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bro i need twitch to get on making a decent live translator fast ;_; i miss so many of the non-english creators from qsmp 1 and such but can’t rly watch their content without subs (shout out cellbit for having live subs for his english audience tho)
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Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*
My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.
The spiritual successor to Miette
Might I also add
May i add the piece from artist Verbal Vomit
Glad to see we’re all in agreement that cats talk like disparaged victorian children
I am so incredibly glad we finally moved on from "i can has". Cats are clearly smart enough for advanced sentence structure and dumb enough to draw entirely incorrect conclusions about what they're talking about.
My cat, banging the cabnet door over and over and over: bang bang bang
Me: you will not earn what you desire by banging the cabinet door.
My cat: This is a test of wills, is it not? We shall see if your ability to put up with my incessant banging outlasts my eternal lust for snackie treats. Years of conditioning have hardened me for this purpose. bang bang bang
Me: ksst!
My cat, throwing herself to the ground like she's been shot: Oh! Oh I have been assailed in my own home! Have mercy, have pity! Surely in the cruel darkness of your heart there is some mote of goodness that might stay your hand! Do not strike me, I pray you!
Me: ok
My cat, after waiting about 3 minutes: bang bang bang
Can haz snackytreat
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#the ancient texts
... My reblog was only six years ago!
tubbo just fucking died at twitchrivals mcc
The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.
how dare you say we piss on the poor
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it just gets better
and better
I don't know if it's just me being in small fandoms, but fandom as a whole feels...really lonely as of late. People have split themselves up so much that they don't discuss things the way they did before, they just kind of post their stuff and leave and half their audience "consumes" it like "content". There's no comments, barely kudos, the only places fans talk with each other anymore are on private discord servers that no one ever finds out about...I don't know, I'm a bit of an old and I feel like I'm screaming out into the void for no reason at this point. Sure, "somebody" will like my stuff, but will I ever get to know about it?
I think about this kind of thing a lot, anon, and I think my generation (Gen X/xillennial) kind of did folks dirty a bit.
In our defense, we didn't know we were.
I'm an educator by profession, as well as on this hobby blog, and so I spend a lot of time thinking about how people learn things. A lot of learning is social, and a lot of it happens when parents teach their children.
When I was growing up, pre-internet, my parents taught me how to talk to other adults in our community, how to play with other children, how to order food in a restaurant, how to call a business and ask a question. They literally walked me through how to do all of that stuff and more because those were daily skills in the world at that time.
We've spent the last 20+ years talking about how kids today are "digital natives" - but have we spent enough time teaching kids how to keep a conversation going when you're not in the same room as the other person? How to leave a comment on a post by a person you don't know? How to show your appreciation to a content creator? What a content creator even is and how that differs from a fan creator?
I know there are a lot of jokes out there about different things that would kill a Victorian child, but I think what would actually be difficult for them would be the lack of rules and instructions that kids today receive from the adults in their lives.
I don't have kids myself, so maybe this is all just bullshit and I'm talking directly out of my ass. But a LOT of the time when I notice someone doing something 'wrong' it's because no one ever told them how to do it right.
I kind of suspect that might be part of what's happening in fandom these days. Combine the above with the fact that fandom got inundated with new members in 2020 during quarantine and lock downs, and it's not surprising to me that a large percentage of the people in fandom today don't approach things the way that we used to before.
i don't fault them for it. When fandom was smaller and the internet was new, we used to take the time to bring people in. But now, it feels like 'everyone knows XYZ' so why does it need to be taught? And with how fast things move, it's more rare for newcomers to lurk for a while before they dive into everything.
This is a very long answer to a problem that probably just needed a listening ear, but I hope what you take away from this is an understanding that you're not the only one who feels the difference. I see this same experience shared in the notes on my posts all the time.
There is no easy fix for the situation and it certainly won't be fast to change, but maybe if we mentor a bit more when we have the spoons to, we can shift the culture a bit? One fan at a time?
If you managed to get all the way to the end of this, do yourself a favour and leave a comment on a fic or reblog a post with some chatty tags. DM somemeone or tag them or send them an ask just to let them know you see them and you think they're cool.
Even if nothing happens as a result, you tried. And maybe you just made someone's day. 💗
Demographically, I have a fair amount in common with @ao3commentoftheday with the exception that I am a parent.
And my oldest child has entered online fandom.
Thankfully, my child and I don’t share fandoms (we both prefer it that way), but we did sit down to discuss how to maintain privacy and safety while also being friendly in online interactions. I taught my child about fandom red flags and green flags, from my experiences, and my child has since asked for my advice in terms of my child’s own fandom experiences and how to handle issues and concerns.
All that being said, I was surprised and confused when my child informed me that my child had not been leaving kudos or comments on AO3. Keep in mind, this child would read longfics for days, tell me how great the author’s writing captured the characters, etc.
“Why didn’t you kudos or comment if the fic was so good?” I asked.
While my child explained lack of ability to comment due to fic restrictions (my child has expressed not yet feeling ready to have an AO3 account even though my child is old enough and my husband and I would be fine with it), my child said kudos didn’t matter: “Who cares about one kudos?”
“The author cares. And, if the author for some reason doesn’t care, I know you care about doing the right thing. I think expressing appreciation for other people’s fanwork is the right thing to do. What do you think?”
My child went back and kudosed all stories read to that point.
But I’m just one parent. And it’s absolutely not the job of fandom to parent children. There’s an idea that the way we behave in real life is divorced from the way we behave online. There’s some merit to that in the form of maintaining privacy and boundaries online that might be different in person. When we’re talking about basic manners, though? Golden rule stuff? That’s what’s become lacking, and I hope it improves.
i do think that a lot of this is just the result of a lack of lurk moar attitude in fandom/the internet in general.
when i was a tween who first found fandom in the late 90s/early 2000s, people didn't explicitly teach me how to interact with fandom. i lurked for a solid year before i signed up for my own account on the forum i'd found. (i can still remember how the adrenaline coursed through me as i signed up for my own account--i felt tingy and more than a little ill!)
by that time, i had a very good sense of social norms there. i still made a few mistakes, and the more established members smacked me down in a matter-of-fact but not unkind way. but i'd learned by watching. hell, by the time i started actively participating, i knew all the inside jokes!
as op mentioned, i don't think that people lurk anymore, and my theory is that the rise of social media/web 2.0 created a different approach to web communities.
today, every site is presumed to be for every person. the entire point of the really big social media sites is that everyone is on them. (this is one of the things i hate about them btw because it results in context collapse. i do not want to talk to my third-grade teacher, my favorite cousin, complete strangers, and my fandom friends in the same voice, but that's another issue).
whereas in web 1.0, the internet was riddled with niche sites/communities. you had to go out and find your place (and sometimes it took a while!). once you found it, you were invested in becoming a part of that specific community, so you did the research (lurking) to find out how people interacted, what all the unspoken norms were. by the time you picked your handle and made your account, you just knew stuff.
i'm sure this was not true of everyone, but it was true of far more people at the time. people looked before they leapt.
there are many, many reasons that i think that fandom has suffered from the web 2.0 environment. the fact that creators/writers/actors and fans are all on the same sites using the same tags for general publicity and for fannish nonsense is a huge problem. the way that sites are so big that people feel that their contributions (as with kudos above) don't matter is a direct result of the way social media undermines community and makes everything a performance of whatever your late-capitalist brand is. the fast pace of those sites makes people think that interacting with older posts is a bad idea. the lack of filters of the kind that we had on livejournal where you could determine who saw what or even just the way that forums often made you join before you could see content created walls within which communities could grow (think frost and walls making good neighbors).
i know we can't go back to the assumptions that operated before social media. we have to explore other options. i love when people make psas here telling people about fandom norms and history! i think it's the best thing! and maybe at this point that is the only way to handle it.
tumblr and ao3 are very weird sites in that they straddle the web 1.0 and web 2.0 kinds of internet.
from web 1.0 they get the lack of algorithms, the way you have to make choices about what you see, chronological arrangements, and (on ao3) lack of ads, etc. tumblr has a slightly slower pace than most social media; ao3 has a much slower one.
from web 2.0, though, you get scale, centralization (which is both ao3's greatest strength and greatest weakness), and the fact that it takes little effort to locate these sites--anyone, no matter their level of investment in fandom, can just stumble on them.
so you end up having a lot of people who are not actually fannishly inclined (aren't invested in a gift economy, don't really understand that fandom is supposed to be fun, don't really get the creative urge etc.) interacting with people who are fannishly inclined, and it causes some really problems. especially with younger people whose experience of the internet is as a venue to signify and perform certain kinds of morality/coolness/trendiness that are at odds with what fandom has always been about. basically: you have a bunch of normies clashing with a bunch of nerds. (obviously the normie/nerd divide is a spectrum and not a binary, so i'm overstating, but still.)
when you have people who are coming to fandom from different angles--some people who are coming to it as a provider of content just like all other media in their lives, especially elsewhere online; some people who are coming to it as a participatory hobby wherein we build community around shared affection for [thing]--there's going to be lots of clashes and weirdness.
i kind of think that fans need to go back to create set-apart spaces for fandom to happen. note that i am NOT talking about gatekeeping. everyone who treats others with respect would be welcome. but just having fenced-off areas that are explicitly for certain kinds of fandom interactions. where we can basically have our party away from the normies, but other nerds who are younger or just getting in touch with their nerdiness can find us.
i'm not sure how we'd go about doing it. but i think smaller, more intimate internet spaces are really necessary for fandom to be enjoyable. for fandom to be fandom tbh.
While "the lack of rules and instructions" is a very real, very serious problem and comes from the lack of communication between some parents and children (source: I work in school), I don't think it's THE reason behind the changes. If we take all age groups in internet fandoms, how many of us are teens? How many of us are in the twenties? I believe a good part of fandom (if not a majority) comes from "the old internet".
That being said, @queenofattolia has a lot of great points about "forums and social networks" and "nerds and normies". At first I disagreed with the last, but the more I thought about it, the more sense it made. I'd say it's about fans and casual enjoyers.
When I was a middle shcooler, there were maybe four kids watching anime in my class. For two it was just something they liked to do in their free time, but for me and the other guy it was HUGE. We identified as "otaku" and for us it wasn't simply interesting, but instead everything surrounding anime and manga was big and important enough to shape our personalitites. Heck, the only reason I became an artist is because my classmate shared a link to the site, which had "how to draw anime eyes" type of drawing tutorials.
Since then I've seen anime go from 'subculture thing' to 'mainstream thing'. A looooot of middle schoolers watch anime now, many read manga, which you can now buy in a book store or even borrow from a library! (non-existent options in my prime otaku years)
But I wonder how many of these kids indentify as otakus. How many treat this interest as a something... Something more, something vital.
The difference between fans and casual enjoyers is summed above really good, I just want to add that True FansTM realize the existence of a community. They realize there are people behind "content" and that these people need support to keeep going, because every fan themselves is the same - they need to be seen as a person, not 'content creator' or 'poster' or whatever. We're all pillars upon pillars, if some of us don't get supported, it all starts crumbling down.
The difference is maybe not even about the passion for original source, but between the original needs (informational vs social), the level of involvement and the understanding and acceptance of personal responsibility. There is an ecosystem and some people interact with it without realizing what they come in touch with. Some people, like @curator-on-ao3 's child will probably get there with time, but this is a case of a young fan having a mentor, I'm a millenial, and I have a feeling that a lot of millenials can feast on content/information without understanding - how do I put it - the social proces behind "content creating". And I don't think some of them are all that interested to learn about it. After all, they are here for some leisure time, not for commitments.
Finally, I would like to add that for me some of the coziest, feels-like-home fandom experience on tumblr happened within:
a) a small fandom (uses to be bigger, but I joined past the "golden age")
b) small subfandoms inside big fandoms (dedicated to certain characters and plot arcs)
One thing in common is all of these had "the gang" - same bunch of people, who shared their art and thoughts as well as they were looking out for others' art and thoughts, And yeah, a lot of interactions happened back and forth.
I feel terrible for anon and personally I feel the same (sometimes new hyperfixation striked, sometimes my fandom spaces declined over time - all in all, I don't feel like I have a place atm). Actually it's feeling rather quiet in my current big and active fandoms. There is a lot of "content", but there's very little interaction.
But maybe finding a smaller, more concetrated community is the key. And yeah, more interaction.
my dog community hot take is i could not give less of a fuck what mix or color someone is breeding as long as they’re doing their best to produce healthy, temperamentally sound dogs and otherwise doing right by those dogs.
at least in the U.S., we have a severe lack of decent breeders and those who do exist simply cannot meet the demand for puppies from the general public. if someone wants to breed merle doodles, idc as long as health testing is done and other basic ethical requirements are met.
there’s already a demand for those puppies, i’d rather they be produced ethically so people can have decent dogs
this messed up vintage cat sewing pattern has tormented me since i saw it & like some other folks have done in that post - i tried my hand at tweaking the pattern to resemble the illustration (and my personal tastes) a little more. i've ended up with this, which i have only tested at a small scale and not this final version exactly (where i have done such things as further widening the cheeks and finalizing the leg shapes.) i bestow it upon you nice folks now 👐
go forth and make weird little beanbag kittens! pls show me if you do!
woah this got big!! and after another try i have another untested tweak for yall. this should help the weird pinchy side seams out. yey
My first attempt! I made the pattern a bit smaller as I wanted it to be able to fit in a pocket, but then (accidentally but perhaps unavoidably) sewed it with a wider seam allowance than the resized pattern indicated, so the face is proportionally a bit too big and I lost some detail in the ear shape. I'm pleased with it though! It was fun to make something and to do some handsewing.
SOO CUTE AND TINIE 😭
I tried this pattern a while back to try out some minky and I get no points for making the pattern well but looook at my boyyy
His name is Tofu. Thank you for sharing the pattern I will love him forever
debating if i wanna make a blog dedicated to my exotics program now that i’ve actually got things up and running properly with consistent litters on the ground
if you hired a galapagos finch as a linecook it would perfectly evolve a beak to optimally smoke cigarettes behind the dumpsters
"This makes sense."
I'm glad to see someone speaking out against the myth that clearcuts increase biodiversity. Yes, there are stand-replacing disturbances in nature like large wildfires, landslides, etc. But they don't happen as frequently or on as large a scale as clearcuts. And even a lot of large wildfires still display mosaic burn patterns, in which there are patches of relatively untouched forest amid the burned areas that help repopulate the whole region.
A clearcut, on the other hand, involved bulldozing all the plants beneath the trees to make the trees easier to access, and then cutting down all the trees, or leaving a few sickly specimens behind. Then the land is replanted with a monoculture of whatever cash crop tree the timber companies prefers. That's why the Pacific Northwest is covered in closely-planted stands of <60 year old Douglas fir. Those aren't forests--they're just glorified tree farms.
While there is an increasing number of foresters trying to promote more sustainable and ecologically sound forestry practices, your larger timber interests are generally going to be spouting myths that make themselves look better (if they bother to try for better P.R. at all.) They're also busy lobbying against any conservation measures that could affect their bottom line.
And, for the record, they are directly responsible for the closure of lumber mills and loss of jobs here in the United States because it's cheaper for them to just ship logs across the Pacific to Asia to be processed into lumber. It was never about the spotted owls and old growth forests--that was a puppet show to distract people from corporate decisions that ultimately hurt both nature and workers alike.
@6qubed why would you hide this.
I just type this stuff; it is the work of other hands to determine the writing's validity
i'm definitely not qualified to answer this chat what do you think
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