#it’s most fandoms

[yourfavoritefandomchild]

Highly unpopular opinion, but I feel like ~many fandoms~ focus far too much on their ships compared to the rest of their interesting source content. Now, that’s not to say you CAN’T ship characters just for the sake of it and make that your whole fandom experience, and I’m not going to say that I’ve never done that, but also I feel like many of you miss the opportunity to dive into the more interesting sides of dissecting your content. Sure, that person COULD make out with their best friend, but you’re COMPLETELY overlooking the interesting, gut-wrenching dynamic they have with their parents, the hope-inducing growth they have in friendships that eventually crumble along with the viewer’s heart, the FLAWS in their personality that they have to work through (or better yet, that they DON’T work through, creating unresolved conflict), the moments where they are at their lowest and at their highest and what they WANT as people, outside of a love interest. Hand holding and sex are NOT automatically on the same level as complex plots just because they appeal to ship dynamics, and I’m just a bit tired of pretending that dissecting the emotional relativity of characters is on the same level as taking your sock puppet characters and making them kiss.

#dear evan hansen #be more chill #hamilton #dream smp #helluva boss #dsmp #mcyt fandom #hazbin hotel #and to be honest #it’s most fandoms

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

#i often wonder about how many things would be considered classic or high art had they only received the marketing #how many short films that were made for class could have been the most powerful thing you'd ever seen? if you'd seen them? #“you know the greatest films of all time were never made” etc etc #but like. these works of art ARE being made. it's just enjoyed by a smaller audience with equal impact though #i think about this one furry i used to follow on insta who had the coolest worldbuilding ever. it's been years. #thought prompted by that sketch of nimona from ten years ago that was just for a character design #posted to the creator's tumblr and now it's nominated for best animated feature film at the oscars #and by the genuine emotional reaction a fan comic made me feel. how much work had gone into it. how beautiful it was to me. #idk what to tag this but i hope whoever needs to hear it does #writing #writer #fandom #fandom culture #artist

[willgrahamscock]

Please tell me in the tags who's in the pfps and what you picked! If it's the same person/character think of one as a clone. What would they do to themselves?

#pls pls pls i will go through the rbs and add the most ridiculous pairs on here #poll #tumblr polls #polls #fandom polls

[suiheisen]

forget about elon musk vs mark zuckerberg. i need to see yoshiki fight elon musk.

update: x japan has released its first single in eight years. to further shade elon musk. this is a thing that happened.

#this is SO ENTERTAINING ;_____; #the most fun japanese twitter has had in a while asdgajajak #VISUAL KEI FANDOM IT’S OUR TIME 🌹 #57-year-old yoshiki turning up in leather pants with a silk shirt undone to his navel and a red rose held in his teeth #disarming musk with a kiss #love yoshiki hashtagging his tweets yoshiki. so true king #also gackt waking up from his cryosleep to defend yoshiki’s honour……….. peak old man yaoi #long post #twitter #x japan #elon musk #yoshiki #gackt

[suspicious-scarecrow]

#snufkin #moomintroll #moomin #the moomins #moominvalley #mine #my art #doodles #coming back here once in a blue moon just to post the most random shit ever #u never know which fandom it will be. it’s fuckin russian roulette

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

#bearz rambling tag #no it’s not really possible to let everyone who uses this term to change #because as far as I know this is the most common word with use on Chinese websites #I didn’t know that pairing are called ‘ship’ here #like why would I even know that #‘ship’ makes zero sense to me #it took me a while to learn the fandom language people speak here #it’s hard #give people time #shipping culture is very different too #Like on Chinese site you HAVE to clarify the Top and the Bottom of this ship in the ship name #it is very very important to them #people who like the same ship but with different Top Bottom preference will fight till no end #imagine how confused I was when I first got here #where there’s no top bottom differences #it’s not really a smut thing #it’s more a dynamic thing #AxB and BxA is very different #oh I can talk so much about the differences on fandom cultures #if ya are interested in more please feel free to ask #it’s very interesting to me #I wanna talk about it

[wombywoo]

civvies

#call of duty #cod #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #john price #kyle gaz garrick #my art #this is just after Simon's bi-yearly haircut by an actual barber #and not over the kitchen sink #is it any surprise that Gaz has the most style? no #Soap is somehow the least-douchey douchebag north of the border #Price is contemplating where his marriage went wrong despite being an eternal bachelor #and if my only accomplishment in this fandom is to defame Ghost for his unequivocal lack of swag #so be it~

[wanderingcas]

people are really looking at stats to determine if a fic is worth reading? no wonder fics that never got popular at the first drop never had a chance 💀

#also people don't really leave kudos anymore #or comments #so stats are fallible!! #don't do this i beg of you #best fic i ever read: barely 100 kudos #worst fic i ever read: most popular in a fandom based on stats #i'm just saying!!!

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

This is something I'm seeing more and more on AO3 that I'd never seen when I first got into fandom stuff, so I wanted to find out how you all feel about it.

What are your thoughts about seeing posted fanfiction that isn't commissioned, where the creator says that they have never read/watched the source material? For example, someone putting out a fanfic for a show they've never watched that includes the tag Author Has Never Seen Suchandsuch.

#polls #fandom polls #fan polls #ao3 #batman #batfamily #i'm tagging that because it's where i've seen that happening most often

[locusfandomtime]

you know shit is getting real when a hermit is trying to solve a problem and it cuts to them in a call with cubfan and etho

#most recent example is hypno. but this has happened so many times. that was just the point i realised this was a pattern #locus fandom time #hermitcraft #hermitblr #ethoslab #cubfan135 #and the suggested solutions are always either tnt or oddly specific game mechanic you’ve never heard of before

[wispedvellichor]

doctor who is so hilarious cuz its like yes we are a sci-fi show exploring dark themes of morality and obsession and the implications of present-day capitalism and yes our lead artists are Spice Girls and Britney Spears hope this helps <3

#doctor who is just the fourteen year old girl of sci fi fandoms #camp show of all time #honourable mention for boney m #when toxic came on in nin'e season i was fucking HOWLING #doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #tenth doctor #ninth doctor #fourteenth doctor #also these camp ass music numbers are performed by the most #powerful fucking villains we've ever faced #gotta love it

[retellingthehobbit]

Retelling The Hobbit Chapter 16: The Song of the Lonely Mountain First chapter / Previous / Next

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*crumbles into dust after finishing this* Thank you for reading! This The Hobbit webcomic adaptation thing takes a lot of effort to put together and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate every comment. I also really appreciate the people who’ve spread the word of this comic to their friends! <3

And finally, we’re at the Song of the Lonely Mountain! Within Tolkien’s canon, The Hobbit is an in-universe book that was “written” by Bilbo Baggins, who occasionally lies/embellishes/exaggerates things. The tonal differences between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings are explained by Bilbo and Frodo/Sam being different kinds of storytellers, with different relationships to “the truth.” This idea is the core of how I’m adapting the novel!  Bilbo is an unreliable narrator who is literally ‘drawing’ from his own limited experiences;  the different art styles reflect the different perspectives of other characters.   The “dwarf art style” in this chapter is inspired by stonework/metalwork in general— but especially by a mix of art deco, Celtic art, and European folk art. 

The central tension of the comic is between Bilbo and Thorin, who each have wildly different ideas about what kind of  story they’re in. Thorin is in a grand fantasy epic, while Bilbo is in a lighthearted children’s book adventure.  The tragedy is, obviously, that only one side of the story ever gets to be fully told.

On a sillier note, a few years ago I had my first gay crush on a lesbian who sang while playing the piano. This chapter is dedicated to the piano lesbian. I hope they’re doing well, wherever they are. XD

I think I might need a bit of a break but I’m hoping for the next chapter, titled “Dawn,” to arrive on January 13th. And your comments/support really do help motivate me to get more done! ^_^

#lotr #the hobbit #bagginshield #the hobbit comic #retelling the hobbit #lord of the rings #thorin oakenshield #bilbo baggins #YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET #anyway *crumbles into dust* #the slowest burn bagginshield fic of all time??? #it will become canon in approximately 84 years #i would say its the most high effort fanfic in the hobbit fandom but ive got lots of competition for that #god works hard but Hobbit fans work harder and etc etc #long post

[harbingerofsoup]

there’s death of the author and then there’s whatever the fuck is up with danny phantom

#danny phantom #death of the author #most of the lore is fan made #a decent chunk of the fandom hasn’t even seen the show #one of the most beloved side characters isn’t an actual character #because we made him up based on a like 2 second clip #he’s not even the only widely accepted fan made character #because we spawned more from him #and we ba sing se-ed ourselves about phantom planet #dannypocalypse is also a thing #it doesn’t have anything to do with death of the author #but it’s important to me that we’ve pulled off a successful fandom apocalypse #every year since i think 2017

[rhinocio]

want you to want me

#behold the WIP that's been sitting unfinished for nine months. the perfect amount of time to cook up twins. I'm a genius #I just wanted to practice drawing splinter. and then drawing tots. and somehow we got here #disaster twins #ROTTMNT #TMNT #leonardo #donatello #raphael #michelangelo #splinter #turtle tots #rhinociart #featuring a magically disappearing dishcloth #the image with the most detail got scrunched down the most too........... tunglr plz I have a fandom to feed #save ROTTMNT #unpause ROTTMNT

[cacaocheri]

something soft for the girlies

#security breach #fnaf security breach #sun fnaf #fnaf sun #sundrop #sundrop fnaf #the daycare attendant #dca fandom #charlie daydreamers #daydreamers #did you know. did you know #i had absolutely no direction for this comic #just vibes #tbh thats how i make most of my comics #i just draw a silly little drawing then go 'hmm i could expand this a little more' #and kind of just make it up as i go

[tea-cat-arts]

More doodles (ft Xianle Trio mostly Feng Xin)

#heaven official's blessing #heaven official's blessing fanart #tgcf #tgcf fanart #xianle trio #xie lian #feng xin #mu qing #hua cheng #hualian #idk how Feng Xin ended up in the most panels given he's probably my least favorite of the trio #oh well #there will be more doodles later #thought i had while drawing this: do you think they gave Mu Qing his slutty little choker as a reference to the shackle he gets later on? #i might be reading too much into that #didnt let myself interact with the fandom till i finished the books #so i got a lot of catch up doodles to do now