#fandom make it a thing

[sakiyaki-sashimi]

On my way to write a fanfic abt the short hair girls of proseka having an alliance and dynamic lol:

Haruka from MMJ would be the token sane friend, and would make sure that everyone doesn’t DIE. She would be on the shyer side relative to this group, and she would probably spend her time quietly with Meiko or Shiho :3

Shiho from L/N would always be quiet but pissed off. Emu and Rin and even Ena sometimes are hella loud which would grate on her but she’d get used to it eventually and maybe even find it endearing hehe

Emu from WxS would definitely be the loudest of the group, as well as the most extroverted! She would run and jump and just kinda screw around with everyone, and would have really funny convos with Rin and even funnier arguments with Ena. The least rational of the group

Ena from 25ji is the girly girl of the group who is also depressed. She may be rational but she is NOT sane. This group is probably what keeps her spirits up since 25ji is kind of a bummer lol. Surprisingly I feel like she and Shiho would be annoyed at the same things and get off well

Rin from VS is like the default settings of the group tbh. She’s fun a and bubbly and gets along with everyone, and isnt that sane or rational but isn’t completely off the rails. Is probably an instigator in the group tho lol

Meiko from VS is insane on the inside as the token mom friend, and is so so SO tired of everyone’s bullshit. One moment it’s “Rin stop making Ena and Emu argue”, the next is “Shiho and Haruka, touch some fucking grass”, the next it’s, “EMU DONT PUT THAT IN YOUR MOUTH”, after that it’s “ENA AND RIN, WHY ARE YOU HAVING A FUCKING BREAKDOWN?!” This poor woman lol

I just think the 3 quiet vs 3 loud dynamic would be entertaining and fun! Also the rational to sane ratio is… interesting. Na but that chart looks like this lol:

Btw look at that little rainbow :3

Meiko is red

Ena is orange (kinda)

Rin is yellow

Shiho is green

Haruka is blue

And emu is purple! (kinda)

I just love this imaginary dynamic <3

[emeryleewho]

People on here are always like "fuck capitalism, why can't things be weird anymore" and then write up a whole dissertation about how the biggest IPs need to change to be weirder.

Like, you are so close. You are so close to getting the point. "Big" IPs *can only exist because they are normal*. They will *never* be weird. They will *never* do what you want. Go find some smaller IPs. Bring back discovery. Bring back never having heard of a book before you buy it. Bring back watching obscure anime online that none of your friends know about. Bring back trying new things, even if they're bad or cheaply made. That is how you get *weird*.

[locusfandomtime]

compilation of all the iconic insane mumbo jumbo posts

wanted to get them all in one place. feel free to add

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

[lgbtlunaverse]

One thing i've run up against when dealing with fandom and characters making less than ideal choices is that people seem to treat a character's decision being sympathetic, the decision being understandable, the decision being reasonable, and it being objectively the best solution for the situation, as synonymous. When those are 4 very different things.

[gremnda]

Hello Ethubs nation :]

no text version

[fonulyn]

since I've seen it talked about in several places recently:

if you are going to do a whump- or kink- or ANY-tober or other similar challenges please please please don't post them as one fic with 31 chapters unless it actually is one coherent fic. if they're 31 completely separate fics or ficlets then please just make a collection for them or just post them as separate fics. it doesn't matter if they're only 100 words or if you think they're too small or insignificant to post alone, they're not.

and why this?

because if you post all 31 of them in one fic the tagging is absolutely useless. if I look for things to read on ao3 I'm gonna look at the tags, and if the tags include something that's a dealbreaker for me, i won't even click on the fic. I might not even SEE the fic because I've filtered out the nope-tag! so I'm gonna lose out on reading 30 perfectly nice fics because of one fic that my nope-tag applied to.

ao3 is about archiving. it's about clear tagging and being informative. there is nothing informative about it if the tags in the fic apply to random chapters while others have nothing to do with it. it makes so much more sense to have each work as an individual fic with its own individual tags and warnings, so readers can make informed choices.

of course, you do you. I can't police what other people decide to do. but personally, I find it incredibly frustrating to weed through 31 chapters to find the ones I actually want to read. so I don't. I automatically scroll past all works posted like that. and I know some others do, too.

there is absolutely no shame in posting short things on ao3. there is no minimum word count. no one is going to look at you funny if you post a small ficlet on its own, I promise. it's just going to make some readers very happy when they can actually find the things they want to read.

so, please. at least consider the upsides of posting each work as their own fic.

signed, one very frustrated fandom grandma.

[glorious-spoon]

with all the love in the world, if you view a writer you like getting into a ship or fandom you dislike as a betrayal, you need to take several long steps back, like maybe all the way out of fandom, at least until you can stop treating random strangers on the internet writing fanfic for free as your personal contracted servants

[koa-z]

inspired by a post by @nunalastor wherein cursed cat alastor™ inexplicably loves Lucifer

[kaiju-naut]

Finally finished these after like a month :)

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[windfalling]

1.02 // 1.06 // 1.08 The Stranger vs. Sol on recognizing and differentiating Osha and Mae

[losergirlsoap]

literally me

[its-tea-time-darling]

im sorry, we turned your boyfriend into a mole. yeah and all of tumblr‘s interested in him now. sorry

edit 9/12/23 11.22 CET

and so it begins…

fic1, fic2 @pathsofoak ao3 tag. Mole Poem @thaliaisalesbian . fic by @tourmelion .

update:

ao3 link. please vote for mole scene in most underrated goncharov scene poll

[latehere]

lovey dovey sun for you all