Okay But There Is Something Disquieting About This Urge To Cast Fan Writers As Altruists. They Give Us

okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.

they’re sharing

it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.

it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people

but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.

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3 weeks ago

you’re so mean i’ll jump out the science lab ;(

requesters, what do yall use my collages for? i'm js curious since not all of yall use it as a banner/pfp/wtv


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1 month ago

or hell if you're too lazy or don't want to spend time or money just lay in your bed imagine your favorites kissing and giggle thats what i do when i have no motivation

i’m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of “content” is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if you’ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.

1 month ago

A monster forcefully switches places with you. You become a horrible creature, and the monster assumes your form. Unfortunately for the monster, your life absolutely sucks—and you have no intention of swapping back.

1 month ago
ID: Black and white sketchy comic featuring a non descript blob person protagonist. They are irritated and at their computer desk, they're thinking "God, people are arguing under my posts again." The computer has a tumblr comment section opened up.
The comic zooms into the tumblr comment argument. Someone with the username "Soft Boi Bacon Potato 6" comments "You can't be pansexual and have he/him pronouns it's literally impossible. Look it up on the dictionary."
Another commenter called "Dastardly Dog Hog" replies with "What? Since when?"
Soft Boi Bacon Potato 6 replies back with "You literally have a tiktok art style lel i'm not explaining anything to you."
The protagonist looks uninterested as they click on Soft Boi Bacon Potato 6's profile, thinking to themselves "Eh, they're probably like 13 or something"
Upon opening Soft Boi's tumblr profile our protagonist is greeted with the most diabolical looking Angel Dust as their header saying "Erm. What de frick?" 
Soft Boi's profile picture is a generic anime boy 
The tumblr's header reads "UWU step on me senpai~"
below that reads @softboibaconpotato
The tumblr's bio reads "38 years old, Ravenclaw XD, centrist"
The protagonist looks on in dismay, looking visibly shaken and defeated. The words "38 years old" repeat behind them. The words "thirty eight fucking years old" appear below them. Comic ends.

some days you cannot help but pity some people

1 month ago

sometimes a trans headcanon is 5 pages of careful textual analysis and reasoning and sometimes it's "i know this doesn't make sense but it's my favourite character and i get to decide the gender" and sometimes you have both within the same media and that's beautiful.

1 month ago

owaaah so cute

 Neru Is Done :3
 Neru Is Done :3
 Neru Is Done :3

neru is done :3

heres all of them together!


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1 month ago

you're going to be fine its normal at least for me (lol)

i also had this phase with one of my still WIPs, where i just wrote out everything and i felt so proud

it was meant to be for a character's birthday its been 5 months.

for me personally i just wait until i feel like it theres nothing stopping me from completely stopping other than myself

just take your time. i've experienced it too at worst you'll blank out on the project forever until you remember and have good ideas at best you'll find motivation

i hope the best option happens to you because ignoring a project can make you feel really guilty but remember you're doing it with your own free will

or maybe i misinterpreted all of that in that case my bad

Does anyone else experience this?

I know what happens in this chapter. It’s all in my head. I have an outline. I just need to write it out. But it’s been weeks since I’ve written a single word.

I started this project out strong. I wrote an average of 2-3k words a day over the course of 9 days. I ended up writing a total of 15k words. But now I have to fill in the blanks in between the initial scenes I was so passionately writing. So I’ve lost all that motivation and inspiration that initially kept me going.

I don’t understand why I’m like this. It’s infuriating.


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3 weeks ago

len pretty pretty please leoni len specifically but i don't mind any other card as long as it's purple(ish)

you know who i am, lol <3

Len Pretty Pretty Please Leoni Len Specifically But I Don't Mind Any Other Card As Long As It's Purple(ish)

one purple len collage for u!! chat why he ourple

i was gonna not add ichi5 len but i didnt rlly wanna put bug len in there and hes cute so eh

as always, my reqs are open!! ^^


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3 weeks ago
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