#im fascinated by tiktok communities im sorry

[imadhatt3r]

Some booktok observations because I can't help myself I'm sorry:

1. Everyone seems to be hyping up non-erotica books based on how good/how many sex scenes there are??? I mean there's nothing wrong with enjoying sex scenes in media, but like... do these people know that you can just pwp on the internet for free? Or even slow burns with sex scenes if it's the emotional connection you want? Idk, I just feel like sidelining the book's characters, plot, themes, motifs, style, worldbuilding for the sex scenes feels a bit dismissive of the author's craft?

2. People are embarassed of the fact that the books they read have sex scenes. Like, I mean adults. I know that some people are raised in conservative, puritan families that stigmatize anything tied to human sexuality, but these people don't seem ashamed, they seem embarassed. Weird to openly hype up something and then be embarassed about liking it imo.

3. Nobody talks about blorbos. The whole book discussion seems to focus on covers, recommendations and broad plot outlines. Even the compilations I've seen that were mostly book-specific talked suprisingly little about the book's actual details.

4. There's a subgenre of book tiktoks where people act like they're opressed/stigmatized for reading books, aka having one of the most popular and widely praised hobbies in the world, lol. They would never survive a day as a gamer, the most opressed minority *sniff* 😢

5. Oddly excessive focus on tropes. Like it's one thing to have favorite tropes, I have them too, and I understand being more interested in certain media because they have our favorite trope/s, but these people are willing to read a whole book for a scene where a character puts a dagger to another one's throat, or do the same scenario of the protagonist being wounded and having their enemy patch them up down to the dialogue being the same, beat by beat, word for word. I don't think these people understand how tropes work, that yes, they're featured in a lot of works, but there are ways you can engage with them, like twist them or play with them, or subvert the reader's expectations, and that's where half of the fun comes from. Reading the same trope over and over and over again, no subversions, no twists, feels so weird to me, idk if I'm the only one.

6. Only book genres that exist are YA/NA and maaaybe like three non-fiction books.

7. Writer tiktok can be kinda funny sometimes (to me, a person who writes too), but most of it is incredibly cringy, with people trying to make themselves quirky and "different" because they ~*write*~, ugh. Also, they act like writing is skme kind of divine punishment. Like I know that writing is sometimes hard and frustrating, I've been there before, but do you not get at least a little fun from it? Nobody is FORCING you to write, I hope.

[luffysbasement]

didn't realize my last one was that long. Geez (this one is also fucking long, bare with me)

I feel like ever since elementary, all our teachers liked to talk about how the opposite of love isn't hate (there was even a text during 6th? grade about this whole thing.)

Tbh I haven't looked much into lore so I only know the gist of it(I'm such shit, but I know I will have literally no time to study if I get invested in the dsmp) so there may be wild guesses here and there down below.

The way Quackity's expressions ranged from stoic to a weirdly kind smile to aggressively scary and ruthless, it's all just so.. *gestures wildly with hands because I have no words* ..angsty. The grip on Dream's hair like he wants him to listen carefully but he is losing all patience and sanity and sympathy for Dream. The crazed look from Quackity(his last block) is just so cold and bitter and kind of filled with self-pity, like he's been there before (I actually don't know if that's the case lmao) it's the look from textbook villians(I know he's not one) when they become insane and starts spilling all that they know in the most poisonous way possible.

Also, again, last block giving me chills. Sapnap's glare and George just walking away with absolutely no care and no desire to turn around sums it up beautifully. Good work, really really beautiful.

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putting this on read more bc i will be ranting LMAO. buckle in, this will be long.

thank you!! :] i absolutely love seeing people see how i organized the colors and panels to be the way they are. and the expressions as well, i had fun making those!

i really like this one bc its short but it goes pretty deep into the lore. i had to think about the flow of the panels and the colors and poses of the comic since its only 3 pages and i dont have much to tell the message aside from those things asgssdfgh

i originally saw the concept (opposite of love isnt hate) from a tiktok HAHAH i dont think weve ever tackled that in literature or anywhere at school unfortunately :(( im a big fan of metaphorical/poetic statements too. tho its technically logical, but weve been so used to hate being described as the opposite of love that its just mind-boggling for me to hear that lol

i actually understand you lol im currently done with school at the present moment but a few months ago i barely even posted, even more drawn anything bc i was so busy with school. since youre still not done, good luck with that!!

but oh lord am i a hoe (a WH**E) for lore.

ive thought of this for a long time now but i just had to urge to get to drawing it when my twt tl starting going deep into c!dream's lore.

i just ABSOLUTELY love lore revolving around the dt. (maybe because im more attached to them whoops)

its just so fascinating to think about. (everything onwards is /rp and /character) also, you said youre not that caught up with lore so if you dont get these things or dont wanna bother/get spoiled, you can just ignore it lol i just really needed to rant about his character thats all, needed to get it off my chest phew

dream from the start had a plan: make everyone on the server hate him and build a prison for someone so strong it'll be needed. for me there is no way he was talking about tommy or techno then. no way.

he definitely had a fall to corruption. what he did with tommy during exile, that one is inexcusable ofc but the other things??? destroying the community house, siding with techno during his arrest, even destroying a whole ass country (this one might just be him reaching his limit against lmanberg, being the first and basically only country to defy him sm and stuff)

its weird and interesting in a way. what he did, the destruction, telling everyone he has no more attachments, not even sapnap and george, putting george on the throne then dethroning him not long after-- all these things just seems like it's part of his plan you know???

but like, what for? why? what does he want? earlier in the smp, he just wanted to build a home for them, one that will grow and be beautiful (theres a certain tiktok edit of this one, i am going to cry) he was such a good guy in the earlier days, he just wanted to take care of the server and take on the responsibilities expected of him but it just all... fell?

but even then, from the start, i cant help but think that he was already alone. sure, he had sapnap and george and the others but after everything: after sapnap was so quick to jump on tommy's side after ONE thing that dream said in the heat of the moment to threaten tommy (the 'i dont care about anything' bit), not trying to clear it up with dream and with george being so quick to side with other people's statement (dream dethroned him bc he hates him, etc) than dream's own (to protect george), its just so sad. not to mention even before everything, those two formed new nations without dream before; while dream was fighting for his own alone, they didn't really care enough. they did this again, with kinoko kingdom but tbf, the destruction of the community house felt like the end of the greater dream smp.

its just... sad and tragic, his whole character. his life is like the joker, baby. BAHAHAHA

anywaaaays

sorry about that, the c!dream apologist in me needed to breathe

glad you think its beautiful hehe <3