#part shade

[stjohnstarling]

Alright, so: I want to explain a little more about this connection between the Twilight fandom, Fifty Shades of Grey, and seemingly, the self-publishing industry as a whole. It's a lot, so I'm going to have to chip away at it a bit at a time, and I think the best place to start is by describing the scene in late 2000s Twilight fandom.

In 2009, Twilight was one of the biggest fandoms in the world, although it was nearly invisible to outsiders because it

Was about a straight couple, while most other fandoms were predominantly gay, and

Was conducted almost entirely on fanfiction.net among a group of people who had little other background in fandom. (x)

That meant for many Twilight fans, Twilight was fandom. It was all they knew, and many had no path out. That also made it a corked champagne bottle with the pressure building.

Because of these community dynamics and the declining quality of the Twilight books themselves, Twilight fanfiction evolved to be mostly AUs so alternate they were more-or-less original romance novels that used Bella and Edward as broad character templates. (x)

Seriously, Twilight fandom got really crazy big for a few years there. It was not totally uncommon to get multi-million clicks on a semi-popular story. It's weird looking back on it and calling it "Twilight fandom" because it was really more like "Romance Novel fandom". For real, for a period there, calling a Twilight fanfic author a 'Twilight fan' would be the ultimate insult. But they never stopped writing about Edward and Bella! It's so weird. (x)

If you were in 2000s era fandom, you're probably aware of the phenomenon of Big Name Fans and the various social-climbing dynamics that happened around them. The Twilight fandom took this social power game another level:

This wasn't even just an author thing. There were Big Name Authors (BNAs) but there were also Big Name Readers. These were basically like... full-time rabid fans of a BNA. They devoted so much of their time to helping out the BNAs, reviewing their chapters, making them fanart, promoting their fics, kissing their asses with cringe-worthy intensity, you name it. Which is why you saw what looked like BNAs having 'employees', such as Moi, tby789's Director of Marketing. (x)

It became apparent that these power games weren't just for fandom clout. The fandom was proving that that social power could be translated into real-world dollars. You see, the Twilight fandom used to organize charity auctions where big name authors would auction off custom fanfiction, and the money generated was substantial:

Mostly authors would auction off stories. So if you donated in my name, I'd write you 10,000 words of porn in my Tattward universe, or something new, etc. That's how it worked. The 2009 auction raised $80,000. The 2010 auction raised $140,000. The 2011 auction raised $20,00. [NOTE: this is likely a typo] (x)

A lot of these dynamics were not unique to the Twilight fandom, but it was the combination that created a perfect storm of opportunism. This would end up changing not just fandom dynamics but the publishing industry as a whole.

#original post #fifty shades liveblog #Working on the rest of this #Part one of not sure how many

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Part 3 of Alastor's really bad awful day~ What's worse than having to go on a fake date with your rival ? Your other rival (one-sided) deciding to play paparazzi, of course.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 (end)

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #radio demon #alastor hazbin hotel #charlie hazbin hotel #charlie morningstar #hazbin hotel lucifer #vaggie #my art #had to separate part 3 and 4 because it was too big of a post it didn't look nice #on a side note I feel like I'm getting better at drawing Alastor's hair ! Though I still hate his 50 shades of red color palette #radioapple #kinda? #I just like when they annoy each other

[zoe-oneesama]

Well THIS looks familiar.

Episode 52 Part 1 First < Previous > Next Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5 Ep 41, Ep 42, Ep 43, Ep 44 Ep 45, Ep 46, Ep 47, Ep 48, Intermission, Ep 49, Ep 50, Ep 51

Bonus:

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#originally I wanted everyone to be wearing clothes inspired by ANY of the heroes #Sabrina as Pegasus or Marc as Caprikid that sorta thing #but keeping track of all the specific shades of gray over so many characters would've been an absolute headache #chat noir and marigold use the same 'gray' colors so this was more streamlined #scarlet lady #scarlet lady au #scarlet lady comic #heroes' day part 1 #catalyst #episode 52 part 1 #sl fashion #also yeah Juleka's is based off Maotif not Chat Noir but they use the same 'gray' so it's a sneaky little thing for me

[milk-ducts]

might delete ,, its been fucking ages since ive touched an art program so . it didnt come out as good and im not proud of how the face turned out so wonky 😭

its a quick messy doodle of a buffed out mark w a longer hairstyle <3 begging the showrunners 2 give him these side bangs .. please !! my baby would look so good w them. u could interpret this as an older ver of him,, tho hes still got that baby face

without the shine .. hehe .. he looks better like this .

#invincible #invincible season 2 #invincible spoilers #mark grayson #omni man #fuck you tumblr for ruining the already shitty quality i hope u rot in hell #FOR THE RECORD … I DIDNT GET HIS COSTUME WTONG #THE YELLOW PART IS A PART OF HIS MASK ! im just very intelligent and cool like tjat.. #digitial art #fanart #illustration #my art #i was too afraid to fully render the face so i left it semi cell shaded im sorry #invincible fanart #invincible show

[yudol-skorbi]

gooooooooorls

#critical role #fanart #the mighty nein #cr2 #nott the brave #jester lavorre #beauregard lionett #yasha nydoorin #i decided to color them #i think it came out pretty neat #still not sure about patterns on beau's coat but euughrrhh #if i not finish now i'll newer finish #yasha's pallet is depressing btw #and i respect her for it #slay you depressed queen #nott is my favorite shade of green probably the easiest part of this whole piece #drawing her is a delight

[pachimation]

lonely at the top

#jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #jjk #season 2 is fucking wiiiild bro holy shit #the FRAMING goddamn #i tend to be a bit mixed on anime adaptions but jjk s2 is really hitting it out of the ballpark #the scene at the end of ep 4!! the lighting!! the way the crowd parted to show gojo #and how his eyes are shaded like they are in season 1 now…..omg #hidden inventory arc rlly is the arc of all time holy shit #my art

[errorwarblesrr]

I know it's a comedy manga, but the ww manga probably has one of my favorite manga interpretations of Link. Mainly because he feels accurate to his games. He's quiet, he can talk, but he mostly just communicates his thoughts through his actions and body language. He's also just a silly little guy.

#wind waker #loz ww #the legend of zelda #my favorite autism creature #this isnt any shade towards the other manga links it's hard making a whole character out of a silent protagonist and its def a lot easier i #this style of manga #i mean i love the fs manga #this is just the only one for me that nails his character on the head especially for this iteration #i look at him and go “yeah thats link in the game” #theres a part where Medli is waiting for Link to come over as part of the main quest and you just know hes goofing off #hes probably doing the mail minigame

[shrimpricebowl]

oh thank god

#art from a while back #i played hk first and deepnest was like. the most uncomfortable ive ever been playing the game #mainly because its just so DARK #as for rw... when i got to shaded...... what the actual Hell #i eventually got used to just dying in the dark and exploring the first parts of the region but like. Why is it pitch black #i didnt even realize there was a path to the scav merchant at the first room..... i got to memory crypts before finding it in my next run #hollow knight #rain world #hk ghost #rw slugcat #rw survivor #artatat #?!?@?@?@?@ the alt text got removed for a sec Sorry about that im not sure why or how that happened #also im completely aware deepnest without a lantern is much darker but atleast it isnt pitch black. You know #i also wanna add on the fact i entered deepnest after the mantis lords and thought. “what kind of winning gift is this!?!?!?” #and felt like cornifer for the first couple of minutes LOL #but i had nowhere to go so womp womp :P #to clarify: i dont hate shaded its actually my top route to go from industrial to shoreline #but i hate deepnest with all my heart❤️ godbless #reading the rbs here is so fun.... so true guys

[rendevok]

“Take my hand” pages 5-11

1 - day 2 - truth - 3

#nmweek23 #narumitsu #wrightworth #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #i spent all yesterday shading and lettering these your boy is so tired BUT IT WAS WORTH IT #in which i cram way too much into way too little and yet way too many pages for a single day #my sincerest apologies to them on their day but i will make it up to them i PROMISE #‘prove it’ you’ll NEVER GUESS what happens next :^))))) (<-guy who is extremely predictable) #phoenix is so strong because if miles looked at me like that i’d be going crazy and im like a known enemy of edgeworth #see you guys in like 5-7 business days on part 3 o7 #fan art #aa #fan comic #rendevok #OH OH ALSO there’s like a whole fucking essay i could write about these pages esp wrt light and also The Hands but youll have to ask for it #just know that if you see something… there was probably a reason for it! #ok thats it fr this time

[chocomars]

Continuing the beat each other’s asses allegations

pt 1

#captain rex #ahsoka tano #ahsoka series #ahsoka show #star wars rebels #star wars #sw rebels #the clone wars #star wars the clone wars #swtcw #marsdraws #marsrb #edit: swaped the 2nd with an updated version because i forgot ti shade one part of her pants lmao

[egophiliac]

so on the subject of the "Crowley is secretly Revaan/Laverne/Levin/please Twst give us his name" theory, I think my feelings are best summed up as "I don't really buy it, but it's funny". like, in all seriousness, I'm not opposed to it; I have enjoyed the writing in Twst so far and I'm willing to trust that whatever happens will, you know, make sense and not be terrible. but I'm just not really convinced by the current evidence! maybe that'll change once we learn more, we'll see!

with that said, may I propose a few alternate theories about the possible Crowley/Revaan connection:

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #on this installment of things nobody asked but i'm going to talk about anyway #disclaimer that this is mostly a joke please don't get mad at me #(legit no shade to anyone) (speculation is one of the fun things about an ongoing fandom and you never know what'll turn out to be true!) #more seriously i do think there may be some connection that just isn't clear yet #but the more little breadcrumbs we get about what revaan was like the more i think crowley just doesn't act like him #i adore crowley don't get me wrong #(yes he's a dipshit. this is a feature not a bug.) #but like. #not to harp on the scene about lilia's nrc invitation (i am absolutely going to harp on it) #i do not believe that crowley would go through the trash to fish out the pieces and put them back together and save them #just because it was lilia's. just because lilia might want it again someday. #crowley can ✨yasashii✨ all he wants but we know what he's like #and i REALLY do not believe that lilia wouldn't recognize him. i didn't believe it before and i extra don't believe it now. #then again i do tend to be incredibly off about speculation so! who knows! i will trust the writing for now! #i do 100% believe that meleanor would fall in love with the world's biggest dumbass and then double down super hard. that part tracks. #that said i have decided that ambrose being revaan is actually the funnier option just because it would make crowley SO mad #it wouldn't make sense for him to be mad about it and that would just make him madder

[redkelpfish]

We all remember this moment right

#why was figuring out the shading colors for his skin actually the worst part of this #the man exists in shades of gray and for why #hades #hades supergiant #zagreus #hades game #I’d like to give a special thanks to zagreus for being made of shapes #supergiant games so real for that #art

[beeames]

have no fear

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic #sth #amy rose #amy rose the hedgehog #ame draws #trying so desperately to remember this part of my art brain #cell shading... ough...

[shimmershy]

Hiiiiii your chara & frisk are two of my favorites, 10/10 very blorbo of them to be rendered in your art style

If that made any sense, I really like your art! Okay byee, have a nice day/afternoon/night!!

Ahh wow, thank you so much!! I'm really glad you like them!! :D This made me realize I haven't drawn them in a bit so here's a little sketch I did!

Well um. It was supposed to be a sketch but then I liked it and wanted to color it. You know how it is. They're reading together, but Chara can't stop complaining about how poorly-written the characters are or something, and Frisk can barely hold in their laughter, either because of how bad the book is, or the fact that Chara's so passionate about bashing it.

Anyway, I hope you have a nice day/afternoon/night as well!! :]

#ask #idrawgaystffs #my art #undertale #chara dreemurr #frisk dreemurr #chara #frisk #chara's corporeal here because. well. because I said so. I was gonna draw them as a ghost but I liked it better this way. #sorry for turning your ask into an art post by the way I didn't mean to do that lol. I was just like. 'oh I'll draw something for this ask' #'because I think it's cute when other people answer asks like this with little doodles'. and then I accidentally added colors and shading #and everything. ahh. such is the life of an artist I guess? #silly :3 #I like the cat alarm clock thing. I think that was a very epic idea on my part.

[burningparadiseduck]

Neuvillette is the greenest green flag to ever exist in this green world.

#he has absolutely no red flags in any part of his body #you thought his heart was red? Wrong. it’s green. His heart is green. #the purest green shade to ever exist <3 #genshin impact #genshin update #neuvillette #hydro dragon #seven sovereign #neuvillette fluff #neuvillette x reader #yandere neuvillette x reader #yandere #I should just rebrand this account as a neuvillette fanpage atp ✋🛑 #he refuses to leave me alone lol #he would treat me right #i just know it

[sourtoasterstrudel]

Hades fanart because my friend is incredibly hyperfocused on it and honestly so am i who doesn’t love a game where literally everyone is hot and badass. I’m sure it comes as a surprise to no one that i like this game though considering my mythology special interest. Enemies-to-lovers bisexuals for the win

*little edit but yes i know they’re friends they’re also just really fucking bad at communicating so i like to call them enemies. They’re just losers

#soursart #hades game #thanzag #thanatos hades #zagreus #thanatos #hades fanart #ignore that zag’s off-the shoulder part is on the wrong side #i noticed it after i finished the sketch and i was too tired to fix it #this has been like a two week-long WIP the shading was just messing me up