guess what i watched on new years (a redraw kind of)

AU where everything is the same except Alastor and Lucifer are buddies

i’ve been scratching my head over the whole watcher situation. I’m not a fan myself but got dragged into it cus of the people I follow, i only watched their puppet history series and the buzzfeed unsolved series from way back- honestly, i couldn’t care less if they locked all their stuff behind a paywall. I’m so neutral on this whole thing, i might as well be swiss.

but i’m not neutral? In fact, the whole thing really bothers me and i couldn’t figure out why.

cus i get it, yanno. As a company that thrives on creativity, i understand you’d wanna cut yourself off the mega-capatalist-giant that is youtube to get rid of annoying restrictions, and asking monetary support from your audience so you can really stretch the limit of your creativity. I GET IT.

And it STILL bothers me!

And then I figured it out:

the whole “any future videos they’ll be making will EXCLUSIVELY be available through a streaming service you have to pay a monthly subscription for” comes less across as “please support us monetarily so we can grow as creators”, and comes more across as “if you want to continue being a fan, or even being a part of the audience, you’re gonna have to pay up. You have no choice in the matter. It’s either pay, or you’re not a ‘real’ fan or a ‘real’ part of our audience.”

THAT’S what’s bothering me about it. It feels like they’re gatekeeping who gets to be part of their community with money (that not everyone might have). And knowing where they come from and how they started…. That’s… extremely tone deaf. To put it gently.

*complaining for no reason again because i am bored* i need more ppl to know that these. are all the same person these are literally canonically all the exact same individual person im begging u

literally almost all the ganondorfs are the exact same individual and almost all the ganons are the exact same individual, almost all the ganondorfs & ganons are the same exact person just in different forms and circumstances. except for FSA and maybe whatever the fuck is going on with TotK ganondorf but i still think it��s weird that he still has golden eyes & rounded ears when even the gerudo in TotK’s ancient past dont, but anyway ashfjsbfjsn

feel like pure shit just want her back

I really miss the natural hair community & watching natural hair content generally. That was so good for Black Women; we were thriving at it, too. And as rapidly as it rose to popularity, it’s crazy how dead the whole concept is now. I think it had more to do w all the division created over routines around maintenance than anything else. Everybody was entirely too pushy w trying to make what worked for them personally a staple for taking care of textured hair in general — & that shit walked so that colorism, featurism, texturism & misogynoir could run. Now the same ppl who was riding the wave a few years ago & swearing by all these products, brands, sponsors, wash day & styling methods have put natural hair away as a concept entirely.

Also, why the hell did we waste all that energy prefacing everything w, “Stop doing this and do these things for your hair to grow to tailbone length overnight🤡” — just to go right back to weave and perms? All that researching for what? All the dedication to disproving antiblack/misogynoir notions about Black hair for what? All the redefining of protective styles for what? All the trying to unlearn the belief structures around the colonization of Black hair for what? What did we teach ourselves fr? How did we make things any easier for Black Women and little Black girls? It’s tragic af. The Natural Hair Community/Movement is dead, it seems like. I don’t think we fought hard enough to prevent what happened to it honestly :\

WHY DID I WAIT UNTIL 2019 TO SUBSCRIBE TO AMAZINGPHIL IM CRYING

Hello princess 💖

SPOOKY MONTH FANDOM

What do you head canon Skid and Pump's real names to be? If you have any ideas at all that is HJFDCS

@benbaroweek2023 day 4 (vampire) and day 6 (reunion)

vampires are immortal, right? :)

bonus doodles:

the fact that this only has 50 likes is a crime

regarding posting extra fic content that is not fic, but being worried about notifications... i have no idea how user subscriptions for pseuds work on AO3, but would it be a viable option to post those extra things under a pseud and then you can make it a related work to the fic in question?

it doesn't work! :( anyone who's subscribed to my main 'snickerdoodlles' username will get notifications for everything i post on AO3 that isn't anonymous because the pseuds still tie back to it. which is actually really convenient for me in every other case, but ajkfdjh.

right now i'm mostly considering building up a queue of tumblr posts that i'd want to copy over to AO3, then making a specific story post that's in my anon collection as i move stuff over. i can link all the story stuff together in the fics themselves, then take them out of the anon collection after i've finished uploading everything so that it's just one email notification at the end. my only hesitation rn is that moving a bunch of stuff over sounds very boring and i'm procrastinating it lol, but that's the only method i can think of atm that won't drive me completely nuts? i also don't really want anyone getting AO3 notifications from me to become associated with "not fic" either oof, i will cry if that happens 😂

@wearewatcher

yall do realize you could've just leaned into patreon more, right? Jenny Nicholson has moved pretty much all her content to patreon and far as I can tell she's been successful. You could've kept the youtube and used patreon for the "advertiser unfriendly" stuff, even more risque and longer versions of the same videos. Plus bonus content, bts, etc etc. Hell, you could've made the watcher site and used it as a patreon-esc thing to avoid patreon fees if you needed to. Moving *everything* to a paywall is just a slap in the face...and stupid.

And to expect people to pay that much so you can have a 30 person team in a huge office building in LA (which is wholly unnecessary for the content you make) to only put out one video a week?....come on. There are youtube channels with vastly smaller teams, heck youtube channels run mostly by ONE person that put out good content once a week. I'm not saying crank out content just cause, but with 30 staff (literally why), and now you expect people to throw money at you? Htf can you justify that? How can you justify claiming you need to make more money when a channel with your numbers should be doing fantasic if managed properly? How the hell can you justify throwing a bill at your fans and then saying you wanna make "content" that is effectively paying for your CEO and his buddies' expensive tastes?

Let alone that the videos you have been making haven't been any better for all the bells and whistles you're so concerned about putting on them. They don't feel fun, they feel overproduced and bloated. If you're so strapped for cash maybe dial that shit back.

people always complain about a story not making sense because they refuse to read the notes and stuff found around in the world and call it bad game design, but when a story has a lot of exposition in dialogue its bad writing because its exposition dump, and when the notes and dialogue are made to be minimal so people can only learn the lore they feel like learning the story is "badly delivered" because it was not spoon-fed to us? just say you hate spending time learning the lore and go