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[miyakuli]

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[skellnonsense]

I kinda don’t care about shipping debates but I will say I’ve only seen 1 user with “proshipper” proudly in their bio and I blocked them because they had a very confrontational personality in general which they spared no time making obvious. I think you may be onto something.

proshippers dni not because of the actual shipping but because you talk like harry potter liberals about fandom on serious political posts

[memeodrama]

[chamerionwrites]

Honestly this gets at my chiefest complaint/frustration/discomfort with fandom as a whole. Which is: in their rush to defend the artistic merit of fanworks I think a ton of people have really valorized transformation and remixing and reinterpretation in and of themselves, when imo those are all quite neutral actions. When done well, they can expand and build upon and subvert meaning in really powerful and thought-provoking (and fun!) ways. When done poorly, they are just as likely to flatten and oversimplify and decontextualize and completely erase meaning. The simple act of changing something does not imbue the choice to do so with creative validity. It is entirely possible for a cover song to be bad (or just boring!). To exactly the same degree that it is possible to transform a pretty shallow and straightforward work into something deeper and more nuanced and subversive, is possible to transform a work into a vastly shallower and less interesting shadow of itself. As with nearly everything in art, it's all about the execution!

But the second you voice this position (which should honestly be a pretty uncontroversial one imo), you get people shrieking at you about being gatekeep-y and pretentious and betraying the sacred fandom etiquette of Don't-Like-Don't-Read.

And like...listen. I was not raised in a barn. I am 150% capable of quietly back-buttoning out of a fanfic I think is bad or boring - which is exactly what I do when I encounter them - and I am obviously not advocating for stupid ships wars or any kind of harassment or leaving hatemail in people's AO3 inboxes. (Which some people will also accuse you of the second you say anything less than lavishly positive about fandom, in true piss-on-the-poor fashion.) Literally all I am saying is that you can't have your cake and eat it too - that if fandom and fanworks (in the broadest sense) have artistic merit then fandom and fanworks (in the broadest sense) are fair game for artistic critique. Which means, in practice, that I can go on my own blog and make a post exactly like this one - critiquing broad trends, or stating that some interpretations are bad actually, or pointing out that subverting or talking back to or reading against the grain of canon is very different from simply ignoring it, or saying "fandom's culture of collage/remix/fuck-canon-I-do-what-I-want can lend itself to to really creative and interesting art but also to a lot of really bland homogenized cut-n-paste art, not to mention some pretty troubling decontextualization." And that if you feel this rains on your personal parade, you are then free to DLDR by back-buttoning out of my blog and/or blocking me so you never have to see my hot takes again, rather than clamoring in my notes about how I should let people enjoy things.

[mrcrashk]

post made when op is trying their hardest to sequence the correct genome for the gimmick blog

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[miyakuli]

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[ziggy-scardust]

I’ll look this kind of thing up about every couple of years when my underwear is falling to pieces and I want a sustainable option but otherwise? Mend, buy secondhand, line dry. The entire world is awash in ridiculous quantities of cheap textiles; we do not need to produce more clothes.

“Bamboo is antifungal”

Because it’s rayon

“Eucalyptus fabric is cooling!”

Yeah, because it’s rayon

“We make clothing called seacell out of seaweed!”

Yeah I looked on your website it’s made by the lyocell process, which means-

-wait for it-

It’s fucking rayon!!

Listen. There is a list of actual plant fibers that are directly made into fabric: cotton, linen, ramie, some hemp. I’m sure I’m missing a couple.

But if you’re wondering “huh how did they turn that plant material into fabric,” 99% of the time? It’s RAYON.

All rayon is made by putting plant material in chemical soup, dissolving out everything but the cellulose, and turning the cellulose into filaments/fibers.

The source of the cellulose has zero effect on the eventual fabric.

Rayon made from bamboo or eucalyptus or seaweed is not any better than rayon from any other sources.

Don’t let companies mislead you!

[sandalwoodbox]

Wheel of Time: is it the best fantasy TV series? Yes. But does it have an interesting plot? Also yes. But is it super queer? Yes! But does it treat its characters with a level of nuance and understanding rarely seen in modern television? Hell yes!

[sternenschaukler]

Can people please stop complaining that Murderbot doesn't look androgynous enough?

I believe we've had this discussion before, but since I've seen a lot of people complaining under the trailer:

A masc-presenting genderless person is actually a good thing for non-binary rep in media. Believing genderless people need to look gender-neutral to be valid is bullshit.

I don't care what other people imagined MB to look like, and I wouldn't have cared if MB's actor was a woman or gender-neutral presenting or whatever. But MB didn't have a physical description in the books, and insisting it should look a certain way just because it would fit your imagination is an exteremely petty thing to criticize the show for. MB doesn't have a gender, no matter what it looks like.

[huzzpuppy]

@thesackchaser

😋😋

WHAT IS THIS. THIS IS NOTHING

[carefulzombie]

adding on to my collection of “what a younger first doctor would actually look like”

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[tragedy-machine]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @idliketobeatree!!!! LOVE YOU SO MUCH

so about that ghost au where Edwin hangs around Charles before he dies and Charles slowly develops a friendship, and more, with his very own friendly ghost, even though he can’t really see him and can only follow the cold breeze…