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Leaving a comment makes me fucking anxious and for some (stupid) reason I always feel guilty leaving a short comment so I often just skip commenting. But you know what? @justleaveacommentfest motivated me to get over that and it feels so fucking good to leave comments on fics I enjoy. So far I've posted, I think, 3 comments today? Which, sure, isn't a lot, but for me it's huge and it's stressing me out but I will keep doing it because authors fucking deserve it
Thank you fanfic authors for sharing your work with us and making us smile (or cry) with your works 🤍
#ao3#my anxiety level is high rn#but i'll keep going#and hopefully one day it won't stress me out#but until then i can deal with a bit of anxiety#especially when fics make my life so much better#thank you fanfic authors#and fandom creators in general#fandom creators are the best people and i love each and every one of you#just leave a comment fest#lyliah's ramblings
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in case you wanna know how bad things are on twitter rn.
#personal#delete later#i feel kinda sick rn#i got unshadowbanned a few days ago from twitter which means my posts are finally visible again#so i thought “hey at least i can dump old art there that my followers missed” so i made a post trying out a way to avoid grok#which is twitter's a*i thing that can generate/edit art and images#didn't work. art blew up. i got brigaded#y'all can criticize me for even trying to go back to twitter but truthfully i missed the art/fandom community there and being#an artist and creator for it. but this isn't worth it so i'm calling quits for good#i can't be a part of a site where this is the accepted culture. even casually#seeing my work and characters like this is nauseating#and for what. just assholes proving that they have the ability to be assholes#this is toddler “mommy told me i can't smash this window but i'm gonna do it just to prove i can get my way” behavior#i'm so tired#i'm not censoring usernames fuck these people for life#i will be fine in a few hours but for now i'm feeling like shit
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repeat after me:
authors are human, their characters are fictional
people on social media are human, your ships are fictional
i love my books/book characters as much as the next person, but sending death threats over ships or harassing authors about updates doesn't make you a better fan. it's not cool.
especially in the age of AI, when human labor/our humanity is so devalued, it is more important than ever to treat human creators with basic decency and respect!!! thank u for coming to my ted talk 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
#this post isn't about me#thank goodness#but it needs to be said#cause some ppl on here are wilding#sjmass#booklr creator#acotar#booklr#sarah j mass#acotar fandom#fanfic#ao3#generative ai#fanart#gwynriel#elucien#feysand
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To specify (because there is a character limit in polls), I am asking if it’s okay for consumers of your work to leave comments with criticism of the show and also if you are okay with people leaving comments with constructive criticism of your work
If you can, specify what type of creator you are in the tags!
#I have seen a lot of opinions on this matter#and I want to know what the general consensus is#no other purpose to this but my curiosity#but that is certainly reason enough for me to make a poll#also#use your own discretion for these answers#if you aren’t sure if you’re a creator#or you aren’t sure if your opinion is nuanced#or for or against#just choose what feels right#reblog for a bigger sample size#please!#miraculous ladybug#mlb#miraculous#ml#ml fandom#ml writers#ml artists#ml polls#my polls#poll
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hey, i was wondering if you got any recommendations for buddie/911 blogs to follow? i neeeed more pls & thank you. also i love your blog!!
hi anon! thank you so much! you're so sweet đź’ž ngl these questions always make me a bit anxious because i'm so scared of forgetting someone heh, so i'm just gonna make it easier for myself and tag some people who are 1) mutuals and 2) creators
this is not in order or anything
@hurtingbuck @eddiesblr @adhdbuck @chappelroan @saryasy @magnusedom @buckleydiaz @emziess @rainscenes @butchdiaz @sassyeddie
@buckadoodledoo @punksalmon @anirudhpisharody @livingincolorsagain @lover-of-mine @spotsandsocks @minalover @bucksbeagle
@hearteyesdiaz @eddiegettingshot @sibylsleaves @doitbuckley @bilosan @moonsharky @holediaz @caroandcats @mischiefbuckley
@buckdiazlafd @eddiegayass @babybibuck @queerprincesseddiediaz @cafecitoeddie @team-118 @soliadiaz
#and by creator i mean gifs/videos/fics/generally posts a lot of original posts#again i probably forgot so many these are just the ones i could think of or saw while scrolling down my blog/dash rn#these are all iconic blogs so you probably follow most of them but if you don't!!! do!!!#nessask#anon#i also only follow 150 people and like half of those are inactive blogs from previous fandoms lol#sorry for taking so long to get back to you i fell asleep right after you sent this and then i forgot <3
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I wish fic writers would get the same amount of support and admiration as fan artists do. (Long rant incoming and no I'm not even going to put it under a read more because it would be skipped over if it was.)
This might sound biased, coming from someone who posts fics and does not have a lick to talent when it comes to art, but just, please, read and try to understand.
It fucking sucks to see something that two different people have spent hours working on and only one gets the attention it rightly deserves because there's no stigma of it being "creepy" or "perverted" like fanfiction does and as publicly too.
I do understand that this will likely never change and that I'll have to get used to it as a fic writer, but, the fact that I'm having to 'get over it' because that's just how it is in fandom-spaces sucks. It shouldn't be like that, it's demoralising, and frankly off-putting. It makes me, and likely others who won't publicly say it, not want to post our written works.
Like there are times where people are literally spending hours and hours planning, drafting, proofreading and then correctly tagging a fic only for it to get no recognition or more critique than adoration. Whereas a fan artist can spend maybe a couple of hours on what they'll call a doodle and get all the praise. This isn't to bash any fan artists because goddamn I know y'all love what you do (and rightly so) but it feels like a stake to heart seeing two sides of the same coin being treated with completely different levels of respect.
Like I also understand that, with how people's attention spans are lessening, that not everyone is bothered or able to read something that's 5k+ (or even 1k+) words and I get it, but also? Give it a chance? You might, now stick with me here, actually like what you read. I know. Shocker.
And, then, if you do actually read something someone has kindly put out into the world for free, don't put comments in your bookmarks or the comments section stating how you "wish it was written different" or "from another character's pov" or when you decided to drop the fic. The author does not want to know when you dropped their fic. Just move the fuck on. If you want it a certain way so much, fucking write it yourself (or if the writer has commissions open, commission them like you would an artist). It is rude to leave comments like this and so incredibly disheartening for the writer of that fic to see such comments. If you have a critique about a fic, privately talk to your friends in the same fandom as you about it or if you don't have that put it in a private discord or something. Unless the author has explictly stated that they would like critiques, which is when you would comment some critiques if you had any, you do not need to leave unwarranted critiques. It is rude and unnecessary.
I could share screenshots of people who leave unwarranted critiques to fics in their comments section or bookmark comments, but because I'm a kind individual who frankly cannot be bothered to compile several tumblr posts of solely images, I'm not. But do know that we do see every comment under our works and saying "oh I didn't think you'd see it" is not a fucking excuse. People who make fan creations often look into their comments to see people's reactions, in hopes of having spread the joy or similar emotion they had when writing or drawing their piece.
And content creators who review fan art with praise and then immediately make fun of fic writers, I despise you. Genuinely. The fact that you think it's okay to uplift one part of your creative audience while not doing such with the other is disgusting. I do understand that there are boundaries that a person will have towards both forms of media but completely writing off one form of fan creation while entertaining the other is genuinely one of the most saddening things. It creates a further divide between these two sides of fan creation and reinforces people's mean attitudes towards fanfic writers simply because how they express their love for a piece of media is not easily viewed. There are, obviously creators who do acknowledge but stay away from fanfiction and I respect that; it's about actively going into those spaces to criticise and, in some cases, bully, those writers about something they're passionate about. If you're that insistent on leaving a negative comment on something, please, for the love of everything get a fucking life.
This is a long winded way of saying respect people who make fan content because, 99% of the time, they're doing it for free and for their own entertainment.
#hep rants#fandom#fandom culture#fandom etiquette#fandom things#fanfiction#just give us a chance you know#the paragraph about content creators was written when jack manifold did a fan art video or something and#it reminded me of CC's general thoughts on fanfics so that's also there for you to read if you want to :)#i've had this in my drafts for *months*. slowly being added to when i see shit like this#its an age old thing that'll likely never change because theres not really anyone advocating for fanfiction as much as people do for fanart#I first wrote this in August last year. That's how long this shit has been brewing
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I’m so tired of wlw background ships in mlm fandoms.
mlm shippers almost never develop wlw ships to the degree that the audience feels invested in them. The conflict and character development and love story rely on tropes rather than actual narratives, yet fandoms act like they’re doing wlws a favour by shoehorning in this shitty “representation” when it’s just golden retriever x black cat over and over and over again in different fonts.
To be clear I don’t blame anyone for not having big wlw ships, because most major media out there do not have two fully fledged female characters you can ship together. If you want to write mlm ships, good for you! If you want a lazy wlw ship in the background, that’s fine! But don’t act as if the fandom actually cares about them, or that anyone did the legwork to make them characters that you can care about. Most of these female characters are never properly developed in the canon source material, and they’re almost never properly developed in the fanon material either. You can always tell by how these women are like, one archetype + gay (sporty gay, feisty gay, slutty gay etc, like some kind of gay Spice Girls). Yet fandoms just love to act like these background wlws mean so much & have the best love stories & everyone just should ship them. It’s all so performative.
wlws are not an aesthetic. wlws are not 2D happy couples to round out your queer utopia, a queer utopia that somehow still manages to foreground men. Women are always treated as 2D characters in narratives, except now there’s a subgenre where these 2D women are gay. Groundbreaking.
#It’s not just fan works btw.Glee kinda did this with Klaine and Brittana…take a guess wrt which of these ships the creators cared more about#Women are accessories and now they get to be gay accessories. Wonderful#Let’s not even get into how women (like Katara)’s characteristics are given to a man to round out a mlm ship like wtf?#and I’m not saying you can’t have mlm ships (wolfstar owns my soul personally)#& the lack of wlw ships in general is a media issue not an issue of any individual fan#however the utilization of wlws as an aesthetic in service of an mlm ship and the posturing that comes with that…def a fandom issue#fandom salt#anti zukka#i kinda like MaiLee but that’s def their role in Zukka#anti jegulus#I assume Jegulus is where stuff like posturing re Dorlene and Marylily come from…#like why would I care when no one is writing 500k word slow burns? I should care about them just bc they’re lesbians? Non#anti marauders fandom
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i think mostly we as a culture need to stop pretending media is for us and instead recognize that it's for the people making it. "the show didn't do the thing I wanted it to" is so not the point. did it do what the people making it wanted it to do? did it tell the story they were trying to tell? than it was successful. if that doesn't align with what you wanted to happen, don't get up in arms about it. don't badmouth the creators and throw a tantrum. that's what fan works are for. the text is the text, and it told the story it was telling. you wouldn't be like "ugh shakespeare is insane for act v btw like there was no reason for juliet to kill herself she should've just waited and then her and romeo could have been together wtf this ruined the whole play" like no!!! the themes were there the set-up was there the foreshadowing was there shakespeare did what he intended to. just because it wasn't a happy ending and just because you thought it should've went differently doesn't mean it was bad. read a fic where juliet lives and move on.
#this is about ghosts but honestly fandom in general#stop pretending the creators of things owe you certain story lines. they're making it not you#i explained it like this to my sister:#imagine you're reading a book and there are sort of hints and scenes that you take to interpret a character as gay#you cite quotes and talk about the themes and the impact of your interpretation#and then at the end of the book the character comes out as asexual.#and then a lot of those scenes and quotes that you were using as evidence for your interpretation-#now they could be construed to have been pointing towards them being ace all along#just because it wasnt the end you fabricated in your head based on your understanding of the hints#doesn't mean it wasnt always the writers plan from the beginning.#AND it doesnt mean you can't keep imagining a world where they're gay instead#it just means that the writer was leaving those clues to point you towards the ending#and you interpreted the clues differently#bbc ghosts#ghosts spoilers#bc like. if last resort was the ending#you could 'read' the whole series with the understanding that they weren't going to leave the house#and the foreshadowing would add up#but now with the special. you can go back and 'read' the series with the understanding that they leave#and it still all adds up. the foreshadowing was there it just meant something different than you thought.#stories have beginnings middles and ends#you predetermined the ending while still in the middle and got mad when you weren't right.#does that make sense?
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i have this theory that a lot if not a majority of rgg fans (at least as far as fandom is concerned) don't actually like the games for what they are but instead they like doing things with the game's characters
#which produces some interesting results re: characterization and#sometimes inability to distinguish between what the games are and what you want them to be#and the topics that dominate the conversation around the games#but this is a general issue with fandom i think and not specific to rgg#its a very particular way of approaching the source material#and a lot of times not concerned with honoring the creators' vision#or even. understanding what it is#yapping
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sometimes i forget how attached i am to a character until i see hatred or disliking of said character and then im like ":c but youre wrong and i like this character and thats mean actually..."
#this is abt ayato#i watched a video not too long ago and the creators dissed ayatos character and i know its just repeating general fandom take but#sigh#ayato enjoyers 🤝paimon enjoyers = suffering bc of the general fandoms hatred for the character.#Sighhhhhh#my bf might hate that tag dsfdsfds#but hey :3c (said innocently) Now we're Holding Hands :3c#(he doesnt enjoy ayato) ((BUT AT LEAST HE HAS REASONS FOR IT AND NOT JUST “oh hes boring and a flatly written character lol” like he doesnt#like ayato bc hes a government official. i get that (i could argue that ayato hates the government despite that But-- thats another thing))#nya.txt#gi.txt
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Alright-y, so in case anyone missed it, we've recently gotten some information from Quackity that he's most likely doing some new project, that seems to involve multiple languages, once again. Kinda like QSMP?
Maybe EXACTLY like QSMP…????
Or maybe not
Basically, the way I see it, it is pretty likely that this is QSMP-Related, what with the images that he's been posting recently, with the GODDAMN EYE GUY
However, even if it is QSMP-related, there is something that would need to be addressed
And that's that it's incredibly unlikely we'd be getting QSMP back in the form we knew it as
Honestly, I don't really see many of the Admins returning, Egg or otherwise. Whether it's by their own choice, or the choice of the powers-that-be. And I think we all know that all the Admins, Egg or otherwise, were a huge part of what made QSMP special
In addition to that, there's also a chance that with that sort of outcome, a lot of the Creators wouldn't be coming back either. I could kinda see some of them not returning even if the Admins DO come back. I know a few of them had more sour experiences with QSMP than others did, and I couldn't really blame them for not wanting to give it another shot
So even if this is QSMP, there's a HIGH chance it won't be the same server we knew
But I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. After all, I'm pretty sure the Eggs weren't initially MEANT to be as big as they were, which means that there HAD to be some plans for other stuff at one point or another
Hopefully…
Now obviously this is ALLL just, as usual, ✧˚⊹SPECULATION~!⊹˚✧
I'm not a psychic, and I don't know jack-all about what's been going on behind the scenes regarding QSMP or anything Quackity-related. I'm just making educated guesses and reminding everyone to temper their expectations, and try not to be too disappointed if this isn't exactly what you were hoping for
Because even if it isn't, I think it could still be something pretty fun, and I'll probably at least give it a chance regardless of whatever it winds up being
(Except maybe Purgatory 3, because I think I had enough of those vibes during my recent Purgatory 1 Re-Watch)
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(Oh who am I kidding I'd probably end up checking out Purgatory 3 at least once I have a problem okay???)
#Personally I'm not sure I could be as invested if certain creators didn't come back#Namely Philza#Do I think for sure he wouldn't return?#Idk#But he didn't show up for the finale for reasons unknown#And that kinda makes me think he isn't likely to join back up#Though I could very easily be wrong#Or have just missed whatever reasoning he gave for not being there#Not to mention a lot of the other creators had their own lore finales#That they'd have to essentially undercut if they wanted to return#And of course there's the treatment that a lot of the (specifically French) Creators got#Like I'm pretty sure Baghera was consistently having troubles for one reason or another#Whether it was because of fans#Or just certain stuff going on in the server#A lot of the other French Creators got a lot of harassment too#With I think Aypierre (or Antoine) leaving twitter just a couple days ago because of it#Not to say it was limited to JUST the French Creators#I know that there was a lot of vitriol for the Portuguese-speaking part of the fandom at one point and that SUCKED to see go down#I guess at the end of the day there's a lot of room for negativity#And there was a lot of negativity in general that could influence how things go from here#But there were some good things too#So I think we just need to make sure to acknowledge both the good and the bad moving forward#If there is a forward from here#Guess we'll see huh??#qsmp
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#pinepaw#pinepaw and the forgotten world#patfw#image submitted#tags submitted#adoption poll#submitter said this character started as an oc#but has since broke containment into general fandom culture#so i'll allow this submission#but if pinepaw's creator would rather i removed this poll just let me know
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Are gifmakers the least respected kind of fandom creator? Honest question. Why are we getting called out when we want to be credited for our work that is reposted without our permission and not credited?
#bridgerton#polin#jeanne.doc#if this is ppl's attitude with gif credit and the work of gifmakers then general then no wonder creators are quitting left and right#i don't want confrontation i just want gifmakers to get their due credit#i'm.. idek. idk how to feel.#fandom wank
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Unpopular fandom opinion: a creator saying something on twitter does not make something canon.
The canon is the text. If you are choosing to not make it textual, you are choosing to let the audience interpret it as they wish. You should not expect nor encourage your audience to be sniffing out every last crumb of information on your twitter feed.
Additionally, as fans I think it's bad practice to badger creators for 'canon' tidbits all the time. What happened to the joys of speculative fanfic? Get those brains working and come up with theories and headcanons yourselves, we don't need to be spoonfed!
Especially when it's something like a television show or a film that has many people working on it, I don't see why one person's voice is even seen as final considering how many hands it took to shape the work into what it ended up into. Sure, maybe one writer says Character X did the thing because of grief over Character Y dying, but maybe another writer would interpret it entirely differently.
In my humble opinion, if it's not in the text then whatever a creator says is canon on twitter is just a headcanon from someone with a lot of fandom clout.
#talking#fandom culture#fandom meta#fandom wank#is what i think people used to call it lmao#but this has been on my mind for a while tbh specifically within the rottmnt fandom i think people look to andy suriano too much#to confirm little bits#when it would be so easy to just... yknow.... come up with a headcanon#no hate to andy or creators in general btw i don't think creators should be muzzled or anything#but. you know.#death of the author
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If it isn't my beloved celestial harpy, most holy Michael the Archangel herself (meaning, I turned this into proper line-art). âš” Good Omens has insulted her, but she will always be Supreme Commander of the Heavenly Host in my mind, and in my fics. I can only try to do her justice.
What do you think, should I colour it? It almost looks like a colouring page, I'm tempted to print it, and colour it with pencils or markers. ✏
#good omens#good omens michael#good omens fanart#good omens fandom#archangel michael#sketchbook#digital art#digital drawing#my art#my artwork#my fanart#line art#she's so hot what the actual heaven#i certainly do her more justice than the good omens creators#it's how she should've looked#supreme commander is what she should've been not gabriel and certainly not the fat principality#well they are wrong i'm right she IS the leader all you need to do is look at my fics#she's actually a character in most my ideas regardless if she's in a main pairing or not#i am... drawing this instead of writing those mentioned mostly still unpublished fics#she actually looks a bit like my male michael tends to since he has a handsome and sharp but slightly feminine face#but she's a raging lesbian he's completely straight#this stealer of pregnant demons#go and kick ass my love#just not your brother's i love him too#you and him are on the same side politically#he's the only man she ever sleeps with in my fics and only to conceive the new antichrist 🤣#the relationship between her and maxine is everything to me i'm so mad the fic where michael's max's mom isn't published yet#the way i portray her in general is everything to me - she somehow manages to be both righteous and machiavellian she's everything#she's a b*tch but you can't not love her#she has a pathological need to protect
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Little PSA that I can’t believe is still necessary in 2024: if you take gifs from here to post them on twitter CREDIT THE SOURCE! CREDIT THE GIF MAKERS! It does take us time to make these gifs, and although we make them out of love, it’s still work! It doesn’t take much to add a little source! Please! Thank you!
#gif creator#gif maker#gif makers#gifmaker#gif making#credit the artist#bridgerton#tagging cause this is mostly abt this fandom#but it’s a general observation!!!
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