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(This post is brought to you by the fact that tumblr are, hilariously, claiming that 50% of current users are gen z, and i wanna see how accurate claim that is.)

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Still no change for me 😂

👻🪲

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Time to add to my collection.

71 HOURS LEFT until ALL my How to THINK BOOKS SELL OUT on KICKSTARTER - so grab yours now, before they all go, only HERE!

NEVER IN SHOPS!

Lorenzo!

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the self-indulgent fanfiction will continue until morale improves

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Well you know my vote. 😂

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I miss having the urge to write (and to draw but not going there right now).

I need to get back into it. There are so many abandoned WIPs both online and in my private drives. Mostly Beetlejuice but a few from my other fandoms as well.

The burn out was so real and the fandom shipping discourse really ruined the joy for a while there.

I have found many of my old notebooks with random scenes and charts. Hell, I even found my hand written first draft of Piquancy and Phantasm 😂

I got at least 4 Toon Beetlejuice WIPs just waiting to be brushed off. Luckily, I took notes or I would have forgotten where I was going with them.

… I think I have a post in here somewhere with a list of all my fics and WIPs.

Time to hunt.

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Just exhausted over humans.

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Time to update my Beetle shelf again 👻

I only need 1 more … I think??? It is hard to keep up.

I think I can fit Bob and Delores up there but the next one is gonna be the challenge.

My other Beetle stuff (my plush and larger decor) had to be moved to another part of my room.

Might have to redo my tombstone shelf soon as well

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Ready or Not (2019) directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.

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My ao3 bookmarks were growing unruly, and while additional filters can help, I wanted to see what other organizational methods ao3 readers were using, so I went on a voyage into the vast depths of bookmark tags. Aka:

The expedition's findings? Bookmark tags tend to fall into these eight categories. Very cool how one feature can serve different purposes for different readers!

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Stay

Jareth to Sarah: Stay and be my Queen and I'll make your dreams come true.

Erik to Christine: Stay and I'll make your voice heard and adored forever.

Hatter to Alice: Stay and I'll make your life full of wonder and laughter.

Beetlejuice to Lydia: Stay and I'll never let you feel lonely and unappreciated again.

Just stay and love me because I will never stop loving you.

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The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy

I tried to scroll past this. I really did

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The Three Laws of Fandom

If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.

If you aren’t able to do that, then you need to realise that your actions are making fandom unsafe for creators. That you are stifling creativity.

Like vaccination, fandom only works if everyone respects these rules. Creators need to be free to make their fanart, fanfics and all other content without fear of being harassed or concern-trolled for their creative choices, no matter whether you happen to like that content or not.

The First Law of Fandom

Don’t Like; Don’t Read (DL;DR)

It is up to you what you see online. It is not anyone else’s place to tell you what you should or should not consume in terms of content; it is not up to anyone else to police the internet so that you do not see things you do not like. At the same time, it is not up to YOU to police fandom to protect yourself or anyone else, real or hypothetical.

There are tools out there to help protect you if you have triggers or squicks. Learn to use them, and to take care of your own mental health. If you are consuming fan-made content and you find that you are disliking it - STOP.

The Second Law of Fandom

Your Kink Is Not My Kink (YKINMK)

Simply put, this means that everyone likes different things. It’s not up to you to determine what creators are allowed to create. It’s not up to you to police fandom. 

If you don’t like something, you can post meta about it or create contrarian content yourself, seek to convert other fans to your way of thinking.  

But you have no right to say to any creator “I do not like this, therefore you should not create it. Nobody should like this. It should not exist.”

It’s not up to you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not like, to create or not to create. That’s censorship. Don’t do it.

The Third Law of Fandom

Ship And Let Ship (SALS)

Much (though not all) fandom is about shipping. There are as many possible ships as there are fans, maybe more. You may have an OTP (One True Pairing), you may have a NOTP, that pairing that makes you want to barf at the very thought of its existence.

It’s not up to you to police ships or to determine what other people are allowed to ship. Just because you find that one particular ship problematic or disgusting, does not mean that other people are not allowed to explore its possibilities in their fanworks.

You are free to create contrarian content, to write meta about why a particular ship is repulsive, to discuss it endlessly on your private blog with like-minded persons.

It is not appropriate to harass creators about their ships, it is not appropriate to demand they do not create any more fanworks about those ships, or that they create fanwork only in a manner that you deem appropriate.

These three laws add up to the following:

You are not paying for fanworks content, and you have no rights to it other than to choose to consume it, or not consume it. If you do choose to consume it, do not then attack the creator if it wasn’t to your taste. That’s the height of bad manners.

Be courteous in fandom. It makes the whole experience better for all of us.

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You know what is sad?

I stopped feeling comfortable sharing my art online.

Is there even a single place that is safe from art theft or AI scrapers? It kills the motivation to even want to draw anymore outside of work stuff.

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The Eaton Fire is still scary as fuck but my Red Flag warning is lifted and most evac zones above me are lifting.

The air quality still blows for L.A.

As far as I know, most of my friends, fam and co-workers are safe but the loss of so many towns…. It is gonna be a rough rebuild.

My heart goes out to the Palisades Fire folks. Their’s is getting too close to Santa Monica

To those not in this area or are not watching it, at one point there were 7 active fires at a time with those crazy Santa Ana winds!

This was earlier this week

(not pictured here, the Divide Fire between Hurst and Lidia. The Creek Fire and the Kennith Fire above Palisades. there were many small ones that popped up over the last few days. Some overlapped in time frame, some didn’t)

This is today

(I’m trying to hide my location dot. Sorry for the cropped view on the full maps. Not that most of you know where I am anyway 😂)

As for my work and stomping grounds. Bar Sinister, Escape Hotel, Beetlehouse and my studio, the Sunset Fire was close but those buildings were safe. Thank the spooky gods for that.

Anyway, all good here. I am still watching the fire progress. Hopefully they get contained soon and we can start healing out here.

I hope my fellow Cali habitants are safe and out of the smoke.

Sound off to let me know you are fine. Lots of love.

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Merry Christmas!!!

Just came by to drop this nugget of mental coal 😂

My daughter and I are watching the Christmas Phineas and Ferb episode and out of nowhere, without context, she says “Candace’s head looks like an air pod”

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2024 sucked major balls. I am ready for a new year.