I know AO3 has the “better” reputation over FFN, but honestly, that’s exactly why I stick with FFN. I consider myself a serious creative writer, just on the front of original works. I don’t want to feel like I have to stand at some Standard for writing fics. Fanfiction is fun diversion, so while I never intend to write crappy fanfic, FFN for me is the perfect pressure-free environment to post my most casual works in an area where I can say, “I wrote it and had fun.”
So - I’m seeing some activity on my dash that seems to indicate that Shiro isn’t the Black paladin anymore and I - don’t get where that’s coming from? I mean, I suppose if I squint I could see it but overall I just got a ‘finally set right’ feel for the end of the season. And what made me feel that way?
well - this.
That’s the lions all roaring once Shiro was back amoung them. The OG Shiro. Its a full-throated, full-hearted concert of affirmation and not just from Black but all the lions, all together at once, in unison.
And you know the last time they did that?
Also for Shiro and him taking his place as the rightful paladin of the Black lion, way back in season one, episode one.
They’d done that for no one else - and they’ve done it for Shiro twice now. Only for Shiro. And its not as if other paladins haven’t been lost and then found again (see: Keith)
but - Keith flew Black? Yes. And? That doesn’t make him the Black paladin any more than it makes my little sister me when she borrows my jeep. Keith has been Black’s pilot three times now. To save Shiro from the lizard monsters on pancake planet. To take over because Shiro wasn’t there. And to save Shiro from clone planet. There - might be a pattern there. Yes, I know, Keith was Black Paladin in all other incarnations and he might be End Game. But he might not. I still hold that the writers spent a lot of time bonding paladins and original lions in the first two seasons and Black even went so far as to save her own paladin from death and protect his soul for three seasons. I’m not seeing that Shiro isn’t still Black’s current paladin and I’m not even ready to do that on Shiro being End Game Black Paladin yet. Sure, its possible and oh yes, it’ll break my heart right in two if the writers end on a different note - but they haven’t yet and I’m not going to borrow heartache that might be unnecessary before its time.
but - Shiro doesn’t have an arm! He can’t fly without two arms.
Are you sure? Are you really really sure. So sure those sticks in the floor the paladins all use randomly and without any kind of actual purpose (because we’ve seen utterly no pattern to the way they use them and what happens at all) beyond its dramatic and they seem to need to use them mentally - are necessary to fly a lion? That the paladin that lived inside his lion for so long couldn’t mentally connect enough to fly it, ‘see through its eyes’ and become one with it in flight? You don’t need two arms to be a hero or a leader or a powerful force in life. But - that’s not very dramatic looking for a visual story, so sure - let’s say we want to give Shiro two arms to fly.
Have we seen Shiro use the Black Bayard yet? Even the clone only threw it - it never changed shape for him. We’ve never seen OG Shiro use the bayard beyond its key slot action. So - what would we give the guy on a team with pretty much every other kind of weapon already accounted for to use as a Black gifted, spiritually bonded weapon? Something that he could use easily, without difficulty? Something that suits him and seems to fit his fighting style? Something that could become a part of him? (something that matches leaked pictures?) Hmmm. Let’s see. Whatever could we give the Black Paladin, the Black Lion’s chosen representative, the one whose lion loves him enough to save his life and protect him, that would represent the way being a paladin makes him feel whole?
Hello again, Tumblr. Now that our dashboards are back to normal (‘normal’ doing some heavy lifting here), the crabs are back in tropical paradise (for now), and Mr. Brick Whartley is back with them, we felt it was time for reflection.
In his opening statement on April 1, Mr. Whartley, our now-former Head of Viral Marketing and Exponential Growth and Front End Software Developer, outlined his ambition to “…increase clicks across the platform by any means necessary”. Quite the lofty ambition. And this got us thinking—how did we do? And by we, of course, we mean you. Well, you didn’t disappoint, and if you like unnecessarily large numbers, you’re in for a real treat.
By 12:49 pm (PDT)/3:49 pm (EDT), the community had summoned 7.5 million crabs at a rate of 1.07 million crabs per hour.
By the end of the day, there were 20,000 posts by 14,000 of you with the tag “time for crab.” Time indeed.
The community’s April Fools prank was a resounding success, with more than 52,000 posts from Tumblr users attempting to “crash” this Hellsite by scheduling posts all at the same time.
Mr. Brick Wharley’s blog accumulated more than 3,000 followers and 12,000 notes, while @staff received nearly 50,000 notes across the day.
Perhaps Mr. Whartley didn’t do such a lousy job. Finally, the most important statistic of the day, the community summoned25millioncrabs across Tumblr on April 1, 2022.
Credit where credit’s due, folks. You did us proud, you did Mr. Whartley proud, and most importantly, you did yourselves proud. So give those index fingers a little rest—they deserve it. And you will need all your strength for April 1, 2023.
Guys. Padme isn’t «I can fix him» about Anakin. She saw Anakin’s flaws, hurt and trauma, and loved him anyway because she knew he was a good and loving person.
I love it when people say “tagging anyone else who wants to do it” because that gives me permission to do the thing :D ty <3
Hiccup (HTTYD)
Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls)
Phineas (Phineas and Ferb)
Reynie Muldoon (The Mysterious Benedict Society)
Aang (AtLA)
Kim Possible (…Kim Possible XD)
Erika (The Princess and the Pauper; why not XD)
Peter (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)
Peter Parker (MCU)
Barley Lightfoot (Onward)
Tagging:@inhonoredglory@jk-and-melbourne and anyone who wants to do it! (I never know who to tag for these things; do people like them or are annoyed by them?)
Still love the Mystery trio AU. I hope Stan and Fiddleford will meet somehow. Or maybe Stan found the bunker where Fiddleford is? What if Fiddleford is making killer robots?!? IT WILL BE AWESOME I TELL YA!!
Tagged by @redkiteslike yaaaaay thank you, these are fun <3
coffee or teaor neither
early bird or night owl
chocolateor vanilla (the real stuff, not artificial)
spring or fall
silver or gold
popor alternative
frecklesor dimples
snakes or sharks
mountainsor field
thunderstormor lightning
Egyptian or Greekmythology
ivory or scarlet
flute or lyre
opal or diamond
butterfliesor honeybees
macaroons or eclairs
typewritten or handwritten
secret garden or secret library
rooftopor balcony (it is my dream to climb on the roof and stare at the stars)
spicyor mild
opera or ballet
Londonor Paris
Vincent Van Gogh or Claude Monet
denimor leather
potions or spells
oceanor desert
mermaidsor sirens
masquerade ball or cocktail party (hoooo yes let me dance the night away with a fun mask hiding my identity)
Tagging (only if you want to do it!) @jk-and-melbourne@kandymation@nightowl374 uuuuugh I never know who to tag and who would be annoyed by the tag; if you’re reading this and want to do it, HURRAH I just tagged you. Now do it. :D
Have gotten super into Onward recently and I’m dying for good fanfics (which are few and far in between due to Ao3′s obsession with sibling incest). I found an AMAZING fic by Gummystars the other day and my brain wouldn’t let me rest until I drew fanart of one of the tense moments towards the end of chapter one. It is destroying my soul with feels. Here’s the synopsis and the link if anyone’s interested in checking it out!
There is no Ian Lightfoot. It’s only ever been Barley and his wonderful Mother who he would protect with his life.
So why did some scrawny kid break into their home, claiming to be his magical younger brother? It would take a special kind of crazy to buy into that story, but Barley can’t shake the daunting mantra running through his mind and maybe this Ian might have something to do with it.
- Rapunzel from Tangled - Jessie from the Toy Story franchise - Mabel from Gravity Falls - Star from Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Ladybug from Miraculous Ladybug - Zelda from Breath of the Wild - Maria from Sound of Music - MJ from the MCU - Rain from Spirit - Ruffnut from How to Train Your Dragon
Tagging (only if you want to do it!) @inhonoredglory @jk-and-melbourne @dragondingus @frostyviking @linkeduniverse @leffiesart @nightowl374 @redkiteslike @wilderwestking @we-slow-for-no-one
The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply.
significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly.because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.
that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).
the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with thisworld and thesecharacters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.
Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. I’m glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you love–the way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to stories–that is what matters.
This is absolutely fascinating to me. Just curious, do you know of anything that backs this up, or is this based on your own experience/the experience of others you know? Not that the latter is bad; I would be interested in learning more about this and am curious if you know of any like, actual studies or articles on this kind of thing.
‘I want to make fan art of something that happened recently,’ I thought.
What did I do instead?
The fanfic I based this off of is still pretty good, though- so I still suggest to anyone who likes the Pokemon anime (or at least had a passing, vague interest in it) to read ‘A Professor and a Student’ by LeDiz. I’ve wanted to draw this specific scene ever since Chapter 22 came out, but I didn’t feel confident enough to do so at the time. This is still a little awkward looking, unfortunately, but at least it came out better than I thought it would.
What happened here, exactly? You’ll have to read it yourself.
Saw the art and gasped because I knew /exactly/ which fanfiction it was from before I read the caption. XD LeDiz is such a talented writer and brings such depth to the series. I love your rendition so much! You did a fantastic job of making the characters/the situation instantly recognizable - this is exactly how I pictured this scene going down, too. XD Beautiful job <3
