i'm thinking pregnant!armand thoughts just like i do every day for any one of a dozen fics i've never written and will probably never write but- bypassing biology because who gives a fuck: i'm wondering if vampire armand would find out he's pregnant because someone else hears the baby's heartbeat first and is like "now just wait one minute" AND ARMAND DIDN'T NOTICE BECAUSE IT'S INSIDE HIS OWN BODY AND BEATING TOO CLOSELY TO HIS OWN HEART SO THIS IS HOW HE FINDS OUT HE'S GONNA HAVE A BABY 🫢

"The spiderverse fandom is dying"

No it ain't.

Roman and Silvia are still writing analysis'

Me and my mutuals still have so much to say about our spidersonas

I come up with new questions and theories like once a week (I just don't post them 😅)

There is still so much about this movie that we can discuss or marvel about, or critique.

I'm gonna be in this fandom until the day Hobie dies and even then I will be politely ignoring that and reviving his dead corpse in a fanfic.

"But we haven't gotten any new content and people have stopped posting about it."

And?

People come and go from fandoms all the time. I just saw someone finally get a chance to watch the movie like last week. And in all honesty there is still so much being posted in the ATSV tag everyday.

Maybe it's time to go through that atsv and find more people to follow.

Or maybe your favorite artist will remember Miles after seeing a sunflower or something and come back. Who can say?

Fandom adapts. That's how it's always been that's how it'll always be.

We're not going anywhere anytime soon so calm down.

Let's have a party

There's a full moon in the sky

It's the hour of the wolf

And I don't want to die

I'm so happy

Dancin' while the grim reaper

Cuts, cuts, cuts

But he can't get me!

I'm as clever as can be

And I'm very quick, but don't forget:

We've only got so many tricks!

NO ONE LIVES FOREVER!

wolf 359 + textposts

My issue with Thor not ‘realizing’ why Loki was acting off in Avengers 1 isn’t that Thor didn’t recognise Loki was acting unlike himself—Thor did note that—or that Thor didn’t figure out what was wrong—he did try asking—it’s more along the lines of Thor giving up, and that he accepted Loki was bad now within two days while knowing something was off when Thor himself behaved just as bad for much longer before without any specific compromising event.

the people in the tags understand me. starembers art is super pretty but also weird at times.

2023 reads

Wren Martin Ruins It All

YA contemporary romcom

student council president proposes to cut the school valentine’s dance because it's expensive and alienating for queer/single people, but instead the vice president (who he adamantly hates for being perfect) suggests they get sponsored by a popular friendship app

he decides to secretly give the app a go to “know his enemy” but ends up making a friend, and starts to catch feelings for him...and maybe realises the guy he hates isn't actually so bad either...

ace mlm MC, aro-questioning side character

I loved this so much! great MC with a funny internal monologue

despite the title most issues or misunderstanding are sorted out pretty quickly rather than drawn out for the drama and plot. which is refreshing

I was a little nervous about the concept of ‘ace hates the school dance and wants it shut down’ - there's a bit of a stereotype of aspecs being boring Fun Haters - but I think it did a really good job of showing the specifics of why, not dragging it out, and also that he’s just a snarky fun hater in general with not much weight behind it.

There’s also no discovering of sexuality or big coming out (just one-on-one) - he already knows he’s ace, and it comes up naturally a bunch, talking about how dances etc can feel isolating, the way the friendship app called buddy being called ace-friendly can feel infantilizing, avoiding dating because of the stress of having to check upfront if people about it, etc.

I would have liked to know more about his relationship with his mum? Though I understand that it’s clearly something he avoids thinking about - going too deep into his relationship with his parents might have changed the tone a lot. but still.

ARC from netgalley thanks netgalley

throwing this out into the void here mostly just to test how i feel abt seeing it in words, but im starting to think the 100% aroace label is perhaps not serving me quite the way i want it to and maybe harper's Unlabeled Swag (As A Freak With Proximity To The Acespec) was me projecting just tiny bit

While I understand that people are disappointed about the backstory re: Kazuki’s wife and blame the writing for making her yet another bland, soulless side character who fades into the background without leaving so much as a strong imprint on us, the audience, I have been thinking about it and even though it can be because of poor writing, falling into clichés that make the story progress easily without delving too much into things… I can also see why Karin described her sister as “happy” and “she loved flowers”. At the end of the day, when we experience loss, all that remains are the memories we have of that person. If we do not move on, or until we move on, like Kazuki, those memories will be rooted in grief. And, don’t get me wrong, the grief will always be there! But with time and conscious effort, it will get easier. Karin has moved on, and she remembers her sister the way someone who wishes to be happy without her does.

At the end of the day, isn’t those things the sort of things people say during wakes and funerals? She was always so happy and full of life. She loved flowers and long walks on the beach. She lived for her family and friends. She was always nice to people. Sure, they’re things people say about those who are no longer with us, that do not really have much depth to it. I’m not denying the lack of profoundness in those statements. But, at the end of the day, it’s the trivial, menial things that get said about those who left us. And I think it’s important to remember that.

god shes so babygirl

Hey Coheed tumblr, can y'all convince me that there are other Coheed fans out there who exist and who don't absolutely suck?

Some Coheed Facebook group I was in (voluntarily left today) has been doing a "post your unpopular opinions" chain today, and it's sooooooo fucking toxic

Just let people like things. Specifically, let people like DIFFERENT things than you do, or have DIFFERENT but ultimately harmless opinions. No need to talk down to other fans because they prefer different albums to you, or haven't been listening to the band since the day Claudio was conceived, or don't have 5 signed copies of every single piece of merch ever created (let ALONE that that shit is expensive as fuck and most people can't afford it)

And, God FORBID someone find certain parts of the original-arc Amory Wars story problematic /s (it's basically Claudio's self-insert fanfiction he wrote in his young emo phase when he was mad at a woman, and I say this NOT to say that it's shitty media and if you like it you should feel bad, but to emphasize that [1] it's OKAY to find it imperfect while still enjoying it and [2] it's OKAY to relate to the story, if it wasn't relatable we wouldn't love it so much, but Claudio has clearly grown since then and so can we)

I thought gatekeeping bandom was retired years ago, but no, I keep seeing people fighting to be proven The One True Coheed Fan, as if such a thing was normal to want and possible to achieve

Idk, just really turned off on the fandom right now. Hoping to feel better about it soon because right now I kind of don't want to go see Coheed next week because other fans are gonna be there, and I'm pretty sure missing the show would be a gross overreaction

I'm hoping the toxicity is just coming from the fact that the group was on Facebook, where everyone sucks, and that there are actually plenty of great fans elsewhere and the gatekeepers are the minority

So, tumblr, can you confirm?

do you write vampires!kandreil? have you written vampires!kandreil? will you write vampires!kandreil? when will you write vampires!kandreil? pleaseee 🙏🏻🧎🏻‍♀️

(all jokes asides hope you’re having a great day!!! Can’t wait to read your next fic whatever it is!! 😁)

I DO I HAVE I WILL forever and ever and ever . !!!!

ive admittedly never written the entire unholy trinity as vampires but i am not infallible to baby vampire kevin day getting his sensitive fangs stuck on a plastic cup.... nor is it missed on me the inherent psychosexual undertones between a vampire and the vampire who turned them (kandrew).... and of course i love thinking about neil being feral in the literal sense of it and moved by instincts of violence and blood... Of course

maybe vampire kandrew and human neil would be very fun. (with the intention of making kevin day cry because of his bloodthirst until neil takes him in his lap and offers kevin some relief) (with the intention of making andrew the one who turned kevin and it was an accident) (with every intention to make it sexual and weird)

but honestly all of this pales in comparison to the humble human x two vampires concept sorry. sorry! the humble drinking blood from your wrists your thighs your neck the humble i cant control myself around you the humble you are prey the humble oh you know. anyway! what do i have to say that you people will not already know.

kevin: this buffet is so ridiculous how can a human eat this

vampire neil who only heard the words 'human buffet' in kevins voice and got so horny he blacked out: yeahg

been thinking more or less nonstop since last night about the finale and i'm no closer to knowing how i feel about it

At which point did you realise that the plot of IW is ass? I've seen people complain only about the ending or the halfway point where the teams separate, while I was already actively rolling my eyes like four-five chapters in

i think the moment i fully accepted that IW's story was. Definitely A Story was the moment ebina announced 'bleach japan'. like i think leading up to that point i was thinking to myself 'oh i hope i see X happen' or being like 'i wonder where this is going' and that sort but the proverbial bucket of ice was definitely that moment

the thing that particularly bothers me about the “jade harley has a dog dick” thing is the fact that they couldnt just let her be trans like. normally. they had to come up with some weird convoluted reason for her to have a dick instead of just revealing that oh yeah shes trans which would have been chill and great. but instead they went down this really weird almost fetishized path that feels transphobic in the way that it cant just let her be trans for the sake of it and that it has to be “justified” by giving her animal genitalia because thats somehow better??? why does her transness need justification the dog part is completely unnecessary. just let her be trans because she is

I wrote a longer and more overwrought version of this post when I was slightly drunker (yay distillery book club) but the shorter, more sober-clarity version is: it's so ridiculous that about 50% of my current fandom experience is based on things that are now 25 years old (thanks for the reminder, lucasfilm) and yet I'm terrified of being left behind because I 'can't move on' from something that is now barely 5 years old

you could probably attempt to make some sort of sweeping statement about this, like the lifespan of media now versus the early 00s, but what it's really about is my own issues with abandonment which is affecting both my ability to move on (I really struggle with the 'crew breaks up between installment thing', always have) and also the general fear of behind left behind, rather than any real trends in fandom as a whole

ok I think that's enough for superb owl sunday