If you feel like you need "permission" to do something in fandom, this post is for you!
Something I've noticed a lot of in this fandom is that people hesitate so much to do so many wonderful things they want to do because they feel like they need someone else's "permission" in order to do it.
Understandably, there was a HUGE history of people dog-piling, harassing, and bullying people for doing things that were not explicitly approved by either the creators or the fandom at large. I am so happy that the tumblr fandom in particular has moved away from that horrible time, but the effects it had on people still linger, even beyond things that "weren't allowed."
So if you need permission to do something you've been thinking of doing, I'm giving you permission. ����
Do you have an idea for a fan event but you need someone to tell you that you can? I'm telling you right now that not only can you start that fan event, but you will do a great job AND people will love it.
Do you have an idea for a fanfiction but you're worried that people won't like it? I'm holding your face gently and promising you that there is an audience for everything and if absolutely nothing else, you deserve to make that fic.
Do you have a headcanon that directly conflicts with common headcanons in the fandom? I support you having that headcanon. YES, even if other people dislike or even hate that headcanon. YES, even if some people are upset about that headcanon. It's their job to avoid that headcanon then-- it's not your job not to have it.
You deserve a space to be heard, to make your creations, to hold you headcanons. Anything that brings you joy, amusement, euphoria, validation, healing, catharsis, anything that you find interesting or enjoyable, you deserve to engage with it.
I promise you are capable. I promise you are not doing anything wrong. I promise you are not hurting anything.
Whatever you thought about while reading this post? I am giving you permission to do it.
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I don't usually post memes here, but this was my reaction to reading chapter 17 of The Jojolands 🤣
For me, Howler looks like the cheap-ass version of Gyro. He has a shittier personality, too. And maybe, I've deliberately put a panel of Gyro being sexist for the comedy effect.
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[trigger warning: mention of sexual assault]
the specific breed of queer queerphobia is just as if not more frightening than non-queer queerphobia, specifically in this case as it relates to acespec/arospec people (terms which will hence be combined into "aspec" for the sake of clarity, see the tags for a quick note about this)
if it's not already clear from my posts, i am very supportive of the silenced, erased, and shunned parts of the queer community. i involve myself a great deal in breaking down the walls that queer people have decided to erect in order to determine who does and doesn't get to call themselves "queer". nothing breaks my heart more than seeing other people who experience the world in a way starkly different from perisex, allosexual, alloromantic, cisgender, heterosexual people, get shunned from a family who also experiences the world in such a difference way, simply because it's not different "enough", or not different in the way they want to be different
aspec people will always unquestionably be queer, regardless of anything else that would or wouldn't make them queer. period.
aspec people should not and should never need to "justify" themselves to attend pride, not just "as an ally", but as someone whose relationship with romance and sex (the act) differs from what is expected of a "normal" person. they are inherently different, they are inherently queer. full stop.
aphobia exists, regardless of whether or not you follow your blatant bigotry with "no it doesn't". you cannot erase your shittiness by following up your shittiness with "by the way, I'm not being shitty". and if you know you are being aphobic, and you are proud of such a thing, rethink the way you see queerness as a whole. you are a vile human being, and should unlearn the oppression olympics. you not only are an athlete in it, but you are the obstacles. you are the fucking problem.
aspec people regularly face discrimination and harassment for being aspec. the comments of "why do you refuse to give me grandkids" and "maybe you just haven't found the right person yet" and "you're broken" and "you're going through a phase" have all been said about gay people, about lesbians, and about aspec people. aspec people face violence for being aspec. aspec people face corrective rape for being aspec. aspec people face crocodile tears claws that intend to "help", aspec people face blood and claws that intend to hurt, aspec people face real, visible hatred. and even if they weren't "oppressed enough", WHICH THEY UNDENIABLY ARE, 1) there isn't an oppression goal someone needs to hit to become valid, and 2) queer people should not be defined by the oppression we face, anyway.
"b-b-but what about cishet asexual people!!!" i have never seen a sentence less scary in my life. cishet people can be queer, you know? cishet people can be intersex (if they choose to identify as queer), cis people can be asexual and aromantic, pericishet people can in fact be demisexual and heteroromantic, and guess what? they're still queer. they still differ from what's "normal". they're still allowed to pride, because pride is not meant to gatekeep.
pride is meant to celebrate our differences, to fight against those who try to suppress us, and to unite those who feel crushed by the heel of normality.
so don't fucking do their job for them.
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I saw that other people were making posts assigning the ALNST OCs to franchises/media, so I wanted to do one too!
Heres some dragons from the How To Train Your Dragon franchise assigned to ALNST OCs! This isn't necessarly picking which dragon the OCs themselves would be but more of what dragon they would train/ride.
Solei: Stormcutter
Minori: Skrill
Eddy: Deadly Nadder
Rosca: Snaptrapper
Daiki: Deathgripper
Monica: Rumblehorn
Azure: Changewing
Sai: Monstrous Nightmare
Reasoning:
Stormcutters are owl-like dragons and we all know what happened to Solei
Rumblehorns look like giant beatles and Monica likes bugs
Deathgrippers have the same color scheme as Daiki but were also the chosen dragons of the 3rd movie's villain (not their fault they were under mind control)
Skrills are the second fastest dragon (this depends on who you ask; I didn't really look into the powerscaling of these dragons, but Nightfurys might be considered the fastest).
Deadly Nadders are apart of the tracker class of dragons
Changewings can blend into their environments and have hypnotism powers
Snaptrappers lure in prey with a sweet scent that they can emit
Monstrous Nightmares can light themselves on fire and can tend to be moody
In all honesty, there were quite a few OCs that it would make sense to assign with a Nightfury, but I opted out of giving anyone one since Toothless is thought to be an Endling (besides the Lightfurys, which are a subspecies, and Nightlights, which are half Lightfury and half Nightfury).
Solei by @solei-eclipse
Minori by @skyisjusthere / @minori-dash
Eddy by @bluemoonscape / @lookatmysillies
Rosca by @sotogalmo
Daiki by @teapotuser / @daiki1k
Monica by @nottoonedin
Azure by @4listr / @azureitri
Sai by @junebluues / @bittersweet-adagio
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