people are afraid of what they don't understand

Megs swearing fealty to Optimus.

commish for @/brodinsons

Hey nerds,

Are you a fan of animation? Are you an artist that works in the animation industry (or at least wants to… one of these days)? Do you just enjoy silly cartoons? Or maybe you don’t care about cartoons, but you believe strongly in workers rights and fair wages!

Well the people who make your favorite cartoons, anime, and animated shows and movies are fighting for the future of this industry. We are facing a lot of challenges right now job creep, low wages, the ever looming threat of artists being replaced by AI to create worse animation for the sake of generating content to make lots of money for very rich people while real human artists live paycheck to paycheck and struggle to pay rent and feed their families…

But you can help! By signing this petition to show your support for animation workers in the US

AS AN ANIMATION WORKER AND A MEMBER OF THE ANIMATION GUILD, YOUR SUPPORT IS SUPER FUCKING IMPORTANT!!!!

PLEASE SIGN!!!

miners dni

Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you don’t like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lol 

a short selection of concepts and phrases that used to be commonplace in fandom and we’d really benefit from making that a thing again:

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.

(definitions lifted more or less wholesale from fanlore’s relevant pages)

bring the healthy fun back to fandom!

If ever a time comes when I don’t reblog this when it appears on my dash, assume I’m dead

I saw a post made by @quibbs126 and I had to draw it

BEN AFFLECK as Bruce Wayne in Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)

"There are no heterosexual explanations for these men's behavior,"

I've got a river running right into you // I've got a blood trail, red in the blue.

i feel like a big reason why such large swathes of this website think misandry is oppression worth talking about is due to the fact that so many of them just like. straight up do not interact with or talk to straight people. and don’t get me wrong i’m jealous! but the fact of the matter is that, if you hear “men” and immediately think of your GBT or disabled male friend, you are operating within a worldview that by and large does not factor in the most vastly common kind of man. i have many friends who are straight women and bisexual women who mainly date men, of the cishet variety. the way these women and girls are treated by the men they date is disgusting and so deeply disrespectful that it breaks my heart how nonchalant they are about it!! women are used to this treatment and come to expect it from men and i find that awful!! at best they get treated like pets and at worst they’re broken down and degraded until their life revolves around him. i think a lot of the issue with how people talk about “misandry” and “manhating” is that they don’t have any idea where these sentiments come from and what experiences lead to someone coming to that conclusion. they file it away as a form of bigotry rather than a verdict drawn from years of mistreatment and pent up frustration at how the women around you are treated by men specifically. acting like it’s completely unnuanced is ignorant but that’s also the tumblr special so i’m never surprised, just frustrated that it comes down to a fundamental difference in worldview and experience

Change.

inspiration:

ok, because i just saw a terrible take, i feel compelled to say that there is no "fic market" to "oversaturate" in fandom. good gravy.

i need everyone reading this post to remember that writing is not "content." writing is art. you don't look at a painting of an ocean and say "eh, it's overdone." you look at it and think its beautiful, because it is, and y'all better start treating writing the same fucking way before you lose your favorite authors for good.

Art is not something to be capitalized on. Stop treating it like it is.

and y’know i’ve always said that (this is a diversion to the horrible angst ill post next)

And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you. [x]

apocalypse doodlings aka We Couldve Had Grey Hair Erik And Charles Is There Too I Guess

I mean this came from me seeing the meme template randomly, but similar enough to my vision, I guess

I forget meme templates and PNGs exist

He misses his husband, Jazz. He misses him a lot. He’ll be back