reunite

I did this digital painting to get back into the swing of things. I’ve got more work to do before the month is out, and I needed to do something to practice with before starting on planned work and commissions. And let’s be honest, I’m OBSESSED with Loki as much as I am Good Omens.

TOM HIDDLESTON as LOKI LAUFEYSON

LOKI (2021)  | 2.01 Ouroboros

What if Mobius is making his eggs one morning and someone unexpected shows up

Who wants a good sip of wincest?

listened to lokius by natalie holt while making this, really good song, for no apparent reason ofc :]

WIP

No one reblogs on tumblr anymore.

No one leaves comments on Ao3 anymore.

Seriously people the lack of fandom interaction these days makes me genuinely depressed, it never used to be like this, makes me wonder what's the point of coming online to do anything anymore.

Reblog a post so other people can see it.

Leave a comment so the author doesn't feel like giving up.

Fandom cannot live on Likes or Kudos alone.

You don’t have to interact with every piece of fanwork that you come across, but you do have to interact with fanwork. That’s how it works. Fanwork is not ‘free dlc’ for your favorite media, and it isn’t meant to be passively consumed. Art is communication and fandom is a conversation. Join in! Join in!

It wasn't so long ago that I saw enthusiastic readers organize writing fests, or art prompt events and make extensive rec lists of fics, or resources or meta posts, actively shaping the environment of their fandom. Readers who found an active place in a community and got so much satisfaction from that.

Now the main load falls to those who are creators. Make the thing, promote the thing, get it out to people, then read the stuff of your friends, look around for more and find new artists and writers while working on your next wip, have an offline life and feel bad about not being able to keep up with the series of your friends because, damn, you know they have been kinda down about feeling irrelevant and ignored.

Fandom as a concept and form of community holds so many possibilities and chances because it's full of people creating for creations sake, out of love for something and not for cold profits.

Do you actually understand how special that is?

Creating in a community like that doesn't have to come in the form of fics or art but can also be the creation of events and fandom structures, of inspiration and motivation and... everything you fucking want.

I want to add because this isn't an element that I ever see on these posts: you may have to train/retrain your brain to enjoy and value these types of interactions, and it might feel a little bit like work to do so. Our brains are becoming so trained on quick hits and content that 'expires.' We're also increasingly on an internet that elevates just flat out being mean, which makes interacting scary even though fandom spaces (while not without drama) are generally inviting, esp for those surface level interactions like comments/reblogs. Commenting and interacting with things is supposed to be fun and joyful and community-building, but it might not FEEL like it at first if you aren't used to it or have gotten out of the habit. It might feel tiring or even a little scary. All that to say, you might have to make it a point to comment more and to build those muscles and prove to your brain that it's actually not so bad and is, in fact, kinda nice. You might have to build up to it. "I'll comment on 1/10 fics I read, even if it's just 10 whole characters of a comment." And then you can up the number of comments and experiment with the types of commenting you like to do, until it feels more normal and natural. Until you know you are the type to yell incoherently or the type to comment a string of emoji or the type to leave whole analysis essays using floaty review box. (Maybe you're all depending on the day.) There will still be times you don't feel like it and that's okay. There's times I don't feel like it and I'm an author. There isn't a quota or a requirement. Just joy to be spread and to be had.

For me the biggest concern (especially with fanart) is reposting something the creator doesn't want people to repost. I've seen plenty of posts and 'About Me' sections made by creators asking people not to repost/share their work. A lot of the time when I decide not to repost something it's because I'm not sure that the creator would be comfortable with me doing it.

I'll check their blog to see if it there's anything there about how they feel about people reposting their work, but if there's nothing there I'm just not sure what to do. I could message them and ask, but I'm not about to put that much effort into reposting something on Tumblr. I could repost their work anyways, but I don't think it'd be fair for me to put them in a position of having to message me to ask me to delete the repost if it's something they don't want people doing.

@54m14m I think you're a little confused here, reblogging and reposting are entirely different things. Reposting is putting someone's else work on your blog as a new post and are therefore taking credit for what they did. They won't see any comments, they won't see anything and it's tantermoint to stealing.

NEVER repost.

ALWAYS reblog!

Reblogging shares the artists work with more and more people keeping the link to THEIR account, they see all the comments they see all the tags, they get followers from people who want to see more of their work, artists WANT reblogs it's why it's put on tumblr in the first place. If no one reblogs it no one sees it and theres no point it putting it on here.

Reposting is stealing, if you have been doing that put a stop to it NOW! You want to share an artists work, you reblog it from their account, NEVER upload it to a new post on your own blog.

“You saved my life when I first arrived. You saw something in me I hadn’t seen in myself.”

The Sacred Timeline.

We deserve more wolfki indeed

FRIENDS (1994 - 2004) 7.08 The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs

A bit of them. An art I draw back in September 2023

exited while waiting for the Loki season two

just curious as they're always things i've never questioned just doing but people in my life are often surprised that i don't mind doing them alone

🔁 pls reblog for sample size

Eating alone at a restaurant AND going to the movies alone

I have done all of these accept a festival.