#they always come back eventually

[zarla-s]

We move forward, 'cause we can't go back...

It's the EIGHTH anniversary of Handplates, and the first one after I finished the comic back in July! I decided to dig up a very old wip that I never finished and finally do it. I've always loved WeMoveForward by The Midnight, and I think it applies not only to the comic itself but also this period after it... there's no way to go back to when I was doing it, only moving forward after it's done.

Even more appropriately, since I did this wip, these characters all moved forward even further... even as this sat in my files, they moved forward, in a sense. I don't know, the song gives me a sort of plaintive, longing, bittersweet feeling... it's hard to explain.

I had a very insistent voice in my head that always made me do a Handplates page over the years I was working on it, no matter what happened. I wasn't sure if that voice would ever stop, even when it's done, but it has! It's gotten quieter now, mostly only nagging me about other projects I should be working on (Defrag, the Ace Attorney/Frozen fic, web design, fic ideas, art ideas...) whenever I'm doing something, much like it did before I started the comic.

How I feel about Handplates finishing though is strange. At times it doesn't feel like it's over, even if I don't feel like I need to do another page. At other times I get sad thinking about it and I miss it, and other times I look back on it with amazement that I was able to do it. Sometimes I look back on it and think about what was happening in my life at that time, and sometimes when I look at it it's unreal and it's hard to believe I even did it, like someone else did the whole thing. It's like it's there but it's not, it's present but it isn't. It's a very strange feeling, it's hard to describe or pin down. I know it'll always be with me in some way, but it is strange to be able to focus so much attention on other things without that feeling of having to set aside a few days to do a page every two weeks... not bad or anything, but I'm not used to it still.

I don't know! When I read the comments on the last page a lot of them made me cry, especially those talking about how the comic had been their childhood, and now their childhood is over. It was sad to think that I had a part in something like that ending... but it ends for everyone, no matter what you do. We, you and me, everyone... we move forward, 'cause we can't go back. That line was so evocative for me that I even used it as a chapter title for the penultimate chapter on Comicfury.

I don't know, just nostalgic thoughts! I don't know if that's the right word for it... but thank you to all of you who read it and enjoyed it. Even now I hear from new people coming to it and reading through it again now that it's done. Even if it's finished, it's still new to people just finding it. It's still "living" in a sense. And thanks to those of you who stuck around even though it's done, I appreciate it. |D

(As a note, the Gaster ukagaka has a surprise if you boot him on the anniversary after seeing the brothers, if you haven't done that)

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#undertale #handplates #asgore #gaster #sans #papyrus #asriel #z art #man i like never draw asriel #i always feel guilty when i move on to something different than what brought people to me #but my interests never really die they just fall asleep for a little while #they always come back eventually

[braisedhoney]

doodling the doc as simply as possible

#utdr #utdr fanart #deltarune #deltarune fanart #wd gaster #gaster fanart #undertale #undertale fanart #ney’s art #i always come back to this eventually #doodles of this guy to help #help with what? it depends #but to help #probably the closest thing i have to a comfort character really #… i want to make him spookier

[infriga]

Low chaos/clean hands Corvo has such a vibe to him as a character especially Dishonored 1 Corvo like he goes through so much shit and just wants his daughter back and everyone is like "he's too dangerous to let live" meanwhile he hasn't killed anyone, he's just befriending rats and maybe eating some of them and just trying to get through each day without losing his mind. He's basically just a criptid who's constantly in the wrong place at the wrong time and covered in sewer water.

#Dishonored #Corvo attano #Random #I'm pretty sure that's what the outsider likes about him #I'm starting to want to replay Dishonored again lol it always comes back around eventually #Dishonored 2 Corvo is a bit less feral but that's just because he learned how to mask really well over the course of 15 years

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

You really didn't think that one through huh?

idk if im sobbing, wheezing, or choking on my tea <3

#in short: AKSJBDAKSJDNASKNC #no yeah this is. The Accuracy lmfaooooooo #wally: avoiding the problem always works! #wally when avoiding the problem doesnt work: ....ohhhhhhh i get it now- #bbg pulled an oopsie fucking daisy!!! #wh modern human au #offerings to the bog #yk... i think. if the crash didnt happen #i think wally would have gone back. eventually #but not without Major fucking damage being done to his and barnaby's relationship lmaoooo #could they have come back from it? technically yes. but not the same. theyve lost something #BUT LUCKILY THAT'S NOT THE TIMELINE! #the timeline is worse but ends better somehow... #lmfao im imagining wally fuckin Ubering back bc home wouldnt start #and barnaby is just. in the front yard with wally's stuff in bags like a jilted lover asknasldknasldk #he winds up in sally's basement smhhhhhh #nah jk he'd probably wind up just living entirely in his lil garage-turned-art-studio #at least its a nice garage.... #WHY AM I STILL THINKING ABOUT IT THATS NOT WHAT HAPPENS #< i say as if i dont think of at (alternate timeline) after at of aus- #what would happen If what would happen If If if If AAAAAAAA

[aetherdecember]

Look, I love BBC Merlin and how they told the lore, but I’m a sucker for the relationship between Arthur and Mordred in the mythology. Specifically, I love how Mary Stewart (author of The Arthurian Saga**) and Nancy Springer (author of I Am Mordred**) wrote about the father/son relationship between them. So naturally, my brain has been conjuring up how I can include that in my Flipping the Coin au.

Since the main premise is Merlin died/Arthur lives, and now Arthur is the one waiting for Merlin to come back, things would stay consistent with canon up to the last episode (when Merlin flips the coin of their destiny and sacrifices himself so Arthur can live and thus stop Camlann from happening altogether). Which is where this idea will start:

Gwen is barren. She and Arthur never have kids. Eventually, everyone Arthur knows and loves dies. He can’t rule Camelot forever, and after Gwen’s death, he no longer wants to, so he fakes his death and wanders off figure out why he’s still here. He never gets an answer for that. Arthur spends the next millennium waiting. He keeps living. He meets people, experiences things he’d never experienced before, and learns things he’d never dreamed of learning. He can’t stay anywhere long, or else suspicions will rise, but he gets to see the world change, how technology advances, and witness humans continuing to be humans. When war breaks out, he joins the battle. It’s familiar. The rush of adrenaline is the same whether he’s wielding a sword or a gun. Only, he can’t see the enemy’s face anymore.

Peace comes again. At some point, he sleeps with a woman, and she happens to become pregnant. Bisexual disaster that he is, he’s had all sorts of partners from both sexes, but has never had this happen, even before the advent of reliable birth control. Later, he’ll learn her name is Morgause. She doesn’t look like the Morgause he knew before, nor does she act like her, but her name haunts him. After the baby is born, she gives him to Arthur, says she has no intentions of being a mother, and leaves. The last thing she had said to him was the baby’s name.

Mordred.

That night, Arthur holds Mordred and weeps.

There is irony in his son being named Mordred. First, in that the legends surrounding him, Merlin, Camelot, the Knights of the Round Table, and all of it, had long ago decided Mordred was his son. And two, in a retelling of that legend, it had aptly phrased what he sensed was happening now. Granted, he isn’t a sorcerer, he doesn’t have magic, so he can’t support his feeling with anything other than he’d been around a long time and knew to his very core that it was true. Mordred’s birth is a signal of the beginning of the end.

Fatherhood brings him a new sense of purpose. Gone are the days of loneliness and drudgery. Every day with Mordred brings a new light into his life. Each smile is a miracle. Seeing Mordred experience things for the first time brings a new appreciation. Being there to watch him grow makes time fly like it never has before. But Arthur is afraid. He doesn’t want to be his father. He doesn’t know how to be a father, or what the right way to do it is. In all the years he’s been on the Earth, he’s never known a man who could concretely say, “This is the way to raise a son,” and actually reap the fruits of their efforts. Too frequently, he’d seen sons grow outside of the visions their fathers molded for them and receive only disappointment and disdain in return. So he was afraid, because he too had been that son.

*cue a series of fluffy father/son one shots of Arthur raising Mordred until Merlin comes back, takes one look, and is is like WTF????? No, I won’t have Mordred for a step son >:(*

**Mary Stewart and Nancy Springer have several other works, not just the stories I mentioned. The ones mentioned are the ones I’m pulling inspiration from ^^

Additional notes below the break:

Guinevere’s barrenness is not a headcanon I typically subscribe to for BBC Merlin. My headcanon is that after Arthur’s death, Gwen gives birth, and their child eventually succeeds her as ruler.

I’ve always seen Mordred’s appearance as the harbinger of Arthur’s downfall. Thus, the reason for the plot bunnies in my brain going crazy with this idea of how I could bring him in, still remain mostly canon compliant with BBC Merlin, and build off some of my favorite parts of the lore. (Mandatory disclaimer: for BBC Merlin, I don’t headcanon Mordred as Arthur’s son. But for the mythology, I do wholeheartedly support that canon.)

Arthur’s choice to participate and live once Camelot is gone is a decision to contrast my headcanon of how Merlin handled it. I don’t think Merlin thrived. I think he stayed busy, and tried to remain hopeful, but I think he was anxiously consumed with the anticipation of wondering when Arthur would come back. In this au, Arthur may or may not know that Merlin is supposed to come back (I’m still working on that detail), but he’s always been around others. I think he would seek camaraderie, and companionship, and that he would connect with others but only to a superficial level. I don’t think he’d exist in a void of loneliness. Plus, he doesn’t have the guilt of knowing he failed because the pressure from the prophecy is very one sided *coughcough*causemerlinnevertoldhim*coughcough*

Anyways, that’s enough rambling from me about this. I’ll probably share some snippets of writing next because there are some fantastic scenes coming together in the draft so stay tuned! ;D

#bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #mordred #flipping the coin #my drabbles #arthurian mythology will always be my jam #you can tear this au from my cold dead hands but it will live on #merthur #for the Merlin not wanting Mordred as a stepson joke the last Mordred he knew turned on them to join Morgana #as far as Merlin is concerned they’re the same person #he’ll come around eventually once Arthur fills him in on everything #btw Arthur’s son Mordred is unaware of all of this #he’s having to process his dad - who has never really been interested in anybody for any reason - is completely besotted with some guy #once he learns this ‘some guy’ used to be his father’s servant it does not make things better #but by then he’ll have learned enough that it does clear things up #he’s actually a big fan of Merlin #he just wasn’t prepared for love sick puppy dog Arthur 24/7 now that Merlin’s back

[agardenofideas]

qtubbo is a federation experiment, born from a normal goose egg and was just a normal goose, then feds decided to play god and gave the goose oposable thumbs and the ability to speak;

they decided to play god and made a god instead, one with the wrath of a goose with more power than before, when they realized their mistake, it was too late to eliminate the goose turned boy,

he gained a type of immortality, he could no longer be put down for good

so they studied their wrathful aberration of a god of chaos and destruction, and set a trap, which the goose happily sprung

if they cannot kill it, fridge it

and the containment worked, the menace was gone

until they had the islanders retrieve people from the frozen stash prison and too late realized-

they forgot to put the young god in a different fridge

#tubbo #qsmp #basically its a beautiful day in the federation and you are a horrible goose #first they experimented on the goose (who is tubbo eventually) just to see if they just- could make a person out of an animal (they could) #then as tubbo became more person and physically less goose the feds did more experiments #accidentally making him functionally immortal #as in he will Not Stay Dead #oh he can die- multiple times- but he comes back always- and not even wrong or anything- he just comes back like whatever #geese are hardcore like that and tubbo be one #goose eldritch god tubbo is what the feds see him as

[toruq]

#sso #ssoblr #my art #star stable online #sso anne #anne von blyssen #sso concorde #ive been dealing with the battle of ‘well if i hadn’t done this then x wouldn’t have happened’ #and i rationalize that #but then next comes ‘well if i hadn’t done this then it wouldn’t have caused y which caused x’ #but i warn you be wary because this mindset does not help you with anything #eventually you get back to the spot where you are a little kid who made a choice to play in the sandbox with someone #it was not your fault #the fate of your world and the world around you does not in fact rest on your own shoulders #sometimes things happen because they do #not because you caused it #or because you did something to provoke the cause #sometimes life is simply going along #like concorde says: ‘but evil may have the final say’ #it cannot always be the good say; or in other words your ideal say #it can cause more upset feelings but let it rest in you that sometimes there was nothing you could do #and everything you were able to do was enough

[cayennecrush]

more girls! 💃

#my ocs #gykhi #kona #on the top #potpourri girls on the bottom who are once again pending name changes #it happens 🤷‍♀️ #tbh potpourri girls are the ones i have the MOST trouble naming #match i think will always be match tho... their name is the only one that actually stuck lol #valentine used to be yesenia and i might change it back to that #tabs is actually tabitha but... i dont think that name fits her very well? #plant girl hasnt ever had a name that truly felt right #itll come eventually #potpourri #undercurrent

[avisisisis]

palpatine tried so so hard to erase everything that made anakin anakin — from his appearance to the things he loved — and eventually turned him into a loyal dog, a pet that would always obey him. and in the end, darth vader was more machine than man, but anakin skywalker died, twice, with a human heart beating inside his chest.

#star wars #palpatine #darth sidious #anakin Skywalker #darth vader #sw #avis' post #there is something beautiful about palpatine being unable to forever extinguish anakin's light #bc it was anakin's choice. it always was #palpatine may have deeply influenced it but anakin chose to fall. he chose to listen to him #and eventually he chose to come back

[vertonghen]

JAN VERTONGHEN & MOUSA DEMBÉLÉ

Exclusive interview with Jan Vertonghen | allthatconfetti on LiveJournal | Stand by Me (1986) | Jan Vertonghen and Mousa Dembele speak about their friendship | Jan Vertonghen’s Instagram | “Way Back When” by Kodaline | sightofsea’s post | Belgian Red Devils answer fan questions | Away Days by dewinter | le-rire-des-etoiles’ post | belgianreddevils’ post | sunnygotze’s post | Us Against You (Beartown, #2) by Fredrik Backman

#mousa dembele #jan vertonghen #my edit #web weaving #tottenham hotspur #spurs #belgium nt #janmousa #tag: favs #this is so self indulgent bc #idk if anyone else is as insane as i am about them #but they are everything to me #i just think about how they grew up playing together #one of them always leaving #but eventually they kept coming back to each other right til the very end #coming up in the same club in belgium #both moving to amsterdam and living across the street from each other #both moving to london and living a few blocks from each other #now both back in belgium #their whole history together is in cycles #everything about their careers are so intertwined you can never speak about one of their achievements without the other #these two being part of ​belgium’s golden generation and spurs’ best squad in years #them growing up together and now their kids growing up together #and the way they express their love for each other is so sweet #i can’t even express how deep their history is and what their friendship means to me #how blessed they are to have each other #no one asked but the art next to the blurb abt jan scoring his first goal for ajax against mousa literally knocked my socks off bc #the colour kits they were wearing were red and blue like the painting #i thought it was so cute #football

[shoechoe]

might rewatch the vento aureo anime again soon when i get the time

#rambles #i'm in that kinda mood #every few months or so i just get an urge to rewatch jojo #diavolo may fade from no. 1 priority from time to time but he always comes back eventually. funny how he does that #will also probably watch the stone ocean anime again #i watched most of the part 6 anime in dub because my dad prefers dub and i don't like dub (no hate though) so i'd like to watch the sub

[roetrolls]

People who sell adopts: do you ever get sad or upset if someone buys a design from you and then sits on it a while? I have slowly been amassing a small hoard while I've been super busy with school and it is starting to make me feel GUILTY

I need reassurance that people don't mind/don't expect every design they sell to instantly have a story and a name OTL

Also just musing now about the fact that I'm buying adoptables at all: I'm usually so much more reluctant because typically I like to have an idea first and a design second, so I always wind up going "oh but if I ever wanna pursue x concept I could just make a guy when I get there"

being so busy this year though I'm like... I don't have TIME to be making brand new stuff rn but I love having that potential in front of me... So it feels like I got a bunch of dolls I haven't taken out of the box yet and I'm just waiting until graduation to open them hfhshbfaf

I HAVE SO MANY LITTLE NUGGETS OF IDEAS FLOATING AROUND BUT IM AFRAID IM GONNA OVERWHELM MYSELF

#cause like #I LOVE MAKING CHARACTERS #I REALLY REALLY LOVE IT #EVEN IF I MAKE A GUY AND STICK EM ON THE SHELF FOR A WHILE #I ALWAYS KNOW EVENTUALLY ILL COME BACK AROUND TO THEM #but when it's a design by somebody else i get worried they wont like that

[theunconcernedembalmer]

Slides this doodle out for a bit

#identity v #identity v ask blog #unconcerned art #im not really going to tag characters #i know its been a while. i fell into a depressive slump while at work #n things started to get slightly better so i finally had motivation to draw #i will. eventually get to that last gatto ask in the askbox n close the event #maybe its about time to call a semi hiatus. asks are always welcome tho #ill still be around!!! if i have idv doodles or asks coming my way #its really been such a long time. i have not kept up with the ask blog scene. n the lore as well. sweats #i will also. aim to finish the modern ghost au comic with victor. eventually #also to new followers. hello!!! hope u have fun scrolling through the blog. help urself to the dumb comics i have sometimes #n feel free to drop an ask. thats the easiest way to bring activity back to the blog XD

[mishapen-dear]

genuine question but is there any fandom where a character is well written by the majority. im thinking about fandom culture and the spread of frustration when people dont write characters well but. honestly in all the fandoms ive been in there's only like, a Select number of authors who i trust to write Well, let alone write Well AND In Character. character analysis and writing and getting inside characters' heads are all separate skills (all of which are trained by roleplaying fyi can CONFIRM playing pretend with your friends is good for you). there's been more than once where I've disagreed with an interpretation that others agreed with, and then I turned out wrong. or i turned out right. like it doesnt matter WHO is right it just matters that differences in character analysis exist, so even if you DO write well AND write in character, your in character is still going to be someone else's out of character

there's this sort of. vibe. that to play in the sandbox you Need to be able to make a castle, and if you can't make a castle then you shouldn't bother, and it completely dismisses the idea that youre in that sandbox to PLAY in the first place. there's this Weight of disappointing someone if you can't build something that they like, but that forgets that you aren't there to build them a castle. like, be KIND. if you disagree with someone then please make an effort to do so kindly. i dont give a shit about fandom discourse but there is a reason kids get removed from sandboxes if they keep throwing sand in people's eyes. but if they don't like your misshapen sand pile, then youre not obligated to change it. even if you yourself end up hating that same sand pile later- youre not building a legacy. youre playing. and sometimes the result of that play is out of character drivel. theres a reason there are so many authors and so few who i like to consistently read and thats because everyone is Fucking Around in their hobby space. hash tag brag or whatever but i can build castles. ive built several that im v proud of. ive also dug holes in the sand for fun and then tripped on them when trying to get up. I often dug a hole and then got up and fucking- whoops, its a castle now, and i didn't realize i'd made something to be proud of until after the fact. the whole time while creating shit i was Convinced it was bullshit that didn't make sense. and then other times i was Convinced it was bullshit and then i was Right and i can look back and go. huh. ew. but it doesn't matter what the end result was, because i had fun playing in the sandbox

this wasn't meant to turn into a ramble but i have Feelings about bad art and art that's badly perceived and how public perception can screw with your head and how making art youre proud of is fucking. it's so difficult!!! it's hard!! it's really fun, which is why i try to make it, but i promise you it is Okay to not tryhard creativity. even if you CAN, it's okay not to do it all the time. or ever, even. fuck around find out have fun etc

#NOT a discourse post i am musing out loud #there's discourse goign around the dash rn or i wouldnt mention it #but the past few weeks ive seen a lot of “DONT fucking mischaracterize my guy my fuckign god” #which is one of the most frustrating pet peeve there is #but i think a lot too about little baby me #fresh on her writing journey #and how discouraged i would be if someone pointed out the mistakes id made #i made a Lot of fuckups #and i also think about this one fic where one of the characters was INCREDIBLY out of character #me today would not be able to stomach reading it #but baby me was so ENCHANTED #and it introduced to me the concept that you dont always know the reason someone does something #and it made me read even more #and because of that i eventually found Expert Skill level fics #which introduced me to MANY little tricks and fidgets ive tried to implement #there were so so many reviews on that fic that called it shit or complained about the bad characterization #but a decade later i still think about it #there were several very corny mine/craft horror fics i read #which back in the day would be called cringe #and those were what inspired me to write my first horror fic and now im Enchanted by the whole genre #theres a lot of stuff i dont like to read but i like that other people are enjoying themselves #i dont know how to be succinct i hope my point is coming across well #this ties into my thing where fiction is for you first others later #here are my credentials: bb/h fan since before the elections (hi i was the guy who noticed his lack of armour post elections) #and a cross-fandom comment trend of people going 'woa i can see this happening in canon' #im not talking out my ass i genuinely think its more important to have fun than to write accurate characterization #which. is a more 'duh' and clarifying thing than everything else ive written #but ah well c'est la vie #also also just realized this could be interpreted like that- NOT an attack on people who complain about mischaracterization either lmao #i do that too w friends. this is to reassure people who put pressure on themselves to create things Well all the time

[stealingyourbones]

Scott Free was supposed to be having just a normal day with his wife, a nice calm picnic in an isolated area so they wouldn't be bothered. They were supposed to eat together and relax and not worry about a damn thing! But that plan vanished as a stranger appeared and said, "Scott Free. I have a deal for you. How would you like to never have to worry about anything to do with Darkside ever again?"

That is how the conversation started and I ended with Scott and his wife thinking about about dangerous bargin the stranger had offered. Darkside would die, permanently. Done by the hands of someone who owed the stranger a favor. The man gave no details on the other person or how they could possibly do it, but in exchange for this he needed a debt. His exact words were, "I shall call upon you for a favor at a later time. Your task will be clear when the time and place is correct." And he refused to give any more details and told them they had 24 hours to decide.

They both agreed it was incredibly Sketchy at best. But... if this person truly knew a way to kill Darkside forever? Could they throw away that chance? This is a once in a life time opportunity but... what of the favor the stranger requested?

After exactly 24 hours the one eyed man came back and asked them their decision. Scott gave a nod and simply said, "yes. Kill Darkside and I will be in your debt." The Stanger grinned and held out his hand for a shake to make it official. Scott yelped and pulled his hand back when something pricked his palm and the stranger shows a single drop of blood on their palm as they say, "a pact sealed in blood. I will be back for you soon."

A week later Danny beats Darkside in single combat, forced to kill the Dark God in order to survive. From his perch, Clockwork gets ready to swoop in, knowing that what awaits Danny on the other side of the portal home is a large number of GIW agents and his parents. Normally it wouldn't be to big of a problem but he did just finish a fist fight with Darkside.

Time freezes as the injured Boy King is forced to retreat into his core due to his massive number of injuries. Gently plucking the core from the air, Clockwork puts on his human disguise and goes to cash in a debt he created with an escape artist one week prior.

After all, Danny needs someone to protect his core until he can reform and after that he will need new parents who can help him understand his new task of ruling both the ghost zone and a hell planet.

Danny getting crazy literal God parents. I love this sm

#dp x dc #danny phantom #dpxdc #writing prompts #dc comics #bones replies #Danny simply kills Darkseid's avatar #reminder that there is quite literally NO WAY to kill the true darkseid. trying to do so ruins the entire purpose of his character #you can kill his form in that universe but he'll always come back eventually. he's the one character I'm super picky with AU's n such #he isnt only an evil dude #he's a symbol of evil and hatred and corruption #those symbols are important to keep in the story #also he is quite literally infinitely powerful in his true form that exists outside of timelines and universes itself. omniuniversal #you cannot fight infinite power. at most there's a stalemate

[xannerz]

its always surreal to me to see people praise s2 of centaurworld. s2 was so spectacularly bombastic and aimless and it ended in this awkward forgettable fizzle.

i feel like a dick saying it b/c i really do love the show lmao. or, at least half of it lmao (/stares at tnwk). gf and i've been thinking about rewatching it just to write out our thoughts on why s2 was such a poor follow-up to s1 - from the tone to the setup to all the worldbuilding the narrative had to offer in between the (far more) memorable songs of s1. idk. it's sad because cw really had the bones of a cult classic, but idek if you can call it that.

ive seen a few posts commenting on its lack of popularity, and i feel like it certainly deserves more, b/c i do feel like it's a novel idea made w/ love, but the shift btwn s1 and s2 wasnt just in the plot. there was a full-on *fracture* in the quality and direction and i'm still scratching my head over it. more than i should be, probably. but, it's just a bummer.

#centaurworld #centaurworld critical #<- a tag i never thought i'd use lol #ok EDIT: fuck it im tagging this maybe there are others who'll also see their own viewing experiences in this post too #dont mind me rambling #but i got an ask on my thoughts abt cw a long time ago (hi!! i still have it 😭) and ive been wanting to write a detailed response since. #debating tagging this since the fandom's already p small and i dont wanna bump the tag with negativity #even if it is (what i feel is) p fair criticism. but idk people are sensitive and conflate it w hate idk idk #ive seen thinly-veiled hate posts in the t*ngled the series tags and it's always bothered me. #bc you can tell op just like hates xyz character or the show entirely and its like can you just come out and say it LMFAOO #but i genuinely like cw. i so so very much do. so i get bummed out! gf and some other friends and i were so excited for s2 and #when it rolled out ep by ep we were like 'it'll get better right? right?' #also tempted to just draw more cw fanart in general bc the t t s fandom is slow and if half the people dont have each other blocked #theres simply 0 overlap in fave chars or interpretations so lmao #im going back to work i just feel sour LMAO #also adding that i think a lot of people conflate a story eliciting an emotional reaction from you = its good #but ill revisit that and all these thoughts again eventually in another post. we'll see. #and i STILL want a nwk tattoo lmao. or at least an elkie. gf and i love elk bc of this guy! the impact that he has! #xangoeswah