#perfectly ok to rb :)

[maxpawb]

something happened to me on that day

#art #perfectly ok to rb :) #IVE BEEN NEEDING TO DRAW THIS FOR OVER A MONTH #but ironically i was too physically and mentally ill to make it #i will probably make a lot more art based on the worst parts of the last 2 months #needles #tw needles #medical #gore art #gore #tw veins #veins #vent art

[incinerated]

ADDING C TO THE LGBT ACRONYM. FOR CENOBITE

#GUNKJUNK #PERFECTLY OK TO RB BTW. SPREADVTHE WORD

[llumimoon]

WIP Wednesday is my sillay boy Regular <33333 sorry that ur a homunculus that was made to replace a real person uhhhh good luck arguing ur humanity when people think of you as a puppet 👍

#cal rambles #perfectly regular au #dndads #dndads s2 #normal oak #NOT ACTUALLY. LMAO. #Raven/Regular my fucking beloved. i love him so bad #hes my son <3 #also yeah its ok to rb this idk if im gonna keep working on it LMAO #cal draws

[1892]

as promised: here it is, the strawberry bag—finished

#perfectly ok to rb if u like it <3 #my art

[housewifebuck]

#Bia if you are reading this I need you to know I’ve started sending my friends #this fucking picture like 46 times a day #it just so perfectly encapsulates my current mental state #🪐 #this is ok to rb btw it’s funny <3

[biowho]

i had a dream last night that i was hanging out with varric at a party but his necklace was made of toes not like severed toes like one long foot wreath and they wiggled whenever he laughed and there was a part where like he shivered cause we were on the balcony and the toes retracted into tiny ball shapes cause they were cold

you did not need to share this

#ok to rb because this is the funniest thing i've ever had ent to me #varric tethras #dragon age #asks for bee #...regrettably #though you aren't the first person who's told me about their bioware dreams via ask #my icon fits this perfectly bless #also... EXCUSE ME???

[bisexualamy]

I see people talk about fanfiction and novels being different mediums a lot, and while I don’t necessarily disagree, I don’t feel like I understand either. In your opinion, what makes them different mediums from each other? What decides that two things are separate mediums like in general? It’s totally cool if you don’t wanna answer this btw, I know it’s kind of a lot

No worries I think that's an interesting question! With any categories, the boundaries on this are going to be fuzzy, but the reason I believe they're different mediums is that fundamentally, on a metatextual level, the languages are different. What do I mean by this? Let's use film as an example, a medium that I'd argue is very obviously a different medium than novels, even if we may not be able to articulate all the reasons why.

What are some attributes of film that differentiate it from novels (another storytelling medium) or paintings (another visual medium)? Films and novels are both storytelling mediums, but films have visual and auditory components. They also mainly consist of storytelling through visual cues and dialogue. Exposition is given visually or in media res by characters speaking. In a novel, your omniscient narrator giving you a few paragraphs of background on your main characters is common, and so expected it probably flies over the reader's head. In a film, a narrator doing the exact same thing for all the main characters often comes off clumsy. It takes you out of the story in a film, where it doesn't in a novel.

Film is also a time-based medium. A film unfolds over time, and you cannot experience the entire film in one moment or glance. That's not true of a painting (at least traditionally). With a painting, you can view the whole painting in one look. Now, you can sit with a painting, pick out details, analyze the craft or ponder it for a long time and watch as new aspects jump out at you. Fundamentally, however, if you wanted to view a whole painting in one look, you can, and it would still make sense. You cannot do that with a film. On the other hand, a painting is typically not an auditory experience. To do so would be an experimental use of the form. In modern film-making, the exact opposite is true. Music, dialogue, and environmental sound, all of these things are essential to how a film tells a story. To not use them would be considered experimental or odd.

These are three different mediums with three different "languages" in how they interact with their audience. They may share parts of their languages, like I said above, but they don't speak the same language. What works well for one medium can come off clumsy or strange in another.

I believe fanfic and novels have sufficiently different languages that they should be considered different mediums. Both of them are short or long form written mediums telling some sort of story. But fanfic's relationship to its source material is such an inherent trait that novels do not have. The relationship doesn't have to be positive (it's often, in fact, argumentative or strained or dismissive), but the relationship exists. Even in AU fanfiction. Even in fics full of OCs.

In canon compliant and even canon divergent fics, this relationship is more obvious. These fics are both conversations with the source material as much as they are stories. They're playing in the author's sandbox, or they're wrecking their sandcastle and building something else. They're saying "I like/dislike what you did with this specific story, and I'm going to show you that by rewriting or expanding it." They take large aspects of the author's story whole cloth: the characters, the setting, the magic system, the tech, etc.

These fanfics often have little exposition at the top because they presume a familiarity with the characters, the world, or both. This alone makes them really different from novels. Creatively and seamlessly integrating exposition, immersing your audience in a new world and convincing them to stay, is a really important aspect of a novel that these fics don't have to contend with. This alone fundamentally changes how you'd structure a story.

For AU fics, both fics in AU settings and AU fics full of OCs, the above still applies. These fics are still a conversation with the source material. Something about the source material compelled an author to flip it and remix it and change it around. That conversation might be "in the source material, these characters suffered, and I don't want them to suffer any longer" or it could be "I felt the story had a vacancy that this OC fills" or it could be "if these characters had the time/awareness/ability to grow closer, they would've fallen in love." These are all direct commentaries on the original work.

An exercise that I believe illustrates this point the best is to try and adapt an AU fanfic to an original work. Try to file the serial numbers off. I've done this with some of my fic, and it just doesn't work. You don't realize how much you presume the audience knows until you have to cater to an audience who knows nothing of the source material. That hilarious joke you wrote? Turns out it's only funny because it's a nod to this character's original characterization. This awesome climatic plot point that ties the whole story together? Turns out in relies on a specific bit of lore, a quirk of the magic system, or an aspect of the character's past history or personality. Now that this is a novel, you have to back-fill all of that exposition. And you can try to do that, but watch how your story gets clunky and bloated. You will have to start viciously killing your darlings, as you realize that your favorite scene is beautiful in a fic, but sounds awkward and out of place in a novel. Soon, you're basically just rewriting the whole thing to fit a different medium.

Many fanfic writers are extremely talented. And much of that talent, that wit, that perfect line that you can't get out of your head, is integrally informed by your knowledge of the source material. The irony falls flat without having read the source books. The relationships suddenly feel shallow when you don't have seasons of backstory to deepen them. You do not realize how much of fanfic writing consists of this back and forth until you go looking for it.

And here's the thing: if your fanfic has a totally AU setting and it consists of completely original characters, I'd argue that's just a novel posted to AO3. If all you need to do is change the names to make it work, that's a novel. This is why Clueless is inspired by Jane Austen's Emma and not an AU fanfic of it. If you've never read Emma, if you went into Clueless not knowing that Emma was the inspiration for it, you'd perfectly understand the movie.

In fanfic, the source material is always present. It can be obviously present with canon compliant fic. It can be antagonistically present with canon divergent or AU fic. And it is still present, floating in the background, with totally AU fic. Ultimately, the changes a fanfic author makes to the source material are, themselves, as integral to the fanfic as the words on the page. It is a dialogue with the source material: what it did well, what it could've done better, what this author believes is the essence of the story, or the world pushed to its limit, that even though we're in space or in a coffee shop or 1920s New York, we're still, on some level talking about the source material.

This is an aspect of fanfic I love that novels do not have. Novels have a lot of other great stuff! I love novels! But while novels are often engaged in a dialogue with their present society or their predecessors in a genre, that conversation is much more nebulous than it is with fanfic. You can read Slaughterhouse-Five or Gravity's Rainbow, and while knowing their contexts helps you understand them on a deeper level, that is unnecessary to their enjoyment. They are fundamentally more standalone works than fanfic will ever be.

This is ultimately why I think comparing fanfic and novels is comparing apples to oranges. They're different mediums. They use different languages. They require different skills and they fill different artistic niches. You might as well be comparing a film to a painting just because they're both visual art.

#ok to rb #this is not the point of the post but people do often compare films to paintings ('every frame a painting etc') #it's perfectly valid and super cool to compare fics and novels as two different mediums #by doing so we gain a deeper understanding of both mediums #bc all art is a conversation with other art #but this is not what these posts are doing when they say 'see! fanfic writers are more talented than lots of published novels!' #they are treating both as the same form and making an argument that fanfic is slighted within this medium for a presumed lack of skill #which to me is like comparing a film to a painting by saying #'reblog if you know cinematographers who compose more beautiful shots than any jackson pollock painting!' #hailing frequencies open #Anonymous #thank you for this! i'm recovering from bottom surgery and this was excellent enrichment that i could do from bed #apologies for the long post but i feel like it's better than putting the whole thing under cut #long post ///

[potted-cilantro]

god who invented this 'friends can't be affectionate' shit and 'romance is a necessity and the default so we're treating every single relationship as a binary' and 'the words in your language only support this binary it is impossible to describe a relationship outside it' bullshit can we get rid of it please

#been trying to describe what this relationship is and i keep going 'cant say that that's aphobic' #because as an aromantic person i DON'T HAVE A POINT OF REFERENCE FOR WHAT ROMANCE *IS* #THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS. I DON'T EXPERIENCE IT. I CAN'T MEASURE THIS CHARACTER'S EXPERIENCES AGAINST THAT METRIC BECAUSE THE #STUPID SOCIETY RULES MAKE IT SO THAT I CAN'T DESCRIBE THIS AS ROMANTIC OR PLATONIC #AND THOSE THINGS ARE TREATED LIKE BLACK AND WHITE BOTH IN CONTRAST AND IN HOW EASY IT IS TO TELL THEM APART #and thats NOT HOW IT WORKS AT ALLLLLLL BUT ITS THE ONLY WORDS WE HAVE #so im stuck just going 'heres what this behavior means and here's my romantic history as a reference point because thats ALL I HAVE' #doesn't help that my experiences consist of 'friend that i just like being affectionate with' and 'person who fits perfectly into the box o #romantic partner but is actually aromantic just like me #sorry this got away from me ok to rb #also in case youre concerned about what i mean by 'cant say that thats aphobic' i mean describing this relationship in ways that line up #with the platonic vs romantic binary in order to get my point across or just get my thoughts out badly rather than risking them being lost

[s0re-loser]

He is literally so little brother seriously

#the knee running sends me im sure he's done it multiple times dude #mine #ok 2 rb #wwf #wwe #owen hart #also just saw that the last one nearly loops perfectly #wrestling #hart foundation

[cosmic--static]

i don't usually post wips but oughhh i needed to share him

edit: finished product!

#the sandman #hob gadling my beloved #it IS dreamling #i was watching Batman(1989) the other night and sorta accidentally thought about an au #dream as bruce wayne. hob as vicki vale #is dream vers of or something #anyway i ESPECIALLY wanted redraw the dining room scene with dream and hob because i think it fits perfectly #ok rich boy #ALSO the sandman rescuing hob #Johanna is the reporter that Hob started working with the find out more about the sandman #i had some time to think about this but it probably makes NO sense because my thoughts are so scattered #either way just look at hob #he looks happy :] #cosmo creates #wip #art wip #dreamling #ok to rb! #my tags got SO messed up whil trying to type stuff out but im too tired to fix it so deal with my nonsense ig

[xumoonhao]

pixel art tile backgrounds; classic rainbows

all of these are free to use with or without credit, just please dont claim as your own 💖

all individual tiles (as well as versions to make your own!) are under the cut ↓

for the monochrome images; the grey scale is there as a guide for filling in whichever colours you want, and i figured it might be easier to tell with colours removed than with the rainbow colours ☆: .｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:☆

#finally got these DONE after so much struggling omg....... #trying to put circles inside each other when they dont perfectly fit...🔪🔪🔪 #literally hated the process of these sm but its fine bc i think they ended up looking nice in the end. and i guess theyre not #as janky as i thought?? idk...ive just looked at them too much and now im completely sick of them and i only have my skewed #opinion of them to go on :((( #my art #pixel art #tile backgrounds #web resources #rainbows #ok to rb

[todayisafridaynight]

I saw the "#is there yaoi in the arakawa family" tag basically right as it popped up in the notes and was also left completely dead on the pavement, but honestly? As someone who is wholly and irrevocably AraSawa-pilled (whether said pill is red or blue in color is up to interpretation...), it's objectively SO much funnier if they're just Like That. I love your comics on the topic!

There's also some element of this post I saw earlier I think, divorced from the sexual context since it's not really relevant to what I want to talk about (you'll just have to bear with me there I guess lol, can't help what the post says). It's also still pretty melodramatic applied to them (even for me) when it chiefly is just. Hilarious. But what I'm trying to say is that, taking a more serious approach, "unresolved potential" is such a compelling and central recurring beat here, so what's one more instance?

I guess that post kind of presupposes that there is or could be yaoi, but I think it's kind of like. The concept of "yuri of absence." But with dads. Like that's along the lines of the emotion things like the pair of armchairs on the second floor of Jo's office evokes in me. Honestly I think this particular ask is probably one of the least intelligible I've sent and I'll probably regret it. But. It's. They're married. But they're not. But They're Married. BUT THEY'RE NOT. But th

after meeting with The Arakawa Family Council the verdict i bring to everyone today on Is There Yaoi In The Arakawa Family is:

Well,

#fave #snap chats #OK BUT NO I FEEL LIKE I AGREE TOTALLY #like it really is... indescribable.... like what's going on here... because it's definitely something..... but not THAT but???? #yeah they're married but i don't think they know that. #like its different from the married/divorced energy between kashiwagi and kazama yk what i mean #it's like. when hummingbirds co-evolve with flowers right. #like they just ACCIDENTALLY co-exist perfectly with each other after being around each other so long #like it infinitely is better if its just limbo situation where its like. What Do We Even Label This As. Should We. Do We. #cause again it's infinitely funnier if this all happens and they arent the slightest bit aware #desperately need a montage of arakawa and jo just being in really domestic situations together #but like. with the most This Isn't Anything Serious energy right #like ichi running into the office and jo and arakawa are just having a cute lil candlelit dinner #and ichi just Oh Is This Like... A Thing... but neither of them blink arakawa just wanna know what ichi wants like :)? #thank you for enjoying my comics on the idea though it's really fun walking the line between Being Serious and just Being Silly #i need to make more... but im so busy.... ill just rotate them in my head for now #ill just rb my old faves on the idea lmao #like its funny to toe being For Real bout it if not so i can make more silly slice of life manga parodies #i think itd just be funny if jo experiences human emotion for the first time and its in the most awkward situation imaginable #yk. the drama of it all its so goofy #ohhh but i dont wanna write my silly essay about them.. not now anyway... i do enjoy them immensely tho. #in case that wasn't evident. i'll ramble about them in another post of mine im sure :) #but yes thank you for your input i was hoping you'd come around LMAO i needed that peer review #and im glad- as per usual- we came to the same conclusion. We Don't Know. #edit: in review as it turns out its not old man yaoi its old man yuri. thats my final answer im locking it in

[le-velo-pour-dru]

You may think I overreact in my tags when I think something is funny or pretty or cute or good. But in reality. I'm reacting the perfect amount. Because I reblog only the funniest, prettiest, cutest, and best things. Hope this helps <3

#dru speaks #:) 👍 #all my six exclamation points and ten heart emojis and all caps writing are perfectly rational if you see the stuff i rb. it's all amazing #ok i'm kinda joking because some of it does just come down to my Heart Full Of Excessive Love For Things #but this is also part of it X3

[oughtnots]

starting a wip on my spotify called "montrose pretty playlist but i don't add lemon demon not even mask of my own face despite the obvious temptation"

#text post #ok to rb #NO shame to using that song it fits perfectly. this is just a challenge to me myself and i

[opiumvampire]

“nobody wants to see that old man in his ugly ass outfits” look ive been forced to see a lot of old men against my will on this site so i understand that sentiment but if your sole takeaway from gerards outfits this tour is that they’re “ugly” you have no critical thinking skills

#a gnc person expressing themself shouldnt only be considered of value if it appeals to your aesthetic tastes #the whole point is that they Aren’t high fashion avant garde carefully curated perfectly styles art pieces #someone else can probably word this better than i but. kind of a weird look #this is ok to rb btw ive seen enough people say that sort of thing today that i think it warrants a conversation

[ghostflowers201x]

It's been months since my last one but I decided to make another lil moodboard for myself \(^^)/

#been getting absolutely kicked over the head w this kinshift recently so i had to do something w it #btw this is perfectly ok to rb with kin/id/ect tags !! #i did make it as a self indulgent kinnie thing but regardless i dont mind if other kins/ect wanna rb n tag it w their tags !! /gen #ALSOOO this board is intended to be completely platonic. just 2 clarify #empires smp kin #esmp kin #moodboards #⛓️ e!sausage kinnie tag 🩸 #stuff i made