#it’s like a fandom microdose

[danothan]

Have you read The Hymn of Barry Allen on AO3 because I think you might like it it’s very sweet. Barry and Iris are a polybi t4t couple.

i’m gonna be so real with you, i don’t think i’ve read a fic since december. i only Just started getting back into reading comics this month, it’s been an awful year for literacy over in toytletown

that being said, t4t westallen intrigues me so i might give it a shot!

#dc #the flash #barry allen #iris west #westallen #danswers #t4t barry anything just gets me in general #but even if i don’t end up getting into the fic i appreciate the rec! #always nice to get little glimpses of these kinds of things as someone who likes to keep to themself. mostly #it’s like a fandom microdose

[silvers-starrway]

So the wildest thing happened where @mactheactor decided to dub over (if that's even the correct terminology) the Chaos Sonic animation I made!!!!

I'm still in utter awe about this like, hands down the coolest thing ever I've been thinking about this non-stop. Hope y'all enjoy it as much as I do!!

#starrway art #sonic prime #chaos sonic #okay now that the nice text for the post is done AHHHHHHHH!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! #I've been screaming about this for the last 24 hours and the shock of it has worn down just enough for me to post this #NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED THIS WOULD HAPPEN IN A MILLION YEARS???? #Sonic Prime is what got me on this long hyperfixation in the first place and I've met so many cool people in the fandom #and generally having a blast making art and it's been such a great time #so to then have Deven Mack come in and think that my stuff is awesome is such an insanely cool thing #it means a whole lot is what I'm trying to say haha #I do have to like microdose on this video because it makes me so incredibly happy that I get very overwhelmed by it #In a very good way though it makes me want to run laps outside #thanks to everyone I've met/interacted with so far being some of kindest people y'all are awesome #idk if this post is even like coherent I've been writing it in my mind for the past day because I have no idea how to even go about this #ok good night hehehe

[sagetooth]

I miss when u could see like 400 new discord servers every day just scrolling on tumblr. what am i to do when i cant join a discord, send an intro, and then mute it to never look in it again every day

#microdosing meeting new people #listen. that overwatch server and that minecraft server were undeniably bad. but i want to experience hate like that again #... I suppose part of this is that i'm not in fandoms like at all anymore and d&d servers are generally doomed to either die in a month #or to be host to the human equivalent of gunk you'd scrape off the bottom of your shoe #As is the nature of real d&d campaigns

[hauntedeyes]

you think youre over your fav fictional tragic gays and then the second season is released and the drawings are now moving. the tragidy is now MOVING

#ignore this #tgis is about satosugu #jjk #jjk s2 #satosugu #im lot kidding like it fucks me up i actually have to pace myself or ill startvsobbing thank god i forgot about it airing i wouldve driven m #yself insane #and to think i got LURED into this fandom bc of some stupid anime tiktok yt comp two years ago #and now im so bing over these two dudes who LOVE EACHOTHER SO MUCH and going theoigh the playlist i made of them #FOR THEM. i wish i could show gojo he would get it #anyway #that playlist is LOCKED away i only take it out go microdose the intense emotions i feel for those boys.

[musical-chick-13]

Realized that I never had a Self-Indulgent Fic I Wrote With My Best Friend experience as a teenager and now I feel like I missed a key part of my social development.

#granted. for most of my teenage years I did not have friends who were as into™ fandom things as I was #actually I did not have many friends at all because I was Weird™ and people considered me off-putting #but like. still. lmao. #microdosing on common social progression events by writing some when I'm in Mental Illness Mode and writing some when I'm Mostly Okay #because those really do feel like two different versions of myself lmao

[nrhodact]

People be like "This character is such a pathetic man."

And it's just a dude showing sadness instead of rage all the damn time :/

#pathetic man #i wish I could take the term away from fandom #i have to microdose on fandom interaction cause I feel like I lose braincells

[werewolfsonpage211]

not me watcing st4 and crying about vex and vax every fucking time running up that hill comes on

#(spoilers for cr1) #i just need to know im not the only one #its starting to get annoying hfjdksh #but srsly is this The my sibling died song now? #but Seriously i cant drop the coincidence of liam picking that song for vaxs playlist and then he died basically because vecna #(a cover of it anyway) #and then thats the song stranger things choose as their anti vecna anthem???? #w h a t are the odds??????? #what did 2016 liam obrien know #too bad it didnt save him lmao right #:') #im now even gonna fandom tag this i just needed to say it #im having cr deficiency #microdosing on dnd by watching stranger things #i just know if i start to try and catch up on c3 im not gonna leave my apartment in three weeks #but everything reminds me of Them :( #*st characters playing dnd* me: omg this is just like cr #hopper with that sword gave me travis willingham c2 thumbnails vibes #like I KNOW thats a stretch but im also just always like this with fandoms and im trying to accept it lmao #im literally the 'guy who has only watched x: this reminds me of x' meme #page

[tyrannuspitch]

sometimes it really does feel like i'm undergoing some kind of second-hand queerplatonic experience simply by trying to engage with fandom while centring and prioritising a platonic relationship. i mean, no-one's actually being hostile to me or anything, but there is honestly a kind of pervasive feeling that i just Don't Fit. in my fandom, there are communities for romantic relationships, and there are communities for individual characters, but how do i find *my* people? if there ever was a way, it's long since died out, but honestly i suspect there wasn't. i think we've always been scattered. most ppl who engage are just dabbling, or vastly prefer one character over the other. this relationship is at least peripheral to the entire fandom's experience but ppl for whom it's actually the centre are. somehow. few and far between

#but idk this is actually a gen-heavy fandom (relatively speaking 😒) so maybe i'm making it up #and what i'm actually experiencing is just a super advanced stage of my conviction that no-one gets thor like i do lmao #anyway this is not me complaining abt the few ppl i DO know in this fandom. you're all cool!! #it's just me bashing my head against a wall bc sometimes it seems like the only ppl who love both my favourite characters equally #are inc*st shippers #and shipping them is in my humble opinion just one more way to spectacularly miss the point #sigh. idk. i am trying to be more zen and ignore them without trying to bite anyone #but it also does just make me sad sometimes bc like #okay i know this is going to sound presumptuous and pretentious and so on blah blah blah #but like. i do think that amatonormativity is a huge force behind that phenomenon #which also means i think a lot of them are just ppl who like both characters and are doing it in a 'well why not' kind of way #because they don't feel like adjusting or interrogating their framework for fictional relationships they care about #and they DO feel like being a little bit edgy #which. on some level. makes me feel like. at least a few of them could've been My Community. #but they've shut the door on me. #which i know is self-centred #and also uninformed bc i do my best never to see them at all so i genuinely have NO idea what's going on in their heads it could be anythin #but still. eurghhh. it's just rlly fucking lonely okay #microdosing arophobia every day by being a genficcer in a slashfic world. #you can take the man out of the aro community* but you can't take the aro community out of the man!!! #(*turns out i'm gay)

[allthegothihopgirls]

i've had to actively avoid watching the new fnaf movie because god knows i can't consume media normally, and i can't handle getting more insane about the fnaf franchise than i was at 10 years old

#i've been microdosing on old fnaf songs to keep myself entertained #i haven't played the games or done anything fandom-y for fnaf since like 2018 and i cannot revert back to that #fnaf #. #gothihop speaks

[idyllic-affections]

since you write for demon slayer i was wondering if you could write about the reader being tengen’s tsuguko and their mentor/mentee relationship (personally i think he’d be tough on them but care deep down. maybe touching on the entertainment district arc? thank you <3

being the sound hashira's tsuguko.

summary. what is it like being tengen uzui's student?

trigger & content warnings. mild depictions of injury, limb loss, voluntarily consuming poison, etc.

tropes, pairings, fic length, & other notes. found family-ish, fluff, slight angst towards the end. tengen uzui (and his wives) & reader. 0.7k words. they/them pronouns for reader.

author's thoughts. i took this request and RAN with it, i love mentor/mentee requests for any fandom but especially for demon slayer.... the age was unspecified in this req, so i personally imaged tsuguko!reader being around tanjiro's age, however i left it pretty ambiguous so anyone can imagine it however they want. i also decided not to touch too deeply on the entertainment district arc, since this is only a headcanon post, but i'm totally cool with writing an actual fic about it! just shoot me another request if that's something you'd like to see <3

tengen is definitely a very tough mentor, and he doesn't get the opportunity to train many tsugukos because of this. he's hard on his students. he's a demanding mentor, though at the very least, he lays out his expectations clearly. he knows exactly what he wants he students to know.

the lower ranked demon slayers have favored hashira, ones they would prefer to train under if they were ever given the chance to. tengen is not really one of those favored potential mentors. preferred mentors would be people like kyojuro or mitsuri. that isn't to say any other hashira would be any less tough on their tsugukos than tengen is, but the sound hashira supposes those two come off as kinder than he does.

of course, it should be made very clear that he's hard on his students not because he gets some kind of sadistic pleasure out of watching them struggle, but because he wants them to survive.

his training is just downright difficult. it's all in the spirit of survival, though.

a tsuguko of his would have a lot of things expected of them.

his student is expected to build poison resistance by microdosing themselves day after day.

his student is expected to have a certain amount of stamina.

they're expected to be stealthy.

they're expected to be able to make split-second decisions.

simply put, it's... a lot.

generally, anyone who trains under him quits shortly after beginning, so they don't really get to know him. they don't get to understand why he does what he does. they miss the opportunity to really understand him. the one exception would be his current tsuguko, [name].

he cares very deeply for the one tsuguko that did stick around!

tbh, he's pretty open about that fact, especially when he's alone with them and his wives! he's not secretive about caring for them.

he expects them to prioritize their own life. it is something that other demon slayers might not agree with, something that others find "selfish" and "cruel."

tengen does not see it that way.

he's seen that self-sacrificial, "give everything up for the mission" ideology tear people apart. he's seen it tear his blood family apart. he'd be damned if he let it tear his chosen family apart.

"because you are very dear to me," he'd say, placing a firm hand on their head and ruffling their hair fondly, "i expect you to value your life above all others. the mission is not worth your life. you protect yourself, you protect others, and you get the hell out of there if you can't handle it. you come back to me, to us. you got that?"

i personally think he'd treat his tsuguko like his kid if they're sixteen or under. yeah, he's only in his early 20s. so what? that's his kid. if they're above that age, he treats them like a precious younger sibling. if they happen to be older than him? he does not care. that's still his younger sibling.

regardless of their age, his tsuguko is a part of his little family.

no demon will ever lay their hands on his family and get away with it. he will not allow it.

if they get injured on a mission and they're recovering at the butterfly estate, my man is at their bedside in an instant. he probably yells at them because how dare they worry him?? where did they get the audacity??? tengen eventually gets over it and admits that he's glad they're alright. his wives also come to visit them when they have the time!!

now, as for the entertainment district...

i think that mission would be very mentally taxing (and of course physically taxing, but let's focus more on the stress and panic for now).

seeing tengen lose his arm like that, thinking he was dead... god, it would terrify them. they have grown to see him as strong and infallible, so to see him so weak and broken would be genuinely horrifying.

they'd cry tbh

good luck to gyutaro, though. bro is at the mercy of their rage. having learned from tengen, i wholeheartedly believe that his tsuguko would be able to hold their own against the demon for at least a little bit. long enough for tengen to recover, long enough for everything to go according to plan.

but, of course... tengen does retire in the end.

well.

the whole point of having a tsuguko is to have someone reliable to succeed their respective mentor, right?

tengen loves his tsuguko.

he knows they're capable enough.

he wouldn't want anyone else taking his place <3

please consider reblogging, it helps me out quite a lot!

#aphelion's headcanons 🌸 #platonic kny x reader #platonic demon slayer #platonic demon slayer x reader #uzui tengen x reader #tengen uzui x reader #tengen x reader #uzui x reader #platonic tengen x reader #platonic uzui x reader #demon slayer x reader #kny x reader #kimetsu no yaiba x reader

[docholligay]

Re: Your tags, I know you remember this because you were one of the first people I was mutuals with on this site LO THOSE MANY YEARS AGO, but maybe everyone didn't know me, so.

I don't like Happy Outers Family. I never have.

When I was first nosing around in the fandom and writing a bunch of sailor moon stuff I used to get asked CONSTANTLY why I didn't like it. And specifically, I would get asked what was WRONG with it. Why did I think it was BAD. This to me is a summation of the problem.

Because the way things are working now, very commonly, online, is that you can't simply hate something because you do. You can't just be like, "I want it to die with fire and I'm sick of hearing about it"

There has to be a structural reason that you don't like it. There has to be something about it that contains an -ism or -phobia or doesn't engage properly with trauma or something of any of these natures. We've hoodwinked ourselves into thinking that if we don't like something, there must be a moral component, and people are so disconnected from the on-the-ground, real activism they think trashing a show or book or whatever is praxis.

Which is why we have these INSANELY bad faith takes on things, because people know they have to find a REASON for other people not to like this thing, not to engage with it, not to make me have to hear about it. So you see incredible reaches. I could be SO SO good at this, because it literally is just sleight of hand with words. It's just persuasion.

I wish everyone would just be a hater. I hate Happy Outers Family because it's an insanely boring way to have Haruka and MIchiru play house. I hate critical role because I think microdosing a story is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of and I'm tired of fucking hearing about it. I hate board games because they are fucking boring. I hate Harry Potter not from being problematique, but because I think it fucking intellectually stunted a generation. (pre JK's downfall I got CONSTANT shit for this. That's fine)

None of the reasons above are a moral panic. We are done with moral panics. BE A HATER WITH A FULL AND OPEN HEART AND STOP LOOKING TO BE RIGHT. There are no points for watching/reading the best media.

[possumcollege]

Sometimes I see the "this post contains filtered tags" card and I'm legit happy that I didn't have to look at a (usually) benign thing that I just find unpleasant.

Things I don't care about for silly reasons have a way of becoming more aggravating the more I see em so heading that feeling off is really nice. It's great to know I'm avoiding that particular twinge of bile I get from scrolling hot takes on twitter or seeing a bunch of posts about a show/game/thing I'm just tired of hearing about.

Instead of inadvertently microdosing outrage adrenaline from things that bug me, it's more like, "I'm glad folks I follow can enjoy OnePiece without me having to look at it anymore. For once, thanks website!" It's like fandom compersion. One of the reasons I appreciate people tagging their fandoms over here, for discovery and avoidance's sake.

Being able to dislike a relatively innocuous thing without the need to shitpost about it feels like a dying art and this place makes that easier for me.

#possumcollege

[wetcatspellcaster]

Last anon gave you a very skewed version of what Neil said, he didn't say Ascended is real Astarion and Spawn is the mask lol, he said as an actor when deciding the mannerisms for AA he stopped doing the bubbly quirky mannerisms and switched to a more serious deeper voice (he described it as theatric vs operatic) because since the theatrics were a distraction from the hurt and vulnerability AA doesn't deem that necessary anymore so he just drops it. He also described it as "him at his most terrible" and said the joy is gone forever from his new laugh. RIP

Lmfao, I'm throwing absolutely no shade at the previous anon by publishing this, but instead publicly declaring that I should receive all fandom news second and third hand like Chinese whispers so that I feel like a Queen or Minor Lord holding court as 70 different people give me 70 different versions of what has and hasn't been said

Then I will overanalyse it for 20 or so minutes and give my ruling while sweating and having a panic, but being so allergic to discourse that it never occurs to me to fact check ONCE. Only way I get to microdose on being incompetent royalty other than in D&D.

#asks #anons #added 'fandom lurker' into my bio this morning so at this point im calling my performance comedy gold

[3000-200-grains-of-salt]

i ramble a lot be warned <33

"if you woke and i was gone"

jes' sumthin short, sweet, and angsty for @aquaquadrant and @lunarcrown 's hels to pay au :] im known for fluff but i wanted to cry for a change i guess </3

bigger better things comin! <33 but i literally just got back from a 6 day thing ereyesterday w/no drawing time and in actually 7 hours i have to wake up to get on an airplane and have not slept yet. lmao. im gonna see the crane wives in chicago literal core memory abt to be made, ill keep ya posted otherwise.

also my vaforite crane wives song????? in the HashTag official pathbubs playlist???????? and also the songs i used for art titles???????? i am crying thbak you!!!!!!!!! <33333

and i dont say it enough, but thank you to wveryone for supporting me! every reblog helps and even a lil' like helps me microdose serotonin!

and thank you specifically to lunar n aqua for being so incredibly kind and leaving like an entire Paragraph of tags on each of my arts.!!!?.?!!?!! every time i see your guyses names in my notifs i get so incredibly happy and its not even funny because one day we're all gonna be 80 yrs old and still in the hermitcraft fandom and ill have a heart attack and die becuase i was so overjoyed to see that you liked my pieces!!!!!!!!!! genuinely yall have been a main reason why i create art in recent days, you both are so skilled in each of your respective crafts its amazing iand you dont get it wnough!!!!!!!!! my """little""" deranged series of pathbubs works has made me see a Significant improvement in drawing heads in 3d spaces! (cough cough its all th e kissing poses cough hm what was i sayin) and anatomy in general! ive gained such an understanding of the hesd in 3d, the way it attatches to the neck+torso and im feeling good about my art and like im actually improving and its because of two people and their names are lunarcrown and aquaquadrant seriously i cant thank you enough for just being here and doing what you do whether it be breathing life into empty canvases or creating whole universes in that squishy grey lump of sauce you keep in your skull or somehow making me cry because of a buhnch of squiggly lines and aeird symbols smushed together that i somehow understand?????? by using my own grey slab of meat????????????!!!!!!!!!!! just!!! wow!!!!!!!! i need to take a minute or twelve to go like bake bread and look at the stars and stuff and appreciate human life and the universe and maybe think about the mars opportunity robot

anyways. the POINT is. ...i lobve these gay idiots and the two incredible people who made them. love yall nd see you in a week <3

#almost physically hurts to remove the etho tags from this one #seattlesaltsartowrk #pathbubs #hels to pay au #hermitshipping #htp au #htp art #hels to pay art #bdubs fanart #bdoubleo100 #bdoubleo fanart #bdoubleo #bdoubleo100 fanart

[badgerhuan]

Mitsunoko :3c

@saltyfilmmajor NANCY HI I KNOW IT'S YOU

so I've waited until I'm stuck on a bus for about an hour to answer this on my phone bc otherwise it's going to turn into a 10 page propaganda manifesto with screenshots and I do not actually have the spoons for that.

they make me UNWELL.

Ship It

1. What made you ship it?

my beloved friend @twotwinks was playing through Ace Attorney Investigations and liveblogging it at me. and at one point jhe sent me a screenshot where Itonokogiri swears to follow Mitsurugi through thick and thin. and then was promptly dragged away from him kicking and screaming.

famous last words

jhe then started microdosing me with content about these two in the games, and after I told my treasured friend @maverickcalf about it they also started putting posts about them on my dash. and it took about three weeks before I caved and read through the entire ao3 tag of the ship in one night and. the rest is history, as they might say.

ive always had a passing interest in Gyakuten Saiban but just never got around to getting into it properly. I'd bought and played through a bit of GS6 when it first came out but didn't get very far bc of my limited Japanese then. when MT got really into it I thought it was the perfect chance for me to familiarize myself with the franchise (nothing better than a friend that infodumps) but I. never expected to fall into the franchise as hard as I did, especially not in This Specific Way. this will now be my entire personality for the next three years.

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

god where do I START.

I think what really does strike me is in the first game, how much they clearly trust each other. Itonokogiri is Loud about it so we know clearly where he stands, but while Mitsurugi doesn't say it out loud there are so many scenes where his actions dictate he does trust Itonokogiri. small instances that makes you go HUH. like the fact that he feels bad about keeping things from Itonokogiri in Turnabout Goodbyes!! and the fact that Naruhodou suspected it would hurt him and WEAPONIZED that against him. like. GOD. WHAT THE FUCK. HOW IS THAT CANON.

another thing I love so much about them is that despite fitting the stereotypical roles of a smart character + a not so bright character, Mitsurugi is never condescending to Itonokogiri. it delighted me so much in Gyakuten Kenji 1 where Itonokogiri would have a question about something, and Mitsurugi would just explain it very plainly and straightforwardly to him, without judgement. it means so much to me!!! he never calls him dumb or stupid to his face!! even in his thoughts the most he does is phrase it tactfully in a way that doesn't outright insult Itonokogiri whenever he does something unexpected. I just. oughhh I love them so much.

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

oh boy do I.

having only played the games in Japanese and only learned about the changes made in the English version through my friends, I strongly believe the English localization of the franchise is at best a pale comparison to the original and at worst a purposeful character assassination of many of the characters, ESPECIALLY Itonokogiri. to me, Ace Attorney is a completely different franchise from Gyakuten Saiban and the characters in the localization are not and will never be the same characters as the ones in the original. I respect the people in the fandom that love version of the ship and the characters in the localization but I need people to understand. they have a very different vibe from the original version of them. because Itonokogiri, a Japanese man, not understanding what a ceiling fan (katakana) is, and Gumshoe, an American, not understanding what a ceiling fan (English) is, have very different implications, and Mitsurugi's and Edgeworth's reactions differ greatly based on that.

I can never engage with the English-speaking fandom at large bc of that and it saddens me, but at this point I care about Mitsurugi and Itonokogiri's characterization in the original Japanese versions of the games Too Much to compromise on it.

oh and even among jp fans I am camp mitsunoko instead of nokomitsu (it's less about the top and bottom thing and more about the vibes and dynamics bc on GOD Itonokogiri would NEVER be the one to make the first move are you KIDDING ME) and that pigeonholes me into an even MORE niche corner LMAO.

anyway I think that still turned out longer than I meant for it to be sgskhsjs but godddd they plague my every waking thought. ITONOKOGIRI CHECKS UP ON MITSURUGI AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE. MITSURUGI ONLY TOLD ITONOKOGIRI ABOUT HIS TRIP ABROAD AND NO ONE ELSE. THEY CAN'T COMMUNICATE FOR SHIT AND NEVER TALK ABOUT ANYTHING BUT THEY KNOW EACH OTHER SO WELL. WHY ARE THEY LIKE THIS.

#gyakuten saiban #gyakuten kenji #mitsurugi reiji #itonokogiri keisuke #mitsunoko #gumworth #<- adding this tag just to show that I Am Here and i will be retreating back into my mitsunoko corner now #if you're interested in my ramblings about them feel free to hit me up but please understand #this is not an english localization friendly blog #roch answers #roch metas #(kinda)

[askaniritual]

here’s my contribution to shipping discourse. i like emotional intensity in fiction and i like being completely foaming at the mouth obsessed with somebody in real life and fandom shipping practices allow me to microdose the second thing and achieve the first thing