#the people in the fandom are so talented

[jomeimei421]

Felt a bit nostalgic watching RT shut down…Here are the og faves again for old times sake 💙

#rvb #agent washington #agent Carolina #lavernius tucker #michael j caboose #epsilon #my art rvb #ahhh a lot of feelings…of course I stepped away from rt as a company a long time ago #but RvB is special to me!! it was my first fandom experience ever #and the community here on tumblr specifically was so instrumental to me growing up #I really could not have asked for a better community of artists and writers to grow up in. I know it sounds like platitudes when I say #that everyone was super nice and talented but REALLY. People were so kind to me and somehow I became well known despite #my art and writing and me in general still being immature and hashtag cringe #I found my creative legs and #people would respond to my stuff with walls and walls of support in the tags and we would do exchanges and events every year #I made my first lyric comic and it’s still doing extremely well on YouTube even today!! my dad who passed away recently always loved it #and my favorite RvB writer came out of hibernation to write me a bunch of text wall asks about it #I’ve never had another fandom experience quite like RvB #I still keep in touch with many of my friends from that time period even though we’ve all moved on the other things #these guys will always always have a place in my heart #so long reds and blues….

[webonchin]

Morning serenity

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in other words AAAAAAAAAA *rips off my hair* i'm jumping!!! them!!! (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡ This one is special because it's based of my first fanart from one year ago(link) yay!! wich I still find hilarious

#fuck thea squeeze that touchstarved anthropomorphic manifestation of dreams #give them a big ol'kiss too #also thankyou sll very much from all the support I've gotten in this lovely fandom!! #so full of talented and amazing people!! #i will give you smooch on the forehead 💋🗣️ #rambling again!!! #but I really really like to draw them clinging into each other!!! #do not separate!! they come in a pair! #dreamling #the sandman #dream of the endless #hob gadling #my art

[latepivi]

this started with me trying to figure out how to draw some of these characters but then i wanted to draw lamb and narinder in old faith outfits and yeahhh

thought i'd share

#cult of the lamb #my art #digital #sketch #cotl yellow cat #cotl lamb #cotl leshy #cotl heket #cotl narinder #cotl kallamar #cotl shamura #not so sure about the height differences here #but also i made leshy one of the taller siblings 'cause we're both the youngest and i'm projecting #shamura is so hard to draw i'm still not really happy with how they look here #ALSO huge thanks for all the kind comments on my last art post hdsjsh ;u; #there’s so many talented people in this fandom it’s inspiring

[inklore]

i love people who write for underrated characters and fandoms. i love people who barely get 100 notes and keep posting. keep writing. keep doing what they love and not letting lack of interaction completely hinder their enjoyment on here. you’re strong. you’re valid. you’re literally the backbone of the writing community on here!!!!

#the amount of reader inserts i go and look up for random unpopular fandoms and finding fics???? that are amazing??? #but have barely any notes??? insane. horrible. #they’re always the best fics too #like some of yall are snobs on here and it shows #i love every single writer whether you get 2k notes or 90 #you’re literally all equally talented and loved and cherished by me #please keep writing for underrated fandoms ok #you’re making so many people happy #here laur goes again..

[antiqua-lugar]

I'm so tired of people playing Sorcerers and getting upset when Gale clarifies they needed someone studied in magic and being like "But I am sooo much better than a wizard, I was born with it!"

Girl, you might be *check notes* magic incarnate but that means absolutely nothing when he is looking for an academic

"But I was born good at magic!"

Okay, and I was born a native Italian speaker, however if an academic asked me if I have studied Italian I would have to say no, because academically I have not. I don't know a single italian linguist. I don't know how we went from indio european to latin to Italian. I don't even know why sardo is a language and bergamasco is a dialect. I forgot all the grammar I had to learn. Sometimes I talk to Tuscans and I do not understand them. it's almost like those are two entirely different things

#bg3 #gale #l also play sorcerers btw. I love them #I like that they can be arrogant dicks #but it's entirely on THEM not on gale asking if you are a fellow magic academic #also like you are born talented. that is not going anywhere without putting some effort in #also like gale is a former Chosen of Mystra. with all due respect who are you #i know some people just have no idea of what it is to study things academically but like #imagine if he was asking about english lit and you went 'but i am english' okay buddy so i was thinking about a structuralist reading of ac #bg3 fandom critical #this is a minor thing but it keeps getting on my nerves #but I can get all the jokes in boris effortlessy! okay you still are not going to the academia della crusca any day soon #chiedo scusa a tutti i toscani #also people saying he is jealous...girl of what. but that's a different post. (no but seriously)

[13eyond13]

love it when a character that's hard to read intuitively for you has like a dedicated fandom interpreter who can just glance at their blank face in a panel and then give you a 3k word essay on their innermost thoughts & desires & fears and neatly tie it back into the themes & whatnot as if it's the most obvious thing in the world

#im talking about griffith btw #guts i feel i get intuitively - maybe because i have some personality traits in common with him #and we get more about his life concretely told to us in canon. so he is a bit easier to pin down as a character and feel attached to for me #but whenever i was reading the manga i just kept wanting more insight about griffith's actions and feelings #like ok yeah its fun to have mysterious antagonists and suspense /tension etc but its also fun to feel like you deeply understand them too #and i felt like that was a bit missing from him for me in canon #so reading about him in analysis and fics is the most fun for me rn #he always felt kinda half unreal to me- which maybe was the point of him - but i wanted a bit more about his childhood or something? #and wished we had more stuff explicitly from his pov in the story to read or explanation about his transformation or wtv #and now he's so much more closed off to me even than he was in the golden age. i keep waiting for him to explain stuff and he does not #ANYWAYS all this rambling to say some people out there are very good at interpreting him and making his like. insecurities #more obvious to me bc i didnt really get that side of him from canon intuitively well #also im really enjoying reading the first few berserk fics ive read #there may not be a ton of them out there but there is def writing talent in the fandom #i'll share some recs once i'm done sifting through most of what's out there to read #also (not to tie everything back to death note but it IS my home fandom after all) #i feel griffith is obvs the more light-like character here and L maybe a bit guts-like? but unlike berserk in death note #light is the one you get to know best and L is the mysterious / unreal one you don't get a lot of concrete insight into #and in the DN fandom I can read the more mysterious character intuitively but had to warm up to the less mysterious one instead #and the mystery of L makes sense to me and doesnt bug me as much due to like - he HAS to hide a lot about himself or else he will die lol #so some similarities there but also some opposite feels as well #berserk spoilers #p

[raayllum]

loser troll has finally gotten around to plagiarizing me (his shit post vs my drabble that was clearly the 'insp' for it given that he literally stole lines and dialogue). keep in mind that my drabble was posted in may of last year, recently self reblogged, and then his blog which [checks archives] didn't exist until today.

anyway if you see a blog post with a soren, sarai, callum drabble featuring sarai teaching soren how to fight in the main tags it's plagiarized/stolen work, thank you

#blog-hordika-us #use of the word 'loitered' similar setup clearly a 'rebuttal' to one very biased soren pov line about callum not being a warrior #bc character bias can never be something that a story has!! #+ stolen lines such as 'a warrior are you' and 'i want to be' #and typical hordi fashion of making something that isn't about callum at all exclusively about him (im Shocked) #fandom nonsense #tdp #the dragon prince #i don't like putting this in the main tags but his shit is in the main tags so. yeah #and i Know he's plagiarized other people so #hordi's lack of talent

[kirayaykimura]

#SO true #i still occasionally think about ohmyjezabel #also the person that wrote heatwave #i'm pretty sure they said it was their first fic and i wonder if they meant 'in this fandom' because it was insanely good #if that was their first fic ever...how do some people cope with all that talent?

[tloubraininfection]

#running on tea and tlou fanart #so many insanely talented people in this fandom #tlou #the last of us #tlou hbo #the last of us hbo #joel miller #ellie williams

[astrobei]

every byler creator who has ever felt unappreciated or has never seen their work on a rec list or has stayed awake for hours working on something for it to get no interaction or has had their work passed up in favor of the big fandom favorites or has never been taken a chance on or has ever come last in a poll they didn’t ask to be on or has felt self conscious about posting or about calling themselves a creator if what they’re posting is not a magnum opus or has created something for themselves and still hoped deep down that people would love it: get behind me. i’ll protect u

#i’m five foot three and terrified of confrontation but i’ll go down swinging #andi would like me to add that she and i are standing on top of each other in a trench coat fighting for u all #thea is also wearing a trench coat but it’s just her and tutter in there #u all better fear thea’s fully developed frontal lobe and streamlined leadership experience (her words) #but seriously guys like #maybe i’m taking fandom too seriously or whatever but i know how scary it can be to put urself out there #especially in fandom spaces where the whole point is u want to enjoy urself and be accepted and not be judged #i’d be lying if i said that luck and timing wasn’t a huge part of why ppl enjoy my fics #and i’m flattered that my name shows up in rec lists a lot but. there are so so so many talented writers that go unnoticed when ppl fixate #on the same 5-6 names #and i know bc i’ve been them for other fandoms! #especially in this community there is such a big issue with putting big creators up on a pedestal #expecting them to be perfect and to keep churning out high quality stuff for free on demand #twt is something else too . like i’m not even talking abt that rn #and people always saying stuff like #‘atp i refuse to read fics unless they’re by _ or _ or _’ #just know that even if u are not one of these names u are so so valued and appreciated #get behind me fr #ok Bye <3333333 #🫂 #byler #/astro posts

[queenofmalkier]

Okay, I just have to say it to anyone feeling isolated or picked on or like the Main Character standing against Amazon's Wot-Show wrongs: nobody is mad that you don't like the show. People have different opinions! Different expectations! In a series this long there's dozens of things people will disagree on in terms of importance and that is normal!

You know what nobody likes?

The condescending, holier-than-thou attitude of some individuals who don't like the show who have decided that It Is Actually Bad And Terrible and anyone who likes it is Wrong.

Who constantly invade show-friendly spaces, who review bomb, who basically act like five year olds having a tantrum in the middle of Target.

People who I'm sorry to say don't seem to understand that there's no one way to adapt a series. Think of it like the works of Shakespeare and move on with your day.

The way I'd do it is going to be different than the way you'd do it, which will be entirely different from the way a third person will do it. That doesn't make any of us wrong - and YET you get mad when reasonable people point out that when you say the show is an Evil Bad Wrong No Good Bad Adaptation Without Question you are discounting those of us who think it's honestly not bad.

And then those same people wrap themselves up in a mantle of hurt and victimhood because everybody is being mean to them! Nobody understands!

Honey, we understand talking to you about the show right now is like talking down some drunk guy in a Denny's parking lot who is screaming at the curb. You aren't making rational points. You are Big Mad and trying to make it the problem of anybody who doesn't think the way you do.

I know I've made an effort to be understanding and empathetic about it, I've tried to explain my reasons for enjoying the show while seeing the point of others who hate it, but I'm tired of only receiving "that's cute you think that but Actually I Am Correct still" in return.

There's no growth, no learning, no further understanding. At this point it's bitching to bitch while pretending to be the only one knowledgeable on the subject. It's screaming about "that's not what I'm asking for!" while, actually, the complaints you're making are very much asking for a perfect 1 to 1 adaptation or some secret third thing that remains a mystery to me.

Either way, I love ya'll, I love WOT, I hope like hell this is a taken as the I Don't Know What Else To Do intervention, come-to-maker post it's meant to be but if it's not and you're angry maybe think about why.

#wheel of time #did I write a lot of this months ago? yes #was I in a mood? yes #but you know what it was true then and it's true now #I absolutely value the opinion of the many talented people in this fandom #I think we're all so joyous and genuinely happy to bond over meta and lore and jokes #that the few bad apples don't really ruin things #I fucking love it here #but also? I'm done babying the bad apples #improve your attitude go touch grass whatever you gotta do #so we can all fucking get along again while agreeing to disagree

[rogueddie]

Once again thinking about the fact that Caleb McLaughlin is easily the best actor on Stranger Things and Priah Ferguson is slept on, despite being hilarious on the show. Thinking, thinking...

#stranger things #caleb mclaughlin #lucas sinclair #priah ferguson #erica sinclair #they're both done so dirty #by the show and the fandom almost equally #it doesn't even make me angry anymore. it just makes me sad. #plus the problem with priah is ALSO people assuming that comedy actors aren't real actors even though comedy actors are top tier #a lot of those 'amazing' and 'serious' actors would not be able to play a character like erica and make her believable and funny #but priah does is with such ease like that is TALENT

[geodenes]

EVERYONE LOOK AT THIS NOWWWWW!!! i'm SO fortunate 2 say that i got this masterpiece thanks to an art-trade that i did with @br333!!!! :D we're filling the cloudyret tag guysss 💪💪💪 AND I COULDN'T FEEL MORE GRATEFUL AGHJHH THEY LOOK SO LOVELY AND HAPPYYY (≧□≦) ♡

#cloudyret #regular show #margaret smith #cloudy jane #regular show fanart #regular show margaret #regular show cj #margaret x cj #if someone had told last year's me that #thanks 2 starting a tumblr account i would have the opportunity to interact and share so many nice things with so many talented people..... #i wouldn't believe it fr !!1 #i'm soo thankful to be here.in this fandom #it may sound rlly silly but my feelings have really improved thanks 2 all the good energy here:'3 i'll treasure this forever

[saintchaser]

can’t believe we’re doing this again but hey guys if you don’t like what someone writes, and bonus points if you are not an author and you do not know how this kind of behaviour impacts writers, please shut up and refrain from posting and commenting on things that you deem to be wrong (which, to some, means that characters or certain situations are not written the way they see them to be.)

writers, like fanart creators and creators in fandom in general, put out on the internet free content for you to enjoy and engage with, and you throwing a hissy fit over things you don’t like and leaving hate comments and going on anon to complain and bitch about things just shows how entitled fandom really has become, recently.

i do not know in depth what happened with greenvlvetcouch and their fics because i do not follow fandom drama much, the very same way i did not follow the bizarrestars / mayzarbewithyou drama and i majorly found out about it from tiktok and mutuals, so i won’t be diving too much into named dramas but, as a fellow writer in fandom, i think that this fandom consumes content in an unhealthy way, and this is what makes many writers leave / take a step back from such spaces. after this maelstrom that happens, everyone’s wondering why said people leave fandom.

why?

because popular fandom creators or creators in this fandom that have written popular fics (i.e. bfb, cr, black mass, so forth so forth, i just named a few examples off the top of my head) are treated like celebrities and expected to write what appeals to the public, said public forgetting that the content they are consuming is put out for free access and you literally do nothing in order to consume it (which you do, for example, when talking about books and movies, but that is a whole another conversation), and unpopular fandom creators are brushed to the side and ignored. this behaviour affects everyone (both sides mentioned), and the leaving from the fandom is done by both sides.

i thought that after the zar situation, we’d take a moment to reflect on our actions and how our behaviour has an impact on our content creators. please, for the love of god, think about the consequences of your actions, even though they are behind a screen and not in the real world, and refrain from unasked for criticism and comments.

#this was worded a bit differently than my other posts of this sort #because it’s really tiring to see the same thing happen OVER and OVER again with so many talented people and artists #not the first time this happens and it’s concerning because we can’t learn from our past and previous actions #and i’m really hoping that we will get to the point where we can engage with and consume media in a healthy way #because this shit is not okay #fandom discourse #fandom discussion #fandom drama #marauders fandom

[accio-victuuri]

shiying x baili hongyi AU fan video by 西木兮Mer ( complete video and source link ) 🤍🤍🤍

#OMG THIS IS THE SHIYING X BAILI AU OF MY DREAMS!!!! #people are so talented gdi! this fandom 🥹🥹🥹🥹 #what is this editing black magic 🪄🪄🪄 #yizhan #bjyx #all yizhan au pairs are valid

[hussyknee]

cant put my finger on it, but Taylor Swift feels like walking racial microaggression

#it's not even the fact that she let herself become a white supremacist idol without telling them to fuck off #and when asked why she didn't she said she was from Nashville where the Dixie Chicks were a cautionary tale #meanwhile she had no qualms calling out sexism in the industry #but white supremacy was too far apparently #but leaving aside all of that‚ she's so fucking aggressively mediocre #and her 'girl gang' is just rich thin white women #let's not forget that racist Wildest Dreams video shall we? #she's talented and worked hard yeah but her parents are rich and connected as hell #also Swifties are some of the most obnoxious fucking people in music fandom #who get mad when WoC queer women and leftists can't stand her #the whole private jet thing was just icing on the cake tbh #Casey McQuiston had one throwaway line in RWRB where the MoC and Jewish girl dissed her #and half the white queers took that personally #Jesus fuck #let people hate rich thin white women #I mean heck I like Ed Sheeran's music but I don't take it personal when other people don't #then again I don't get idolising celebrities #just because I love someone's music doesn't mean I give much of a shit about them as people #these are objectively complete randos no matter what you think you know about them #anti Taylor swift #people with T-Swift hate blogs also dni #this post is about casual white privilege not whatever weird obsessive shit you got going on #white women #racism #white privilege #knee of huss