Is there a reason you gave Vanny a girlfriend?

Throwaway line in a very early post where the gender of the partner didn't matter, and they were already broken up.

Now it's more giving Vanessa someone rooted entirely out of this whole situation, show that she had some life before getting wrapped into Glitchtrap...

love it when the autistic experience of not fully belonging anywhere and always being on the fringes of whatever community you find yourself in. of masking to belong even slightly and still knowing that you don’t really Belong and that the people you surround yourself with Don’t Really Care about you and being the butt of a joke you don’t understand and being in your own little bubble, not as a safe space but as a result of being isolated from everyone else because no matter where you are you are autistic and you just can’t belong, is replicated in fandom spaces. in spaces for things you love and enjoy. love that so much

people saying “oh my god this fandom is so bad 🤯🤯🤯” as if not every single other fandom does the same things never fails to annoy me.

oh my god people got into twitter drama over petty things!!! wow i cant believe this!!!

oh my god theres weird nsfw art!!!! wow this has never happened before!!!!

oh my god someone involved in this project did a bad thing seven years ago!!!!!! the entire fandom must be terrible people for liking this!!!!!!

wow i can’t believe people are getting into shipping arguments!!!! this fandom is so toxic!!!!

like literally shut the fuck up are you new here

Tumblr is way chiller than Twitter for sure but sometimes I see a post and I'm like. Y'all DO remember this is a block game, right? You're not gonna get legitimately pissy and passive-aggressive over characters doing things in a block game, RIGHT???

Imo Jason is “irredeemable” by default because I don’t see what he needs redemption from.

Now kiss (haha Jk... Unless??? (Toby PLEASE make it "Unless"))

Ello Deltarune fandom. Guess what ship has gotten my brainrot now 2 1/2 years later. :P Because ofc I go from one f/f ship to another and cling onto it. But fr tho I love these sapphics sm. I love them so muuuuuch I'm so glad they are semi-canon just 2 chapters in.

Been wanting to draw something with them since February, but because of art block back then I decided to just let my pen go on its own since I had art block and ended up with a rough of this and hallelujah lol ^^

Seriously Toby please. Take your time ofc no rush. But please I NEED to see them together again.

Also I love Noelle's glow-y nose hc so that's mine now too thanks fandom.

Art: Mine

Do not steal/crop/edit/etc. Do not tag as kin/me ty! Suselle haters DNI :U

there are a lot of takes in fandom i don’t vibe with and you know what i do?

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i love makoto so much but fanon does her so much better (the good parts of the fandom) because in the game her character is so lack luster. they butchered her confidant it is so borning and not even about her. they made her a cop. A COP. they pushed this "canon waifu" role onto her (before sumire came along and did it Even Worse). and it SUCKS because SHE IS SO MUCH MORE!!! SHE IS SO MUCH BETTER!!!! SHE COULD'VE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER!!! the way i feel about canon makoto is the same way i feel about the canon ryuji events post komoshida where he's horribly mistreated and used purely as comic relief: i ignore them <3 my game now <3 never happened <3 my ocs <3

You are so right. I generally apply this to all characters in p5 bc the game does such a shit job of staying consistent with character arcs and personalities. Theres a desperate need to throw in perverse jokes at the expense of female characters and a need to show that the police (as a whole) are reliable people who are not influenced by things like money and power; only the BAD cops do that. Not to mention this obvious fatphobia and homophobia but i feel likes thats a given.

But back to Makoto. Shes a victim of bad writing just like everyone else. Ryuji during the kamoshida arc was fighting with self loathing and genuine anxiety, and aside from the like. One comment on Panthers outfit in the metaverse, hes more than well behaved. All of that is shelved as soon as Kamoshida is gone and replaced with him being weird comic relief (and the focus of alot of sexual jokes that were nonexistent in the beginning of the game). Anns arc about self love and empowerment is completely dropped as soon as the nasty bad guy is put away (so that its good to be weird about her w the Good Guys). Makoto loses her a chunk of her personality to be the mature waifu which is INSANE to me bc shes like. Not okay or normal at all 😭😭😭 she THINKS shes responsible and so does everyone else on her team, but its an act! She doesnt know shit! And she doesnt know that she doesnt know shit bc shes respectful and adults dont care about anything as long as u respect them!

Its very telling that for literally every single thief (and goro), you can see the exact moment the writers gave up on adding anything of worth to their characters outside of the social links. Its like they didnt know what to even do w the characters at their disposal after their main arcs were complete. No mention of friends hanging out without you, no mention of having group hangouts. Everyone is treated as a core, important member of the friend group DURING their arc, but outside of it, they are acquaintances at best. Theres nothing in the game that convinces you that these guys are legitimately friends who care for each other and do Friend Things. And i describe it like that bc there IS a game that treats them all as friends, and its strikers! Strikers/Scramble genuinely feels like the game p5 wanted to be; a road trip w your team where they stay up at night talking to each other and hanging out and doing things together that dont necessarily include you, the player. Its refreshing and lovely but it sucks that u get that kind of attention to detail in a ‘spinoff’ title

I miss when u could see like 400 new discord servers every day just scrolling on tumblr. what am i to do when i cant join a discord, send an intro, and then mute it to never look in it again every day

Someone has to have written meta about how important the 1st incense burner chapter was for wangxian and how ir gave Lan wangji the catharsis he needed to stop being ashamed of his sexual desires after spending years punishing himself convinced his feelings were wrong and shameful because wy could never feel the same way about him. That the ugly feelings he had were his fault and how that made his guilt about his parents even worse

And then having Wei Ying the man he loves see them in all their raw and shameful glory, but instead of recoiling away in disgust wwx accepts them and lwj, showing him how lwj and his desires are not shameful, that wwx gets it he understands and he's into it too...and then the dream changes and becomes one of empowering lwj and giving him a chance to reclaim those teenage desires in a way that makes he feel good for once

how powerful that moment was for lwj who must have had a part of him that even in adulthood told him his teenage feelings were wrong, to finally come to the realization that he was just a kid and it's okay because those intrusive thoughts didn't make him a bad person. That even now they don't make him a bad person. That he can want and desire and be safe to explore those feelings and they aren't ugly or shameful they just exist as they are, that he can take them ans make them into something beautiful

Please tell me someone has written a better more cohesive version of this because my irl bff just finished the novel and hates lwj and I cannot handle that pleaseeeee

I think people should be allowed to share their distaste for certain headcanons n such without people making posts about how they’re ‘gatekeeping’. for as much as I’m a ‘do what you want’ kinda dude, I do think that includes allowing people to express why they don’t enjoy something. like most people are pretty civil bout it until you antagonize them by pointing and saying they’re ‘policing’ spaces.

not a samgirl not a deangirl not a casgirl but a fourth secret and far more sinister thing

So I just got back into Sky: cotl after a year of inactivity and I'm currently weeping over the Bereft veteran

They're so grandpa

[More unrelated doodles and a monk selfie undercut]

Shoutout to Quinton Reviews for once again rearranging my brain chemistry

just a reminder that a lot of shipping is, in fact, Making Characters Kiss Like Dolls and it doesn't have to be any deeper than that

you can just take 2 characters you find hot and/or interesting and put them together for fun

they don't have to have "chemistry" or a realistic or healthy relationship or have even interacted in canon

you don't have to justify or defend it because the fact that you wanted to do it is more than enough of a reason to go for it

you can just make them kiss. or fuck. or be best friends. or completely change their personalities to serve your ideas. ship them with your OCs. with your self inserts. with a character from an entirely different piece of media. whatever you want. for free. they are dolls for you to play with

and you aren't better than anyone else because you ship in the "correct way" by some arbitrary goalpost or sense of morality

This post really got me thinking because I don’t disagree with op (i.e. characterization is key + AUs are a natural extension of wanting to play in a storytelling space), but I also agree with the haters commenters that most AUs do produce unrecognizable characters by sheer virtue of being AUs. In a truly good story the setting is just as important as the characters, so while it’s fun to fiddle with details I think changing everything over to a timeline where they all work in a coffee shop, are pop stars, etc, has an innate ability to render them into different people because, well, they would be!