It's incredible how even though people come to your account for fanfics, they still cannot read. How many questions about your posting schedule do you get, even though it's highlighted and all oof

More than I feel like I should, considering how much I talk about it too. I mean, I get it, if someone has randomly stumbled across a chapter of my fic and hasn't come to my blog and taken a second to look around or through the masterlist then obviously they probably won't know.

Maybe I'm the weird one, but it's just my first instinct to go searching for information before I ask. Like, if I can find it myself then that saves me the effort of having to ask and saves the person I'm asking the effort from having to answer (especially if it's something that's readily available.) Idk am I the weird one? Is it normal now to just ask about everything before investigating yourself?

Sketches I did as samples for commissions :>

i think the most annoying part of dog food discourse is how many people will act as though proplan/hill’s/Royal canin diets aren’t extremely and prohibitively expensive and that THAT is the reason so many people look into healthy alternatives.

People complain about corn being in the first five ingredients on most of those feeds because, regardless of other factors here, that is not an expensive ingredient. But it makes up a large chunk of the dry food. So the dry food should be fairly affordable, right?

Oh… with tax you’re spending about $100 for one 45lb bag of food where the third ingredient is wheat and the fourth and fifth ingredients are corn.

Oh… well! It’s slightly cheaper! But the second ingredient is rice, third is wheat, fourth is corn, and then fifth is poultry byproduct. None of those are very expensive so this just must be the low end cost of dog food unfortunately. The vets recommend it so surely that means prices aren’t inflated, right?

Oh? This one has similar ingredients with the only real difference being no corn? And it’s half the price?? Well surely that’s just a fluke.

Oh. Oh no.

This one even has CORN in it and it’s $20 cheaper?? Wow!

Like listen at some point I don’t care if your dog food has the ichor of the gods in it, I’m not spending $100 every five days if there are cheaper options with just as many “good” ingredients in it. If you think I’m a dog abuser because I can’t afford this overpriced garbage, that’s too bad. I don’t care. My dogs are perfectly healthy with the food I give them. Great weight and great coat. People giving dog food recommendations that aren’t those top three hyper-expensive dog foods aren’t trying to epic own those dastardly vets half the time, but I really don’t blame the ones who do lose trust in vets when the only heartworm protection they recommend lately are expensive triple-action brands like Simparica Trio that costs $120+ as opposed to the other heartworm protections that are only about $40-$60 on average, which is still cheaper even if you add on a $20-$40 flea and tick protection separately, and only recommend dog food that costs $85+ a bag even if your dog doesn’t have specialized dietary needs.

Those top three foods are GREAT at making competent prescription diets, I don’t deny that. I do still have to criticize the pricing of those prescription diets though because I have spoken to DOZENS of people who had to pull their pets off of a prescription diet and struggle to find something comparable because they couldn’t afford the food, and that’s terrible! These are not poor companies! Purina, Royal Canin, and Hill’s can ABSOLUTELY afford to lower their prices to make their food accessible to people who need it for their animals but they don’t. They probably never will. Because at the core they are run by greedy corporations. It doesn’t matter how many good nutritionists are on board if the company is run by people who put profits over customers and make the food impossible for people to afford.

Telling content creators it's wrong to explore artistic freedom and be independently funded by fans, and they should instead continue taking advertisement revenue from google* is

NOT

the anti-capitalism stance actually.

*(Yes, google owns youtube.)

can yall stop writing x reader smut about the fnaf movie and instead give me more found family with the kids please and thank you

the prospect of becoming a published author is less appealing once I consider the part where one might have to market oneself by being/acting/pretending to be #trendy on social media platforms

okay wait yes we all know that ATLA (2024) sucks ass but can we stop calling the actors white because they don't fit your limited worldview? you can talk about bad writing without being racist

after the years of people jumping on activism like its a trend and then leaving it behind after a few weeks i am so fucking tired. like not to be cynical but like i see SO many people talking about palestine and saving lives but like be so fucking real are you gonna forget all about this in a few months? like how ppl ditched BLM after it gained traction in 2020? like how so fucking MANY OF YOU have stopped wearing a mask despite the pandemic still happening? you could be saving lives right in your own town instead of posting tiktoks that might not even help

i'm not saying you need to dedicate your lives to activism forever and ever but you do need to at least change Something to make yourself and the world better. i will always be listening to black voices, jewish voices, disabled voices, any groups that need to be heard, and trying to change my behavior for the better. like idk after seeing this happen time and time again a LOT of this shit seems so so fake. like there's so many bad things in the world and i know you cannot dedicate your all to every single problem ever forever and i don't want people spreading themselves too thin or burning themselves out but like please don't just stop giving a shit when it's not "popular" or getting you views or pats on the back anymore.

I'm generally curious about this so here's my first poll

The amount of Hockey I watch is the Olympics and the World Cups because I'm Finnish and of course I watch them (I also have the autograph of Marko "Mörkö" Anttila), and I know how to play it because I'm Finnish so of course I know.

Suddenly my tiktok and every other platform is giving me stuff about the Toronto Maple Leafs. Only them. Every other thing I see is them.

Somehow Ness @sun-roach is behind this, I know it

older butch lesbians, living happily as butch women, who say “if I were a kid now I would have been a trans man instead of a lesbian” are a whole lot closer to being trans— not ‘potentially’ trans, not ‘might have been’ trans, but really, actually, literally, trans, in their present lived experience, she/her and all— than they are to being transphobic. but I don’t think any of you are really ready for that conversation.

I hate how so many shops now on Etsy just take general product images from other stores and use them in their store front so you have to scour the reviews hoping someone’s posted pictures so you can see images of the ACTUAL product.

And you never really know who the original producer/maker of the item is when there’s 5 other products with the SAME EXACT IMAGE all from FIVE DIFFERENT SELLERS

maybe it’s just my paranoia & general unsafe feeling when it comes to the internet, but the way just a huge majority of people disregard general internet safety is so scary to me...

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Alright *rubs temples*

One of the biggest things that I LOVE about fandom is the way that it can bring so many people together through one interest/outlet. People share their artworks, their edits/videos, their stories, their knowledge and inventive takes, etc all enriching this one collective that begins to form because of an idea.

One of the biggest things that FRUSTRATES me about fandom is the blatant disregard for those same people and what they create. Countless times I have seen people reshare an artist’s piece without crediting them or their page, editing down someone’s edit on YouTube and posting clips of it without linking that original video/editor in any way, screenshotting a part of someone’s fanfic and posting it because “this one paragraph is so hot” without stating the title or who wrote it in the first place. The list goes on! And unfortunately we see this countless times where people aren’t giving others their flowers and paying dues where credit is owed, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Why would you bite the hand that feeds you? It’s counterintuitive and honestly lazy, especially knowing it costs $0.00 and takes 2 seconds out of your day to bring credit/traffic back to that original creator/person.

I really appreciate the people that take the time to call out this behavior, make examples out of others to prove a point, and combat this through their own engagement on the internet. I know that can be scary and uncomfortable sometimes, but you are speaking facts and it’s something that needs to be done and clearly shouted on top of a mountain because people still don’t get it?? And unfortunately with the rise of social media and our growing desire for constant output and winning dumb prizes of “creating a hit post”, we step on others in the process to achieve this.

I run this Namor x Shuri blog [and have run other fandom blogs in the past over the years] where I edit and make visuals for shits and giggles, but as an actual artist in real life who makes a living off of my other artwork/profession, this can be VERY discouraging. It makes you not want to participate or contribute to fandom because you witness this incessant behavior and start to form trust issues of whether or not people will be respectful of you, your efforts/time, and your work. Let’s be real, at the end of the day the internet will always internet. People will do and say whatever they want to do, regardless of how it effects you individually. We all understand inherently that there is a risk that naturally comes with putting yourself and your stuff out there online BUT that still doesn’t excuse this type of negligence. There is still a responsibility we all have to 1. making a conscious effort to better our experience with fandoms at large and 2. protecting creatives while we promote, indulge in and support their contributions to the world [fandom or not]. Because if not, what are we doing this all for?

To the people that perpetuate this type of engagement online, STOP. You are discouraging others from wanting to share their ideas/concepts. You are pushing the same people away who actually foster our experiences and excitement with the stories we consume and grow to love. I can’t tell you how surreal it is to go online and see something you created posted on someone else’s page with no credit to who you are or what you made. I’ve seen people make edits of mine as their Twitter banners without even having the decency to ask me, take other people’s artwork and post that as their “fanfic artwork” without asking, all to promote their own story, take clips from compilation videos and post them to TikTok as if to say they edited that video themselves. It’s very frustrating and truly disheartening. As creatives, we appreciate your enthusiasm, but it’s damaging in the way that you are expressing it and you need to do better.

To the people who are enriching our fandoms with their works/ ideas, PLEASE CONTINUE. We appreciate the time that you take out of your day to do what you do. Let’s be real, without you, there wouldn’t be a fandom to engage with in the first place. The biggest piece of advice I can say to you is to always make an effort to protect yourself and your brand [if you care to do so]. Watermark the artwork /videos that you want to be credited for, post a line somewhere on your page/blog/site roughly stating “don’t share/repost my work without my permission” or “credit me if you share my work”, etc. This goes for any type of creative, whether you partake in any fandom or not. There will always be someone doing the wrong thing, so it takes a group to counteract them and do what’s right. With any positive effort, allyship is always needed. IT TAKES A VILLAGE! If you see someone posting someone else’s work and their name/site/blog is nowhere to be found, say something. It doesn’t always take a huge rant, sometimes a subtle response can be just as effective. Under a post you could say “I know right, I love that piece! [artist’s name/link ] did a great job” or “that video is hilarious! The full clip is here [artist’s YouTube/page]” I’ve even seen someone on Twitter recently do something where they post a screenshot of an artist’s piece, cover it up with emojis, post a link to the work and say in their post “this is amazing, you should check it out here”. I think that’s honestly brilliant! They are doing two things at once: sharing the artist’s work/name while also bringing traffic back to that original person. You don’t have to do it that exact same way of course, but it proves the point that there are many ways to engage positively.

Fandom is supposed to be an oasis, where people can seek and find community in their distinctive interests. It should be a place for people to be and express themselves freely and positively. The level of how rewarding a fandom can be is all dependent on YOU. When you do anything, you are always influencing and inspiring someone else, for better or worse. When your sharing someone else’s artwork, are you making a conscious effort to say who made it? Are you asking the artist for permission in the first place? When you are posting a clip you saw from an entire compilation video on YouTube, are you taking the time to say who made it or link the original video [or for that matter, not editing someone else’s fan edit in general]? When you are sharing someone’s story they wrote, are you making an effort to say who wrote it or linking their A03/wattpad? Trust me, it’s the little choices that make the world of a difference.

And finally, to the people who get it who have been doing this and are out here fighting the good fight, we see you. May your pillow always be cold, your acne forever cleared, your day always bright, the head you receive always 10/10, your gas tank always full, and you get a random onion ring every time you order fries. Your efforts do not go unnoticed and are very much appreciated. To the people who still don’t get it or choose not to and continue to make fandoms uncomfortable for the people WHO LITERALLY ENRICH IT IN THE FIRST PLACE, I dedicate this part of this song to you, beloved. Have the day you deserve!🖕🏾

god can people please stop taking pictures with wildlife please for the love of god just fucking stop taking pictures with wild animals i am going to scream

all those people (with maybe 1 or 2 exceptions) with "rescues" in the US on tiktok are fucking awful people and they're directly contributing to the exotic pet trade