the head admin is just about to turn 23 and other than that EVERYONE ELSE is a high schooler except one girl who is TURNING 14 TOMORROW
I'm honestly a little bit uncomfortable yeah
I would have hoped for at least a SLIGHTLY more even spread than like HALF THIS GROUP IS 15
you said you were prepared to be group dad
yeah we were talking about ages/heights and I am both oldest and tallest so now everyone is calling me the Real Dad because ike 3 people have dad in their skype names but
YOU BEAT ALL THE OTHER DADS
where you apply to it and it's like 20-30 people and you all follow each other and make a group skype textchat
hahaha.... yeah this is why I gave up joining tumblr groups
YEAH LIKE that's pretty normal on tumblr but
my general tumblr follow list has been a bit older
I think because fate/fandom trends older and that was my main fandom before
so my fates were all college +
and I had like two tumblr babies
but ons is becoming a fad fandom so lots of teenagers yes
and like FOR THE MOST PART I don't mind, as long as we are all aware and respectful of it
that's how fandom works I mean
I was a kid in fandom before and there were older people in fandom then
my blog is like 99.9% sfw
if it wasn't I wouldn't add them
when I was a kid and I had older fandom friends I didn't expect them to provide me with porn and I looked up to them as people to learn from? while being aware of generation gaps
and I feel like it's the same now just in the opposite direction like
I do not mind sharing my fandom space with teenagers but i'm going to treat them like teenagers
mainly the babiest ones like to burst into spontaneous crack rp in the chat and the older members just don't join in...
which is fine let them have their fun, don't make fun of them, but don't be an 18y/o+ sitting there going "lmao mika you want to boink yuu-chan!!!" with the 14 year olds
I just tune it out until things come back around to appropriate topics
and I've noticed pretty much all the 17/18 y/os and the 23 y/o do the same we all just
go into PM or go quiet and let the kids play until he chat becomes gen again
which I feel like is pretty much the same as general website fandom chats used to be when I was 15
and I was the crack RPing doofus making the 20-somethings feel awkward
if I feel like it becomes actual sexual beyond jokes I will leave the group because I'm not going to be in a chat where 15 y/os are RPing porn
but as long as they're just going "teehee butts omg" it's like w/e do your thing I'll come back when we start talking about actual things again
sure I'll be group senpai
at least I am not the ony 18+ there's like 4
but two of them are like. 18 exactly lmao.
haha I joined one a little while back but there was so much tumblrspeak 80% of the time I had no idea what was going on so I gave up... I'm too old for this... looks sadly into the distance
HAHAHAHA I spend enough time on tumblr wading through dumb shit to reblog what I want that I'm fine
I'll go if it becomes a case of me being in what I feel is a morally compromising position where I'm voyeuring on teenagers or smth but as long as it's just an extension of what goes on on tumblr
I don't care, because I'm not going to be any less surrounded by teenagers talking about headcanons when I'm trying to reblog gifs on the site
it kind of depends on what sort of group culture forms because it's been like 2 days so if it gets uncomfortable I will jet because I do not want to be
creeping on kids but right now it's just a fandom space so it only gets uncomfortable because I feel second-hand embarrassment at how dumb the crack rp is
and just the pure fact that I am notably older than everyone but the admin
but SO FAR I'm ok being team dad
I'm just going to be really hyperaware of it and run for the hills the moment it gets weird
I considered earlier jetting and trying to launch my own 18+ network cry
I like the idea of fandom comraderie I just.
I feel like all the adults in fandom are so jaded we all just sit in our corners like NO I'M NOT TALKING TO PEOPLE I DON'T KNOW YOU'RE PROBABLY INSANE
but I TOOK A LEAP and here I am with mostly tinies
haha I don't think everyone's insane tbf but I'm not in fandom to parent
I don't think they all are either but enough are that I'm afraid I would have a hard time getting the apps for a network of only adults
as opposed to the enthusiasm of babies
I guess it depends on the fandom, I had decent groups in Free! and Homestuck, of all things. I mean there were still occasional crazies but it was overall all right considering those two fandoms
i feel bad bc i'm the adult i'd have hated when i was a kid, but
if you're younger than 18 i don't want you following my tumblr.. or reading my fic
like, you're going to anyway, but don't tell me...
i'll be ur cool older friend, but
it's weird bc when i was underage it felt like everyone was still willing to be my friend and smut with me??? but now that i'm on the other side i'm like sorry no
HAHAHA yeah if it was smut I would be like n o p e and leave
but again my tumblr is almost 100% sfw
and the chat has been not smut too
mine is so nsfw i don't even always tag shit
if it gets smutty I'm leaving
but the most nsfw it's been is people dicking around going YEAH FELID TOTALLY LIKES BEING STEPPED ON and omggg mikayuu is such a thing they're so fucking
which is like ok w/e that's not really an issue
ahah yeah if it was smut I would be like n o p e and leave
if they started rping smut or w/e I'd leave
i'd say invite me to this group but i don't think i'm actually capable of being sfw...
yeah and if my blog was nsfw I wouldn't willingly follow minors but it... is..
i'm like blah blah sfw blah blah BUT AHVE YOU CONSIDERED HOW HOT IT WOULD BE IF KURETO PUT GUREN IN A MUZZLE AND FUCKED HIM
and in the rare case I reblog smth that isn't I tag it so
most of what gets tagged nsfw on my blog is like. artsy social point photography sets
but it's like ALL BODIES ARE BEAUTIFUL (there are bare boobs in this)
I read that muzzle plurk and that's great
I just talk about that on plurk
and if my blog was nsfw I'd leave
my plurk presence is totally different
on tumblr: canon gifs, social topic textposts, fanart posted by the artists or with express permission only, photosets of nice clothes
on plurk: RPing disgusting AUs and kinky shit 24/7
I am a much more respectable person on tumblr
i'm the same person on both but i never talk about work or my personal life on tumblr.
I reboot NSFW art and headcanons sometimes I guess but yeah it's mostly sfw
I'm just on tumblr for the art... Sometimes I dump translations I guess
my contribution to fandoms is usually porn
awhile ago i went to sign up for a fic challenge but you had to have x amount of non-pwp fics
plurk is being an utter fuckstain rn
but yeah vic i'm sure we'll have plenty of kink opportunities now with this arrangement
I need to do fic
I keep saying I willand then no
i haven't been rping lately (as in, the past year)... so i've been trying to write fic instead
ah yeah I'd probably fic more if I wasn't rping
but since I became a dirty ecats all I do is relaxed shortform rp and it's nice??
i can't porn in ecats style
... i mean, i guess i haven't tried since approximately 2007
I have a hard time with porn in general anymore but I definitely get wordier during it
the thing about ecats is the tag length adjusts to what's going on and who's playing
oh, that's cool. the last time i did it was ... several years ago...
yeah there's a trend to categorize it a STRICTLY one sentence a tag or smth but it's. not.
if a particular person is wordier people will meet you
SOMETIMES I run into an issue where I feel like a character in particular is hard to get across in the style because I need to be wordy with descriptions of body language and tone of voice and stuff even during
but as a whole I like it because the problem I had in regular rp was the need to word-pad all the time?
so like, when a thread became just a conversation with nothing else really going on and I DIDN'T have anything else I needed to say, I felt pressure to find something to talk about or
rehash the same introspection repeatedly in order not to give too-short tags
YEAH i like ecats style for its flexibility with that
there are obviously pros and cons to any style of RP and it all depends on what feels natural to someone
it's me i'm the ecats scum
i like being able to range from short bullshit to long bullshit
but ecats is not actually strictly one or two sentences, we all write several paragraphs if the situation is emotionally charged or involves smth that needs description to come across
but then if we're writing comedy banter yeah we do exchange one-word tags
so it's really dependent on what's happening, and some players are more given to get wordy than others
I PERSONALLY enjoy the flexibility because I feel free to introspect when it's relevant but no pressure to do so when it isn't
and I find it easier to avoid accidental infomodding because without the need to pad with unnecessary introspection it's more convenient and acceptable to totally not tell the other player what my character is
thinking and thus conceal what they are going to do until they do it
but on the other hand I know it's totally acceptable to add in introspection if I'm not sure the rest of my tag is making my intent clear to the other player and I want to use it to clarify
BASICALLY I feel like it's a lot more flexible, but
on the other hand my working vocabulary has definitely shrunk from the lack of padding
and I need to get to fic writing in order to get less rusty on Real Writing
since casual format is way more common in ecats
so I'm less formal in language most of the time
so I do sometimes miss exercising my writing muscles and again some characters NEED the constant padding in order to come across accurately (this is why I dropped Suzuya)
leif that girl we were playing ffxiv with is one of the tinies
like 14?? I assumed she wasn't because she doesn't mention her age and is one of the most reasonable/cool people in the group but then today she was like yeah I'm one of the youngest in here
and the whole group was like ????? what
EVERYONE assumed she was older
a babbu armed with an infinite supply of felid meme faces
I see this one going places
I'm a lot more conscious of myself on tumblr so I'm. ok.
but if I acted on tumblr like I do on plurk I'd probably refuse to keep kiddos too
fortunately the only thing I'm like actually uncomfortable with is certain types of age difference so WHILE I DON'T JUDGE WHAT ANYONE ELSE SHIPS I won't be
god the teenagers post more of the ships I find unappealing tbh
like I'm not spoiling any minds they're posting the shit I have blacklisted
I haven't blacklisted anything yet because somehow no one liked glenyuu in EN fandom that's just what I suffer through on pixiv
but as expected the snks are moving over so I'm finding myself suddenly postblocking a lot of untagged ereri
english owari fandom cares about mikayuu in shizaya proportions which is ok because mikayuu is an actually acceptable pairing
it's honestly the main draw ship in canon so not surprising
in jp gureyuu is second place so I'd blacklist it if that was the same in en but I GUESS the blatant father/son talk has prevented that
so it's all mikayuu and gureshin
and gureshin is my otp so I'm a happy camper
I feel like ons fandom on tumblr right now is like 60% mikayuu, 20% gureshin, 10% stupid felid memes and 10% arguing about whether yuunoa is a great ship or horrible demonic forced het
or 9% of that I guess with a
remaining 1% being people trying to be funny about kimizuki being 'pink tsukki"
and some nonstatistical shinoa/mitsuba shipping and screaming about yoichi being an adorable sass machine
it should be 100% stupid felid memes
I really like the way fandom at large has embraced him because
I was afraid it would turn into a huge war between apologists and people shrieking that you're not allowed to have any fun at all
but instead it's almost entirely people who fully acknowledge that he's problematic and then laugh at him
but they're this small segment of people who are crying that mikayuu is horrible incest and everyone who ships it is terrible and mika is asexual
and then the same people are all really intent het shippers for the most part so
like I said the snks and ex-homestucks have arrived
it's a teenage crowd fad fandom already
death note and kuroshit teenagers
tokyo ghoul fandom has encroached a lot
there is that like IDK if it will reach snk levels but it's certainly already TG levels
yeah it may not be Insanely Huge
but it's definitely one of the like
successful, large tumblr fandoms
it is growing really rapidly
WHICH IS kind of what I expected because it DOES have an easily likeable cast of colourful characters you can ship with each other and a lot of like
tropes and angst for people to have FEELS about and then go write safe cute AUs for
it also has canon bisexuality everywhere so that's drawing in the tumblr excitement ahaha....
I MEAN felid's the only ~canon bi~ but Kimizuki is canonly into Yuu and it's pretty heavily implied that shinoa and mitsuba are pretty... physical??
and you have throwaway lines about the society being sexually open so it's EASY FOR TUMBLRS TO PLAY WITH
Felid is gross and doesn't count
but the word of god on Kimizuki and the implications with the girls do and the author's general positive attitude about it
it's just very easy to ship people because the canon is pretty open and doesn't pigeonhole people
having the girls have to get crushes on yuu seems forced to people but then kimizuki also has a canon crush on him and if you DON'T take the shower scene as sexual you're probably slamming your denial goggle on
given the commentary on it from the guys
the novels haven't been translated that far yet but even though they have a strong main het romance they also have some pretty heavily implied other shit so it's like /o/
\o\ boys with crushes on boys
it's not the best but it's more than most stupid shounen manga will give you
a society in which it's implied acceptable for people to experiment esp applied to teen characters tumblrs can relate to!
I WOULD like people to latch onto the side characters' non-straightness more tho it would be nice since it IS there and appealing as opposed to just intense mikayuu focus
but multishipping can be hard for people smh
wishes on a shooting star please let fandom realize that polybiyuuteam is a fucking option
yeah I think I might've reblogged it I FOLLOW THAT ARTIST they are amazing
tosshi. tosshi did you even go to bed.