#chernobyl fandom

[eldritch-circus-sillies]

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[sapphirerogers]

Instead of ranting about Alba Baptista, her outfits, the pictures of them and so on, why don't you use that all that pent up energy to create something positive, for example, What If S2 Rogers Hood fanfics, because he's a wonderful character, and it's a really interesting setting that deserves to be exploited in fanfics? Or maybe alternate endings to ep 5 that don't completely dismiss Bucky and his lifetime bond with Steve?

Now I know some of you have zero creative ability and you're here just to doom scroll, read and reblog, and that's okay as long as you don't make this app a living hell for other people who don't see eye to eye with you. But please find something better to do than obsess over two strangers who literally do not affect your life in any way whatsoever and please stop bashing a woman against whom there's virtually zero proof of whatever claims you're making.

No, "a man is known by the company he keeps" does not apply to a friendship/relationship you've only seen online pictures of. You do not know the true nature of Alba's friendship with Justin and Kiko, so the assumption that she must share and/or be a supporter of the same beliefs as them is just harmful.

You'd have a lot to say about my mother if you knew her for a while, things not unlike what you say about Alba, but just because I share a roof with her and have some kind of a bond with her does NOT mean I am racist/transphobic/queerphobic like her. You would not have the right to pass judgment on me unless you knew me personally. By the same logic, you don't know shit about Alba's personal life so you definitely should not be talking shit about her.

No I am not supporting discriminative and offensive behaviour out of fondness for a handsome actor (I actually love him for more than looks, not that you care). If that were the case, I wouldn't have had the courage to spend an entire evening reading up everything I could find about Alba Baptista - I'd just be brushing everything under the carpet. I am saying everything I'm saying right now because I did my research and my verdict is that she does not deserve this harrassment.

As for whether it's PR or a real relationship, it actually doesn't fucking matter to you or me or anyone in this godforsaken fandom (why am I even calling it a fandom when most of you are just haters?) The world does not spin differently based on Chris Evans' marriage. Maybe yours does, and that's sad, but the big blue geoid we live on certainly doesn't.

Tumblr can be used for much better purposes than wishing death and destruction on an otherwise unproblematic man whose only crime is marrying a woman who isn't one of you.

[psychicsharkbagelsports]

Cars:Shadow of Chernobyl and Cars:Clear sky

[multi-fandomsfreak]

Just here to ask a question. I want to upload my oc’s onto wiki just for fun (currently doing feldeltá’s) and I’m currently on step one which is to create a community but thing is I’m kind of struggling. It might be obvious what to do and I might be an idiot but I’m not exactly sure what to put down. Do I just put down the title of the series my oc’s originate from? What do I put down exactly? If any of you have an idea I would really appreciate if you comment on it. ~Blaze/Dawn

Edit: I’ve got it, sort of.

[spoookiepie]

“Our Flag Means Death and Good Omens has intense Superwholock vibes-“

I’m so sorry OFMD and Good Omens, I’m so sorry they would say something so ugly about you

[coldmilkchoices]

thinking about getting back into voltron in the same way you do an exploration into a nuclear disaster site to see if the radiation is survivable

[smoresie]

If toxic yaoi/yuri was a thing in 2018 I would've been the most insufferable mf during my sonic phase cause these fucks were my toxic nuclear yaoi

[singull]

Bold of OP to think people haven’t been having shipping wars about the most unlikely source material for centuries.

stating to think there’s an inverse correlation between how good media is and how easily fandomizable it is 😁

[eldritch-circus-sillies]

Chernobyl always looks so lovely reveling in the sunlight. It's a good thing too, or else she'd have gotten rid of it long ago.

I don't just mean destroyed, I mean *erased.* Did you know Earth used to have more moons?

[no-face-no-shame]

Every fandom has this one 38 y/o proshipper who makes incest content with worryingly young characters. No matter how small the fandom is. It's like a canon event

[godsfavoriteasian]

Thank you @elenatria​ and @green-ann​, I am trying to be more active again.  I am mostly on instagram though 

Is Chernobyl fandom still alive? 🤔

[roleplayfinderrr]

hey, I'm looking for someone to rp. I write on discord or Instagram When it comes to fandoms, I write from

-Chernobyl 2019

-Little Women

I write ocxcanon or canonxcanon

fxm, I can write more brutal and other nsfw scenes

✿

[parasolyaa]

bad takes on misha or ukraine in general that i recently saw in rtc fandom, mostly in fics

• “1920s au where misha is discriminated for being russian because ukraine wasn’t a thing yet” fun fact the ukrainian war of independence. that lasted from 1917 to 1921. was a thing. and so were people identifying as ukrainians even under occupation. for many fucking centuries.

• a fic where tamara was laid to rest in a funeral home in a city that was under russian occupation since 2014 (and also that is hundreds of km away from where she lived). yes it was explicitly stated that the fic was set in 2024

• misha violently not trusting the “western medicine”, and this being a reoccurring theme

• a ton of incorrect (russian) spellings. my eyes bleed evey time i see kiev, odessa and chernobyl. i give a pass for the last one cause literally noone knows the correct form, but the rest are so easy to google. (it’s kyiv, odesa, chornobyl)

• “she was one of the oldest mothers in the village.” the village being kyiv for some reason. the megapolis

• “misha predicted russia vs ukraine lol”, referring to a cut line where he wishes putin to eat a bag of dicks. do you guys know the war didn’t start in 2022?

• tons of comments about misha on a skit about a russian spy

i swear i’m not trying to be negative, and i did enjoy some of these fics! but i’ve also seen enough pf crap like this enough to make part two, three and twelve. educate yourself pls, guys, you don’t realise how harmful it all is

[so-i-did-this-thing]

The All Creatures Great & Small fandom on tumblr is so tiny, lol, I am literally the only cosplayer I can find and am trying so hard not to whirlwind too much into the tags. 😅

How is it I found a cosplay population even smaller than the 5 or so of us who did Chernobyl. The 3 of us Mysterious Strangers.

I'm getting dangerously close to throwing a tiny fairisle vest onto Dexter so I can have a Tristan to my Siegfried. 😅

[just-luxx]

Idk but as someone who kins Oliver I don't like it

I don't like those jokes at all

being a vocaloid fan that grew up on memesquad is still insane to me cause who tf looked at these 4 random loids and decided yea im gonna flandarize these bitches that have no canon personality and also what the fuck was up with olikase why did this ship have such a grip on everyone and why were people constantly making very creepy haha oliver doesnt know what sex is jokes with the canonically 12 years old loid who was literally voiced by a minor???¿¿?¿?¿¿?¿??

[javis-burner-phone]

To Writers in the Pedro Pascal Fandom:

This fandom went full Chernobyl this summer. I need a hazmat suit to get through these tags. I recently saw an anon reach out to a fic writer here.

The anon is right that there's a problem in the fandom space, but they're misplacing blame. I'm writing this post for the non-hateful writers that have tried to feel a part of the community, but ended up feeling left out. I'm posting this on a burner account for obvious reasons that you'll see below:

The hateful posts about "big writers" have absolutely disgusted me, but I can relate to the frustration that many fic writers are expressing. We see very fun and active areas of the fandom where writers are communal, hyping each other up, reblogging fics, but only within certain friend groups. Most of us writers don't have that. Instead this fandom sometimes feels like a desolate wasteland for many of us.

Here's where us writers need to place the blame:

Since the introduction of algorithms, there has been a cyclical effect: popular Tumblr posts are boosted due to everyone's default feed settings and posts from new, lesser known blogs are pushed down.

Over years, this has impacted fandom spaces in a sort of feedback loop. We're currently seeing the late stages of this. This effect pushes most fandom activity towards the already popular blogs by default. (Yes, Tumblr has always shown popular posts first, but algorithms, and the feedback loops they create, have made the effect stronger over the years.)

Is that the "big writers" faults? No. Are friend groups to blame? No. In fact, we should have more friend groups in this fandom. That's how fandoms used to be. There were dozens of overlapping friend groups that would have long reblog chains and mainly interact with each other. New people could find other new people pretty easily and make their own groups.

Now new people/smaller blogs are far less exposed to other new people/smaller blogs by default. *That* is the problem.

Eventually, I found my people. I feel a part of the community and you can too.

You just need to make 3 virgin sacrifices and find the lochness monster in order to do so. What I mean is, it takes a lot more effort than it used to. Be ready for that:

1. Sort by "Latest posts" when searching fandom hashtags. Imagine if Ao3 used an algorithm to show popular fics first instead of sorting by most recent fics. New writers would be screwed, right? That's what Tumblr does. Support posts that resonate with you, but have low engagement. Leave likes, comments, reblogs! Guess what happens when someone that feels isolated in this fandom gets a bunch of notes from you? They're gonna check out your blog. They may want to connect!

2. DM people. Is there a lesser known blogger whose posts you like? Ask to be mutuals! Start a conversation! If you can't be social it's gonna be near impossible to build community. Sorry if you have anxiety, but that's the truth. Warning: half the convos will fizzle out. Move on to the next person as soon as you sense this.

3. Don't try to connect with bigger blogs for friendship. I've tried and as long as you gush over them, they respond, but the interaction ends there. DMing them works, but the convos almost always feel one sided and fizzle out. I'm mutuals with some bigger bloggers, but I had to add their usernames to my filtered content list in account settings. This means they can see my stuff, but I can't see theirs. Seeing them have fun in their friend group just reminds me of my failed attempts to connect. Maybe filtering them isn't fair, but that's how I deal with my negative emotions. No, they are not rude for not befriending me. I don't feel entitled to friendship.

(edit: I got a weird anon about this part. It's more difficult to befriend people who already have close-knit connections here. It's not impossible, but I've had much better luck with fellow isolated fandom members. The secret ingredient is our shared desperation lol. Befriend whoever you want ❤️)

4. Join/start a small PPCU discord server. The big servers will just make you feel more isolated, but the intimate ones are way more communal and it's easier to make stronger connections there than on Tumblr. 

These tips are for people that actually want to find solutions instead of spreading hate and complaining.

I'm saying this as someone that averages 50 notes on most of my fics after a year in this fandom(edit: saw this poll and thought I'd clarify. I get 50 notes now, but for 8ish months I got 5 on a lucky day. This post is for people who still feel isolated because I know how it feels.) It takes way more effort than in the early 2010s to feel a part of a fandom, not because of cliques, but because of the feedback loops the algorithm creates. 

I understand the frustration, but I'm not going to spread vitriol just because the fandom ecosystem went to shit.