No.6883
>>6882No, that's a good resolution. YouTube and tiktok slop is designed to make you waste time meaninglessly. Cutting it out will only benefit your life.
No.6884
>>6882>too tired lately to watch animeThis happened to me a few years ago. Part of it was depression, but even after dealing with the depression, I still haven't been able to really get back into watching anime like I used to. I think a part of it was just growing up and realizing a bunch of anime coming out isn't what I want to watch.
>Does that sound crazy or pretentious?Nah. And you don't even have to wait until New Years to start. I've cut out tiktok and youtube from my life and while I do have relapses, I'm super productive when I don't have the apps or a tab open for them.
No.6885
>>6884I also had a rut where I didn't watch anime for like 3 or 4 years. I broke out of it just this year simply because I found fun people to talk to who aren't fake weebs and I no longer bother with popular shit. I just focus on watching my backlog at my own comfortable pace and only pick up 1 or 2 seasonals if the plot actually interests me.
No.6886
I used to put all my anime on a USB stick before bed then the next day when I got home I'd watch everything from the day before on my TV. Only after that would I get on the PC. Now I wake up so late in the day I go out and do my shit, come home, go on the PC until it's too late again. The cycle never ends.
No.6887
>>6882If you think it will work for you you may as well try it. I like to put a video essay/podcast/story narration on my second monitor when I'm doing something in an MMO that doesn't require my full attention but I can definitely see it being a waste when you watch that sort of stuff on its own.
No.6897
The weirdest things about yume to me isn't the self-shipping but that everytime I look into one of their husbando/OC fics it's like a whole own setting with no similarities to anything resembling canon save for one character who got transplanted into that story to play the role of the lover and share the name of the canon character.
I could understand the appeal if they shipped a female canon character with their fav or at least an OC that fits into the setting but no. Maybe it's just coincidence that the few yume stories in my fandoms are like this? Like one of the series is historical and the yume stories are full-fantasy and the husbando somehow non-human(??), another series IS a fantasy but THERE the yume stories are mainly pseudo-historic court drama wtf
I wonder if such people are just failed writers that try to get an audience by renaming their male OC with the name of some semi-popular manga character and use that as excuse to add the title of the series as tag to attract a wider audience.
No.6898
>>6897This isn't yume specific I feel the exact same ewsy everytime I see a modern AU or a no magic AU. The characters might share the same names but it is not the same ship.
Not that I haven't seen AUs with clever adapatations, it's just frequently fanfiction in name only.
No.6899
>>6898God do I absolutely detest modern AUs/no magic AUs as well, especially if theres omegaverse tacked on top of it cause at that point its just an oc story with preexisting characters crammed in it.
the main driving factor I get from ships in unnatural worlds is how they got together in their current setting and how they persevered through it if its a drama/tragedy. Modern AUs rip all the tension and melodramatics in order to transform it into some bland, safe universe where none of the stakes are prevalent just so the ship is alive and happy. Its so boring I just dont get it
No.6903
>>6902I don't use it but I did hear about it from the older ladies on tumblr. It seems fine enough but I have no reason to post there myself over AO3, I guess I'd make an account if a writer I like post there, but there doesn't even seem to be any works in my main fandom posted so. It's cute to have a place that does use cooperate speak
No.6904
>>6903I do think it's nice to have more fanfic archives, it's just that it was advertised as a fanfic archive for antis for a while because they have a bad tos that really should be updated to be more professional. Apparently it used to be even worse than it is now. I do think the "vs" relationship tags (not as a category though) is nice to have for easy search/exclusion of bashing/salt fics though.
No.6906
>>6897>the yume stories are mainly pseudo-historic court drama wtfI never watched it myself cause I don't care but I've seen het-enjoying women going wild over Bridgerton so I can only assume it's related to that.
No.6910
>>6897>save for one character who got transplanted into that story to play the role of the lover and share the name of the canon characterYeah, and even when they have a het ship it's blatantly self insert character with the girl that is meant to be relatable self insert.
It's funny because when one of those self-inserts ends in a very fujo series they get mad when she eventually gets sidelined.
No.6916
>>6899>the main driving factor I get from ships in unnatural worlds is how they got together in their current setting and how they persevered through it if its a drama/tragedyThis. Their roles are what make them what they are. You can't take a medieval king or a templar knight out of their setting, make both of them slave wagers and get the same characters. I never understood the appeal of this. Considering that most yaoi fics don't delve deep into the worldbuilding anyway it shouldn't be harder to write anyway. No research necessary if you just want to write a fic about how one samurai dicks the other.
No.6918
>>6902>SquidgeWorldThat name alone tells me it's going to be full of bad writing and gendie tendie shit. It sounds like one of those faggot words like "scrunkly scrimblo heckin' wholesome goblin rat" words. Hell nah
No.6925
>>6920Resentful for anything specific, or it it's just were anyone with any issue tends to go
No.6926
>>6925Well, squidgeworld has had a few big migrations since it's opening and it's almost always been because people were annoyed at ao3. Ai-fics being allowed on ao3 caused a migration. The whole "End OTW Racism" caused a migration. BNFs spreading misinformation that squidgeworld doesn't allow problematic fics caused a migration. Not all were caused by ao3 resent, like when that ddos attack happened, people started moving their fics over just in case. I think the biggest migration was the palestine/israel conflict where that one OTW person quit and started drama and made it look like he was fired for being pro-palestine.
No.6927
>>6926Oh yes, I was aware of most of these events when they happened, but did not connect the dots.
I think it's actually really good to have your fic in a second place, just in case, so I'm glad people do that. But all the other shit feels so disingenuous to me because the majority of people still feel content using social media services that do a million times worse. But I guess it feels more personal since it's a smaller site.
No.6928
>>6920That site has its own problems, you can't post underage so it's not a perfect replacement for Ao3.
No.6929
>>6928As far as I can tell, they do allow underage, but it’s heavily recommended to lock them
I guess that’s like the option on ao3 to only let members see the work. No.6931
>>6926Reminds me a lot of Twitter vs. Bluesky, people saying they'll migrate over some shit then eventually coming back later because of the lack of userbase. I think having multiple archives instead of a single centralized one is good but any "boycott AO3" stuff just comes off as dumb to me because it's not like they make money from people using the site, you actively have to donate to them.
Also the volunteer that started the I/P drama went back to using AO3 anyway kek, so much for having principles and not supporting zionists I guess.
No.6936
I and a few others in my current fandom are in our 30s now and some 20yo we also talk to found that funny (not in a mean way) how varied the age can be in fandoms and this gave me a flashback to the time when I was a teen and realising that some of the fic writers I adored were in their mid thirties.
I still remember how one of them casually talked about her cat on her blog and how she made tea to sit down and type those stories. Another one had a husband and a part-time job. They must be in their early 50s now it's crazy to think about that but I also want to know what they are doing. Are some of them still into fandoms? Did they all move on?
It's crazy to think that somewhere out there are some 50+ year old women that write fanfics I read when I was 15 and maybe still remember how they wrote all that Guts/Griffith sex and the hate fuck between Megatron and Starscream.
No.6937
>>6936I remember reading a bunch of transformers fanfics in middle school and seeing a note that the chapter was delayed because the author was held up with college, at her job as a professor. She's still writing transformers fanfiction, and now that I'm in college I still think about that.
No.6941
AO3 is updating their tos. Nothing major, just some clarification on wording. Oh and the "Underage" tag will be renamed to "Underage Sex" because it was becoming more and more obvious that people didn't realize "Underage" was for underage characters engaging in sex and not for drinking, dating, etc. It's kinda funny to see comments on the news that are against the change because they were using the tag wrongly.
No.6943
Its a bittersweet feeling to get into a fandom far too late and all theres left are echoes of a greater time where excitement was high and fandom was bustling. Sometimes theres a few stragglers here and there still posting despite the years gone by, sometimes its another fan also just getting into series late. While Im grateful to at least experience the media in my lifetime, however late it may be, it makes me wish i was there during the times there was an active community enjoying the media together.
No.6944
>>6941lmao do they think writing about people under 18 in a general sense or even a sweetheart, coming-of-age love story is a CONTENT WARNING in of itself? If that's the case, then no one should ever write YA or children's books. God people are so fucking retarded.
No.6945
>>6944Most people rightfully pointed out how retarded it sounds to use the underage tag as a trigger for stuff like that. Like at that point it'll be in the tags and most things like that are canonical too.
No.6946
>>6943relatable. i got into a fandom a couple years back that was entirely dead aside from about a half-dozen people still posting on tumblr, and it SHOULD have been fun, except they just endlessly policed each other and nothing remotely interesting happened. just the same talking points over and over with barely any art or fic. i think i’d take a dead fandom over experiencing that again.
for one of my current old-ish fandoms, though, i have been posting more openly (like being upfront about my ships and what discourse i think is ridiculous etc) and it’s brought some like-minded people to me. and while i do heavily regret not being there for the height of the series’ popularity, i am having a lot of fun with the sleepover sort of vibe that comes from a tiny community like that. idk, i’m rambling.
No.6947
>>6943Me when I got into Smallville. I'm glad ao3 at least has a bunch of archives of old fanfic. But I always think "man what if I was old enough to participate in the fandom back then?"
No.6949
>>6941I wonder if I need to turn off New Work subscription emails.
If someone tagged future works with this new tag, Google is definitely gonna put millions on watch lists or nuke their accounts.
No.6951
>>6941I fully support the change since there are way too many G and T rated works in the tag which are just two 16 year olds dating.
I agree with some of the posts on the forum that "Underage Sexual Content" is a better name though since not all posts in the tag are being tagged for full on sex but also assault, groping, ect. If someone wants to exclude it from a search they should be able to grab all of those kinds of stories not just ones with penetration.
>>6949They won't, Google "allegedly" doesn't scan your Gmail account and while I have strong doubts about their privacy policy there is no way they can act upon it without showing their hand and leaving themselves open to lawsuits.
At worst it'd look bad if someone else saw your email account, but if you've already been getting emails for works with an "Underage" tag this is no different. If something was going to happen it already would have.
No.6952
>>6941I actually have held back from writing vanilla shota stuff, nothing too explicit or anything (even if I don't mind) because the Shota tag is usually almost exclusively NSFW. I personally don't know how to tag something as "btw the characters are shotas in the fic". De-aging? Would that be the tag for it? Like a fic detailing a character's childhood backstory.
No.6963
>>6959I would give up my left pinky to draw that well
No.6968
>guys appear first time in series
>"wow they're ugly lol"
>get into them (or him) after observing them for a while and loving the personalities, behavior and relationship
>"wow they're so hot, the faces, the hair, eyes, bodies, everything is perfect"
>googles gay porn to fap
How does the brain even works is everything an illusion?
No.6972
>>6971> there's loads of characters I find attractive but since I didn't find anyone in the series for them to be gay with, they're forgettable to meI know that feel. Sometimes it's truly a shame because they're are even charismatic or fun. But sometimes characters are so isolated that they aren't close to anybody even if they're fun. I wonder if anybody who was working on the series ever grew aware of the wasted potential.
No.6983
>>6968It's so wild to me that this happened with Osomatsu-san. Though I guess it also helped that they hired A-list male voice actors for all of them so the seiyuu enjoyers were already baited.
No.6987
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No.6994
Do you feel childish for watching anime and reading manga?
No.6995
>>6994No, I think it's very immature to disregard a medium for being childish.
No.6996
>>6994reading/watching, not really. making fanart and writing fic, slightly embarrassing. and for some reason amv-making makes me feel like i’m 12 again and i need to crawl into a hole and die. but aside from that, i’d say i’m pretty shameless.
No.6997
Where do I find the DNI blocklist to block antis and DNIs on blueksy? I can't find it even when looking around :(
No.6998
>>6994Why would I ever? I'm not going to tell my coworkers I like it though.