#i hate FANDOM

[alsethwisson]

I have THOUGHTS about how Tolkien, despite being very conservative, made deliberate choices to correct his earlier works into less sexist and racist direction...and how it all is thrown out of the window by ostensibly progressive Tumblr fandom.

It's mostly the female characters, of course. Haleth is the worst victim, but oh my what they do to poor Nerdanel.

Again, they take a female character deliberately written as her own person independent of her spouse - a character based at least in part on Christopher's wife Tolkien was good friends with... and turn her into an accessory for a male character.

Honestly when have you last seen a fic where she is allowed to keep her own views and not run to Feanor at first call?

[godalyn]

People are already at Lilith's throat while we barely know anything about her or why she's in Heaven. I've seen some of y'all tear her to shreds or say she's horrible and ugly and "doesn't deserve Lucifer" as if Lucifer wasn't estranged from his daughter for years and only interacted with her if he needed something up until recently. Whatever happens I will be a Lilith truther.

[c1trvswurld]

What the spiderverse Fandom did to Miguel hobie and gwen-in fact all the main cast is evil and cruel and all ya bitches need your Fandom rights taken away ASAP

[wayfarerxiii]

love it when a character is canonically bisexual and some shitter has to let us know that they think the character is actually a repressed lesbian or a closeted gay man. Just say you are biphobic and go

[lucianinsanity]

"Let things be romantic!" Why don't you let them be platonic? Why does it HAS to be romantic?

[rjalker]

charley: Yeah I hate sex and kissing. Hand holding and hugging is great though :3

fandom: hey what if these two made out and then fucked

[farsight-the-char]

Anime fans tend to be bigoted/dumb, but certain One Piece take it to another level.

Toei (and other One Piece distributors/translators) make posts promoting One Piece with Yamato involved, rightfully refering to Yamato as “He” and other masculine terms.

So many “Fans” feel the need to “Correct” Toei about Yamato’s gender, misgendering him.

Do fans really think they know a newer character more then his actual writers.

[xxwandering-wombmanxx]

Dipping my toes into fandom reminds me of why I dhould stay away no matter how lonely I feel with my interests.

Some of you are pushing 40 and you still don't know how to act.

[metropolitianmania]

i love when certain pos character in fiction stay irredeemable because you all shame the fans of those characters into never changing them to be the uwu kawaii softer version of who they are in canon and they stay wonderfully written. i don’t want every character to be covered in glitter with a soft spot for kids and able to murder someone with an excuse that somehow gets them out of prison. what the fuck guys

[asimpleram]

I’m watching Trigun (2000) and you guys didn’t tell me Vash was the main character but the story actually follows two women named Milly and Meryl, who are insurance brokers trying to track him down. Literally they are the best part. Who gives a fuck about yaoi, Meryl and Milly are here and they are so fucking funny

[soulpunchftw]

Hot take:

There is a LOT to criticize about H*rry P*tter, but holy shit, a lot of y’all are trying too hard to convince yourselves that it was ‘always’ evil, fashy, and problematic. I get it, this makes it easier to make the separation and all, but you know that you can just, like, give it up and even encourage your friends to do so too without histrionics, right?

Guys. I’m one of the people that R*wling hates. She sucks, and you should divest yourself of her works. But you don’t need to write overwrought performative rants comparing her to Hitler. She’s not worth it.

[alsethwisson]

Unpopular opinion: I HATE Haleth/Caranthir discourse with a passion.

Not because it operates on the frankly crazy heterosexist assumption that if a man and a woman met once and didn't hate each other they are contractually obligated to fuck.

That's its own can of shipping worms, I won't go there.

But. (Warning: very long read.)

Tolkien - that crusty old white extremely catholic man - has written us a female character whose most defining trait was refusing to be seen as anything but her own independent person.

She was no vassal of elves, she was no wife of any man. She was Haleth.

It was a conscious choice on Tolkien's part, rewriting his early male "Haleth the Hunter" into Lady Haleth and giving her exactly this defining traits. She was a part of a wider revision of Arda's female characters and their roles he undertook as his understanding of real-life roles women could and would take widened.

(Which is a fascinating story in its own right, by the way, and people who indiscriminately cite some earlier letters as if they were end-all be-all of Tolkien's inner thought are extremely wrong. While conservative to a fault, Tolkien was not unable to correct his beliefs. Cf: Nerdanel and generally the explicit denial of earlier "elven women channel creativity into childbearing" idea in Shibboleth.)

It's very deliberate - and very important - that Caranthir is barely a footnote in Haleth's story. He was interchangeable. It could have been any elven lord. It could have been an Edain lord, as well.

Haleth was not going to let herself or her people be dependent, it's important.

And then fandom came and turned it upside down, and Haleth became a footnote in Caranthir's story. One of a few characters (of both genders to be fair) to have neither marriage nor romance subplot and to be solely defined by her political actions becomes defined by fandom-invented romance with a dashing man.

Yikes.

[just-a-queer-fanboy]

Tumblr is a great place to find your interests because you search up the tag and the first thing you see is ever the most insane headcanon you've ever imagined but they're clearly full of joy and whimsy or it's someone starting shit over an inconsistency in the color of a characters fingernails

[alsethwisson]

It's soooo hard to decide which is the worst. It's like each is its own little flavour of worst-ness!

But I choose slutty himbo Finrod, because at least all others are motivated by spite, this shite is not motivated by anything other than...weird ideas about queerness and kindness both.

Also I need to nominate the brilliant "Aredhel was not blameless, she was clearly the one with stronger character, so she needed to call out her man and make him better father for Maeglin", and the such.

Please reblog for a bigger sample, and state your reasons in the tags!

[ranger-danger]

Maybe, mayhaps, Varric’s narration at the end of the quests isn’t meant to be dead serious. Like how there are many moments in the games that aren’t dead serious. Maybe the narration still builds up tension and worry about a situation, while still keeping it lighthearted enough. Maybe it gives you a break from the tension while still allowing build up. Maybe that’s the point, the point is to be a little goofy.

Maybe the game itself isn’t meant to be this big serious fantasy game. It still has many moments of being serious and having genuine tension & emotion, but maybe it’s not meant to always be dead serious. How do you hear Rook imitating Varric and assume that the games going to be super serious all the way through?

Please just critique the game for actual reasons it deserves to be critiqued.

And for the love of all that’s well in the world, play literally any other rpg than bg3 or accept that bg3 is not written well. I wilt everytime someone thinks bg3 is the epitome of good rpgs. At the very least play the first two baldur’s gate games. Or y’know break away from RPGs and literally any narrative game.

[meyerlansky]

ON the subject of undernegotiated kink in fanfiction. i think we should talk more about how the concept of "not talking about it" is just as much wish fulfillment for some people as "in-depth, therapy-speak conversations where everyone is clear and understood" is for others

like yes, in reality the antidote to shame is open honest conversation with someone who will validate your feelings and wants blah blah blah but SOMETIMES what i want out of my fanfic is characters being understood without having to expose themselves in that way. SOMETIMES it's fun to not dismantle the shame and repression all the way and to instead treat that understanding-despite-not-being-clear as the fantasy