#DiskHorse

[deepdarkhwsconfessions]

The whole Proship vs Anti thing just corrupted people, plus add the social isolation and social media addiction caused by the pandemic and you get an absolute shitshow. The word ‘Proship’ is thrown around so fucking uselessly and the word has lost it’s meaning to me, people are now saying ‘Dead Dove Do not Eat’ is Proship when Dead Dove has an entirely different fucking meaning. Dead Dove is a ao3 tag (it can also count as a content warning, but it’s mainly used on ao3, ff.net, etc) that literally means ‘hey this thing you’re about to read basically describes and goes into detail about what was warned about in the description/tags by the author, so you can’t go ‘Well I didn’t know that was going to happen’ when you open the book and stumble upon that specific subject’

like people have gotten stupider and it’s fucking infuriating, like if you see a ship you don’t like just block and move on, you have better things to do and worry about compared to two fictional characters kissing

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[castielsprostate]

what the fuck is wrong with people can god kill us already oh my god

[sequinbandit]

I feel like I've seen a recent surge in posts on my dash, the subjects of which can be summarized as "trans men vs trans women disk horse." I don't know whats going on with this, but like... is this real? Maybe I'm too reclusive but like, is there actually an issue with trans men being misogynistic to trans women en masse? Or is this a handful of chronically online popular accounts who are just being shitty to each other? Idk, this feels like some kinda psyop to dis-unify right before an inauguration that'll attack both of our groups.'m too reclusive but like, is there actually an issue with trans men being misogynistic to trans women en masse? Or is this a handful of chronically online popular accounts who are just being shitty to each other? Idk, this feels like some kinda psyop to dis-unify right before an inauguration that'll attack both of our groups.

[vampxrebarbie]

block and move on bestie no one cares 💜

[dappy-dappernette]

The Hetalia fandom has genuinely done some fucked up shit but hey at the very least we haven't accused someone of faking their CSA and randomly accused people of being nonces because they don't like our ship (at least not yet)

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

absolute hell nightmare is being exposed to both sides of the hell nightmare discourse of shipping discourse as a kid and now seeing posts calling both sides out but only for stupid inaccurate reasons and not like. the actual problems. which aren’t like. everyone being evil monsters and them being stupid unnuanced takes on something complicated reduced to something stupid and the extreme us vs them mentalities that make just being in those groups isolating and traumatic. saying everyone involved in one side is a monster who should commit suicide isn’t helping especially since a lot are literal kids please stop doing that.

[deepdarkhwsconfessions]

white hetalians pearl-clutching over colonizer/colony ships is very amusing to me because i remember the days where a contingent of filipino hetalians were endlessly BEGGING hima for canon female philippines so they could ship her with america/japan/spain

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[castielsprostate]

Oh, no, no, no, no. But you asked.

Misha posted a post re: Israel/Gaza and some fuckery occurred, people are accusing Misha of revisionist history and not wanting to use the word genocide, he asked for other’s opinions and a instead he’s getting attacked, told to die and some people are now hating him.

He deleted some tweets and now people are using screenshots of the deleted tweets and its all a massive shitshow.

tldr: Social media is scum and be thankful you missed it.

thank you for your insight anon!! i would love to read the article before i actually draw an opinion on it but i think i have a semi clear idea of what went down now. do you, or anyone else have the link to the article? or maybe screenshots?

[hetacofessional]

I wish my country's (non-canon nation) fandom didn't sabotage every single ship that isn't [redacted most popular one];

it is one thing when you have preferences (like I have mine too);

but going out of your way to dismiss or harass every single person that doesn't ship what you think is "right"? can't you just block what you don't like and move on?

the worst part is that I don't even think that [most popular ship] is bad, but most of the fanworks are always more of the same boring stuff focused on a dumb football rivalry that is only 30% of what makes said pairing interesting (rather than all the long and complex history they share together???)

I could make also a whole case about how misogyny affect it as well, as female depictions of the country or m/f and f/f ships involving them are also shoved aside in favor of the most popular m/m pairing (unless it is m/f or f/f version of said pairing)

I do feel it has to do with how "easy" it is to ship them, you mention the nations everyone goes "oooh right the football rivalry" and call it a day, and always have a shallow understanding of their complex history and politics (i say this because I DO like putting my ocs of said nations together too because their relationship IS interesting...); no one wants to go out of their way to research and investigate our nations other historical and complex relations (they don't consider other love interests and, like, not even the platonic potential relationships we would have with others, they all get shoved aside too)

like, there is no room for any sort of discussion, nation X is nation Y life, and that's it.

and it sucks that mainly people from my country do this, as the people from the nation of the other halve of the pairings have more ships of equal importance and they tend to acknowledge more the history they have with their neighbors than the fans of my country do

I don't even want to mention any names or make this show up on their ship tag out of respect (because everyone should be free to ship whatever they want and I know many have this as a comfort ship too) but I think people who know, will know™

I have fun indulging on my rarepair involving my country, but I only know 4 more people who like this as opposed to the other popular pair (and they hang mainly on twitter and I'm mainly on tumblr), everyone else only wants to talk about the [redacted popular pairing] it gets lonely sometimes

(hope this didn't come out too confusing, english is not my first language lmaoo, but I just wanted to vent a few silly frustrations)

♱ Received ♱

[bisexual-neco-arc]

(reply via @nebulabrainmatter)

genuinely. like calm down op's not dropping napalm on your fucking house do the "don't like don't interact" shit you spew everywhere else in fandom spaces and move on if you don't like what a random misinformed stranger says on the internet.

Steven Universe: Eh, I don't really feel like saying "girlfriend" or "wife". Maybe they're together. They have a special connection...

(gets violently shoved aside)

The Loud House/Craig of the Creek/The Owl House: Pfft, amateur. "My GIRLFRIEND Sam and I..." "I'm texting my GIRLFRIEND, mind your business." "Luz's new GF showed her..."

[paladerp]

it's really fun when your ND ass is super unable to look away from perceived injustice and also hates being misunderstood. I'm just gonna have to get over the anons attacking arguments I didn't make, putting words in my mouth that I never said.

It's cool, gang. Keep telling people with burn out that their contributions mean nothing if they don't keep pushing and pushing and pushing until they die.

Meanwhile, I'm not going to back down on if you're experiencing compassion fatigue and burn out, you're not a horrible person who 'never had compassion in the first place'. You're not selfish and a zionist and a lover of genocide for not being able to be an activist 24/7. We are all only human.

Don't forgive. Don't forget. Keep apprised the of the situation, act in whatever ways you're able; do your best. If you need to rest, rest. If you need to close your eyes, only make sure you open them again.

Compassion fatigue cannot excuse willful inaction and blindness. Only allow for taking a break.

And also, maybe don't center compassion fatigue in activist spaces.

I was told that's exactly what I did here, but my whole argument came from someone specifically addressing compassion fatigue, not a discussion about Palestine derailed by people talking about it. We can discuss both things, I didn't intrude on a space where Palestine was being discussed, I was discussing the topic at hand.

[deepdarkhwsconfessions]

Sorry all this spamano usuk "incest no incest" discourse is stupid? if something like that bothers you block it? I just think it's hilarious that people are going to be like "shipping these two are BAD because they are BROTHERS 😡😡 and this is the number one ailment of this fandom" as we ignore more pressing issues like racism and colonialism in this fandom

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[castielsprostate]

sorry but i, too, find it a bit fucking weird

[mysterycitrus]

i read a post (that i now can’t find) that said if u mischaracterise dick grayson u then mischaracterise every other batman character and like…. yeah pretty much. he is literally patient zero of every weird fanon take

dick controls so much about how bruce and every successive character operates, thinks, and works with each other that interpreting him badly (whether on purpose or by accident) throws canon completely out of balance. like his relationship with bruce dictates jason being adopted. his particular run as robin dictates every other robin and/or batgirl and auxiliary sidekick. his relationship with bruce post ditf dictates tim’s introduction and run as robin. his run with the titans dictates young justice and tt03. what would gotham be without her robin? on and on and on it goes.

not to say that other characters don’t affect canon obvsly — but i don’t think it’s unfair to say that he is so foundational to how these characters exist that removing his influence corrupts the narrative. where would tim be if he wasn’t a dick grayson fan who recognised the quad? where would jason be if dick hadn’t left robin behind and then accepted him into the role? where would cass and steph and duke be if bruce didn’t have that experience raising dick?

[foxqueen-katarian]

I don’t think having connections to previous campaigns was the problem, I think centering your entire backstory around them was.

Orym has a tenuous connection to Kiki, and this manifests in knowing more about what’s happening in the wider political landscape (even if it’s just knowing who the players are). Orym is a fully functional person outside of his connection to Kiki. In fact you can remove his being a Tempest Blade from his backstory and just make him a standard Ashari and it all still makes sense.

Bertrand went to the Hells with VM, but other than being able to name drop them, he didn’t have much going on with them.

Ashton having Dunamancy Juice in his brain made for some interesting conversations with Essek, and Caleb, and the Bright Queen. But he had other shit going on between the Titans and trying to keep his suicidal robot friend alive, and finding out what happened to him as a kid, that if you took the Dunamancy Juice out there’s still something to dig into.

Laudna’s whole deal though is/was Delilah. You can’t separate her from that callback, you can’t ignore it. It��s there, all the time. And it means that on some level Laudna is a problem the Vox Machina needs to deal with, it means spending time in White Stone, it means interacting with Vox Machina. It means introducing those characters into C3 in a way that you can’t take back or move past.

And it’s funny, because the people I see complain the most about ‘Bells Hells getting sidelined in their own campaign’ are generally Laudna/Imodna stans. Your girl’s the one who opened that door, and once it was opened there was no closing it again.

[deepdarkhwsconfessions]

you guys ever block someone in this fandom not because theyve done anything wrong BUT the way they act and talk about certain characters weirds you out, and then months or years later you find out theyre actually a racist piece of shit? that just happened to me. like holy hell i wasnt being oversensitive and paranoid at all. being a racist hetalia fan makes you give out a sort of stinky aura i swear

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