Fandoms and Fanart

Just me, the gay witch bean geeking out over my fandoms. Feel free to geek out with me!

[loelniam]

CALL THIS NUMBER and at least leave a message

DO NOT let them get away with this!!

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[gaywitchbean]

my ancient 7-year-old iPad is officially named Ancalagon the Black, for whenever I use it I for more than 15 minutes it burns with the flaming passion of a thousand suns

[walkininawincestwonderland]

thoughts and prayers to anything you believe in my community theater is opening our musical tonight and our lead just got admitted to the hospital yesterday

we don’t have an understudy 👍😬👍

[catsbypawty]

Hello, tumblr user. Before you is a tumblr post asking you to name a female fictional character. You have unlimited time to tag a female character, NOT a male one.

Begin.

[gaywitchbean]

I was reading book reviews in this conservative Christian magazine (WORLD) that my parents subscribe to and I found one about trans people (oh no) so I read it and it basically went like this:

“—So it is important to recognize that the concept of gender is, in fact, separate from biological sex—”

(wait huh?)

“—But if we divorce these ideas completely then gender has no meaning—”

(HOLLLLYYY SHIT. HOLY SHIT YES. GUYS ITS HAPPENING)

“—so one must conclude that humanity is to follow the meaning dictated by their biological sex.”

(WAIT NO. WE WERE SO CLOSE! How do you get all the way to “gender is a social construct” and then crawl right back into your transphobic hole and barricade it with “but sexism, actually”?? Istg guys we tried so hard and GOT SO FAR—)

I can’t anymore guys. I’m going to bed

[thattripleabattery]

[gaywitchbean]

my homos! heaven smiles down upon the middle gay

[walkininawincestwonderland]

here’s the first like 10 seconds of the meme that I have done: it’s the first thing I’ve ever animated and goddamnit animating is hard :(((

The song I’m using is “STRUT” by Emeline btw

[gaywitchbean]

animation meme!

[walkininawincestwonderland]

!!ART DUMP!!

so I’m making an animation meme

and I need a bunch of still frames of my original character in several different outfits

so here you go: his name is Selwyn, he’s twenty-one, and he has femboy tendencies

[gaywitchbean]

art hehe

[gaywitchbean]

”But you gotta understand something, Dean: I watched you die. And I carried you. I carried your corpse into your room and I put your dead body on your bed, and then you just—”

“Yeah.”

“Yeah.”

“I know.”

—S11E4, Paper Moon

the thing is, Dean does know. What Sam describes here is basically exactly the same thing Dean did when Sam died at the end of season 2, and here is his little brother trying to justify his actions by unwittingly bring up one of Dean’s worst memories. But the difference is that Dean sold his own soul, and Sam sold someone else’s.

[shinisenko]

[nockergeek]

My partner and I cancelled our Adobe accounts today because of this. Imagine if makers of physical art media had the right to pilfer your sketchbooks because you used their pencils and paints. That’s basically what Adobe is trying to foist on everyone.

[dduane]

These guys are way too famous for overreach. WTF.

[alymccart]

[delyth-thomas-art]

Here's how to cancel for free

Cancel Adobe without paying the cancellation fee

How to cancel your adobe subscription without paying the cancellation fee.

[zerozerozio]

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

[boimann]

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

[bacony-cakes]

please bother me with questions and statements

[gaywitchbean]

here’s the last piece!

[starrose17]

No one reblogs on tumblr anymore.

No one leaves comments on Ao3 anymore.

Seriously people the lack of fandom interaction these days makes me genuinely depressed, it never used to be like this, makes me wonder what's the point of coming online to do anything anymore.

Reblog a post so other people can see it.

Leave a comment so the author doesn't feel like giving up.

Fandom cannot live on Likes or Kudos alone.

[ftl-faster-than-life]

You don’t have to interact with every piece of fanwork that you come across, but you do have to interact with fanwork. That’s how it works. Fanwork is not ‘free dlc’ for your favorite media, and it isn’t meant to be passively consumed. Art is communication and fandom is a conversation. Join in! Join in!

[somnambulic-thing]

It wasn't so long ago that I saw enthusiastic readers organize writing fests, or art prompt events and make extensive rec lists of fics, or resources or meta posts, actively shaping the environment of their fandom. Readers who found an active place in a community and got so much satisfaction from that.

Now the main load falls to those who are creators. Make the thing, promote the thing, get it out to people, then read the stuff of your friends, look around for more and find new artists and writers while working on your next wip, have an offline life and feel bad about not being able to keep up with the series of your friends because, damn, you know they have been kinda down about feeling irrelevant and ignored.

Fandom as a concept and form of community holds so many possibilities and chances because it's full of people creating for creations sake, out of love for something and not for cold profits.

Do you actually understand how special that is?

Creating in a community like that doesn't have to come in the form of fics or art but can also be the creation of events and fandom structures, of inspiration and motivation and... everything you fucking want.

[aidaronan]

I want to add because this isn't an element that I ever see on these posts: you may have to train/retrain your brain to enjoy and value these types of interactions, and it might feel a little bit like work to do so. Our brains are becoming so trained on quick hits and content that 'expires.' We're also increasingly on an internet that elevates just flat out being mean, which makes interacting scary even though fandom spaces (while not without drama) are generally inviting, esp for those surface level interactions like comments/reblogs. Commenting and interacting with things is supposed to be fun and joyful and community-building, but it might not FEEL like it at first if you aren't used to it or have gotten out of the habit. It might feel tiring or even a little scary. All that to say, you might have to make it a point to comment more and to build those muscles and prove to your brain that it's actually not so bad and is, in fact, kinda nice. You might have to build up to it. "I'll comment on 1/10 fics I read, even if it's just 10 whole characters of a comment." And then you can up the number of comments and experiment with the types of commenting you like to do, until it feels more normal and natural. Until you know you are the type to yell incoherently or the type to comment a string of emoji or the type to leave whole analysis essays using floaty review box. (Maybe you're all depending on the day.) There will still be times you don't feel like it and that's okay. There's times I don't feel like it and I'm an author. There isn't a quota or a requirement. Just joy to be spread and to be had.

[gaywitchbean]

oi oi have another one

[gaywitchbean]

Oh nothing much just designing dresses for a friend’s dnd campaign what’s up with u?