#anyway there was a con i went to

[aestromeri]

Weekend con adventures w/ this gremlin + toumali commission 🍋 -`♡´-

#hi im not dead #i've been packing stuff for the zine and last orders from my shop #so i havent had time to be online much #injured my ankle last week too! #anyway there was a con i went to #it was fun and i dragged this thing with me #there was so much nice stuff i got things for friends but im terrible exhausted #the eclipse today was fun #my room has been a mess as well i didnt have work today and i cleaned it #thats my update 🫡

[sunforgrace]

no but the thing is the thing is orpheus turns and. you’re early. i missed you. he sacrifices his life to save his love and he still dies at 41

#(i do not subscribe to the words of actor man at con. call that a con man. So in my world 15x20 is 6 months later. #[​- read that somewhere that it was the time in the first draft/og script? - though ig that would make dean 42 if the show is meant to #vaguely follow rl timeline with the confession happening in nov? who can never be sure. anyway] #he still dies six months later.) #youre telling me dean winchester resurrection guy extraordinaire dies and spends 10 minutes monologuing about how it’s his time #dies for real forever and ever and it’s after cas (to his knowledge) went to angel demon die forever land forever because he sacrificed #himself by loving dean so much venom took him there and these two things are meant to have no connection whatsoever. #[​evie posted destiel hadestown today so im obligated to release this one from the drafts]

[glareandgrowl]

I had a bit of an epiphany...

A LOT of my OC sets (boyfs) match quite well with uh... the Ishimondo set. Ive got at least three more pairings that look so similar to Ishimondo its really funny.

The two guys are two of my OCs from story that will probably never come to light. (left- Elijah Vogel, right- Adler Eadon Hawke)

Theres plenty more examples. If ya'll'd care ta see em

#longsheepart #digital art #danganronpa fanart #danganronpa trigger happy havoc #danganronpa #kiyotaka ishimaru #ishimondo #mondo owada #art #OC art #OCs #my ocs #my oc art #original characters #I FINALLY finished something it has been such a bad month in terms of creativity #I went to con and con was fun but a lot #then i got con flu so bad afterwards its been terrible #I've heard word from some ppl I went with that its tested as covid? But Im not gonna check bc I dont need to. #I'd have to get over it sans medicine anyways being a virus #So idc about a test. Im about over it anyways now. Just a bit of a cough and some congestion

[bookshelfpassageway]

Miles Edgeworth is rocketing in my appreciation levels as I am playing Investigations

this man will not stop ending up in Situations, so far he's been kidnapped, framed, knocked out, passed out, had a guy murdered in his fucking office, and he just matter-of-factly rolls with it like "hm. guess i'm here now. inconvenient i suppose." while sassing everyone around him and being breathtakingly neurodivergent

like I can't screenshot my physical 3ds but i'm going insane over various moments, like him noting a flight attendant's lounge, going "smells like women's perfume. well, there's nothing of interest to me in there" and then immediately hard Zoning Out until someone goes "...you good?"

and this bc i remembered i have a phone camera

"that's all." MILES

rotating this gay little man and all his mental illnesses

#my posts #miles edgeworth #ace attorney #i need to get the first chapter of this goddamn fic written enough to post and it's spinning out of control again #i wanted it to be a cute comic con fluff piece and now it's Character Study about the media that keeps you going and love and trust #and the fact you can't upgrade a convention hotel room to get another bed for your pretty fool of a defense attorney on a week's notice #anyway writing him i was struck with ''oh wow you're more autistic than i expected'' and then i got further in Investigations and went #''ok yeah that assessment was correct. good for him'' #he's also Gay gay huh

[zkyeline]

aa fuck it andrias thirst trap

#amphibia #andrias leviathan #king andrias #fan art #just tad bitter his prints sold the least at a con i went. sad </3 #anyways I’ll be Regular Posting for a bit for all new art I haven’t post #stay tuned owlphibia peeps!

[clannfearrunt]

The post insinuating people who grew up with siblings are better roommates or good at sharing or whatever compared to only children is rly funny ur experiences are not universal etc etc (Which is fine and why I’m not adding 2 the post) but me personally having grown up with two siblings directly contributed to me being intensely territorial with my space and belongings LMAO you guys shared?? Successfully?? Being forced to share objects didn’t lead to huge and stupid fights that were only resolved when The Father threatened violence??? The world is so wonderful. I want what you and your siblings have.

#Your sibling didn’t lock you out of his room prohibiting access to the only clothes drawer you had between the three of you?? #Con stop yapping #still bitter about the clothes dresser situation. I did not have my own clothes storage until 8th grade #for NO REASON #just!! father cheapskate wouldn’t let my mom buy me even a cheap dresser!! #when she finally just went and bought one for $20 it was a whole fucking THING #dear lord. god forbid we spend a fraction of the cost of your firearm collection on fucking furniture #anyways this has become a different thing

[averlym]

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#adamandi #ambrose wellington bassford #infer as you will i suppose. wanted to draw a statue ambrose but accidentally painted it because smth smth blending fits him #again. main things taken from lyrics of the actual show ++ this definition i checked with google because i didn't remember it off the top #of my head. but Thoughts indeed #sfgdhhdf ok hello i am back today has been a Day (not very good) (oh well) (small mercies) ... #did not expect the melliot to find this so quickly but since i guess the Official Tumblr has reblogged it i'll just edit this one. #as opposed to reuploading. o//o #i painted it at 2am on impulse and have very little recollection of the whole event -? and then in a fit of pique added words and posted it #it is Very different from the original draft. i'd like to maybe do that one justice someday... anyways something something sometimes #a piece of art you make organically Evolves of its own volition... anyways. #maybe i'm projecting but recently (tuesday?) i found out something Important i had in the works Collapsed in the kiln #kaboom. ah the perils of ceramics. anyway thanks to the messed up 3d of everything i'm working on rn (the pros and cons of visual art subj #is that you get to make art for a grade) and. ceramics and sculpture and classics etcetera. <blinks> wow i really latched on to art aspects. #but nevertheless! ambrose brainrot real. iirc my thoughts were smth like. most strongly. that contrapposto? based on my school art history #was that it evolved from the very neutral rigid ancient greek sculptures of people which were all about Mathematical Symmetry. because #the main thing about contrapposto was that it reflected irl people more... more life-like? so it's very ironic to me #that Alive ambrose went and tried to turn himself into a statue. with part of the draw being contrapposto.. like????? #ah yes you like this sculpture because it's lifelike. and you'd rather be a sculpture than alive huh. the contrasts are !! in my head #also maybe i just.. wanted to paint... idk i had ambrose on the brain yesterday and it was something about sculptural messed up perfection #fun fact!!! the skin and hair i all greyed out to look like marble. fun fact number two: he has no eyes in this. like no pupils :3 #fun fact number 3 (irrelevant) marble statues are only common wrt ancient greece bc the romans iirc came along and repurposed the bronzes. #because apparently bronze was a Hot Commodity at the time. and in return to preserve the art they made marble replicas. so most marble #ancient greek statues are apparently copies and the originals had totally different aesthetics #fun fact number 4: the background is a very greyed out image of my broken ceramics.. i wanted something nice to come out of it at least #fun fact number 5: i wanted to make him crack. like shattered ceramic or smth. that was the original idea. but instead it went to the pretty #sculpture route... kinda wanna make the messed up one though!! #fun fact number 6! because of Art Studio i'm covered in white paint and like it doesn't come off so it's been on my fingers and arms and #basically everywhere. so flesh turning into white stuff aes is fascinating i wanna explore... fun fact no.7.. i have accidentally maybe #began using screenshots as drawing practice. idk what to do with this info. if anything nice turns up ig i'll post it maybe

[tricksterlatte]

I've always been fascinated by fandom history, and I know I'm not the only one. It's interesting to see how fans of pop culture can create a culture of their own, and in the modern age of social media and the internet in general, that culture is as widespread as ever. Unfortunately, that also means downsides are becoming bigger as this culture becomes widespread, and it's saddening to watch, maybe even concerning.

I don't discuss these things to be preachy, especially considering how I've fallen into several of these pitfalls before, and have perpetuated some of this behavior in the past. To say otherwise would make me a hypocrite and a liar, and I firmly believe this goes for most people in any fandom. I was just thinking about this recently, and how a lot of the biggest stressors in what should be our stress relief really can be pinned mostly into a few central talking points, which I would love to discuss to know if I'm not just going crazy here

The concept of Big Name Fan has evolved into a position of authority on fandom, which does not fall to anyone regarding subjectivity. No one in a fandom is an authority except the creators themselves, who have every right to stay away from the fandoms they have birthed.

Popularity in general being conflated to intellectual authority as well, especially on websites with public stats, particularly following counts. The algorithm is no benevolent god, but people will sometimes see someone with 30k followers and think they are correct on a minor non-issue that has spiraled into discourse, especially when compared to someone with 30 followers. This also is just...a bummer when fanon evolves into perceived canon, and newcomers to the fandom can't post even innocuous meta or headcanons without it being perceived as morally/intellectually incorrect.

Monetization of fanworks, but especially zines, have led to a hypercompetitive atmosphere that only escalates the bitterness and resentment. This is not a universal problem, but many zines across all fandoms habitually accept the same artists and writers, or diminish the value of fanfic due to the limitations of physical printing. The application process has devolved into such a disheartening debacle for a majority of people I see, and the way it is often framed as "your work just wasn't good enough" when it's really about what the mods deem mass marketable will destroy just about anyone's self-esteem after repetitive rejections, and will give some frequent zine runners a false sense of final say over the community (not usually, but it can happen).

The level of distrust for anyone new attempting to start a fan project is just so depressing nowadays (and this one we sadly can blame on a few people by name, but the ones who have sent this issue spiraling still don't care and that just sucks. I feel horrible for everyone who has been tricked).

Somehow comment and anonymous asks have gone backwards from "don't feed the trolls" to "suck it up, at least you're getting comments." I have seen some of these comments people have been told to suck up. It's not okay in general. It's particularly gross when it's an anonymous hate message unrelated to the fanworks themselves, perhaps born out of resentment or bearing an ulterior motive. And some will even attack and defame character due to identity. It's not subtle. It's not okay. People should absolutely be dunked on for this, and I gotta say I'm sick of unsolicited concrit being enforced as positive either. If they didn't ask, don't give it. There's a reason a lot of fic writers some people adore suddenly go ghost, and they can't even talk about it.

Don't like, don't read has been discarded in favor of don't like, tell others don't read and also don't write. Transformative works don't have to fit into a canon or even in character mold. That's why they're transformative! It's a different type of artistic expression. If you don't like it, chances are good it simply wasn't meant for you. It's not bad. Don't shame others, god especially not for non-issues such as a t/b preference or a different gender hc, preferred haircuts, types of animal you imagine them as in another lifetime, I could list literally anything here and I bet there has been a fandom fight over it.

Exclusive yet publicly advertised community Discords that will bar you from invite if you're not one of the cool kids. I have unfortunately fallen into this trap before, and refuse to ever enable or endorse that behavior ever again. This isn't about friend groups either, it's about fandom-dedicated servers that flaunt themselves as a VIP club instead of what they are: a friend group. I also don't even know how to broach the subject of private accounts that turn into fandom tea accounts with dozens if not hundreds of followers, only for people to be angry if someone isn't exactly okay with horrific stuff being said in general, let alone about their mutuals or friends.

I know none of this will likely ever change, and tbh i'm so tired of it all, but...does anyone else know what I mean? I'm stressed out whenever I try to enjoy myself, because popularity and a strange business mindset is steadily taking over fandom spaces. I'm not saying people should stop trying to make stuff that sells, or that people universally do any of this, but fandom is evolving into a thing I'm not sure is good. idk anymore

#parker says things #the last point stresses me out particularly after a HUGE mess during the 2010s #in which an ex mutual deepfaked a twt for someone they hated to try and tell others they were being made fun of #and then it went wrong anyways but god #i keep seeing these patterns over and over and somehow they keep getting worse! #Why has being mean become so normal? and popular? Actually it's more like #why has being mean but ESPECIALLY IN PUBLIC become acceptable? #if you couldn't say it to someone at a con without getting backlash don't say it here #I may not like those discords but at least the tiniest ones with 3-5 like minded people won't poison a community #and unfortunately I worry about fandom community! It's stagnating or becoming toxic but publicly now #people have always been like this but now it's becoming...okay to bash others again. I hate it. Don't be like FF dot net comment sections : #i lost my train of thought partially bc I wrote half of this and had to pause but #idk it's just frustrating! And I'm actually not okay with it! I've dealt with my own stuff but my friends and even people I don't know- #have dealt with a million times worse #I wouldn't wish this crap even upon people i don't like!! what is wrong with some people

[vanillajello]

I went to a con today and I only saw TWO saiki k cosplayers and no merch I am very sad

#i actually thought id see more because saiki k is pretty popular #but i didnt so :(((( #anyways i still spent way too much money on other merch #sadly none of that money went to saiki k merch </////3 #anyways the one saiki k cosplayer i talked to was really cool saiki k fans are cool #saiki k #tdlosk #comic con

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

i'm giving guadalajara too much shit but los pueblos negros (the black villages) are genuinely really freaking cool

also! my first experience with them was through an andrea compton video, cause she is from one of these villages!!! for those who don't know her, andrea compton is one of the most belovedests spanish youtubers, one of the ogs as well and i love her very much. anyways, she lived here until high school, where she went to live with her father in my hometown lol, in suburban madrid. so. pretty big change. i unfortunately cannot find her video, she might have just deleted it at this point - i watched it at least 10 years ago - but i found what her village is if you want to look it up, it's called roblelacasa, and as of 2016 it has 22 inhabitants. i remember she told in the video that she had to go to another village to go to school, and that in said school there were 6 kids in total, of course with different ages all together in the classroom.

#guadalajara #spain #also. and i feel obligated to say this every time i talk about andrea compton or inés hernand but it's the only good thing i can say #about my hometown #but not only did she live near me. the high school she went to is the one that's next to my house. like the park in front of the hs was #the park i went to when i was a kid #which most likely means i met andrea compton and inés hernand when they were teens and i was a kid #cause all the kids from that high school also go to that park #and for those who don't knw #inés hernand is like. one of the most important people in this country i would say??? at least among young people #she studied law but she's mostly a tv presenter nowadays and she is like. extremely political extremely leftist extremely funny #i love her #well they've talked thousands of times how andrea and her met on the first day of high school and became best friends and how tehy've been #inseparable since #to think that happened next to where i live while i was living there just blows my mind lmao #and we've met andrea compton cause she's my sister's favourite youtuber like she's been following her since she was like 10 #in fact my sister was the one who showed me the video about her village #anyways we've met her twice in anime cons and also we've also met her a couple times more in concerts and stuff cause she's fan of stuff #we also love sjdsj #and every time we talk about my hometown and we know ehere her dad lives (very close to us) and she's confirmed the high school was that on #and yeah. she's very dear to my heart and i'm extremely happy everytime she gets recognition cause it's only what she deserves <3

[musicalchaos07]

SORRY I AM THINKING ABOUT NANCY SAYING COPY/PASTE FOR HER AND JONATHAN'S DAUGHTER AGAIN AND IIIII

#Jonathan of course is like this is fine actually #I'm having BIG FEELINGS about their future again #ALEXA PLAY FOREVER BY NOAH KAHAN #also just big feeling about Jordan Byers in general like that's my baby #certified weird girl but in different ways than her weird parents #my little cinematographer who “accidentally” brings home a stray dog at nine #and then conveniently cons her parents into letting her keep it #BECAUSE SHE'S HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER #but ALSO she's getting into trouble for breaking dress code rules #her NYC HS has uniforms and she thinks the skirt is itchy #and then she revolts so they can wear pants #BECAUSE SHE'S HER MOTHER'S DAUGHTER #She made Jonathan take her to the Eras Tour nevermind that she's 24 #she wanted the good “my dad works for Rolling Stone” seats #little nepo baby #crazier still HE WENT HAPPILY because he loves seeing his girls happy #man wore ear protection for everything expect the folklore/evermore sets #UGH GIRL DAD JONATHAN BYERS MY BELOVED #anyways i'm rambling #... pls ask me questions about the jancy children I BEG #my favorite OCs #peace and love Maggie #jancy #jonathan byers #nancy wheeler #Jordan Byers #my ocs #jancy kids #future verse

[mayorofcattown]

Con is over, went very well! People liked the bookmarks and the shiny spyro stickers Very Much, and the outer wilds print did pretty good too

But the highlight was definitely the wolfwood cosplayer that bought my wolfwood cat sticker

#I did not get a photo of him cause it was a fairly brief interaction and also. 'wolfwood cosplayer' is pretty easy to picture #but it was very funny cause I cant see the sticker display from behind the stand and he was like #'Oh I need to get that cat sticker' and I was like oh which one? before I clicked as to where he was pointing and went OH DUH #anyway might look into doing charms next year? I need a higher value Thing cause my prints don't really sell as much #I get why tbf I'm just used to being on social media where ppl can tell who the characters are based on tags #so they aren't super recognisable as the characters from a distance. which isn't ideal for cons lmao #but also I like drawing cute little stickers more than prints lol. so keychains is probably a smart idea #also I like keychains and want to make them

[hellixo-dev]

okay i shall just put this here. the cool fountains by the convention center WERE FUCKING CLOSED AND BEING DEMOLISHED. can't have shit post-covid. i wanna get pics in a better bg.

#bro dressed up as bowser was goin the guitar #we didn't really hang out outside the con cuz it was late but we went to lesbian bar #was a good experience!! #eva yan #patho #my choker fell off and got lost but i needed to make a new one anyways oof

[ghostie-gengar]

Can you please talk about the "N is a Zoroark" theory? It too makes me want to commit violence

ohoho you are in for a LONG rant dear anon cuz every time i even think about this theory i wanna start biting (also just to get this out of the way, i feel like this post comes across very aggressive. if anyone actually likes this theory, that's fine. i just have a lot of issues with it)

so i will be repeating a couple things from my last n zoroark post and this is my weakest arguement BUT. if N was a zoroark it would have been revealed. like something that huge and theoretically integral to his character would have been shown. the game wouldn't hide it for people to try and solve with pieces that don't fit together. it would sprinkle shreds of evidence around and do a big reveal at the end or something

ALSO zoroarks can't talk. the pokedex says that zoruas transform into silent children as they are pokemon thus incapable of human speech. the zoroark lady in lostlorn forest also doesn't talk. the only noise she does make is growling/snarling. (that doesn't account for the hiker zoroark tho. im assuming he's an exception or an especially clever zoroark. my point is basically that for the most part zoroarks don't talk) and what does N do A LOT OF? talk. my man is chatty.

also that memory link cutscene where it's zoroark's memory but N is in the cutscene? zoroark was probably in its pokeball. pokemon are generally aware of whats going on outside of their pokeball

now for the more moral(ish) reasons why i don't like this theory!! N's literal WHOLE THING is that he was raised to believe he was less than human and about like accepting his humanity and understanding that everyone has different beliefs and thats a part of being human. and yknow that he's NOT a freak without a human heart but a human who thinks human things and has human feelings? if N was a zoroark that would basically undermine ALL of his growth!! his character arc would have been pointless!! and while a message that a pokemon is worthy of just as much respect as a human would be a good one, thats not wolhat they were going for with N!!

LAST THING. N is heavily neurodivergent coded. if after all that he turned out to not be human it would kinda just be a kick in the shorts. media has done this sort of thing before of course but still.

so yeah in conclusion: n has a zoroark fursona? Good. N's zoroark pretends to be him and they get into shenanigans? Good. N IS a zoroark? NO. BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU

ahem. i am very passionate about my disliking of this theory. and as i said before i have no beef with anyone who likes this theory. in fact i do enjoy seeing the other side of an arguement so if anyone has evidence for why they think this theory is true, hit me with it. you're not gonna change my mind but i'll listen (i did see one theory tho where it was like n was the result of ghetsis banging a zoroark. if your theory is that, i don't want to hear it)

ok thats all i got bye

#i went to a con one time as n and someone came up to me and was like 'you're the guy whos like a zoroark!!' and i was like :( #anyways. #pokemon #pokemon black and white #n harmonia #pokemon bw #pokemon n #long rant #zoroark

[megueggu]

also last weekend i had my earrings, bracelets and my prints at an artist exchange table during a local mini convention - magorcon 🐉 the lil Chongi art is by @littlerainart

#my crafts #earrings #bracelets #my art #i will have my stuff next weekend at a con again #pls wish me luck i rly need some to sell ;w; #prints #linocut #i have no clue who and where some of those went #which is a bummer #but it's okay #i just wish everyone followed the exchange part of an art exchange table lol #some people couldn't exchange anything so i just said they can pay me with a smile #anyways i hope everyone likes these and wears them

[mxrisacoulter]

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#personal #i went to con today and NOBODY knew who i was LOL #i got called miss maisel twice and also peggy #and everytime I said i was from hdm everyone was like 'oh that show was good :)' #anyway maybe some people on here will like it