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literally had this realization one day on a walk when I bee-lined it for a plant I recognized to be edible and put it into my mouth without any further consideration.

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kaiba miku... the world is his (fanart of @nordycos' cosplay)

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Alright I'm reorganizing my tags and am curious now.

What's the craziest/funniest fandom drama you've ever been involved in or witnessed?

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I wanted more A-lister content.

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dumps some old vampire au doodles i never posted

I do have actual lore and a rough plot if anyone is interested! I should like. finish that and post it to AO3 or something.

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how do i even…

@zillychu if you don’t want this posted just let me know and i will take it down 👍

Submitted by @the-cat-demon and/or @apollos-dodgeball-target

Propaganda: [this] post, summarised in the screenshots below (cw for medical stuff):

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Can we please politely push for DPxDC content to not use the main DP tags?

An AU overtaking a main tag is a fairly common fandom thing to happen, and when it does happen, this is generally how it's dealt with. There's no solid guideline of when to do it, but at some point, an AU becomes so widespread that blacklisting doesn't really help.

It's also simply not fair, nor logical to shove a fandom out of its tags and into a different tag or community. What about new fans who peek into the main tag and see nothing but an AU they weren't looking for?

(This is a great place to also remind people that only the first five tags on a post get sorted site-wide. Anything after those are purely for your own organization in your own blog. So you can still tag your stuff with canon tags after the first five!)

I really think DPxDC stuff needs to be posted in a dedicated tag/community. I really don't want to have to start blocking individual users, but after waiting for... what, three years, I think? In hopes that fans would self-govern and use a bit of common courtesy I've seen in other fandoms? I'm unfortunately almost there. Not to say that this is deliberately rude! I'm not sure the fandom at large has really talked about it enough for DPxDC fans to catch on, so I don't blame any party here.

I just think this is something we could very politely ask for more. Be kind, be patient, and see if we all can't make this fandom space a bit more comfy for everyone, yeah?

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OH WAIT I remember why I never posted it lmao, its cause I traced over one of those deviantart bases for the body because I wanted a personal reference that was as close to mlp canon style as possible hshdjfkf

every other art of this i did in my actual style is soooo unfinished its just sketches

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man that just reminded me of the half-finished pony danny and clockwork art I have sitting in my computer

I have a pony!danny design that goes SO hard man

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"The stars have been waiting for you, Phantom."

Love being an artist and having the ability to draw whatever I want

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This would be used in addition to the danny phantom tag, turning it into a true umbrella tag for everything related to Danny Phantom, while having a few major sub-tags for people to find exactly what they want.

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After some more discussion with members of the fandom in the notes of my poll asking about a community and elsewhere, it seems like the better option for everyone might actually be a new tag, so I'm making a new poll here!

Some answers to questions I think people might have are below the readmore:

Q: Why are all of these only one word?

A: For the same reason the dpxdc tag is only one word! Tumblr's tagging implementation is Not Good. Tags with spaces don't play well with it, and especially don't play well with blocked tags. If someone wants to block non-crossover Danny Phantom content, we want to make it as painless as possible for them.

Q: What issues were raised around communities?

A: A few! To name some of them:

Limited interactions with posts: Communities only let you react with emoji and leave comments on posts reblogged into them. Not great, if we want to have long reblog chains riffing on one another

Original Posters aren't notified if someone else reblogs their post into a community, even if it's public. So if someone reblogged your post into the community for you, you wouldn't know about it -- or know to look for people interacting with it.

Communities have mods, and therefore would need trustworthy, engaged mods to make it work. Over a short time frame, we could probably manage it! But over a longer one, a community for an entire fandom would probably have moderator drama. That could lead to fracturing, or people leaving specifically because they don't like the mods, etc. A tag is a lot less active maintenance.

A few people also expressed a general dislike for the feature, even if they were willing to move to one. This seems like a much smaller change that will let those people stay away from a feature they don't like, while interacting with the content they do.

Q: What about less-common crossovers? Won't those get excluded from this tag?

A: They will. I'm asking about this poll first because I figured getting the community to make a decision about the other crossovers would be easier if we'd already decided on the non-crossovers.

The current idea is to move those to their own tag as well, so they can get dedicated attention from the crossover enthusiasts who love them. One of the people I talked to about this runs the niche-dp-crossovers blog, so it's on the radar. If you have concerns or suggestions about that, the notes on this post is as good a place as any to suggest them!

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A question for the Phandom.

What obsession do you people have with this kids liver why cant you just let him keep it?

Why is there a whole TAG for vivisection

like i get trigger warnings but when this specific tag has MORE THAN A THOUSAND FICS (understandable, kid is a walking science experiment) FOR THIS TAG AND THE FIRST THING THEY TAKE IS ALWAYS HIS LIVER (not understandable please elaborate. normally as a layperson i would imagine the brain would be the first to end up in a jar(normally they dont seem to care if he lives or not))

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just saw a birth announcement thing that was like "3 inches went in. 19 inches came out" and i am on the floor in tears i'm laughing so hard what is wrong with heterosexual people

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