#I guess I should tag this as him. bc of the ppl who want him blacklisted 💔💔

[sh5]

I’ve been trying not to cry pretty much all day. a girl stopped me when I was walking and asked if I was crying, if I was okay. and I played it off but I was like. GOD. but it’s like. whatever. I had a good day in hot prof class at least

[coridallasmultipass]

TW for my usual unhinged stance on puppets, if you're following me, you know. If you're not, I'm sorry (not sorry). ((If you're the author or narrator, I'm actually sorry.))

Okay, so because I'm allowed to be freaky on main about puppets on this site, I just wanna tell everyone, because everyone should know that creepypasta narrator Lighthouse Horror just posted a story (by author Alonso Solis) about an evil puppet show a few days ago, and I just listened, and I loved it.

Now onto freaky business:

Headcanoning the main char as a puppetfucker bc c'mon, that bromance, the way he lovingly describes Mr. Smiley's appearance, what he does before leaving the old studio towards the end... Just... Mmmm... *chef's kiss* love this kinda content. I'll sleep soundly dreaming I could have someone like that. Y'know? Big, glassy eyes, big grin, secret evil laugh, mildly self-animate...

[inchidentally]

tricky asks below to keep out of tags!

ok so full disclosure I do still ship them in an rpf way from their season together lasgfjlsaghfjl but absolutely, in reality I fully agree their dynamic was big brother and baby brother back then. they're definitely friends in an equals way now and I do like that Lando exerts a lot of confidence now and isn't just Carlos' satellite.

and no worries at all about me leaving the ship I'm honestly just not engaging for a while until pls god the larrying calms down. before Oscar that was my main hardcore rpf ship and I also love the real life friendship Carlos and Lando have. but if ever there was going to be a ship to cause a Kraken-type upset in F1 it's carlando. there's wayyyy too many ppl who are loudly convinced it's a real thing and about the same amount of ppl who think Lando's friendships should be ranked in order of "importance" to him. which would leave only Max F at the top so I guess by their reasoning carlando was fucked before it even started lmaoooooo

oh babe don't bother trying to bring logic into this!!!

I... don't know what this is supposed to be referencing bro? the quote was that people shouldn't assume that guys are friends just bc they're teammates so he didn't like, say that Charles and Carlos aren't? also this was all to do with the personal beef he has w Esteban so I think if he was deciding to say that Carlos and Charles hate each other it would've made waves??

and I gotta remind folks that galex seem to be the only two drivers who are friends the same during the season and off of it. I haven't looked crazy deep into the other friendships but pretty sure none of them really hang much in the off season?

fr I do not get them going after Oscar the way they did Luisinha and now Rebecca (and I'm assuming Isa). it's one type of crazy to hate on real life partners over delulu shit but to start doing that to a guy in another rpf ship??? poor Oscar is just standing there not doing anything and they're alternating between him being carlando ship captain or saying he will NEVER be Carlos to Lando.

oh my goddddd

like

how can someone want their fandom experience to be constantly getting enraged at reality intruding on a ship that I swear to god never had the remotest plausibility anyway???? considering they stopped existing to each other for the winter months apart from a little press during covid and Carlos was practically engaged to Isa the entire time like ???????

your ask and another I got (but won't post) was from today/yesterday so I'm guessing it was them seeing Carlos and Rebecca apartment hunting in Monaco has set off some fireworks. I saw a cute photo of Carlos and Rebecca chatting w Lando at the Netflix Cup thing and the comments were calling Rebecca the Steve in the situation. Lando literally is talking to the real life couple and that ain't enough to break the delulu.

anyway folks, that's why we look after Lily's remote presence in fandom. gotta keep the shit flying around trying to stick somewhere else lol

[zahri-melitor]

#ooh interesting!! i tend to think hmmm how to put this

#i tend to see them as more similar than different both during bftc and before i think?

#imo dick & tim don't intentionally abandon ppl - they both only retreat hardcore when they feel unwanted/unneeded/a drag on allies

#they both wrap their self-worth up in being needed which means they retreat + punish themselves after failure / rejection

#& that retreat sometimes freezes out loved ones - but that's not imo how either of them understand what they're doing

#so e.g. when dick's telling tim to forget they know each other in n 110 or tim's telling dick to let him go in rr 4

#they're not thinking 'i'm walking away to protect myself' they're thinking 'i'm freeing you from my presence'

#& in practice they're ditching the other person! but that's not what they consciously THINK they're doing

#over in bftc i tend to see them both responding to other people's pressures more than making decisions in a vaccuum

#so e.g. dick decides to become batman & take responsibility for damian - but that's not his initial plan at all

#his initial plan is to stay nightwing & he has no interest in doing anything w/damian

#it's tim who's insisting someone has to be batman & alfred insisting batman should be dick + dick should take care of damian

#and dick's initially very resistant and angry about all this pressure that's being put on him plus imo hurt

#similarly tim's initial plan is to be batman & robin with dick in gotham or failing that to be batman himself

#he only leaves town after he's fired - which he's likewise resistant to and angry about plus hurt from perceived rejection

#so it's not like dick & tim are spontaneously making these decision you know?

#they're both responding both to pressures on them from alfred and from each other

#and on both sides i feel like they're not entirely aware of the emotional repercussions of the things they're doing/saying

#so e.g. tim thinks it's legit for either him or dick be batman whereas dick thinks that obv if SOMEONE does it has to be dick

#so when tim's insisting that gotham needs a batman dick experiences that as WAY more intense pressure than tim thinks of it

#meanwhile dick thinks of his emotional relationship w/tim as separate from their professional relationship

#so he doesn't at all anticipate that tim will take being fired as robin as a rejection of their brotherhood

#i feel like in both cases...i mean they're not stupid they know the other person's upset but they don't understand the full implications

#i think dick is conceptualizing 'everyone's pressuring me to be batman & i don't want to but i have no choice'

#'at first i was mad at tim for pressuring me into it but now i'm freaked out bc according to cassie he's losing his mind'

#'i don't know what the hell is going on with tim & i'm worried but also upset with him bc he's supposed to be someone i can rely on'

#'also i don't want to be responsible for damian but nobody's gonna save him if i don't so i guess it's me'

#and meanwhile tim is conceptualizing 'i've failed at everything & failed bruce & now even dick doesn't trust/want me around anymore'

#'bruce is all i have left and probably he's dead but i'm going to try to save him anyway because it's not like i can do anything else'

#'i have to do this bc it's the only way i can be useful now & if i die everyone will be better off without me anyway'

(Tags @silverwhittlingknife )

#like motivations for doing so aren't necessarily 1:1 here

#but it's an interesting subversion of how they normally treat batman

#dick's tendency towards batman is a big boy who can take care of himself vs tim's emotional support robin

#is now dick's batman asking for emotional support vs tim's you will do fine without me because i need to do this (leave)

#and nobody is wholly right or wrong in this scenario it's just conflicting needs

#and the decisions made ended up being fine and right for both of them

(Tags from @scintillyyy)

This plus some additional points from @scintillyyy I want to attach - that during BFTC both Tim and Dick attempt their usual response: Tim prods and begs Dick to become Batman and create a new Batman & Robin situation to hold Gotham together, and only goes out in the suit as he’s trying to wait out Dick making the decision, while Dick drags his feet over Tim’s conviction and insists that nobody NEEDS to be Batman, that Bruce freed him from the obligation to step into the role, until he inevitably decides to step up to take control.

So they ran their usual tactic, and then when it wasn’t enough in the situation, they flipped and ended up in the other’s.

I agree both Dick and Tim both retreat from situations on occasion, and both also try to hold things together to a stupid degree.

Withdrawal is probably a better characterisation than abandonment, but it’s still notable to me that Dick in particular will MOVE during his withdrawal. He goes someplace else. And look, giving himself emotional space is healthy! But that also translates to a very clear line of separation marked between him and his problem.

While Tim’s more likely to just shut down in place. He might stop showing up (his several quitting arcs for YJ, Robin, etc) but he doesn’t go away. He’s still where he was before.

And some of that is life stage (Dick’s nominally an adult at all of his ‘flee’ moments, while Tim is generally still underage and in his guardian’s household), but some of that is a fundamental difference, where moving and travelling is associated with happier moments of childhood for Dick as a circus kid, while it’s at best neutral to disruptive for Tim (multiple houses, multiple schools, parents travelling for work).

It’s just another twist on the ‘you can’t fix Bruce’ argument for me, and the fact that Dick and Tim can’t and won’t see eye to eye on the best tactic there.

Thinking about the decisions made by Tim and by Dick at the end of Battle for the Cowl again, and I just realised this is one of the few moments when Dick and Tim’s instinctual reaction to a situation flips and they take the route the other usually chooses.

Because Dick’s maxim since 1980 or so has been that, when situations get bad, you can walk away and leave. Your problems can be left behind. People will cope without you. When things get personally stressful, Dick generally leaves. (Leaving Bruce to become Nightwing after the you’re fired/I quit conversation, walking away from the Titans after his relationship and wedding fell apart with Kory, going to Bludhaven to establish his own separate identity after reuniting with Bruce, wandering in a daze after Blockbuster dies and then running off to join the mob, the manner in which the Dick/Babs breakup(s) are structured, needing the World Trip Cruise after Bludhaven is bombed, etc)

While Tim’s choice in bad situations has generally been to cling, to stay and hold things (hold people) together, because if he doesn’t take on the role, who will. Tim worries that without someone stepping up, things will fall apart. (‘Batman needs a Robin’, staying during Knightfall and Knightquest, coming to No Man’s Land to pull the city back together, returning to Bruce even after his 16th Birthday, returning to Robin during War Games, even going to Bludhaven after War Games is holding Bludhaven together for Dick while he’s not able to do so, to go on the World Trip Cruise to keep an eye on Bruce and Dick, to try and clone people/resurrect people because he’s clinging to their memories).

But then we hit the start of Batman Reborn. And Dick makes the decision to stay, to hold Gotham together, to hold Damian together, a decision that usually you would see Tim make.

And Tim chooses to leave, to believe that Dick and Gotham can cope without him, while he prioritises something else (the search for Bruce).

As characters, Dick and Tim have been arguing over this point for 34 years now, and it’s fascinating to see that on one of the big occasions when the decision flipped, they both ended up on the opposite side to usual.

[lunarharp]

scribbly first date type affair (continuation of my modern au stuff)

[gwemrys]

seeing pretty abysmally bad merlin takes whats up

[blueiight]

whew this conversation on misogynoir and claudia. if there's one character where there's no legitimate reason to hate her it's claudia. she's literally the embodiment of has never done anything wrong in her life. i hope someone (not me 😩) explores the childism angle wrt to claudia. because people be hating children and wanting to dominate them.

the fun of claudia's character is that she isnt a good person by any real life morals. by way of her youth, she could not develop enough understanding of complex moral codes [which is even more prominent w/ claudia being turned @ the age of 5 in books but even then.. ik at 14, i was hardly the pinnacle of morality and maturity, i was reckless & destructive, and did not understand consequence until it kicked my ass]. the moral dilemma of the actual brutality of vampirism is something shes certainly better at disassociating from than louis simply bc she was too young to understand right & wrong.. as iwtv novel said and the title of ep4 is, it is the reckless pursuit of blood w/ a child's demanding in ep4 that leads claudia to killing & disposing of bodies recklessly, a hurricane hitting lifting the bodies up, and her leaving. even tho shes a 20 something woman, lestat x louis tried to give her a second [or her first] childhood, and most importantly, her brain is permanently metasized w/ the thought patterns & responses of a poor 14 year old girl who came out of a fire on the verge of death. she leaves bc she cognitively is unprepared for & does not want to deal w/ the consequences that come with exposing this household of interracial gay dudes w/ a creole chid during the jim crow days to heightened police scrutiny. the question w/ claudia [& armand, and all these creatures] is that can u recognize their capacity for cruelty, the tragedy & loss of agency/life done upon them and still sympathize with them? for claudia, people already had a 50/50 view of her in vc fandom for 'getting in the way of the ship' esp w/ her oedipal [mutual] dynamic w louis, but in amc show, the relationship's certainly changed on louis's end. i cant say amc louis has the capacity to long after any woman much less claudia in that way, but there is a sense of [co]dependency on a black girlwoman thats much more interesting here. i got a post on that somewhere lol. im not sure what childism means but im guessing it refers to the denial of humanity children face by adults, and i definitely find that true. lestat and louis both want to keep claudia preserved in their memory as their little girl, lestat even moreso when claudia begins to question & challenge his authority as the patriarch.. louis picks & chooses when to regard claudia as a grown woman [saying shes almost 33 to lestat when she comes back, and when she cooks up the plan to kill lestat, evening himself out to be merely one of lestat's creations when he asks "can the children kill the father" to ease his guilt for his love and his hate for their maker, their abuser, his husband, alladat] and when to regard claudia as his child [even in the modern day when he talks about her, being protective of her diaries in the face of the white interviewer/audiences]. fans saying 'yea lestat, claudia should stay out of ur lovelife' is hilarious cuz lestat dragged claudia back into their lovelife in the permanent role as their child, when she wanted to leave in ep6, and made her to keep louis attached to him [cuz he thinks louis couldnt keep loving him otherwise]. shes a rhetorical device in the marriage: lestat loves her cruelty, louis loves her innocence, bc those aspects of claudia remind them of [how they see] themselves. misogynoir & childism, as u word it, may play into fans’s disinterest but also favoring an interpretation of claudia within the lines of their preferred party btwn lestat x louis, which is also why i giggle to myself when ppl tag claudia w/ either one of their surnames

[letstalkaboutfandomsbaby]

girl i had an idea for my first fic (thinking of doing shigaraki bc he’s my current hyperfixation)- him casually stalking his chubby (soon-to-be) s/o. he eventually attempts to kidnap her only for a villain to try to take the place she works at hostage so he ends up dusting the criminal and grabbing her. s/o feels conflicted but mainly 💓 for her knight in an oversized hoodie

long story short, he lives w her and is totally stray-cat and demands retribution thru physical affection for saving her life. he makes her hold and snuggle him and wear red lipstick and kiss his face and neck.

he also can’t hold back his undying love and lust for her plush body so he huffs and snarls at her cause he wants her to want him like that naturally. so what are you waiting for?

YES yesyesyesyesyes. This pleases me >:3 i am going to throw out a billion ideas BUT if you do write something? Please please PLEASE tag me, i wanna read it so bad 🥺

Woowee, this got out of hand tho sksksk like it started out cute and then got super duper dark so uhhhh ig this is closer to yandere Shigaraki than cute and sweet fanon Shigaraki sksksk my bad, i got carried away ✌😔 hope you still enjoy it tho :3

CW: chubby fem reader, yandere tendencies, stalking, manipulation, Shiggy dusting ppl, SO many red flags jesus christ pls dont date someone like this irl, not beta read bc im a gremlin

Oh GOD

UGH i just want Shiggy to be obsessed with me 😔

BUT I DIGRESS

Chubby chaser Shigaraki who saw you ONCE when he was walking around the city and immediately knew that he had to have you

So, like any lovesick man would, he stalked you and found out where you lived and he set up cameras when you were gone and he watches you in his free time bc he's so normal you guys he's just so normal and sweet seriously—

ANYWAYS he's content for a while just watching you from a distance, jerking off to footage of you changing or sleeping or showering

But there's this little voice in the back of his mind telling him that this isn't enough, that he should have his hands on your body instead of his cock, how your cunt should be milking him instead

He's able to ignore it for the most part, justifying that it was better this way bc there was no chance of him being rejected

But then he sees you masturbating on camera for the first time and good god your tits look so soft and squishy in your hands and your chubby pussy is so tempting and he keeps wondering how you would taste—

Ok so his resolve breaks sooner than he expected it to sksksk

So guess who's gonna kidnap you the next time you go to work?? ✌🤪

He's got it all worked out: you'll live with him and the league, he'll get you your own room and bathroom and he'll be able to lock it from the outside and come visit you whenever he likes

It isn't what he really wants (i.e. a real relationship), but it's better than jerking off to footage of you like a loser

He's fully prepared to dust your coworkers if he has to

Nothing is getting in the way of him and his precious soon to be but not really girlfriend

So he walks into your place of work, his hood over his head, prepared to sneak close to you and drag you away

But when he looks up, he sees someone holding you to their chest, holding a knife at your neck

And Shiggy sees RED

Wastes no time bolting over to the two of you, grabbing your captor and dusting him without a second thought

You're standing there shocked as Shigaraki is seething, appalled that anyone would touch his girlfriend

He turns to you, grabbing your wrist, prepared to pull you out of the building and back to his hideout where no one can find you

But when he looks at your face, he freezes in his tracks

Your eyes are sparkling, your mouth slightly ajar as you gaze up at him, amazed

"Th-thank you for saving me..."

Tomura is sure that he's died and gone to heaven when he sees that look on your face

He's so nervous when you start thanking him over and over and asking if he's a hero and saying that he was incredible yea let's just ignore that someone died, apparently it's ok bc he's a villain or whatever

He mumbles and stutters over his words, unsure what to say bc omg you're right in front of him and you're so much prettier up close and you smell so good and shit he can feel himself getting hard—

"C-Can I have your nu-number?" he blurts out, not even thinking before he spoke

You're clearly flustered and Tomura worries that he'll have to resort back to his original plan which he really doesn't wanna do bc he feels so blessed seeing how happy you're looking at him rn and he doesn't want to make you scared by kidnapping you now—

"S-Sure! Yeah, of course!"

Holy fuck, he could die happy right now

Nothing else matters: he got your phone number and his life is complete

The two of you start texting constantly

This is mainly on Shigaraki's end bc he has literally nothing else going on and you are the only thing that matters to him so of course he's gonna spend all his free time talking to you 🚩

His yandere tendencies really come through during this time

Like he's super obsessed with you and always asks where you are, where you're going, who you're with, etc

But you're so dokidoki bc he saved you that you don't think much of it sksksk

Like maybe he's just so attached to you bc he saved you and almost saw you die so it makes sense that he worries about you so much

Your relationship moves quickly and now he's spending time at your place more than he is at his own home

He's there when you come home and when you leave, following you around like a little puppy dog

He's not subtle about wanting affection, latching himself onto you the minute you walk through the door

He's always touching you (CAREFULLY!!!), his hands always pressed against you and his arms always wrapped around you

He acts all mean and tough, but he's really just a big baby

Cuddle him! Pet his hair! Let him lay on you or sit in his lap! Right! Now!!!!!! 😡

Now obviously he doesn't yell and stomp his foot until you give him attention, like he's not a five year old

No he just pouts until he gets his way sksksk

The. Biggest. Baby. 🙄

But it's kind of endearing, like he's so in love with you that he wants to be close to you all the time ����💕 🚩🚩

So you cuddle him whenever he pleases which tbh is all the time

He is sooooooo obsessed with your body

He thought his type was the thin, busty anime girls he grew up with, but you changed EVERYTHING

You are the softest, warmest, plushest person he could've ever met

He's always imagined how soft boobs were, but you're that soft everywhere and he—

He almost creams himself the first time you sit on his lap

You were nervous to do it but he hissed and snarled about how it's the least you could do for him since he saved your life and all 🚩🚩🚩

You still protest but he gets impatient and just pulls you onto his lap, holding you close, refusing to let you go

Once you calm down and relax, he's finally able to enjoy the softness of your body

You're so warm and plush and omg he can feel your chubby pussy through your clothes and it leaves him breathless

If you can feel how hard he is, you don't show it and he's grateful that you don't point it out; the last thing he needs is to feel humiliated in front of the girl he likes

He's so touchy feely from then on out

Think Tagami Yukiya from Pochamani

Like he's squeezing your upper arms and breathing heavy and gets a glint in his eye whenever he sees your chubby bits on display

He's super vocal with the LOV about his new girlfriend

"Hey guys I'm gonna head out to see my girlfriend, you know the girl who I get to kiss whenever I want, don't wait up"

But it isn't enough bc Shiggy is a gremlin and he wants everyone to know that he's got a girlfriend and he's cool and desirable

So he makes you put on lipstick/lipgloss and leave kisses all over him

He likes bright colors that contrast his pale skin and are more noticeable from a distance

"Hey, Shig, ya got somethin on your—"

"OH YOU MEAN THIS? tHIS KISS MARK FROM MY GIRLFRIEND, THE PRETTIEST SWEETEST GIRL IN THE WORLD? WHAT ABOUT IT??? ARE YOU JEALOUS???"

He's trying so hard to be a big tough alpha male like he's compensating so hard for all of his insecurities

Dabi ends up calling him out on it too and making him feel worse

"If your girl likes ya so much, why hasn't she let ya smash yet?"

Shiggy's face burns bright red and he huffs and leaves the room, grumbling about how stupid Dabi is

But his words are stuck in Tomura's head

Like of course he's thought about fucking you, obviously he would, but he wasn't sure how to initiate things without scaring you away

He already pushes your limits by being so brash and handsy, he doesn't want to ruin everything by trying to fuck you and going too far

But he's starting to get insecure that you don't actually like him bc yall haven't fucked yet

He's grumpier than usual, pouting even though he's cuddled up against your tummy like he always wants to be

"What's wrong, Tomie??"

He stays quiet for a bit but eventually asks if you actually like him

You ask where this is coming from and he admits that one of his "friends" said that if you really loved him then you would have sex with him, and Shiggy agrees with him 🚩🚩🚩🚩

You get all flustered and insist that you do love him

"Okay so if you love me then let's have sex" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 this man is just full of red flags huh??

Ok so now you're having sex sksksksk

He's awkward and clumsy but that doesn't stop him from fondling you like his life depends on it

You have to guide him a bit, showing him how to make you feel good

But once he gets the hang of it he gets very aggressive, doing everything he can to make you cum

Isn't too keen on eating you out at first but once he's between your legs he's a menace, like he's licking and sucking and slurping every inch of you as he pumps two fingers up into your g-spot

He's a little off but he's got the spirit and that's all that matters

He sounds like a fucking animal when he fucks you

He's growling as he eats your pussy and once he slips his cock into you he's panting and snarling and practically drooling as he ruts into you like a dog

He's determined to make you cum as many times as possible: it's physical confirmation that he's a good boyfriend and makes you happy

You'll probably only cum once before he cums inside you, but that doesnt mean he stops

No he keeps fucking you, overstimming you both as his hips snap into yours

He'll cum 3 times total and you'll cum 5/6 times

He almost passes out once he's done, falling on top of your body and burying himself in your chest

He falls asleep in your arms, mindlessly sucking your heavy tits as he sleeps

From then on out, everytime he visits you, he has to unload into you at least once

He's one possessive motherfucker and he's paranoid that anyone could try to steal you away from him

He has no concept of people not being attracted to chubby folk bc in his mind you're the most gorgeous woman on the planet and anyone would be blessed to even stand in your presence

So be prepared to be covered in dozens of bites and hickeys

He's not gentle about it either, fucking you hard from behind and biting your neck to the point of bleeding

He's so pussy drunk that he doesn't know how rough he's being; all he knows is that your body feels heavenly and he never wants to stop

He needs you to tell him that you love him several times a day

If you don't, he gets cranky and angry

It's cute at first bc awwww he likes you so much but let's be honest he's just manipulating you into doing what he wants

"If you really loved me, you would tell me all the time"

"If you love me so much, then show me"

Just really shitty behavior on his part bc his only experience with relationships is through media and toxic behavior is seen as normal in a lot of the shows/movies/games/etc that he consumes

Is he awful? Yes. BUT!!!! Butbutbut I do think that he could change if you taught him how healthy relationships should go

If he makes you feel like shit, you'll just have to call him out! Let him know that he can't say things like that to you or else you'll dump his ass

Threaten to break up with him enough times and he'll eventually learn, becoming nicer and softer with you

He's not a big angry gremling anymore, he's a small soft uwu baby who just wants to cuddle his chubby girlfriend every night

He'd be all needy and snuggle up to you on the couch, nosing your tummy and giving you big doe eyes

"Can we cuddle?"

Yes baby, of course we can cuddle 🥺💕

He's a real piece of work, but with enough love and patience he could become a wonderful boyfriend

[15ktherapy]

OKAAAAY. where do I start with this….. okay actually I’ll start with So I Was Looking At The Website To Keep Track Of How Etho Was Doing. HE GOT 32ND!!!!! better than I thought he would and really good when the number one etho related bit rn is ppl making fun of him for being “washed up.” ANYWAY. Um. so it was his first eventjust because it’s kinda on topic look at this list

haha funny. OKAY SECONDLY. theee was a “hey guys we all love etho and it’s his first even let’s do what he wants ^_^” bit and it was cute UNTIL THE LAST GAME WHEN SCOTTS TELLING HIM TO GET PPL TO VOTE PARKOUR TAG. which I was so mad about bc SOT NIMBER ONE!!!! AND ALSO BECAUSE ETHO LITERALLY WANTED TO PLAY SANDS OF TIME 😭😭 Scott’s like We Should Get Parkour Tag Because Orange Is A Really Good SOT Team. and ethos like ohhh are you sure ? okay I guess. HE WANTED TO PLAY SOT >:C he literally is like shilling out scotts propaganda in chat cuz he was told too and then is putting “might’ve be forced to say maybe a little” after. GRRRR. anyway so I was happy sot got played and. AFTER THE EVENT. wthos getting a little quiz Hey Etho Which Game Was Ur Fave. what’s he say? sands of time. it ended up being his favorite and he almost didn’t play it despite wanting to because one of the top teams SCOTT MADE is really good at this game and we wanna Win Right? (fun fact scar was explaining how the DESIGN DOME worked to etho yesterday. he had no real idea what was going on he just went for the funsies) grrrrrrr. see normally I’m more normal I think about things but like. I don’t have to explain the reputation of scottsmajor to us dream stans so like. while I’d normally be more forgiving and be like wthos a grown man and he can make his own decisions (that’s true he is) if he wants to go along with what he’s told then that’s his choice! BUT DUDE. one I don’t like scott, TWO I don’t like that out of everyone he could’ve put etho with he put etho WITH HIMSELF, three hey Mr event organizer why don’t you listen to what ur new player wants a little? twit. for all the rise of competitive vs for fun playing you’d think scott of all ppl would want someone to have more mcc fun BUT NOOOOOO.

coughs anyway I think I already complained about how it bugs me acott put etho on his own team because etho is SO BELOVED. I and many people tuned into to mcc JUST for him today when I haven’t watched in forever because I’m tired of it’s fucking community and air around it— BLUH OFF TRACK. POINT IS. etho, who is going to be pulling hella viewers, AND WILL NOT BE STREAMING HIMSELF, Scott decided to put on his own team. very interesting. because if you wanted to watch etho pov the closest you were gonna get was a teammate and when ur choosing ur pov ur pretty much either choosing scott or scar to watch. hope you liked ur viewers boost, NERD. there was better ppl to put him with, like impulse or cub, maybe joel, HELL AND FALSE OR PEARL. if you want to excuse scott like “well maybe he just wanted to teach him stuff, he’s the event organizer after all.” I think ant would do a much better job if I’m being for fucking real. ant gets new player teaching duties a fucking lot of im remembering correctly and he’s GOOD AT IT. anywya im fuxking stopping here bc I’m already mad and I’m keeping it to my ethogirlisms because if we get to the dteam stanisms I will only get madder and probably less comprehensible and also will be HERE DOR THE NEXT FUCKING HOUR.

hello beloveds I took a nap but I’m doing mcctalkies again okay ? okay

[noahtally-famous]

So I’m thinking abt watching the new td season. I’m prob gonna split it into chunks bc it’ll be my reactions to all the episodes plus pre & post thoughts of the season, so if you wanna know my thoughts, just go to the 'total drama revival episode rambles' tag

Firstly, let’s start off with some pre-watching thoughts. These are just bullet points based on the trailers and promo pics I’ve seen. (I’ve only seen part of one trailer—I forgot which one—and some of the promo pics.)

I know most of the major details of the season bc of spoilers but I’ll try to pretend like I don’t lmao though there might be some occasions when I reference smth—I’ll put those in brackets ( [ ] ).

Now onto my thoughts!!

PRE-WATCHING THE TD SEASON:

PRIYAAA!!! [ A lot of ppl on here initially brushed her off as the Nice Girl, but I was with her from the frigging start and wanted her to go far in the season! ] As a desi female, I was so so happy to see desi rep AND her name is Priya!! It’s so pretty and ties into cultural heritage, and fgdgdgdgd I’d already hc her as bi fyi (yeah it could be me projecting on her, that’s okay. That’s f i n e. She seems like such a bisexual though)

Axel should be a lesbian. It’s what she deserves

Tbh I never rlly vibed with Ripper. Sure he seemed cool and ppl kept calling him the ‘nowen child’ but he’s pretty meh to me

I didn’t rlly try to guess who the gay couple would be ngl. But I lowkey wanted one half of it to be Chase bc it would’ve been so funny if the one person most ppl labeled as The Token Straight was n o t like imagine how many mouths that would’ve shut 😂

Chase & Zee would’ve been a v cute pair. Plus the shipname Chazee is adorable hhfgdgd if they don’t end up canon, it could be a good noncanon ship 🤷‍♀️

Chef and Chris eyeing each other in the promo pics like come on. Gimme some of that chref content

Julia and Nichelle would be so. amazing. together.

I think I’m the minority who believed that the Hockey Duo wouldn’t end up together. Idk they give off a bros/bromance vibe, and that’s it lmaooo

I’m so so interested in Scary Girl and how her character will be like!!

Bowie’s style is odd but funky—10/10, love it!! Def gives me gay vibes

Caleb seems like a Justin. Plus of c o u r s e his name is Caleb smh (no offense to ppl named Caleb)

Chase was only in the trailer for like less than five seconds but if anything happens to him, I’d kill everyone in the room and then myself. Idk man, he seems like Such A Guy, I just know he’ll be one of the ppl on the show I’ll be fixated on. Plus I love the name Chase.

[ I saw a post calling Chase a ‘boyfail’ and cryinggdgd lmao ] [ Chase overall seems to have mixed reactions among fans, so I’m gonna tread lightly around him. I just hope he doesn’t end up like Dave. I adored Dave when I started PI, but then…all that happened and he’s hated so much. Genuinely hope Chase doesn’t end up like that, pls pls pls I’m counting on you buddy. Don’t fuck it up *cue that one meme I know you guys are thinking abt* ]

Chase & Priya seems like such a popular ship. Ngl their dynamic interested me too-

I saw a post comparing Zee to Shaggy from Scooby-Doo and I’m like :0 fr though?? makes me love Zee even more!

So where exactly will this take place? Camp Wawanakwa?

Am I forgetting anything? Idk but these are my thoughts! Now onto watching the season—idk when that’ll happen but you guys will know when I post my thoughts :D

[cairoscene]

N for DC! (also would love to hear about batlantern so i guess that's a Z?)

N. Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice)

well if i'm being selfish, i wish there were more fics about newly adopted jason, or jason with bruce and alfred before the adoption. i'm so deeply interested in that vague window between the tire-stealing incident and the adoption, and i want a million fics of it. i personally headcanon that bruce doesn't immediately rush jason into being robin and instead focuses on giving this kid a safe place to live, so i'm always thinking about that

for superbat and ghostbat and any bruce ship really, i wish there was more content of bruce being like, deeply romantic and intent on making it work, rather than the prevailing fanon of him being so suspicious of happiness that he sabotages the relationship or doesn't even realize someone's in love with him. i love to think about a bruce who very much wants to love someone and will do what he can to make that happen

and i think for fandom in general, i wish there was more tolerance for fanon? even in my chill perusal of the tag it's hard to avoid ppl disliking certain fandom interpretations of characters or holding up the comics as the only true source of characterization. we all have interpretations that we like, and personally i think it's really fun that there's so much room for different takes on characters. we all have things that annoy us that we bitch about in private chats, i get that, but sometimes fanon is fun and even dare i say it, more interesting than canon. but yeah ppl get really tied up in what's canon and what's fanon and i think you should just let people have a good time. don't be a hater lol

Z. Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go

ooh okay for batlantern well. first of all go read all of FabulaRasa's fics bc they're very entertaining and engrossing and very very compelling. but yeah i love batlantern bc they offer such a different dynamic from other bruce ships where bruce becomes so, so petty in response to hal being The Pettiest person on the planet. please watch justice league war if you haven't already. i was also just explaining to @burins last night that hal is the wettest most pathetic blorbo of a character. he's always one bad day away from death or homelessness or joblessness or illness. he reminds me of nancy drew in that seems like he gets hit over the head and dragged around a lot. don't even get me started on the parallax thing. i love a pathetic man. anyway what i really enjoy about batlantern is the dynamic where hal is such a deeply good, decent person doing his best and yet his life is falling apart to such a degree that bruce wayne, known fuckup of epic proportions, is the one to be like "christ let's get you some help. jesus." for bruce to be like, actually really competent and normal and functional by comparison, but also very compassionate and loyal. and i love the expectation that hal thinks bruce is a freak and then gets a peek behind the curtain and discovers....that bruce is deeply domestic. that delights me to no end. ALSO for bruce to have this giant messy but loving family that he cares so much for and for hal to be essentially on his own entirely, for hal to see that family and want desperately to be part of it but not feel like he's worthy of joining it. that's some good pangs right there

send me ABC fandom asks

[yichens]

10 Characters

tagged by the lovely @i-got-the-feels​​ ♥ thank you a ton! am trying to keep this short (and not too serious so forget about cool character analysis for now sigh) bc tumblr crashed. or my old laptop crashed? when i started this the other night but i won’t be giving up so here goes.

(my love for my blorbos is overflowing so placing all of it under a cut to spare ppl who do not care! but please do know i care about all of your blorbos a ton ♥)

so tagging in return: @dimpledpran @i-am-just-a-kiddo @ashenlights @psychic-waffles @s1utspeare @talaypuens @laowen​ @snimeat @luna-lina @machikeita​ @eohachu ♥

Fah (Mek Jirakit) Sky in Your Heart

- if i had to pick a (fictional) doctor, this would be the guy ♥ - deserves care and understanding more than anything else, so happy prince is giving that to him (communication! my biggest kink!) - an overgrown puppy on the inside, fighter on the outside - will charm you, your mom, and the whole of your friend group. with one smile. - will be a brat about it

Puen (Jimmy Jitaraphol) Vice Versa

- living his missed childhood in the other universe as he should bc he deserves to be himself for a moment - actually the gentlest man alive - owner of the puppiest puppy eyes you've ever seen, pls don't tell him no - unhinged, horny, and absolutely insufferable. i’m obsessed. - loves taking care of others but is actually a baby ♥ (- jimmy my beloved, i adore thee)

Nam Seonho (Woo Dohwan) My Country: The New Age

- my poor little meow meow. pathetic. broken. doer of evil deeds yet forgiven and loved ♥ - looks absolutely fantastic tortured and wet. i apologize for saying this (not) - his smile is his greatest weapon, be glad he doesn't get to use it too often (which is to say: give him happiness or else) - i would go to war for him, guess me and hwi have something in common - i would also kill his father for him so. idk. hwi take good care of him or i will replace you?

Riku (VA: David Gallagher/Mamoru Miyano) Kingdom Hearts

- i know maybe 10% of his whole story but he's my blorbo by choice - the emo boy of my heart ♥ - cool hair my dude, glad it's smaller now - i cry every time he's on screen while i play kh3 bc he's just So Good - did i tell you he's a cliché emo boy antagonist(?) bc he totally is

Cha Siwon (Kang Eunbin) Blueming

- never will move on from his story arc and all that happened there - he just really gets it. he really gets how hard it is to be loved in the wrong ways, in the ways you cannot enjoy, and then trying to accept the right ways, the ways you can enjoy ♥ - one of the best bl characters i've ever had the pleasure of watching - no one is allowed to hurt him - cradle him and tell him he's good the way he is, i beg

Bai Choufei (Liu Yuning) Heroes

- i have never ever before been this angry for a fictional character - like yeah i know he's The Worst but he deserved better (from the writers) and i will fight about that - he loves wang xiaoshi so much it's making me want to howl - the prettiest ♥ like pls if evil why so sexy - catch me talking about his final "it hurts" line even when am 80yo and in a retirement home, that shit hurted (- liu yuning the man that you are ;; ♥)

Tin (Tae Darvid) Triage

- now i feel bad about picking fah as my doctor guy bc tin's here too but ER is different i swear - the character development for him? phenomenal - someone who loves cats cannot be a bad guy - goofiest and the most endearing smile, i love he ♥ - his willpower so strong i bet it would've brought him back from the dead even without tol

Kan (Neo Trai) The Eclipse

- there are parts of me in this boy and i hate staring into the mirror every friday - but at the same time all i wanna do is pick him apart bc he's Me - if i could collect his smiles into a jar and keep that for the dark days of winter i would - he is so soft it's driving me insane ;; like who hurt you, i will fight them - never thought i'd love a neo character like this, yet here we are ♥

Five (Aidan Gallagher) The Umbrella Academy

- my fave 15yo grandpa, an absolute icon for us old souls - the best humor ♥ - so young, so old, so tired of this bullshit we call life. why must we remain - the oldest brother yet gets zero respect in that household - i actually adore how smart he is yet he's also just So Dumb (but does this family even own a braincell? questions for the universe)

Theo (Book Kasidet) Enchanté

- when we ignore the ending of this show, he truly is my beloved ♥ - theo losing his faith to love hit me like a truck. i never recovered. - i am so happy he got his own love tho, happiness looks so good on him ♥ (and so does marriage! thank you vv for that ;; new forcebook series when????) - the maker of chaos, the doer of tiny evils. cat behavior i'd say - his closet is to die for

thank you once more for tagging me and thank you for reading! let's see again, maybe next year, with yet another random assortment of characters :'D 

[inklingofadream]

hey ok 3 seconds into tma rewatch and i have Thoughts:

Now, the Institute was founded in 1818, which means that the Archive contains almost 200 years of case files at this point. Combine that with the fact that most of the Institute prefers the ivory tower of pure academia to the complicated work of dealing with statements or recent experiences and you have the recipe for an impeccably organised library and an absolute mess of an archive. (MAG 1)

So this is on a Doylist level part of the justification for why the archives gang do so much practical research on the statements, but the early installment weirdness on not quite knowing how the institute functions yet, but that plus jon a bit before this stating he’s familiar with their “ongoing projects and contracts” and later in the season tim talking about the grad students implies that the institute also does a lot of like. Books and articles about the supernatural. (idk where these are being published bc it sounds like they aren’t necessarily respected enough for most academic presses or journals lol)

But we know Jon was in Research, along with tim and sasha. And later he goes up to help out with the influx of new garbage statements they get around Halloween (MAG 55). So clearly someone  is gong through the new statements,although based on the description they’re mostly p lightly researched- probably calling up ppl mentioned besides the statement giver and saying “hey did this happen?” and when the friend or whoever says “no he said he was gonna go give y’all a statement for a goof” it’s marked closed.

What I would like to posit is that the institute has several functions practically:

the library probably gets a fair bit of funding, so they can get basically any relevant work published and add it to their collection.

This is where you’ll have a lot of the grad students hanging around. probably a handful of other academics from various institutions, too. In addition to the students working on paranormal stuff, I’d guess you also have a fair number from history, folklore, psychology, and a smattering of other disciplines who’re there for rlly rlly niche projects on physics or architecture. Like i’d imagine anyone in the area doing work on spiritualism ends up in the institute library eventually- if they have any primary sources like journals or manuscripts from jonah’s whole gang, for example, i’d assume they’re in the library bc the archives seem to be exclusively statements.

Honestly Im like 50% sure the institute has contracts with whatever like ghost hunting type shows exist in the uk to contribute research and have someone respectable looking come do talking head segments as needed. this goes up to 100% for the usher foundation, bc i KNOW we have hella programs like that in the states. like Finding Bigfoot has a donor plaque in the foyer of the usher foundation

Other contracts and projects are probably with a handful of other, non-entity orgs devoted to the paranormal, plus whatever the Lukases, Fairchilds, et al decide they want.

Research, I would like to propose, is supposedly all one big department, but in practical terms contains 2 factions:

The segment Jon worked with for the most part, following up on statements and artifacts. probably smaller, except when they manage to draft the rest in for like halloween and such. the regulars are probably mostly the ppl jon gets annoyed at for being credulous and thinking every statement’s legit

the rest are ppl under the institute banner who are working in the library, doing research for outside contracts, institute wide contracts, and writing whatever gets published out of the institute. probably mostly more concerned with the supernatural as like. an intellectual exercise than jon would be, instead of finding out what’s legit and what isn’t. otherwise they’re mostly more jon’s type of ppl, with the academic distance etc.

Artefact Storage is prolly a host unto itself. Sometimes research’ll get tagged to get an item’s history but like. only ppl who work there go there

The archives are also their own thing. no one goes there.

Why does this matter? I would like to posit 2 reasons.

The first is that it explains part of why the Institute isn’t v respected academically. Everywhere else would have whatever primary source stuff and unique books they have down in the archives/special collections with the statements. I don’t know a ton about library science, but I don’t think things usually end up split/mixed like they are at the institute. Plus, there is very much an area where the Institute could be a valued collection! If the archives were organized. In theory, the Archives should be a valued and respected resource for folklorists! No one in folklore studies cares if a story is true; as far as they’re concerned, the archives are full of memorates that could be really useful. Like academic texts in folklore will generally have quotes from ppl’s ghost stories (or tall tales or folk songs etc) intercut with analysis of patterns and what they mean. But they’re organized so terribly. If they were devoted to folklore instead of the supernatural, you’d expect a taxonomy of subject- our collection here at my university stuff organized by like “supernatural: religious” “supernatural: non-religious” “customs” etc. But no one would be terribly put out combing through them if they were organized by date or like. at all.

The second is that since the archives and artefact storage are pretty much self contained, most of the daily interaction between institute employees is between people in research and the library. Giving you people like Jon as a put upon minority among “ivory tower” types, from that sub population of researchers and the ppl in the library. Jon’s worked at the Institute for like 5 years, and he’s too himself for a proper rivalry, but it’s very easy to see the people like him and tim who believe that Some Things Are Supernatural and would like proof bumping heads with the rest. Giving him a general dislike for people from the library. AND! an extra reason he takes an extra dislike to martin instead of going “o thank goodness, libraries are way more like archives than research what do we do?” :)

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

on ur whole ed and izy weren't friends thing a: I dont think u should be putting it in the ship tag let ppl ship in peace. b: my personal headcannons could go either way but I wouldn't find it hard to believe that they were once closer than canon shows but iver the years maybe the hierarchy or eds growing disinterest in piracy makes them feel more distant. Ed has a habit of being dramatic and is not always truthful (I.e when he says he only ever killed his dad but has 'maimed people' im 100% sure he's killed by proxy). So when he says he doesn't have friends he could very well, in the moment, believe it while it not actually being true. Also when they enter stedes ship Ed tries to show izzy all the things that intrest him, to me thats friend behavior

a: that's totally fair, probably could've kept it to myself, but i put it in the ship tag bc 1. i hyper organize everything on my blog bc im insane so it was gonna get that tag anyway and 2. i kinda WANTED ppl to see the post bc im like, kinda curious to hear why ppl interpret ed and izzy's relationship the way that they do bc it's so far from how i (and everyone i know irl who watched the show) read these characters. my tone probably came across more aggressive than i meant but also like, anyone who's actually bothered is free to ignore the post or block me. i wasn't going at any individual fans specifically, so it didn't really register as me NOT letting ppl ship in peace?? but maybe that was the wrong call on my part, idk. my b i guess

b: i agree that ed and izzy in canon are like, in their divorce era at this point and probably got along better back when ed was more into being a pirate, but i really have a hard time imagining that they were ever like. besties. totally get that ed is being very dramatic in that scene, but like, that's kind of the point? in a way, by exaggerating his feelings in that moment, he's being more truthful. in a less emotionally-charged moment, ed might call izzy his friend, but in that scene he feels scared and alone, and he feels like none of his "friends" would accept him at that moment, crying in a bathtub all wrapped up in a fancy robe

it is friend behavior on ed's part to try and show izzy things that interest him, but like, izzy is. not into it. granted, it is kinda a stressful time, with like. the spanish and everything. and izzy doesn't know that ed apparently has a plan already. but like, at no point in the show do we see izzy respond well to ed trying to reach out to izzy abt some non-pirate activity. izzy didn't want to track stede down, izzy's annoyed by ed talking abt the clouds, izzy is glaring in the shadows any time ed is laughing or talking or telling stories with the crew of the Revenge. there's the cut scene of izzy putting bows in ed's hair, but i can't imagine izzy was like, super jazzed abt doing that (and anyway the scene is cut and we don't know what actually happened in it, so it's hard to use that as evidence either way).

i totally think they were closer in the past, but not in a friend way. they had each other's backs, they came up with plans, helped each other when they were wounded. but did they like, talk abt anything other than piracy? did they talk abt their pasts? did they talk abt their interests? people can interpret this show however they want, but ed saying he doesn't have any friends makes me think that they didn't, or that if ed ever tried to, it wasn't received well (and i don't think that's entirely izzy's fault, ed's language can sometimes be hard to understand. but the point is that izzy didn't understand it, doesn't understand it, doesn't understand ed. not the way ed wants to be understood)

[marvelousescapism]

ur tags abt sebs acting choices r so. chefs kiss. and honestly its something i want to see more of like this acknowledgement of how buckys bitterness over steve changing, wherever that bitterness comes from, is just. profoundly selfish. like even if its understandable its selfish. bc whatever the world did to steve its been doing to him all his life. except now hes got the means to better stand against it so bucky cant be that much of a protector anymore. like is it ugly? yes. but it feels real

and like ppl are right to say that buckys not bitter bc hes jealous of steve and that theres a lot of love in that bitterness and a huge desire to protect but also like. the war and serum didnt suddenly corrupt steve. steve is who he always was, now with the means to do what he truly wants. and bucky not being able to stomach that bc he has no choice but to reckon with steve not needing his protection when he could brush it off before feels idk. interesting and ugly and rlly human

I was tryng to work out which post you were talking about here nonny but I'm assuming this post? in which case those aren't my tags on the post, but yeah they're very neat tags and that moment with Bucky looking so tired and hollow is so heart-wrenching

I love that little moment because there are so many emotions and thoughts going through Bucky's mind that can be read into those few seconds

the bitterness he feels over the whole world finally seeing Steve the way he's seen him since they were kids. how wonderful it should be and yet "how dare they only realize this now that he's big and strong, how dare they feel entitled to MY steve only now that he's not small and fragile anymore"

like, he's not used to sharing Steve with anyone, let alone the whole wide world. and it’s selfish, yes. but you bet your ass Bucky knows how selfish that thought is, and you bet your ass he feels guilty for it and tries to hide it

and, god, the way he resigns himself like "alright. guess I'm staying here then. Steve is here and I'm not leaving him, so I'm staying in this godforsaken war and I'm probably going to die out here. okay."

Bucky's been through so much already, it's so heartbreaking seeing the little moments where he lets it slip on his face how overwhelmed and in pain he really is

[rainbowsky]

More on the Fan Fic issue

I have a few more asks about the issue raised the other day, some of which are long and go into detail on the 'wars' that have been happening on Twitter and AO3.

Sorry for grouping these but I wanted to put it all under a cut because these are long, and also in case people don't want to dig into these issues (which would be understandable).

Anonymous 1 asked:

"I am very strongly of the opinion that the BJYX term is still a fandom umbrella term" I agree. Mainly because Bjyx is the most popular. Many antis always say bjyx, and have no idea the others. So sometimes it's easier just to say bjyx instead of explaining all three. I myself more like "who cares as long as they happy." So I enjoy Yizhan in all contexts. Many bxgs I know also like that, mostly ibxgs. I think deep down all bxgs (no matter which position they prefer) just want Yizhan to be happy

Not sure we can be so certain about that last part, Anon (I think for a lot of people GG and DD are just characters in a smutty story they have in their heads), but I agree about the term being popular regardless of the type of fans people are.

From what I can see the BJYX term seems to be used 80-90% umbrella, 10-20% dynamic in both international and c-social media (for every 10 times you see the term used, only one or two of those usages - probably less - are referring to a dynamic). This is my totally unscientific estimation, but I think even 10-20% dynamic is being generous. The number of people who are fixated on a sexual dynamic aren't nearly as large as they'd like to believe.

Anonymous 2 asked:

about the promptfests - i’ve been on twitter since early 2020 and what i’ve noticed is that this influx bjyx-only promptfests started gaining speed once lots of rational voices started leaving the fandom recently either because a) new interests have caught their attention or b) the toxicity of the popular bxg circles on twitter have become too much to handle.

gdgdbaby was usually the organizer of dynamic-inclusive events, and she’s received lots, and lots, and lots of backlash by bxg, sometimes even by accounts with thousands followers, for using bjyx as a catch-all term. and as her interest in yizhan has since waned—hopefully for reasons unrelated to fandom toxicity—many of the people who were attracted to the welcoming environment she created distanced themselves as well.

zsww/lsfy fans have become an outnumbered circle who try their best to create exclusive events to avoid the “is bjyx a catch-all term” discourse, but never seem to gain as much traction as gdgdbaby (who has a sizeable following) or those who host bjyx-only events (who also have sizeable followings).

meanwhile the dynamic war has only become more and more hostile and bjyx is clearly the more populated group… ao3 is simply a battlegrounds, if i may dramatize the situation a little for the sake of humor, and the promptfests are a reaction to this irritating t/b discourse that has made bxg twitter completely inhospitable for me…and lots of other fans too.

(i’ve also noticed a huge reinforcement as of recently where ppl will call gg laopo, a milf, an omega, etc even outside of rpf (i.e. posting pictures of him at events and saying he looks pregnant or he’s going into heat) and it’s just… uncomfortable.)

(also please note i have a biased account of all of this drama bc many of my friends were harassed over it, and anyone who disagrees with my take may feel free to interject.)

I took the liberty of adding paragraph breaks because they are pretty important for some readers, particularly ND readers like me.

It's sad to hear how fucked up everything has become, but I'm not even remotely surprised. Toxicity leads to toxicity, and the whole idea of dividing up a RP fandom by sex position was misguided from the outset - no matter why it was done or how good the intentions might have been.

And yes, like I said, these people aren't just framing things this way for fan fic. This is how they talk about IRL GGDD.

I had written a lengthy essay here about homophobia in the fandom but deleted it all. Perhaps I'll post it separately at some later point. Suffice it to say that this stuff creates a climate that's often hostile for queer people. So much of it is deeply homophobic, whether people are aware of it or not.

It's really sad to hear about gdgdbaby being mistreated in any way. Anyone who steps up and sticks their neck out to help organize and coordinate activities that benefit a broader group of people should be celebrated and supported, not run out of town by an angry mob.

I've read some of her stories and even have one or two on my rec list. And here's someone who is not only writing good works, but also supporting others to write more good works. Such a shame.

Anonymous 3 asked:

Hello Mr. RBS! I think I can chime in a bit about the fanfic topic as I’ve watched this all unravel on twitter (where a majority of authors/readers are). I apologize if this gets long but it’s been something that’s also been on my mind.

I want to preface this by saying that I’m not a fan of the distinctions of dynamics as, like you said, the supposed line between real life and fanfic is long gone, so I’m not trying to be biased against one group over another.

Short answer to the question of, “is this retaliation?” : I do believe it is. (From here onwards I’ll be using bjyx as the dynamic term just for the ease of simplicity.) To understand why, I’ll have to explain with a bit of background info. On twitter, I’d say that there’s a quite large divide between bjyx and zsww/lsfy. That itself isn’t really a problem because people are free to like what they like and associate with whoever.

However there is a big problem where bjyx people are not just bjyx but also anti-zsww/lsfy. To the point where I’ve seen people say that they feel physically ill when they accidentally read zsww. I don’t think this type of behavior should exist in any dynamic bc in the end GGDD are real people with a real relationship behind this content and it’s just a gross fetishization at that point.

With all this happening, zsww/lsfy people have gotten more outspoken on how GG is often portrayed in those types of scenarios, mainly the over-feminization of him, bc it’s not just done in the context of fanfic but regular discussion of GGDD at this point. This tension between the dynamics kind of boiled over when the pregnant xz fest was announced, as you can take a guess at how that went over with zsww/lsfy people. lol.

But around that same time, another zsww/lsfy event was announced (I’m not sure if it’s the one anon was talking about) but the creator of the event suddenly got a ton of backlash for excluding bjyx, with the reasoning that bjyx is technically a part of lsfy. But the event was done to highlight zsww/lsfy (as all specific events are) bc the community and content for these dynamics are much less than bjyx.

Which is how we come back to the starting point of, is all this recent bjyx stuff retaliatory. I believe so bc the events (preg fest, dark event) are very specific prompts that target exactly what zsww/lsfy people have been outspoken against.

As to the point anon made about trying to drown out the tags, keep in mind that zsww/lsfy content is very minimal compared to bjyx and has only just recently started to gain more traction. I think most people would love to just peacefully exist in their own circles but I don’t see this problem between dynamics disappearing anytime soon.

Like I said with the above Anon, I've added paragraph breaks for ND readers.

What a mess.

I have absolutely nothing useful to say here about the fandom on AO3 and how it's managed by community members, but I do think it's unfortunate that people choose to be war-like rather than make space for diverse voices, and I think it's a real shame that some people have been essentially run out of the fandom because of this garbage.

Thanks for giving some context for how/why the major shift in tone of fan fic lately. I had no idea any of this was going on.

I urge people to work hard to give space for all voices and perspectives, and not just the ones they favor. I'd also urge people to reflect on how their thoughts, behavior and actions in the fandom might affect queer people in the fandom.

As always, we have no control over what other people do, say or think. All we have any control over is how we respond to what other people do, say or think. Hopefully we'll chose the path of peace and try to avoid fan wars or fights that only ruin the experience for everyone.

I guess one thing I'd ask any of the Anons who have written me about this issue - or anyone who has thoughts about it - is, what can we as readers/fans who care about diversity of voices and perspectives do to support that here and on AO3, without getting involved in any kind of war?