#something entirely new and unique

[bisclavaret]

trans/form- happy belated tdov!!

#trans pride #trans artist #werewolves #werewolf #transmasc #I don’t draw trans werewolves nearly as much as I think about them #which is always #and I do draw trans werewolf art a lot #my art #the inherent transgenderism of transformation #in becoming something that is both and yet neither and also whatever you want it to be #something entirely new and unique #didn’t spend the last three years of my degree researching and making art about horror and werewolves and the gender of it all for nothing

[alren-ki]

Hmm. That sure is brains. Don't like em but they sure are fucking exist

#feeling like the only one in any of my groups that has been consistently drawing the past few years with little to no change #awled rens vents #I've always had- issues about the fact it seemed my art style was uniquely unwanted or something #I think I've had all of like- 10-15 commissions in my whole online career #and a solid chunk of them have been out of pity of some kind #I've always felt like I put in more effort towards lifting other people's work then people put into mine #and there's been periods where it felt like any complements I've gotten have been less detailed and just there to be polite #I've watched all my friends have these massive dynamic shifts meanwhile I pick out a peice from 2020 and a peice from this year- #and it barely looks at all different #even the shit I'm proudest of some of the time #it's not even maybe I'm bad and everyone's to nice to say it anymore it's entirely #maybe my arts just got nothing to be said about it #maybe the reason I'm struggling so much to be even noticed is there's nothing to notice #idk man I'm just having a Time and Circumstances aren't helping at all #best I can describe it is feeling like I'm being left behind in some way compared to my peers #then again #what else is new?

[harrowharkwife]

i am SO fucking exhausted by mainstream media opinions lately and i don't understand why they're frequently SO different from my own? like i genuinely don't think i am approaching anything from that unique of a perspective as a viewer? maybe it's just that i'm too easy to please when it comes to stories or something but like. how is the mainstream, widely accepted consensus on yellowjackets season 2 is that it's "bad" and "doesn't work as a season" and is "riddled with problems." literally what the fuck are you talking about. this is the most fun i have had watching television uhhhhh literally Ever? you're telling me people hated Burial? how? why? like i don't...i just don't GET it. and i'm not playing dumb for kicks here im like genuinely honest to god confused. that was the single best episode of television I've ever watched in my life. like i get that people have different opinions about things and that's fine but HOW am i in the minority here what am i missing

#most of the critiques I've seen are that it 'focused on the adults too much' and was 'too weird' re: mistys sequence #like??? that was clearly supposed to be funny and campy and silly and artistic and a twin peaks homage? #and the 'focusing on the adults' i... i mean i guess some people are just here for the '96 mystery #and are completely uninterested in the psychological effects it had on all the characters? #i guess some people don't?? care??? about watching them wrestle with that trauma and go on to try to have lives #after something like that? #but like. that's the entire point of the show though. if you hate that why are you watching it every week #with enough investment to like. blog about it and put energy into writing whole ass thinkpieces #so much of media criticism these days boil down into 'i wish this show was Not the show that it is' #'i wish it was this other show that im writing with my twitter mutuals' #and like that's fine and fun and cool and valid and that's what fic is for! but a show isnt BAD for committing to itself and its own vision #like. there is something sooo sexy abt a piece of media that is so wholly itself that you have to meet it where it is #and judge it by its own metric #it creates a whole new unique lens for each and every thing you love! quit comparing apples and oranges! #it's SO fucking fun analyzing different pieces of media through the lens of their own little world and conventions #and guiding principles and plot pacing and what they choose to emphasize and their genre conventions and etc etc #it's FUN! and not to sound like a pretentious film bro dipshit but like why does it seem like this is a dying art these days #'s2 is boring' THEY. THEY ATE A PERSON. ARE WE WATCHING THE SAME THING

[destinyandcoins]

have we talked yet about the possibility that UFOs and every suspected bit of extraterrestrial evidence could actually be originating from the advanced civilizations living in the trenches of the ocean just as bemused and wondering as we are about the world beyond them and reaching out in exploration? because given the fuckoff incomprehensible expanse of ocean floor we've yet to actually study or even really guess at what specifically is down there, I think there's a real possibility there's a complex society of, idk, particularly clever sea slugs and other amalgamations of physical matter like hydrogen and thulium and other shit we've never considered as a viable fundamental building block of life. and the fucking whales are the only living creature with the kind of planet spanning range and intelligence to know there's two complex evolutions of sentient life existing on opposite spheres of reality from each other who would really benefit from learning about the other, but we're both too fucking stupid to understand how whales communicate

#Idk man the ocean fucks me up sometimes #And also I think we're missing entire realities out there just waiting to be discovered #Because we've got such a specific and artificially tunneled view of what we see as reality or as supporting of life #And like. Ghosts and aliens and shit are that seeping into our world. But we don't even have the tools to start understanding #Like we're looking for alien life but we're looking according to OUR understanding of how life works and how life could occur #But that's just based on our own little planet our own little corner of the known universe #And man. There is a whole fuckoff lot of everything else out there in the infinity of the universe and the existence of anything #And we are just not equipped to ever know or understand much of any of it. But god that doesn't stop us trying #Trying to understand and find some way to prove we're not alone or unique in the universe #We have this thing called life and we want to share it with someone something somewhere somewhen #''There's gotta be someone else out there in the universe because I want to experience it with them'' #Hm. Many thoughts #But also the Mariana trench is eating the pacific plate at a rate of 3 inches per year??? #That's what we're talking about when we say shifting tectonic plates and why islands are moving micro amounts year by year? #The Mariana (and many other) trench(es) are EATING OUR PLANET?? why. Why are we not talking about that more explicitly #I feel like that's a better use of our time than squabbling about what social media we should use now instead of twitter #(None. You should replace Twitter in your life with 2-5 hours per week #of contemplation of how our PLANET IS EATING ITSELF. AND BELCHING UP THE REFUSE IN THE FORM OF VOLCANOS AND MUD VENTS) #Breaking news: my new hobby is geology. Fucking WILD stuff going on over there #Geology tag

[antique-symbolism]

Does Griffin McElroy know what he did to my fashion vocabulary by giving me the phrase “rotisserie shithead”? lifechanging

#tbh it's mostly because said line inspired a large facebook group called 'i'm like a rotisserie shithead' #where people post weird fits #but like the group's unabashed love for and unconditional support for other people's fashion decisions #has changed me #quite often I've seen someone post something like 'not sure if this is Shithead but-' #and all the replies are inevitably 'it's Shithead if you want it to be!' #just this entire philosophy of being not only comfortable in your self expression #but also proud of how it makes you unique #and not letting anyone dictate your style and your decisions on how to label (or not label) it #that's the Rotisserie Shithead philosophy baby!!! #and it has changed my life #every time I get a new piece of clothing that makes my big heart burst with joy #I say That's Shithead Baby!!!!

[cutiepieautistic]

i love how you can read my url and be like okay,probably another "silly stereotypical tiktok quirky maniac pixie dream girl" autistic bitch. and then you read through my blog, and you're just like. oh, this bitch got AUTISM autism.

#text #i don't know how to explain what i mean. basically I'm not like how misinformed people think all autistics are. I'm genuinely disabled #it's not a cutesy personality trait. it's a neurodevelopmental disorder and you can tell TM when you observe me for long enough. #that's all i can say really #it's a complicated topic #i think people sort of...gentrified the autistic community and it's culture by totally misrepresenting what autism is and how it presents #we are not all the same. there is a spectrum of symptoms and ways those manifestat and how they interact with each other #some people can pass for allistic. others cannot #it's neither entirely negative nor positive. it just is. it's just a way of being #like they came into OUR SPACES and completely changed it into something trendy #so now we either are a trend demonized or infantilized. #neither of those things is what we need. i wish more people were educated better on what autism is #sorry I'm getting rambly again and depressing #now we've got corporate autism pandering but it's completely inappropriate and misleading #basically creating new stereotypes #we don't all have the same needs or wants. we are not a cookie cutter one size fits all #everyone is unique. every case is unique #actually i am explaining it but i don't know if this all...makes any sense at all #idk man. i just don't know #vent in tags #autismposting #also sorry for any typos once again. y'all know why i make those by now I'm sure lol

[little-klng]

Contradicting identities absolutely bangs btw. Sexual, romantic, and gender identities all bang in every combination even when they're contradicting. I think it's supremely cool when someone has a sexual and romantic identity that are opposites and a gender that doesn't match and then different pronouns on top of that. Shout out to conflicting queers and queers using their own slurs as identities

#you do not under any circumstances 'gotta hand it to queerphobes' for coming up with cool words to use as slurs #but god damn those slurs absolutely bang as a way to identify that isnt gonna get marketed at you #and a way to identify people who are *actually safe* to hang around with #because like it or not if you police the way other queer people identify because its not sanitized or comfy enough #youre doing the work of phobic losers for them in your own community #people that have contradictory identities are not going to police you and you should take being friends with them #as a very unique opportunity to be able to try new things out for your own identity #while you can be sure it will be respected and understood by someone who cares #squandering it and pushing them away because someone on the idiot who is a quarter step removed #from someone who watches god damn tucker carlson and steven crowder #is really only going to push you further into a little fence the right want you to be in where you can be easily identified #and squeezed for money and then sent for slaughter the second theyre done with you #and no #the queerphobes are not on your side. the second you discover something about yourself that they deem a little too weird #or the second they find out youre not exactly as pretty/handsome as they want. especially if youre not white. #theyll attack you too #and theyll be really vicious. because to them you were just some freak invading their space the entire time

[spiinsparks]

          ❝  ...  ❞

           ❝  att’a  girl!  no  lousy  lines’a   code  SHLOCK  is  gonna  change  the  fact  that  YOU  make  you!  ❞

@badnikbreaker​  / he loves (1) little A.I. sis

#⸨ * IC ⸩ — what you see is what you get. just a hedgehog that loves adventure . #⸨ * DASH COM. ⸩ — you’re too slow ! #badnikbreaker #badnikbreaker / sage #(smthn smthn getting to explore the endless possibilities is so exciting) #(smthn smthn watching this A.I. become their own person and evolve into something entirely new and unique is so !!!) #(HE LOVES THIS FOR HER)

[alternis]

the difference between ignoring canon in your fanworks and being canon compliant is the same as the difference between making something out of clay and making something out of lego

#taking something formless and malleable and turning it into something recognisable #vs using static and unchangeable parts and rearranging them to become something entirely new and unique #both have their own joy

[oflgtfol]

for the last time, the mcu had a strong start because it took enough from the comics to make a strramlined story, but without the wacky comic plots and convoluted storytelling. to read comics in depth you need LISTS and CITATIONS and it gets really really overwhelming trying to keep track of anything when you’re not used to it !! translating them into movies was supposed to streamline that experience into one cohesive narrative and THAT’s why it offered a unique take that made audiences engaged

recent mcu is NOT THAT!!! recent mcu IS all over the place, convoluted, and silly in a way that does not translate to the moviegoing experience well!! the mcu is not SUPPOSED to replicate the comic-reading experience so i have no IDEA why anyone would defend the mcu with “has anyone read the comics?!?!” because the mcu is not supposed to be like reading comics!!! that was the whole point !!!

if the mcu is trying to replicate the comics experience now …. Then why make movies at all. just read the comics in the first place then.

#brot posts #when translating one medium into an entirely different medium you’re supposed offer something new and unique #something unique to the new medium that warrants translating it at all #and translating comics into movies… is meant to streamline it!! thats whats unique about a series of movies #rather than decades of comics and hundreds of different runs all over the place #GOING TO THE MOVIES SHOULD NOT BE LIKE READING COMICS !!! #JUST READ COMICS THEN IF YOU WANT THAT EXPERIENCE REPLICATED !!! #because the comics do it infinitely better anyway !!!

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

Well someone she worked w could have leaked that taylor has a new album soon

Considering how meticulous Taylor is with the entire process of releasing music, I don’t think it is likely that she would work with anyone who would get in the way of that. With folklore, her label didn’t even know until a week before, which leads me to believe that she keeps things under very tight wraps until everything is done or very close to it. I don’t think a member of her staff would jeopardize their job to leak information and would even be close enough to know about what’s going on behind the scenes. The only people that would know about new music would be those directly involved with making it. I also don’t think another artist who understands the time it takes to make music and prepare for its release would do that. An “anonymous insider” is not a credible source taking in account the publication. The Sun is a tabloid, not a hard-hitting journalistic publication, they most likely put something together for the sake of clicks. Taylor has said that her main priority right now is releasing the re-recordings and that doing them takes up a lot in her creative bandwidth. The one to tell us about any new music would be Taylor herself, not an article from a tabloid.

#asks #anons #got something to say to you* #digital literacy 101 swiffers! is the publication know to be credible? can the source be pinpointed? #are there other articles about it using different sources? if it’s just a single anonymous source it’s most likely not true #most publications won’t publish an article relying solely on an anonymous source it needs to be corroborated #it just doesn’t feel likely considering how much effort she puts in to keeping things secret until she’s ready to announce #if someone did do that they would be burning a bridge for life #other musicians understand the entire process and level of secrecy involved and would hate for their stuff to be spoiled #love how they compared her to Joni as if that is a new or unique comparison #hopefully my tone didn’t come off as rude/mean anon just trying to explain why the article is bogus

[radio-4-is-static]

とても無防備に作った13曲💓

#holy shit. #HOLY SHIT !!!!!!! #trying to contain myself bc it's like 7:45 am but AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #WONDER BOY'S AKUMU CLUB #!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #an entire album !? #working on it for 2 years in between everything else?!?! #i swear his work ethic & creative drive & passion for music is literally unparalleled #it sounds like it's very personal which is always a bold move #something vulnerable about it but it opens up the door for so many new things ✨️ #i can't wait to hear how it differs from radwimps & illion & what makes it uniquely yojiro #<33333!!!!!!!!!!!

[fakecats]

i love you 2010s utaites

#listening to riot of color again #i love kradness bro #his voice is so unique i dont think ive ever kradnessposted but now i will #also i had no idea riot of color was like. a unit i thought it was just an album #something about utaites makes me want to explode its probably just the nostalgia but #thought i knew eves entire discography so ilove when i find new songs #ALSO I HAD NO IDEA THAT EVE MADE LIKE 3 LIGHT NOVELS???????????? I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY KARA NO KIOKU????????/ this is what happens when #you delete twitter so now you get no utaite or vkei news i feel like im living in a cave #laurence says things 🌌 #my post 🔮

[stjohnstarling]

Alright, so: I want to explain a little more about this connection between the Twilight fandom, Fifty Shades of Grey, and seemingly, the self-publishing industry as a whole. It's a lot, so I'm going to have to chip away at it a bit at a time, and I think the best place to start is by describing the scene in late 2000s Twilight fandom.

In 2009, Twilight was one of the biggest fandoms in the world, although it was nearly invisible to outsiders because it

Was about a straight couple, while most other fandoms were predominantly gay, and

Was conducted almost entirely on fanfiction.net among a group of people who had little other background in fandom. (x)

That meant for many Twilight fans, Twilight was fandom. It was all they knew, and many had no path out. That also made it a corked champagne bottle with the pressure building.

Because of these community dynamics and the declining quality of the Twilight books themselves, Twilight fanfiction evolved to be mostly AUs so alternate they were more-or-less original romance novels that used Bella and Edward as broad character templates. (x)

Seriously, Twilight fandom got really crazy big for a few years there. It was not totally uncommon to get multi-million clicks on a semi-popular story. It's weird looking back on it and calling it "Twilight fandom" because it was really more like "Romance Novel fandom". For real, for a period there, calling a Twilight fanfic author a 'Twilight fan' would be the ultimate insult. But they never stopped writing about Edward and Bella! It's so weird. (x)

If you were in 2000s era fandom, you're probably aware of the phenomenon of Big Name Fans and the various social-climbing dynamics that happened around them. The Twilight fandom took this social power game another level:

This wasn't even just an author thing. There were Big Name Authors (BNAs) but there were also Big Name Readers. These were basically like... full-time rabid fans of a BNA. They devoted so much of their time to helping out the BNAs, reviewing their chapters, making them fanart, promoting their fics, kissing their asses with cringe-worthy intensity, you name it. Which is why you saw what looked like BNAs having 'employees', such as Moi, tby789's Director of Marketing. (x)

It became apparent that these power games weren't just for fandom clout. The fandom was proving that that social power could be translated into real-world dollars. You see, the Twilight fandom used to organize charity auctions where big name authors would auction off custom fanfiction, and the money generated was substantial:

Mostly authors would auction off stories. So if you donated in my name, I'd write you 10,000 words of porn in my Tattward universe, or something new, etc. That's how it worked. The 2009 auction raised $80,000. The 2010 auction raised $140,000. The 2011 auction raised $20,00. [NOTE: this is likely a typo] (x)

A lot of these dynamics were not unique to the Twilight fandom, but it was the combination that created a perfect storm of opportunism. This would end up changing not just fandom dynamics but the publishing industry as a whole.

#original post #fifty shades liveblog #Working on the rest of this #Part one of not sure how many

[hystixia]

Hey doll it's 🍓 anon just wanted to say hi again bc I haven't talked in a while. Sorry for not sending in a lot of Jeff thirsts the brain just isn't cookin right now and honestly I've just been playing totk😭

HIIII BABY ! IT’S OKAY DW ABT IT ! ! i’m trying to get these reqs done and it’s proving to be a challenge when my personal life is busy but the reqs are really helping me get ideas flowing when im feeling like i have writersblock. i hope your ideas start flowing like you want them to soon ! ! also i feel dumb what is totk . . . i’ve seen that used before but i cant remember what it stands for LMFAO

#! doll takes notes ! #! patient 🍓 nonnie ! #something i’ve done when trying to think up a good and strong idea (mainly for rampage chapters) is i’ll listen to a song or songs tjat #that* #remind me of jeff or an entire scene. whether it makes sense or not doesnt matter but usually listening to music helps me #also thinking of old ideas and trying different approaches or trying to make it more detailed or maybe changing the pace of it can make #new ideas and different versions (or entirely unique ones) sprout from that one idea ! #this is just what works for me personally . . . oh also imagining jeff dialogue with no context and then adding context is good too !

[hartmannyoukaigirl]

some games are really way too confident with their multiple endings and close the game and restart/play from the beginning to get the true ending etc etc like lol no. bye. ur on ur own. maybe if you wrote better characters !

#undetale is literally the ONLY game to do this perfectly and its just. you cant replicate that #the thing is with ut there is a bazillion new things in every single pixel of the game in any run so it doesnt feel.... Boring. and tiresom #like games who's entire plot relies on this gimmick #ut was different bc it had characters plot and story Aside from its 4th wall breaking stuff and people forgot that and how its story was #what made the unique gameplay features hit so hard #so they try to make those same gameplay features but it falls flat. #when you create something for a gimmick it sucks it always does it will never work because ppl forget that good writing is actually Pretty #important #in story focused games #like wow who couldve thought