#are just the most popular fandom

[incandescent-mushroom]

House has definitely sent Wilson a dick pic or several but he sends them by email because they are both old men and the titles are things like ‘URGENT: please identify if lung cancer’ or ‘patient biopsy results - respond ASAP’ so that Wilson’s guilt complex makes him feel obligated to open each one just in case someone’s life is actually on the line

[wanderingcas]

people are really looking at stats to determine if a fic is worth reading? no wonder fics that never got popular at the first drop never had a chance 💀

[sangled]

Favorite ship dynamics (sticker edition)

[wellofhavoc]

SHE WAS EATEN. BY A PTERODACTYL. IN. EVERY. FANFICITON!

Don't let the weird musical based around the manipulation of this girl distract you from the MAIN CHARACTER of a series who was demonized for cheating in favor of a relationship between two men.... where one of them VERY MUCH CHEATED ON THE OTHER IN CANON- and he didn't even cheat with this particular woman! I don't CARE how Zoe was ignored by the fanbase in favor of her dead brother- back in the days of Superwholock, women were GRAPHICALLY killed as a JOKE in slash fics and Gwen got the absolute worst of what people were ready to throw at them. If they weren't killed, they were: beaten, verbally abused, fired, and degraded by every other character.

I know the big thing today is "Can we stop randomly making characters lesbians/ace to 'get them out of the way?'" and that DOES suck and is obviously an instance of virtue signalling to avoid "looking bad" while still obviously partaking in a culture where we ignore women for the sake of centering a story on a man. At the same time, I think we can all agree that brutally killing a woman off as a GAG- especially when she 's the PROTAGONIST of that show with a complicated morality and history with relationships in a cast of characters with equally dubious morals- is Way. Worse.

Again: Eaten. By a pterodactyl. Viciously pecked apart, while sometimes: other characters laughed and watched! Sometimes, she was deliberately FED to the creature by one or both of the men she was "attempting to seduce."

Round 1

Propaganda Under Cut

Zoe Murphy

People who ship Evan and Connor want to demonize her SO BAD. Like it is NOT her fault she's upset at her brother and having a hard time mourning the guy who was a dick to her - and this is as a Connor Murphy apologist. All the best Connor/Evan fics are where she and Connor slowly repair their relationship and he puts in the work

hey remember when ppl shipped evan with connor even though the WHOLE POINT of the show is that evan never actually knew connor and their entire "friendship" is an elaborate lie

She's the main love interest but people ship Evan with her dead brother so they make her into a jerk or a wingman and ignore the fact that the brother was abusive towards her

Gwen Cooper

she literally did nothing worse than the rest of the team yet so many people hate her guts and there is a literal gwen bashing tag for her on ao3. just cause she's a complicated character and confident and assertive and oh yeah she had sexual tension with jack harkness who ended up w ianto in the end. god forbid.

fans think she "gets in the way" of the canon m/m pairing of the series just because she has straightbait scenes with one of the two guys. when in reality she literally has a husband and has been nothing but supportive of her friends and their relationship 😭 she tends to be written as like super insensitive and spoiled and its unbearable 

An amazing, badass woman who has a complicated relationship with Jack Harkness, 1/2 of “Janto,” the ship she “gets in the way of.” People use this slight complication to decide they HATE HER and turn her into this vile, evil, vindictive person. She often tries killing Ianto (other half of “Janto”) in many poorly-written fics, simply so that everyone can realise how badly they treat poor, poor Ianto. This makes Jack fall harder in love with Ianto xoxo Mwuah Mwuah and Gwen is hated and killed. This occurrence is so common that it has its own tag on AO3: “Gwen Bashing.” The writing, again, is always very bad, and solely created to make people hate Gwen. She’s chill in the actual show though. Very supportive of the two men and their relationship, and is literally happily married. She is not at all like what people make her out to be.

[i-eat-deodorant]

does this annoy anyone else or is it just me

[bed-of-ashes]

I actually love how Wild Life is finally turning gempearl into a more interesting ship that isn't just "token fandom yuri"

[kikigeh]

How things have changed in fandom spaces is lowkey hilarious because back in 2014 you had elsanna SOMEHOW being a popular pairing (if not the most popular pairing in its context) all bc they were kinda awkward with each other during the coronation yet in 2024 people wouldn't touch Vijinx with a 10 ft pole even though it is... what it is.

[oifaaa]

Realising that my idea of what it means to be in a fandom might be a little skewed so help me out here what is your baseline qualification for being part of a fandom

[biblically-accurate-dca]

@vanweek2024 day 6 - spare

vanny goes bowling !

[sparklecarehospital]

this year will be my 3 year mark of having sparkletism...

Sparklecare turns 9 this year. Imagine how I feel!!!

[musicalmoritz]

I do not understand why HanaKou, Aoinene, and Terukane shippers always act like their ships are so unpopular when they’re some of the most popular in the fandom😭 This isn’t a callout to any single person btw bcuz I’ve seen like half the fandom do it atp, it happens every day. I know it’s harmless but like c’mon guys. Ya’ll would not survive being a Terunene or MeiAoi shipper

I’m not even joking to me it sounds exactly like if someone called SatoSugu a rarepair

[lettingtimepass]

Amen 🙏

[idkwhatimdoingbutslay]

The Hitler and KKK jokes were never funny tbh

[manchblack]

is the fear and hunger fandom ready to talk about the fact that if a character is not easily sexualized/"babygirl"ified they are blatantly ignored by fans, leading to a lot of the interesting side characters to either get pushed aside or simplified into jokes, or do you guys still need to post pocketcat looking cunty a million more times first

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Look people can discourse about how problematic a ship is and how terrible people are for shipping it all they want, but the reasons they try and assign for shipping something are usually pretty ridiculous. The only actual point of discrimination on whether or not I’m gonna ship a pairing is just how narratively compelling the character dynamic is. Do they play off each in an interesting way? Is there some good narrative symbolism involved?? I’m there.

Yes that does mean I’m often a basic bitch and end up enjoying whichever slash and femslash ships are popular BUT there’s usually a reason why a bunch of writers have gotten into something! Tbh! Shit being popular doesn’t mean it’s bad, stuff usually pops off for A reason, regardless of it’s a reason you personally agree with.