A Cold Day in the Underwhere

Ezra | 26 | They/she | Just a place for my fandom bullshit because I have no chill (Mostly Super Mario RN) https://ko-fi.com/jayyydez

[jamiesfootball]

Huge shout out to all the people who read fics. Who actually take the time out of their busy days to open a fic and read it

Before I started writing in earnest, I did not understand how much writing was going to eat into my fic reading time. We joke about having too many tabs open, but I have a different problem: the amount of tabs I have open on new fics is way smaller than it used to be. My ao3 wrapped would be a sad affair. Unless I’ve subscribed to an author or come across something on my dash, I basically don’t see it

Which has really driven home for me how much fandom cannot just be creators. You have to have people who want to read fic and meta discussions and joke posts. You have to have people who want to look at art and gifs. It has to be mutual.

Community thrives on flow. You have to have that movement of people sharing things with each other for a community to exist

Thank you fic readers. You keep things flowing

[bowuigixxlwoofia]

I love how the movie low key references how sassy Luigi can be with his posing antics.

It’s funny how he’s like this only with Mario.

[itsavee4117]

Adding more to this:

[jayyydez]

Today had, already, been a thoroughly rotten day. So rotten, in fact, that Bowser was fighting the urge to spit fire and snort smoke. There was a twinkle of Kamek’s voice in his head that it was unbecoming for a young prince to lose his temper in public. Or maybe it wasn’t in his head and Kamek had indeed said such a thing aloud again, but he’d mentally filled in the gaps of “prince” instead of “king”. Fuck if he knew. He just knew he had been irritable and antsy since before he’d properly even woken up. Fitful sleep, shimmers of nightmares he couldn’t recall clearly now but knew all the vivid details of in the dark of night, with this growing agitation every time he awoke again. He should have known, should have recalled the date. It was an anniversary. The anniversary of when he was declared the king. Not of his coronation, not of when it was all made official, but the day that he was determined to be the last one standing. The last one standing that even remotely wanted the throne. And he had wanted it. Wanted it more than was probably wise. He’d wanted the power, the control. The ability to do more. To serve his people. To become the face of his people, the face of a new era, to become a bringer of prosperity to the Darklands, to go down in history. To be King. He also had wanted to live. And there had really only been one way to do that. Only one path forward for him.

[jayyydez]

What happened to ki56?!

All their stuff and the blog and fics are gone D:

[arimari81-70]

How it feels logging onto Tumblr to read fics after joining a new fandom

[connoisseurofmantits]

How I feel with venom right now

[intosnarkness]

Here’s the thing: authors know when they get a rec on an older story. There’s a telltale uptick of kudos (with a 10-15% comment rate if you’re lucky) in your digest email.

The thing is, there’s no way to know where these people are coming from. In the before, when fandom was more in the corners we all knew about, you could search LJ or a message board or whatever social bookmarking site we were using. You could join the community and participate.

You could get a little dopamine hit by seeing someone tell their friends why they loved your story.

Anymore, those recs are hidden in discords, or in tiktoks or instagram slideshows that you can’t search for. They’re inaccessible, not discoverable unless you’re already there. You may never know why 27 people left kudos on an old story of yours, what they liked and found in your writing. You just get the thumbs up and a kinda lonely feeling, cause these could be your people. You could like them, maybe. You could be friends.

But you’ll never find out why they stopped by, or what people are saying about you behind your back, and that’s sad.

So thank you to the people who still do public rec lists on this webbed site. You are my sunshine, and I’m appreciative of all of you.

[quietwingsinthesky]

the draw of arranged marriage AUs to me is really the way the dubcon of it all binds them together. neither of them have a choice in being here, something else is foisting this upon them whether that’s their parents or the political situation around them or expectation or something else, but the point is that they don’t get that one choice. so they have to make a choice somewhere else, that now that they’re here, they’re going to make it work. they’re each other’s only allies, in this cage built around them. they may have been coerced into swearing to stand by each other through anything, but they did swear.

[quietwingsinthesky]

it’s not love at first, or second, or third sight. it’s not love in the wedding bed the first time, whether they grit their teeth through it or decide together to forgo that binding step and try to get around it as long as they can. it’s about sharing a bed with a stranger while you learn their nightmares and how they hog the covers. it’s about sharing a name before you even know each other’s hobbies. the appearances you have to keep up, and the connection you find in both being exhausted by them, laughing together because isn’t it ridiculous how you not only have to be married but you have to act like it’s perfect and lovely for everyone else watching. it’s love that creeps up quiet and slow, between shared secrets that make your wedding bands mean something for the first time, and trying to protect each other from the trap you’re both in. and it’s about having the mortifying thought of “oh my god, i have a crush on my wife.”

[mint-fixates]

We already have a lot of facts pointing to RadioStatic getting its own time in Season 3 from Viv, from Amir, from Christian yet people still keep whining that RadioStatic will be forgotten in Season 3. It’s madness. I genuinely don’t understand some people, especially those who fall for the propaganda that Vivienne doesn’t like RadioStatic. Girl, this woman dedicated an entire season to this relationship dynamic, and their storyline has been running through the show like a white thread since Season 1. By the way, RadioStatic are the only relationship so far to have flashbacks from the past, aside from Stolitz. I think Lucilith will probably get them too.

Obviously, their relationship won’t be the same as it used to be anymore, but that’s even for the better, because they stayed stuck in 70 years of hostility. The best decision to distance them from each other would be to make everything completely one-sided, but Alastor’s behavior and other details from the show (the microphone, for example), which the creators like to use, suggest the opposite.

Then these same people say that RadioStatic is being used as a parallel to ValAngel, so that both Vox and Valentino can get out of their “toxic” relationships and finally reunite for real, even though ValAngel is a completely different type of relationship.

So much whining and so little effort to actually think instead of complaining. Sometimes I feel like leaving the fandom until Season 3 starts just so I don’t clutter my head with all this, but thankfully there are still people like you, for example, who are still capable of analyzing things and letting themselves feel emotions.

Heavilyyyyy agreed w all of this Nonny. Honestly between everything we got in S2, the amount of teases we've gotten from the cast and crew, The Offer Card and The Sparks Duo Print rn is the weirdest time to be doomer-y abt Radiostatic. We're doing great rn y'all what are we worried about 💀

[havinganormalone]

Fanfiction is insane. You can write porn so good you make friends.

[gigglygamer]

Reblog if Fan Fics are just as valid as Fan Art

Affirmation for writers, please!!

Likes do nothing!!

[rat-rambles]

Velvette needs more credit.

She's the one who kicked Vox off the weapon.

She's the one that draged Val into helping with hear my hope.

But who gets all the credit. The man.

[yugiohz]

DID MY YAOI STICKERS ARRIVE

[yugiohz]

it was my bachelor degree 😑

[jayyydez]

You know, I should probably actually post and reblog things instead of hoarding them in my drafts

[jayyydez]

I do think it's very fun that, while Luigi is my current shipping bicycle for Mario stuff, historically it was Bowser that I was tossing at every goddamn body

[cancerously]

I feel like with the new ~fandom drama~ or whatever going around, I should re-introduce my favorite theory of fandom, which I call the 1% Theory.

Basically, the 1% Theory dictates that in every fandom, on average, 1% of the fans will be a pure, unsalvageable tire fire. We’re talking the people who do physical harm over their fandom, who start riots, cannot be talked down. The sort of things public news stories are made of. We’re not talking necessarily bad fans here- we’re talking people who take this thing so seriously they are willing to start a goddamn fist fight over nothing. The worst of the worst.

The reason I bring this up is because the 1% Theory ties into an important visual of fandom knowledge- that bigger fandoms are always perceived as “worse”, and at a certain point, a fandom always gets big enough to “go bad”. Let me explain.

Say you have a small fandom, like 500 people- the 1% Theory says that out of those 500, only 5 of them will be absolute nutjobs. This is incredibly manageable- it’s five people. The fandom and world at large can easily shut them out, block them, ignore their ramblings. The fandom is a “nice place”.

Now say you have a medium sized fandom- say 100,000 people. Suddenly, the 1% Theory ups your level of calamity to a whopping 1000 people. That’s a lot. That’s a lot for anyone to manage. It is, by nature of fandom, impossible to “manage” because no one owns fan spaces. People start to get nervous. There’s still so much good, but oof, 1000 people.

Now say you have a truly massive fandom- I use Homestuck here because I know the figures. At it’s peak, Homestuck had approximately FIVE MILLION active fans around the globe.

By the 1% Theory, that’s 50,000 people. Fifty THOUSAND starting riots, blackmailing creators, contributing to the worst of the worst of things.

There’s a couple of important points to take away here, in my opinion.

1) The 1% will always be the loudest, because people are always looking for new drama to follow.

2) Ultimately, it is 1%. It is only 1%. I can’t promise the other 99% are perfect, loving angels, but the “terrible fandom” is still only 1% complete utter garbage.

3) No fandom should ever be judged by their 1%. Big fandoms always look worse, small fandoms always look better. It’s not a good metric.

So remember, if you’re ever feeling disheartened by your fandom’s activity- it’s just 1%, people. Do your part not to be a part of it.

[theglitchywriterboi]

I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you're able to write loads & make lots of progress <3

[stevviefox]

Passing along for all the writers out there!

[willgrahamscock]

the most essential part of a fandom are those people who immediately tell you to write it, draw it, make it when you share your ideas, you have no idea how many fanworks are born just because someone encouraged it

[willgrahamscock]

another great way to make sure this continues is pressing the reblog button and going insane in the tags

[willgrahamscock]

immediately adding ‘fandom conga lines’ to my vocab