#someone tagged me for the background too

[weirdnico]

couldn’t think of a name for her, but she's a dear

[lcecrown]

@tracfone i hope this is what you had in mind

edit: fixed chell's skin tone! i forgot to do it at the time of drawing since it was around 5am and i was too tired to do anything else once i'd finished the background lmao

[emily-mooon]

Nordegrim Scream AU but they are instead Randy and Sidney and not the Ghostface duo

[front-facing-pokemon]

[puppyeared]

i feel shy talking here when i dont have anything worth sharing but i cant help feeling like ive said things in the tags that could be brought up in court

[jamiethebeeart]

:D (I ramble in my tags about this)

[todayisafridaynight]

I’m fairly new to the fandom, but I do have a question if you can answer it! Why do people ship Daigo with Aoki / Masato? I tried looking to see if they’ve interacted before, but couldn’t find anything! Sorry for asking I’m just </3 dumb AND I LOVE YOUR ART OF THEM!!! Nerd looking ahhhhhh

hi ! welcome to the community i hope you're having a lovely time so far and ty for enjoyin my stuff :) no need for apologies it's a very fair question to have :]

i cant speak for everyone (all. ten people into masadai anyway) but Personally To Me i just think the idea of them together is very funny. thats quite literally it im afraid..

[jae-birde]

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To celebrate Hazbin Hotel dropping today, I thought that I'd share an Angel Dust drawing I did!

Angel was my favourite character in the Pilot (though Charlie is a close second), and I am so excited to see more of him in the show!

Some ramblings under the cut

I was watching a tutorial for Angel's dance routine at the beginning of the Addict music video that was done by the storyboard artist who boarded those scenes, and I felt inspired.

I'm much newer to this fandom, considering I only started Helluva Boss in late December last year and only watched the pilot for Hazbin Hotel earlier this month, but I absolutely fell in love with the characters and the world!

I unfortunately do not have Amazon Prime, so I can't watch anything beyond the first episode, but I absolutely LOVED that first episode and I am so ready for more!

[teufelme]

You ever just want to talk about Bertl,

[trixibebe]

Unrestricted summer fun at Restaurant Row

[nopeleavemealoone]

A nice little nap in the sunset featuring skk at peace for once

[ghostdoctor]

monodeku actor au where they are supposed to act like they hate each other on set cause yk, monoma hates 1-A. But, they’re not very good at it and fans can tell. In the background where monoma and Midoriya are, you can tots see them flirting. plus whenever monoma has to deliver a line to Midoriya specifically it always has undertones that it should not have. like why do you sound romantic saying that he’s a piece of 1-A scum. 

the entire sports festival arch is a mess in this au. every time Midoriya is in a scene you can see monoma in the background ogling him and it’s actually kinda funny. the final cut of one of the episodes accidentally left in a bit where Midoriya does something and Monoma was so busy staring at him that he full-on faceplants. they just. didn’t cut that out. 

and during the cavalry battle you can totally see team monoma run by team midoriya more than once obviously intentionally and each time he says something to midoriya which results in midoriya making a scandalized face while ochaco has to stop herself from giggling. 

ugh and what if monoma was initially meant to make it into the 1v1 fights but the producers saw how he and midoriya were and decided that actually team kendou should make it instead. they didn’t want a homo fight on their hands. 

and like that one scene they show where monoma is taunting iida, ochaco, and midoriya at lunch had to be reshot several times because monoma could NOT get his lines out without it sounding like hes actually asking midoriya out. like at one point he fully leans on the chair midoriya is sitting at the and the director goes “bro. are you serious right now.” 

[caramelmochacrow]

"Objection!"

[cybotgalactica]

tumblr like vs reblog discourse is hell because people will write entire paragraphs about how "well actually likes don't really support artists because it doesn't feed anything into an algorithm" like that's all there is.

like one human being reaching out to another through the framework of a social media site to be like "hey, i saw this thing you made and it meant something to me" means nothing to anyone. like that's less important than feeding your opinion of someone's work into an algorithm designed with the primary function of keeping you on their site so you can make them more money.

i appreciate reblogs and retweets and new follows and comments just like anyone else. but i'm not going to sit here and resent the people that only like. and i'm especially not going to let myself get so poisoned by social media i convince myself the human behind them doesn't matter.

calling art and writing "content", viewing the concept of support through the lens of algorithms and exposure and statistics. there's nothing more human than Making Things but all we do is try to take all the human out of it.

[scarletfasinera]

Anyway since I can't send an ask because of character limit and I gave up after trying to write it three different ways and it not working, I'll just. Idk write a short vague post back? I'm assuming a vague for a vague is fair (don't worry I don't want to be mean I just have no other way of navigating this situation.) Since I'm exhausted & but want to at least express my view of it.

Idk just on the off chance they see this or one of our shared mutuals shows them or something. My "weak subtext" post had absolutely nothing to do with Adam Warlock, I didn't even remember that I reblogged that poll before making my post. I had seen like six other polls after the Adam one, bc I was actively looking through the blog, that did the exact thing my post was about, the blogrunner (who shall remain anonymous) had Pointed Out in private that it was happening and gave several examples & it was distressing them so I checked the blog myself and commented on it, which was why I made the post. Not the Adam poll in particular which I didn't remember and wasn't thinking about. I do not know enough about Adam to say anything about either the text or the subtext or anything, so I just. Wouldn't? It really baffled me that it was read that way.

Anyway. Farewell beloved mutual we barely knew ye...

[emblazons]

As much as i understand where the anon saying they wished the analyses were more realistic and based, i think that's not a plausable thing, because the personal experience of each person is just different. Each of us needs something else. Sure, we are all watching the same show, but since we all come from different backgrounds, lives and experiences, we all take different things from it. As much as i would die to know how the story wraps up this moment and i wish i could somehow read the Duffers's minds, watching the show, talking about it, discussing it, disecting it and even fighting over ships within the fandom is just a hobbie.

Now, don't get me wrong, everyone is entitled to have their opinion, but what was told there is basically a M*lven vs Byler discourse, it looks the same. It's as if someone came and said they wished everyone just shipped M*lven instead of running away with Byler.

This being said, i heartly suggest the anon to find the roght nitche within the Byler community, you can just watch whatever you like, no one should ever force you to follow something you don't want.

I hope i didn't sound disrespectful, i really understand where they come from, i just felt like i needed to say something because i really want the anon to enjoy the experience.

I definitely don't think you sound disrespectful, so don't worry about that! That being said, I don't necessarily agree with the idea that thinking people should be more realistic or narrative focused in their analysis of Stranger Things is "implausible" (even with everyone's varied backgrounds/interests)—and I'll do my best to say why!

forewarning: long post, and (probably) unpopular opinion

Honestly, I can understand how we all get something different or latch onto something different in ST, as well as why it would be strange to expect people's personal headcanons to line up across rhe fandom for all characters—that's not really what I'm arguing for (and I don't think what anon was arguing for either). If someone is just looking for a place to enjoy the fanon versions of characters in a way that aligns with their preferred interpretation, I agree with you—you should definitely cater your experience to what you enjoy!

I think the issue of a lack of objectivity and people being "plausible" becomes a problem when you start moving into media analysis of Stranger Things, and start losing sight of the fact that media as a whole is absolutely based on objective rules and structures—whether that be in writing, narrative structure, cinematography, and everything else. As much as it can hurt to admit when you're passionate about something...some people are better at catching narrative setups and structures than others, and it's because they've trained themselves through study and experience to do it.

In the case of narrative and even writing analysis, the issue starts when people start taking any and all interpretations as equally valid analyses solely because we're all "entitled to opinions"—aka taking someone who has no real experience with critical media consumption's opinion as "just as valid" an interpretation of what goes on screen as what doesn't as someone who has made a study of these things for years, professionally or otherwise. Like, sure—fandom is just a hobby, and I can understand if people don't want to sully their enjoyment of a thing with deep dive analyses on what shot structure or 3 part structure means. Even so...that doesn't mean the skills, degrees, personal work and even just study people have done to understand how stories are told on multiple fronts isn't objectively useful to them having a better understanding of Stranger Things, or that someone with deep and time-tested media literacy doesn't have a better shot at understanding both intent and narrative as done by the Duffers than someone else (while managing their expectations better because they know how stories/shows are built).

You have to remember: The Duffers are film boys. And I don't mean that in a "they enjoy movies" way either—they have literal degrees in directorship from one of the most respected film schools in California, run a masterclass on storytelling, and have been accepted into the wider cultural zeitgeist as great writers not just by the wider public, but their own peers. They have been writing for years, just started their own production company, and work with people who have been casting, shooting, designing and making music for decades too--all fields that have objective uses and "right" way to do things, the same as you learn in any english, journalism or film class.

In that way, saying "I wish people were more objective and realistic" in their analyses (at least to me) translates to "I wish people would stop conflating their deep interest in a thing from a perspective other than the one the creators are coming from with an objective understanding of how this story will be told," which...I mean its a little harsh, but its also an extremely fair statement in my mind.

Basically: If you have a baseline for what certain things mean in media in general, your take on what is going on in the show probably by default holds a little more water as an interpretation of the events on screen—and you're a lot more likely to have an objective, universally media savvy reason (as opposed to just "I watched the show intensely") for why you believe its true. There are objective rules behind why we talk about shot structure, pacing, parallels, outfit choice, score motifs, and even dialogue...and people who know what those rules are and why they are important are how we determine levels of media literacy, which (as I'm sure you've even seen around here) is very real.

The byler fandom gets on M*levens for this all the time by saying they're "misreading the subtext" or "media illiterate," but...the tendency to miss common media cues in other areas is still just as true in the Byler fandom, because (by absolutely no fault of their own most of the time) this is people's first attempt at media analysis...and media analysis as a concept is both a practiced art and an acquired skill.

Being preemptively concerned that a lot of people in this fandom are setting themselves up for disappointment because they are applying their own background as a baseline to a show built for and by people with media / film / television backgrounds is a radical bit of honesty on that anon's part, yes—but its also true. In the same way you can't expect to walk into a grad school class full of people studying rocket propulsion to throw in your opinion on how to build a spaceship as first year english student, so people trying to act like it doesn't matter if you're familiar with narrative or media or cinematography when talking the outcome of Stranger Things simply because "its a hobby" (esp knowing who The Duffers are) is a bit...shortsighted.

Not acknowledging the background the creators come from, then acting like your background matters more than theirs—especially in terms of analyzing their show—is nonsensical, but...its what a lot of fandom (in general, not just with Stranger Things lmao) does anyway. Too often people to let their passion for something get ahead of the objective reality behind why things happen on screen--which is what is core to media literacy as a concept, even if there are still things we can't know for sure.

All that to say: if you're just doing what interests you with the characters because you like them it doesn't matter, live your best life. I agree 100% that you should cater your experience to what you want to see. But if you want to have an analytical take that in the end has a chance to hold any water, you have to funnel your understanding of ST to what The Duffers would think to do...not your own experience. That, to me and probably to the anon you're talking about, is what matters the most...and why I don't agree that its strange to hope people will learn (maybe not now, but over the course of their fandom experience) that there really are objective ways to consume and analyze film and television.

I hope you don't take this as an affront, because it was so much lmao. I just...even if we are all coming at ST with different backgrounds, there is a baseline of media understanding required to funnel down what takes are valid interpretations and which aren't—and that's something we struggle to accept as a fandom in an attempt to validate everyone (fair) but that also makes it more likely a lot of people are going to walk into S5 and be radically disappointed.

Its also probably why a lot of people think the "ship war" discourse is based on preference and not objective fact--because they don't read it from anything but "their background" and "personal interest," which isn't why I (or a lot of Bylers) think Byler is gonna happen at all. Byler isn't just a "what you prefer" ship anymore—its whats been baked into the objective fact of the narrative. People think its not....because they lack the objective media analysis I'm talking about. And that's true even with Bylers sometimes, as sad as it is to admit lmao