#Just Little Fandom Things

[kyliafanfiction]

While it is true that fandom tends to have a lot more M/M all things being equal, the argument that if Worm was 'mainstream' all these random M/M ships people are imagining would be 'soooooo popular' and outrank all the f/f and stuff...

They miss a key fact.

Worm is one of the fandoms that would still have more F/F - because there are fandoms that have significantly more F/F than M/M. OUAT, Supergirl, The 100, She-ra, just off the top of my head. And one of those things those shows have in common is: Female Lead. What they also have in common is a LOT of female characters for the MC to be paired with, and a very popular ship for the MC. In some cases, that ship is canon (Catradora, Clexa) and in some cases it's not canon and often has the writers accused of queerbaiting (Swan Queen, Supercorp)

Yes, there'd be a lot more M/M if Worm was mainstream, but Smugbug would still be the juggernaut ship, and Wolf Spider still pretty damn large too. Because Worm has a lot of female characters for Taylor to play off of, in terms of shippable.

[pretty-rage-machine]

blocking shippers so i don’t have to see bad takes that make my favorite character utterly and completely revolve around the character she is shipped with, to the complete detriment of any other personal motivations that might drive her, depths she might have, beliefs she might hold, causes she might champion, or nuances she might hide

[kyliafanfiction]

I mean, the cringe weirdos never left, we're still here.

[frankierotwinkdeath]

Y’all want Taylor Swift to be gay so bad but you won’t even write femslash about her

[krysmcscience]

I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

[kyliafanfiction]

I mean, given how often I see people on this very website screeching at a female character who is flawed in a way that doesn't fit some very narrow definition of acceptable...

i think about this tweet Every Time i see people scared to write women with flaws bc they think it'll come off as sexist. cannot believe this is nearly a decade old. Ahead Of Its Time.....

[kyliafanfiction]

Sturgeon's Law says 90% of everything is crap. While I might quibble with the specific percent, it is true that for all the things in a given category I may like... a lot of it is stuff I consider crap.

But while most of us are used to this idea, I think a lot of fandoms have yet to internalize the logical corollary to this:

If you want more not-crap, then you're going to have to be willing to accept a lot of crap too.

That is to say, if you want more of the type of fic you're looking for, or more stuff for this ship, or this genre of store, or more of this trope in your sci-fi fantasy TV, etc -

You're going to have to be willing to wade through the 90%!

And, the harder you make it for the 90% to thrive, the less of the 10% you're going to get, because the whole pool of content will be smaller.

In other words - if you want more F/F content in fanfic, or sapphic TV shows, or movies or games or books, etc (for instance), you need to stop coming down so freaking hard on the stuff you deem 'imperfect', stop organizing internet hate mobs over these things, because all you're doing is decreasing the number of the things you want, in toto. Including the good stuff.

If 90% of everything is crap, then that means if you want the 1 good thing... you need to accept that the other 9 will exist.

Learn to embrace that. You don't have to love the 90%, but you have to include it, you have to allow it.

Because if you don't, you never will see the other 10%.

[windfalling]

1.02 // 1.06 // 1.08 The Stranger vs. Sol on recognizing and differentiating Osha and Mae

[ping-ski]

speak no evil, see no evil, hear... all evil???

@lilakwii i hope u enjoy this little gift since u like sun so much hehe :3

LDR belongs to @spadillelicious !

[egophiliac]

so on the subject of the "Crowley is secretly Revaan/Laverne/Levin/please Twst give us his name" theory, I think my feelings are best summed up as "I don't really buy it, but it's funny". like, in all seriousness, I'm not opposed to it; I have enjoyed the writing in Twst so far and I'm willing to trust that whatever happens will, you know, make sense and not be terrible. but I'm just not really convinced by the current evidence! maybe that'll change once we learn more, we'll see!

with that said, may I propose a few alternate theories about the possible Crowley/Revaan connection:

[buckingham-ashtray]

APPARENTLY JOHNLOCK DOESN’T ROCK ON JUST EARTH NOW

‼️⚠️this is NOT an au⚠️‼️

Our babies are on Mars.

Freaking MARS.

Okay backtrack. So basically both SHERLOC and WATSON are cameras attached to a robotic arm in search of life on Mars. SHERLOC detects organic molecules and minerals on Mars, and WATSON captures detailed images of the Martian surface to support SHERLOC's analysis.

(Apparently this program was launched a while ago on July 30, 2020. In 13 days our babies are gonna have their fourth Mars anniversary. I’m going to cry.)

In my mind:

SHERLOC: *bossily points at something*

WATSON: *heaves sigh and takes photos*

More information can be found at:

[kyliafanfiction]

Tumblr shows that the best way to get queer people to like your show is to not put any explicitly queer people in it. So long as nothing is canon, they will 'Candle Cove' up a whole entire show with EXCELLENT queer representation out of nothing. If you put actual canon queer representation into it, you'll get ripped to shreds for being problematic about it.

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[biblically-accurate-dca]

substitute

[crabsnpersimmons]

have been feeling under the weather lately, so i daydreamed a silly nurse moon to take care of me

also couldn't decide which i liked better so i leave the choice to you, brave patient. which nurse will you choose?