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Old art but did y'all know that Neo is canonically a gamer and gets almost all of her cultural knowledge from video games

#Rwby #neopolitian (rwby)#Gamer Neo is so funny I need to draw her again

myrskytuuli

When will creators of famous and beloved franchises realise that no fan in the history of fandoms has wanted the sequel with the new generation to have higher stakes and more angsty drama than the original.

A Fan: Wow, can’t wait to see the heroes’ children living in a world that has been made better by the original heroes, having a loving and respectful relationship with the hero I loved and respected as a child, and dealing with their own adventure that might not be as high stake as saving the world, but is important for their own personal journey.

A creator: How about the world is ending again, the new generation hates the heroes, who have become major assholes for no reason, and everything is bigger and goes more boom.

squirrelwrangler

Hobbit/Lord of the Rings is the SINGLE exception to higher stakes sequel

hirilelfwraith

and you know why? it’s bc nothing in lotr undid what happened in the hobbit

the hobbit was a lower-stakes story about bilbo helping some dwarves reclaim their ancestral home, and in lotr (the book at least) tolkien goes out of his way to talk about how bilbo lived for a long time rich and famous and happy, and that erebor and dale are prosperous and successful. the threat is something that bilbo brought home with him, but if bilbo hadn’t found it, it would have fallen into worse hands.

the reason why higher-stakes sequels are so often disappointing is bc it’s a betrayal of the original work, and undoes its premise and its victory. in the hobbit, they were never setting out to save the whole of middle earth, so the fact that the whole of middle earth ends up in peril during lotr doesn’t feel like a betrayal. terrible things happen in lotr, but they are better than they would have been in the hobbit hadn’t happened, and that’s why it works

I've never posted these here but I'm still pretty proud of these Rwby drawings I did a while back

#pokemon #Rwby #crossover

I'm absolutely in love with Sonic Frontiers

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic frontiers #super sonic #my art

magicalgirlmindcrank

Serebii could never fucking happen on the modern Internet

magicalgirlmindcrank

Serebii was made on geocities in '99 by a child. It was one of the first and continues to be one of the best resources for Pokemon. If it were today it'd probably be a wiki.fandom page.

the-110-speed-tier

Reminder that it was called Serebii because the English fandom didn't have an official name for Celebi yet. Serebii is such a living relic of old internet and old fandom and its amazing thats its still around.

kynimdraws

This is canon and you can’t convince me otherwise

I'm just gonna mass post a bunch of art I've made since I left Tumblr and see what happens I guess

luxlightly

Once again, Tumblr manages to succeed via just being honest with their users.

I made a post back around April fool's about the crabs being so popular because the joke was that every other website tries to trick you into clicking things so they can make money from your clicks and what if instead a website just asked "please click this revenue generating crab. It is there to generate revenue. In return you will have clicked on a crab. Nothing more." And the answer to that question was "people will frantically click on that crab. They don't hate the idea of the website getting money, they hate the idea of being profited on against their will".

So Tumblr implemented actual revenue crabs. "For this much money you can fill your or someone else's dash with virtual crabs. This will have the effect of there being crabs on their screen."

And people will buy those crabs. Because yes you're spending money on something stupid and useless but it's being sold to you as "hey you want something stupid and useless?", which is a nice change of pace from every other site trying to make itself out to be something more than what it is.

Twitter is floundering with the checkmark system because it's being sold as "confirm that you are someone important and who you say you are is true", which it isn't at all right now because anyone can buy one. You're buying a useless checkmark that only says that YOU think you're important. Or, more often than not right now, you are intending to trick other people into thinking you're someone you're not.

Meanwhile, Tumblr just said "Consider this double check mark. It does nothing. You will be marking yourself as someone who paid money for a meaningless checkmark and sometimes it will randomly turn into a bunch of crabs, making the site harder to use". And the userbase is like "Well sure, that sounds delightful."

The point is, despite what all the marketing and advertising people have tried to say, painting trash gold and trying to pass it off as something better is almost never as effective as just saying "hey you want this trash?"

Why yes, in fact, I do.

I caved, I'm back. I missed you guys.

mimikyukyu

I had a dream that the new Meme was ultralight camping elitism and all you do is post pictures of bare-minimum camping setups and talk about how cool you are for being able to survive in that

mimikyukyu

I just remembered this and I want to share it with all my new followers