#I'm just looking for fandom stuff ;_;

[newtidnt]

new blog! yippee i was originally gonna draw mario too but i thought it was alot funnier to just slap a png on there and call it a day Still getting a feel for drawing bowser and luigi so it's a bit rough i don't really like how soft luigi looks in this but i dunnooo also i've been drawing almost solely feral cats for like 3 years now so i barely know how to drawn humans anymore help ((also i know someone else did the "i'm stuff" meme with mario characters (don't remember who) BUT they just used images and they didn't actually draw it so uhhhuhuu that's my excuse))

#bowuigi #bowser x luigi #bowser #luigi #mario #super mario bros #shitpost #comic #<- not really but shh #i am stuff #haha jonathon you are banging my daughter #meme #bowuigi shitpost #ship art #digital art #character art #nintendo #fandom #i barely know how tumblr tags work so i'm really just throwing everything in here #don't question me just look at the funny gay lizard and the silly green italian

[aroaceleovaldez]

Here is a link to the Cherokee Nation's official site. Here is the Visit Cherokee Nation youtube channel. Here is a playlist for learning Cherokee (and here's one for learning Ojibwe, as a bonus cause i'm biased). Here is a link to Daybreak Star Radio, which is a radio station based in Seattle dedicated to showcasing international first nations and indigenous music that you can listen to online. Here is a pdf of various recipes, including references to which tribes they originate from. Here is a link to The-aila-test's buy native tag, and here is a link to Beyond Buckskin's buy native list (though some of the links are broken). Here is a link to the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper's official site.

now go take a minute and come back once you've done some research so everybody can stop being weird about Piper.

#pjo #riordanverse #piper mclean #this is directed towards riordanverse fandom but feel free to let this one breach containment #i see so many people draw piper with caricature traits and its like. guys... i thought we left that in 2016... its not hard to not do that! #just. go look at people for ten minutes. just take a minute. just look. at a photo. #also she's cherokee. dont be vague about her being native american. we have specifics. you can say it. #you can put it into a search engine even. and look. and research stuff. #like. Leo? Alex? we dont have specifics. we can make guesses but it's not really specified. Piper is very explicitly specified though. #anyways if i see one more person talk about piper with the phrase ''native enough'' i'm gonna scream #''native enough'' what do you even MEAN that's a WHOLE CONTINENT MY GUY #okay rant over i will retreat into my abyss once more

[tathrin]

The Extremely Serious and Scientific Legolas Fandom Hair Colour Poll:

What colour hair do you picture in your head for your personal mental image of Legolas of the Woodland Realm? (Not necessarily which one you think is more or less "canonical"; rather just what you see in your head when you're reading something.)

Ideally, you can also share when and how you were first exposed to Lord of the Rings in the tags or reblogs, and what you think most influenced your mental image.

No I'm not procrastinating from writing stuff, go away.

#personally i've pictured him and his dad both looking just like saaski from eloise mcgraw's ''moorchild'' since my first read of the hobbit #(and it'll take a lot more than his silhouette against the stars to pry that image from my cold dead and re-embodied hands lol) #that's just too good a visual to give up ESPECIALLY with all the gimli ''hands shall flow with gold'' stuff that comes in later #but i was around in the 2000s for when the fandom divided into two very distinct and passionate camps on this question #with the fact that he'd been often illustrated with blonde hair and occasionally with dark getting subsumed by Movie vs Book Snobbery wars #where everybody had to be Very Certain And Concrete In Their Canon Arguments about which was his One True Haircolor #so i'm curious what the general consensus (or if there even is one) is now #but i don't expect an actual answer from the ten people following my blog who will see this poll so instead let's do something silly with i #because what else are tumblr polls for? #polls #legolas #lotr #lord of the rings #lotr polls #fandom polls

[the-gene-mile]

still figuring out how to draw these kids

#stylisation is HARD for no reason bro #me when i can't just use my semirealistic style for cartoon fandoms without it looking uncanny #bobs burgers #bob's burgers #louise belcher #gene belcher #tina belcher #courtney wheeler #tina is the most fun to draw in this style tho. glasses that mimic how eyes move gotta be one of my fav genders #like i've doodled her a lot she's so fun #(< no promises on how many i'll finish tho i'm a busy guy) #my stuff

[alducloy]

[Click for HQ]

Alright. Hear me out. Corpse AU, but actually Headstone AU.

And that’s all I got.

#my art #danny phantom #dp #phanart #danny fenton #Haha. So. Maybe this time I'm actually into the DP stuff. #I didn't even mean to it just happened and now I'm super invested in a show I have never nor plan to watch #I just like looking through the fandom #feels like peering into a beehive tucked away behind a building #and then I accidentally got invested in DC solely because of DP x DC lol also don't know anything #I mean its a story about a dead kid the possibilities are endless

[originalcontent]

I can't find art of my ship anywhere so I GUESS that means I have to make it myself, here are some doodles.

#ugh i can't believe i have to make my own shipping fanart #tfw you're complaining to your sister that you can't find any content of them but then you remember you have the power #man i do not know how to draw kissing or hugging or any of that romantic stuff #mostly i just know how to put paragraphs of dialogue in between two talking heads #but this seems to be something of a rarepair even though they are obsessed with each other so i suppose i gotta try #karlach #lae'zel #shipping #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #karlzel #i think that's the ship name but i have found so little of them that i'm genuinely not sure #laelach #(just in case) #but come on they're perfect! they're sunshine/raincloud! dog energy/cat energy! tall/small! hot and cold! canonically into each other! #character who represses sadness and character who doesn't understand happiness! pretty girls who can both bench press each other! #considering what their banter looks like i don't get how this isn't a more popular pairing. who else does karlach wistfully sigh over? #my sister tells me that lae'zel is not well-liked by the wider fandom and that that may be why (so sorry if other people have bad taste) #or maybe people don't often put the barbarian and the fighter together in the same party at the same time #anyway now that you're 100% convinced feel free to draw them making out so that i don't have to k thx <3

[fluffy-ami]

“Don't move, or else I'm adding more~”

BRO I'M FEELING SO EVIL AND CRINGE TODAY oh god i'm sorry he's just so silly goofy-

i wanna give him 'em soft tickles 👁️

(also my on-paper sketches always look so much shittier on the photos like nahhh 😭)

#honkai star rail #tickling #tickle art #ami's art #my stuff #lee!sampo #sampo koski #grandma ami back at it again #me when i see them ITTO VIBES #slippery boi with exposed sides hehe GET WRECKED MF- #yeah there's not much content for hsr yet it seems #which means i'm choosing violence 🔪 #but seriously lemme hold him #my baby 😭 #also yeah got a little lazy with his outfit here #but it's just random paper sketches so who cares #because i sure don't 👁️ #i'm having... lots of thoughts for this fandom. don't look at me. #*posts this and dies*

[lovvecherrymotion]

i'm seeing the jance posts and i do have some thoughts about that but i'm also in a hurry so i guess i'll make a more general post about Everything™

some fans seem to forget they're only fans and try to act more like friends than anything else (i see this mostly on twt and instagram). and since joker out interact a lot with the fandom, i guess people forget about the boundaries and go wayyyy overboard on their behaviour. there are certin jokes and comments i'd do with friends and would never do with strangers which... they pretty much are? we only actually see what they want us to see (and no matter how genuine their public persona is, it's still a very small part of who they are)

i avoid interacting with the boys unless it's normal stuff like tagging them in a story about the show i went to or something. every single time i leave a comment on their social media i make sure it's something i'd actually say to their faces

and sure i'm a shipper and i say plenty of unhinged things on my tumblr but at the end of the day i also KNOW they're real people and they deserve respect and i'm a huge fan of shipping and whatnot being in fandom spaces

bring the 4th wall back, please

#joker out #i wrote this in 5 minutes it's not great and i'm missing a lot of stuff but it's something that's been on my mind for a while too #i think social media changed the way we do fandom and a lot of people just forget how to act with the actual artists #i have thoughts on the whole don't look at me like that because they think we're going to kiss video as i stated yesterday #but who the fuck knows what they're actually feeling i don't know them i just know jan and nace the public figures #and that's something i guess we can't really forget

[chiropteracupola]

what if they were an ultimate frisbee team

#em draws stuff #em is posting about sharpe #sharpe #rifleman harris #daniel hagman #richard sharpe #patrick harper #francis cooper #ben perkins #south essex quirky #<- organizational tag for frisbee au things #see it is Funny because jason salkey was an ultimate frisbee player before he was an actor. also I just think the men should frisb. #<- not a real verb #'look if the terror fandom has terrebus fc then we can have this' says local man who knows very little at all about ultimate frisbee #but also I have noticed that Multiple acquaintances have acquired concussions playing this sport In The Last Week Alone #and thus I deem it Sharpe-Appropriate in its capacity for Causing Grievous Harm and Encouraging the Wearing of Cool Shades In October #so you see. this took me TEN DAYS and ouch ouch ow this is why I don't do group portraits that often #the height differences are Wrong here I am pretty sure but I have almost no conception of how tall any of them are. and I'm tired. #also the designing of their silly little outfits y'know #I do recommend opening up this image Large because tumblr crunches all my little details something awful #sailorpants saw this while I was still drawing it and said they looked like an 'assorted pack of lesbians' and really they're not wrong #other things to note about this au that we've decided: cooper still does crimes and harris has a podcast #stay tuned whilst I figure out how to make custom frisbees so that I can a) design them a cooler one and b) make them into real items #manufacturers I have looked at thus far have either been Suspicious or have required Large minimum orders #but hey if there are 47 people out there wanting a strange frisbee...

[alectoperdita]

hi

#i logged back in to toggle settings cuz of the third-party stuff #i feel like a feral creature unfit to speak to other human beings much less socialization #isolation's a hell of a drug #kinda just afraid to look at anything or be anywhere or be perceived #the sad part is i kinda yearn to talk to people/do fandom again but i'm. utterly. terrified. #waiting for permission that will never come lol #yeah i'm still pathetic sorry #personal bullshit

[pharawee]

I love how City of Stars gave us a lovely scene with two people openly talking about their preferences and what they enjoy in terms of sex...

... only for people to argue that "it didn't go far enough" and somehow the show "chickened out" because in the end Krom wasn't vers and stated that he enjoys bottoming.

Just ?? ???

First of all, Fueang did explicitly say (several times btw) that he enjoys both topping and bottoming so there's your vers.

But mainly:

Do people actually realise how amazing it is that someone in a cute and lighthearted BL like City of Stars openly talks about enjoying being the bottom? Because this is almost never talked about. Everyone (in BL fandom spaces) always just seems to assume that the top is the active and fun and dominating part and the bottom is passively indulging and enduring - which leads to this weird and unhealthy implication that bottoming is somehow lesser and unappealing and "not queer enough".

Yes, pushing for a more diverse showcase of (sexual) preferences in BL is a good thing, but not if it comes at the expense of dismissing or belittling other preferences. Hell, according to reddit the most vocal group of bottoms are straight men getting pegged by their female partners, while a lot of queer people don't even enjoy anal at all. Their preferences say exactly NOTHING about who they are as a person.

It's not a hierarchy with verses at the top (lol) somehow magically transcending all the evil tropes and stereotypes in BL. Sexual preferences aren't a character trait, and there's nothing wrong with wanting to bottom exclusively.

#city of stars #city of stars the series #jane watches stuff #i'm upsetti spaghetti #this is just as bad as fandom dismissing fictional femmes as not queer and desirable enough #i totally get that esp classic bl has a problem with assigning stereotypical gender roles to queer characters #but dismissing characters based on their looks or preferences doesn't solve the problem #it's just as alienating

[once-in-a-half-life]

Buckshot Roulette but with G-Man!

#buckshot roulette #half life #gman #gmod #garry's mod #tw suicide #tw guns #idk. trigger warnings just in case. #i saw vargskelethor joel play this game. looks a lot of fun if you like gambling #but my brain immediately went 'yo.. what if instead of the dealer there was the g-man' #my brain is utterly broken rn #also i'm really surprised that there's a buckshot roulette fandom on tumblr. i mean. i guess I shouldn't be surprised. but I still was lol #i also had a render with the gman being shot and dead on the table when you'd win the game or something #but i felt it looked a bit too gruesome haha #my stuff

[zukkaoru]

could you tell me more about why you dislike femskk?

okay disclaimer before i begin: this is not meant to be a dig on every person who enjoys femskk. the biggest reason i don't like it is honestly because it's just not my cup of tea and honestly it really makes no difference to me if other people like it. but beyond that my biggest issues with it are

1. the phenomenon of fans "yuri-ifying" the most popular m/m ship and then using that to prove they like female characters and f/f ships. this is not a bsd-exclusive thing; it happens with stsg too and i don't like femstsg for the same reason. but there's a big difference between actually liking female characters and just genderbending (or even making transfem) the big m/m ship. i literally went to the f/f category in bsd on ao3 the other day looking for fics and about half of them are skk fics instead of fics about like. the actual female characters in bsd. who i was looking for fics of. similarly, there have been some redraw trends going around twitter - specifically the i prefer girls cover redraw - and i have seen. i don't even know how many femskk redraws of that (along with a couple femfyolais and a femrimlaine) but only one redraw with actual female characters from bsd. same with the scene 14 redraw that was going around, and while that one wasn't originally two female characters, i have still seen significantly more femskk (and femsigzai, femsigchuu, femfyolai, etc) than i have ships with even one character who is female in the source material.

and imo this phenomenon is made even worse in the bsd fandom bc so many fans just see bsd as the skk show. so of course they're writing off the actual female characters; they literally don't care about anything besides skk. and obviously i can't do anything to force anyone to care about other characters but like.... bsd has so many other wonderful characters and dynamics (both romantic and platonic) that a good half of the fanbase won't even glance at because they're not skk. i do like skk, but bsd is about so much more than just them. they are, objectively, only one small part of it. like if you only care about skk, then just be outright about it and don't pretend you're "proving" you like female characters and sapphic ships bc you like femskk too

2. of the fans who only like skk and nothing else about bsd, most of them. don't even characterize dazai and chuuya correctly? i think the some of the best skk characterizations i've seen have been from people who actually like other characters and ships too, and some of the worst skk characterization i've seen has come from people who literally don't care about any other ships or characters. this isn't a hard and fast rule obviously but even with 30k skk fics on ao3, i have struggled to find ones that actually feel true to their characters. and the characterization seems to only get worse when it's femskk. if you're just going to turn femdazai and femchuuya into two completely different people, what's the point in it even being skk? why not write k.ousano or h.igugin or even a ship with one canonically female character? if you have to change the core characteristics of both dazai and chuuya... do you even really like them?

3. about femdazai: i actually don't mind the transfem dazai headcanon in general but most fans get her wrong. i made a post about it here but basically so many times i see femdazais that are just. completely unrecognizable as dazai. you can't strip away core aspects of dazai like idk the fact that dazai doesn't show any skin from neck to toe just because you made her a girl. i have seen some femdazai that's good! but i have seen so much that is just fundamentally wrong for dazai's character as a whole. mostly on twitter.

4. about femchuuya: i really truly just don't get femchuuya. i THINK the hype here is probably bc lesbians seem to get attached to chuuya (which. valid. i am also a lesbian chuuya fan.) and so they want to draw a chuuya they can be attracted to (i.e. femchuuya) which like. cool whatever i'm not here to judge. but looking at it from a "would this character actually identify as female" perspective, i don't actually think i can picture that for chuuya. maybe it's just because i so strongly hc them as nonbinary? idk. this one is honestly just a neutral "i don't see that but you do you"

tl;dr: from what i've seen, femskk is often mischaracterized, and genderbending the big m/m ships in a fandom is often a way fans "prove" they like the female characters and f/f ships while not actually caring about anything other than their main m/m ship

#the first point is also why i don't particularly care for fem any m/m ship in any fandom. that's not exclusive to femskk #femskk is just. there is a LOT of it that i see and i would much rather see more art/fics/etc. for the canonically female characters #i don't like k.ousano but i would prefer they have more fics in the bsd f/f tag on ao3 than a ship that. isn't canonically f/f #like it's already hard to find f/f content (and just stuff for female characters in general) in ANY fandom #so to have to filter through not only femskk fics but also other canonically m/m ships made fem #while i'm specifically looking for fics with yosano lucy higuchi lucy louisa margaret gin etc etc is. frustrating #i'm not saying femskk shouldn't be a thing or that they shouldn't be in the f/f tag but #i wish they weren't the number 1 f/f ship in the fandom #i wish there was more of a balance and the canonically female characters got more appreciation from the fandom in general #so anyway this isn't me trying to sway people out of writing/drawing femskk bc i know that's never going to happen #it's just a wish for more bsd fans to appreciate other characters too #also sorry if this doesn't make a lot of sense; i had to pause halfway through to go pick up my sister sfdghjkjl #and once again this is not an attack on femskk enjoyers or anyone specific!!! just me having opinions abt the fandom in general #asks #anon asks

[crystalline-sanders]

hey so you guys know that one jtam outfit

#be more chill #squip #art #fanart #bmc #bmc squip #be more chill fanart #squip fanart #jtam my beloved #sorry I'm back at it again with the shirtless quantum supercomputers #i just think he's neat #i really like that outfit and i wanted to draw it but jtam equals squip in my mind #also this isn't any of my squips technically #like it reads as pal but pal doesn't have the circuit board stuff #he's supposed to have tattoos #but this looked cooler along with the tech eye #so lee and pal crossover ig #sorry for my crimes against the fandom it will probably happen again

[ive-a-problem-to-flaunt]

Unexpected thing I discovered today: the Bad Buddy fandom is a bit of an outlier with its penchant for PWP!

(Well, based on the few fandoms I could think of that I compared it to, anyway.)

What I did was basically compare the ratios of [number of fics with the PWP tag/total number of fics in the fandom] for a bunch of different fandoms on AO3, where I picked the fandoms based on what caught my fancy - so let's call it random sampling so it sounds better.

The highest was Hades (the video game) with about 6.5% of the fics being PWP (unsurprising, Hades remains the horniest fandom I've ever looked up, you go Hades fandom). Setting that aside, the average of the other fandoms was between 1.5% to 2%.

Except Bad Buddy, which had 4.6% fics tagged PWP.

So then I looked at averages. I looked up the most popular fandoms in the PWP tag (i.e., the fandoms which had the most PWP fics), and the top five were Harry Potter, BTS, BNHA/My Hero Academia, MCU, and Supernatural. All of them were at 2%ish, except BTS which had about 4%.

I also looked at the most popular fandoms in general, based on these stats by destinationtoast in 2022. The top 5 fandoms and the percentages of PWP fics were:

MCU - 2.4%

Harry Potter - 2.2%

Supernatural - 2.6%

BNHA/My Hero Academia - 2.7%

Video Blogging RPF - 1.6%

Again, Bad Buddy has 4.6% PWP fics - close to double of nearly all the top 5 fandoms.

Admittedly, these are all small percentages so idk how much significance that 2% difference really has. And the fandoms are wildly different in terms of number of fics and stuff. But it's still interesting to me.

I even compared it to KinnPorsche and Only Friends because they're better known for sexual themes and have overlapping audiences with Bad Buddy. KP clocks in at 3.6% PWP fics, making it lower than Bad Buddy (but it also has 11k total fics compared to Bad Buddy's 2k, fwiw).

Only Friends is actually on track to beat Bad Buddy - out of 803 total fics, 4.7% are PWP.

Still, I think Bad Buddy stands out because here, canon's themes aren't particularly explicit, but it still has more PWP than most fandoms I looked at. (I actually looked at nearly 20 fandoms before I got too sleepy to keep going, but I'm not listing them all out because some of them had fewer than 1000 fics so the sample space might be too small and stuff.)

So yeah, the Bad Buddy fandom is horny and I, for one, am very much here for it :]

(I also looked at the % of E-rated fics (not just PWP) and in that category, Bad Buddy didn't particularly stand out. Actually, there it was Only Friends that came the closest to giving Hades a run for its money in terms of which fandoms have the most explicit works.

Aside from that I also noted the % of PWP fics that are E-rated, but I am too sleepy to make sense of those numbers, and besides, every fandom has those numbers in the 80-100% range anyway.)

(Also why am I posting this on this blog? idk. I usually put all fandom stats-y posts on a different sideblog but mhmm I felt like switching it up today. If I ever expand on this post - big if, that - it'll go back to that other sideblog.

Though I probably won't come back to this because I have the attention span of a fruit fly, there is more stuff to explore! Like, from a very superficial look around, it looks like South East Asian shows' fandoms may have a higher-than-usual ratio of PWP fics? I'd like to look into that properly and see if that's an actual thing or just true for the few fandoms I looked at.)

#pls ignore my inconsistent italicisation #I usually like putting in graphs or other visual depictions of the numbers #but I couldn't think of a nice way of doing it for today's numbers #also mhmm I think a fairer analysis should group fandoms by size+genre/medium #like the fandoms i looked at today included podcasts and musicals and shows and books - not just comparable TV shows #I did toy with the idea of putting in the effort to find better fandoms to compare BBS to #but then decided to ditch that and just go with comparing it to the most popular fandoms bc otherwise i'd have to sink a LOT of time in #and i'm feeling too bleh for that now #also also disclaimer: I've got a couple of people muted on ao3 so the numbers might be (slightly) off #placeholder tag #bad buddy #also as always if anyone wants to see my spreadsheet and stuff - lemme know! #one day (night) I will stop talking about fandom stats at 1 AM #today is not that day

[dennisboobs]

plain and simple i am not going to be able to remain in this fandom long-term if i have to keep putting disclaimers on every single one of my posts that say i don't condone dennis' bad, bad actions and that i am in fact aware he's got a history of sexual assault and dubious/nonconsent. the entire gang has done heinous shit. why is dennis the only one who needs to be treated like this? if some rando wants to post about how dennis is pookie pie that doesn't automatically mean they're blind to his crimes. every single member of the gang is a piece of shit. that's kind of the point.

draw dennis with cat ears who give a shit

#ada speaks #i'm not vagueing this is a constant thing ive experienced #i still have angry anons sitting in my askbox mad that i didn't explicitly condemn him last time i got into this #i'm really not a fan of the tension in the fandom the last few days #and like. i know its a hot button issue rn. everyone's going back and forth abt mac and dennis' SA #but this fandom genuinely does have an issue SPECIFICALLY MENTIONING things mac does to dennis and uwu-ifying them #when they are explicitly classified as SA in canon (which is an actual present issue i think needs to be addressed) #rather than like. just the mere MENTION of dennis outside of his SA is somehow condoning his actions #im sorry but i really do not feel the need to constantly talk about him assaulting women #everyone knows. everyone sees it. just bc i am dissecting other parts of his character does not mean i forgot he's a horrible person #it just means im trying to understand where he's coming from (which obviously does not change the facts.) #viewing dennis as a person with unresolved trauma stemming from elsewhere doesn't negate the damage he is doing to other people #he's not a real person where humanizing him does tangible damage #so i am going to continue to look into shit. when i talk about the CSA he went through it's not a justification. #but it does explain his actions in a character motivation type way which is what i am interested in #seeing what makes him tick #i think most people who follow me understand this by now. but i also don't think shit we see him do constantly in canon needs bringing up. #it's the subtle stuff that ties everything together and i want to put it all together to solve a puzzle