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I guess the Transdimensional Arc is popular because of the many possibilities that comes with Alcor interacting with familiar characters and the shenanigans that ensues. Not to mention is the interaction between regular Dipper and Alcor, which would open old wounds for the demon along with seeing his friends and loved ones alive again.

Yep, that’s pretty much the lot of it. So many possibilities in so many forms…we just try to limit the number of times Alcor actually breaches dimensional barriers due to established world mechanics, which does lead to the transdimensional arc gaining a number of AUs since the opportunity for those kinds of shenanigans doesn’t come up much along the same timeline.

What does Gompers’ aura look like? Bonus if someone actually sees it.

Funny thing about auras: not only do their appearances depend on the person generating one, but they also depend on the person seeing it. Therefore one person might see this hypothetical aura as a lot of muddy browns and greys shot with vibrant crackles of orange and green, but another will see it as a big, amorphous purple fog with no color variation whatsoever. 

Or, in this case, maybe there’s never any aura at all. It’s hard to say.

I apologize for going anon on you, seeing your inbox note. I’m aware I probably won’t be answered. Earlier on Twitter you talked about popularity and social media. I have a personal situation and I wanted to know your thoughts, even if it might be harsh. I know notes =/= worth. I like what I make. I was also bent on improving. Yet it hurts when I barely get recognition when I’ve been in a fandom for years. I don’t feel like I exist. –

– Plus I’ve become a little jealous over someone with same interests yet
they’re popular. I try to avoid them, but I see their stuff everywhere.
Their existence reminds me of my own ‘failure’. It’s not that I want to
be wildly popular. I wish more people cared. I do feel as though
communities aren’t as supportive as they could be. Thank you for taking
the time to read this.
       
  

I really don’t make a habit of answering anons, but if you have something that’s sincerely upsetting… well, it’s very hard for me to ignore that. We’ve all got weaknesses and sometimes it’s really super hard to talk to anyone about them.

No worries anon, I think this is something a lot of people struggle with. I don’t claim to know the answer, but I can certainly give you my two cents.

For anyone who doesn’t follow my Twitter (it’s a mess, I don’t blame you), this is the thread they’re referring to:

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In addendum, it’s really easy to say things like recognition don’t matter. Numbers don’t matter. Twitter doesn’t lend well to talking at length about sensitive subjects, so I didn’t really delve into that part of it.

If I sounded like I don’t have my own problems with envy, don’t be fooled! I think even at our best, we all experience envy of others. No one is perfect, and we all crave what we lack, even if it’s not from a place of malice or ill-will.

It’s a really rough struggle, I’m not gonna lie. Things like natural advantages/disadvantages can take their toll (natural talent is a thing, friends), things like dumb luck can be downright infuriating. And a lot of times, that’s what it boils down to – because everyone works hard when they’re passionate about something. Sometimes, it’s about being in the right place at the right time, being born into an optimal environment, having the right resources, being in the right fandom, stumbling into the right group of friends, etc. Hell, the professional world is more often about networking than anything else, and that’s kind of a version of that.

Long story short, there are too many things out of your control. Which to me, is yet another reason why you shouldn’t beat yourself up over lack of popularity. Not to say that hard work and self-improvement should be thrown out the window, that’s not the point I’m trying to make; I’m just trying to say that there’s so much more that needs to be taken into consideration before you beat yourself up over low followers/likes/etc. (Not that you should ever beat yourself up for that)

So I suppose my advice is this: go out and make friends. Tailor your experience so that you no longer care about those numbers, or at least care less. Baby steps. Get more excited about sharing your work with close friends than posting on your blog and watching notes come in. Show your work to people who really matter to you – more often than not, a few kind words from them will mean more than 100,000 likes from some random strangers. If you think a community isn’t very welcoming or accepting… then look elsewhere! Other social media sites, other fandoms if you have to. No two places are the same.

Get more excited about self-discovery. Get more excited about self-improvement, learning something new. Your world is about you, your thoughts, your experiences. Not the opinion’s of random people on the internet. If you love something, if you enjoy something, they don’t matter.

It’s often a very slow process, learning to let go of envy and jealousy. I’ve only loosened my grip on it, it’s still there. I still feel petty and gross whenever I see an artist half my age and twice as talented, and I wonder, what sort of luck did they have? What silver spoon were they born with? Must be nice, I think bitterly, and then I catch myself and have a nasty taste in my mouth until I can let it go. Remind myself they’re a person too, and never wished to be better/more popular/successful to put others down.

Nobody is perfect. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, and at the end of the day, only you can make the art you make. No one else can, not even so-called master artists. They don’t have your mind, your eyes, your touch. Only you can bring your art into the world.

Life is fleeting. Enjoy yours as best you can, be happy. There’s more to life than comparing yourself to others. More to life than art, even. There’s tasty food to be eaten, new places to visit, new friends to make.

It’s little things like these that help me loosen my grip on envy’s hand.

And on a lighter note… do you even want to be popular on this hellsite. ‘Cause let me tell you a thing, back when I had, I think I peaked at around 80k (maybe 100k) followers on my old blog? The amount of harassment I got was ridiculous. Turning anon off at that point didn’t even work, I’d get just about everything under the sun on par for internet culture. Popularity means visibility, and holy shit that isn’t always a good thing. I’m 10000000% happier in my tinier fandoms, and I hope I stay here.

Is there a song that you think best represent Alcor?

Not one single song, no. As with any person or character, there are too many facets to his life, his experiences, and his personality to pin it all down just to one set of lyrics.

Instead, people have made playlists for Transcendence AU, and especially for Alcor. These exist on youtube and 8tracks at the very least, and perhaps on other sites as well. They’re pretty easy to search, if you’ve a little time, and you’ll probably notice some patterns in the songs chosen if you’d like to choose one fit in particular.

(Note to everyone: we don’t publish the asks you send in with song suggestions, though we have, in the past, saved them to create a compiled TAU song list on 8tracks at the time of our anniversary – so if you do send something to us in response to this ask, even if it’s a suggestion to this anon, don’t expect to see it appear on the blog!)

Is there anything in this au about the Fair Folk? not fairies like tinkerbell, the kind with fairy rings and curses and changelings. I don’t remember where they’re from but they give me the willies. What about elves? (think Legolas, not Santa’s helpers) where are they?

Elves pretty much are the fair folk, or at least variants of it. There are lots of variants, depending on your location. Mod O remembers answering some asks regarding these legendary beings in the past, though she can’t actually find them. They’ve come up occasionally in headcanons, worldbuilding, questions about how various communities might interact with one another…

Some Fair Folk variants come forward and live pretty much openly among humans. Portland at the least sports thriving communities of both fairies and pixies (physically the same, these groups are distinguished mostly through cultural differences), and it’s probably not alone. 

Others may linger on the threshold between the physical realm and the mindscape, not easily or often seen. Many prefer the shadows for their own varied reasons.

So, yes, they exist in this AU, and if you get a bit creative in your search terms (transcendence-au.tumblr/search/[enter terms here]) you might be able to dig a few things up, as I don’t believe we have a dedicated tag for them at this point.

do all baby demons experience info-dumps early on or just dipper bc he was human

Mod O would like to say just Dipper, and just because he was human. Demons are hatched from eggs in the mindscape after a very, very, very long incubation process. They emerge fully-grown and with all their powers intact, so that they basically spend their infancy inside the shell; she theorizes that they would also get a steady stream of necessary knowledge at the same time.