#you're a blessing to this fandom

[queerofthedagger]

i know i made several posts like this before but every day i am thankful that colin would sooner make a tik tok account where he chews glass on the daily while sitting there in a bath robe, than go back to make more content for bbc merlin like thank you you are the hero we do not deserve but desperately need

#bbcm #mona rambles #look. a season 6 would suck. a reunion would suck. a ''only a small lil thing'' would suck because the ending was GOOD as it was #it would all fucking suck and the fandom would be even more unbearable than it is on the daily #and if something like this DID ever happen I'd start a boycott and you can quote me on that #like to be fair i don't think any of the others want to go back any more either but god BLESS colin for just #going straight up 'absolutely fucking not <3' whenever asked you're the realest mfer around

[tricksterlatte]

Anyone else think short form social media based on algorithms designed to promote topics that create more engagement instead of more joy, the idea of fast fashion but conveyed through social media, and the fact you can monetize suffering and outrage better than ever has largely resulted in the death spiral of media literacy and the mass emergence of bad faith readings?

#I may be venting a lil but god it blows my mind #fyp is a blessing and a curse because i don't think ppl were ever meant to be subjected to this many ppl at once #god i took a bird site hiatus for weeks and now BARELY check it and it already feels like a hit #oughhhhh #even fandom spaces have hugely incorporated marketing and networking into them bc of cmms and sponsorship and building portfolio #which would be fine tbh if it weren't for the way socmed is designed #now it's like you can't support too many ppl or else you're shadow banned or you have to make yourself palatable and marketable #and websites with threads in which people will only read the first post before qrting because ratios are seen as five minutes of fame #features that permit beating an algorithm are locked behind a paywall that promises you money if you go viral #and what goes viral is usually incendiary content meant for those ratios or trends. whether for or against OP #even in hobbyist spaces the climate has changed so much due to the monetization and marketing and just. ugh #not to mention side accounts dedicated to gossip in this new priv account culture like...idk #if you have to make another account so you can make fun of a friend on main with selected priv friends it just doesn't sit well with me #and not every priv account does this but enough do and it makes me tired #unsolicited hate comments are still as bad as they used to be on ff dot net except now people openly are proud of it more #why do most socmed feel like passive aggressive sticky notes on high school lockers #there is so much more I could say about everything that has left me weary about the internet but I don't know the time or place #and I don't want anyone to think this is about them because it's a general statement. though if you are doing the more inflammatory things. #maybe rethink that. it's not good for anyone else and it's not good for you either #I keep coming back online to check on ppl and see art and I *know* it's draining for my health every time #but I feel a lot better now that i use socmed less overall. and that I try to focus on what makes me happy #it just sucks seeing so many people i care about endure absolutely wild struggles bc people online do not care. #I like rambling in my tags because this is the only place I ramble except my personal journal and to my wife

[alligatorjesie]

Can you, like, get real problems? I’m sure there’s a soup kitchen or a that needs an extra volunteer or a city council meeting you could go to.

Yeah. I do those things already and isn't it weird I still find extra time to tell assholes to get out of my fandom space.

So what public service have you done this week @rudyknight? In the last month? year? Hey, tell me real quick @rudyknight whens the last time you joined a counter protest?

Because my town has our own version of westburo baptist church and they LOVE protesting our pride events.

I had a bunch of fun.

I used my hyperfixation of plants to block out their signs and ensure they didn't have room to protest on the sidewalk.

I got to practice my metal growling.

The preacher who had spent the entire night telling everyone we was all gonna burn for eternity in a lake of fire for just bein' ourselves Did Not appreciated me telling him I enjoyed fucking his mother.

But hey maybe your too shy to tell assholes to fuck off to their face.

I mean you didn't seem to have that issue here so I don't know what the fuck is holding you up in the real world, but hey, maybe this'll be a push to get you to stop white knighting assholes on the internet.

But hey there's a lot of other things you can do to help your community that ain't active protesting!

Whens the last time you went through your neighborhood and helped remove invasive species? I'm sure you've done that over the past few weeks, Right @rudyknight?

I've been slowly removing invasive honeysuckle and using it's bones to make yard structures.

I've personally saved at least 5 adult trees in the neighborhood from an invasive plant called winter creeper that will slowly choke a mature tree to death if left unattended. It's already claimed a 100 year old maple a block away from me.

Or you know as a little treat, for me, I've been completely redoing the closet that my hot water heater use to live in before it fucking exploded.

The water damage was... extensive.

I fell through the fucking floor when I first started

It's coming together baby.

Oh but man don't worry I still have So Much Time Left in a day to tell useless assfucks posting hate to my fandom to

Fuck Right The Fuck Off.

But you go on @rudyknight. You keep right on defending a useless prick who got caught being a useless prick from getting told they're being a useless prick.

I'm sure that useless prick appreciates it.

God fucking knows you ain't doing shit to be actually helpful.

#anti talk #anti harassment #anti bullshit #fandom wank #fandom nonsense #fandom hate #seriously like I know I'm not being friendly about it by any means #but how the fuck do you look at this entire conversation and think the person asking the other one to leave is in the wrong? #I didn't post hate to their fucking fandom. #and I have proof OP posted it directly to my fandoms tag #but I'm in the wrong for asking them to leave? #Really? #you're defending that? #God fucking bless.

[hamsterandturtlesoup]

#gross sobbing #fandom is good actually #i don't know if you are on tumblr or read my tumblr ao3 user buddingtrees #but you always pop up with fic comments when i happen to be having a shitty time and you're a wonderful person who deserves good things! #bless you and all my love x1000 <3

[wanderingaldecaldo]

💕 self-love time! talk about which ones of YOUR creations (edits, artworks, fanfics) you like the most then send to other creators to do the same 💕

@imaginarycyberpunk2023 you're so sweet for this! I'm gonna do as @kittenchrissy did and say my V, Valerie Vermilion, so prepare for some tooth-rotting sweetness.

A recent-ish portrait of Val for the jeans mod I'm going to release soon™️

Before Cyberpunk 2077, I generally played games and moved on. Only Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition compelled me to read fic and, another playthrough later, write it myself. But neither of those times did I build up my Shepard or Inquisitor. All I knew about her was the backstory I chose and as much detail as the story necessitated.

But something different happened with Val. As I was writing No One's Gonna Love You, which starts with the moment I fell for Mitch, I fell in love with Val. She had grown to be a fully realized character somewhere along the line, with hopes and fears beyond the short term goal of hooking up with Mitch surviving Mikoshi. I really connected with her grief over Jackie, and participating in ask memes and chatting with friends helped me flesh out her lore even further.

Another portrait I took tonight while thinking about Val being sad hanging out in this park in Heywood that Jackie liked to visit

I've been writing for a long time, and character creation is a place where I struggle in my original work. That is part of the reason fanfic holds such a draw for me—I can take established characters and play with them instead—so having an OC as developed as Val is a real point of pride for me. I'm still finding things out about her, but I know so much already.

And why not one more? I'm a writer, we love threes

#cyberpunk 2077 #valerie vermilion #streetkid!val #streetkid val things #mail time! #imaginarycyberpunk2023 #thank you <3 #you're so kind and thoughtful #a blessing to fandom #my screens #fem v #female v #female oc #oc creation #probably said some of this before #it's the adhd brain

[rescue-ram]

Man okay. After my leetol rant I realized "Y'know, I'd actually really like to read toppy sexually confident Hawkeye seduces a less experienced and less-straight-than-he-thought-he-was BJ. That could be really fun." And I don't have enough of an idea to write this myself, so I pawed through the first ten pages of the BJHawk tag, scanning tags and summaries for something along those lines.

How is it possible that doesn't exist?? I tried searching terms I thought might show up in the metadata too. Surely this has been written, why can't I find it kfkdkd. Send recs lol...

#also i had no idea the absolute chokehold angst has on the bjhawk corner of fandom #like god bless you sad sad soldiers as a fellow angst hound i respect the labor you're putting in

[remylong]

re: @aveller 's request to expand more on the tag essay on Author Is Dead vs Author In Ur Dms fandoms & how being perceived changes fandom experiences

for author in ur dms fandoms (high authorial involvement) there is not really necessarily a need for the author to be literally In said DMs but there must be a possibility that they could be there at some point.

like i said in the prev post people might overcompensate if they go from a low involvement fandom to a high one and are blown away that creators r Just Some Guy that they can Talk To

high authorial involvement + large fandom = parasociality central. if it's high authorial involvement + small fandom i think it might b just social (extremely biased opinion, DO NOT TRUST)

small size of fandoms might sometimes result in a fandom that's closer to the source text because of the lack of blorbified versions of characters that are popularised through big fics & art

also the lack of fandom content means you can't really be in a small fandom just for the sake of fandom content (eg ppl who read destiel fic but don't watch the show anymore) so if you're in a small fandom you have to really Like like the thing you're talking about

and you're more likely to be a casual fan of a Big Fandom than of a small fandom so small fandom people might be more obsessive to overcompensate

alternatively the tight-knit nature of small fandoms may encourage a blorbified version of a character to be more widely accepted amongst the few people there? idk

i think a higher authorial involvement is also kind of a motivator for people to stick to canon more... it's a bit hard to say Screw canon My city now when the guy who made the city is still very much living in it. at least this is the case for me

as a girl whose venn diagram of Audience For Fandom Content and People Whose Opinions She Cares About A Lot is pretty much just a circle I guess there's also a higher level of motivation to appeal very directly to the target audience + a higher reward when you've done so. but this isn't specific to small fandoms it can also be for large fandoms because of the formation of cliques + subfandoms

i don't have proof for any of this just my own experience. pls don't take this as some Unified Theory of Fandom but im not really sure why you'd want to

#Yes this is about the melliotverse. No its not about the melliotverse. God bless #It's one am on a work day I might regret this but idk #This doesn't include like fandoms of fandoms like blue's revolutionary genderbend collective #If you're reading this Hi blue!! ^_^ #Because I guess those function more like small size high involvement fandom where the fans themselves take the role of the content creators #phd in yapology

[franeridan]

i haven't shipped anything for no reason other than the fact that the dynamic is hilarious in ages but by god aventio makes me laugh so damn hard it might just be my new fav in the fandom fr

#it's the fandom they make them so damn funny you're all so real #got your thrid eye open god bless #i went through the story like ig they talk? ive shipped for less so who am i to judge? #but tmblr has been putting the memes on my dash lately and holy shit lmao #LMAO #now i get it you guys are the realest

[cuwalli]

idk all I'm saying is I'm an Elder Queer, at this point, and all I hear when I see some fuck claiming that David J or anyone on the staff of OFMD is """homophobic""" or some other such tripe is "I'm an ungrateful twat who doesn't know anything about how bad shit used to be for the LGBT community"

#You fuckers ever been to the hospital for being casually hate crimed? #SIKE neither have I but that's because they WOULDN’T FUCKING TAKE ME even though I definitely needed to go #homophobic and ableist my ass you people are so fucking lucky Calypso's Birthday was on regular ass TV shut the fuck up #media literacy? y'all clearly don't know her #I sob over every single episode of OFMD because I'm lucky I made it to my age and am able to watch this shit air in real time #many many many people I knew were not so lucky #count your blessings that an excellent character like Izzy even exists for you to love and cry over #rant #fandom wank #idk #feelings this morning and I'm bent out of shape about it #do not EVEN come for me something about 'blah blah blah but we should still call out problems' you're wrong I don’t care and I will block u #ofmd fandom crit

[i-like-to-look-at-your-back]

omg…. oh my GOD. came for your beautiful geraskier art, stayed for literally everything you’ve ever made???? i’m. i’m so obsessed with the inside of your brain because WOW every piece you post is my new favourite. i didn’t even know i liked kakairu this much before finding your art, but now here we are!! anyway. you’re incredible, thank you for your service (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Aww you're too kind! (///￣ ￣///)

I switch between so many fandoms, throwing crumbs of cute+cosy pictures at whoever notices. It's good to know you've stayed for more ♡

#you're all my little pigeons #and i have a bag of different types of bread #you never know which one you will get next lol #I personally can't decide if it's a blessing or a curse - drawing for so many fandoms #+ it gives me freedom to pick whatever my brain feels like hyperfixating on and I don't get bored #- my art is too unpredictable to gain popularity and become anything more than a side fun time #at least that's how I see it?

[renee561]

Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate that you're so kind and supportive, making everyone feel welcome no matter who they ship and what fandoms they're in! You were one of my first mutuals, you're still one of my only mutuals, and you're one major reason I'm still here :)

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

This made my day!!! I read this very early and wanted to respond but I was headed to an event and running on fumes

(renee is not as young as she used to be and therefore needs more then 3 hours of sleep to pass as a human)

This is about the sweetest thing I've read in a hot minute so excuse me why I savor it. 🥰🥰🥰

I learned early on that you ship and let ship, and that if you don't like something you don't have to read it, and your kink is not my kink and that's OK makes it a better time in Fandom.

I'm happy to be the welcome wagon and to be a safe space for everyone. It's no fun if you create a space that is simply not fun for people.

I'm glad you're still here!!! 🥰🥰🥰

#renee answers #im glad you're still here #fandom #moots be blessings

[chimchiri]

And special shoutout to everyone leaving horny tags in reblogs - you're what keeps me going!

#I just remembered some tags I saw which made me happy #you're all doing the lord's work #i see all your tags and I am blessed #honestly though I've wanted to draw smut for so long and seeing these tags or responses is motivating! #fandom #lemon

[luxraydyne]

pop quiz what breed of childhood trauma borne neuroticism is it called when being condescended to on just the most neutral, limpid, nothing thoughts you express like you’re a little silly child, or “out of your depth”, or woefully misinformed, or just speaking on something you shouldn’t cause fuckin hell you’re doing it *wrong*, and with the most plainly obvious remark too, makes you want to chew on your own arm until you reach bone marrow

#i hate internet discourse i hate internet discourse i loathe online Big Fandom it makes me come out in hives #i'm not stupid. i'm NOT stupid. i know this. i'm not being mean and nasty and bitchy either. just saying shit wrong. #siiigh i don't want to just stop making shit and like speaking. about stuff. on the internet. but like also. why would you? #there are exceptions (who i hope would recognise themselves if not i apologise) but largely i am more miserable #and more self destructive more regularly since stepping out of anonymity and engaging with people online #except animal crossing. like everyone i've interacted with through acnh has been. really Nice tbh. which is nuts lol #the stories you hear are almost universally bad and yet everyone i've chatted with albeit briefly has been so nice #i get anxiety over whether or not some stranger i'm never gonna meet thinks i'm an imbecile or not like how stupid is that? it's ridiculous #my self esteem has somehow gone backwards??? #it don't fuckin matter! proving a relative nobody wrong and keeping her in her place don't matter! i mean it's daft but what's the point #and i know i need to internalise that i KNOW but damn it's hard #i want to just say fuck it and leave. become like a fandom esque zombie or whatever. but i also want autonomy over what i've produced now #unless i just delete all that too ig #but why should i!! #i go through this cycle every month it's like having an extra self-loathing hormone #if you're super attached to something w my username on it just download it for yourself you have my blessing give urself peace of mind lol #in principle i want to ghost and all of a sudden i'm am unperceivable and none of it's my damn problem any more lmao #but then i'm too bullish and prideful and egotistical so i'm like 'bbbut my seven tumblr followers who always like my silly text posts uwu' #i'm the dw in this scenario. the sign says 'just leave you're a nuisance' and i'm looking right at it like 'he he. no <3' #even if just doing what the signs says would definitely go some way to help with not wanting to just perish. or the arm chewing thing. #i just. simply. think. i would like to know. what it is i have done specifically #i know the answer is somewhere between nonexistent and nonsensical like it's not worth thinking about #what i've done is exist in a way that is arbitrarily deemed stupid/distasteful/ugly/deviant/noisy/irriating/etc it's irrelevant #and yet. there is a burning black void of needing to know in me. anon hate get into my dms tell me why you dislike me so #nothing is scarier. is the phraseology #like a game of wackamole with every utterance. is this one gonna get bapped with the hammer of 'you are so wrong'? why? does it matter? #who knows....it is a mystery...... #i matter so little! i have 50 followers! two (2) ppl read the fanfic and thought it was 'aight! i don't matter! i am such a tiny fish! #what is even the point just leave me be no one cares! #i *could* redirect this hysterical existential horror energy into my original work. i *should* do that

[dreamytfw]

I like Dean Winchester a lot more when I don’t have to deal with his stans tbh

#OP #y'all are fucking insufferable (derogatory) #god bless #we get it #you're insecure about your fave not being everyone else's fave #so you lash out at ppl who don't agree with you #and you prostelytize in hopes of drawing others in and making them stan your fave the way you do #y'all are like the Evangelical Christians of the SPN fandom is2g #pls go outside and form an identity that doesn't revolve around a character who hates himself #I am BEGGING

[horohoros]

Its thecuntfessional, hi, I MUST SEE THE SKETCH YOU SKETCHED FOR REASONS if you're okay with sharing!! 👀 if not then i hope you have a very pleasant evening

ANON!! hfosh - ok so, I actually was working on one whole comic/doujinshi with Brother Justin that I intended to finish (before Ghost bewitched me), and the idea is sorta fully finished? (except for the last two pages). It doesn't look so good, because they're all thumbnail and quick sketches for me to put the idea down - but I will OFC share some of these sketches with you! (I just apologize for the very bad drawings in advance and non-fleshed out pieces of dialogue - might feel OoC at parts)

All of them will be under the cut!

#um yeah... it's Brother Justin going full feral and self-pleasing #let the man release all his pent up feral (as if he wasn't doing so already lol) #Even if all my art efforts and focus rn are fully into Ghost #I intend to re-work this and finish this #it's been such a long while and there's so many things I don't like about this idea anymore... so I will redo these thumbnails and then #hopefully get to work on it #but YOU'RE SO SWEET ANON that you're interested in my dumb little blorbo sketches #I love ''the cuntfessional'' too haha #bless you #Please know I still love Brother Justin and Clancy so SO much #i'm over the moon with how he will look in John Wick 4.. we truly eat so well in the dilf fandom (swoons) #tp #asks #anonymous