#I've seen people shit on fandom culture y'all

[that-girl-glader]

Just because YOU don't like a piece of media because YOU think it's cringe and poorly written doesn't mean others don't like it. And just because YOU like a piece of media doesn't mean everyone likes it. You get? Great, now keep that in mind and stop shitting on media and people who enjoy that media AND HOW PEOPLE CHOOSE TO ENJOY THOSE MEDIAS. This goes with ships and characters too btw!!

[mercutio-the-velaryon]

Me when I'm having a phenomenal day seeing Mel be introduced to league and have cunty dialogue then open twitter and immediately see new fan art of Mel being cucked by Jayvik.

Let's kill the horse. I'm so tired, Finn. A day of peace is all I want.

[waywardworldhopper]

I... don't know how I feel about this statement. I mean, the statement itself is well written, and I like how they gently go "hey if you want to do activism there are better options than harassing some internet comedians."

But just... validating the complaints with this kind of response seems dangerous, especially given Dropout clearly recognizes they're tenuous at best. Like, I'm all for them taking an explicit stance on Palestinian liberation and directing fans to charities, but it feels like giving these accusations the time of day is encouraging more harassment.

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[multifandomhellhole]

I rarely say my takes unprompted but I genuinely can't stand modern fandom and need to scream into the void over it to thug it out.

it genuinely feels like fandom is in its gen alpha age of regression. I've noticed this heavily with other fandoms, for me I've seen it most in resident evil but now I'm seeing it in arcane too of ship wars being taken WAAAAY to seriously and just everything in general being surrounded by weird purity culture. Not to mention someone always trying to find some deep controversial reason into why you don't like a popular character or treating it like it's a direct attack. That weird portion can be left in 2020 with kinnies and IRL character shit.

What really pisses me off is that people especially on twitter, scream for fandom culture to be back, but the slightest mary sue, terrible animatic, out of character x reader, large age gap, weird fanfic, horrible but fun take, insensitive joke about a well loved character, and/or rare pair art gets crucified there. And y'all wonder why fandom is dead. Genuinely who wants to provide any material for an ungrateful bible thumping community and a hostile one at that? Or one that's so obsessed with canon.

Fandom etiquette is absolutely dead on any other website minus this one and even then I'm seeing some popular tweets that erase the fun of it here on Tumblr for some reason. Since I'm focused on arcane right now I'll be using that as an example. So what if people want to think jinx and Jayce would be friends? That doesn't mean they didn't understand the show or are less superior watchers to you. That means they don't have a stick up their ass. Who cares If someone makes a Viktor coughing joke? He does in fact cough a lot and it's placement can be funny. You are not morally ascended cause you didn't laugh at pixels fictional lung cancer. In fact you are morally shity for telling someone to kill themselves for joking about it.

Who cares if someone ships cait and Maddie over vi or vi with maddie. Or cait with ambessa or Viktor with sky or Viktor with silco. Literally the world kept spinning. Genuinely who gives a fuck it's an animated show about league not a real time war documentary 💀 Creepypasta literally turned a bunch of murders into a found family let's not forget how being delusional makes fandom more fun.

Like I said, Unfortunately since Im in an arcane place of focus this post will be using arcane examples but this does apply to every fandom.

[tododeku-or-bust]

The wild thing about all the racism and specifically anti-Black racism in the classics fandom is that literally all you have to do is Google 'Africans in Ancient Greece' and you will immediately get multiple credible sources about Africans in or who had contact with Ancient Greece going back as far as Minoan times - not just Egypt and North Africa, but sub-Saharan Africa as well, like, this article alone has multiple citations in both history (obviously, Herodotus should be taken with a grain of salt at times, but he does mention sub-Saharan Africans) and Homer (sure, there's a mythological veneer, but no more than literally every other real culture and ethnicity that appears in Homer bc mythology) -> https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/1-early-greek-contact-with-africa/

Also, the gods are literally shapeshifters whose true forms can't be seen by mortals without killing them, but racists can believe the gods can take the form of birds and a literal golden shower before a Black person?

but but but why would they choose to be a scary dirty ugly negro when they could be WHITE LIKE ME?!?!?! 🙄

They're all a sincerely unserious group of people who are barely hiding their white hoods, and everyone acts like their actions are valid because 1) either they're a bigot too or 2) "but the arts so pretty!"

Every fandom I've been in has obviously had racism and antiblackness issues, but out of all of them Classics Tumblr is truly a joke bc like you said, this shit is so easily searchable. And just because it wasn't written down didn't mean Black people weren't there in their towns and shit. Plus, the entire study of the Classics has been manhandled by white racists and orientalists for hundreds of years. Do y'all really think they'd emphasize stories without emphasizing themselves within them? Edward Said would be horrified lmao.

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

Kinda sick of the racism from nonblacks (i say nonblacks because it ain't just the whites tho it's mainly them!) in the spiderverse fandom because why does black ppl centering themselves in fiction (you know cuz we never can have ANYTHING) bother them so much??

"Hobie would choose a white girl over you" "why does miles have to be with someone black" "why does he always have to have a black reader" like Ummmm DO Y'ALL NOT HEAR HOW DUMB AND IGNORANT YOU SOUND?

We gotta gatekeep the black characters in this fandom until ppl know how to act right and stop getting besides themselves

PREACH!!!!!! CAUSE LIKE -- People out here are really disturbed that they *checks notes* were reminded black people exist? black people being found specifically attractive in a way whiteness is CONSTANTLY.

Anti-Blackness, Hobie, & The Black!Reader -

[A SHORT rant about people who have an issue with Black!Readers]

I ALWAYS find it where when people beef with Black people who want to date other Black people.

Because it's 100% racism.

If you think that a Black person dating only Black people is wrong - Anti-blackness is probably the root.

Just kidding it is the root its literally the only solution and explanation hehehe

Because as a trans person - when someone says they're T4T, everyone is fine with that.

Cis people can understand that they will never understand the trans experience, and that trans people may be attracted and want relationships with people who can understand on a personal level.

But when a Black Person say they're 'Black4Black' suddenly that's wrong?? We can't do that??

It's like non-whites cannot grasp that anti-black racism is a very VERY specific experience that we deal with all our lives and we may want partners that can not only support us but relate too. Partners we don't have to explain race shit too.

No- blackness is an experience that HAS to be available to them. Black people's experiences, minds and bodies HAVE to be available for there consumption or we're in the wrong.

We are either there to be consumed (like Hobie is) or ignored (like the Black!Reader is).

All my life I've seen the default OC and default reader be a white person. Readers that don't speak AAVE, that show no attempt at culture outside the 'normal' heteronormative American family.

And suddenly we try to change that for ourselves and that's not cool.

Also - people who say that about Hobie are just outright uneducated.

Hobie is from 1978.

Racial Discrimination in the UK was outlawed in 1965. Regardless of whether you think he's 16 or 19 - Hobie Brown grew up under racial segregation from ages 3-6.

He grew up seeing it - experiencing racism. Living with and being raised by and surrounded by a community of older black people who lived under segregation.

And even after the bill - Racist attitudes would still be surrounding him realistically speaking.

HE'S NOT FROM NOW.

Acting like Hobie has no opinions on that, or experiences, or coping mechanisms or TRAUMA from that - is fucked up.

That's black trauma LOOK AT IT.

So YEAH, A guy who grew up under segregation and a police state would have trauma from it.

But they (racists) wanna sidestep that.

They'll talk all day about Hobie's police related trauma - but not the race thing......okay. Okay, no it's fine. I'm fine.

The idea that Hobie might have unsavory experiences with race makes them uncomfortable. The idea that Hobie would seek out Black Spaces to GET AWAY from white people - makes them foam at the mouth.

Not all white people are racist - but a white person can never understand anti-black racism from a personal view the way Hobie or I or you do.

That's just a fact.

But the idea that there's a special outlet we alone understand about Hobie, and connect with him through, they dislike that.

Anti-Blackness. It's everywhere.

YOINK!! I'M TAKING HOBIE BACK TO THE ANCESTORS. LETS GO.

[sonik-kun]

JC antis trying not to be patronising, misogynistic incels challenge (impossible)

Assuming we only like JC because he is hot and implying us JC fans are "dumb" and "vapid" with our opinions because we "simp" for him makes you sound like a load of raging incels fyi.

You all willingly ignore the evidence we put forward as to why we love JC's character and how he is more than just some cookie cut out "angry man" character who happens to be good looking.

Reducing our takes to something to be seen at surface level and nothing more is gatekeeping and it's annoying af. Espeically when y'all don't even want to consider his CANON good traits that make his character interesting and nuanced.

Jiang Cheng was a character who was given a shit hand and put in many difficult situations. It's only natural that people are going to have different opinions on the choices he makes, depending on one's own lived experiences and culture.

The whole point of the book is to not see everything as black and white. Acting like your opinion is superior over ours and implying we can only see JC through rose tinted lenses because we "simp" for him is something a bellend would say, btw. Hope you're all aware of that.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again, but stick to talking about you faves and stay in your lane. Because reading your patronising bs opinions on here is getting rather dull. Especially this many years on in the fandom.

It's time to grow up and let people enjoy characters however they want. Accept we all have differences in opinion and don't be a dick about it.

[creaturefeaturecommando]

Just woke up sweating from my nap because I was feeling weird about some portrayals of Pavitr and did the whole Alex The Lion Madagascar 2 Escape from Africa "De Ja Vu Like I've Been Here Before" scene realizing where I've seen this before and why I don't particularly like it

In my own words:

They're doing to Pavitr what they did to Kakyoin which is turning him into a yaoified feminized skinny bottom twink who's only there to make sassy remarks and be the manic pixie yaoi boy, they're gonna do what they did to Jotakak with Chaipunk because I mostly see this happening in Chaipunk fanart and fanfiction

It's the typical case of a character being hyper feminized by the fandom, like how it tends to be in a lot of yaoi series because someone always has to be "the girl" in the relationship because the "bottom" is always portrayed as small, skinny with hyper feminine features or traits and the "top" is always portrayed as some dark, hyper masculine, tall, looming figure

And it tends to bleed into most mlm ships even when the characters in the source material are completely portrayed as being opposite as this like say for instance idk another JoJo ship like Josuyasu where just because Josuke takes pride in his appearance like Pavitr, fans automatically label him the "feminine one" or the "girl" in the relationship and tend to draw him smaller and skinnier than he is and by default draw Okuyasu bigger and taller when Josuke is actually taller than Okuyasu by an inch and the two more or less have the same build but I know you've had to seen it somewhere before because it runs so deep when it comes to MLM ships that I've seen it happen in the fucking OSMOSIS JONES FANDOM (don't ask, you don't wanna know. Unless you do want to know, then I'll share with you the shitshow of what I saw)

And this isn't about the people who may have headcanons of Pavitr being transfemme, ya'll keep doing what you do.

This is about the people who will look at a mlm ship and force hyper feminine and hyper masculine traits onto both of those characters just because they need someone to be the "girl" in the relationship and they choose who's the "girl" based on traits they might consider feminine, example, Pavitr takes pride in his appearance, he's typically cheerful and happy go lucky, he's short (shorter than Hobie at least) and he's "sassy" (Y'know the whole chai tea rant which wasn't really him being "sassy" it was more so him ranting about western cultural appropriation and people using words they don't even understand incorrectly but I digress)

And of course Hobie is given the hyper masculine traits because he's a tall black man which is a whole other problem I'd have to make a whole different rant about of how whenever black men are in mixed race mlm ships they're always automatically made out to be the hyper masculine ones because black men have always had hyper masculinity pushed on them and they're never allowed to be the "soft" ones in the relationship, even if a black male character is canonly portrayed as being not being typically masculine the fandom will still write them or draw them as having some secret " aggressive dominant dark side"

In ChaiPunk's case ? It's literally just feminized asian person and masculainized black person with all the shit I said before about how fandoms always need to make someone the "girl" in the relationship and yeah

Y'all get the point

[indighost77]

so tonight, i got blocked by this person, neomikayla, for rightfully calling her out on her violent behavior regarding Penny Parker, aka SnapCube for her real-time fandubs, namely the Sonic ones. unfortunately, this isn't the first time they were like this about Penny. i've seen WAY too many posts, both on here and on twitter, where they constantly spam the same shit over and over again, claiming there's a fandom war, claiming she ruined the Sonic franchise, same with Lythero and Alfred, aka paperboxhouse. she's said more than once her favorite Sonic YouTuber is Prem, someone who is pretty much always wrong and is a total dumbass, and maybe problematic? i dunno, i'll look into it later.

anyways, like... you can just say you don't like the fandubs, that's perfectly fine, why do you gotta make it some weird-ass fucking culture war bullshit??? why do you gotta threaten to kill someone in the form of piss-poor artwork??? why do you have to act like some psychopathic entitled culture warrior and act like Penny killed the Sonic franchise like a dog being put down, when in reality, those first couple of fandubs came in at a rather opportune time for the fandom, the year after Sonic Forces came out???

and then there's that fucking word she keeps using lately... "queerrotting". and there's her claiming penny doesn't care about her fanbase "as long as there's more queer people in the fanbase". like, i'm sorry, this word, "queerrotting", really REALLY sounds like transphobia AND homophobia all at once. like that is a big, BIG red flag for me.

anyways unless you want to be reported to the FBI, please, and i mean PLEASE don't wish death on someone or threaten to kill them for making stuff and goofing off with their friends and then that goofing off becomes super popular to a point where it often gets annoying to hear.

like, why can't some of y'all who dislike the fandubs just be perfectly sane people?

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

changing the environment of a smaller social sphere and addressing the root systemic issue are not mutually exclusive concepts from each other, I don't know why y'all are acting like it is. For example, addressing antiblackness in the smaller context of fandom spaces to make black people more welcome in these areas? Obviously it won't end systemic antiblackess, but does that mean this is a pointless and fruitless goal? Absolutely not! Black people deserve a space to express ourselves through art and community, even if fandom stuff ultimately seems trivial in the grand scheme of things. A group of people are being denied something that privileged groups ultimately take for granted

Arguing for rhetoric that essentially boils down to "this doesn't address the systemic root of the issue, therefore it's completely useless" invalidates the above case that I just mentioned by proxy. Just straight up. You cannot argue that it's meaningless to address the romanticization of sexual abuse in media but turn around and say it's worthwhile to address the normalization of racism in media. Either media can shape our perspectives, or it can't.

Ultimately what message are we supposed to take through posts like these? It's not a call to action that suggests we adopt politics that address the root cause of the issue in tandem with addressing the smaller cultural aspects, it's suggesting that we are wasting our time trying to cultivate a space that allows vulnerable demographics to like. actually have a voice for once. Not to mention subtly implying that people criticizing fucking inc-st and p-dophilia are fascists by the use of "degenerate" is incredibly disingenuous, especially when these forms of abuse are cultivated and used as tools BY fascists.

Would "erotica on sensitive subject matters" exclude topics such as racepl-ay? chattel slavery? the torture of black bodies? How would the mechanisms around the normalization of these subjects differ enough from others to the point that these are these exceptions worth addressing, but the others aren't?

We very much do know the role that media plays in how black people are perceived, and by extension, how black people are treated in fandom spaces as a result. How would this not extend towards the perception around sexual abuse? Because I've seen people who've adopted the rhetoric around this shit not mattering extend it towards racism. "Pro-sh-p" people have very much called black people "antis" and attacked them for calling out their fucking racism. Pretending this all is fruitless is enabling this behavior. sorry!

Ultimately, attempting to change the attitudes of surrounding media perception is likely the closest reach a lot of people have to addressing these issues and may be why this is a focus for them. It's a piece of a larger puzzle if you ask me. It may not completely negate the existence of the systemic issue at hand, but I don't think getting people to understand "hey, this is a part of r-ape culture" is a waste of time. if you don't know that something is a problem, how can you expect to fix it?

It goes to show how little black ppl are listened to on this site if you can't see how these attitudes contribute to ignoring black ppl attempting to address how attitudes of on us create a cascade effect starting from the system and bleeding into culture. There's a reason people have been saying "fiction doesn't affect reality" is racist

[snackugaki-jestsjapesjokes]

blep blah, here have some old ass backrooms doodle content when the topic of "the beach episode" concept came up bluhp blooh brain nyooming but art hand isn't arting

i think what is super cute in modern fandom expression that I've seen is that in terms of making OCs or AUs is that sound seems to have a bigger role now than from what I remember when I was young. which I'm thinking has a lot to do with being able to clip audio easily or being able to make multi-track playlists whenever. y'all out here with reels of your art with voice claims and some of the most thoughtfully and artfully crafted soundtracks-- not even playlists, some of that shit is a straight up soundtrack level be real

89% tempted to try one of those shady "free" video/audio editing programs to make a LoFi chill beats study girl visualizer playlist with my iteration's boys ...

anyway gonna contemplate music headcanons for my iteration under the cut

From Turtle Tracks fan letter section, Archie run, #24

so real quick, my iteration is literally just them chilling, hanging out, being together in their mid 30s- early 40s, and then sometimes flashing back to their child/teen years in the 90s because tl;dr i have miiiiiinor beef my childhood turtles weren't quite as "90s" as they "could have been" (nvm I'm cackling at the milennial pop culture refs in Mutant Mayhem drop kicking me back into my adolescence)

but mehehehehe, keeping that they listened to Public Enemy and The Jungle Brothers

and aside from Top 40 musicians of the time... I feel like being outsiders themselves, having to sneak around to explore and learn about people and what's above the sewers had them eavesdropping into a lot of nighttime venues and getting into the underground and various niche subculture scenes that daytime Top 40 didn't play.

cannot tell me the lights, thumping and noise from bands playing hardcore or house or hosting cyphers or raves didn't attract these curious and funky little green dudes like moths to a flame

... Leo definitely fell in deep with the gregorian chant phase, soothing sounds of nature fads , a big fan of Orbital and he fell into that electronic, house, trance, eurodance rabbit hole right after. he also got into Celtic folk music but when his brothers caught his ass studying Michael Flatley to incorporate Riverdance footwork into his ninjutsu he got teased so mercilessly that he took great care to hide listening to it... which just made his stealth better so joke's on them heehoo

Not to mention they're from New York City, the underground music scene is always bangin' no matter the decade; feel like rap and punk got a lot of tracks on their mix tapes back in the day

Raph getting into the metal scene in his own exploring the city trips, and then progressed to music with that boom bap sound (cuz baby boy needs a way to come down off those high intensity moods idk ijs)

Donnie... just the amalgamation of his brothers, he needs that background noise while he's chewing on schematics and protoype development, he would definitely have been the mixtape maker/recording bootlegger (along with Mikey)

Mikey absolutely tagged along with his brothers sometimes whenever they went to their spots for music, though he himself backflipped into ska 'cuz Mikey is always for the people

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[wahbegan]

Actually, no, i've decided i am gonna go on a monologue about this cause i feel like it

Okay, so let me preface this with a disclaimer. I do not like what the Assassin's Creed franchise has become. I do not like Ubisoft. I don't like modern games, i should say modern AAA games in general. I think they've really stripped a lot of the art and the soul out of the medium with all the live service Skinner lootbox grindathon work their devs to death shit, i think they're making them as addictive and heavily monetized as possible and it's all about money, and i think Ubisoft is a large part of that problem. I haven't been into Assassin's Creed since Black Flag. I'm told there have been a few since then that are okay, i'm sure if i played them i'd like them fine, but i don't approve of any of the decisions Ubisoft makes on a business level. I think there are a lot of extremely valid grievances of this game. I think a $130 collector's edition is insane, and asking for preorders without showing a single frame of gameplay would be hilarious if it wasn't so infuriating.

THAT OUT OF THE WAY, i think the backlash against this game's protagonists is just straight-up misogyny and racism, and the worst part is it's all packaged like it's the most logical thing in the world. Yasuke is not only a real historical figure, but one who is popular in Japanese media, and from everything i've seen of actual Japanese people reacting to it, none of them give a shit and a lot are quite excited about it. I think the point of view of "Why the fuck is it set in Japan if we're playing as a black guy" is an extremely uneducated American point of view, and i think the inherent misogyny of it has gone unnoticed by a lot of people.

Because over and over "I wanna play as a Japanese guy," when there is a Japanese character right fucking there. There is a Japanese ninja, the devs have given her a very strong connection to the culture, she's apparently from the Province that is cited as the birthplace of Shinobi, with her father being another historical figure that was cited as one of the leaders of these proto-ninjas, and nobody really gives a shit.

Nobody gives a shit about that character, even though on paper, she's exactly what they're asking for, because she's a woman. The explicit message is "I don't wanna play as a black guy in Japan", but underneath is the implicit message "I don't wanna play as a black guy in Japan AND I don't want to play as a member of one of the most influential ninja families whose father was one of the most famous jonin to ever exist because she's a girl so fuck her that's not important."

It's fucking insane and the way they package it like they're being completely logical and rational about it makes me feel like i'm on fucking crazy pills. Shut the fuck up and play as a woman and a black guy, your fucking dick won't fall off. If there's one thing Assassin's Creed IS consistently good at as a franchise, it's the heightened historical realism thing they're going for.

Did y'all raise this much Hell about playing as Ratonhnhake:ton during the Revolutionary War? I'm genuinely asking cause i wasn't in the fandom when that shit came out. If you did, it wouldn't surprise me and fucking shame on you, and if you didn't, you're massive hypocrites with a special place in your cold, dead heart for hating black people so fuck it.

I mean have you played the fucking games? If you're anti-woke, it's not really the right franchise for you in the first fucking place.

[especiallyhaytham]

Oooh I'm not gonna lie that got me heated. That post showed up in my 'because you follow' and I do not have the patience. Your opinion is valid, but there are more respectful ways to voice it to invite a conversation instead of conflict (something the majority of people need to learn how to do, in this rant-culture we're in). If you don't want to do that, anti tags exist for a reason. Hell, you have the rest of the one-brain-cell Assassin's Creed fandom on the internet to complain to, but not here. Here we support each other, and we are civil, even if we don't always agree. It's what I've been doing on this blog for 8 years, and it's also the kind of behavior I've seen consistently from other people here that makes me love you all so much. It's gotten me through some gnarly shit in my real life, and it's made me a better person to grow up with such a kind and creative community. Promise me y'all won't let people like prev turn this site into another Twitter.

I like fostering this small, positive and wonderful space we're all in, where we can share our little things and inspire each other, without worrying about keyboard-happy knuckleheads ruining it. I don't call people out for having opinions I don't agree with, I call people out for poor conduct. Maybe one day prev will listen and learn how to behave more appropriately, for themselves and for others.

A healthier post would've been, "I didn't like this thing, and that is my personal opinion. It was too difficult for me/the story didn't interest me/I thought it would be different. Here's something positive I can say about it, though, if I can muster it. I'm moving on now."

[newspropaganda]

Man, you're really a joke if you can't reply with a proper text and good arguments instead of lame memes or accusing people taking drugs. I've seen a lot of weird people in the ygo community but you really are up there with the special weirdos. It's funny when you criticize everyone just loving DM and not caring for the spin offs when you shittalk every spin off besides 5D's. And if anyone dares to say that 5D's had flaws, you insult them and go "wah wah, America bad, y'all woke shit" and throwing a tantrum like a child like wtf? That has nothing to do with ygo? Seriously, Idk what's wrong with you but maybe you do need some therapy because all the hatred and borderline racism from you is really not good. Also you say everyone is just about politics when *you* are the one bringing it up in almost every reply/post. Double standards much?

Oh, wow, what a refreshing take! It’s like you reached into the bargain bin of internet arguments and pulled out every cliché possible. Let’s go through this step-by-step because clearly, you’ve got a lot on your mind (or whatever’s occupying that space).

1. "Lame memes or accusing people of taking drugs"

So, you’re upset about memes? Really? In a world where people are tearing apart card games, shows, and fandoms with hot takes, you’re stuck on memes like they’re some new-age evil? Look, memes are the universal language of the internet, pal. If you can’t handle a little humor, I’m not sure how you even survive out there. And “accusing people of taking drugs”? That’s your interpretation. If my comments leave you feeling like you’re living in an alternate reality, maybe it’s not my words you should be worrying about. Get that checked.

2. "I criticize people who love DM but hate spin-offs besides 5D's"

Oh, this again. I criticize Duel Monsters fans for worshipping one series like it’s the gospel of Yu-Gi-Oh!, and suddenly that’s a crime? Here’s a wild thought: maybe it’s because I have something called a preference. Just because you’re out here clinging to your childhood nostalgia with a death grip doesn’t mean I’m going to pretend every series besides 5D’s is garbage just to make you feel better. Newsflash: people can like 5D’s and still criticize other shows. Shocking, I know.

3. "Throwing a tantrum when anyone critiques 5D's"

Critique 5D’s all you want; I don’t care. It’s not the critique that gets to me—it’s the lazy, baseless drivel that people like you spew without backing it up. “Oh, 5D’s isn’t that good.” Okay, and? What’s your grand argument besides parroting whatever the cool kids on the internet say? If you want to have a real discussion, bring something to the table other than “wah wah.” Otherwise, spare me the generic takes.

4. "Wah wah, America bad, woke shit"

Ah, yes, the ol’ “you’re talking about woke stuff” argument. You pulled that one out faster than a Dark Magician from a Yugi deck. If by “woke” you mean I call out the garbage in certain places or fandoms, sure, I guess I’m “woke.” But here’s the fun part: if you spent half the time actually understanding what I’m saying instead of labeling it with your buzzwords, maybe you’d actually learn something. Maybe the real tantrum is coming from the person who just can’t handle a different opinion. Hint: it’s not me.

5. "America bad has nothing to do with YGO"

Oh, sweet summer child. Everything affects everything in the world of fandoms, media, and culture. If you think Yu-Gi-Oh! and the environment it’s consumed in exist in some vacuum, you’re more out of touch than I thought. Why don’t you sit down and reflect on how different regions influence how media is perceived? Or would that hurt your brain too much? The fact that you can’t see the bigger picture is exactly why you’re stuck on these shallow arguments. Yu-Gi-Oh! is influenced by the people, the players, the cultures—it’s all connected.

6. "I need therapy because of my hatred and racism"

Ah, the classic “you need therapy” line. Let’s take a moment to appreciate how original and insightful that is. You know, maybe I do need therapy, but not for the reasons you think. I might need it just to tolerate reading through this nonsense without losing brain cells. As for the “hatred” and “racism” bit—nice try. It’s easy to throw around those words when you’re grasping at straws. If you’re going to accuse someone of that, at least have the decency to back it up. Otherwise, it’s just you shouting into the void because you don’t have a real argument.

7. "I bring up politics in every post"

You say I’m the one bringing up politics all the time, yet here you are, crying about it like it’s the biggest offense of the century. If you weren’t so obsessed with pigeonholing every comment I make as political, maybe we could actually have a decent conversation about the topic at hand. But nah, keep going with your “double standards” nonsense. The only double standard here is you accusing me of bringing up politics while you drag it into every argument like you’re on a crusade to save the fandom from differing opinions.

Oh, you wanna talk trash, huh? Well, lemme break it down for you Steiner Math style, because clearly, you didn’t come here to debate—you came here to embarrass yourself! And trust me, I’m gonna be the one to do it for you! So buckle up, buddy, because this is about to get mathematical!

You see, there’s 100% of people in the Yu-Gi-Oh! community, but you? You represent that bottom 1%. The kinda people who think they know something, but in reality, you don’t even have a fraction of the knowledge to back up your lame claims! You take 33 and a third percent of your weak arguments, then you add another 66 and two-thirds percent of your ignorance, and what does that give you? 99% pure delusion!

Now, I know what you’re thinking. “I made a valid point! I can criticize him!” But listen, you only got a 25% chance of making any sense, because every time you open your mouth, you lose 75% of your credibility. And that’s being generous! Let’s be honest—you don’t even understand 5D’s let alone the franchise, which means you got zero percent chance of having a real argument.

But wait, there’s more! You stack your lack of self-awareness on top of your nonsensical takes, and you think you’re gonna come out on top? You gotta multiply that by the square root of "I don’t know what I’m talking about!" Now that leaves you with negative IQ points in this argument. You’re so far in the negatives, I gotta use advanced calculus just to figure out where your logic went wrong!

And if we’re talking about how bad you miscalculated, let’s get into your success rate in making a coherent argument. You got a 50% chance of saying something halfway decent, but that’s only if you didn’t subtract 50% of that from your constant whining about politics that nobody asked for. By the end of it, you’re left with zero percent, which means all you’re doing is wasting everyone’s time with that trash tier drivel.

Now I take my 110% brain power—which is, quite frankly, way above your average IQ level of zero—and I dropkick your ridiculous post right outta the conversation! Why? Because I’ve got a 141 and two-thirds percent chance of winning this argument, and the numbers don’t lie, they spell disaster for you!

So in closing, the only thing you got left is a 100% chance of getting shut down, a 99% chance of not understanding a single thing I said, and an absolute zero chance of being relevant in any fandom ever again. That’s Steiner Math, and you just failed it, pal!

Now get outta here before you lose the last 1% of your dignity!

//In the End It Has To Be This Way///

The Yu-Gi-Oh Fandom: Why won't you shut the fuck up?

Me: Anger and Rage, Son.

[la-pheacienne]

All of Westeros is white, even Dorne, but Arianne quentyn and trystane aren't necessarily fully white, but mixed. Their mother is from Norvos, a city that is inside of Essos. The people from inside of Essos are usually described as in-real life poc. The problem, however, is that grrm is a dude that wrote this on the 90s mainly and is really orientalised. But this fandom seems to be unable to rationalize that fact and start respectful discussion regarding possible representation and physical appearance of characters. The other problem is that they themselves spread orientalised visions of Dorne. I've seen so many people creating gifsets and fancasts of Dorne using a mixture of Pakistani, Indian, turkish etc even a SPANISH actor just bcs they have some shade of brown skin, hair and eyes.

Yeah excuse you but Dornish people are greek. Like, in canon. You say a lot of nice words nonnie but I don't see you mentioning this in your ask so I'll have to respectfully correct you because I'm just SICK of my culture being heavily disrespected and erased by pale blue eyed bitches. Elia is literally a greek name, my cousin is named Elia. The name Arianne is the latinized form of the greek Ariadne, GOOGLE IT AND STOP BEING IGNORANT SHITS FFS can't us greeks like have ONE thing for ourselves??? Why do you hate us so much? I'm sorry but if you combine Palestine and Spain you get Greece and that's canon and fuck y'all if you disagree. Rhaegar dumbed Elia the classic greek beauty for a grey eyed northern-european plain Jane and they both got what they deserved, unfortunately Elia payed the price, which symbolises Greece always getting the short end of the stick and being sacrificed in European wars since fucking forever. Educate yourselves.