MamaToph

Lauren. 26. Toronto. Avid cosplayer and fanfic writer of all things gay.

[frozenartscapes]

Huntr/x doing an interview and the host refuses to let the topic of “which Saja Boys x Huntr/x ship do you like the most” die so Rumi decides three things simultaneously

1. This topic was not agreed upon in the briefs beforehand so she and her team aren’t answering squat

2. This guy keeps asking her “what’s your favourite ship” completely unaware that part of being an avid train enthusiast means having secondary, yet at times equally strong, interests in other forms of transportation and this guy just gave her the opening of a lifetime

3. She finally has a platform and a live audience and this particular rant needs to be heard, dammit

And what follows trends online for weeks afterward and becomes affectionately known as “Rumi’s Surprise Lecture on Why the Carpathia was the Best Ship”

[mamatoph]

Celine and Rumi's mom and the demon dad: what's going on there??? Saja Boys vs the ever-present control of Gwi Ma vs the limited yet giddy freedom of roaming the mortal world in fame: go. Mira having to deal with her family (with the girls' support).

My take on one of the prompts is here! Had to go with the girls helping Mira deal with her fam. Thank you for sending it, it was exactly what my hyperfocus wanted to chew on. 

I'm a hopeless polytrix shipper (truly shocking, I know, so out of character for me) but it's not super central. The vast majority is just Zoey being a beautiful menace over text.

Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! https://archiveofourown.org/works/71628276

[mamatoph]

As someone who has yet to watch the actual movie. And my only knowledge and experience of the trio is exclusively from fan art, ship art and gif sets. I was real surprised to learn they weren't actually dating already.

And on that note. I feel like the entire in universe fan base already assumed the same thing. But like based on the social feeds or something.

It's definitely giving a Wicked or Sailor Moon type of "this one dude *is* important to the story AND the narrative is mainly about the relationship between these women." So like regardless of whether people prefer interpreting the relationship as platonic or romantic (like me) it's definitely giving soulmates fated to be together either way. I'm a chaotic multi-shipper at heart so I'm over here gleefully drawing the extended polycule web like a conspiracy theorist.

[mamatoph]

Not to drop in and post for the first time in an eon, but I wanna write KPDH fanfic and need a prompt. Send me asks. Help me help you. I cannot promise it'll be written in a timely manner but I crave The Prompts™.

[mamatoph]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Caitlyn/Vi (League of Legends) Characters: Mel Medarda, Caitlyn (League of Legends), Vi (League of Legends) Additional Tags: Character Study, Post-Canon, Light Platonic Hurt/Comfort, One Shot, Caitvi is in there but not the focus Summary:

“Neither of you have ever met a wolf,” she murmurs, half-question and half-statement. Mel frowns lightly, unsure why it matters.

“No, not a real one, thankfully. Have you?”

Caitlyn nods, and Mel raises her brows. -- Mel, haunted by her mother's last words, finds solace in conversation with Caitlyn.

[moringmark]

[freshpickle]

fuck i completely forgot i need to curl up on my couch and scroll my phone for six hours. can we reschedule

[sirfrogsworth]

I think one of the most frustrating things about modern conservatives is when they hate something for the wrong reason. And then you have to defend something you also hate.

"I hate Disney!" "Yes, their view on labor has been..." "Because of their woke garbage movies!" "Oh."

[sirfrogsworth]

"I am sick of these Disney remakes!" "Yeah, it would be nice if they focused on creating original IPs instead of copy/paste remakes of animated classics." "They cast a black mermaid!" "Oh."

[thefrogman]

"Facebook is evil!" "Yeah, selling user data without consent was..." "They deleted my post about whites being replaced!" "Oh."

[rat-ao]

“I hate big Pharma!”

“Yeah, there’s many people who rely on medication to live and price gouging…”

“They’re putting autism in vaccines!”

“Oh.”

[icouldwritebooks]

When I was a teen, I went to a Christian youth group for a while. I was obsessed with musicals, particularly Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats. One day, one of the youth group leaders told me that it seemed I loved Cats the musical more than god, and urged me to give it up. Anyway, I decided after our conversation that I really did love musicals more than god, and I never went to church again. So that’s the story of how Cats made me forsake Jesus and turned me into an atheist.

[dee-the-red-witch]

We found it, folks. The one good thing Andrew Lloyd Webber did.

[suiheisen]

gritty both capturing the zeitgeist as usual AND educating me on the availability of free flow butter at american cinemas

[amilkyway]

fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

[spaghettinatural]

As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh

[roach-works]

in case europeans were worried: we love them very much! even tho they’re clumsy and slow and sometimes bump into you, no one swats fireflies here, or takes them for granted. even grownups sometimes reach out in the summer and gently catch a firefly for a minute before letting it go.

[actualaster]

By “reach out” that’s meant quite literally–you just kinda. Stick your hand in their flight path and they land on you and will sit on your hand for a bit. Sometimes if you’re just walking or standing outside while they’re active you have to shoo them off you because they’ll just. Sit on you.

They’re harmless and very pretty and it’s always a treat to see because they’re out for a relatively short time each year.

[elektraking]

[medievalthymes]

stop normalizing the grind and normalize whatever this is

[ice-block]

It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc

[ice-block]

I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks

(Faces censored and additional text added by me)

[eroticcannibal]

Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.

[libraford]

I am a photographer. It is my job to go into schools and take candid photos for the yearbook.

The number of kids that are on a 'do not photograph' list isn't large, but it is a non-zero number. If that kid is even out of focus in the background, we do not use that photo.

If a child shows even the tiniest bit upset that there's a person in the room with a camera, I do not take their photo.

At pop culture conventions, I ask people if I can take their photo. Or if I take a candid of them, I track them down and give them my info and get th3ir consent before posting.

At events like parties, concerts, performances, consent is generally implied because these are photographed events, but if an attendee approaches me and tells me to crop them out then I crop them out.

This makes street photography tedious, but I learned in my very first job as a camp counselor that people have very good reasons for not wanting their photo publicized. There are kids in the foster system with abusive parents. There are adults with stalkers. There are people who might be a witness to a crime.

Even outside of this- I've seen how private persons become memes against their will just by going out in public. Some people are super not normal about meme fame.

Leave people alone. The world is complicated. Make your own content.

[jewishhollanov]

just a reminder - do NOT boycott streaming services or not watch new things. the unions have not called for one for a reason. for one, it affects residual payments, which as minimal as those currently are, actors are still getting them during this time, and for two, studios will use lack of viewership as an excuse to cancel shows because you are showing them there is no demand. it deeply affects the industry the writers and actors stand to come back to once the strike is over

[spooky-space-kook]

Also: going to these places puts pressure and demand on the company. Demand they can't meet without actors and writers. That puts stress on them, and stress is good.

[chronophobica]

^^^^ive been looking for a rb with this addition because YES. if a customer wants a burger and there is no cook to make it, that puts pressure on the owner to pay the cook what they want so the customer will still give them money. if there is no customer, the owner has no reason for the cook to make burgers

[trix-or-treatz]

Stop watching IF AND ONLY IF the unions call for a boycott. For the time being since they haven't, streaming the shows actually helps. You're not crossing a picket line to watch because that picket line does not exist unless a boycott is called for.

[sainamoonshine]

A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.

[firnella]

more catradora scribbles from the archives 💌