#the joys of being in a dead fandom lmao

[biblionerd07]

Me: Yes, I’m writing for myself! No validation necessary!

Me when I get not even one comment:

#writing #fandom #fanfic #the joys of being in a dead fandom lmao #this has never happened to me before #like I’ve been in small fandoms before but this is next level #in all the small fandoms I’ve been in people go out of their way to comment extra bc we all know there aren’t a lot of us #turns out a bitch would like some validation

[hotpinkboots]

I am back with more Corpse Bride Emily, and today, I would like to ask for gn!darling comforting and reassuring Emily? Giving her affection, praising her, telling her generally sweet things, saying how they'll stay together forever, etc. Super teeth rotting fluff with how Emily would react to it and all

Take care, take your time, and keep up the fabulous work! Make sure to stay healthy! ♡

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~𝓔𝓶𝓲𝓵𝔂 x GN!Reader Fluff Headcanons~

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Does anybody truly understand the pure joy I get when somebody requests with Emily? DOES ANYBODY TRULY UNDERSTAND

I completely went off on this and just typed all the fluff I could think of

Summary: Just Emily and the reader being the sweetest couple to ever exist 🥺

Warning(s): None, just some dead people lmao

~Enjoy~

★★★★

𝓔𝓶𝓲𝓵𝔂

★★★★

~Having such a sweet lover makes her heart feel like it's beating again, and her cold dead skin practically feels warm with life.

~Emily simply adores how you dote on her.

~She'll giggle and playfully make an "oh, stop" motion in response.

~Or, she'll bat her lovely lashes and look down, bashfully avoiding eye contact, while her hand comes to rest against her décolletage. If her heart could still beat, it would have been thumping rather hard against her chest.

~Emily has every single bit of trust in you.

~Occasionally, Maggot will get in her head (literally) about something, if you've done even the tiniest thing such as leaving her early for personal matters you must attend to. Poor Emily is encouraged by Maggot to follow you to make sure you aren't out cheating.

~He's actually rather protective of Emily, believe it or not, he gets feisty and fired up for her like he's going to fight somebody.

~So, it's most definitely not that he's purposely trying to make her second guess herself about you, but he just wishes her the best. His mildly sarcastic humor isn't supposed to be cruel towards her, but he has to be there to knock some sense into her if needed, for she can be a bit too naive.

~Once Maggot believes that you're just as sweet as you act, he accepts that and stops trying to make comments about you (unless he gets bored, which then he sometimes may make a few snotty jokes).

~Emily always returns your affections.

~If she ever feels a bit self conscious about herself, you listen to her, then reassure her of her beauty. Not only is she pretty on the outside, she's pretty on the inside.

~She has such a sweet and gentle soul, your words of commitment and adoration never fail to make her melt.

~She very much enjoys holding your hand while you're out together. Gives your hand a little squeeze now and then. Emily likes feeling your hand in hers, and she sometimes rubs little circles into your hand with her thumb.

~If you let go of her hand before she's ready, her hand might literally pop off and keep hold of yours.

~She felt a bit embarrassed about it for a moment until she realized that you had found it to be cute.

~Everybody in The Land Of The Dead seems to know you two, and they often comment on what a sweet couple you and Emily are.

~You'll hear a lot of aww-ing, and people love watching you and Emily dance together at the jazz bar.

~Emily takes every sweet thing you say to heart. She remembers just about every compliment you've given her, every sweet look from across the room.

~She loves it when you refer to her as your wife rather than just calling her by name.

~In return, she refers to you in conversation as her lover or partner.

~Occasionally flaunts her wedding ring by talking with her hands more than needed.

~10/10 best wife ever

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[1schadenfreude1]

Rewriting Cain Boyfriend to Death 2 Love how the BTD fandom just collectively agreed to adopt EP's characters as our own I am absolutely tormented by the fact that Cain had so much potential but just. does not have the best writing ugh he's too similar to Rire and it kills me SO I am rewriting the fallen angel, lots of headcanons below the cut

Cain's number one motivation for why he does what he does is BOREDOM He's been torturing people in hell for centuries and it's become BORING. He wants something new, something interesting. He wants to see live humans and savor their emotions. Cain misses being human He'd never admit it out loud of course, but he does miss having real human emotions and enjoying human pleasures. Of course he can't be on earth too long while angels are hunting him, but maybe, spending time with humans will help him regain some of that human feeling?

Cain is chaotic evil incarnate LISTEN everyone in btd2 is a silly dork and Cain should be one too. He should have the most unpredictable and immature chaotic energy. Do you trust this face??? You shouldn't

I think he just. does shit without thinking. Like he's been away from real humans for so long that he's sort of forgotten how fragile they can be.

"Oh c'mon little toy you can handle a little boiling water, right? Hello? Human? Fuck. Guess I need a new one." Yeah he's incredibly overpowered but that doesn't mean he knows how to USE that power lmao. He doesn't know how to interact with people anymore. he wants to be human again, but all he really knows how to do is…torture people. he's so dumb.

Straight up contradicting canon here but-- Cain feels bad for killing Abel Asking about Abel makes Cain get SUPER uncomfortable and shut down. He doesn't wanna talk about it. He definitely doesn't feel remorse about it. Nope. No remorse here. Abel is DEAD and GONE and good riddance and he DEFINITELY doesn't have lingering issues about it. Fuck you. Rips you apart with chains.

He loves bullying Damien though They have each other's phone numbers for god's sake. Cain sends Damien gore porn of the people he's killed. Those two try to kill each other on a weekly basis. It's normal for them. Yes that is Damien's severed arm on the living room wall. It brings Cain joy. Don't worry about it. Totally normal thing to say to your sibling

Cain and Rire are rivals I think this is basically canon (based on Darqx's gorgeous art and animatics) but I wanna delve into it a bit! They're both incredibly powerful supernatural monsters, but their main difference comes down to this: Rire is lawful evil Cain is chaotic evil Cain kills people for purely selfish reasons: he wants to see human reactions and feel their emotions again. He thinks that causing pain will help him feel human. Rire kills people because its his job to collect souls. He loves his job and has a lot of fun with it, but in the end its still his job.

Cain is much, much older but Rire is way more mature

Cain is more powerful, but can't do much when he's stuck in Tartarus Rire is less powerful but has much more freedom of movement

Cain likes to play the long game, seducing victims with romance before going sadistic on them Rire is a busy demon; he likes to have fun but needs that soul sooner rather than later

Cain plans long elaborate dates because he's bored and reads too many romance novels Rire's plans are short and brutal, he does what he wants and that's it

Cain loves humans and wants to savor their reactions and emotions Rire hates humans and treats them like disposable toys

Cain is more interested in pain than sex, he won't rape a victim unless he really likes them Rire likes sex lmao. its a power rush for him and it feels good I hope my ramblings make sense lol

#boyfriend to death #boyfriendtodeath #btd cain #cain zeitgeist #character analysis #btd rire #lucien rire #headcanons #btd headcanons

[bookinit02]

HI HELLO GOOD EVENING

I'm dead tired bc I got barely any sleep last night + braindead because I've spent the past several hours binging through your Stranger Things Byler retelling and I'm a bit out of words, HOWEVER. It finally clicked in my head that you have a tumblr and I, also having a tumblr, can use said tumblr to throw my appreciation upon you in a more direct manner.

On that note... the retelling is AMAZING and I love it so very very much!!! (I've also been leaving a whole stream of comments on the fic itself, so a lot of my feelings have already been described in detail there XD). It makes me feel so very many emotions, both good AND bad, and for a fic to trigger THAT MUCH of an emotional reaction in me is really an achievement. It's so beautifully sad and tender and joyous and realistic, and all the more painful for it—and all the more beautiful IN that pain. I haven't actually been a big active part of the Stranger Things Fandom (TM) for several years, but I still often return to Byler fics, sort of like a comfort blanket in story form—and yours are some of the BEST (I think it was also you that wrote one of my favorite ever painting scene fix-its; I'll have to go back and re-read that as well!!)

I started reading season 4 last night (which is in part to blame for my lack of sleep) and finished up the rest of it today. I'm so extremely excited for season 5 and to see what you've done with it—I already started reading the script for episode one and it looks amazing (god, I bet that Mike having a panic attack/Vecna episode hurts WAY more in prose)!!! I can't decide between reading all the script first, then reading the fic; or reading the script episodes and then reading the according fic chapters; or just barreling on ahead in the fic and coming back to the script if it strikes my fancy later (which is, if I'm being honest, the most likely outcome). All will have to wait til tomorrow, however, as I have dinner and a warm bed to get to. All the love to you and your fic!!

(Love how I said "I'm so braindead I've run out of words" and then proceeded to give evidence to the EXACT OPPOSITE claim. I'm really a bit like Mike lmao, even if I'm struggling to actually describe my specific emotions or feelings about something, I can run my mouth about any old thing for ages XD)

hi hello good morning!!! i have been watching ur comments come in with so much joy and happiness—hopefully i get time to respond to all of them within the next few days! i hope that you have gotten so much rest and that you are all refreshed for the next day🫂💗

thank you so much for all your kind words, in this ask and otherwise! the rewrite is really a labor of love that has been sustaining me for over a year now, and it is always so impressive and awe-worthy to me when new people discover it and start from the very beginning. that is SO much to read!! several novels worth!

as for the script, read it in whatever order you would like! my recommended order was originally to read the script first, then the fic chapters—but i know that some people want to experience the plot twists and developments as they happen, so really any way you decide to read it is completely fine! the byler scenes are all the same (with a bit extra in the fic), it’s really just the other characters and plot lines that are expanded.

thank you for “running your mouth,” as you’ve called it—but i prefer to think that we’re just chatting🥳 i really love interacting with people through both comments and asks, so feel free to do both (and to talk as long as you’d like)! i am super grateful and honored that you’ve chosen to read my story, and i hope that you enjoy what i have so far of season 5!!💗🫂

#asks #this is so nice🥹 #thank youuuuuuuuu #rewrite

[optiwashere]

I saw some discussion about Shadowheart's path, if Tav/Your character is dead when she confronts the Nightsong she will kill her 100% of the time. Saying that this is her "true" path and what she wants, how she only stops due to your presence. The DJ end is her "best" end due to her being confident and fulfilled, how she is actual quite an evil character due to torture etc. How it fits the lore better

All I can politely say is that I'm glad I isolate myself from most fandom spaces for this game, because this is a doozy.

She has to be memory wiped so many times because of how often she drifts back to questioning Sharran teachings and just being Very Bad at it. So I don't really buy "100%" of the time, but that's also because I personally believe nobody has absolute certainty in their morals and faith that certain situations wouldn't test.

There's kind of a whole section about that in the Shadowfell.

I don't even want to touch the Tav/PC comment. That's a barrel of worms that isn't worth opening.

For some folks, I think they just want something against the grain or not "typical" and so they naturally gravitate towards things like the Dark Justiciar ending. It's a different kind of wish fulfillment fantasy for them.

"I can make her worse" and all that. I don't think the reason people like that ending is because it's good for her lmao.

Long ramble while I'm on break ahead.

That said, a lot of people need to relearn critical thinking and practice emotional skills. Or they need to watch the full story side-by-side on both paths, because some of this shit is so blatant it's fascinating how some folks miss it.

I think assuming the A -> B -> C of "oh, she's a Sharran so she would strive to become a Dark Justiciar, there is no alternative character explanation for/against that" is a simple-minded approach.

It also, in my opinion, restricts people into very fundamentalist-adjacent viewpoints and thoughts. If someone was made to believe without a shadow of a doubt that they were born X way, or behaved Y way for Z years, then they must be that person forever and always. No, it doesn't work like that lol.

There's also no true path in this game until/if there's a sequel, because there's too many paths the characters can take. I use a lot of "I" statements and say "this is a theory/extratextual" in my opinions for that reason.

Aside #1: It's also why I take a lot of umbrage with anyone that says there's canon ships, or that there's ships that "obviously would happen." Maybe? Maybe not? It's just silly and far too self-restricting for no good reason. I get if you just want to ship one thing, but you don't have to justify it lol. Enjoy what you enjoy, but don't try to strongarm it into "canon" that doesn't really exist.

And saying it's "what she wants" and that she is confident and fulfilled is a load of shit lmao.

You (the royal you, not you, anon) have to have negative reading comprehension to put Shadowheart down that path and be like, "yeah, she loves this." It's so typical of an abuse victim to try and appease her abuser, and the Dark Justiciar route is her indulging in that. But to hear her lines in the romance afterwards, about how she can't really love the PC, combined with how she has to deal with her parents and how she retreats from being open about herself to being cold and distant once more...?

To say it's "right" for her is absolutely wild, and I despise the thought that there can't be happy endings or we can't want her to have a happy ending. I love fucked up stories with miserable endings, but I also love warm stories with joy and love and redemption at the end of it all.

It's also a massively surface-level read to say it's anything she wants. Sometimes people push themselves down paths they don't know how to retreat from, and the ends are often horrifying.

Aside #2: It's the same as if you cheat on her with Mizora. Like, she might be OK with relationships that are non-monogamous (if the player is) but the way the VA and writing and mocap combined in that scene make it painfully obvious that she is just trying to appease you to keep the relationship intact. Supremely typical abused person behavior, but now the PC is the abuser instead. Seeing people comment that she's OK with the Mizora situation is head-on-backwards level misreading.

She has done evil deeds in her past, sure. I think if you blanket claim she cannot be redeemed, you're going into some wild territory at the logical conclusion of that one. Her circumstances also alter how we interpret her past as well, and I think it intersects with my belief that compassion is a learned skill that not everyone cultivates.

Not to mention that everyone in the BG3 cast can be turned "evil" or at least made to do dark shit. "One True Way" types will never understand that there is a multitude of experiences, and it translates to this game as well.

And finally.

The lore?

Lol. Lmao even.

We know who the "real" Shadowheart is, but in some universes she destroys that person in order to foolishly seek approval from her abuser/goddess. In others, in mine for example, she abandons that goddess to embrace the person she's been forced to hide.

So yeah, my ultimate response to "Dark Justiciar Shadowheart is the real Shadowheart" is a big, wet fart noise.

#hey you can ask me things! #now this ALL assumes that there isn't missing context from this anon #i'd also advise against going into conversations that you know will upset you unless you really want to analyze a counterargument #not worth the headache imo #re: Mizora I admit that I don't know if you can discuss it with SH beforehand #but none of my characters are interested in that type of relationship anyways so I never even touched those dialogues #plus how can I do that to Wyll???

[oatflatwhite]

Dear Vera, just a random question pls don’t take it as judging or anything I’m genuinely very curious but do you consider hbo war fanfics as normal show fanfics or as rpf? I’m new to the fandom and such and I’m just a bit curious

Hey anon!!!!!!! First of all welcome to the fandom and thank u so much for starting this ask the way u did it made my heart leap with joy 🩷

It's a good question lol. Personally i see it as fanfic for the show but i understand the rpf elements. I mean when i write for hbo war i research the shit out of the real dudes to add context and ~flavour~ to the tv show characters. So it's a fine line. But the way i always delineate it in my head is that i'm writing about damian lewis as dick winters, or callum turner as john egan. Not winters or egan themselves. If that makes sense!

Tbh i am also a bit scarred by the very first band of bros fic i posted in 2015 lmao. I crossposted it on ao3 and my old ff.net account and received a ton of vitriol on ff.net for disrespecting the vets lol. Pretty sure that's exactly when i made the full switch to ao3. I didn't agree with what they said but it still made me feel shit and has stuck with me which is why i guess i find it so important to put a disclaimer at the start of all my hbo war fics just so i can cover my ass from people being. Well. Assholes.

(And honestly if people do see it as rpf good for them. Everyone involved is dead, all respect in the world to them but. The fic isn't hurting them.)

#anon #answered #hbo war

[silverloke]

*sobs* no but listen

1k notes is what gifmakers used to get as a standard minimum for an average gif post in a fandom of this size 😭 i mean, yeah i'm thrilled af to even have stuff reblogged anymore but it feels like a struggle, especially when seeing superfantastic gifsets by other more talented people struggling just as bad to get 1k notes

but the worst thing for me is the massive drop that's gonna follow 😂 lmao it really sucks the life out of you. which would make you post more gifs to get another high (quite literally on this little chart here) but considering that reblogging is so low compared to just liking you now have to put out things constantly instead of letting a post ride the waves instead of counting on being the first one make a certain gif and who even has the energy to do that when you also see a gorgeous gifset by a popular blog barely has 500 notes after 12+ hours after a show is out.

(fffff i still remember when my activity notes dropped to below a thousand every few day, it was like i felt actual agony lol)

anyways i miss old tumblr where everyone would reblog everything all the time 😂 add actual comments of their thoughts (not hide them in tags) which others would engage in and add to and sometimes improve the actual post itself with a better reply. i miss the thrill of seeing the note mountainpeaks instead of it making me feel drained. gifmaking is such a joy in itself and not available on other sites so i hate that it feels like this now 😂😂😂😅

but yeah, to everyone who has liked and/or reblogged any of my gifs, you rock!!! 👍 this is just me wishing tumblr 2023 gave me the same adrenaline rush as it did in 2012, 2017....

(also, that note activity is from my gif sideblog so yeah it's all dead because i haven't posting anything there for quite some time obviously lol)

#tumblr #random

[prismatoxic]

U don't need to respond to this bc I don't want to be the pebble to avalanche that starts this discussion but why are there so many fancops in the MGS fandom of all things, I feel like I'm always seeing truly deranged takes about fanworks

my overwhelming anxiety every time i get an unexpected message is going to give me a heart attack someday. this is not your fault and i welcome messages (please send me messages) but jesus christ the fancop trauma is REAL

a n y w a y

tbh i got an ask a while ago about how the mgs fandom is pretty chill, and in general it's an assessment i agree with! the anti population here isn't as bad as i've seen in my other fandoms (glances at persona)

like, believe me, i get it. why the fuck are they here. we got incest, we got underage, we got age gaps, we got sexual assault, we have Disrespecting Women Juice,

but antis will genuinely make a home for themselves wherever they please and figure out how to justify it afterwards. which is, imo, one of their worst features. they will bend over backwards until their backs break trying to justify why it's fine if they do it, actually.

and it's always worse in friends-to-lovers ships, or ships that can otherwise be read as "vanilla" or "tame". otasune, for example, is mild in concept, the sort of baby's-first-ship anyone can jump into the series with and go "oh, yeah, i can see it". i love otasune, it is my current hyperfocus ship and mgs otp, but regrettably it attracts the bastards on account of being easy to spin as "unproblematic."

as always, the best thing you can do is just block them and keep doing what you like. i've seen people swing really hard the opposite way and make their otps dead dove all the time forever, which is fine obviously, but it does ring a little hollow when it's just done in retaliation.

personally i like things both ways. i love fucked up otasune aus and cutesy fluffy vanilla bullshit. but, i mean, at the end of the day, you just gotta do whatever sparks joy and block the haters on sight, lmao.

sorry for the long answer, i guess i care about this!

#tox answers #xkit remember my ask tag challenge

[transfemmbeatrice]

Hunter x Hunter for the fandom ask meme

i’m not all the way through yet so i’m just basing this on being partway through the ants arc! also i’m on my phone so formatting is probably fucked

the first character i ever fell in love with: gon i think? extremely earnest protagonist isn’t usually my type but character who is oblivious and doesn’t get fucked over by it bc of how powerful they are is my favorite and he did that a lot in the beginning. also foiling bad guys by being too nice.

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not: the closest i can think of is hisoka? i still love him but he’s. i would really prefer if he didn’t get horny about children but sometimes anime is just like that

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not: i can’t think of anything? i am only ever adding more ships to my collection

my ultimate favorite character™: killua of course because i’m predictable. he’s sad!! and he’s learning that the world can have joy and love!!!

• prettiest character: there are so many banger character designs in this show is the thing. the first to mind was kurapika but there’s also chrollo and kastro. and of course hisoka.

• my most hated character: killua’s brother who is a fatphobic joke about being mean and eating food. my love to hate is definitely illumi.

my OTP: just the obvious gon and killua, and leorio and kurapika. i refuse to choose one over the other.

my NOTP: uh. hisoka/most people?? besides illumi i just don’t want to inflict that creep on anyone.

favorite episode: this is hard because i’ve been bingeing it so it all just runs together but the little mini arc at zoldyck mansion was incredible. i love canary and seeing killua’s family and how fucked up it all is

saddest death: i know he’s not 100% dead but kite was devastating

favorite season: greed island ig? i didn’t like it at first but ended up loving it. especially dodgeball.

least favorite season: heaven’s arena arc. i still liked it but it felt a little slow and the stakes weren’t super interesting to me.

character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate: i don’t really know the fandom takes but it doesn’t feel like i hate anyone controversial?

my 'you're piece of trash, but you're still a fave' fave: hisoka. hate that guy <3

my 'beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this' fave: i was going to say gon but he loves it actually so kurapika. he definitely deserves better, rooting for you king

my this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it' ship: i hate the like. wording and tone of this but after the last media club plus episode it’s tonpa/leorio lmao they deserve each other

my 'they're kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i'm not too invested' ship: kurapika and melody. i think i mostly love them as friends but korapika deserves a polycule tbh

#asked and answered #hunter x hunter #strangeite

[barnbridges]

Just here to say that I've been scrolling your blog and reading your tsh takes and analysis and they are so interesting and pleasing. In the fandom I feel like people usually like the same characters and mostly talk about them solely. So it's nice to see Marion analysis! And Bunny and his relationship with her

Also thank you for being brave and talking about submissive meow meow bunny because everyone is just here to say 'hes homophobic I guess he deserved it.' like NOoo you guys don't get it!

And do you want to talk about any of your drafts? Because I've been writing a dumbass Wattpad level of quality fic of Henry and bunny and it brings me so much joy lmao

first of all thank you so much for this ask <3 it really made me happy to read it ghjk

i'm just a humble little girlie, I write about whoever I think about at the moment. It just so happens I tend to talk about Mom and Dad because they are funny to think about, and not as intertextual or high-brow to imagine versus other relationships in this emotional rollercoaster of a book.

He deserves everything that happened to him, because he is breedable, weird and offputting, and personally? He should rot. But he's also my son and my father so... make of that what you will. He's a creature <3

GHJK please do write! One of my favorite things to do in this little rotten corner of the interwebs is look up ancient works and gawk. For my own silly reasons, I have decided to contribute by virtue of the little "girl who looks and feels like old dead people" drabble and what I'm working on is the prequel-sequel to it, mood spoiler, it's just rot rot rot roT.

Here's a fun excerpt under the cut, mood spoiler.

The Buddy Holly 8 track he got his brother rested boastful under the crapton of comics Ted somehow thought they’d read. He got it off Sean for a pack of cigarettes he picked from Lisa when she was there, all beige suits and trying to nod to everything Mom was saying.  Back then they placed their bets, if she’d kill Teddy or get knocked up first, because no way he took her any other way. But she was nice and all, even in the summer kept her bob sharp and lips in a dainty smile. Funny thing was, she did both just fine it seems. ‘98. It was sad and all, like their Uncle down in Springfield, but they left the kid to find them. In bed and all, romantic almost. Lisa’s last pack of ciggies resting careful atop the dresser. But it was still Pall Malls. Who even smokes that trash? Neither he nor Bunny smoked much, but knew to appreciate a good ciggie when presented with it.  Ted and Lisa were under the ground by their own making for years, but a part still yearns for the stench of every car they ever owned, the way even the kid John smelled of it. For all of his father, Jack Corcoran felt sticky, even a bundle boy carried half-conscious across the parking lot at the burger place, he bore some of that maternal ugliness. It comes with having a mother at all, he muses. He’s rather think about anything, than the dopey grin that was half puked up birthday cake that Bunny had for him that birthday. It still feels etched into his soul, that this was it, where it all went wrong. 

#coughs thank you for checking in im gaying over here

[daenerys-targaryen]

How do you keep going in this fandom? Dany literally kept me alive and I will always be grateful to her for that but her antis drain the joy out of every single fun part of fandom. You can curate your space as meticulously as you like but the freaks will still screenshot your posts to dunk on you or send your stuff to other people's asks just to stir some drama up. How do you do it?

short answer: 1. because I will always have nothing but pure love and adoration for her in my heart and no one will ever take that away and 2. spite :)

long answer: under the cut

I'm sooo sorry you were going through such a hard time but I'm so so glad that she was able to do that for you. I love hearing how much dany means to us fans especially when it's being told to me so thank you for sharing that and I relate. As for the answer to your question, in my opinion I left the fandom for a long long time after the show ended just because it it was truly horrible here after about a year. I left my got blog, I unfollowed and left source blogs, I blacklisted the tags like I did not want to see anything about it anywhere and we couldn't even talk about it in my house for like a year LMAO and not just from me and it did take me a wwwhhiiilleee to really even follow some of my mutuals back you know and honestly it was just this past summer I truly got back into the fandom and started re reading the books again actively posting content about it albeit mostly on twitter though (i know 😭🤡) and that's because there are so. many. dany stans over there! it's so cool! i mean literally like countless endless amounts I hadn't been on asoiaf twitter ever really so I just didn't KNOW it was so large but I don't even know how I found them but I managed to find some old mutuals from when they were on here and then found more and more and over here? on this website? it's my opinion that this websites opinion in terms of book dany are what we used to think of reddit was years ago. actually TODAY I saw a pro dany post on reddit and I was like ?!?! pleasantly shocked ! I was like omg nature is healing. but anyways. over here? I go through my archive and I see so many of my old dany mutuals either just inactive or deactivated our people on here are GONE :( for me I guess I'll never not be in the fandom because I won't ever stop loving her and posting about her you know? there are some things in this world that really do just leave such an imprint on you as a person and on your soul and she's one of those things for me. I can say that overall just having mutuals and people to interact with and friends do make it so better. I'm really good about not seeing anti dany stuff on here because this is my home and I'm not bringing dirt in so I am veeeeeeery careful about who I follow in terms of asoiaf but over on twitter it's a bit harder not to see anti stuff because there aren't tags to blacklist to avoid you know? so I do see bs nonstop over there but thankfully I also know that I don't have to open that stupid app every day or be on it for a long time so when it seems like it's a lot I just don't open the app so it's not too big of a deal. and of course there are days where it really is a beat down like it's so incredibly dumb you'd think she were as really dark and controversial as they make her out to be I really just have to point and laugh. it's the internet there will always be someone screenshotting something and starting drama and there will always be people tagging my dany content with anti tags but I'm not going to stop posting about my favorite character or interacting with posts about her. really at the end of the day my love for her outshines any hate I didn't stop loving her then and I'm not going to stop loving her now. I will love her until I am cold and dead and six feet under and I'm very stubborn and love with my whole being so as long as I'm in online spaces I'll be in there posting about her

#leah has mail #Anonymous

[snowflake-of-destruction]

anonymous (nonspecific) fandom confession! there's something so refreshing about writing for small/dead fandoms. i've written for big fandoms and now i'm focusing on small/dead fandoms, as in i've literally created tags on ao3 because my stuff is so niche. going from fandoms/tags with thousands of fics/content to something where it's just you and maybe a handful of others is definitely a big adjustment, but i find it a nicer experience overall. the downside of course being that there's /nothing/ until you get the energy to create it, but now i'm finding the usual 'fandom experience' overwhelming and off-putting.

i'm sending this anonymously because that's what the prompt was but i feel like you probably know which mutual i am lmao akjsdhalsdl

Shh, I'll never tell. Your anonymous identity is secure. I agree even though I am not currently writing for any really small or truly dead fandoms. There's definitely something freeing and gratifying in it as well as this almost oxymoron where you are both humbled knowing you will only ever reach a small audience and you *have* to just be writing for joy alone but also, at the same time, given this power rush that yours will be among the only stories for [specific niche thing] and so, for all time forward you are now the master of [specific niche thing] and, even if more come after you it can be said they were inspired by you.

[lovequinn]

annual new years eve post where i ramble about my feelings into the void as if anyone is going to read it

2022 wasn't a perfect year, but it was the year i needed

i keep trying to type this post and end up backspacing it because this one isn't as easy as the last few times i've done one of these. this wasn't the best year of my life, by a long shot. it also wasn't even close to the worst. the most significant? maybe.

the very first thing that happened to me in january was a terrible case of covid (which i had totally avoided until then) that took me an entire month and then some to recover from, and i was pretty sure it would set the tone for how the rest of 2022 went. yet this ended up being the year i moved forward for the first time in a long time. was every step i took the right one? probably not. there are a lot of things i'm not happy with right now. but there are a lot of things i am happy with, and the things i'm not put into perspective what i actually want to do to change them (to an extent lol we are still a little lost out here).

i pushed forward in a career that i enjoy and i'm good at. i admitted that i'm really not in love with new york city the way i always felt i was supposed to be. a lot of the time i actively dislike it here. i did fall in love with los angeles and for the first time in my life stepped into a place and got the overwhelming feeling, for no apparent reason, that it was right (thank you again @laynemorgan for letting me sleep on your futon and eat your food and for helping turn what would have been a terrible weekend into something so much more important to me).

so many posts on here this year were me joking that i had regressed into old fandoms and old embarrassing ships but honestly? it was a big lesson in just reconnecting with things that make me feel joy. i spent a good chunk of years losing what i love in some attempt to be something else and connect with people who were never going to be good for me. finding yellowjackets and feeling that indescribable pull towards a piece of media again, the energy and desire to write and create and be in a community, was like meeting an old friend and realizing "i haven't exactly been the same without you here." jumping (a little manically) back into glee, supercorp, and so many more things that used to be such HUGE parts of my life brought something back that i didn't know i had been missing. and i don't particularly care anymore if that sounds stupid. fuck it.

i gained a lot of self respect this year (new for me!) and really learned what good friendships and good relationships look like, the kind that i deserve to have. i learned a lot about myself, and took steps to not only guard my own peace but make sure i am doing better and doing right by the people around me. i did a lot of things i regret and that i could've thought through better, and i did a lot of things that were overdue and freeing and led to something brighter. i'm working on not giving a shit about what people think about me when they don't even bother to get to know me. to boot, i got comfortable with the nonbinary label and knew i was finally surrounded by the right people when everyone just rolled with it.

i also felt those first butterflies in my stomach for someone new recently that i thought had been dead for a couple of years lmao (reading this back and i definitely meant the butterflies were dead. not the person. i'm not crushing on a corpse. thank you). i don't care if that doesn't go anywhere but like...if you know me well, you know that's big after the last couple of years. so. cool.

and i dyed my hair red this week because i never got to do that as a teenager and i figured why the fuck not. here's to entering the new year with a head the color of wine.

this got really long, these posts aren't usually this much, but i hope my friends (and my mutuals here!!) know i love them and they helped me experience all of this. i would do 2022 again in a heartbeat. the emotional drunk nights out, the video game nights in, the road trips, the concerts, the long days of work, the good, the bad, the annoying.

here's to a cautiously optimistic 2023. ❤️

#personal

[by-kilian]

Hi there, my dear. I hope you are doing well and that you found time to slow down and just be calm.

If you can indulge me -

2, 7, 17

2 - I think you said before that your characters write themselves. I'm also curious to know if therewas a time when you had to change what you planned out bec they're "telling" you it can't and won't happen.

7 - You are, for me, one of the greatest aot fanfic writers and even outside this fandom, I would like to say that you are one of my favorites! But I also would like to know what plot made you start writing.

17 - Hear me out. You write so many good lines. My favorite (and what pushed me to appreciate more) is this:

"..on the other end of love is grief. And if you love somebody, you gotta contend to the fact that you'll lose them someday. Not if. But when."

It's what makes me slow down a bit to be grateful to those who I hold dearly in my heart. Idk if I ever thanked you for that bit if I already did, I'm saying it again. Thank you, kw. So much.

Aw hi there my darling! I am so happy to hear from you. I hope you've been well and school wasn't too bad this semester (that is, if you're still in college!). I'm more than happy to indulge you but thank YOU for indulging me :3. Answered below the cut. ❤️❤️❤️

2. talk about a notable time a narrative or character has looked you dead in the eyes and said “fuck your plan, here’s what we’re actually doing.”

Ahhh, yes 😭. This quite literally happens all the time as I write, so almost every moment can be attributed to them looking me in the eyes and going, "well fuck that." But I think the most memorable/notable one and I've mentioned it before is when Kilian chooses to sleep with Farlan in LDBS while Levi simultaneously sleeps with Petra. I never wanted that to happen originally but it just did. They were both practically yelling at me to let them self-destruct and engage in self-destructive behaviors as they both grieved and grew, and I let them, and I truly think it's one of those moments where the story is 100 times because of things like that. Of course this all comes from my head, but I only have a roadmap of how I want things to go. The characters dictate plot because plot comes from character. It comes from their motives, their past, their wants, needs, etc. They don't make decisions based on what *I*, KW, want them to do. They make decisions based off what feels true to them based on who I've created them to be. I always feel like the stories are better because of it. So to answer your question, it really happens plenty of times. They're almost always telling me what feels better and truer to their characters and I just write and listen. They're such tangible "beings" in my mind that as I write them, very often their voices pop into my head to let me know if the direction I'm writing them in feels true to them or if it's not. Kilian & Levi do this to me the most; not only will they tell me things can't and won't happen, they tell me it will not happen like *that*. Love them for it ❤️😂, honestly.

7. tell us about the plot of the first fanfic you ever wrote

Please 🥹❤️❤️, you are so sweet. You've supported me for a very long time and I have never forgotten that. I value and cherish you greatly and it always brings me joy when you pop up in my comments or my inbox because it's truly like getting a hello from an old friend. So thank you for your kind words, and thank YOU for your support. Seriously. ❤️ To answer your question, the plot of the first fanfic I ever wrote was actually "decisions" with Levi!! I just really wanted to write a story about Levi, and I knew I wanted it to be about neighbors. Oddly enough, I was inspired by the manga version of "Tidying Up With Marie Kondo" (I know, of all things right lmao) because in it, there's a semi-cute story about a girl connecting with her neighbor as she cleans her apartment up with Marie's help. And I was just so inspired by the idea of neighbors falling in love. I wrote it so quickly but the plot was very visible in my head. It was one of my first "flow" writing sessions, where you just write from a place of inspiration and creativity. I was in the zone with that story, so to speak, in the sense that I just knew what I wanted to say and didn't need to plan it out much. I still love that story very much. It's short, sweet, mature, and it feels very true to me. :) It will always hold a special place in my heart for that reason.

17. what is your favorite line you’ve ever written?

Oh gosh, that means the world to me 😫❤️❤️❤️❤️, THANK YOU! I am so happy that line touched you in that way. Thank YOU so much. I'm floored that it impacted you in such a special, personal way so thank you for sharing that as well. I really wish I had a better answer for this question though! When I write, I don't tend to remember what I say 💀. But if I had to choose, I'd actually agree with the line you chose as well. It's probably quite obvious in my writing but grief/death/dying is something that fascinates me. And I don't mean it in a morbid way. I mean it in the sense that each time I've experienced grief, I have been changed on a cellular, molecular level by it. And each time it happens, I am reminded of how fleeting life is and how death is one of the truest experiences all of us will go through in life. There's no guarantee we go to college, get married, have kids--but we all will certainly die and so will the people we know. And idk, I think when I wrote that, I was channeling some personal thoughts about life and people around me because it's true, isn't it? We fear people dying and we fear death because that is one thing we know will happen no matter what. Thus, love and grief live on the same spectrum to me. It's why love is such a powerful emotion because it requires bravery. Because if you love someone, you *do* have to contend with that fact that you will one day lose them. It may not seem like the bravest thing in the world but it is. Because death is scary. Grief is painful. And if you can accept that all of it will happen and you're still like, "fuck it, we ball, I love you anyway and I will love you so much more because I know those things are inevitable," I think that's incredibly beautiful and brave. ❤️ And on that note: thank you so so much for sending in these thoughtful questions. I love you deep and I mean it ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

#asks #ask games #kw writing questions

[midnightdemonhunter]

two questions for you: 1) what's your name/what should i use as your name? 2) what are your thoughts about remnant akane? i'm just so tired of people saying "yeah this time i can treat her like a beast it's so so so justified" and not seeing how monumentally braindead that is

You can call me Midnight :)

2. AH. REMNANT AKANE. She is 100% the most badly treaten/written by the fandom and it never stops being disappointing tbh. Both her canon and fanon portrayal are sexist and racist respectively, and it's tiring to see so little interesting ideas for her. Even ignoring the shitty implications of making Akane a beast/treated like a beast, it doesn't make sense for her character???

When I'm writing/coming up with remnant ideas, the two big questions for me are: 'How happy are they?' And: 'What is causing them despair here?" Because to me, the point of the remnants is creating despair-- both for themselves and for the world. This means corrupting their own pleasures, hurting themselves in the worst ways imaginable, and usually hurting others too. For example, Ibuki cutting out her vocal cords because she gets so much joy from singing and talking, or Gundham killing animals because he cares so much about them.

But uh. Since when has Akane had any sort of struggle about being called/treated like a beast??? Why would this bring her despair? Akane doesn't really give a fuck about what others think of her, and she'd be far more hurt by being weak than being a beast. If anything, Nekomaru, Sonia or Gundham all make more sense for that sort of role, since Nekomaru would be using his strength to hurt instead of help, Sonia would be devolving from her role as the perfect princess, and Gundham is the one heavily associated with animals.

I do agree with the very popular fanon concept that remnant Akane has severe problems with food-- since that's supported both by canon specifying one of the remnants starved themself, and her primary joy/fear in life being tied to food. Her limiting her own food in one way or another makes sense for her character. I also think her being a fighter does have evidence as well-- (even ignoring the anime which i hate)-- since she is one of the most battle hungry classmates, and challenges her enemy (Monokuma) to a fight in the game.

However, I also think you could make her NOT a fighter for this same reason, since not getting to fight the 'enemy' would cause her despair, and make her feel weak. Honestly I think food, weakness and strength are the concepts people should be exploring for remnant Akane, with maybe a bit of denying herself things for flavor. This opens up a surprising amount of possibilities for remnant Akane ideas! For example:

Akane could simply starve herself, she could have bulimia--(you can taste the food but you can't keep it), weigh herself down a la Rock Lee, chain herself to someone else as dead weight (see my fic lol), hurt people she's meant to be protecting (siblings, nekomaru, etc), prioritize another's survival over her own (maybe someone she dislikes for extra flavor. servant's new bodyguard!), remove at least one arm or leg to fuck up movement, blind herself so she can't as easily defend herself, force herself to take gymnastics more seriously than anything else, give others food but deny it to herself (like working at TT's restaurent wheeee), cut out her tongue so she can't taste anything, let Mikan hook her up to an IV to eat instead of food---

Basically the list of possibilities go on and on lmao. And wow!! Being treated like a beast or becoming a beast isn't even a factor!! Wild how that works!! Anyway this isn't even mentioning the remnant Akane I write on my askblog, who has gone through several writing revisions in my head as time went on. When I answer more asks with her eventually, there's gonna be different vibes lol, cause I've decided she's one of the more unhappy remnants.

To quote my other Akane remnant post, after Junko dies and Akane realises she's distraught because of how attached she got to Junko: "Akane becomes determined to never get attached or become weak again, and stops eating. She avoids Nekomaru out of repressed guilt on how badly she's treating her body. She also kills a lot of people she used to care about as a way of cutting ties Whoops." To elaborate, I think she killed most of her siblings, and then basically decided to isolate herself and slowly wither away from starvation-- (though she would refuse to admit this is a suicidal urge, and would instead say she's just trying to prove her mental and physical strength)

This is when she stumbles upon Teruteru in the alley of his brand new restaurant, and strikes a deal with him. She'll work with him temporarily in order to cause herself more of a struggle-- surrounded by food she refuses to eat, in exchange for helping him run his restaurant. This does end up kick-starting a friendship though, as both of them do some epic projecting. Honestly this is reminding me I need to brainstorm more stuff about their early remnant dynamic lmao. Cue her working at his restaurant, slowly starving to death!

Anyway TL/DR, I think beast Akane is super weird and gross as a concept, and has basically no thought put into it. If I had to rank remnants who make sense for that role she is WAY further down on the list than people seem to think. I also think food, strength/weakness and survival are the concepts people should be focused on playing with, as well as her relationships to those she cares about.

Thanks so much for the ask :)) It's super flattering to think people like my remnant content, because they are my absolute fav dr thing and I've put SO much thought into them. Have a remnant Akane drawing for your troubles!

#danganronpa #remnants of despair #akane owari #midnight speaks #midnight draws #fun fact the akane pic was inspired by that one famous painting of Lucifer #i think its called Fallen Angel or something?? #anyway op im always delighted when you ask stuff its so fun :)) #gonna send YOU an ask on your remnant thoughts just you wait

[alistairs-raven]

HOW DID YOU GET SO TALENTED AT DRAWING?!!

Your Cad Bane is amazing. <3

Like, seriously. Everything of him I see that is your doing makes me go gaga.

I know that's sort of a dumb question, but you are very talented. Alternatively, what draws you to Cad Bane?

As cliché as it might sound, it's a lot of practicing, studying and observing. I've been drawing for as long as I can remember, and I've always been fascinated by two things: Anatomy and animation. I spent many hours staring at and learning how things look, move, attach, ect while also being very drawn to the expression achieved in 2D animation. The result has been my semi realism style which is also one of the hardest to pull off. Sometimes I wish I'd just picked one or the other lmao. But I am very happy with the response that my art gets and it keeps my motivated to keep working at it. Seeing my Cad Bane drawings from a year ago til now has been fascinating. I've grown a lot.

What drew me to Cad Bane at first was probably what drew us all to him: he's fucking cool. Unrestrained, intelligent, resourceful, rarely loses. His design is genius, expressive, simple yet not, iconic, and just very fun. His personality is someone who is very confident, calm, and in charge. Not to mention he has a voice that absolutely melts me. I could be in the middle of a breakdown and he'd just have to say "Yer alright" and I'd calm down immediately.

I discovered Cad Bane at a time when I really needed something to hold on to. He's a bit of a blank slate character in that his backstory and personal life is unknown, which makes him very fun to work with. I have met a lot of cool, fun people over the years through this small fandom and it's brought me a lot of joy.

Exploring this character has given me things I didn't know I needed. I watched the entire Dollar Trilogy and now Few Dollars More is one of my favorite movies ever. I play Red Dead Redemption most days because it's both calming and gives me story ideas and concepts for him. I also have a Cad Bane tattoo on my wrist. It's my first and only tattoo and I love it.

#cad bane #sinisterexaggerator #ask #thanks for the ask!