#this is bad but enjoy

[catmask]

does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.

#also if it wasnt clear this isnt ‘its bad its lazy’ there is a level of like #completion consistancy i am thinking for with this #personally i really do not enjoy the like. vintage chic long red nails fur coats noir esque aesthetic HOWEVER 💥💥💥 #i can recognize that it is put together it is Intentional #i feel like a lot of people are going to say minimalism on this so LET ME SAY 🫰☝️ i recognize that minimalism is Considered an aesthetic #but i *PERSONALLY* do not consider it an aesthetic i consider it the void of one #it is a lapse in aesthetic or personality in the same way a silence in a song is still technically a ‘beat’ but no music is played #however the importance of Space or Breath in design is more akin to a purposeful silence in music #because that silence matters in the same way rhythm and breath in design do #so i guess minimalism is more comparable to like. white noise. the sound of a fan #very little effort and there is a comfort in it i suppose but its not. A Design. okay #TO ME 🤫 #if minimalism has one hater its me if minimalism has no haters im dead

[cyanomys]

#polls #polls and research #pointless poll #united states #midwest #hell #location #moving #america #look im sorry if youre insulted by me grouping some states but there are 12 Midwestern states and only 10 options allowed #i just took a trip across the country and my limited perspective is that Ohio is Not So Bad #i grew up in Missouri 🫠 #why yes i am blazing this post #i enjoy whoring my ideas to the masses to satisfy my curiosity

[5weekdays]

they gotta give me more enrichment at work look what i just doodled

^ joke that would have killed in 2011

🏳️‍⚧️ this post has come out as trans 🏳️‍⚧️

#i was so proud of walter’s typing quirk that i didn’t remember to make his last name six letter #this sucks. anyway #breaking bad #homestuck #EDIT: I MISSPELLED CAPSAICIN DON'T LOOK AT ME #SECOND EDIT: a transphobe reblogged this so i just want to reiterate that all my posts are transgender #so if you enjoy my posts thanks for being an ally 🫡

[niallhoranhasthat1thing]

With the Titanic tourist submarine gone missing I would once again like to say that every single person on that ship that night got their family torn apart in some way. Survivors had to sit in lifeboats and listen to their love ones die in the water. Many survivors went on to have severe mental health issues and committed suicide. After the incident the White Star Line sent out bills to living relatives of their deceased employees making them pay for the uniforms that their loved ones had died in. The people in Halifax who had to recover the deceased bodies were traumatized for life while also paying for funeral services for unclaimed bodies with money out of their own pockets.

I 100 percent believe that it’s important to study the ship as it continues to deteriorate but in no way should it be used as a fucking tourist attraction and the fact that it’s gotten to this point is straight up disgusting. If one things goes wrong down there that it’s your dead. Simple as that.

Robert Ballard who discovered the ship has even said that he has regrets about discovering the ship because of the damage that submarines have caused to it.

#titanic #I feel bad for the relatives whose loved ones were lost in this incident #but it should’ve never been a tourist attraction #enjoy the photos and videos that the trained professionals bring up

[i-got-hit-by-a-planet]

so now there are cousins. alright

#IM SORRY ITS HANDWRITTEN I DONT HAVE THE MINECRAFT FONT I PROMISE #also its so funny how there are more and more people joining the family #can't wait to see how they integrate the noisy neighbors #limited life #trafficblr #bad boys #clockers #team ties #noisy neighbors #mean gills #inthelittlewood #< i hope he sees this and enjoys

[xulips]

today marks the day of my one year of drawing these four, happy one year vivid bad squad !

#can't believe it's been a year dude that's actually crazy #they still make me vv happy even until now #and thank you to everyone who's been enjoying them for the past year! #project sekai #prsk #akito shinonome #toya aoyagi #aoyagi toya #shinonome akito #kohane azusawa #azusawa kohane #an shiraishi #shiraishi an #vivid bad squad

[bloobydabloob]

Rudimentary things for today. Queue applause from the fishing enthusiasts

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #dirk strider #hs fanart #blooby posting #Uninspired things happening today #my bad #I am absolutely exhausted #free me… #enjoy nonetheless #(hopefully)

[kaiju-krew]

he didn't stand a chance <3

original/inspo!!

#this is a redraw of a redraw from 2018 congrats if you've seen the original but it's crunchy and im not reposting it #anyways. he's so weak for her it's stupid. down so bad it's actually insane. worships the ground she walks on fr. #i can only enjoy m/f ships if the m is pathetically obsessed #m/f used liberally btw they're giant monsters gender is irrelevant they're yuri and yaoi to me #mosugoji #mothzilla #godzilla #mothra #kaiju #my art

[hajihiko]

Nice night 🌘

#fuyuhiko kuzuryu #hajime hinata #kazuichi souda #akane owari #sonia nevermind #sdr2 #super danganronpa 2 #danganronpa 2 #danganronpa #an art #Me drawing this at 8 in the morning: #I was drawing this after working on the fic a bit. I'm struggling....but trying.... !!!!!!! #Please for the love of God don't focus on the hand size changing. You think u can keep track of that??? #Edit: the final chapter is almost done. I drew this as a comfort before All That lol so. Enjoy #Me after writing: ...... and then it was all a bad dream the end :) #Vi if you see this. I'm waving. Tysm for your hard work

[zaana]

Rampart is not having a good time

#the bad batch #star wars #fanart #tbb hunter #tbb crosshair #tbb wrecker #rampart #tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #rampart losing his mind last ep was so funny #you cant tell me that they dont enjoy watching him suffer a little bit

[mammutblog]

spoiler and batgirl (?)* fancams uploaded onto the citizen app

*users unsure if batgirl exists.. unconfirmed...

inspired by this art <3

#wow i enjoyed drawing steph so much #will be doing it more #batgirls #stephanie brown #spoiler #cassandra cain #batgirl #i feel bad tagging her bc u cant.. see her #my art

[jitterbugbear]

Lesson no. 274859: NEVER EVER STEAL FROM A WITCH. YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOON 💥

#animated in procreate + ae #i put many an hour into this #this is enhanced by the shitty sounds. they are on purpose. I KNOW IT SOUNDS BAD #rotating tiny stealing wizards in my mind at all times #can you tell this started as a bg study because i can #art #jitterbugbear art #artists on tumblr #animation #2d animation #digital art #procreate #wizard #fantasy art #thats it for the tags wahhooo i hope someone enjoys this im going to post the two bgs for this separately sometime soon

[rollercoasterwords]

the tiktokification of ao3

or: some of you fundamentally misunderstand ao3 and it really, really shows

i was talking about this with a friend a few days ago and since then i've seen multiple posts of various sorts that have just made me think about it more, so. here is me breaking down a disconnect i see particularly with younger members of the marauders fandom (i say marauders specifically just bc that's the only one i'm plugged into):

okay, so i've seen many (usually younger) marauders fans either talking online about how they wish ao3 was more like social media (specifically regarding algorithms) OR talking about ao3/fanfiction/fanfic writers as if they are operating under the same etiquette/guidelines/assumptions they would bring into social media platforms. this ranges from being mildly irritating to genuinely harmful, and i want to talk abt why.

first - you have to understand that social media, in this day and age, exists in a profit economy. and when i say social media here, i'm referring to platforms like tiktok, twitter, instagram, etc. all of these platforms exist in a profit economy where content is a product that can be monetized. this leads to a few important distinctions:

people posting on these social media platforms are generally posting with the intent to get their content seen by as many people as possible, as quickly as possible

they post with this intent because once their content is consumed by enough people, it becomes a product that they can monetize

therefore, if that content gets popular enough, these people can become influencers, where content creation is an actual job and their audience are, in a sort of vague and obscured way, similar to consumers purchasing a product

because of the profit economy surrounding social media, there are certain assumptions + forms of interaction that bleed across almost all social media platforms. the ones relevant to this little essay include:

operating under the assumption that anyone posting anything on the internet wants to go viral, ie. be seen by as many people as possible as quickly as possible in order to grow an "audience"

these influencers are creating content for us, their audience, so they should want to please us. they should also be trying to appeal to the broadest possible audience. therefore, if we dislike their content, we have a right to make that very, very clear.

in that same vein, we have a general right to critique content creators, as they are making a profit and we are the consumers purchasing their product--much like you might feel entitled to a certain standard of service in a restaurant where you are paying for the food.

when you carry these assumptions over to a platform like ao3, it creates problems. why? in a nutshell: because ao3 exists outside the profit economy

ao3 is a non-profit. it does not have an algorithm because it is not trying to sell you anything. this means that the writers posting their work on ao3 are not making a profit. we are not influencers. we are not creating monetized content to sell to a consumer-audience. where consuming content on other social media platforms might be comparable to eating at a restaurant, reading fanfiction on ao3 is more like coming over to someone's house and eating cookies that they made for free. you are in their house. the cookies are free, given as a gift. so what happens when those assumptions outlined above start to bleed over from other social media?

assuming that anyone posting fanfiction online wants their work to go viral -- i've seen this with popular fic writers getting questions like, "are you worried x isn't going to be as popular as y?" those questions are usually not ill-intended, but they demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding about why writers post work on ao3. it's not to go viral. it's not to build any sort of online following. most of us who post on ao3 have jobs or schoolwork or other commitments, and writing fanfiction is something done for fun, out of a love for writing. those sharing their work online might be seeking community, but that is fundamentally different from seeking an audience, and in no way involves internet virality. if someone is posting fanfic on ao3 with the hope that it'll "go viral," then they likely either won't continue writing fanfic for long or will reach a point where they have to re-evalute their motivations, because seeking joy and validation by turning your art into a product for consumption just isn't very sustainable.

influencers are creating content for us, so we have a right to let them know if we don't like it -- nope!! fic writers are not influencers. yes, even the popular ones. no matter how much other people might blow their work up on social media, fic writers are still outside the profit economy. they are not creating content for an audience. they are not creating content for you. they are writing because they love it, and they are generously sharing it. if you don't like it, don't interact with it. you are never entitled to loudly and publicly proclaim how much you dislike a fic. i talk about this more here

we have a general right to critique fic writers, the same way we do with content creators/influencers -- again, no. you should not be treating fic writers the way you would treat an influencer on another social media platform, no matter how popular they may be. this is not to say fic writers are beyond all reproach; rather, it is a call-in to check your entitlement. fic writers are not little jesters entertaining in your court. they are not subject to your whims. they do not have to do things for you. they do not have to write things you like. in that post i linked on point 2, i talk about what etiquette might look like if you're really concerned that a fic writer is doing something harmful, but that is not what i'm talking about here. i am talking about the proliferation of negativity i have seen, especially on twitter and tiktok, where people essentially just talk shit about fics or fic writers as though they are entitled to have those fic writers working to please them. this is gross, and it needs to stop. you wouldn't go over to someone's house, eat the cookies they baked to share, and then spit those cookies back in their face and start shouting about what a shitty baker they are. or maybe you would--in which case, congratulations! you are Not A Good Person.

anyway, at the end of the day, a lot of this can be boiled down to: Because ao3 exists outside the profit economy, fic writers are not influencers, and you should never be treating them as though they are. i think i see this disconnect largely with younger people just because they've maybe only ever really understood social media within this sort of influencer-consumer-culture economy, and genuinely don't understand how to interact differently with the internet. so, consider this post a call-in to reevaluate the way you interact with fic writers and the etiquette you use when it comes to engaging with fanfic on ao3! i promise that ao3 being different from social media is a very, very good thing, and also a very, very rare thing, so let's treasure it and focus on fostering community rather than trying to morph it to fit the mould of influencer-audience dynamics that we see almost everywhere else <3

#tldr: fic writers aren't influencers #stop acting like they are #it only creates problems!!!! #anyway if you have engaged in some of these behaviors that doesn't make u a bad person #it just means u should maybe shift ur perspective moving forward #capitalism is a lifeless desert that grows every day and ao3 is a little oasis #let's all enjoy it while we can #instead of trying to place it within a consumer economy #ranting and raving #txt

[ahhlehlehlehleh]

How are we feeling bad batch nation? I am terrified but also overjoyed to see them again.

#star wars #tbb #the bad batch #the bad batch season 3 spoilers #spoiler #crosshair #omega #batcher #a me doodle #uni is holding me by my throat like darth vader but i really wanted to draw something enjoyable before next week's episodes #I just want to enjoy this moment of them having a pet

[koholintz]

they’re the family ever

#someone asked me to upload this here and to *you* dear asker i say thank you #ngl i forget that tumblr exists sometimes my bad #but anyway! i hope you guys enjoy them! #puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #puss in boots fanart #puss in boots the last wish fanart #goldilocks #goldilocks and the three bears

[vulcan-moon]

happy holidays from garfield and miku (:

#my art #digital art #fanart #garfield #miku #hatsune miku #vocaloid #garfposting #christmas #originally planned to print these as cards for friends but uhhhhh #depression hit read bad bc this is the first christmas im spending all alone #and its a Very bad time of year for me lol #so i just did not finish it until today #and its too late to get cards printed now so #yeah #anyway enjoy lol #portfolio