Lunar Fey

➳➳➳ [ Nate, 30, demiguy, he/it ] [ Howdy, welcome to the shitshow. Stay a while and chat if ya like, I promise I won't bite unless you ask me to. Heyy, I'm Nate (or Nathan, or Nathanael). I post what pleases me. mostly fandom stuff (a rotating cast of whatever catches my eye - mostly kingdom hearts, final fantasy, and various anime) and neat science facts. Please talk to me I'd love to be friends. :3c ] [ I hate not knowing what times others are in, so...I'm Eastern Time. ] [ guro/horror blog over at [by request only] ] [ RP blog over at [lornuah] ] [ writing blog over at [sorunuah] ] [ aaand TWEWY blog at [eldritch-composer] ] [ ...and a faerie stories/fey ask blog on over at [a-laughter-like-bells] ] [ oops. hlvrai side blog at [hlvrai-but-im-crying] ] [ Pictures of me: [x] ] [ About me: [x] ] [ Art tag: [x] ] [ Writing tag: [x] ] [ Icon credit: [x] ] [ Sidebar credit: [x] ]

[lunar-fey]

i think i should be allowed to kill btw. ive probably said it before but thats because its true. just in general i should be able to get away with as much murder as i want. its important

[lunar-fey]

yes . hi :)

[lunar-fey]

wanted a new pinned cause ive had that other one for three years now. and this ones funny. have some links also

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[artemissoftstepper]

make your subtitles accurate to what’s being said or i will kill you!!!!

[sycamorality]

really cool example i have of someone making youtube subtitles that both include how something (in this case, a username) is spelled, and how the narrator pronounces it. i think more people should do this

[gin-juice-tonic]

[gin-juice-tonic]

[not100bees]

People on Tumblr love sharing information about themselves no matter how asinine it is. And I'm the same way. Everybody tell me what the last thing you drank was.

[arctasy]

when the character is obsessive and desperate and guilty and scared and ashamed and traumatized and repressed

[veggiesforpresident]

honestly one of my favorite things about fanfic is when you can see the canon influences come out in really subtle ways. like a canon line thats mentioned once as a throwaway is suddenly the entire premise for a fic or it influences the characterization or something. its just so cool to see how people weave their ideas around a source material, especially if its not a detail i'd thought about before

[jolyonvane]

misa amane, ai detector

[kuijoon]

in the original yugioh manga they mention that seto is at the top of every arcade game but I refuse to believe that he’d be good DDR sorry dude. You go Anzu

[ichorknight]

driving my chevy to the levee today

[ichorknight]

what the fuck

[srsfunny]

Finally, a win

[saintofpride201]

This dumbass stigma that "hick" states are somehow dumber than the more urban ones because they're from poorer areas has to cease...

[animenutcase]

Hicks are the ones who put us in space.

[delicatefury]

You know what they changed? What Alabama is doing so different from California and New York?

They’re teaching the kids phonics.

It is legally required.

Turns out, actually learning to read improves students’ skills across the board. Who woulda guessed?

[prokopetz]

RPG where it's very easy to overcome all of the bosses nonviolently through correct dialogue choices, but actually doing so locks you into the bad ending; in order to get the good ending, you need to do a bunch of obtuse side quests in order to goad them into fighting you.

[prokopetz]

#honestly this sounds fun#gimme the options #i wanna know what my choices are #how ambivalent can i be? #but also it's so much funnier that this concept makes violence the correct answer (via @cuzosu-blog)

Yeah, you could definitely play a scenario where violence is the morally correct answer for laughs, but you don't have to.

If you wanted to play it straight, one might imagine a game about fighting a fascist state where all of the bosses are The One Good Nazi types with very sympathetic, human reasons for collaborating with the regime – there's the Sad Dad who's only committing mass murder because they're holding his kid hostage, the idealist who genuinely believes they can reform the system from the inside, the moral coward who rationalises their atrocities as harm reduction because if they quit, whoever replaced them would be even worse, etc. – and all of the talky nonviolent options for dealing with them involve compromising the player character's principles.

The final boss is naturally a totally unsympathetic Hitler 2.0 type, but before you can fight him he hits you with the old Mustapha Mond monologue, and if you've let even one of his buddies off the hook, he turns the tables on the conversation-fu trope and persuades the player character to stand down.

The achievement for getting the good ending is, of course, titled "The Only Good Nazi Is A Dead Nazi".

[victusinveritas]

[naamahdarling]

WTF this is masterful, 10/10.

[marjorierose]

Other people have said this in notes, but the Bulwer-Lytton contest involves writing the most absurd opener you can think of and submitting it to the contest. It's not a judgment like the Razzies or the bad sex in books award or something; it's a game. Diana Murtaugh of Baltimore is to be congratulated for this win.

[dragongirl218]

@pangur-and-grim

I feel like you'd have a great shot at this contest

[holythefirm-deactivated20210220]

I’ve just always been a milk fan it’s not necessary

[bruzum]

[wenlokholmes]

sorry, prev, your tags are too true to be silenced

[emeraldspiral]

[genericpuff]

comicfury continues to reign supreme as the only webcomic platform that understands it's a webcomic platform

[genericpuff]

making an extra post because the tags aren't good enough

here is all the reasons why you should use comicfury (if you aren't already) :

pretty much full control over your custom site design. if you're an HTML/CSS nerd you can go as crazy as you want with it. but for those who aren't so code-savvy, there are also simplified built-in design tools so you can create a unique site for yourself and your work. reject homogeneous minimalism design of bigger platforms, embrace tradition of mid-2000's kitchen sink site design (if that's what you want, that is).

the site demonstrates its own philosophies through its extremely charming vintage 2000's-era site design. it ain't broke so it doesn't need fixing. if it's too 'ugly' for you and wards you off from using the site, then it's succeeding at what it was designed to do.

forums! remember those??? CF sure does!

full view of your comic statistics over the past month, shown as delicious daily line graphs, separated by unique visitors, web page view, and scroll view.

hosting is free. don't want that pesky 'thecomicseries' or 'comicfury' add-on? all you gotta do is purchase your own domain name. contact kyo and they'll take care of the rest.

you can categorize your pages per chapter, making for an easier reading experience

you can include page transcripts for screen-readers as well as mouseover text

you can enable comments per upload and even manage them so that all comments have to be approved by you before they're shared publicly

archive tagging!!! i.e. you can tag uploads with relevant characters / locations / etc. so people can find specific pages easier on your site.

you can run a goddang BLOG on your comic site so that people can read what you've been up to! or don't, it's your choice!

clear filters for NSFW content. the filters do what they must to inform your audience as intended, outside of that, your comic will not be taken down, flagged, or suppressed in search results just because it contains violence or boobies.

they are strictly anti-AI

they do not make licensing deals with third-party companies, so the only 'competition' you have are other indie creators like you, no Marvel or DC nonsense

you're free to embed ads and/or donation buttons on your site and CF will not take off a single cent of it for themselves.

the front page goes to Recently Updated by default, all the other tabs are simply Popular Now and Popular Overall. there's also a Random button if you want to be surprised with something new. while this might seem like a bad thing for people who prefer custom filtering, this unbiased layout prevents the common visibility issues / favoritism / etc. that happen on other platforms.

but if you DO want to find something new that fits your specific tastes? just use their search bar, unlike on Webtoons it actually does what search bars are supposed to do! within the search page you can pick and choose whatever genre tags you want, and you can filter out major NSFW flags you're not comfortable with seeing.

saving the best for last: none of those features outlined above require paying a premium subscription tier. you have access to ALL the same tools and permissions that everyone else does. you have just as much potential to gain an audience there as everyone else and you are all granted the same freedoms.

[genericpuff]

COMICFURY HAS A SCROLL VIEW SETTING THAT YOU CAN ADJUST IN YOUR SETTINGS. THE PLATFORM IS ALREADY DESIGNED TO BE CONSUMABLE ON YOUR PHONE. IT DOESN'T NEED AN APP.

ugh man i'm so sorry for popping off on this very innocent and well-meaning bystander but what did i JUST say

when i say it's a webcomic platform that knows it's a webcomic platform

that's it. no asterisk. that's the POINT OF THE MEME.

it is a website for reading and hosting webcomics. there is no app. and that is why it works.

i realize this might just be a consequence of me being Old™️ compared to the average webcomic consumer / artist, but do y'all know how destructive phone apps have been and still are to webcomic culture? because not only is developing a phone app EXPENSIVE AND TIME-CONSUMING, but it's pretty much impossible to have phone apps now that aren't managed and funnelled through Google and Apple.

that means CENSORSHIP. and CORPORATE INTERFERENCE. and FINANCIAL INVOLVEMENT. which is entirely opposing to WHAT WEBCOMICS ARE.

as soon as indie sites based around free content develop apps, there's a very clear shift in how that site continues to operate, prioritizing corporate standards and profit over usability and community. because otherwise, they can't justify the creation of the app in the first place, and they can't very well maintain that app on account of how expensive it is to do so.

in fact, i can even attest to this from experience! y'know Tapas? the friendly competitor to Webtoons?

this platform used to FUCKING SLAP and then guess what? they released their phone app. and in doing so, they immediately lost the entire fucking plot. their ad revenue program turned to shit, they started prioritizing their advertising and growth towards paywalled comics over the free to read ones, they started restricting the content that was allowed on the platform for the sake of 'brand friendliness' and most of all, they started caring more about what INVESTORS saw rather than what the average user experienced.

and i'm sure that's a heavily biased opinion in which i'm choosing to cast blame on one specific thing instead of all the various things that led to the downfall of this fuckass platform (and i could talk about all those things at length too) but guess what? i don't give a fuck if it IS biased, because i've been there and back and lived to tell the tale and the common denominator in the enshittification of all these major platforms i'm goddamn MEME'ING ON was the phone apps. and most of all, the normalization of corporate involvement which happens the MOMENT you build an app for the Google and/or Apple store.

modern phone apps are NOT about accessibility, they're about money and metrics. that's it.

again, big apologies to the person who left these tags in the reblogs because i know they didn't mean any ill will of it.

but EVERY FUCKING DAY i see y'all complaining that webtoons and tapas are garbage, that they don't let you consume NSFW content without censoring the fuck out of it or removing titles entirely from their platforms, how they progressively tighten paywalls and increase ads to force every last cent out of you, but never ONCE do y'all realize THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.

comicfury doesn't have or need a phone app for the same reason that AO3 doesn't have or need a phone app. to put it simply - because it's pointless, a waste of money and effort, and it would just destroy everything that's great about the thing that i'm trying to promote to you in the first place.

this is what usage freedom and decentralizing actually looks like. this is what has kept comicfury populated and alive. nothing more, nothing less.

[alpaca-clouds]

Something I am currently thinking about a lot is the way different cultures engage in the conversation and deconstruction around Harry Potter.

Because... "Magic school slop" definitely is in general a genre that was not invented by Rowling, but HP made it very popular. I mean, I remember the early 2000s and how they tried to push so much magic school slop down our throat. Both in the English language market and the European market as well. Like, we had at least two bigger German magic school book series. It was a thing.

But now that at least some people are more aware of how HP was kinda shitty and fascist all along, I do still see how a lot of western magic school books do variations that do not really deconstruct the actual main issue of the magic school.

Like, the issue of HP is not inherently that it is a British boarding school with very little in terms of child safety guidelines. The issue of HP is how the worldbuilding is inherently built around the idea of blood purity, British supremacy, ableism, racism, misogyny and more. Yes, obviously the boarding school does kinda play into it as it is very intrinsically linked into British aristocracy. And there is definitely a point to be made about how HP as a franchise revels in the harm come to some of the children. But all the "it is like HP BUT PEOPLE DIE" is not really a deconstruction of any of that. And it feels to me that a lot of the English language magic school series that I am aware of that were written by people being rightfully critical of Rowling lack teeth on that end. And... I mean, I am honest. It is likely linked to how publishing and wider entertainment is run.

I just think about it a lot right now because... like, there is a ton of magic school slop from Japan as well. A lot. Like, "magic school but it is a harem and isekai slop" is a genre we have a lot of.

But at the same time, the main franchises I can think of that do engage with this "magic school" idea in the most critical extent - and at least in two cases very pointedly aimed at HP - are all from manga series. Well, okay, in one case it is actually an original anime. But still.

And it is also still insane to me that the series that points at HP and the fascism inherent in the worldbuilding the most clearly is the bloody gag shonen manga. (Mashle, for those wondering.) Like, that series really just sits there like: "Did you ever notice how HP is kinda fascist?"

Like, I get that this is likely another case of how the Japanese publishing system is working very differently from the western publishing system. Mostly in how in Japan you get even more exploitation from your art, but in turn you have more chances to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. But it is fascinating none the less.

(The other series, for those wondering, by the way: Ancient Magus Bride, Little Witch Academia, I Want To Love You Till The Day You Die, and obviously Witch Hat Atelier.)

[the-scribbling-renfairy]

Not a manga, but a Middle Grade book series, but a story I think deconstructs the concept of the magic school story that JKR popularized and does so through a culturally diverse lens is the Conjureverse series by Dhonielle Clayton.

It takes the concept of a magic school, provides all the whimsy of one, and does so all through the lens of the “first Conjure student in a Marvellian school,” essentially working as a magical allegory for desegregation. Conjure magic takes a lot of inspiration from Black American and Black Caribbean spiritual practices, and we follow a Black girl from Louisiana as she navigates this new school with all its knowledge that had been systemically barred from her people for so long.

It’s one of my favorite deconstructions of the magic school setting to date, because it truly does do an excellent job in taking a popular fantasy trope, subverting it, and grounding it into a reality that still impacts us today.

I really recommend! It’s so layered!