[ID: A digital painting of Legundo from the waist down in a snowy landscape. He is wearing thick brown pants and army green boots, one of which is partially covered by the snow and one of which is pushing against the step of a diamond shovel, forcing it down into the snow. The snow is illustrated with different shades of white and blue to make it look very fluffy. A blue, faintly cloudy sky serves as the background. There is a black box in the top left corner of the painting, with white text inside that reads "021." /end ID.]
being a fan of a friend's ocs is actually so humiliating....... like yes my favourite character rn is tragically doomed and a pillar of humanity who i think is relevant to the current world. you can find information about them on discord dot com and sometimes in late-night conversations with this guy i know. what the fuck
i know we're like, one of the people actively writing for it, and the fandom is by no means dead and there are so many things to backwatch and so many other cool projects out there by the same people, but
man, today's one of those days where i just really miss dominion. miss the main discord being active, miss getting to go insane about it live, miss cheering with friends for the characters to Please Get Even Worse, miss hyperanalyzing the characters in general, miss when it was like... this small, niche thing, that everyone seemed super pumped about doing
tsmp's almost hitting that niche for me, but there's something different about watching stuff that i know is only going to be stream-exclusive on most povs when part of what i got really hyped for was seeing how candid stream footage got turned into unreliable narration in people's videos -- what gets left out, what gets editorialized, what gets added, how different people see the same events.
i dunno. it was cool. i miss it. i miss being able to point at something and go "look at this! you could feasibly catch up right now in time to watch more of it live! there's new episodes soon! go check it out!" without having to precede it with "yeah there's like Several Weeks Of Paced Watching worth of stuff but it's good i swear"
it feels like it was really close to being the ideal size fandom for me, small enough that people know each other, big enough that there's new strangers, big enough to have fics to pick and choose between but small enough that you could probably read the entire tag if you wanted to? but now it's... sorta in hibernation.
and, yeah, we miss that. we're gonna keep doing our part to keep the lights on but sometimes it really feels like we're out here alone.
anyway if you liked datd you should go read bsch source dude trust me,
sorry for the dtau renaissance my brain has been full lately
(inspo under the cut!!)
i saw this sc and immediately got hit with a MUST DRAW THIS beam
ive been thinking a lot about dtau like retrospectively and i think its a little crazy thinking its. 3 years old. i was a sophomore in highschool (i feel like you can tell by reading it LMAO) and now im gonna be a sophmore in college,,,,crazy
it’s definitely not the best thing written and if i were to do it all again now it’d definitely be very different but i look back on it fondly for what it was,,like i truly was just writing to make myself happy and i did! i remember laughing to myself while i was writing and i had such a fun time. and for whatever reason its my most popular fic on ao3! how wild
idk why im getting so reflective and sentimental on this post but!!! i do hold a lot of love for this fic and dumb world i created. maybe we can revisit it more in the future ;3