#please have fun

[ask-fun-facility]

Hey Director! As it is called the F.U.N. facility, do you and the rest of staff actually have a lot of fun? And if so, who do you think has the most fun?

[dimeadozencows]

Will we ever get jevil content?

this is definitely in reply to another ask i answered where i compared jevil and rambs situations in-game-content-wise........

id hate to hurt another character enjoyer....

jevilheads, look away.

i think that the plot is telling us that jevil has served his purpose in it. much like spamton, now that the major character who was a part of his story (tenna) already had his moment too (the entirety of chapter 3). i bet we wont be seeing or hearing any mention of spamton in game for a while now

(content for him outside the game (like the bs during the 10th anniversary) depends on what toby feels like doing, but i'm only talking about in game content now, cus that has to do with what the story needs of the characters in order to move forward and that's something i can analyze)

that doesnt mean we wont ever see jevil again! he'll definitely be included when the discussion of the person whos doing this to all the secret bosses gets brought up. and seams deal isnt finished either, jevil wont go unmentioned when their shit goes down

but when it comes to coming back around like spamton did or like ramb is implied to (in my opinion)..... spamtons comeback was mainly fan service and tying up loose threads given to us in chapter 2, he will never have more moments like he did in his fights- and ramb is nothing but loose threads that make no sense narratively without being a set up.

so yeah, I THINK that when the topic of what happened to the secret bosses finally gets properly brought up, and when seam finally pops off, jevil will come back into discussion in game, and HOPEFULLY in the fanbase as well. maybe they'll all show up even... wont that be something

but when it comes to having more big moments like he did in chapter 1.... i believe the story is telling us that he did all he could in it

THAT BEING SAID. DELTARUNE CANNOT BE PREDICTED. i am not toby fox and i did not make this game or write this story, im just a person who likes to analyze narratives based off my knowledge and experience with them. i once believed that tenna would be irredeemable. the rest of the game chapters 5 through 7 could all just be a 10 hour long playdate with jevil split into 3 parts.

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[shallowseeker]

I feel like I should study your blog like a textbook before writing spn fic just for characterization and relationship dynamics reasons

Fic should be self-indulgent! !!!

Give those characters the most dramatic, most ridiculous, most yearning moments imaginable!! "They wouldn't do that," sure...

unless we MAKE them.

They wouldn’t kiss in the rain while arguing about destiny? WRONG. They wouldn’t sob in each other’s arms after defeating some big bad? INCORRECT.

They will, because we said so.

BUT THAT SAID

I hope you are having fun and getting inspired and having so many silly ideas to write and having little moments of I WANNA MAKE EM DO *THAT* ...and i will consider this a compliment~~~

[thelediz]

Fandom should be fun

Something I’ve noticed in the last couple of years, but has been weirdly nagging at me in the last… six months? Has been the marked difference between people who participate in fandom for fun and those who do it for profit.

And how much more successful the profit-driven people are in fandom.

For fairly obvious reasons.

But it’s interesting and I have to think about it out loud or it’s going to eat at my brain.

Now, when I say profit, I don’t necessarily mean ‘for money’, or at the very least any intention to make a living out of it, though there are certainly people who do. They’re not a new phenomenon, either – originally I think it was only common among musicians, but visual artists and even writers that produce for commission have been around since the original Star Trek days. Hell, Dante’s Inferno exists for a reason. But when I mean ‘for profit’ I think I mean the people who produce content in order to earn something, be it money, likes, comments, what have you.

And don’t get me wrong, as a fanficcer, I love comments. It 100% fuels motivation to know that people are engaging with your content.

But as a fandom lurker, it feels disingenuous of me to want them. And with the way fandom has shifted lately, I’ve found myself thinking about why. What is it about a comment that fuels me?

Because I’m not chasing down kudos or comments or bookmarks. It makes me happy to know that people are reading and sharing my stuff, and I’ll admit I do get some badly needed endorphins every time I see someone paying it attention. But I’m not one of those people who will write generic stories and slap different character names on there to fit the fandom I’m in that day.

I write because the content I’m engaging with is tickling something in my brain and I want to think about it more.

And it’s fun, of course, but… yeah.

I write to engage with the original content.

That’s why some fics go unfinished or never get off the ground, because once I start engaging with them, I realise the thought has run its course and… I’m done. It stops being fun.

Honestly, and I’m giving away secrets here, that’s why I hated writing Return so much, and I still don’t like it. Occasionally I go back, because I get a comment or see a bookmark saying it meant something to a reader, and I think “…ugh, I should rewrite that bit to make it a bit more in character” or I can acknowledge that it was actually a half-decent storyline. But I do not like that story.

I started writing it hoping to kickstart something in me that didn’t happen. In the XYZ and Alola period of Pokemon, it was such a beautiful, positive force, about hard work and triumph and believing in yourself. I was chasing that. I wanted to talk about how hard that had to be for Ash. I wanted to point out what a beautiful story it is that Ash kept going despite never winning for so long.

But I should have put the fic down. The original content just wasn’t there anymore. I was still using Pokemon Go, but it sure as heck wasn’t for the storyline. And the anime lost me so early on in Journeys. I should have put the fic down and walked away, but I was addicted to the dopamine fandom provided me. I hated writing that story and I’m just grateful that it ended up meaning something to someone because otherwise it should be wiped from the internet as something I never should have done.

Compare and contrast F’d Up Three Ways, which I had almost entirely written before I started posting it. I adore that fic. I had so much fun writing it. Even when I started posting, I got barely any engagement and I didn’t care. There were bits and pieces in there that were me feeding off fandom, but most of it was just me devouring the original content and then thinking “and then what?” which is exactly what fandom should be, and it felt so good.

It’s the only thing I’ve done for that fandom, it’s all I’m ever going to do for that fandom, but it was what I wanted it to be.

So why do comments motivate me? Why, now that comments are so rare, do I constantly check my Ao3 to see if someone’s put a bookmark with a note? Why do I give a damn if people read my stuff?

Because I too am looking for engagement.

I want to know my stuff is making people think, or feel. It made me think and feel, so… am I alone in that?

When I was writing Dropped Shield, I was mostly writing that for myself. It was already mostly written when it was posted. But the comments were amazing and made me hungry for more fandom. People digging into the characters, the plot, the professional behaviour…! (It is such a weird fic, I cannot believe how many people like it, but I love it even more for that) Reading people’s comments on that fic made me feel so full.

And I think that’s what’s made me start thinking about it, because there’s those kind of comments, and then there’s the lovely heart-filled comments that are so sweet, and make me smile, but don’t fuel any kind of motivation.

I love getting them. They made me happy. If you’re someone who does that, do not stop making those comments, they are wonderful.

But they aren’t going to drive me to think more about the content and therefore will not encourage me to produce more.

Which brings me back to the difference between the kinds of people who create for profit and those who create for… whatever it is I and people like me are creating for.

This post was originally spurred by @notherpuppet (who does wonderful Hazbin Hotel art and comics and I hope doesn’t mind me referencing her – please tell me if you’d rather I don’t tag you and I’ll take this bit out) who is SO popular and so gets a lot of people wanting to make content of her content. And those people often get money out of that. And while notherpuppet didn’t mind that, when those people start promising paid content based on her currently non-existent future content, that’s… much less okay.

Because notherpuppet doesn’t draw for profit. She draws for love and fun. And so the moment it stops being fun, she absolutely should put down her tablet and walk away.

People just assuming she will continue until people are no longer interested makes me super uncomfortable. She's not doing this to get paid, she is under no obligation to produce, why would you assume she will?

That’s all putting aside the people in the early days of fandom getting sued by creators for copyright infringement. I never saw it happening myself, but when I started in fandom, people put disclaimers on their work reminding everyone it was not for profit for damn good reason.

So anyway. Coming back to the point.

It’s increasingly rare these days to get comments. This is a known thing. Many discussions have been had about it. And fandom as a whole is changing too. What people are posting is changing. How people respond to them is changing.

I’ve gotten comments from people pointing out they wouldn’t normally read my stuff because it’s too long, but they got a recommendation from someone else and so gave it a shot.

Which… okay, fair. But some of them say that about things that are like 6,000 words and that’s… that's not a long fic for me. I used to spit out that kind of content daily when I was in high school and could devote the brain power.

But when I started in fandom, drabbles were super common. Flashfic was a thing. Because we were all posting on blogs and forums and the formatting just wasn’t there.

And now a lot of fandom is video and audio that takes thirty seconds or less to consume. Longer to create, but... the similarities are there.

At the time, no one expected great feedback on drabbles or flashfics – they were just for the fun of creating. But the short-form content you see these days is very much chasing likes and comments and responses.

I don’t know where I’m going with all this, but… man. If I was still a fandom academic, that… there’s something in that, isn’t it? Something interesting.

Anyway. TL;DR, I repeat, and will always repeat: fandom should be fun. It makes me sad when it isn’t fun.

Please try and have fun.

[itz-pandora]

Methinks people should make headcanon AUs and rewrites more often

I think it’s fun when people do that, and tbh it can sometimes make media more comprehensible. I wanna know what’s canon to you.

[not-athing]

Which one magical item (that you can never lose) would you want?

a pen that turns into a sword (pjo style)

a pen/pencil that never runs out and never needs to be sharpened

a brush that puts your hair into whatever hairstyle you want*

a stuffed animal that keeps nightmares away

a fidgit toy that takes stress away for 1 hour every time you use it

a toy key that will unlock any lock, regardless of how its locked

a bookmark that will have a summary of what happened in the book so far

a USB with unlimited storage

a face mask that makes you immune to everything while wearing it**

an mp3 player that plays whatever song you need to hear at that time***

a hat that keeps you at perfect temperature

a bracelet that gives you all the confidence you need for any task

Voting ended onSep 14, 2023

*the hairstyle will be whatever you want, regardless of colour, length, etc. It will grow, gut, and dye your hair for the style.

**allergies are included. You can breathe perfectly fine, and it's as if it's not there. (But it looks like a normal disposable face mask)

***it has earphones, headphones, etc, always attached to it. Whatever you want/like

Also, if you want to explain your reasoning in the tags/notes, please do! I would love to hear it!