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chrollohearttags · 3 months

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long winded ass post I contemplated not writing but did it anyways. read if you’d like or ignore lmao.

so I feel as though this kind of goes without saying but a lot has changed on tumblr and the vibe has shifted a lot, sadly, not for the better either :/ I thought about this for a while and although last week, I was not posting any new content due to the strike, I’ve decided to step away from writing in general after this month. I could sit here and go on a tangent about how it’s the ‘algorithm’ and ‘dying fandoms’ but to me, this boils down to the fact that I refuse to exhaust myself to be unappreciated + disrespected. That’s not to say I’m ungrateful to everyone who reblogs and comments on my works all the time because I am incredibly grateful! I love each of you and I look forward to reading your tags/thoughts. However, it’s not lost on me that the anime fandom in general is becoming shrouded in toxicity and many of us are being pushed away. We’re in an age where people are seen as content machines and not humans so others feel entitled to their art and feel no need to be kind, understanding or empathetic to that person’s feelings. I’m not wasting my time trying to teach people manners that they should’ve learned a long time ago. I refuse to share my craft with people like that. And to say the quietest part out loud: y’all don’t want black writers around, PERIOD. One scroll through the dash shows that much. As someone who’s written primarily for AOT (not changing btw) and specifically the black side of the fandom, it’s almost laughable at the extreme lengths that ppl have gone through to see it be erased. And I don’t mean getting fics hit with labels or reporting (that failed so they switched to plan B.) since I began back writing in 2020-21, it was obvious that it was the most popular among black girls and I remember ppl telling me to write for them. Hell, it’s the sole reason I even watched. Needless to say, I fell in love with the show and it holds a special place in my heart. However, I realized I didn’t need any of the original material. Not only that, in all the years I’ve been writing, it’s the first time I’ve seen so many black girls resonating and happy with a group of characters. It was the first and only time I’ve seen stories where I didn’t feel as though them being a black character was a hidden secret or toned down to appeal to others (no shade). It was in my face and proud, even if I didn’t personally resonate with the reader or concept of the story. It still felt good coming from a fandom where I was literally the ONLY black writer in it. Fast forward and I clearly see that now, it’s not welcomed. We could sit here and blame it on non-blk (yt) having the problems but that’s a load of bullshit and the only enemies we have are one another. It’s been other black writers who have littered the tags with discourse abt the same stupid topic to avoid new fics being seen. It’s been other black writers who have switched fandoms when they were no longer the ONLY ones bc coexisting is just too damn hard apparently. It’s been other black authors who have made it blatantly clear that they are only interested in seeing and creating stories that are palatable to other races so they won’t be perceived in a negative light or to be seen as one of the ‘good ones’. Even down to not using black reader tags or avoiding coded language. So much so, they are comfortable laughing at anti-black rhetoric being pushed on other apps so as long as their new favs are not the brunt of the joke.

I’m not here to tell anybody how or what to write. I’m not here to say you ONLY have to like one show but what I am saying is that i will NOT be spending hours and days agonizing over a fic for it to be minimized to a joke for a bitch on TikTok. I will not spend the little free time I have trying to crunch and finish a fic for it not do well but watch y’all pile in my mentions to argue over nonsense. And I won’t sit here and watch y’all purposely try to run other black writers away bc they don’t fit ur aesthetic. Fiction is fiction and whether you resonate with it or not, it’s expression. I’m a boring ass country bumpkin from the middle of nowhere, Florida who’s got social anxiety, chronically ill, neurodivergent and is in bed by 10:00. I don’t smoke, never had sex and I literally never leave the house unless I’m grocery shopping. I never have and never will live the life of any of my characters, even the most tame ones. But I write for EVERY black girl and want everyone of them to be seen. The one space where that seems to be allowed is obviously not welcomed anymore. Arguing and trying to defend ourselves against people who are committed to misunderstanding us is pointless. Minimizing us down to ‘baby mama’, ‘hoodrat’ fics, simply bc you no longer like certain characters (many of which you all were writing for not too long ago) is quite frankly clown and coon ass behavior. Watching y’all become enraged by tropes that are used by ever race, every fandom, etc but turning the blind eye bc it suits ur narrative is fucking hypocritical and laughable at best.

I’m not insecure in my writing. Never have been and never will be. I know I pour everything I have into creating the best work I can and it’s for that reason that I won’t allow it to be treated like trash. I have over 250 drafts in my Google docs and best believe, that’s where they’ll stay until I see fit. Although I know it’ll probably mean leaving the last place I have any sense of community and social interaction in general, it’s not worth coming on here angry everyday in defense mode. Its not worth getting out of my character over and I rather just not be around if it means I have to play mean girl. My mind may change and all of this will just have been me getting shit off my chest but as of right now, this account will be archived come February 28th. Thank you to everybody who’s supported me this far and gave me a safe space. I love all of you so very much and hope that we can enjoy the rest of this month together 🫶🏾 🤍

#cherry chats 🍒#tw rant #tw discourse #tw long post #happy black history month lmao #writing #fanfic writer

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throughtrialbyfire · 18 days

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20 Questions for Writers

thank you so much to @wispstalk and @dirty-bosmer for tagging me!! <3

gonna tag @mareenavee @changelingsandothernonsense @thequeenofthewinter @skyrim-forever @trickstarbrave @oblivions-dawn @orfeoarte @gilgamish @totally-not-deacon @archangelsunited !! no pressure as always, and if i havent tagged you and you wanna do this, go ahead and say that i did, i'm tagging you in my mind <33

answering under the read more!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

five atm! but i'm planning on splitting my one-shot-as-chapters fic into individual fics. i think i'll have around 11, then, if i don't take out some.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

99,173

3. What fandoms do you write for?

TES and CoD Zombies! though i don't write a lot for CoD Zombies, just when i get in a certain mood for it here and there. old special interest wont grant me a moments peace lmao

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

i only have five uploaded, but i'll put them here!

1. An Inner Sanctity - 41 2. If By Sun and Moon I Swore - 38 3. Cycle of the Serpent - 23 4. The Mark You Left - 15 5. Portraits Under Forgotten Suns - 2 (this is the one i'm gonna split up into their own fics :3)

5. Do you respond to comments?

yes!! i even carry on convos in the comments sometimes for the hell of it, i love interacting with ppl <33333333

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

i think the one-shot for the prompts "forgotten/devotion" for tesfest '23 about the shipwreck of the brinehammer, since the main character dies lmao

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

the one for the prompt "in bloom" from tesfest '23!! it was just a little fluff fic for my ocs athenath and ja'dato <3

8. Do you get hate on fics?

luckily no, the spaces i've found myself in these days are really positive :3 especially compared to when i wrote on FF.net in like 2009

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

none of it is published, but i do sometimes! it's a good way to flex my muscles (haha) in blending thought and action, balancing descriptors (how vivid is Too Much), and seeing how certain characters interact with each other in a vulnerable state. maybe i'll post some someday, idk. mostly i just do it for funsies, so idk what kind you'd classify any of mine.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

i havent in many years, so no, but that could chance if the mood strikes me

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

nope, but when i was writing for a different fandom in high school, my writing for a particular character wound up on ppls RP accounts as their versions backstory, as well.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

no, but if anyone wants to translate my fics, feel free!! just give me a heads-up!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

yep, on my old ao3, a good friend and i turned an RP into a fic! i enjoyed it immensely bc we wrote really well together!

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

idk, i just groove where the dynamics take me <3

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

i hate to say it, but An Inner Sanctity needs a major overhaul that i don't have the energy for right now. when i started writing that fic, i didn't have a solid grasp on athenath's personality. now that i do, i'm gonna need to rewrite all the chapters i've had ready for it, and pivot the direction of the fic to get it where i wanted it to wind up eventually. i really do want to finish it, though.

16. What are your writing strengths?

i get a lot of compliments on my imagery/descriptions/atmosphere! i love describing shit, so i'm glad ppl enjoy reading those bits of my work <3 oh!! and character/narrative details. i wrote a ~180k word fic in my senior year of high school solely off my mental notes for it, and it still wasnt finished when i dropped it a year or so later due to Circumstances

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

biting off WAAAAAAAY more than i can chew!! i have so, so many things planned for CotS and who knows if those things will get picked up on by folks or even work later down the line. GAHH

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

if you can realistically do it, go for it. if i could fluently speak all the languages i've tried to teach myself, i'd probably include them in fics where they would fit!

19. First fandom you wrote for?

naruto, i was writing naruto fics on a defunct dress-up site when i was a kid AHAH.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

Cycle of the Serpent. theres seldom a time i'm not thinking about those elves. yes, i will admit with my whole chest that i'm a tad desperate for people to read it and interact with it, but i think if i could explain everything (without spoiling it obviously) i have planned for this fic and just how much is going on in the background of the details i throw in, the reasons certain characters behave the way they do, and the amount of time i've spent working on it (the doc for it is at roughly ~96k and we're not even at the Real beginning of the solitude arc) and the sheer amount of hours i've spent making sure details line up, you'd understand why i'm losing all my sanity daniel-amnesia-the-dark-descent style over this story. i started writing it as a for fun "no one's ever gonna see this" exercise that also helped me greatly in recovering from long covid brainfog, and i think even if one day i look back and think of it as "not the best thing i've ever written", it'll still be one of the most passion-driven things i've ever written, and i'm happy about that. <3

woof, what a ramble. if you made it to the end of this, thank you, and i hope you're having a good day!!

#bishop.txt #tag games

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murdrdocs · 6 months

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i need advice on how to grow with my writing on here because i feel like no one wants to read my work :,(

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okay first thing, it's all abt appearance. i will read a fic that has a good format before i read one that doesn't (look at @aweina's formatting for example its so pleasing on the eyes omg). so as for getting people to read it, just format it clearly. also make sure you're tagging specifically but not obnoxiously (i personally hate when ppl clog tags ? like if it's a mike fic dont tag vanessa and vice versa).

and i have a couple of posts abt advice for writing in general! i've said it once, and i'll say it again: the biggest tip i can give at any time is legit just to write. even if its shitty, just write for the hell of it. think of it like running? you'll only get better at running if you run, even if it's a hard run and you feel like shit and like you're not making any progress. you are.

and eventually, someone will reblog it (they should ... reblog things ppl) and that helps with your exposure! but trust me, someone out there will want to read it. for example, i write some weird shit that i feel like ppl wont like and then they do ?? for some reason ?? and sometimes i write sickly sweet fluff and i feel like since my audience is mostly smut ppl won't read it but they do! so there's always gonna be an audience out there you just have to trust that they'll find it !!

advice post 1 advice post 2

edit: also!! i didn't plan for my page to get this big or anything it just happened solely bc i hop between fandoms when its hot and that's also not on purpose so dont force it !! you'll build a community that u like with time :)

(remember i started this blog december of 2021 i think ?? so this is 2 yrs and many fandoms of progress)

#celeste's advice #celeste's chats #–𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍 🔮

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sttoru · 6 months

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i want to start writing things here but i dont know where and how to start it

do you have any advices?

you are so kind and talented!

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heeellooo!!! ^_^ thank u sm for ur compliments lovely xx means a LOTT! im gonna give u some advice based on my own personal experience on tumblr for the past 4 years (also had a previous writing acc with 4k+ a year or two back) :

start with setting up your writing blog! it’s important to let your future followers know what they’re getting into by following you and what your boundaries are. essentials to make: “blog rules page” — put your DNI (do not interact if…) section and BYF (before you follow) section in there | “request rules page” is also important if you want to take on requests from anons | “masterlist page” to put all your published work in one place | “about me page” if you want to tell people information about yourself.

for examples on how those pages can look, you can click on my profile & see how i did / set up my pages + take inspo!

it’s also partially important to have a easily navigable / aesthetically pleasing theme or layout. this will capture more attention of others. well, that’s speaking from my experience. something aesthetically pleasing to look at adds so much to the appeal !!!! i personally love it when writing blogs have a cool / cute / interesting theme bcs it catches my eye and makes me check out their works more.

after setting up your blog, you can start publishing a work of fiction. use the tags wisely and accordingly. jjk related fic example: ‘jjk x reader’ , ‘jjk smut’ (only if it is smut), ‘jjk fluff’ (only if its fluff), ‘gojo x reader’ etc etc etc ! you can follow what the writers you follow do with their posted fics. but make sure to tag properly. (p.s if you created a separate new acc, make sure that you give it a day or two bcs tumblr has to confirm that you aren’t a bot before your account is visible in tags)

keep in mind; gaining notes and followers can take days, weeks to months !!! please don’t get easily demotivated because your fic isn’t getting the notes you thought it would have. especiallyyyy at the start of your writing tumblr acc!!! i know how it feels, but i can reassure you that there will be people who will show up and appreciate your work one day!

interact with readers. interact with people who leave comments, show them that you appreciate the support they give you !! u can also make appreciation posts for ur readers and thank them for their support to let them know that it means a lot!!

interact with other writers!! reblog their fics, leave comments, pop up in their inbox with a small message — that’s how u mostly start making mutuals. mutuals will literally get u FARRRR on tumblr (ofc dont just use the other writers solely for the purpose to make ur fics get more notes . . . people easily get blocked by many if they do, they would by me too). but im sure many writers on here dont mind to spread your fics without you directly having to ask for it. if u just interact and make friends, that will follow automatically!

write what you want, when you want. getting ideas for fics can take some time, but when you do have an idea, write it down somewhere. you dont have to instantly write the entire fic — take ur time!!!!! don’t feel pressured to constantly post fics, i’m sure your audience understands that you have a life outside of tumblr.

but! posting constantly at the start of your tumblr acc can take u far as well. if u constantly appear in tags, ppl will get curious abt ur account. but don’t feel pressured to bcs it can easily burn u out !! just a little thing that i did at the start of my acc

#𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒.#HOPE THIS HEEEELPS!!!! if u or any of u all need any more help #lmkkkk!!!#and if u ever make that writing acc anon… im HERE TO SUPPORT

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tiffanytoms · 5 months

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20 Questions

Okay, sorry for how procrastinator-y I was (no seriously, it's shameful how far I had to scroll, ahah) but THANK YOU to @chiechie97 and @practicecourts for tagging me in this! 💕

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

10 😄

2. What's your total AO3 words count?

*quickly learns how AO3 works* 914,127… wait. Really?? 🤯 Well shit, okay 💅

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Just Jily 🥰

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Enemy Within

What Are You Doing to Me?

Whatever You Say, Professor

Baby Bird

Right Reasons

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Fuck yeah! I love chatting! It still blows my mind that ppl want to talk about one of my hobbies with me 🤣

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Ooooo. I think Wickedly Twisted will take the cake, but that ending is still solely in my head for now. Wait, no, nvm, I literally wrote Jily DYING in WAYDTM. Sooo yeah. Probably that.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Oo! Okay. Well I’m still gonna write an epilogue for WYSP that gonna be so sugary sweet it’ll spread diabetes, but otherwise it’s probably a 3-way tie between Chicks Dig Scars, Magic James, or Baby Bird bc they all end on the implication that Jily will then ride off into the sunset and live happily ever after!

8. Do you get hate on fics?

*Blinks so slowly time stands still* Yeah, but only if they’re that good.

9. Do you write smut. If so what kind?

*Grins so quickly the world implodes* Hell yeah! The dirty, filthy, wonderful kind! (Idk, it depends on the fic!)

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I guess so? Bc RR is based off of The Bachelor 🌹

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yuuuuup. Had one scene ripped off so blatantly (like, almost all the elements) that it honestly put me off reading too many other ppl’s Jily stories for a bit, bc I really never want to put another author thru that. Now I can 💯 percent guarantee that all my ideas and the scenarios are my own. Sucks though, bc obviously I’m here bc I love reading Jily. (I’ll definitely go back to reading when I’m not in the midst of writing 2 stories though.)

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I’ve had ppl ask, but I don’t know if they ever followed through!

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

Nope! I think my way of doing things would honestly drive someone else insane, soooo I’m fine with going it alone 😅

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Jily 😍

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Well that’s just rude. (I’d never not finish, I’m far too stubborn. Fuck you.)

16. What are your writing strengths?

Obsession, psychology, and an insatiably horny zest for life!

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Impatience. I think sometimes good things take time, and I’m over here too bored to write the boring bits 😆

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

That’s cool

19. First fandom you wrote for?

First one I published was SMALLVILLE, but I think I had a very angsty childhood day where I wrote a whole scene about how much Harry hated Vernon and honestly it was very disturbingly graphic and yeah. Glad I’m more into smut these days! 😁😇😁

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

Aaaah! Hm. 🤔 Okay. That’s a toughie. For my heart and soul, I’d say WAYDTM, bc honestly, I really do feel like I poured all my feelings into that one. But from a purely writing standpoint, EW, bc it just all came together, and I know the storyline is legit, and I feel like I had ppl obsessed with it and it was really nice! 😅

#20 questions #writer asks #writer things #writer thoughts #tiff tag

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meraki-yao · 3 months

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thank you so much for your reply <3 i think grief is a good word to describe what i'm feeling. it might sound silly to some but the book has been one of my favourites since 2019 and the 'what could have been?' aspect of the movie's promotion devastates me bc the crew and the fans deserved more. i think im also a bit terrified of ppl moving on from rwrb to nick's other projects meanwhile i can't (and don't want to) do it, ugh it's just a mess of weird feelings and sadness and longing for something we've never had. not to mention how some people already talk about his new projects being upgrades from rwrb. that hurts me on so many levels bc henry is a complex and beautiful character, rwrb is a wonderful story and i genuinely think that even with all the changes they created something amazing.

Glad I could help <3

It's not silly at all. I'm in a similar position: if you've followed my blog you might have seen this but long story short my irl life is a bit fucked up and I was really, really depressed. (still kinda am) July and August, waiting and watching RWRB release became the happiest I've been since January 2022, and in the following months RWRB and the fandom (well, and my sister) nearly became my sole reason for hanging on. So trust me when I say I get the feeling.

I understand your fear, and I'd be lying if I say I wasn't afraid that the rwrb tag will be full of George instead of Alex and Henry, but please remember that liking something new doesn't necessarily always lead to leaving the previous fandom: I know for a fact that me and a couple of my mutuals are going do both. We're gonna be happy to watch M&G (personally not interested in the idea of you but the same applies) but we're still going to make RWRB content. M&G will be a great show but it won't have nearly the same emotional weight to me as RWRB. It's been five months, so those of us who hang around and are active are active for a good reason.

As for the comments about "upgrade", that's ridiculous and a very surface-level assessment. One of my best friends is studying to become an actress and we talk about acting often. Here's the thing: there isn't a thing called "easy" acting. Every genre of acting has its own challenges: for comedy many times you need to sacrifice your personal dignity; Sci-fi blockbusters you need to interact with nothing and make it look believable; even for things like kid shows you need to be hyperactive so the kids can focus and find it entertaining, which can be so draining. M&G is a historical thriller, TIOY is a romance, and RWRB is a rom-com. These are three different film genres, and each set out to achieve different things. For example in terms of relationships: TIOY needs to make the romance believable, RWRB needs to make the romance believe, funny, and be a fair representation of a queer relationship, and for M&G if history serves there's no "true love" relationship at all. You're right: Henry's a complex and beautiful character, and Nick clearly put all his heart into him. But you cannot take Henry's layers of grief, love, fear, and self-esteem, and say it is lesser than Geroge's cold ambition. Funnily enough, while Henry is so careful with his power as the prince, George rose to the same if not a higher level of power and abused it so badly, that it caused his assassination and downfall. A well-written character is ultimately, a human being, and there isn't truly a human being who's "easy to be". So don't listen to those haters.

I'm all ears if you still want to talk <3

#anon ask #answered #red white and royal blue #rwrb #rwrb movie #nicholas galitzine #mary and george #george villiers

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chirpsythismorning · 1 year

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Fixations in fandom are valid.

Yes they can be unhealthy, just like too much of anything in life can be unhealthy.

But just like in life, you can’t control other ppl and force them like/unlike things bc of your own preferences and fixations.

What bothers me so much about the whole ‘all bylers care about is byler argument’ is that while… yes. Who tf cares?

The whole point of the ‘will they’ ‘won’t they’ trope is that it’s known for engaging viewers more than most storylines are able to, and it also tends to keep fans engaged for long periods of time. And it’s because they’re literally designed to keep you guessing and anticipating what comes next.

If romance isn’t your thing, fine. If gay ppl on your screen isn’t your thing, whatever. It is what it is. It’s not like we want to spend our time fixating on the stuff you like either.

Regardless of whether or not you ship byler, that still doesn’t mean you have to be insufferably incapable from analyzing their scenes and the show in general whatsoever?

Like the subreddit literally deletes/blocks posts that mention Will and Mike romantically at all, with the sole argument that there’s already similar posts to it.

But like be fr there are hundreds upon THOUSANDS of posts humoring the same old theories and shit takes, and yet they have no problem letting those constantly circulate on a regular basis.

But when it comes to byler, one post is enough! Two? Three? More than three?? Oh no. Now that just won’t do! This is too much we’re tired of talking about this! Can we talk about something else? ANYTHING else.

Idc if there have been 100 byler posts inquired on that sub over the last year, bc I can guarantee you, x that by 100 and that’s how many times ppl in that tag have posted stuff like ‘hot take but I hate Erica.’

Believe it or not, a majority of the ppl on there run-off of one brain cell and said brain cell is not the least bit impressive. Most of the time all they have is tired ignorant takes that only require ppl with basic critical thinking skills to unpack as crap right from the jump.

Seriously those mods are awful and the way they dictate what does and doesn’t stay posted on the sub is a fucking joke.

Idc if you like byler or not. If you’re so convinced it’s all reaching, actually look at the all evidence instead of censoring it followed by calling us delusional.

Bc while we may be annoying for obsessing over anything and everything, y’all are the ones not even willing to look at any of it. And as a result you’re soon gonna find out you misinterpreted everything because of your bitterness. Bc you were too close-minded to look behind the curtain at all.

#byler #late night ramble

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daedalusdavinci · 4 months

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spell homestuck

GOD. THIS IS SO MUCH LONGER THAN TWO FACE. i typed too much and theres too many qs so under the cut it goes

H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?

books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or....... i guess comics, these days, but i HATE READING COMICS they juST HAVE MORE COMPELLING FANDOMS. book fandoms are PUNY nad everyone is STUPID. youd think actual literary fandoms would have reading comprehension and understanding of literary critique but no!!!!!!!!!!!!! its literally my eternal fuckign struggle. somehow comic fandoms hit the perfect medium between compelling, readable content and the enthusiasm of cartoon fans without the childishness of cartoon fans

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

this isnt really a thing i do. the only time i associate characters w songs is my own ocs. barbies theme is miltons tower from the what remains of edith finch soundtrack!

M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

i have also never really been one to project myself into stories. its just not how i consume media. i think sollux and rose already closely resemble the kinds of friends i make, so maybe them?

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?

(freddy fazbear vc) vanessa.... ive done things, im not proud of.

i dont even know if i want to answer this question bc its so fucking humiliating LKJSNDLFSDNFSDF the truth is yes. i am solely responsible for. a lot. particularly in the pjo fandom. i created several crackships ground up all on my own way back in 2014 and developed a following for them and i. dont wantto tell you what those ships were. LSKJDFNSLDJNSDFSDDF ive also pioneered many ship tags for other fandoms and i ship a lot of rarepairs and stuff but i dont think im RESPONSIBLE for them?? in that some ppl already were into them/talking abotu them or tht theyre still not popular (augh. to the ones that became popular) but i AM liTERALLY responsible for some crack shit in the pjo fandom and its. it haunts me sometimes. i dont want to talk about it. IF YOU REMEMBER WHAT I DID NO YOU DONT

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

this is so vague. my headcanons are shifting and nebulous and aus are my constant companion in everything, but uhhhhhhghhusjkdjnsdg i think. roxy writes the same way dave draws comics. its extremely memey and meta and self aware and largely just for the personal lolz, and were all doing her a disservice by pretending her writing looks like roses, when in reality dirk is probably the one whod make comics the way rose makes books (which is probably why he doesnt make comics). its more of that thing where roxy and dave are the same and rose and dirk are the same ykwim. well YOU dont corvus but im sure someone else does

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?

jason takes after bruce in terms of like. adopting entirely too many kids. he broods

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

harvey is a heartwrenching character when written well, with a complicated view of morality, heartbreaking ties to our main hero, and a lot of internal conflict. something about such a hopeful character deadset on making a different in the system becoming a victim of it, and the potential he has as a vehicle for critiquing the law.

percy is my favorite character from pjo bc it was the very first time in my life i ever read a book and saw myself in it. hes aggressive, impulsive, and rebellious, he fidgets and has a hard time standing still, he acts on emotion without always thinking it through, he gets in trouble in school and hands his mom a murder weapon to kill his stepdad, hes just... hes a lot of the things ive always gotten in trouble for, things i couldnt help being, and hes a hero. he means everything to me.

vriska, i will maintain until the day i die, is one of the best homestuck characters- maybe just characters?- ever written. shes dramatic, shes impulsive, shes manipulative and mean and creative, and shes just so messy about it. shes a mean girl in a way that feels real, where her trauma impacts and shapes her as a person, and shes complex, with warring wants, and people she cares about, and dreams, and shes so messy. shes rough and rude and shes doing what SHE wants to, being a version of herself that feels right to HER, rather than some caricature of the hot badass evil lady. shes thirteen!! and she FEELS thirteen. shes a thirteen year old weird girl who is kind of an asshole, and she means literally fucking everything to me. shes a pirate!!!!! shes a swashbuckling badass dressing up in her larping outfit and yelling at her friends on the playground to swab the deck and she is the bestest ever, the end.

i didnt mean for each one of these to be longer than the last but here we are.

C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

i hate jdedave peace and love it just feels weird as hell to me. dave, for the most part, is hyper respectful of other peoples choices and boundaries but when it comes to jade hes always trying to mke choices for her, to protect her, and it gets to the point where even jade points out how much it bugs her. jades crush on dave also seems to come from a place of misunderstanding to me, admiring a lot of the parts of himself that he exaggerates and pretends to care about as a result of trauma. it always felt like a kid crush that they shouldve grown out of with time. dave also just sort of seems to... go along with whatever romantic relationships people push him into at that age, rolling with whoever flirts with him jsut bc hes trying to maintain the image of a player, so its really hard to take him seriously any time he hits on someone?

that is just my interpretation of it tho

K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

well. i havent finished my reread of homestuck, so that feels difficult to comment on just yet, bc im sure ill have a different opinion when i do finish it. no one in dc gets character arc bc theyre all just undone immediately, so thats like. yeah. and in pjo the arcs are pretty weak bc 1) kids books and 2) RICK UNDOES THEM ALL. AUGH. regardless of all of this, i am going to say jason grace. he had a lot of development in like the last two hoo books, or maybe just like.... hints of how he couldve developed? promise? which rick immediately set fire to in toa when he killed him, but fUCKING WHATEVER. UGH.

anyway actually tho eleanor from the good place. bisexual icon. queen. probably one of the best character arcs of all time. the episode w her mom has some of the most powerful fucking dialogue ever and i think about it. all the time. i should rewatch the good place.....

#asks #redactedcrow

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catsconflictscopicsandchamomile · 1 year

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ok its been literally 15 minutes since the finale ended and im getting off the TOH tag.

I am SO DISAPPOINTED in a certain side of this fandom.

it took less than FIFTEEN MINUTES to see enough "lollllll lumity went canon and huntlow didn't, get WRECKED YOU STINKY STRAIGHTS LOL BURY UR GAYS UNO REVERSE LMAOOOOO HOW DOES IT FEEL NASTY ICKY BAD STRAIGHT SHIPPERS" posts to make me actually consider whether I'd rather the show have had a sad ending.

not bc of huntlow, i ship it but never put any hope or weight on it going canon. I'm not "anti-lumity" or whateverthefuck, I don't really think about ships that much in 99.9% of fandoms.

...yall are just extremely fucking

IMMATURE.

I'm queer. I understand how much pain we've dealt with even SOLELY in terms of media rep. I even understand the glee at the concept of "straightbaiting" actually being a thing that happened here.

I also understand the EXTREMELY JUSTIFIED concern and anger around some parts of the fandom seeming to abandon the BIPOC WLW main character/main ship in favor of the Sad Greasy White Boy Of The Week And His White Straight Girlfriend.

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND why so many "fans" are taking this EXTREMELY POSITIVE, LITERALLY GROUNDBREAKING and immediately turning it against their fellow fans. All this amazing rep, characterization, EVERYTHING and you still find a way to be cruel to your fellow fans.

this isn't a contest.

Lumity is canon.

Huntlow is not.

Huntlow was not a focus of the finale.

I can guarantee you that after that finale, NOBODY was thinking about Huntlow until yall started being fucking mean about it.

YOU brought up the thing you claimed to want the fandom to stop focusing on, for the SINGULAR PURPOSE of enacting some sort of "revenge" on shippers that you projected a whoooole lot of Racism, Homophobia, and Evil onto, despite:

Bi Hunter, Transmasc Hunter, Transfemme Willow, and T4T Huntlow all being EXTREMELY popular hcs/themes in and out of shipping context

A fair chunk of the fandom seeing Willow as BIPOC/East Asian -coded

ALL of the masc presenting queers w parental and/or religious trauma who have spoken out about how seen they feel bc of Hunter

I'm not saying Hunter was a perfect character. He definitely wasn't the main character, or even close.

I'm saying that yall have demonized this part of the fandom SO MUCH that after THAT FINALE.

*THAT. FINALE.*

your FIRST INSTINCT was to ATTACK THEM

over the SHIP (I REPEAT MYSELF) THAT YOU SAID YOU WANTED PPL TO STOP TALKING ABOUT.

I was having a really fun, good, genuine amazing time freaking my shit over Titan!Luz, and Lumity, and Raeda, and King and The Collector and TITAN LUZ!!!!!

yknow. all the stuff the finale was actually about.

and now I'm thinking mainly of huntlow (or at least the discourse around it), angry, and extremely sad that my experience of this finale has been ruined

and that this fandom is the latest to fall into the trap of "blame other fans for actual systemic oppression, regardless of whether or not they are actually upholding it."

I don't know how to get it through your heads that a heavily T4T-headcanoned, likely biracial-coded ship that is CANONICALLY a healing narrative for trauma survivors

is not fucking reylo.

this Evil In Fandom you're angry at 1000% exists but it sure as fuck isn't here.

unless there's a Secret Second Huntlow Fandom That Is Evil And Racist And Hates Lumity that idk abt, this is just a group of sad queer kids sitting next to your own group of sad queer kids

and despite me seeing ZERO ACTUAL HUNTLOW COMMENTS ABOUT THE FINALE * AT ALL *

you, whatever side of the fandom is doing this (I honestly don't know who is making these posts) aren't proving, winning, fixing or righting anything

you're going over to another side of the fandom whose ship didnt go canon

and with ZERO PROVOKATION

you're making them feel like shit for it.

why???

WHY??????

yall "won". you won as much as you can possibly win here. everybody loves the finale. nobody is giving anything but overwhelming love, happy tears, joy and awe to "your" win.

but you still felt the need to make sure someone, somewhere, knew that they "lost".

sry im just so angry at this rn. i was having so much fun. what the fuck is this kind of behavior supposed to prove?

also btw to be clear this is NOT DIRECTED AT ALL OR MOST LUMITY SHIPPERS, LUZ STANS, ETC. ITS NOT EVEN DIRECTED AT "HUNTLOW-ANTIS" EXCEPT THE *SPECIFIC PEOPLE* WHO CHOSE TO USE THE FINALE TO BASH ON OTHERS.

AS FOR THOSE SPECIFIC PEOPLE:

YOU SUCK!!!!!! Thanks for ruining this fantastic experience for me by being a piece of shit on main over some "shipper" crap im not even in.

#toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #vent #rant #fandom wank #discourse #Literally What The Fuck #shit like this makes it so much easier for ACTUAL PEOPLE IN POWER to write off queer narratives and fanbases #theres also legit no point #nobody is attacking yall in the toh fandom ok????#i was having FUN #AND NOW I WANT TO CRY #NOT BC OF SHIPS #BUT BC PPL ARE BEING SO MEAN LITERALLY JUST TO BE MEAN #im blocking ship tags from now on methinkd #Grow. Up.#angry post #long post #longpost

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slutnali · 1 year

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Ask game not from an ask game, but could you ramble a bit on Jaida? I just kinda love her a lot and need someone as equally insane to talk about her.

ooohhhh Jaidaaaa !!!! im gonna have to put this under a read more bc its longgg and I could just go on about my beloved !!! also i wanna preface this by saying this is al over the place

I didn't watch s12 as it was airing [I hadn't watched s11 either, i stopped watching DR for a while] but I was still following all the ru girls from seasons I had watched, dr official accounts + dr meme accounts.. but anyway, as soon as the DR official IG page posted the 'swipe to see the s12 winner' and I swiped bc I am nosey even if by that point I had only known about the drama in the s12 cast.. but as soon as I saw Jaida it was love at first sight fr

I went to her IG and looked through all of her photos, she was so beautiful I had to watch drag race solely because of her.. I binge-watched s11 to get to s12 [dont ask me why, thats just my brain.. if I was gonna watch i had to be all caught up lmao] but I fell in love even more with her watching the season and all of her IG lives that'd been uploaded to youtube.

So ofc as someone who has been on tumblr for years and participated in the dr stan tumblr community from s8-as4?, I had to come back to my roots and created this sideblog.. I thought I'd find other ppl as obsessed with Jaida as I was but honestly.. at that time it was just me and a handful of others I quickly became mutuals with.. her tumblr tag wasn't as up to date/active so I would constantly be one of the few always reposting her stuff onto the tags.. pictures, videos from her performances, clips from lives, anything and everything bc people had to see how beautiful and funny she was. almost like i was determined for people to see what i saw in her eorngerif which might sound insane but anywayyyy

Getting back into reading dr fics was a bummer that she was mostly a background character but I get it from a shipping standpoint too.. it was all about crygi & jankie as those were the ships with the most content and traction. I would read fics because she was listed as a background character or halldoll was a bg ship even if I wasn't interested in crygi which was 9 times out of 10 the main story..

I could also get into a halldoll ramble but to not let this get longer than what it is, the few people that would write that ship are top tier, honestly. I do have a list of halldoll fic recs somewhere on this blog but those are the few people that in my opinion, capture jaida well and do her justice.

She's so gorgeous it's intimidating but she's one of the most silliest and charismatic bitches out there.. she's a sagittarius (one of the only good ones 😪) there are just so many things to love about her, and I think her personality shined more in as7 than it did in s12.. I mean that in a 'other fans finally realized that' type of way

also thanks for sending in this ask!

#answered

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clemencetaught · 10 months

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get to know the author!

name : ferre

pronouns : they/them

preference of communication : discord, but i can do tumblr ims. honestly, i’m slow on both but i’m a tad quicker to get back to ppl on discord….although again, these days i prefer to keep my discord to solely those whom i feel ooc wise comfortable around!

most active muse : this guy ( patrick ) clawed his way into single muse blog status with the number of times he gave me brainrot on my multimuse so i’d say it’s probably patrick :’D

experience / how many years : like about on-and-off for about 8 years? i did do a little bit back in 2013 in quizilla ims which was my introduction to rp before i started formally on tumblr in 2015….that being said i was on-and-off for about the first three years until in 2018 when i made calum- he was the first muse of mine that actually like, stuck :’D that being said, i did also take like a year hiatus in 2020 before coming back in 2021 so uh….eight years might not be the most accurate number jfksdljfkl

best experience : this attempt so far?? Has been so wonderful and i wouldn’t change any of what has happened for the world- my mutuals and writing partners are so skilled and friendly and patient and LITERALLY some of their muses have managed to elicit responses and character development from my muses that i would have NEVER imagined :’D but if we have to go specific….maybe it’s the hunger games au verse i dragged some ppl into?? the plotting and characters they have come up with is PHENOMENAL and wow, i’m gonna stuck to them all like super glue for 5ever <3

rp pet peeves : so many! my biggest ones, however, are self-centered and inconsiderate partners: those who disregard my rules, those who talk only about their own muses in every thread and plotting interaction, those who only seem to take interest in my blog(s) when it involves receiving writing from me. That and blogs that follow first but never make a move/any indication of interest, not even a like on my posts….no offense, but i’m not chasing after you. Other pet peeves include facechasing, trauma dumping ( ooc and ic ), and drama. oh, and partners who just don’t?? Respond to my attempts at some kind of ooc interaction- it can even be in tags, but if you’re not saying anything then that kills my enthusiasm very quickly.

fluff, angst, or smut : see, i want character development and exploration in my threads so i don’t think it’s fair to split up threads into these categories bc if done with intention, you can learn something new about your muse and your partner’s muse in any thread ( and yes, that includes the crack threads- DON’T UNDERESTIMATE ME :D ) i will say though, smut is highly unlikely here just bc patrick is demisexual + it’s gonna take like 2839402384098 years for him and hyuk to look at and act on each other in that manner :’D

plots or memes : plotting <3 but memes are good for starting off plotted dynamics tho!! most times, however, i’m not a fan of first meetings either. I like to have some kind of dynamic/backstory to go off of and would rather not overstep any boundaries so you’re not really a plotter… we might not be a good match.

long or short replies : see, patrick is a literature professor. for someone softspoken and reserved, he has a TON of thoughts and opinions so whenever i do try to keep things short and sweet, he bucks against it and will give me at least three paragraphs….over 1000 words too. we’re very ( not ) sorry :’D

time to write : depends on what’s happening at work and what my mood is. I do try to do my writing in the afternoon/morning though as most days i feel like i haven’t done anything productive/meaningful until i’ve written at least something.

are you like your muses : hahahaha, nah. I mean, we do have similar interests ( ie. literature and working in higher ed ), but personality-wise he’s much more stiff and erudite than me :’D i will say i think all characters we write do have pieces of ourselves in them, otherwise they’d never be able to grow, but for the most part, no i don’t think i’m really like patrick <3 at the very least, i'm not nearly as repressed as him fjskdlfjsl

tagged by: @wynterlanding ( thank you so much ♡ )

tagging: take it if you would like!! i'm would be curious to see how you describe your own rp style :3

#the hope in change ( about ferre. )#whelp i'm back.....#hopefully i can get another draft or two out either here or elsewhere :'D

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Takemichi is So Goddamn Dumb

SPOILERS UNTIL A BIT AFTER THE TAIJU ARC

Time and time again in every goddamn timeline up to this point, Takemichi is shown that Kisaki is the villain plotting someone’s murder and/or actually managed to kill people - himself, Hina, Akkun, Draken, Baji, Chifuyu and the list keeps growing! YET he acts surprised every time Kisaki does something evil!

Why did he think that Kisaki wouldn’t betray him? When everything up to this point Kisaki has shown him that he hates him and that he has been trying to take control of Toman. He knows what Toman turns into in the future and yet...

he acts as if it’s the first time he’s hearing / seeing Kisaki plot something! Naoto notified Takemichi before he intentionally went back into the past that Mikey and Kisaki meeting was the reason Toman became the way it is in the present

but he never investigates anything in the past to stop Kisaki then or at some other point in the future. Naoto is doing all of the investigative work in the present time so the least Takemichi could do is ask around Kisaki in the past. There’s literally no reason for him to not to do that bc he’s going back to the past multiple times for a period of days. It’s not like there’s a fight Takemichi has to be involved in every single day that would take up his time and we see this as he enough time to hang out w/ friends and go on dates with Hina.

At this point (Taiju arc) he’s even aware that Kisaki, Hina, and he are connected - something he didn’t figure something out himself but I’ll give grace about this since it’s easier for Naoto to look at this as an outsider but still really? He never stopped to think about why Kisaki was trying to kill Hina in every timeline when she’s not involved in Toman at all? And if it’s just bc of the sole reason that she’s Takemichi’s gf therefore her being connected to Toman then why is Kisaki trying so hard to ruin Takemichi’s life even though he’s not one of the most influential ppl in Toman?

Despite being told by Naoto about a possible connection between the three, he doesn’t even bother to ask Hina if she knew a guy named Kisaki. He found out about it accidentally and it honestly is a pattern that he finds out things by accident.

The Mido Five explain to Takemichi how Toman and Valhalla works.

Chifuyu is doing his own investigation about the connection between Valhalla and Kisaki and Takemichi is asked to come along.

Takemichi tags along Mitsuya and finds about the reason why Hakkai wants to kill Taiju.

If he actually was 14 y/o who couldn’t timeleap, this wouldn’t bother but he’s 26 and does have that special ability. He has more reason than anyone in the past to take initiative to look into these things bc he’s aware of what will happen in the future.

When it comes to teaming up w/ Kisaki to take down Taiju, Takemichi tells Chifuyu that they’ll use that week before they jump Taiju to learn things about Kisaki in order to throw him out of Toman but do they?

We weren’t shown Takemichi even TRYING to find anything about Kisaki! He had a whole week and then is still surprised that Kisaki betrayed him and it’s not like he wasn’t told that multiple times by multiple ppl already.

He’s literally handfed information from other characters and he still doesn’t do anything with it to create an effective plan or back up plans. He tries to stop Toman from fighting Moebius by asking Mikey to stop w/o giving any real reason as to why they should (and Moebius did some effed up things which is why Toman is fighting them in the first place).

He tries to stop Draken from dying but doesn’t warn Draken about overhearing Kiyomasa literally mins before about plotting his murder so maybe he should keep an eye out for Kiyomasa. He had time to do it as well! So many characters were talking before the fighting began and he just...stood there.

I get that the plot has to continue which means dramatic things have to happen but Takemichi could at least try tell Draken to be cautious. Kiyomasa could’ve still used the brawl to sneakily stab Draken so nothing would’ve changed but at least this way, Takemichi would’ve done everything he could’ve in a situation like this.

His brilliant plan to prevent Baji from dying was...to tell Baji not to die...

and then try to keep an eye on Baji while in the middle of a gang fight...yknow where there’s so many ppl fighting that he can’t even see where Baji is.

It’s not like something similar has happened that would give him better insight on how to handle a situation like this...OH WAIT IT DID!

Despite being a timeleaper, he doesn’t think about the bigger picture (i.e. Kisaki). He gets so caught up of what’s literally happening in front of him that he forgets about everything else. He had an entire week to think up how to stop Hakkai permanently and yet he thought just stopping him at this one instance could change the future.

Who cares if Hakkai couldn’t kill Taiju at this exact moment bc he could decide to kill Taiju the next day or week or year and it could lead to the same exact future he was trying to stop from happening.

He’s 26 y/o hanging around 14-15 y/os with the ability to timeleap which would give him a huge advantage over everyone around him in the past and yet he doesn’t do anything with it. He’s been told multiple times by multiple ppl that Kisaki is the enemy and doesn’t do anything about how to get rid of him which doesn’t necessarily mean murdering Kisaki. If Takemichi took a moment, and he has a lot of moments, then he could come up with a plan with Naoto and Chifuyu.

Also you’re literally 26, how can you not figure this out yourself?

Again why did Chifuyu report this to Mikey and not Takemichi? It seems like Chifuyu is the only one who’s actually trying to get rid of Kisaki despite Takemichi being the timeleaper who has seen his loved ones die or have unhappy futures.

He literally was alone with Mikey after the fight which would’ve been a perfect time to let him know that Kisaki had betrayed them. But Takemichi didn’t.

I’ve seen ppl say that he’s not aware that he’s 26 when he’s back in the past to defend him but he literally is aware and there’re more instances than this that show he’s always aware of how old he actually is.

I’ve seen so many ppl defend him by saying “just bc he’s 26 doesn’t mean that he has to be the smartest”, “he doesn’t have to be strongest / he possesses another kind of strength”, “he has the power of never backing down and never giving up”. While this is true and great, I expect someone who has the power to timeleap and is at least a decade older than the children he hangs around to possess more common sense. He doesn’t have to be the smartest but he literally has police resources via Naoto to look into things for him and has the knowledge of what happens in the future to come up w/ better plans than just telling Baji not to die to try to prevent him from dying or telling Taiju to stop hitting siblings even he’s seen Taiju abuse his siblings multiple times and has been told via Mitsuya and Hakkai that it’s been happening for years.

I do expect him to take the initiative to gather information by himself bc he’s the only one who’s able to timeleap in order to do this! Naoto is already doing all of the investigation in the present timeline, so Takemichi could at least do the same while in the past as he’s reliving it. He knew that Hakkai was going to kill his brother from the present timeline and yet never tried to figure out why; he learned it from Mitsuya who was talking to Taiju.

And because he takes everything at face value without ever double-checking or verifying that information that he’s handfed, things like this happens in the middle of a fight.

He had an entire week before this to talk to Yuzuha, to get her trust to hear their entire history himself and yet he never does this.

Takemichi doesn’t have to be the strongest and it’s actually a very common trope in manga of the main character being the underdog and still coming out on top of every situation. Takemichi is aware of how weak he is but he still doesn’t have any back up plans to compensate for it. AND he still makes declarations about handling everything himself and/or having to beat up xyz despite knowing how strong the opponent is.

While awe inspiring and everything but was he really planning on taking on an entire gang all by himself when he got beat up by the same gang the chapter before? And in that fight, it was just with Taiju who hadn’t even used all of his strength. He’s outnumbered and his brilliant plan is to fight them by himself even though he knows even with all of Toman fighting the Black Dragons, there would be casualties. He needs to start thinking more logically.

Again how brave however where is this confidence coming from? The entire time he’s been in that church with Taiju, he’s been getting his ass kicked and he even said that he’s never experienced a punch like Taiju’s before. At multiple points, he thought he was going to die before and after his above declaration of beating Taiju.

Takemichi literally saw Taiju abuse his siblings multiple times and even heard about it from Mitsuya and Hakkai that it’s been happening for years and Takemichi still thinks him yelling about how siblings shouldn’t fight / kill each other would stop Taiju. HIs words ring hollow whenever he says something brave now.

Where did all of his earlier conviction go? T_T I know this is supposed to be funny but honestly it happens too many times now that it’s starting to become tiring. It also undermines all of his accomplishments like becoming the captain of the attack squad which idk how that even happened when he’d only been in Toman for like a week.

Chifuyu was the one who had a back up plan, not Takemichi (i.e. a real 14 y/o thought up of a back up plan just in case whereas Takemichi just did...nothing.) Takemichi doesn’t think ahead at all. He went into the Taiju plan with half of his team being ppl he didn’t trust and was still surprised that Kisaki and Hanma betrayed him and had no other back up plan.

Moebius still fought, Draken still got stabbed, Kazutora still stabbed Baju and Baji still died...all of the events he tried to stop from happening still happened and it was only through some small reason that it changed the course of things. Yes, he still changed the course of things but how things happened and how he’s acted would make so much more sense if Takemichi was actually 14 y/o and not 26 y/o. He gets caught up in the moment and starts acting like a 14 y/o even though he knows he’s not and actually uses future events to motivate himself to be brave. I’m so frustrated that all of his “plans” are so superficial: Toman fighting w/ Moebius will lead to Draken’s death? Well let me just tell Mikey to not fight w/o giving a reason. Baji is going to die? Well let me just tell Baji to not die. Hakkai is going to kill his brother? Let me just tell him not to do it riiiiight before Taiju walks into the church T_T c’monn

Had Takemichi been smarter about these events rather than just going along with the flow, he could’ve drastically changed things. If he just stops Kisaki in the past then everything would change!

ALSO back to that peace agreement - just bc Takemichi doesn’t have all of Toman there doesn’t mean that Toman isn’t going against that agreement w/ him showing up to jump Taiju. He literally went there representing Toman bc he dressed in his uniform and planned to jump Taiju which goes against the agreement. Taiju could use this incident to declare a war against Toman and it would be bc Takemichi’s “plan”. Also why didn’t Takemichi tell Mikey and Mitsuya that Taiju was never going to keep his part of the deal when he heard it from Hakkai? He asked Draken and the other captains for help but they weren’t the ones who had decided to keep peace w/ the Black Dragons. Mikey gave that power to Mitsuya who agreed to the agreement as long as Taiju held up his side of the deal aaaand Hakkai told Takemichi and Chifuyu that Taiju wouldn’t. SO why didn’t he tell the two ppl that could change the direction of this event? This just shows that Takemichi doesn’t think things through - he was more concerned about breaking up w/ Hina than he was about how to actually change the future. He only comes up w/ the most superficial plans that always end up failing and things are only saved by luck. (EX. how the Mido Five came to save Draken and Takemichi (I know that Akkun got courage from when Takemichi stood up for them during the fight ring but them showing up to protect him and Draken really was luck since Takemichi was avoiding getting them involved and never told them about this), Baji’s charm accidentally falling off when he quit Toman and Takemichi accidentally finding it and keeping it which led to the charm accidentally falling out of Takemichi’s pocket which stopped Mikey enough to think things through, Chifuyu calling Mitsuya to show up before Taiju killed his siblings and Takemichi and then Mikey and Draken showing up bc Mikey heard/saw Mitsuya’s bike accidentally which led to Mikey and Draken beating Taiju and the Black Dragons.)

SOO many causalities could’ve been avoided had Takemichi just told Mitsuya and Mikey. OR Takemichi could’ve let Mikey know right before the fight started just as a back up but he didn’t. They (Mitsuya, Mikey and Draken) ended up showing up anyways so what was the harm in telling them? (ALSO how disrespectful is this to be going behind Mikey’s back? Mikey is Toman’s leader and he should know when his ppl are in danger and Takemichi is aware of how much Mikey cares about those close to him too. If Mitsuya had died how do you think Mikey would’ve reacted?)

IMO he doesn’t deserve this praise bc he only had a half-baked plan that only worked when ppl he didn’t plan on showing up ended up showing up to literally end the fight. ALSO CHIFUYU DESERVES PRAISE TOO SINCE HE WAS THERE TOO - he literally encouraged Takemichi when he lost his bravado after finding out that no one had called Mikey. I’m seriously wondering what he was planning on doing with the 100+ Black Dragons waiting outside if by some miracle Takemichi and Chifuyu had managed to beat Taiju (which he didn’t do despite saying he would btw. How come Takemichi gets so much praise from the fans for landing one lucky punch on Taiju when Mitsuya and Taiju had been exchanging blows for a while and Mitsuya got more hits in.) Again he knew Hakkai was planning on killing his brother for an entire week and Takemichi decided to only gave his speech about friendship in the middle of a fight? Really? He couldn’t have tried talking to Hakkai or Yuzuha before that?? If he really cared about his friendship w/ Hakkai, he would’ve done everything in power to stop everything that happened from happening rather than waiting to do it at the very last minute. Also Hakkai...Mitsuya has literally been with you for years, how come there was more emphasis put on the friendship between Takemichi and Hakkai who’ve only known each other for a couple of days and don’t have nearly as deep of connection that Hakkai shares w/ Mitsuya.

This is why I hate when he says things like below (also when he said he would take over the Black Dragons which made me roll my eyes so hard - how many gangs is he planning on taking over and never actually doing it bc he’s only saying it in the heat of things) because how is he ever going to do this (I’m betting he will take over Toman bc Mikey’s spiraling and it’ll be through the power of friendship and tears and his will of never giving up even though yknow if he planned ahead he could avoid getting into fights and solve the problems some other way that’s just as incredible and actually shows that he’s more mature than the 14-15 y/os that he’s hanging around as a 26 y/o) and for what reason does he want to take over Toman? Does he want to disband Toman or order them not to kill Hina? Does he think that will really stop Kisaki from doing more evil shit.

Kisaki is the issue and as long as he’s free to do whatever he wants, he can still target him and his friends. He could use some other gang to take Takemichi and friends out. And again how disrespectful is this to be saying this to Mikey? Takemichi has barely been in the gang for a week or so and he doesn’t even know WHY Toman was created - it’s literally named after Mikey (Tokyo Manji(ro)) and this random dude is showing up to tell its leader that he’ll be taking it from him even though Takemichi doesn’t even know how gangs let Toman works or what he plans on doing with it.

Also how come Takemichi just tell past Naoto that they need to shake hands in order to timeleap. He already know from the present / future that Naoto believed him when Takemichi told him about the timeleaping. This could make things so much easier.

#anti takemichi #anti hanagaki takemichi #manga #mine #anyways i dont actually takemichi but this arc just killed me #and just pushed me over the edge T_T #tokyo revengers

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florenceisfalling · 2 years

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is this ordeal with dream making you reassess rpf fandoms in general or anything?

edit i realize i went on a mostly irrelevant tangent bc of my posts where i said ive always disliked the dsmp fandom, but if you were wondering Solely because of the allegations, no. stanning a real person always comes at a risk and while it sucks when things go awry i do think i'm normal Enough about my parasocial behaviors that i'll be fine mentally regardless of the outcome and will leave if i must. ok now onto the rest of the post

oh i'm ok discussing the community, just not like. the details of the allegations.

and the answer is: not particularly. the dsmp fandom is a pretty unique case, not in terms of content (i dont wanna sound like the kinda person who thinks minecraft rp is new) but in terms of community.

this is not to say that other fandoms surrounding real people are better, much less perfect, but they're definitely a more comfortable thing for me.

for one, i've seen a lot of people having the dsmp as a "baby's first fandom" sort of moment. i think this is because its something really popular that is harder to enjoy passively - while you can watch stranger things with your family and get the whole experience just by watching the show, with the dsmp you need to keep up with cc twitter pages and stuff to be fully in-the-loop, and this leads into fandom pretty easily. this means you have a lot of people going around getting into their very first discourse All At Once. and people who get Really attached to one thing and feel lost when suddenly the fandom they literally learned to draw/write/etc for goes quiet.

for two, the dsmp is a category that is broad as hell. its not like i watch all the ccs. i think that would probably make my brain melt from my ears. but when you have a category that is Broad As Johnny Bravo's Shoulders, its more like a million little fandoms than one big one, and they all overlap but don't really Share A Space. u can like someone's tubbo fanart and then see in their bio that they like, have a really strong vendetta against quackity or something. or vice versa. you also have a lot of shit to keep up with, which is simply too much for me. i will continue just having like. three dudes to think abt from now on rather than 30

thirdly, the thing Above about there being so many ccs does make the fandom more Baffling for everybody, and the community seemed to repeatedly add to that. i am not going to be like "hari and every popular blogger is evil! what about people who ARENT popular >:(" bc that is downright ridiculous, but think abt stuff like duo names, oddly specific tags, referring to ppl solely by nicknames, spreading conversation back and forth between multiple social media sites rather than just tumblr, etc - all of those things had a purpose and were perfectly fine (anyone who tells you that you must refer to your friends by username only just to make Their online experience more accessible is an idiot) but they did make things tricky for newcomers. friend groups aren't inherently cliques, but some of the ppl ive seen claiming that its "super easy to pop in and join no problem!" are the Exact folks ive seen unintentionally exclude others. again, not a moral failing, just a consequence of What Its Like in the fandom, especially to people who havent been around forever. and if you don't like a popular blogger youre kinda fucked bc they're everywhere- like can u imagine if there were Multiple clones of isa in the jse fandom, and they were like. your Only window into updates and shit etc etc? not to compare isa to anybody else. sorry to anybody who feels like theyre being compared to isa even if u dont know who that is. sorry

there's also an age difference in the fanbase And in the content creators. some of my favorite fic writers in the jse fandom are young, but some are also literally in their 30s with children and jobs. meanwhile a significant number of ppl in the dsmp fanbase making art n posting hot takes n stuff are under 17. particularly with tommy, ranboo, etc. and when so many of the streamers themselves are young, it can cause Problems - a lot of the adult ccs are at my college level, peak time for stupid behavior. not to mention,,, when you look at the jse/markiplier fandoms and see a fan being really sexual, its just like, "oh, maybe this is a little weird, but relatively harmless as long as they aren't being invasive about it." when you look into the fandom of a youtuber who isn't even old enough to vote yet, and see a fan being really sexual, it's more of a "holy shit that is predatory and fucking disgusting" moment.

^ continuing off of that, or at least the cc ages, their fame skyrocketed after a much shorter time than a lot of other creators. they did not have a normal adjustment period to being fucking everywhere. i'm not even one of them, and i didn't have a normal adjustment period to seeing them everywhere. older ccs with more professional stuff going on don't make the same mistakes as the newer folks. they know when to step away, too - as much as i wish jack was back on tumblr due to the theory content here, i also get why he's gone and understand that the environment would be Shaken tf up by his return.

having them be such a trend also meant that while the fandom is big, the anti-fandom is just as prevalent. in the jse fandom we have blue and their pals (yikes!), as well as a group of people that have generally negative feelings towards sean but are normal about it. we do not have entire communities dedicated to stalking him for "crit" and the amount of people speculating on his personal relationships have pretty much dwindled. we don't have people casually dropping his address and information about his family every time they meme about him. i can talk about watching jack and mark around ppl ive never met without starting off with a disclaimer! in fact, i frequently have to do the opposite with jack and mark, because their discourse is so Out Of Sight from the majority these days that some people just fucking ignore their friendship with pdp or past transmisogynistic jokes or etc etc etc. literally see ppl calling them "unproblematic kings!" every 2 seconds and gotta be like what the Fuck are you talking about

u also have the fact that the dsmp fandom became Such an ordeal during a really shitty time of fandom discourse in general. while people arent like going batshit insane over steven universe or whatever so much anymore, the moral arguments about fiction right now are hell on earth. it is pedophilia to watch cartoons and abuse apologism to think a character who was mean one time is interesting and if you are personally attached to a character then your feelings can just override canon in theory discussions. literally the worst time for anyone to be in a fandom regarding very morally/politically funky roleplay. as evidence i present whomever the fuck thought up the idea of posting proship discourse on r/dwt2

lastly i am far more invested in the egos as far as hyperfixating goes rather than the actual creators (as much as i love them) and would have zero problem just taking anti and making him My Own Guy (considering ive already basically done that) in the case that jack. idk. killed someone and was promptly cancelled on twitter for murder.

so yeah no. my deepseated hatred of the fandom in general (despite my love for much of the art and the wonderful people ive met) does not extend to all real person fandoms

#discourse

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bro i will block u FUCKSNXJBS😭😭😭 /j /s /nm

ok so i stalk the jaemin smut hashtag quite frequently, therefore i see a lot of your posts and have so many of your works (mostly nana ofc but not limited to only him🙊) favorited. the sole purpose of my acc is just to read therefore im a random ass user no layout no nothin,, i don't scroll thru my home feed often i use the search page more than the home page, so i don't usually bother to follow ppl.. but FUCK i can't not follow after reading 'she gets the flowers' (sgtf).

sgtf hit me so hard man i can relate to every emotion y/n felt and that dialogue that conversation just wrung my heart out hard like a wet towel. i just HAD to stop by to unsolicitedly explain why sgtf was such a personal attack and i kinda hated having to see those feelings written down and borderline having to almost replicate and feel those feelings again, but i also feel so ignited as a reader bc i love when literary works make me feel such strong emotions 😭 so i ended up favoriting sgtf anyways for whenever i need a good cry. i NEEDED to come by to tell u what a great writer you are because not only have i had your previous works in my favorites before, but man..sgtf takes the cake. i said nope i'm done seeing so many of your works that i enjoyed reading, and have favorited, and NOT be following u? absolute blasphemy. ur writing? chefs kiss🤌

i cannot wait to see what other works u release!! <3

sincerely,

a mentally ill anon 🥰

bro i will block u FUCKSNXJBS😭😭😭 /j /s /nm

I KNEW THIS WAS COMING ONE DAY JFDHOSJDO

this is so cute but the 'i see A LOT of your posts' made me scream i did in fact flood the tag in the past weeks lmao but in all seriousness, it makes me so happy that you decided to follow me when you usually don't do it like 🥺😭

first of all, i stalked the jaemin smut hashtag when i came across sgtf so it's safe to say i was not prepared for that emotional rollercoaster. secondly, this was a personal attack bro writing & posting sgtf u came for my neck 🥲🥲 reason being i got out of a very long term relationship and there were a lot of things i didn't realize ab the relationship until after the breakup, leading to a lot of unfinished business = a lot of anger & bitterness i did not get to verbalize bc i didn't realize it till it was far too late, it'd look like i was trying to start stuff if i brought it up the past now. sgtf hit me so hard man i can relate to every emotion y/n felt and that dialogue that conversation just wrung my heart out hard like a wet towel. i just HAD to stop by to unsolicitedly explain why sgtf was such a personal attack and i kinda hated having to see those feelings written down and borderline having to almost replicate and feel those feelings again, but i also feel so ignited as a reader bc i love when literary works make me feel such strong emotions 😭 so i ended up favoriting sgtf anyways for whenever i need a good cry.

not me being a therapist every time i post an angst fic. I'm sorry for everything that happened to you (like you can relate to that??? I'M SO SO SORRY) it tore my heart apart while writing the last parts i can't even imagine relating to it because you have been through that. i'm sure you'll heal completely soon, i'm rooting for you!! (and fuck whoever hurt you this bad)

i NEEDED to come by to tell u what a great writer you are because not only have i had your previous works in my favorites before, but man..sgtf takes the cake. i said nope i'm done seeing so many of your works that i enjoyed reading, and have favorited, and NOT be following u? absolute blasphemy. ur writing? chefs kiss🤌 i cannot wait to see what other works u release!! <3

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS MESSAGE!! I LOVE YOU 🥺🥰 it made me so happy, an equally mentally ill author ♡♡♡

#anon answered #fic: she gets the flowers

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