Lore-approximate Dullahan Sekibanki.

Tumblr's Favorite Show: Finals!

After several months of fierce fighting, with 256 initial combatants, we have made it to the FINALS

Now, it's time to determine Tumblr's Favorite Show!

Previous rounds can be found below the break:

if DiPP was danmaku (ZUN style)

everyone sleeping on how good Puff is. lets get some Puff appreciation in here goddamnit.

I was gonna post him later in the week (especially since he was for a specific occasion) ,,, but I cant resist sharing him ahah

little guy dancing specifically because I have one song in my brain and always pictured that,,, anyways look at him go !!!!

Gf: I'm breaking up with you

Me: Motive's Misunderstanding ～ Confused Boy's Inquiry?!

Gf: It's the whole 'structuring every sentence like a touhou title' thing

Me: 東方零巫女 ～ Abandonment of All Lovers 😔

For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.

summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.

Examples:

You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.

The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.

expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.

You can use expected_number_of_chapters: -1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.

otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false

Meme + helpful search tutorial ftw!! Also saving the tags, because AO3 volunteers are indeed awesome:

december fanart poll winner! madohomu 💜🩷

"Don't worry, Merry! I'll beat the horrors for you!"

girlie that's not a random headache u are dehydrated malnourished over caffeinated over stressed and sleep deprived

I understand people’s discomfort with small talk—or at least with what they think small talk entails—but few things in the world are as awkward as a stranger demanding to “skip the small talk; tell me something deep”.

Small talk basically just means anything that 1.) isn’t a potentially sensitive and controversial topic that risks souring an interaction right off the bat and which 2.) both participants are likely to be able to comprehend and relate to for mutual discussion.

It’s often awkward either because interaction of any kind isn’t desired in the first place, or because the proposed subjects aren’t equally relevant or neutral to both parties.

The “goals” of small talk are situational but include:

If someone sits down next to me and demands that I “skip the small talk and discuss something deep”, I’m going to feel as though I’m being asked to perform for their amusement and prove myself worthy of their attention. I don’t want to make myself vulnerable and open to judgement for the benefit of a stranger who has not demonstrated respect any respect for my comfort.

Small talk, at least, allows two people to kind of size each other up to see if they’ll get along. Jumping straight into loaded subjects without preamble runs the risk of triggering or offending someone or getting yelled at by stranger you might be trapped with for the length of a bus or plane ride (or, worst of all, the duration of your employment).

It’s why there’s a cliche that dogs and babies are a dating hack for bachelors: they serve as appealing and inoffensive conversation starters in a way that approaching women on the street and asking them about Nietzsche or speculative biology on xenoplanets rarely does.

wsb is so fucking funny actually

this guy is the true american psycho

elf yuri except one of them is high fantasy and the other is one of santa's

9'6" forest guardian and her 4'5" toymaker gf

sorry for hijacking your post again op but after posting the initial elves i had ideas for more doodles i wanted to do so. elf yuri (but i elaborate)

It is really funny how much some tumblr users build their understanding of what is taboo in a degenerate immoral fashion vs what is taboo in a subversive radical fashion exclusively on aesthetic appeal so they’re willing to drastically alter their moral stances based on what media they’re obsessing over currently

Blogger obsessed with posting about sexual cannibalism and toxic doomed yuri complaining about incest fetishization… you’re two Ginger Snaps gifsets and a Flowers in the Attic excerpt away from trying to recreate Single White Female with your mutuals

"problematic tropes are only ok if they benefit my coping specifically uwu"

Anyway this is why I left tumblr. This site is better than Twitter in a lot of ways... but this particular way of being is my pet peeve. And at least in my fandom, the Twitter circle for it generally seemed much more sane.

Yall get so caught up in the idea that you're morally better than Twitter, that you just kinda stop trying to think through moral conundrums at wherever is most convenient or comfortable. No ounce of effort to try processing the harder and more important issues, like individual intent.

It's really hilarious but also kind of infuriating coming back to the very same person who talked shit about certain ships being toxic (derogatory) now shipping things that are toxic in the exact same ways. And I don't mean harmless discourse, like simply stating they didn't like the ship. I mean implying that the people who liked it were dangerous and should be ostracized.

Oh, but it's ok now, because suddenly it's positive! We've all decided it's ok now because it's ''subversive''. And by subversive I guess you mean "we found a way to process it in a way that helps us, personally, cope."

Yet when people back then told you that we use things like this to cope (which we shouldn't even need to say because of how fucking personal that is) it didn't matter. This was somehow too hard to process, too inconvenient for the nice and neat Tumblr morality.

This is why I don't feel like I can say I like the current toxic yuri bandwagon, even though I obviously have always and will continue to like ships that fall under that category. Sorry to rain on the parade. But I don't think that it's as subversive as you all think it is.

It does not feel genuine in that sense, even though I understand it can be genuine in other senses and often is.

I don't doubt that the feelings you all get from it are as genuine as mine were and are. But the idea that it's morally ok with you because it's "subversive" or whatever... miss me with that shit. It's ok because you've learned to like it and you will do anything to morally wash fictional concepts that appeals to you personally, but refuse to extend the mental courtesy to literally anyone else.

To come and see people parading around the thing that they made me feel alienated and ashamed for liking in the fandom space I wanted to be a part of the most back then just drives me up the fucking wall.