s such a cowardly consumerist take. anyone can #make music and hey a lot of the people who do make GOOD music. and this goes for all *obscure* media #this post was mostly inspired by people talking about Barbie and those anti pick me girls like the pick nobody girls who insist thinking is #for boys and having fun with an empty brain is for girls. Greta gerwig is an artist. I haven’t seen the movie yet but I know it has a deeper #message than haha cute pink! I’ve seen the summaries about the true meaning. the pinkness and popularity doesn’t negate the narritive.#though in the notes I saw a lot of tumblristas comunistas shitting on the film for being one big ad that people *fell for* which tbh is #tbh almost as anti-intellectual. don’t get me wrong they milked this film to sell hella shit but I don’t believe kids who play with dolls #are the target audience as these people claim. Barbie is a culturally iconic symbol almost archetypical of societal expectations for women #you say barbie people think unblinking perfect plastic pink girly. reminds me of the poem The Last Mojave Indian Barbie. yeah yeah you all #hate brands but this one carries undeniable significance and makes for a powerful literary device. it’s been used many times before #sorry for writing a tag essay about a film I haven’t even seen but I’m tired of internet people focusing so much on proving others wrong #that they end up oversimplifying everything just as much as the other person. god I saw people doing this to Nimona saying transphobes were #looking too deep into her character and they’re reactionary clowns for making that jump. like for once the transphobes are right. she is #trans. it’s a queer story. and irl the first people who notice queerness are the bigots who can tell you’re different. sick owns telling #them the story’s not that deep is harmful and it’s like they’re ignoring the real message on purpose. okay enough rambling hehe! thanks #barbie #nimona

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chiropteracupola · 11 months

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the gentleman of lies himself!

[flintlock fortress is a collaboration with @dxppercxdxver]

#em draws stuff #flintlock fortress #team fortress 2 #the thing is that there is nothing stopping you from infodumping about character design. you are allowed to just do that!#so today I am here to Do That. see the man (him Fancy)#I probably will not do in-depth explanations like this for the other guys (and pauling and judith) but I really do have Things To Say here #stuff like this is why I'm having so much fun with this project and it is nice to just Spit Information at you #I can talk for a hundred years if you let me and what is more I Will!#[...on that note if you have Questions ever I dearly dearly love to answer Questions]#anachronism is thoroughly at home here yes. but even so I do work Really Hard on these guys.#this is certainly not my best facial likeness but this is about the Outfit primarily.#also. just to get this said before someone comes over here and chews on my head about it.#I adjusted the color settings on the comic panel entirely because that Strong Teal background looked Wretched in here.#aaaand on account of I recently watched spies are forever. that is where I have borrowed my caption line from.

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rohirric-hunter · 7 months

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The hunter damage boost makes me very happy

#lotro #its been hard the past few weeks #primarily because i have a full time job and only a couple of hours to play in the evening #and its been taking a lot longer to do things because of the reduced damage #and tbh i was not having fun #i kept doing it because i knew i would like the rewards i got from it #but i was straight up not having a good time #the thing that makes the hunter class fun is the speed at which everything happens #but yeah #full credit where its due the devs do keep an eye on this kind of thing and when they seriously mess up the gameplay they usually fix it

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londeer · 28 days

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Here's a drawing I did of my friend's fursona, using Colors 3D on my 3DS!! He's a moth thingy :3

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arikihalloween · 1 month

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Here, just take some generated songs I found with Out Of Bounds/WTTMV in mind.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mun1x1g7Gq2ibxwudg5TaZYw4SN-kcRX/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uvb5Q6N64vAFTJx_gvz2DJNS5MsqvAcZ/view?usp=drivesdk

Oh ! I did one of those before for my own username and main project

I find it funny, it funky nonsense music

Not very wttmv or oob vibe but still fun !

#chit chat #now I'm not really one for AI #i don't really see the point of most of AIs when I can do better myself #but some like this one are fun #it's a bunch of random sounds associated with letters or something ig - so it often ends up in nonsense that unintentionally sounds okay #harmless enough in my book and therr could even be use for it #AI is primarily a tool #I had to learn how to use it in class - and the reason was “AI won't take your job but people who use it will”#AI as a tool can be useful #but it needs to be regulated #don't forget to glaze or heavily watermark your art just in case !#or be like me and stack up so many textures on your art that it does about the same because there is stray pixels everywhere/j #point is : make your art worthless to sample or poison it

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the-kreechur-featurr · 1 year

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The Crimson Rose of Decimation

She/He/It prns for this beast

(Close ups under the cut)

So I fucked around and made a dragon oc, bout damn time honestly.

This dragon has earned and goes by many names. The Crimson Rose of Decimation is their first and favorite earned name. Its true name must remain secret for now, but you may call this beautiful beast Crimson.

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dreamyprinx · 1 year

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would y’all like be interested in seeing more like crafts/jewelry from me since I’m taking a break from love digital art for the most part?

#whimsy whispers #I’m still kinda doing it but not really #rn it’s just like ‘if someone wants to commission me or to work on personal outfit designs’#rn my life has been consumed by watching videos of ppl who make their own clothing #with I am unable to do I cannot even sew (I want to learn soon from my roommate) but like it’s just got me so inspired to like put together #fanciful and fun outfits #i thrift most my clothes alrwaydb(I’m broke as hell and just generally like older items anyways it’s fun) and like have been trying to #focus more on my sense of fashion lately #now I’m just talking about fashion so like hi I’ve been like more into whimsigoth lately which is funny because I only learned of it since #ppl would tag my main or send me posts on it cause it reminded them of me #and typically I’m very much a pink (and general pastel but mostly pink) type of person fashion wise #so it’s fun to flip between the pinkest person in the local walmart to whimsigoth #very much a contrast but very fun also #I and still primarily pink most of my wardrobe is pink I love pink #you cannot tell from this blog but like GOD pink is so good #im weeeing pink pjs rn #wearing *#hi im saying too much words (plausible deniability: im half alseep and that makes me more unnecessarily chatty)

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boomerang109 · 1 year

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being trans is so hard and confusing but sometimes you get called the right name and the right pronoun and it feels so right and sometimes it’s by a group of guys discussing how they’re old enough to remember when TV’s had dials that switched to one of three channels, and they’re still respecting your pronouns and maybe you can be okay

#I’ve been having a crisis cause basically if you say my irl name is boomerang #I’ve been going by just boom more #and these theatre posters came out and they had the directors name and my name on them #no other names—not even the other professor who led the other class #and that poster said boomerang cause that’s my full name that’s normal #but it just looked WRONG which I’ve never felt before (like even tho I primarily go by boom now I still sign all my emails boomerang.#so it’s not like it’s a deadname or anything. it’s literally just a nickname that happens to feel more gender) but since boom felt better I #asked them to put boom in the program and they did!!#and sometimes I look at it and go 🥰that looks right #and sometimes I look at it and go 😡that looks unprofessional you should’ve kept HOLY SHIT I ALMOST TYPED MY NAME WHOOPS you should’ve kept #boomerang cause that’s what people with nicknames do and it’s more professional bla bla bla #but like #potentially I want to not use it so much as a nickname but a name name #because of gender #but idk yet #boom is significantly less formal of a name and does have the connotations of a nickname unfortunately #but that’s also why I think it feels so fun to be called it #cause they say boom and I’m like 😁me whereas they say boomerang and I’m like 🫣why so serious #anyway i hope this made sense im not actually talking about boom versus boomerang I just didn’t want to use my irl name lol #OH BUT THE POINT OF THE POST WAS REGARDLESS OF MY NAME IRL I GET CALLED BOOM AND TWO PROFESSORS AND A PROFESSOR’S HUSBAND WERE IN THIS MANLY #CIRCLE AND I JUST JOINED AND WAS IN THE CONVERSATION AND I DEFINITELY WAS AWKWARD BUT IDK I FELT APPRECIATED ESPECIALLY WHEN I WAS GENDERED #boom blogs high #i still want to take a bath or at least change into comfy clothes and just haven’t moved whoops #it’s cold and my blanket is warm

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georgia-stanway · 9 months

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Your Hatters tags on the archive post were so cool! There’s definitely a project for someone to use the National Media Museum photo archives to write more people that aren’t white cis men back into English football history

Yes!! Particularly if it could be done in combination with oral history. Honestly i find the social history of football absolutely fascinating. I'm going to yell about it below the read more because honestly i just think it's so important that when football is being increasingly controlled by money which is concentrated in a small number of clubs that people remember the importance of community and communities to football (and that those communities has always included women and minorities)

My grandad is very much more invested in social side of football than the sport itself so most of his stories have very little to do with actual football and are far more focused on people. He talks about the rover's player who lived up the road or his dad having the sports paper sent down from Wigan and sending them info on a Yeovil player they were interested in. Even when they are a bit more football focused it's his dad's adventures in getting tickets to the famous Yeovil vs Sunderland match in 1949 and the back up goalie who was forced to play and barely played again. I feel so much closer to my grandad since getting into football because we have something to talk about and bond over and it's really really lovely.

And then you have the geographic (and subsequently demographic) aspect. I've never been more aware of my locality since getting into football: my family's migrational history (both that 3/4 of my grandparents aren't English and the only familial connection with football i have is through my English grandfather but also movement within England), the difference in culture between the west country and the rest of England (i.e the preference for rugby over football which kind of reflects the relationship between wales and the west country and the greater presence of like celtic culture in the area even if it's not actually linked) and just being from my side of Bristol because the rivalry here is geographic. Nicknames are often reflective of local culture, industry and history (Bristol rovers are the pirates for example but we're also known as the gas because our old stadium was right by a gasworks and the smell carried into the stadium.) I'd be fascinated to know why there are comparatively so many west country clubs called the robins, whether it's a coincidence or what.

But you've also got things like Spurs' Jewish connection. i think it would be quite difficult to detangle spurs from a (particularly social) history of the Jewish community in North London and of course vice versa you can't talk about the history of spurs without talking about the Jewish community in north london. I'm sure football would feature very heavily in the history of many other communities as well, I think Arsenal have had a large Black following for example. Just the fact that football is a working class sport and even today the majority of footballers come from a working class background. Then you also have, particularly across europe, political and class aspects in rivalries like Barça v real madrid and celtic v rangers. Even things like Manchester vs Liverpool has it's own history that goes beyond yet very much includes football.

It's one of the reasons i hate trophy logic and debates on whose a big club and man city has no history because while it's obviously a competitive sport and there is a conversation to be had about money and sportswashing, a club doesn't have to be big or traditionally successful to have history and value and importance and yes success. And i don't think that community and big clubs are incompatible and while I would encourage all football fans to engage with their local clubs, i think the whole support your local thing is overly simplistic to say the least (particularly when employed by prem fans) and doesn't actually address the issue people want it to which is that particularly big clubs are pricing out fans both local and not

If you could gather people's stories and memories of football you can create such a rich tapestry of football culture and history but even just having proof that people who have had their own history and relationship with football erased and banished allows space for these things to be discussed and acknowledged

#I'm not from a sporty family so any connection to sport has been primarily social for me #i used to play tennis with my opa not because we were particularly good at tennis but because my grandmother liked tennid #and it reminded him of her #being able to do synchro just for fun has been one of the best things about uni

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mishapen-dear · 10 months

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i lobve. dnd. I ran a 7 hour session yesterday for my favourite rpers and they all loved it >:} one guy sent the big boss to eeby deeby

#mishapen dms #i made a battle map but we dont use roll20 or anything #so it was still primarily theatre of the mind #which i think is fine for smaller battles but in the future ill play around with roll20 and see if we can get that workinf #hot tip for dms: USE. SPREADSHEETS #that way you can sort by initiative and see hp/ac at just a glance #genuinely saved my entire life #goddamn howd they live tho #i was Prepared for if they died i had sound effects prepped okay #but they DIDNT #they managed to come back from one pc and one npc against like 6 enemies #one of which was the boss who actively wanted them dead #and like???#hot damn #now i need to think of a reward for them because Sometjing Happened so theres still gonna be consequences #(fun ones for the angst lovers)#but. how the fuck do i reward that they just kicked So Much Ass

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red-dragon-archfiend · 1 year

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Y'know I didn't know how we'd get a 2010s creepypasta resurgence but I wasn't expecting it to be in the form of Friday Night Funkin' mods

#musings #like i knew sonic.exe was still around because at this point he's evolved into this weird thing that exists beyond the original story #and people are making actually good shit with him now #but all the classics are being brought back into relevance within this niche sphere of content #as far as i know it's primarily kids who are into it #good for them tbh i'm glad they get a share in my own memories of the internet #but it's WEIRD #personally i preferred stuff like the mario 64 iceberg #where instead of bringing back the old stuff people make new stuff in a similar style that fits better with modern standards #like most video game creepypastas are bad #but they were bad in execution rather than concept #i think we can make better ones now #though i do admit i have a fondness for some of the better pokemon ones because those are kinda fun #and because i'm just biased #but lemme tell you it was strange to find out there's a lost silver remake and see the youtube comments on it are about fnf #probably better kids' horror than fnaf at this point lol

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himbeaux-on-ice · 2 years

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the 6167 time paradox (a math exercise)

how do you measure how long something lasts? what matters more, the time that has passed or how you spent it? can something truncated and cut-short and relatively fleeting feel like a lifetime?

prior to becoming teammates in Vegas, Mark Stone and Max Pacioretty were fierce rivals with Montreal and Ottawa, respectively.

this stretch of time as opponents, lasting from their first head-to-head game in 2013 until the day before Mark was traded to Vegas in 2019, lasted 2,175 calendar days - or 5 years, eleven months, twelve days.

by comparison, their entire time as teammates (and linemates, and best friends), calculated as the duration from Mark's first day in Vegas through the day Max was traded to Carolina in summer 2022, was just 1,235 calendar days - or 3 years, four months, nineteen days.

when it came to the time on the calendar, they spent much longer opposing one another as part of two bitterly separate factions than they ever did on the same side.

however.

across all of their nearly six years as opponents and rivals, Patch and Stoney actually participated in just 29 total head-to-head games between their respective opposing teams.

and yet, in their comparatively brief three years as teammates, they played together in 195 total games for Vegas, across parts of four incomplete seasons.

when it came to game time spent actually playing hockey, on the ice and on the bench, their time as allies wearing the same crest, playing together, sharing a common goal, outstrips their time spent as opponents by a mile.

how do you measure how long something lasts? what matters more, the time that has passed or how you spent it? can something truncated and cut-short and relatively fleeting feel like a lifetime?

#fun with math! and by fun i mean feelings!!#game numbers include regular season preseason and playoffs. compiled by me #sourced from hockey-reference and the nhl.com gamesheets #6167 #mark stone #max pacioretty #vegas golden knights #vgk #it doesn't need to be tagged with other teams because this is primarily about their time on the knights #we're not talking on-ice minutes here we're just doing roster slots but i promise the minutes are also a lot

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gailynovelry · 1 year

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You know you're in too deep with the worldbuilding when you realize that your setting actually has four or five recognized gender categories, and that one of those gender categories is basically "what if 'furry' was a gender."

#writeblr #worldbuilding #not joking about this (or making fun of furries for that matter)#as a potential(?) furry myself #it's just a little thing that makes me smile #anyway Rhimn's gender categories are male / female / ungendered / bestial / and a weird spot where bigender she/her-he/hims like me fall #the latter three categories are mostly associated with the fey but tbh Crislie and Mep sorta fall under the bestial category a little?#and Tincre is proudly straight-up just that gender #so is Daughi but that is A Can Of Worms regarding the fact that Daughi is self-aware enough to decide her gender in the first place #the ungendered category is interesting because it overlaps with Earth's nonbinary category #it's associated more with they/them pronouns #but it's not a perfect overlap #Gildhe falls under this category and so does Ainzel once Book 3 starts #bestial is more associated with it/its but like the ungendered category and they/them it's not an exclusive thing #most of the wyfwolves are bestial as well as female and most of them do the she/her thing #also i'm going to have to unpack the fact that Rhimn is primarily matriarchal at some point #Mep and Vae are both considered very GNC for their world btw?#it's funny to have to explain this because they both seem gender conforming by Earth standards but they get told off for it once or twice #look i am writing . . . in universe research papers okay #that's how dedicated i am to the sociology here i guess

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dodgebolts · 1 year

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sapnap livewatching nrg matches and you talking about vct in general is making me interested in it fr, I've just watched yesterday's nrg and 100t match

THIS IS AWESOME I HOPE U ENJOY

#right now vct is doing its first ever season where they have 30 partnered teams around the world #so americas/emea(europe middle east africa)/pacific are the regions each with 10 teams #and then there’s a ‘challengers’ season happening simultaneously with teams that didn’t get partnered who are facing off for a partner slot #next year!! I’m from the US so I primarily follow Americas and NA challengers #but there’s a lot of really fun leagues around wherever u might be ^_^#also if u want team recs:#FNATIC (emea)/LOUD (americas)/Sentinels(Americas)/DRX (Pacific)#and then ofc NRG for sapnap because they just jumped back up into playoff contention w their win yesterday!!#also if u want dtblr-vct blogs I would rec nupe churchprime and arie dnfingtons they’re both epic #I think mar patchesjam also talks about pro valo sometimes so another rec for ya <3 #sorry for like writing an essay in the tags I just love talking about this LOL #lyss answers #anon tag #lyss.valorant

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