#fan submitted

[abellarts]

[ID in alt]

jon should have been able to sock him at least once before s5

[incognitopolls]

Anon hears a lot about how rampant bigotry is in fandom, but anon is a queer woman of color and has only personally experienced it once, so she's curious what other people's experience has been.

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[babykittenteach]

🌔

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Jon is Biromantic and Asexual, and uses He/Him pronouns!

Art by @ wellotwig on X

[rosemarys-maybe]

bride redraw ft. the worst markers known to man

[huntquinlan]

other people have already really eloquently explained why censorship in fandom spaces is so problematic but one of the crucial reasons why elaingate was such an issue, which i personally haven’t seen people touch on is a misunderstanding of fan events which disregards their role as archival spaces.

when you create a character/ship week or other fan creation driven event you are volunteering to act in an archival position. event organization does not end with choosing dates and spreading the word. crucially, fandom event organizers are volunteering to create a space that records the celebration of the chosen topic within their community, regardless of any qualities of the content produced by other fans in the community that the organizers may not personally like. This is because, when you volunteer to host an event and create an archival space to record the event, you are no longer acting in a personal capacity but an organizational and archival capacity.

i saw another person comment on the lack of proper tagging system and master lists in previous elain weeks which is how i became aware of this frankly concerning underlying issue with the event. how can members of the fandom interacting with content for a fan week properly navigate fan week spaces both presently, and in the future if proper tagging and organizational techniques are not observed? how can vulnerable fans protect themselves from content they may be to averse to if it is not properly tagged by event organizers/moderators? creating ‘safe’ fandom spaces has never been about policing content, and thus how other fans interact with the topic, but rather making sure that content is properly tagged-i.e. organized-by moderators so all fans have the power to choose what content they interact with.

when we, as members of fandoms, lose sight of the historical and long held tradition of fandoms as not just communities but archival spaces we fundamentally misunderstand the role of fan events, in this case leading to elaingate.

[airborneice]

@heropartnerweek Day 1 - First Meeting

woo i finally participated in a PMD event!! I've been wanting to take part in one of these for ages but time always got away from me :’)

i had to go with this scene and my very first team from when i played EOS when i was 9. i got assigned squirtle by the personality quiz and always picked eevee as my partner bc i love that lil guy. i have really fond memories of playing this game as a kid and full-on sobbing over my DS at the ending. it's one of those things that just has its hooks in my heart and every few years i remember it exists and get dragged back in. it's about time i did some art for it <3

[mustardspot]

S03E13

Mod note: I sent you 5 glint coins bc i love this ss!

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem 4762:

Film: is set in the Middle East starring Middle Eastern actors. Middle Eastern fans: This is great! We're getting positive representation! American "fans": BuT wHeRe ArE tHe BlAcK pEoPlE? It's not REAL representation unless it has black people! Middle Eastern fans: There's an Ethiopian character right there, what are you talking about? American "fans": But he doesn't represent US!

[genericpuff]

Not sure how much good this'll properly do, but turns out Stephanie K. Smith (the LO showrunner) did a Q&A with Girl Wonder Podcast in January. Curious what your thoughts on it given everything that's happened with the comic's conclusion :p

I honestly don't remember if I did touch on that here, but I do remember listening to it when it was first up on Girl Wonder's Patreon and man... they really have no new information to give, the whole thing was just a lot of chit-chat about personal experiences and, of course, more promises that the show is "definitely happening" despite having absolutely nothing to show for it.

Apparently (?) the Q&A that's happening tonight in the official LO Discord will come with new information about the show, but I'm really not holding my breath at this point. Again, at best, even if we're all wrong and assuming the worst that the show isn't happening, they're doing an AWFUL job at keeping people hyped for it. Like you're telling me that Rachel and the TV production team have had ALL these opportunities to talk about the show and give us new information - at NYCC, SDCC, the interview between the showrunner and Girl Wonder, the interview clips that have been released over the last week on IG, etc. - and haven't taken advantage of those opportunities... but a heavily-moderated Discord Q&A is gonna finally drop the details that people have been waiting for for five years?

I mean shit, speaking of assuming the worst, who wants to bet she's doing it in a Discord Q&A because she knows she either has bad news or she's NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT WHAT SHE'S GONNA SAY so she's doing it in the Discord to keep it more on the "down low"? Assuming she even talks about the show at all? People are definitely gonna be asking about it, even her own fans are losing hope in it at this point and that's not good.

That's my bad faith assumption. My good faith assumption is just that they're doing a really awful job at hyping people up. I don't understand why Rachel keeps saying she's "not allowed to say anything", that makes no sense from a PR standpoint. Even Marvel used the PR strat of using actors like Tom Holland to "accidentally" reveal hints and 'spoilers' for their upcoming films because it gets people talking. "I'm not allowed to say anything" this late in the game, to me, just reads as "We have nothing to show for the last 5 years but we don't want people to panic / leave."

But who knows, maybe the Discord Q&A will turn out to be some kind of actual productive reveal of the show? Again, not holding my breath, but at this point it would be a real game changer to have the show get revealed for real that would even make me shut the fuck up LOL

[learn-and-accept]

I think the most annoying part about all of this watcher shit is that if they had just originally said they'd be releasing content earlier and ad-free on their own website, none of this would've happened. Like sure maybe people would be a little bit upset/disappointed they couldn't afford to see things earlier, but at the very least they wouldn't have completely obliterated their reputation and ostracized their fan base. They just went about this in such a shitty and demeaning way and I'm glad they apologized and backpedaled, but I sincerely don't know how they come back from this, especially after it took them three days to respond. I don't know how their audience will ever be able to trust them again

[incognitopolls]

Original posts here means fanart, analysis, headcanons, and basically anything else that directly contributes to the Tumblr fandom ecosystem.

Whether you have different sideblogs for different fandoms is not relevant to this poll.

If you're involved in multiple fandoms on Tumblr in different ways, answer according to the fandom you consider yourself most involved with. (Ex. if you are involved with 2 fandoms and you make fanart on a dedicated fandom sideblog for the one you are more involved with, answer "I am involved in multiple fandoms on Tumblr: I make original posts about them on a dedicated fandom sideblog."

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[joseigamer]

I finally found the source for the interview between Satomi Tadashi and Kazuma Kaneko (main writer and artist) where they literally call Tatsuya and Jun gay - (”homo” - english loan word). It’s from the Innocent Sin World artbook (pub. in 2000). Here is the translation, and here is a link to the artbook. It’s on page 32. It’s not like this is anything new, but I feel like it’s important to have the original text onhand when sharing stuff like this! Translation under the cut for ease of access/archival purposes:

— What do you think Jun thinks of Lisa and Tatsuya’s relationship? SATOMI: I think he wants Lisa to be a bit more gentle with Tatsuya. KANEKO: She’s really got a jealous nature, doesn’t she? “Shaddup, woman.” Didn’t everyone expect Jun to say that? And then he’d say “Tatsuya, hold my hand a little bit tighter please.” SATOMI: Well, everyone is free to think what they like about that. *laugh* Personally, I don’t think he’s necessarily gay. KANEKO: Jun isn’t gay…but he likes Tatsuya, right? SATOMI: He likes him. If Tatsuya asked, “Do you like me?” Jun would say, “I like you!” KANEKO: Tatsuya would ask “Do you like me”? SATOMI: I think he’d ask like that. KANEKO: I think he’d say something like “What do you think of me?” And then Jun would say, “I like you!” SATOMI: If Jun said something like that, he would turn his back and seem happy. KANEKO: Who would? SATOMI: Tatsuya would. KANEKO: Tatsuya would turn his back and say, “You do?” happily? Well then, he’s gay, isn’t he! SATOMI: *laugh* …that’s why I said that everyone can think as they like about that issue. KANEKO: Well, I don’t know much about that field, anyway. I’ll have to do a little more homework. Hey, does Jun have thick hair? SATOMI: It’s not thick. KANEKO: And Tatsuya’s hair isn’t thick either? SATOMI: Right. So even if it gets tangled together, they’ll be okay. (NOTE: This refers to old, old literary references in which two people slept together in the same bed, so close together that their hair got tangled together.) KANEKO: What, so they really are gay. I see, so they’re gay, huh…Well, then Jun’s probably thought of assassinating Lisa? By setting some sort of trap for her…

[credit to chthonian.net for the translation]

[phlurrii]

When you said the appearance of humans was a mystery this was the first thing that popped into my head.. I’m sorry (I don’t really understand the submit function, but I couldn’t share the video via ask or reblog- I apologize if this is the wrong place!!)

Diamond Vic Submission: ^^^^^

Edit, Made by Phlurrii, Reacting:

HOLY SHIT THIS IS B E A U T I F U L. THIS SO BLOODY FUNNY THANK YOU SO MUCH????

I’ve been wheezing for 20 minutes hA-

This is truly a masterpiece thank you for much for creating this glorious nonsense. I appreciate you and this work with a passion. I’m going to show my cat-

[kindahoping4forever]

Luke filming in Bogotá sometime last year

[randomrisepolls]

Fandom Rise Poll #1

Submitted by: Anonymous

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True Colors by @v-albion

The Little Prince by @beannary