Tessera
Folgen

Anj!

@anj.allison.negaverse.net

Angeline Allison // She/Her 🇨🇦 2D Compositor/Builds & Rigging Artist // Prev on: Cyberchase, Helluva Boss, Ghost & Molly McGee https://linktr.ee/anjallison

276 Posts243 Follower353 Folgt
Anj!@anj.allison.negaverse.net · 3d ago

I don't normally share photos of myself but roller derby shots always look like something out of a renaissance painting and amuse me greatly. This is from The Fresh and the Furious 2026 tournament in Toronto (which is how I caught the flu 😷).

Action photo of a roller derby game, featuring several players on the track. The jammer (wearing helmet with star on it) is at the front passing the other team, with a blocker falling to their knees (it's me. The blocker is me).
Anj!@anj.allison.negaverse.net · 3w ago

I stg the universe is plotting against me to miss out on Art Fight. First, my tablet breaks. Then I had to dedicate a week to roller derby tournament practice. Now I have the flu! BUT I WILL DRAW SOMETHING BEFORE THE MONTH IS OVER I SWEAR IT.

Anj!@anj.allison.negaverse.net · last mo.

IME dealing with these types, it's also people who lack control in their personal lives. They enter spaces & start dictating how others interact with media, because it's the only place where they have some semblance of power (even if it's gained thru bullying, dog-piling, and other fear tactics).

Solaire (@7.5!)@solairelunaire.bsky.social · last mo.

a great dissection of why a lot of fandom drama doesn't only boil down to "these people are thinking too much about [insert series here] and need to touch grass." there's another layer to the way folks get obsessed (for parasocial/self-important rewriting/clout reasons, etc) that gets glossed over

by asneakyfox on tumblr: one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction. which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following: what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon) what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts.
Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 6mo ago

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

Anj!@anj.allison.negaverse.net · 8mo ago

When you stake your mental health on stories and characters that are not your own, you are surrendering your personal power. You are placing all your reliance on something you have zero control over.

Vivienne M@vivziepop.bsky.social · 8mo ago

These characters are more then just drawings to me, and I know they are to others. But you also cannot lay your own mental health on them. It’s not fair to yourself or the character. It’s a lesson I’ve learned and I feel like it’s advice worth giving. You are real, the character is not.