#<- my other fandom this applies to

[kindheart525]

What I’m noticing about my fandom habits is that I tend to get most active in the ones that I can make fankids for. Those always seem to be the more lighthearted shows where I personally feel there’s a bit more versatility to make the characters’ futures what you want. As an example, MLP has a lot of characters you can imagine as good parents, but most Bojack Horseman characters straight up should not have children. In general, I find it easier to add more serious themes to a lighthearted show than to add whimsy to a heavy show because of how fundamentally different the foundations are. A mixture of angst and joy hits different when the angst is self-created rather than baked into the show. I hope I’m making sense.

[whenyoucomeback]

Ykw quick shout-out to selfshippers who for any reason dislike the popular ships in whatever fandom their f/o is from. Shout-out to everyone who has to block a bunch of ship tags or who can't go into their f/o's tag without seeing some kind of ship art they dislike or feel uncomfortable with.

Your discomfort is fully valid and you know your f/os best! They adore you, no matter what the fandom says, even if there's a lot of people who say otherwise or ship them with other characters, I promise.

pro.shippers this doesn't apply to you, get out

[catgirl-catboy]

I wish tumblr users understood that they aren't raising "ships a gross ship" to the level of "active threat to others." They're lowering being a threat to the level of shipping the wrong thing.

[socialc1imb]

Do yall know what my controversial nitpick of the Jash Fandom is? All of the people who go “stop infantalizing heart thats a grown man who shot someone!” Etc etc

Why does this drive me insane? Because, one, people will always see a character differently than you no matter who the character is. There’s literally no such thing as a character with one, and I truly mean only one interpretation. Two, why can’t they? Why can’t someone have fun and do what they want? It’s not harming anyone, nor are they telling you to change your thoughts to match theirs. If it bothers you that much? Block them. Who gives a damn. Three, the album is literally left to interpretation. The Big Man who wrote it has said it himself. Aspects are left to interpretation for a reason. Four, the album deals with (what can be) super delicate topics, ie mental illness, depression, suicidal thoughts and ideations. Hell, it even deals with the vague ideas of murder, depending on how you look at it!

Depending on how you look at it.

Have you considered that like. Most, if not all listeners of Jash’s music take those characters and they project onto those characters (pointing back at the “left to interpretation” point). Maybe they want the Emotional and Depressed CCCC Character™️ that they relate to to feel joy and not be constrained to only sadness and responsibility? Maybe they deal with such things as age regression or similar coping mechanisms that they project onto a character they love? Maybe—just maybe—that’s just their interpretation.

There’s literally no difference between having hcs or interpretations that differ from (the already loose) canon. If that were the case, way more people would be getting onto artists for making Soul Feel Joy. Or like having emotions at all. Hell, giving Soul a personality at all makes no sense considering that, in canon, we know so little about him, truly (if you argue “no we know this and this!” I can assure you most arguments would once again be from interpretation or widely accepted hcs).

Lmao anyways this got long and passionate but personally, the longer I’ve spent on the internet and in fandoms, I find it tiring that every other post in the tag is “remember not to infantilize heart!” because at the end of the day. It really does not matter. Block and move on, no one’s going to stop just because you said so.

[burning-omen]

Fandoms when you form your own opinion on a character that you’re supposed to have your own opinion on:

[levitheeldritch]

Why am I terrified of interacting with my mutuals. I know you guys are nice and cool but my brain just cannot fathom me interacting with the cool people that I admired when I started on Tumblr. I'm in your circle. I'm like Pluto in this fucked up utmv solar system.

[paranormaljones]

Okay media consumers, I'm gonna ask you to follow some lines of logic with me.

For good stories to exist, there needs to be conflict.

For conflict to happen, one or more characters will almost always need to make bad choices.

Just because a character makes one or a few bad choices does not automatically earn them the label of "toxic".

Just because said character does not experience immediate consequences due to their bad choices does not mean that they never will (especially if their story is not yet finished), nor does it mean that their creator is romanticizing or portraying their bad choices in a good light.

I mean, come on. You guys love a good slow burn romance. The least you can do is get used to the idea of slow burn conflict.

Edit:

DO NOT INTERPRET THIS POST AS ME SAYING THAT YOU SHOULDN'T DISAGREE WITH ANY CHARACTER'S ACTIONS EVER. DO NOT DO THAT.

I can tell some of you are already thinking about doing that.

Don't.

Please.

I don't have the energy for that.

[sanjipussyindulgence]

wtf is wrong with fandom culture nowadays. why do people act like the only way they can ship something is if they prove its canon first. you dont need to do all that. you can just like the ship. it doesnt matter what the creators say. this site used to be about hiccup from how to train your dragon and jack frost from rise of the guardians kissing for fucks sake.

[dykedvonte]

Mini rant below and in the tags, the only time I’ll talk about this and my personal take on it.

The way people talk about hypothetical male Anya on Twitter and the idea of how Mouthwashing would play out if the genders were swapped makes me remember how people still don’t take sexual assault and rape with male victims with the same gravity, especially when the perpetrator is female.

[nostalgia-tblr]

drabbles

the shortest fics I have written are 100 words, because drabbles, and some people are very opposed to those because they think "oh, anyone can write 100 words. i have written 100 words, it takes minutes!" but no! a drabble is not about writing "only 100 words" it is about writing "exactly 100 words" which is much more difficult (and a fun challenge). you wrote 100 words and kept going, didn't you? the story contained 100 words but it did not consist of 100 words. therein lies the difference.

firstly you need to pick an idea that will fit in 100 words, then you need to spend ages making it actually do so. oh no, you are 2 words over and now you need to lose 2 of your already carefully chosen words! oh no, you are 2 under and must add 2 more words without spoiling the flow of 98 words that work together perfectly! then you upload to AO3 and discover that it's counting differently to what you wrote the drabble in, and now you need to cut out another word. BUT HOW??? these are not just 100 words, they are all there for a reason, they all complete the whole, how are you going to MURDER one of these words without the entire fic looking damaged afterwards? :(

so a drabble contains two challenges (and this is why i am strict about the defintion) - one where the story has to be 100 words and then one where you need to get it to exactly 100 words. i might as well say "anyone can write 120k words, i write words all the time!" yeah but i realise that just writing down 120k words off the top of my head would not result in those being good words that function together as a good story.

[akai-anna]

Round 2

Round: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

[sunkissedliterarylightofchrist]

There is a difference between using darkness imagery to expose the darkness and get it out of your head to prove how defeatable it can be and romanticizing it to make it desirable and making your problems worse. One will save your life and soul and the other will corrupt you further.

Stop mixing them up.

[blastymcsplodo]

I do really feel for wlw and their frustration at the lack of and dismissal of f/f in fandom as well as the mistreatment of female characters by fans (and writers) in general. and also I get really annoyed when they take that anger and frustration out on people who like m/m.

like as a guy who likes guys it is genuinely hurtful to see people act like m/m is an evil corrupting force that needs to be destroyed in order to protect the purity and safety of f/f.

[dekusleftsock]

Mha fandom when you say that Izuku’s biggest fic mischaracterization isn’t making him twinky:

WHEN DID BEING A TWINK BECOME A BAD THING CAN I JUST ASK THAT

Like yes, twinkifying one male character in a ship can be annoying—it can perpetuate heterosexual roles onto same sex relationships (“who’s the woman in the relationship/who wears the pants in the relationship?”), BUT LET US BE CLEAR:

TWINKS ARE A PART OF THE QUEER COMMUNITY. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING A TWINK, MAKING A CHARACTER A TWINK, OR SEEING A CHARACTER AS A TWINK.

WHEN in the ever loving FUCK did that somehow translate into “the twink has to be the stereotypically aggressive one so it doesn’t abide by queer stereotypes”. HOW DID WE GET HERE.

[biblically-accurate-dca]

funtime sunshine

[wispurring-moss]

alright. i have held my tongue long enough but i can do it no longer.

i'm gonna something that the whippersnappers aren't going to understand & the veterans will probably take psychic damage from reading. but. consider, if you will:

Husk♦️Angel

...that's it, that's the post x'3c