#it’s near and dear to me

[warrior-cats-junk]

Guys I just finished twd comics and I’m crying I- PLEASE CHECK THEM OUT I JUST- AUGH-

#i finally did it #i finished it #twd books #twd comic #twd comics #I’m crying #I fucking love this series #it’s my interest with warrior cats #hell I might even like it more than warrior cats #it’s just Wc has a better fandom (not really but you get it) #and I feel more connected to that #but twd has a special place in my heart #with 20.2 pounds of books #and 4340 pages #i love this series so much #it’s near and dear to me #Ty to everyone who helped make this awesome series #and to those in the note at the end of the last comic #Ty for listening to me ramble about twd in the tags #Ty

[forestofsprites]

tumblr.com mutuals i love you all so dearly

#new and old!!!!! #i know i've speedran fandoms the past year- all the post-near-death hullabaloo really got to me #so a lot of you are possibly clinging on for dear life #but i love u all!!!! thank u for being here!! #thoughts

[viyojo]

Happy Graduation!! ✨ 🎓 🎉

#splatoon #my art #v #agent 4 #agent 8 #squid sisters #off the hook #callie splatoon #marie splatoon #marina splatoon #pearl splatoon #anyways here's the full set #congrats to anyone graduating this 2023 season! #splat 2 is near and dear to me since I've had it pretty much throughout highschool #so the agents get to graduate too!! #also agent 3 is in the reblog :)

[wispscribbles]

do you think like. when ghost and soap were kids they competed in like some kind of sport? I’m trying to think of sports they have in Europe.

yeah idk jus a little thought I had. Johnny seems like the kind of child to play rugby. what other sports are there in Europe?

I keep thinking abt American football. I would play rugby if I could (I can’t)

I think Soap canonically played football (soccer) ! I love that for him. As for Ghost, I doubt his parents would pay for any lessons or hobbies. Does getting into fights count as a sport? I do have a headcanon that he was interested in ballet, but never told a living soul

#ask #Chloe-is-slightly-epic #hi Chloe!!! #ghostsoap #my art #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #cod fanart #doodle #ghostsoap kid au #young Simon who loves ballet is very near and dear to me #could also see him as a gymnast tho #if soap didn’t actually play football in canon then I’ve completely tricked myself into believing that #it’s canon To Me

[chloesimaginationthings]

Are you more of FNAF or Jojo? (Ofc you will then say, I can be both-)

Why pick when they are so similar/hj

#ask reply #I GOT asked this recently on insta as well! #to sum it up I do like both! #JJBA and FNAF are probably the two series I’ve been most obsessed with? #where I literally draw it everyday #I adore both these series sm #and for very different reasons so it’s hard to truly compare them #though FNAF may be more near and dear to my heart #just cause I have nostalgia bias with it #JJBA is a newer thing but obviously it really hit right for me #anyway I’m spitting here #I could of kept going with comparisons but insta stories only have sm room

[5ummit]

So there's this post with a troubling number of notes going around insisting that "dead dove" is not a genre, it doesn't inherently have anything to do with darkfic, and that the tag could be applied to fics that are "100% fluffy where everyone's having a good time" if they happen to contain some abnormal (though entirely non-problematic) content like an unusual kink. The claim is that "dead dove: do not eat" is simply a "courtesy tag" that means "this is a very specific niche, mind the tags." And that's just... wrong.

I wrote up a whole rebuttal to this post since I can't stand misinformation and frankly OP was being kinda rude and judgey on top of their wrongness. But right after I posted my reply, OP turned off reblogs because, and I quote, “some fuckwad added some dumb shit onto this post and it is no longer educational” (the “fuckwad” being me and the “dumb shit” being proof that they were wrong). A couple people have asked me to make a rebloggable version of my response, which I've decided to do because this isn't the first time I've heard similar claims and I want to help set the record straight. However, I'm not linking the original post on the off chance this gains traction because OP did the right thing by turning off reblogs, preventing it from circulating further, and I don't want them to get hate for being unfortunately misinformed.

For those who don't know the history, "dead dove: do not eat" was originally proposed as a catchall "hydra trash party" alternative label for any fandom to warn that the content of a fic may be considered problematic or potentially upsetting and to read the tags carefully so you know what you're getting into and won't complain later. Specifically, DD:DNE was intended to convey that the Bad Things in the fic would likely be reveled in and not explicitly condemned by the narrative, which some people tend to get up in arms about, hence the need for the extra warning in addition to the tags. Don't believe me? Here's the original proposal (note DD:DNE can be found on a handful of fics dated before 2015 but this is when it really took off and became a Thing).

There are currently around 50,000 fics tagged as "dead dove: do not eat" on AO3 and close to 50% of those also include the rape/noncon warning (which of course is not the only type of "dead dove" but is one of the most popular and most consistently tagged). The normal percentage of noncon fics in any given fandom? Around 1-3%. That's a HUGE disparity. So don't tell me that dead dove is just a general "courtesy tag" and doesn't or shouldn't have dark connotations. Even the context of the original joke on Arrested Development has a dark undertone. Micheal Bluth casually finds an animal carcass in a bag in his refrigerator with the label "do not eat", as if eating it would be any sane person's first thought. The whole situation is kinda fucked up. And this fucked up vibe very much carries over into fandom usage too, as was intended.

The claim that dead dove has nothing to do with the content's genre and could just as easily be used to describe a 100% fluffy fic in which everyone's having a good time is straight up Wrong, or at the very least, severely warping the original meaning. Also, when someone these days says that they like/dislike "dead dove" most people in fandom automatically understand what that means because of the consistency of its usage over the years and the way language evolves. Whether you like it or not, "dead dove" IS a genre now and the term does carry a specific connotation. I do agree that DD:DNE should definitely still be used in conjunction with other tags, when applicable, to be explicit about the exact type of fucked up content you may find, but to say that the term is meaningless on its own is patently false and I'm tired of people who don't know what they're talking about pushing this narrative and causing even more confusion.

You want a generic term that also means "mind the tags" and doesn't have any inherently dark connotations? Just use good ol' "what it says on the tin" instead of trying to force dead dove to be something it's not.

#fyi I've tweaked my response slightly to remove specific references to OP and make it read better on its own #I hope I don't regret making this post and inviting The Discourse #but dead dove is a topic that is very near and dear to me #I feel like someone has got to say something and put a stop to all of the misinformation around it these days #fandom #long post #my words #psa #wendy's help desk

[u3pxx]

wtf!!!!! klapollo yuri???!???!?!?

#sorry the fem!disco art has been giving me brainworms and it seeped into the klapolly dfgdhjd #hits fem!apollo with the butchification beam. anyways DFGHD #there is something near and dear to my heart abt nothing changing <- does that with their own gender #also pls do know that klavier would also wear that fit. in fact i might doodle that too someday pftt #sunnysiderambles #sunnysidedoodles #genderbend #<- blacklisting purposes #sunnysideattorney

[puddii-ng]

hajime,,,,, the hajiminis

#why doesn’t the big hajime eat the little hajimes #forgot to post this here umm umm hi :3 #I miss tea club #I’m really happy with the environment in this piece I made it my computer wallpaper #enstars #my art #fanart #ensemble stars #hajime shino #ritsu sakuma #eichi tenshouin #tea club tag #For me :3 #cause this will not be the last of them #They’re near and dear to my heart

[mrsnaildood]

Happy Pride! Have some quick busts of the ninja

#ninjago #kai ninjago #nya ninjago #cole ninjago #lloyd garmadon #jay walker #zane julien #mydoodle #tagging #aroace lloyd garmadon #because that one is near and dear to me :] #his eyes match his pride flags heheh #happy pride everyone!

[falmerbrook]

Happy Autism Month to these two specifically

#for context: april is autism awareness/acceptance month #vanus galerion #sotha sil #tes #the elder scrolls #eso #teso #elder scrolls online #autism headcanon #autistic headcanon #im personally lukewarm on autistic sil but i see why people like it and vibe with it from time to time #but autistic vanus had become near and dear to me #ive drawn vanus a handful of times but this is the first time ive liked it enough to post

[questionthewitness]

you are made of pain and grief and regret and love. that is all you are, and all you have ever been, and all you ever will be.

or, tim wright, a brief synopsis.

gut punch, everybody's worried about owen | entry #20 | entry #15 | clarice lispector | entry #64 | entry #72 | entry #74 | unknown | entry #66 | the worm king's lullaby, richard siken | entry #83 | entry #80 | c. c. aurel | entry #83 | entry #84 | bitter water, the oh hellos | entry #17 | entry #84 | if my body could speak, bylthe baird | entry #86 | marian keyes | entry #87 | firstfullmoon, tumblr | entry #87

#hi! i'm going fucking insane #tim wright is a character very near and dear to me and one that i have a shit ton of thoughts on #i could honestly do like. ten more of these types of posts and still have more to say #what happens when a hyperfixation goes on for almost a year i suppose #anyways. tim wright wherever you are i hope that you're safe happy and healing #god knows you deserve it #cris.jpeg #web weaving #marble hornets #mh #slenderverse #tim wright #tim marble hornets #jay merrick #jay marble hornets #brian thomas #brian marble hornets #alex kralie #alex marble hornets #long post

[ilonacho]

ALL! Grown Up!

#rugrats #tommy pickles #dil pickles #chuckie finster #phil deville #lil deville #kimi watanabe finster #angelica pickles #susie carmichael #iloart #SIKE!! something possessed me and i somehow managed to colour all of them in like a week asdhfjdhg #u can clearly tell how i quickly got sloppy dkfjgh whatevs #id wanna give em different outfits like agu but if i had to settle on one.. something like these maybe #i will probably also still change stuff as i draw more of them BUT U GET THE IDEA #gave dil silly jibbitz✨ and kimi n lil matching childhood patches hehe <3 #and angelicas hair colour matching drews more as she gets older is now near and dear to me #ok bye nowwww

[beomgyus]

HUENINGKAI 'Chasing That Feeling' @ SBS Inkigayo 231015

#txt #tomorrow x together #txtnetwork #moasource #mgroupsedit #kpopco #kpopdols #kpopedit #malegroupsedit #idolsincedits #idolnexusedit #ultkpopnetwork #hueningkai #huening kai #m:gifs #this Look is so near and dear to me

[halavibe]

ateez in salary lupin ep. 7

these parts were so difficult to choose ㅠㅠ

#this episode is so near and dear to me lmfao #wooyoung is downright feral. a predator #ateez #hongjoong #yeosang #san #wooyoung #jongho #salary lupin #kim hongjoong #kang yeosang #choi san #jung wooyoung #choi jongho #mine

[th1rt33n]

oh boy i sure do love drawing characters standing around on a blank background ! my attempt to get a feel for how to draw a buncha trigun characters :o)

#trigun #trigun maximum #trimax #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #meryl stryfe #milly thompson #millions knives #elendira the crimsonnail #legato bluesummers #livio the double fang #razlo the tri punisher of death #zazie the beast #rem saverem #huhghghghghgh is that all of them #i just wanted to pin down how i wanna draw them thought it would be fun :) #in my brain mind i like to cowboyify knives for my own amusement #mostly trimax designs cus it is near and dear to my heart but i really like zazie's stampede design #u could lock me in a room for weeks and make me draw character lineups and i'd go yippie!!!!! horray!!!!!!!!!!! #my art #fanart

[witter-potter]

When you loosen up, you're not half bad to be around. Bordering on fun, even.

PACEY WITTER & JOEY POTTER Dawson's Creek (1998-2003): Season 1

#pacey witter #joey potter #pacey x joey #dawson's creek #dawsonscreekedit #teendramaedit #gifs* #s1 babies <3 #i love them sm they're so near and dear to me