#anti bullshit fandom bullshit

[holding-out-for-hea]

Jared haters and Jensen haters really don’t get it.

Every time you post negatively about something you think one of them did wrong, the other side will come back with replies showing how your fave did the SAME THING.

That’s because these are men who aren’t perfect, but you’ve taken mundane, minor infractions and tried to blow them up into full blown scandals, and since they’re like brothers they’ve BOTH done the things you’re so ardently trying to ruin the other one for! So every time you try to take down either Jensen or Jared, the other side will equally come for the other trying to take them down as well.

So instead of winning some bull shit, asinine, toddler like war, you’ve actually just smeared both of them! For no real reason because what you were bitching about was crap in the first place! And you most likely manipulated it to make it worse, which hurt your fave more!

Great work…. You contemptible, utter morons

These guys deserve so much better than ghouls for fans

[littlenastieswewhispered]

“buffy ended the show single :)” ok but only because her current love interest just DIED!! (he near quite literally died in her arms! in sacrifice for her!) her last words of the entire series were telling him she loves him and then saying his name in admiration. she isn’t single; she’s a widow.

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Is anyone gonna explain to people that ‘proship’ does not actually mean ‘problematic shipping’ or ‘problematic ship’ or are we just going to let this misinformation spread some more?

It means pro-shipping. The prefix pro, meaning ��supporting.’ In favor of shipping.

It only became a defined position after anti-shippers who initially identified themselves as anti-a specific ship started harassing creators they didn’t like, doxxing them, and trying to get them fired from their irl jobs for shipping reasons around 2014-2016.

So people who had been in fandom for long enough to know where that kind of rhetoric leads (ffnet purges, LJ strikethru, as well as the direct harms caused by doxxing) observed this increasing trend of harassment and rallied to say ‘oh you lot are anti-shipping, as in opposed to certain ships? Well in that case, we are pro-shipping, because we follow the adage of ship and let ship.’

Before that point, it was just basic fandom etiquette to not bother people who ship stuff you don’t like, and to understand that if something squicks you out, it’s not the fault of the people who made it.

If someone says they are pro-ship, it means fuck all about what they actually enjoy in fiction.

It just means they’re opposed to harassing creators for making content that doesn’t cause tangible harm to real people. A better way to understand the ideological position is being anti-harassment and anti-censorship.

I have a lot of ships I find disgusting blacklisted so I don’t have to see them. But I am not interested in forcing people to comply with what I think is gross. That’s what it means.

Curate your online experience, and understand that your disgust response is not a defensible moral indicator or a justification to harass, deplatform, and dox fan writers.

[nicolemabes]

Feyre said Tamlin abused her. Her friends say Tamlin abused her. Her sisters say Tamlin abused her. The author said Tamlin abused her.

Why do we allow people in this fandom to try and convince us otherwise?

[lainalit]

if you drew a venn diagram of how many women intensely hate the female se*ual assaulters in the series like Ianthe & Amarantha and how many women post/like/comment/share the hundreds utm post about how funny/sexy it was that rhysand drugged feyre, touched her non consensually and made her lapdance on him in the first book it would be a circle

[sunflowerdigs]

People can scream about the mean Buddies being bullies all they want, but it's not going to change the fact that Buddie fans never convinced anyone that a plot device and glorified extra was 911's new star just because he was a white man. Fans did that themselves.

For some reason, the way Tommy fans are now trying to sideline Athena in her own plot when Angela Bassett is an Emmy and Oscar winning actress with a career spanning decades and LFJ just has a famous dad is so galling to me. The reason I watch 911 is because the kinds of characters who only get to stand on the sidelines in other action shows get to be big damn heroes on this one. "Autism saves the day" is so on-brand for this show and that's why I love it. This isn't Supernatural. White male characters don't become the default heroes and leaders in every situation just because they show up and are conventionally attractive. An older black woman and a black autistic 8-year-old are going to land that plane and it's going to be just as "realistic" as whatever 30-year-old Whiteman McSixpack has done in any other action movie or show ever made.

It's fair to say that Buddie fans also expect to see Buck and Eddie too often, but at least Buck and Eddie are show leads with 6 years of history behind them. At least Buck and Eddie getting together would actually be unique queer rep that is worth getting excited over (and that we honestly may never have a shot at again). At least Buck and Eddie getting together doesn't sideline characters who have been part of the show for over half a decade.

I get that Buck coming out was exciting, but Buck coming out is about Buck, not Tommy or Buck/ Tommy. Tommy should have always been treated like Taylor or Natalia. It should never have been assumed that just because he was a man (and white) he would naturally be privileged over not just other love interests but over Eddie (and, now, Athena). Getting mad because Buddie shippers put Buck's coming out into the context of story that's been building for six years only to turn around and obsess over a storyline with barely any screentime is...a bold choice.

[my-pjo-stuff]

[justaneedle]

Okay, can this fucked-up fandom stop saying that Percy took the sky for Annabeth and it means blah-blah-bla, because it didn't fucking happen!

It's also advisable to forget the fuck the wording "tricked into holding the sky" because this DIDN'T fucking HAPPEN either, but I'm asking too much!

THIS FANDOM READS BOOKS WITH THE ASS AND IT'S NOT FUCKING FUNNY!

[sagaduwyrm]

Instead of Ghost King Danny (Monarchies are icky)(Danny deserves better) may I present to you Speaker of Peace Danny

In this headcanon the Infinite Realms are treated as a loose collection of states and peoples that don't always like each other and have no unifying federal government. Speakers are individuals who have earned the respect of those powers by performing some kind of communal service.

Wulf is the Speaker of the Journey, because all travel in the ghost zone has a thirty percent chance of getting so lost you'll never find home again and Wulf, as one of the only proficient portal users around, frequently helps the lost find their way home, earning his title.

Danny earns his title by repeatedly bringing peace through either diplomacy, or beating idiots up until they're ready to listen to that diplomacy. He redefined ghostly/living relations, helped Dora take her throne over her brother who everyone hated, and calmed down four separate wars and helped the ghosts involved find a resolution that wasn't 'kill each other again'.

Basically, Speaker of Peace is the realms interpretation of the superhero duties he's taken on.

[gonnalosemydougdimmadomedamnmind]

I deserve financial compensation every time I have to read a post that posits that Jason is actually the good big brother that's there for his siblings and Dick is the big mean golden child that can do whatever he wants and turns his siblings away when they need help. I'd have like a gajillion dollars now.

This bothers me so much specifically because it's the exact opposite of canon, in Dick's case anyway. Ain't nobody going to Jason for help in the first place. I really can't get past the backwards logic of it all. No, the utter lack of logic. Like it's the Exact Opposite.... The Exact Opposite!!! How did you come to this conclusion???

Well, I mean, I know- you don't read the comics AND you take everything at face value. I get it, when I first entered the fandom- the way people talk about Dick and Jason and Tim and Damian? They'd have you believe that Jason and Tim were delivered to Earth by angels with a chorus singing in the heavens and a light following them everywhere their delicate, innocent feet went. Everything they do is either Justified or Morally Correct. Nothing is Ever Their Fault. They deserve your sympathy and awe, and nothing short of worship is an attack on their character. They'd have you believe that Dick is a Monster, that Everything is his fault, that he's an inherently bad and selfish person because He Tried but He Didn't Devote Himself Entirely to Jason and Tim and Thats Bad and He Deserves To Be Punished For It and that Damian is a Demon, that he's always going to make the choice that serves himself and hurts others, that even though he's a 10 year old boy with a complicated, abusive upbringing, Everything is His Fault Entirely and He Doesn't Deserve Understanding or Mercy.

That's what you see and hear when you enter this fandom. And unless you actually read the comics or do the research by looking through blogs with meta commentary on the comics (with panels provided) or interact with fan media that is based on the comics And Not The Fanon- this is the false opinion that remains.

It drives me crazy that people refuse to engage with the actual canon of something they claim to be a fan of. What are you a fan of if you have no idea what you're talking about? It drives me crazy, because theres so much of this fanon content, you have to literally dig and dig and dig and dig and dig and dig to find the truth. And the truth is so Unbelievably, Undeniably

Not That.

In fact, in most cases whatever you read- the opposite is what actually happened. Or what you read is Entirely Made Up to make one character, (Dick and Damian), look bad in order to prop up the other character, (Jason and Tim). Then people get angry when you point that out, for ruining 'the fun' or their false perception of their fave character. Well I'm angry for having to do it in the first place.

[littencloud9]

bsd fandom has always mischaracterised kunikida to hell and back but the fact that i am seeing SO MUCH hate for his character right after his 'death' is insane

[aleksanderscult]

[myrsinemezzo]

Open Source Image Resources

Aka Down with AI for Fanworks

After someone in a server I was formerly in brought up a point about how many of those against AI for fanworks often use it for fic covers (which I doubt to some extent…) I thought I’d put together this resource for anyone who wants images to play with through Open Source or Creative Commons non-AI means. Feel free and please do add to this list. These are the ones that came to me off the top of my head and with the help of a few friends.

Archive.org

You can use an Advanced Search function to find Out of Copyright and Creative Commons licensed images using the date fields like so:

National Gallery of Art

Getty Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Smithsonian

Creative Commons Images:

Pexels.com

Pexels used to be a go-to source for stock photos licensed via Creative Commons but it is absolutely overrun with AI images at this point. If you find something with some digging, however, you can check the posting date and correlate whether it might be a more recent AI image or not.

Please do add to this list if you like because I know I’m missing things. One good tactic if you want to find Open Source images is to just do a search engine query for “open source” along with the name of the institution you’re interested in.

[nicolemabes]

Nesta “Stans”: The IC was wrong for forcing Nesta out of her apartment and into the house of wind for no reason!!! They couldn’t just leave her alone doing her own thing????

Nesta at the beginning of ACOSF:

Yeah she was DEFINITELY thriving.

[greensaplinggrace]

honestly, maybe i'd like 'x reader' fics more if they weren't all sub!reader focused with more daddy kink than personality and as many projected issues flattening the central character into something truly ooc as i'd get with a character-bashing salt fic

[justaneedle]

Okay, let me get something straight...

The Diary of Luke Castellan and Percy Jackson and the Staff of Hermes are published in the SAME fucking book, but people ignore direct Luke's POV in favor of the POV of the boy who was jealous of Annabeth all the way to this very Luke?...

Wow, I hate people.