#and i mean this with no jest

[pureseasalt]

“i only ship sydney and carmy with therapy” BOOO. tomatoes! tomatoes! is a narrative only interesting if it’s driven by well-adjusted characters? is a love story worthwhile because it happened between two people who only made the right choices? do storms diminish the beauty of the sky? do the sharp claws of an animal make it less deserving of an embrace? do you think that your flaws, human that you are, could somehow shrink the sheer magnitude of your longing? of your hunger? of your capacity to love and be loved? do you think that all of this. all of this! poetry! beauty! romance! love! do you think that all of this was created solely for the sane?

#sydney x carmy #Sydney Adamu #carmy berzatto #the bear fx #carmy x sydney #before i am hanged drawn and quartered know that i say this in jest #and that i mean every word of it

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

"If PD-MDZS drew He Xuan, would he be a Man or a Fish?"

#Poorly drawn tgcf #tgcf #He Xuan #The promised part two to the He Xuan Saga. #This is the refined and highly selected group of coherant designs #There were many....many more....several pages and sticky notes of grapheme and pen. Ramblings of a visual kind. #I got so stuck on 'sharp forehead'. You are all being saved from the worst of my attempts to figure out what that would look like. #What does it mean. What does it *mean*??? #Btw the reason there's a red star next to no.5 is because that's the winner <3 #At a certain point I started making wild designs in relative jest (and desperation) and something about axolotl He Xuan just... stuck. #I couldn't stop thinking about it...And okay; It works. An amphibian very much goes with his general vibe and themes. #That and for the fact this permits me to draw Shi Qingxuan as an axolotl. Going on axolotl dates. Holding axolotl hands. #And once that image got in my head I knew. #If poorly-drawn-mdzs drew He Xuan; He would be an axolotl.

[thestayathomedragon]

Hero Types and their Morally Questionable Boyfriends. Yep, that's my favorite flavor of jam.

#wintersberg #serennedy #metaltango #okay so i'm finally copping to #chrisker #but I'm not taking any questions at this time #he can fix him your honor! #what do you mean moral ambiguity can't be cured with dick #surely you jest. #ethan winters #karl heisenberg #leon kennedy #luis serra #chris redfield #albert wesker #jack krauser #yeah yeah I added Krauser too what of it? #bloodweave #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #astarion #astarion ancunin #bg3 #baldurs gate 3

[rotkad]

yea im the type of aroace to gag when i see romantic pda. sorry to burst ur bubble or whatevs

#jester jests #aromantic #asexual #aroace #when i say im love repulsed i mean im LOVE. REPULSED.

[sexycornenthusiast]

What your favorite mean girls ship says about you

Cadnis: You're a theater kid and there's a good chance you're neurodivergent. If you're a writer, you're just a silly goofy guy (you have committed atrocities).

Rejanis: You love heart-rending, soul-crushing angst with a side of angry kissing, and you've probably struggled with self hatred at some point in your life.

Cadina: *Tiktok voice* We get it! You like this one!! (You want sexual tension thick enough to cut with a knife and you're probably a Reneé Rapp stan)

Fetchen: I mean this with all of the love in the world, but this is the junk food of ships. You want your tooth rotting fluff with the emotional depth of a puddle, and in this world? Who can blame you.

Polystics: You thought "Hey, wouldn't it be funny-” ONE TIME and then immediately fell into the vortex.

Regret: Your ship is wish fulfillment with a sole target audience of Gretchen "Please don't ignore me" Weiners. I don't think anything I could say would be more biting than that fact

Karina: Unfortunately, you do not exist outside of my mind palace. But if you did exist, you'd definitely be a friends to lovers girlie.

Jaren: You're my best friend <3 hi parker.

Jatchen: You're one of the surprisingly few people in this fandom who can't bring themselves to forgive Regina George.

Damiaaron: You are the "gays" part of "the girls and the gays". But also you don't exist, this is no one's favorite

Cadaaron: Who are you and how did you get into Lesbianism: The Fandom? Are you lost?

Caden: wouldn't you like to know weather boy

Cadchen: Ok, the tags are partially a lie solely because I've never considered this particular ship before right now as I'm writing this and I'm not sure why not.

#obligatory disclaimer that this post is all in jest #and if it makes you feel better as a multishipper i have literally shipped everything on this list at some point #yes even THAT one #i hope y'all like my rarepair naming abilities i wanted to be extra thorough #mean girls musical #mean girls #mean girls 2024 #mean girls broadway

[l3irdl3rain]

peace and love on planet earth but please respect him and stop calling him “a korok” when you see him on my couch. He has a name

#this is lighthearted. a jest #but also I do want to correct every single person who calls him ‘a korok’ as if he isn’t the most special korok of all #do you guys mean to tell me you’ve never played the best legend of Zelda game of all time? #one of the best video games of all time? #my beloved Wind Waker #not pets

[trainingdummyrabbit]

thinking more abt dummyrabbit angela, couldnt get this scenario out of my head

#. does she know.. (<- she doesnt) #projmoon #pikart #like. etc etc disclaimers disclaimers but ive been tossing th concept around abit n. waves hands around unspecifically #its my house i get to be silly in this space i made to be silly in #i shrimply think she wouldnt have a combat. not really atleast. if anything its like. all stagger or all counter or smthn. #aka no weapon or anything; she Just Goes Here(tm) #placing her Directly at the very start of th timeline bc I Like Being Mean To Myself (said in jest) #just several several instances of her saying something followed by a silent but Very Loud 'oh. ohhhhh noooooo.'

[heymeowmao]

LYN: /telling his new fans not to get handsy with him/

C: (No hands?) Then, lips.

LYN: …

LYN: It's like this. I’m pretty tall. When I’m wearing shoes I’m probably taller than 1.9m. The average woman’s height is around 1.65m. My leg, if I lift it, can reach up to around 1.65m. And then, if you come over with your lips, and I happen to lift my leg…

LYN: My legs are around 1.13m long. If I lift then kick out- like this- If I kick you on the mouth, I think you can get sent flying around 1.75m out. It’s possible that your head hits the floor first. So, please be aware of your safety. Try not to come at me with your lips. You’d get sent flying to around 1.75m-1.85m away. Let’s not struggle with the exact distance. Keep that in mind. Thank you.

- LYN Livestream _ 2024.04.08, 26:14-27:22

#Liu Yuning #i'm lmaoooo #i know this sounds mean but it's ground rules half-delivered in jest #can people learn to respect personal boundaries...

[mugiwara-lucy]

Father of the year right here 🤣

#one piece #monkey d dragon #monkey d luffy #koala #and before anyone says anything i mean this in JEST! #OBVIOUSLY he cares about luffy 😂

[electricfied-wolf]

"Where's C.B.??" Well first of all C.B. hasn't been in this show for a really long time *gestures to bochum caboose* second of all. you sit down and enjoy ur Tassita he's come all the way from the workshop and barely gets any hype. Smh.

#starlight express #stex #THIS POST IS MEANT JOKINGLY PLEASE DONT GET MAD AT ME OVER IT #IM KIDDING I PROMIES #mostly #BUT I AM SIMPLY JESTING #<- saying this bc I'm scared ppl are gonna think I'm being mean to the caboose lovers. I am a caboose lover too don't shoot

[aroaceleovaldez]

i mean it when i say we've gotta bring back askblogs. bring back making character chat posts with poor choice text colors over random backgrounds. bring back blogs dedicated to what outfits you think characters would wear.

fandom is an ecosystem, not a numbers game. these types of blogs/posts/etc still exist in concept, because people still want to make them and they're a great way to get your thoughts of an idea out in a simple format, but most people make them on like tiktok or instagram reels and that's where the problem lies. Those videos don't go anywhere. The format doesn't allow for the discussion to spread through the community and they're less likely to be engaged with in general. And to make them most people have to either show their face or figure out editing software, so the barrier to entry is higher (editing) and/or they have to forfeit an amount of privacy.

those types of posts/blogs are the first rung of the ecosystem. they're the perfect environment for younger members of the fandom to begin safely interacting with the larger community and putting their own thoughts and ideas out there. roleplay is the other major spot for that and those communities are diminishing as well, honestly (if you know of an rp forum board site, cherish it. and if you can make one, make one). they allow younger fans to begin engaging with the source material on a different/deeper level, but still at a very low barrier to entry, and begin conversations with other fans, which also helps them build skills which in turn may encourage them to pursue other avenues within the fandom (fic writing, other formats of askblog - which itself usually leads to art, cosplay, also fic writing, etc). Without those places to build those skills, they might feel discouraged from trying to begin when surrounded by curated people who have built their skills up for years.

And those conversations they foster also in turn help the community, by offering ideas to artists or fic writers to extrapolate on or building community jokes. And that text/blog format specifically is extremely beneficial, because it allows younger members of the fandom to remain anonymous and keep their privacy without concerning themselves with having any platform or having anything attached to them (very important for young fans figuring themselves out and navigating online community spaces for the first time, since they can remove themselves from spaces easily if they decide they don't like it and they're protected, rather than PUTTING THEIR FACE ON THE INTERNET). And those posts they make will spread a lot more into the community since they're in a significantly easier format to be reposted (few people are gonna be reposting tons of random short-form videos versus spamming their instagrams with reposts of 10 random fandom images yoinked from tumblr, or reposting to pinterest or something). Like, don't repost art, at the VERY least don't repost without credit, but also I am not ignorant to the fact that my art is not just the first google image result for "pjo pride" and related searches, but also the 4th, the 6th, the 9th, the 10th, the 11th, etc etc., and pops up in the search results before the official ReadRiordan does simply because people reposted my work more (most with credit, thankfully).

For fandom to be a community, it needs to perpetuate itself. There needs to be engagement with one another and conversation. If that bottom rung is cut off, then new fans won't be able to grow into the other niches of the fandom, and the fandom will be solely reliant on the source material and die out extremely quickly, and there won't be a community. There's no conversation! There's no reason to stay beyond the original material! But if you don't have points of entry for new fans, they won't have any way to build the skills needed to move into those niches, or engage with the community in a healthy way.

tl;dr: Bring back askblogs and character-based text post blogs. They are vital to fandom ecosystem.

#fandom #long post // #i know many people jest about tumblr posts being reposted often to other social media #but there's a reason for that! because few other social media these days are primarily text-based! and tumblr is a BLOGGING website! #we're built for sharing random essays! which means we have a LOT of word-heavy stuff #that other platforms can really only have in a different format - usually either image or video - due to character limits #and videos - even short form video - is far less engaged with because it takes more time to interact with #and short form videos of this nature ^ are usually only reposted in like. long-form video format compilations #which are pretty equally if not even less frequently interacted with #because most of those other social media platforms dont have good ways to easily share posts en mass like tumblr's reblog function #so even if those posts do get shared they rarely go far and even if they do they dont stick around #i also personally dont think it's coincidental that general fandom attitude shifts occurred circa 2016-2018 #around the same time as the major shift away from tumblr due to the bans #anyways if you run one of those types of blogs i respect you immensely #you are underappreciated but you fulfill an important ecological niche #also i know rp blogs are still a thing but theyre much more scarce and rp communities in general are drying up

[fili-the-jester]

The more I think about Azure Lion, the more uncomfortable I feel about him

#fili jesting #lego monkie kid #lmk #lmk azure lion #not that I don't think he's a good character #but when I think more in-depth about him and his relationship with swk #I see how he essentially seems to have manipulated swk for his own goals and than he manipulates qxt and his friends #and how he isn't even like lbd who is openly antagonistic #he seems like he's nice but than he just smiles as he's imprisoned qxt's mentor and than he blames qxt for trying to get swk back #he seems like a 'the end justifies the means' kind of guy #and he did seem to have somewhat good intentions #but good intentions isn't a justification for manipulating and hurting people #and lmk is known for having unreliable narrators #and while I do think that there was some truth to azure's words during the flashback he showed qxt #namely the heaven not aiding humans and letting demons hurt them without regard #but he is also trying to get sympathy from qxt about himself and his goals #even when he seems like he's being honest #he's manipulating people and trying to get their sympathy so they'll go along with what he wants #and when he's not doing that he's praising people and putting them on pedestals like he did with swk #he uses flattery as a form of manipulation and he played right into swk's own pride to manipulate him #idk #might be overanalyzing but I am having thoughts

[anglerflsh]

glad to know I don't have to process the moving out grief via nightmares at least but after the umpteenth time I dream about the same person you'd think my brain would catch me a break

#[.txt] #in said dream I was also missing a class because i woke up at four pm and my first class is at midday #but like it wasnt a stress dream I was literally chilling. in my zone. getting a hug that lasted half an hour. ?? dream of unclear meaning #as I told jaja how many times do you have to dream about the same guy until it becomes gay /jest

[discountwives]

i wanna compliment other ppls fos, not in some weird flirty way but in a 'what a handsome boy' dog way

#IF I EVER SAY UR FO IS PRETTY/HANDSOME/CUTE I MEAN THIS IN A 'YOUVE BAGGED A BADDIE' WAY JDJDH #jude jests 🃏 #ok to rb #off topic im waiting for my nail to fall off lmao

[surrealisticduvet]

"...he begins to cry in a way that hurts his chest, and asks Death to set him free and be his mother, and Joelle either shakes or nods her lovely unfocused head and says: Wait."

Yoko Ono - Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him // David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest // John Lennon for Rolling Stone Magazine (December 5th, 1980)

#john lennon #yoko ono #infinite jest #this song is so good. i can't tell you what this means you just have to listen to it. you'll get it.

[laceratedlamiaceae]

Izzy's tattoos and their meanings

#okay the 'spade=trans' thing was just on one random website so idk if it's real but i couldn't not include it #and i know it's not 100% that his cheek tattoo is polaris but that's my headcanon #also to be perfectly clear i'm using the word transgenderism in jest i know it's not a real word don't @ me #our flag means death #ofmd #izzy hands #gifset #ofmdedit