#fandom culture scares me

[xeyesofstardust]

 I think one of my favorite worst thing to come out of TVD Fanfiction is when there’s an extremely vocal anti Elena Gilbert Stan that writes a fanfic with their own “original” character that they proclaim to be the “Better Gilbert.”

This new character will possess all of the same traits as Elena, whereas Elena will loose all of hers and be pushed off into a corner somewhere (I don’t know where because it’s literally never stated) and only comes out every so often for all the other characters to verbally abuse her for absolutely no reason.

 I’m not even kidding, I’ve come across quite a few of these Damon x OC (What basically is a self insert character) fanfics where Damon and the rest of the Mystic Gang will suddenly go out of character and go off on Elena for no reason, other than entering the room and occupying any amount of space.

Honestly, I think some of these anti Elena stans I will need a therapist, and a good one at that, because it’s not healthy to hold this much resentment on someone who’s not even real.

[purgemarchlockdown]

The temptation to vague about something in the milgram-confessions blog because its something thats bothered me for Actual Years about certain fandoms vs letting it go because when it is brought up its actually done somewhat tastefully and reasonably which makes me happy and this anon probably didnt mean it in the incredibly bad faith way I keep on seeing it be repeated so really Im getting upset over nothing.

[magicalcorvid]

I have two headcanons for Astarion's romance route:

1.) he likes to lay on his partners like a lizard because he doesn't produce his own body heat so he absorbs theirs

2.) he likes to feel/listen to his partners' heartbeat because he hasn't felt/heard his own in 200 years

[crazycafinecat]

hi this is me :3c

[sunflowers-and-sweetviolets]

I wish there was a "Like" function on Tumblr because this is genuinely one of the best/cutest response I've ever received

@chemistryrabbit

[sadfruittheatre-rp]

wheezes i'm genuinely so so glad people like my silly green boy, he's NOT a particularly cool, Dragon Ball-y character by any stretch of the imagination, so I was definitely a little nervous that people would think he was lame and not in like the silly way i intended lmao

[blueish-bird]

you know… seeing all these trans headcanons going around has really got me wanting to talk about my ideas for transfem Aki

[alvin-draper]

A few years ago I remember the most kudosed fic on ao3 (I Am Groot) having maybe 10000 likes, give or take a few thousand. Nowadays the most popular fic (All The Young Dudes) has 154120 kudos. I've seen so so much more of fic being spread and realised that the pandemic was probably the impetus - and that looks highly likely. Fandom is so much more mainstream now, and people are far less afraid to loudly declare that they're megafans, that they read fanfiction, where it was definitely the mark of a bit of a recluse a few years ago. I'm glad the community's grown so much but I'm also fair terrified of how quickly its grown. We're now a couple of years into a whole new era of fandom and fanfiction and I'm excited to see what comes next. And scared that the community's been somewhat hijacked but I don't spend enough time in forums or on tiktok to tell what new young fans are thinking. In somewhat stark contrast, here's tumblr.

Old fandom culture is morphing into a wholey new phenomenon and I'm unfortunately wary of change. Maybe it'll be good for us? Who knows.

[dearweirdme]

Are you also a Taekooker?

Yes 🤫

[cosmicdreamgrl]

haven't gotten the 'why did you leave the fandom?' question in awhile but i ultimately told this person it was for my own sanity

[discocandles]

i can never go into x reader tags, for the sake of me and the x reader communities, because anytime i see an out of character dark and edgy version of said character, i get the visceral urge to reblog like "omg this fic made me think of this song!! perfect for him right >:)" and add a youtube link/hyperlink it. and so they click on the link, probably expecting to find some edgy song (a rickroll i they're smart), but it is in fact the lyric video to bad boy by cascada that was uploaded in 2009 with neon purple text.

like im pretty sure that counts as cyberbullying. so its just better for all of us if i just have the tags blocked

[some-random-fandom-chick]

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[cr1nge-culture]

twitter fandoms hate crossovers but idgaf because i'm gay and autistic and twitter fandoms fucking suck, ok? ok

[my5hiningstars]

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[moongirl0305]

how do people live without fandoms and obsessions?

Like, seriously! I have lots of fandoms and I was in a lot before. I need them.

Are you telling me, some people get all their happiness from real life? They exist without these other worlds they can escape to? Without these characters who help them cope with real life shit, who make them laugh and cry? HOW? TELL ME YOUR SECRET!

It just seems like such a confusing concept to me how people can live their lifes without other worlds playing in their head.