No.7556
>>7549Original anon, I recently lost interest in my OTP for a new one. Somehow I went from regularly reading fics and making fanwork for it for the past 2 years to complete indifference in a week. Out of every OTP I've had this was the one I was the most passionate about so the 180 is jarring, I don't know if I just got burnt out from it or something.
No.7557
>>7549I have my current otp since the beginning of the year, from when I started their anime and then watched their arcs.
>Do you still have lingering feelings for your previous one or do you not care about it anymore?It depends on each pairing, usually I still like them but don't feel the urge to read as many fanfics or doujinshi about them or look for as much art as before. It's like I become more "rational" about them with time, like
>>7552 but if there's one pairing I really don't care about anymore it's shizaya.
No.7558
>>7549I just got a new OTP a few days ago, but prior to this one, I had a long dry spell of not being able to connect to a new ship like my old OTPs. And my interest in my old OTPs has been waning for a while now. I still think about them, but I don't seek out content for my old OTPs anymore.
No.7559
>>7555It might just be that your standards or taste has changed. All I needed to get into a ship as teen and young tween was "two antagonists talking" or "hero + antagonist being obsessed with each other" but now there are more conditions that have to be fulfilled for me to care. It doesn't help that newer series are way less likely to have a classic villain or antag unless it's shounen and even FOR shounen you don't get this obsession ala Optimus/Megatron or Guts/Griffith anymore.
>writing fanfic, which to me is the undeniable mark of an OTP lolSame. I know I actually love something when I draw it or write for it. I can like shit but not even bother to save art of it, saving art is the second step. It means I really like it, but it's not right an obsession yet and might wane quickly. Only if I step in to create myself do I know that yes, this is it. This is the next big shit.
I agree it's hard to get into new stuff. Especially because I also need a good role and lore for them. Just two dudes being gay isn't enough for me I need fuel that I can delve into and write an epic about. Modern stories are usually too mundane for my taste.
No.7560
>>7559I was nearly 30 when the 2017 OTP got its hooks in me and while I recognize we are always changing as people I would say I hit the "young person/grownass adult" standard adjustment in like 2013 haha. It's definitely why I can't read as much fanfic anymore. (╥_╥)
>Just two dudes being gay isn't enough for me I need fuel that I can delve into and write an epic about. It seems so petty to say "being gay isn't enough" but that really is the truth of the matter. You are so right about newer things lacking "the classics". It almost feels like writers are now thinking about the fujo lens as they write and go out of their way to avoid or debunk it.
No.7562
>>7560>It almost feels like writers are now thinking about the fujo lens as they write and go out of their way to avoid or debunk itI never considered this before, but now that you say it.. Seriously, I noticed that the few fujo pandering I got in seinen or shounen the last 10 years was almost always done deliberately, with fujos in mind or at least feeling like it. And yeah there is more outright BL too of which I am honestly not a huge fan of since I prefer it to be integrated in engaging longer manga I enjoy, opposed to be a standalone OC romance with one or two volumes. The downside of more fujo awareness seems to be that there is no "coincidental" fuel anymore.
Enemies and heroes, rivals and everything act so fucking distanced nowdays, I swear maybe I imagine it, but I just don't see the types of hatelove, rivalries and "from mentor/brother/best friend to nemesis" dynamics anymore.
It seems like with the awareness of fujo came the intention to outsource it. Either to their own BL OC series or to side characters that can be gay without bothering the main audience or influencing the main plot.
Sure, there are exceptions like SK8 but those are very rare actual fujo shows. I wonder if it's coincidence or not. I can legit not think of a single manga-based MC/nemesis relationship from the last 10 years that had any sort of gay fuel. Maybe I just didn't read it but not sure. And the status quo of modern JRPG is even worse.
*edit for too many typos
No.7566
>>7537Or post them on Bitchute. Or on Odysee. Or anywhere else. Youtube is so crap now.
No.7571
>>7569I assume "wrapped" means AO3 stats? No idea how to do it, google only shows me a crappy website that doesn't work.
No.7575
>>7572
Anon what the hell? Don't suggest/advertise this shit if you have to input such things to obtain arbitrary stats
No.7580
>7534
>apparently there is a cutie who has endearing interactions with the female lead and incels lose their shit every time it happens
The irony, after years of seeing ppl accusing fujos of this..I now see male characters massively hated for simply interacting with the main love interest, while a rival female character is hated for interacting with male protag by the equivalent women who self insert.
All of them suck at shipping too, instead of talking about the characters potential or chemistry all I see is convos on metaphors or defensiveness on characters being shipped with someone else even thou that's what fandom is for lol
No.7582
>>7577I do!
-Make sure to have different stuff for different price categories. Stickers are good for the cheapest tier. Button pins are cute and cheap, try to get them to fit into an 'aesthetic' if possible, since you're doing original work.
-Stock at baseline 10 of each. No more than 10, unless you're going to a huge con and know that you'll sell, in which case you can stock 15-20. Stickers are cheaper to produce and cheaper to sell, so it's ok to stock 20-25 of those.
-You can make 5 of the keychains if you're unsure, manufacturers do allow you to stack multiple designs for discounts as long as they're the same size. Measure them first to figure out how big they will be.
-Nobody buys prints, so you can stock even less of those. I'd go with 5 prints per image.
-Even if you do original work, making it somewhat relatable or familiar is good. Like stickers of gaming consoles, or pets. Doing something in the line of an established 'Aesthetic', be it your own or a #-one, makes your stall more cohesive, which increases sales opportunities for your original work.
-Check with other artists what you should be charging. It's often more than you think!
-Build your stand the night before. Take a picture. Use that picture to save time when setting the stall up at the event.
No.7587
Looks like MRM removed the shota tag. Nothing shows up when you search it
No.7588
>>7587Damn. I had a feeling something like that was gonna happen when they made the tag red.
No.7589
>>7587Nooooo, why would they do that?
No.7590
>>7589I bet they're gonna remove all the shota works soon. Cause the tag and works with shota tagged still exists, you just can't filter it now. Which is stupid, so they'll either reinstate the tag properly or delete all of them. At least nhentai still exists I guess. Chin2, the replacement of Shotachan scanslators, don't seem to have been uploading to mrm anyway or if they were, it wasn't being accepted.
No.7591
>>7589Maybe a legal/host-based issue? They still have rape/incest/etc. tags up fine, so I doubt it's a moral thing. Strange to remove the tag after all these years though
>>7590>works with shota tagged still exists, you just can't filter it nowI saw people celebrating it which was funny because now they'll just get jumpscared with shota content instead of being able to filter it out. No one wins here
No.7592
>>7587>removing shota>still has western, pig-disgusting bara, and furryGross
No.7593
>>7587>>7590Huh. I'm not really invested in shota for the most part but now I gotta see whether all those Sebaciel doujins are gonna be lost media or not.
No.7595
>>7593>all those Sebaciel doujins are gonna be lost mediai'm going to kill myself
No.7597
>>7595Nah, use exhentai nonna. They actually accept your submissions without the approval bullshit MRM has, plus they also actually have more Black Butler doujins right now then MRM at 190.
No.7598
>>7591>celebratingWhy can't moralfags be consistent? They shouldn't partake in pirated scans or scanlation, which is just as illegal as the stuff getting the axe.
No.7600
>>7599*2010
I checked desuarchive for /a/ posts from that time -
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/33558342/#33558342 No.7601
>>7598>Why can't moralfags be consistentbecause they aren't really moralfags, they are just "shit i don't like needs to be axed"fags
No.7602
>>7595>>7597Yeah I wasn't trying to say they'd actually be lost, it was just a thought that came to mind. I later found out myself that they're fine.
No.7626
Regarding the shota tag being deleted from MRM, they did remove some shota works. Not sure how many, and I'm not sure what the criteria is either.
No.7694
Teen boys on fatbikes trigger some sort of fight or flight response in me.
No.7695
>>7694I had this discussion with a friend… our conclusion was that the scrote deserves to get assraped on his precious bike and get coom stained on it
No.7699
>>7697Nah, I get it. I feel like if you're young and female you're more likely to fall for this sort of stuff due to female socialisation telling you to be polite and rule-abiding. Same reason why female-run scanlation groups are more likely to do the password-protected secret club thing, I imagine. When I was a teenager I was a hardcore social justice tumblr girl but as I got older I had this nagging feeling in my head that MTF troons creeped me the fuck out and then things clicked for me as I read tumblr TERF blogs and I went all the way to the opposite side and was on Kiwifarms for a while. I ended up sliding back into the middle more over time cause Kiwifarms is full of misogynists and a lot of TERFs I encountered hate fujoshi. Also I just reached a point in my life where I wanna focus more on positivity instead of making myself mad all the time.
No.7700
>>7697It started out as 'trans and nb people have gender dysphoria, nobody decides to be this way', and that seemed logical to my autism brain. Then it slid at some point straight into 'actually self ID is all that matters and gender dysphoria isn't necessary' and all the made-up pronouns and genders, and seeing people obviously getting off on the trans headcanon stuff. I still can't wrap my head around what the hell is the difference between self called 'nonbinary women' calling themselves she, and a regular-ass woman. Ask someone for an answer and you won't get it.
Add onto that people saying 'tee-hee I wonder why people with autism have a higher rate of being trans, how mysterious' when you already fucking know that fellow autists are just overthinking their feelings and gender has become their special interest. It's not rocket science.
Asexual is a useful label to describe the experience of some people. There are people with no interest in sex who have never experienced attraction to someone even as an adult. Sometimes they are late bloomers and that ends up changing one day, sometimes it doesn't.
No.7701
Sisters…. I hate troonshit and FTM shit but because I want one of the guys in my OTP to get pregnant I gave him a pussy.
He has a son in canon so I just tell myself "It's him and (other guy's) lovechild" It's a fantasy setting too though
Is it over for me?
I just can't imagine penis birth and assbabies is too much
No.7702
>>7701You can do whatever you want but if you want my honest opinion I feel like you just turned your gay couple straight. If I'd want to give my otp a child I'd go for adoption or a magical clone/advanced magitek clone baby cause it wouldn't involve turning one of them female.
No.7708
>>7701Personally I'm with the other anon if you're going to MPREG the best option is literal magic, otherwise I've seen C-sections, and eggs done and haven't been immediately repulsed. The moment it's cuntboy I personally nope out but you are entitled to write whatever you want.
No.7709
>>7701The only time mpreg works for me in an organic way is either body horror (like the child bursts out of somewhere) or when the character is an alien/inhuman being that can give birth in a totally unique way. I would never go for regular vaginal birth in a yaoi. Even some fucked up omegaverse ass uterus anatomy is better imo.
No.7711
>>7702They could also just timeskip it, most omegaverse usually do "and suddenly there's a baby, wow" without showing any pregnancy.
No.7714
I feel like im self-harming everytime I read fanfiction of other ships that involve one of the two boys in my main OTP.
No.7715
>>7714You must be a masochist lmao, I couldn't even bring myself to click on let alone read NOTP fics.
No.7717
>>7702>>7708I honestly do genuinely kinda get bothered by this because I wouldn't want people to think I think the character is trans. If I feel in the mood of a preg related story, I'd just add cuntboy into it like nips sometimes do (almost every fish-like or dragon-type character gets 'slits' these days) but the potential of people thinking I'm a traitor fujo annoys me. Hetshit is one thing, which I guess I wouldn't blame anons thinking it's basically a genderbend but trans is where I draw the line that I can't just openly say "no, fuck off this isn't trans shit" or I'd get wrecked
>>7708Body horror mpreg is what I used to do most of the time (and I still do) if I'm in the mood of some guro
(bursting out of the stomach or crawling from the throat), and I guess that just made me like mpreg in general but I never really think of the 'birthing process' of it all otherwise. If I have to think of non-violent ways of birth that's when everything falls apart
No.7720
Gay pandering is always so much better than het fanservice even if it comes from coomers. I read so many series that have both, including blushing men that get touched by other men and all that and yet, regardless of how extreme the gay shit is it's still always more tasteful.
You would assume that if you are het and lusting for girls you would make their fanservice good. But no, it's so forced and anticlimactic it always makes me disgusted of it and not (just) because of feminism. Even if I imagine the men doing it I would dislike it. Gay male fanservice generally seems to be more organic while the female fanservice is always aggressively OOC and happens for the sake of it, in the dumbest way and at the worst moments (like during a fucking war or battle) and it's always so forced that it outright ridiculous. Like even if I was into it I couldn't get horny because I would laugh or be puzzled by it.
I wonder why people cannot write this. Maybe most writers need some distance from a sexual scene to make it good. The moment they get self-indulgent it gets cringe. It even happens with female authors, albeit not as commonly.
No.7722
Asian artists almost always comment on fanart they retweet by making those subsequent posts like "RT I really love how the face of X is drawn so cute!!" in lieu of making replies and I didn't notice it for a long time and I am the guy who is shy as fuck on socmedia so I only post my art and keep quiet. But seeing all those lovely comments I indirectly get makes me feel bad for it. Maybe I should train to overcome my paranoia, I feel like I should do it too if they always do it for me. And I often have to say something about the art I consider good enough to retweet.
No.7723
>>7208>God, I really do wish people gave better prompts on there, I love to make art for peopleI made a couple of requests in /a/'s draw threads - none of them got fulfilled, so I gave up.
No.7730
>>7723Vicious circle probably. The female artists probably gave up on these threads a long time ago. I only ever saw the same costume swap that everybody else requests and every post I saw was waifu shit too so I assumed that gays and women wouldn't even use them anymore.
Granted there are thousands of fujo artists anyway so you probably have better chances finding someone on twitter than /a/.