#fandom rambles

[gummysunnybear]

Rambling or something.

If anyone gets mad at dazzle for today episode because she made Jack sad...Remember that harsh words left his mouth even if it wasn't him. Dazzle is allowed to feel angry at Jack. She deserves to not want to be his friend. She's a kid! I have two younger brothers and it takes time for kids her age to ever forgive someone for saying mean things to her.

She didn't even tell sun until July 16th about her secret and as Jack said in the episode it took her 2 years to ever talk to sun about it.

So yeah it could take her 2 years or a month we won't know for sure.

[con-the-kobold]

Ok, so I started listening to Sherlock and co. (Thank you @herius-is-drawing, your s&c art literally is why I picked it up again) and

1. It's very good and makes me happy (especially bc we get the autistic Sherlock we deserve)

And 2. The scream I scrumpt when I started listening to The Solitary Cyclist and heard Karim... like, what is Simon Fairchild doing here???

[ewanmitchellcrumbs]

I didn’t post about this yesterday, because in light of the devastation my friends were experiencing, I didn’t want to exacerbate things. However, I feel I need to make my feelings explicitly clear on this.

A prominent member of this fandom outed themselves as a Trump supporter and has since deactivated. I know there will be people who take issue with this, stating you shouldn’t judge people based on differences of political opinion.

However, this is more than that. A vote for Trump isn’t a vote for Republican ideals, it’s a vote for hate. It’s a vote for fascism. This is a man who is endorsed by the KKK, there is no explaining that away.

I am a woman. I am pansexual. I have had an abortion, and I have needed aftercare for a miscarriage. I have ADHD.

You pretended to be my friend, all the while supporting a man and political movement that actively works towards the death of people like me. How can I be okay with that? How am I suppose to believe you weren’t secretly wishing ill for me with every exchange?

You stated you voted for Trump because you are pro life. The thing is, the MAGA movement is not pro life, it’s forced birth. And fine, if you’re pro life then don’t have a fucking abortion. But don’t force that decision upon others. Other people’s bodies are not your business. Uteruses are not something that ought to be politicised.

I am beyond disgusted and disappointed. I hope the consequences of your actions haunt you every bit as much as the people they will affect long term.

[forgetmesoup]

i know a lot of us already hc neal as being younger than he says he is and i wanted to see if i could narrow down how old he is in the show. obviously his actor matt bomer IS 32 at the start of the show and the show uses matts birthday as neals as well. counter argument neal would lie about this especially when he first runs away(ex driving a rental car, booking hotels, getting people to trust him and as a teen people really do not trust us to use the copier machine at school L i cant imagine how hard it would be to get people to trust him with their money) and also its a fictional story which means i get to interperate in whatever way is most meaningful to me so if you dont like my theories ur welcome to make ur own! its fun to overthink your favorite shows its one of my top hobbies

anyways my actual work for this hc starts with this one episode where theyr chasing this kid and peter says 'hes not even 20? seems like were looking at the next neal caffrey' and we know that peter knows nothing about neals life before his 18th birthday(when neal ran away and presumably started his life of crime) by this logic we know that peter started his three year chase of neal when neal was 18-20. then neal gets sent to 4 years in supermax SO in season 1 he is 24-27.

furthermore when we look at the first season- in most of the shots he looks like late 20 early 30 but in the first scene we see him in when he is breaking out he looks much younger because he is trying to look as different as possible and even with his knack for artistry theres only so far you can get in terms of subtle cosmetics in prison. in most of season one he does look his age but in those first few scenes hes on the run he lowkey looks like an undergrad. Im really not sure if the writers team meant to do this when they wrote this scene, but the combination of the messier hair, oversized clothes, and surprisingly open expressions make the character feel a lot younger. last idea i have is that while not explicitly- i always got the idea that peter and james are implied to be similar ages in season 4 with the way Neal compared the two.

basically, there is plenty of evidence that he is 32 in season one but also plenty that implies hes not! my guess is that he is a bit younger but i really enjoy his character no matter how old he is or says he is. in conclusion i love this show please share your own headcanons and theories with me id love to hear them:)

[doctorlafayette]

I'm still thinking about Xie Lian's luck. Even if I accept the premise that a lack of good luck results in extreme bad luck, I still have questions. I don't remember if this is fandom or cannon, but I know that Xie Lian is kind of treated like a bad luck charm. Because his bad luck doesn't just affect him, but also those around him. And that kind of makes sense. If a house falls down it's not going to only hit one person when a bunch of people are inside. It also parallels Hong'er who was supposed to bring bad luck to the people around him (according to Mei Nianqing).

However, Xie Lian doesn't stop receiving (producing?) good luck, his share is just dispersed before it can affect him or his circumstances. So, I really like the idea that disregarding outside factors (wars, Qi Rong messing everything up, Shi Qingxaun starting and spreading a fire) the people around Xie Lian are actually luckier because they are the closest to his dispersed luck. Like the Guilded Banquet wasn't bad luck, it was a malicious plot. If anything Lang Qianqiu was lucky that he was late to his own party. The only bad luck involved was that he walked in right when Xie Lian had stabbed his dad. And that mostly affected Xie Lian.

All this is to say that I'd love a fanfic that had pre-cannon Xie Lian get kidnapped and used like the Child of Omelas. Maybe one of his kidnappers takes him to the Gambler's Den as a good luck charm only to be slaughtered by Hua Cheng. Or maybe Feng Xin and Mu Qing find him after investigating a super lucky village that has one spot that is like the worst place to be in.

[iambedrock]

Pros:

@tiredegggo and I got to Dolce late last night during our rewatch party (AKA just us screaming at each other about the show.)

I have a ton of good fic ready to read today and I have no obligations besides routine mom duties.

I’m about to treat myself to coffee.

Cons:

I didn’t ever go to sleep last night because my brainrot for this goddamn fandom is going to kill me. We finished our rewatch around 2 AM and then I worked on an edit for a few hours…

Then my software crashed and I lost all of my progress and spent another two hours figuring out how to restore it.

It’s not even an edit that I think will be popular but it was a passion project that made my brain go crazy.

tl;dr - I’m a huge mess always but still i persist

[toriwritesstories]

“that would never happen”

“these characters would never do that”

“you write them too out of character—”

actually that’s the point. if you want 100% canon characters go watch the show. if you want canon accurate character study fics don’t click on the modern no magic au where the characters have lived entirely different lives with new backstories and different traumas and experiences

but also even if someone writes a canon divergent fic or even fully canon compliant fic but makes a decision that you don’t think would EVER happen in canon… then that is very much still the point.

we write things because we want to see what would’ve happened or what could happen or what might’ve happened or what maybe never would’ve happened but might just be fun to play around with.

fun.

that’s literally the point.

[isabel3710]

I'm currently working on my third rewatch of A New Wish on Netflix (as one does) and I have a theory about Wanda and Cosmo's apartment.

When Hazel first sees it in episode one they explain that they have a spell on the door that allows them to chose what world they go out to but the house stays in Fairy World. This way they can try living as humans without giving up their home.

I think Cosmo and Wanda's 'apartment' is their castle from the original show.

In case you didn't watch the OG show here's the context. When they were with Timmy, Wanda and Cosmo spent a good chunk of their time disguised as goldfish and living in a fish bowl in Timmy's room. But in one episode it was reveled that they have a giant castle in there in the form of one of those plastic castles you can get at the pet store.

Basically, I think that they did something similar in the OG that they did in ANW. I think that while they were with Timmy that had the spell on the door so that it lead to the fish castle that was in the bowl

"But Wanda and Cosmo's apartment doesn't look like their castle!" You might be saying, and don't worry. I got an explanation for that too.

We only ever see one room of their 'apartment' and everything in it is human sized, this is likely because Cosmo and Wanda are living as humans. So it would make sense that the front room is human friendly.

Plus, it looks like their home is way bigger than we ever get to see. Down below is a screenshot from the first episode when Hazel first sees their apartment. This is also the only time we get to see the entire thing.

If you look over by the front door (where the characters are) you'll see a staircase. I think this is what leads to the rest of their castle and everything up those stairs is, probably, fairy sized.

Honestly, this makes so much sense to me and I don't know why anyone else is talking about it! Why would Wanda and Cosmo live in a boring human apartment when they got a whole freaking castle??

(Spoilers for the second half of season 1 ahead)

Not only that but after Peri and Dev 'break up' it's implied that Peri went back to live with his parents for a little bit. I feel like he would only do this if they had the room. And with him being their son he would, of course, have a whole bedroom that he could easily stay in again.

And let's be honest, Peri could totally just move back in without asking anyone and Wanda and Cosmo would be thrilled!

[maxdibert]

Maybe younger fans are misunderstanding the concepts of fandom. Yeah, you can do whatever you like, but you don't get to decide what is or isn't canon.

Also, headcanons are based in canon - you take a concept that already exists and expand on it. The point is to explore something that's already been established. Maybe character X likes sunflowers. We don't know the reason why. So you create a headcanon that it's because they received a sunflower from a person they liked when they were younger. You are making something up, but it doesn't change the story.

However, if what you're saying has no basis in canon, then it's not a headcanon, it's an AU (alternative universe). It's not really a big deal, but you should understand the difference.

Maybe it’s just that I’m old school, but back in my day, even if you were doing a crack!ship, you still tried to keep the characters as close to their canon personalities as possible. You didn’t do a crack!ship just for the aesthetic, you did it because either a) you thought the characters could’ve actually worked as a couple, or b) you wanted to experiment with the dynamic of their actual personalities. That was the whole point: having to work your brain when writing a fic and still keeping them in character.

Back then, if the characters were going to act like the random guy next door, we all had the DECENCY to tag them as OoC. For example, I personally skipped every fic that had characters OoC because I wasn’t into that at all. But a lot of people were, and that way, everyone knew what they wanted to read and what not to. Same if someone made up half a character’s backstory , they had the DECENCY to tag it as an AU.

These kids spend their whole damn lives whining about fandom etiquette and how if you don’t tag anti-whatever it “ruins their fandom experience” or basically kills their vibe, but then they’re the first ones to have zero basic respect for anyone else and never tag their OoC or AU content. Their characters are literally OCs; they just slap the Marauders’ names on them so people will read it. And honestly? The day they start respecting fandom etiquette, I’ll start doing it too.

[eastical]

I swear the uprooted group has one braincell & booker has it almost 100% of the time

[ratshells]

why is leander hairless like actually… where is his body hair… as busy as he seems to be, does he really have time in his schedule to wax… like… WHERE IS HIS FUCKING BODY HAIR

[kcscribbler]

Re: the new TVA comic, cut to avoid spoilers.

(This is no comment on the validity of the idea in that comicverse or the quality of the comic itself, just personal rambling, analyzing why I'm not as excited about the idea as everyone else seems to be.)

Trying to figure out why I have such an immediate, visceral dislike for there being a statue(s?) of Loki in the TVA now. Not dislike for being memorialized, dislike of the physical statue itself. (And not because I went the route of a different memorialization here.)

I guess I would have loved to see them move away from the same kind of grandiose, worshipful idolatry motif that the TVA had under both He Who Remains and the Time-Keepers. Given how many similarities we saw the institution of the TVA have to that of an actual religious cult (and how much religious-esque trauma its agents are probably dealing with now), I think I was hoping to see them dismantle that a little more visibly, rather than just replacing a few posters on the walls (as seen in S2E6) and replacing one idol with another in the courtyards. Given the foreshadowing we got about statuary imagery at the world's fair, in particular, I would have liked to see them go a different route, I think.

Maybe it's my own religious trauma coloring it, but in my mind, the whole "what kind of god I need to be" I took to mean a selfless one; one that was not intended to be worshipped.

I hope we get to learn more about how that came about, though I know it's obviously not the focus of the comic.

Anyhow. New material is always fun, and I love that we're getting it, regardless. 💚💚

[con-the-kobold]

Oh no. I just made myself cry thinking abt rqg...

Just imagining Carter, Zolf, and Oscar finding a tiny goblin skeleton in Rome. Imagining Oscar immediately knowing it's Grizzop, feeling that terrible grief, but also... relief in finally finding him all these years later. Imagining Zolf, who never met Grizzop, breaking the news and comforting his friends as they grieve. Imagining the gut-wrenching conversation between Oscar, Azu, and Hamid. Imagining a funeral for someone who died thousands of years ago, held by people who barely even knew him.

And finally imagining Grizzop, only ten years old, only wanting to help the world, sacrificing himself for Sasha, and how a tiny goblin dying to save a friend did so much good. Imagining him finally getting the peace he deserves (even in death).

I fucking love Grizzop so much he literally made me cry so much...

[ewanmitchellcrumbs]

Hi @prumcgoway,

Trying to appeal to your sense of humanity, if you have one.

Ewan will likely never see the awful comments you have made today (most of which you've now deleted), regarding your own speculation of his sexuality, but I saw them and many others have.

I am part of the LGBTQ+ community; I'm bisexual. I found your comments so awful that they made me feel sick. I had to fight back tears.

You see, when you say that you find Ewan disgusting now because you think he's gay, you're saying that all gay people are disgusting because of their sexuality. Are you genuinely a bigot, or have you let your own parasocial relationship and hyperfixation become too intense? Please log off and seek some help.

Ewan has never commented publicly on his sexuality, and until he does, it's none of our business and not for us to assume. However, in the meantime, your comments are causing genuine harm to the fans of Ewan that are queer.

Would you disown a friend or family member if they came out to you? Your words carry weight and yours, whether intentional or not, are bigoted.

Please rethink your actions, and consider chatting through how you feel with a professional.

Signed,

A queer and incredibly bewildered owner of a Ewan Mitchell fan blog.

[rhyme-rambles]

Might be strange to say cause I've been really enjoying his POV but I'm quite happy Mumbo went out first. He's very silly. Also now Jimmy, Lizzie, & Mumbo are officially the First-Out trio, which feels correct to me

I hope people make Griangst out of this, what with Grian being seemingly more in control of the games than ever and his teammate & favorite little guy dying first.