im void. | it/any, with a fondness for neos. suprise me with strange new neos. | adult
you may use my art for layouts, preferably with credit but idc that much. you may use my art for edits with credit
multifandom, and also a lot of non-fandom posts. | artist, mostly digital | i use likes to save things i want to find later(ex: crafts, videos) | i like talking to people, please send asks or dm me. | i have an extensive tagging system for fandoms, but not much else. if you need something tagged(death, guns, food, etc) feel free to ask, but i may not always remember | due to disablility + other reasons, my ability to write IDs fluctuates, and the majority of images i reblog do not have them. if youd like an ID for a specific post of mine, please ask and i will do my best to write one. if i add an ID to a reblog chain, you may copy&paste it elsewhere, no credit necessary. if i add an ID to your post, please add it to the original post
image description + credits for header and avatar: header image is a screenshot from the game celeste, with cateline and styline mods enabled. it is from the cutscene in chapter two where Badeline is inside the mirror. due to the enabled mods, Madeline has short blue hair, cat ears and a tail in the same shade of blue, and a purple flower in her hair. screenshot taken by me, from my own gameplay. avatar is a headshot of minecraft youtuber itzsubz, drawn by me. it is a drawing of the character/persona/minecraft skin, not the real person. colors and features mostly match the minecraft skin.
yo pinned post finally ill probably edit this later. Update itz been edited some now.
this is my main blog i got so much multi-fandom and also nonfandom stuff. blog runs on a queue. been here since 2018 and im never escaping. dont look in my archived posts theres evil in there
my sideblogs:
@subz-but-everywhere i post one screenshot of him every day
@mt-celeste aesthetic blog i guess? i save images that remind me of my guys and things
i have two three other Secret blogs... dm me if youd like to know them... But be warned i may choose to not share to you. im shy
commission status: open! i dont have like. a prices layout or anything, but dm me on discord or here and we can figure something out
So we all talk about being in fandoms for things that are charmingly bad, and being able to acknowledge that they’re charmingly bad. But of course some people are in fandoms for things that are Actually Amazing. There are people out there who write fanfiction for The Best Science Fiction Novel Of The Twentieth Century. Or who draw fanart exclusively of The Best Movie of All Time. And there are even more people who are in fandoms for things that are Actually Pretty Good, which is not quite amazing but is closer to it than to Charmingly Bad.
And sometimes, you have a string of fandoms that are Actually Pretty Good. And the danger of this—the very great danger—is that when you have a string of Actually Pretty Good and even Actually Amazing obsessions, you start to believe that maybe you have taste. Perhaps you are now immune to the indignities of losing it over something mostly bad.
And then it is shattering to discover that no, bad things can still stick a fork in your brain. 😔
So I understand why the “transformative fandom gathers around things that are not good because there being a problem makes people desire to fix it” model is popular. I even agree that it’s accurate in many if not most cases. However it is not what this post is about. Plenty of people do transformative and creative fandom activities for things that are very, very good. Simplified models do not encompass everything.
And frankly, it’s starting to really get on my nerves when people read “I think this thing is good. I wouldn’t change a thing about it and frankly I don’t even think there should be more canon added to it, but I am still going to write thousands of words of fic, make a cosplay, and draw fanart” and then completely misunderstand and respond with “yes I agree—I like things that are good too. But I never feel the transformative/creative fandom instinct for them because they are too good.”
Some people do not feel it. Other people do. Stop misreading me to avoid having to adjust your mental model of how fandom works.
one of the ways a Canon work can be fandom bait is by missing something that fans want to fix, i.e. "it's bad", but i think this is only one way out of multiple that something can be fandom bait.
compelling worldbuilding (invites interaction with the setting)
interesting gimmick (see: daemons, drift compatibility. subcategory of compelling worldbuilding)
shipping bait (duh)
original character bait (in-universe categories/factions and design elements that make it fun for people to create their own characters)
compelling narrative (invites interaction and tweaks to the storyline: AUs and fixits and so on)
basically anything that invites interaction and recombination. but fandom also has a sort of multiplying effect: the larger the interactive audience of fandom is, the more likely it is to generate ideas and works that draw in more participants. so:
network effect (the larger the established fandom, the more likely it has subfandoms and infrastructure that appeals to niche audiences)
I have had a lot of evil people say to me that nothing taste as good as skinny feels and every time im like no im pretty sure food tastes really super good actually
imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care
tantalus remains the most enduringly horrifying of the greek mythological figures for me because his punishment is so miserably uncircumnavigable in its brutal simplicity. the idea that everything you could ever want is forever just beyond your reach, and it's an indelible quality in yourself that makes it so. one must imagine sisyphus happy, one must imagine that icarus died free with the sun warming his skin and clean sea air in his lungs that had only ever known the damp chill of stone, one must imagine euridyce understood that orpheus loved her too much not to look back and forgave him in an instant, but the tantaluses of the world will never reach a resolution that makes all their suffering and deprivation worthwhile. it's in their nature not to.
basically the best thing any character can do is decide they don't want to be afraid anymore - in fact they never want to be afraid of anything ever again - and take action so drastic they fail to realise that this too is a decision motivated by fear. or to account for the Consequences of that.
[with obvious perverted intent] hey. don't you want to release the safety catches on that character. don't you want to flip off all the switches holding them back and let the control rods go.
