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mikkeneko · 3 years

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decided to make a post for My (Unfortunately) Greatest Hits, which will consist of a link to each of my top rated posts, a brief description, and an added line as to why it’s unfortunate that they got so popular. not sure whether to add this to my pinned post or just make it standalone, will decide later

Anyway, a brief guide to Mikke’s Unfortunately Greatest Hits, aka places you may have seen my name screenshotted to one of those other social media sites.

1. That One Death God Post. i wrote a short concept of a benign-seeming-but-secretly-sinister god of death, somebody took it up and wrote a mini-essay on the beauty of the acceptance of mortality.

why it’s unfortunate: the most popular reblog, said mini-essay about a kind and gentle death, is literally the opposite of my original intent, which was about a king of a death realm whose power increases through the subtle horror of inevitable mortality over time. now there are *checks notes* fifty thousand reblogs each of whom feel the need to ask if I Have Heard The Good Word About Discworld’s Death.

2. Archer Is Actually A Speedster Post. a brief funny muse about speedsters using their powers in non-typical ways to form a superhero team of all speedsters. the most popular reblog of this post turned it into a statement about imposter syndrome and mental wellness.

why it’s unfortunate: mostly only for the pedants who feel the need to point out, repeatedly, that if the heroes are all speedsters they ought to be able to perceive each other. look buddy, I said that they pretended to have other powers, not that they were actually fooling anybody.

3. The Whump Fan’s Dilemma. That meme about a guy agonizing between two buttons, except it’s about whump. the most popular reblog is a different meme of a cat pressing both.

why it’s unfortunate: look fellas, the meme was written about the experience of being a whump reader, not a whump writer; it’s super easy to type “why not both?” but that isn’t going to make those fics where both things happen appear in front of me ripe for the reading now is it.

on the up side, perhaps over the length of its lifespan, this post will have inspired more writers to indeed write both? in which case I suppose it’s earned its place in the world.

4. “you cannot know what people are taking away from the text” - I added one of my most oft-repeated arguments in fandom wank into that “bus driver tapping the sign” meme, which surprisingly caught on

why it’s unfortunate: it’s not, mostly, except that 1) it seems to flood my notifs again every time there’s a new wave of wank in some fandom I don’t even follow, which I suppose is just its intended purpose, and 2) people who still feel the need to reblog with notes about how their particular bugaboo is, of course, still a valid reason for harassing people.

5. Frodo Laid a Geas, my only popular post with any particular actual merit, this was just the (somewhat disorganized) thread where I laid out my argument as to why Frodo, at the climax of Return of the King, lays a geas on Gollum that forces him into the lava, rather than supposing that Gollum “just tripped” (or was forced by divine intervention) at the last moment. (There’s a better version, with actual citations, here.)

why it’s unfortunate: every time this one starts circulating again, I get a few more followers, and it always makes me feel super bad that people may have been fooled into thinking that I actually contribute in any regular or productive way to the Tolkien fandom, which I absolutely do not.

6. The Turkey Post

7. Child Developmental Stages (aka Children Are Bigger Than You Think)

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mikkeneko · 3 years

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A pinned post for Mikke

I'm Mikkeneko, Mikke for short. I'm a writer, American, asexual, she/her, in my mid-30s. I post primarily fandom stuff, flowers, and anything else I find interesting or cute or funny.

My AO3 can be found here and contains fic written for Dragon Age, MCU, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Critical Role, The Witcher, The Untamed, and the latest fandom of interest is The Scum Villain’s Self Saving System. My writing tag on Tumblr is 'mikke fics,' there is some overlap with my AO3 but not total duplication, so you can peruse that tag if you want.

I'd like to make my blog a nice place for people to visit, but at the end of the day this is my space and I will reblog (or not reblog) to satisfy myself over any other consideration. I will occasionally signal boost real-world or political posts I find relevant, but I keep that a fairly low ratio of my content.

Triggers I tag for:

blood cw

bones cw

high heights (for heights)

clusters cw (for trypophobia posts)

shirtless cw (for all partial-nudity content, not just bare chests)

loud noises cw

flashing cw (for any jerky light/motion content)

(Not a trigger per se, but any post that’s longer than two screens gets the long post tag.)

If something comes up that I don't reblog frequently enough to have a reliable tag for it, I will try to tag it "[distressing content] cw" but that may be a bit hit or miss. If there is another category of content that turns up frequently enough to be upsetting and you'd like a tag for it, let me know. I may or may not be able to fill your request but I can at least consider it!

Fun things to do in my blog, I guess?:

Get to know my writing habits by perusing my mikke memes tag

Watch me liveblog The Untamed at the mikke watches the untamed tag

Hear my opinions about fandom as an abstract at the let me sing you the song of my people tag

Look at adorable baby animals in my cute animals tag

Check out My (Unfortunately) Greatest Hits

#pinned post #blog maintainence

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