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GUYS twilight vampires aren't actually vampires theory part 237 just dropped and I love it

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Kâinatın en güzel yeşilinin, Maçahel’in, gözlerinde olduğunu nereden bilebilirdim ki?

#drawn by me #art #artwork #macakızı8 #maça kızı 8 #macakizi8 #nazlı karabey #nazbor #bora karabey #wattpad #fanart

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Sooo… here’s my design of @diyunho ‘s scarlet witch ❤️❤️❤️

#drawn by me #art #artwork #joker #scarlet witch #my art #artsy #artist #artists on tumblr

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Aklımı başımdan alacak değil de aklımı başıma getirecek cinsten

#drawn by me #art #artwork #macakızı8 #maça kızı 8 #macakizi8 #dilarapamuk #bora karabey #nazlı karabey #nazlı alaca #nazbor

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My newest work of DTIYS ❤️

#dtiys #artists on tumblr #art #digital painting #digital fanart #clip studio paint #digital art #beautiful women #fantasy

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Done for the challenge of @roytheart_ in Instagram, Swing into your Soul

#xppen #clip studio paint #digital painting #digital fanart #digital art #drawthisinyourstyle #draw this in my style #draw this in your style #dtiys #the swing #fragonard

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Angelou, digital art

#maya angelou #angelou #blacklivesmatter #feminism #feminist #digital painting #digital art #artists on tumblr

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Virginia Woolf, Part 1

#virginia #virginia woolf #woolf #feminist #feminism #writerscommunity #female writers #art #digital painting #digital fanart

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forever removing “agree to disagree” from my vocabulary now i end all my arguments with “live with what makes you comfortable but know that ultimately you’re not telling yourself the truth” and that’s on me being sick and tired <3 we’re burning bridges today

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I started to watch this show because it was technically a children’s show and the fact that they cannot have a terrible ending that would cause trauma on children and knowing that held my crippling anxiety at bay. Feeling like a 🤡 rn.

Now WHY? Why does this fandom NOT consist of children? ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME WITH YOUR ANGST PEOPLE CAUSE I WILL BLOODY DIE!

[tiktok sobbing voice] listen, it’s a good theory—it’s a great theory even—but I need you to stop anyway. 😭

#why are your asses so addicted to angsr #this was supposed to be my comfort show #i knew everything was gonna be alright at all times #you took that away from me #how dare you

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Yakut, the woman of many faces- a study

#art #drawn by me #digital painting #digital fanart #digital illustration #oc #original work #original character #black and white #drawing #beautiful women #woman

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Funny thing happened to me recently.

Twitter was on fire a few weeks back when a lady who runs a podcast about being a better writer tweeted about how shitty fanfic is and how “bleak” it is that young writers are cutting their eyeteeth on it. She got massively, massively dunked on, which I’m sure ruined her week but was pretty great for the spectators, but this story isn’t about her.

I was clicking around in the discussion, and I found a guy who agreed with a lot of her points, and had tweeted like, “Good thing this lady’s got everyone talking about fanfic, maybe it will drive traffic to MY new article about how terrible fanfiction is!”

YOU GUYS. THIS ARTICLE.

A jeremiad is a literary form named for the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah. It is a work in which the author bitterly laments the corrupt and immoral practices of their times, and preaches about how this break from humanity’s more innocent past will lead to society’s immediate downfall.

And this article’s subheading is literally, “Fan culture’s endless search for “content” is leading us into artistic poverty.”

You can read it here, but the basic gist is: Fandom used to be about creativity and telling new stories, but now it’s just about sucking up whatever derivative drivel Disney wants to sell us and never demanding better from corporate mass media. Fans are slaves to capitalism and never resist being monetized or economically exploited!

At which point I was like… not only has this dude failed to prove that there was an Edenic “before” point, especially since he himself points out that Sherlock Holmes fans in the 1890s were clamouring for Arthur Conan Doyle to produce more content the same way Star Wars fans want new eps of The Mandalorian, but also, have you fucking met modern fandom?

And like, I get that in, say, video game fandoms, there are a ton of fans who scream loudly when their newest Call of Duty game release is pushed back two weeks because it’s not like the people making the thing need to eat or sleep, and when it’s out they scream at any reviewer who doesn’t give it 10/10. But this guy specifically comments on stuff like Sherlock, Star Wars, and slash fandom:

“[O]fficial shows or books could offer ambiguous homosocial/sexual relationships between characters with a nod and a wink, while counting on fans to generate the more explicit possibilities of Johnlock on Archive of Our Own. The [copyright owners] could therefore capture audiences hungry for homoerotic content without needing to create any themselves […] these corporations have realized that the existence of fan-made slash fiction means they don’t need to actually include diverse relationships in official works.”

THAT’S NOT HOW THIS WORKS

THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS

So I got Big Mad and I tweeted about it. And the author found and replied to my tweet, defending himself.

I pointed out how bad his takes were, especially since fan communities have been a leading force in the push for more diverse media over the last decade and fan frustration over Sherlock and recent Star Wars movies IN PARTICULAR led to mainstream publishing houses putting out books like Claire O’Dell’s A Study in Honor, where Holmes and Watson are Black lesbians, Zen Cho’s The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, a Rogue One Malaysia-inspired wuxia Baze/Chirrut love story, and Emily Skrutskie’s Bonds of Brass, the Finn/Poe space royalty AU the movies never gave us. I stayed civil, and I think I made some pretty good points.

Because, uh…

The magazine @ed me to say they’d buy my response article.

My word limit was 1600 because that was all they could afford to pay me for, so I had to cut out the part where my eyes rolled out of my head because this dude called some white guy who published a Sherlock Holmes pastiche in 1949 “the first truly archetypal ‘fan’“, but I’m mostly over that. I worked out some of my rage and cut my initial 3400 word draft down. I tried to focus on the facts.

And… it’s up. You can read it here.

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It is worse when you’re writing a crime fiction novel, though my friends don’t even bother to get creeped out anymore. 😂 @thefaultinourstudying

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Hey friend, how are you? 🌻

I’m good, thank you for asking ❤️🥰

How are you dear? ☺️