[sonicthehedgehog]

Take a sneak peek at the upcoming 35th Anniversary short form animation, Sonic the Hedgehog: Memories and Beyond!

[zmpl]

has anyone noticed that after the porn ban of 2018 tumblr was essentially killed from the mainstream and everyone flocked to other social media sites like twitter and meta. then those sites got enshittified to where twitter became Nazi Central and meta sites had an entire meme around getting “zucced” aka mark zuckerberg himself would ban you for saying a no-no word like fuck. and then the mainstream shifted to tiktok where infamous toddlerspeak sentences like “he got unalived by a pew pew” were born because if you once again say a no-no word like kill or gun or any other word that isn’t corporate i mean kid friendly then the algorithm will bury your post into the ground. and somehow we’ve come full circle and tumblr is now the most bearable social media site because although we can’t have female presenting nipples we can at least talk to each other like adults. has anyone noticed that at all or is it just me and the flaming skull

[rogerrrroger]

we got there

[wolfsteax]

isn't she lovely?

[kazinha-726]

What if I just become a language blog again?

[tyrian-red]

my erotic fanfiction is more historically accurate than yours. here it claims that shes moaning 'yes,' however classical latin didn't have a word that corresponds to Modern English 'yes,' i.e. an affirmative answer to an interrogative. You could have easily avoided this glaring implausibility by allowing her to moan plus, 'more'—as exemplified in my critically acclaimed fic with an unprecedented number of kudos (eleven). I recommend that you log out of AO3 and return only after acquiring satisfactory knowledge of the subject matter.

[fansplaining]

The Elation and Anxiety of Reading Fic in Your Native Tongue

For fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, “uncringing” non-English fanfiction is an endeavor in decolonialism.

Our latest piece is live! The brilliant Soila Kenya writes about the dominance of English in fandom and especially fanfiction spaces, and why for her and the fellow fans she interviewed from Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, this is partly about the global dominance of English-language pop culture, but especially about the legacies of colonialism:

The deep psychological imprints of this language disparity remain. And therefore, when I encountered fanfiction, it didn’t even occur to me that there were fanfics written in any language but English, let alone Swahili or any of the 42 indigenous languages in Kenya.

Click through to read the whole piece or listen to a full audio version! And if you enjoy it, please consider becoming a (free) member or especially a paying subscriber—we want to commission more pieces from Soila and other smart writers and we need your help to pay them!

(As a reminder, we have a discount rate for anyone who wants it, no questions asked—if you're a student, educator, un/underemployed, have a lower income, or literally any other reason, just email [email protected] and we're happy to provide!)

[elizabethminkel]

This piece is SO good—absolutely worth your time to read or listen (I always love hearing the writers read their work, but since the focus of this piece is language, it was especially great hearing Soila read it). If you enjoy it, please share widely: I know what Soila writes here will resonate with so many people across fandom.

[bookshop]

Just seconding the love for this piece! It really is SO tremendously worth your time.

Soila was one of my favorite WorldCon panelists last year and here she's written a really thoughtful but also extremely enjoyable treatise on what can sometimes be the "cringe" effect of reading—let alone writing!—fics in your native tongue.

I found this piece so engrossing, delightfully wry, provocative, and educational. It makes me so happy and proud to be a part of this era of Fansplaining.

[polygon-draws]

'General, it seems that you're gaining weights'

ref:

[artyphex]

Man, people suck D: The Zoophobia revival gets announced and people are IMMEDIATELY jumping to call the original garbage and horrible. My brother in christ, it was written by a highschool girl. It's not gonna be high art. Just. What's even the point of this.

The original Zoophobia isn’t perfect. It’s messy. But it has a lot of passion and heart in it. I’m expecting the reboot to be very different from the original comic and based on how Viv discussed it at LVLUP it sounds like the case!

[ohnoitstbskyen]

Honestly, that shit kinda makes me angry.

Going out of your way to savage someone's webcomic they made when they were in college is fucking loser behaviour. I don't care how big their career got later, a 20 year old animation student's webcomic is just not a piece of media that requires critical skewering on YouTube dot com.

You're telling me a young animation student's webcomic isn't very good? Wow! Well stop the presses, William Randolph Hearst, you're gonna want this one for the front page! Let's run that story alongside a big exposé revealing that George Harrison wasn't a very good songwriter when he was 20! The public must be informed!

What power, exactly, are you speaking truth to here? Who will leave your video having learned literally anything of value?

There is one—and exactly one—reason to make a video like that, and it's to shit on Vivienne Medrano for cheap clicks and SEO. It is bottom-feeder behaviour, it is loser shit, it is the behaviour of a person with no self-respect whatsoever.

Like, even if you hate Medrano and think her work is Of The Devil™ or whatever, if you want better artists to flourish and outshine her someday, you can't be sitting in here jerking off in the panopticon, making every ambitious artist hesitate to publish their early work for fear that someday people will use it as a rod for their back.

Do you want the artists you love to start purging their own art history? Because shit like this is how you make that happen. Bottom-feeding loser behaviour.

[onewingedangels]

CLAIR OBSCUR: EXPEDITION 33 (2025) dev. Sandfall Interactive

[lbelongiiu]

ONE PIECE 2.02 "Good Whale Hunting"

[fishbrainns]

darkness constricts you

[kazinha-726]

Been watching videos in Czech or about Czech and the Czech Republic, and there's still a scarcity in the algorithm. Meanwhile, the one time I look up a video on Polish, the algorithm has pushed me non-stop Poland content. I feel like I stumbled upon a significant yet secret corner of the internet dominated by Poles, as if there's some sort of Polish agenda

/j

[amikoroyaiart]

Sciel and Lune

[forward-unto-yawn]

Kyoufuu All Back - 強風オールバック【Irish/Gaeilge ver. 🇮🇪】 | cakejumper cover

Vocaloid song covered in Irish!!! Let's go cakejumper the legend

[mirandimoo]

thinking about chainsaw man and denji from the perspective of being a commentary on how damaging thinking romantic love is the most important thing in the world is. how denji asks ‘everyone is after my chainsaw heart but who wants mine? who wants denji’s heart?’ and how he started to slowly find people who wanted denjis heart through aki and power and how he didn’t realize that familial and platonic love isn’t less than romantic love because the only small amount of information on love hes learned is that romantic love is the end goal and he couldn’t see that there were people who held his heart right there

[momentaryl0ss]

^ Should've added a third path for familial but wasn't able to do it 😔

[demonanata-deactivated20240707]

She was really insane for this one

[lornasallydane]

What is dungeon meshi about

[demonanata-deactivated20240707]

Its about the importance of a balanced diet