#your art is. absolutely delightful op

[booksandabeer]

Stucky, Fandom Longevity, and "Primacy Bias"

There’s this post that's been floating around the past few days about how the Stucky fandom in its heyday produced fic and art masterpieces like they were all collectively possessed by an unprecedented spirit of creative insanity. It’s a good, fun post and I agree with the person who wrote it. (not rb'ing because I didn't want to hijack their post with something that's only tangentially related).

It was indeed a magical time and the creative output in both quantity and quality in the two-year period following the release of CA:TWS is—with perhaps a few exceptions—unmatched by anything that I’ve seen before and since. However, going through the notes on that post, I noticed something that left me a little irritated and quite frankly sad since it is in congruence with, and to a certain extent the confirmation of something that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately.

For one thing, there are so many people in the notes expressing sentiments along the lines of “it was such a wonderful time; I wish I could go back; I miss these fics; I want to read these fics again,” etc., etc., you get it. And it feels a little silly pointing this out, but…you can just do that? Almost all of these fics are still right there, waiting for you to be (re)read. Yes, a lot of people left the fandom after The Great Devastation of 2019, but their stories didn’t just disappear. It's not like there is now a big, black hole where the Steve/Bucky tag used to be on AO3. So, if you miss these fics and you want to revisit them—just do it. Chances are the authors will be delighted that people are still finding and enjoying their stories all these years later. And—since apparently this needs saying, too, judging from the notes on that post: A lot of people seem to be very concerned with losing ‘coolness points’ for openly admitting that they still miss the ship and often feel tempted to dip their toes back into the Stucky pool. I don’t know how to tell you this, but if someone tries to shame you for simply enjoying or missing something, they are an asshole. Not to mention that all this is happening on tumble.com—'coolness' doesn't exactly live here. And that is a good thing, to be clear. Fandom is not about being cool. It’s about being as enthusiastic, as silly, as absolutely fucking unhinged about the things you love as you want to be. So, stop caring what other people think and enjoy yourself.

The other thing is that there seems to be a pretty widespread misconception that the Stucky fandom hasn’t produced any good fanworks after 2016.

First, that is patently and demonstrably untrue. There is so much incredibly good fanfiction and fanart still out there. Not as much as back in the day, sure, but it still exists. And more is being posted every day! Even some of the OG Big Names are still around. One of the most beloved Stucky series that started all the way back in 2014 was updated as recently as December of last year. The artist, who I believe the op is referring to as creating ‘baroque’ paintings, posted their latest Stucky art not even two months ago.

Second, I find this “primacy bias” more than just a little insulting to the many hardworking and incredibly talented people who are still putting their blood, sweat, and tears into creating for this community. And it’s one thing if people who have long left the fandom believe or say something like this, but it’s frankly irritating when I see people who are still very much active—and therefore definitely should know better—feed into that same false myth. Yes, it sucks that the Stucky ship isn’t as big as it used to be, but that doesn't mean there isn't any 'fresh talent' to be found anymore. I’m also not saying we shouldn’t still celebrate and recommend older works—I do it all the time! And it sure as hell doesn't mean everyone has to reblog absolutely everything all the time, either. Your blog, your rules.

But maybe we should put a little more focus on the good things, on the creators and the community we have now, especially if we want that community to still exist in another ten years. I mean, imagine you’re a person who’s just gotten into the fandom (because yes, there are indeed still new people discovering Stucky all the time) and one of the first things you’re being told is “eh, nice that you're here, but you’re about 7 years late; the big party is already over.” Does that seem like a fun space to hang out in to you?

So. Let’s all—and I do not exclude myself from this because God knows, I love to complain—spend a little less time mourning the ‘good old days’ that are never coming back anyway, and instead focus our attention on enjoying and appreciating both the incredible treasure chest of an archive we have AND the wealth of high-quality art and fic that is still being created by this wonderful community every single day. With this in mind:

🥳🎊Happy Stucky Week 2023!!! 🎊🥳

*I want to make it very clear that this is a general thing that’s been on my mind lately and that I’m trying to work through here—probably not very coherently. I'm not trying to tell anybody 'how to do fandom' and I’m most definitely not vagueposting about any particular incident, person, or group in this fandom. This isn’t a callout post. It’s an I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this and I don’t know what else do with them post.

[kabukiaku]

Hi there! I recently joined the Ghost fandom and discovered your art, and I wanted to let you know that your work has brought me so much joy! Your drawings are so beautiful (I've reread your Terzomega Valentine's Day comic SO many times!) and I absolutely L O V E your dolls and plushies!!! (I recently got all of the supplies to start doll customizing and seeing you have so much fun with it is hugely inspiring!!) And I can't count how many times I've watched your animatics; they're SO incredibly funny and well made!!!

This is all to say: thank you for making so many wonderful things! Looking forward to what you make next, and I hope you have a fantastic day!!! 😊

(P.S.—I was so happy to see Kalluzeb while I was going through your art tag; they're SUCH a good ship!!!)

(P.P.S.—HELLO FELLOW THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE (2010) ENJOYER!!!! I've literally only met one other person who has seen that movie 😆)

OP THANK YOU SO MUCH AHHHHHHHHH!!!! delighted to know you enjoyed my work. and for being a sorcerer's apprentice 2010 enjoyer. Horvath my beloved.

thanks again for stopping by, ive read your tags through my notifications and loved every one of them. you made my day 🥺🖤🖤🖤🖤

[silkentine]

Thank you everyone who participated in my #ichijirecolor challenge!!!! @lunar-eclipse-bunnies @abyss-tylwyth and @velenoblu

It absolutely delighted me these past two weeks to see how much fun you guys were having while coloring in my line art!!! And I picked up a few techniques by studying how you rendered my work. I’m so lucky!! Please please please take the time to check out the #ichijirecolor tag on my blog to see the full resolution submissions :)

Speaking of lucky, I conferred with my Mom and together we picked @lunar-eclipse-bunnies as the winner of the free commission!!! Let’s talk details in DMs 😊 I’m so excited to work with you one on one to bring a vision of yours to life! To my beloved runner ups, don’t hesitate to reach out in my DMs either! I started this challenge to foster some community between us OP fanartists and I won’t say no if you have any drawing requests… I owe y’all my life 👏🥰 hehe!

Thank you thank you thank you. It means the world to me that y’all played along!!! I’d love to do this again sometime! What characters would you like to color in the future? Drop a reply!

[spacedustpan]

I almost tagged the original before deciding that I do, in fact, like my peace and realizing that the people that make posts like this and the people supporting this viewpoint are the people that would start Internet Beef over my tags so I'll do this on my own post with screenshots of the tags.

Here is the post I'm referencing:

Here are the tags I considered adding but ultimately decided not to:

I'm so tired of popular blogs trying to shame the general tumblr populace into not tagging their blorbos because they don't like the borbos that are tagged.

Whats funny is a lot of the popular blogs will then turn around and agree with the general tumblr gripe these days that it sucks that no one reblogs anything anymore.

But like

MY SIBLING IN CHRIST!!!

YOU MADE THE ENVIRONMENT HOSTILE TO REBLOG!!!

WHY WOULD SOMEONE REBLOG A POST IF ANYTIME THEY TAG A RELATABLE POST THEY RISK BEING NEGATIVELY JUDGED AND THEY'LL BE DEEMED A CRINGEFAIL LOSER FOR REBLOGGING WITH TAGS THE OP DIDN'T LIKE?????

I've seen other similar posts, this is just the one that finally annoyed me enough to give my 2 cents.

Like Jesus I wouldn't be following were-ralph if they didn't derail a post with their Werewolf Boyfriend!!! And my tumblr experience would be worse for it! They're hilarious and have great taste in music!

Blorbo tags on relatable posts sometimes lead you to a piece of media or genre of media that you might enjoy.

Like I get that you don't like Blorbeau and Glup Shittaux and find them annoying and that's valid.

But like let people use the website without shame over liking fictional characters. 🙏 please.

ALSO ALSO that made me remember!

I never would have read this post :

If someone didn't blorbo tag!!!

I DON'T EVEN LIKE STAR WARS.

This is a post that somone liked and came up in my feed. I wasn't even following the tags for it but because the tags were made they inspired someone else who delighted someone else enough to create writing and technically art of this silly text post.

And I'm considering watching the prequels along with whatever Commander Cody is in just to get the context for these blorbos because I LAUGHED MYSELF TO TEARS reading this!!!

It was wonderful! And despite my general lifelong passionate disinterest for Space Wizards and their Lazer Swords I absolutely have to see what the fuck is going on with these two!

THIS IS WHAT TUMBLR IS ABOUT!!!!!

Sharing what's cool and fun and funny about your special interests in the hopes that other people will see how cool and fun and funny it is and join you!

That's what this website is built for!!!

[thegeminisage]

well, it is star trek update time. last night we watched ds9's "whispers" and tng's "lower decks."

whispers (ds9):

this episode was really really really really good but it sent me into an absolute existential FIT

i don't usually like episodes where they string us along and don't give us enough clues to figure the thing out for ourselves. and that's what this did because really WHO could predict that. however the ending did gut punch me so i forgive them except i never want them to do that to me ever again

red herring with the coffee. he ordered it so many times i was sure there was something in his coffee

i feel so bad for the replicant. i feel SO BAD FOR HIM. also, did you know this is the only time in trek they use the word replicant

action hero obrien, even under false pretenses, was very very very good. he literally can kick ass and he's smart as hell too like he's so cool???

"tell keiko i love her" JESUS CHRIST. anyway!!!!!!!!

lower decks (tng):

this episode was ALSO pretty good...i really loved especially the dual poker games

i also love the waiter in ten forward who got to go to BOTH poker games, king, but where tf is guinan?? i miss her sm

riker is your worst nightmare. alexa play poker face

worf was also very good in this...he loves and supports his little guys so much. siskocore.

picard was as usual the devil incarnate. i cant believe he yelled at this girl just to see if she could take the pressure of a dangerous mission because he had RACIALLY PROFILED HER and then he, who has been tortured by cardassians, let an ensign SEVEN MONTHS INTO HER FIRST ASSIGNMENT do this covert ops shit. AND THEN SHE DIED!!!! i hope he feels bad forever

i liked her so much :( which i know is the point, but

i kind of wish that unlikable guy who was trying to suck up to riker had died instead because that would be a gut punch in a different way

ALSO NURSE OGAWA'S MAN RUNNING AROUND ON HER?? and then beverly is like oh thank god he proposed GIRL that doesn't mean you didn't see him talking to another woman! just bc you let picard do that shit does NOT mean you don't let alyssa know what you saw!!! smh

i'm still not looking forward to the show lower decks...the art style is so fucking ugly and reminds me so much of family guy, the unfunniest show ever to air on television. as in, even south park was funnier. but maybe if the plots are a little like this it will make it slightly easier to tolerate

EDITED TO ADD: i nearly forgot to mention, the vulcan this episode was CHANNELING mister leonard nimoy. i recognized so many of his little acting tics. absolutely delightful.

TONIGHT: ds9's "paradise" and tng's "thine own self" which i know has AMNESIA!!!!!! i've been in bed since i got home from work but i got out of it specifically for this reason. it better be good

[artsy-hobbitses]

I love your human Optimus sm, he is so father figure coded its delightful. That being said, how wholesome can he get?

(I love ur art, you're amazing <33333)

THE MOST!!! WHOLESOME!!!!

- Came across Bumblebee dancing ballet by himself on accident one night in a little music room at the base (which is Alpha Trion’s estate) with bay windows all around! Noticed that Bee’s immediate reaction was to try fleeing the scene, but knowing from Bee’s scars that Bee had a BAD childhood, instinctively understood what might have happened for an 18 year old to have that response, and excitedly compliments Bee on Bee’s grace and form (to say this poor lad was taken aback by this absolute whiplash of what USUALLY happens when his bio dad would catch him dancing would be an understatement). Offers to play the piano for Bee (there is one unused there and he hasn’t practiced in years, but he may have just found a reason to start again!) so Bee has music to dance to, and it’s an offer Bee gladly takes up. They make it their thing at least once a week!

- He and Bumblebee play football together!

- Bumblebee runs. A lot. Bee has a STRONG fight or flight instinct and after Bad Nights, Bee tends to run as far as his legs can take him (because bio dad’s promised to hurt you, but first, he must catch you) and often overestimates how much energy he has left to return to base in a timely manner. So OP sometimes trails along and nestles down next to Bee when Bee is half-dead from exhaustion on the grass somewhere and just. Lays there. Talking to Bee. Bee doesn’t have to respond, he just wants to let Bee know he’s always here if Bee ever wants to talk. At some point he offers to piggyback Bee to base when Bee’s cursing his legs stumbling out from under him, and it’s both amusing and very, very bittersweet to feel how firmly Bee is holding on to his shoulders—like this is something Bee has never done before—and the slight dampness in his shoulder Bee has his face buried in.

- OP gifted Bumblebee his pet rabbit, BigWig! Which came with a little rabbit-sized hoodie just like Bee’s which OP commissioned Mirage to make.

- OP helped HotRod with his dyslexia! OP was the one who noticed HotRod had learning difficulties that were never addressed, and it’s not your fault the system failed you—you’re not stupid, you’re not lazy, you think on your feet and have insight beyond your years! He buys graphic novels and comics for HotRod (who did not have access to any of this before and didn’t see any point to it because he’s been labeled a dumbass who can’t write words) and they two often have little reading sessions together!

[intertexts]

HIIII ROS HI HI HI still truckin througj the last half hour of my shift i was absolutely DELIGHTED 2 SEE UR WILLIAM AND DAKOTA ART THEYRE SO FUCKING CUUUUTE. boys forever i love them

ABYWAY ANYWAY. now that youre in party hell i wanted 2 pick ur brain a little i wanna know ur thoughts . do u have anyyyy theories or thoughts 👀 about vyncents powers or williams dorito fever dream or just in general hehe . putting u in a jar under a magnifying glass and feeding u a drop of plankton water like youre a baby seahorse (<< guy whos seahorses had babies today. proud father momence)

oh my god. gets fucking put in a jar under a magnifying glass blhhhhrghghghghbhgh >_< also OMG........... CONGRATS ON THE SEAHORSE BABIES!!!! what do seahorse babies look like. are they like fully formed or some larval shit like newborn puppies???

anyway YEAH i DO have thoughts!!!! SO many thoughts, even!!

okkk ok ok. about vyncents powers....... first i thought he was some alien superman type situation. because of the whole deal. nowwwww i really do think he reverse isekai'd from like a classic high fantasy jrpg ass world.. i think he like touched the forbidden artifact or got hit by the fantasy truck and got shoved into this world & it sucks. i DONT know if hes human or like some type of creature. about his powers & his fucking multiclass thing???? i have NO CLUE DUDE!!!!! ngl its giving like system egg. ohhh sorry yeah sometimes i just become a whole different person who dresses different and acts different its not a big thing dw about it. or like..... i was considering some type of warlock deal possession situation also but apparently he JUST BECAME the party city warlock?? so i have NO clue.

WILLIAM DORITO FEVER DREAM.. (<- none of these words r in the bible) OK. my first thought IS my head shoots up like a cat hearing the treat bag rustle or like a 2016 emo at the g note at hearing the unravel op......... man i wonder why that specific song for this one specific questionably alive kid with fucked up death powers. this couldnt mean anything!! im sure there arent any impies (fucked up way of saying implications) (GOD the irreparable harm that quencies meme did 2 my vocabulary) anyway my first question about this motherfucker is IS HE DEAD OR NOT. IS HE ALIVE. IS HE IN SOME FUCKED UP LIMINAL STATE BETWEEN THE TWO. schrodingers wiwi. the forest part of the dream sequence stuck out 2 me re: the will-o'-the-wisp-- idk if it's like a textual folkloric thing or my personal associations or what, i dont wanna look it up rn, but i've always associated them with forests + the of course leading astray thing. slightly more meta but also like the uhhhh idiomatic meaning of the phrase as one of the stupid wishful goals u gotta follow even though itll fuck you up? that might b a bit of a reach though since he really is very like textually just. ghost shit. the "man on a paper throne" image DID make me sit up & take note as did the inability 2 turn tangible again but i dont know enough yet 2 make any conjectures!!!! ok ok i thinkkk thats it for noww <3333

[onepiecepositivityproject]

@loopeyfluff / @fluffyartbl0g

MWAHAHAHA >:3c YOU!!!!!!!! YOU!!!!!! i dont think i can capture the depth of my affection for YOUUUUUU in this little message, but you are GENUINELY SUCH A BRILLIANT, WONDERFUL, SWEET, KIND, TALENTED, INCREDIBLE, HILARIOUS, CREATIVE, INTELLIGENT, INNOVATIVE, GENEROUS, AMAZING person and i am SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE MET YOU!!!! you are a gift to everyone around you, and you make the one piece community (and your friend groups!!) a brighter place just by being a part of them. you have an absolutely gorgeous eye for visual storytelling and artistic detail, and your comedic timing is GENUINELY SOME OF THE BEST OF ALL TIME!!!! your comics feel like theyve been pulled right from the heart of one piece, and its clear that you create from an endless well of love not only for the source material itself but for the craft of creating itself!!! your comics are truly some of my favorite op fanworks of all time (yes, i said it!!!), and every time i reread one i feel like im going to explode with delight... and thats just the beginning! you are endlessly, wonderfully giving back to the community as well, whether through your TRULY INSANE FIC COMMENTS (i have genuinely lost count of how many times ive cried reading and rereading your comments) or your INCREDIBLE GENEROSITY WITH ART (ouuughhhh) and, of course, THIS VERY BLOG!!!!! we as a community are so, so lucky to have you and i am personally so, so, SOOOOO grateful and lucky and OVERJOYED to call you a friend!!!! WAAAAA!!!!!!

[enigmasong]

I keep seeing people post an image of Doctor Who with a line calling it British people's One Piece and... eh, I guess somewhat, but also no, not really?

DW at its most politically left leaning, yeah sure, they're a lot alike.

But One Piece is a single coherent story that, despite its length, is working towards a specific end, written by one man who's able to commit to showing his views on how the corrupt system that governs the world destroys it. While Doctor Who is an episodic collaborative series that wants to never end where you can absolutely have an episode written by one person that has that same message of 'corrupt systems destroy those who keep them running', but then have another episode written by a different person that says 'the way Amazon treats its employees is fine and acceptable actually'.

I mean, that mixed bag nature is what I loved about Doctor Who (having an actual work of art one week, a fun pulpy no-thoughts adventure the next, and something to bitch about the following week was a delight), but like, it's not on One Piece's level in the way they're actually comparable.

And One Piece is not really on Doctor Who's level on the one other way they're actually comparable: the time scale. OP has been running less than half as long as DW and finally closing in on its ending. DW is meant to be a never ending semi-tragedy following this immortal demi-god - it's been able to run successfully for an only once broken sixty years and may potentially by one of the few stories out there that might actually get away with never ending.

So no, Doctor Who really isn't British people's One Piece. It's just Doctor Who.

I will say, though, if your favorite parts of Doctor Who is RTD and Moffett's better episodes (which was the corner of the fandom I'd settled into on here back when I was all about that series and I know some of those people still follow me) and you're really looking for the hard stuff now, you should totally give One Piece a try. I know @as-i-watch was into it too, so I think there could be a real DW to OP pipeline here.

As for the people who joined me with One Piece who've never watched Doctor Who... you know what, if you're someone who actually likes the Long Ring Long Island arc and a lot of the anime's filler, I think you might like DW.

[ruthlesslistener]

Seeing as you are quite fond of BloodBorne and the various eyes it tends to layer on peoples brains, what are your thoughts on Elden Ring? (Apologies if this has been asked already)

Also considering FromSoft is putting out Armored Core 6 would you be interested in playing that as well?

(this is a poor attempt to distract you from the horrible dumb shit that Anon sent you, so i send you hugs and questions to help)

DUDE I FUCKING LOVE ELDEN RING, it's my favorite Fromsoft game behind Bloodborne, so much so that I have a canon url blog for it at @lichdragon-fortissax (though I admittedly haven't been posting as much there bc I've been in my Destiny 2 hyperfixation as of late). I adore the story, the characters, the art and the gameplay, and it's where I ended up accidentally making a couple of ocs I'm actually really fond of, which is rare bc I tend to be extremely nitpicky about my own personal content. Bloodborne is a favorite in a sort of spiritual/thematic way but Elden Ring is a fav for it's storytelling, with Ds1 right behind it. I've got so many hours in there and tbh once I'm finished griding out the rest of Season of the Deep I'm considering redownloading it to give my strength and int builds another shot (though I'll probs just co-op Malenia on Fenrix more bc I adore that fight). It's a fucking masterpiece

As for Armoured Core, I just finished watching Vaati and Ironpineapple's videos on it and I'm super stoked to see it in full, though I'm kind of on the fence if I want to get it at full launch or wait to watch a playthrough first, which I did with every game but Elden Ring bc I knew I'd click with it right away (full launch is 5 days before my birthday, so that would be a great present, but still...I'm stingy with money and when to spend it shchfje). I'm not much of a mech guy typically, but I love the bleak nature of the Armoured Core series with their poignant criticism of capitalist corperate systems, and the super-customization aspect of it makes my little strategy-loving brain giddy. I get the feeling that if I do end up playing it I'll just end up tinkering with my build and replaying missions over and over again for the sole purpose of maximizing efficiency for each encounter, bc if there's one thing I love to do, it's find a way to absolutely bulldoze bossfights. It looks sick as hell and I absolutely cannot wait for someone to find the world's most broken build day 1 of the community that comes to dominate the meta before it gets nerfed to hell and back (though tbh I'd be just as delighted if that was a fruitless effort simply because of certain strategies needing certain parts and tactics, as seems to be the idea for the gameplay)

[yardsards]

i gotta say, i really don't agree with the whole "likes are meaningless!" idea that gets passed around here.

i love when people like my stuff! it absolutely delights me to know that people saw what i made and enjoyed it!

of course reblogs are even better cuz then more people can see (and therefore like and reblog) what i made but. the end result of that is still just... Number Go Up. and liking a post still makes number go up even if it's only by 1.

everyone has different standards for what they'll reblog. for some, a like without a reblog means "i liked this, but i only reblog things i love", for others it's "i loved this, but i only reblog things i'm absolutely enamored with", for others it's "i liked/loved/was enamored with this, but i have a theme that i stick to on my blog and this doesn't fit". either way, someone enjoyed your post even if it didn't fit their reblog criteria

like, each blog has different levels of activity. some blogs are super active (are on this site very frequently and/or have a very high 'posts reblogged'/'posts viewed' ratio) and they're on your dash all the time. other blogs are super inactive (are on this site very infrequently and/or have very low 'posts reblogged'/'posts viewed' ratio). this is how tumblr works. this is a feature, not a bug.

if everybody followed those "likes mean nothing!!! you MUST reblog more" posts and changed their habits enough to start reblogging 2x as many posts, than everyone's dashboards would have twice as many posts on their dashboard. let's say a tumblr user's dashboard normally has 1,000 posts on it every day, and they spend enough time on here to see 500 of those posts; they see about half of the posts on their dash. now everyone starts reblogging twice as much, so there's 2000 posts on their dash every day, but they're still only seeing 500 of those posts (unless they start spending more time on this hellsite, which is generally not a good idea lmao)

now this is, of course, not accounting for the TYPE of posts that people reblog

cuz it *is* true that low-effort joke posts tend to get more notes than high-effort art/writing posts do.

which, in some ways, that makes sense. jokes have a wider audience, whereas taste in art is very personal. (and sometimes this effect can be amplified by people reblogging stuff based off of what they think their followers will enjoy. they subconsciously think "ha, my followers will get a good laugh out of this, i'll reblog it" when they see a joke they enjoy but "hm, i like this but i don't know if any of my followers will" when they enjoy a piece of art/writing/etc.. which, i advise everyone to try to stop doing this. not out of any Moral Obligation but bc you're gonna have more fun on this hellsite if you treat your blog as a little bin for shiny trinkets you enjoy, rather than as a performance)

and a lot of times, reblogging high-effort posts means much more to the op than reblogging low-effort posts does. like, i enjoy when my silly little jokes get notes but i LOVE when my art or long meta-analysis posts get notes.

so i DO wholeheartedly encourage people to reblog more art and writing and whatnot, rather than just jokes all the time. but do that cuz you WANT TO, not out of some weird sense of guilt

i've seen people say they've stopped liking posts at all if they're not gonna reblog it, cuz they're afraid the op will be offended. and that makes me really sad. please continue to like my posts, even if you don't quite want them on your blog! don't feel bad! it makes me so so happy when i know people saw and enjoyed what i made, even if they don't share it with anyone.

(i am saying this as someone with a fairly active blog, both in terms of original posts and reblogs, and who consciously makes an effort to reblog more art/writing instead of just jokes, and who makes both joke posts and art/writing posts of my own)

[organchordsandlightning]

shit okay so i've finished the lighthouse series finally and i love your characterisation of faroe in it so deeply. wanted to ask - thoughts on what a teenaged faroe would be like? having to interact with normal people and realising how fucking weird her family is, and whatever she remembers of her childhood. she's such a delight and she's such a menace. i wanna know what she'd be like when she's a little older

ohhh, i’m glad you enjoyed and you have absolutely activated my ‘can’t shut up’ trap card! teenage faroe HCs under cut

so I think my big HC for teenage faroe is that she gets really into painting as her preferred mode of art. I like to think arthur did teach her piano, and she likes it well enough, but it didn’t have the same emotional attachment arthur had for it. 

nobody can say exactly why this comes about, but john almost reverently describing every piece of art she made as a toddler/child to arthur probably had something to do with it. i also like to think that faroe’s brief time in the Dark World, and especially under the influence of Arthur-Wearing-John’s-Old-Yellow-Robe, has affected her, just a bit - just in that her dreams are a little more vivid, a little more memorable, and little more Out There (leading to John having a small breakdown one day when teenage faroe draws a stunningly good representation of Carcosa, right down to the throne room). she prefers landscapes in general, but the family portrait hanging in arthur and john’s house was definitely painted by Faroe for Arthur’s birthday.

as for personality! I think Faroe is definitely a ‘see an injured baby bird, bring it home’ type of person - and she definitely keeps the curiosity that she inherited from her father. while it was less worrying when she rarely went anywhere without holding onto someone hand, it definitely became more worrying when the adults stopped walking her to school every day. I really love the idea of Faroe’s investigative spirit starting with ‘I’m going to crack the case of The Missing Cookie so I can be a detective just like Daddy’ to ‘ope Faroe’s coming home close to midnight because she was helping a classmate look for a lost cat’. with three detectives in her immediate family, it’s never that hard to find her in Arkham, but doesn’t stop Arthur and John especially from being scared to death. they taught Faroe occult symbols at a pretty young age and Faroe always understood that that was the one thing they would not let her fuck around with. 

(I was also so close to including the idea that Arthur gets a seeing eye dog when Faroe is still a child, who Faroe names Goldie. Faroe takes to Goldie so much that they get a second dog just for her [’sweetie, I know you’re having fun playing with Goldie but Goldie has to work now’] - a little white Westie named Bones. this is 100% the adorable animal mascot Faroe investigates with.)

relatedly, I think everyone struggled a lot with Faroe’s growing independence, especially with how close her family is. like, I don’t think Faroe ever had a rebellious phase per se (that is, she was never like ‘fuck you dad I don’t play by your rules’), but she definitely leaned more into ... ‘I Know This Is The Right Thing To Do Why Are You Telling Me I Can’t Do This Because I’m A Child’, which is a lot more frustrating all around.

(still, parker remembers the last time he was called ‘Uncle Bark’ and shifted to only ‘Uncle Parker’ [except when she’s scared or upset].)

i think Faroe might have had a brief period where she became acutely aware (in the way that teenagers are) that her home life is Not The Norm (i used to joke that Faroe, as a child, would say ‘sometimes I stay with Daddy and Mr. John, who kiss, and sometimes I stay with Mama and Uncle Bark, who don’t’). while I don’t think that she ever got badly teased about it [everyone likes Bella, the lady who makes all the costumes for school plays, and everyone likes Mr. Yang, the guy who cheers all the kids on at the baseball game, and everyone is moderately lukewarm on Mr.s Lester and Doe who look kind of pissy but generally mean well], I think the first time Faroe tried to underplay her home situation (maybe she implied Bella and Arthur were married, maybe she pretended like Mr. John wasn’t her dad, per se), John -- unable to hide the emotions on his face  -- looked so fucking sad that even Faroe, at 14 years old, was like awwwwwww shit I can’t do that again. Overall though, I do think Faroe borders on being pretty popular among her class. She’s involved in a lot of stuff, Bella handmakes her clothes, and more than a few students in the school have had their family’s cases solved by the Lester/Doe/Yang partnership.

 as for what Faroe remembers, I would think (other than her dreams)  she doesn’t remember much of her time in the Dark World, or being dead. She doesn’t like swimming much, but that’s more along the lines of Arthur being too anxious to teach her as a child, and thus Faroe learning a little later in life. She remembers a happy home - though the duos lived separately, she remembers them being together so often that it seemed like they all lived together.  If she had an emotional problem, she’s more inclined to go to her mother (who sometimes talks to her as if she’s a fellow classmate, and not her daughter) or Mr. John (who seems to get things in ways that Parker and Arthur can’t). If she needs something done, it’s Parker (who seems to know every person in Arkham) or her father (who would move heaven and earth for her, in a way that makes Faroe a liiiiiiiitttle scared to ever have kids. Arthur, god bless, is a little intense).

however, I do think the truth comes out around the time when Faroe is a teenager. Faroe was aware for a while of things not seeming right: her father’s acutely visible scars and bright amber eyes, for one thing. Still, I think they didn’t want to tell her as a child, and she was easily enough distracted from any questions whenever she asked.

It’s only when she becomes a teenager that it starts to become unavoidable. For one thing, she finds Parker Yang’s obituary in a newspaper at the library. She reads the term ‘John Doe’ in a book and, uh-oh, that seems a little weird. And, um. What are all these ‘Police Searching For Arthur Lester, supposed murderer of Parker Yang’ news clippings in the library? And, hang on, if her mother is fifteen years younger than Arthur, then why do they have so many stories of growing up together?

and I think, at some point, they sit her down and tell her all of it. Not the nitty gritty details, not how Arthur got all his scars, but enough for Faroe to realize that most of her family - including herself - was dead, at one point. Enough for Faroe to realize that, oops, one of her dads used to be a god, and maybe her dreams aren’t just dreams.

and of course it’s a lot to take in, and there’s a couple of weeks where Faroe’s basically sleepwalking through life, but her family helps her through it. I think at the end of the day, the thing that helps her most is the thing that her Uncle Parker told her (and the same thing Parker told Arthur, way back when Arthur lost his memory): that no matter how the story went, she was safe and loved, and she had a lot of people making sure she always would be.

thanks for asking!

[jaspertheshark]

I am delighted to see all the people on my dashboard who are reblogging that shitty "artists should post new art when" poll with "whenever the fuck they feel like it" in the tags.

The thing is. I know op was probably looking for "advice for optimal engagement to grow my following" but this is. 1) absolutely not the website to chase engagement on (it is fully unpredictable and an ideal window is impossible to nail down and any algorithm they might have Will Never work, consistently or in your favor) and 2) a horrifically toxic line of thinking if you want to actually enjoy making art. There is no actionable advice that anyone could feasibly give on Tumblr to achieve the goal you've set for yourself and I suggest you stop chasing it.

If you make art, you are fully free to post it whenever, wherever you fucking want to. Or not. Old art. New art. Finished art. Art you'll never finish. Polished or unpolished. Post your fucking art. Or don't, I'm not your dad.

[kyannnite]

Hey, I love your art so much and whenever I see it on my dash it’s an absolute friggin delight, whether you’re posting new pieces, or it’s old ones getting reblogged! You’re so right to be focussing on your health and well-being right now, we’ll all still be here delighted to see you once things settle down and get better for you; there’s never any rush or pressure. Really hope things improve for you soon because you really do deserve all the happiness in the world! Do your best to be kind to yourself in the meantime :) thank you for all the epic art and general awesome blogging <3

op 😭 i had to take my time responding to this because when i woke up and saw this in my asks it sent me into tears… thank u so much for your kind words and encouragement… it means so much!! i feel like so much of my time online has been spent stressing about how to produce “content” and i’m trying my darndest to get out of that mindset… so thank u for this… really :) for now y’all will be stuck with scumhorseposting and old art reblogs… and that’s okay <3

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