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but what if i read one of your fanfics and then went to your ao3 accounts and read all of your fanfics and left a comment on every single chapter of every single one and you got spam emails from all of my kudos and comments and it made you smile, what then? what if i brighten your day with my words like you did mine, what then???

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the night fury brothers.......

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The stampede🥀

Trigun stargaze design with stampede x maximum!😚 the last post is an animation I tried to make👉🏼👈🏼

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yippee mermay have some orcawood

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"If he had been offered this as an adult he couldn't remember it." King's Rising by C.S.Pacat

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it's hard to find more stories with protagonists like Vash because most similar ones have a crucial difference: age.

Protagonists that act like Vash (loud, goofy, fun) are usually young, naive, intense. Full of grand resolve. Almost inevitably they'll end up in a crisis of disillusionment, a loss of innocence, as they gain life experience and begin to understand the complexities of the world. There are a lot of coming of age themes. Journey of discovery.

Vash has already passed that phase. He's been hurt, he's been disillusioned, betrayed, wronged, humiliated. In the present day of the story when things don't play out according to his ideals he doesn't experience a crisis of belief, he just wearily adds it to the pile of his perceived failures that he carries with him. Yes, it hurts, but in the end it's just another scar and he's used to those.

He's used to all this.

When he's absolute forced into a conflict of ideals (looking at you Legato) it breaks him. And I don't think he really grows from the experience. Not like a young protagonist. I don't think July or anything else made him resolve to do better in some deep profound way. He just ends up gritting his teeth and getting back to what he was doing before. Just now with extra Guilt(TM).

Not that he doesn't grow and change at all. It's just fundamentally different from a teenage character who's always having huge life-changing revelations and learning important lessons.

When the plot hits Vash it's not about him learning, it's about him planting his feet and refusing to budge for any reason. The only way to move him is to break him. And after he breaks he pieces himself back together and returns to stand in the very same spot to do it all over again.

With a goofy gin on his face.

Which is basically the end of the manga, now I come to think of it.

(usual disclaimer: this is me thinking out loud and trying to sort out my vague ideas and order them into some form of coherent statement. Your mileage may vary about my success)

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Between the lesbian that cant beat the monsterfucker allegations and the autistic man with the special interest, she really underestimated her crowd

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this is going to be a generalized take, so please forgive me, but women are an underrated enforcer of femininity.

I’ve noticed this with hairdressers. multiple times I’ve gone to lady hairdressers and said “cut it all off,” and they’ve gone “hmm alright,” and basically just trimmed the split ends. meanwhile I can go to a dude and say “hey, can you make my hair slightly shorter?” and he’ll go “on it boss,” and shave me bald.

twice now, I’ve also had lady tattoo artists add pink to femme up a tattoo, despite that not being on the initial design.

god, also thinking about this brought back a memory. my mom once threw a fit because my shoes were “too masculine” (they were black women’s flats), saying that I’d upset my dad and ruin the formal event we were going to. I wore the shoes, my dad didn’t give a shit.

I dunno. it just feels like the misogyny is coming from inside the house sometimes.

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kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

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(computer version of the poll)

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trigun new year art doodle...

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^ So I saw this post

And then these comments

Which makes me sad?

It’s already so hard to convince readers to be perceived and that commenting has value.

If you don’t want the deranged comments, please send them to me instead haha!

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With more and more Ao3 authors restricting their works to the archive (due to AI scraping), they're going to be losing guest interaction. And probably generally feeling down because. You know. AI is stealing their hard work.

So! Now is a great time to stop by your favorite authors/stories and drop them some comments! They really appreciate it!

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We need to embrace the fact that the tumblr userbase is aging. What’s everybody’s favorite kitchen appliance?