No.1 Skibidi Toilet shitposter

Я очень вдохновилась фильмом "трансформеры" и перерисовала одну сцену с боем. мне понравилось как это вышло и хотелось бы снова увидеть первую камеравумен, она милашка )

3d model of pain and suffering... more things of me just playing around with it under the cut

Day 1: Which "main" character is your favorite? What draws you in?

All the titans! Because I’m an anthropologist, I’m fascinated by how people experience the world differently. Titan units are a really interesting thought experiment, because they’re completely unique beings. Being a titan would be like living in a society of Lego-person-sized humans, the closest thing they’ve got to their size is the large units, but even the biggest large units are doll-sized in comparison.

So the titan units are kind of a micro-culture of three people. But they’re also the centre of their factions’ cultures and need to primarily be loyal to their own factions. Which makes me think of human relationships with pantheistic deities in pre-Christian religions, when deities weren’t believed to be all-powerful and had relationships with each other that competed with the attention they paid to humans. Deities are loved, but there’s also a sense of unpredictability and danger, which is very obvious in stories like Ragnarok in Norse mythology where warring deities will destroy the world. That’s totally something I want to explore in my fics, the concept of titans as purpose-built deified figures, because it’s fascinating to bring a mythological feeling into (kind of) realistic sci-fi.

The other thing that’s interesting is the experience of what it would be like to be a titan. A philosopher called Nagel wrote that we can imagine what it might be like to be a bat, but we can’t know because a bat’s world is so different to a human’s. An Alliance robot’s worldview is pretty mysterious anyway (how speakermen perceive the world if they don’t see, for example) but to add size and all the multiple sensors and equipment that titan units have, and it’s really possible to imagine an alien worldview. All the titan units would have their own perceptual quirks, but I think Titan TVman is particularly fascinating. If his other TVs act like heads then he might be able to split his consciousness. He’s also slightly different from the other titans in that he seems to be slightly distanced from his faction - I interpret this as because he’s (in my fic interpretation, most of the Alliance including Titan TV use gender-neutral pronouns, but I’m using canon pronouns here for clarity) out fighting and working with other factions while other TVmen generally seem to be secretive, a tendency that more TVmen also start challenging as the series goes on. He’s been an interesting character to use to explore ideas about neurodivergent thinking, semi-plural experiences, and alternative ways of doing relationships!

However... as a fandom creator (writer and artist), I sometimes feel like too much pressure is concentrated on creators. I don't know if this is a frustration others share? Not only should we keep making things, but somehow we also end up becoming these central fandom figures who can feel pressured into responding to comments (or else we're called arrogant or ungrateful), making friends (or else we're rude for ignoring well-meaning people who reach out), and being the drivers and pillars of that community (running events, responding to memes, etc. – and everything falls silent if we stop). It's a lot of work!! I don't always have the time and energy to make things for fun and then also engage in all the ways people might sometimes feel entitled to because they enjoy my works.

I really wish that more "non-creating" fans in the community would discover their fandom power!! and not just rely on the visible "producing" creators to be the only people worth engaging with. It takes nothing more than passion to write a meta-post about a character or a plot point, or to create an ask game, or to DM someone else who you see posting funny tags – not just the creator! Maybe your followers have other tips for evening out the balance a little more?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this, anon. This is an observation I've seen in many parts of life, not just fandom.

A lot of people feel as though they need permission or an invitation of some sort in order to contribute. That's why I always end my answers by asking people to share their thoughts. I want to make it explicitly clear that I want people to add things into the reblogs (which I can then share out for more people to see) and the replies (which people can at least read even if I can't reblog).

I have heard fans who are readers but don't write fic say that they think they can't get an AO3 account unless they plan to post something. This is incorrect, of course, but a lot of people make that assumption.

I think at least some people (I don't know what kind of percentage) assume that someone who is writing fic or posting art or making podfics and video edits etc. has some sort of expertise that "allows" them to post.

People with less confidence or with less practice etc. sometimes need an extra nudge before they realize that they're welcome to contribute too. If that's the case for you, please allow me to say:

You are welcome to post in your fandom, even if no one invites you to. Even if you think you're not good enough. Even if your idea isn't "popular."

Start a conversation. Share a thought. Talk to folks who reblog cool shit. Be a folk who reblogs cool shit. You don't have to do everything in order to do something.

make a rec list

make a "here's all the fics I've found in this fandom with this one trope/general vibe/very particular setup I just think is Neat" list

make a "welcome to the fandom, here's the fics that people will just assume you've read/know about to get you started" list

Create whumps lists

Create lists of shippy moments

Make screenshot collections

Record and post clips of your show to get more people into your fandom

Make incorrect quote memes

Make silly little TikTok-style edits of your favs

Make character playlists

Figure out the layout of buildings/cities

Recreate those building in the Sims or with an online floor planner or even just draw it out because holy hell writers will be so thankful for that

Make your blorbo in various video game character creations

Build a pokemon team for your blorbo

Make up silly headcanons! What does everyone do at the fair or the beach or during a fire drill?

Outline a fic idea you have — maybe you don’t have the time or energy or you just don’t feel confident enough to create it, but share it anyway!

Create outfits based on your blorbo’s design or outfits they would wear

Collect interviews with the author, producer, director, mangaka etc

Similarly, translate interviews

I remember someone in the haikyuu!! fandom kept a twt thread of every time two characters were in the same panel. Not sure what the tumblr equivalent would be. I guess just a regular old post with lots of additions? (Send help; i'm not sure why my brain is struggling so badly to translate twitter threads to tumblr posts)

Run a quote bot account: I'm not sure of the status of quote bots in a post twitter era, but those were quite fun. Again an example from the hq!! fandom, there was the hq!! bastille bot which would spit out a bastille lyric + a ship. The siken bot would spit out a line of poetry + a ship name. On tumblr maybe the equivalent would be a gimmick blog?

Run a ship/character week. I think these are probably the easiest kind of fandom event to run. it doesn't take more than one person, a blog, and rudimentary graphics skills.

Are socmed AUs still a thing?

Make gifs

Try to figure out the layers to a character's outfit and share your studies with the world. (I'm looking directly at you, Hoyoverse and all you're what-even-is-that how-do-they-even-put-that-on character design. beautiful, but confusing)

Update fandom wikis

Log fandom history on fanlore.org (another project run by the Organization for Transformative Works, aka the parent of ao3)

Some suggestions:

Transcribe episodes for film/audio canons

Podfic! We can always use more podfic, and most people's phones have a voice recorder.

Create bingo sheets (e.g. make a fanwork with five or more of these tropes for a bingo; read/reblog fanworks in five or more of these categories for a bingo)

Be a Your Blorbo expert consultant! If I'm writing about a character I don't have strong feelings about, but I know one of my friends is constantly reblogging and posting about them, even if it's all silly memes and "character <3"-type posting, I'll sometimes reach out to them for advice on if I'm getting Their Blorbo right. It's absolutely invaluable and I appreciate these people so much.

"We have Skibidi Toilet at home."

Introducing Seven Days of Skibidi!

Each day there will be both one question and an alternative question, all related to ST. You can choose to answer one or both of them. In my posts I'll be answering both prompts each day simply because I love to share all my thoughts! I also plan to share art or a screenshot in each post, which I encourage you to do as well.

I'll be answering these myself soon (in the next few days), but for now here's the full list of questions!

Titan Speakerman is also sometimes called Soundwave in my canon divergence AU so I may refer to him as TSM or Soundwave interchangeably or both.

Soundwave!

Most of the time when I mention this, it's in regards to the Alliance adapting to the toilets. Toilets begin to create parasites? We create anti-parasite guns. But I also think the toilets deserve a bit of credit for their adaptability as well.

Especially when the toilets realize the Alliance don't die like regular people, there's a noticeable shift in their weaponry to include more explosives/full-body damaging devices. They realized that the units can be repaired and can be sent back out (we see this several times in the series) and so they adapted. You can't send a unit back out when there is nothing left of them.

why the actual hell do the tv men not have screen protection?

I’d expect the upgraded ttm to get that but no! HE DOESNT AND IT DOESNT MAKE FREAKING SENSE HELLO?

1. The way a TV screen works/can display images is through a certain kind of filtered glass piece (without going into too much nerdy detail). Perhaps making it thicker would interrupt this somehow.

2. They didn't anticipate anyone going for ttvm's screen, because most of the TV units are not close-range fighters. However, this doesn't fix the issue later on with why his captors wouldn't upgrade, which goes back to point one.

3. They are actively trying to develop a functional screen protector and haven't found anything that works yet.

At least TTVM from ST Multiverse got one haha