#fanon-accepted-canon ones

[poisonouspastels]

I think a lot about the fact that Herobrine as a creepypasta initially was not malicious at all. Like literally he was just some guy who made very specific tunnels, cut leaves off trees and built pyramids in your world, all weird things but really not harmful. Like his worst crime was telling someone on a forum to fuck off when they kept talking about him. But then with time there's been all this additional detail added on like the redstone torches and traps and shrines and he's seemingly gotten more aggressive as an entity within writing and other media. Like he'll actively go out of his way to hinder the player in game or in some depictions irl in some way. All of this is to say I think the more we tried to figure out Herobrine and shit the more we pissed him off a little. Give the man some space I'm sure he's tired of the 12 year olds trying to summon him every other day. EDIT: Please check out my Minecraft AU if you like MC stuff like this, I put a lot of work into it with my partner.

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Every time I consume another Sonic game I become more and more aware of the extent that which the Sonic fandom has played a long game of telephone for canon (or "accepted as canon" for fanon) knowledge with like. Maybe 1% having actually even watched a cutscene comp at least for the thing

[mando-din-lorian]

I was so worried that they were going to full on write Din’s covert off as an actual cult this is season, and I’m so so happy that’s not that case so far.

I think there’s so much more nuance to Din’s covert that a lot of fandom don’t give it credit for. I swear, some of ya’ll act like Din is being held captive by his covert (and Bo too after the recent episode) and it’s like…they’re not.

The Armorer literally told Bo that she’s been redeemed by the way of their Creed and if she WANTS to she can join them (for however long she wants to be there), but she is free to leave any time she desires. No one is going to hold her captive there.

Same with Din. Yes, he broke his creed and became an apostate, but they didn’t hunt him down and strip him of his armor. This is the Way they follow and they’ve survived so long—have been together so long—because they stuck to is to rigidly. I love how faithful Din is to his Way. I love how much it means to him. The covert is his family. Of course he’s going to fight for it.

I don’t know, some peoples relationship with Din’s covert in this fandom is weird. Like yeah, it’s not perfect, but it’s not a full-blown cult keeping all its members locked away from the rest of the galaxy. They’re a people on the brink of extinction and doing what they can to survive.

I just think we’ve gone so long with just fanon content that it’s skewing perception on canon content.

[saym0-0]

so the mechs totally speak a pidgin language of all their native languages right. we can agree on this right. their accents are a horrific mashup of all their original ones too, to the point where every single word they say sounds heavily accented to a native speaker of the language that word came from, even if its the mech that was originally a native speaker of that language. does this make sense at all?? they're just a linguistic mess i think they deserve it

[deus-ex-mona]

such is the tale of a ✨chronically online hypocrite✨

[thatswhatsushesaid]

[vermillioncrown]

at the risk of sounding butthurt for talking about not being butthurt: going through quals really prepared me for trawling through fandom meta and research while keeping my zen

[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

I KEEP GETTING RECOMMENDED SO MANY DRAMIONE TWEETS HELP

I don't understand where they're all cOMING FROOMM why do they all HATE ASTORIA WHAT DID MY GIRL DO TO YALL BFFR LEAVE HER ALONE 🗣🗣

[cryptvokeeper]

rip kuina one piece you would have lost your fuckin MIND over Rebecca

[basicallyjaywalker]

*cracks knuckles* well if I'm gonna work on my OCs and now that someone's reminded me how actually tragic Echo is

Let's talk about Jasmine and her relationship with Echo

I feel like they would get really close if they ever met. I think Julien would tell Echo about her in a way he wouldn't tell Zane because he was scared Zane would tell others someday. Echo won't ever leave the lighthouse, so he can't tell anyone. He would know about Julien's other child, but he would figure it's Zane, the one he replaced. When they meet, once they figured out they were related, I think Echo would realize and want to tell Jasmine what he knows. Julien wanted to know her but couldn't. He left her because it's what was best for her. I think Echo would want to imagine Julien left him for those kinds of reasons too.

I think they would bond over being abandoned by Julien. Jasmine before she was born, Echo long after. I think they'd each envy each other, in a way. They both resent him (even if they won't admit it), but Jasmine resents him never being there. Echo resents him being there so much, only to leave him. Echo would fill in the gaps for Jasmine on who he was, while Echo is more eager to hear about the life Jasmine lived in the wide world, especially on her own.

I think they'd have a super close bond, I think they should visit Jasmine's home and have a snowball fight, I think she should take him to Borg Industries and watch Echo go starry eyed at all the cool technology, I think Jasmine would help replace his rusted gears and wires with ones that won't deteriorate as easily, i think she'd teach him how to garden and befriend animals and i think echo would be so thrilled to get away from the sea

I think if Echo and Jasmine ever got to meet, they'd find a comfort in each other and a confidant about some of their issues that no one else could provide

[ninjasmudge]

[slides in]

hope youre doing well, this is your excuse to talk about something you've been waiting for someone to ask about, any topic

THIS IS YOUR FAULT FOR MAKING ME THINK ABOUT TRANSFORMERS AGAIN its one of my favourite franchises bc there are really NOT MANY characters who i am neutral on or dont like. ive singled out dozens of tf characters over the years to be the fave for a bit and rotated them in my brain for a few months, its actually easier to list the characters that i dont like than the ones i do. i do have some favs but theres stil like. 10 that i couldnt choose between. probably soundwave, sunstreaker, ratchet, vortex, deathsaurs, tracks, steeljaw (rid), spinister (idw), perceptor, fort max, skywarp, thATS MORE THAN 10 ALREADY BUT U GET IT

i actually have 5-6 a4 notebooks just FULL of transformers drawings, little comics of g1 episodes and character designs and stuff, its all from a few years ago before i started digital art but i should really redraw some of it bc ill never get tired of transformers.

and actually, i was wondering what to draw today so MAYBE some transformers stuff. i loved g1 for how absolutely insane it was, ive never seen a show with so many lines said like jokes that were just. not jokes and usually made GENUINELY no sense. not sure i ever laughed at a joke in that show but i do remember being in literal tears over animation errors, wild lines, weird noises, and plotlines that make no sense whatsoever. do not watch g1 with hopes of getting it, but i do watch it to laugh at the show itself

[nintendouinorbit]

Crusty musty Joshua drawing

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Ngl it's weird finishing the Knuckles tv show and going to tumblr about it only for people (even who I consider bigger name fans) who also watched the entire show to claim that it "confirmed Knuckles Wachowski"

Like

I'm sorry

Did you somehow miss the part in the last episode where Knuckles had a whole montage of hanging with the Whipple family and Wade and saying "home" or something?

[onewomancitadel]

Expanding my aside from this post here about coding.

The cinematic weight (and consequentially cultural weight) of 'coding' comes as a consequence of the Hayes Code (although there are arguably other contexts applicable beyond the scope of this post e.g. in antiquity). It was considered indecent and immoral to depict gay characters, or at the very least without giving them a summarily unhappy ending, and this is where the Bury Your Gays trope has its home. Films such as Lawrence of Arabia were seriously considered to be borderline pushing the envelope on how much to 'code' for with Lawrence (and if you have any interest in Dune, I really recommend Lawrence of Arabia to get a better picture of the inspiration on the books and the later film adaptation(s)), where it was known he was portrayed as gay without it explicitly being said. But as a consequence, for anybody who is familiar with this topic, coding was often alright to be associated with villains either to condemn those villains, or tacitly portray LGBT+ characters.

I'm skipping over a lot of history here, but the usage of 'coding' now effectively refers to interpretive work on part of the viewer or actual subliminal character work. When it comes to something like R/WBY, do you think they would have to (with great intentions) skirt around coding I/ronwood as autistic? Sure, we can start talking about implicit characterisation, but calling it intentional 'coding' from the get-go is dangerous (and imo, if they did actually do such, achieving such through transparently borderline offensive 'coding' e.g. associating autism with ideology, either on part of the fandom or the writers is a disaster). Really it is a product of desire.

But given that I see 'coding' used in outright bizarro homophobic ways in fandom I guess this is no surprise (no, posing male characters near fruit does not make them, quote, 'fruit', a notable gay slur; yes this was a real post I read in a major shipping fandom) that this sort of applicable, useful parlance is used for self-involved ends. Be it well-meaning or not.

If something is coded, is that substantial character work? If it's not read into, is it really there? Those are actually interesting questions to me, because any neurodivergent coding with I/ronwood that's supposedly there doesn't coherently hold up as calling it, equally, weighted representation. If you sympathise with I/ronwood because you feel like it's similar to your experience of neurodivergence, sure, that's not the point I'm taking issue with; I'm taking issue with headcanons, and 'coding', as disputed textual weight.

In addition to that I don't really thinking 'coding' (in the sense originally used) is actually something that's really necessary or perhaps even... acceptable. 'Coding' was a way to express ideas without the opportunity to do so. So what are the present things stopping that now if the Hayes Code is out? When it comes to I/ronwood himself, why am I disputing headcanons as opposed to disputing the acceptability of his ideology within the R/WBYworld and storytelling? I know why, because his character has very specific ends about the way Salem is supposed to be dealt with and what the resolution of the story is. That is not entering the conversation.

As a final remark, yes, linguistic drift happens. This is a feature of all language, and sometimes jargon migrates. But in the case of 'coding', it comes with a specific set of assumptions about a storyteller's intentions and the climate of that storytelling, and the requisite work to understand what the character is truly saying; if coding is used as argument for why a story's conclusions are inappropriate, I need to take it very seriously indeed. So even if I might ordinarily agree that you can't help the way terms are applied, I still have to take it on the terms that it's applied in this case. What makes coding 'coding' hasn't fundamentally altered, just its application and context has.

[da-gamingojichan]

have u ever considered making nyo itager yuri?

**looks around** for money... i will draw le yuri. IM TOO MUCH OF A FAGGOT I NEED AT LEAST ONE MAN INVOLVED OR ELSE IT CANT HOLD MY ATTENTION.