JoJo Reader Inserts

Fuck it. Jojo x Reader.What will you request? Call me Admin Koro, I am the smallest Joestar. Icon by the lovely: me. Requests: CLOSED. Please don’t request smut. For the love of god.

[yahidna]

do we fw my Mista hcs.....

[creatingblackcharacters]

Sorry if this sounds a little dumb, but I don’t understand the difference between writing Black characters with intention vs just.. doing research and the applying it. A past post of yours with this question said to look at the FAQ, but I didn’t find the answer there

-Peri

Well, the entirety of my syllabus is a full explanation of creating with intent, and intent is not "versus" doing research and applying it!

Also,

"I wanted to challenge myself, using my amateur art skills and my teaching skills, to convey to creators how that makes us as a community feel, and little things they can do to more intentionally create their Black characters (and therefore show more care for their Black audience). There's more to us than adding to a diversity quota. There's more to antiracism than a checklist!"

-My FAQ

There's a difference between writing a character and just happening to make them Black, and Choosing to Write a Black Character. That is, one that is purposely, "I intentionally thought about the importance of the Blackness of this character as I wrote them, as well as the Black audience that will see them, and it shows".

Most of you don't do that. You write a Guy and go "I'll just say he's Black, boom I'm Progressive and Woke and Inclusive!" Meanwhile, it's a shell of a character that you will be angry at me for thinking could be better if you'd put a little more active thought into it, because How Dare You Question My Good Intent?!?

Or, you think "well what is the list of stereotypes so I can Not Do Them", as if racism and stereotypes were as simple as a checklist and not a deeply entrenched, long historied, systemic problem that checklists cannot solve! Because you can do all the "research" you want, but if you don't actually understand what you're looking at, WHY the things you're writing are stereotypical, and are just Frankensteining a Black together, it's still going to show. You're going to end up doing it anyway.

[lowcloudsdistanthaze]

i think the general idea is that if you want the character to be Black, you have to care about what it means that they're Black, because it always means something. whiteness isn't expected to mean anything in fiction because whiteness is an absence of racial markedness, not a real identity - that cannot apply to Black characters in fiction (or Black people in real life).

disclaimer that im white and just trying to paraphrase my understanding of CBC's work, i apologize if i butchered it or if my comment is overstepping!

[creatingblackcharacters]

Eh, almost- Whiteness is not an absence of race! It's a race just as much as the rest of em y'all made up, with an overwhelmingly strong presence! It DOES mean something! It's just a part of the culture of Whiteness to Not Bring It Up.

It's just treated like an "absence" because it's been force fed to us as the "default" experience- that is, it doesn't "have" to be Said or Thought About because we're supposed to treat it as the Expected Normal, something we're just supposed to assume the existence of, and everyone else's experiences are a deviation that must be elaborated on. It's not "White", it's "normal".

But I assure you, we can all read Whiteness in your works, even if you don't mean to incorporate it in there!

[frostedmagnolias]

Dress

around 1860

France

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

[yknowdat]

Some Araki sketches of Phantom Blood from the 80's

[velvetvexations]

I saw a TERF complaining about how people ship canon lesbians with men by headcanoning the latter as transfem, so here's your weekly reminder that you can actually ship anyone with anyone for any reason. It's all made-up. Those people aren't real. Their sexuality doesn't exist and you are as free to define it according to your whims as any other part of the fictional construct you're engaging with. People constraining your art with their desires and demanding you only make that which pleases them is fascist bullshit.

[nadiezda]

>>>COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN<<<

I've recently joined VGen, so commissions can now be placed either through VGen or via email/DM

I'm opening commissions again and currently have slots available for character designs and illustrations.

On a personal note, I'm also trying to earn some extra income to help cover veterinary expenses for my cat, who has been dealing with urinary health issues again.

There's absolutely no pressure, sharing, recommending my work, or commissioning me if you're interested would all be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your support. ❤️

If you have any questions DM me!

[nadiezda]

Commission slots are still open.

I really need some extra income this week for my cat radiography and especial food, so i'd appreciate if you could share this!

Thank you.

[garuye]

My friend streamed iwtv for me and we had to pause to laugh at this scene for like 15 minutes SDFSDFDSSD

[52stations]

some people act like its so embarassing to be into fandom as a woman in your 40s and 50s but suddenly embrace it when a 60 year old lady is really into spirk or whatever... its weird. realistically all the people who wrote those pillars-of-the-community masterworks in the 2000s are floating around someone in that age bracket now...... same goes for all of those who kept this or that show on air in the 90s, running forums like the navy... not to mention all the women who discovered this stuff late and are experiencing a new lease of life. how can u not find that kind of beautiful? i support u, middle-aged women of tumblr and ao3....

[narwhin]

baroque au dio

[overthinkingao3]

We write for ourselves, but we post for others.

(this came out of a conversation in the comments on a previous post about an author threatening to stop updating a fic because of lack of engagement)

So there’s this idea that fic writers should write for themselves and not care too much about stats or engagement,

and i totally get the sentiment behind that. if writing becomes entirely about stats and external validation, something important does get lost - creative freedom and joy, conviction in your own writing

but i also think:

“i write for myself, but i post for others.”

because posting fic is not only self-expression. it’s social. ao3 is called an archive, but emotionally it often functions as a community space.

people post for connection, for participation, for others to bear witness to their pain and trauma and grief,

and i don’t think most people are asking to be admired so much as acknowledged. there’s something deeply human about wanting another person to encounter something that mattered to you and go:

“ok, yeah, I see what you were trying to say. I see you.”

especially because fanfic is often people processing very real feelings through fictional characters at a safe distance, one step removed,

and then uploading that deeply personal thing into a shared archive and hoping somebody else might connect with it.

And i think that’s why it hurts so much when you summon up the courage and post a fic into the void and you get nothing back,

and then it’s like,

does anyone see me? does anyone even care?

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Gown

c. 1848-1849

by Edward Molyneux

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum

[frostedmagnolias]

Printed and Brocaded Silk Afternoon Dress

c. 1905

Whitaker Auction

[frostedmagnolias]

Black Silk Gauze Gown

c. 1866

Augusta Auctions

[gaydennisreynolds]

too sleepy to elaborate at this time but I miss the old fandom culture of interacting with fanfic writers and fanfic artists as members of the fandom community who enjoyed engagement and discussion and feedback instead of the modern trend of seeing us as content creators up on a pedestal who don't need positive feedback but DO need to churn out constant content to feed the a03 machine

[lamaenthel]

tags that im going to print out and frame via @flightlessangelwings

[arbitriumart]

jonaeri but phantom blood movie

[mikibagels-blog]

One more month before we see Johnny on the big screen!!! 🎉🎊

[stupidlittlespirit]

This is so silly but I'm watching a short video essay on sincerity in cinema and the creator is talking about how he watched Lord of the Rings for the first time at 17. He explains that he'd grown so used to the 'ironic' meta style commentary in the movies of the 2010's that as he was watching the opening narration of LotR, he spent the entire time waiting for the joke to come. For someone to take it all back with a zinger line. He listened to Blanchett describe and explain the backstory, and he waited for the other comedic shoe to drop.

And he kept doing it. Scene after scene.

He spent the film expecting someone to make a joke about how unserious things were or to break the fourth wall or do some other self referential type thing.

Now, maybe I'm just at that point in my cycle or maybe I'm too delicate in general, but I literally teared up hearing that. Straight up cried a bit. It is so fucking sad that sincerity and genuineness is being bred out of people.

People say all the time 'this generation can't take anything seriously!' and really, is it any wonder? Younger people have been trained out of it. You are no longer encouraged to be genuine or show emotion or be honest. You are actively punished for it. In fact, you are almost guaranteed to suffer for it.

That is so fucked up. I'm sorry to go on a bit of a random ramble rant but it's so fucking gut wrenching to see younger people lose that element of themselves. You can't express your passion without being told you're 'crashing out' or 'cringe'. You have to live in this neutral state of fear of perception, and god forbid anybody step outside of it!

You're told you should only consume and succumb and be ironic and emotionless and cool.

Listen, if you're following me and you're like.... 25 or under, let's say. Please. I beg of you. Do not fall for this rhetoric. Please, for the love of all things, feel. Feel and create and be honest with yourself. Indulge in things that make you happy. Be sincere. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Do not let this hyper-capitalistic, hyper-consumerist, self-centred, individualist culture take that from you.

Bleed yourself into the work you create. Live. Don't fucking let anyone tell you different.