I Have Obsessions

Part time Sniperscout stan blog what can I say This is my account that I made for all my fandom and obsessions. May post a lot, may not :P. Also I’m a whumper and have a separate blog for that, but I guarantee it will bleed over onto this account, mark my words. Current kick: TF2. AO3: MatryoshkaDoll413

[fixatedonfandom]

If I discover your blog and suddenly bestow upon you like ten reblogs in a row I'm sorry you've got such good taste

[fixatedonfandom]

Tf2 trending in the year 2025

[fixatedonfandom]

I am an apologist for every single character in Stardew Valley except Morris.

[real-mirage]

penny?

[fixatedonfandom]

I am a penny apologist! She means well and doesn't always get it right but she tries so hard to make other people happy despite her circumstances.

[fixatedonfandom]

I am an apologist for every single character in Stardew Valley except Morris.

[marschive]

Begging you to please post the reigen edit you have of him to nails, hair, hips, heels it’s been one of my favorite edits and it doesn’t load properly on Twitter anymore so I can’t show people 😭

ask and u shall receive

[girlnephew]

[inappropriateuseof]

Inappropriate use of Tom Jones

[fixatedonfandom]

I know in my heart this was TF2

[ilykotetsu]

sniperscout animation i made with art by @slimsnipes !!

[helldivers-2]

2185 has arrived, Helldivers! 💪

[twistcmyk]

[davy-jones-lock3r]

fun fact! this is the best moment in cinema history

[slimsnipes]

catching up 🎄

[fixatedonfandom]

Honest to God, i never anticipated Scout being the divorced one in this dynamic. But I was a fool for not doing so and the comic artists were not.

[thetriggeredhappy]

links: eric wolpaw’s tweet, the reddit post, and apparently a PCGames Article

[sketchy-mf]

[oblique-lane]

Trade for @ludotpng !!! spicyyyy 🌶️🌶️🌶️

[fixatedonfandom]

Shoving this whole thing into my mouth

[silverjirachi]

saw an absolutely hilarious animal crossing theory that i now 100% accept and it’s that in the animal crossing world, humans are going extinct, and so all the animals have locked you in an elaborate zoo enclosure and are trying to give you enrichment. and that’s why they give you infinite pointless tasks, hide money in trees and rocks, invented debt that doesnt matter etc. it’s why they always act so happy to see you even after you raze the entire island, relocate their houses twice, and always act so pleased about your choices no matter what. it’s all to keep their little endangered human healthy and enriched. and thinking of it this way has genuinely improved my experience of the game

[silverjirachi]

Like i am just sitting here picturing them all getting together for a meeting like

“Shit. Humans are going extinct. What sorts of things do humans do”

“Uh.. build societies?”

“Fuck you’re so right Coco. Tom Nook, go reinvent capitalism stat”

[crimsonkingart]

Nighty camping 🔥🔥

[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

[fixatedonfandom]

I'm certain this absolutely happens, but in what circles does this happen? I've written several stories for multiple fandoms of varying sizes (books, games, anime, etc.) and I've never had a problem with engagement to this extent.

As an author I also have no problem with people discussing my works away from where I can see it. It makes me giddy to think of people reading my stuff even when I'm not around to see it, as it usually means their enjoyment is genuine and they're not just being a clapping seal in my comments section. I've never been in a fandom where there's a high amount of outside engagement but no direct engagement, I've never even seen that before. But, again, I'm absolutely certain it happens, I just don't know where.

Unfortunately, we authors do have a part to play in this phenomenon, as there is a bad culture of toxic positivity in modern fan spaces which make it impossible for the average commenter to know whether or not their comment will make an author upset at them unless their comment is a 100% screaming enjoyment of the fic. I have been in a server where the entire place lit up like a pissed off cat at the notion of someone discussing a fic (over discord, so, not even direct engagement) and giving it a balanced review of the good and bad parts, behaving like theyd just sent that author a death threat and "are we really going to allow this behavior in our fandom?!" So.

If they didn't enjoy the fic to that extent, then that would deter them from commenting. The fault is not solely on the consumer. Some fault lies with the bad actors and white knights that permeate our circles intimidate readers into being Little more than yes-men responsible for upholding the mental wellbeing of a stranger on the internet. That's not fair.

But, if you're a reader, and you read a fic you like, it means the world to authors if you tell us. You're not obligated, as we're doing this for free and (allegedly) for fun, but it is a good motivator and the recognition is nice.