#please like and reblog if interested!

[cryoexorcist]

blog ❆ doc ❆ promo cr.

#; self promo #chongyun rp #genshin impact rp #anime rp #video game rp #indie rp #canon character rp #please like and reblog if interested! #y'all please check out the linked credit i am so freaking HAPPY

[squirrelno2]

All right so I haven't been active in the Julie and the Phantoms fandom in a long time, and although I know there are definitely still people creating and reblogging in the fandom it tends to be a much smaller handful of people than it used to, which for me felt disheartening and was part of why I've backed off from it. I'd love to see new stuff more regularly and start recirculating older things just to remind myself and anyone else who needs it how much I love this silly little show.

All this to say, I am putting out feelers to see if anyone is interested in a blog that runs consistent, casual event-type things for the fandom to try and revitalize interest in jatp fanworks, like featured weeks for individual characters here, fic rec events, etc. I'm toying with ideas to inspire people to pick up their wips, spark new stories, and highlight older content that didn’t get much attention or would just be nice to see again. I’d like to create a community space to liven the fandom back up for people who miss the show or got into the fandom after the hype died down. Does that seem interesting to anyone?

#julie and the phantoms #jatp #I'm filled with both hubris and resolve and I feel like. with other people modding the blog as well. this would be doable #i already have a LOT of ideas about wip events to get stories written that have been sitting untouched i know i'm not the only one w/h thos #so i guess if that sounds good to you interact with this in some way? and if you're interested in being involved/have ideas #please share! if it's just me on a reblog spree it won't work but if we all pitch in to talk to each other #(and i know. if you know me you know i'm not always great at that. but having a Format for it makes me good at it so)

[humanmorph]

"[high pitched and tinny] Let’s dive in. Let’s dive in. It’s time to dive in. Get ready to [audio distorts and slows] dive. Diiive. Diiiiie…" (The Road to PALISADE 20: City Planning Department)

so that's what i've been working on for the past 2 weeks! i wanted to draw something for this intro ever since i first listened to it (as a companion piece to my other gur drawing, though it of course ended up being way bigger in scale), but it only really gripped me about halfway through PALISADE ep 18. the next morning after that i listened to this narration on repeat for about 45 minutes and then made a big sketch on 4 sheets of paper at my desk at work.

anyways, i haven't listened to the new episode yet but i think i'm probably ready for whatever they're gonna throw at us with the next sortie. i'm gonna believe, against it all, in millennium break. for gur

(i recommend listening along while scrolling! + transcript btw. if anything is hard to read)

#road to palisade #road to palisade spoilers #palisade #fatt #friends at the table #gur sevraq #<- yuore everything btw. #long post #and good god. it sure as fuck is #rosa art #the full file for this? that i had to split up? its 30000 pixel tall. thats 218cm #im so proud of this & it was a ton of fun. ooohhh my free floating panels i love them #i posted about my progress (theres some earlier sketches n lineart too) on cohost to be like well. #maybe i wont talk so fucking much on the actual post but noooo i cant shut up #love that for me.shoutout if you read all this #if you find a typo please. dont even mention it #a fun thing about this is that i almost know the intro by heart now. theres like 3 lines i get stuck on but mostly. its all there #ill link the cohost if i reblog this again. personally i think its interesting stuff but i love to hear myself talk abt shit i make soooo #anyways i have art class tomorrow & should sleep soon : ) but im happy im finally able to show this off. it rules sooo much

[chaosnightmare]

i feel bad for the people i see who don't know much about sonic and assume shadow is like some hypermasculine manly hardass dude character. not the case

#chaoscontrol #sonic #sth #people are reblogging a version of this where 'proof' of his femininity is given through taylor swift so the post is over and youre done #behave or die #please do not add on to my posts about a character i love and care about attempting to joke about his presentation #by bringing up attempted corporate-interested celebrity attention campaigns via twitter #with a woman who creates more harmful environmentally damaging emissions from her private jet than entire countries #just because you think it somehow proves he's like your gayby softboy or whatever. you are making this actively unfun #and i do not want to be involved in it.

[theinternetisfulloftrash]

Stiles Stilinski - Teen Wolf (2011-2017)

Art by theinternetisfulloftrash

#stiles stilinski #stiles stilinski fanart #stiles stilinski art #teen wolf #dylan o'brien #trashy art #air brush painting #procreate #PLEASE DO NOT REPOST #pls pls pls #REBLOGS over REPOSTS #reblogs are LOVE #this took like 20 hours #this is my first procreate painting #and it took me a while to get the hang of it #but I'm fairly happy? #I really enjoyed painting the reflected light #if people are interested #I did figure out how to take screenshots on my iPad and have some WIP shots that I was sending to a couple of people while I was painting #the process is literally just a lot (A LOT) of blending #when I thought I was done blending #I blended some more #;) #anyway #HE PRETTY #and drawing/painting him is truly a joy #that NOSE #is my favourite thing to draw in all mediums

[fumifooms]

My world shattering when I realize that Chilchuck is underweight

Post-canon Chilchuck stops dieting and gains weight real

Edit: I am going to SCREAM

#Dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #give him the dad bod. He earned his beer belly #It makes me sad please retire and let yourself live. Gonna draw him chubby. #Someone mentioned that with the changeling incident halfling Marcille and dwarf Laios had a hard time keeping up with the others’ pace #Which implied that Chilchuk is normally kind of running everywhere with the party #He doesn’t look toned tho he looks like he’s all skin and bones nooooo #Senshi feed this man #i reblogged with more evidence/interesting stuff btw #Isn’t it kinda messed up how half-foots don’t show the same physical signs of starving that other races do? #Who knows how many of them are malnourished. You can’t tell at a look #That does tie in with how other races dismiss them and their struggles tbh. Such “small” and “hard to notice” problems

[elizakai]

Is it just me, or are the aggressive Hazbin Hotel haters just Vox scrambling for Alastor’s attention and coping when nothing happens

Critics and Haters are different! You don’t have to like the show but making post after post hating on it, threatening the creators, or insulting people to convince them why they can’t like the show is

1- obsessive

2- honestly cringe

LIKE WHAT YOU LIKE MY FRIENDS and if you don’t like it, that’s fine, just CHILL!🩷

#I got several annoyed asks from reblogging ONE hazbin related post #personally I like the show I’ve been a long time fan #again you don’t have to like it no one’s forcing you to watch lmao #find a new hype train to try and crash please and thank you #there’s a difference between a critic and a hater👍 #it’s sad how many people I see who LIKE the show but are scared of getting backlash for an interest

[gatheredfates]

Hello there! Do you like participating in dashboard games? Do you enjoy being harassed multiple times when you reblog ask games or prompts like these? Boy, do I have a deal for you!

This is my permanent interaction call, a place for me to track peoples' interests in me interacting beyond my question drives and other miscellaneous calls. Ticking this box is basically you saying "Hi Sea! Please interact with me!" because I do sometimes worry I may come across as annoying and/or overwhelming. By liking this post you'll get tagged in some of my ask games, I'll try to send you asks if I see them, and I'll probably be a bit more chatty in your personal posts if you make them. ⭐

This call is for mutual followers only and entirely opt in, meaning you can unlike this post at any time without drama. This is different to my community projects, which are open to anyone.

So, if you're interested, smash that like button (so the youtubers say) and I'll try to include you the next time a game pops up on my dash!

For my archived permanent interaction call, you can click here.

#｡･ﾟﾟ･ — sea speaks #｡･ﾟﾟ･ — permanent interaction call #please don't reblog this! #i don't want to turn reblogs off because i will occasionally reblog this as a reminder so #just like it if you're interested :)

[starflungwaddledee]

alright alright i keep learning about this wrt to mutuals and it is constantly blowing my mind so i gotta know

(this is a scale; please pick the furthest down option on the list that you use regularly. one-offs or playing with different tools don't count for this poll)

#ftr i am computer with a graphics tablet and i have been for 20 years #my art career predates the existence of display tablets outside the workplace. let alone smartphones. let ALONE being able to draw on them #i can barely wrap my head around the ipad with the stylus.... #other 'computer with tablet'-ers please say hello #everyone out here drawing on their phones... with their fingers... wow. wow. #i've *used* display tablets and the iPad with pencil but i always come back to my 15 year old Intuos3 bc i'm a coward #reblogs are turned off on this just because i'm mostly interested in what my direct community & mutuals are doing #rather than tumblr at large! i'd also love to know like... how this intersects with age. i might make another poll another time for that!

[astronomodome]

Tumblr Poll Tournaments & MCYT

So a while ago I made a post expressing my frustration with the way a lot of tumblr poll tournaments seem to exclude mcyt characters- or if they are included, people in the notes are rude about it. The first situation of these- the poll organizer including rules against submitting characters from mcyt- is something I can easily quantify. I've crunched some numbers in order to find out two things:

How common is this phenomenon, really?

Why does this happen in the first place?

A note before I start: I'm not blaming the poll organizers for this, and I don't want anyone to get angry at them for excluding mcyt. At the end of the day, it's up to them to curate what they want their poll to be, and if they don't want to deal with the toxicity that often comes with letting mcyt characters run (or if they just don't like it for whatever reason), that's their decision. Trust me- poll organizers have to put up with a lot of shit already, and I don't want to add to it, regardless of their opinions on mcyt. If any poll organizers recognize their own words in the later part of this overview, they can contact me and I'll remove it. This is also why I have chosen not to identify the blogs from which I took the examples- I mean no harm to any poll organizer. They are a symptom of a much larger problem and they haven't done anything wrong except be a little misinformed at worst.

Excluding mcyt characters from poll tournaments really isn't that big of a deal on its own- though it is frustrating- but it does speak to the larger attitude of the general tumblr population towards mcyt. While not without its flaws, this can be used as a metric to measure the extent of this attitude and maybe get a hint of why it exists.

...Please note, also, that most of these polls date back to around March-June 2023, when poll tournaments were a big thing on Tumblr. Not super outdated, but I still should note that opinions might have changed since then.

Also also, be warned that there are examples below of some organizers being pretty toxic! It's not a whole lot, but if you don't want to expose yourself to that, maybe pass on this post!

With that out of the way, let's get started.

Part One: The Numbers

The first thing I decided to do was figure out a rough percentage of how many poll tournaments have a rule that excludes mcyt characters from being submitted. To get a sample batch of poll blogs, I used one of the blogs that pits the winners of tournaments against each other and checked each blog included in that. This ended up being a more tedious process than I had thought, since there's a lot of variation in the way poll organizers, well, organize. I ended up with 123 blogs sorted into three categories.

The first category included tournaments where a rule for or against mcyt characters wouldn't really make sense, for a variety of reasons. Most commonly, the tournament was between letters of the alphabet or animo acids or government agencies, not fictional characters, so I counted them out. There were also a handful of blogs where the contestants were determined by the organizer, not by nomination at all. Combined, blogs that did not fit my criteria made up 60/123 of my samples.

The second and third categories were the blogs that either had a rule against mcyt characters, or didn't. Most of the blogs I looked through had rules I could find, and some were more thorough about it than others. For my purposes, I counted the blog as a no only if they explicitly had a rule against mcyt characters, or clarified later that they weren't allowed. Most poll blogs didn't mention mcyt at all. (This will become relevant later.)

Of the 63 blogs that fit my criteria, 11 (17.5%) of them had a rule against mcyt characters, while the remaining 52 (82.5%) did not.

To me, this seems like pretty good news! I had honestly expected the percentage of blogs that excluded mcyt to be much higher. This is definitely a good sign! But I wouldn't really jump to assuming that mcyt characters would actually be accepted in all of these blogs. I will explain this in the next part of my research.

Part Two: The Examples

The second thing I wanted to find out with this research was why organizers end up having rules against mcyt in the first place. Is it just the bad reputation the mcyt space has (largely a result of one green man in particular)? Let's look at a few examples of poll rules against mcyt characters. Some of them are from my sample blogs and some of them aren't.

Type 1: Not understanding the difference between real people and characters in mcyt

The majority of the rules against mcyt I saw were of this type, and honestly, it's pretty reasonable. It's a pretty major debate in the mcyt community over whether mcyts' characters are separate enough from their content creators to count as fictional. However, there are a considerable number of mcyt characters who are explicitly stated to be different from their cc in the same way as a character in a movie played by an actor is different from the actor playing them. Excluding all mcyt characters for being 'real people' is just incorrect, though I can kinda understand where the organizers were coming from with this one.

It should also be noted that the vast majority of poll blogs had a rule against submitting real people. There's a possibility that some poll organizers might have lumped mcyt characters as real people even if they didn't specify it explicitly. Therefore, an attempt to actually submit an mcyt character into one of these tournaments might be against the rules based on what the organizer thinks. I have no way to quantify this, which is why I said earlier that the results of my initial test might not be accurate.

Type 2: 'Problematic fandom' (toxicity warning for some of these)

This type of rule is usually broader than just mcyt, but lumps it in with other fandoms known for being associated with bigotry (often hp, which is... yeah i'm definitely not going to argue in favor of harry potter but yikes. really? we're as bad as terfy potter? really.) At least one of them let dsmp characters in with the exception of dream, which is a lot fairer than... some of the others.

If we want to give the organizers benefit of the doubt here, we can say that these rules are made to keep the poll less toxic than it would be otherwise... but to be perfectly honest, some of these might be more about that phenomenon of purity culture that has had a habit of popping up in fandom spaces since forever. That's a whole other conversation I'm not ready to have now, but it comes as no surprise to me that mcyt has become a little taboo in some places (likely to a large extent because of dream and all the drama he's generated). There's also no telling whether the poll organizers in these cases even know that there are other smps besides dsmp... but that's besides the point, since there are other dsmp characters that aren't associated with dream at all. Excluding them reveals a misconception about the mcyt genre anyway. And of course, I think we can all agree that some of these are just pretty rude.

Which brings us to our conclusion.

I feel like a lot of the toxicity towards mcyt as a genre and mcyt characters boils down to people either not really understanding what mcyt is (i.e. mcyt -> minecraft youtubers -> real people) or hearing stuff about dream and assuming the entire mcyt space is reflective of that. Of course, it's a frustrating issue that some people think this way. I think it's nice to be reminded, though, that this sort of thing isn't very widespread. Alongside the bad examples, I saw a lot of organizers confronting their preconceived notions: one organizer let in an mcyt character after admitting their 'unfamiliarity with the source material', another allowed mcyt characters 'on the condition that you can explain how they are a separate character' and a few others fiercely defended mcyt characters against toxicity in their polls. Every day we grow as a community and we can't let a few people with misguided notions of what we are keep us down. Keep watching, keep creating, and as Zedaph once said, It's okay to be silly!

#this ended up being a larger project than i expected. i hope it doesnt ruffle anyone's feathers too much #i don't like dipping my toes into discourse-y stuff but i thought this was pretty fascinating #if anyone has any questions or imput feel free to speak up #i don't bite and i love discussion #mcyt #astro speaks #idk what else to tag this as. i dont want to be spamming fandom tags for this #but i also want people to see it since i worked really hard on it #so uh. i dont like to beg for reblogs but if you find this interesting at all please consider reblogging

[thunderstomm]

Rewatching MH as always, and in the episode "Monster Movie", Deuce mentions that he used to watch "Zeus Movies" as a kid. Is... Zeus an actor in the Monster High universe???

I have to imagine e it is for a really cheesy genre, like romance movies or naybe even some sort of cinematic equivalent to soap operas?? I like the idea of Zeus being a popular romance star because it would be a funny tie-in reference to Zeus'... mythology, and how he is very. Y'know. Zeus-y.

#thunderstomm #monster high #monster high g3 #theory #theories #'shut up abt the mh greek god family tomm' its interesting to me. its like piecing together a puzzle. #im having fun #deuce gorgon #zeus mh #i like the idea of Zeus' name in the mh universe being something like 'zeus storm' #since posideon is 'posideon reef' and hades is 'hades burns' #okay to reblog #please reblog #tomm talks

[beesorcery]

hello it's part 3 of 3 for my cool fun graphic design adventure!! part 1 and part 2 got too long. to recap i am recreating this t-shirt design but with the magic 8 ball songs instead of city names:

here is the current draft, updated through 3/27 (pittsburgh) (!!!!)

#aaaa!!! #tried doing image descriptions for this one #feel free to send me better ones though and i can update the alt text!! or just put them in the replies/reblogs lol #bees' graphic design adventure #only 7 more shows........ wowie #OH ALSO ppl have been expressing interest in getting this as an actual shirt which is!! cool!! #idk how to do that though!! #if anyone has recommendations for websites or something to do that please please send them or reply to this post or something #at the very least i'll make the file available at the end so ppl can print it on whatever they want #i was gonna make a poster #but yeah let me know if there's a good way to do that!!! it's really cool that people are enjoying this i am having a lot of fun doing it #fob #fall out boy #2ourdust #gonna update after nashville des moines and minneapolis so 3 left!!! #i have already changed it since posting this because i am a freak <3 and i cant leave good enough alone lol #also i now have all the fonts <3 for the cities anyway #not the states but i’ve only used the states a few times so far for like the parentheses or punctuation or whatever #so if i end up needing those ill go find them whatever #anywayyyy yeehaw see u all in like 4 days

[darubyprincx]

Finally, I Can Maintag This After Nine Months

Hello everyone! This post is about my very long (80k) Empires S1 fanfiction, (i'll tend to the flame, you can worship the) ashes.

Ashes has been nine months in the making, and the last chapter was just posted today. It is twice as long as my previous longest published work and I made a lot of it up as I went.

The premise is this: The Rapture was three months ago, and Gem and Fwhip are on their way out of the world. They land for the night on the edge of the desert, and stumble upon a certain emperor, who's been missing for eight years and long presumed dead. Which is great! They found him! But... he's strangely quiet.

More details and a general FAQ for the fic under the cut.

Why does this fic have the Graphic Depictions of Violence warning and the Author Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings ratings applied at the same time? What does that mean?

I explain my full reasoning in a post here, but basically, I wanted to let people know that there was violence while also implying that there were also some other things that needed to be handled carefully that aren't necessarily covered by an Archive warning.

Ashes has the Canon Compliant tag attached, but this is a scenario that I've never seen in canon before.

This is correct. When I started writing this, my tag for this fic was #ashes au because I was pretty sure that I was going against canon with some of the details I was including. I added that tag later after realizing that even though some of the specific details didn't line up, it counted to me. (The tag stuck because I've linked it everywhere by now and don't want to change it.)

As for the post-canon status of this work, Ashes was mainly started because I felt like Pixl's ESMP s1 POV (which ended early because he got busy with another project; this happens to everyone and i do not hold it against him) deserved to be finished and so I set out to write it. Pix later said in an Empires S2 livestream and then in his s2 finale that every interpretation of what happened to the Copper King was correct, so I just went with it.

If I wanted to make fanart or fanfiction of this fanfic, could I do that?

There is a section for that on the website I made for Ashes! (I learnt HTML at 12am for this. I couldn't sleep.) Any questions you have that aren't answered by that, send me a message or an ask and I'll be happy to answer.

#ray's tag #mcyt #empires smp #empires smp s1 #pixlriffs #geminitay #fwhip #esmp s1 #fanfiction #writing #lets fucking GO baby #ashes au #if you find this interesting and decide to check it out and you like it- please reblog this post! i put a lot of effort into writing this

[carriosity]

#please reblog friends i’m actually interested in the percentages #it feels like everyone and their mother uses spotify but i just can’t relate!! #spotify #apple music #etc

[gladumfdoodles]

hey

hey

psst

do you really want to see an au or pairing of hermitcraft/life series characters written, but can't write?

are you desperate to see your blorbos interact with each other and their world, but don't have time to put it into words?

well boy do I have the deal for you

I've just finished writing my current au and I'm looking for writing requests!! my inbox is open, please feel free to send me any ideas that you've been rotating around in your mind and I will make them a reality!

(this definitely isn't me having run out of ideas and desperately pleasing for help, what are you talking about?)

please keep in mind that your ideas might sit in my inbox for a while as I write them out, because while I am a fast writer, I am not that fast :]

so yeah!! got an au idea? got a few characters you want put in situations? got a vague plot with nothing else going for it?

send it in!!

(and if you don't know who I am, here is my writing masterlist with all my hermitcraft/life series fics on it, so you can get a grasp of my style :])

#gladumf rambles #trafficblr #hermitblr #my writing #hermitfic #trafficfic #grian #goodtimeswithscar #mumbo jumbo #ethoslab #geminitay #pearlescentmoon #jimmy solidarity #smallishbeans #all of these characters and more can be written #and if you're not interested but like the idea #please reblog so others can see this :] #thank you!!

[theriu]

Optional Fun Thing: If you voted 1 or 2, click here. If you voted 3 or 4, click here! (5 can choose randomly =D)

#submission #rick roll #rick rolled #rick roll'd #humor #river writes #polls #I was gonna put a different earworm on one of the links #but I liked this one better XD #willow ptarmigan #Genuinely interested to see what people say! #also this is a redo I forgot to change the timer to a week the first time #thanks for participating! #please reblog so i can get more results!