The Small Fandom Effect Is Starting To Take Over, I Feel A Little Silly Liking The Same Users' Posts

☆Tamon appreciation post☆

Oh wow

more reigen!!!

nightmare

Sounds epic

this might be a bit silly especially considering our microscopic western fandom size but I was wondering if anyone would be interested in a Phantom Busters Creative Week (title pending) where we get a hashtag and everyone makes fanworks to spread PB love...please let me know your thoughts...

It's fascinating how many One Piece fans are bigots… I know that a lot of people watch things just for fun and don't bother to understand the essence of the story beyond the fights or "aura" moments. However, I am concerned about how far it can go. To call yourself a One Piece fan while being homophobic, transphobic, racist, etc. you have to ignore 95% of the story. One Piece is extremely in your face with its themes so for you to be any of these things, you have to skip every moment that explains the lore, every character arc aside from cool fighting sequences, and even then you have to ignore what each fighter represents and stands for. Or, as is the case with the vast majority of anime watchers, you'd have to be the dumbest of the dumbest to not get the message of the story because, I'll say it again, One Piece is very direct about it. At this point, the only thing missing is a character looking directly into the camera and spelling out "Government bad."

"Oh, but it's fiction, not reality!" That makes the matter even worse… Like are you really telling me that you can root for pixels on the screen to be free and have rights but you draw the line at real humans facing very real oppression? It's especially funny when it comes from YouTubers and TikTok who are supposed to be analyzing the series. I'm sorry, but I won't take you or your 15-minute yap session seriously if you don't hold the same views in reality. What can you as a transphobe and homophobe tell me about Bon Clay, revolutionaries, Yamato, and others? Why should I value your opinion about Arlong Park and Fisher Tiger if you simultaneously like the tweets of white supremacists and call Romani people thieves and throw slurs at them? How can I not laugh so hard that tears start running down my face when you are trying to sound eloquent and profound in criticizing the Navy and Celestial Dragons while also licking the government's booth in real life? These people would look into the camera with their fancy equipment and use the vocabulary Shakespeare used in his plays to try to explain what Shandia represents, only to post "I stand with I*rael" or say that Native Americans need to get over what happened to them. My friend, you are not the unbothered king who can separate fiction from reality, you are just dumb as a brick.

This is what I consider my magnum opus. It's probably my most aesthetically pleasing edit :b

The only good part about being in a small fandom is that when I say I'm the #1 fan of a character...i mean it. There's nobody else in the ring with me, man. He's all mine!! Never before have i been able to say this and be telling the truth

FEBUWHUMP 2025 PROMPT LIST

this year's prompts were chosen through an open suggestion poll (in which we received over 4,000 prompts) and a subsequent vote, where 5,019 votes were submitted. the top 28 make up the core prompts, and the febuwhump mod's favourites that remain have become the alternates. the first prompt in the 28, "vocal chords", was our number one prompt of the vote, with 1,625 total votes.

i am so insanely excited to see what you all create with these prompts, and i hope they're inspiring enough to trigger a whole month's worth of creativity for you!

as an extra added challenge, some creators will be undertaking another, smaller goal, of including apples in each of their prompt fills as an ode to the wildly popular prompt suggestion of "apples" that didn't make it through to the poll. this is totally optional, but is a good extra challenge if you'd like to take part in it!

if you have any questions, please check out the faq before sending an ask, or skim the blog's previously asked questions to see if your question has already been answered.

please note: notifying the blog of completionist status will happen through a google form released towards the end of febuwhump, and if you are interested in joining the febuwhmp discord server, the link will be available to do so for one week towards the end of january.

full write-up of prompts and rules under the cut:

FEBUWHUMP 2025 PROMPTS:

DAY 1: vocal chords

DAY 2: holding back tears

DAY 3: pinned down

DAY 4: hivemind

DAY 5: not trusting reality

DAY 6: forced to stay awake

DAY 7: alternate timeline self

DAY 8: bleeding out

DAY 9: necromancy

DAY 10: magic exhaustion

DAY 11: demonic possession

DAY 12: used as practice

DAY 13: “i don’t trust anyone else”

DAY 14: becoming the monster

DAY 15: icarus

DAY 16: eaten alive

DAY 17: power instability

DAY 18: living weapon

DAY 19: death wish

DAY 20: “i did good right?”

DAY 21: put on display

DAY 22: “grab the little one”

DAY 23: gunshot wound

DAY 24: forced to beg

DAY 25: bound and gagged

DAY 26: concealing an injury

DAY 27: post-victory collapse

DAY 28: recovery

ALTERNATE PROMPTS:

is there a specific day’s prompt you don’t want to fill? here are ten alternatives you can switch them out for!

ALT 1: major character death

ALT 2: blowtorch

ALT 3: pick who dies

ALT 4: body swap

ALT 5: die a hero

ALT 6: emergency surgery

ALT 7: body horror

ALT 8: on the run

ALT 9: in another life

ALT 10: feeding tube

RULES:

soft rules:

prompts should be answered in the form of whump

creators can produce any kind of media they want

you don't have to complete all the prompts to take part

you can use the prompts after the event ends

you can complete them in tandem with any other event

you can post to any platform you want, however this blog will only be sharing links and prompt fills posted to tumblr

if you want to be featured on the hall of fame, you must inform this blog by the 3rd of march that you have completed all of the days using the provided form

if you have questions, consult the faq before asking

hard rules:

to be a completionist, you must complete all 28 prompts, in order, in whatever medium you want, before the end of the event

(specifically for being featured on the blog)

when uploading febuwhump content to tumblr, please use the tags:

febuwhump (or febuwhump2025)

the relevant day's tag e.g. febuwhumpday1, febuwhumpday2...

nsfw (if relevant)

any important trigger warnings

you can also tag the blog: @febuwhump

I cannot guarantee your work will be archived on the blog. a random selection of properly tagged works will be reblogged every day of february.

Another day in the lab