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just saw a tiktok of a guy saying "Me when I see a fanfic that mischaracterizes my favs so bad that I actually have to comment and tell the author to never write again" with the sound "i love the way it feels to be a hater", and I opened the comments expecting people to be like "haha yeah, but don't do this" or like "okay but never comment hate on fics because people are writing for free and out of love so...", etc. but the comments were full of people admitting to absolutely heinous behaviour.
someone said: "that time i hated a fic so much I bookmarked it and filled the notes with an angry paragraph about how much I hate it", like, what? in what world is it normal and acceptable to do that? and that's just one of the many examples.
I mean, there was a lot of joking and exaggeration but also people have done this, people do this. idk it's so bizarre to me that you would actively read something you don't like (after reading the tags and author's notes), to then write paragraphs upon paragraphs of hate, that is directly sent as an email to the author
honestly, if I got something like that in my comments or bookmark notes, it would really affect me. someone going "never write again" or just loathing what I wrote, I'd feel really bad.
just idk, have some empathy. you can exit a fic, you can block the author, you can hate silently, or even pour every ounce of hate out into your friend's dms or a journal or something. just why would you actively hate on someone who is providing entertainment for free and for fun?
strange behaviour
#perhaps people who were introduced to fandom on tiktok shouldn't be allowed on ao3? thoughts?#seeing fanfiction as something to be consumed and not something to be enjoyed together as an experience is insane to me#i hate this new wave of fandom to be quite honest#also the idea that you need to share every single negative opinion you have about everything you interact with is hell. we are in hell#fanfiction#ao3#billie speaks
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#the sandman#tumblr polls#sandman#man me a sand#go ahead and answer in the tags if you want or don't I'm just curious#for me i was introduced to the universe by a friend back as a really young teenager but i hadn't read the comics#probably a good thing as my sheltered closeted little christian kid self#wasn't ready for the Relentless Queerness and just the sheer intensity of horror and the subject matter even if#i loved anything mythological she was just infodumping#finally read the comics years before the show came out and immediately fell down the rabbit hole#so relieved the show was such a good adaptation even if there are things about the new fandom revival i dislike
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How you'd rewrite Dishonored death of the outsider if it was fully fledged game with 10 missions? (like Dishonored or Dishonored 2)
Oooh!! Enrichment in my enclosure - thank you for asking! Thinking about a total rewrite was a great exercise. Fair disclaimer: I haven’t read the books & their canon-status can’t hurt me. To me, the Dishonored games stand out due to their immsim design philosophy, and thinking about some of the industry reasons for DotO’s departure from that, if I could make a standalone game with ~ten levels I would, but with the same budget I’d also happily make two DLCs made slowly over a longer timeframe with greater attention to detail.
Game structure
Finding Daud // Billie’s past
The fate of the Outsider // Billie’s future
Game story
Setting & Characters
Billie: What has Billie been doing since she’s returned to Serkonos? Knowing the Dreadful Wale will sink, she’s sold it for scrap & has set up an agency in Lower Aventa. She’s something of a detective/odd-jobs man (& assassin when it suits her). Business is booming, life is good. I think a long-running implication that she's becoming Daud in some ways would make for an interesting subplot.
Karnaca: a city that unfolds. In the first levels, Billie feels like a forgotten woman, a ghost slipped through the cracks, but as levels progress there are hints & references to how her past actions have affected others & shaped the city
Alignments: Witches, gangs, religion, industry; missions for clients who can’t necessarily pay their way. Missions that allow the player to explore/understand Karnaca in a deeper way.
Daud: Billie is unsure if Daud again will bring her any closure. She’s been thinking of him since her time with Emily, and his name keeps popping up.
Deirdre: the charm is a more functional heart, similar to Jessamine, as well as her own character design. Perhaps she doesn’t see Deirdre until she chooses the powers, or until she’s in the void (see next point)
First arc: Finding Daud // Billie’s past
Powers: the Outsider offers Billie powers even though her life is finally, actually good, so she’s pissed off. A choice - she can take them, or play no powers mode.
Breanna Ashworth is this arc’s villain - she wants Delilah back, and knows that Daud has banished her before, wants to know how he did it. Grief & desperation has changed her, and she no longer has her high society veneer. The remnants of the Karnaca coven, now powerless, have stolen from the Overseers to arm themselves to the teeth, and to neutralise Daud’s powers, in addition to black bonecharms.
Billie’s in a race against time against Breanna to find Daud, but by the last level it becomes clear that Breanna *has* found Daud, and has been torturing him for information about the void. Her dynamic with Billie is complicated by their past.
I think betrayal would be an interesting theme, so maybe one of the levels gives you the option to ally yourself with Breanna under false pretences.
Second arc: choosing the fate of the Outsider // Billie’s future
Delilah is the core villain, but she’s obsessed with killing the Outsider so she can take his place, having been violently ripped from her perfect world in her own painting by Breanna (who meant well), & knowing the Empire doesn’t hold her interest... but a perfectly mouldable void & infinite power does take her fancy.
As remorseful Daud is obsessing about preventing Delilah from taking power, Billie’s doing some detective work and learns more about the Outsider (he’s not showing up and monologuing - she’s finding this out herself. A level idea could be a raid on a ‘haunted’ houses where the void is thin)
Delilah succeeds in taking the Outsider's place, leaving the Outsider dead or mortal depending on if you are able to save him. Delilah has split her soul from herself before and she’s very much clever enough to learn the Outsider’s name to render him mortal.
Daud knows he’s dying, though, and it might be an ultimate sacrifice to save both Billie’s life, and the Outsider’s.
So during the final battle, there’s an option to make Daud the Outsider, because Daud wants Billie and the Outsider to have a shot at a normal life, and his life was forfeit in his own mind…
… or, reluctantly accepting the Outsider’s help, Billie finds a way to cut the void’s access to the world, rendering Delilah an all powerful god over a dead & silent world.
Because of the past/present focus of this you could even have levels set in the past - missions with Billie & Daud. Perhaps Billie as POV character, and Daud dropping by the way that Billie did in Knife of Dunwall. That’d be neat.
A heap of ideas here, hope there was something you liked :)
#dishonored#death of the outsider#daud#delilah copperspoon#billie lurk#the outsider#i dont know why you asked me this but i love that you did. thank you anon!#i wanted to stick to the topline ideas rather than dig into what the levels could look like#and you'll notice i mostly avoided the things introduced in doto. ie plot points & new characters#because none of them really pass the fandom test to me. i just dont see anyone obsessed with things from that game#and i could write an entire separate essay about cults in videogames & morality#i want billie's choices & life to have felt like it has meaning and made a difference#and i wanted the game to feel like it was more about billie even if its also about power & the fate of the world#and though i dont love where they went with the outsider & daud in the game. i do love having really high stakes
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I wish I could be excited about RvB: Restoration, but at this point, I'm just glad it's finally ending.
Very soon, there will no longer be a dead horse to beat. Or a Rooster Teeth to beat it (thank GOD)
#the fox says#the show should've ended after S13#S14 was fun but it wasn't an ending and frankly none of it was really NECESSARY#like we could've done without it#and then everything that came after was ass#Zero was fun and I liked that it introduced new things but everyone's reaction to it made me fucking HATE the rvb fandom#so yknow. glad it's over. and I doubt I'll miss it#once TLRH's finished I'm out of here
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okay okay everyone always talks about how a medieval peasant wouldn't survive seeing/knowing about [insert modern day thing] BUT have we considered the following: would horror movie actors survive scrolling through the tumblr tag of the movie(s) they were in?
this is not only testable with many of the subjects in question being alive, but also put any horror movie into the search bar (if it was made in the 80s or 90s the following is even more likely to be the case) and i guarantee you the first 15 posts will include murder man either as a cat boy or in a maid outfit (or both), the most passionate gay lovemaking between either two very queer-coded characters or the most queerphobic characters to ever exist, a 100k fanfic that is actually really good (and really gay and horny amen), a meme that is incomprehensible to anyone above the age of 45 y/o, someone having a mental breakdown over the grainiest behind the scenes photo you've ever seen, grotesque (affectionate) monster girls having brunch, and/or someone having a religious experience over the most gremlin little guy to ever live.
i say all of this with the utmost love and respect as part of the community. no villain is safe from uwu-ification and we will reach knee-deep into the plot to pull out queer subtext like we are mining for rare ores to trade at the market that will save our village from starving. and i think that's lovely.
the "[insert youtuber here] reacts to their tumblr tag" was a popular trend about 10 years ago but they're already living in-tandem with fandom/online culture so there was little to shock or awe them. give me 65 y/o joe actorman sitting in front of a computer and facing what millenials/gen z have crafted in reverence through a sleep deprived-induced haze. this test will separate the blorbos from the glupshitos.
anyway i think i accidentally took 2 of my adhd meds today uwu
#kaptainandy's log#this post was inspired by the re-animtor tag lmao#but fr 90% of horror fandom is this#ESPECIALLY if it's in dbd#everyone say thank you dbd for introducing a new audience to the classics#most of the iconic horror that came to mind when writing this post were from the 80s/90s with the exception of saw#so let me know of any post 1999 horror media with the same kind of community cuz it's fun lol#reanimator#re-animator#evil dead#scream franchise#halloween#nightmare on elm street#saw#saw franchise#horror#horror movies
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Woah dang, waking up to 99+ notifs on tumblr almost always means that an old Homestuck piece is going around again... imagine my delighted surprise to see it was all notifs about Soli!
That was a great thing to wake up to. Felt an actual flutter in my chest.
Thank you so much, everyone!
And apologies for how Elias' hair keeps subtly changing. You always kind of figure out exactly how a character looks and how to draw them as you go along with sequential art. It, funny enough, largely comes from figuring out their acting (so lots and lots of different angles and features that need to shift/change slightly to carry the weight of looking like they should feel, for lack of a better way to describe it )
At any rate, glad to see people are excited for chapter 3! next update will be next week, and will be a two page spread.
#solivaga#yackin#it isn't the first time by a long shot that I've woken up to see my inbox full of soli notifs#but that usually only happens when I'm actively updating the comic or have posted a new big fancy illustration#that dies down considerably ofc when we're at a between chapter pause because old fandom work has the power to stay searchably relevant#and it's probably common for comic authors to worry that if they don't get back to updating ASAP they'll come back to no audience#so coming back with the main storyline of chapter 3 and a couple of preview snippets filling my notifs for this project that I love so much#definitely made me happy#there's just a joy in sharing something important to you and introducing characters and their stories to others#ofc I say all of this and have been going through my askbox like an absolute slug lol#if I could choose the world's most niche and specific superpower I would ask to split my creative attention when i'm really deep in it#but my brain demands to Live in the Scene when writing it or drawing very acting-heavy or important scenes#and I become Slug#Rat slug#new animal for the veil
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Sunday Sentences
tagged by @hippolotamus and @lizzie-bennetdarcy
tagging @apothecarose @saraminia @tyfinn @mammameesh @ramonaflow @statueinthestone @goodways @goodiecornbread
not only do I have a 911 wip, but I also have a lonestar wip! Here's some sentences for the latter.
Carlos is so caught up in his thoughts, that he doesn’t see the pothole in the middle of the road in time enough to swerve around it.
“Oh-ohmy-fuck!” TK shouts.
“What-TK are you okay?” Although unexpected, the pothole still wasn’t big enough to garner such a huge reaction.
TK takes a deep breath. “Uh, yeah. Just give me a minute and I’ll be fine. I’m just…” Then he smiles at Carlos. It’s the type of smile that’s somehow both bashful and mischievous at the same time. The same smile he gave Carlos the first time he got down on his knees for him. The same smile he gave Carlos the first time he told him, “Don’t worry babe, I love it when you hold me down like that, do it harder, please.” The same smile he gave Carlos when he showed him his toy collection. The kind of smile TK always gives Carlos that proves he’s about to have the best sex of his life soon.
“I’m just wearing a plug right now.”
Carlos almost crashes the car.
#sentence sunday#911 lonestar#tarlos#tarlos pwp#is this me yet again introducing myself into a new fandom via smut?#yes yes it is#tk strand#carlos reyes#tk x carlos
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im sure when luz has her inevitable mental breakdown in the next two episodes it will be her mom or eda and king who comforts her and helps her complete her character arc where she realizes Not Everything Is Her Fault, Actually. either that or the entire main cast is going to somehow show luz that she’s been a positive influence in their lives. and luz will be inspired to defeat belos with the power of friendship or whatnot. or amity or hunter will have something to do with it, though if they’re a part of it, the rest of the main cast probably will too bc i don’t see why they would be the only ppl there at the climax of luz’s character arc and not eda, king, and camila.
but what i would have really liked would be if when luz is at her lowest point the person to encourage and inspire her was willow. they haven’t touched on these two’s relationship since season 2 so they probably won’t go this direction but i think narratively it would come circle. willow was the first friend luz ever made. she introduced her to other kids their age and basically kickstarted luz’s relationships with her other peers. without willow, luz never would have gone to hexside and learned about witch society and magic. or at least, she wouldn’t have gotten as much experience with it if she just stayed with eda all the time. without willow, luz definitely wouldn’t have met amity, gus, or even hunter probably. from their adventures with their friends, luz and willow have both matured. and while willow is doing a lot better than how she was at the start of the show (though there are still parts of her character i think they should have explored more in s2), luz is suddenly doing a lot worse.
at the start of the show, luz helped willow gain confidence in herself and discover who she wanted to be. i think at the end of the show, it would be nice if willow helped luz do the same
#toh#the owl house#shut up pandora#luz noceda#willow park#listen to me#listen#i care about their friendship so much#dana robbed us of more willow episodes in season 2#no im not talking about the shortening im talking about s2a#i know they had to introduce like 8 new plot threads but let my girl hang out in the background please!#i didnt mention him but gus too!#willow was luz's first ever friend and gus was luz's second#theyre so important to each other and im so sad the show and the fandom dont focus on it as much as i want them to#we love a good emerald trio but what about the og hexside trio#anyway i do think that willow park
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Doh KyungSoo 🖤
Needed to draw KyungSoo today🖤
#exo#KyungSoo#fanart#exo fanart#doh kyungsoo#D.O#as if I wasn’t already in trouble stanning six kpop groups#y’all gotta go and introduce me to a new group of boys for me to fall in love with#I knew JongIn and YiXing and SeHun and BaekHyun but then here comes KyungSoo???#🫠🫠🫠#i love him your honor#my fandoms are always active so I always have something going on. I’m#I’m so mf blessed
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a thought I’ve been having since i started reading and writing DP x DC material:
The concept of “AU Curses”
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It is known that each genre has a certain set of tropes (some of them clichés from how overused they are). Still, they have something defining of them. Music, scenarios, character archetypes, etc. The same can be said for fanfics. Specifically, for each genere, sub-genre, sub-sub-genre, etc. they have.
AUs have their own tropes because they align more closely to traditional genres. However, it’s when AUs take place in the universe of a different fandom or when crossovers occur that it gets interesting. The tropes/classical formula for each respective universe influences the other, creating something unique that then transforms into its own set of tropes (if created with sufficient frequency across the fandom).
The Danny Phantom x DC crossovers have become their very own sub-fandom, so large that some people might even consider it separate from the original fandom. It does have its own unique set of tropes, heavily influenced by DC’s classical formula, which tends to lean a lot into the darker, grittier aspects of heroic actions, human nature, and the self.
This doesn’t mean that the DP formula has had no say. No, completely on the contrary. DP formula overtakes the story when it comes to the story’s Main Conflict and some of DC’s mysteries (canon or writer-stated). It also takes charge when it comes to a few of the slightly nonsensical (endearing) scenarios the original DP formula is known for.
This all being said, one big trope common in this newly formed DP x DC formula, is that the story (naturally) always begins either with an introduction of a Bat family member into Danny’s life or vice versa. The city of Gotham is often times a catalyst for both of these things.
Across most DP x DC crossover fics, the following outline (the formula) is commonly read. When Danny encounters the first sign of a catalyst (Gotham or the JL or an alien ghost, etc), it is usually at the start of a new period in his life. A fresh start, a rescue, a safe haven, or a new relationship. Each of this immediately lead into being involved (as a civilian or his alias) with a Bat family member (also as a civilian or their alias). More often than not, this then leads to a series of misfortunes in Danny’s life or nosy investigations into his private life, which also causes its own set of issues. Depending on the catalyst, these misfortunes can be downright disastrous or a mere annoyance.
One can interpret this in two ways. It can be an AU Curse specific to the DP x DC crossovers. As soon as that catalyst pops up, Danny becomes automatically destined to meet the Batfam and his life begins to drastically change, for better or worse.
Or it can be considered a DC curse, where the moment a new variable is introduced, more new, crazier things begin to follow it and the situation becomes progressively worse or more convoluted (or both) for all the characters present in the plot. This DC curse would be an aspect of its respective universe that almost completely overtook most plot tropes within the DP x DC fandom, in small or grander ways.
It’s interesting to see how the fandom has developed all of this on a near subconscious level, simply because writers took their favorite and the most liked aspects of either universe, and used it to shape their stories. To begin it, all a writer has to do is introduce the catalyst. Everything else will follow.
Interestingly enough, the AU Curse can also be seen from an outside, reader perspective in the sense that fans of the original source (Not the crossover material/formula itself) will sometimes be subjected to it. This happens when the crossover material begins edging into or gaining popularity over the original source, so its fans begin seeing less of the material they enjoy and more of the crossover one. They see a catalyst (crossover fanart, a fellow fan who starts getting into it, or a writer who starts creating content for it), and suddenly the original source is overtaken by all the newly formed characteristics of the crossover material.
I might be interpreting some things wrong, or not have the full scope of the dubbed “DC Curse” I outlined. So if anyone wants to share their own views or correct anything, you’re more than welcome to!
#big maybe pointless thoughts#but i find it all so interesting#long post#dpxdc#i try to use general terms for some stuff but#this is very specifically about the dpxdc sub-fandom because i’ve seen how huge it’s gotten#and most of the material follows more or less the same schematics that you don’t frequently see in other fandoms i think#i might be wrong#it’s just that the more i work on my own fic the more i start to see this#i’ve been working with some of the more common tropes and noticed how#danny interacts with the dc universe#HE’S the new and strange variable introduced to the dc universe#but it’s the dc characters who usually barge into his life somehow#idk this might just be me
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Like Grandfather and Grandson
#Dhmis oc#dhmis fandom#dhmis#Dont hug me I’m scared#dhmis original character#dhmis teacher oc#glowbo the glowstick#Henry the headphones#Finally doing some Pre-death stuff#and might introduce a new character or 2 soon#sorry for not posting#as often
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Let Earthworm Jim Be Gay
Never heard of this fandom before, but I've been looking through the tag at some comic panels and show clips, and from the looks of it, this guy's vibes are VIBRANT.
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...Ew the Walmart version of Marinette who was just introduced for literally no reason is making people compare her to Alya.
..whatever her name is cuz I refuse to spell it better not be another replacement Alya in yalls shitty little salty 'Alyas Lilas attack dog' bullshit fics istg.
I should HOPE we've left all of those lack luster tropes behind. (Especially Saltinette, literally she's the worst of them)
Anyways, S..isnt better than Alya. Marinette can have TWO(2) Bffs you lames.
S would love Alya and be glad Marinette has a new friend and Marinette would be overjoyed to introduce these two. Cmon now bffr
#j.p speaks#miraculous ladybug#i will never actually say her name#yall know who im talking about#mlb fandom#alya cesaire#marinette dupain cheng#the same way i feel about Zoe is how i feel about her: characters that shouldve either been introduced a while ago#or not at all if theyre presence holds such importance#it just seems..late to add a new random old friend who Marinette never mentions ever despite the 'affect' she left on her?? idk#..i also dislike her cuz shes so damn ugly to me. THE GLASSES ARE UGLY. GOD DAMMIT at least Zoes cute.#sometimes the character design in this show#bothers me idk why. the kids in the show and Alyas older sister are also..butt ugly. im sorry
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Hey do you guys think they’ll introduce new campers in season 5
#I though about this and I’m split on the idea#because there are so many ways it could go wrong#my first though was that if they do they should only introduce like one or two#idk part of the appeal of camp camp is that a lot of other summer camp shows (that I’ve seen) have a very crowded cast#and camp camp’s two counsellors ten campers thing worked well to me#though I do think they’re kinda setting up the introduction of a new counsellor cause David says he’ll need the extra help#hmm sorry camp camp fandom for my ramblings since the special came out#camp camp#cc#rotomtalks
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as much as i laugh at all the jokes about us as atiny taking over coachella, PLS BE KIND TO NEW ATINY THAT DO COME FROM THIS EVENT 😭🤣 idk if that was a given or not but gatekeeping is a funny joke but lets all be friends
#its just new people to introduce to the fandom like we've been here for a bit but im sure you can still remember when you first saw the boys#and went 😧 they. are. the. ones.#and this is SUCH A BIG STAGE like metaphorically because blackpink went last year as the FIRST FEMALE KPOP group do you know#how much that meant to me bro tell me why i was bawling my eyes out and i wasnt even there#and to have our boys 🥺🥹😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 im already tearring up this is gonna be so flipping sick#ateez#coachella 2024
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I can only ever hope to write a relationship like the Nanase twins. Like, it is absolutely Kujo's fault that things turned out this way, but that doesn't at all negate Tenn's choice in going with him for Riku's sake. And it's not Riku's fault at all, but he was also so valid for feeling both like he had no control over the situation and that he was somehow responsible for it. And Tenn is absolutely harsh on Riku that it can crush (and has crushed) Riku, and Riku's complicated feelings regarding Tenn can be crushing for Tenn, yet you somehow pity the both of them and hate neither. They are twins but they are also their own individual people because they were not introduced as a set but apart from the other. 1000/10 writing
#the grip the nanase twins have on me is unreal.....#i love it when media gives me a representation of two flawed siblings trying to work out insane drama#and i love it when narratively any other media would have villainised tenn a little more....#...but the first time you meet him you kinda immediately like him because both brothers were introduced separate from each other#and its through the writing that you get to believe the connection they HAD and how it makes it so awkward for the new...#...connection theyre trying to form....sort of trying anyway on tenns part but he gets there#idolish7#fandom spamdom#note's notes#im so proud of there being so many gen fics exploring nanase twins angst on ao3#slightly less proud of the incest fics but....you do you and ill do me
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