the thing about art is that sometimes you'll be moved to tears by stuff that is not very good
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the thing about art is that sometimes you'll be moved to tears by stuff that is not very good

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does this skull belong to a dinosaur? or some other manner of extinct creature?
deathly curious how good the average tumblr user is at distinguishing dinosaur skulls from non dinosaur skulls
howd you do?
100-90%
89-80%
79-70%
69-60%
59-50%
49-40%
39-30%
below 29%
i dont wanna talk about it/results
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I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.
I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.
I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.
You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??
Yes. THIS! So much. In fanfiction you can use the reader's knowledge as a tool. You can twist their expectations of characters and tropes to your advantage. There is just so much to play with.
We can also talk about specifically using formatting and using a site like Ao3 to convey the story - in that, you can take advantage of HTML/CSS. A chapter of one of my fics wouldn't be the same in print unless I heavily adapted it. it should have been by SidneySussex is a masterpiece that simply cannot be absorbed anywhere but on the web.
As fanfic writers we're given so many tools to play with expectations and narrative. It's joyous.
i do feel somewhat ruined forever. but it’s okay we stay silly
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I wanted to practice drawing something a bit more complicated than what I usually do
oh? is a bit of child murder and allusions to pedophilia too dark to include in the tag, tumblr? we don't like it when we talk about child sacrifice in its modern forms of a dehumanizing system that not only allows for, but is even designed to throw our children into the maw of slavery, warfare, and every sort of abuse imaginable for the benefit of the few, prior generations?
we can't be talking about how we can't forget the sin of every species, of allowing our offspring to be a means to the end in nature's brutal game of numbers known as natural selection, its echoes now seen in late stage capitalism? that every generation, we just can't help ourselves, we kill our babies.
That even when we feel disgust when we witness the act in "lower animals",
We eat what we gave birth to?
here comes mononykus
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
And I'll repost this too, now that I have a functional account. Again, mind the tags.
My first commission in 5 years!
A beautiful story of a client meeting their partner in-game.

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just noting that in the original vathek, what REALLY got the people rioting was vathek taking the city's children and shoving them through a portal as a sacrifice to a monster
expecting soon
oecter can u post ur lapis drawing u did here :gugu:
didnt post it originally because i wasnt proud of it 💥 but i will archive it here for you my friend 🫡
inspired me to draw more although i am not sure how i want to draw most of the characters yet 💔

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concept: a centipede but make it a cool s
lets be s with mama
unfortunately i have free will so im about to make art that is going to appeal to basically 4 people. let us hope those 4 people follow me.