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Why do you think there’s a pattern of Theseus being abusive/overly aggressive in Fantastic Beasts fanfic? It’s been driving me up the wall trying to find Newt and Theseus fanfic that doesn’t make them OOC especially Theseus, and idk, in the context of Newt being Autistic I find it disturbing. Like sure, Theseus is hot-headed and loses his temper, he doesn’t always understand Newt, but those traits seem overtly exaggerated in a lot of fandom content.
Obsessed with this ask. I have been thinking about it all day, and am just now getting to write it up! Thinking about it in the background of my statistics class almost singularly got me through its sensory and anxiety hell. /sweat-laugh emoji/ So thank you!
Please remember, all of this is based on my own perspectives, knowledge, and headcanons, as well as canon clues. Nothing here is definitive and is open for respectful conversation! (Not directed specifically at you, salamander, just since this is a public blog I like to cover my bases. ^_^)
Buckle up: major autistic info dump incoming
Alright, so, my initial thoughts are that...
Obviously, there was a decent chunk of Newt fic written between 2016 and 2018 before CoG came out, that first film where we really got to see Theseus as a character, for who he really is (especially since they cut that letter from him to Newt at beginning of FBWTFT, that starts with "little brother," which is just pretty endearing). IMHO, this two-year gap means people had a wide open playing field to build the character themselves. Here's a few thoughts on that:
The framework for the entire Wizarding World, narratively, is the Harry Potter series. Boy wizard, shunned by family, isolated from socialization -- Outcasts have always been the backbone of She-who-must-not-be-named's stories. It's compelling. We love it, we lap it up. With only one FB film out before 2018 and Newt being such a unique protagonist, I think it's likely people fell back on the more typical Harry-Dudley trope to create a compelling backstory for Newt, using that tried-and-true fantasy Cinderella-type trope.
Second, from what I can tell, there was a lot less serious consideration of Newt actually being autistic in the early years of the fandom. (I only "joined" relatively recently myself, despite going to the first 2 movies on opening day, but I'm nothing if not fastidious in consuming every scrap of historical content when I develop a new interest, lol.) I've read pages of threads and plenty of "think pieces" attributing Newt's behavior to trauma-related social anxiety and/or his profession as a magizoologist. I absolutely buy the latter (adjusting body language for one's profession), but not entirely the former. (Personally, Newt doesn't strike me as an inherently anxious person--he strikes me as an inherently autistic one who also sometimes experiences anxiety. Discomfort and anxiety aren't the same thing, but people often conflate them, imho.) Anyway, THAT BEING SAID, I've noticed in quite a few fics that people write Theseus as being part of that implied social trauma, via sibling bullying that rises beyond typical sibling harassment. People perhaps tried to explain Newt's behavior by making him, at the very least, overshadowed by Theseus (and ashamed of it) or, at the very worst, abused and/or neglected by his family.
Also, quite simply: people process their own family trauma via fic. I think it's highly likely Theseus just served a sibling or parental role for some people in stories. (The abundance of abusive!Thranduil fic in the LotR fandom in the early 00s is another example of this.) Nothing wrong with using fic to process feelings and life experiences (god knows I do, it's horrifically obvious and always has been lmao), but this bulletpoint is still one explanation for the pre-CoG "Theseus being a dick in fic" phenomenon.
Plus, fanfic doesn't occur in a vacuum. Even when new canon info comes out, existing fic and whatever the going/contemporary fanon is often impact how new writers write their characters, even post-CoG. (And how those characterizations are received by the larger fandom--that reception may subsequently impact how writers maintain or change their characters in the future, imho.)
As for the current reasons Theseus is often OOC in post-CoG fic...
Well, I have my theories, but I am also not entirely sure. However, I feel pretty confident it has to do, primarily, with points 1 and 4.
Leta Lestrange and the Scamander Brothers - Honestly, I think people likely are pretty offended on Newt's behalf for the Leta/Theseus marriage. In mainstream media, we're kind of trained to think that dating your friend's ex is ultimate betrayal--it's difficult for people to imagine a world in which a person who marries their brother's ex is a good person. (...I was once in a friend group where we had all dated the same girl at some point, but we were all either ridiculously honest or autistic so we just--wait for it--talked about it and moved on.) That being said, I never read Leta & Newt as overtly romantic (then again, I also didn't know Bunty liked Newt until the 4th time I watched CoG), so I don't entirely get this one to the degree that I think some people viscerally feel this. But I expect some people see that and assume it says something much larger about Theseus' character than it does. (I do think it says a lot about Theseus that he loves Leta, but I don't think it says the same things about him that some other people do -- I think it speaks more to his similarities to Newt [compassion and positive outlook] than it does to stealing Newt's Hogwarts sweetheart. But I digress.)
Something Did Happen at Some Point - Now, there is undeniably a distance between the brothers that we, as viewers, don't necessarily know the origin of. (So I think I may have mentioned in my letters that [my brother & I] have quite a complicated relationship. // Does he want to kill you? // Frequently.) Have they always been like that? Is it new? Is it because of the age difference? Because they have different personalities? (Though I will argue until I'm blue in the face that they're actually extraordinarily similar people, at their cores.) Is it because Newt got expelled, or because Theseus scooped up Leta, or because Theseus expresses emotion through touch & Newt jerks away from touch he doesn't initiate himself, or because because because because because? I don't know. But there is something there and, based on the "complicated relationship" comment, it sounds like it is something that likely developed over time. So imho - I think some people see that and just lean in way too hard. Like, pedal to the medal, 0 to 60 too hard.
Theseus is Snarky to Newt on Multiple Occasions - Mostly based around how Newt directs his life, carries himself, etc etc. For example, it would be easy to take that whole scene before and after Newt's travel hearing in CoG and assume Theseus is an overprotective, condescending, and ableist prick. But if we look below the surface (and the stage directions in the screenplay help, too. When he says "maybe a little less... / like me. / well, it can't hurt" the instructions say 'not without fondness', or something like that), it's pretty glaringly obvious he doesn't mean to be that way. Even condescending behaviors usually have causal correlates, even if we can't see them on the surface. (Believe me -- and this is something we both touched on in DMs, salamander, I'm just repeating for the sake of the ask -- well-meaning pep talks and encouragement can still drip with condescension when loved ones think you need guidance because they "love you and know better " and you're just too autistic or too idealistic or too naive or whatever.) Ultimately, whether due to a failure to approach these snarky exchanges with grace and nuance, or because it can make a good fic to put brothers at odds, IDK -- but I expect this particular point plays into some people's decisions to interpret Theseus in a way I view as OOC.
Ease of Narrative ~ Nuance is hard - I mean, this one explains itself. Writing characters in a nuanced manner that allows digging into the messy horrible confusion of relationships--embedded as they are within families and societies and personal & general history--is not easy. It takes not only patience and significant effort as a writer, but it also takes a degree of self-awareness and maturity that we all reach at different points. I'm not there yet myself (there's no real arrival -- life's not a perfect graph), but still: My fic writing is very different now at 32 (with 14 years of 'adulthood' and 12 years of therapy under my belt) than it was when I was writing about adults when I was 15. (And, yes, I still have my first posted HP fic up on MuggleNet and FFnet, so you don't just have to take my word for it lmao.) To be very clear, this isn't me being ageist or whatever: I'm just saying that I often get the sense while reading fic where Theseus is reallllly overly aggressive that the writer is sometimes either very new to creative writing (and good for them! we love new writers! keep writing, lovelies!), or else quite young, and thus still acquiring life experience that is going to improve their work as they age, every single day.**
Sibling Experience - Not having personal or narrative experience with an age gap like Newt and Theseus have. I'm an older sibling by 7.5 years, which is close to Theseus & Newt's age difference. I basically half-raised my younger brother, so I have a real soft spot for that kind of sibling relationship, which comes across in most of my fics (LotR & FB). It's hard to imagine the sort of borderline sibling-parental love, responsibility, and anxiety that can permeate those kind of relationships if you haven't experienced or seen it represented in media yourself. This is just a theory, of course---I have no actual data on this being actually related to his OOCness.
What else? What do you or others think?
Final very random thought
I also think a lot of people forget that autism runs in families. So yes, Theseus doesn't always "get" Newt (god, no, lol) and he doesn't have guidance on what to do when he doesn't, but it is highly unlikely he hasn't seen behavior similar to Newt's before, whether in a parent or cousins, an aunt/uncle or something else. People *also* tend to forget, IMHO, that subclinical traits are often present in direct family members of an autistic person--Theseus' rigid thinking, for example, isn't necessarily "autistic", but he may get Newt better than people think for certain reasons we never have an opportunity to see in the script. (Not that the movies are paying *that* much attention to the actual research or autism presentations lmao, but I'm just saying it is a possibility). Being able to relate to a smaller version of someone's struggles can simultaneously make one both a better support and a worse one in a lot of ways. (And certain autistic traits can even rub up against each other poorly in different people--I have a few acquaintances that rub me the wrong way because our "symptoms" manifest in very different ways and their natural behavior triggers some of my own sensory issues or overdeveloped sense of justice or whatever. Conversely, my ADHD tendency to be 20 minutes late to every hang gives one of my autistic friends a panic attack every time -- I feel terrible, but all we can both do is try to adjust the behavior around our symptoms. And sometimes the same traits--firmly held beliefs, for example--bump into each other explosively, which I have experienced in fandom myself: two autistic people w diametrically opposing views interacting, but because we process information in similar ways even with very different perspectives, no progress can be made before someone shuts down.) BUT I BRING THIS UP BECAUSE, I do think it's possible to headcanon that some of Newt and Theseus' conflict (which does exist) could even be rooted in differing forms of neurodivergence or presentation of subclinical symptoms.
The world is a big place and there's so many possibilities. These are just some of my thoughts on why Theseus is often portrayed in a way I find to be OOC!
Asterisked footnote under cut -
**I'm trying to convey what Sandra Cisneros does much better in her short story "Eleven." That we, all of us, carry our entire lives and what we have seen inside of us at all times, and I think that's what we bring to our writing.
What they don’t understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you’re eleven, you’re also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one. And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don’t. You open your eyes and everything’s just like yesterday, only it’s today. And you don’t feel eleven at all. You feel like you’re still ten. And you are—underneath the year that makes you eleven. Like some days you might say something stupid, and that’s the part of you that’s still ten. Or maybe some days you might need to sit on your mama’s lap because you’re scared, and that’s the part of you that’s five. And maybe one day when you’re all grown up maybe you will need to cry like if you’re three, and that’s okay. That’s what I tell Mama when she’s sad and needs to cry. Maybe she’s feeling three. Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one. That’s how being eleven years old is.
#answered asks#salamanderscamander#apologies in advance for any typos#anyone can reblog but i ask that you do so with good intentions and respectfully communicate#:)#boundary: i am not open to having discussions about my continued participation in the fantastic beasts fandom - thank you#fantastic beasts#newt scamander#theseus scamander#autistic newt scamander#big brother theseus scamander#scamander brothers#fb fandom#fantastic beasts fanfic#fantastic beasts headcanons#fantastic beasts meta#long post#also i'm sorry for using so much medical model terminology -- i'm in a human dev phd program and my vocabulary is a horrific mezcla of#self-advocacy language & research language - its not ideal i know
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Okay if that is the title I need to read it ASAP
It was all clark's doing 😂
#dc#clark kent#bruce wayne#batman#superman#dc comics#old comics#dc fandome#kelly callen#ive heard about these#but i got this off of an#fb page btw its called#batman's notes on fb
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Hey if any of you have a Facebook account, starting next month they're gonna use people's accounts to train AI. It's an opt-out thing, you have to fill out a form and if they decide your reason to refuse this isn't good enough, they might ignore it.
#facebook#at this point I'm tempted to just delete facebook but i'm working on a fandom project and need fb to communicate with the group#i hate this
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If you are more bothered by people pointing out that your favorite celebrity looks unhappy or upset than by them actually potentially being unhappy or upset (for whatever reason), you might want to ask yourself why that is...
#feels like i'm seeing a lot of this lately#such as being told to 'fuck off' in a GO FB group tonight#it's strange to see people less concerned about their faves actually being unhappy or upset#and more concerned about attacking the people who are pointing it out#curiouser and curiouser#but i will leave it to my followers to make up their own minds#fandom woes#discourse
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y'all have no clue how wild it is to live in my timeline, because 12 years ago i was a huge fan of these cute lil' zelda strips and at the time i found out through the grapevine that the creator apparently stopped making these comics because they had started drawing NSFW content-
and at the time i was like "oh ok that's wild but respect"
and now in the present the artist who's making the OMORI manga adaption is under fire for being a shota fetishist and it's putting the spotlight back on the OMORI creator themselves for ALSO being a shota fetishist and oh my god the omocat who made those zelda comics over a decade ago is the same omocat who went on to make OMORI holy shit-
#small fucking world jfc#and yeah maybe i'm the last person to cross the finish line here but listen#i hadn't thought about those zelda comics in AGES#not until i came across one of them in my FB memories#because i've been on FB so long now that some of my memories are like 15 years old#and as soon as i saw the artist credit i was like HOLD the fucking phone there's no WAY#anyways there's some wild shit happening in the omori fandom ig#i've only completed the whole game once and honestly i loved it but i haven't really participated in the greater fandom#and i can very much see what people are getting at lmao#especially with the manga jfc#why would you make a manga adaption of a game that's largely driven by a self-insert-style main character#never mind the fact that it completely removes the soundtrack which is like half of what made omori so memorable ffs#even without the shota shit a manga version of OMORI is still. just not something we needed lmao#bad dumb stupid idea
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….what?
#asoiaf#asoiaf/hotd#house of the dragon#milquetoastasoiaf#I should know better than to go on fb for fandom content but jesus christ
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Today I learned that the Hershey Bears hockey team yearly experiences a Teddy Bear Toss. When the team scores their first goal of the evening, the lights dim and the crowd goes absolutely wild and throws tens of thousands (nearly 75,000 this year) stuffed animals onto the ice, disrupting the game for as long as it takes to clear the rink (40 minutes this year). The stuffed animals are then donated to 30+ local organizations, including schools and food banks and at least two of their local autism societies.
They began doing this in 2001 and with this year's yield, have collected over 350,000 plushies to donate.
#good things#news#good news#I'm not in the hockey fandom#but I hope they know about this and have a good time with it#a video of it showed up on my FB page#and gosh humans just love having fun huh#Youtube
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Guess that hasn't changed 🤣💀
#fairy tail#mirajane strauss the demon slayer on fb#mirajane strauss#lucy heartifilla#gray fullbuster#ft warren#ft 100yq#fairy tail 100 years quest#ft 100 years quest#fairy tail anime#fairy tail fandom
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Whether you wanna admit it's true or not
the only reason Elain is hated is because, like in every other fandom ever, the feminine, kind, sweet woman is overhated for being "boring" all because she chose to overcome her trauma in a healthy way without turning into a raging bitch who takes out her anger on those around her and shows kindness and love to people instead.
anyways, can't wait for Elain's book and for everyone to see what a badass she truly is. for being strong and amazing when everyone constantly underestimates you
#elain archeron#acotar#i said what i said#idk the fandom is just awful to her and like there's absolutely no reason to hate her other than she's nice 😒#also everyone really sleeping on the fact that she did 99% of the work in killing hybern but Nesta gets all the credit like okay#she'd be dead if it wasn't for elain but okay#ugh i've been seeing too much elain hate since i joined an acotar shitposting group on fb#there's probably more here too but whatever#come at me bitches#i am pro elriel and elain archeron
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(trying to make DN fandom friends on FB)
me: hello
(several 'near is a bad copy of L / should've lost to light / an ipad kid / actually a child' posts appear in a row)
me: ah! nevermind actually
#I saw bad takes on near and immediately ran over here where I know it's (slightly more) safe lmao#LISTEN i know FB isn't exactly the world's best place to engage in fandom#but there's literally no easier way to find DN mutuals who live in the same country as me 😭😭#I just wanna cosplay DN with people I'm getting desperate lowkey HAHAHSHDBDJF#I have so many cosplay mutuals and either they don't care/know about DN#or I've already tried to invite them in some way and they never followed up with me 🕴️#I just wanna go as mello for a halloween event this month already I dying to cosplay him since most of his cos is already complete 😭#clawing at the walls of my enclosure#someone cosplay DN with me before I lose it 🕴️🕴️🕴️#elle is talking again
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DAY 2 OF COMIFURO!!!! I BOUGHT LOTS OF WHITNEY MERCH!!!! which ill show on the next post cuz rn this post is about.....
.....you guessed it, the dOL COSPLAYERS!!!!!!!!!
I HAD TO WALK AROUND A LOT TO FIND DOL COSPLAYERS, ITS SO HARD TO FIND THEM IN SUCH A BIG ASS CON BUT IT WAS WORTH THE WALK (my legs are in pain)
THE LAST ONE IS VERY SPECIAL BECAUSE ITS @dollya-robinprotector'S FEMALE ROBIN DESIGN IN COSPLAY KYAA
(dollya, i send her my regards for u, reminder; she loves ur art frfr)
uhhh there were actually around 3-4 robins i think i forgor but i only managed to find the female robin out of those 3-4 robins so rip to the other robin sobs (apparently there was also 2 alex but they were yesterdays and i missed them so man,,,,)
AND HERE ARE OTHER NON DOL COSPLAYERS:
ALBEDO, APHELIOS, CAYN????, KAGURA, GIBBY FROM HOLOARMIS, MY BBYBOI RAI GALILEI VTUBER, RIDDLE, AND KEITO(MY FB MUTUAL)
i have no shame istg, ight time to flex the whitney merch soon dies
#very sane meeku behaviour#comifuro#dol#dol whitney#whitney the bully#dol robin#robin the orphan#dol sydney#sydney the faithful#sydney the fallen#dol kylar#kylar the loner#dol eden#eden the hunter#dol bailey#bailey the caretaker#degrees of lewdity#and other fandoms that im STILL embarrassed to tag about#OTSUFURO TO ME; MY FEET HURTS AND ARE IN PAIN#SEE YOU NEXT COMIFURO#HOPEFULLY NEXT COMIFURO I GET TO HANGOUT WITH A FB MOOT FR THIS TIME#ITS A LIL LONELY ALL ALONE W MY DAD TAKING PICS FOR ME SOBS
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PSA
I love the Star Trek fandom community and its boundless creativity. That said, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect and give proper attribution when your work is inspired by other artists or a particular niche. There is an unfortunate tendency to steal ideas and posts without giving credit, which is both unfortunate and disingenuous
Part of being in a community is how you engage with other members of that community, and underhanded behavior does not get us any closer to a Starfleet future
"The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based, and if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth... you don't deserve to wear that uniform." -Jean Luc Picard
#give credit where credit is due#it's one thing if it's a corporation but none of us are famous#many of us are scraping by#Art theft is especially egregious#especially when people have built up their corner for years and someone takes it and pretends it's their own#this was inspired by one AU in particular#not about the behavior of any of my mutuals btw#related tangents that would hijack a post are different#I will find that fb reposter one day#been scraping blog names lately#idk people have taken my ideas before and it sucks every time even if it's a shit post#I went through a bunch of plagiarism trainings and well a lot of this kind of behavior is straight up plagiarism#I try my best it doesn't mean I always do it well but you gotta at least be forthright about these things#I typically don't like subtweeting but this applies to quite a few people#also since tumblr is the internet's incubator posts from here are posted elsewhere then people put the screenshot back on here#Star Trek#fandom#idk come for my mutuals I might come for you just saying
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i'm so tired of the way FB treats black women
#and i'm also tired of this fandom either encouraging it or defending FB by saying 'there's white villains too!' like...come on now#litg#love island the game#litg season 9#litg s9#litg all stars
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En un nuevo episodio de 'Joyitas que se encuentran en FB', obvio que los fangroups de Checo iban a estar subiendo contenido para apoyar Chestappen después de lo que pasó, pero esta imagen se ha robado mi corazón, jajaja.
Que bueno que entre toda la negatividad, al menos sigamos con la esquizofrenia de estos dos juntos, aunque nos digan delulu 🫢 (y si, a mi edad, aun uso estos eufemismos juveniles para estar en onda).
#f1#goodwood 2024#sergio perez#checo perez#max verstappen#chestappen#joyitas de FB#alimentando la esquizofrenia del fandom
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MY FRIEND @lovethedanielhd drew my blorbos!
I love them so much 😭💖
#He drew Tella super cute I love it 😭#ALSO IT'S FUNNY CAUSE#even my friend was like: I'm pretty sure you're the only one in the (BillyTella) fandom#AND MAYBE SO BUT#I LOVE THEM SO MUCH#Also he knows NOTHING of Undead Unluck#just my crazy rants on FB gsjagsjsh#BillyTella#Billy Alfred#UU Tella#uu spoilers#since it's current loop#undead unluck
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When people say Jason should've stayed dead
#came across an#article if jason should've stayed dead#20 yesrs ago#and the first few comments on fb#i saw oh 😠#dc#batman#jason todd#batman fandom#dc fandome
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