#doesn’t matter which fandom

[the-lily-blooms-late]

brain is absolutely ROTTING besties

[truegoist]

give me 3 characters

[thelilylav]

I’ve gotta admit as much as I know Darabella is a flawed ship (and some of the ppl who are anti for it have legit criticisms I love y’all for pointing it out cause it frustrates the hell out of me too trust) they’ll always just kind of be it for me.

Because as much as it was an “I can fix him” trope, as much as Rosabella could be selfish and Daring’s flaws got cranked up to 1000, she was also the first person to look at him after his destiny, the thing he dedicated his life to, failed, when people were questioning him as a prince and putting pressure on his and Apple’s relationship and tell him that, like, maybe it would be alright? Maybe this wasn’t his destiny, and maybe that was okay.

And the part that really gets me? She’s the first person after this happens to tell him that it doesn’t matter what’s on the outside, which as much as you can like other Daring ships or him whatever he desperately needed to hear. Not even cause he was selfish, that’s not what I’m saying, but bc he placed his whole identity on this image that people concocted for him based on him appearing the perfect prince. He was handsome, he was talented, and he was handsome! So who cares about him as a person?

Idk man. You spend four seasons (I watch the specials on Netflix so that’s why four idk if it’s three to some ppl or whatever tho) watching him be praised for his looks, watching girls fawn over him, and of course he enjoys it so nobody really questions how much he enjoys it. And then you get this girl, this girl who owes him nothing, this girl who (contrary to popular belief apparently) has a life of her own and people she cares about outside of him, and she’s nice to him. And she’s the first person after everything happens to just be nice to him, for the sake of being nice. Something about that will always hit different for me

[all-pacas]

morning! like probably the rest of you i both slept and feel like shit. In a way, that’s why this tumblr exists for me, to detach: I’m on a personal level going to take a couple days off of news and phone alerts and block the politics tag, just to level out and calm down. And that means I’m also going to go back to my usual spam here. Disassociation. 🙃

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

Jon becoming KiTN in Winds (specifically) would actually be bad as far as themes go

[starship-squalleater]

There’s something that’s been bothering me about this ‘should we save the gods’ discourse and I think it’s the strange conflation of christianity and the pantheon of exandria. As in, the complaints that people (the pcs) are airing against the gods as reasons to not help them (”what did the gods ever do for me”, “the gods should have intervened in order to help me but they didn’t”) are not reasons that I think can be applied to the gods of exandria? 

Exandria’s pantheon is not all knowing or all powerful or all good, and they don’t claim to be. If someone is in trouble and they don’t have a relationship with a god already, there’s no reason for any one of them to step in and help. There are a lot more people on the surface of Exandria than there are gods. Unless someone is extra special- like Ashton, for instance- then there’s no reason why a god is going to be paying them attentinon. They’re not all knowing. 

They’re not all powerful, either. Think of how many times someone cast divine intervention and it didn’t go through, think of how Artagan (though he isn’t *really* a god) was trying to help Jester in the astral sea but he just couldn’t. They don’t have unlimited power, so they’re going to give it to the people who are devoted to them. Also, any power that they can grant is after it gets through the divine gate. Laudna said something like two episodes ago that’s been bugging me- that seeing Imogen walking around was more than she’d ever seen from a god. But there’s a reason for that, and it’s that the gods literally cannot walk on exandria because there’s a magic barrier keeping them from doing that. So these arguments seem misdirected.

IMO, it’s the gut reaction against cultural christianity and the christian idea of god that I think is bleeding into this. all of their arguments work much better when you’re talking a being who is all powerful, who claims to be all good, who has the ability to eradicate all evil and for some reason, hasn’t. Otherwise, its just a frustrating loop of people bringing up bad arguments that don’t matter.

(also “are the gods good” doesn’t matter, all that matters is that ludinus ISNT good.)

[faithfromanewperspective]

see the thing about the way people are freaking out about a certain celebrity actually having boundaries and acting as if it’s part of the job to just. not—all that tells me is you don’t want celebs to be human and god forbid they’re like. disabled or neurodivergent or something because there’s no way people are going to agree that yes they need accommodations that’s a pretty bare minimum thing to have so they can keep doing their job. no the fact is there’s people out there who don’t care if our performers die as long as they can exploit them and too many fans, who don’t even get a cent out of it, are not only encouraging that behaviour but acting that we are, too, entitled to what our faves should not ever have to give. and the fact is you don’t need to know the personal reasons behind their boundaries. you will get more from your faves if the collective fandom treats them with respect that’s an obvious fact and yet. people still don’t let that change their behaviour

[seilon]

more and more it makes me kind of uncomfortable (for lack of a better/softer word) to call my own characters ‘ocs’. because like. they’re from a completely original universe and from completely original intertwined stories and all that. so why would i have to specify they’re original in the same way someone would when referring to a character they made for a pre-existing non-original universe/franchise/whatever? by that logic every fiction author ever would be referring to their characters as ocs rather than just. their characters. you know.

[opheliasam]

he’s so grown and old and wise and strong and he will never ever ever be anything more than the role he occupies—>baby brother to dean (this is a Bad thing btw)

[thebookworm0001]

Excited to be home so I can get on my extra wide monitor and scrub through every single second of that trailer

[thrilling-oneway]

Also shout out to the person who said in the tags of that airi post who said that half the debates in this fandom are over gender or sexuality because that’s true and it pisses me off immensely

[caterpillarinacave]

I’m sure I’ll be crucified for this, but way some people in fandoms like The Tudors talk about people like Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boylen and Jane Seymour a) is disappointing, b) gross, and c) reeks of internalized misogyny 

[livvyofthelake]

who can we blame for the fandomification of the song soldier poet king. i’d like to blame bbc merlin fans but i recognize that’s me being a biased hater. anyway. whoever’s to blame should be hanged in the town square or something this shit is so annoying fr

[mobliterated]

Sometimes I go wander into someone’s blog after going through like ten reblog chains and like… damn some of y’all really love being miserable. Why are you being so mean about people enjoying stuff. Why are you getting mad at people doing their own thing? They’re just enjoying things the way that you are just enjoying things! Stop making false competitions to win at and assume you are Better than the rest! We’re all in this fucking hellsite together you are not more Enlightened by hating horse plinko or whatever

[roseofcards90]

I just woke up from a nap and lowkey recovered from an ocd flare up but I truly do hate when fandoms downplay the relationships characters have with each other and water them down to fandom tropes/jokes it just fucking annoys me especially when said relationship has a lot of complexity and it ends up affecting the characterization of the characters involved too that they become misinterpreted/watered down/ flanderized in the process 😭

[no1ryomafan]

The subject of the getter manga spin offs came to my mind randomly today talking to some of my friends and I’ve been thinking about how IIRC the only major spin off manga to not be translated is High, aka the Mahjong one with a all girl team. The only other ones to follow are a manga made for the PS game and the “try to remember” manga that arma’s first 3 ep director made, but those are in a weird territory of spin off classification, at least compared to the others, but I also chalk up their lack of translations being their hard to find, especially because try to remember was considered lost media. (Until my friends randomly found it lol) But I’ve been wondering to myself something regarding that: While High simply could’ve never been translated because finding the proper scans could be hard, I feel another factor people gloss over it compared to the other spin offs is because there’s a absence of the OG getter team.

Because even though I talked about how Go team been not adapted properly in animes and the toei go show was likely overlooked because of that-to manga readers-I also note it is the only Getter show to NOT be fully subbed even though getting the footage doesn’t seem to be a issue. All the other getter manga spin offs feature the OG team in some capacity, most of them are their own tellings of getter so we get adaptations of the team. The only example I can think of that didn’t do this was Hien, but that had Hayato in it. Meanwhile High is a new getter team completely so people seem to turn an eye to it, even though the girl pilot is- very much clearly “Ryoma but gender bent” lol. (And I do know a handful of people who like her but not a TON)

I don’t wanna make bad assumptions about the fandom because it’s just more so how it goes, the first line of protagonist’s will ALWAYS be the most popular with there only ever being a few exceptions to this, but it is kinda a shame Getter falls victim of most of the fandom either liking Ryoma and/or Hayato the most-mainly Ryoma but I met plenty Hayato fans and y’all are insane /pos-and don’t really bother to bat a eye to the other characters which I just feel leads to these things getting neglected. And I’m- guilty of this but I’m trying to talk about the others more.