#last braincell talk

[yoikami]

My breast often gives me disphoria, pain and is overall annoying and I’m going to have it reduced. So I suggest this:

Someone, offer my breast to a trans gal in need thanks

#tbh it's big enough for two #i was gonna make a dumb joke #a joke similar to ''i wonder if brown hair would suit me'' *dates a brunette* #enby #non binary #trans positivity #Imagine we could transfer breast #I'd just hand it over #maybe like 70% because you don't deserve too much that it'd be a nightmare to live with #yoi rant #last braincell talk

[juusbox]

first impressions

#sorry gale #jun will listen to you nerd out but the price is that you're talking to his last remaining braincell #every vampire/spawn keeps a diary #that’s the law #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 memes #bg3 astarion #bg3 tav #bg3 gale #astarion #dark urge #our small army of stars

[no-where-new-hero]

omg I need your thoughts on the terminally o line author culture bc ngl it makes my eye TWITCH, there are authors I deliberately avoid even tho I've heard their stuff is good bc they're like that 🙈

HHHHH oh good lord, okay, from how I see it, there are two angles on this, both aggravating and sad: the official decree one and the spontaneous ecosystem one.

The officious one is that the nature of publishing nowadays demands an author have an online presence. You need Twitter/X. You need to let every potential reader know your book is coming out. You need engagement through reviews and pre-orders incentives (if you buy now you’ll get a special keychain!!) and word of mouth assurances from your peers that yes your book is as cool as you say it is. You need a newsletter with links (more buying! more voting on lists that are simply popularity contests!) and promises you’re still working on the next thing, don’t forget about me in the morass of everyone else doing the same thing. You need an Instagram and TikTok now to post pretty pictures and videos because one or two authors made it big off this kind of promotion and now everyone thinks it’s the ticket to the bestseller list (sadly, it seems to be working). You need an OnlyFans (a joke but I do recall a twt spat that was a joke/not joke about how rupi kaur will always be more beautiful than her critics and people who took issue with the conflation of beauty with talent). At the end of all this, you’re basically an influencer, a content creator creating content for the content you should be focusing on creating, the finished novel. And the novel itself seems to be disappearing behind the masks used to promote it (fanfic-style tropes, moodboards, playlists, memes) until I now no longer trust the book that I’ll pick up to have any resemblance to the enticements that brought me here. I’ve seen an author or two complain about the stress all this self-promotion generates, but it’s become such an entrenched part of the industry, I think people just accept it. And thus spend too much time online hoping that if they tweet just a little more, produce just one more reel, maybe that’ll be the difference between a sale and no sale.

The other side of this, distinct but obviously connected, is the ecosystem created by this panic of being perpetually visible coupled with the fact that so many of the new authors came of age during the rise of internet fandom culture. That opinionated community mindset that blurs the line between anonymity and friendship is the lens they bring to their own work. I mean, it makes sense I suppose—if you love yelling about characters and words, why wouldn’t you do that once you start to produce your own? This really came home to me hearing about that reviewbombgate “scandal” and how people involved were in reylo circles and that was used to provide receipts. You’re interacting with your readers and peers about your intimate work but they are also all strangers. They will not always give you the benefit of the doubt, and now—as opposed to the past when maybe the worst that could happen was a handful of bad reviews in newspapers—you will either be tagged in hate reviews, sub-tweeted, explicitly called out, demanded to atone for your sins. It’s no longer the morality of consumption but the morality of production. Of course, the easy answer is just log-off, touch some grass. But that can work only when you and everyone else are separated by anonymous accounts or when you have no platform to maintain. As an author trying to make your livelihood from this, suddenly it’s do or die. We’re in a strange moment of authorship bringing the Internet’s echo-chamber and claustrophobic into the real world (this is a lie: publishing now is no longer the real world. But it looks like it) and thus you can kind of no longer escape things.

Will the average reader who isn’t aware of all these machinations care about reviewbombgate? Would a reader browsing at Target think about the controversies around Lightlark? Very likely not. But the impression I’m getting more and more is that the average reader isn’t the one buying all the books. Or shall we say—a bestseller’s status relies on bookstore stock. Bookstore stock is only huge when they know a book will be a good investment. They’ll only know a book is a good investment if it and its author has street cred based on booktokkers, bookstagram, bloggers and reviewers (have you noticed how many books out these last maybe 1-3 years have these kinds of accounts thanked in the acknowledgments? Yeah), and THESE are also chronically online people who will Know. And decide the cast of fate.

Honestly, @batrachised, I see why you avoid these kinds of writers, though I wonder how long it’ll be before the disease becomes epidemic.

#i’m very doom and gloom about this if you couldn’t tell from my tone lmao #and of course it’s not a perfect formula; i read a decent debut this year by a writer trying to be very active on socials and idk how much #of a splash her book made because literary sff is a dying genre even with an ecological bent compared to the glut of romantasy #also this feels very timely because the goodreads choice awards were just announced and i am seething at seeing d*vine r*vals #get another accolade to its name #blake’s last braincell #blake talks shit #writing life

[animatedtext]

#I lost my last braincell talking to you #gif #glitter #wordart #transparent

[that-multi-fandom-hijabi]

Dex: On a scale from “damn Daniel” to “fre sha vaca do”, how are you feeling? Keefe: In between “it’s an avocado, thanks” and “how did you defeat Captain America”, but as a solid answer I would say “I don’t need a degree to be a clothing hanger”. How about you, Fitz? Fitz: Probably “road work ahead”. Sophie: I speak many languages, and this is none of them.

#my last 3 braincells trying to do math be like: #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc shitpost #the hijabi rants #kotlc funny #nova talks fandom stuff

[deus-ex-mona]

lxl are the only ones who can get married twice and go on two honeymoons without being a canon couple (yet…?)

#there’s no longer any point to saying ‘aiyuu married’ bc we’ve seen them get married twice (but nothing happened!!!) #you’d think they’d realise that something’s up when they had to get married in an mv for a second time but nooooo they’re too dumb for that #granted the first one had yumeru as a third wheel but she’s just a lizbeth +1 in the situation to me #though im sorry but everytime i see/hear of lxl getting married i think of their fiancé dance with the ‘kiss kiss kiss’ #i want them to do that dance at their wedding lmaoooo #people on lxl twt are talking about wanting them to get married in last stage… b u t they’ve already gotten married in meoto— #seriously love how lxl twt have a single collective braincell lmao #[ny aizo cg drops] ‘omg aiyuu married’ #[honeypre kyoto event drops] ‘omg aiyuu honeymoon’ #[meoto’s (fake news) summary drops]: ‘oMG AIYUU MARRIED IN SENGOKU ERA THEY LOVE EACH OTHER’ #[izumo anime trailer drops] ‘omggggg aiyuu honeymoon!!!! again!!!!’ (begins referring to it as the honeymoon anime) #great community we have over here. as long as you ignore the occasional beef that pops up at the most unexpected of times #in any case i hope lxl do not hold hands or kiss or anything in last stage so that i won’t have to walk back my outlandish promises lmao

[sheisbeautyweareworldass]

alastair kinda of my favorite person ever because only him would consider rude and improper for a man to not wear a hat outside but would have ‘caressing a man’s lower belly and hooking his fingers into his waistband in public’ as acceptable behavior on his etiquette rules’ book

#welcome to my favorite game of ‘what would have happened if tatianna hadn’t chosen that moment to show up?’ #like 😭 #it drives me crazy that everyone kinda had their own thing to solve and talk about and they all did it in private places #but alastair saw a big urn and thought that staying behind it was private enough 😭😭😭???? #not a single working braincell on that pretty mind of his when it comes to tall tattooed man #alastair carstairs #chain of thorns #chain of thorns spoilers #the last hours #thomastair

[tatatatatara]

These pfps look so funny standing next to each other

#how i look talking about houtata vs how i look drawing them #my last braincell when it sees houtata tags and when it doesnt

[finexbright]

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#what's really funny to me is how every single one of us said from the beginning that this would end right after movie release #and it did. it legit did once it was out on all platforms #and after mp released and his residencies ended #but what's more laughable to me is her sad sorry attempt to grapple at the last two seconds of fame #she really dressed herself up in a tracksuit and rocked up to his show with her kids and did her fish dance #because she knows she's done for #if she thinks anyone will take her seriously after what she did to flo and after she got dumped by harry? fucking laughable #watch her and jason magically get back together after she brings home her salad #that woman had zero self awareness and was so fame hungry that she didn't even end up being a joke. she just became irrelevant #at least if you're a joke you're still talked about in this industry but she's literally the most irrelevant person rn #so fucking glad that we don't need to see her flail around anymore #i really do hope that harry's team used their last two braincells and had her sign a contract where she would never bring up his name #or even allude to him ever again

[thedeadthree]

AND REMEMBER: MAKE NOBLE SACRIFICES AND DONT DO ANYTHING STUPID..... PERSEY WE'RE LOOKING AT YOU. ( x )

#insp: gisela alcantara #oc: gianna villareal #oc: olga litvinchuck #oc: love lourinho #oc: persey pasternak #oc: ondria villareal norrey #oc: yori villareal #oc: francis allard #oc: fleur faucher #v: a cure for wellness #tlou oc #the last of us oc #hehehehehe i made something at last <3 once more tlou brainworms have the braincell ! we love to see it! #the babies are scattered to the winds circa pt i but the gang gets back together during and post pt 2 ! M'LOVES #very very pleased to inform that persey may be getting someone to keep his hind end alive <3 (ty aj for his life 🥀😌) #though love and maybe gia post joel (*SOB*) and theyre not here but clovis and thomas and matt are available hehe <3 #the saints of seattle <3 #tell me why it looks like persey 'theyre not talking about me OH THEY ARE keep smiling' bc im wheezing #francis was studying to be the doctor / combat medic before they had to get outta town when the wolves overthrew f*edra #(they left sometime after + abandoned the acfw besties but that wasnt knowledge + this is learned after they went after the facility:') ) #(and it was only of necessity as they had the facility and needed it and its recources and after they left they became independent) #in a rare occasion leg posts in the daylight hours 🥀✨😌🥴 #leg.edits #leg.ocs #*ocedit #*myedits

[lesbiantabes]

my favorite inotan panels from the latest Gakuen chapter :') 💕

#kny #Inotan #i really hope they license this manga too #its cute and fun #me talking #the last one is like 'here's this lame plan :]' they share one braincell i swear

[ftmkakashi]

i highly apologize to my 2 followers for being inactive

in my defense

I was busy with kakashi on character ai

now hes tied to bed so we're good

please forgive 👍

#ive lost my last braincell today #leo talks

[no-where-new-hero]

chaos: 6, 13, 25!

This was unexpectedly trickier than I thought because I don't think I hang out enough in fandom, but thank you for the asks!

6. Which ship fans are most annoying

I truly don’t have a good answer to this, so I'll commit violence against myself and say the Dean/Emily shippers. Because honestly, I dislike a lot of the fanfic I see written about their “what ifs”—the way so much of it is OOC, or falls short of the tough work LMM was doing in showing their relationship and its toll on Emily, or seems to exist for mere titillation. They were my emotional support ship during my angsty teen years and so—recalling that long expose of my relationship with the books—they are extremely personal to me. They’re mine. Only I Understand them and the particular nuances of both how they could work and why ultimately they didn’t. (This whole response just proved my point lmao).

13. Worst blorbofication

I know I could probably come up with a better answer for this if I wracked my brains further, but honestly the first thing that comes to mind is Mr. Darcy. I feel like this is mostly due to the 2005 movie, where Matthew MacFadyn does go around looking perpetually like a kicked puppy left out in the rain, but (I think I saw this pointed out elsewhere on Tumblr) we sincerely AREN’T supposed to like him or feel sympathy for him throughout the first 3/4 of the book. We are supposed to agree with Lizzie’s estimation of him and come to the revelations about his true and upright character when she does. We shouldn’t ever have the chance to feel sorry for him to the extent that we do in that movie, imo.

25. Worst fandom complaint you’re sick of hearing

Not entirely sure this comes from within the fandom (is there a Bronte fandom? Idk, it’s still a complaint), but it’s “Wuthering Heights isn’t a love story, it’s unhealthy!” A, those two statements are not incompatible. Show me a love story that doesn’t have its moments of unhealthiness, of problematic elements. The definition of an “unhealthy” relationship differs from culture to culture. B, Emily Brontë wasn’t writing a love story, but not in the way critics mean it, either. I always remember a line from the Introduction of the first copy I bought, where the writer—expecting a “bodice ripper”—was surprised at the “asexuality” implicit between Cathy and Heathcliff, despite the very intense physicality that happens in their relationship. So, no, it’s not a love story in a romantic sense, but I’d argue it’s in a Romantic sense—the tension between individuality and understanding, the loneliness, the violence, etc. It has nothing to do with what we think about ordinary romance or sexuality, and I don't know who's exactly responsible for the misrepresentation lol.

#blake talks shit #blake's last braincell #immortal poets society

[tenfluenza]

finished with phd applications (for the most part) so i can finally draw again

#trivial talk #spent the last 2 braincells but im coming back i swears it

[unofficiallyswizzy]

patb au but its like tordtom except its mad scientist brain who experimented on pinky and now pinky has a monster side and pinky is brain goofy world over taker protector

#HOLY SHIT MY BRAIN IS SO SMART #OFC ITS USING ITS LAST REMAINING BRAINCELLS ON #GAY BRAINIACS WITH GOOFY BFS #im mentally ill please excuse my ramblings : swizzy and fandom junk #block this tag im talking /j : swizzy speaks #tordtom #tomtord #shipsworld #only mentioned #but like #still #patb #pinky and the brain #patb au

[chqnified]

Job interview is going to be fine because not shy not me, I'm fearless

#ant ti ti ti fragile #nmixx change up let's go #my brothers spitting facts they locked and loaded #gra ta ta ta ta ta #I'm loosing the plot rn help me #i listened to wayv lovetalk and phantom on repeat today. I don't think it did my last braincell much good #anyws #this that pink venom get them get them get them #big wave... big wave #i can hear it calling.... LOVING THE WAY YOU WANT TO TALK #🎵neither man nor a woman🎶 #🎶🎶🎶yeah I'm fucking tomboy 🎶🎶🎶 #I'm done now