#you don't owe anyone in fandom or any blog anything

[threadsun]

It’s always the ones who claim to be antis interacting with people who post the stuff they claim to very against. Especially when they say ‘Dni proshippers’ but then interact and make dark content. It’s become very clear that they don’t have a set definition of what proship is they just slap it wherever to define people who make content they don’t like. They make fiction spaces online messy and frankly, dangerous when they decide to make callout posts and block lists and such. They’re so hypocritical:(((

Oh god I reblogged a post about the bullshit of proship/antiship discourse the other day. It's SOOO STUPID!!! Especially in a time where books about queer people and informative books for children about how to spot and report csa are being pulled from public libraries and banned in various places under the guise of them being "morally reprehensible" and "bad for the children."

There is no way to dictate what people can and can't write without opening the door to fascism and oppressive censorship. There's no way to make a line without risking people pushing that line until it hurts real marginalised people.

Like as a Jewish person I generally hate holocaust comparisons, but like... idk I always go back to the nazi book burnings at Die Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, and the targeted harassment of Magnus Hirschfeld. So much important information about sex, gender, and sexuality were lost and suppressed. So much important research. Important work into the normalisation of sex and desire.

It has lasting impacts even now into the field of sexology, which is still treated as either a joke or some sort of perverted fake field for creeps to use as an excuse to take advantage of people. When I studied sexology in university, so much of it always came back to the idea that censorship is inherently detrimental to sexual liberation. Which in turn my gender studies professors all agreed is necessary for queer and female liberation as well.

Like this goes so much further and deeper than fandoms and ships, and it's so reductive and pointless to turn it into a fandom debate. Especially in the current political climate around the world. And to turn it into fandom drama or even to morally posture about being proship or an anti does a huge disservice to the people fighting on the front lines of queer and sexual liberation. It harms trans people and people of colour who are being targeted through censorship.

Idk in a world where consensual kink is still illegal in most places, where queer theory and critical race theory are being censored, where sex workers and kinky folks are actively fighting tooth and nail for your right to watch porn without the government telling you what you can and can't jack off too... In a world where FOSTA/SESTA is being used to actively harm sex workers and the victims of trafficking they claim to be helping. It's just... idk it's almost actively, wilfully, maliciously ignorant to think ship discourse is important enough to harass people over. To think that censoring fandom content is useful and morally correct.

I'm not so fussed about call out posts and block lists personally cause I don't care if "queer is a slur" "no kink at pride" "if you're not vocally antiship then you're proship which means I can make up beliefs to assign to you and then send people to harass you for it" assholes try to bother me. The block button is fun to press, and I've got thick skin and an actual understanding of the real world.

But yeah, they can make internet spaces pointlessly and actively hostile to people, especially people whose mental health is already fragile. And I've heard so many definitions of proship that it's soooooo clear no one actually has a real definition of it, and just use it as shorthand for "this person is a freak who makes things I don't like, and I think that means they should be punished in the court of public opinion for it."

idk I've seen too many sex workers and transfem people and Jewish people accused of being paedophiles and perverts and "proship" for daring to not follow Christian ideas of sexual purity and morality. I've been the Jewish, transfem sex worker getting called those things. I watched a trans woman get harassed off tumblr entirely for having an armpit fetish and daring to talk about it on her own blog.

I've seen countless people who called out racist/queerphobic/transmisogynistic trends in fandom get the "proship" label slapped on them just to drive them out of fandom spaces so they could keep their bigoted headcanons. I've seen it put on people who ship two unrelated characters who happened to know each other as children because "that's basically incest." I've seen it slapped on someone who wrote about adults in a consensual relationship who happened to have a 10 year age gap (34 vs 44).

And yeah, I've seen it put on people who write paedophilic incest fanfics, which is something I personally would prefer no one ever wanted to write about. But I also acknowledge that if I try to make that an actual rule, it will eventually become corrupted into something used for the oppression of marginalised people.

I know that I shouldn't be trusted with the power to dictate the actions (and especially the thoughts) of others. I know that thoughtcrimes aren't real, and that the world is so much bigger and messier and more complicated than fandom. I know that the moment I allow myself to become pro-censorship in any capacity, I've already lost and fascism has already gained a new foothold in the world.

And most of all, I know that all art including fandom art is something the artist and the people interacting with it are both choosing to consent to. That this consent can be revoked at any time, and that no one has the right to decide what anyone else can and cannot consent to. That all fiction is a scene, not a new reality, and that the consent of the real people involved is more important than what's actually going on within the scene.

#sunshine #asks #idk man like 'are you proship or an anti' being a Required Question every fandom blog must answer #kinda reminds me of how 'are you pro-Israel or pro-Palestine' is a Required Question every Jew must answer #like I have strong opinions on both that I'll share if I feel like it (before anyone asks I don't support the colonisation of Palestine) #but I fundamentally object to the idea that I owe anyone any information about anything I believe #especially since all of my beliefs are more nuanced than a single label can express #part of me feels like I'm making no sense cause my head is full of more thoughts about this than I can physically type out #but also I feel very strongly about this #and I know that other people who feel strongly about this don't necessarily feel like they can speak about it #so I'm gonna do it because I do not give a shit about backlash

[skykashi]

@narudoodles Not that I owe you any explanation

I don't need to prove anything to you anyway and if that's something that would make you feel better as an artist I can stop drawing and posting on Tumblr all together, this wasn't even a commission like you said on your previous post, @depressedhatakekakashi didn't ask me to draw anything, I did it on my own because I wanted to, because I'm here to have fun with my friends but if my existence here is going to upset some ppl then I can delete this blog and go back to my corner again, loving Kakashi on my own. I didn't spend 5 days working on this art just to get someone accusing me of something like this based on some speculations, it literally takes me more time to draw anything at all than anyone else because I have to work with such a shitty tablet that refuses to do the simplest things ever but I still do it anyway because I love drawing. I wasted my weekend crying and stressing over something like this and honestly, if that's what I'm going to get from this fandom then maybe it's time to leave it.

[frownyalfred]

I was feeling shitty about how non-canon compliant my own Batfam WIPs were turning out and then I stumbled across your blog and I feel better now

Like it actually helped me get out of my writing depression funk and now I'm having fun writing dumb Batfam scenarios again

Keep forgetting fanfic and fandom is meant to be fun, not a burden

Anyway thanks for being you <3

Fanfic is ABSOLUTELY meant to be fun! and we as authors need to be kicked in the teeth with that reminder every now and then.

I've had several people just this last week alone deride me for writing fanon takes, for daring to suggest a character do something they didn't do in canon, jumping down my throat and telling me my fanon stories were "ruining" canon for others, because I have a responsibility to not influence readers with my horrible, ooc fanon fics.

The reality, anon, is that these are all just stories. Fiction that we write for free, on a website where we're not getting published or making money. You don't owe anyone anything, much less canon purists. If they don't want to read it, nobody is forcing them to?

I get it -- I get that your blorbo didn't do that in canon, or I'm completely crapping on fifty years of canon by having Bruce Wayne deepthroat an alien dick on my tumblr blog. I get that it pisses people off to see others do something they don't agree with, to a character they treasure.

But guess what? You just move on. You don't climb in the post notes and act like an asshole to the OP. You don't hate comment, or subtweet the author on your blog later. You say to yourself, or maybe even to a close friend (privately) "Wow, I don't like that take" and you click the back button and move on with your life.

The fanon vs canon debate on this website gets so intense sometimes. Do what you love, anon -- write your stories the way you like -- and don't let them make you take this any more seriously than you want to.

#my weekly rant #sorry y'all #anon #asks #fanon #canon #fic #fic writing

[blairrwaldorfs]

Important Announcement

Hello!

If you all haven't noticed it yet but I was stardustpugh in here. I left for a moment to gather myself and because of all the negative anons I've been getting about my fics. Writing is something that I care about in just about my whole life. It's not perfect. I'm still learning through all this writing process. I honestly don't owe anyone an explanation, but I want to let the people know who has enjoyed my fics at least.

This is a whole new blog. I will be uploading the old one shots I have done before in my old blog but my series masterlist will be completely new besides from the unfinished fic, "Is It Over Now?" I left off. I will be finishing that and uploading each part again.

I want to make this clear that I'm setting my boundaries in this fandom for my mental health and for my enjoyment in this site. The anons will be turned off permanently. If you want to request a fic, feel free to leave it in my ask box and if you don't want anyone to know that you have requested the fic, message me directly and I will not reveal that it was you who requested.

I'm simply here to enjoy talking about Joe (positively), write my fics and share them with others. I don't want the drama, I don't want the hate, and I specifically don't want any drama information that is going on in the fandom.

Lastly, no one should feel the need to be let down by anyone through the internet especially for the people you don't know and are just strangers. It's truly heartbreaking to see people going anon and sending negative things, thinking it's all okay. That is NOT accepted in this blog, and I will NOT tolerate it. PERIOD. Anyone that will be sending me anything negative will be BLOCKED IMMEDIATELY. If my fics are not your cup of tea, then you can kindly fuck off my blog. It's simple as that.

Anyway, "Is It Over Now?" part one will be posted. I'll post each finished part throughout this week until I am able to finish the part I left off. I forgotten everyone who wanted to be in the taglist, so feel free to please let me know if you would want to be in it.

Thanks!

#joseph quinn #joe quinn #joseph quinn x reader #joe quinn x reader #joseph quinn x you #joe quinn x you #joseph quinn rpf #joe quinn rpf #joseph quinn x fem!reader #joe quinn x fem!reader #blairrwaldorfs updates

[leomonae]

What is this drama with dhampling I'm so confused but I like drama

I'm not bothering to look anything up for my summary, so no guarantees on complete accuracy. Explanation below the cut since I highly doubt anyone not directly involved is going to care about any of this.

Right, so basically @dhampling put up a post asking for BG3 fic recs the other... day? Week? Idk, I'm bad at time, it was recently, anyway. They asked for recs, various people reblogged and responded, including someone who recced a few members of this discord server I'm in - smaller creators, writers who haven't had much of an audience/exposure for their fics, and were pretty happy about the recognition. At some point, dhampling deleted their original post on the subject, leaving a message on their blog about how they didn't want to name names/get pulled into drama or some such - making a pretty vague statement that raised more questions than it answered, basically.

Some members of that discord server I mentioned were a little miffed about this, since to their minds it was removing one of the ways they might get more people finding/reading their fics. I, personally, was rolling my eyes at the incredibly vague nature of the non-explanation and questioning why they didn't just delete the thing and leave it alone after, if they didn't want it being made into some big deal somehow. Since the discord server is private/invite-only, some of us expressed said frustrations in a vent thread therein. Other people, including the person who'd reblogged and given some recs of the server's members, attempted to speak in dhampling's defense a little - they're young (which I guess they disliked being said about them once they found this out?), we don't know what prior experiences they've had in fandoms and some people can get vicious sometimes, the OP's original post may be gone but the reblogs are still out there so it's not a huge deal anyway, etc etc.

Then at some point soon afterwards, someone in the server shared screenshots of the aforementioned venting with dhampling, who apparently strongly disliked it/what was said? I know the server owner tried reaching out to talk to them without getting a response, and I gather that they blocked a few people, but as far as I was aware, this nonsense was pretty much over. Guess not, though!

Oh yeah, and around the time we were discussing the matter in the server, I went and commented on dhampling's "I deleted my post" non-explanation to say that it didn't really tell us anything at all and questioning if it was something personal or an issue with one of the stories or what, since a) I am a naturally curious/nosy person sometimes, b) a couple of my buddies were fretting that they might have done something to offend this person somehow, and c) why not?

And no, dhampling, if you were including me in the whole "I want an apology" thing you just posted, I will not, in fact, be offering one. I decided the other day upon review that I have no actual issues with anything I said at the time, and given that it was a handful of friends expressing some mild frustrations to one another in a private server, where they had every reason to expect their words would remain private rather than ever getting back to you, I don't really think anyone there owes you an apology anyway.

Sometimes people get annoyed with others. Sometimes they say so to their friends privately, rather than going and being rude to the person who annoyed them or whatever. This is normal, healthy, interpersonal behaviour. Nobody was plotting to come harass you or what the fuck ever; there would be no harm done here at all, including to your feelings, if someone from our server hadn't decided to disrespect our own members' right to have their private comments not shared with someone outside without their consent.

So let's drop this non-issue, already, huh?

#drama #fandom bullshit #what's the tag for “i really doubt most of my followers actually give a fuck but sure i'll explain from my pov”

[ghost-of-you]

Ima hop in talking to throw my two sense about this major break that’s coming up for 5sos, anonymously as someone who runs a anonymous 5sos confessions blog.

There’s a lot of new people in this fandom who’ve never experienced a 5sos break, and still have trauma from either 1D or other bands who took a break and then disbanded before the reunion. Or are fans of bands who are also in a limbo and are worried about what’s going to happen. (Looking at 1975 fans, I wish the best for yall)

And I’m a mixture of both! I was here for the first break, but drifted into other music genres during it, and kinda forgot about 5sos for a while, but came back within the last 3 years.

Plus for those who were here for the first break - there’s a lot of different factors that add into the uncertainty this time, like Michael becoming a dad!

There’s a lot of feelings being thrown around in the music industry of what happens before/during breaks that adds to what a break means now vs when the first break happened. It’s just… a lot.

Okay, look, I'm nice and I'm understanding but right now I'm gonna sound like a bitch and I don't care. Whatever experience anyone has with any other band doesn't matter. What happened with one direction is different from what is happening with the 1975, that's different from what happened with big time rush, that's different from what happened to why don't we, that's different from what happened to the Jonas brothers, I can keep going but you catch my drift. They are different bands, formed by different people, in different ways, with different believes and way to make music. No one thought backstreet boys were ever gonna come back and they just did a world tour, NSYNC was seen together just last month for the first time in YEARS, bands can take breaks and reform and regroup and move on if they want. I think this expectation that you're owed content all of the time is crazy. Album cycles shouldn't be just month long things. They should be allowed to work on something for longer. They should be allowed to not tour every 6 months. 5sos released 5 album in 10 years. An album every 2 years is a fucking good number. But even if it takes them another 2, 3, 5 years, it's their right as humans to take as much space as they want. I understand why people might be scared, but no one has the right to demand anything from anyone. Maybe Luke and Ashton will release more solo music, maybe they'll go on a tour, maybe Calum will drop a poetry book, maybe we won't see them for 5 years and then they'll announce the announcement of a new song. They can do whatever they want. You can't honestly expect to have access or content or tour at all times. They are grown men with lives and families who worked hard to learn how to exist outside a band they started when they were teenagers.

And yes, Michael is gonna be a father, but one, he's not the first musician ever to have a kid so that doesn't mean anything, but you also can't expect him to not be there for his daughter. Baby girl Clifford should be his priority but in nowhere is stated that you can't be a father and a musician.

And to compare 5sos to one direction is not a fair comparison, one direction was formed in a reality show by people who only wanted to explore them. 5sos were friends first and they are still friends first. Maybe they won't drop an album every year anymore. Maybe they won't make a tour with 101 concerts in less than 8 months. But that doesn't make them any less of a band, it they are doing shorter tours and longer album cycles.

Also, if they break up, they broke up, we can't force them to stay a band.

But I stand by the fact that these men went through quarantine, lost a whole record with calm due to an internal error, dropped their label, their management, both Ashton and Luke released solo albums, with Luke signing a 3 record deal if I'm not mistaken , Michael got signed as a dj and a producer, and they still released a whole album independently that was made the way they wanted. If they were gonna stop being a band they would've done in it in 2020. They're allowed whatever breaks they want or need. They are real humans. And they are not one direction.

But this break they are taking is something that they planned around it, or do you think it's an accident the tour ended just in time for Michael to be back home for the birth of his daughter? This tour wasn't scheduled, they could've not done it. But they chose to do it. But to look at them and accuse of being about to breakup and lying about it because they are taking a break for a very specific and unbelievably valid reason is bullshit.

I don't care about whatever trauma you may have about other bands. What happened to other bands happened to other bands. You can't make a different situation about them because it's never gonna be the same because there's different people involved.

Is their life. Their choice. We're just along for the ride. It's a hell of a good one so far and if this is it so be it. It's their choice.

And honestly, if you're actually this affected by one direction breaking up and this is not just some exaggeration for the bit or a joke, get help.

#seriously this whole i need content when i want it and i dont care how i get it thing is BULLSHIT #boohoo you dont know exactly what the next move of someone will be #get off wattpad and realize that they are not characters you're playing with #they are allowed to do whatever they want BECAUSE THEY ARE THEIR OWN PEOPLE #fucks sake #grow up #if you dont agree with me the unfollow button is right there #this is not something we compromise on #they do their thing we're just here to watch #i was asked #no you dont get the 😌 emoji #anon 😒

[western-magical-girl-confessions]

*Sigh…*

Hello everyone. I apologize for disappearing for a while. I know I promised to finish all the confessions and close them indefinitely, but with everything that has been going on in the past few months, I have just been reflecting a lot. After much consideration, I have made a decision:

On January 2, 2024, I am considering deleting this blog.

So with this said, I guess you might be wondering why, Well, I'll list the reasons. Been doing so for this long right?

I had been hesitant to admit it, but after some contemplation, I have come to the realization that this blog is becoming a negative experience for me. I've had to make confessions that I don't agree with and deal with anonymous hate for sharing confessions that I didn't even write. Trying to please everyone has also affected my own beliefs. Additionally, the lack of western magical girl shows has resulted in repetitive confessions. It's unfortunate, but my feelings about this blog may continue to fluctuate.

From then till now, I always said that not all the confessions made were by me, but I do admit that some of them were my own. I just want to be honest with all of you. I'm not proud of some of the confessions I made. Some aged like milk. Even though I know that I may still come across certain confessions that leave a bad taste in my mouth to this day, I just want to leave this part of my life behind me.

I have been a fan of several TV series, such as Miraculous Ladybug, She-Ra, Equestria Girls, My Little Pony, many others. However, some of the fans of these shows have given me negative experiences that I don't want to remember. Sometimes, reading these confessions reminds me of those bad experiences. Hence, I want to move on and forget about them. Nevertheless, I will cherish the good memories that these shows and their fandom have given me.

I need assurance that I won't be able to access this blog again, in case I give in to the temptation of making confessions once more. My desire is to move on and channel my energy towards other productive activities that will benefit me in my life. This has been a long-term aspiration for me, which I didn't do entirely.

I know I've said this countless times in the past, but I'll say this for the final time. I'm dealing with personal things that are just a real ongoing struggle, and I want to focus all my time and energy on them. Running this blog has started to feel like a chore, and I believe I've gotten all the satisfaction from it that I wanted.

Also, I've thought about moving on to focus on more original projects. I don't want to completely share these ideas publicly yet, but I've been having some ideas in mind.

Lastly, I'm just tired of constantly having to explain myself. I know that I don't owe anyone an explanation and I am not obligated to keep this blog active, but I did. I did it because I genuinely cared about you all and wanted to create something fun for fans of the magical girl genre. I wanted to provide a platform for others to express their feelings and thoughts without fear of being canceled. Unfortunately, I no longer want to do this…

Sorry guys for the redundant posts lol Let's just hope that this will be the last one until this blog closes (or goes inactive indefinitely). There’s no guarantee that I will delete this blog, but I’m just saying prepare for the possibility in the future. So if there’s anything that you would like to save or archive, then now’s the time to do so. I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to finish the remaining confessions in the box or not, because there's a strong possibility that I'll delete this blog anyway.

So if anyone has any thoughts or ideas or anything, feel free to say so. I have to admit, I'm going to miss this blog, but this is probably for the best.

Thanks again guys, and as always, stay magical.

If you wish to reach me (the mod), my main account is @misssakurapetal27

#western magical girl confessions #miraculous ladybug #miraculous tales of ladybug and chat noir #miraculous #miraculous ladybug confessions #western magical girls #magical girls #winx club #mlb #ml #equestria girls #my little pony friendship is magic #star vs the forces of evil #lolirock #the owl house #she ra #spop #she ra and the princesses of power #magical girl #magica girls #misssakurapetal27

[nought-shall-go-ill]

PSA from Nought

Just popping in to say "Hey!" to anyone still following this little old blog.

And also to apologize for my silence over the past few months, in reality the past year.

I know I'm not exactly a bigname blog that is regularly updating or anything, but some of you lovely people have sent me lovely messages, and I just feel so bad that I just haven't been able to answer those.

The reality is: I don't have the best executive function skills (undiagnosed ADHD, amirite? why is it so difficult to get diagnosed...) at the best of times, and they've been all the worse for not having a consistent schedule since I quit my full-time job in September 2022 and moved across 3 countries (and indeed 3 continents) in a matter of 9 months. (Something I'm aware is a humongous privilege, but I won't deny it's been hard — particularly the reverse culture shock and having to start my life again twice).

But I'm still sorry to my friends in this fandom that I've kind of left hanging, haven't spoken to for months and haven't supported as much as I would have liked. I still love you all and this fandom a lot. You've done amazing things that I've been admiring from afar. And I hope to make it up to you soon! I'm back in my home country now, I'm slowly (very slowly) starting to carve myself a routine, and I have my family, partner and friends who have been a massive help. I hope one day I can get a diagnosis too that will make all this better too. Who knows?

Fic-wise I can't make any promises yet. But I will say that I'm slowly (so very slowly) working on pretty much everything I've promised in the past. TOHOTS, the fic I've been asked about most, is on indefinite hiatus, but I in no way see it as abandoned. The same goes for the one-shots I've promised.

Anyway, I've waffled on a lot now, but I just want to say sorry again to those I owe more contact and better friendship to. I love you all and this fandom very much. 🧡🧡

[anxious-lee]

i deeply apologize for bothering you with this question, but do you have any tips for starting a tk blog? I NEED to talk about tks somewhere but at the same time im kinda scared 😭

No apology needed, I love to help 😊

I was in your shoes not long ago so let me tell you some things that I've learned over the past couple years

1. Since you're nervous, start with a sfw blog. If that's all you want, great. If you want a nsfw, try out a few months with the sfw blog first

2. I wouldn't jump right into actively tickle teasing anyone when you're fresh out of the gate. People need time to learn who you are, what your vibe is, and what kind of blog you run. The first few months I was here, I did very little besides share personal tickle thoughts, memes, and reblogging fics. After a while, people will become comfortable talking to you directly and then you can gauge how ready you are for teasing.

3. Speaking of teasing, don't chase it too long unless you can tell that the recipient is open to it. Read their cues in their messages and decide if tickle talk is welcome. But a sly comment rarely hurts

4. Be sure to leave positive feedback on as many fics and art pieces as you can, because as a writer, the BIGGEST motivation to keep doing what im doing, is seeing how happy it makes other people. Spread the positivity and support around!

5. STAY SAFE!! I don't know how old you are, but regardless, do not use any personal information on your blog, no first or last name, none of that (basically just normal internet safety rules)

6. This one I had to learn along the way: you don't owe anyone any kind of anything. It can feel exciting if someone messages you wanting to talk about more intimate tickle details (where your worst spot is etc) but you need to make sure you're 100% comfortable. You don't owe anyone a peek behind the curtain. Nothing you post is "begging" for a conversation about personal stuff. Now, if you WANT to talk about that stuff, that's a different story. Go right ahead :)

7. I can't stress this enough, PLEASE don't tag your posts with fandom names ("#hazbin hotel"). That broadcasts them to people outside of the community. They don't want that. We don't want that. A good alternative is to make a tag with the word "tickle" in it (#hazbin hotel tickles)

8. Make sure to properly tag your posts as sfw or nsfw. It can be very jarring to sex-repulsed individuals to get jumpscared by horny tickle content

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE!

9. Have fun with it! This blog can be a place for you to explore yourself and find people you can relate to. Make the most of it! ❤️😊

Hope this helps you get started 🫶

#hope i see you out there soon #tickle #tickles #tickling #ticklish #tickle community #your asks

[mdhwrites]

I'm sure you're being sent a lot of TOH-related questions right now, but what's your opinion on Belos's rise to power? Its portrayal in Elsewhere and Elsewhen somewhat makes sense for the idea that the Coven system is bad for witches (putting its implementation in the series as a whole aside), but even so it really bothers me, even with the focus on Bonesborough and all, that there's little hint of savagery in the "Savage Ages" and it's made clear that the witches back then deemed the BI Titan dead and not a deity whatsoever, which... is not consistent with how people attained power in reality nor with how the Titan is portrayed throughout the series?

You VASTLY overestimate how many asks I'm actually getting. The fact that I've even had two asks most days as of late is impressive. Mind you, it's not surprising with how anti-criticism this fandom feels and the fact that most people's blogs aren't for sharing the sorts of long winded takes I have. I'm also a small account so my rants mostly stay in my own corner (Or I get lit on fire and accused of having never watched the show).

This is a JUICY one though. The short answer to my thoughts on Belos' rise is that if you want to see it done right, go read the book "Ranger's Apprentice: The Kings of Clonmel." It actually depicts super well and convincingly how a group of bandits and brigands can use these sorts of tactics so as to almost become nobility. Ranger's Apprentice is just an amazing series in general.

As for Belos' rise…

Well, let's first lay down what the trick is he's using. It is theoretically akin to every racist who has risen to power on the platform of "I will make this country great again and part of that plan is to persecute these people who are perceived as a problem for some reason." This is commonly associated with religious or national fervor due to the fact that people don't need concrete proof if that which they have faith in is what they see as being attacked. It also gives the people a wide, established base of those who are already scared and primed for action for one reason or another. This is why rises of fascist movements often happen in countries facing economic decline or severe disparity because people are desperate and ready to believe anything.

The Isles during the savage lands have… LITERALLY NONE OF THIS. Let's review:

The Scapegoat: "Wild witches, those who use all types of magic, are evil murderers out to destroy me!" Um… Except EVERYONE uses all types of magic. So you are claiming EVERYONE is a wild witch currently. You are not narrowing your targets down or giving them an inhuman face, especially with your claim.

The Fear: "They're out to destroy me! Even now they've found me and will burn this place down trying to kill me!" …So you're the problem? The threat isn't against anyone in the Isles, it's just you. And you're the one telling us we're all wrong? Why does trouble and death follow you from town to town, razing as it goes? Suddenly you seem to be the real threat…

The Religion: Um… As you pointed out, the denizens of the Isles consider the Titan to be dead in the past. What did Belos do to convince them that the Titan was alive? How long had they considered the Titan dead? The Titan being a god is obviously not something they considered so why did anyone listen to this crackpot who effectively said, "I HEAR GHOSTS AND WANT TO RULE YOU BECAUSE THE VOICES IN MY HEAD TELL ME"?

The Nation: This is maybe the only positive? It's questionable how connected to the rest of the towns any one town in the Isles is. This creates a problem of identity. "Oh, they burned down this one village? Fuck that village. Their mayor owed me fifty snails and their crazy person told me my cat smells." And if they are connected, then it becomes "I would have heard if my cousin got killed by wild witches! And besides, are you saying Gertrude is a bad person? Her pies are great and she makes them with baking and beast keeping!"

And finally, the unrest: The Isles pre-Belos is depicted as a utopia. Philip gets a man killed and jacks his palisman and the worst that his two brothers? or at least cohorts threaten to do is burn his journal. That is… Fucking nothing compared to literally anything a bad guy does in S1 of TOH. And this is for getting someone MURDERED. This is not a society with a crap ton of problems like we're told in S1 for how Belos came to power (history is written by the victors so I don't even consider this a plothole besides it being just badly done). Instead, it's depicted as being in pure harmony purely to make the kind one time the show actually makes a case for the coven system being bad outside of "Restrictions to expression are bad" that is the basis for the show claiming Covens don't work for the most part.

None of it works. None of it is actually thought out enough to be anything more than taking inspiration from real world events, real world ATROCITIES and plastering them on face value without actually appreciating what goes into those sorts of systems of manipulation and abuse.

Honestly, end of the day it comes off as tone deaf and half assed when this is such a crucial part of your villains ethos, their plan and your plot in general because this should be a large part of explaining how the world got to be the way it is. It isn't though because there's no actual explanation for how we got from Utopia to Belos ruling. None at all. Not when realistically he would have been caged and killed just on the superstition that he brought death everywhere he went.

But I mean, they literally can't keep it consistent from episode to episode whether fucking Belos believes what he says about the Titan or knows that it's dead because he enters its fucking skull. The show did not give a fuck about making this plot work. So why not make something that someone talk about for a thousand words in a think piece over instead of actually trying to make it coherent?

Because there's a lot of that in this show and it's why I can talk so much about it.

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I have a public Discord for any and all who want to join!

I also have an Amazon page for all of my original works in various forms of character focused romances from cute, teenage romance to erotica series of my past. I have an Ao3 for my fanfiction projects as well if that catches your fancy instead, If you want to hang out with me, I stream from time to time and love to chat with chat.

And finally a Twitter you can follow too!

#TOH #Belos #Rambles

[kaije224]

I am not going to explicitly talk about the situation. Frankly, I refuse to talk about it with people outside my inner circle. But I do want to make one thing very clear:

MY BLOG IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE A SAFE SPACE FOR EVERYONE

That being said, I do not support him any longer. I do not want him on my blog. But I do ask that we stay respectful. I am not going to be a place where people can spread hate. I do not condone people spreading hate. The situation is already bad enough.

I would also like to remind everyone to give Quackity and the admins time to do what they need to do to figure this situation out. Don't force them to come out and say something. They do not owe us anything. If they want to cut ties silently, then that is their choice, and we, as the fandom, should respect that.

That's all I really have to say about things. Much love to everyone. Take the time away from things that you need, if you need it. My dms and asks are always open if anyone needs someone to listen to them. <3

#forever situation #qsmp

[taexual]

hello! do you perhaps have any tips/advice for those starting their first writing blog?

hii! all i can say is believe in yourself and all that you create!! it is wonderful that you've made a decision to share your work with the world, but you don't owe anyone anything, so don't feel pressured, write and post at your own pace, and always stay confident about your ideas!! try not to feel discouraged if the response you get doesn't meet your expectations--write what you want to write and what you would want to read, and your audience will find you!!! 🤍

on more technical terms, get acquainted with the platform you'll use--whether it's tumblr or wattpad or anything else--namely how the tagging system works, because it's how you get your writing out there! you can also do a little field research and take notes of how other writers advertise and publish their works (what pictures / descriptions / warnings / other fandom-related terms they use, etc), but this is just to get a general idea of what's 'popular' right now. ultimately, how you decide to post your writing and what you want your posts to look like, is your choice!

chances are, you'll make a lot of great friends (i did!!!), so this should be a wonderful experience! 🥰🤍

#ask #anonymous #it's easy to say these things like 'don't feel pressured' or 'don't feel discouraged' i know shdjfh #but really if there's anything i learned it's that you should always alwayssssss stay true to yourself #YOU are where the magic happens 🤍🤍🤍🤍 #you'll do great things!!!!!

[inukag]

Hi! I'm a huge fan of your blog. I'm new on tumblr and I couldn't be happier that I found you!

Anyway, I have just reread Inuyasha (this time more thoroughly) and it dawned on me that the story between Jinenji and Kagome was somewhat identical to that of Inuyasha and Kikyou.

I think Jinenji's feeling for Kagome can help explain well how Inuyasha felt about Kikyou.

Kagome was the first girl to show Jinenji happiness, his heart was warm when he was with her. I don't think Jinenji's feeling for Kagome was as intense as Inuyasha's for Kikyou, since Jinenji still had his mother around while Inuyasha had no one before he met Kikyou. Not to mention that Jinenji only spent like one day with Kagome. However, it was enough for Jinenji to admit that he wouldn't be able to go on living if he let Kagome die.

And the same goes for Inuyasha. He could never afford letting Kikyou die in his presence, just like Jinenji couldn't let Kagome die. Yet not only did Kikyou die, but Inuyasha was also TOLD that her death was partly his fault. Having seen how Jinenji felt, I can easily understand how depressed Inuyasha was about Kikyou and why he was always eager to know whether Kikyou was safe or not.

Inuyasha's feeling for Kikyou was not really... special or exclusive. Anyone in his position (in this case it's Jinenji) would feel the same way. I think it started out as affection and gratitude. However for Inuyasha it was coupled with the guilt that he "caused" Kikyou's death. All the more reasons why he wasn't able to forget about Kikyou. To be honest, I used to be so frustrated whenever he ran to Kikyou's side. But now, with the help of the Jinenji arc, his actions were quite understandable. I'm glad he'll always have Kagome by his side to heal his wounded heart.

Well that's my take. What's your thought on the Jinenji arc?

(So sorry for the very late response! thank you for the love 🥺 and welcome to tumblr!)

That's an interesting comparison, I never really thought of that because Inuyasha himself never seem to put that much importance to Kikyo being his "first". The only time I remember him mentioning it is when she dies, but even then most important factor that drives Inuyasha when it comes to Kikyo is his guilt (as you said, he was led to believe that Kikyo's death was his fault). Some people in this fandom do try to argue that since Kikyo is Inuyasha's first love, that makes her special and irreplaceable in Inuyasha's heart... but we see nothing of the sort in canon. Very early on in the series, back when Inuyasha still thought Kikyo had betrayed him, he promised himself he "wouldn't be swayed by a woman again" and we've seen him try to distance himself from Kagome by fear of getting hurt again, but him loving Kikyo before didn't stop him from falling in love with Kagome a mere few weeks/months after he initially found out that Kikyo was dead. He also never had any issue stating that Kagome was the first person he ever trusted, the first person to make him happy, the person he owes everything to and the person he was born to be with. In fact Inuyasha... never really says anything positive about his relationship with Kikyo. His best memory of their time together is him agreeing to be human to be with her, which we now know wouldn't even have worked because the jewel doesn't actually grant your wish. Kikyo was the first person to approach him and give him a chance, but at the cost of half of his identity. She gave him one option, the option to choose his human side, which he eventually realized wasn't necessary. That doesn't make his relationship with Kikyo insignificant of course, but there's nothing particularly special about it either that he can't get with Kagome.

Also, Inuyasha is extremely honor bound and despite his earlier claims that he "doesn't have time to save innocents" he is very much a savior who wants to help people in need. I raise an eyebrow when people claim that his dedication to wanting to save Kikyo from dying again is "proof" that he loves her "more than Kagome" because Inuyasha was also desperate to save Kohaku and he was heartbroken when Naraku seemingly managed to kill him..

He also felt guilty when Kagura died after he promised he'd tried to get her heart back from Naraku! Kagura, an incarnation of Naraku and someone who almost killed him before!

People who don't like Inuyasha and label him as a "two-timer" who "just can't get over his ex" don't understand just how good-hearted Inuyasha is. Inuyasha is a protector, that's his thing. His inability to protect Kikyo from Naraku is probably his greatest failure, asking him to just "get over it" because he has a new girlfriend is insane to me.

Anyway, I also wanted to mention that what I personally love about the Jinenji arc is that Jinenji's affection for Kagome and the way Kagome gained his trust pretty much parallel Kagome's relationship with Inuyasha. I mean, this arc was all about Inuyasha realizing that being by Kagome's side is were he belongs, and that he’s loved and accepted as a hanyo (something he never felt while being with Kikyo).

Kagome tried to befriend Jinenji and stood by him when he was called a monster, just like she did with Inuyasha:

Kagome asked Jinenji questions about himself and cared about what he wants to do, just like she did with Inuyasha: 

For both Jinenji and Inuyasha, Kagome was the first person to shed tears for them other than their mothers:

Jinenji experiencing warmth in his heart for the first time is very reminiscent of Inuyasha feeling relieved and content for the first time because of Kagome’s smile:

Like I said, those are not comparisons that can be made with how Kikyo treated Inuyasha, as she never really tried to learn more about him to understand what he truly needed and wanted. She never defended him against bigots who judged him, instead she thought changing him to fit human society would be easier. Inuyasha felt “like he did something wrong” at the sight of Kikyo’s sad face, he never felt happiness like he feels with Kagome and like Jinenji feels with her as well. 

So those are my thoughts on the Jinenji arc and how it parallels Inuyasha's feelings for Kagome!

#ask #Anon #inukik-critical #sorry again this has been sitting in my drafts for like a year #one of my new year resolution is to actually finish the things i start lmao

[tetradic-echinoidea]

It makes me sad that so much of the creative community on social media has succumbed into this petty squable about what kind of engagement is worthwile and how creators aren't content machines (which is true! but!) and how they're all going to leave if people don't start giving their energy to these creators in a specific way... like, girl. You know that's extremely toxic, right? You know that your followers and their followers aren't engagement machines only there to spread validation and help all artists grow an audience? That it's not ANY individual's job to build an audience for YOU??

If you've looked at social media these days, literally everything and everyone is screaming for our attention all the fucking time! Hey you're not engaging with the news enough, or in the correct way, or hey you didn't give a statement about this or that or you're not supporting artists and creators, because you are only liking things, which doesn't "do anything". By the way buy this product! Help these hundreds of people fundraising for money, why do you not reblog their posts?! Why aren't you caring enough?? Wow, you only liked this post again? Why aren't you helping these people??

Like. I'm sorry to say but as much as social media and the internet connects us, everyone has the right to determine the level of connection they want to have with you. Creators don't owe content to anyone, but no one fundementally owes them their energy and time (or space on their blog!) either.

Staking the existence of your creative pursuits on strangers, without their knowledge, is doomed to fail. A random person seeing your post and liking it has no clue you have set them an expectation of "helping you build your audience". They are primarily engaging with your work in a way that is comfortable and natural for them - whether or not that is through a simple like, reblog or a comment/ask. It might also reflect on how much they liked the thing they saw - or maybe they want to check it out later, who knows. It doesn't really matter. It does everyone a disservice assuming the worst of people who don't engage in the way you decided is correct and worthwile. You can't force people to be moved by your work, or to want to show it to other people. If they don't they don't. They aren't doing anything wrong by engaging with the things they truly love and care about, and not engaging with things that they do not want to engage with.

Sitting there seething that the people walking by aren't stopping to talk to you isn't gonna make those people wanna stop and talk to you. They don't fucking know or care that you want something specific from them in return for putting yourself out there on a website out of your own volition.

The unfortunate thing about creating art is that it is sometimes very lonely, and difficult. But there are things you can do to alleviate that without putting unfair and toxic expectations on total strangers. At some point you have to just realize, that to get the sort of engagement and conversation you want you need to go somewhere and ask for that. Whether it be your friends, mutuals, people you share fandoms with, or asking a more experienced creator for feedback. Finding groups where everyone wants to share and receive feedback.

I reblog things from my friends, and things that really speak to me or that I have something to say about, because that's what I want to be doing on my little blog. I wanna support the artists I wanna support! It doesn't mean I don't want the art I don't reblog to succeed, but no one can give their time and space to everything and anything they see. Give it to the things you like! Give it to the things you authentically want to give it to! I don't know about you guys but I would rather have 1 reblog by a person who really fucking loved something I did rather than 10 reblogs by people who reblog everything they come across out of some sense of duty.

Also, I am just asking - if the point of reblogs is to spread the work of an artist how the hell is a "dump side blog" with likely no followers going to do anything?? Anyway, sorry to the 5 non-bot and non-dead followers I have, I just needed to have another 0 note rant on the tungle because this shit irritates me to the nth degree. Truly social media's idea about helping and community is so fucked and full of toxic entitlement. Ideally a community is a place where people help each other, but social media is like. million little disjointed islands of semi-communities and constant flow of strangers between them. It really is not the ideal place for that deep sense of belonging.

#art discourse #vrambles

[yandreamings]

Yooooo, congrats on the new blog. It's always cool finding new writers for the fandom. Can I get a scenario or headcannons for yan Chuuya finding their s/o after they ran away with kids? Maybe she was pregnant when she escaped and now she's a working single mom. Thx!

I owe you an apology because this was the second request I received on this entire blog. 😭 I'm so sorry for how long this took! I hope you enjoy it and have a lovely day. <3 Reader is fem here.

NAKAHARA CHUUYA...!

You should have known better. Really, you should never have let your guard down- never have considered yourself to be safe, not while he was anywhere in your vicinity.

The grocery store was oddly busy that day. People rushing with their carts left and right, the shelves nearly barren. It wasn't exactly wise or enjoyable to shop with an impatient toddler in such a crowded spot, but you needed food, and today was your only free day from work.

It had been tough, to say the least. Your funds were incredibly low from the beginning, and having an extra mouth to feed wasn't helping. Not that you'd change it! No, you adored your child more than anything, and ever since you found out you were pregnant, you made it your purpose to keep them safe and sheltered, and that was working out thus far if you did say so yourself.

The two of you weren't living a life of luxury, by any means, but you were finally happy, finally free.

Well, at least that's what you were thinking when you reached the cash, and the total the cashier told you was a few thousand yen more than you anticipated.

"Ma'am?" Your head snapped towards the clerk who was looking at you expectantly, subtly eyeing the next few people in the checkout line. You could tell they were getting annoyed, and your child tugging at the hem of your shirt wasn't helping.

You exhaled shakily, "I-I'm sorry, just a moment, please," you stammered an apology, cursing silently in your head and rooting through your wallet again. It was fruitless- you didn't have enough money no matter how many times you looked.

"I'll have to put some things back, I-"

"There you are, baby. I've got this, don't worry." The hand firm on your shoulder and the heavy presence behind you were sudden, and you nearly felt your heart stop in your chest.

There was no way this was happening. You were in a different city, changed your appearance, used what money you could scrape together to make the move, your friends covering your tracks...

So why? Why was Chuuya here? Why couldn't he leave you alone, let you have a moment of peace?

It wasn't easy to get out of there, especially being heavily pregnant. Chuuya had security following you everywhere he couldn't and didn't hesitate to maim anyone who dared get too close to you. His overly protective nature only became increasingly insufferable when you told him you were with his child.

But that was why, when you finally took the plunge and were successful, you were bound and determined to make things right, both for yourself and the baby in your belly. You wouldn't be able to live with yourself if they had to grow up with him as a father.

If only it was that easy, huh?

Without any sort of hesitation or response from you, he pulled his card from his wallet and made the payment. "C'mon, let's go." An arm hooked around your waist. You didn't have much of a choice but to be dragged along, holding your child's hand and were unable to answer their inquires about who this man was.

"Don't worry, I'm your dad," he said it so easily, like he'd been waiting for this moment. "I've been on a trip, that's all. We have a lot to catch up on, huh?" He ruffled their hair, grinning like nothing was wrong, as if this was normal.

"Right, babe?" The way his hand tightened on your waist told you that you were in for it when you got home.

#chuuya nakahara #nakahara chuuya #yandere chuuya #yandere chuuya nakahara #yandere nakahara chuuya #yandere bsd #yandere bungou stray dogs #yandere #yandere x reader #yandere x you #yandere imagines #yandere x y/n #fem reader #female reader #fem!reader #female!reader

[quickdeaths]

☢ What fads/trends are you so over?

❥ Has someone ever ruined an FC or character for you?

☀ What's your rp pet peeve?

☢ What fads/trends are you so over?

Gosh do I even know any trends, who is to say.

Colored text on dash. I know a lot of people are very taken with it, but differently colored dialogue between characters just reminds me of RPing on vBulletin forums in like 2007. I don't mind it on people's actual blogs, but something about it against the white space on the dashboard is just not aesthetically pleasing to me.

Group Promos/Those "RP Finder" blogs. Basically anything that clogs up the tumblr RP tags with people directing to discord groups or 1v1, for two reasons. One, I run a tight ship here and don't follow a bunch of people, so I use the tags to find new mutuals. Probably once or twice a month, minimum, I go trawling through various general and fandom rp tags to find partners, and those posts clutter up the search. Even worse, while you can block them so you don't see their posts, there's a problem with tumblr (functioning website that it is) where if a search returns too many blocked posts at the start, it'll just never load more, so I have to keep these blogs visible so I can get to the good stuff.

The other reason I dislike them is because they're just not a culture fit for what my idea of tumblr rp is. I don't like huge group RPs where there's an expectation on writing with people because you're in the same group, and I don't often like the RP culture of some other sites, or discord, where people often have existing plots they want you to write, or where OC/Canon "doubling" is expected. I don't like that being brought to tumblr, especially when it's taking up our tag functionality to funnel people off of the site anyway.

I don't know really what to call this one but I guess RP toxic positivity? I don't want to come down too hard on it, because I think everyone's hearts are in the right place, and I don't know if that's really the best term for it, but you know what I'm talking about if I describe it - those posts that are like "I don't care if you take a year to reply, real life is more important!" or "You don't owe anyone anything, your blog is your space!" or "RP is a hobby not a jobby, don't ever feel like you have to take is so seriously!" and things like that.

I think it's a good mindset to understand that writing on Tumblr is not the be-all, end-all of life, and to give yourself some grace about things, but I also think as a collaborative hobby, we do owe each other things. Investment, moderately quick replies when possible, putting in what we want to get out, etc. I think people should curate their space as they like, yes, but also be understanding of the fact that not everything works for everyone, and that's okay too, and people who want some amount of commitment or schedule aren't bad people, they just experience the hobby different.

❥ Has someone ever ruined an FC or character for you?

FCs, not really. Honestly, I don't use icons anymore most of the time, and I can never keep up with the rules around stuff, who "can" or "can't be" used, what's too popular, what's "stealing" someone else's FC. I do think it's funny when people make OCs that use like the most visible characters of the most visible series of the year or whatever, but honestly, I don't really mind either way.

Characters... not permanently, but maybe temporarily. If someone's portrayal really rubs me the wrong way - like, for example, a super comedic portrayal of a character that I connect with or relate to a lot and that I think has a lot of depth - I usually just don't engage with that portrayal long. What more sort of puts a character on ice for me, at least for some time, is when I've had a close interaction with someone, and for OOC reasons, there was a falling out.

In a couple of instances over my, like, 11? 12? years writing on this site, I've had a ship partner or someone who I was very close with, where we ended up falling out as friends for various reasons, and that does always put me in a complicated position. On the one hand, I love the characters they were writing for their existence in canon, but also a great deal of what those characters were to me was defined by the specific portrayals my friends were writing. It would feel weird to move on and pretend those portrayals hadn't meant something to me, even if the friendship was over, and I didn't feel good about finding a new person who wrote that character quickly. Even connecting with the character in the original media felt kind of tinted a certain way, so I put those characters on the shelf for a little while, until some feelings had faded and it felt good to go back to them, whether that was the original material or someone else's portrayal, instead of bittersweet and complicated.

☀ What's your rp pet peeve?

Already answered!

But I will give you a bonus one anyway that we're both very aware of hahaha. People who treat OCs/female muses/female OCs, and their writers, badly. There's a feeling that those characters need to prove that they're worthy of people caring about them, while whatever hot hunky anime guy is in the flavor of the month anime deserves attention just for existing (I am thinking of a Specific Anime Man but y'all will never guess who). Another frustrating wrinkle is that tons of people acknowledge this is a thing that exists, and will lament it as it affects their own characters, and then immediately ignore it when it comes to who they're interested in.

In my many travels, I've encountered people who will write female OCs and make long, sad posts about how no one gives female characters/OCs a chance, and then their own blog is entirely their character interacting with male canons, so in that sense, the little secondary pet peeve here is people who do not practice what they preach on this kinda thing. That will never be me I am an irl girlkisser and girlenjoyer, give me your girls, female muses to the front of the line my characters would like to be your characters' friends and/or rivals and/or deeply complicated emotional and romantic-coded friendship that ends in the most devastating friendship over breakup ever and then who knows

#answered memes #thanks for the ask! #morethanaprincess #i am a queen of salt