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[sothischickshe]

OMG you did it!! You broke the way I feel about fanfiction down to its bare essentials! 🥰❣️

Hey sweetie! 😘👋

I haven't been feeling especially cogent of late, so it's nice to know something I waffled resonates, or indeed makes vague sense firstly <3 and I agree with you, or me, or both -- I'm generally sooo happy to suspend my disbelief in fiction re plot (and am a big fan of high jinks!). I'm not sweating the deets if the payoff is worth it, and that goes extra much re ff.

Whereas sacrificing characterisation, especially in ff, can make me feel very :/ :/ :/ :/ yknow. I'm actually reasonably willing to suspend my disbelief re it too if that's set up well eg 'this is a story set several years in the future where theyve sorted a lot of their issues out offscreen' or 'this is an au where the characters have much better communication skills cos I the author find that concept interesting'. or 😋gimme the plot somehow achieving that -- yea they're pumped full of truth serum! Stuck together in hiding for ages till they've nothing left to do but snap at each other! Forced by a third party to go to counselling bc their bs is pissing everyone else off! Ofc characterisation isn't static -- so much of the delight of stories can be in characters finally learning to change or make different decisions to usual, or indeed in them seeing each other in atypical situations which shake them out of established patterns of behaviour, but that's precisely why I typically want to see or at least understand some of that journey!

Obvi there's going to be subjectivity (and indeed canon inconsistencies!) with regards to characterisation, and I appreciate that not everyone wants the same thing from stories generally (and poss especially from ff, which can often be abt attempting to ~fix the source material) but ultimately if the ff characters have little resemblance beyond name and appearance to the canon ones I find it difficult to see the appeal. For me, the joy of ff, and espec the ~fixing approach, lies in honouring those characters. Espec cos it does feel that the established playgroundness of ff/fandom more generally/arguably the written medium's freedom vs the need to show things in visual media allows for frankly just FUN handwaving re plot beats! Like I will happily take a single sentence (or indeed a metatextual note!) to explain where we're at or how we got there, it doesn't need to be overdeveloped that's fine, I'm happy to strap in and indulge! But if it feels like the author just doesn't like the canon character(s) and wishes them to be entirely different, eh, not for me I guess :/

[stupidartthings]

Blue doodles! 💤

[icantalk710]

So, mentioned in my turning 34 post but I am thinking of maybe possibly trying to visit Boston next week for a few days as part of my bday week+ off, since I thought to last year and opted for a staycation instead, and also one of my resolutions along with more concerts was to get out of NYC a few times this year

Suggestions on where to stay, things to do, and moots in the area to possibly say hi to and meet even?? welcome 🙏🏽

[iliketodrawstuffilike]

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[bobmckenzie]

IM SO. FREAKING. EEPY.

[pose4photoml]

😴

[elegyofthemoon]

i need mutuals to kin assign me characters im curious how im perceived

[blu3b3rryj4mp1r3]

how to energy and motivation!?!?!?!?

I wanna draw more of the requests I have so bad but there's an evil demon goblin in the back of my head constantly telling me I suck at everything all the time! he's getting real annoying so if you ever see him do me a favor and just like tell him to get a hobby or something because I think he'd really benefit from that you know?

maybe he could get into baking or something? that could be really fun! surely more fun than lowering people's self esteem at least 😌🍰

♡ ˢᶠʷ ᶦⁿᵗᵉʳᵃᶜᵗᶦᵒⁿ ᵒⁿˡʸ ♡

[akkivee]

hype shit at 2am let’s go rhyme anima➕!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wildflowercryptid]

quick update on bea for anyone that cares about my digital daughter : i did end up reloading my save file yesterday, but still got some dialogue from her where she worried that people think mean things about her or that she wouldn't get scolded if she behaved better. i haven't gotten any dialogue saying that tris doesn't care about her or that gustafa is getting mad at her yet so i'm assuming she's saying the other dialogue bc i'm not close enough with some of the villagers? i'm working on befriending everyone so i'll report back if that repeated dialogue vanishes after i do.

[simoneashley]

atla is just orientalism: the franchise

[skitskatdacat63]

So no P1?

[icantalk710]

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[risotto38]

does anyone else have problems communicating with terminally online ppl with the use of gifs or emojis? like you try to maintain a normal convo with someone but they have to pepper in unnecessary emojis or send you unrelated gifs constantly and youre too afraid to ask them "why?" is there just a great cultural disconnect thats growing between me and others, did I miss something. whats going on.

[pritvolny]

very rude of all 5 of you to not be writing me starters

[papus-clown-enclosure]

I literally put email as preferred method of contact...the usps aparently called me 9am?

Bruh i was dead to the world by how deep asleep i was. Back to sleep i go, this can wait.