#style over 30

[artanissnow]

Style over 35 monochromatic holiday style

Holiday style doesn’t always have to be the traditional red and green. There Are so many other options in fashion (like this pink one)to achieve a holly jolly outfit. So, for today’s style over 35, monochromatic holiday style is on display! The dress here is a simple cute sweater dress from Shein and shoes too. The bag is an old Kate Spade and I realized I was not wearing ANY jewelry. Weird I…

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#casual outfits #comfy outfits #dopamine dressing #dress #holiday style #holidays outfits #monochrome outfits #outfit of the day #princess core #shein #style #style over 30 #style over 35

[anghraine]

Okay, breaking my principles hiatus again for another fanfic rant despite my profound frustration w/ Tumblr currently:

I have another post and conversation on DW about this, but while pretty much my entire dash has zero patience with the overtly contemptuous Hot Fanfic Takes, I do pretty often see takes on Fanfiction's Limitations As A Form that are phrased more gently and/or academically but which rely on the same assumptions and make the same mistakes.

IMO even the gentlest, and/or most earnest, and/or most eruditely theorized takes on fanfiction as a form still suffer from one basic problem: the formal argument does not work.

I have never once seen a take on fanfiction as a form that could provide a coherent formal definition of what fanfiction is and what it is not (formal as in "related to its form" not as in "proper" or "stuffy"). Every argument I have ever seen on the strengths/weaknesses of fanfiction as a form vs original fiction relies to some extent on this lack of clarity.

Hence the inevitable "what about Shakespeare/Ovid/Wide Sargasso Sea/modern takes on ancient religious narratives/retold fairy tales/adaptation/expanded universes/etc" responses. The assumptions and assertions about fanfiction as a form in these arguments pretty much always should apply to other things based on the defining formal qualities of fanfic in these arguments ("fanfiction is fundamentally X because it re-purposes pre-existing characters and stories rather than inventing new ones" "fanfiction is fundamentally Y because it's often serialized" etc).

Yet the framing of the argument virtually always makes it clear that the generalizations about fanfic are not being applied to Real Literature. Nor can this argument account for original fics produced within a fandom context such as AO3 that are basically indistinguishable from fanfic in every way apart from lacking a canon source.

At the end of the day, I do not think fanfic is "the way it is" because of any fundamental formal qualities—after all, it shares these qualities with vast swaths of other human literature and art over thousands of years that most people would never consider fanfic. My view is that an argument about fanfic based purely on form must also apply to "non-fanfic" works that share the formal qualities brought up in the argument (these arguments never actually apply their theories to anything other than fanfic, though).

Alternately, the formal argument could provide a definition of fanfic (a formal one, not one based on judgment of merit or morality) that excludes these other kinds of works and genres. In that case, the argument would actually apply only to fanfic (as defined). But I have never seen this happen, either.

So ultimately, I think the whole formal argument about fanfic is unsalvageably flawed in practice.

Realistically, fanfiction is not the way it is because of something fundamentally derived from writing characters/settings etc you didn't originate (or serialization as some new-fangled form, lmao). Fanfiction as a category is an intrinsically modern concept resulting largely from similarly modern concepts of intellectual property and auteurship (legally and culturally) that have been so extremely normalized in many English-language media spaces (at the least) that many people do not realize these concepts are context-dependent and not universal truths.

Fanfic does not look like it does (or exist as a discrete category at all) without specifically modern legal practices (and assumptions about law that may or may not be true, like with many authorial & corporate attempts to use the possibility of legal threats to dictate terms of engagement w/ media to fandom, the Marion Zimmer Bradley myth, etc).

Fanfic does not look like it does without the broader fandom cultures and trends around it. It does not look like it does without the massive popularity of various romance genres and some very popular SF/F. It does not look like it does without any number of other social and cultural forces that are also extremely modern in the grand scheme of things.

The formal argument is just so completely ahistorical and obliviously presentist in its assumptions about art and generally incoherent that, sure, it's nicer when people present it politely, but it's still wrong.

#this is probably my most pretentious fanfiction defense squad post but it's difficult to express in other terms #like. people talking about ao3 house style (not always by name but clearly referring to it) as a result of fanfic as a form #and not the social/cultural effect of ao3 as a fandom space #you don't get ao3 house style without ao3 itself and you don't get ao3 without strikethrough and livejournal etc #and you don't get those without authors and corporations trying to exercise control over fic based on law (often us law) & myths about law #and you don't get those without distinctly modern concepts of intellectual property and copyright #none of those things have fuck all to do with form! #anghraine rants #fanfiction #general fanwank #long post #thinking about this partly because the softer & gentler versions of fanfic discourse keep crossing my dash #and partly because i've written like 30 pages about a playwright i adore who was just not very good at 'original fiction' as we'd define it #both his major works are ... glorified rpf in our context but splendid tragedies in his #and the idea of categorizing /anything/ in that era by originality of conception rather than comedy/tragedy/etc would be buckwild #ivory tower blogging #anghraine's meta

[happyheidi]

(via)

#I’ve had this in my draft since last year so here u go little darling: #into the voirld u go #to be admired and … oh idk haha I just think it’s time for this old gal to take a leap and ‘go for it’ #dirty thirties pathetic after dark style #shout out to the fellow grandparents of tumblr - those over 30 - we deserve love and stupid tags like this too #(lol this must sound so weird for…. pretty much everyone. grandma out) #cottagecore #nature #naturecore #flowers #flowercore #water #watercore #wildflowers #rainbow #what’s at the end of the rainbow tho? #only wrong-but should be right-answers

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Is It Over Now? & lyric parallels

#The way this took me forever #i had to leave out 2 parallels because I had reached the 30 image limit #taylor swift #1989 taylor's version #1989 tv #1989 #is it over now? #is it over now parallels #question...? #say don't go #out of the woods #suburban legends #midnights #harry styles #haylor #taylorswift #taylor swift lyrics #tswiftlyrics #lyric edit #tswiftedit #lyrics #mine #my edit #ts #lyric parallels #taylor swift lyric parallels #1989 lyric parallels #parallels #ts lyrics #the eras tour

[thatgoddamngingerundercut]

I love the original mv for I need u cuz like it’s got everything. Substance abuse, self harm, suicidal ideation, depression, violence, domestic assault, arson, general mayhem, fucking murder, finding solace in friendship, the freedom of unsupervised youth, and homoerotic subtext all set to an early 2010s pop ballad about missing the girl they broke up with and being upset about it

#she speaks #it’s been very fun catching up on a decade of these boys’ shenanigans #and I really do enjoy their edgy ass early shit #what’s funny tho is I remember getting really into blackpink around this time #and like Gangnam style when it blew up here #like a couple years before #and being like well bts is popular let’s give them a shot #and really not liking their music at the time #funny how taste changes over time #because I really do unironically love this song #but man if you had told 21 year old me I’d have TWO bts blogs and a folder on every social media site I’m on dedicated to them #she would have laughed hysterically at even the mere suggestion 😂😂😂 #even 26 yo me woulda laughed #fucking hell even 30 yo me woulda fuckin laughed #anyway #it’s kinda fun posting stream of consciousness shit here lmfao #cuz I have like five followers and like two of them are my friends 😂😂😂

[sekwar]

I will no longer repress my interests

#sekwar's art #artists on tumblr #patapon #patapon oc #shiru #i drew this because of the realization that this year marks a decade of posting art online #from deviantart to tumblr and my failed attempts at newgrounds and instagram #10 years seems to be a theme for 2024 isn't it? #and on june 30 2024 that's the 10 year mark #now i'm not leaving on that day! i'll merely reflect on how far i've come #and if tumblr dies this year i have a backup plan thank god #anyway i think i'm at the point where i'm no longer afraid to post about patapon #i have a pretty tumultuous relationship with the fandom and the only way i could get over it is to just #make patapon art and post it on tumblr #so here we are #i had to scrap a few ocs of mine due to bad memories or because i just didn't like them anymore #now i have just ten left and we're building it up from there #if i get any more ideas that is... #also i'm trying a new art style! i never drew with coloured outlines before #so i'll mess around and see what sticks! #ok i'm going to bed

[jontaro-kun]

Bro hit em with the Akira slide

#art #digital art #sonic #sonic au #sonic frontiers #I was inspired by a post on twitter and I HAD to make it about Sonic I'm not sorry #it's actually wild how much my AU's style has developed over the years cause some of that old art is SCUFFED lemme tell ya #I have listened to the full mashup of I'm Here upwards of like 30 times now and I'm still not tired of it #Fun fact: I have not drawn a regular Sonic since high school #That's about it have a good one

[that-peach-anon]

aaauuurgh i am so normal about this character,,, anyway,,, saw this scene in a show and i could not stop myself from immediately making a shitpost 

#fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf sun #security breach daycare attendant #fnaf sun x y/n #proportions man aurgh i wanna bite them and shake them around like a dog with a chew toy #hhhhhhhh not sure about this sun design cause i used to have a cuter style of drawing him and yeahhhhhhh #the little hands yn has in the end are directly copied from how a trex stands but shhhhhhhhh #i spent 30 minutes crying over the sun plushie png being stretched out and idk what mental illness that is

[statementlou]

anon harrassment PSA- if you're being targeted by an unhinged Louis hater who keeps coming back despite being blocked, it may well be this person- here is her list of the blogs she has logins to and can therefore use to send hate, if you wanna block them

plus one more called beck-oliver. I'm not posting this to encourage harassing this person back!! only to spare people her hate. be better than her, just block and move on

#but if you want to laugh... yeah she was a Louis fan like last year #she's the 'your nasty fav....' anon #as megan said we're just respecting her own DNI which explicitly says she doesnt wanna talk to people over 30 or tinats! #just helping you out babe #cw anon hate #btw credit to homosociallyyours for the detective work here I just blocked one account and called it a day #but she did the DIGGING and got the goods! #also as long as yr blocking people lake-styles is actively sending hate currently #and blocking yessoupy desperatelarries and larriefails are always useful

[artanissnow]

style over 35 Styling plaid and corsets.

Ok I know this is not a corset, I know they are stays. But, calling them a corset is easier for others to kind of get what I am referring to when it comes to my top. I made this pair of stays. Originally it was a top no boning, no structure. I added boning and felts inside to make it very sturdy. It does only lace in the the back so to show off the front design. Of the Unicorn, a Unicorn in…

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#comfy outfits #dopamine dressing #dress #historical style #holiday outfit ideas #medieval art #outfit of the day #plaid #princess core #Selkie inspired #shein #style over 30 #style over 35 #Tudor jewelry

[creativesplat]

Inspired by @zephrunsimperium 's Henchmaniac Ford idea! He's got the gold nail guards and black and gold eyeliner!

#stan is right tho #he does look like an over baked 80s rockstar with a midlife crisis #lets be honest ford would go for a poor taste style villain costume which was far too much and a bit ugly #he's not good at fashion and in being a weirdmageddon henchmaniac he would totally lean into that! #evil ford au #bord #bill cypher #ford pines #stanford pines #stan pines #dipper pines #also the nail guards was such a good idea #I don't know how into them ford would be from an aesthetic point but he would love the stabbie stabbie capability #ok but the stabbie nail guards vs the knuckle dusters and stan using them defensively and ford being attack-y is giving me feelings #stan doesn't want to believe his brother is evil #bill has twisted fords mind into thinking his brother is the cause of like all bad stuff and not just an accident like 30 years ago #and him trying to eliminate every one of the opponents of bill (ice/ Wendy . the tent'o'telepathy star/Gidion etc) #and the story is effectively he comes to the mystery shack after siding with bill and pretends to be a good bro who loves everyone and then #he turns evil #but he still has the family feels for his fam #ok so thank you for suggesting this whole thing because I am obsessed #anyway #tis time for me to stop rambling #gravity falls au #Creativesplat draws

[localvoidcat]

been postponing a new pfp for them but the last one looked too human. so here we go <3

old one under cut for reference

#tmcblr #sam draws #got my drawing program back it was time. and also the wings n stuff #lets see. noticeable changes areeee #bird features . those r obvious #uhhhh. i've started remembering to draw the burns from system #face healed enough for facial hair to start growing there #hair graying. old man-ification (hes barely in their 30s they do not count as an old man in the SLIGHTEST) #hair got longer. uhhhhh #cross necklace. to ward off the ghouls and the demons and the literal satan #added more texture to the face #and uh . overall style just got better. the last one was drawn on an ipad with my finger on a website drawing program come on #ok tag rants over. my silly

[bam-monsterhospital]

on the one hand, eso is allergic to pretty young men npcs and its engine affords absolutely ZERO aesthetic favours towards mans... which is why bastian looks wayyyyy older than 27 and craggy as hell visually.

on the other hand, his character is great and griffin puatu's performance is so goddamn wonderful and endearing that it overlays and makes up for any lacking visuals on the game's part...

all this to say, i treat drawing bastian a little like how all those oblivion fan artists approached interpreting lucien lachance back in the day.

not quite to that extent, but like, same energy.

#he deserves to be less haggard #i still try to be as accurate as possible #y'know while obvs translating to whatever the frickafrack my style is at the moment #this is just an overcomplicated post to say i always have trouble drawing him and am never satisfied #how does one even do it #gah #bastian hallix #first time i did blackwood and heard him i was like 'wow that's young for what im looking at but okay' #but y'know griffin sells it #and then you hear bastian's backstory and you're like WAIT you're not even 30 yet? OH GOD #eso's character modelling fucked you over big time huh #blackwood has a lot of problems with that honestly #but that's a diff post #artists thirsting over potato lucien are valid #transforming oblivion potato face into something beautiful is amazing and valid #especially when you can actually tell at a glance who you're looking at #look i love oblivion but jdfksal;fdjskla; #ramblings #art talk #eso

[chronic-lesbian]

Disco Elysium being out of stock in both video game shops here literally ruined my day what the fuck am I supposed to do now

#to thine own self be true.txt #someone please recommend a mystery/detective style game that has a playtime over 30 hours PLEASE

[fsheryy]

god someone save me pls I can't keep going on like this... ronin ninjago planted something into my brain and I can't get it OUT !!!

#its only been a little over a week and my style is so inconsistent wtf #also the fact over 30% of these have cat and fox ears i need help

[svampira]

normally im not really envious or affected by artists who are younger than me being better at art but i just realised one of my favourite artists on tiktok is 2005.... im gonna jump off the balcony

#its only 2 years but thats my sisters age😭 i cant dp this anymore goodbye #watch me study their art for months the moment af is over i will not stand for this where is my anatomy book #and you know sometimes with younger artists its a matter of talent and cool styles and creativity #but you can still notice some skills theyre still lacking be it their anatomy or being a little monotonous with their subjects #but this guy draws like a pro in their 30s how the fuck do i get there😑