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 No.6881

For when you want to say something but it does not fit in any other particular thread

 No.6882

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I feel like I've been too tired lately to watch anime and haven't been able to finish any of the series I started. Come home, collapse, and am too exhausted to read subtitles so I just watch mindless garbage on youtube which makes me feel worse.

I feel like almost all online creators produce absolutely vapid regurgitations of other peoples work be it games or movies and is basically online junk food even when it's a "video essay." Thinking maybe for my next new years resolution to cut out youtube entirely and just watch English movies, cartoons, and "real" works instead. Does that sound crazy or pretentious?

idk feel like I'm insane.

 No.6883

>>6882
No, 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 anime
This 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

>>6884
I 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

>>6882
If 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

>>6897
This 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

>>6898
God 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.6902

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Does anyone here use or even know what SquidgeWorld is? It's basically ao3's retarded cousin and I don't really use it or think about it often, but someone on a Dreamwidth maintenance post commented about it so I checked it out and their relationship categories tag is different from ao3. Basically they have a new totally-not-just-gen tag for "queerplatonic" relationships. But they're also implementing nonbinary tags, which is the only upside to this ao3 alternative because at least you can filter enby shit out (even though logically, writers should just use the other tag for enby shit). Honestly they should've included tranny shit too, but their tos sounds retarded, so I can only assume the owner is a tranny lover that wouldn't dare suggest trannies are different from regular non-trannies.

 No.6903

>>6902
I 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

>>6903
I 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 wtf
I 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 character
Yeah, 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/tragedy
This. 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
>SquidgeWorld
That 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.6920

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>>6918
Apparently the word "squidge" was an older term for kink back in the 90s fandoms. And squidge . org is an older website used for hosting fancontent. Seems like it was popular with older live action fandoms like x-files and stargate. But considering that the userbase of squidgeworld includes people who are disgruntled and resentful of ao3, I wouldn't be surprised if their popular tags starts to look less like livejournal tags and more like gendie tumblr tags.

 No.6925

>>6920
Resentful for anything specific, or it it's just were anyone with any issue tends to go

 No.6926

>>6925
Well, 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

>>6926
Oh 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

>>6920
That site has its own problems, you can't post underage so it's not a perfect replacement for Ao3.

 No.6929

>>6928
As 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

>>6926
Reminds 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

>>6936
I 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

>>6941
lmao 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

>>6944
Most 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

>>6943
relatable. 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

>>6943
Me 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.6948

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>>6947
>Smallville
Oh man anon, I was about 17 when it came out in the early 2000s on our TV and my friend was so excited to tell me about a cute young actor called Jensen she liked from this other show called Dark Angel (with Jessica Alba). She got me into Smallville. I was a bit hung up over Lois Lane not being in the show. We didn't have much to go on except the animated series. Comic books and TPBs were not as easily accessible and digital comics were l just getting started on clunky flash reader sites. Funnily enough I wasn't aware of fandom etc till around 2008 and didn't know Clex was a thing till even later.

 No.6949

>>6941
I 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

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>>6941
I 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.

>>6949
They 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

>>6941
I 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.6954

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>>6952
Those are called "Kid Fic" or "Kidfic" and luckily for you there isn't a sexual connotation to the term at all.

 No.6957

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>>6954
So into art like what you've posted above, right now. I was generally into really cutesy shota, or ones that felt aristocratic, but I'm so much more into boyish ones lately. Also getting to see all the lush depictions of nature along with it, the combo is a huge treat to me. I would love to hone my ability to render nature/plants in water color and draw 1 million shota in these environments acting cute and boyish and full of energy.

 No.6959

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>>6957
NTA but yes! Tsurikichi Sanpei is what made me get the appeal of fiery boyish shota, it's such a treat like you said

 No.6961

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Moved a bunch of nendos to different places and damn now I have a lot of room to grow
Even have the boys and girls on different shelves now.

 No.6963

>>6959
I 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.6971

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>>6968
Nah you're gecking valid nonnie, there's so many characters where initially I view them as ugly bastards but then I see them act shippable with their ugly friend and suddenly they're delectable smexy homos, I guess it's equal to initially not finding someone attractive but then crushing on them after finding out more about their personality, 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 me, pic unrelated

 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 me
I 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

>>6968
It'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

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 No.6994

Do you feel childish for watching anime and reading manga?

 No.6995

>>6994
No, I think it's very immature to disregard a medium for being childish.

 No.6996

>>6994
reading/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

>>6994
Why would I ever? I'm not going to tell my coworkers I like it though.



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