Does Being Tired Count?

Welcome to where I obsess over the Chocobros™ specifically my Prince Charmless. Not spoiler-free or always SFW

[hawt-me33]

Coming into a fandom late

[baxterdamus-deactivated20130513]

Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck

[valorious]

Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie

[leatherpatches-deactivated20150]

Don’t forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war. 

[fauxmoux]

Accuracy at its best

[street-of-mercy]

Being in a fandom and not even knowing there’s a war going on…

[my-reylo]

all of this shit…lol

[nerdsagainstfandomracism]

When You’re Not In The Fandom But You’re Nosy AF

[not-so-secret-nerd]

When you get into a fandom only to discover it’s dead

[jupiter235]

This gets better every time I see it. 

[sageblackrose95]

@fuboos-mess

[inverted-mind-inc-sideblog-deac]

Being in a dead fandom…

[illogicalarchive]

Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one

[erilias]

The accuracy hurts.

[fanfic-yes-please]

Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.

[it-is-bugs]

When you’ve been fangirling long enough, you’ve experienced all of the above.

[sweetferalbaby]

Being in a fandom meant for kids.

[teaganvamp]

This just gets better..

[hamboj2]

@mi-kleos

[thatcrazysonicchick]

When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you

[knightofbloodcancer]

Fandom hell in general

[morathavictoria]

Yes.

[marvelanimelover]

This^^^ just… ALL OF THIS.

[stop-talking-babe-deactivated20]

Being in so many fandoms that you don’t even know what’s going on

[raise-cain-archived]

THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!

[crochanblackbeak]

Trying to recruit people to your fandom

[kateriverameliawolfe]

Annnnnnndddd it’s back

[ishipwhatiship247]

Being in a fandom which has so many antis

[ravenhilarious]

I’ve probably reblogged this before, but that was before these great additions.

[swanqueen-author]

Being in a fandom that actually works together

[commanderunhingedmongoose]

Why is this so true? All of it.

[pillowprincesslexa]

being in a fanbase but all your mutuals suddenly turn into Kpop blogs

[hangingfire]

I always enjoy it when a good post comes around again and has been improved by the reblogs like the years for a fine wine.

[priory-of-stars]

Being in a fandom when shit goes down and everyone has different opinions

[marianagmt]

When you are in a fandom and don’t care for others people opinion…..even if they are right…(believe me, I have met several of those)

[batbyte-alghul]

Being in a fandom you never meant to join

[tirnel-sutcliff-spears]

I love this. and it’s gotten better

[cartoonjessie]

After abandoning a fandom you’re still a little bit emotionally invested in….

[best-of-reblogs]

[mizukinni]

[zizicat]

[laterovaries-deactivated2017022]

This will always be my favorite gifset. Ever.

[onceuponamirror]

im morally obligated to reblog this every time i see it

[blackviolets-blog1]

Reblog if you can see my icon and it is not pixelized.

That means Tumblr has not flagged my profile as “Sensitive”.

[phoenix-ace]

Something I noticed about how people handle racial coding in fandom

I’ve noticed that people need borderline offensive racial coding before they’re willing to see a character as a person of color (or non-white, I guess if they’re in a setting where that identifier wouldn’t apply).  Like, they envision anime characters as just white to the point where they get over protective and antagonize any people of color who identify with those characters.  And you look at them and realize that these characters are just people with different hair and eye colors, but these people automatically see them as white.  So when they decide to adapt them they do so under the assumption that they MUST be white first and foremost, even when it doesn’t make sense.  But they need to see tropes associated with blackface or yellowface before they’re ready to admit a character might not be white.  The same people who force their way into every anime and insist everyone is white need to have absolute proof anyone in any setting can be a person of color.  

And this isn’t just in anime (I just started with anime because of the blatant entitlement behind insisting these characters are all white), its in nearly everything.

Like they won’t accept the idea that Katniss or any Game of Thrones character could be black or any group that isn’t white, because they say there’s nothing in the text to support it…but there’s nothing in the text that insist that every character is white, and even when there is they make so many changes (including usual whitewashing) in adaptations that accuracy can’t even be used as a standard anymore.  But if they saw terms like “slave”, or “big nose” or “huge lips” or “slanted eyes” suddenly its believable.  They completely ignore racial coding that isn’t offensive in favor of assuming they’re white (like somehow they decided Rue, from the Hunger Games, was a little blond white girl), so you can’t even blatantly say “this is a black girl” because they won’t see it. 

Its just ridiculous how they always do this stuff: Everything has to be white by default unless the descriptions are completely racist (meaning we should accept whitewashing because its their cop out so that they don’t have to put effort into avoiding racist ropes).  And if its not white by default they’ll make it so and just change the setting to justify it, and then they’ll tell us we don’t belong in version they just whitewashed. 

[ai-yo]

I remember someone talking about the difference between Aang from Avatar the Last Airbender and Omi from Xiaolin Showdown

(On phone, please Google pics yourself)

So during the casting for the airbender movie white people defended the casting of white actors Because they believed the characters were white despite the racial coding

Now Omi from Xiaolin Showdown was straight up yellow, one of the characters on the show called him melon head so

He spoke with an accent and messed up common english language sayings No one mistakes that boy for white.

[nyokoko]

Remember when white people were defending Margot Robbie being cast as the Major for the whitewashed Ghost in the Shell film? And one person even fucking said that the characters never had their races explicitly stated nor was the location ever stated. And I had to scan and post the first panel from the comic that literally says the story takes place in JAPAN. The entire show takes place in Japan with very little influence or interference from the outside world. And white people were saying the Major doesn’t look Japanese, despite them saying they were Japanese, having Japanese names, serving in the Japanese military, and being on a Japanese task force for the Japanese prime minister. White people will literally avert their fucking eyes from the truth to justify coding characters as white.

[yayroos]

For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

[weebleroxanne]

“Nope,” I whisper as I exit out of a fic with no paragraph breaks.

[amberswordlilies]

[Blog Update] Well, I’ll Be...

In light of recent events, 

I’ll still be posting on Tumblr, both original work and reblogs. Business as usual from my end until they scrape my limpet ass from the hellsite I call home.

But should I get deleted, if you want to find me elsewhere I’m on…

Twitter @ amber_sword_lilies 

Ao3 @ amber_sword_lilies

Chances are that I’d start up on Tumblr again as according to the new guidelines “written erotica is allowed”, so I can still post written things here. Tumblr’s a bit of a mess at the moment, so I’m gonna sign the petitions and give it a few weeks to see how things settle or pan out. I think it might make more difference to chip away quietly and raise awareness than squeal about how unfair it is. 

[nintendocafe]

Pokémon Generation 8

Speaking to Japanese publication Famitsu, which has a massive 20 page feature on Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu, Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee and Quest, features an interview with The Pokémon Company CEO, Tsunekazu Ishihara who provided some information about the upcoming Pokémon game for Nintendo Switch. Tsunekazu Ishihara  reconfirmed that this game is due for release in the second half of 2019, will have better graphics than any prior Pokémon game, that it’ll be completely new aimed at experienced fans, not like Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu & Let’s Go Eevee and states that it will contain many brand new Pokémon!

[wingsthephoenix]

[stellarblitz]

finally some good news on this bad news day

[kinglieste-moved-deactivated201]

i am incredibly tired of my editing application crashing so take this as it is lol

[ariaste]

WHEEZING ok guys NOW we can pack it in and move to a new hellsite, this is……. this is everything

[lynati]

X D

[clownacademia]

[anistarrose]

Normally I don’t like bringing this up, but: Tumblr is making it increasingly difficult for writers and artists to get their posts to show up in tags and searches, meaning that our fics and art are being exposed to fewer people. 

Yes, it’s still possible to get posts to show up, but in the case of the search function, it’s only if they have no links - not even links to other Tumblr posts. For people like me who include links to other chapters in my fic so readers can get caught up on chapters they might miss, this is a huge problem. I basically have no choice but to include those links, or else I would make things massively inconvenient for my readers.

So why am I telling everyone this? Because this means reblogs are becoming more and more important to creators. With posts so difficult to find in searches and tags, reblogs are one of the few other ways for people to find new artists or writers.

You’re under no obligation to reblog my stuff, of course, but I want to put it out there why reblogs are so important to those of us who write/draw/create content.

(Also: While I’ve personally verified the stuff that’s going on with searches, I have no clue what’s going on with tags. Some of my stuff is showing up there, some isn’t, seemingly with little correlation to the links included. So tags might not be quite as strict, but they do seem to be less consistent.)

[mysharona1987]

[jellyfishjammer]

Ohio Republicans Declare Motherhood Necessary and Want to Make it Mandatory 11/21/18 

Ohio Law Could Make Abortion Punishable by Death Penalty 11/20/18

Ohio House Passes Bill to Criminalize Abortions Of Fetuses with a Heartbeat (6 weeks!) 11/16/18

Depending on who you ask, the heartbeat bill is no joke. Gov. Kasich vetoed a similar measure in 2016 but now the republican senate has enough majority to potentially overturn a veto. Many republican lawmakers are hoping to use ohio to bring abortion back to the federal supreme court and overturn Roe v Wade. This is all in the last article I linked from the New York Times btw

So if the first article sounds too clickbait-y for you just know that ohio is actually proposing, and has a good chance of passing strict anti-abortion laws 🙃 

[dizzymoogle]

I had to get this shot while they were wearing the suits by @nightyswolf

[schmergo]

The lord giveth and the lord taketh it back now y’all. Two hops this time.

[amberswordlilies]

Hi! It won't let me reply in the actual post but the enunciation one takes the gold xD

Ahh, I took so long to answer this! I’m sorry D: I kept meaning to get around to it, but here it is! Glad you enjoyed my random little tags (honestly though, that’s all I do these days; tags.) but honestly? Gladio’s pretty damn intelligent. I only mean to briefly cover why I think so, buuuuuut I ended up writing an essay, which is kind of what I do for everything, y’all should know better by now XD.

TL;DR: Gladiolus Amicitia is an intelligent, well-educated young man.

Hellish essay under the cut for anybody who’s interested because I will stan this man until my dying breath. @blossattic look what you made me do XD.

Keep reading

[sekusekusekuseku-deactivated201]

no offense but fly me to the moon and let me play amongst the stars,let me see what spring is like on jupiter and mars