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If you are an American artist/fan, change your pixiv account region! Because there's new censorship

Number 5. If your drawing has no 'educational/scientific/artistic value' it won't be allowed to exist. These new censorship are absolute nonsense pushed by credit card company and conservative politicians. Fucking bonkers

It's the same thing when Tumblr banned NSFW and they promised that 'artistic nudity' will still be 'allowed'. I hope every purist on the internet realized that when they whine over anime fan art they are repeating what conservative billionaires and politician are pushing:

The death of art

#signal boost #pixiv

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Don't you think it's funny cause actual canon gay characters in BL manga will say "I love you" but only the shounen bromance can spew out some of the most romantic shit akin to a 19th century poet writing a letter expressing his surpressed love for his lover 😭.....

I think it’s fucking hysterical and I hope it never stops.

#sports anime #i am the shadow to your light #it's meaningless without you #i feel like i could climb any mountain when i'm with you #just what kind of flower will you bloom to be #aibou #I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME?!!??!?! #so long as i am here you will be the strongest

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req'd by @angelofmusings

whats the purpose then?

text: Showboating with a purpose

#baseball

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ch 325

#cute! #mha

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This is just some general fandom advice…

Don’t worry about your follower count in any fandom. Don’t measure your worth in relation to the perceived popularity of another person in the fandom. Don’t demand interaction from people you’ve never taken the time to get to know beforehand. Any relationship you have with another person in fandom takes effort. It’s okay if your interests change. You can have different opinions from your mutuals. You can have different preferences in shipping dynamics. You can like different styles of writing and art. Etc.

Don’t force conformity on yourself or on others. It will just make everyone miserable. Don’t put anyone in the position where they feel like they can’t say or do anything but appease you. It is not anyone’s job to be a perfect model of a fandom member 24/7. Build your own friend groups in fandom before seeking out the most “popular” people to befriend. Fandom is what you make it and making it meaningful takes time and effort. It’s not just handed to you.

You are not obligated to like or follow any one person. You are not obligated to share the same headcanons. You are not obligated to speak on topics you don’t want to. You are not obligated to publicly like or dislike certain characters or stories or whatever. Engagement is a choice. If you feel like you’re not able to make the choices you want in a fandom, then you need to evaluate whether or not that’s because people are truly forcing you to hold a certain position in fandom or if you’ve forced it upon yourself and perhaps other people.

The obsession with occupying a specific role in fandom and wanting to be perceived a certain way by fandom peers and the curation of those peers to most benefit you personally and so on and so forth - that’s not fun. That’s exhausting. For everyone. If I thought about how people perceive me in any given fandom, I wouldn’t sleep. It would plague me. I can’t control whether or not people like me or the stuff that I contribute to fandom so there’s no point in tormenting myself or others about it.

#on fandom

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nothing more embarassing than when you develop personal beef with a piece of media thats entirely petty. like sorry no i cant talk about that show it. bit me.

#sports anime

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Instead of apologizing for liking "trashy" media, consider: what is it doing well? If you like it, if it's making you feel pleasure and interest, then it must be succeeding at something. Is it shaping a set of emotional beats that you find satisfying to watch play out? Did it craft a character you find really compelling? Is something in the styling and aesthetics speaking to you? Did it unexpectedly resonate with a mood or experience you needed to see reflected right then?

However shallow or flawed a piece of media is, if you like it, it's because of something it did well - at least well enough to affect you, on the day that you encountered it.

There are a lot of good reasons to acknowledge this. One is about gratitude and manners: someone worked hard on that thing, and if they provided something that gave you happiness and pleasure, it's nice to honor that. Another is about breaking down the insidious habit of sorting everything into simple good/bad boxes. A piece of media, like a person, can do a lot of things wrong and a lot of things right, and the things on one side do not magically erase the other.

But the most important reason, I believe, is to get in the habit of celebrating what brings you pleasure and happiness. All your life there have been and there will be people telling you that you find joy in the wrong things, that if a particular thing makes you feel good it shows that there's something wrong with you. I reject that utterly. If a particular thing makes you feel good then there's something right, about you and about that thing. I'm not saying that pleasure is the only important thing or that every pleasure should be indulged indiscriminately. All I'm saying is that pleasure is in and of itself a good thing, and deserves notice.

#this

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it’s sunday

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guess who had just finished s2 of oofuri (and started reading the manga where the anime left off)

#oofuri

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rendered sketch bc i wasn’t tryna do proper line art on that glove

#sawamura eijun

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#chaosss

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its "queer subtext" this "queer subtext" that until its aromantic subtext then its fucking CRICKETS from everyone. embarrassing

#everything is aroace as default

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Art trade for @wannabe-cartoonist-blog ❤️ Also happy birthday to Kuroko <3

#kagakuro #i miss them very much

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2:37 a.m, head empty, but Ichigo in pink remains supreme

#kurosaki ichigo #death and strawberry

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it’s sunday

#lets fucking go

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#sports anime

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It's about devotion and obsession. It's ALWAYS about devotion and obsession. And hunger. It's love with teeth.

#sports anime