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Autistic, Fandom Pilled, Warning tags can and will apply, I don't ship incest or minor/adult, discussion of it may still be present in character analysis and backstories. Incest should be an AO3 Warning Tag, Do Not Pass Go!

[assiraphales]

I don’t think we’re rick rolling each other enough anymore. 1. it CANNOT die out 2. this under saturated market is perfect for unsuspecting victims who’ve been lulled into a false sense of security. be the person you hate. bring back the dastardly link

[json-derulo]

someone actually studied the falling Rick Roll rate for their Ph.D dissertation recently and published the paper

[junefrombug]

okay but this made me wonder if there was actually any academic literature on rickrolling and YES THERE IS this is a paper about rickrolling WITHIN academic literature. As in, studies that attempt to rickroll the people reading them. Best part is no one is going to believe me and click that link even though it’s 100% true.

[niltia]

My friend's book is mentioned in this paper!!

[teaboot]

There is no earthy way of convincing anyone that the rickroll study link is real. But for what it's worth. It is

[cat-26]

I have a new goal in my almost-finished PhD dissertation.

[thatwasfunnypleaselaugh]

Second link's good guys, truly

[type-blaze0]

Teaboot's right, there is basically nothing on earth that could convince me to click the second link. I genuinely believe it might be real, but i'm not touching it.

[penny-anna]

one argument you often see about fanfiction is that it's like 'training wheels' writing? like 'oh it's fine to do that while you're still learning, it's easier than coming up with your own ideas'. and I have to say I have just never agreed with that.

[penny-anna]

in my experience it's actually pretty common for newbie fanfiction writers to gravitate towards coming up with OCs rather than writing about the canon characters (hence the infamous Mary Sue); this suggests that many people find that 'easier' than attempting to write about pre-existing characters.

I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.

When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.

In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.

finally I have made this point before but you never really see anyone suggesting that fictional works based on existing public domain texts are on 'easy mode'. is it 'easier' to write something based on a copyrighted work than a public domain work? Of course it isn't.

[penny-anna]

I know I said 'finally' but I forgot a point:

A major strength of the transformative work is its ability to create dramatic irony. If a fanfiction's emotional resonance is dependent on being familiar with the source material that's not necessarily a bad thing. sometimes it's a sign that the author has done a really skillful job of engaging with said source material.

[shadowen]

This is an anti-despair checkpoint! You must share something you're looking forward to before scrolling on.

[saros-system]

Tomorrow (August 12th, 2026) there will be a total solar eclipse in Europe. Nasa will stream it live in a few different places. (link) The lifestream starts at 1:15 p.m. EDT, and the totality will begin at 1:45 in Iceland and 2:28 in Spain. We encourage anyone interested to look through the hyperlinked website to figure out if you can see it in person, or at what local time you should tune in for the lifestream.

[dragonpyre]

Ngl I totally forgot fandom discourse was a thing. I don’t care man, I have car payments

[rootbeerrex]

starting a collection

[clever-fandom-reference]

If I may submit:

[kisskisscantfallinlove]

[madcatdaderpydrawer-blog]

Okay I’m actually going to go back and watch the swooning scenes to see which attribute specifically causes the characters to swoon, to test something

Purple: blues determination to make sure everyone is safe

Green: blue sharing about themselves and how they started out, and encouraging them

Black: blue agreeing that people devalue the work done by the other branches of sciences

Cyan: validating Cyans ideas about the crystals

Lime: being understanding about their misgivings of the medical community

Now why I did this is because none of these are related to their looks. So this further confirms to me that a big part of the objectification is accidental on the crews part. It’s not like they swooned immediately, if they were looking at blue in a shallow sense they would. It only happens after they do something they find attractive. And yet, the only times they are directly complimented or talked about where they can hear? The looks is all that comes up. THATS where the miscommunication comes from. Blue doesn’t realize that it’s their actions on top of their looks that endear the crew to them, because the only direct comments made are about their looks. Yet we can see here that no one actually is seeing them as shallowly as they might fear they do, and each are one over due to their personality

While it might appear that Limes “the only one who cares to see past it” that’s not entirely true and yeah if people portray Blime that way I can see why that’d be annoying. The reason why Blue might notice Limes behavior as unique though is because it’s the most direct someone has been with them about it, but that doesn’t mean it’s entirely unique.

It’s important to keep in mind that the character doesn’t know everything the writer does with these things cause they have layers. Blue knows they’re hot, and knows it plays into why they’re liked. We as Omnipresent beings know that Blues personality also has a factor. Blue is never complimented on/told this to their face, only ever getting these remarks about their looks. So it’s reasonable that mixed with the potential of having some past bad experiences, they wouldn’t be aware of how deeply they are truly valued. Not to mention, objectification is only part of the issue: the other part is blue being put on a pedestal and feeling in a way that if they fumble or are less than perfect, the others will lose faith in them.

[madcatdaderpydrawer-blog]

Yeaahhh like, while their looks totally play into it, it’s by no means intentional for any of the crew. It just adds to the growing list of things that could’ve been prevented had they worked together more as a team. While relying on blue is smart in some circumstances, and easier then facing such difficulties yourself, no one should be put in the position where they’re placed on a pedestal of being the best most capable person there Yknow? The higher the pedestal, the harder it is to see those at the bottom

[inkbillyfernado]

Among us anatomy HCs part 1

[snowkissedmonsters]

Also on age verification: I have been on this website since 2011. Unless you think I started blogging at age 2, you KNOW I'm an adult.

[dreamerinsilico]

#the fact that 'can prove access to an online account at least 12 years old' or even 'account to be verified is itself fully 18 years old'#AREN'T accepted methods of age verification is such a telling sign of what the real purpose of age-gating laws is:#data harvesting and deanonymization and the buildout of state-controllable ways to restrict both content and internet access itself en masse (via @shinelikethunder )

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[uptownthots]

“it isnt something you have to read critically” well 😭

[uptownthots]

this technically is true but I think this also perfectly encapsulates why I am inherently distrustful of like. “”cozy”” “turn your brain off” fiction lmfao. like okay WHO gets to turn their brain off and who has to suffer through bigoted caricatures of themselves while everyone else is having cozy silly no brain time 😐

[ifoundmybeatingheartagain]

the first tumblr post i read about "you're looking for someone it's ok to be cruel to" honestly rewired my brain.

tumblr is full of dimwitted reactionaries but ive also read a lot of things that have fundamentally changed how i think about justice, mental health, etc.

despite the best efforts of the site's staff and its manbaby ceo, there continues to be a contingent of people here who are committed to understanding things better, to doing better, and to changing the world for the better.

i hope we make it.

[secret--songs]

What if you made up a guy who suffered suffered suffered suffered suffered suffered

[tammyhybrid21]

Why the hell...

In the middle of been Among Us pilled...

IS THE NARUTO FANDOM TRYING TO DRAG ME BACK?

Is this because I have the hecking flu?

Also Warrior Cats, but let's be real, I have ClanGen downloaded-- I never escaped that fandom in the first place...

[devilleworship]

saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

It's not as if this shit has been around SOOO LONG. We all existed JUST FINE before this shit became THE THING someone decided to shove in our face like...

[phantomrose96]

I'm a broken record to say "this is a good joke" because in fact all the Among Us jokes are good.

But "species of creature where all of them are drawn as 100% identical models, but in universe amongst themselves one of them is considered far and away the hot one" is a timeless joke.

[phantomrose96]

Quick, people who have no context for this, which one of these Amonguses is the hot one

[phantomrose96]

I bequeath to you my shitty excel chart I made of [checks notes] the first 35 guesses

[phantomrose96]

I also give you the (time-stamped to the correct moment [5:06]) reveal

[the-big-mood]

Scooby-Doo (2002) had an incredible animated intro that was cut from the final film due to length constraints, and it’s still wild that something that good didn’t make the theatrical release

[duckbunny]

fun fact about character development by the way. you can make them develop worse.

[duckbunny]

like I mean this very seriously as writing advice. the character should experience events and make decisions that make them different at the end of the story. they should be changed. they do not have to be improved.

they can get worse. they can make decisions of an increasingly terrible nature. they can stop taking risks on kindness. they can discover how much they can get away with. they can find religion, or abandon it, with negative effects on their moral creed. the character has to develop. the character does not have to grow.

[gaymolegaming]

Reblog if you stand against order, civilization, and goodness itself

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

goes hard ngl

[the-knightswind-case-locked]

Consider:

[unspeakablearchives]