#i Love fandom

[callonpeevesie]

I'm onto something I'm telling you

[exhuastedpigeon]

People talk about how if you really like someone's writing and you message them to talk about it, sometimes you become friends and they'll share fics with you early, which is true and one of the best feelings as a fan of someone's work.

But people should also talk about how amazing it is for the writer too, because now you have someone who you can share you work with and ask for feedback. They help make you better and that's so fucking neat.

Message your favourite writers about their fics! Talk to them about what they write! And when they ask you for feedback, be honest.

[certifiablyinsanez]

This post is dedicated to our favorite sexual sacrifice, Emberlynn Pinkle, and why she is an important character even if we never see her again. Let’s buckle in for a crazy character analysis of someone we’ve only seen for 4 minutes.

There are many facets of this short that hold importance, including but not limited to the mysterious pendant, any potential foreshadowing, parallels between Emberlynn and pre-Ozzie’s Stolas, etc. What I want to talk about is the character of Emberlynn herself and what is truly represents.

Many anti’s of the show are foaming at the mouth over her, particularly the fact that Emberlynn is a caricature of the Hellaverse fandom that was created specifically to make fun of us. Funnily enough, many of us who have been in actual fandom spaces are not unfamiliar with people like Emberlynn, and at some point, a fair number of us admit to being like her, which is the main thing I want to touch on.

People watering Emberlynn and the short down to a cheap shot at fandoms and fans of the show is intellectually lazy. It can be seen as a critique of peoples’ own biases considering many of us that have been in fandom spaces have done so for a long time. And it’s funny, because these people have been threatening to doxx fans, harm them, send messages to their bosses to get them fired, to schools so they’d lose scholarships, etc. The kind of people that would order a hit on us in hell…Many anti’s and people who are against cringe culture often participate in it unwittingly. Take for instance, the anti’s of the Hellaverse shows who dedicate entire blogs to picking apart everything from character interaction to even three second frames. They take over the tags associated with the fandom just so they can pump bitter content out, and are actively hostile when fans confront them over their weird behavior. Because fans of Helluva Boss or Hazbin Hotel are normally not the kind of people who would watch entire seasons, keep up on content and lore, or interact with actors and fandom over something they hate. We would just…not watch it and not interact. And it’s that kind of strange behavior that is intrinsic in fandom. Fandom spaces have forever had a dark side, that much is undeniable, but now more than ever there has been an influx of people unaccustomed and socially unequipped to participate and interact in the spaces that have been infesting it.

I have been in fandom spaces since 2013 and my first fandom was Hetalia. If you know you know. Many people in these spaces have been targeted for being “freaks” for years, but the areas where we have thrived, made friends and enjoyed ourselves was relatively untouched by the “normies”. That’s definitely changed in recent years, especially when the pandemic forced people who would normally socialize in other spaces come to ours. We all remember alt fashion blowing up in 2020 just for people to be finding entire wardrobes of it at goodwill not even 2 years later. And when they came in, they started adding rules and stipulations. They would allow themselves permission to interact with us weirdo outcasts, but only in a way that could give them plausible deniability later when they knew the trend wouldn’t last. They would enter a space that was nerdy and when furry iconography would show up they would whine about furries “making it weird” when it was already “weird”. They would dress and call themselves punk but still think it was important to listen to “both sides”. And when it comes to the Hellaverse, it’s popular, and entering the mainstream via Amazon picking up Hazbin, but if you’re not willing to be critical of its unsavory parts then you’re complicit in things like rape, violence, drug use, etc.

These people have infiltrated our community, which sounds extreme but when I remember it from my teen years vs now, I think these people genuinely would’ve combusted on sight. Like I said before, I was in the Hetalia fandom for many years. If you don’t remember, people were cosplaying as Germany and doing the Nazi salute at cons and concentration camps. It was bad. It was equivalent to our new blackface Alastor controversy. Back then, the fandom handled it ourselves. We all agreed that that was unacceptable behavior, and people would express disgust, but they were also productive. Fans would post about how we needed to realize that there was real history behind this show and that we needed to be mindful when participating in that environment. I saw many cosplayers altering their costumes to be more mindful. Germany cosplayers would refuse to wear iron cross, which isn’t even technically solely fascisitic in nature, but did it anyway because it was seen as respectful. I’ve seen a resurgence of the fandom on tiktok recently and all of us are allowing ourselves to enjoy it, because for years we had to pretend that we were stupid weirdos for liking it to begin with. Fandom has to allow itself to be cringe again, as it has been affected by people that are in an echo chamber of self righteousness and acceptability.

Getting back to Emberlynn, I have hardly ever seen a take off of a character like this. Even when it was shown that Baxter was coming in season 2 of Hazbin I saw maybe a handful of fan arts and videos. But Emberlynn has EXPLODED. I watched the short when it had been out for only 26 minutes, and within the hour my feeds across all social media were full of her.

I genuinely think that it’s because she is the epitome of fandom, where all of our cringe has been rolled into one character. Her self insert name is literally a reference to old fandom. She’s a proshipper, a selfshipper, she gets into shipping wars and has been fighting with people online for almost a decade. She said the pendant was from an episode “569”, which is strange wording because episodes aren’t usually formatted that way in any sort of media, which could potentially mean that she’s watched over 500 episodes of Akuma no Otto. Her room is full of pornographic material, figurines, the BODY PILLOW. I mean come on. Her parents are fully aware that she watches hentai. She was upstairs moaning and crying while interacting with Blitz and being stabbed and her parents did not go up to check on her, nor think it was out of the ordinary. She is pastel goth, a subset of the gothic culture, and writes self insert fanfiction. She’s A MONSTERFUCKER. HELLO?? When everyone in the Hellverse is as hot as they are…come on. When she dies and goes to hell her sinner form has furry influences. All of us love her because even if we were never fully like her (ie stalkerish, obsessive), we’ve been like her in some way at some point, or even now. I write fanfiction. I’m part of alternative fashion and culture. I’ve been into cringe stuff for a while. I’m not necessarily super into furry stuff, but I love the suits, the artistry and even had an idea for an oc once. My profile pic is literally my Sinner OC.

Emberlynn is a return to form for the standard of fandom spaces and I think to those of us that truly embrace the lifestyle, it’s refreshing. She does not exist in the realm of acceptability; she’s fat, intense and unapologetic. And yet, she’s still super hot, funny, and entertaining. We don’t love her because she’s a respectable fan, we adore her because she’s insane. I’m a cofounder of a Facebook group about being fans of the Vees and we all agree that she would actually do well with Valentino, because that cutie needs some disrespectful eldrich cock ASAP lol. It’s refreshing, and even if we never see her again, I still find her completely relevant and interesting.

Emberlynn Light’ness Demonanya Pinkle, you are PRECIOUS.

[notsanguineatall]

This is fandom done right

[garoujo]

selfship coded fics my beloved, selfship mood boards, selfship art, selfship blurbs, selfship first dates, seeing people leave selfship tags, other people’s selfships my beloved~

[strawberryben]

Hiiiii, I just want to share a creepypasta headcanon of mine.

I like to imagine that Ben's only communication with girls is with the girls in dating-sims because he lacks the social skills to talk to girls in real life (he's twelve, after all). And every time a girl wants to talk to him, he's super awkward and just starts saying whatever's on his mind (it doesn't end so well). And he likes to try to improve his social skills by playing these dating sims, but it doesn't really work.

So yeah, that's it from me. I wish you a nice day or a nice night or something like that:)

(i Had much fun making this^_^)

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

WHAT THE FUCK

[kennahjune]

I love it when people see a character with moles/freckles and just run with it.

Like Steve Harrington and Stiles Stilinski.

Are they actually covered in moles everywhere on their bodies? Probably not.

Are the fandoms going to run wild with the notion and write the most breathtaking paragraphs dedicated to just their mole-dotted skin? Absolutely.

It makes me feel sm better abt my own moles and freckles :)

[mollyjimbly]

im just feeling amazed at the internet and how anyone can make a story and then a whole multiverse can grow from it, so many different ideas and au's and gorgeous things and memories. you can practically build an entire universe right inside your head.

im looking directly at you humans are space orcs ❤️ /pos

[laylawatermelon]

I can't wait till the next half of the world wake up.

The big brains of this fandom meta and videos will be delicious.

[forget-me-not-automaton]

Y’know I think it would be really nice if I could get into something that DIDNT have like 30 works tops on AO3 just once please oh my god just like,,, for a moment for a second for a sliver of a-

[mysticwastelandkitten]

I love those fanfic authors that do not give a fuck.

Those authors that take the original story and twist it however they want- to the point where it's like not even the same story anymore.

Yeah that orphan? He's got two loving parents and a twin brother now. Why? Cuz I said so.

Why are the Powerpuff girls in my Batman fanfiction? Why tf not.

The entire cast are now cats. Yes, this fanfic will be 100k+ words.

These authors have a freedom I'll never have. It's why even though I don't like coffee shop AUs I believe it takes a special kind of person to look at a Dark Fantasy novel and go "These mfs should work a 9 to 5".

[spookberry]

I think its quite fun watching fanfic genres develop and change. I like being able to mentally catalog what tropes people lean on most, what ships are most common? How do people tend to characterize certain aspects of the lore? Are there any similarities in the way authors choose to bend a universe in order for a crossover to work?

One time I'd mentioned I'd read every single young justice x danny phantom fic available on ao3(at the time anyways) to a friend and he asked what people shipped and i just started Listing Them. And it was great!!

I know so much about the general trends of how people used to sort Hiccup into hogwarts houses on fanfic.net

I have read so many voltron chat fics and they all overuse memes from 2017 to a painful degree

Do you know how many people shipped Danny Phantom with Raven from Teen Titans? Too many, imo. But even more made him into robins long lost twin.

[certifiablyinsanez]

My ADHD creative juices are flowing, appropriately at 4am, and I just daydreamt of a means to meld my two loves of fandom and spirituality: hear me out.

I make a rad ass cosplay of Clawneck, and get a spot at a con. I set up a tent with little decorations of the shiny moons and stars with (fake) candles everywhere, just like Clawneck’s tent. If I really feel like being unreasonable about this, I could make a COTL themed tarot deck (tbh I probably would just use my regular tarot cards and sell prints of COTL themed cards (probably my own designs) that are based off the major arcana. Like, if a reading with someone revealed that they need more patience I would give them the temperance card. Maybe with a channeled piece of wisdom on back to make it unique to each person. I’m a wood carver. I could make little moon and star earrings and paint them gold. Have a book on a podium nearby with descriptions of the cards and on the other side have it be a sort of “pick your random card to aid you on your crusade” make game accurate camellias and real crystals for sale to decorate the space like his camp. Not to make it sound all business-y but that sounds like so much fun to me, I think I would finally enjoy my work 😅. I don’t know about legalities and copyrights I’m just a dreamer lol.

[beprimedfordancing]

so upset that my favorite characters are trapped in a video game like wdym there isn't a show with an infinite number of episodes all about specifically mk11 sub-zero 😞😞 ... I get why fanfiction was invented

[lauramkaye]

today in "Things That Made Me Laugh So Much I Needed My Inhaler"

So for ADHD-related reasons, I listen to music A Lot throughout the day, and sometimes I get in a mood and I want something that has a Certain Vibe but it's not exactly any of my existing playlists, so I'll go on spotify and search for a ship name in the playlist search and see what people have put together.

The other day I did this for "bagginshield" (aka Bilbo Baggins/Thorin fic LOOK I KNOW WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE IN THE CARTOON BUT MOVIE THORIN IS A STONE HOTTIE OKAY DON'T JUDGE ME).

I was listening to this playlist, and it was very much A Vibe, you know, like there was a whole Hozier/Mitski/indie-folk/Vaguely-Celtic Mood going on, lots of minor keys and string arrangements and plaintive melodies about blood on the fresh-fallen snow and following your lover even unto death and the like, and that one Phoebe Bridger cover of the song about the gold mine changing someone that I THINK is actually about somebody's dad but the lyrics just work too well for That One Incident With The Choking so everyone still uses it, so far so good. I'm vibing. And then from out of nowhere I hear something that sounds like... a warped vinyl record playing some kind of out of tune calliope over tuba blorps... and I was like... no. Surely not. Surely this isn't...

Friends, it was. In the Tragic Doomed Love Playlist, about 2/3 of the way through, sandwiched between two plaintive Tragic Doomed Love Ballads like an unexpected clown nose in a slice of cherry pie, was Leonard Nimoy's 1968 novelty song "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins."

I do not judge anyone for enjoying this song. But I cannot help but wonder whether its inclusion was a cheeky, deliberate move on the part of the playlist maker, or if they had included it based on the name alone, being unfamiliar with the song. And if it was the latter, I could not help imagining the absolute vibe-obliterating moment when the transition occurred.

Anyway I laughed so hard I gave myself an asthma and had to take my inhaler but it was WORTH IT.

For reference, if anyone is unfamiliar, the song in question: