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[asterism-ely]

ely

hi. this blog isn't the most coherent, but neither are a lot of things in life.

legally an adult i guess. idk my sexuality but i do know i'm demiromantic and nonbinary.

no dni, i'll just block if i don't like you (or if you're completely blank or a spam bot)

feel free to reblog my posts, if i don't want a post to be reblogged i'll just turn off reblogs anyway

i tag #tw flashing lights when applicable.

there may be some NSFW reblogs

i do not claim ownership of media in original posts unless tagged as such (#my_). reuploaded media belongs to their rightful owners. if you own any content i've reuploaded and want it taken down, feel free to send a private message

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[nanoa1foryou]

Would anyone be interested in some pride related Finnish music recs? idk if I should do an ask game thingy or just a recommendations list

[nanoa1foryou]

Ok, did some lesbian recs. I’m thinking aro and/or ace recs next. How’s that sound?

[vampireautism]

there is an IMAGE in my HEAD and i cannot DRAW IT. hatred and rage.

[flowerflamestars]

there is a CONVERSATION in my HEAD and I cannot WRITE IT. rage and hatred

[ocean-stuck]

there is a VIDEO in my HEAD And i cannot ANIMATE IT. hage and ratred

[y2kbugs-moved]

There is a GAME in my HEAD and I cannot CODE IT. Ratred and hage.

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

there is a SONG in my HEAD and I cannot COMPOSE IT. haged and rate.

[gender-luster]

there is a MOVIE in my HEAD and i cannot FILM IT. raged and hate

[yahooo-official]

there is a CRAFT in my HEAD and i cannot BUILD IT. snage and snatred

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[the-irreverend]

And stay safe everyone!

[prettyboysinpain]

Also the horrors🧱

[prettyboysinpain]

Extra bricks up for grabs -> 🧱🧱🧱🧱

(actually if anyone quotes this with a specific tag I will edit it on as a treat)

[unyieldingsilence]

‎ ‎

[prettyboysinpain]

They don’t look so good..

[prettyboysinpain]

Biblical levels of greed btw

[prettyboysinpain]

I think we can stop throwing bricks at them, the blorbo is DOWN.

[prettyboysinpain]

ENOUGH

[prettyboysinpain]

“Ooughh…”

YAY!! The loop has reset and the blorbo is once again safe from the horrors <3

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

I think a really good relationship dynamic is when one partner is an entirely absurd person and the other partner's perpetual thought process is, "I adore you. Why are you like this? I'm going to kiss you at such length and with such fervor that you'll get disoriented and stop being like this for five minutes and I can rest, for fuck's sake."

[femboy-nation-rise]

I am so glad that I live in a world with trans women and trans men and nonbinary people and intersex people. Things are hard for all of us right now, but I love you all and I am wishing that things get better and easier for all of us! ❤️

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[ao3commentoftheday]

I'm loving the discussions about the role and purpose of fandom, as well and what activities are needed to keep fandoms alive and flourishing!

However... as a fandom creator (writer and artist), I sometimes feel like too much pressure is concentrated on creators. I don't know if this is a frustration others share? Not only should we keep making things, but somehow we also end up becoming these central fandom figures who can feel pressured into responding to comments (or else we're called arrogant or ungrateful), making friends (or else we're rude for ignoring well-meaning people who reach out), and being the drivers and pillars of that community (running events, responding to memes, etc. – and everything falls silent if we stop). It's a lot of work!! I don't always have the time and energy to make things for fun and then also engage in all the ways people might sometimes feel entitled to because they enjoy my works.

I really wish that more "non-creating" fans in the community would discover their fandom power!! and not just rely on the visible "producing" creators to be the only people worth engaging with. It takes nothing more than passion to write a meta-post about a character or a plot point, or to create an ask game, or to DM someone else who you see posting funny tags – not just the creator! Maybe your followers have other tips for evening out the balance a little more?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this, anon. This is an observation I've seen in many parts of life, not just fandom.

A lot of people feel as though they need permission or an invitation of some sort in order to contribute. That's why I always end my answers by asking people to share their thoughts. I want to make it explicitly clear that I want people to add things into the reblogs (which I can then share out for more people to see) and the replies (which people can at least read even if I can't reblog).

I have heard fans who are readers but don't write fic say that they think they can't get an AO3 account unless they plan to post something. This is incorrect, of course, but a lot of people make that assumption.

I think at least some people (I don't know what kind of percentage) assume that someone who is writing fic or posting art or making podfics and video edits etc. has some sort of expertise that "allows" them to post.

People with less confidence or with less practice etc. sometimes need an extra nudge before they realize that they're welcome to contribute too. If that's the case for you, please allow me to say:

You are welcome to post in your fandom, even if no one invites you to. Even if you think you're not good enough. Even if your idea isn't "popular."

Start a conversation. Share a thought. Talk to folks who reblog cool shit. Be a folk who reblogs cool shit. You don't have to do everything in order to do something.

As mentioned above, please do share your thoughts in the reblogs and replies to keep the conversation going.

[leomonae]

Other things people can do:

make a rec list

make a "here's all the fics I've found in this fandom with this one trope/general vibe/very particular setup I just think is Neat" list

make a "welcome to the fandom, here's the fics that people will just assume you've read/know about to get you started" list

make a "if you liked [popular fic A] you might enjoy [less well known fics B through N]" list

[iguanodonwildman]

More things you can do!

Create whumps lists

Create lists of shippy moments

Make screenshot collections

Record and post clips of your show to get more people into your fandom

Make incorrect quote memes

Make silly little TikTok-style edits of your favs

Make character playlists

Figure out the layout of buildings/cities

Recreate those building in the Sims or with an online floor planner or even just draw it out because holy hell writers will be so thankful for that

Make your blorbo in various video game character creations

Build a pokemon team for your blorbo

Make up silly headcanons! What does everyone do at the fair or the beach or during a fire drill?

Outline a fic idea you have — maybe you don’t have the time or energy or you just don’t feel confident enough to create it, but share it anyway!

Create outfits based on your blorbo’s design or outfits they would wear

There are so many ways you can engage with fandom that aren’t making fanart or writing fanfics. Fandom is community - Please don’t be afraid to join in!

[pancake-surprise]

(I've been on tumblr for 15 years, far longer than I was ever on twitter, but I've never engaged much beyond reblogging so please pardon how many times I reference fandom activities I witnessed on twitter)

Collect interviews with the author, producer, director, mangaka etc

Similarly, translate interviews

I remember someone in the haikyuu!! fandom kept a twt thread of every time two characters were in the same panel. Not sure what the tumblr equivalent would be. I guess just a regular old post with lots of additions? (Send help; i'm not sure why my brain is struggling so badly to translate twitter threads to tumblr posts)

Run a quote bot account: I'm not sure of the status of quote bots in a post twitter era, but those were quite fun. Again an example from the hq!! fandom, there was the hq!! bastille bot which would spit out a bastille lyric + a ship. The siken bot would spit out a line of poetry + a ship name. On tumblr maybe the equivalent would be a gimmick blog?

Run a ship/character week. I think these are probably the easiest kind of fandom event to run. it doesn't take more than one person, a blog, and rudimentary graphics skills.

Are socmed AUs still a thing?

Make gifs

Try to figure out the layers to a character's outfit and share your studies with the world. (I'm looking directly at you, Hoyoverse and all you're what-even-is-that how-do-they-even-put-that-on character design. beautiful, but confusing)

Update fandom wikis

Log fandom history on fanlore.org (another project run by the Organization for Transformative Works, aka the parent of ao3)

Volunteer for the Organization for Transformative Works/ao3

[marypsue]

Fandom wikis!! One thousand blessings upon everyone who maintains fandom wikis, oh my god.

Some suggestions:

Transcribe episodes for film/audio canons

Podfic! We can always use more podfic, and most people's phones have a voice recorder.

Create bingo sheets (e.g. make a fanwork with five or more of these tropes for a bingo; read/reblog fanworks in five or more of these categories for a bingo)

Be a Your Blorbo expert consultant! If I'm writing about a character I don't have strong feelings about, but I know one of my friends is constantly reblogging and posting about them, even if it's all silly memes and "character <3"-type posting, I'll sometimes reach out to them for advice on if I'm getting Their Blorbo right. It's absolutely invaluable and I appreciate these people so much.

We are all just enthusiastic nerds on the internet. You have as much right to share your enthusiasm as anyone. One of the things I love about tumblr as a platform is that you can just start saying whatever about something you like, and you will find other people who like it too.

[pyresrpgear]

I just want to emphasize these 2 ideas from above.

Make up silly headcanons! What does everyone do at the fair or the beach or during a fire drill?

Outline a fic idea you have — maybe you don’t have the time or energy or you just don’t feel confident enough to create it, but share it anyway!

These 2 can be so helpful for creators too.

I have ended up writing at least a few fics inspired by posts like these. And, at least I do this, when an author finishes the fic odds are they will link back to the original post that inspired it, and/or gift the fic to you on ao3 if they know your handle. I did one like this and it ended up sitting on my computer finished for quite awhile until I saw people posting happy birthday wishes to the person who made the original post. So I dusted off the fic and gifted it to her as an impromptu birthday present.

One thing I would recommend if you’re going to post fic outlines or ideas, let people know in the post if they are free to play with it. I know some people (especially those with anxiety) may be hesitant to take an idea and run with it from a post like that without explicit permission.

And this all comes with the double added bonus of both more stuff (fic, art, gifsets, etc) in your fandom, but also it gives you a great excuse to interact with someone you might not have otherwise.

[cussundria-nerd-kneal]

Another addittion I didn't see included, but falls under meta: theory crafting

Looking at the story, the structuring, and trying to make your predictions!

Talking and sharing ideas or thoughts and passing them around has always been a big part of my personal fandom experience. And, if someone disagrees with you, don't become defensive! Listen and think about what they're saying! (But also don't attack the person and come off too harsh if you're the one disagreeing) Because one of my favorite long term fandom discussions I ever participated in was with a guy who disagreed with me on my take for a character over on Youtube comment section. He provided evidance to why he disagreed, and then presented to me with the expectation that I try to refute his points. And I did! I spent an entire week passing this discussion back and forth with him. And by the end, we came to a mutual agreement; we convinced each other of things we hadn't considered about the character or the story and it ended on a really positive note. Other people joined in once in a while and added to the discussion, or sometimes we'd get comments just saying "I'm reading this with a bag of popcorn this is such an interesting comment chain"

And I don't see that anymore. It's all share a thought, and it sinks like a rock. Or, a thought is shared, and people rip it apart without ever giving the person the benefit of the doubt.

So, adding to playlists, sharing interviews, creating fanart, making music, writing fanfic, creating edits, breaking down episodes, crafting theories, discussing disagreements, transcribing episodes-- it all leads to keeping the fandom alive!

[annamariemir4ge]

there are times when i get caught up in the middle of conversations and concluding "i'm too acespec for this shit"

[inthetags]

reblog and put in the tags your favorite genre combinations in fiction. (example: investigative horror i.e. mystery and horror. or for a more common example, romcom i.e. romance and comedy)

[asterism-ely]

idk much about minttu but i'm watching her ylexpop set and i do think she's a good performer

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

God being a writer would be so great if I didn't have to write anything

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Wait I just remembered that ai books exist and the empty spectre of being a writer without writing anything suddenly gave me the urge to eat nails. Post rescinded. I'll write the fucking chapter.

[cat-the-comet]

devastating: artist who has not practiced fundamentals enough to execute high concept idea eats shit

[artfight]

after the switch to HTML, every image I add to my description is the same large size by default. when I make it smaller, I still can't have multiple images in one row. it's really messing with my layout and idk what to do about it

You can change the size of images and how they're displayed in your description via HTML now! To do this, you need to first open Code View.

Once there, you can edit everything included in our whitelist for HTML, which you can see in our Art Fight HTML Guidelines document.

As an example, to change the size of an image, you need to edit the style of your <img> tag that contains the link of the image you're trying to edit.

In this image, I resized the second image (which used to be 300x300px by default) to be 100x100px. Now, exiting code view, it looks like this in editor:

Here's some other resources that could be useful for you: W3Schools, Bootstrap Documentation

[artfight]

Additionally, you can also edit an image file without going into HTML! All you need to do is click on the image, click on the ruler icon on the menu that pops up, and input the size you want.

For both methods of changing image size, if you set only the height or width of the image and leave the other as auto, it’ll proportionally downsize the image!

[annamariemir4ge]

kuumaa picture of the day #678

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