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bigskydreaming · 4 years

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That last reblog is very informative and useful in figuring out where to find certain storylines. Purely on a personal recommendation note, for anyone looking for good reads and who tends to like my take on things, my recs from that list (and not saying that others I don’t rec aren’t good, just what immediately popped into my head) would be:

Batman: The Long Halloween (yes. its a good)

Batman: Birth of the Demon (if you want to set canon on fire, as many people are wont to do, a good place to start is aggressively ignoring Morrison’s take on Damian’s birth and origin and instead treating this story as his origin and just building off the idea that Talia lied at the end which is waaaaaaaaay better and just like...go from there)

Batman: The Killing Joke (kill it with the fire. we’ve had enough of the killing joke. it can die. even alan moore hates it and he wrote it and alan moore usually loves everything he writes and hates everyone ELSE for like, liking it the wrong way, so I mean, that should tell you a lot)

Batman: The Cult (holy shit I totally forgot about this story and now am off to go reread it again myself)

I have Issues with how ADITF AND A Lonely Place of Dying play out and most popular takes on them, so like, I’m not like, recommending RECOMMENDING them, but I mean like, they are pivotal.

Batman: Knightfall, Legacy, Cataclysm and all things No Man’s Land related have some good stuff throughout all of them. Like, things I don’t like, sure, but overall, there’s a lot of good material in them. Also, a good way to get a strong sense of actual canon Tim, who is not fanon Tim, and who would probably take one look at fanon Tim and go LOL nerd, and kickflip away on his skateboard to go tell Nightwing about this AU version of himself he just met, as like, he actually likes and respects Nightwing, among other differences.

JLA Tower of Babel (its a yawn from me, lads. the source of pretty much all “Batman can beat all of the JLA because he has the greatest superpower of all: PREP TIME!!!” hot takes and I mean, yeah that’s pretty core to Batman and who he is at this point, but the story itself its just like. Eh. Could you not. Idk. Basically I just mean this is all part of an era of JLA that for the most part I actually tend to LIKE Bruce’s interactions with the rest of the team, but then there was this and it was just like. Eh. Could you not).

Bruce Wayne: Murderer? and Bruce Wayne: Fugitive (Quality reads IMO that emphasize the Detective part of the Batfranchise and contain good moments for the whole currently present Batfam, lots of great Cass and Dick stuff in particular. Idk. I havent read them in awhile but I have fond memories)

Batman: Hush (this gets a bad rep and not entirely deserved IMO. Like, its not the greatest story in the world but I like how it portrays Bruce as having flawed dynamics with a lot of his loved ones but not shying away from his role in that but also without overly vilifying him....he’s an appropriately complex character in this, is what I mean, and I also like that this is another story that emphasizes the often lost-and-forgotten Detective part of his core concept. Also, it utilizes some of my fave villains in ways that bring home how much potential certain combinations/team-ups of villains could have if they were utilized more instead of overlooked in favor of ITS TIME FOR THE JOKER AGAIN WHEEEEEEEE!)

Batman: Under the Red Hood (hahahhahaha no. like could you imagine me reccing this? LOL its not realistic. Nah, stick with the animated movie retelling. At least Bruce doesn’t slit his son’s throat in that one to save the damn clown again)

Batman: R.I.P (I reluctantly rec this not because I like it, cuz I don’t, its Morrison back on his bullshit in a most I AM THE MOST GALAXY BRAINED OF ALL THE GALAXY BRAINED AND ALSO IM A CHAOS MAGICIAN DID U KNOW THAT HUH DID YA DID YA, like, fashion. Its. A lot. The story is A Lot. I don’t say that in a complimentary way. BUT I recommend it anyway out of pure stubbornness and Dick Grayson fanboy spite, as its set like, directly before Bruce is believed dead and gets lost in time, and like, A LOT happens to Dick in that story that SHOULD BE extremely relevant and crucial to examinations of his mental and emotional state at the time of him assuming Bruce’s role in the family and as Batman, but that just like....ISN’T, and that annoys me. Also, the primary villain of this, Dr. Hurt, like.....

his grand endgame involved torturing the fuck out of Dick to hurt Bruce specifically, and pretty much the first thing that happens when Bruce DOES come back from being lost in time is Dr. Hurt pops up out of nowhere and shoots Dick in the head, like FIRST THING, like this is the absolute first thing Bruce has to deal with when coming back, and this is just like....NONEXISTENT in most fics about that era. Because lolol how can we blame Dick for everything that went wrong and make Bruce be mad at him for how Dick wronged Tim and Jason and all of Gotham probably, if we’re going by actual canon and thus dealing with the fact that Bruce is preoccupied with hovering over his just-shot-in-the-head-specifically-to-fuck-with-Bruce son’s bedside and WORRYING about him. LOLOL hashtag Fandom Willfully Erases The Majority of Dick’s Canon Traumas Not Because They Want To Set Canon On Fire - they’re usually fine with sticking to every instance of canon in which Dick does something even in the ZIP CODE of wrong - but rather because if we acknowledge Dick’s traumas then eww, he might come across as....sympathetic? No, we can’t have that. ERGO HE WAS NEVER SHOT IN THE HEAD HAHAHAH WE FIXED IT, WE FIXED CANON).

But I digress.

Battle for the Cowl (another reluctant rec because like, its dumb and its bad, but its one of those things that I’d still rather more people read than didn’t, because like it is pivotal and relevant, and it contains key plot points like oh Idk, Arkham literally blowing up as all the currently locked up inmates escape, which led to Dick having Wayne Enterprises rebuild it himself, and like, the only villains present in it when he was Batman being the villains he and Damian CAUGHT while he was Batman, which did NOT include the Joker, and thus all the hot takes about how Dick locked up Jason two doors down from his murderer like the uncaring bastard that he is, like.....instead of the reality that Dick pulled strings to have Jason put in Arkham instead of Blackgate when the POLICE ARRIVED ON SCENE AND LOCKED UP THE ANONYMOUS RED HOOD BECAUSE HE WAS CLEARLY DEFEATED AND CLEARLY A WANTED CRIMINAL AND THUS LIKE, HIS IMPRISONMENT LITERALLY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH DICK OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT DICK DEFEATED JASON RATHER THAN LETTING HIM KILL HIM AND DAMIAN.....

like, its literal canon that Dick explains himself for having Jason put in Arkham instead of Blackgate because it allowed him to keep Jason OUT of gen pop where he had literal dozens of enemies that he, Jason, WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR PUTTING THEM IN THERE HIMSELF, and it was to keep Jason SAFE, and it WORKED as Jason’s only actual canon complaint at that time was that he was BORED. So in conclusion, AS ALWAYS, you can do what you want, but when you literally manufacture the fake fanon - and completely fail to make any effort to establish that this is NOT actual canon and that you’re not actually riffing off of an actual canon moment - that Dick callously locked his brother up a few doors down from his own murderer (the dude that Dick himself literally once beat to death because he killed Jason).....like, inquiring minds would like to know, why are you trying so hard to make Dick look like THIS MUCH of an asshole, hmm?)

Batman: The Gates of Gotham (a weird, but fun little read IMO, that delves deep into the backstory of Gotham, the Waynes, and also Dick’s ancestors the Crownes, and establishes a lot of the history revolving around all of the above, and like, it actually has Dick as Batman and being competent and respected by the rest of the family in that role, and its also one of the only times Cass and Damian interacted one on one, stuff like that)

Batman and Robin Eternal (eww no, kill it also with the fire, burn it, I hate it, uggggggh why is this series so praised, its so baaaaaaaaaaaad, its like what if literally every character involved in it is an asshole to Dick for no valid reason whatsoever.....huh, weird thought, wonder if the fact that its so praised as being so good and Dick’s so hated for weird reasons by a lot of fandom are connected....almost like.....the fiction influenced how people viewed his character....and thus....critical commentary of how the fiction was bad is....relevant....HMM I MUST PONDER THIS STRANGE AND NOVEL THOUGHT).

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stcllify · 5 years

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34 Music Meme - Etoile

TAGGED BY: @shards-verse <3 TAGGING: Anyone who opens this. > >;;; If you want to!

THE RULES:

You have to randomize, so no hand-picked theme songs! [Break the rule if you want though, because why leave this stuff to chance??]

Copy the text and post as your own! DON’T REBLOG! Give it some pizzaz! Grab a screenshot! Have fun with this~

Tag meeeee [@myymsaetayuun] [please?] so I can see the wonderful music that you all connect with your characters! I absolutely love seeing all the inspirations that everyone has out there. I also really love music!

It’s 34 prompts long. Why? I dunno, it seemed like a cool number to stop. Also, they have no rhyme or reason to the order to facilitate the shuffle effect! If you have more to add, ADD THEM! Go wild! Now then, let’s get started:

Etoile Delarmes

1. How the world sees them

Are You Lonely? - Steve Aoki & Alan Walker

2. A song to play on a good day

Crush - Jonathon Ng / The Eden Project ( ??? I suppose. o A o; )

3. What acquaintances and the random person thinks of them

WAVE - Crasher-P, Shoose Cover

( Lyrics for the song on the left, the actual covered song on the right~ Idk, this is a weird one to get for this one LMAO but it’s catchy )

4. A song for those who want them [sexually]

Lay With Me (Ft. Vanessa Hudgens) ( O-Oh, okay LMAO )

5. When they make others happy

Be Happy - FRND ( BUT THIS ISN’T A HAPPY SONG, I’M GONNA CRY ;;; )

6. When they are happy

Quo Vadis - M2U

( Eh, sure. o A o )

7. A theme for a life goal

Sandglass - M2U ( This is the theme song I had in mind for another OC of mine tbh but this... weeps ;; ; __ ; )

8. Giving bad advice

Beast in the Beauty - LUZ (LMFAO AGAIN, ANOTHER OC’S THEME SONG BUT THIS IS VERY BAD ADVICE INDEED? PLEASE DON’T. ETOILE?? THE STORY IN THIS SONG IS ABOUT A GIRL WHO GOT FED UP OF BEING CHEATED ON AND USED / SCAMMED BY HER “LOVER” SO SHE KILLED HIM ;;;; )

9. Giving good advice

Falling in Reverse - Jonathon Ng

10. What they think their theme song is

Finesse (SNEISEN Remix) - Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B ( LMFAO OH NO... NO ETTIE ;; )

11. Their funeral song

Daiji na mono wa mabuta no ura - KOKIA ( The Most Important Things Lie Behind Your Eyelids)

12. What everyone else thinks is their theme song

Icebreaker - Luz & Sen ver. ( //// NO FKJSHFS OH MY GOD?? WHY THIS SONG... I THOUGHT IT WAS CATCHY SO I SAVED IT TO MY LIST AND I JUST LOOKED UP THE LYRICS TO ATTACH TO THIS AND THEY’RE.. HJFSDFSDJF THEY’RE LEWD LMFAO ;;; MY CHILD ISN’T LIKE THIS )

13. When they see someone they love

My Dearest - SUPERCELL (yes goOD!! English Lyrics Here )

14. When they are having a bad day

Kataomoi - Aimer ( ; - ; Mmkay, yeah. This is a sweet song. ;; )

15. A song about their life’s purpose

Gravity - Eden Project / Jonathon Ng

16. When someone reminisces about them

Degrees of Separation - Hands Like Houses

17. A song that might be constantly stuck in their head

Paper Love - Allie X

18. A song someone might serenade them with

Paris in the Rain - Lauv ( I like the Lauv songs kicking in on shuffle for this?? Yes. )

19. A song they would serenade to someone else

I Like Me Better - Lauv ( OKAY PERFECT THIS ONE IS CUTE. )

20. A song they might hum or sing along with

Drowning - Eden ( Jonothan Ng ) ( T-This is so sad though wtf )

21. A song they would perform, or at least karaoke

Blessed Messiah and the Tower of Al - Team O.B.N.N. ( T-This is a really epic song but it has a lot of different parts and singers so Ettie idk how you’re gonna karaoke this alone LMFAO... Make Sorrel [her bard friend], Kakera and Enra (other characters of mine, meant to be a bard and dancer respectively) voice act a bunch and perform with her? LOL )

22. A theme when they are in the general public

Innocent Wish - Zektbach

23. A theme for them in private

Victim - FUZI x Mili ( D: Oh. )

24. A theme for their deepest desires

Come Back Home - Lauv ( can I... can I cry? Yikes ;;; )

25. Thinking back on a traumatic, sad, or unpleasant memory

Birthday Kid - Mili ( cries ;;; )

26. A song to their best friends

Dearly Beloved - Amalee’s Lyrics ( OKAY, I had to choose for this. LMAO. )

27. Waking up in the morning [Or night if they are nocturnal!]

Flamingo - Original by Kenshi Yonezu, but! DAZBEE Cover ( English Lyrics here! )

28. Finally being able to fall asleep

Fukurou ~ fukurou ga shiraseru kyaku ga kita to - KOKIA ( Why are these sleeping/waking songs both related to birds? LOL )

29. When they fall in love/lust

Masked BitcH - Shoose ver. ( ... /ETOILE/?????? I DID NOT RAISE YOU TO BE LIKE THIS JKFDHFKJDSF THIS SONG IS A BIT??? SEXUAL?? Also very fling-y, which definitely isn’t like her buT HEY SHUFFLE SPOKE?? CRIES... English Lyrics here!!) ANYWAYS UM... H-Here, this is more like her: Conveying Love, or Something Like That ( ... Or “I Want to Convey Love”? I don’t know what it is in English ;;; ) - Aimyon, but this is a Luz Cover!

30. Thinking back on a happy, serene, or pleasant memory

Ifuudoudou - Shoose ( ///// UM HOLD ON? GIRL, WHAT KIND OF MEMORY ARE YOU RECALLING?! djkahs Okay, uh, warning, the song is steamy and you know it’s going to be that kind of song from the... erm. Intro. It’s saucy. LOL ;;; ... You know, I don’t want to link the English lyrics... ///// )

31. A song to their family (also of choice, but kinda partly not since she has her half-brother)

Yoake no Uta - Dazbee & M2U ( okay this is fine jkdasd )

32. Dissociation music

[A]ddiction - GigaReol, feat. EVO+ - ( English translation here~ )

33. Manic music

Persecution Complex Cellphone Girl - GIGA & Shoose ( ... I feel like this one and the one she got for dissociation music needs to switch LOL ;; ... English lyrics here~ )

34. A final theme that means everything

Shuffle gave me: Enemies - Lauv (Which is a good song and I enjoy it bUT!!) I’ll pick this: Last Dance - Sakuzyo

#{ ooc: SOME OF THESE SONGS ARE SAUCY??? }#{ ooc: SHE'S NOT THIS THIRSTY I PROMISE LMFAO }#{ a page taken from someone else's book | meme }

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gnostic-heretic · 6 years

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i know as well as yall that no one comes here for my hashtag thoughts posts but for the low budget anime people (of which there will always be lots do not worry) but since this is kind of relevant to the last post i was making re: writing things that are niche (in this case, writing about trans characters) it’s also kind of relevant to the entirety of my hetalia content productions so bear with me

i’ve started thinking about something (and when you read this you know you’re in for some useless, long winded shit) and it might seem like something irrelevant, overthinking about semantics and so on, but two things in the arc of these past few hours have caught my attention and they were both posts made by trans women on this website:

the usage of the word “trans”, how it’s often used not as an adjective but as a signifier that you’re talking about a completely separate and different class of people, ex the use of “trans men” vs “men” immediately evokes a different meaning into most people’s heads (cis or not: i am guilty of the same thing, often) when it shouldn’t. op proposed that instead we use, as a sort of lingustic protest, “men” vs “cis men” as opposed to the opposite and usual language.

another trans woman reclaiming the use of the words “dysphoric female” to describe herself. which is, honestly, a genius move. i wonder how much we as gay trans people can reclaim of gay cis people’s language before people start getting pissed off, even if the language technically does apply to us (example: i’m a dysphoric gay trans man. however, if i said “dysphoric gay man” in my description, people would probably assume i’m cis, despite me never specifying that bit anywhere). if you leave out the signifier “trans”, however, people will start taking issue with it and i wonder why that is-

it got me thinking about a problem i run into costantly when posting trans content: the posts (fanfiction, fanart, headcanons) i tag as trans character, transtalia, etc receive way less interaction and attention than the posts i don’t tag as such. people feel awkward about reblogging that art. reluctant about reading those fanfictions. and while part of me is like “well, it’s just because it’s different!”... so are aus. so is nyotalia/genderswaps... so are really seemingly popular things i don’t get at all like 2p hetalia and hell even stuff like omegaverse... more than questioning people’s individual intentions when thinking “meh, not into this” i would challenge the fandom-wide assumption and mentality that writing about trans characters is something really that much different from other forms of canon-divergent content... everyone seems to be fine and dandy with canon divergent headcanons and LGB headcanons until that headcanon involves the character being trans, then it’s bad and “op” is really pushing it too far, apparently.

however at least as far as my own “content” goes, that doesn’t necessarily mean the characters are cis in posts where it’s not specified: au contraire, i usually still think of certain character as trans, it’s just not relevant to the subject matter of the post. “cis” is just assumed by the people viewing it, even when it was never my thought or vision, by virtue of there not being any trans-related tag. it’s almost as if, when i specify that in the post x character is trans, people view it as a completely different character. “trans aph hungary” is not the same in people’s mind as “aph hungary”... and so on. when in fact, it’s a distinction that i do not make in my head: whether i write a character as trans, cis or up to interpretation and anyone’s personal discretion it’s always the same character i’m writing about, with a few differences (on the same level of “difference” between the same character but in different aus).

when it’s assumed that i’ll be fine with people interpreting characters in my fanwork as cis unless otherwise specified (the real answer: it depends), i wonder what kind of reaction it would provoke if i did the opposite. it raises some interesting questions yknow.

can i see a character as trans in other people’s work, if it’s never specified they were meant to be cis? would the person be fine with it, just as it’s assumed i’m fine with people reading any of my works as not part of a trans narrative unless i lay it out nicely for everyone to see and skip past it? (as if me being trans doesn’t influence literally everything i create.. in a way, any narrative i come up with is a trans narrative, if only in a small percentage)

if i told people “certain characters are not cis in my fanwork unless i specify it”, would those “unspecified” drawings/fics/etc still be well received, or suffer the same fate of the art/etc that i specifically tag for trans headcanons? how much would a good reception depend on the fact that most people will not know about me or my intent anyway?

would refusing to tag any trans content as “trans” specifically (see above: instead of “trans hungary” vs “hungary”. if i tried to change it into “hungary” vs “cis hungary” as far as my content functions) be a power move, or would it be taking away visibility from a community of content creators that is already small and marginalized?

i wonder i wonder... but my conclusion at least at the moment is that i feel way more affection towards the small transtalia community that exists than spite towards a faceless (and probably too big for me alone to challenge) fandom-wide and really, society-wide norm so i’ll keep my tagging system and all, and i’ll keep writing trans characters, and if anyone doesn’t like it idk. they can go outside and pet a cat i guess. do something productive instead of reading terribly verbose and useless posts written by me on niche issues like this

#really long post ///#i'm sorry if this seems unapproachable in facts anyone's thots on this are appreciated and even encouraged.#yes even if ur cis. just mind to not be a dickwad but idt that's a lot to ask

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unproduciblesmackdown · 5 years

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Hi!! So this is an honest question so i hope it doesnt come off as rude or anything- but doesn't the thought that everything you post here can be reblogged make you more reserved or anything? Idk how to explain it but whenever i wanna post something here i think about doing it for a super long time to be sure i want it to possibly be on the internet forever- but i see you're comfortable with sharing pretty personal stuff so i was just wondering if it affected you any way or maybe it was just me?

lmaooo it’s cool!!! there’s an unending AMA going on here and off the top of my head i can’t think of anything off-limits to ask about

it’s definitely not just you!! out of the ppl i know off the top of my head i’m probably really far and away doing the Most airing my bullshit. if you ultimately don’t like the idea of stuff just kinda sitting around to be seen by Anyone, that’s valid and there’s no problem with feeling like that makes you wanna Not Post some stuff

like this is especially true for young teens on the soche media…hell i just entirely threw out the blog i’d had from like 14 -18, and not because i was particularly embarrassed or anything, it just felt mostly obsolete. you can become someone so different in even one year and that’s fine and you might not want Old Venting and the like just sitting around out there. it’s definitely okay to be real private about that kinda stuff

i know sometimes ppl having sorta Compromises where maybe they’ll create a second blog / account specifically for talking abt personal stuff, and then only maybe allow friends (or nobody) to access it; or people will just tag everything with Delete Later and then go back and delete it later so it’s not out there forever, or just because they find it embarrassing soon afterwards lol

for my part, there’s definitely multiple reasons i pretty much don’t care

1. i never used to Vent post back in the early days. but one of my earliest examples maybe was this sudden essay i dumped on my blog when i was 16? 17? abt how unhappy i was at home. it took me till i was 18 to really start to realize that what i’d always lived with was literally abuse, and it was things like The Sudden Venting Essay that really helped me put it all into words and be able to organize my thoughts enough to write about it and realize that there was a lottttt of shit i was rly miserable about2. ever since then really i’ve found that when i write about something, whether messaging it to someone or just posting it in general, a ton of times it helps me kinda make connections or figure something out or just feel like i have a better grasp on an idea.3. even after i started maybe doing the occasional venting post, for a long time i was really hesitant about it, but this was mostly b/c i felt like i didn’t have ~real~ enough problems and/or nobody would really care. as for the former, well yesterday i was saying how i still have this underlying feeling that i’m an imposter / don’t count / not REALLY as ___ as other people or whatever, so i’m still working on that, but it definitely doesn’t upset me as much as it might back in the day. re: the latter—tbh i dont care if nobody cares. i write abt personal shit b/c i care. my entire blog is About and Because i care, and if other people care, great, if they don’t, ok.4. a lot of this is about having compassion for myself. i don’t look down on other people for making personal posts, so i don’t look down on myself, either. 5. more self-compassion: there’s probably olden text posts from the early days of this blog that don’t even sound like me coz my Outer Demeanor has changed a lot these past 5 or 2 or 1 yrs. but even if i stumbled across some Old Post of mine and was like “lmfao whats up w THIS loser” it’s like….well, i’m sympathetic to my Earlier Selves. this applies to like, me never deleting Late Night Sad Posts or whatever (even tho nowadays they’re never exactly like i’m upset, maybe just Melancholy or in a mood to talk abt something saddish) coz i’m like, well, even though rn i don’t feel like i Need this post, back then i did feel like venting to feel better! and that’s fine. i don’t find that embarrassing. it’s like if you’re thirsty on one day and you drink some water and at some random point during the next evening when you’re not thirsty you think back on that time you were drinking water and you’re like “wow, embarrassing.” well clearly its not a perfect analogy but the point is sometimes you might feel you need to talk, and sometimes you don’t, and both times are ok. its not an embarrassment to have been upset6. this blog is the most personal thing in the world for me lmao its my Main social media presence, goes back five yrs, and for like. well the whole five years its been what keeps me from being way more isolated than i am. irl friends have been long distance this whole time (save a couple exceptions) and mostly my way to talk to ppl has been on here. this was especially important when i was at my parents house for a couple yrs. it was fairly awful and being able to be in touch w ppl and being able to SAY it was awful was clearly important, and i became more inclined to write abt shit rather than hold myself back b/c my being able to say anything was important7. i still talk about things b/c being able to say anything here to people in the outside world is important8. i can’t be like “i cant talk abt this b/c its not important/interesting enough” coz if i did i wouldn’t talk abt anything. i just write b/c i have things to say, and this is my pointless blog9. i don’t expect i’ll ever become Well Known in any circles. for me the more likely concern is kinda disappearing either due to dying or incarceration or some other shit scenario. the times i talk on here are good b/c that hasnt happened yet and i have the option10. even if i did become well known, i don’t really care.11. also for uh…all the times i was living in my parents house thru my life i was really really isolated. for eons i was used to nobody knowing shit abt me and keeping p much all my thoughts to myself. nowadays this blog is what lets me be able to sorta Known and Seen and able to get in touch w ppl if we wanna. basically, there’s nothing TOO personal. i’m not even trying to push myself to “overshare” coz like i said, p much nothing is offlimits. i’ve just had a lifetimes worth of being very invisible and unknown to anyone12. actually i can still be very cagey abt myself in person. learning to be more open On Here is a bit helpful for that. 13. idk that anyone else would give a shit about old vent posts from me either. when i talk abt me im talking abt *me*, its really not even vaguely interesting when removed even one degree from that specific context. 14. maybe there’s the chance some shit will happen to be Relatable to other ppl and somehow helpful to them15. for example, a lot of how i realized i was actually experiencing abuse for real was thru anecdotal / qualitative posts abt it. sometimes there’s shit you think is Just You only b/c nobody else who it applies to is talking about it yknow16. maybe making it seem less a big deal to talk abt your bullshit if i unapologetically talk abt my bullshit17. i remember my younger self feeling like i didnt ~deserve~ to talk abt my own thoughts & feelings the way other ppl did coz mine weren’t as good, so i kinda do it for them / in celebration of no longer feeling that way18. i actually like to talk. i just usually can’t. irl i very very very very rarely talk at length about myself, i don’t talk much at all. for me this is where i get to talk19. hmm i may have skipped or forgotten something obvious but hey. for now, there’s this. no-limits milo they call me

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gnostic-heretic · 6 years

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Also other thing that is semi related to this but I have to say it to someone. For years I see people saying that Hetalia is dying bla bla bla support artists, support writers etc etc but in my opinion it's not dying bc there are always new people coming BUT it's completely stagnated. Hetalia has the capacity to attract people but very rarely can keep them interested for a long time (cont)

Bc there's this mentality of 'quick works are good but often more detailed stuff is ignored' especially on fanfics. How are people supposed to keep being interested if more serious and detailed stuff are being overlooked? Don't get me wrong both are fine but there should be a balance between both and not dismiss one of them. Hell I like when my memes are reblogs I laugh a lot with them but I wish that my fics that I worked hard on had the same attention (cont)

And i'm sure others would too. Idk where I'm trying to get here but I think that the fandom has potential that is not being used bc damn it after 11 years people are still coming so there are very attractive factors going on here but there's no power to retain people why? More support on both styles of work could help imo but that's me

@aph-belarusia

i’m making another post because i’m gonna get long and i don’t think replies are the most comfortable way to have a conversation...

i agree with you like, whenever people call hetalia a dead fandom i always roll my eyes because ... y’all... i’ve been in fandoms made of like ten people. these kids have NO IDEA what a dead fandom is dhsjfh but while it’s not dead i think there are a few issues, namely

some people are afraid to reblog hetalia because the anime/fandom has a bad reputation. i can’t count the number of likes i get on my works from people who do not seem to be into hetalia at all at first glance... and i always wonder if it’s a mistake but after i see the same non-hetalia person liking my posts... twice... four times... ten times it’s obvious that it’s no coincidence here. i do not think that the fandom’s attitude to self degrade and joke about how horrible and problematic and embarrassing hetalia is helps at all. if we content creators and fandom in general started talking positively about hetalia, and owned the fact that we like this anime and the related fanwork even more instead of being like “uwu i may draw and reblog hetalia but i don’t support it and i’m not in the fandom” maybe people would be less hesitant about reblogging hetalia content.

there’s this ... extremely widespread attitude among artists and writers to be like, “reblogs not likes! if you like my art you might as well ignore it and spit in my soup and call me worthless!” and yet... i rarely see the people who are so adamant about this ever reblog (or like) anyone’s fanwork but their own which is interesting, considering :^) i understand pride and no one’s forcing you to reblog anything of course, but sometimes a “nice!” in the replies if for whatever reason you cannot reblog someone’s work will make someone’s day.

quite a few people i talked with told me they feel too shy about leaving comments or talking to me and.... seriously. y’all. writers are huge fuckin nerds. if you are nice and don’t come with insults or entitlement, no one will snub you or be rude to you. i swear. i’m actually dying to yell in chat about headcanons.... and so are... 99% of writers from what i can tell

so here’s some Fandom Praxis i hold myself to, usually, as i try to navigate these tendencies in the hetalia fandom:

art made by people and posted directly on tumblr > reposted pixiv fanart (yes, even those that say reposted with permission) i usually never reblog fanart that is reposted from pixiv or keep it to a bare minimum. people seem to be super fond of the “Pixiv style” and often reblog fanart reposted from japanese pixiv accounts and disdain more “tumblr-looking” style of art,, but i don’t think it’s fair towards the person who gets their art reposted and there is never any proof in those posts that the permission was actually given other than “op says so”. even if someone’s style is not the most aesthetically pleasing to me, when i see art i like (keyword: i like) here on tumblr i try to support the artist and interact with the post even if i just leave a like

networking > guilt tripping build a network of friends and followers with similar interests who will enjoy not just your work but also enjoy talking to you and exchanging ideas because fandom is about FUN and about creativity and human relations not about the number of notes on a post. engaging with people and sharing your ideas generally builds positive connections and community solidarity... it’s not about the notes you get but also about the notes you give to your friends and fandom peers and the relationships you form this way. i’ve found so many friends i’m grateful for through the hetalia fandom!!! any genuine relationship and genuine exchange of ideas and yes even of notes and comments is what makes fandom such a good place...

if you like a fanfiction leave a kudo and/or a comment it doesn’t have to be literary analysis a “(keysmash) i love this” ... is enough seriously as someone who’s been a passive reader for ages before i became more engaged in the fanfiction writing side of fandom it never occurred to me but it’s so important to let writers KNOW DIRECTLY that you enjoyed their work. so often people devalue the skills it takes to write something and take fanfiction for granted but it’s such a stressful and long process and it puts the person publishing their work in a really vulnerable place... because writing is always a piece of someone’s heart and soul that they are showing to you. if you like something, show it! and...

explore tumblr ship/character tags and fanfic writers networks instead of sorting by kudos/views on ao3- seriously, the best fics i’ve found never made it to the “sort by kudos” top pages and they really deserve to- but they can’t if people continue to stubbornly ignore smaller writers with this sort of filtering. fanfiction is not one-size-fits-all and finding writers with similar interests instead of going by the opinion of the faceless crowd will make your reading experience so much better

do not be afraid to talk to writers like seriously we are all fckin nerds i cannot stress this enough

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