sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess of war

she/he | just some guy ao3 > 13th_blackbird

[roseworth]

i don’t want to be angry anymore i’m never going to hate again unless someone says something really stupid or if i see something i don’t like at all or maybe just whenever i feel like it

[littlemut]

oh for sure

[concerningwolves]

You will never 100% idiotproof your creative work & if you try to, you will only succeed in smothering the soul out of it. btw

[grox]

no one wants to fuck you because you’re mean and strange

So?

[grox]

Wait hold up this is awesome. So not because I'm ugly?

[jayebat]

'underground shrine' flood channels beneath greater tokyo

[vyvilha]

i think i don't really vibe with most other fans of my favorite male characters is because they usually depict them too much of a man, and i am not interested in men, i am interested in The Character. and i am not saying that they should depict them as women, or nonbinary, or should depict them as feminine, no, not at all. but there's like, you know, you can depict a male character as The Character, and you can depict them as The Man. do you get me? like, i go to the fandom looking for art and fics, and it's just, regardless of his actual characterization, it's all just fantasizing about some kind of an abstract dominant patriarch, wearing my favorite character's face. it may be the most totally-wouldnt-have-normal-relationships (and sometimes even would-literally-abuse-you) kind of guy, and you join a dedicated space for his fans, and all they talk about is how they want to marry and start a tradcore 50s style nuclear family with him. it can be a guy who's arrogance and attempts of domination are explicitly shown to be a facade that hide the fact that he's actually kind of a massive pathetic wet loser, and you go to his fics, and they're all depicting him as a caricaturish daddy dom. at this point it's like, do you even like the character at all, or do you just like The Man, and project this man onto whatever character you find visually attractive? and these people kind of, really really poison actual discussion of the character, who is kind of a fucked up evil person (i only like *those* types, so im talking about them) because they see analysis of the actual character as an attack on their fantasized daddy dom husband, who is actually isn't The Character at all, and is simply a face of the day for The Man

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

There are lots of reasons why fandom is "quieter" now than it used to be. Some theories are more compelling to me than others, and they all have a different scale of impact. We'll never know for sure, of course, but I like to think about it. Thus, this poll.

Of the list below, which reason do you find most compelling or do you think had the biggest impact?

New entrants to fandom don't know the old ways

fandom olds didn't teach the newcomers how to fandom

covid/surge in fandom due to quarantine and lockdowns

"antis" and other harassment campaigns against creators

creators posting complaints about comments (people worry about commenting wrong)

rise of discord popularity - fandom is walled off from each other

tumblr porn ban and other reasons people left the site

capitalism turning fandom into a passive "view and move on" commodity

rules from social media impacting fan culture (eg. don't comment on old posts)

general state of the world / burnout

social anxieties in an increasingly complex online culture

"surveillance state" worries and not wanting to be perceived

Remaining time: 6 days 18 hours

This is an incomplete list, so if your most compelling reason isn't listed, feel free to add it in the notes.

[hawkpartys]

it must feel good as fuck to walk on the surface tension of water as a bug

[lakevida]

so just because i ahve a rare and incurable condition where i can only understand human suffering thru the lens of showtunes and cartoons aimed at preteens means my posts about labor disputes aren't insightful? tch [turns on my heel and like five pins fall off my little backpack with nothing inside except the leather journal i'm writing my fantasy novel in] [turns back around immediately] so yeah it's sort of a chaotic found family story and it's like really wholesome but feral AF and there's a lot of queer representation

[deanwinchesterapologist]

finding a new doctor. applying for jobs. searching for apartments. messaging used car dealers. getting your health insurance to do their job. getting a pharmacy to do their job. getting the dmv to accept the documents they told you to bring. just listing things they probably make you do in hell

[bromdebus]

*Crimson Raine the hydra opens her silver eyes and looks towards the rising sun* this is a going to be fun *she leaps from the ledge of her mountain den and soars through the air showing everyone her strength. She straight and cisgender but is an ally*

[byjove]

sometimes I think the world is ending and then I remember people have thought the world is going to end within their lifetime for at least 1,500 years and they were all wrong and had to live through this bullshit anyway

[h4nifah]

this idealistic self-optimised fully healed completely emotionally regulated and stable person with zero negative qualities or behaviours that people imagine you can become after a certain amount of healing or therapy literally doesn’t exist

[moghedien]

Actually I do have a problem with those cartoony style cover for hyper sexual romance books and it’s like the inverse problem for me of people referring to everything as porn

Becauase my god those covers are so fucking unhorny they should be ashamed

Like ok ok ok half the time I see the discourse around this it’s people getting mad because they seem like they’re marketing “porn” to kids with those covers and like, that’s a stupid “think of the children” argument to shame grown adults for liking sexual content. And they’re clearly marketing to adults who have previously only ever been comfortable reading YA but that’s not even what I’m talking about and a whole other issue

What I’m talking about is those cartoony ass covers are so fucking bland that I would never pick one up randomly and give it a try knowing nothing about it, because it looks like such a bland hallmark romance and I want to read about fucking

Like we used to be a society. We used to have full painted bodice ripper covers with like tits and cock about to bust out of clothing. And it doesn’t even have to be that blatant you can make it horny and be subtle about it but modern every hyper sexual romance is giving 2010s indie graphic novel in the worst way. We used to make horny covers for porn and you knew it was gonna be horny porn when you looked at it. Now it’s so fucking boring and no one is finding that hot babes

[ri5k]

[captain-price-returns]

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

[velvetcloak]

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