♬ Ash

I'll put this here too since a lot of y'all need to hear this. Something that's bothered me and want to address with ppl suddenly taking Mark's egos to ship with Ryan Gosling roles is that they take without considering what the egos are like and only using them as accessories to Ryan's. Not only with Simon as his own character but egos too. Seeing Mark's most complex characters get boiled down to arm candy for Ryan's roles was something I expected would happen with how small the Markiplier community is compared to Ryan's fanbase, but after the sudden influx of popularity in regards to shipping, it makes me wary of how they see Mark in general as a creator. With the amount of mischaracterization/racism that's happened already with Simon, they don't see another actor in their eyes, they see a YouTuber with other characters he's played that can now be paired with their characters from all the movies they've seen with an A-list actor. It's not about controlling who you ship, it's about educating yourself on who you're shipping with who. All of Mark's projects are on YouTube and worth the watch if you haven't, if not for the egos then do it because they really are something special you don't see in movies nowadays.

i love making friends in fandom, i love playing with our toys together, i love coming up with increasingly niche aus, i love lifting strangers up, i love motivating people to create, i love watching someone get excited over an idea and immediately running with it, i love yelling in tags together, i love seeing someone gain confidence in their writing/art because people were kind to them <33

I haven't made friends within a fandom for years and it has been so healing and wholesome. My days are infinitely better because of one little discord server 💓

Their eridian thrums sound peculiarly similar to the beat of Funkytown by Lipps Inc.

reblog if ryland grace is the reason why you finally accepted that you are aroace-spec. reblog if ryland grace made you understand, perhaps for the first time ever, that you really don't need romantic love to be fulfilled - platonic relationships are just as meaningful. reblog if ryland grace finally showed you that there is nothing wrong with being aroace. it doesn't make you loveless. if anything, it makes you loved.

WHAT THE FRICK FRACK- thank you this is incredible!!! 💓💞💓💞💓💞💓

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.