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On Event weeks:

(So I’ve noticed a lot of new ones popping up...)

In the past, a few times, people have reached out to me to ‘Promote’ their events. There are times where I have, (with or without people asking, promo’d them)

but I feel I should make a formal Disclaimer now

If you ask me to participate in your event, unless it is specifically a Koushiro-focused event, (preferably one with a high focus on L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.{P.N.}+ contents/support) my answer will almost definitely have to be “No”.

I wasn’t as vocal about this back in 2k15~2k17 when I started becoming more active in re-blogging (and making my own things), but I am an @utistic creator (using the @ so this doesn’t show up in Search) and a lot of people browsing my blog since definitely know that now. I am very bad at keeping up with events and also not great at producing content / fan-works on a timely schedule, especially with more limited, vague prompts. (I do much better if someone can ask of me say, a full prompt for a fan-work concept, like an A.M.V. set to certain song requests... and that’s usually not what these kinds of events have)

Adding on to the fact I only really feel comfortable writing fic mainly from Koushiro’s P.O.V. first, along with my preference for KouTai (Koushiro/Taichi), which to this day despite all my own contributions to boosting it continues to remain (unfortunately) regarded by the wider Adventure-02 fan-base as very much a so-called ““rarepair””, a lot of other things take a lot of work for me to write fic for even when I’ve tried my best handling other characters at times too.* (*Includes attempts handling the 02 Chosen multiple times since I was younger, up to and including making a literal shrine and 16 chapters/parts long fic for them when I was younger, which is also in heavy need of re-writes, and I never even got to finish it back then either) (*As well as multiple charas from across all the other @nime spinoff series)

I am also Very Much Not An Artist. I do not have any intent on pursuing art (including for fan-works.)

While I can sometimes make A.M.V.s, they take a huge amount of energy out of me and I cannot always finish them the way I ideally want to (often due to Windows Movie Maker, which, yes, I’m still using for reasons, constantly crashing on me if I surpass a certain amount of video clips). It is also extremely hard!!!! to make quality A.M.V.s for ships/charas with limited amounts of screentimes / quality footage to use without heavy manipulating, something which I also very much do not have the skills to do at this time. (I’m good at splicing up scenes, I’m not good at heavy editing!) This is usually why I stick to KouTai as a main focus for A.M.V.s, because Taichi being a prominent main chara (and Koushiro having focus as specifically his support) they have just enough scenes together that I can somehow make A.M.V.s work for them, and even with them I’ve had to splice scenes they had together across multiple series/the reboot too, to “fill out” some past A.M.V.s.

That leaves only gif-sets, and while I’ve tried to compile various things for other charas/ships/series I Iike along with my own Top favs and O.T.Ps/ships, I can only make so much there as well, especially for ships which already didn’t have a lot of huge scenes together. I am honestly more used to (*in the past) rp-ing (roleplaying games/charas) than I am fic-writing, but I do make attempts with Favs whose voices I feel comfortable attempting. And regardless...

So... You can ask me to “promote” your event, POLITELY, and respectfully, and I maybe will (LIKELY if you are genuinely polite and respectful). However, I heavily prefer you read and agree to my About and FAQ before you ask. If you do not, you might as well not ask.

Sorry to have to bring this up, but it’s become kind of an issue recently. I usually feel best contributing to/promoting events where I know, or at least recognize, and respect the OPs. If you’re an Anonymous OP, I will be somewhat more wary, unfortunately also due to people having gotten around blocks in the past (block-evading) without my knowledge, and that was something which really upset me, especially as apparently some other people heavily active here knew they were block-evading. And, despite all my own Yelling Into The Void TM that I do on my own blog/works, I tend to be very shy and (*also due to @utism) socially anxious (*Note: I am also diagnosed with Generalized @nxiety Disorder, because Comorbidities Are Indeed A Thing) around people I don’t know very well or haven’t spoken even once with. It helps if you can introduce yourself to me POLITELY and actually acknowledge my FAQ, my clear favorite parts of the series or aspects of it I support (*the U.S. dub side/fans I also have heavily since the start supported, for example) and acknowledge what I re-blog about most often, my Favs, and my ships.

If you genuinely can’t do any of that, even attempt it before you contact, I can’t join or “Promo” your event. Sorry.

#izzyizumi posts #izzyizumi blog psa #izzyizumi text #izzyizumi text post #izzyizumi vents #02 standom issues #advs events #(Sorry I'm just . a bit apprehensive lately)#(I'm still extremely mad about the person who block evaded KNOWINGLY and all the people active who knew)#(I've since hardblocked all of them so hopefully they all know by now to not pull that on me again)#(but genuinely I have to get this across to you guys Somehow)#(Please read my rules and F.A.Q if you want to have Interaction with me)#(I see a lot of people constantly vague blogging over how 'you cant expect everyone to read your FAQs!!!1!')#(and all those same people once tried to follow or lurk here KNOWING that made me really uncomfortable)#(That They Didnt)#(So You Know)#(I don't know how else to get these points across to wider fandom stans including on 02 side I've tried Literally Everything)#(to make all these points obvious here multiple endless times?..... Yeah)#(The fact I'm using Formal Tone of Voice here and proper grammar and no yelling is how you know I'm being ACTUALLY serious writing this)#(That's an @utism Thing Too I Am Speaking This Way For a rEASON And I Seriously Hope People Actually Pay Attention To What I'm Saying)#(This is just a formal PS@ for this sideblog anyhow Queue Is Still Going)#(Aside from the person who block evaded there were also numbers of Stans over the years who lurked while constantly trashing on the parts of #(*the series that I liked and made very OBVIOUS IN MULTIPLE WAYS that I liked all while they lurked my digiblogs for years So You Know)#(I'm mostly getting this PS@ out of the way now because I have a feeling I'm going to be asked again and Sorry I Need To Say This)

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really though the whole “cringy mary sue oc” thing really is attacking an important outlet for lots of kids… All those tropes have a place in it:

Tragic backstories and lgbt+ identities are clearly signs that those are things that the kids creating the ocs live with. Most of those kids struggle with abuse or are lgbt+, and either way need a character to relate to
Self-inserts who hang out with their favorite character or variations on their favorite character? yeah chances are that kid feels pretty alone and needs to feel like someone who they love and look up to respects them back. see the abuse thing again
“Flawless personality” when you feel like everybody hates you you start to feel like a shit person. so having an oc like you who is also flawless is a place to embrace the things you like about yourself and get more self-confidence. I don’t know, this one’s hard to explain. See the next one
“Overpowered or underpowered” yeah, an OP oc is usually because the kid feelspowerless and helpless and nobody wants that. a relatable oc or self-insert who has lots of power? instant self-confidence boost. If my oc who’s like me can have power, so can I. With underpowered characters that’s just an outlet of that same frustration

Anyway yeah cringe culture is dead. All this applies to adults too, not just kids! you’re never to old to make a fun character!

Plus not to mention that all this stuff specifically preys on neurodivergent kids.

If you can think of any other tropes like this feel free to add on

“overly beautiful/perfect appearances” (which is only criticized when written by 13 year olds, vs grown writers and artists making every character look like an adonis to ‘appeal to the audience’)
adding on to that, having colorful/sparkly/rainbow hair or costumes, because having colors in ur designs is uNrEaLiStIc. this ties into the culture that says middle school kids are cringy™ for dyeing their hair/ dressing for niche cultures
bullying a writer because the oc they’ve created falls “too much” outside canon, usually in canons where fantastical things and improbable circumstances happen all the time
characters who are clearly meant to be vent characters being singled out as ‘cringy’ and ‘unrealistic’ because NORMAL people aren’t supposed to be THAT sad
but if your character is too HAPPY or successful (aka the “perfect” mary sue archetype) then they’re also to be ridiculed
the whole idea that if you aren’t following an arbitrary and overall extremely subjective set of rules about how your character is supposed to act/look, it’s somehow now socially acceptable to make fun of you instead of actually trying to give constructive criticism (and the people who do this will claim that the bullying is the criticism, despite the fact that it’s anything but constructive)

#omegasmileyface #fandom issues #fandom #mary sue #mary sue accusations #cringe culture #MEIKO #faux feminism #SORA #DIGIMON GIRLS #fandom sexism #sexism #female character hate #female characters #character hate #character bashing #female character bashing #fandom negativity #(also the literal CREATOR of the 'Mary Sue' label denounced it ages ago)#(so you know)#(it's fine to talk about how a female character could be improved but these points are important too)#(and you have to be open to criticisms on the metas you make on such female characters)#(also)#white feminism #white fandom #(relevant when it comes to not knowing how other groups of marginalized women that are Not White deal with feminist issues)#('usually in canons where fantastical things and improbable circumstances happen all the time' YOU KNOW LIKE.... DIGIMON ..... Y E A H????)#('Plus not to mention that all this stuff specifically preys on neurodivergent kids' Sits Here As A Visibly Neurodivergent Person)#(Who Grew Up With This Horrid 90s-mid2000s Fandom Rhetoric Since I Was A Kid)#('I Have WAY Too Many Stories About My Experiences In This Fandom Actually')

izzyizumi

Digimon Adventure/02 (Series) ~ {+} Tri. x Last Evolution: Kizuna Featuring: Meiko Mochizuki + Meicoomon {tri.} [“Kyousei” / “Coexistence”] vs. Menoa Bellucci + Morphomon {Kizuna} + Character Arc{s} / [Parallels] + Femslash February 2021 Day #9 + Headcanons OPs commentary: If you think, in a post-Kizuna scenario, Meiko Mochizuki and Menoa Bellucci wouldn’t bond over having such similar shared experiences, I don’t even know what to tell you.

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#digimon adventures #digimon adventure last evolution kizuna #digimon adventure tri #menoa bellucci #meiko mochizuki #menoa x meiko #meiko and meicoomon #menoa and morphomon #kizuna spoilers #tri spoilers #digimon wlw #(Actually I wasn't planning for them to be Day 9 but I did plan for a gifset of their parallels and them overall as Girls Support Girls)#(And thought you know what after literal MONTHS of seeing Meiko hate from so called Adventure & 02 stans TM)#(Why don't I jUST)#(POINT OUT)#(THEY'RE LITERALLY AGE SAME AGE)#(WITH LITERAL NEAR EXACT STORYLINES)#(SO YOU KNOW)#(in AU scenario where Menoa is allowed to go free not long after)#(WHY WOULDN'T THEY BE FRIENDS)#(PLEASE TELL ME)#(NO SERIOUSLY TELL ME)#(ANYWAY Meiko and Menoa would be FRIENDS PROBABLY and that's THAT)#(also that last shot of Menoa there literally hurts my heart aNYWAY)#(Quite honestly this fandom needs to leave BOTH girls alone)#(anyway in MY ficverse Meiko and Menoa will be friends and that's THAT)