#for me the whole fandom life is on tumblr

[edgyh3dgy]

ohmygod I was going to post some of my art and i get all ready to do a massive doodle dump AND THEN THE QUALITY IS SOOOO BADDD

I didnt know my resolution on clip studio had to be so HIGH in order to get decent quality 😭

anyways im just gonna put this zukka drawing here…even tho its like 420hp 💀

HELPP ITS SOO BAD IM CAKCLINF

#TUMBLR FIX THIS PLEASE #HRLP ME #ZUKO #SOKKA #ZUKKA #i mean in some ways its ok bc you guys cant see any small mistakes 😃😃😃 #Or can you #Im still new to drawing people #Because for my whole life ive been drawing furries #Thats what you get when your only fandoms before atla are zootopia and sonic #Anyways if u have any criticism feel free to say it #Bcus im trying to improve like rlly bad

[leezuhh]

it's crazy to me that there are people out there who still think that media and fiction do not affect how people think at all

#like that whole 'does fiction affect reality?' debate is so stupid to me cuz it's like #i mean just think about it for a second. what is propaganda? what did jaws do for people's perceptions of sharks? #i think studying the effect that popular media and fiction has on people in real life is really interesting #and it's crazy to me that there are people on the internet who think that it genuinely doesn't #like umm shoutout vit sisler for his paper 'digital arabs' i just read it for my game studies class and it's super interesting #about like orientalization how western shooter games' usage of middle eastern/muslim stereotypes as enemies created both a negative - #- stereotype for people who arent in that group and how it negatively affects the mental health and self-image of the people who are #also shoutout stuart hall and richard dyer they're really cool people and also have some super interesting papers on how representation - #- in media affects people's IRL perceptions of certain groups #i know online this focus tends to lean on that whole shipping discussion but i think it's more worthwhile to look at it on a wider scale #because 'does fiction affect reality?' is not just a 'fandom ship war' discussion it's like. the basis for many fields of study #anyways umm #liza post #actually this is more like a #liza ramble #i love tumblr bc i can write a one sentence post and put my body paragraphs in the tags #it's really late and i am tired ‼️ i wish i could be more concise i just adore my game studies class and visual culture studies in general

[micahmaeve]

you have been slowly converting me with all your icemav posting, and i recently rewatched top gun and i am s o l d. it has been consuming all of my thoughts! do you have any favorite fics??

omg, am I really?? welcome to the club!!

I’ve thrown myself head first into icemav recently so I can ABSOLUTELY rec some of my favorite fics I've read so far!!

When We Get Around to Talking About It by @compacflt is the pièce de résistance of icemav fiction I think, for me personally. It's masterfully written and nuanced and just so heartbreaking. the characterization feels so true to how these men would really be in real life and how they would deal with coming to terms with their feelings for each other and sexuality while being in the navy. and as if 90,424 words of beautiful prose wasn't enough of a gift, there is also a sequel/other stories called Debriefing (& Other Stories) which includes a more truncated version of the original but from mav's pov which is just 🤌🏻🤌🏻

Dreams of Impact by thecarlysutra is also very good. It involves a little supernatural flavor, which I enjoy, and revolves around how their lives could be different if they'd just made one single different choice.

come the same colors by susiecarter is a fav. It's a classic 'you got hurt and it's made me reckon with how I really feel about you, but I haven't figured out how to express that'. So basically it's amazing. this author also has a great catalogue of icemav, so it's really a jumping point to read all of her great work. A Shared Cup is another personal fav of mine from this author. it involves soul telepathic bonds. soooo good

a binary star by vannral is a really yummy piece of fanfic. the first line of the description is the perfect primer for how great the rest of the fic is: "Ice hasn’t ever given much thought to celestial things up in the sky but he knows that Maverick burns like one." like. c'monnnn

i'll ride in this life with you by sassenach082 is an ice and mav raise bradley after carol passes away fic, and it's full of sooo much lovely hurt/comfort that is so sweet it will rot your teeth. any fic with a plethora of baby bradley is going to be good for me

I saw beauty to the north by sortalively (tiisis) is a delayed injury fic set post TG:M. It has a lot of rooster and ice and mav reconciling in it which I'm a sucker for. and, if you like the exploration of rooster and mav's relationship (I'm a sucker for parental figure fics lets not unpack that) this author has some greaaaaaaaat fics on their page for that!

cloaked in the bruises of our failures by faerie_ground will rip your heart out. It takes the mission from TG:M and moves it to the 80s with our favorite class of '86 being trained to fly it, all while Mav and Ice are a few years post a messy 'break-up'. I should warn you that this one comes with a trigger warned from sexual assault from a person of authority to an employee, so if you aren't interested in that maybe skip this one. It is so beautiful though and treats the subject with the respect it deserves. slithered here from eden (just to sit outside your door) is another by this author that is very good and I am waiting patiently for an update

a higher fidelity by basedchamp is a classic slowburn with ice and mav developing their friendship before they realize their feelings for one another

no brighter diamond by qin_ling is a wonderful 'five times...' fic and it's so good. Everything by this author is fantastic so you should def check out their other stuff. as lions is about time travel. delish.

You're Gonna Be The One That Saves Me by an orphan_account is amazing. It's got mav struggling post hop 31 and Ice being there to offer emotional support and more if you know what I mean

'Til I Understand by Katastrophe (Karrington) is about Mav punching out of dark star and kind of fills in some blanks about what his loved ones went through while he was missing. Katastrophe is another author with a large catalogue to just go crazy in

PurpleArrowzandLeather has 153 tg fics on their page with a huge variety, some icemav, some flyboys of '86 (which I adore, I love fics showing their friendship). you can get lost in their page for a while haha. they also have their bookmarks public! so you can dig around in there, too

Sailor's Delight by saurora_borealis can be read as ice and mav or icemav and I think we both know which one I infer it as. Mal de Mer by them is like that, too

baby, baby, i'd get down on my knees for you by boasamishipper and simplecoffee is 'five times mav proposes and one time ice says yes' fic. It's sweet as candy

Is this arguably too long a response? yes. are all of these worth the read? also yes

I hope you enjoy!!

#sorry to overwhelm you anon #but this is everything in my bookmarks #and all so necessary #if you ever want to talk about icemav again im all ears lol #feel free to shoot me a message haha #always glad to ruin someone else's life with these two #I dont know any other of the authors tumblr or I would have linked them #asks #tg #icemav #iceman #maverick #I didnt rec my current fic that I’m writing 👀 #what I found is that reading fic about icemav opens a whole new door to the topgun fandom and fix involving specifically mav #and other characters #so if you ever want those I can hit you up there too #lol #top gun #top gun fic #fic rec

[yangyangchuu]

multisaku AU in which everyone talks about the fact that they've all had (or is still have) a crush on sakura at some point in their lives

ps. sakura is oblivious to ✨romance✨

#sakura #multisaku #i got unwillingly dragged back to the fandom and ended up falling back in the multisaku whole i thought i left #:((( #all the sakura ships #bamf sakura #sasusaku #narusaku #kakasaku #shikasaku #nejisaku #itasaku #uchisaku #madasaku #shisaku #awe fuck ion remember anymore ships aaaaa #THIS ARE JUST THE ONES I REMEMBER FROM THE TOP OF MY HEAD #its like 3am here and im stressed cut me some slacK #also my tumblr came back to life due to sakura yas kween #my art is also somewhat dead for the unforseen future💀💀

[sherifftillman]

hi friends!!

sorry i've been so horrifically silent :( my laptop finally gave up the ghost and i was starting to feel like. idk, like i shouldn't be in the online space unless i can contribute to it?? and i know that's dumb bc this is The Reblogging Site and it needs Rebloggers but honestly a) i have always relied so much on the validation and serotonin i get from creating that it makes me feel guilty being here without that, and b) having to rely on tumblr mobile is a NIGHTMARE. but it looks like that's what i'm going to need to do for the foreseeable, so i'm going to try and add as much from my tag to my queue as i can while i'm in the library

i love you guys!! i hope you're well!!! thank you for being so patient w me!!!!!

#ridgespeak #also just took some time to Be Me in my personal life to try and overcome the whole You Are Nothing If You Can't Create thing #things with the boyf are going v v well :) i am going to his brother's wedding in 2 weeks!!!!!! exciting #things with new job are going SO SO well and i keep getting hints from management to be On The Lookout in the next few months heheh #i have played through two whole runs of bg3 and now i'm playing a joint tav run w kyle and i have a spreadsheet to make sure we do it ALL #uhhh what else. OH i'm going to watch dimension 20 live THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #oh AND kyle is rekindling an old love of mine. f1 fandom side of tumblr. i am looking

[kitsebastianconnor]

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#sooo my sister has joined tumblr and like ummmm idk i just want my own space I've been in her shadow my whole life #she's not in any fandom I'm in so she probably won't find me but yeahh...

[simcardiac-arrested]

once again sorry to everyone for bringing this to your dashboards. but some of you are like, genuinely delirious. not even in a funny way. & i hope you die. i hope we both die. hand in unlovable hand etc etc

#Just so fucking bizarre to me how people can be Like This. there has to be something so wrong with your brain on a fundamental level #i can’t even laugh about this or anything because i genuinely feel pity for these people. it’s so sad to me how you’re gonna be like 20 #and then go in a niche tumblr community and create drama over Nothing. over Thin Fucking Air #like do you not have a life? do you not have college? or a job? doesn’t it get tiring? don’t you ever feel ashamed about all this #and the fact that they go and complain about the shipping and the ‘fandombrained’ people as well…. oh my god #how are you going to be TWENTY. and DO THAT. are you seriously sick. ? do you need help #just say you are homophobic and that you hate kids and go. it’ll save everyone a bunch of time for sure #anyways. as someone who has been a rain world fan since 2018. i love you embracing canon. i love you changing canon. i love you disregarding #canon entirely. i love you ships that make sense in canon & that make absolutely zero sense at all. i love you fancharacters that don’t #follow canon rules. i love you ‘cringe’ fancharacters and self inserts. i love you self shipping. i love you oc x canon shipping. #and i love you taking inspiration from designs. i love you community & i love you artists & i love you art #i love you borrowing elements and being inspired and referencing something because you liked it. #are fandoms perfect? GOOD GOD no. is every Fan perfect? no. am i also sometimes annoyed or irrationally pissed off over a ship that #i think is stupid and is illogical. Yes! i’m only human! but i can still love and appreciate the whole CREATIVITY of it all. and the whole #Fun that people are having. i love you having fun. if i don’t like it or if anyone else doesn’t like it they can just Cope #instead of hateposting about it on main and indirectly bullying people who are most likely children. or lgbt. or both #anyways. please continue doing whatever you want. The world is your oyster and you only live on earth once #everyone else can fuck off

[theorderofthetriad]

as a venture bros fan in this current media landscape, i feel myself often suppressing the urge to be like "venture bros did that first" "venture bros walked so [X] could run" about a lot of things that are comparatively recently trending in media, especially in regards to using geek genre satire as a jumping off into a bigger concept. like i could bring up a lot of examples on this

but i'm writing this post because i can't help but think of the thing venture bros did first that they didn't mean to, which is create a character that's a critique of hyper-masculinity that a certain subset of fans completely missed the point on and uncritically treat as a idol to look up to and emulate.

walter white who? rick sanwhat? the crown of uncritically idolized paragons of toxic masculinity belongs to Brock Samson.

#venture bros #brock samson #i'm not saying this to shit on brock (or tumblr vbros fandom.) i love brock #it's just that doc and jackson have literally talked about how they don't mean for brock to be cool or admirable #like his whole point is yeah he's doing all this cool looking violence and is hot but his life is meaningless and ultimately unhappy #(likemaybeifhewasabletoadmitthathewasinlovewithrustyhecouldgetoverhimselfenoughtobehappybutchancesareslim) #but people kept asking them stuff like ''when's brock gonna kill again? i wanna see him piss on more mummies'' #they've gotten so unsubtle about what they're going for his plot in the final episode was: #''i'm gonna kill a bunch of guys for fun because i'm dissatisfied with my life'' #like he literally ANNOUNCED it! over a PA system! #and that's not even getting into the casual regular misogyny and then the outspoken obsessive transmisogyny #like who's gonna write the essay about brock's fragile af concept of masculinity in regards to his vocal transmisogyny? #wait what do you mean /i/ have to write it because it's my concept? why can't someone else think it for me?!? #top tino post #santagno

[angelsdean]

feeling emotional abt like. art and writing and fandom and sharing creations and being affected and moved and changed by them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#listening to a song on my january playlist that's only on here bc i discovered it from the time has come today fic playlist #and now it's like one of my favorite songs ?? and that fic is one of my favorite fics??? that i'll think abt fondly my whole life ??? #and whenever i hear this song for the rest of my life i'll think of that fic too?? which will just also make me think fondly of deancas #and this fandom and tumblr and and and !!!! #everything is connected we all inspire and influence and impact each other in so many ways !!!! and it's beautiful<3 #vic.txt

[officialmisha]

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#i am close to tears - beware there is a rant about my life in the tags ahead so watch out - it's nothing VERY serious but it's... well #also this is literally about supernatural convention so it's not like a serious problem but it is a problem for me personally #so anyway last year when they announced misha for purgatory con 8 in dusseldorf i was like yes yes yes and i bought the tickets because: #1. i had a whole year to plan a trip 2. going to spn con was this little dream of mine because i've been in this fandom for years so #so i thought hey i deserve a little treat. i want to and deserve to go to a con and they just announced misha and i'd love to go #(and then they also announced jensen. and then jared too so like all 3 main guys will be there so !! a Treat !! yay!) and also Why Not #because it's in germany so it's the closest i would ever get a convention because i am from poland [*] no conventions here sorry #so i was like yeah the stars seem to have alligned yeah AND I BOUGHT THE TICKET. and the thing is SOLD OUT. and 3 main actor men are there #and a lot of mutuals that i'd finally love to meet maybe if they feel like it or whatever but i'd love to meet tumblr people so there's tha #and now. i just spent 3 hours after work looking for flights and everything. and. the conclusion. after 3 hours of looking at every possibl #way for me to get to Dusseldorf at the days of the con. well. the conclusion is i have no way to get there. and i am stuck. #and there are flights and they are not even that expensive. but the HOURS are horrible. i checked different airports and even looked at #flights to dortmund and i literally have no way to get there in a way that makes any sense... because arriving at 4pm on saturday is #too late. and the other option is being there at 8 am - cool - but i have no way of getting to the airport at 4 am. i'd have to take #additional day off from work (not an option). and i literally don't know what to do. it's almost 1 am and i should be happily asleep and i #am trying to solve this problem lmao because on one hand i really want to go and i want to figure out a way to get there 1. on time 2. in a #way that won't cost me 1/3 of my paycheck ; and on the other hand i just want to email the organizer to return the ticket or resell it to #someone because i know there will be someone who wants to go because the event is sold out #WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE THIS HARD...... #AS I WRITE THIS I AM FULLY AWARE THIS IS SUCH A FIRST WORLD PROBLEM i know!!!!!! fully aware!!!! #but i just :(( really wanted to go :((( but i am slowly leaning towards the option of not going :((( because money and time :(( #and the kilometers between me and the con place :((((( #personal

[johndonneswife]

Ms. Venus pleasssse share your impeccable taste in the form of pinterest boards with the class, thank you. Also I miss your presence on Tumblr and I selfishly wish you had plans to come back to the fandom side of things but I’m wishing you the best from afar!!

i would totally share my beautiful boards with u if not for the fact that i had a full blown meltdown on pinterest abt yuri on ice and i have soooo many freaking yoi pins lmao and iiiit’s a lil mortifying actually. but i promise my wedding & fashion moodboards are 🤌🏻

#ngl i feel very detached from louis right now #like. nothing happened. i just don’t feel much of anything lately #towards him/the fandom #i’m also at a point in my career where i’m honestly just so very busy all the time and between that & other life stuff #i just…don’t have it in me to care right now #i will always love him and his music but my bar for caring about celebrities is low atm too #plus i want to be more present in my own very short very precious very beautiful life #and i’ve put things aside / ignored things for the sake of fandom too much (like…my whole life. not just related to louis) #i don’t want to do that anymore / am trying my best to grow as a person and get out of my comfort zone so growth can actually happen etc #anyway all this to say i’m here sometimes but i’ve taken a big step back and im okay with that #i don’t have the emotional capacity to focus on much more than my own life right now. which is good! i think lol #alsoooo. i think if you have a platform of any kind and are not using it to talk about the horrors happening in palestine… #again my bar for Celebrity™️ is low and i’m starting to think #we need to start hunting the rich and famous for sport maybe #starting with elon musk #anyway. thank you for your nice words. i am keeping a low profile but i check tumblr at least once a day lol 🫡 #🥰🥰🥰

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

hey let's all just take a moment to remember that sometimes the characters we hate (even with very good reason) mean something important to some other people out there, ok?

#this is provoked by absolutely nothing #I am not vagueing or subtweeting anyone at all. I promise. #but I did just reblog that one gifset of Thirteen and I /know/ there are people who Can Not Stand Her #and I have no problem acknowledging that. there are Flaws with the character and with her era. #and I love my anti-Thirteen mutuals the same as all the others! <3 #but she means something very special to me because of the era of my life I was in when I first 'met' her #and because of the things she made me start to really think about and take seriously #hope and goodness and simple kindness and joy in the everyday little regular beauties all around me #I began to appreciate those things so much more in part because of her and because of Doctor Who as a whole show #and I started watching DW in the first place bc I was curious about her #so this is getting rambly but what I'm trying to say is #: as much as you may not personally like a character and may have very legitimate reasons for that #please be careful with your treatment of people who DO like that character. #don't make assumptions about /why/ they like a character and don't generalize everyone who likes the character into one box #gurt says stuff #characters #fandom #storytelling #tumblring #ok to reblog btw

[pomodoko]

You know, at first I wanted ask you to stop reblogging stuff from that Despicable Me ripoff Shit Family anime that no one shuts the hell up about and that everyone shoves down my throat, but then I remembered that you are a DSMP fan and that having good taste was never a top priority for you.

you know that you can block the tag right? what do you want me to do, cater to your tastes? don't be a fucking moron and get the fuck out of my blog if you hate it so much. i'm not here to deal with whiny assholes like you. “no one shuts the hell up about and that everyone shoves down my throat“ you chose to follow those people! actively so! you chose to follow me despite my content only giving you hatred!!! what the fuck do you think you’ll get out of this? the world doesn’t fucking revolve around you! so get with it or get the hell out of the fucking way you piece of shit! you and people like you are just so obsessed with getting pissed all the time like there’s a purity standard or something. stop! it’s unhealthy! unfollow me! unfollow the people who post content you dislike! curate your fucking experience because by god nobody’s gonna do that for you! you’re not a fucking baby being spoon fed by the algorithm!

#also side note i have NEVER had good taste in my whole damn life #this blog is 10 fucking years old and i still reblog homestuck on occasion #you choosing dsmp is just telling me how much of a fucking freshfaced baby you are to the fandom scene on tumblr #anyway kids remember #block the tags you hate or unfollow their blogs #either that or die mad i guess #pmdk talks #my ask #anonymous

[fragmentedblade]

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#Honestly don't get people who follow me here and even less so that interact semi steadily with my posts #I literally don't follow myself on this sideblog lol #Thanks though. It feels a bit validating haha #I feel my overall opinions are so unpopular in the general fandom that I never end up writing them down for safekeeping #because I would want to find them in my own blog but with tumblr's tagging system that would mean them potentially reaching other people #and thus potentially getting blocked by blogs‚ and as a consequence not getting to see many posts I would love #So yeah it feels like a cordial *pat pat* at times #I am never really insecure at all about my reading capabilities because that's my whole thing but it does feel lonely somewhat #and makes one wonder about some things like whether something is escaping me or if really that's the state of things out there #And lonely even in the mere appreciation of dynamics‚concepts‚ characters‚ motifs‚...that are often dismissed almost entirely by the fandom #This post and this rambling has no telos really #Just how baffling I find to have people follow this blog and even like my posts #And how baffling too the realisation that it can be kind of sweet #Like that line of Benedick '(...) is not that strange?' and Beatrice's reply 'As strange as' #I reread that play yesterday night and truly that line is amazing. One of the love confessions of all time. I love their dynamic #And still is the active/passive roles linked to gender‚ bastardy and the assertion of one's existence and life #in the characters of Hero and don John which always obsess me the most about it #Ahfksjkd but I'm rambling again. If anywhere at all I should write those thoughts on my main blog. Definitely not here #I talk too much #As usual #I should probably delete this later #How do I always end up rambling and about things barely or straight up absolutely unrelated to the initial topic? Ugh #I can't even begin to tell how annoying I am in my first language

[starlightshore]

Making it about tiktok makes the story so unrelatable to me I feel like Mr lancer.

SFJSDF yeah that's fair!

i don't use tik tok (never have, thank god i lucked out of growing up just slightly before tik tok became huge.) so honestly, i can't speak on it from a personal experience

but good god i've watched/kept up enough with tik tok on youtube to know it's a shit storm and awful for the teenage youth to deal with that kinda thing over their heads. the Takes they have on there. god.

i say this but tumblr was similar to modern Tik Tok when i was a teen. i remember walking on egg shells and trying to be the Purest Good someone can be, back when tagging things was so extreme and people misused the word TW instead of CW. history repeats itself! tik tok FEELS worse to me, partly the video aspect as like. holy shit? i'd never be caught dead showing my face online let alone as my main method of communication between other users.

but yeah i try to write it from a place of "yeah i been through that shitstorm (smaller scale) and wanna critique it. i don't mean to purely demonize the topic to being black/white, i know it's a (mostly) safe place for teens to be weird and have fun. that sense of community and fun is important for teenagers, even tho i REALLY wish the inherent problems with the app weren't so nightmarish. i think this discussion is broad enough that even non-tiktok users (like myself) can enjoy the story. like, you're on tumblr! granted we don't have public follower counts, but i'm sure we've all wistfully wanted to be "popular" on a platform before. its universal

#tho good godwhy would anyone want to be popular on TUMBLR of all things lmaoooo #can't relate. i've got too many frankly #trust me if i had a social life outside of being online i'd be out of here #tho i do like to reblog and enjoy art and jokes on here.... but yeah fandom as a whole scares me and i like to keep to myself #personal stuff #sams replies

[tomdutch]

#feeling a lil uh life endy today dkfhskfhdj #not literally but i am just not enjoying the Alive Experience #todays been so long #this whole decade honestly #for once i just want smth to work out #im thinking of deleting this side blog and being less active on my man but only making it a tom and bridgerton blog for me to hang out #idk i think this corner of tumblr is just. not it anymore #i still wanna see tomtent obvi but idk abt interacting w the fandom or other ppl on here besides friends and mutuals #its just tiring n ive been treated like shit the past year i genuinely dont wanna be here anymore #but idk where else to find tomtent and i refuse to step foot on twitter #so. i guess its this blog for now. hate that