#and also just in general

[bastiantj]

[a-bucket-in-the-void]

btw does anyone know what supplies i might need for bleaching a hoodie?

[real-live-human]

we miss roche/redshift posting so much but our brain is just empty and we have nothing of substance that has not already been said

[feartoxinjelloshot]

Hi you inspired me to finally listen to Rogues. How dare you inflict Ed's *gestures wildly* upon me

/silly

GOOD LUCK SOLDIER! STAY STRONG IN THERE

[lenakluthor]

JOB INTERVIEW NUMBER ONE WENT WELL CROSS YOUR FINGERS YALL

[rovensheres]

say what you will about homestuck fandom but the fanwork is always going to eat

[brainless-but-thats-all]

sollux was so real for everything

[aroaceleovaldez]

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

[queermasculine]

i simply do not believe that transgender people with weird gender identities are ever the problem

[butchsaint]

they should invent a me who is free of guilt

[soggydoggydisco]

Finished psychopomp gold recently and it has quickly become one of my all time favourite games everyone play it now

[a-drama-addict]

not caring too much about a fandom’s favourite guy is the worst. you’ll think “oh i’ll look into the tag see if anything new and cool’s there” and it’s just that fucking guy again

[fantasmadelaciudad]

i'll be honest thinking about las vegas makes me nauseous.

[draconym]

My current Imaginary Scenario is to pretend I'm a mouse in a sort of Beatrix Potter World and imagine all the different objects in my house and how I obtained them. You know, spool of thread side table I stole from an old lady's purse. Velvet ring box armchair I found discarded in the park after a failed marriage proposal. Pocket square bed linens I liberated from the coat of a man distracted by a pretentious argument about beer. Bottle cap dishes also liberated during that argument. Beaded curtain that used to be a Mardi Gras necklace. That sort of thing.

[thecrowfinder]

had a deltarune dream (a deltadream, if you will) and the only thing i remember is the fun gang split up in the dark world and kris took the opportunity to sneak off, remove their soul, and straight up smoke a cigarette on-screen. susie and ralsei passed the area and saw them but the lighting was fucked and kris immediately absconded (and i think kris also looked different from when they have the soul??) so they didnt recognize kris and thought there was some other lightner in the dark world with them. then they met up and ralsei was concerned because "oh no smoking is bad for their health :(" and susie was concerned because "oh no another person got into the dark world" with implied concern about the underage smoking because like. something something teenagers dont turn to drugs unless theyre miserable. anyways woke up made this