#I never got involved in the fandom

[mothandpidgeon]

I’m rewatching Doctor Who (11 at least) and I’m about to turn into such a dork.

#I’m regressing #I never got involved in the fandom #and thank god #bc I would’ve written boatloads of fic

[bixels]

Cleaning out my art folder. Here's some old stuff that I never finished/posted.

For context, first art is old fanart I drew of DeusExMak's Hornet and Lace's human designs. Might redraw it as Silksong's release gets closer. Second is a DunMesh-inspired story I had about fantasy Asian characters going on a journey to the West. Fifth is a quick comic of Akkaapie and I's old DunMesh OCs. The rest is just general fanart I lost steam on finishing.

#my art #wips #personal #fanart #oc #original #there were also some owl house stuff i never got around to posting here but it's not really worth posting now #cuz it's all fandom stuff i'm not involved in anymore. it's up on my twt if you're interested #you can also see around the time i switched from photoshop to csp here. like a timeline lol

[shakooo]

1/2 JAKSHAHA HIIIIII GUYS IT'S ME AGAIN here is the comic that i promised....just the day before yesterday i was able to advance this, school is killng me now hahaha and i definitely have to focus on it like never before, but well, about the comic AAAAGH I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT ISABELLA you know, her design is very interesting and fun to draw for me

apart from the fact that in the conceptual art she has a much more sophisticated outfit AND that was the one that gave me the inspiration to do this hehe

this is what i'm talking about >:), the whole family has their elegant version and k love the concEEEPt

there are still 3 pages left to color so wait for it ª

Here is the drawing without text....AND I LOVE HOW IT LOOKED

#she is an interested mother and so on #but UH she has something that makes her seem like an interesting character to me #part of a hc that i have about her JAKSJJA but that is not within the theme of the comic #whatever if it were up to her #the album would be ordered from highest to lowest achievement of each of your sons #onceler #the onceler #art #onceler fandom #the lorax #lorax 2012 #greedler #thelorax #the lorax fandom #mini comic #comic #i have to focus on school now more than ever AHG #atlhough i hope that my inspiration to draw things about the lorax continuously returns again TvT #because that happened to me last year JAKSJJAJA #i never told you guys why i got too involved in the fandom? huh #but that will be a story for another time first i hope everything ends well ;;;

[formereldestdaughter]

ok wait i need to hear more of your thoughts on peeta owning a bakery....

This is one of those rare times where I’m pretty sure this anon isn’t someone I know personally bc I’ve subjected anyone who will listen to my rant about the Peeta Bakery Headcanon. Anyway, you’re gonna regret asking this anon bc there are fucking Layers here.

I know this is probably a controversial take based on the number of fics where I’ve seen it, but I simply do not think that Peeta would open a commercial bakery after Mockingjay!! Like on a metatextual level, I don’t think it really fits with the point of the ending of the series. It actually sort of fascinates me that it’s just such a common headcanon because the ending of Mockingjay is exceedingly vague. I think that vagueness invites us, as readers, to imagine a better world post-revolution. A world where Katniss would feel confident that her children would be safe from injustice, where she’d feel confident that her children would never know want the way she did as a child. A just world. A kinder world. Can a capitalist society ever be just? Is a capitalist society where a disabled teenager has no other means to subsist himself (or feels like there’s no other way he can be a contributing member of his community) really the post-revolution world we dream of? Is that really the best we can imagine?

(This got so insanely long I’m adding a read more lmao)

I get that showing a better world is not always the point of post-mockingjay headcanons/fics. Like there are plenty of really great post-mockingjay fics I’ve seen where, yeah, part of the fic is that society like ISN’T all that different or all that much better. I’ve seen that really well done! Hell, I’ve written them myself! It’s easy to imagine how a lot of aspects of society would not get an overhaul, a lot of the same structural inequalities would continue to exist. One headcanon that really stuck with me (I can’t remember which fic it was from) was that Peeta sells basically mail order baked goods to people on the Capitol, sending them iced cakes and pastries by train, because there are still people who were “fans” of theirs during the Games. And idk this doesn’t actually have much to do with my point lol but I liked it because it’s kind of fucked up and like! Yeah! It makes sense! If he needed money that would be a good way to make it! War often makes people rich, often for horrible reasons, and often it’s people who already have capital in the first place.

Anyway, more about the hypothetical bakery because alright. I bring up the fact that “yeah society not being all that different post-revolution and still being an unjust capitalist hellscape” could be a reason why Peeta re-opens a bakery because that’s actually never the types of fics where I see the bakery headcanon. Fics where Peeta opens a bakery are usually trying to make the exact opposite point. Like. Things are getting better, now he can open a bakery! Look at how much better the world is now, plus he’s got a bakery! Peeta is healing, that’s why he can open a bakery now! And I am so, so sorry to inform everyone who’s never had the grave misfortune of owning a family business, but there is truly nothing further from the truth lmao. Like just putting aside the immense amount of emotional baggage that Peeta has about his family, running a small business is an insane amount of work in any context and being a baker especially is physically grueling and involves early hours (and long hours) that aren’t really the best fit with the multiple ways that Peeta is disabled now. (I could go into this more because I have a lot of thoughts. But I will spare you.). I also think it’s seen throughout the books that Peeta is someone who needs time to pursue creative outlets to process his feelings and someone who values leisure and values quality time with his loved ones. And having grown up in his family’s bakery, I think he’d understand the reality that running a bakery wouldn’t leave much space of those pursuits and wouldn’t leave much space for him to have the things that keep him healthy and stable. I think he’d know that the way he is now— after two Games and the war and unspeakable torture at the hands of a dictator—isn’t compatible with the lifestyle necessary for running a commercial bakery.

And tbh with that in mind, I don’t think he’d push himself to re-open a business (one that would be a constant reminder of his dead family and his complicated relationships with them that got no closure) that would require him to sacrifice his physical and emotional well-being. Like I think he might look into the possibility, I think he might even start trying to open a bakery out of a sense of obligation/duty, maybe harboring some idea that this is who he was supposed to be, who he would've been without the Games, or that it’s this last piece of his family that can live on, or that it’s this last connection to his family so he can’t let it die too. But ultimately, I think any attempt to open a bakery wouldn’t get very far. Maybe he'd start wading into the logistical nightmare that is small business ownership and realize it's not for him (because it's probably also true that as much as him and his brothers were involved in the business, there's almost certainly parts they weren't involved with and didn't see, i.e., filing taxes). Or maybe looking into opening a bakery— how triggering it is, the stress of it— causes a downward spiral. Maybe he hates how much he's worrying everyone by unraveling. Maybe having a breakdown from the stress of just trying to open a bakery makes him realize, yeah, maybe in another life he would have ran his family’s bakery but the way he is now just doesn’t work with running a bakery, not without great sacrifices he's not willing to make. I just can’t see a bakery coming to fruition.

I know a lot of fics include Peeta deciding to reopen a bakery as a big step in his healing or include him rebuilding a bakery as part of his healing process but honestly, I think the opposite would be more true: I think Peeta either trying/failing to open a bakery or ultimately deciding not to open a bakery would be hugely healing for him. I think it would be a huge part of him accepting the way he is now as a person, his new limitations but also his strengths. I think it would be a huge part of him accepting the way his life his now and accepting that he likes his life the way it is, that he’s satisfied with his life without needing to own a bakery. I think it would be an important part of him coming to terms with the loss of his family. I think he knows he can never have things back as they were and I don’t think he would try to recreate them, especially because his family’s legacy isn’t a business. I think he’s emotionally intelligent enough and self reflective enough to realize that what mattered to him about the bakery— taking care of others by feeding them, being integrated into his community and being actively involved in it, brightening people’s days with delightful things whether that’s beautiful cakes or hearty food or delicious treats— and the things he learned from his family through the bakery, are things that he can carry on in other meaningful ways.

(Do you regret sending this ask yet, anon? Because if not, you will soon. I’m not done yet. There’s more.)

I wasn’t really sure where to put this next part in what is rapidly becoming an essay because it sort of combines the points about like “what do we imagine a post-mockingjay society to look like” with the practical difficulties of starting this bakery but here’s another thing: do people really think that the Mellarks owned the land the bakery was on?? Like, sure, the merchants are the petit bourgeois of Twelve but I still don’t imagine they really own anything. In a society where houses are assigned to people upon marriage, where property ownership and capital are so closely interconnected with citizenship (as shown by the Plinths who, by having immense capital, are able to leave their District and become citizens of the Capitol) do people really think the Mellarks would be allowed to own the land their bakery is on?? I always imagined it sort of like a tenant farming situation: the Capitol gives them the raw materials for the bakery and in return the bakery give them some absurdly high portion of their profits, or the Capitol sells them a year’s supply of raw materials at a premium on credit and at the end of the year the Mellarks have to use the money they made with those materials to pay it back, except it’s never enough to turn a profit so they always have to buy next year’s materials on credit and the cycle continues.

We (understandably) get a really skewed view of the merchant class through Katniss’s perspective so I can see why people come to the conclusion that his family owned the property and, as the last surviving member, he would’ve inherited it. I’ve seen the inheritance thing in fics a lot or a hand wavey “well Twelve was decimated to no one owns anything anymore so it can be his” or even like an almost sort of reparations type situation where he’s entitled to the land as a surviving refugee of Twelve. But I don’t know. I guess I don’t think it fits with everything else we know about Panem that the Mellarks would’ve owned that land and I think the question of whether the government would’ve let him take ownership of the land post-revolution brings up a lot of issues about the structure of society post-Mockingjay that I find more interesting to explore in other ways, especially when, from an emotional perspective, 1) I find the idea of Peeta not opening a bakery more compelling and 2) I don’t think it really fits his character arc by the end of Mockingjay to reopen a bakery, as I went on about at length above lol.

On the flip side: literally who cares!! Do whatever you want!! Headcanon whatever you want!! I get why people go for the bakery!! It’s fun, it’s wholesome, it’s a built in bakery AU that isn’t even an AU. It doesn’t matter if it’s practical or realistic!! It doesn’t need to be practical or realistic!! It’s fanfic of a dystopian YA series!! My unfortunate affliction is that I grew up in a family that owned a restaurant and that I have multiple degrees in the social sciences so I can’t see the bakery without being like “What about the overheard? What about the start up costs? Who’s spending long nights balancing the books? Is Peeta covering shifts when an employee calls in sick? Is Peeta the sole person working there until the bakery is open long enough (often a year or more) to start turning a profit? How does that sleep schedule work with his nightmares? How does that work with Katniss’s nightmares? What happens when he has an episode and suddenly needs to take the day off before he has any employees? Does the bakery just remain closed for the day? Can the profit margins withstand regular unexpected closures? Can the supplies withstand regular unexpected closures?” And if the answer is “Elliott none of those things matter he’s not doing the bakery because he needs the money but because he wants to”, then my question is why does he want to? Does he not get the same sort of satisfaction out of feeding his loved ones? Doesn’t Peeta seem like someone who would rather give away baked goods than sell them?? Doesn’t Peeta seem like someone who would prefer to make cakes for people’s special occasions upon and then when they insist on paying him for it, he only lets them “pay for the ingredients” which actually cost significantly more than he says they did??

So yeah my point is that it’s a matter of personal taste! It doesn’t fit the way I see the series but that doesn’t mean it’s like wrong, I’m not an authority on Peeta lmao.

It’s also a matter of personal taste in the sense that I find the themes that most resonate with me at the end of Mockingjay (and the end of Peeta’s arc specifically) more interesting to explore in other ways. Grief, living with loss, relearning yourself, finding hope, figuring out your place in a dramatically different world when you don’t even know who you are anymore, healing, building a new life after such complete and total destruction of your old life— those are all things I find compelling about the end of Mockingjay but for me the bakery isn’t the most compelling way to explore them.

Not to say I find the concept of the bakery totally uninteresting. I have this fic about Johanna that I’ll probably never finish where the point sort of is that, yeah, her life really isn’t all that much better after the war. It’s been years at this point and she’s still miserable and she doesn’t know how to be a person but by the end she’s trying to figure it out. And towards the end, Peeta tells her that he’s spent years sort of passively, half-heartedly trying to figure out how to inherit the land his family’s bakery was on, only to find out it was never theirs in the first place. They’d been renting it the whole time and he’d never even known as a kid. So he sort of passively, half-heartedly went on another wild goose chase to find the owner and now, finally, after years of writing to various government agencies and being sent in circles and things being barely functional, he’s managed to track down the owner. Now it’s owned by the daughter of the man who owned it when he was a kid because the original owner (who was likely up to some sketchy war crime shit) died during the war and she inherited it (the irony…). He got in contact with her and asked how much it would take for her to sell it and she told him she’s not interested in selling but in light of the situation, in light of the fact that he’d have to build a new building in order to operate a bakery, that she’d cut him a deal— she’d only require 50% of the bakery’s profits as rent instead of the 80% his family used to pay. And of course Johanna is outraged, that’s not right, the owner shouldn’t be allowed to do that, they should do something about it, they should fight back. And Peeta is like. Not interested. He was actually sort of relieved that opening wasn’t very feasible. Getting the answer was a lightbulb moment where he saw that over the years of trying to look into this, he’s built a life that he likes— one where he’s stable, where his loved ones are stable, where he’s cared for and can care for others— and he doesn’t really want to change it drastically by opening a bakery anyway. He just needed an answer, one way or another, before he could get some closure and move on. (And the point of the conversation is Johanna is having her own lightbulb moment that it’s okay to move on, it’s okay to change, it’s not a betrayal of the people and things she’s lost but that’s not my point here!!).

But anyway. That’s obviously not about running the bakery— it’s about the choice to not run one.

Anyway!! Anyway… are you satisfied anon? Is this what you wanted?

Lastly, here is my most important qualm with the bakery headcanon: must Peeta be gainfully employed? Is it not enough for him to be Katniss’s boytoy? Can’t he just paint and garden and bake and hang out with his girlfriend all day? Is that really too much to ask?

#peeta mellark #thg #the hunger games #the hunger games meta #anyway wow this got so long and I literally read it through one (1) time so uhhh sorry if this makes no sense!! #as I was doing my one read through and realized that one of my other thoughts on this is that yeah I can much more easily see the #headcanon that peeta like sells baked goods (probably at cost with no profit) out of his kitchen because that’s much more flexible #and I think that would work a lot better with what like I guess I’d call his psychiatric disability post mockingjay #and how he’d certainly want to take care of Katniss too #like that sort of flexibility makes a lot more sense for him and it’s like. if he doesn’t bake for a few days or however long then it’s fin #it’s not a formal brick and mortar business #it’s just something he’s doing because it’s a way to be involved with people and a way to do something he’s passionate about #without there being waste and while covering some of the costs #and he doesn’t have to like keep books or do payroll or any of the things I can’t see him being very passionate about #as far as like bakery management goes Lmao he can just bake!! #but then I started getting into this whole thing about how that quote-unquote ‘running a business’ like that (informally from your house) #is actually a really common practice for people living in poverty so probably something that Katniss and peeta would’ve been familiar wirh #anyway and then this whole rant about how the emphasis on the brick and mortar bakery often goes hand in hand with #this widespread fandom thing of having a fundamental misunderstanding of how rural poverty works and what it looks like #but then I was too deep into it and said you know what? never mind! and deleted it lmao

[yaoicoreren]

for the cancelled riddlebat zine

#edward nashton #riddlebat #fanart #digital illustration #when it got cancelled we got permission to post these #i never got around to it until now lol #i was a pinch hitter so i made this relatively quickly #even though i eventually had infinite time haha #i wouldve liked to see the zine printed #there were so many cool people involved too #it seemed like all of the artists who ever drew them were there #maybe that was a bit overkill looking back at it #since its a movie ship it was bound to lose momentum by the time the zine was ready #i dont know anything about zines though so that's just my not so informed opinion #anyways #its been kinda nice just browsing thru my stuff at a leisurely pace #i am drawing stuff but on another account thats geared to be more local and its also sporadic #if i ever come across a fandom that makes me go stupid again i'll let you know right here on this blog #i'll still post danoriddler from time to time my brain is just shaped like him at this point #thanks for reading¡¡ have a nice day :D

[reverentwormpriest]

glass animals (you know my favorite band of all time whos entire tracklist i have memorized by heart and whos been my top streamed artist for 4 years in a row) being deeply associated with a certain shitty content creator and his equally shitty friends bc of their most popular song is a hell that the yaoi devil designed just for me

#finn txt #glass animals #and the worst part is its not even just heat waves they got helium and honestly like the entire dreamland album aesthetic too like #never gonna forget the time my friend saw me listening to heat waves on spotify cuz of discord and was like “OMGGG FINN CAUGHT IN 4K- #ARE YOU A [REDACTED SHIPPER] /J WHY R U LISTENING TO THAT“ DAWG BECAUSE ITS THE MOST POPULAR SONG FROM MY FAVORITE BAND #fork found in kitchen #for the record i was ahem. deeply involved with this fandom #and they said that when it was socially acceptable to do so bc they werent openly horrible people yet

[mav-the-artist]

"I shall be the instrument of Armageddon."

#My art #Madness Combat #Madness Day 2023 #Madness Day #Jebus #Jebediah Christoff #Jeb #HAPPY MADNESS DAY YALL #I've been in the fandom since 2021 but I finally am participating for Madness Day this year!!!! :D #This fandom is such a tight knit community and I love being in it #I also made some great friends (u kno who u are ^^) #(Who have also been huge inspirations to improve my art skills tremendously) #Like seriously I wouldn't be where I'm at now without all these awesome art peeps #I never got so involved in a franchise before this one...I love this fandom SO MUCH #(shoutout to beemer - azazel - shroomoid - sienna - norskasai distressedwalnut - greeny - pestgremlin) #(SURGE - Dottie - Jackie Draws - TinyCatOwl - Doc - EVERYONE ON FRIENDS SERVER YALL KNOW THE ONE!!!) #(MORE SHOUTOUTS - 2bhankfan - Forest-wolfie - sealed-valkyria - outcast-shadow - aokicyber - ur-m0nster - zepumpkineater and krinkels!!!) #(and everyone in the MPN team/voice actors/etc!!!) #YALL ARE SO FUCKING COOL!!! #Ok I'm done now enjoy Jebus being a fucking badass

[glitchyko]

So I know I said I wanted to try and check out different things and make not just lmk art, but now that season 5 is said to be completed and they’re just waiting to release it, I’m scared LMK is gonna break into my brain again with a vengeance and that’s all I’m gonna make art of again even though I wanna try making art for multiple fandoms-

#lego monkie kid #lmk #glitchyko #lmk fandom #glitchyko ramble #glitchyko rambles #ramble #rambling #ramblings #art #fandom talk #fandom things #fandom #it doesn’t help that I keep thinking of things I wanna draw and they’re involved with lmk #aaaaaaa #I know I didn’t say I’m never draw lmk art again #and just cause I wanna step away a bit doesn’t mean I’m done with it forever #but still #tbh I’ve been so busy lately anyway it’s hard for me to find the time to check out things and do personal art #I’m sorry for not sharing art with you guys for a while #please send help #so many ideas #artist problems #artists pain #artist issues #artists on tumblr #lmk still got a strong grip on me #multifandom #does this count as a vent? #I dunno

[thaliasthunder]

do people that ship jason & piper romantically actually exist

#i mean people that dont know piper's wlw #..is there people in the fandom that ACTUALLY got attached to them being romantically involved w the other? #bc i mean idk u but even when they kissed and shit i never really gave a fuck about their relantionship romantically speaking 😭 #much less about shipping them 😭 #even if u didnt know piper's queer it genuinely surprises me when someone says (which i have never heard 😭) they ship them like lovers #even tho they were fucking canon like 😭 #piper mclean #jason grace #leo valdez #pjo #hoo #pjo/hoo #percy jackson #rick riordan #riordanverse

[rainofthetwilight]

have been seeing this going around so i decided to make my own!!

(just a disclaimer i havent rewatched some of the seasons in a while so i did this according to what i remember)

#ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #levi's ted talks #the most recent seasons ive rewatched r hunted and sog and theyre still as good and thrilling as when i first watched #a little of s1 too #i put it down there bc the writing was kinda weird BUT it was the starting point of ninjago so im never hating on it #plus the memorable moments like goddamn #i constantly rewatch s13 i love it too much #i cant bring myself to rewatch seabound bcaause knowing whats gonna happen next is so fucking PAINFUL 😭 #even tho im an angst lover the fucking seperation makes me bawl #my friend literally couldnt talk to me for a few days bc of the shock from the ending when it first came out #and to be completely honest DR is what got me fully back into the ninjago fandom #like id reblog posts n whatever but wasnt so involved #and id just rant with my friend abt it #but then when DR's release was announced i made my first post for it #(a redraw for an incorrect quote post: dig in my art tag and youll maybe find it . but beware) #and now im here with so many moots #art improvement and 3 fics and more coming aswell #how the fuck

[pansyfemme]

Dyou have a fursona yet

you dont know how many people are on me about making a fursona but if i do i have to reveal how terrible i am at drawing animals

#but when im asked i usually say anteater or tapir bc i think they’re cool as fuck #i never got into furry stuff as a kid but i was never a hater ive always thought it was incredibly cool i just wasnt involved in the fandom #and never drew them 🤷 but i do love furry art and content

[1mnobodywhoareyou]

Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!

The band had just finished playing Edge of Great to close out their concert. They’d decided to keep Luke’s impromptu duet moment for live performances and had also now played it enough times that it’s not quite as charged for them as it once was. Julie and Luke are still staring at one another when the band is met with an unexpected response.

“Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!” the crowd starts chanting.

Reggie hugs his bass, settling back with a self-satisfied smirk as if he can’t wait to see this go down. Alex looks with amusement and a smidge of concern between the audience and the couple and back again. Julie and Luke haven’t formally announced their relationship but they haven’t been working all that hard to hide or deny it either.

Julie raises an eyebrow at Luke and he grins at her with a mischievous glint in his eyes and startles everybody by suddenly standing. He makes his way over to the corner of the drum riser just behind Julie and Reggie barely has time to move his bass out of the way before Luke dips him deeply and plants what appears to be a very sloppy, overzealous kiss on him. The audience gasps in seeming unison and is otherwise silent. Alex can’t help the guffaw that leaves his throat, harshly breaking the silence that had settled over the room and Julie breaks down giggling as Luke returns Reggie upright before bounding off the stage with a wave. Reggie stands stunned for a moment and Julie grabs him to pull him offstage with her.

Where Luke has been met with a very “trying to be stern while also choking down laughter” manager of theirs, Flynn.

“Do you have any idea how much work it’s going to be to clean this up, Luke?” they asked him while he grins.

“Yeah, but it was funny.”

“Hilarious,” she deadpans with a roll of their eyes and a slight upturn to their lips. 

The crowd had apparently recovered and were now calling for their expected encore. Flynn rolls her eyes, still not understanding why this is a thing that continues to happen at concerts but Luke is nothing if not a musician of his time and he insists on maintaining the tradition. He all but shoves Julie back onto the stage, reeling her back quickly to peck her on the lips before sending her out again as if nothing out of the ordinary had even happened.

#jatp #julie and the phantoms #julie molina #luke patterson #reggie peters #fanfic #nobodys fics #Read it how you want to #Inspired by a reel from a fandom i have never ever been involved in crossing my feed #meta’s algorithms do what they do #At least I got this from it #Dubious consent #Reggie is not humour fodder I promise he’s fine with it #Luke’s kissed him unexpectedly before #They’re all used to Luke’s antics at this point #And now I’m overthinking so we’re just going to post

[3584-tropical-fish]

In collaboration with @the-zenith-calls and @tecceran , I present The Magnus Archives themed Clue!! We spent several hours over the course of a couple weeks working on this, and play tested it properly for the first time last night. Check out both of their blogs for details of what they made (when theirs are posted I will link them here and here as well), and below the cut I will be putting details of my contributions :]

(image descriptions in alt text, though I haven't used alt text before so hopefully they do actually work)

Firstly, the weapons tokens. These were just cut out of cardboard in the style of the tokens that are included in my Star Wars Clue set

I was also responsible for room cards! Of these, Jon’s Office and the Archives are my favorites

We also have varying hallway cards, based on a mechanic in my Star Wars Clue, again.

The backs of the cards had to get covered somehow because markers bleed, so the hallway cards are plain black and the other cards have eye designs on them

I also formatted and printed out detective note sheets and an Instructions booklet! Details on the instruction booklet will end up in a reblog because I'm running out of images oops. Most of the instructions are just copied word for word from my Clue set instructions, with some alterations made, except for completely made up mechanics, which the-zenith-calls wrote and I reworded if necessary and formatted nicely.

#the magnus archives #tma #i guess i dont really need any other tags #i dont know ive never posted in this fandom before #just finsihed this podcast like a week ago most of this was made when i was existing with like season 3(?) knowledge #that or season 4 #yeah so the zenith calls and i just went wild one day in august and made most of the cards and then the day after got tecceran involved #to make michael and then we playtested it by putting sticky notes on the rooms of my actual clue game #definitely go to zenith's post cause they have the board which they MADE BY HAND #GUYS THEY MADE THAT WHOLE CLUE BOARD. BY HAND #yeah im a little insane about this #my sibling won all three games we played with the full set and they dont even listen to tma #fish's-art

[lady-of-the-spirit]

After seeing Six: The Musical live, I was reminded how badly the fandom mischaracterizes Katherine Howard and Jane Seymour.

#reason number 1 i never really got too involved with the fandom #six the musical #i'm saying stuff #more importantly the performance was amazing!

[marinsawakening]

I saw a post that reminded me of this which is why I'm talking about this out of the blue but whenever I see the 'do canonically male characters you headcanon as trans girls count as female characters' debate pops up I remember this one event from the Voltron fandom where an f/f ship week banned genderbending and people lost their SHIT about it, SPECIFICALLY because the mods were like 'we want people to actually focus on the female characters and not submit already popular m/m ships but genderbent'.

This was years ago obviously so standard 'my memory may be fuzzy' disclaimer, but while I believe part of the reasons the mods banned genderbending was bc they believed it to be transphobic (which you could actually argue against and is a stance I don't agree with), and ppl were using that as leverage to argue, but that's not what ppl were actually angry about. Also, I believe the event was run by antis, who had a 'no age gap ships' rule in place, and people were mad about that, but like. The only f/f ships at the time with even kind of an age gap were ones involving Pidge, (which, again, for the record, I never personally gave much of a shit about), and yeah I do believe those were banned and ppl were pissy about that, but most of the ppl arguing with the ship restrictions were doing so in combination with the genderbending restriction, bc what they were mad about wasn't actually about a major female character being banned from the f/f ship week for Ship Discourse Reasons.

What they were angry about was specifically being told their genderbent m/m ships didn't count because they did not, in fact, contain female characters. Arguments were made that, because it was genderbent, it was now f/f and should be allowed in the f/f ship week. The mods went no, those are still canon male characters and popular m/m ships, and we're trying to run a week about the female characters and f/f ships because they don't get enough attention. The mods were fending accusatory and argumentative asks for ages and told people to create their own f/f ship week if they didn't like how theirs was run, which. People did.

A counter f/f ship week was organized but with less restrictions, specifically the restriction on genderbending was lifted. Now, I never followed Ship Week B, because I don't care about shipping and I was there to see more attention given to the female characters, which allowing genderbent m/m content seemed pretty anathema to. But I did check in on it out of curiosity, and to no-one's surprise, Ship Week B contained very large amounts of mostly genderbent sheith, with some shiro/lance and lance/keith thrown in. Like, I'm sure there was also actual f/f content (I remember there being some Pidge/Allura specifically), but I remember very little of it.

And as I alluded to in the large Nuance Disclaimer paragraph: yes this was the Voltron fandom, yes the Disk Horse was involved and made everything far more explosive than it probably would've been otherwise, and also, if the mods hadn't explicitly put the genderbending restriction in the rules list they probably would've gotten maybe a few genderbent m/m submissions tops. It's pretty obvious that a large motivation for Ship Week B was spite, and as someone whose username is literally spitecentral on AO3, I can confirm there is no stronger motivation for fan content than spite. I don't actually think that genderbent m/m is such a major problem in f/f spaces that it needs to be explicitly banned to avoid having it overrun ship weeks.

But even taking all that into account, this whole thing was completely fucking bonkers. Regardless of your opinions on the mods' opinions on genderbending and the Disk Horse, asking ppl not to submit genderbent m/m content on account of it not containing canon female characters is completely reasonable, and the fact that people got mad enough about it to create a whole seperate f/f ship week SPECIFICALLY to allow genderbent m/m content is insane. All the f/f ship week asked was for people to pay attention to female characters for once, and people threw a fucking tantrum about it and not only point-blank refused, but created more content for the male characters out of spite.

So yeah that was kind of a formative fandom experience to me that taught me:

People will take any excuse possible to avoid paying attention to female characters.

People will make literally anything, up to and including female character-centric fandom events, about men.

And that's what I think about any time I see people get offended when others point out that headcanoning a canon male character as a trans girl isn't the same as engaging with female characters.

#Anyway that was this week's episode of 'Tales From the Voltron Fandom' #I considered keeping the fandom anonymous but I feel like it kinda needed to be named #To put all this ridiculous bullshit into perspective bc truly the vld fandom was like this all the time #I may have gotten overly involved in fandom discourse and got pulled into dumb fights and opinions as a result #But at least I never got anywhere nearly as insane as the voltron fandom was routinely #Anyway secret third thing this taught me was that not only will ppl avoid paying attention to girls at all costs #They'll get really cartoonishly mad when you tell them to pay attention to girls #Like this rlly truly wasnt actually about the ship discourse #It didn't help and escalated things but if that was the main issue ship week b would've just been a pidge-centric f/f week #But it wasn't. Because what it was about was ppl wanting to make the f/f ship week about men #My posts

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one day ill be annoying ab my selfship again . although i enjoy that ppl enjoy my writing most of this is entirely self indulgent, projection, and for me . being so real .

#wispy chatters #i will never write inbox requests ever again ( /j... but only maybe executive dysfunction hits. ) #( i dont know what to rlly write or hc w steven anymore and im in that weird kind of clingy to my interp era where like. #nobody seems to characterize steven right and i feel like im the only one but i dont wanna be a dick but most of its self indulgent so #ill keep it to myself. ) #also bc i think i like. already put out all of the imporant steven hcs anyways LOL #ALSO also because ive been busy writing and rping selfship stuff w my friend involving steven instead of writing proper. which #preferable. this was mostly a side hobby to explode all of my hcs onto while i was struggling mentally #and had jack shit else to do. #sorry that i ramble a lot. no im not. this is my fucking blog . But yea #ive also been kind of negative or like. able to be interpreted as negative recently. which. yea kind of #lot of things and interpretations i do not fucking like in this fandom esp ab steven i just keep it to myself. #i just dont like fandom in general esp fanon and steven is such a fanonized character. which. yea he doesnt have much to work with #but hes got enough. idk #life goes on and all . maybe ill make a selfship blog... ill probably snag the url and then never use it. #im talking like im quitting the blog . i do that a lot. im not i just always do whatever i like even if i have 500 unanswered asks. #was easier to focus on writing any char i could in my depression era #its a little sad to see writing and hc posts and im like... i could get in on that. people totally think im a dead blog. #but idk what to add all of the main steven stuff has been squoze outta me. #not entirely but i put my full 100% steven into my self indulgent embarassing thoughts. #buuut yea thats kinda whats been. going on w me ig? Not really? fuck if i know