#sorry for maintagging i just don't know what else i can do than try to politely ask

[etoilesbienne]

My plea to the rest of the qsmp tumblr fandom: Please stop making every piece of content relate back to the first purgatory.

I don't want to be a person who shows up and rains on parades to ruin fun for people, but I think there's a sizeable amount of this community that doesn't really realize how much the first purgatory has affected every less popular character's fanwork. Especially on tumblr, where English is the lingua franca and almost everyone communicates in it. You have to understand most characters on qsmp were not exactly the same characterization wise on quesadilla island than they were on purgatory. Not that they aren't the same characters, it's just people seem to be prioritizing only those purgatory characterizations over every other moment on the server, while also not looking and trying to understand these characters outside of purgatory at all.

Purgatory 2 got hit with it too, like I don't think I saw a single team in P2 that didn't get extensive comparisons to any of the P1 teams. Like I get it, media parallels, that's cool! It's just tiring when you look at any character's tag or a P2 team's tag that is less popular in the English fandom and 95% of it is just to do with purgatory one, or wanting them to do something from purgatory one, or saying how they should join a purgatory one team. I can't wait until we can move on to a new arc in the server that involves all the characters, but until then, please be aware that almost all of the non-English characters have been almost, like, mostly only receiving content about purgatory one still. It's a disservice to the characters and the CC behind them, they become side characters to streamers who are more popular in English fandom.

I don't think anyone's, like, a bad person for liking purgatory or enjoying purgatory content, nor is any one team worse than the other or deserves any hate, just understand it's a struggle for anyone who likes these less popular characters to find non-purgatory one based content. Let these characters be their own individuals instead of extensions of other characters. :(

#sorry for maintagging i just don't know what else i can do than try to politely ask #if you don't make purgatory based content this doesn't apply to you dw #qsmp #qsmp purgatory #qsmp purgatory 2 #qpurgatory #qpurgatory 2 #discourse #neg #fandom neg #fandom negativity #posts from the aether

[moved-19871997]

you don't have to respond but seriously thank you for making that post about no one being owed anything, especially in a fandom space where the foundation is voluntary work. everyone in fandom occupies the role that they do voluntarily and that applies to reblogging art and interacting with newcomers as well. it may sound very harsh but no one is obligated to like and reblog every art work they see and sometimes people are busy with something else and miss art when it's posted, there's a thousand different variables that determine if something gains traction. and i say all this as a lurker dteam blog and having been a creator and friends with other creators in previous fandoms for more than a decade. yes a reformulated tagging system to separate art and distinguish it from hate and crit posts will help if newcomers can be directed to it but the way tumblr works, there's no way to keep neg out of tags, which usually happens when a tag becomes popular because antis will take any opportunity to attack dteam and that's just what we're dealing with. but at the end of the day, there's no point in trying to direct blame at perceived bigger blogs. the most people can do is continue to create, take opportunities to promote yourself (including using all available tags because i know people who go looking for art) and interact with others as much as possible. also sorry this turned into a messy rant type thing but yeah

yes w your first point !! and w the reformulated tagging system i think its mostly just a way to mitigate the hate and spam jn maintags and make it easier to find art, unfortunately people might be a dick in there but way less in main tags and yeah ^_^

#i agree w a lot of this #[redacted] tumblr user #asks #long post