One of these days I will write the definitive post about Cyrano de Bergerac Syndrome in fandom and it will end all debate about shipping forever probably for sure.
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I cannot with these fucking Youtube thinkpieces of "does the internet rot your brain" and "is your lack of local friendships making you a less functional person" and "are impersonal relationships the downfall of society"
I'm glad none of you have been as profoundly lonely as I have, I guess, but I'm pretty sure my online friendships were healthier than your IRL ones before the pandemic, and I was not privileged enough to just sit inside while the world ground to a halt around me.
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For no particular reason (lies), I am once again reminded of the fandom art I saw homaging The Ecstacy of Saint Teresa with a big old DO NOT TAG AS SHIP in the tags.
i wanna draw my own personal yumenushi for my fandoms so bad…
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stardust_rifle Mar. 19th, 2026 01:34 pm)
stardust_rifle Mar. 19th, 2026 01:34 pm)God, I have such a narrative kink for "You are trapped in a situation that is conclusively fucked beyond your control to do anything reasonable about it. There is no decision you could possibly make that could make things better. What do you do now?"
The funny thing about Arashi getting bodysnatched by the Female Fanon Ghost/Fanon Team Mom archetype in Fanon is that it’s not just bog-standard misogyny, it’s also partially because that’s how she intentionally presents herself, so it’s also a “ha, you have fallen for the character’s facade!” type of situation.
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I'm already seeing posts with all capital letters and H1 titles saying shit like "never reblog something with a comment, keep it in the tags, leave a reply" and I'm afraid Tumblr's internal culture is going to take care of killing any and all interactions on the site.
First they made it so that OPs of posts will yell at me if I leave tags they don't like because they don't know how to turn off tag view in their Activity, and now I'm gonna get a totally different kind of person yelling at me for reblogging with a comment b/c I'm "taking away notes" from OP, and all this time I have replies disabled on my blog because a third kind of person will spend all their time arguing with someone else in my replies.
Kill Tumblr. Let it be over.
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I am currently working night shift and the inability to play Beat Saber after work is genuinely making me a little bit stir crazy. Over on Tumblr I commented that I really want to make a mod that makes the song title increasingly gory the more times I've failed to pass a song -- I genuinely feel like that is more achievable than actually passing some of the songs in my queue b/c I feel the rust every time I have a chance to go back to the game.
Maybe I should see if I can struggle the Linux version to work. Then I could play in ten minute increments again and not have to commit to a full play session the way switching OSes requires.
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dw_maintenance Mar. 14th, 2026 01:04 pm)
mark posting in dw_maintenance Mar. 14th, 2026 01:04 pm)Happy Saturday!
I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!
If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.
(stardust_rifle Mar. 14th, 2026 01:06 am)
stardust_rifle Mar. 14th, 2026 01:06 am)smells like green spirit officially available in english. smells like green spirit officially available in english. smells like green spirit officially available in english. i am losing my mind and as soon as i have a stable paycheck again i will be preordering this and i encourage you to do so if you like stories about deeply miserable closeted transgenders and genderqueers. or ask your local library to buy it. whatever. i am absolutely elated that this is happening and if this does well maybe we can get more Problematic Trans Manga for Problematic Trans People (the literal title of the mal list i found this manga on) officially in english
I love franchises whose merchandising department just treats the characters like little dress up dolls and puts them in new silly outfits for each new collab cafe or merch cycle. It's so good. Yes, I would like to see what my oshi would officially look like in a cowboy outfit. I would like to see what yokai the marketing department has kinassigned each member of the cast. Dance for my amusement, my little dolls.
(stardust_rifle Mar. 11th, 2026 10:50 pm)
stardust_rifle Mar. 11th, 2026 10:50 pm)translating doutan kyohi as "dni" is objectively hilarious i'm sorry
(stardust_rifle Mar. 11th, 2026 06:40 pm)
stardust_rifle Mar. 11th, 2026 06:40 pm)i get all the critique aimed at mellow dear us. i understand that they're functionally We Have Eden But At Home. i understand that enstars should probably be spending more time developing its existing characters as opposed to just introducing new ones. but, unfortunately, nozomi madoka is like if they just made a character who exists purely to appeal to Me, Specifically, so i'm stuck being at least partially happy that they were added.
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