#fandom hell

[too-cool-for-facebook]

"So, how you doing?"

Me:

[skeletalroses]

Spock was one of the OG aroace characters and somehow we just. Never acknowledge that. Spock is so screamingly aroace-coded but when we talk about TOS from a queer perspective all we talk about is K/S shipping culture

and then the reboot movies fucking allowashed him

[rock-n-macabre]

Everybody's like...."Omg Rip x Beth are goals / ultimate TV western couple!"

I'm over here like.... Have y'all not seen Wynonna Earp on Syfy? Wynonna x Doc are way more goal-able. Way better in my honest opinion.

[gatergirl79]

You know how mature people deal with others not shipping their ship? They utilise the block function and move on.

Like I'm pretty sure I have a few followers who don't ship my otps, and you know what they're not doing? They ain't coming into my inbox sending me hate. And as for me, well many of the people I follow have ships I dislike (sometimes damn well hate) and you know what I do? Block the fucking tag and leave them to their fun,

And what about the people I don't follow...well, i don't follow them so what doesn't matter.

[critterofthenight]

when you check out the fandom tag on ao3 and go "yo, what the fuck"

[craycray-wolf]

Gravity Falls AU where Dipper is trans and his chosen name is Tyrone, getting the legal paperwork/ids to reflect that.

While I think it's sweet for a Cis!Dipper to learn to appreciate his birth name Trans!Dipper is 100% a Tyrone.

The reason I say AU is because I absolutely love the Trans!Dipper headcanon but I don't think it exactly works canonically. THAT BEING SAID content with a Trans!Dipper as well as a Trans!Grunkle Stan is amazing.

[staryskullz]

Sigh

Fineeee! I’ll feed the COTL fandom too, just a teeny bit though 🙄 /t

[dougielombax]

“And for my next trick I’m going to nitpick the shit out of every last tiny detail in this film under the pretence of a so-called analysis which will actually be a six-hour long video where I bitch about the film and explain its plot badly, using my petty issues with it as an excuse to bitch about women, minorities, and anyone who’s different, along with a ton of self-promoting ego-stroking wankery and brainrot induced contrarianism. But I’m calling it a critique so I can’t possibly be wrong. Right?”

(That’s what they’d usually say if they were self aware)

Let’s be real. This is what a lot of so-called video essays turn out to be.

Nitpicking. Rage bait. Bullshit.

Not all of them.

Just some of them.

But a good number of them regardless.

End it!

Starting yesterday!

[dazzlingqwq]

what colour is team x-blood's ink... would ut be cyan.. red.. purple... somethibg else... eugh.

help me out here

[28whitepeonies]

Fucking hell I've just read a thesis on ‘why Larry can come out in 2023' and it made me really angry

There are three immediate thoughts I have on the first section:

If Harry wants to be Beyonce, how does he do that without the fantasy boyfriend market which would likely be destroyed by him entering into a public relationship with a man?

And how does Harry continue to sell out international stadium tours without that market? Because there isn't a comparable male singer out there who is doing it.

This whole thing centres around these fans perceptions of their success, and shows a real lack of understanding of how success in the music industry is actually achieved.

The audacity it takes to write shit like this: "HL and their teams seem to still be operating under the erroneous assumption that a public figure’s career will be over as soon as they come out." Truly, how could Harry, Louis or the experts on the industry around them possibly have a better perception of the risks associated with public queerness than you?

And this gem: "Further to this, fandom energy more broadly is also reflective of the level of stunts. This was observable how during heavy stunting by Holivia, the fandom was characterised by general exhaustion with a much reduced passion." - And isn't this period the same period in which Harry's fanbase had a total growth spurt? Stuff like this shows a really narrow lens and an over inflated sense of fandoms own importance

But be for fucking real with this: “Kit Connor - Prior to coming out he was the subject of controversy online for ‘queerbaiting’, which forced his coming out. However after coming out, the general public forgave him heartily, and he received such a huge energy of love and support. This was also extensively and positively covered in the media.” The kid was hounded and hounded into making a public statement about his sexuality. I’m sure he’s glad to know folk think he’s been forgiven and that it was all fine in the end.

And then by the point I got to this "- Top 5 regrets of the dying—the top two regrets were: 1) not living true to themselves, and 2) working too much. Harry and Louis are unfortunately doing both of these—by being closeted they are working too much with not being true to who they are. This is a life that people inevitably regret." I wanted to commit murder myself, imagine thinking you have the goddamn right to tell someone else what their regrets will be. Nevermind suggesting that you know better what the right life choices are of a stranger. That you know whether they’re being true to themselves or not and that you can pass judgement on that. I’m sorry to every single fucking queer person who reads that and this rationale of ‘omg the worlds not that homophobic any more you can come out now’ and internalises it. Nice job causing some real fucking harm.

So I’m having to finish this here and take myself for a walk before I yeet my laptop out the window x

[qishylia-adelia]

X reader can be in the most unexpected fandoms.

Like literal kung fu panda villains

[skeletalroses]

Every cautionary aspec fandom post is like, "I'm not saying allos who ship aspec characters are necessarily aphobic," but I'm saying that. Y'all don't get the benefit of the doubt.

If you're alloromantic and you romantically ship an aromantic character who's not explicitly, canonically romance-favorable, you're aphobic.

If you're allosexual and you sexually ship an asexual character who's not explicitly, canonically sex-favorable, you're aphobic.

[histrionicscribbler]

Heartbreaking: Your Favorite Fanartist Lost Interest in Your Fandom

[goneandbackagain]

Being involved in fandom is basically a full time job.

Someone set up payroll or some shit already, I’m very overworked and underpaid!

[critterofthenight]

*emerges from the fandom tag covered in blood* he would NOT be a dom wtf are yall on