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Watch me react to Overwatch's origin story with Aurora's awakening, the activation of the omnics by the AI Anubis, and the creation of the original strike team!
#youtube#overwatch genesis#I really like the thumbnail I created for this video it kinda slaps#as someone who's more of an illustrative artist *points at art tag* creating thumbnails has been a fun challenge#trying to create something artistic while also something algorithm friendly is... a challenge...#anyway like subscribe etc etc
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Can I say one thing?
Why do people have to comment on other people’s way of conducting themselves in a fandom? If there’s an aspect of a fandom that’s you’d rather not see/interact with, then appropriately blacklist, block or do whatever so you don’t see that content.
But DO NOT go to other people’s blogs, comment on their works or their art, or do anything that might ruin their day, undermine their confidence and hard work, or overall make them feel bad.
Yes. This is about oc x canon. Fuck, it’s even about self inserts.
If that’s how someone wishes to spend their time in a fandom because it brings them joy, LET THEM DO IT.
It does not hurt you.
It does not attack you.
You can do something really responsible and NOT INTERACT.
Aka. DON’T LIKE? DON’T READ/LOOK.
It really is that simple of a concept and I have never been more baffled that this is what fandoms have become like.
#sorry I’ve been seeing a lot of shit on my dash recently#people have been sent anons regarding oc shippings with canon#etc#and I just sit here and think you’re either a plebeian or love bullying people#if you don’t like something just don’t interact#there’s a lot of things that I don’t like in certain fandoms#certain ships#certain characterisations#but I don’t go and attack those creators because god forbid they have different opinions to me#they get as much joy out of their works as I do mine and I will do whatever it takes to perpetuate a fandom#that’s all encompassing and welcoming to all kinds of people thoughts and feelings#even if I don’t subscribe to them#BECAUSE THATS WHAT A NORMAL NICE PERSON DOES#anyway#if anyone continues to get hate I will just counter with nice asks in their inboxes#or steal some kneecaps#either way hateful anons/people fuck off you’re not welcome in my fandom or near my mutuals
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''It's recommended to teach your runaway circle mage recruits a healthy variety of applicable life skills''
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#dragon age#dragon age origins awakening#dragon age awakening#dragon age fan art#nathaniel howe#Anders dragon age#velanna dragon age#warden mahariel#pov you just discovered op s favorite color combo for drawing backgrounds lmao#also my thought progress about this was that well#yes spirit healers have some herbalism skill#but i am assuming that would only be learned through books etc not any kind of real specimens#because poultices are not something that would be needed within the circle#and skills that are useful outside the circle are not something templars ever allow#maybe MAYBE if a spirit healer is indoctrinated enough to be trusted with leave#coughwynnecough#maybe they would be allowed to learn how to make poultices just in case of emergency#but i highly doubt someone like anders ever would hfjgsdfg#anyway thats the theory slash meta for today like and subscribe fjdhgg#riverdraws
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A Different Kind of Performance
Fizzarolli's appeal is wide reaching, but he's always been more popular with the hellborn population of the lower rings than the sinners in Pride. Mammon senses an opportunity to change that by having Fizz star in a porno with Pentagram City's favorite porn star, Angel Dust.
The collab offers Valentino a valuable in to the porn markets of the lower rings, if only Mammon's reluctant brand figure can get over his uncharacteristic stage fright and put on a convincing show. And he will put on a convincing show, as Val makes explicitly clear.
Angel Dust feels for the new guy in the studio; he knows well enough what it's like to get on Val's bad side.
Fizz just hopes he can make it through this shoot, if not unscathed then in one piece.
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Angel Dust/Fizzarolli, Fizzarolli & Valentino
Characters: Fizzarolli, Angel Dust, Valentino
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Coercion, Dubious Consent, Anal Sex, Filmed Sex, Strangulation, Hurt/Comfort, gratuitous Italian
Words: 3,751
#my writing#helluva boss#hazbin hotel#fizzarolli#fizzarolli helluva boss#angel dust hazbin hotel#valentino hazbin hotel#please read my fanfic i worked very hard on it c:#i wasn't going to post a link here but i did a silly and uploaded it at 4 in the morning#now it's so far back in the recent uploads results that i'm sure no one is ever going to see it#whoopsie daisy#anyway pls read#like comment subscribe etc
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okay goodnight gay people and drunk people. i am both
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i've been overthinking this for months now and i think i'm going to make the executive decision that if you wanna see what i'm putting on ao3 you will simply. have to have an ao3 account. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i do appreciate every single one of my readers but it's too much of a pain to put together a third-party inventory/tasting menu for like, three people max, lol
#caw.txt#i know ao3 is goin thru it rn but if we could like. have summaries etc. still public but keep the work itself locked...#anyway it's 2023. make an account. it's free#it also lets u subscribe and even comment mayhaps
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Every time I post a fic I lose subscribers these days, which is honestly vaguely depressing.
#By 'vaguely' I mean 'really truly terribly' of course.#I struggle to post as-is because of waning engagement so to post and lose five subscribers is like. Oof.#I get it part of it is my fault for clinging to dying fandoms#(And very small ones but in the case of the Terror/etc I'd say dying/in active decline)#But still.#Getting less and less engagement the more I post is just :c Ow.#I went from 79 to 74 almost immediately#And you always get people who scoff and say 'you should write for yourself' but funny how the people saying that#Are usually people who get a lot of engagement.#I do write for myself but I also write for others. If I only wrote for myself I'd never post anything.#Authors post it so others can see it too#And once it wouldn't have bothered me back when I was young and full of energy and zeal but I'm old now#And I spent a very long time writing things with lower engagement which was fine then but it's harder when I'm old and tired#And to have like. Less and less each time makes me wonder if I'm doing something Wrong you know.#Anyway. PMS removing my filter; I'm due any day now so.#text#chey.txt
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i love being the retconning canon mutual its like godmode for my brain <3
#tay plays dao#oc: elspeth#morning ! i love that instead of being excited abt dragonflight im hyperfixated once again on a decade old game <3#finally settled on putting ella's 2nd spec point into the beserker class#bc it ties into what i talked abt yesterday w the noble/warrior + champion/beserker thing#champion on the streets beserker in the sheets and so forth etc#anyways the retconning this time is her learning the spec from the ash warriors growing up. NOT oghren <3#i honestly feel like this is as valid a choice as any in canon tbqh so i dont even feel bad abt it lol#shes a ferelden through and through and she would have especially taken an interest in any fighting style#with historical roots to her home team ykno#anyways thats my lore drop of the day dont forget to like and subscribe#oh my god additional huge context is that she names her mabari luthias !!! i cant believe i forgot to mention that smh#so at this point it would be fucked up if i DIDNT get her involved w the ash warriors lol
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listening to chapo trap house (lol) and omg that’s felix’s voice? this is the guy who’s run lefty politics for like the years 6 years and my twitter feed for the past month*??? dork voice over here?
#* i do not follow him but he is funny and so i do like the tweets and so the algorithm provides more. etc#also what's the deal on chapo? what's the consensus. listened to half an ep of r*d sc*re last night because its liike Ok what IS the deal#and their deals is i've thought since that cut article came out about them in 2017 or 2018 which is EVIL and annoying and sorta dumb.#at this point neofashy if they did ever genuinely subscribe to any ideology ever. which they wouldnt because Above ALl they are mean girls#anyways so chapo is incredibly normal in comparison and honestly i can see it at least briefly entering my cycle of podcasts. i guess.#op
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A little bit ago, I posted about my concept for a Newsies Much Ado About Nothing AU. I have now written the first chapter! Enjoy!
Anyway I’m relatively new to the Newsies fandom; I mostly just lurk but Newsies became my latest hyperfixation around May/June of this year, so yeah, hi I guess.
#newsies#livesies#92sies#well sort of 92sies#newsies fanfiction#javid#sprace#my writing#jack kelly#davey jacobs#katherine plumber#my posts#i have only written one fanfiction outside of high school english prior to this!#so i am a bit nervous!#anyway like comment subscribe etc#not till a hot january
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Can anyone recommend any good reminder/task apps that don't collect shit loads of data? Literally the only the functions I actually need are:
1. Custom recurring alarms (e.g. every third Wednesday)
2. A repeating alarm that will go off at intervals until I mark a task as complete
3. The ability to postpone the task until a later date
#i don't have adhd but i do struggle immensely with organisation/household clutter etc. and i find advice from people#that do have it often works well for me.#like i have literally gone through about 20 apps at this point and either their data practices aren't great or the functions i need#are subscriber only.#memorigi seems like it might be okay but realistically it has more functions than i need and the other one i think was called nag#but you have to sign into that using a google account and i couldn't find out how much a sub even cost.#like obvs free is the best but i don't mind paying if it works.#anyway.
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OUTTA MY MIND (teaser)
18+ / mdi
summary: getting a brand new job as a senior idol's manager was scary enough on its own, but it became even worse when said idol was jeon jungkook, idol of all idols. what made it even worse? when jungkook began taking a special liking to you, damning any conflict of interest his crush on you may have had.
content: idol!au, staff!reader x idol!jungkook, jungkook is shameless about his crush on reader, but it's fine bc reader likes him back!!, reader acts hard to get bc her job is too important though boo, afab reader, banter, jk is a flirt, reader is a little bit shy, a lot of rlly wrong info about working in the industry, smut, oral (f receiving), penetrative sex, etc.
(^ no actual content warnings in the teaser)
wc: 924 (teaser); 7.7k (full fic)
release date: may 31st
or you can check it out on my ko-fi or patreon today by subscribing to either one!
a/n: ive had this in the drafts for a while but kept forgetting to finish it lol anyways i hope u guys enjoy it once it comes out<3 (also not 100% proofread oops..)
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Whenever you'd tell someone you worked within the entertainment industry, – the music industry, to be precise – people always showed a little extra interest in your words, probably assuming you to be involved in the flashier aspects of it. The statement on it's own sounded exciting, enigmatic even. This would only then be followed by disappointed upon finding out your specific profession of choice, deeming it less exciting than most.
You were a manager. No, you were not an active member of the entertainment industry itself, but you were one of the many pillars necessary for the talent to create the entertainment people would always seek.
Being as young as you were, it had been hard to get to where you were so quickly. Networking had been your best friend all throughout your career, eventually landing you in your current role – one that would only open even more doors for you.
It had only been a week since you had received a call from your friend – an old friend from an internship who just so happened to be a former Hybe video producer – letting you know of a recent opening as one of the many managers at the company. Having been between gigs at the time, you jumped at the chance without a second thought. Hybe? The biggest entertainment company in Korea? You didn't need any details before agreeing.
It was a few days later in which you found out the details. The opportunity had been even more life-altering than you'd thought.
Originally, you had believed you'd end up becoming manager to one of the many brand new rookie groups in the growing company. With so many surging youth in the industry, it made sense to you that you'd be assigned such a role, not having had any prior experience within Hybe itself.
Except that wasn't the case. Having previously worked and interned at a few other South Korean entertainment companies through the years, it seemed like Hybe deemed you experienced enough to assign you the role of becoming a senior artist's manager.
Jeon Jungkook.
Senior artist had been an understatement. Those had been the words written in your contract, explaining your role in excruciating detail, yet failing to mention that your client would be Korea's most popular singer.
You couldn't lie, you were insanely intimidated by your new role. Despite being proudly skilled at your job, becoming the manager of an idol who had been in the game for longer than you'd even been out of college was a bit scary. Jungkook had gone from the absolute bottom to the top, he had most likely lived through it all by now – what kind of expertise could you offer someone who had already seen it all?
Being manager of an idol differed slightly from managing any other person. Idol companies usually handled the schedulings, bookings, and the legalities of their artists. As a manager, you somewhat took the role of a bodyguard. You were meant to show up everywhere Jungkook went and become his spokesperson – vying for him as if your life depended on it.
And now it was too late to back out – not that you actually wanted to. All paperwork had been signed, you had your own personal Hybe badge and all the benefits that came along with working at the company. Any feelings of intimidation or fear for the role would have to be put aside as you walked into the Hybe building to meet with your new client; the boy you'd have to stick by 24/7 from now on.
You weren't sure what you were expecting upon meeting him. It wasn't like there would be any special introduction, or even as if you were his sole manager; no, he actually had a few others who would occasionally aid him in the absence of his main manager, which was now you. Today was a workday for him, meaning that he likely already had a few people in supportive roles as he did whatever it was that Jeon Jungkook did while working.
Walking into the huge building, after getting lost a few times, you made your way to the seventh floor, which, as you'd been informed, had various rooms designated for photoshoots. That's where you'd find Jungkook for the first time, presumably having one of the many shoots scheduled for this week.
Having possession of his schedule made you realize how busy idol life was. Despite having no public schedules all this week, he had a packed itinerary, filled with either shoots or signings or producing sessions. You hadn't even met him yet, but you were already assured that he was overly hardworking – and you had maybe also stalked him online this past week.
It was very unlikely you'd even speak to him, seeing how busy he was. Your duty, after all, was just to be one of the many members of his team, taking care of any logistics as you went around with him, but not taking away from his time by socializing with him.
Upon entering the room, he was the first thing you noticed. Ignoring every other person working the room, your eyes focused specifically on him. It was hard not to, since he was quite literally standing under the spotlight, modeling for a camera. But it was more than that. He had an aura that filled up the room. Putting aside every stylist and photographer in the room, every staff member and intern, he was truly the epitome of main character.
Fuck. Was this going to cause trouble?
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#bts smut#bts imagine#bts x reader#bts fanfic#jungkook imagine#jungkook x reader#jungkook scenario#jungkook fanfic#jungkook smut#bookmarks
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i am really so sorry to continue harping on about the watcher entertainment streaming service. but this kind of stuff (internet content as a business & marketing it as such) is truly my obsession, and i think i will implode if i don't talk about some of the takes i'm seeing.
i'd like to emphasize again i don't have strong feelings about watcher either way. i like ghost files, i watch mystery files sometimes, i watched worth it back in the buzzfeed days. i don't watch any of their shows religiously.
anyway, here's the main things i keep seeing crop up and my thoughts on each:
"watcher has 25 employees they have to pay, and employing people in this economy is good, so we should be banding together to pay them."
employing people is good if you currently have the capacity to pay them. i checked watcher's linkedin page, and many of their employees were hired within the last year or two. if they hired people they cannot pay with the business model they had before, something is seriously wrong with their internal bookkeeping/decision making. it means they either didn't know they couldn't pay these people long term, or they did know and were content with risking newly hired employees' livelihoods on a huge content pivot in the next year.
of note is that none of their employees' titles have anything to do with managing the finances of the company. they are the size of a small business but have no one aside from the figureheads of the company in charge of their finances.
this is the kind of company decision making that leads to downsizing and layoffs, which can be devastating. but you know what's worse than laying off a portion of your staff? laying off everyone because your business is going under.
"not everyone can afford the subscription, but those who can should pay it to support the watcher team."
no. $6/month for a couple hours of content (depending on what shows you actively watch and the natural fluctuation of their release schedule) is a fundamentally bad value. i can pay that much for a few movies on amazon. i can pay that much for dropout, if i want to support a smaller business instead.
and to be totally frank, even if people do sign up, i don't think they'd get enough to compete with the amount they get through patreon/sponsorships. and the fact that they didn't know how many of their subscribers would realistically sign up is a bad sign.
a pretty good conversion rate of free to paid subscribers of a service or content is 3% (usually accomplished through a free trial). given the very poor reception of the announcement, let's say about 1% of their 3 mil youtube subs pay for their service. that's 30k people paying for their new platform. that's $180k a month in their pocket.
(they currently only have 12k subs on patreon so we are being generous here.)
a sponsorship deal (based on my googling, i have less direct experience with this) is anywhere from $10-50 per 1000 views. they've gotten about 1 mil views on their last few videos. 3 mil subs is nothing to shake a stick at, but let's say they're on the lower end of the payscale at $25 per 1000 views. that's $25k a video, $100k a month if they release 1 video a week. their lowest patreon tier is 5 bucks, so even if all their subs are at that tier, that's another $60k, so $160k total. it's entirely likely they're bringing in much more than that when you factor in merch, adsence, etc.
did anyone on their team crunch numbers on how many people would need to sub to make the switch worth it? did anyone do market research on how many people they could convert to paid users? because if not, if they really didn't have a game plan for this, the subscription service was always doomed to fail.
"this was their only option to continue making the content they want to make, with the production value they want."
i watched their announcement video. a key point in that video is that they have done sponsored videos and that's what used to pay for their content, but they did not like the amount of creative control the sponsor had over the content.
look, i get that's no fun. we'd all love creatives to be able to make whatever they want. but when you are a small business with a team of employees relying on you, you have to think about making money, sometimes at the cost of creative liberties.
and they had so many other options to make money for the projects they want to make without jumping to a subscription platform.
they could have started actually promoting their patreon, and maybe done some restructuring of the tiers. why not a highly produced, special series just for patreon members? or a special high-budget episode of each series, while the main series is lower budget?
bite the bullet and continue taking sponsorship deals on some less-produced shows, while axing sponsorships from the ones the crew feels more passionate about.
schedule larger, blowout-production shows only when they can be afforded. this is what Notorious Amongus Guy streamer jerma does. he saves up for big productions like his baseball or dollhouse streams, so he can really get creative with them.
they had other options and they've tried very little, especially when you compare them to other content house business at similar scales. try guys and good mythical morning both put out significant content with significant staff, and have had to diversify their income streams with auxiliary products, shows with widely varied levels of production, etc. but it seems to be working for them. watcher has merch and that's about it, and seems to only want to increase the production quality of ALL their shows.
really, all this just boils down to a terrible business decision. it's hard to say if the watcher team is working with a consultant or anyone outside of their team, but they certainly don't have anyone internally who is experienced with running a business like this. to me, it seems very much like they got in a room together and did some extremely optimistic income ballparking with no research behind it.
and that might have been fine for three dudes running a channel alone, but if they're a business, they have to start making decisions like one.
#i encourage discussion on this in my notes btw!#you can even be mean to me if you disagree. i dont actually care#watcher
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i had written a few replies some weeks back but wasnt satisfied with them (2 much syntax n not enough well rounded pacing) so ive been coming back & editing them. the difference is dumb big ajsdjlkasjd. thats why ive been a bit dl here. also i reinstalled sw/tor
#tbd.#i usually subscribe to just get it out there doing the best u can in the moment#and sometimes it works out but sometimes it doesnt#but time and editing really do make a huge difference#editing especially#k wording ur darlings etc#im glad i took time to sit back n edit bc looking back some of the things i wrote are TOO abstract#like unless i expand on it in the text (take up too much space in the reply) or ur in me head its too open#for interpretation#anyway sw/tor is so much fun u guys#ofc everyone is lightside bc i hate being mean in games bc im a card carrying member of weenie hut jrs.
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Are you a Neptune enjoyer? well I've got some news that will ruin your day! (:
(yes, this news is a couple weeks old now, I had this sitting in my drafts and forgot about it)
We all know Neptune. the beautiful dark blue, windy planet, the farthest planet in our solar system, discovered by math, etc. etc.
[ID in alt]
right?
WRONG.
turns out, when voyager 2 imaged Neptune, the photos were processed in false color to better show the clouds in its atmosphere. While astronomers at the time all knew about this color change, throughout the 34 years since then, the sentiment got lost. Neptune was depicted as dark blue in everything from children's books to university books, and everyone took it as fact that Neptune was, in fact, that shade of blue. But it isn't.
In true color, Neptune is a much, much lighter blue, coming in at only a few shades darker than Uranus (cursed, i know).
Above is the false color image compared to the true color image, while below is true color Neptune compared to true color Uranus [IDs in alt]
anyways I hoped you enjoyed this session of cursed space news with jupiter! smash that like button and subscribe for more *awkward thumbs up*
#that was the most AWKWARD conclusion i have ever written for a post but i love it. and also i had no other idea how to end it...#just jupiter#aspaceinthecosmos#space#astronomy#outer space#nasa#voyager 2#voyager#neptune#uranus#planets#solar system
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"people are mad that that artists wanted to be paid" no, people are mad that they HAD places of revenue they could have invested in and instead decided to fuck everyone over and piss off their fans who have been there since the buzzfeed days
(+ the only reason they're now saying they're not pulling content is BECAUSE of the backlash, and this isn't even going into how any growth is now impossible if it's their own platform, they are NOT big enough or produce enough content for this)
like, apparently they have a patreon? have never heard of it. absolutely no advertisement on it, when PLENTY of people would subscribe if they plugged it at ALL (like, fans love bts content, early episodes, extra/uncut stuff, having their names be credited at the end, a discord, etc) but I've never heard of it, and according to people who have subscribed, they didn't find it worth their money (not an ideal baseline for their own service)
they have merch? make more and better quality/nicer designs (or just fun quotes! so much of my stuff from their buzzfeed days is just shane quotes, but the only stuff I've bought from them now is their jackets and the professor doll, nothing else. I've looked at their catalog, it's ugly. put a funny quote on a shirt and I'll buy it guys, it's not that hard)
a youtube membership for similar stuff to the patreon, yt livestreams, USE THE PLATFORM YOURE ON MAYBE???
explicitly asking fans to turn off adblock for them on their videos
but, like, I am absolutely not paying $60 just for like 1-2 shows that only get like 4 episodes a year. they do NOT have the content for this on their own (and why tf do they have 25+ employees???? bro what) - not to mention, the inaccessibility the new platform and ability for non US based fans to even subscribe
people watch bc of the dynamic between Shane and Ryan, some of my favorite episodes are ones where we get the random text on screen- nothing fancy
tbh I get what they want but it's been my opinion that too much of their stuff that I watch has become a) formuliac and b) overproduced without much to show (imo mystery files comes to mind, it's Fine but I only enjoyed the banter vs all the unnecessary visuals, the same with ghost files)
I've seen people mention how expensive just the ghost hunting stuff is, and like yeah, maybe stop buying that big fancy brandname equipment without and instead ask for sponsors to advertise your stuff, all that stuff is nonsense anyway so it's not like you're lying about like betterhelp or something
and idk, maybe having a show where you apparently eat gold and caviar isn't the best if you're struggling with money (esp bc who watches it? not me)
what they need is someone who actually knows anything as their ceo, having less than half the staff they do, and investing in the avenues they already have with SOME pay walled content (not all), and maybe learn how to actually produce their shows without bleeding themselves dry bc the fans watch for THEM not the "production value"
#watcher#watcher entertainment#listen guys this is the dumbest thing you could have done#long post#ive just seen a lot of 'you guys just dont want to pay artists' bro i was ALREADY giving them money and supporting them#this is NOT how to do that this is how to shoot your fanbase dead#also like many people cant afford this now? especially when its an exorbitant amount for almost nothing
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