#marcel tag

[battery4ever]

MOPRHERINE SHIPPERS HOW ARE FEELING AFTER TONIGHTS EPISODE

[jeffverse]

They lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship :/

[eohwyyn]

🍄💝

🍄 ~ I really enjoy your blog's aesthetic.

💝 ~ You are very sweet.

my blog is a mess and i feel like i come across as nicer than i really am on the internet haha, but thanks marcel!!

Emoji Game ♡

[kiramaizin]

🍦

ICE CREAM!!!!

[leonsliga]

That UCL final feeling 💫

[sage-is-in-fact-very-tired]

okay if hatebirds is ash and marcels *duo* name - what uh. what's their ship name, chat? what we got here?

[friendlyengie]

discord servers will have you do things like “get attached to your own ocs.” I have such an insane backlog of tf2 oc art, so expect a couple big ol posts down the line .

I call this one the timeline post. It’s mostly Armani, with some Marcel here and there and then @gordonfreemanreal’s oc Alwyne! Tried to put these in as chronological of an order as I can (except the last one. The last one isn’t really a specific moment, just a general state he’s in.)

[cancerian-woman]

It could be(it is) from TVDU’s racism but you would think that after Davina’s death and Kol’s rants on being ignored in the family he would’ve sided with Marcel and not against him..

[klm-zoflorr]

Marcel: We are all gathered here today-

Falco: *sobbing*

Marcel: To honor the life-

Reiner: And death.

Falco: *sobbing harder*

Marcel: Of Reiner, someone who meant much to us all. He was family. A victim of... uh...

Zeke: I can't believe he made us all stand in the rain for this.

Falco: *sobbing some more*

Reiner: This is pathetic. I’m going back to work.

Gabi: Don’t be so rude! This is a funeral!

Reiner: For a rat named after me!

Porco: Silence, Human Reiner! Annie, start the music again.

Marcel: We only knew Reiner for a day and half when he was tragically taken from us.

Falco: *screams to the skies and their unforgiveness*

[battery4ever]

someone hear my call… redraw this with wolverine and morph… please and thank…

[jeffverse]

Dawg I gotta quit my job look at how my boss pulled up to his business meeting 😭

-Mod CC

[eohwyyn]

Top 5 ships? 😄

hey marcel, hope things are going well!

in no particular order:

Amy Pond/Rory Williams

Leia Organa/Han Solo

Harry Potter/Ginny Weasley

Ron Weasley/Hermione Granger

Eowyn/Faramir

Ask me my “TOP 5/TOP 10” anything!

[kiramaizin]

hi noelle hru ^_^ i feel like i havent seen u around much lately. hope ur doing okay ily✌️❤️‼️

hii marcelly i'm well :) i just haven't been on tumblr totally often recently.. but now that schools out i think i'll be on here lots more. so i'm okay! i hope youve been good ily2 ^__^

[cptrs]

[sage-is-in-fact-very-tired]

theyre exs. *to me.* are they actually? no. but they *feel* like they are

[capacity-for-wonder]

Audience vs Community

So last night we watched Marcel the Shell with Shoes On because my fiancé was like “this will help you process the recent death of your grandmother” (thoughtful, but wrong) and there’s this one part where Marcel (the shell) is reading through the comments on a viral YouTube video of him asking for help trying to find his shell family (I was weeping profusely at this point) and no one is responding to his call to action they are just like “what a cute shell ily” and Marcel very sadly says:

“It’s an audience, but it’s not a community.”

And I’ve been thinking all day about how this distinction between audience and community is really at the crux of a lot of recent tension in fan spaces. Like you have a lot of younger folks excitedly sharing their favorite fics on a platform like tik tok. And they are thinking- “this is great! Now more people can find this thing I love.” But what they are doing is building an audience for that thing/creator (something apps like tik tok are really good at) but they are not, with any intentionality, building a community around that thing (something that a platform like AO3 is actually organically really good at imo). Which I think is why we see authors of very popular fics deleting said works, or the generally different responses to public criticism/ critique of fan works. Anyway, I think a lot of folks, especially some youngins who grew up immersed in a social media landscape that is always prioritizing audience (and in many ways, incentivizing engagement, which is easiest to get through conflict, and therefore very specifically discouraging community building) misread what the intention is behind fan works for most authors. They assume there is a desire for an audience (the bigger the better) and that isn’t always true!

I think the main reason people write/read fan works is to find/build community. People write fics for a lot of reasons- because they want to express their thoughts, or develop their beliefs, or share a desire, or vent a frustration. And they do those things in specific fandom spaces that inspire them because they feel that it’s fertile ground for whatever the purpose of that work is. And often, even if it’s just a few readers, other people find and connect with that work and sometimes even start a conversation about it and that is how community forms! That’s the main draw, for me at least. And I think conflict comes when it feels like the values of a community have been breached somehow.

Anyway I have like 8000 more thoughts on this but suffice it to say I really liked the shell movie