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Okay so, there is a thing twitter does and you sometimes see it here, when people are professing that a certain block man relationship is platonic, and/or that anything else is boundary breaking. The stance is that you love the platonic relationship so much, and anything else is "weird". So you're defending from the weirdos.
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And the thing is, I am not intending to say that you personally have to be comfortable with romantic or sexual relationships when it comes to the block men. If you go "y'know this is not for me", that is 100% fair. That's why I do think that appropriate tags are so important, so that you can curate your space. However. This specific interaction has been sitting in my head for days.
First of all like slimarina has repeatedly rped gay sex on stream, artists drawing them kissing should not be getting death threats on twitter. Second of all— why is it weird. Why are you saying specifically that a relationship between two men is weird or bad or unclear inappropriate? Do you know what you sound like when you say that?
Cause it isn't just "keep the nsfw away from the minors", which is fair and based. Tag that shit. People also acted like this with beeduo when all we were talking about was handholding and kissing, which a) they were making jokes about lap dances on stream, I don't think a kiss is too far, b) handholding your beloved is a behaviour that shows up in humanity in *middle school*. Like this was the type of romance that would show up in disney movies, and people would be like "I am protecting the streamers from the weirdos" by saying that this is abhorent and you're a degenerate if you think about it!
Cause the thing is, when you are saying that queer romance is somehow inappropriate for minors, or saying that a "gay couple" is incompatible with the concept of nsfw without being weird, this is indistinguishable from homophobia. It is literally a homophobic talking point, that gay romance is inherently sexual and inappropriate, and that gay sex is inherently weird and bad. This is a thing politicians are using to push regressive political agendas.
A lot of people are not comfortable with nsfw and that is fine, but when you are making broad statements about sex and romance In General, you start to fall into some traps where like, literally I have heard these talking points from evangelical christians telling me that sex would make me inherently unclean and broken. I am begging people to draw a distinction between "i don't want to see that" and "all of that is bad/weird/inappropriate/should never be talked about in public".
Uncomfortable with slimarina nsfw? Fine. I don't necessarily want to see slime physics sex either. Saying that all engagement with nsfw between two adults who are enthustically consenting and having fun with it and specifically asking for tiktok edits of the sex scenes but happen to be guys is weird and needs to be defended against? FOLKS. You literally sound like a conservative politician.
Like something like 98% of the population is sexually attracted to other people, at a low estimate. And that is FINE. That is how humanity works. We have social rules about how to navigate that, but it's not inherently weird or dirty or inappropriate to be attracted to people, or to think or talk about sex, or to have sex! Average age of having sex for the first time in north america is 16! People are having sex and that's FINE. I'm not but like, sure I'll read stories that include that as an element, because I'm an adult and it's part of the human experience. I also read stories that don't have sex. Neither is morally superior or less weird than the other just by virtue of if there's sex in it or not.
So like, man. We have GOT to stop assigning anything sexual as bad and wrong. It's just a thing that adults do.
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Something about the cc-ifitcation of fanartists in the mcyt fandom is bothering me. you are a fanartist, you make fanart, you are not a content creator. stop trying to be one
these things aren't mutually exclusive
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Something about the cc-ifitcation of fanartists in the mcyt fandom is bothering me. you are a fanartist, you make fanart, you are not a content creator. stop trying to be one
these things aren't mutually exclusive
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an-animagi · 2 days
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fewer posts about “why do straight women date men who hate them” and more posts about “why do so many men hate women that it’s genuinely difficult for straight women to find romantic & sexual intimacy with a man who doesn’t hate them”
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an-animagi · 2 days
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Hey mcytblr writers, are you in the mood for a challenge? Looking for something to inspire your creativity? Do you want to make something absolutely kickass? Simply love looking at cool art? What if I told you there was a way you could hit any and or all of those objectives by participating in a mcytblr event?
Well, let me introduce you to the Aufest Reverse Big Bang, currently during Artist Creation period! Artists have a month to make an au mcyt art piece ready to inspire writers, and then writers will have two months to write something 5k or longer, inspired by the art! We currently have over 160 artists in the discord working on their creative pieces, and the sneak previews the mod team have seen has been incredible.
But— we are halfway through the artist's creation period, and we currently have more artists than writers. We don't want any artists to run the risk of going without a writer, so we are looking for more writers! Does writing something inspired by an art piece sound like a challenge you're up for? We're not in the writing phase yet, but we are getting ready for it to start in the beginning of June. Join our discord today, and join all the other writers waiting anxiously for the art to be released next month! We are all sitting around vibrating with excitement while the artists work! It's fun!
We did a poll in the discord today, and we currently have:
59 Hermitcraft pieces being worked on!
49 Traffic series pieces in the works
32 DSMP pieces being created
9 QSMP pieces being made
8 Empires SMP pieces being worked on
1 Origins SMP piece in the works
6 Lifesteal pieces our artists are making
3 Pirates SMP pieces being created
1 MCSR piece being worked on
3 SMPEarth pieces being created
1 SMPLive piece in the works
1 Vault Hunters piece being made
1 Dominion SMP piece being worked on
1 Witchcraft SMP piece being created
1 Sleep Deprived SMP piece an artist is making
And more in the works!
One of these could be your next big project! Come on down to the discord and hang out with us!
And hey, if you're an artist who's just seeing this and you can make an au in two weeks? We're still open to more artists joining too! Everyone is welcome!
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an-animagi · 2 days
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Should've been studying, drew mbav fanart instead
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an-animagi · 3 days
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an-animagi · 3 days
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Inspired by a poll I saw in discord today and was like "the dash deserves to get to weigh in on this one".
Tumblr needs to give polls more options. Anyways if you have a more specific dynamic in mind tell me in the notes. "Guy On Parole/Guy Helping Him Break His Parole?" Chime in at me.
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an-animagi · 3 days
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My favorite part of Scott and Martyn's dynamic in the life series is how willing Scott is to throw Martyn under the bus at all times. It's genuinely hilarious to me how often Scott will do something and Martyn will do the same thing and Scott will be like "Oh my god, Martyn, what were you thinking?!"
In Third Life, Martyn gets bad omen (at Scott's suggestion), runs to the village (at Scott's suggestion), and then Scott punches Martyn over the edge to start a raid (at Martyn's suggestion) and then when everyone shows up, Scott tells everyone "this is all Martyn's fault"
There were two different instances of this involving pushing Jimmy off a cliff in Double Life. In episode 3, Scott breaks the block out from under Jimmy, Jimmy comes back up, and then Martyn punches Jimmy off the cliff again and Scott goes "Martyn, you don't have a great track record with that." In episode 5, Scott shoots Jimmy off a bridge and then while Jimmy is climbing back up, Martyn fishes Jimmy up and Jimmy falls back down and Scott straight up yells "Martyn!! You're gonna kill him!"
In Real Life, Scott digs the block out from under Jimmy and Jimmy dies and Scott's like "Jimmy, I know you're mad, but consider this: it's all Martyn's fault because he didn't tell me there was only one block under you."
It's so funny every time.
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an-animagi · 3 days
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Traumatized people are often advised to 'keep it under control' and 'find a way to contain it', and I always felt it was a fault of mine, if I freak out, or panic, or have an anxiety attack, or can't stop shaking or shivering. Now that I no longer have extreme bouts of panic, I'm starting to understand how much fear, panic and pain I contain within myself every day.
If I'm in a place that makes me anxious, I stay still, I do nothing. If I'm panicking, I will modify my behavior to the point where nobody around me will be able to see and realize that I'm panicking, I will seem happy, and pleasing. If I'm experiencing intense rage or frustration, I will shut down and won't respond or interact with anyone until I figure out what is a reasonable and logical thing to do. I am containing everything, constantly. And it's only a part of what I've been containing and keeping under control, I used to contain terror every day. I am used to circumstances where I had to act normal under threat of violence, threat to my life, every single day. I had to walk around like nothing is wrong while I was dissociating so heavily I couldn't tell if the world was even real. I was blaming myself if there was a momentary lapse of control, if the panic I was containing for months leaked out of me a little. The thought of not being able to keep it down terrified me.
I blamed myself for not being able to keep mountains of fear, grief, anger and panic under a guise, which a human being is not supposed to do. Our reactions of fear, panic and rage are there in order to point out that something is deeply wrong, that we're unsafe, that our circumstances need to change and we need safety, now. Keeping that shit contained and controlled is trying to bypass human instincts, fighting against human nature, and I did that, we all did that, because it was the only thing we were ever told to do with it. We'd be punished for anything else, threatened for any other kind of response that isn't containing and keeping it down.
And now when keeping it down is no longer humanely possible, because we did it for so long we wore our entire spirits down, now we get told we need to do more of it? More of pretense that things are fine, more of guilt and shame for not managing to be a closed human container of panic and pain? We were never supposed to keep that much in. Keeping all that inside and learning to control myself taught me to be what I am right now, keeping any inconvenient emotion down only so I could break down in private, or try to keep it down indefinitely, because I don't know any other way to live anymore. Fighting against my own instincts and fawning at others is just who I am now, and it's not who I'm supposed to be. Panic is supposed to be loud and alarming, pain is supposed to be heard, people are supposed to react with offering safety and change of circumstances that led to this. Not telling the scared, pained and panicked people to 'keep it down'.
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an-animagi · 3 days
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please enjoy this crochet HCC Tango I've been working on for the last week. He is slowly becoming more decent as I crochet his trousers from the ankle up.
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an-animagi · 3 days
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Trick or Treat!
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MCYT TRICK-OR-TREAT is a gift basket exchange where participants will sign up to create (and receive) three gifts for other participants. Each gift should be considered either a “trick” (something sad, angsty, or whumpy) or a “treat” (something cute, fluffy, or comforting) based on the prompts, likes, and DNWs of the person you are creating for.
SCHEDULE
August 25: sign-ups begin
September 8: signs-ups close
September 14: assignments go out. creation period begins
October 12: posting deadline
October 26: maximum extension deadline
October 31: collection opens
November 7: anonymous period ends
REQUIREMENTS
You must create three complete gifts by the creation period deadline. All gifts must be posted to Ao3; you must have an Ao3 account to sign up.
WRITERS: Each gift must be a complete work with a minimum of 1,000 words. If multi-chapter, all chapters must be posted by the deadline.
ARTISTS: Each gift must be a complete artwork to the degree you consider finished; ie, clean line work, color, etc.
RULES
You must be a member of the Discord and open to DMs from the moderation team in order to contact you about event-related matters.
You must be age 13+ at the time of sign-ups.
Be kind and courteous to your fellow event participants, and respect the mod teams’ rulings.
No NSFW content is permitted in the exchange or in the Discord server. All fics must be rated M or lower by Ao3 ratings, with absolutely no explicit sexual content.
No AI-generated content.
All works must be MCYT/MCRP centric. RPF will not be permitted in this exchange.
Ships between canonically related characters and adult/minor ships will not be permitted.
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LINKS
Discord: TBA
Ao3 Collection: TBA
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an-animagi · 3 days
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My favourite type of movie is “period piece romance but fantasy-horror hijinks happen and now everyone has to adapt to the new genre or die,” ala Curse of the Black Pearl, Anastasia, The Mummy (1999)
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an-animagi · 4 days
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funniest character dynamic in the world to me is when you have one guy knows hes gay but doesnt realise hes in love with his best friend and another guy who knows hes in love with his best friend but does not know hes gay
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an-animagi · 4 days
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funniest character dynamic in the world to me is when you have one guy knows hes gay but doesnt realise hes in love with his best friend and another guy who knows hes in love with his best friend but does not know hes gay
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an-animagi · 4 days
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benny easily would have become a dark wizard that man has no morals. the only thing that's stopping him is that ethan would be sad :(
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