#fandom isn't as strong as it was

[mulletmitsuya]

how it feels posting about tokyo revengers in 2024

[xoxoemynn]

Hello OFMD crew! I love you and I'm happy you're here. 💕

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID: an 11 panel comic featuring characters from the owl house. Panel 1- a cloaked Darius sneaking around a wall. panel 2 he peaks around the corner, saying "well? Did you retrieve...the package?". Panel 3 Hettie Cutburn (who has old Hollywood style text announcing "surprise Hettie Cutburn!" next to her) says "Darius! Of course! Took some digging but I found them eventually. Tell the boy I say 'hi!'". Panel four- she hands documents labeled "classified" to Darius. Later, Hunter (post timeskip) walks through a door in Darius' home, saying "hey Darius, hey Eber, I'm ba-". Next panel- Darius, Willow, and Eberwolf on the couch. Hunter says "...willow?", She replies "hey hunter!", he asks "what are you guys doing?

Darius says "oh nothing...except looking at pictures of you as a baby!" Holding up the documents from earlier. We see two pictures of a younger hunter framed like panels- the first is of hunter as a baby/toddler aged hunter freshly sprouted out of the ground with a blanket around him, covered in dirt, while the second one shows a young scout Hunter covered in bandages receiving his sprig plushie. Darius' narration reads "courtesy of Hettie Cutburn- she found the only surviving copy of your early life medical records and gave them to me". Willow says "aww, you were so cute!". The final panel shows Hunter looking embarrassed/stunned as Willow takes a photo of the documents, and Darius says "I'm considering it an early father's day present- so, thank you, Hunter". End ID]

MERRY DADRIUS WEEK!!! Thank you to @sergeantsporks for hosting! There's other prompts I wanna do but they'll probably be late (maybe I'll do them in bulk and upload them on the final day). Til then here's a silly comic!

[alwayshinny]

Ginny Weasley 👑 - The most underrated character in hp, and the girl who deserves so much more love than she receives in fandom.

[coucou-art]

one thing I absolutely love about tumblr that only exists here is the way many people unrestrainedly pour out their thoughts and reactions in the tags when otherwise they would hesitate writing it in regular comments on other platforms and I live for it. thank you everyone for liking my latest piece, it's been 162494 years since I drew anything FE3H related and I desperately needed this. it feels like I'm back home

[kacievvbbbb]

Maybe it's just me and I just don't understand the arc. Or maybe this arc will get some grand conclusion I'm really starting to doubt. But like I'm sick and tired of Tashigi being used as Zoro's misogyny proxy. Like the "a woman swordsman could never beat a man" belief and trauma made sense for both Kuina and Tashigi and was a very valid fear way back in the East Blue when they were still fighting relatively normal people and had no scope of how big the world is

but at this point where there are literally 20 feet tall dudes and people can blow up a whole city with just Haki the only reason Tashigi is still weak is because she is being written that way. Which is really hard to understand because it seems now more than ever One Piece has been getting more and more strong female characters so I don't know why every time Tashigi is on screen with Zoro we have to rehash this. It's even worse cause all she does in the scene is prove Zoro right by getting in a fight that she can't handle and needing saving. It's such a confusing message and honestly doesn't really apply or come up anywhere but with Tashigi and Zoro (outside of that one time where Zoro yells at enel for blasting Robin because she's a woman which was weird because Robin's been in a lot of fights before but seemed there just so enel could point out just how ruthless it is.)

Hell with the exception of the G5 all being in love with her. She is treated like a regular character and not just "the woman"

It honestly feels like both Tashigi and Smoker got lost in the narrative and Oda just doesn't know where to put their arcs. It feels like she was being written to help Zoro overcome whatever mental block Kuina's death instilled in him about facing female opponents with his sword. But she is just sooooo far behind him it renders the point moot and strengthens his convictions (it's weird that he will literally crush a woman's face rather than use his sword and is the only reason I won't say he doesn't fight women he does he just seems to have a mental block about cutting them down especially if they fight with anything blade like) but also we've only ever seen him face female character he knows can't challenge him it would have been interesting to see what he'd do in a fight against someone like big mom, tsuru or smoothie doubt that will happen though. But here's to hoping for Tashigi to have an actual arc.

[crownedwille]

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[leikeliscomet]

Nah I'm seeing a lot of posts on here and twitter blaming Martha's fans for her mischaracterization and while this does happen I'm really not feeling the idea that feeling sorry for Martha like at all is form of infantilisation or removing her agency. Already covered this in previous posts but the strong-Black-womaning is starting to piss me off bc its not an either or. You can feel sympathy for Martha and recognise that she grew and moved on at the same time. Like this doesn't happen to any other companion. We still recognise Rose's vulnerabilities even tho she got herself a gun. We recognise the Clara that pretended to be the Doctor is the same Clara that broke down crying. Again this is why you have to engage with antiblackness as itself and not just a fandom issue bc any basic reading will show you that pity and sympathy are things not afforded to Black women on a systemic or social level and arguing this ruins our characterisation, we need less or none at all is not giving what you think its giving.

[fiona-fififi]

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[kstarlitchaotics]

Outside of the X Men movies why is the list so low on AO3 especially with certain individual fics 😭

[krscblw]

the home team intro guide!

they're great and more people should listen to them. keep reading for a (very) brief overview and song recs!

(from right to left: daniel matson (drums), brian butcher (vocals), john baran (guitar), ryne olson (bass))

the home team is a (former pop punk) band from seattle that now makes pop/metal/rnb-influenced alt rock music (aka heavy pop). they're one of my favorite bands right now and i'm shocked that they don't have more fans than they do, so if this sounds interesting i encourage you to check them out!

thank you for reading, and i hope you give them a chance!

[daz4i]

shipping can coexist with character analysis up until shippers start misusing literary terms to explain why their ship is better

[boysborntodie]

So like one thing I'm afraid of is for when the musical comes out and we (hopefully) get new fans, is fanon!Johnny. Like Johnny often infantilized in fanon which is annoying as fuck and I despise it, but a trend I see with these type of characters like that is that all of the sudden the fandom will be like 'omg why is this character being to woobified' which is good, but then they'll take it to the next extreme. Like in the ST, Will Byers is the sweet and sensitive character (he's also canonically gay) but in order not to fall into the 'feminine gay' stereotype, a lot of the fandom would make him hypermasculine (emphasis on him being muscular and broad, make him more sarcastic and done with everyone's bullshit, making him over-competent) which completely changes his character. Like seriously there's got to be some nuance here. Some middle ground maybe?

[bluerosety-blog]

That's it, I no longer will be reading the 'official' English translations from Viz. Even if you say that you read this in a sarcastic tone, not everyone will, and we know when Katsuki is being sarcastic, this here doesn't show it. 🤷‍♂️

If you still want to give the benefit of the doubt to that translator, go ahead, but things like this is why many English speaking fans still see the old Katsuki and not the Katsuki who has made growth in his character. 😒

[vellichorom]

We've sort of turned into the undertale fandom at it's peak

Not in a bad way, but with our characters and plot

Underverse was completely different from Undertale plot-wise

I wouldn't call it a deterioration (not that you did), more of an evolution through time, like how pictures of Earth look different in 2012 or 2020

It's so fun to watch fandoms grow, they're like little ecosystems

- cat anon :3

SORRY this ask came in MONTHS ago while i was having some kind of meltdown but looking back on it, all i'm reminded of is just the State of the undertale fandom circa 2016-17 with underverse & the daycare shit & sugarmelon & uhhh glitchtale & all the incest & oh my fucking god

look i'm all for people having fun, i really am & i never would want to ruin that for people. i don't even resent the undertale fandom for going to the insane degree it did beyond the more scarring shit you'd just get hit with i'm All for fandoms growing,

however, if i ever see modern day TSP even step remotely in that direction past the " narrators for everything " & selfcest, i'm going to open a twitch account, start streaming, eat myself like an ouroboros & make you people watch

[allofthebees]

Posts that are long character analysis that are just bending over backwards to try to justify their writing direction when the much easier and much more correct conclusion to make is "the writer is a misogynist" are always funny