#this is a gross oversimplification BUT

[tangledinink]

So I had a question,

What kind of parents are Leo and Donnie?

[ ✩ the gemini ✩ ]

[aphel1on]

AuDHD is so funny sometimes like what do you mean my hyperfixations/special interests will last for years on end or possibly forever but they will cycle out every month or two with absolutely no transitional period or warning. like i will think about the same topic every day obsessively for 46 days in a row and on the 47th day with no visible cause adhd brain goes "ok! bored of that now" and autism brain goes "dw i got something queued up for ya" and i blast into full blown obsession on some other topic whose mental file folders haven't opened in 9 months. brain's out here treating hyperfixations like a crop rotation. once the dopamine runs out it cycles in another one but once something's in the rotation it never ever leaves. last summer we brought in one from when i was 11. it's so funny to me but frustrating too bc like. i cannot stress enough my inability to predict or control this. or how completely abrupt and random it can be

EDIT: seems this is more common among ND people than i thought, and probably not limited to AuDHD specifically :] i was just describing my own experiences and didn't expect this post to blow up, so don't take me for an authority, but i'm glad it resonated with so many of y'all

[rottenkudzu]

my kofi

[radishly]

Team dynamics

[anorlondos]

Messmer doodles because I love him. Peak fight peak music peak character etc etc

Idk how to draw snakes don't make fun of me. Anyways I expected him to be the devil from the bible but nah he's just kinda sad. Miquella, on the other hand,

[avelera]

Ok, I feel like there's three writing concepts that Tumblr needs to get reacquainted with when it comes to understanding fiction:

Catharsis - Sometimes, fiction engages with horrifying, disgusting, painful, or scary concepts in order to bring about a positive experience for the reader. This can be through the hero defeating a disgusting evil, like defeating an abuser for example. One might also get catharsis not out of the defeat of something bad or uncomfortable, but simply from the experience of living it vicariously, such as joy at successfully hiding the body of a murder victim. There are literally countless examples of catharsis in fiction, but most importantly it must be understood, it is completely harmless to real people whether you're experiencing catharsis at something good happening or something bad happening that you get to live vicariously because it is literally fiction. Indeed, there's a lot of evidence that getting to experience catharsis through fiction at evil things, say, living vicariously through a fictional character committing adultery, even if you would never want to cheat on your own partner, actually helps purge the desire to do evil things oneself.

Pleasures of the genre - some genres have expectations that go with them. If you, as a writer, don't include those pleasures, you might turn off the audience. For example, the Western genre has a certain expectation of being set in the 19th c American West. There's usually cowboys and horses involved. If you write a story that's advertised as a "Western" that takes place entirely in a New York City apartment, it might be novel for the genre, but it might also piss off a bunch of readers who were expecting horses. You can do it, obviously, but don't be surprised if readers are confused and perhaps disinterested in the work. More salient to Tumblr perhaps - Marvel believes it is creating action/adventure superhero stories. If a Marvel movie suddenly became a psychological exploration of the internality of a character's relationships, without a single laser beam or fight scene in sight, Marvel expects its audience to be confused and unhappy. We, as fanfic writers and readers might be dying for that story, but that is not the pleasure of the genre that Marvel thinks its audience wants when it walks specifically into a superhero film.

Power Fantasy - this might be one of the most misunderstood or perhaps narrowly applied terms. Yes, sometimes a power fantasy is a 16 year old boy watching a superhero dude with 8 pack abs destroy the bad guy, get the girl, and save the day. Living vicariously through that character is definitely a power fantasy. BUT, a power fantasy can also be fantastical things that the audience wishes would happen in a way that would empower an audience member or make them happy. For example, a billionaire industrialist merchant of death like Tony Stark getting hit by his own weapons and deciding to become a crusader for justice in a way that actually helps normal people is, in fact, an audience power fantasy. We want to believe that if the right bad guy like a billionaire got the right comeuppance like a near-death experience at the hands of their own evils, they'd learn their lesson and become a better person. This is a power fantasy. This is not a thing that actually happens. It's honestly not that different from the power fantasy many gun owners have that if they own a gun, they're more likely to stop a crime in progress with their perfect marksmanship, rather than that they're more likely to kill or be killed by a member of their own family. Understanding the application of power fantasies in terms of good things you hope would happen happening in fiction is not only important for dissecting fiction as an intelligent viewer, it's also important in terms of recognizing when you're being influenced by certain stories and choosing what lesson you take away from it and what lesson (if any) you want to take away from it.

I just feel like these 3 terms are what I see most lacking in a lot of "discourse". Fiction is trying to engender emotion in the audience. Great fiction engenders a wide range of emotions in the viewer, not simply good emotions. Thoughtful fiction might (but not always!) try to impart a lesson. But great fiction can also just want to give you great emotions and make you think outside the usual box of your usual experiences. It's also completely fine for great fiction to just want to give you a great emotion experience like catharsis, or the thrill of a power fantasy. And I really wish these three separate but interrelated concepts were discussed more when it comes to dissecting fiction here on this site.

[renarines]

i am simple to please

[len-tilsoup]

WHERE IS THAT ONE POST

THE ONE THAT WAS LIKE "WHAT IF YOU WERE THE EVIL TWIN, AND YOU MEET THE VERSION OR YOURSELF THAT SHINES LIKE THE GODDAMN SUN" OR SMTH

ITS ALL I COULD THINK OF THIS EPISODE

[killerchickadee]

You know the real reason Kelvin and Keefe haven't had sex yet?

Kelvin likes to be pampered and taken care of. Total pillow princess. Keefe likes to be bossed around.

They're both bottoms.

[majimaisms]

the reason kiryu is suicidal and majima isnt is not because majima is any happier btw but simply because you have to be alive to want to die in the first place. and well,

[dead-generations]

this is what I mean when I say that Marxist anthropological theory is cartoonishly outdated. It's been 200 years people update your understandings with contemporary research. If you think the development of ideas proceeds from "early communal society" being pure materialist and not bothering with abstract questions because they had no slaves, on to the "early" slave republics of PLATO'S era, you have literally no business talking about the development of human society.

[kiwisandpearls]

”madoka killed one of her friends for homura without hesitation!”

you forgot to mention that actually the reason why madoka even killed mami was most definitely a moment of panicked self defensive since she had killed kyoko, was about to kill homura, definitely would’ve killed madoka too, and also bursted into tears after killing her (mami) screaming that she doesn’t want this.

[niinnyu]

If I had a nickel for every time i enjoyed a story in recent times with a self loathing person meeting an all powerful entity and learning to love that entity while the entity learns what it's like to be human and making mistakes and learning and trying to be better, then I'd have 2 nickels, which makes me wonder what I'd do with those 2 nickels

[jellybellyblimp]

The funniest part of the Secret History is that it’s not actually the murder of their friend that causes the classics class to fall apart. It’s the awkward incestual love pentagon. They totally could have gotten past murdering Bunny, if Henry and Camilla and Charles (and Francis and Richard but it’s not really their fault) hadn’t decided immediately after his funeral was the perfect time to hash out this romantic clusterfuck. I can’t even blame Richard and Francis they were both minding their damn business, it was the other three that decided to fuck around and pull a gun.

[iforgotwhaticalledthis]

In retrosepct s1!centross is very funny because hes not even controlled by Enderian. His obsession with endstone is just because he's Like That tm

[brood-mother]

"toxic attitudes have killed fandom!" "cringe killed fandom!" "pro/anti killed fandom!"

discord and patreon killed fandom, goodnight