#Fandom bs

[phantasm-masquerade]

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[warblogs17282]

ngl, I feel bad for Brandon because he probably gets a lot of this kind of shit from entitled people, but I cannot lie, it feels amazing when Brandon calls them out on their bullshit.

[elvhenmage]

“how do you expect me to believe emmrich isn’t a gay man and neve isn’t a lesbian” god here we fucking go again. how many times do we have to tell y’all that bisexuals can look and act just like gay men and lesbians and to suggest otherwise, even as a joke, is biphobic

[moraleimprovebeatings]

Also,some gold I found on the comments:

it is actually SO twisted that peter parker comes from a poor working class family, spent his entire life fighting for the little guy for no financial gain, whose major film villains are dirty capitalists who don’t care about who they hurt, who takes his power as a responsibility…. and marvel took one look at him and said “yah he’s besties with a billionaire whose family had generational wealth from war profiteering and all the villains will be working class”

[helaenasaegon]

"Aegon was uninterested in Jaehaera once he realized she wasn't the boy" He was looking for Jaehaerys for a specific reason.

"Aegon couldn't instantly tell his own kids apart" They're small twins, and Jaehaera had her back turned to him; of course he couldn't instantly tell.

"Aegon ignored his children in s1, he only has an interest in them now because he's king and they're of use to him" Tom Glynn-Carney himself has said multiple times that Aegon loves his children. He didn't "ignore them," we barely even saw Aegon and Helaena in season 1, let alone their kids. We saw the kids ONCE, and even Helaena was only sitting in the room while a maid tended to them.

Aegon loves his children. And to my knowledge, there was never anything in the books saying he didn't. If you can't cope with that, then you should sort that out in therapy.

[dalishious]

I am honestly just SO tired of what I'm gonna unironically call fake fans of Dragon Age. The Steam Community needs to be shut down at this point, because at least 75% of the discussions are... like this.

I'm gonna make a longer post, or maybe even a video, about this at some point. But I really am just reeling from what I've seen and need time to actually process my thoughts into something coherent.

[skiplo-wave]

Short answer: the ones in wholesome fandom want to keep the illusion of being wholesome, pure, not problematic. And if you break such an illusion well good luck with death threats in your DMs

Meanwhile the fandom with dark content are aware of its content and most know it doesn’t equal their irl morals/values. It’s all fictional so nobody is harm unless you let that consume you to point it harms yourself or others

[rosewood-multifandom-writer]

If it was a token LGBT character dying, as in, the one and only LGBT character dies, then yeah, it’s a “Bury Your Gays” moment. But if there were more LGBT characters like the seven LGBT characters the submitter mentioned, with three of them dying and four of them surviving, it’s not a “Bury Your Gays.”

But I guess if we follow that fandom’s logic, if we have a group of seven women, three major characters and the remaining four are supporting characters, and four of them die, mainly, the supporting cast, then it’s “Fridging” the women and the writers are misogynistic.

Or we have seven POC characters, three of them major and the remaining four are supporting characters, and four of the characters die, then the writers are just white supremacist racists.

We need to teach specific terms to people again, because they keep watering down terms that literally mean nothing but insults towards people they strongly disagree with now.

Fandom Problem #6932:

Show: 96% straight cast, with 7 characters being LGBT, and 2 of them are background or very minor supporting characters.

Deaths so far: 10-15 straight people (7 main characters), 3 gay people (2 side characters, no main ones died)

People in the fandom: This is bury your gays! We're sick and tired of LGBT characters getting killed off!! The writers are homophobic!!!

[thesunfyre4446]

why are people so obsessed with comparing alicent motherhood to rhaenyra's?

their situations are so different. alicent had no support system, the only parental role model she had was otto. she was maritally raped and forced to have children at 15 with an abusive neglectful partner and no support system to help and guide her. (because yes, a 15yo teenager is still a child and needs help and guidance to deal with a baby)

while rhaenyra's mother also died, and viserys is also a shit role model, rhaenyra had children when she was older with a man she loved \ cared about. she chose to have kids with harwin. also, laenor was also a kind man and seemed to support her and the children.

alicent and rhaenyra both loved their kids and did the best they could. alicent is def struggling with her motherhood, but the way this fandom shows her no compassion and labels her as a "bad mom" while forgiving viserys's horrible treatment of his children is so disappointing to see.

people don't realize that "you're not as good of as mother as this other woman" is constantly weaponized and used to oppress women. and it's never "you're not as good of a dad as this other man". never.

[myimaginationplain]

jayvik shippers PLEASE be normal about Mel & Sky challenge, part 2, difficulty rating: (impossible)

[pedrospatch]

for anyone who isn’t feeling safe or comfortable in this space right now, i see you. you are not alone <3

[witheredoffherwitch]

Hotd fandom never ceases to amaze me with their ruthless behavior towards some of the most talented artists and writers..... and it's always the most unemployed and untalented fucks who band together to drive out these gifted individuals. CrazyTom's work was the only saving grace in this dismal community for the past month but you all had to ruin it by bullying them out of this fandom. You guys don’t deserve nice things istg 😭

[miss-rum-hee]

You could if you weren't a pussy.

Fandom Problem #7040:

I miss the days when ppl separated fiction from reality...

I cant follow my favorite artists because some of them have questionable ships. I just mute the tags. but now i get interrogated all because i follow them. Ended up unfollowing them. I dont ship them, and i dont understand how you could get into them but theyre two fictional characters to me.....

[deadtwinksdetectiveagency]

my thoughts on the whole Cameo Thing™

Putting my first tweet in a screenshot; the rest is copy-pasted. And for context, since the quoted tweet was (understandably) deleted, it said, "Yes $100 is a lot, and it feels a little classist as some of us won’t be able to afford it."

Cameos are not a public service. No one is hurt by not having the ability to spend $100 on a video. No one is being treated worse than others because they can't afford a personalized video. I don't understand how "classist" would even come to mind.

Even if that was the worst example, I'd still fully get J's reaction. He and G are professionals. They deserve to be paid fairly. Based on G's earlier rate, other ppl's cameo rates, con photo rates, and how unique J&G are... $100 is a great deal.

I expected the $100 price tag. If George charged $50 for one person... I mean, there's two of them now. 50 x 2 = 100. I'm shocked that more than a handful of folks were surprised.

A personal anecdote: I've just started taking art commissions this fall. I am finally confident enough to charge a rate that fairly compensates me. Honestly, I should probably charge more.

Things like art commissions, cameos, convention photos/signings all fall under the same umbrella. They are treats. They are luxuries. They are never going to be equally accessible to all. It's not just price; it's also time, expertise, location, etc.

What kind of message does it send artists, writers, actors, creatives, etc when we frame their reasonable* rates as selfish and wrong? * reasonable based on industry standard, not on individuals' wallets

Anyway. J radiated enthusiasm for another chance to engage with us. I expected his happy bubble to burst at some point—I was surprised by his level of fandom engagement tbh—but that doesn't make it any less fucking sad.

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If you're upset or heartbroken or angry because Jayden is backing away: maybe think about why, and if you could change what you do to help protect yourself from suffering this kind of distress should something similar happen again.

[emblemoftheattorney]

It makes me sad when I look at Ace Attorney fandom stuff from 10-15 years ago and see how much more comparatively chill and accepting they were of different ships from the most popular ones back then. It wasn’t perfect or free of discourse, obviously, but at least fans could mostly get away with shipping that stuff without getting called horrible people, unlike today where the Ace Attorney fandom is determined to bully anyone who dare ship the Unacceptable Stuff™️ out of the fandom (ESPECIALLY on aatwt my goodness). I know this isn’t just me because I’ve seen even certain older fans note this and say stuff like “Wow I’ve been in the Ace Attorney fandom for years and back then there used to be so many Narumayos and ppl who shipped so-and-so in het I’m so glad these are no longer acceptable we’ve come so far” WRONG. The fandom has turned into a hivemind who think it’s acceptable to unperson others over ships and will sooner sympathize with one who harasses another over a Bad Ship than the one getting harassed because how dare they ship outside the sacred stuff. You really think it’s a good thing the AA fandom environment has gotten tyrannical about what you’re allowed to ship? Old Ace Attorney Shipping Fandom was FAR from perfect, but if your reasons for why it was bad or worse than now are “ships I dislike were allowed to exist” hoooooo boy.

[shadowsatdawnx]

saying “we have more fanfics than you!!” is not the flex you think it is.

it’s not a coincidence that most canon couple ships in any fandom have considerably less fanfic than noncanon ones.

you NEED fanfics to have anything remotely romantic between your ships. we have the books 🫶