That Fucking Fish That I Hate

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.

I have a headcanon to explain this. Because peril ate basically coal/ Black rocks most her life and sometimes burnt food that basically counts as charcoal.

I believe skywings are geovores! They can eat rocks, and gems like dragons in MLP. Animals in real life sometimes swallow rocks to help with digestion. But in my mind skywings are capable of getting nutrition from the rocks like mlp dragons, not so much following real life animals as there are no proper geovores.

I don’t understand how Peril manage to survive on burnt food and not starve to death? Does burnt food even give any nutrients? Or maybe Firescales are able to live off burnt food and stuff…

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Here's the YouTube version as well!

Did this mostly for fun! I always wish Wukong had the time to address the severity of what Macaque came back from, and Macaque made him confront that.

Enjoy my self-indulgent BS

Rainwing Rulers

I did sprites of the rainwings of the Divided Wings Au im working on with friends. Here's Mercy, Aster, and their daughter Malice!

Traffic Light Trio!

Ready, Set, Go! Winter's been kicking my ass but these little goofs are making it all the better!

Contest Art

Art I did for a winter contest

A Forgotten Princess

WIP value sketch I'll likely never finish

Sand/Rain Hybrid

Sandwing/ Rainwing hybrid who makes art and instruments

Red Sand

My older sandwing trader who traveled all over. Now she's retired and trying to unwind. She's rather solemn and slow but she's got a good life.

Cassowary

I had a hard time deciding if I was gonna make a rainwing Cassowary male or female but I decided on making a male character since I don't have that many! He's a rainwing soldier and quite the grumpy pants but I love him!