stickers here. Bookmarks and postcards on the way. 50 pages left to edit for the book. The Summerfest merch is almost ready!

Not people saying “Fandom has always been like this” in that vent post I made. No. It hasn’t always been like this. Fandom has NEVER been like this until recently and if you were in fandom pre-tumblr purge, pre-twitter, pre-netflix boom, pre-tiktok….then you would fucking know it was nothing like this.

We still had the drive to create. We still sold prints and charms and made zines…but it was never like this.

The introduction of streaming, binge shows that drop all at once, tiktok and vine RIP i still love u vine but you were the beginning of a particularly ugly era) creating this bite sized, quick paced ‘content’ era of creation and it bled out into fucking everything else.

Fandoms didn’t die down when the show ended or the season was over. You didn’t mass unfollow artist, writers or moots just because they changed fandoms. There wasn’t this need to please the algorithm in order for your posts to get seen by people and enjoyed.

Fandoms used to last YEARS. Star Trek is literally the oldest running fandom out there and you got people in there that could care less about the new stuff and still have been happily prancing through their fucking fifty year old fandom today. Hell, even SPN after all it’s fuckups and shitshows has a dedicated fanbase STILL creating tons of art and fic.

There is no patience anymore. No calm feeling of taking in fandom and friends at a pace that which doesn’t make you stressed and is still fun.

Do I blame fandom for this? Of course not, but people are complacent with it and start changing their vocab to accommodate and end up making the situation so deep it cant be fixed.

We call Art & Fic Content now, completely stripping the value of what it is to a level of consumerism instead of personal entertainment & community bonding.

Let OP talk, they’re absolutely right.

if only the inquisitor going into the fade and discovering that their actions didn’t have divine legitimacy actually held any narrative weight

Seeing as a majority of my followers are here for Steddie (💞) I'm making a new poll asking what you'd like to see from me. All the work I'm referencing can be found on my ao3 so check it out 🌷

Wherever there is you
I will be there too

A mood board of the twins Birk and Nim who are from a world with a sword in a stone, a lady of a lake, a powerful sorcerer, and ruthless bloodshed in a war hunting all who dare use magic.

But this story, like many others, isn't like the one you know and love.

“You say the child is out of control; that she has wandered too far. Oh love, you should have seen her mother.”

I hear hurricanes a-blowin'.
I know the end is comin' soon.
I feel rivers overflowin'.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.

Ayden. Son of Death. They say he has horns growing out of his skull. Wings rattling from the bones that make them up. Skin so cold it burns anyone who dares lay a hand on him.

They say he's a dead man walking.

Kari; Guardian.

Guardian of Jornga'ta, or Jorn'ga depending on who speaks of her, Winter has been a lone wolf since his creation. He wanders his realm of eternal winter in the form of a great white wolf.

One of the survivors of the annihilation of Ath's, he now guides Death's son on his journey to find other survivors in hopes of rebuilding their home.

Like many other Spirits, his power is limited to his realm. He's stuck in wolf form (a meager one in his mind) and possesses no magic. While this annoys him, he's calm and collected at all times.

Just don't try to pet him.

Norse

"First came death upon her eldest. The lone wolf found the youngest. It is said the cold sea claimed the one who would be."

Fables, myths, and magic sourrunds this realm where the sun never reaches above the mountain tops. Yet the clear water runs in the river and the trees bear fruit.

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