#<new tag bc i feel like there'll be a lot of these to come...

[g0reoz]

BEYFANS COME GET YOUR FOOD. HOLY SHIT 😮

[digitalcockroach]

Hang on hang on your tags on "reverse queerbaiting" are excellent, please if you have the energy go into more detail on them doing "fanfic" romance tropes vs true romance tropes bc I think that's Exactly what I haven't been able to put into words

for context: POST: “I feel like we're almost in an era of like, reverse queerbaiting. Used to be that you'd be tricked into watching a show because the story implied there'd be gay rep, but now they're using gay rep to trick you into thinking there'll be a story.” TAGS: #tbh :/ #all the gay shows are pandering to like not even regular romance tropes but FANFIC tropes #and it's hollow af

Ok let me see if I can get my thoughts into some kind of order on this lol 

I mean to use the most egregious offender as an example, let’s talk about Good Omens s2. Like we come from s1 and the book which operate on a huge scale of time and across the globe with world ending stakes, even when it’s focused on Tadfield or London. There is a whole cast of characters outside of Aziraphael and Crowly with their own motives and agendas that intersect with each other and you can imagine existing before and after the story being told. Then we enter s2 and they’re all gone. God is gone. It’s Aziraphael and Crowley, Gabriel (and Beelzebub), and their neighbors who exist purely to be a Functional Couple oppose A+Cs dysfunctionality. This is kind of the first sin of fanfiction in this case, the world gets smaller and shallower and so do the characters within it. It’s all just feels like props and dressing to get two characters together. The whole Gabe and Beelzebub thing? The only reason I didn’t “see it coming” is because I thought there was no way they would just rip straight from the crackships of AO3 because I have READ THAT PLOT BETWEEN THESE CHARACTERS TWENTY TIMES JUST LIKE THIS. 

Gomens s2 and also the other big recent Gay Shows, Our Flag Means Death and What We Do In The Shadows, really fuckin abuse fanfic tropes to death in more specific ways too though like - a sassy lesbian couple to set the oblivious gays straight, a will-they-wont-they with completely forgone conclusion, everyone is a shy sensitive guy even when they’re ruthless killers everyone is kind of stupid and woobie and seconds from crying all over their soft little love interest, everyone talking in this self actualized therapy speak - SO much very direct TELLING and the SHOWING is just eyecandy, fanservice. The second sin the formulaic predictability and the third is prioritizing fanservice/shipping over storytelling. 

Because that’s the main thing I think? These shows - which I wanna be clear I liked at least at some point but have gotten really disappointed by as they continue - feel like they don’t have a story to tell. They’re just vehicles to get a Gay Couple together, regardless of character consistency or the way more interesting things implied going on in the world around them, and they just shed more and more detail and quality and idk variety? as the main ship’s relationship progresses and the world narrows further and further. It becomes boring, one-note. 

And to cover my bases here I don’t want to be misconstrued as believing these things can’t be or aren’t also true of straight romance shows (or movies, books, whatever) because I think we’ve all seen plenty of Boring Straight Romance, and I am being somewhat generalizing for the sake of what brevity I can accomplish here. But I think the noticeable thing with specifically these new queer romance shows is that they are being aimed at and HEAVILY pandering to yknow 18 - 30 year old chronically online fandom queers because people like Niel Gaiman and Taika Waititi and whathaveyou have witnessed first hand (and made a lot of money from) the absolute frenzy this AO3 donating demographic with go into over this exact kind of content. 

In short, people figured out you can make more money off of really dedicated weirdos with bad taste than you can writing something with depth and substance.

Not everything can be as good as Homestuck I guess!

[kinschi]

2019 Creative Review

ok thank you Shay aka the amazing @the-flame-and-hawks-eye for tagging me in this 2019 creative throwback. love u <33

I gotta admit I've been pretty lacking this year in terms of creating something, at least it feels like it, especially since I drew near to nothing during my stay in Japan (except the manga which I'll come back to). But now I'm in an art mood again so hopefully there'll be continuous fanart again!

So I guess I'll just share a few of the things I liked that I made?

Like one of the first things last year was the little song comic and I still really like it actually. one of the few times I drew some sort of background-ish pictures. Also the Avatar prints that I made because I still love those kids so much and they will always hold a special place in my heart.

Drew some RWBY fanart too bc we've been blessed with bees

I also bought myself an ipad so I could use procreate and it really made things easier to just draw whenever and wherever I want which I absolutely love. Most of my creative content that year has been RWBY and FMA fanart I feel like, but I've also fleshed out my OCs a little bit and made the manga short about them that I drew in Japan (will post it soon)

and now some wips I want to work on this year (some of which I probably won't finish)

sooo yeah it has been an ok year imo. I think I ended it stronger though. Anyways here's to a new year of hopefully lots of creative content for all of us!

Anyone can do this and share what their year has been ^^ I'll just tag @thenerdyalchemist @b-griveros @tomochingus @themusicalbookworm and @gayronan