#and I did I think queue a few posts that I have to find bc I didn’t realize it was so close

[transannabeth]

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[oacest]

hii oacest scholars!! i have been recently reading a lot of your blog and asks (also those fic recs are god tier!!!) and i was curious about the history of this collective account and how it came about? and thank you for all the (frankly prize worthy) work you do!!!

WELL. funny story lol. the three of us have a mutual friend (who prefers to remain nameless so shall henceforth be called Friend of the Blog, aka fotb) who got hella into oasis about two years ago. we chortled! we smirked! we even pointed and laughed! "the wonderwall band??" we said. "how incredibly cringe. okay girl go with god!" (obvs we are all north americans lmao.) a year passed. then i (trill) saw this post randomly on my dash and went Wait What..?? a brief investigation revealed the loch lomond kiss, which i sent to jackie, my regular partner in crime. she went "omg let me check with fotb to see if this is anything 👀." it was indeed Something, and fotb hooked us up with a selection of primers, fic recs, and blog suggestions. jackie, who doesn't usually like incest but is a good bro (if you will...), looped in the third of our triumvirate, bal. they watched supersonic together that same morning on a whim, after which bal furtively went off to read all the aforementioned primers and recs. a week later i had glanced at the provided material, shrugged, and moved on with my life. bal however saw the writing on the wall. jackie and i spent a week pointing and laughing at HER. (bal: to which i retaliated with a devastating dripdripdrip of insanely compelling details about the brothers).

[for the purposes of this post's historical accuracy, jackie spent about an hour backscrolling through tumblr's horrid chat to find and screenshot our (restrospectively hilarious) Very First Exchange about it, for posterity]:

(shoutout to me equating larry with mclennon + jackie instantly namedropping the mcpoyles 💀. well at least we have gerard and mikey.)

finally jackie weakened and one day i received a tremulous message.... "UH OH!" it said (spiritually, not literally). then it was only me pointing and laughing, alone in the world 😔. PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME READ FICS i cried, but alas. i was made to read fics. the deal was sealed. a week after that i realised we could start a shared blog together in order to collect and organise the massive amount of mind-shattering information we were absorbing at breakneck speed. jackie, pun queen criminal, remarked "why is it called gcest when oacest is right there?" and against all odds that url was free. bal's indomitable scholastic spirit kicked in. a queue and a tag system emerged. archive dot org received a 3000% increase in oasis-based searches. it was all down(?)hill from there.

[a few additional screenshots that span across the following couple of weeks, illustrating the humiliating heel turn that occurred]:

we joke ("joke") that we're in a polycule with oasis, bc we all fell insanely catastrophically in love with it in exactly the same way and to the same life-altering degree. the sort of crazed infatuation where you can't eat, can't sleep, can't think about ANYTHING else. our various latent drinking and smoking habits went into panicked self-medicating overdrive. we neglected our friends, family, pets, and personal hygiene. i personally spent two weeks with a severe hand tremor and thankfully my actual irl boyfriend happened to choose that particular month to go visit his other partner bc otherwise he would surely have broken up with me for ghosting him (bad poly etiquette on my part smfh). all we did, every day all day, was talk about oasis, watch oasis, think about oasis, dream about oasis, listen to oasis, read about oasis,,,, you get the idea. 🎶 boss makes a dollar, we make a dime, that's why we think about brotherfuckin on company time 🎶. after about five months we had finally juuuuust reached the sort of deeply committed equilibrium where we could start tentatively thinking and caring about other things part-time.

and then august 25th rolled around. :)

[elderwisp]

Hey! Have u changed the style or something? Your last tesselate posts look kind of different from others :3 Anyway…

I adore your storytelling, writing, and characters. Tessalate was the first story I started reading here, and I always look forward to new posts from you!

A quick question: when you are preparing a story post, what is the most interesting and exciting for you in the process? (text, posing, etc.)

Hope it’s not confusing. I wish u a good day/night/evening :)

AH hi hello! :D I did change up the editing style! I've been trying to take a bit more time when it comes to editing as well as attempting to blend how i typically edit for story posts and the colorful/dramatic lighting for regular edits!

that really makes me happy to hear! i'm always in a bit of shock whenever people take time out of their day to read my story like WOAH! thank you!

hmmm lately composing the shots in game has been the most exciting for me because there's a lot of experimentation with setting up a shot. I try to challenge myself with that and how to be able to convey an emotion in a picture is huge for me! certain angles can make a character feel empowered/disempowered, or how lighting/coloring can set a tone, and i find it fascinating! I think creating poses in blender is a mixture of love/hate for me, hate because i'm not very quick but love because i get to see the little quirks in each character's expression. like the ever so slight lip curl or brow twitch, i feel as if it brings everyone to life. lastly, i love writing the dialogue, i've been trying to break down each conversation where there's a natural flow between each person that tells a story but also allowing each character to have a personality. there's this scene i just finished putting in the queue and it took me a few days to get it right, but i think it's my favorite bc you can see how each person is in a way being held back by themselves and in the end is their downfall. omg run on BUT yeah!

thank you for this ask! i love being able to talk about processes and such! ૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱ა ♡ i hope you're having a great day/night!

[luvwish]

Hi! I want to start an aes blog myself but I keep thinking about when I had my old one, I had like 3k followers but when I post, barely 5 people would see it. I wonder if that's the same for all blogs or if I was just posting badly aksjakajsk . As someone who runs a aes blog I wanted to ask you if that disconnect is normal!! I should be happy to post and not worry about stuff like notes, but ahhhhhh. Also sorry for suddenly ranting !

hello anon!! no worries abt ranting at all 😭 ur welcome here

hmmm i think that not having too many expectations was something i tried to keep in mind when i started gentlekiss. i know tumblr is so empty and things don’t have the same traction they did during the pandemic or even 2012-2016. even today i still feel like i get very few interactions on most of my posts and i don’t have a lot of followers. but… oh well.

i also think something to keep in mind is how frequently you post. i knew i was not going to compromise to posting every single day, so i queue a bunch of stuff at once. i don’t have to worry abt it + it keeps the blog with a more “professional” (?) vibe bc there’s consistency.

another very important thing is to credit ppl. i think it’s so weird when people post stuff w/o crediting. it’s so much more respectful to credit.

i don’t use tags but i’ve heard it really helps to reach a larger audience.

abt content, i think there’s all kinds of niche stuff you can focus on… i try to post stuff i like, but not make things super specific bc it’s not that well received. i also do A LOT of research on insta to find stuff that’s different from what other blogs are posting here (partially bc of content but also bc i feel bad for “stealing” ig accounts from ppl lol).

idk anon. tumblr is so desert-y, i miss when more ppl were here lol. so yeah, it’s normal to have super low engagement :(

i wish you good luck if you decide to start one!! hope this helped, even if just a bit. (also sorry for being so serious, i’m not in the best mood today lol). cheering on you!!

[scp-or-dread-power]

oh nevermind my apologies, i see that you just answered that recently

don't worry don't worry! it's perfectly fine, there's been a few posts since then.

I am debating going through and editing the polls w/ the answer once time runs out, since it'd take up less posts than mass-reblogging them or queuing the answers (I post alot on my main & other blogs, making the Correct Answers their own reblogs would absolutely put me to post limit within a few hours. Already at a hundred or so polls here I believe? or close to it.)

It'd probably be when I actually have energy & inspiration for this blog, like when I actually queue a full week or so worth of polls.

recently I've just been queuing the next day's & the day after's. if you've noticed any days that just. didn't have polls. it was bc i completely forgot about the blog & was too tired to read through an scp article to make a poll & didn't remember any Dread Powers I haven't already done 🥲

If I do, I'll probably start with the ones that people got wrong. There's like.. 2 or 3? i think? I believe all are Dread Powers (edit: just realized the most recent Wrong One was an SCP. huh, didn't expect that... though i did write it w/ the Dread Power keywords looking back...) so the most difficult part would just be finding the episode numbers since I can't remember them for the life of me...

[selfundiagnosed]

Insane that my mom ran the most popular patrick stump archival blog on tumblr + was a full time lawyer + was raising two mentally ill kids + doing culinary arts school + having a cookie business. I think its her autism i wont lie. But now its all catching up to her and she has no energy which would be the ehlers danlos fault this time.. tried to convince her to steal her old url back but on cohost so she made an account but couldnt immediately make side blogs but boy oh boy. she would be giving the fall out boy fandom what they want and more. Shes like i cant do it again i have no idea how i did it before im like ma! its called having boundaries. Shes like i cant do that when i have a special interest its called autism. Im like right but queue posts for once a day and find 30 pictures from a photo set and boom one months worth of posting fall out boy and you can conserve your energy. But she doesnt know how to do her special interests in moderation. Im honestly just glad she went and accepted a bunch of access to her mega archive folder thingy. But shes so mad she doesnt have access to like her actual archive bc the website she used go archive everything changed their subscription plans and she has so many photos it would be like a zillion dollars she doesnt have 😭 like bogus i remember photo storing websites were so free. Take me back to 2010 for real :T Anyway she used to get so mortified when i told my friends as a teen about her blog i actually told her coworker once and her coworker somehow RETAINED the url and went home and looked at her blog and she was so upset at me 😭😭 but now like she kinda doesnt give a fuck anymore bc fall out boy was her special interest for an entire decade and she’s over it. Obviously still a big big fan but not in bandom anymore. Her new special interest is a band i introduced her to when i was 13 and its kinda cringe so i dont talk about it but she also ran an archival blog for THIS band and i told my friend at a sleepover who liked this band about her blog and they fucking FOLLOWED HER and shit bricks and my mom was MORTIFIED. But anyway yeah she doesnt gaf now if i tell people she was this blog and i even posted a tiktok about it once and people started doing detective work that would make her autistic self so proud…. Bc thats what she was good at! sleuthing stalking detective work on the band. Pete wentz privately answered several of her asks on tumblr i’ll see if she can send me the asks and their responses. But yeah she doesnt care anymore. her original url was scrubbed by tumblr and shes very angry about it bc it was an original bandom url for patrick stump so shes like wtf ever i dont wanna touch this im so mad. Which SAAAAME. ive done that so many times. She started permitting access to people who requested it for one of her photo archive website thingies she left in her last post. But yeaaaahhh… she was patrick stump for halloween in like 2008 and she won the costume contest bc she had rhe coolest sideburns and looked so much like him. My first ever concert was a fall out boy concert in spring 2007 i was 6 turning 7 within the next few months lemme just say the music video for carpel tunnel of love played on the screen as they played the song and my brother and i was so traumatized. But then immediately they played this aint a scene after that and we were like HELL YEAAAAAAAAA. And my brother (5 at the time) and i knew every single song and sang along and my mom went look at everyone else no one else knows these songs. You guys are so cool. And we looked around and yeah no one was singing the songs and were sooo excited! Oh and theres that one time she recorded us singing keep it simple by cobra starship and THEY PUT IT ON THEIR MYSPACE PAGE AT THE TOP WE FLIPPED SHIT. i wish THAT video was still up. Shes also met fall out boy so many times and walked away from patrick stump while he was talking to her bc she didnt want to take up his time at a meet and greet. Omg. so many memories. I was literally raised in online bandom thats so insane. Maybe thats why im a homosexual

[minorfamilysupremacy]

re: the future of this blog:

over the next few days/weeks, i’m going to queue up everything in my drafts and clean them out. there’s about 1600 posts, so it should stay active for a while. after that, i don’t know what i’ll do with this — if i’ll post again, leave it as an archive, or just deactivate entirely.

to be honest, it’s become a major challenge to engage positively with this show or fandom (or really, any fandom) after the scandal went down. most of my year has been spent being angry, making myself persona non grata within the fandom, and shouting into an increasingly barren void. i made my own bed, and i’m not denying that, nor do i regret it. that being said, there’s no point in pouring the amount of energy, effort, and time i want to into something that now just feels like slamming my face into a brick wall. some spaces just don’t have room for me, and i’m really thinking they never did in the first place. again, it’s not something i say with self-pity, it’s just a fact of life. not everybody belongs everywhere. it is what it is.

so i don’t know. there are WIPs in the hopper. maybe they’ll be finished, maybe they won’t be. maybe the blog will continue after the queue runs out, maybe it won’t. there are people who are going to be committed and productive and keep their blogs going and their fanworks active. i’m not going to mention anyone by name bc it turns into a weird favoritism pissing contest; you can find them on your own.

i’m not definitively saying this is the end because nothing shows you up faster than committing to it. signs point to very probably, but who knows what will happen in the future. in the meantime, i’ll queue up the posts and let them run. once that’s done, it’s anyone’s game.

[wingsforthewicked]

hiii oh my gosh, hope this is okay but i just wanted to reach out and say thank you for the couple of reblogs lately!!

i adore your tutorial sooooo very much (have had it in my drafts for probably a year or so trying to write tags without rambling too much), thank you for taking the time to make something so comprehensive and sharing your wings passion with us!! i'm glad if you're enjoying some of the wings in my own work! it's an honour! 💖💖💖

also i feel like i should apologise to your followers who don't know anything about kirby and they're having to see my art BUT.... as a wings enjoyer myself, one of the biggest draws of these guys is that they're basically all wings!! so you can just jump straight to the good stuff. draw super cool wings on a circle and call it a day 😂😂

anyway! thanks again, i really love your work and your blog! 💖

MEOW !! N THANK U FOR REACHING OUT, THIS IS SO NICE ;; n tbh to anyone following i guess they already know this is a wing focused blog first, theme/fandom second. like as long as there's wingies in the post, who gives a damn im just gonna reblog (the autism does not know limits. and im pretty sure i got more kirby somewhere in the deeps of this place? this blog is 2k post as of now, it has to be Somewhere in the feathered wings tag-)

BUT ALSO. JUMPSCARE, A YEAR ⁉ sobbing.... but also dw abt rambley tags, i Love rambley tags!! like, to u and anyone worrying abt it tell me everything u liked, go on a tangle, say something half related to the topic just for the funny, i just like to know what ppl thiiiiink ;w;

and well. as said, the autism knows no limits, n yes i kinda took. a few years to do the original tutorial, i was Not in a good mental state back then. the goop of the human condition.... like i was just Set to do it right and prove myself that i can do these kind of things, but that spiraled Badly, and honestly, in between all the emotional sourced fog i realized things this long and well done many times are not made alone. as in i didnt fully did this just by myself, if you count friends who let me bounce ideas with them, correct spelling n test my findings alongside just. the constant support in general. i still feel like i didnt credit them enough even after all of that, more so since this tutorial means so much to me

n like, dont get my wrong, a Big portion of it is my own need of teaching to others things that i do know well and also my. pettiness + pickiness, the only reason im not a full on hater is bc i cant help still finding good in all the little things, see what was done right, see how to push art of wings in a better direction depending on the wants of the artist. but i fr would've given up ages ago if the very first draft hadn't got that one response back then

but yeah, honestly the moment i realized you were a Fellow Wing Enthusiast, i kinda ran to your blog to sniff out some wings and bring them here. i do that with a lot of artists actually, but even then, i kid u not my queue has to be set to 2 post per day or else it runs out immediately, im starving down here from wingies that get my attention... which is kinda why im thinking abt doing a second edition and advertise it on yt

reason one, bc the mistakes of my first edition Haunt Me ._. i had to resume A Lot of info, it drives me Insane and i Will explode thinking abt all the other things i would've added, but also if i didnt resume it, it was never gonna get posted. i mean, i had to cut the Entirety of the part of my drafts that talked abt the movement, The most important part of wings

...which leads to the second reason, the one that gives me the full excuse to do the second edition, add All the shit i was thinking abt and make it a pdf to not be held back by the damned image limit 💥

like this thing is gonna be Long 👏 Three times as detailed 👏 with two languages available and!! ☝ partially animated. and i say partially bc the kinda ad i was thinking for yt might stop in some things of the pdf to explain them even More, and yknow, for the part abt movement it would fit kinda right for the wing to move isnt it :o (and well, since i wanna put it on itch.io too to maybe also get some money from it, i want it to be a thing of Quality, more so since it might reach an even bigger audience. i want it to be at least 90% correct so my brain can Rest and not feel like i need a 3rd edition-)

see! nothing wrong abt rambling. is fun, is healthy, is nice, nothing to worry abt tell me your secrets- *gets dragged out of the stage with one of those funny hooks*

[memes-and-shit]

🍁 uhhhhh, you guys can call me Gromit. that's a good-enough fake-name lol i go by they/them pronouns, i am confirmed to be over 18 years old, and that's all my info y'all get ✌️

🍁 i didn't make most of this. or any of it, really. (sometimes, i edit; but i dont consider my edits to be "i made this" bc... i didnt make the core thing i am editing) so, anything you wanna use? no need to credit me. i'd like to see what you make using it, for shits and giggles, but that's not mandatory

🍁 i try to post credit to "the little guys" i make stuff from whenever i can figure out the source

➥ some of this stuff i find second- or third-hand where i have no clue who the "little guy" that made this is; feel free to reblog to add the applicable credit, and (after i do some fact-checking, bc some people online ✨️lie✨️) then i will reblog what you said + alter the original post to now have credit. but multi-million/billion-companies, celebrities, etc?? idgaf, you can VERY easily find out who the source

🍁 most things are on a queue

🍁 i don't do requests, sorry

🍁 here's how you can make your own edits tho??

🍁 some things i edited to have captions (#my edit + #captioned); others, already had captions (just #captioned); only a few videos don't have captions (#uncaptioned)

🍁 i tag based on what my Reactions Folder's sub-folders were. thats how i organize. idc about attention; meaning, 99% of the time, idc about tagging "correctly", so it crops up under the "correct" "tumblr tag-pages"-or-whatever-theyre-called

🍁 organizational tags i use below "read more". below that are some statements too

➥ said statements table-of-contents: about helping me credit the little guys [[titled: "sources psa"]] 🍁 my opinions on when to credit an editor and whatnot, and when i will/won't credit another editor (which does explain why idgaf about y'all not crediting me when i do edits lmao) [[titled: "a potential controversy"]] 🍁

✎﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏post-topic tags

#off theme

➥ (aka: these posts are not "memes & shit"; probably me posting a life-update or similar? idk)

#masterlist series

➥ (aka: anything i think is a mini-series of "things i have posted". i will VERY rarely do these, stuff's gotta be hyper-specific for me to feel like a masterlist is warranted. like. the first one of these i made was not just a Kylee Henke masterlist series, but a Kylee Henke's Zoobe Bunny Excerpt-Videos masterlist series. like i said, shit's got to be hyper-specific. if i made one for everything and everyone, i would get so overwhelmed so quickly, it's better this way, just let it be hyper-specific only lol)

✎﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏post-typage tags

#my edit

➥ (aka: these are posts i "made", or at least did something to (eg. adding captions). these are like "the templates")

#my customization

➥ (aka: me applying an example of how to use "the templates". usually is from my irl life of me using these @my loved ones, and i post them here bc im a little bit too attached to wanna delete said customization entirely 👉👈🥺)

#captioned, #uncaptioned

#video

✎﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏additional tags: my "esp for" tags

➥ (aka: the post is esp, or "especially", useful for these groups)

#esp for writers and i.f. creators

➥ (aka: posts will be applicable about writing, about discussing fictional characters, and so on)

#esp for artists

➥ (aka: posts will be applicable about doing art (the "art" in question primarily being drawing), and so on)

✎﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏my Reaction Folders' titles ➡ now tags

my aforementioned Reactions Folders' titles:

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✎﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏sources psa

expect these to be the least consistent thing i do, ever, but sure, ill add them sometimes, i guess, when i remember/know who the source is. more likely the aforementioned "little guys" than anybody else tho, ngl. but said little guys will get credit either within the post and/or within the image/video itself; and if i forget to also tag said credit, i think that's fine. i'll still try to do it, even though i know ill be inconsistent and forgetful the little guys and big guys, but also shhhhhhh if i forget. i'm doing my best, just let my mistakes go, let it be inconsistent

➥ but also do feel free to reblog the post (if it's an aforementioned "little guy" ESPECIALLY) and help source credit! (➡ note, for said lil guys, i will fact-check at MY leisure, assuming i see your reblog notif to begin with. and if i see that your sourcing is correct: ill reblog your addition AND edit the og post. just. do me the common decency of not insulting me for forgetting to source/not knowing who to source, whichever lol

bc i do have understandable reasons for not always knowing who to source?? bc a lot of these are videos i got from tiktok accounts, tumblr posts, and other websites where the "op" of said item?? was NOT the actual original poster, and did not source the people/person/etc within the item. ans now idk who to credit too lmao rip

● which, for artists and editors-whose-edits-are-NOT-simple-edits you can tell bc that item did not match the style/s already attached to their account, and didnt say something like "trying a new style!" or whatever in the bio or comments or something. idk. people who never can "stick to one style" still have a general large encompassing area they still to, ive never gotten a "i dont really have an art-/editing-style" person confused with an art-/editing-thief. and im one of those people who constantly change up their art/edits/writing/aesthetic/etc ("idk what exact box i fit into. im just me"), which i think? maybe helps me??? on figuring out if someone is a thief or is just inconsistent/experimenting/"just being me"/whatever?? but yeah! an art-thief especially, and oftentimes also edit-thieves, tend to be pretty obvious they are a thief. even if the comments have not already caught on. bc sometimes youll see a comment outright saying "you stole this from xyz" or "you traced xyz's art/you copied xyz's edit" but not always

● several others? especially ones that were videos of irl people?? i always check out the account and, MANY times have went "..okay this account is just a compilation of memes/jokes/etc, idk. but its VERY safe to assume they are definitely reposting and are NOT the irl person in the video". the person/people in this video assumedly are unaware their video of them being a silly lil goofball they posted on their personal account is here, on an account that compiles memes and funny videos. (bc its VERY rare that an account focused on humor will post content that reveals their face and/or their loved one/s. so. safe to assume it isn't theirs.) and i do want to find the original personal account this image/video in question came from, so i do look. there's a very small margin of error where, if a video looks really old, i wont look tho bc i assume the original account it was posted on is gone and, if it really looks old enough or like enough of "that type of oops funny thing was improv'ed" gag that i think maybe it was on "America's Funniest Home Videos" or a similar clip-show on cable?? ill admit, those ones, i dont try. but if it's like "this obviously friends trying to do a silly trend on tiktok"?? yeah, of course, i look for the account that came from, absolutely. but yeah, that's the usual spectrum for those types. i rarely find, much less keep, videos i can see landing on those "America's Funniest Home Video" type of clip-shows. so, really, the only "danger" there is for being a new video featuring irl people who idk? to go uncredited AND be a rare case where i didn't even try to look for the original account?? is, again, if the low-resolution and content of the video makes me think the video is old enough to where searching would be pointless. to which i then ask, fam? why the fuck is the resolution so bad that i thought this was maybe uploaded to Vine or MySpace (or MAYBE even was a VHS mailed to early-EARLY "AFHV"? lmao imagine), the fuck lol???? but whatever, nobody's perfect, i think you can grant me this kind of margin of error if my anxiety is already willing to grant it lmao

which, ill fully admit. i care about crediting these people for my own self-interests. like, sure, i do it in no small part bc it's the nice and kind thing to at least TRY to do. but also?? i do care about ensuring that person gets a shout-out bc of my anxiety catastrophisizing the hypothetical of a post of mine blowing up and inducing me to feel massive guilt from the fact that i didnt give credit to the people who actually made the item in question so they could also share in the attention of virality. so like. i dont assume ill go viral?? i WORRY ill go viral lmao if? that?? makes sense? which. i have trauma that i know would make me hate even a quarter-of-the-way viral levels of attention would imply. and i feel like, if this account was to ever go viral (god forbid. gatekeep me. dont let it happen lol there's a significant chance i might abandon this account if that happens), i feel like one thing that would basically be destined to happen is i would get chronically-online people criticizing me for not crediting my sources and riding on other people's hard-work. which like. i know they would do anyway since im not perfect at crediting. but if i didnt even TRY, that would hurt differently in a way that'd fuck me up. never know who could be the next hypothetical Cinderella story, like how Kombucha-Girl became the p fucking famous Britney Broski (regardless on your or my own feelings on Britney Broski, she did get her fame from a jokey meme that totally changed her life). give people their credit. like. i am also doing it to be nice and kind, sure! but know that even if i felt exhausted of all my nicities and kind inklings somehow on some certain day?? my anxiety would still demand i at least TRY to find the source. like. anytime you see NO credit?? ANYWHERE??? know the day i found the image/video, i probably spent a good chunk of time between 15 to 45 minutes, out of niceness and kindness and also to appease my anxiety, trying to find the source before calling it quits and saying "at least i tried" (aforementioned exceptions and/or margin of error notwithstanding lol)

which, with everyone where i have TRIED to see if i could reverse-image-source the item?? ive had mixed results from that. sometimes, i found them; sometimes, i didn't. but feel free to try again for me. you might get the correct result a lot quicker than me!

("wha—? h- how.. would i?? get the correct result...? quicker than you...??")

well. my information im about to share with you could be outdated or incomplete, so take this with a grain of salt. but i remember in elementary school how my teacher told our class that google alters the search-results per [insert IP or whatever the technical term she said that ive forgotten is] depending on the history of searches. she told us this so that "if you can't find the answer you need, it doesn't mean you're stupid. ask a friend to check their search-results and find the answer together! it might just be google being picky about what words (or i guess the equivalent would be which frame you chose to screenshot in your and my case, since i dont think an image-file itself being uploaded could result in pickiness) you decided to use, or perhaps it's results are biasedly influenced by what the AI has learned about your family through your families' collective internet search-history". which was basically her sly way of telling us to not depend on the first results we find, or even the first page of results, but to be critical of our sources in their credibility and whatnot. so, the way i understood what she meant was via an example she proceeded to give us that went SOMETHING(?) like this:

(🅰️) a kid whose parent is a professor with a doctorate who brings work home often, meaning they use the family-wifi to research academic studies. when that kid googles "teach me about pyramids"? their results may be extremely well-regarded articles about the Egyptian pyramids (such as the New York Times), peer-reviewed journals about the Egyptian tombs history, Khan Academy and other very good mathematical sources to help you understand how pyramids work within geometry, a released study-guide of various pyramids' formulas (relating to geometry) from Harvard's math-degree program, and much more. a very good foundation for their Egyptian pyramid report for class, and the math could help with that research in breaking down those pyramids dimensions in that report which could give that student an interesting angle that puts their report from an "A" status to an "A+" status, especially if their parent can help them plug in the right numbers into the relevant formulas! very helpful

vs. (🅱️) a kid whose parent works in accounting and taxes, who strives for a healthy work-life balance of never bring work home as often as possible. as a result, the parent uses the family wifi to play pseudo-gambling-with-fake-money apps on their phones more than anything else, to de-compress and de-stress. when that kid googles "teach me about the pyramids"? their results will include some articles about the Egyptian pyramids, but maybe not as credibly-sourced since the [insert IP or whatever it was called again] with this family's wifi isn't used to finding online resources of academic credibility. in fact, the student might get confused since a lot of results might be influenced by those pseudo-gambling phone-apps, and be showing the child information about Las Vegas's pyramids. which. isn't what the report is about. and due to this parent likely having to still bring work home sometimes, like during tax season or other stressful crunch-times, there might be way more math results about pyramids (geometry) than about the Egyptian pyramids. but accountants don't use geometry in their work, they use more basic arithmetic and algebra. so the formulas about the pyramids (geomtry) here would only talk about the pyramids of Egypt as part of the word-problems. so even if the parent was to also have the availability to help the kid plug in the accurate applicable numbers into the formula? those formulas are more likely to be not give a full picture of how to calculate the Egyptian pyramids' size and dimensions. and that's if the kid has the right numbers written down as they might have the dimensions for those Las Vegas pyramids instead, and feels inspired by these online results to even try to do this math (as the lack of "training the computer" to look for reliable articles means these word-problem results are more likely to be blank homework page examples, but could also include walk-throughs here and there like the Kid-A recieved plenty of). but those Egyptian pyramid articles, the most important part of this whole paper, are ALSO more likely to be from less reliable sources with perhaps incorrect information (bc people online like to lie. bc it is fun. but also sometimes people online think they are right when they actually fundamentally misunderstand something), like maybe Kid-B sees enough articles by conspiracy theorists on those unreliable websites that Kid-B thinks "aliens built the Egyptian pyramids" is a more seriously considered and debated topic of academic discussion than it is (which.. it's not. that actually has gotten the famous "Aleins" History Channel Meme Guy fired from his job bc his outspoken belief in this theory cpuld have risked his university's reputation and accreditation. so. yeah, no, Kid-B, those are not academic articles). overall, unless either the parent or Kid-B themselves catches that Kid-B has to sort through a lot more "proverbial litter" to find good, ACTUALLY academic, and ACTUALLY reliable sources of information about the Egyptian pyramids and Egypt's history, Kid-B could fail their report. even if they spent just as long on research and worked just as hard as Kid-A, all bc Kid-B was ignorant to their digital disadvantages and Kid-A unknowingly advantaged. all bc of that [thing with IP or AI or whatever it was called] and what it had learned from the family wifi what the assumed interests of its users would be. a feature no kid could easily turn off/on

which worked at making the kids in our class write down these Definitively Reliable Websites where we could search for accredited articles and peer-reviewed sources. i dont remember what they were back then, we were only in 5th or 4th grade. but it was a great lesson to be taught, im frankly shocked and a bit appalled that more kids were not taught this kind of syuff when teachers are first helping students learn how to research. everyone NOT from that class (even kids who did go to the same elementary school, but jusy did not have that teacher) all have been shocked as i am usually the first one to tell people about how, yeah, that's an aspect of how many (if not all) search-engines work

anyway. the information stuck with all of us from that class, as far as i can tell (a lot of us in that class attended the same middle and high school. like. at least 40% of us, if not a LOT more. so there was a rare time or two where id talk about this and i wouldn't be The First Person To Ever Tell Someone This Search-Engine Info. and every time it was bc the peer in question i just told would go "oh! yeah, i remember [insert name of other kid that i shared that elementary teacher with] said the same to me, like, last year!" or something. but that WAS rare so idk), or at least it always stuck with me. and i was one of the luckier kids who didn't NEED to know the info! and it still has stuck with me all these years later, even the examples of Kid-A and Kid-B!! like! i was on Kid-A's side of the spectrum WAY more than i was to Kid-B's side of the spectrum. my family definitely "trained the computer" in a way i got massive benefits from. like im talking i either was 100% Kid-A, 0% Kid-B or else i was a very minimal mix like maybe 93% Kid-A, 07% Kid-B levels of "minimal". yet still, whenever i find i distrust the google results on my phone, if im next to a friend, ill ask them to google the same thing i did to see if their first page of results looks better than mine and very often we DO get different search results! so!! even if i dont get how that works, that teacher was still right!

brief tangent: im convinced this is how some of my friends that are girls who do the whole "i can stalk your would-be-date like a Private Eye and find out information down to a C.I.A. level about if this person is worthy of being assumed to be trustworthy or not" benefit from this. like they themsleves have trained their phones (with their own dates and friends' dates and even co-workers/other acquantices' dates) or something to be AWESOME and THAT FAST at pulling up the results most likely to give them all of this stranger's private info. it's wild

anyway, screenshot or download the png or jpeg or whatever (or screenshot a frame from a video) to try to find the source if you think the lack of credit on the post implies i cant find it (bc it's either that or i forgot. which. "forgot" could mean "i have the source but didnt realize i didnt put it in the post" OR "i once had the source but now forgot who to credit this to and can't find them, oh no". so. good chance i likely need help even if it was an "oh, i forgot" type of mistake). you may have a better trained [whatever the tech is, if not IP, idk] than me at reverse-image-searching to find the people and/or company the item in question is originally from. who knows. go give it a try! what's the worst that could happen? lol

but yeah, when the source is obviously. like. Walt Disney Studios or like Pixar or Warner Brothers or RDJ or Nicholas Cage or whoever the fuck then like?? i didn't put credit bc they don't need the shout-out, you very well probably recognize the actor/studio/product they are in if it's something real mainstream that tou onlt know bc of pop culture osmosis, they got millions or billions of money as pocket-change, im not stressing myself out with crediting EVERYONE since crediting "everyone" doesn't affect "everyone" equally. im only worried about the people who not getting a shout-out could potentially very negatively affect (aka: the little guys). im not gonna stress about "the big guys" lol they're rich, they're easy to find, they're fine lmao

if you DO need help finding the source from "a big guy" that i posted about, just go @ me in a post and ask (or, hell, reblog the post that came from me and @ me in the said reblog. you can delete it after i answer you). i know i have Asks/Submits/Replies/etc turned off. (its bc i dont want to be accessible to everyone ever all the time lmao that feels stressful. so this One Public Avenue being the only way you could ask me means you gotta REALLY wanna know in order to get a hold of me). i do ask y'all don't do it for "a little guy" bc ill probably ignore you if i already tried to find said little guy and am ashamed that my labor was in vain (but if i do know the source for sure, like i still fully remember their info— and just simply forgot to credit said lil guy, then ill absolutely reply to you and edit the og post). know i check this blog VERY infrequently and may genuinely miss your question or answer it A LONG TIME after you @'ed me. so like. dont get mad if i take forever to reply?? or never reply? nobody wants to help someone who is entitled and gets mad at someone else for [not wanting to reply/didn't know they had something to reply to/took a long time to reply to but did reply]. mad or passive-aggressive. ive blocked people for less lol but yeah. just be polite to strangers, in general, of course, but also to strangers in predicaments like mine who have lives that take priority outside of a meme-y joke-y sideblog lol

to reiterate: feel free (but no pressure) to help if and when you can if you notice there was no credit for a lil guy on my blog pls? thanks 🫶

✎﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏a potential controversy

i think my lines with who i decide to credit and who i dont are overall pretty clear. and i think it helps that, the way i see it, im not a hypocrite about my ideas of who to credit and who not to: bc things do get dicey when it comes to crediting people with small edits. yet i also dont insist on any credit for any of my own edits, bc i also see my edits as p fucking small. which might get SOME people mad on principle should they disagree with my overall perspective. regardless, this bit here will VERY likely be my one and only statement about it

but i do fully admit i dont quite know THE qualative line exactly? but let's establish what i mean via examples. if an account is posting a clip-compilation of "Digital Circus" and they did a "all the times Jax was sassy for 3 minutes" or something, meaning they did splice and edit this compilation together (that is one chunk of editing they did in of itself). but then they also added tiny edits, like i know its common for tiktok funny-scene-compilation-editors to have one the said simple edits just be a "🙄😒" next the character rolling their eyes (in this case, Jax). in my mind?? even tho this editor did add these kind of very minimal additions to the content at hand? and im just profiting off of the convenience of "oH YEAH, i wanted this scene clipped to use for reactions/memes! i just was putting it off bc i didnt know its time-stamp" and i use any clips, those with "🙄😒" edits and otherwise, where the most editing *i* then do afterwards is like add captions? i still see that as "the source belongs to 'Digital Circus' as there were no significant edits done to alter the material". i'm not crediting the editor that i benefited from the clip-compilation of. that's part of why i also walk what i talk in saying "if i subtitled or edited additionally to anything on this blog? you do not have to credit me. i barely did anything. i just added text, maybe with some effects done to said text to reflect volume/tone/pitch or whatever, and maybe a couple emojis/pictures were overlayed. that's nothing. i try to caption most things for accessibility. and sometimes i feel like being a goofball and i add other things ontop of it. bur nothing worthy of crediting me". bc, in the case of my edits and other people's similarly small edits? is the gag 10 times out of 10 is all still on the original content. but we start talking about an edit as in someone made an AMV?? (as in they had to splice in time to the music and maybe did other edits in addition to elevate the AMV. not as in "look, i put music behind this otherwise unedited clip" lol) or someone heavily edited this non-AMV clip of Jax to have, idk, silly meme-y circus-music ontop of having done manips of a rainbow clown wig and nose to follow his every head-motion and then ALSO did the classic DUN-meme-sound reverberation with camera-shake and black-white filter after Jax's dumbest expressions or lines?? that. that is SO MUCH editing and definitely changes the clip to where i am absolutely sourcing both "Digital Circus" and that editor. both of the AMV and circus-Jax

so, again, idk exactly where the qualitative line is. but i do have one where i refuse to fuck over people who have edited the original content to the point that now the audience is there for this person's editing skills, and not bc of the original content within the clip/s used. does that make sense?? i hope that makes sense. this is my one and only statement im gonna make about it anyway lol i think my reasoning is sound. if your content is heavily relient on the original content being as unedited as possible but you just added a few things on the "🙄😒"-level to be a goofball? keep doing what you're doing, im not going to yuck your yum (especially since i am identical to you and i also love to add a bit of razzle-dazzle lol). but im not going to credit you, the credit goes to the people who made the said original content that this "🙄😒"-and-adjacent-edits dont alter or anything. it's still like 90% the original show's clip?? come on lmao you and i can both live without the credit. feel free to take my edits and add them to your account "so i see how it feels". it's still almost entirely the original show, so ive made my peace with rarely/never getting credit for my small edits or subtitles bc like.. it's still 90% the original show??? i did basically nothing. i just had fun, have a clip i can throw into discord or a text-conversation for a tee-hee with my loved one, and have given other people permission to benefit from this side-blog's collection and possible captioning. again, come on lol the editors who actually changed the content so much with their skills that, other than that they used the original show like a collage artist benefits from magazines and whatnot, they've DEFINITELY changed more than 90% of the content to the point that their viewers are having a different experience with this editor than they would be watching the original show or its clips. come on lmao

[hotshotshitshow]

im not trying to be mean forreal but you arent gonna have people rbing your stuff if you don't tag it! 2 give an example your most recent piece has 7 tags total, two of which are personal tags that no ones gonna search so lets say 5. in addition to the ones you included which werent bad you should also include stuff like the medium (ex: #traditional art) and of course #artists on tumblr. tagging aesthetics that fit also goes a long way. plus a (no guilt) caption requesting that people boost your work. something important to keep in mind with tumblr is that its really good for circulating art LONG term rather than most social media platforms which prioritize feeding the neverending ratrace for whatevers trending. I am in no way a big name artist but my most circulated posts come from people tag searching and queueing. obvs theres usually gonna be the most attention over the first few days but also give it time! don't be afraid to repost or find niches who will circulate your stuff. post art and then link it in oc discords, too this isnt meant to admonish you btw more it makes me sad to see you get discouraged. you have a unique and compelling artstyle with genuinely swagful characters so the idea of you peacing out saddens my heart. i hope this helps, cya

Hey first off. I genuinely appreciate this, I am ngl I knew I shouldn't have posted that last night cuz I knew I'd be embarrassed about it later and well!! Here I am, feeling like a damn fool!! Sincerely tho, your words do mean a lot.

However, the one thing that trips me up is that back when I did use Tumblr more regularly, like several years ago, they had made it so that only the first five tags on a post were searchable, and everything else wasn't visible in tag searches. Has this changed? It's been a long time and I have no idea what's changed with Tumblr in the past few years but I've just been operating on the assumption that only the first five tags "count." Also I am just ... Not good at knowing what to tag things other than in the most straightforward way possible 😬

I definitely absolutely get discouraged way way way too quickly and I acknowledge that, it comes from years of a building frustration of posting on social media and never feeling like it goes anywhere while also watching those around me grow their followings. It's come to a point where it feels like if something I post "fails" then it tanks my mood on a hair trigger. And it's not healthy!!! This is largely why I've stopped posting publicly anywhere. Bc the reaction I've built up is so instantaneous and intense that it's completely unhealthy for me. Sorry to vent at you!! It's all just sort of coming out. I've absolutely poisoned the way I view interaction on social media for myself and it feels very entrenched and I don't really know what to do about it.

I want to share my art with people and I want them to like my art and asking for reblogs directly on art posts is something that always felt gross to me but idk maybe that's what I gotta do. I have this notion in my mind tho that if my art is good and people like it, they'll reblog it because they want to, not because I asked them to. It doesn't feel like people are sharing my art bc they genuinely like it if they're doing it bc I asked them to. And then people don't reblog my art, so it gets interpreted as "well, I guess nobody thinks my art is very good, otherwise they'd want to share it!"

This all feels very immature of me and I hate that this is how I feel. I definitely am very deeply in the mindset now of "well, nobody appreciated my art much when I did post it, so now nobody gets to see it anymore." Idk how to grow past this tbh. I am absolutely only shooting myself in the foot. Oh well whatever!!!

Anyway. Thank you again for this, and also if you did actually read this, thank you for your time and energy. I don't think you were being mean at all, you said what is true, I think. I hope you have a lovely day.

[transmalewife]

There's this youtube animated webseries called 'no evil'. You might have heard of it, there was a post going around about it a while ago. It's been going on for close to a DECADE and considering it started as basically one person doing everything and their brother helping with voice acting, the quality is frankly amazing. the character design is varied if a bit furryesque, the premise is unique. it's just very fun and easy to watch, the episodes are just a few minutes long each. i'm going to spoil it a little bit so if you care about spoilers you should go watch it here first. (if you just want a taste of the vibe and not the whole thing i highly recommend episode 7, a fun music video with its own self contained story)

The reason i want to talk about it is that even though it's not technically fan content (it is based on Aztec mythology, but it's definitely not in the typical definition of fanworks) it's such a fascinating microcosm of fandom culture.

First of all, the sheer passion of it all is heart-wrenching in the best way possible. The author said at some point that they'd been thinking about this universe since they were in highschool, long before they started actually making it. they must be in their 30's by now, and they haven't given up on it, they're rolling with what's there, resisting the urge to cringe and abandon something they made so long ago and building on top of it. It's an artist's entire journey posted for the world to see with no shame. it's like a fic where you can see the writer growing and the quality getting better with every chapter. Like scrolling all the way down an art blog and watching the artist's hand solidify in reverse. You really only ever get that with amateur art, because amateur means doing something because you love it, not because you're good at it. it's time and evolution chronicled not in order of importance but archived fully, meticulously and indiscriminately, which is exactly what fandom does at its best. There's no entrance exams, no publisher to dazzle, it's just you, how much energy you have, and what do you love enough to spend it on.

It shows the community aspect of fandom too. As time went on more voice actors joined in, as well as colorists and background artists, people started supporting the project on patreon to pay for better equipment, coming together to make it the best it can be.

However, it also highlights some flaws. A story with no clear plan will meander before it figures out what its plot is. That's not inherently a bad thing, stories don't need an overarching plot to be good, and forcing one on them can be actively detrimental (see every single sherlock holmes adaptation).

Even if a story is heading towards a conclusion, it can be nice to go the long way and take a tour of the world before you get there. But there are issues with that. Foreshadowing only works if you know what you need to be foreshadowing. Pacing is pretty much impossible to get right if you don't know where the story is heading. I don't know how much the author had planned out before going into this, I'm mostly talking about the vibe i get from it, and it's something i see in many fanfics and webcomics, or any other type of serialized online story.

The other thing is the ending itself. There's this thing about fandom spaces, especially tumblr, where unlike mainstream media it isn't geared exclusively towards cishet abled white men (and increasingly women), has a larger focus on underrepresented communities and a higher awareness of social justice issues. This is undeniably a good thing. More rep is absolutely needed and it's one of the noblest thing to come out of fan culture. in this series i especially appreciate the characters who use asl, as well as the captions on every video which is more than many major media corporations using youtube bother to do.

Striving for social justice and expressing your ideas for a better world is a huge part of why people make art in the first place, and has been for ages. This is also a good thing. What I'm talking about is that, ok

A happy ending is by far not the only fanfic premise, but it is extremely common, and very often the main motivation of fanfic writers (including myself) is literally fixing canon, undoing a tragedy. It's hard to write compelling conflict and hardship when you love the characters and are dedicated to making them suffer less than they did in the original, or letting them heal from the trauma they have (again, guilty as charged). But a story needs conflict. A happy ending gets that much more satisfying for every hurdle they have to overcome to get there, it's literally worth more if it cost more to achieve. But online media criticism steeped in fandom culture sometimes doesn't really allow for that. There's this blueprint developing of a story that must be 100% unproblematic at all times. There's an assumption that anything in a story reflects the views of its author. You cannot revenge kill the villain if you believe in prison abolition and rehabilitation. You cannot have a character act in homophobic ways if you are gay/an ally. You cannot have a toxic relationship or you are literally an abuser yourself

And I absolutely get where that comes from, because we do, in fact, live in a society. Most romances written like, ever, have glorified a harmful and damaging view of women. Many shows and movies in recent years have been very dark and full of pointless shock value deaths. and reality is also kinda shit right now, it's perfectly understandable to want to escape to a happier, simpler world when no one really gets hurt. I think that's why children's cartoons are so popular in fandom. It's certainly why i like them.

But, I recently saw a gay youtuber get asked "would you rather all media had queer characters in it, or all current queer characters got a happy ending?" and i was shocked when they chose the second option, because to me the first one is so obvious. Queer people are everywhere. if you've got 20 characters in your story, statistically anywhere from 1 to 10 of them should be in some way queer. And realistically, most of them will go through some painful shit in their lives, because most people do. This video was a few years old, and I do remember the vibe back then when it seemed like literally the only thing you saw in queer media was bury your gays, so i'll give them a pass for wanting to fix that, but although the question was purely hypothetical, if you actually immerse yourself in the rules of would you rather for a second its a bit horrifying right? You have two options, the first is this group of people that exists absolutely everywhere gets to be explicitly included in media, where they rightfully belong. the other is this group can only ever get a happy ending. can you imagine how othering it would be? you're still only given crumbs of rep, but the ones you do are all sunshine and rainbows no matter how little that works with the premise of the story. the reality is, in my country surveys show the vast majority of lgbt teens are suicidal. seeing only positive stories would feel like a lie.

Which brings us back to No Evil. I watched the whole thing a few years ago, then remembered it this year and caught up. I was excited to see it had reached the climax of the main plot so far, but what i got instead was more of a fizzle, which got me thinking about all this. They defeat the big bad offscreen, and immediately turn around and mom him into literally undoing all the harm he caused. It's not a bad conclusion to the story (nor is it the ending as far as i can tell, there's a new plot/extension of the old one building), it fits the themes and why the conflict was there in the first place, and the character that saved the day is very pragmatic, it makes sense for her to act the way she did and immediately turn towards enforcing community service. Having the villain immediately made to undo the shit he did is quite fitting, it runs with the general vibe of the story being very comforting. I'm not at all saying this plot needed a different ending, or that the villain needed to be punished (i think losing an arm is already more than enough punishment). I also don't think the story would have benefited from a game of thr*nes everyone dies setup, the fact the characters that got hurt can be saved actually adds something to the tension. you have to defeat the villain before he hurts more people, but also save him from himself so he can revive your friends. all the criticisms i might have (the pacing, the inconsistencies) are easily explained by the series being made over, again A FUCKING DECADE, which honestly inspired me to keep creating more than anything ive ever seen in my life.

No, what i'm talking about here is not at all a problem with the story, but a realisation i had after watching it, about my own writing and fandom in general. I'm using it as an example of a wider trend, even though the story on its own is completely fine.

Because bad things, pain, shitty behaviour, mean horrible endings, awful people doing sympathetic things and sympathetic people doing awful things, aren't the price we pay for satisfying stories, they're what makes the story satisfying, and most importantly, interesting in the first place. toxic, horrible relationships in media are compelling for the same reson fantasy and sci fi are. real life is boring sometimes, and it's fun to root for a self descructive character sometimes, even though we'd cut them off irl). (there's also the fact watching those relationships can be cathartic to people who have experienced similar things, especially if the ending is some sort of revenge or closure)

Which is all really quite obvious if you think about it, but it's easy to forget if you spend too much time on tumblr. And like, i do read, and I watch films outside of the context of fandom, but i guess i just always kept online media and 'real' media as discrete categories in my brain. but like... why? I guess it's understandable bc as i've shown they do operate on slightly different rules and have a slightly different purpose, but there is undeniably shit online darker than anything shown in theaters. and conversely there are mainstream adaptations of classics significantly less satisfying and just... good than fanfic about the same. So why should one be criticized for any sliver of darkness while the other is praised for it?

A tangentially related thing to wrap this up is how criticism works. It's interesting to me how comfortable i felt writing this while focusing on no evil, as oposed to a fanfic. but reviewing media, even critically, is normal. it's the most basic way of interacting with stories. it's literally a job. however, there's this idea in fandom that criticizing fanfic is unacceptable. And on one hand, i absolutely get that, because it kinda sucks to put a lot of work into something for free then get a negative response. but there's different kinds of criticism.

I once got a really long, critical comment, and i actually got excited at first because writing is very much a hobby for me, i've never purposefully tried to learn how to be better at it, english is not my first language, i'm making it up as i go along. but then the entire comment was just "i don't like this, this and this plot point, you should have done this instead" like... okay. go read a fic that has that then. what about the themes? the structure of the story? how do you think i handled what i actually wanted to do with the plot? I'd love to get constructive criticism like that from someone who knows what they're talking about. feel free to write a full mean breakdown of my work if you want to, i'd love that, as long as it's not just entirely subjective, or easily solvable by 'maybe this just isnt the story you wanted to read.' (i obviously only speak for myself, don't do that to other fanfic writers unless they asked for it)

And yeah, fanfic is different because a published author will not get a notification if you criticize their work, unlike ao3 comments. but there are mainstream creators who are online, and seemingly no one thinks twice before sending them all their criticism (it often amounts to hate, which is not at all what i'm asking for. there must be a middle ground here somewhere) directly. However, we've been able to discern between someone saying 'i hate this bc its not what i wanted' vs actual in depth reviews for a long time, and i see no reason why we shouldnt try to apply that to fanfic as well.

there's a difference between someone complaining that "there isn't enough action" in streaming site comments under the shape of water (actual thing i saw) or people sending creators death threats on twitter, vs an actual review that engages with what the story is trying to tell and criticises how it does it. the internet is blurring the lines here again, because on youtube many people's job is in fact to make long reviews that are just "here's all the reasons i didn't like this and i'm gonna frame them as objective truth". but yeah, we can't both want fanfic to be respected as real writing and refuse to accept criticism, because that's an unavoidable part of showing your writing to the world.

anyway, go watch no evil, it's really fun. And in the spirit of open criticism I'll add that I found it easier to stay focused on it when watching in 1.25 speed (not the songs though, obviously watch those as they're meant to be).

[willalove75]

Two fics from me in one day?! Whaaaaaat?!

Truthfully I forgot I posted one already bc after I posted it I went straight into writing the second one and finished it much faster than I expected to, but oh well! You're welcome everyone😉

All jokes aside I did want to say I'm going to try and queue up some posts if I can get a few extras done, but my very best friend in the whole world (like this girl has been my best friend for over 20 years, I'm obsessed with her) is getting married and her bachelorette party is this coming weekend!

So I'll be traveling and celebrating from Thursday-Sunday and unless I can get a few things queued to fill the space, there's gonna be a lull in my posts! So let's say that's the real reason why I posted twice today😅😅

Usually work is quite boring (which is why I have so much time to write tbh) but it might pick up this week since I'll be out for two days. It's my goal to post once a day this week before I go but realistically I would like to get at least 2 posts out before I leave for the weekend.

So I'm not abandoning my fics, ya girl is just gonna be busyyy (s/o to the 6 weddings I have coming up this year🎉😅😂)

ALSO I MEANT TO MAKE A POST ABOUT THIS LIKE YESTERDAY BUT I REACHED 200 FOLLOWERS?!?!?! HELLO????

Guys I made this blog LESS THAN TWO MONTHS AGO. June 10th will be two months since I started this!!!! I'm averaging 100 followers a month?! That's INSANE.

Ik 200 followers isn't "a lot" in the grand scheme of social media, but 200 people liked my stories enough to follow me so they can see more of what I write?! Shut the fuck up that's insane

I say this every time so I'm sorry that I sound like a broken record but thank you all SO MUCH for all of your support and love.

Never, ever in a million years did I think any of this could happen to me. I never thought I'd get the courage to start writing fics and even more than that, if I did find the courage, I NEVER thought I would have so many amazing people consistently sharing/liking/reblogging/interacting/genuinely enjoying what I've written.

Seriously I am so goddamn grateful for every single one of you THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU GUYS ARE THE ACTUAL BEST💕💕

[doobnnoob-tf2]

Hihi! I'm the shy sniperspy anon from yesterday. I thought of two sniperspy things! Please don't feel obligated to answer both. I have many thought and can't restrain myself.

In the event that sniper and Spy's relationship becomes public (either by their own choice or someone sees them) how would each merc react? Did any of them figure it out before it became public?

And related to the ask about sniper drawing. Does he ever draw spy? Would he ever consider showing spy his art?

oh no you’re good, I too have many thoughts all the time, my head is both empty and void, and constantly buzzing with nonstop thoughts, I also have lizard brain and must share these thoughts impulsively which is why I don’t use the queue and won’t space out my responses, I am only able to answer immediately and post

also welcome back!!  feel free to stop by any time for all your sniperspy needs, I have a surplus

question 1:

they never really hid it, more hidden in plain sight

in my headcanon for them, Sniper and Spy started off loathing each other because one is a bushman who isn’t afraid to crawl around in the dirt and will be too lazy to get a fork and eat anything with his hands, and the other was the most extreme opposite but they actually became very very close friends after they got over their lil spat with each other and then eventually became lovers (detailed a bit more in these two posts)

it’s not that they really changed much, but more the fact they didn’t change anything at all

once they became friends, Sniper would always stand close to Spy because they respected and trusted each other a lot and having someone just as constantly on alert as one made the other feel safe

Sniper especially went from always standing with his back to a wall to subconsciously standing with his back towards Spy when in casual settings because in the back of his head, he knew Spy was safe and would watch it for him

Spy on the other hand would talk to Sniper about a lot in private, he was the only one Spy ever felt safe opening up to even if only just a little because he knew Sniper wouldn’t a) tell another soul, or b) see him as less than The Spy

Sniper was the first - and only - teammate Spy actually said the words “Scout is my son” to, everyone else just kinda figured it out and knew (except Scout)

if the team were to find out, it’s probably because one of them slipped up and someone happened to see them, like Spy being a little too flirty somewhere on the field, or Sniper not thinking and giving Spy’s head a kiss as he reached around him in the kitchen to start his pot of coffee, it’s not something neither Sniper nor Spy would feel was necessary to tell the team about

everyone is fucking shocked because they can’t wrap their heads around “you two of all people on the team are the ones to hook up???”

but thinking about it, no one is really that surprised after all and nothing really changes other than at the end of the night, Sniper and Spy stop leaving at different times to go to bed and just walk off together

Pyro draws them together with a big heart between the two and tapes it on Spy’s door when everyone realizes Sniper moved into Spy’s room, they wanted to show it wasn’t just Spy’s room anymore and neither of them have the heart to take it down bc they’re so proud of themself

they may do little things here and there openly (like Spy sitting on the couch in the rec room and Sniper is taking a nap with his head in his lap), but for the most part they don’t show PDA past Sniper’s touched starved self showing up and wanting to stand super close to Spy because he needs contact

question 2:

Sniper’s drawn all of his teammates at least a few times each, he’s not good at drawing people unless they’re someone he has a connection to

but Spy?  oh yeah, he’s drawn Spy

from before they became friends to during their friendship and into their relationship, he’s drawn Spy a lot

even as his lover, he’d never show Spy the sketches, both because he still doesn’t see his artistic ability as anything special and because despite that the thought of Spy finding them is kinda embarrassing and he doesn’t know how he’d react

Spy would come across them on his own and would flip through everything and quickly realize how much of it is of him and he’s not sure how to feel initially

after looking through more, he finds it more and more endearing to find out just how much of Sniper’s mind he occupies, especially when he realizes for some of them, it would mean Sniper was watching his back on the field

Spy doesn’t know how to approach it and probably never does say anything until they’re moving into a home together years down the road and he sees Sniper unpacking them and brings up how he found them all those years ago then

Sniper is embarrassed but when Spy surprises him by getting him a little bookshelf to store his sketchbooks on instead of hiding them away, he actually puts them up

he catches Spy looking through them sometimes and the small smile he gets on his face when he finds new ones of himself makes him happy

he never shows Spy anything he draws, but he’s aware Spy pulls them out to look when Sniper isn’t around, and Spy is aware Sniper knows he does this (Sniper has left little notes for him to find while he’s flipping through the sketchbooks), it’s just how they go about it

[houliburns]

🌃 intro post! 🌃

(bit late but i didn’t want a cluttered bio anymore so here’s this)

hiii im shay! i fixated on mash back in november and i officially finished it on march 22nd 2023!! im gonna rewatch soon tho

about this blog

this is a side-blog!

tags: i tag pretty extensively for the sake of categorization; here’s hoping my character tags prove fun to scroll through!

queue: as of the day i’m writing this, i have a very full queue, because i have a habit of liking literally every post i see related to a fixation, and then spam-queuing it later to clean my likes out. so i hope you enjoy all the content! lots of funny scenes and textposts, well-made gifsets, wonderful fanart, and insightful meta, if i do say so myself. mashblr is a talented bunch!

original posts/content: i don’t contribute much on my own, but i love to ramble and i hope some of my lengthy tags prove an interesting or at least entertaining read :) i do dabble in fanfic writing and i’ve got a few mash works in my drafts, but i’m not sure if they’ll ever see the light of day. i’m also fond of meta and character analysis, so if i ever work up the courage maybe ill put out some moderately thought-provoking posts in that realm.

some of my opinions relating to mash characters & ships can be found under the read more!

these are all subjective and i completely respect anyone who disagrees :) we’re all here to have fun!

summarized thoughts on the characters (kinda sorted by fav to least fav)

mulcahy has been driving me bonkers for months (and my jewish ass has been putting far too much thought into catholicism lately bc of him😒)

frank,,,, listen. i’m sorry. but listen, as baffled and/or disgusted as you are, i’m the mf stuck being the only one in this entire fandom who flails over frank burns. so how do you think i feel. ik he’s absolutely awful, but he’s just so damn pathetic, i can’t help but like him and find him fascinating

radar is a bubby to me, i dont rlly have complex thoughts on him hes kinda just a comfort character to me n ilhsm

charles... he snuck up on me. i didnt expect to like him, much less relate to him (-_-) i just exposed myself as a charles winchester kinnie how will my reputation recover

i love hawkeye a lot, as we all do <3

i love trapper john mcintyre!!!!!!!!!!

i love margaret!!! i love klinger!!! i love henry!!! 

im pretty neutral on potter and bj

in short: i love them all a lot but mulcahy and frank have each driven me particularly mad in different ways and radar with his animals has made me cry and charles would probably drive me nuts if i let him but i am keeping him at arm’s length.

summarized thoughts on ships (again, strongest first)

(yes i have frank ships. no i am not proud of it)

my mash otp is hawkahy. it’s been slowly draining the remainder of my sanity. i havent slept in months. send help

i am a sucker for enemies/rivals to lovers and hawnk kinda makes me a little nuts.

i know he’s not good for her but i think margaret x frank have a rlly interesting relationship and they can be cute sometimes, and i think about them more than i’d like to admit. i am not immune to het ships consisting of badass women with control issues and their toxic pathetic purse-dog boyfriends.

henry x klinger is literally canon idc

pierceintyre... ;-; hh

i love semi-niche trapper ships. trapcahy is a little bit 👀 and i really like trapper x margaret

hawkeye x henry... shh...

bonus trios i think about sometimes😳: hawkeye x margaret x frank, margaret x frank x flagg (SHH), hawkeye x trapper x mulcahy. do u see my evil vision

aaand some platonic dynamics i particularly enjoy

mulcahy & klinger are besties :)

mulcahy & margaret have a sibling dynamic that i absolutely adore, esp in the potter seasons, particularly the later ones.

charles & margaret are a fun duo. the ship tease they did a little was... idk how to feel about it, but i like them as buddies.

margaret & klinger... the girlies

hawkeye & klinger!!! the el jibbities are flocking together..

hawkeye & margaret :)

i do very much enjoy hawkeye & bj’s friendship

not friendship but charles & mulcahy’s animosity is sooo funny i will never tire of it

notps: klinger x charles, and hunnihawk. do not doxx me.

i think thats all for now. enjoy my nonsense!

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[astrowithkaro]

I've been tagged by: @vampirae 🌹

Why did you choose your url? My last username was my full name which seemed off topic for my astro blog so I named it astrowithkaro just to make it more clear it's an astrology blog, I'm open to suggestions tho <3

Any side blogs? Nope, but on bdsmlr- 😏

How long have you been on Tumblr? Not long at all lol, I started my blog last summer but so far I love this community.

Do you have a queue tag? Nope.

Why did you start your blog in the first place? I honestly just really wanted to get into the study of astrology and take it more seriously so I made this blog and this is most def where I belong, it's my safe space <3

Why did you choose your icon/pfp? It fits the overall maneater type Scorpio vibe that's going on. It reflects my fashion style and personality 🍷

Why did you choose your header? As previously stated mainly for the aesthetic. I probably would change it if I got around to finding something better.

What post is your post with the most notes? NSFW astrology posts, mainly the Lilith signs and their kinks . We're a little bit kinky here and honestly I love it <3

How many mutuals do you have? Honestly none 🥴 I'm literally the most introverted person ever but I'm open for adoption :-p

How many followers do you have? Just a little under 2000 and I'm grateful for each and every one of them <3

How many people do you follow? Around 230, it's relatively few but I follow strictly astrology blogs so that's why I can be a little picky.

Have you ever made a shitpost? Yes, my post about sun+moon combinations was purely a shitpost but it did get my blog going so I guess it wasn't actually that bad lol.

How often do you use Tumblr a day? A lot lol, I always go on here whenever I'm bored, during class, studying astrology, reading posts and comparing them to my crush's chart lol as well as posting ofc.

Did you have another fight/argument with another blog? Yeah on my astrology community red flag post some blog got really offended by it, she made two points which contradicted themselves and I pointed it out cuz I was confused. I think I got blocked at that point bc I can't see her comments anymore lol. Oh well, shit happens.

How do you feel about the “you-need-to-reblog” post? I don't like them at all and never post them on my blog, they remind me of the chain mail type things we used to do on snapchat in middle school. Like please, if they're not the most biased posts ever. Definition of "source: trust me bro".

Do you like tag games? Sure why not, they're fun from time to time but too many can be overwhelming. Especially when it starts trending and the only posts you see on your home page are tag games.

Do you like ask games? Yes! They're really fun imo but as I said before can be overwhelming if too many.

Which of your mutuals do you think is Tumblr famous? I don't have moots 😅

Do you have a Tumblr crush? Yes, hey there d4arkpluto <3

Tagging: @lunar-piscean 💌

[themoontaxi]

hellooo, i must say this is one fine café establishment you have here :) i’m feeling very hungry today but i usually like to portion my daily carb intake, so we’re gonna start off with some counter treats first and then work our way up if that’s cool with you! (i tip very well)

may i plz start off with a cupcake, as well as a fortune cookie and bubble tea (hold the boba)

🥠 - nothing in my head by richie quake

🧋 - twenty one pilots (it’s not that i don’t like them, i just don’t really listen to them anymore for a couple of reasons)

hellooo back at you harley. stop it, you’re making me blush 🥰 hate to tell you, but i think i kinda interfered with your plans of portioning your carbs…

first off, sorry for the hold up - even the counter had quite the queue. you’re getting an extra large cupcake in compensation (and bc i was unable to decide on only 3 🙃)

but first regarding your 🥠: i absolutely adored this song! it immediately went into my vibing in orbit playlist. i could very much relate to the feeling of sitting alone in the dark, head empty and wondering what to do with oneself…

so, a little bird may or may not have told me that you were a bit unsure if you even hit the send button (i swear it was like telepathy, i was just asking her what kinda music you like) - so here’s your confirmation that you did 😌 and through said little bird’s spotify i may or may not have also found your profile and scrolled a bit through your playlists. after coming to the conclusion that you not only have formidable taste, but are open to all kinds of genres as well, i opened my (absolute) favorites and selected the ones that reminded me of your posts, blog aesthetic, vibe, or the few things i know about you thanks to birdy. ‘course i had to take some chances with them, but i’m hoping nevertheless that you find some that you enjoy. i also noticed that we share a love for a lot of artists, so i tried to refrain myself from putting heaps of those here. and bc it’s kinda a wild mix, i put the songs in an order that hopefully won’t give you whiplash. alright, imma shut up now and let you indulge in your 🧁

as for the 🧋: yess, something i can talk about! i seriously couldn’t agree more. i too was a huge fan once - went to one of their concerts (it was great!) and even wrote a term paper on analyzing conceptual metaphors in their lyrics. that was like two years ago now. after that i kinda just stopped listening and can’t even really say why. but anyway, here are some reasons why you may have stopped listening as well:

- their last album was underwhelming, let’s be honest. i listened to it once when it came out and never came back to it. not that it was particularly bad, just not even close to as captivating as their previous stuff. and with saturday i was questioning if i was still listening to the same band - no idea why that song even exists.

- too high expectations. vessel especially for me was such a masterpiece, that i seriously doubt anything they put out in the future can top that.

- you don’t have to believe the hype when there’s none. their last album was barely talked about or played on the radio (as far as i know), so it was a case of ‘out of sight, out of mind’.

- their ‘better late than never’ response to blm. if i remember correctly, tyler tweeted sth about being free to decide on what social issues he wants to comment on, and when he’d rather not say anything (which i honestly don’t fault him for). and he did so in cracking some joke that i can’t remember anymore. but anyway, a lot of people were upset about it and begged him to delete the tweet or at least give a statement now, but that took him such a long time, that there were a lot of fans in the comments expressing their disappointment and saying they’d written them off.

- growing out of it. you listened to them a lot in another chapter of your life, and are trying to move onto the next one. you changed and don’t want to fall into old patterns you might associate with sth that belongs to the past.

alrighty, hope you like the playlist. if yes, you can leave that generous tip you mentioned here <3