#i hate FANDOM

[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

[alsethwisson]

Catelyn: 'Jon being a bastard raised with his trueborn siblings will cause him to be bitter, resentful, and aspire to more because of said resentment which could hurt my children.'

Jon in his POVs: *is resentful and feels entitled to Cat's love, and is bitter because he will never have the Stark name or Winterfell*

So....Cat was completely right about Jon and fandom still comes for her because she didn't sufficiently mother her husband's supposed affair baby. LOL. Typical.

Cat was wrong when she presumed Jon would usurp her kids. On the other hand, he won't usurp their right mostly to prove Cat wrong...

By the by, funniest thing is, even if Cat somehow came to love Jon -it's possible, if not probable - nothing much would've changed for him apart from our fave sullen boi getting a proper mother figure.

Because no amount of motherly love can make a bastard into a trueborn, that's the sad reality of their life. Cautious glances when he bests Robb, "you can't be the lord of Winterfell", sitting with the servants - all that has nothing to do with Cat and everything with societal norms.

Were he called "brother" by Sansa or "son" by Cat, but still not allowed to wear Stark colours, would it be easier for him? I don't think so.

Jon is a teenager and he doesn't have the apparatus to blame society. He can't blame Ned, because Ned was his loving parent and blaming a loving parent doesn't come easily. So he puts all the blame on Catelyn. And because many people in the fandom have emotional maturity and reading comprehension of a bitter teenager, we have what we have.

[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.

[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

[just-a-queer-fanboy]

Hello, tumblr user. In front of you is an art piece depicting an abusive relationship, by a queer person, that happens to be drawn in a cartoon or cutesy art style. You must make a genuine critique of it without using the words problematic, romanticize, or glorifying. If you do, you will be put in my saw trap. Go.

*yes obviously I know people have genuinely glorified abuse. Fifty shades or Harley quinn/Joker are some examples. But specifically in online discourse it tends to be used more like "this is drawn in a way meant to have a contrast between pretty colors + characters and dark themes", rather than the real meaning, "this makes abuse seem desirable, good, or justified".

I have to put the disclaimer there or I will be eaten alive.

[alsethwisson]

I do find Robert to be a fascinating, tragic character, but I find the fandom perception of him to be really bad faith lol. I'm not saying he's a great guy by any means, but Ce*sei stans and R x L shippers and L apologists/fans make him out to be way worse than he is to fit their narratives and to make C and L seem better than they actually were. Ask an L fan how it makes sense she didn't want to marry Robert because he, a single unmarried man, was sleeping with other women and had a bastard child and then turns around and runs off with the married crown prince with a baby and toddler at home and watch the magic happen. C fans crying about Robert cheating on her when she slept with her brother on the morning of her wedding is also hilarious to me. The fandom is deeply intellectually dishonest about major plot points and characterizations it's really frustrating sometimes.

Absolutely.

Robert was far from perfect man, but honestly accepting Lyanna and her "wisdom" about love never having changed anyone and declaring their pair doomed to fail is pretty weird?

She was precisely the woman he might like, one to partake in his favourite activities - hunting, riding. She certainly was into tourneys, and Robert is exactly the kind of man to indulge his wife's less feminine interests if only because he generally tends to indulge those he loves.

The tragedy of Lyanna is basically that she being a maximalist teenager runs away from the best option she could've had towards the worst. Because that's what teens do. It's like the old fable of a cat and a rooster: something nice and charismatic is actually out to get you, something obnoxious is actually your friend.

Yet still, Robert was a bad parent and an abusive husband. Yet still, he knew little better and his wife was even worse parent and no stranger to emotional abuse herself. It's complicated.

It's sad that people in fandom often mistake "sympathy" for "total absolution" and behave as though you cannot feel bad for a not perfectly good person. Thus the desire to shift the blame elsewhere, anywhere from their chosen fave.

Robert, and many others, are so good exactly because they're not perfect AND not irredeemable.

[saladgl0ve]

ventured onto the yellowjackets fandom on tiktok; it was scary. tumblr save me

[callisteios]

i made a character uquiz. i 100% promise you that you will get a character you know AND like