#its special. its fun.

[simplydnp]

what's your opinion on fanfics about dnp? (more in a way of do you think that it's crossing boundaries and/or being parasocial)

i'm of the same mind of dnp in that phanfic is fucking incredible. it's an important and valid way to express yourself, as well as a building block of our community. i don't think it's crossing boundaries, as it's fiction. i don't see it as parasocial either--you're writing for you and others like you. most people don't want dnp reading their fics, it's not for them in a sense, it's for us.

i think dnp are extremely aware of fanfic and its value and place in community. they've always encouraged it, appreciated the support, and given us space about it. they're not ones to make videos about it and mock fans for it (which happened to some of our lovely fic writers here writing for other yt fandoms, and i'm so sorry about it). dnp are fandom culture people. they've written fic themselves! and published it in their book!

the word parasocial has been twisted lately to imply any fan support is unnatural and should be shamed, which is complete fucking bullshit. making art is always important and valued. and it is necessary for your existence as a human, but also for the thing you're a fan of to thrive.

the parasocial side comes in once you start believing you know this person. and that you're their real friend. when in reality, they do not know you specifically, and you are not their friend, you are an audience member.

so a parasocial relationship only occurs when people start crossing boundaries (digging for not publicly available information, contacting people in their personal life, showing up to their house, etc). which, is absolutely nowhere close to real fan behaviour.

tl;dr: phanfic is great, i love you fic writers, parasociality is a problem but not one that we have

#dnp have such a unique relationship w/ their audience in this way. it isnt parasocial bc it isnt like. too real? like they arent our friends #we joke and we meme but we Know that. but they Are a facet of our lives and we do care about them perhaps more than an average community #but they also care about us more than an average creator too. #we're extremely familiar with each other. but not in an unhealthy and dangerous way. just. aware. #its special. its fun. #like we even make jokes about dnp being parasocial with us sometimes lol #i hope im clear and it doesnt sound pointed anon but we've done the morality of rpf so many times in this fandom #on neutral ground any rpf is fine. but especially in dnps case where theyve actively encouraged it and are extremely grateful #except maybe when we haunted them with awful crack fics. but even then they still loved us for it. despite the horrors #dnp #c.text #dan and phil #answered

[zebracakesarecopingmechanisms]

ok so we know about the need to infodump, but what about the opposite? The need to absorb more information about your special interest like a sponge, but you literally can’t find any new material because you’ve already consumed every fact about it

#I WANT FUN FACTS!!!! #this is me with the wizard of oz rn #I’ve watched the same hour-long video on the production of oz like six times please #and clue also. there’s like one video on its filming and casting history and that’s all I can find #autism #autistic #adhd #actuallyautistic #actually autistic #actuallyadhd #actually adhd #audhd #neurodivergent #neurodiverse #neurodiversity #special interest #special interests #hyperfixation #hyperfixations #🤡.txt

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

i am fascinated by Ken Tennyson

-appears in one episode to get traumatized

-is loved by every family member

-does not elaborate more

-leaves to not be percieved by ben 10 writers/producers

#ken tennyson #gwen tennyson #ben tennyson #ben 10 #ben 10 alien force #ben 10 ultimate alien #on one hand its a good thing for a character to not be elaborated by writers/producers because we can have fun with them #but on the other hand... no there is no other hand. sometimes it IS good for a character to be left alone by writers lol #i have written an au entirely in my head where Ken Tennyson took a Jazz Fenton route and became a psychologist after events of AF/UA #but specializing in ptsd and trauma because he became worried about Ben&Gwen and wanted desperately to help in some way #look at my horrible doodles. i think i forgot how to draw somewhere in the middle lol

[190729]

St. Nicholas Day Wolfwood Wednesday!!

trimaxification (plus scrapped wips of some other frames under the cut)

there were just too many things i wanted to change around for these to match nightow's hip forward/hunched poses

they'd probably have ended up very close to these panels, and at that point it'd be more like a manga redraw rather than a trimax style anime redraw

#I LOVE HIM SOSOSOOO FUCKIGN MUCH HES MY DEAREST BELOVED HES EVERYTHING THE CENTER OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WH #OLE WORLD IM GONNA CRY #HAPPINESS IS STORED IN THE TRIMAX WOLFWOOD #super special thanks to my beloved mutual dam for listening to me going completely mental about finally drawing The Character #his design is so simple but sooo fun everyone could and Should draw him its good for the soul #nicholas d. wolfwood #nicholas d wolfwood #WOLFWOOD WEDNESDAY #!! #trigun maximum #trigun stampede #trigun #my art

[ruporas]

special operatives (silly interaction beneath read more)

[ID: Digital Art in color of Trigun Maximum, characters included are Wolfwood, Elendira, and Legato in a casual meeting situation. The piece consists of orangey yellow lighting and purple shadows. Wolfwood sits on the left side, facing Elendira who’s on the right. He’s seated on a plain wooden chair with one knee up and he’s holding the strap to his Punisher in his left hand while his right sits against his thigh, He has an irritated expression as he speaks to Elendira. Elendira is sitting in a fancier seat, her right arm rests against Wolfwood’s propped up knee, her left hand holds her suitcase. She’s sitting cross legged with an amused expression. Legato can be seen in the back at the center of the image in his mobile body case, one of his eyes shown to be glaring at Wolfwood. End ID]

[ID: Sketch, uncolored comic. Elendira says to Wolfwood, “I’m not telling you to dedicate yourself to him, but just accept the situation at hand. We could get along better if we were on the same page.” Wolfwood responds, “Don’t peg me me for an optimist. I’m not dumb. But, I’m also not going to just live in resignation. Plus, I don’t have any interest in getting along with ya.” Elendira coos, “Aw, you sure? I have a wonderful shoulder to cry on when the weak people you’re trying to protect eventually dies in the coming months. Though, I guess it’s fine. Someone like you might just die before then anyway...” She snickers in her hand while Wolfwood is speechless and just glares. Legato is faintly drawn in the back, glaring at Wolfwood, muttering “worthless” repetitively. End ID]

#trigun #trigun maximum #nicholas d wolfwood #elendira the crimsonnail #legato bluesummers #YES they were together in scene canonically for only 1 Measly chapter. Yes legato dipped like 2 seconds later but listen #trigun has such a fun cast and such a vague sense of time that i love to just throw in whatever Chances of the gung hos meeting outside of #canonic time... i mentioned before but i do think ww just runs into them on occasion from town to town #this illust would have to take place after the remembrance of july though ofc since that was when ww first saw elendira... which is still #the funniest ww ever bc he was so Shocked. LIKE AGHAST... BC IT WAS ELENDIRA THE CRIMSONAIL. he was starstruckk it was so cute #elendira of all people deserve that kind of reaction though im glad that they hyped it up with ww of all people. bc its like wow even ww is #kind of intimidated! even though he gained his grips like 5 seconds later to talk back to her. which is why i think theyd have a funny #dynamic. and legato is just there. he does not care about them but he also hates them and it's fun to think about how that'd extend to #wolfwood after knives specifically left the gung hos up to him and then explicitly didnt say shit after giving ww a special little mission #it also is just like. legato is pretty passive in trimax until someone is actively betraying knives or when its vash #and ww also does not give a shit about legato bc he also is like. vaguely aware he'd lose in a fight. so all i make them do is stare at each #other passive aggressively. TRISTAMP on the otherhand is ridiculously insane for making legato genuinely hold enough aggression towards ww #to literally activate his character arc in the season sgmkdsgm cannot wait for final phase where legato not only deeply detest vash but also #bears a similar aggression towards ww. actually im not sure whether i should be Excited for that or not but it would be an interesting #ruporas art

[ganondoodle]

once you notice how few characters in media have brown eyes it really becomes impossible to not pay attention to it and its been bothering me ever since

#ganondoodles talks #i now its not that there are literally zero #but it almost is #and i get giving fictional characters non natural eye colors is fun #but blue and green is still everywhere evne tho those are also real #like sometimes it feels like brown is actively avoided #going for red or yellow instead #and i know in anime especialyl theres this idea i think that similar to hair color its bcs the majority of japanese people have those #so it feels 'more special' if its anything but that #idk how much of that is true #also its not just anime #feels weird #brown is such a diverse and beautiful color #makes me sad

[ningadudexx]

a little bit of help goes a long way...

#monkie kid #lego #lego monkie kid #lmk #monkie kid mk #mk #qi xiaotian #lmk mk #lmk qi xiaotian #sun wukong #monkey king #monkie kid monkey king #is this comic a metaphor... #or is it just about autism... #you decide... #i dont know if i like this one #but its ok i just like drawing monke #i like to think after s3 special mk visits the mountain more frequently #not for just training #he visits to hang out with the monkeys and have fun #also to hang with wukong #he needs the company #so does mk #after s4 i think having macaque and wukong around would be good for him #to show him that hes not alone in what he is #MONKEY POWER ACTIVATE

[doughnutwolf]

🍂🎃⋆. °.⋆HARFEST⋆. °.⋆🎃🍂

#my art #eyestrain #nitw #nitw fanart #nitw mae #nitw gregg #mae borowski #bea santello #nitw angus #harfest #fanart #art #digital art #clip studio #halloween #video games #night in the woods #i never post fanart??? i never really make it but this game holds a special place in my heart #i draw mae every once and a while and its fun so I finally polished something up for once #i have such a bad art block LOL #nitw eide #horror #furry art #ignore my random little sona head up there LOL i noticed they had the same three dot forehead marking n wanted to draw it #my name is doughnutwolf compltely unrelated to this game but i love that it feels like a reference.... 2015 i started using this name #anyway curious how people will react wth this fanart is not really my thing but nitw special media beautiful spooky autumn game

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #𓄿 #hi i'm READY to write a thesis about murderbot i am having way too much fun with this #i created a pretty excel spreadsheet and everything #i don't know why i did this but now i can look at them while i think about this more! so i figured i'd share them haha #i didn't count uses of 'friendly' but special shoutout to when MB is all alone in its cold cubicle missing 20% of its body mass #and starts putting on a show because 'the friendly noise would keep it company' 😭😭 #i feel sick thinking about murderbot all alone on its own not knowing what its like to have friends watching media for 'the friendly noise' #also YES okay i wanted to make a point about miki there but i just #couldn't bring myself to talk about that more so... yeah #also uhhh this data is very subjective #i didn't count particularly ironic uses of 'friend' and generally did not count every instance of friend and sometimes it was a hard call #also i probably shouldn't have counted the times murderbot refered to drones or secsystems as its friends (often after hacking them) #but murderbot does seem to care about them and shows kindness and respect and sometimes points out that a system is friendly #so while i don't think MB means “friend” in the same way referring to them as when it refers to ART for instance #i still think its CUTE and also kinda funny how many times that happened so i decided to keep those!!! #but yeah take my data with a grain of salt lol

[bklily]

I know the trend has long passed but I feel like they deserve one

Also fun fact, all the friends that I showed Claw Noir's design had the same reaction: "oh I thought this was a lesbian". So that's hilarious

#drawing claws hair was surprisingly fun #its so poofy #miraculous ladybug #ml spoilers #mlb #ml #mlb fanart #my art #shadybug #claw noir #mlb paris special #mlb paris special spoilers #miraculous ladybug paris special #shadybug and claw noir #shadyclaw #ladybug #chat noir #barbie meme #mlb meme #ml season 5 spoilers #ml season 5 #ladynoir

[randomminty]

Yippee

#art tag #pokemon #pokespe #pokemon special #pokespe silver #spe silver sunday #hey. caught me at a really bad time. lots of enstars things happening #id love to talk abt spe silver my beloved but oh my god. oh my god #theres knight killers scout theres crossroads theres marionette getting fully voiced theyre not letting me rest literally #theyre senind kuro kiry at me from all angles its terrifying #anyways this post it about a differnet redhead my bad. have yoh seen this guy #i miss drawign art spreads like this its so fun #i shouldve drawn blue somewhere..... so sorry for not including her :( #and sorry for drawing silvers hgss design but gold and crystals gsc designs theyre simply easier to draw #thats all. not looking at this art anymore lest i start noticing mistakes and crying #for example his heads in a weird position on that middle drawign. goodbye❗️❗️❗️❗️ #happy spe silver sunday everyone

[bigfatbreak]

I love your drawings of emo!Marinette and Adrien, if only because you make Marinette look super punk and even more fashionable and Adrien look way less like a kid from middle school who just discovered Hot Topic.

i won't lie, I think her jacket is super cute. I know in the special itself they're likely going to give her a chloe-like bully angle, but I like to imagine her having more of a ruthless perspective... and her brutal honesty lures Adrien in, as I like to think that goodguy!Gabriel tries his best but smothers Adrien, and so all his affection falls flat when its at 100% all the time. Marinette's affection seems much more genuine when its given out so rarely, so Adrien craves that shit

#replies #i knowww this isnt gonna be how the special gooooes #but also its so fun imagining everyone having a rough time. im having fun

[sonknuxadow]

there is no secret 6th option i am specifically asking who is your favorite out of these guys

#another random sonic poll. sorry i like making these its fun to see peoples opinions #i was gonna do a general favorite sonic characters poll but wiht there only being 12 slots i couldnt really decide who to include #and who to just put in the vague category of Other #so. decided to just reduce it to the main guys #anyway mine is SONIC !!!!!!!!! the hedgehog!!!!!! i love him so much hes my special little guy #probably my favorite character from any media really not just the sonic franchise alone #but i do have a lot of love and appreciation for every character mentioned here not just him hes just the one i love the most #though eggman is probably my least favorite out of all these. its not that i DONT like him i just dont like him as much as the others

[surreal-duck]

stumbles out of the 3* story covered in blood

#its so silly im !!!!!! im not gonna recover im losing my mind here #they literally wrote it for me im in shambles #doodles #duck scribbles #enstars #midoyuzu #yuzumido #also special thank u for hourlymidoyuzu acc on twt if ur out there i owe u my life also #midori takamine #yuzuru fushimi #tori himemiya #always love more tori and midori interactions also..... the three of them r fixing his desk together........ rahg #and yuzuru being so comfortable w drawing now and not even protesting midoris requests and rather worrying abt covering the original mascot #design w his doodles im going to actually combust. what a fun duo #to this kanata haruka writer i owe you my entire life #midoyuzu incident of dec 2023..... #well. back to the horrors i go 😔

[quixoticrobotic]

i hate when people complain about short fanfics like shut the fuck up op didn't have to type out a single word for you. so what if the only fic about my favorite ship from my favorite fandom is a paragraph long. im glad somebody wrote about a paragraph, i hope they had FUN doing an ACTIVITY THAT THEY ENJOY

#i maek post #ppl will talk about how much they support fanfic authors and how its for fun and thats great #then be nasty bc of grammar or a fic being to short #WRITE YOUR OWN FIC YOU ENTITLED PRICK ITS YOUR FANDOM THAT HAS MORE FIC THAN MY SPECIAL INTEREST

[venomgaia]

Team Trickshot! They'll swipe any treasure from under your nose!

(They're pretty harmless and friendly, otherwise!)

#driftoodles #pokemon #scolipede #whimsicott #tinkaton #pokemon mystery dungeon #their special move is the tinkaton firing whimsicott at things with their hammer from atop the scolipede #guildmaster wigglytuff has asked them to stop doing this once before but...well #its just so cool and efficient #this was partially a study and partially me wantign to draw...SOMETHING #the more i look at this the more it feels more like an artstyle study than smtjn i judt did for fun which is :C But