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distant-screaming · 9 months

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bad buddy fandom getting-to-know-you meme!

@cornflowershade thank you for tagging me beloved <33

note: i consider "fanworks" to pretty much everything people create related to a fandom, including but not limited to meta/analysis/discussion, gifs, fanvids/edits/fancams, filk, fanart, fanfic, fan food, fan crafts, etc. please include this note with the meme unless you have a different definition!

name and whatever you want to share about yourself - I'm Dee, she/they <3

when did you watch bad buddy/join the fandom? - OH MAN so bbs was my first thai bl, and I found it through an Instagram reel! I had just finished a show and was kind of bored + also starving for queer content, so I went home and instantly binge watched the whole series. And long story short here I am!

favorite ship(s) - inkpa (the lomls), patpran (they're so skrunklgy), waikorn (they could make each other worse <3)!

favorite character(s) - THAT'S HARD if I had to pick... Ink. Definitely. Then Korn

favorite episode(s) - hmm I binge watched bbs so I don't really remember distinct episodes?

favorite scene(s) - okay actually my favorite scene is one I don't think I've ever properly talked about but it's the end of... ep 10 I believe, where patpran hug up on the rooftop. Firstly, the whole deal associated with the rooftop is already so so good, but just the way Pat and Pran trust each other so much, the way they turn to each other for comfort. I think that scene really embodies what I love about the series, which is that patpran face external factors but their relationship in and of itself is so stable and secure.

one thing you would change about the show if you could - definitely agree with sonia, more inkpa! Also, less of patpran's friends being pricks? I understand that's part of the conflict but man they're just rude sometimes

what are your some of your favorite fanworks made by other people? - it's impossible to choose favorite fics because all the bbs writers are amazing and I love everything they write, so any bad buddy fic I've ever bookmarked is a rec!

(if you create fanworks) what are your favorite fanworks that you’ve made? - AHEM OKAY to date I've only posted 2 fics for bbs, which are very different tonally but I love them - breathe you in, keep you close to my heart and zero sum game (you're so pretty)

a song that makes you think of bbs (the ones in the show don’t count lol) - every song is patpran if you try hard enough, but also Talk Too Much by COIN and Love You Like That by Dagny.

idk anything else you want us to know? - I'm so grateful to bad buddy for introducing me to bls as a genre, and I hope we keep upping the bar for fantastic representation and shows!

Tags - @user-soundwin @mutlishipperfangirl @solana-ceae and anyone else who wants to participate! <3

#tag game #bad buddy getting to know you #sonia beloved #bbs #distant screaming screams into the void

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guidetorp · 10 months

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I’m actually new to the Tumblr RP community and it’s sort of confusing to take in at first so I’d love some advice, thank you so much in advance for anything!

I’m not really sure where to start or how to search for roleplays, appropriately make or tag them, or terms like “muses”? I’ve seen it around, but I’m never sure what it means.

My only experience in getting involved in the roleplay community on other platforms would be through things like “communities” or basically a big user ground labeled “something RP”, but there’s nothing like that here. How would I reach out / extend my reach?

Oh!! Well first and foremost, welcome to the RP side of Tumblr! It's been a few years since I've been active in the roleplay community myself, so I encourage you to take my advice with a grain of salt as I'm sure things have changed!

That being said, starting into the rp community can be a daunting task for sure. Navigating tagging, links, etc is an acquired skill, but certainly not impossible! Just remember to be patient with yourself and allow a few dink-ups along the way.

Now, let me preface this by saying that the tagging system here is dogshit! Completely terrible! But using appropriate tags for your roleplay is still extremely important, as it helps other individuals either find you or avoid you! Lengthy roleplays can be a bit of an eyesore on the dash if you aren't involved in the community so using #rp or #roleplay each time will help the filters out.

I strongly recommend checking out this blog for more relevant roleplay etiquette, which also has some pretty great information on the tagging system! The individual running it has stepped down though, so it's just for perusing and not an active help blog!

Now, muses! Muses are simply a source of inspiration. In the sense of roleplay, they are the chosen character the roleplayer is using in the RP. Fictional or nonfictional, original or established, anything can be your source of inspiration. A similar term thrown around is a face claim. A picture of the muse to display, very simply, what the character looks like. That can get messy if you aren't careful, as you want to make sure you're crediting the artist or not claiming pictures of someone else's original work under the guise of 'inspiration'. Some use photos of celebrities or stock images, not as official 'this is what my character looks like' but more as a 'this is the ballpark of vibes I'm going for'.

Remember, if you want to have a specific picture for your muse, commission someone to make it for you, or make it yourself! The RP community can be fantastic for exploring other hobbies, depending on what kind of flavor you want to implement! I've seen people make comics, paper crafts, or customized photography for whatever their scene requires! I've even been a part of an immersive horror rp that went on for months as a real-time mystery.

To get yourself out there, I HIGHLY recommend fandom first. It might be a bit controversial, but having a fandom oc or character will start you in an established universe and provide the basics of familiarizing yourself with roleplay. From there, you can expand universes and begin interacting with other non-fandom characters!

And how would you interact with them? Roleplay memes/ask games are a great source, those huge lists of prompts with numbers next to them? Yeah those are fantastic for getting started. Just choose a few of them at a time and start writing! Just don't over exert yourself! If you aren't getting any replies or interaction, that doesn't reflect on your ability by any means. Just have patience and write for your OWN enjoyment.

You can also send prompts to other RP blogs! People usually love reblogging those big lists so if you have a few folks in mind that you'd like to start roleplaying with, shoot them an ask!

Anyways, I hope you can glean what you need from this response! If there are any specifics you'd like to know about, I'll always be here. I wish you best of luck with establishing yourself within our roleplay community, and once again, welcome!!

#anonymous #technical #nitty gritty #muses #rp prompts

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funkymbtifiction · 2 years

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Yay I have questions about fantastic beasts! I am so excited you watched it, feel free to spoiler tag this or answer it later if needed!

I think I remember you thought Grindelwald was INFJ then ENTJ now back to INFJ again. Is that because of inconsistency between movies? He has a diabolical ruthless practicality even in this movie, how do you argue it's Fe over Te?

I'll try not to spoil anything for anyone. ;)

He seems extremely gifted with Fe in the first film, and far more callous and detached in the second, and in the third one again, he's somewhere in-between -- but he pretty much straight up uses people to do his bidding 24/7 by motivating them, manipulating them emotionally, and telling them what they want to hear, or even taunting them as a last emotional dig ("Who will love you now?"); evil TJs don't use these tactics, because it wouldn't occur to them to attack people's emotions in that way. Like it or hate it, feelers are emotionally "aware" of other people and how to appeal to them on that level, and that's where Grindelwald goes automatically, which means he's a feeling type. His "plan" in this movie is to convince the masses he is the right person for the job, rather than just seize power through force. He needs/wants their support and approval. He could be ENFJ given his high levels of success in mass-manipulation and getting others to follow him without question, but it feels like Fe is his "tool" to get things, rather than his way of life (not dominant).

Another thing I noticed, you know how he talks about the 'stench' of muggles? And later he rolls down the windows so he can be carried off by his supporters, because he wants to feel the moment or something? Is this how Se manifests for high Ni users, being immersed in their senses but it's given some idealised interpretation or symbolism?

Yeah. It also indicates low Se awareness of the danger he is in -- NJs in particular can be reckless in their self-confidence; he believes he is all-powerful and desirable to the masses, so there is no risk in walking into the middle of a mob that could literally tear him apart. It's the thrill of engagement without thought for his survival. I don't know what type his female second in command is, but she may be a 6w5 -- "this is dangerous." She assesses the situation as a potential threat, whereas he sees it as the manifestation of his vision / of his acceptance and earning the accolades and praise he craves.

I also wanted to ask about Dumbledore's enneagram. You went from 5 to 1 to 9 if I remember correctly. In the books, he has this critical schoolteacher quality to him, like when Harry doesn't make an attempt to find Slughorn's potion in time and Dumbledore guilt trips him for failing to meet his standards. Whenever he's truly pissed off, his anger is usually described as cold or icy as well. I always took this to signify 1ish qualities, why did you decide on 9w8 over 9w1? Am I misinterpreting 8 to be explosive or aggressive, could it be cold as well? Or would having moments of being cold, icy and having high standards for others just be an INFJ thing regardless of enneagram?

Dumbledore has always been tricky for me, since the books / stories portray him in so many different ways. I mean, we meet him in the very first chapter, where a 1 (McGonagall) says she doesn't think they should leave Harry with the Dursleys, because "these are the worst sort of Muggles imaginable!" and Dumbledore just does the wizard equivalent of a "shrug / whatever, it will be fine." Then we see him through Harry's eyes, in which he is a dottering old "fool" with a twinkle in his eye, but who is still... amazingly calm a lot of the time. Unlike Michael Gambon played him in the films (ahem), Dumbledore tends to react "calmly" to Harry ("Did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire, Harry?" Dumbledore asked calmly). He can stand in front of the Mirror of Erised and only see himself holding a pair of socks, since he is fully content with himself. All 9ish qualities.

But the wing is tricky. I could honestly see 9w8 or 9w1, either one -- 1s tend to appoint themselves as gods in their judgments, and he certainly does that at times -- with Snape, with Harry, etc. Is he concerned with the morality of his actions? Is he assuming that he alone has the right answer and so others must follow him? Yes. I would need to read the books again, they're kind of a blur in my mind in terms of characterization (I have an "impression" of Dumbledore), but he could very well be a 9w1.

It's interesting, I was talking to a fellow Potterhead earlier today about how I could see my own 6-ness in how I reacted to the events around his downfall in the books, and who was responsible for it. (Spoilers, if anyone is actually clueless about this.) My reasoning was very 6 / attachment. Dumbledore is trustworthy (he has proven himself), he knows more than anyone else, and so, like Lupin, I had to believe that if Dumbledore saw the good in Snape and believed in him, Snape could not possibly have betrayed him and murdered him as accused. Because Dumbledore trusted Snape, and I trusted Dumbledore, I also trusted Snape -- in spite of all the petty, stupid things he did that were just plain unnecessary and mean. So Snape killing Dumbledore 'shook me' because... was Dumbledore that wrong in his judgment of Snape's character? Nah. Snape would be vindicated, I just knew it. I approached the entire thing in a very "heady" way, which is how I do everything -- I think about it, analyze it, and reach a conclusion.

But my 9 INFP friend is... so not like that at all. There's no analysis, just a Fi-driven reaction accompanied by gut instinct. She doesn't like Snape, and she doesn't like Dumbledore either, so there was no rationalizing the why of Snape's actions, so much as a judgment against them. We then debated what construes 'morality' for each of us, and it boiled down to (for her) "whether I approve" (Fi-dom) and for me "whether it serves the greater good" (big picture + 6 super-ego stance). Interesting, huh?

The question of Hermione being a 6 (with a 1 fix) has also been raised elsewhere, which means I'll have to think back and consider if her reasoning about Snape follows mine, because if I remember right, it does... "Harry, Dumbledore trusts Snape, so he must be okay!"

#question #harry potter #albus dumbledore #dumbledore

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sapphicpetrodactyl · 3 years

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Welcome to my blog, this post will be filled with info on me

if u don't want to read it, that's totally fine have a nice day!

General Info:

Name: Riot

Pronouns: She/He/They

Age: Minor

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My Interests:

Fandoms (see below section)

Reading

Drawing

Listening to music

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Fandoms:

MCU

Star Wars

TUA

SoC

The Hunger Games

She-Ra

LoTR

PJO

Illuminae

The Aurora cycle

B99

(there's more and i'll add them as i remember)

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More Info

I spend way to much time online for my own good

I live in Australia

I am terrible at interacting with ppl, both online and irl, so sorry about that

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Other sites

I also have a wattpad and Ao3, and sometimes i write stuff so if u wanna follow me there feel free :)

Wattpad: https://www.wattpad.com/user/sapphicpetrodactyl

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/sapphicpetrodactyl

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Tags:

riot rambles - used on original posts

riot reblogs - should go on posts i reblog, sometimes i forget though

riot makes stuff - goes on original posts in which i make things

<insert fandom here> - goes on any posts about a specific fandom

cute stuff - usually stuff i rb, anything rlly cute

more tags:

my moots - goes on posts relating to my moots :) (each moot has a tag, which is basically just their name or url if i don't know their name)

important/very important - on posts that are important (obviously)

This is not a fully complete list, i will add any other tags i usually use as i remember them

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Asks:

Please ask me stuff, especially my moots, it makes my day when any of y'all interact with me, but there will also be some rules

1. nothing nsfw - you will be blocked - pls don't use anon to ask me nsfw stuff i will remove anon asks if this happens

2. pls don't mention r*ape, alcohol or drugs

3. if i have said something makes me uncomfortable pls don't ask me about it

Other than that, i hope you all have a fantastic time on my blog and in general

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I got the idea to make this post from seeing @fangirl2o20 make one a while ago, so credit to them <3

anyway have good day/night (what ever time it is where you are)

#riot rambles #info on me

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lolinero-99 · 5 years

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as a survivor, it's so insulting to hear you call shippers pedophiles because of what they write. and you're wrong about therapists. my therapist literally was there when I started my dark fic writing blog because she saw that having a place to document my intrusive thoughts was helpful. just because someone ships something doesn't make them a pedophile. pedophile has a meaning. don't dilute it.

Hello! I’ve truly missed getting mail like this, I’ve been lacking in that department lately, but here we go!

Writing/depicting sexually explicit things of minors and then romanticizing said things is horrific. I personally suffer from Intrusive thoughts, though they are not sexual in nature. I’ve posted the definition of a pedophile already, and there’s a miles difference. Pedophiles create these things and get off to it, and it is incredibly clear when they do. You can tell when they are writing it as a form of eroticism. I myself have- in curiousity at the downright bizarre tags on AO3- have read one or two Maxvid fanfics. And to say I was thoroughly horrified would be an understatement.

Let me give you an example, Picture This by Vincent V. Cava, my absolute favourite writer, I own the first Creepypasta Collection published by MrCreppyPasta and own one of Mr. V. Cava’s books, Pastel Colored Dreams & Human Flavoured Nightmares. Now, Picture This brings in the theme of Necrophilia, as the man who cremates the main characters kills is a Necrophile. While not being graphic, it gives enough of a picture to give you a mental image of this person and how they’d act. The theme is brought in well, and used in a fantastic way to describe a villain. Now, let me reiterate. A villain. He is a bad guy, 100% and it is undeniable. Mr. V. Cava doesn’t need to be indepth and graphic with the Necrophilia to allow you to picture it.

Now, a Maxvid Fic, lets go with.... Deep Snow, I won’t (mainly because I cannot remember the authors penname, haha) give their user, incase some people decide to take it upon themselves to send threatening messages to the writer. To my recollection, Deep Snow was surprisingly well written, the gist of the plot was that David was a pedophile, he lured max out of his tent, beat him immobile before violently raping, murdering, and burning his corpse. No, there is an obvious horror aspect to that, what with the unnerving atmosphere that was produced by the author. But the author also made a sense eroticism, it was almost tangible throughout the story. But, it was also clearly horror with a rape fetish. Now, David in that seems to be very much a bad guy in that, so the author at least gets points for not ranticizing it.

Lastly, this fiction called Max’s Daddy... Raunchy name.. In just the description, it is quoted in ““Please Daddy,” Max begged. “May I have a taste?”” This is pure, none dark fiction. Entirely smut, from what I can see. This fic romanticizes this relationship between them as a good thing. A positive relationship between an adult and a child. David is a good guy, despite being a grown man sodomizing a child. This is written purely for sexual gain, to get the authors rocks off. Now, tell me how writing descriptive scenes between a man and a child engaging in sexual activity isn’t pedophilic behaviour. I mean, Max is 10, meanwhile David is 24. It’s horrific, romanticization of childhood sexual abuse.

And just for fun, here’s the defintion of pedophilia (again):

Pedophilia (alternatively spelt paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescentchildren.[1][2] Although girls typically begin the process of puberty at age 10 or 11, and boys at age 11 or 12,[3] criteria for pedophilia extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13.[4] A person must be at least 16 years old, and at least five years older than the prepubescent child, for the attraction to be diagnosed as pedophilia.[4][5]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia

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maychorian · 6 years

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Is Livejournal still an active platform? I think when I first got into fandom LJ was more of a place for kink memes (not necessarily based in erotic content or ships) than just a fanfic scene. FF. net was more popular at the time. As much as I feel Ao3 is superior to FF, I think it had its bonuses. I appreciated being able to PM other users and the forums, features Ao3 doesn't have. What were some bonuses to LJ, if you don't mind my asking?

I don’t think LJ is active much anymore, no. Everyone once in a while I’ll go check out my Friends page to see if anyone is still posting there, and there are a few, but not a lot. Policies killed the fandom community on that site, and it’s really sad. Free speech is important, y’all. On the other hand, those policies are probably why AO3 exists, and that’s a good thing.

LJ was a BIG upgrade from FF.net, that was for sure. It wasn’t specifically made for fanfic, so you had to have some rudimentary HTML knowledge to put links to your chapters, and also had to make your own table of contents (here’s mine), or at least tag your posts in a way so that people could find your fanfiction if they wanted to. It had a private message function, yes, as well as a Friends page, which was basically a dashboard (without a reblog function) where you could scroll through and view all of the posts made by the people you had added to your friendslist. You also had the option of making your posts private, so only friends could see them, and also make friends groups WITHIN your friendslist so only THOSE particular people could see. For instance, I had a lot of friends, because I tended to friend back anyone who friended me so they could see my private posts for the rare things that I wanted to hide from the world but was okay with fellow fans seeing. I made smaller friends groups to view fellow writers, so I could see their stuff when they posted it, and another smaller group for people who I knew would be willing to beta my work, so I could send out a request for a beta if I needed it without cluttering up the Friends page of everyone who had added me, and an even smaller group for friends that I trusted with deep personal secrets for when I really, really needed to vent. Those kinds of posts were called “friends locked” or “flocked” for short. When I was obsessed with SPN and deep in that fandom, I checked my Friends page multiple times a day. I keep my following list on tumblr quite small because I don’t have the time to read hundreds and hundreds of posts, and tumblr doesn’t have the function to narrow down who you see on your dashboard.

LJ also had the ability to make communities, where multiple users could post on the same blog, and we had fic communities for every permutation of fandom under the sun. Big ones for all SPN fic (those were incredibly active), ones just for gen, ones for hurt/comfort and whump, ones for crossovers, specific ones for each pairing… Whenever I made a post with a fic, I had a list of about five communities that I would cross-post to, basically with a header and a link to the full post. And the fic finder community, of course, which I think was the most valuable of all, where someone could make a post asking for a specific idea they wanted to read and everyone else could comment with fics they knew that fit or almost fit that desire. Or if you had read a fic a long time ago and couldn’t remember the name or title, you could describe it as best you could on the fic finder community, and chances were someone would know what you were talking about. A lot of my fics got mentioned on fic finder communities multiple times, whenever someone asked for deaged fics, haha.

The biggest advantage of LJ, though, and I think the reason it became THE place for fanfiction for a while, was the nested commenting. AO3 has the same kind of comment system now, where one person starts a thread, and then the author can respond, and they can go back and forth. If the thread gets too long it will get shortened so those going through the comments don’t have see every single comment written on the entire story, just the first ones. This was a huge upgrade from FF.net, which didn’t even allow replies to reviews for a long time. If you wanted to respond to someone’s review, you had to PM them directly and tell them. And your replies didn’t show on the review page, and the reviewer couldn’t write back. Nesting comments on LJ changed all that. Now people could have entire long, involved discussions in the comments of any post, any fic. And people did. It wasn’t always just the author and a single commenter having a conversation, either. Sometimes other people joined in, and we’d have long squeefests and share headcanons (though that word didn’t enter fandom vernacular until tumblr) and talk about the show or whatever we were writing about. It was a great place for making friends and sparking ideas.

AO3 did well in bringing that commenting system over to the archive, but it doesn’t usually get used the same way it did on LJ. I think it’s because AO3 is a place specifically meant for storing fic, not necessarily a social media service, so there’s not as much emphasis on making friends and forming personal relationships. Sure, you can subscribe to people and follow their work and make bookmarks, but there’s no Friends list or anything like that. It’s just a different thing. And since tumblr doesn’t have nesting comments, there’s not the option to have those sort of conversations here, either. I mean, you sort of can, by reblogging replies and having discussions in posts, but it’s awkward and it gets reposted to your dashboard every time, and it gets really annoying to have to scroll the bottom every time.

Messaging on tumblr is a little better, but it’s a chat with just one person. You can’t have multiple people in a direct message, and even with those it can be very hard to scroll back and find earlier conversations. This why I think Discord is such a great addition to the current fandom life. You can have conversations with multiple people about anything you want. It’s more freeform, since you’re not responding to a post in particular, but it still works well for building relationships and sharing headcanons and ideas.

Tumblr is not without its advantages. The reblog function means that something good, that grabs attention, can spread around the fandom very quickly. But it’s definitely much better for art than fic, and that’s mostly because of the way it’s designed. It’s an art-sharing service with a half-assed messaging service in the sidebar, not a social media site the way LJ was. It’s for artists to make art and other people to follow them and occasionally ask questions, so it really encourages a BNF mentality and jockeying for position rather than making a circle of friends and developing them. Fandom has found ways to socialize anyway, because life finds a way, but it’s not like LJ, not at all. Sometimes I really want LJ back, to be honest, but that ship has sailed. There was an attempt with Dreamwidth, but for some reason most people just moved their fandom activity to tumblr instead, possibly because the existence of LJ and tumblr overlapped and many people who used LJ already had a tumblr when LJ collapsed. That was how it worked with me, anyway. The novelty of tumblr probably encouraged the movement here, as well. People love the new.

I think most likely what will happen in the future is tumblr will screw the pooch in a major way and fandom will migrate off it, just like we did from the old webrings to ff.net, then to LJ, then to here. Probably some savvy fans will make a social media site actually MEANT for fandom, like, perhaps, pillowfort.io, which looks absolutely fantastic, just needs some bugs worked out and more people using it. That’s what happened with fic archives: fans got sick of all the problems with FF.net and LJ and made AO3, and it’s great. I’m looking forward to getting off this site, honestly. Let the migration come. I just hope all of you come with me.

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