#we're sharing it anyway

[nerdpoe]

Young Justice is always a little...concerned. With Phantom's living situation. Now they're outright afraid for him, and Bart has decided it's time to Ask An Adult.

It was the little quips. The tiny little things. Stuff that didn't seem to matter to Phantom at all, or appeared to be normal for him, that he didn't realize weren't normal at all.

"Oh, better not hope my mom catches me." "Doing what, staying out past bedtime?" "Nah, using my powers; she'd vivisect me!"

"Another stab wound. Great." "Don't worry Phantom, I've got the med kit-" "Oh, I'm not a baby or anything, I can handle it just fine. Just gimme a sec to take it out."

"My dad has better aim than that." "...Like, when he's hunting, right?" "...At what other times would he be shooting at me?"

"Huh. Not as bad as my parents place. Look; they have a decontamination shower!" "Phantom, this lab has been vandalized to the point of needing a hazmat suit." "Did I stutter?"

Finding out each others identities did nothing to soothe the worry. Tim quietly told the others that every time he tried to run facial recognition, he kept hitting a government firewall he couldn't breach. Phantom never told them his last name, just his first, and 'Danny' is super common.

The thing that really did it though, the thing that made Bart snap and run off to ask Max, was when Danny had a nightmare.

He was talking in his sleep.

"No. Don't-stop. Stoooop. I need...my skin. Mom, no. You can't...peel off...my skin..."

Bart didn't even wait for them to wake Danny up before he was standing in front of Max, talking a mile a minute as he tried to figure out what to do, with Wally staring in horror over a plate of waffles as he computed everything that Bart was saying.

~~~~~~

Danny had a dream about his mom and Skulker arguing about how to skin him. He wouldn't really call it a nightmare, because it was just Skulker, but the scariest thing was Skulker insisting to his mom that it was possible to skin him with a potato peeler. Dream mom was arguing that it was not, and that from a scientific standpoint that was a really piss poor way to preserve a specimen.

He hadn't been begging them to stop hurting him, he'd been whining at them to knock it off.

But when he wakes up, it's to a room full of worried friends and an old man who calls himself Max.

"Kid, I think we need to talk."

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #first convo was with cassie #second was with bart #third was with kon #fourth was with tim #max is fully prepared to take in another kid #bart is fully prepared to share #wally went to dick to ask him to put his detective training to work and find phantom's parents #wally was just visiting max #catching up #shooting the shit #when suddenly bart comes in and just trauma dumps about one of the other young justice heroes #who is apparently in a super abusive situation #and probably needs help #body horror tw #skinning tw #but only mentioned in the context of a super weird dream #danny's living situation COULD use some improvements #but it's not as bad as everyone thinks #anti ecto acts are still a thing #but as long as danny is with young justice the GIW leave him alone so #eh #not like they're good at their jobs anyways #max is about to blow his mind with the following information #“you are not okay. it's okay to not be okay. but kid. you need help and we're offering.”

[knifearo]

i think a lot about the loneliness of being aromantic. because it's something that's so profound, right? you're told your whole life that you need something to make you happy, to make you complete, to give you connection with other people, and when you realize you're aro, that's torn away from you. everything you've been raised to want is no longer something that will fulfill you. you are not built to be happy. and it gets better with time, it does! you restructure your world view, bit by bit, and the sting fades, but... i don't think it ever truly goes away. it's hard to express, because i love being aro, and i'm happy being aro, i wouldn't want to be any other way, but at the same time. there is such a profound heartbreak to knowing that you will never be someone's most important person in a society that values romance. that you'll never get the happy ever after that you were promised as a child. and you know you can be happy. but there's a lifetime of amatonormativity that lives in your brain and tells you that you can't.

#it's like catholicism a little bit. kjsfgh #brain worms #i will make seven thousand more posts about this but this one will suffice to start #i hesitate to talk about it because i don't want to misconstrue my aro experience as being negative! #i enjoy being aro so much! #And Also. #anyway. share thoughts we're here to support each other #amatonormativity #aspec #aromanticism #aromantic #aro #aroace #aro culture is #actually aro #arospec

[canisalbus]

Hello, I'm not sure if you're aware, but tumblr is going to start helping midjourney gather data for their AI. You're one of the artists I follow here pretty actively and I wanted to warn you to maybe start nighshading your art before posting it here so it doesn't get swept up!

I've seen a couple of posts about it. Feeling disappointed but not that surprised. Also not excited about having to start nightshading/glazing my pieces but if there isn't going to be any serious regulations regarding data scraping and ai "art", there aren't a lot of choices.

Thank you for taking the time to warn me just in case, it was very thoughtful of you!

#from what I've seen the effectiveness of nightshade/glaze has been debated and I don't even pretend to understand how it works #but like watermarks it's at least some kind of preventive measure a token effort to stop your art from being stolen and misused #but I fear that if someone is determined to do it anyway chances are they will find a way unfortunately #this shouldn't be the reality of trying to share art online #it's a pretty dismal situation when this responsibility falls on the artists themselves #I've been here since 2011 I've lived through multiple tumblr apocalypses I'm not leaving unless they make this place wholly unlivable #and I don't think there are truly good alternatives with similar sense of community and as varied posting and customization options #it seems like every other major social media platform is doing this exact same thing if not worse #answered #ohdeergood #I'm tired we're all tired of this

[royalarchivist]

[A sad violin song plays over an image of a sad hamster]

Pac: This doesn't have anything to do with me – I wear a blue sweatshirt, you're crazy, this mouse doesn't even have a sweatshirt, this hamster! [Reading chat] Am I a depressed hamster?

[ Transcript continued ↓ ]*

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Pac: Actually– that's fine! I embrace that idea – of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy? [He hits his desk, then starts counting off people on his fingers] Fit is gone, Richarlyson is gone, Ramon is gone, Bagi and Empanada who were always there when we were there are also gone, I haven't seen them! It's just me and Tubbo, and sometimes Philza shows up.

Pac: I lost Chume Labs, I lost the Favela, I lost Murder Mystery, I lost Ilha Chume Labs, it's crazy! Look at how much I've lost, and I've gained nothing! Of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy?! How am I supposed to be happy?!

Pac: [Reading chat] "You have us Pac," that's true, thank you. No, that's true, sorry.

* NOTE: Please note that this is an incomplete transcript, as I was primarily relying on Aypierre's translation mod at the time and if I am not confident of the translation, I do not include it. As always, please feel free to add on translations or message me corrections.

#Pactw #QSMP #Pac #March 18 2024 #As much as I love keeping people updated about Pac / the other Portuguese-speaking creators #I think I might not make as many transcribed posts for their clips anymore #I just don't think I'm qualified enough to be transcribing things for a language I don't know #like yeah we have the Qlobal Translator and Aypierre's translators to rely on #And I'm always upfront when I'm not 100% sure about a translation #but I've been thinking about it a lot and it kinda makes me feel a bit icky. Idk. #I might be overthinking this but I just I don't want to spread around translations I'm not super confident about #esp. since I know a lot of people cite my clips in analysis posts or link them to other people as resources #and 90% of the time I'm like ''Hell yeah I love seeing people getting a lot of use out of the archive'' #but sometimes I get a bit anxious like ''Did I do a good enough job translating this'' #''Am I ruining someone's entire perception of a conversation or character because I left one word out or mistranslated something?'' #And like I said that's normally not a HUGE concern since if I'm not certain about a translation I just won't post a clip. but you know #idk it might just be the anxiety talking but I really really don't want to spread bad info #Happy to hear other folks' perspective #I'm really grateful for people like Bell and Pix and others who translate clips and I always try to reblog those #but we don't have a ton of people posting clips & translating things on Tumblr since we're so English-centric #which is part of the reason WHY I like sharing clips of the non-English-speaking CCs #but at the same time I want to do an accurate job representing what they're saying #Maybe I'll just start posting things and give a TLDR context of what they're talking about but not a transcript #that way native-speakers can hop in and add translations if that's something they're comfortable doing #and if not then well. at least I'm not sharing something that isn't super accurate #idk I'm just thinking out loud a bit in the tags #But I'm open to hearing other people's thoughts on the matter #Anyways giant rant aside. q!Pac is NOT doing ok rn

[zetadraconis11]

HL Incorrect Quote #62

*in the Scriptorium*

Sebastian: Extraordinary! I could stay in here all day!

Ominis: I would rather we didn't. I wish for us to leave as soon as-

*slurping sounds*

Sebastian and Ominis: *turn to see and hear MC sipping from a cup*

Sebastian: Where did you get that?

MC: Oh, it was just sitting here.

Ominis: And you DRANK it? Do you not realize how long that beverage had to be sitting there?

MC: It was only a little dusty.

Ominis: A little-?! You are going to kill yourself one of these days!

Sebastian: Why would you just drink some random cup of...whatever is in there?

MC: I think it was tea. You're telling me you're not curious what kind of tea a founder of Hogwarts drank?

Sebastian:

Sebastian: Well, when you put it like that-

Ominis: DON'T ENCOURAGE THIS-

#can we talk about the fact the game lets mc drink random cups of drinks from ANYWHERE #One of the cups in fact being in the Scriptorium which had to have been unvisited for centuries??? #I think we're sleeping on how deranged mc actually is #We can hand wave the unforgivables and constantly casting revelio and spinning globes but I draw the line at drinking random cups #Anyway sebastian and mc share a braincell and ominis has to try to handle them #mc is somehow still alive despite obvious food poisoning #hogwarts mc #sebastian sallow #ominis gaunt #hogwarts legacy #hogwarts legacy incorrect quotes

[yenvengerberg]

it just makes me so sad that gifmakers will pour hours upon hours into crafting a gifset, overanalyzing every colouring and blending and typography decision to create pure art, which is so unique and creative, and the most the majority of users on this site can be bothered to do in response is hit the like button

#ah yes we're back here again #anyway i finally had some time on my hands to go through the full NYNF tag because i wanted to see what people had been making #and it's breathtaking #so much pure art there so much creativity #BUT what pissed me the fuck off was that the notes were so low??? #and the likes to reblog ratios even more abismal #so many fandoms so much beauty and y'all can't even be bothered to share it #i love this site but damn it's killing it #what's the point in being creative if no one will share your work?

[sleepystede]

My mom saw something OFMD related that I commented on on Facebook and she texted me this:

UM NO MOM IT'S A COMPLETELY NORMAL REACTION.

#it's not like i have a folder on my phone just for Ed's eyes or anything like that #i am completely normal about ofmd #i don't spend hours pouring over bts and analyzing small details #not to worry mom #your little crush on ed is totally normal #it was honestly so magical watching ofmd with my mom last year #she's about the same age as ed and stede #and she shared how seen she felt in the show #how she's never seen love at her age depicted so well #anyway she's a fan I'm a fan and we're just fans together #ofmd #our flag means death #ed teach #edward teach #blackbeard #ofmd ed

[aroaceleovaldez]

i mean it when i say we've gotta bring back askblogs. bring back making character chat posts with poor choice text colors over random backgrounds. bring back blogs dedicated to what outfits you think characters would wear.

fandom is an ecosystem, not a numbers game. these types of blogs/posts/etc still exist in concept, because people still want to make them and they're a great way to get your thoughts of an idea out in a simple format, but most people make them on like tiktok or instagram reels and that's where the problem lies. Those videos don't go anywhere. The format doesn't allow for the discussion to spread through the community and they're less likely to be engaged with in general. And to make them most people have to either show their face or figure out editing software, so the barrier to entry is higher (editing) and/or they have to forfeit an amount of privacy.

those types of posts/blogs are the first rung of the ecosystem. they're the perfect environment for younger members of the fandom to begin safely interacting with the larger community and putting their own thoughts and ideas out there. roleplay is the other major spot for that and those communities are diminishing as well, honestly (if you know of an rp forum board site, cherish it. and if you can make one, make one). they allow younger fans to begin engaging with the source material on a different/deeper level, but still at a very low barrier to entry, and begin conversations with other fans, which also helps them build skills which in turn may encourage them to pursue other avenues within the fandom (fic writing, other formats of askblog - which itself usually leads to art, cosplay, also fic writing, etc). Without those places to build those skills, they might feel discouraged from trying to begin when surrounded by curated people who have built their skills up for years.

And those conversations they foster also in turn help the community, by offering ideas to artists or fic writers to extrapolate on or building community jokes. And that text/blog format specifically is extremely beneficial, because it allows younger members of the fandom to remain anonymous and keep their privacy without concerning themselves with having any platform or having anything attached to them (very important for young fans figuring themselves out and navigating online community spaces for the first time, since they can remove themselves from spaces easily if they decide they don't like it and they're protected, rather than PUTTING THEIR FACE ON THE INTERNET). And those posts they make will spread a lot more into the community since they're in a significantly easier format to be reposted (few people are gonna be reposting tons of random short-form videos versus spamming their instagrams with reposts of 10 random fandom images yoinked from tumblr, or reposting to pinterest or something). Like, don't repost art, at the VERY least don't repost without credit, but also I am not ignorant to the fact that my art is not just the first google image result for "pjo pride" and related searches, but also the 4th, the 6th, the 9th, the 10th, the 11th, etc etc., and pops up in the search results before the official ReadRiordan does simply because people reposted my work more (most with credit, thankfully).

For fandom to be a community, it needs to perpetuate itself. There needs to be engagement with one another and conversation. If that bottom rung is cut off, then new fans won't be able to grow into the other niches of the fandom, and the fandom will be solely reliant on the source material and die out extremely quickly, and there won't be a community. There's no conversation! There's no reason to stay beyond the original material! But if you don't have points of entry for new fans, they won't have any way to build the skills needed to move into those niches, or engage with the community in a healthy way.

tl;dr: Bring back askblogs and character-based text post blogs. They are vital to fandom ecosystem.

#fandom #long post // #i know many people jest about tumblr posts being reposted often to other social media #but there's a reason for that! because few other social media these days are primarily text-based! and tumblr is a BLOGGING website! #we're built for sharing random essays! which means we have a LOT of word-heavy stuff #that other platforms can really only have in a different format - usually either image or video - due to character limits #and videos - even short form video - is far less engaged with because it takes more time to interact with #and short form videos of this nature ^ are usually only reposted in like. long-form video format compilations #which are pretty equally if not even less frequently interacted with #because most of those other social media platforms dont have good ways to easily share posts en mass like tumblr's reblog function #so even if those posts do get shared they rarely go far and even if they do they dont stick around #i also personally dont think it's coincidental that general fandom attitude shifts occurred circa 2016-2018 #around the same time as the major shift away from tumblr due to the bans #anyways if you run one of those types of blogs i respect you immensely #you are underappreciated but you fulfill an important ecological niche #also i know rp blogs are still a thing but theyre much more scarce and rp communities in general are drying up

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

SEVERAL?!?!?!,!,,!,!?!?

I'm sooooo normal guys.

#mads answers things #thegingerparty #annoyed the one title got cut off #it's 'We're Best Friends Who Share EVERYTHING' #anyway I should probably check myself into a mental hospital but it's fine

[idiotsofoz]

oh my

#i've been trying to post this for DAYS but the fucking file kept corrupting #anyways. while we're all in dallon world i think i should share this #dallon weekes #idkhow

[nyupuun]

Yusei's DM

#this got 6 likes on twitter so i think i should share it here #my friend and i are watching 5ds in german rn #we're at the dark signer arc its. so dumb #(kiryu said schisser to yusei and i was like 'OH MEIN GOTT HE SAID A CURSE WORD') (definitely the highlight of the dub) #anyways sorry to ray and eel for introducing him into your life #kiryu kyosuke #kalin kessler #dark signer kalin kessler #dark signer kiryu kyosuke #yugioh #ygo #yu-gi-oh #yugioh 5ds #ygo 5ds #yu-gi-oh 5ds #art #meme #redraw #also sorry for not drawing a proper phone and making it a brick #i should specify i watched 5ds before but my friend didnt so theyre watching it for the first time ever #and the characterization in the dub is so . silly

[izloveshorses]

here's a little wip share!

Since I've been out of art school for a while now I've been craving a good long term project, and what better subject than my favorite show? :) I'm pretending like Anastasia is an animated production/video game/whatever and I'm in charge of putting together a 'concept art book'/illustrated guide (for lack of a better term). Which means there would be extensive artwork of each costume, character lineups, background/set paintings, and prop studies. I'm currently still working on drawing and rendering all the assets and once they're all drawn I'll arrange them in a page layout as if they'll be printed in a big book!

But since it will be several months/year+ before it's finished I thought i could share some of my progress so far and possibly document the process as we go along. Here is an act i lineup of the principal characters, some examples of character costume sheets, and a couple screenshots of some ensemble costumes in various stages of completion. I've also rendered several props and I've started a couple background paintings, but I'll share those later.

Why embark such a tedious project, you ask? Well! because. i want to. So far it's been pretty fun. my obsessive collection/scholarly archive of reference photos of this show are finally being put to good use 🙈

Feel free to send any questions about the project my way! <3

#anastasia broadway #anastasia musical #anastasia #my art #fan art #iz draws #i need a tag for this hmm #anastasia illustrated guide #i guess akhsjldf #anyway #i'm trying to share wips more often so we have that Accountability #idk how long this will take bc i haven't made a hard deadline for myself yet but i'm currently working on it pretty steadily so idk #but stay tuned :) #also pls take a moment to admire count ipolitov he turned out really nicely #u can tell my crush on constantine is showing aslhdkjf #ur like why does that one ensemble man keep appearing Extra Handsome? 🧐 #bc... this is for me #also we're using his gleb ashlkdjf #bc. it's for me <3 #and dima is turning out well too <333 #his head is so empty #these may be adjusted several more times as the process goes on but rn i'm just trying to keep moving along instead of getting stuck on one #next post i should share my spreadsheet and reference folder aslhkdfj #bc it's almost neurotic #but i don't want to forget anyone alhskdf #but yeah pls click for better res :) #wip

[fuckspn]

supernatural said we are going to be SO misogynistic but in a way that also makes you insane about dean winchester and you are just going to have to sit there and live with it

#the fuckspn rewatch #good lord it is a shock to the system remembering just how misogynistic this show is tho #we're 8 minutes in and the terms 'whore' 'slut' and 'skank' have all been freely thrown about #all because a murder victim was wearing a tank top and skirt #anyway hey dean. known manwhore dean with an abusive father. anything you'd like to share with the class #the greatest hits

[saintirulan]

your girl has to wake up at 7 am tomorrow to go to the penis festival, but she stayed out with random ass people until 2 am 🫨✌🏻 who would have thought socialising was so fun diwjuwbwuq

#shared a fruit & whipped cream sandwich with with a dude and it was SO GOOD. #japan was made for me with all the whipped cream everywhere <3<3<3<3 #and we're like thinking of booking some place for okinawa together during golden week maybe!!! #id LOVE to go to okinawa it would be a DREAM #anyways. tomorrow ill be gone all day probably and then we have lessons from monday and yea #but ill get some more diary entries on here as well if i manage <3<3<3 #also im distraught. i cant figure out if i have an italian accent or not #two guys told me i do not and i was like :( but other people were like i LOVE your accent #can you like decide please i want to know what you all perceive LMAO #also the russian girl from the other day was like. are you getting in tinder while you're here? #like what kind of question is that please 😭 love her tho shes a serious sweetheart. doesnt like dune 2 tho #irene.🇯🇵

[introspectivememories]

i hope i am not just your average dc enjoyer to you but also your favorite timbern poster

#im like if a tim stan didn't like tim #tim got a boyfriend and i was like 'move over loser! who is /that/?' #my favorite batfam member is damian wayne/duke thomas if we're being honest #and if we're talking outside the batfam i really like hal jordan #smth about him.... i want to study him like a bug #but bernard dowd and jay nakamura my beloved #idc if they give tim and jon other male love interests. you will always be my endgame #anyway #timbern is sooo special to me simply bc of tim and bear's shared history #what do you mean they knew each other #what do you mean they went through smth traumatic and fell out of touch #what to you mean tim finally knows what he wants for once???? #wailing #also what do you mean bernard dowd has been in some really concerning situations for a civvie??? #a school shooting and a pain cult survivor and and got kidnapped by some twobit villain and but next to a bomb and his parnets dont like hi #jfc #this kid is fighting for his life #dc #bernard dowd #introspective.txt #timbern #jayjon one day i will be able to make a post that encapsulates how much i love you

[larkingame]

based hollis dot jpeg

#hiiii i know i have been absent for a minute. i am. working on things though as u can see. the doc is 20k words worth of me revising the #whole timeline. anyways. we're on all nighter number three!!!!!!! it's okay. im feeling good #i'll reblog in a second with a text desc. <3 #also can u tell hollis has a crush on rose. no u can't but its a fun fact i wanted to share.