#for people randomly seeing this post

[iintervallum]

Sometimes I think about how the dndads cast should be on tumblr, with them having a subreddit(you know how they can be) and dndadstwt being like 10 people, tumblr would be the perfect place for them to see more of the fandom, if they wish to that is. Since quite a lot of people on here are way less honed in on negativity than reddit and twitter.

My edit of this is getting long lol so I'm putting it under a cut

Especially reddit, the people on there honestly I think just get too attached to a specific format or way of doing things, its a common pattern in any long running show fandoms i've been in where its reddit that constantly complains about the "good ol' days" and hate any new changes made. I would sometimes drop in and just see a lot of Scary hate at times, or people getting very irritated with the rule breaking, or just complaining that they're "forcing" the humor. I saw a post like that when i just started s2 and that couldnt have been more incorrect (yeah the piss jokes got a bit much but every other part was golden!...pun not intended)

There were absolutely points where I felt my interest wanning, but I think people would get pretty vicious about it and make a lot of mean spirited accusations. Like if anything the things I really enjoyed about this season was how different it was to s1, the contrast was really nice and i liked a lot of the story choices made, i still think about the apollo four teens and the fucking goof realm episodes, they were amazing. Which is why I remember thinking it was odd that they suddenly started involving the dads from s1 more, but knowing now that Anthony was struggling with people not liking this season as much it makes perfect sense.

Idk if it were just me, but i liked the earlier parts of the season for how the teens were still kind of discovering more about themselves and through gathering each anchor, learning more that their parents are people too, with their own fuck ups revealed and the teens have to clean up after them, so having it shift to be about Willy again was a little odd if i'm being honest(I didnt hate it but a repeat villian is hard to do, and for what its worth i think Willy did get the end he deserved and i loved the finale).

Funnily, in its own way it fits the theme of being a teenager and having to live up to your parents expectations. In a meta sense this being the successor to the first season and it being awkward at points and having issues with its identity is very fitting and just like how teenhood actually is.

I've gotten off topic but my point is fandom is just fandom, and letting it influence the way creators can view their own work is an interesting side effect of the internet and the way we navigate with the media we enjoy or hate. And spaces like reddit are grown in a way to encourage more brutally critical ways of analysing media which has very little consideration for the creator. By no means am I saying that the creators of things should be coddled, heck I literally airing my own annoyances with the podcast in space where i'm uplifting the positivity of tumblr over those spaces lol. I just mean that seeing the more genuine side of the fanbase would be more of a better time for them.

EDIT: (I just phrased things better, fixed the spelling and grammer errors and added more thoughts) The more I ruminate on this the more I think that it would honestly be a good idea. Like I do get the base worry of being too close to the more intense side of the fandom, as people on here are unafraid to gush about the show in ways that can be a little much and theres parasociality and all that jazz.

But it would be really good at least to see some actual genuine positivity, so many people provide their thoughtful meta and theories that even if widely off base are just interesting to read through because of how various different people see themselves in the characters they play. And even the critiques people give are not unkind, they come from a place of wanting to understand the choices made better.

I mentioned this in the old version of this post but having a blacklisted tag that only the people who don't wish their post to be seen by the cast use, something along the lines like how the magnus archives fandom has "do not archive", would be a very useful tool to create a barrier in the fanbase. I know i'm someone who feels very nervous about creators seeing the posts I make. Something like "not safe for dads" could work well or any other joke or pun about it being hidden. I doubt it would be filled with discourse or whatever it would mainly be people hornyposting since i know fandom well enough lol.

#aster.txt #dndads #dungeons and daddies #i think people understandably may not want the creators of things here because it's very fandomy #and that sort of known idea that the creator could be seeing what you post can make people be less honest #at least i never feel comfortable with the creators seeing my posts about things i get shy over it #like idk it's embarrassing lol: they know now how much i enjoy the thing they make #I've edited the post! #Please reblog this version instead its more comphrehensive to my actual thoughts #that arent just a half assed post i put randomly in the main tag #dungeons and daddies podcast #fandom commentary

[piglii]

thank you to all of my fellow bitches that keep the exact same avatar and username for years on end to keep a consistent brand. we’re like life rafts in the ocean of these unreliable shifty lemon stealing whores whose avatars shift with the flowing wind and whose usernames are like tears in the rain

#my posts #I've been using Hotdog Man since before I even came to tumblr... #I think I've been using him for like #11 years now? #and Piglii has been my username since at least 2013 I think #I like being a known quantity it brings me comfort #btw this post was prompted by seeing people that I haven't seen since 2013 randomly coming back #I'm sorry to say I have almost zero memory of who you people are that was a long ass time ago but the avatar and name changes did not help #disclaimer I think this might be me edible posting

[lunarharp]

thingies

#witch hat tag #orufrey #nother small post (it's not small..) meek post. mild post #sensei QRTed the last one with a sweet message and made my week <3 #drawn bc she randomly announced that originally qif & eas were going to be more openly hostile with each other #but she decided after feedback that qifrey would. Restrain himself now he has children in his life. #like pikachu with togepi in pikachu's vacation. She didn't say that part #just love that since i always say i see them as having this kind of autistic warfare expressed in ways other than actual fighting #since their youths. but i guess we don't know how much they had to interact as kids #i just know they're both opposite ends of Autistic Kids: one do-gooder kid who gets REALLY irked when others dont follow The Rules #and the non-verbal autistic kid who IS one push away from actually biting people #Sometimes autistic people shouldnt be friends. #anyway why did she randomly state this now of all times. Are they interacting in the next chapter. But why. #the next chapter scares me. a teaser piece of art she posted is like.....What is actually going to happen here. #What is going to happen . #anyway hope all fans of my silly drawings are doing well out there

[raavenb2619]

Does coming out lead to too much focus on labels?

(I don't really have a main thesis I'm trying to convince anyone of, I just had a thought and wondered what other people thought.)

When I had recently figured out I was ace/aro/nonbinary, I really cared about finding the right labels for me. And the aspec community in particular has so many unique perspectives and labels that you can apply to yourself. What kinds of attraction do you feel, how do you label your orientations and attractions, what model do you use to think about attraction, how do you think about relationships, how do you feel about sex/romance/relationships, etc. It was super eye opening to learn about lots of different terms, and different ways of thinking about things, and things I'd never even thought about or thought I even could think about, and I ended up applying lots of labels to myself.

But, it's been many years since then, and over time I've grown less interested in applying specific labels to myself. I'm still queer/ace/aro/trans/nonbinary/polyam, but I don't really use other labels. (And depending on the situation, I might end up omitting labels when vagaries work fine.) That's not to say that I don't have affinity with other labels, whether that's "I'm similar to what this label describes" or "this label provides an interesting perspective that I like", I just...don't use other labels to define my identity. If I'm comfortable enough talking about something that I could use a label for, I'll just describe my experiences directly, instead of saying "I'm [blank]".

And, I wonder if that shift from specificity to vagary has to do with coming out. For a young aroace like me, part of why coming out was so nerve-racking was that I felt like I had to prove that my identity was real, and having specific labels I could point to and say "look, this is real, I'm not making this up, other people are like this too" was super helpful. But, it's been many years since I've come out, and I'm more confident and know who I am, and that insecurity that I fought back with fistfuls of labels and well-rehearsed explanations is gone. (With the potential exception of QPR-related discussions, which feel kind of like coming out again; I might make a post about that some time if people are interested.)

Every time I've ever come out, or seen someone come out in real life or in media, it's always been "I'm [blank]", but I've never seen someone come out as "I'm not cis/straight". It's always a declaration that you are a specific thing, never a statement that you aren't something someone thought you were. I remember really wanting to make sure I knew exactly what I was and didn't come out as one thing and then change my labels later, because it would mean I'd have to come out again and it would be embarrassing that I got things wrong and maybe people would start to doubt me and not believe me when I said I was something in the future. But, people don't have to be a fixed, immutable set of labels forever; I'm comfortable with using vague labels for myself and letting myself be vague and nebulous and fluid without frantically trying to label every single part of myself. (And, in fact, I did technically get my labels slightly wrong the very first time I came out, and everything turned out okay in the end.)

So, maybe coming out puts an undue pressure on finding specific labels and making sure they're exactly right; maybe coming out should also be able to be "I'm not cis/straight". What do people think?

(This is not to say that specific labels are bad, because they can often be very helpful! Specific labels were helpful for me when I used them, and their existence can spark conversations and lead to new perspectives and learning. Even as I'm finding vagueness and nebulousness to be better for me right now than specific detailed labels, other people can be finding that specific detailed labels give them a sense of belonging and community and identity. But, I still wonder if coming out placed an undue burden on younger me to find all the right labels when vagueness could have worked just as well.)

#i had a random thought and i decided that i should post it and see if people had thoughts #gonna try to do this more i think #since i randomly have queer thoughts that i'd be interested to discuss with others #my thoughts #queer #lgbtq #original #aspec #aro #ace #aromantic #asexual #nonbinary #trans #enby #transgender

[pantherloid]

Barbie Girl (Aqua) × Migikata no Chou (Nori-P) mashup:

Barbie on Your Right Shoulder

[Idea and mashup by StaChoo, cover art by Wolfie.]

#this is the work of my very own sibling #vocaloid #kagamine len #len kagamine #鏡音レン #Barbie on Your Right Shoulder #my sibling just said to me randomly that migikata no chou has barbie girl chords #and made an entire track to demonstrate #i posted a snippet of it on twitter thinking it'll be seen by 20 people max #it sent a large crowd of people into madness so it was too impactful not to share #mashup and cover art and trailer (not shown here) made by my irls and me #if you see the one on youtube that was made after they saw my post of my sibling's mashup

[kelocitta]

Tangentially related to some of the discussion i posted earlier but quiet literally the first RW Art Month i participated I did it completely on whim like, one day before it started. And I mostly did it because I hadn't drawn a ton of rain world and wanted to draw more. Fandom presence was a lot smaller than and I was one of a handful of artists who did the entire thing. Fast forward and I still do Art Month and I've gotten to work with VC directly. But it was quite literally something I decided to do completely on whim that set the ball rolling, and for something a lil more niche and certainly with a lot more dev/fandom art involvement than most. It's really random how and why you might get noticed more than usual, especially with the "toss it into the search and hope it pays out' mechanism of Socmed

#t.extpost #and im hardly the fanciest art month artist out there so it wasnt even about being a jaw droppingly talented artist or whatever #and while artmonth for rw is still given a huge focus its also a much much bigger thing now with a much bigger number of participants #which is cool! its awesome how many people i saw do most if not all of last art month! and VC is really good about not just repping the #most popular artists or fanciest pieces #but theres So Much More there now and while its great for finding artists its also impossible to get Everyone in there you know? #Although they absolutely try #And this is like. one of the most fanartist involved devs ive ever seen in terms of both celebrating the art their fans make and actively #bringing those fans in to contribute #and its /still/ hard to get going just because thats how Posting is #i used to be more of a hk artist which is both a huge fandom and riddled with stunning artists but theres So Many #and niche fandoms are niche so youre more likely to connect with people but less likely to see a ton of engagement regularly - #probably best example i have for that was being briefly fixated on patapon. #Its just messy to try and find the hack that sets you up #just have fun and jump around and make what you like #get a sense of feeling for your style and some people will stick around for that vs. strictly the subject matter #others will look up the thing you switched too and some wont engage #you cant really control it #so have fun and draw that thing you randomly thought about at 2 am that doesnt match your blog #draw for that forgotten rpg you liked when you were 15 or draw for the 70 player max steam game you played for this week #you never really know what will happen #but its not really worth worrying about what will happen either

[buttertrait]

butter flop era

#i love when a post i’m really proud of just #completely flops #like i try not to care but #when a post i’m super happy with and super excited to share #gets like no notes #it’s really upsetting #idk like esp on this account #like on my acnh account i only have like 20 followers so i don’t care if a post has no notes #but on this account it’s super upsetting #idk i’m also upset bc like so many people randomly started following me out of no where recently #and now it’s like okay cool like why did you follow me if you don’t care about seeing my stuff #ahhh okay #whatever #i’m just upset #butter's thoughts

[spontaneousglitterbees]

as someone who likes both things a lot of you guys assume this'd be adversarial and like. nah.

#cecilsweep #wtnv #sdr2 #sdr2 komaeda #nagito komaeda #hajime hinata #cecil palmer #welcome to night vale #danganronpa #wtnv cecil #dr #tumblr sexyman poll #sorry for the repeat but i figured id make it its own post so it shows up in tags #bc some of yall are so aggressive about it and like. nagito definitely also voted for cecil man #nvrsm is supposed to be night vale radio station management for the record but i think i missed a c for community #but see i just woke up and brain hurts so #cecil is confused but flattered? he thinks? and concerned because people do get randomly possessed by eldrich entities all the time #but theyre usually in city limits when it happens so its like 'oh is this a first aid thing. second aid. twelfth?' #'never had to use twelfth outside of a library. its a little exciting' #nagito is like 22 but cecil since he and carlos adopted a kid has so much pent-up dad energy #so many of you prb know komaeda from FIHAS and dont know hes just. canonically like this. #i look forward to seeing if anyone is like 'whos hajime' asdfghl;'

[ssreeder]

I'm taking all my boops back. Can't believe you didn't follow me...

dude I went to boop you and clicked unfollow hahaha. Then quickly followed you again but now I think I should have left you unfollowed just to fuck with you >:)

:D

#HAHAHAHAHAHAA I’m so MEAN #you deserve it #and your excessive boops #But nah we were only not mutual for like 3 sec #But honestly I don’t follow some people I consider mutuals #But they post too much stuff I don’t care about so I don’t follow them #BUT WE ARE STILL MUTUALS #Anyway now I’ve decided to randomly unfollow you and see how long it takes you to notice #Mwahaha #chaotic evil? I think so #Punkjet #Ask #boop ask #<- so people can block because fuck we’re annoying haha

[spiltsoup]

Aggresively NSFW Miguel O’Hara x reader tumblr post pops up on my dash but I’m a lesbian so when he takes me into his Spider-cave to do some 50 Shades shit to me or whatever I break the canon and actually fall in love with Lyla and we have gay sex

#across the spiderverse #spiderverse #miguel o'hara #lyla spiderverse #canon event #lesbian #wlw post #obviously I’m not judging people for thirsting for characters thirsting is allowed #but randomly seeing somebody describe in detail how a man would violate me made me kind of upset yesterday #anyways i blocked that tag we’re all good now #soup.txt #suggestive #textpost

[azaleakoneko]

Already almost finished with my first Tokyo Rev. fluff fic. Might spend today thinking of a user and all that for a new account. Interact if you will wanna be followed/moots there when I get it set up. Otherwise I’m probably just going to be dipping from here (this account) for a while after I get it set up tbh.

I’ll come back to writing one piece, it’s a heavy hyperfixation for me, but it’s become less fun to write for at the moment. Like, I get super bad anxiety when I go to post here at all now because idk if the algorithm is even gonna show my work at all. So yeah, I’m switching shows and fandoms for a little while. Who knows, I could come back after a short time but riiiiight now, I just want writing to feel exciting and rewarding again.

#haven’t really gotten interaction here #so maybe if I make a new account and stay active on it people will actually see my stuff #also #it’s 5:32 am #as I type this #so don’t blame me for not wanting to make my post pretty #I randomly woke up lol #anyways I should probably try to rest a little bit more

[lurking-latinist]

⛵

#I also keep seeing modern au aubrey-maturin art #that makes me wish I could draw and thereby contribute #unfortunately I can't even *write* modern aus generally. but I like transferring character dynamics from place to place in my brain #and I feel like I could do a university AU very nicely if I could do AUs at all #because I have had rowers in my class with as far as I could tell jack's exact personality #(unfortunately it has to be a US university AU because (a) that's what I know and (b) afaik nobody else does randomly assigned roommates) #(and I cannot pass up the opportunity for randomly assigned roommates. #OR RATHER #for 'you seem more or less human - quick let's request each other so we don't have to go into potluck' #I think that works best) #(but maybe they are both international students anyway. that works fine. & therefore extremely alarmed by potluck [can't say they're wrong] #sophie is a sorority girl. english major I think. and I can see her so clearly #(she's the part I want to draw) #she's not that into the high-octane social schedule her sorority expects her to have #but her pushy mother was a member and it is Unthinkable that sophie should not be #and a lot of the other girls are sweet :) so it's fine :) she says #feel like she has roommate issues (unlike her original self she is able to live away from mrs williams so this makes up for that) #so she's always over in jack and stephen's room. people who know her tangentially sometimes gossip about which one she's actually dating #(at that particular moment it is actually neither of them she's just hanging out with stephen) #diana freed from the shackles of 19th century womanhood creates even more and weirder drama than in canon #idk I just want to see the plot of post captain played out over text message #don't ask me HOW idk HOW i just want it #stephen is a biology major/pre-med obvs. if he can survive organic chemistry #jack is some kind of engineering major. I think he'd enjoy that with the math. diana has changed her major 7 times #(I don't know whether to put jack in rotc. I don't think it Actually actually fits - he's in the navy in canon because he's in the navy #not bc he's Inevitably Military In All Worlds. he would not want to do that if he didn't get to sail #but at the same time I find it hard to picture him not belonging to Discipline somehow. #it's more than a disinterested passion for cleanliness that drives him to wash stephen's mug for him that has had coffee and ramen in it #(and NOT in that order) #in the bathroom sink

[egberts]

um my poll got 154 votes in 5 minutes. I'm shocked? y'all wtf

#154 votes but 12 notes #154 is a lot of people to see what i posted randomly IMMEDIATELY. like im ? #im never making anothet decision alone

[codes-and-stuffs]

just saying this because i've seen some debate about which teams are and aren't hypocritical or united in their mission or whatever and. of COURSE every team is hypocritical !!! they're made up of many people of different philosophies !! they're teams of circumstance not choice! yes one team member is going to act utterly different to the next !! the individuals are all separate people!

now in the narrative yes, other characters are viewing each other as representatives of their team - that makes sense, it's part of the story and their limited perspectives and their own separate struggles within this literal purgatory lol

but don't you guys forget it! we have the advantage of being able to see the meta pov, and what's clear is that these teams are just people who are pack bonded by being pitted against each other. there isn't any team who is entirely cohesive on what they want. there isn't any team who hasn't been hypocritical or unfair in some way. that's just out of the nature of how the teams were made !

(and really, none of these teams are exempt from having been a bit of a dick from time to time, and pretending otherwise is a little bit silly, right?)

#this post does not have much of a point LOL i was just thinking about it and i find it funny that people expect these teams to all have like #aligned philosophies ig? #they were randomly put in groups together! they didn't get to pick people they knew they'd agree with! well originally at least #anyway i just think some of the takes im seeing in the tags are a bit funny to me like the characters have an excuse for thinking of each #other as villains and such but we as fans who can see more of whats up do not have that excuse XD #qsmp #discourse #<- possibly! i'll be safe here #qsmp purgatory #qsmp discourse #<- covering my bases

[ghost-trick-heritage-posts]

Just checked the date and we've been up for a full week! Congradulations to me! Woo.

#mod posts #This does mean heritage posts will slow down as i wanted to do one post a day through our first week #we should be heading to about. 1-2 posts a week now. maybe 3 if i feel like it #simply so i dont burn through every post that qualifies in my first month. that would be bad #'what days will you be heritaging things?' its a suprise! i want people to randomly get me in their notifications and go :O! #theres actually less older posts that qualify than you would think! makes me sad every time i see a post with 600-900 notes. you are so #close yet so far. :[ #anyways that is enough rambling from me. have a great night everybody. glad to be here. and i am glad yall have decided to join me in #my quest to catalogue old notable posts :]

[melit0n]

I read ur tags about the new ST masks and honestly, I agree, it's very different (very Slipknot and gore-ish) and right now, the discography and overall vibe doesn't match(like a handful of songs have a true metal quality to it) and unless they're gonna start releasing new stuff the vibes kind of...clash? And so far Vessel is the same, so I'm wondering if the others just wanted to stand out more and were given creative freedom or if everything is going to shift at some point :/ I also think its a bit been there done that (but the simpler black and gold mask I like) the others remind me of the Joker or a Shrunken Head

Thank you for the ask anon! To be honest, I saw 'I read it tags about the new ST mask...' and I panicked thinking I was about to get left-right-goodnighted in an ask, but I'm glad it wasn't so, lol.

Further, I'm glad someone agrees with me. I said what I said in my tags on twt and within the hour I had 20+ people in my replies quote tweeting me saying how I 'wasn't a proper fan for not liking the change', how I 'should leave and stop listening if I was going to be negative', and (my personal favourite because it was so absurd) 'you're so one of the people that found them through TikTok. Good to have a cleanse of the fandom if you were only here because you have a mask kink'.

Even had someone tell me to off myself! Which was, y'know, lovely. I don't have any screenshots because I was just sat there trying to figure out how to reply to them, then saw the one that told me to off myself and just had a little overwhelmed cry and deleted the tweet, in which I then got tagged in a now deleted tweet calling me a pussy. You are so loved my ass.

I deleted it because it made me feel really shit about myself (for obvious reasons), but it made me feel more shit when I woke up the next day seeing people say the same things I did (like hoping it was only a Wembly thing, but considering the amount of detail and effort that's been put into those outfits and masks, I think not), and getting nothing but acceptance and neutrality in the replies. I'm not particularly popular on twt since people are fond of copy and pasting my post about Euclid, not giving credits, blocking me when I ask them to, and when their mutuals see that I'm blocked by them they just have at me for no reason, but I think it says a lot about a fandom if they can go from getting everyone to hold up a three for iii at the concerts out of pure adoration to telling someone to off themselves because they don't like the new designs. (sorry for the rant about twt anon)

I'll repeat what I said in my tags; they feel very out of place to me. Again, maybe it's just the fact I'm used to the balaclavas since I've been around here for a while, so all I've really known is Vessel's custom mask and the collective of balaclavas, but they just don't match. They stick out more than Vessel does, both design and colour pallet wise. Vessel is in full black with white accents and a white, red and gold mask, the Esperas are in full black with white accents and a red mask. And then the guys are there, y'know? Don't get me wrong, the amount of detail and effort that's been put into the designs are amazing, and they definitely have to have given each member creative freedom because each mask and design matches the lad's vibe immaculately (especially iii's), but it doesn't match Sleep Token's vibe as a collective. I like IV's design best because his matches his stage presence and ST's vibe (as you said, the simpler gold and black mask), as well as ii's (minus the hair).

I think maybe the hair on ii's and iii's masks in general are throwing me off lol.

Furthermore, Sleep Token's only full on trad metal songs are Gods from Sundowning and Vore from TMBTE, so I got really surprised when I was basically looking at Slipknot masks curated for Sleep Token. ST are known to genre bend constantly, so maybe we will get new stuff. But, considering they've had the same vibe in their music since 2016, I'd be a bit surprised if their new single/new album was just all trad metal, or at least has a lot of aspects of it, but who knows! Maybe change for them is inevitable.

I think it's well known on this blog that the passing of time and change in literally anything is my mortal enemy so seeing this kind of randomly happen gave me whiplash. I don't think I can love the new designs as much as I loved the old balaclavas, but that doesn't mean I don't like Sleep Token anymore, y'know? All I can really do is apologise for having a non super positive opinion and hope people don't hound me on here for it (which, so far, they haven't, and I appreciate you very much for being really chill about this anon). Give me a week and I'll probably be on the boat of liking them and making analysis posts on all the little details, lol

#thank you to anybody who reads my rant #I'm hoping Tumblr treats me a bit better than Twitter but we'll see #if this post randomly disappears just know it's probably because I got met with mass negativity (again) #I'm fine with people having opinions (obviously) and therefore not liking mine but having at me because of it doesn't sit right with me #thank you for the ask anon! #appreciate it #anon asks #mel's asks #mel's rambles #sleep token #st #iv sleep token #iii sleep token #ii sleep token