#adding that tag there so ppl don't get mislead

[somewhereincairparavel]

[byghostface]

The way I engage with fandom is by posting art mostly and being happy that ppl like/enjoy my creations, and hoping ppl would stay around. And that should be it because I'm not cut out for talking, one person can only do this much.

I do jump to conclusions too fast for many things out of frustration/anger, and feel sorry for things I have said and the things I do wrong without realizing it. I made the post bc it makes sense to me and the topic has troubled me for a while.

The problem is DC's continuity is messy and the long history of stories for characters is carried out by different writers, and the canon is more flexible in comics. So the dc fandom I see sometimes is pretty much as intense and confusing on canon and fanon, thus creates a divide between people who leaning towards source material and people who mostly rely on fan(second hand) contents (Not inherently bad, but I feel like comic fandom is more intensely having disagreements on character's age and canon contents than other fandoms I had been in before).

I know the fact that multi-shipping, and crack-shipping are not intentionally harmful things, and ppl are free to do it with their own headcanons and adding nuances and so on. Like I personally multi ship batcat and brutalia, I'm not that interest in crack ships unless is bringing by people who loves both characters and have the passion to create it (all excluding pro shipping/pro shipper btw💀).

Being in dc fandom for too long and seeing some recurrent things/behaviors/made-up, misleading stuff from people who are not fans/regular people who had done some sort of research to begin with, and me not being able to put it into words about all the unbearable stuff going around is driving me crazy and started to talk nonsense in my head.

I try to avoid ship war but on Twitter is hard not to see some stuff/cross platforms reposts going on on the timeline. Tumblr ppl use block more so ppl don't like the stuff they see just block, for me I post art and only check flatline tag from time to time (I do block ppl now). Not help my case that I learned how to use Twitter to interact with ppl first more than Tumblr (I'm not a reblog-heavy person).

At first, I tried to only post art because that's just what I usually do with my Tumblr account when being in other fandoms. But I only do fanart still feels not enough to bring ppl in fandom to care for Nika or discuss her in long-term good faith, at least on Tumblr I don't see much before 2024 (I get ppl would change fandom and don't keep the commitment that long).

I admit I don't feel like the best at talking/chitchat, it's easier for me to plan my next drawing instead of wracking my brain choosing the right words to say in English. But then I have the useless feeling that I only do petty art and have no thoughts or emotions in my brain because I don't talk much. And sometimes feeling worse cuz all I draw and talk about is Nika (she consumes my brain and time and it's still worth it to me).

Bat family and Damian fandom exist and already have fans talking about them long before Nika had any fans or fandom for her. Twitter (my mutuals) has been slowly building it, and then here's me on Tumblr barely holding it together, or presenting my thoughts for her cohesively in text forms after 2022. Yet I still have the constant feeling that I'm not doing enough outside of drawing.

And if I don't, hardly have someone who would put up with a small fandom (three to ten ppl max) with the lack of official content (two years in between hiatus for her to come back), and bear the dunked-on from the already existing big fandom (plus ships war)constantly.

So this is me when I started to draw Flatline(Nika) since 2021 ↓

I'm happy now Nika has more fans than used to be. Maybe I won't be as anxious and worried that ppl would misread Nika or take fanon off the rail too much.

Just found out that one person who wants to talk about shipping Nika with Maps has drawn baby Damian in a cage💀

And you expect me to be chill on that information?

(Obviously I'm talking about Nika, cause I'm a Flatline fan. No scratch that, GET A JOB!! STAY AWAY FROM THEM!!!)

Even if you ship Nika with Maps my expectations of your fanon are lower than hell (because you only start talking about them solely for dry shipping, not considering the characters' current state and situations in canon aka you don't care)

Good fanon/projections: 🔺Think for the characters, expanding their interests from the given canon information (I'm talking about working around it because you care for the characters, and you would recognize if there is any awful writing from the racist writer and putting it to rest). 🔺Add your own interests to the characters bc you feel deeply related to them and love them. 🔺Building up their relationship with their family, friends and lovers with care. 🔺Making interesting AU for them to build more for the characters, centralize their relationship with other characters, and have fun stringing the canon information to the AU situation and adding more nuances.

Bad fanon/projections: 🔻Racist stereotypes repackaged as a joke or a gag. 🔻Putting them in weird situations for the sake of angst and intentionally/unintentionally putting a harmful light on other characters (when in canon they would not doing all that sh!t). 🔻Proshipping (incest, pedophile)

Not really apply to crossover fanon (the type that involves other characters from another fandom) on the canon part, cause it usually ignores canon in multiple degrees on the get-go, and the reason why I'm not that interested/invested in it