#i want the fandom to feel heard

[sunflowernyx]

I really love Spender and Padgett as antagonists to Scully.

Because the way they project their own vision of Scully onto her is so completely untrue that it contrasts perfectly with her truth.

They are a specific brand of monsters in the x files, a genre, if you will, that try to enforce patriarchal views onto women, and every time, every time the story presents it as completely ridiculous that they can't see what the truth is, that their denial of it becomes their eventual downfall.

Because they don't view Scully or any other woman as anything other than a vessel for their desire, something inhuman, waiting for them to imprint their world view upon her, taking away her voice, her body autonomy, her truth.

And every time the story proves them wrong. Every time Scully proves them wrong.

Rather than just focusing on how she's a strong woman who can fight back, and has agency, they set episodes like En Ami and Milagro up to show how men are capable of creating an incorrect narrative and believing in it so deeply that when Scully fights back and proves herself a full human being with her own opinions, desires, emotions and strengths that have nothing to do with them... they resort to punishing her with violence.

And always, always they stick with the central theme for Scully's character: that the truth is there, and it's Scully's role to make it plain, it is her power to articulate it.

Characters like Spender and Padgett are perfect antagonists to a character like Scully because they construct a truth and try to project it on her, to enforce it upon her, but she always has the last word.

The truth only ever comes from Scully

[im-diseased-but-cool]

People hate that I love old man yaoi swag

[ruvviks]

is this a safe space

[unforth]

I. Hurt.

And I was hurting anyway, I'm pretty down this morning, but this hurt came from an outside source, and affected me in a way I'd honestly not have expected.

See, we bought Nimona last week. After seeing the movie, my kids wanted to read it. And I ended up reading ahead, and I just finished it.

Bonus content at the end, it said, and I was like, oh, an epilogue to the epilogue maybe? That'd be nice. I don't love bittersweet endings, I'd rather...

...no, it's not the conclusion.

It's CHRISTMAS.

In a book that'd had no religion that I noticed up to that point, BOTH bonus extras...were Christmas.

Ya know, usually it doesn't bother me. Usually I just suck it up. I think it helps that I was raised around mostly Jews and people who, if Christian, it didn't matter much to them. I'm from the Upper West Side of Manhattan, the descendent of Lower East Side immigrants, and while the world outside was brutal - my grandfather was a World War 2 veteran and among the soldiers who liberated Dachau, I can't remember a time when I didn't know that most people would look the other way if people like me were slaughtered wholesale - my bubble was safe, we were accepted, we were insiders.

I honestly can't think of another time I've interacted with a piece of media and felt so immediately, instantly knocked across the face by OUTSIDER as I just did when I excitedly turned the page to see what these fun extra bonuses were...and it was fucking Christmas.

I didn't even read them.

I'm honestly. So disappointed.

I don't have a thick armor for this kind of hurt. I'm Jewish, and as an adult living outside my old UWS bubble, that's often meant I've felt like an outlier, but I've hardly ever had this feeling where I was welcome to something only to be suddenly, violently shoved out the door.

And I've heard nothing, n.o.t.h.i.n.g. but praise for this book. And on another day, it might not have bothered me. I've never really felt like I had to fight to be seen, especially since I'm tremendously secular. I mean, I've celebrated Christmas my entire life, for starters.

But why. Why was this fantasy setting suddenly Christian? Why was this the touted extra content? Why is THIS special, when the areligious world established to that point was apparently not special enough?

I can't say yet if this ruined the story for me. It's far too soon. But I'm *intensely*, viscerally let down, and...I hurt.

Christians...maybe stop doing this shit.

[nebulaad]

"inquisition is a game about being subsumed by your duty beyond your own recognition" inquisition is a game about how a group of devs suffered workplace abuse and mishandling of project time and resources by senior staff who were shortly thereafter exposed for their bad behaviour but did not stop said behaviour and didn't really have to because they weren't held accountable for it.

[irrealisms]

bro i had a whole ask and then tumblr reloaded the page and i lost it. i will attempt to retype it from memory

hi! ask game. if i could make you write anything, uhhh. more itzsubz. you have written him before, but usually when doing eclipse stuff you usually focus on zam and vitalasy more, and subz is My Special Guy. specific ideas, uhh. transfem subz? maybe transfem subzam? this is kind of already in the hwbm fic you posted, but id love to see more, maybe canonverse and also more, focused on them and gender stuff? hwbm fic was about lots of things, something Just about subz and zam and gender and the ways zam idealizes subz would be nice. also Different idea id love to see you write subz ableism moments, because it is so underrepresented in the fandom( understandable why i guess, but still.) and i think youd probably do it well? and then i was gonna say more things, but the rest of my ideas are things id like to see anyone write, rather than things id be super excited about you specifically writing

sent the ask and immediately thought of something id want to add. subz ableism yes, but also, just in general subz being kind of shitty. i feel like a lot of the fics make him better than he is and thats fair but also it isnt in character and i want fics where he is in character yknow. and i think youd be able to do this

thank you!!! honestly i feel like i said enough of what i want to say about my transfem subzam gender thoughts in their chapter of hwbm au that i'd struggle to do a full fic about it... hwbm au as a whole is def about more things but the subzam chapter is like a solid 1k of this and so idk how much more i'd be able to write on the topic without feeling like i was Repeating Myself yk (yes i know two cakes but i am less motivated to write when i dont feel like im doing something New). i should write more subz being kind of shitty though.....i feel like i wrote subz most in hwbm au where i ended up making the choice to make her Better than canon for au reasons but when writing canonverse i feel like i could do a reasonably canonically shitty subz in a way that a lot of people Dont Want To...... ty for the ask <33333 !!!

(if you could make me write anything, what would it be?)

[writingwife-83]

Just a little venting below the cut about fandom attitudes 😮‍💨

Know what I’m not into? When a show or film doesn’t go the way we hope and people are bummed about it, but then there’s always that group of people who are like, “but you’re not upset enough. Everyone should be same amount of angry as we are and hate this company/director/writer/etc as much as we do. If you don’t then you’re not a real fan.”

I refuse to apologize for continuing to like something in general and continuing to be interested in watching it and seeing what else is done with it despite some ways in which I was disappointed. And to be frank, that’s ultimately because my entire life doesn’t hinge on the outcome for these fictional characters. If I’m disappointed once again, it’s not going to crush me as a person. (Partly because this is exactly what fan works are for!) If you know you can’t handle it, then of course it’s valid to decide you’re not watching at all anymore. But… please don’t act like that’s the way every fan should feel! 🙄

[theduckeminence]

Gandhi & Frida and/or Gandhi x Frida honestly sounds like such fun potential to explore ngl.

Though personally i also see them being in a qpp tbh.

[iangallagherisadeadman]

just finished reading Cooperative Gameplay by @gallavichy which is a must for the shameless/gallavich fandom I suppose, and fuck! that was good.

and I'm just. so happy to be able to read such a good work by someone so passionate about their craft. I mean, Gray did so much research to properly describe videogames and how ged and university application work and mental ilness and places and tourist points and the most banal things too, and their mannerisms! the way every fucking twitter user ian follows has a consistent personality throughout all the fucking +240k words its insane! she included the clothes they were wearing and made whole playlists for a fanfic, that's so fucking nice.

it's just so nice to feel how much she was into it, you know? more than a great writing and story and characters, it was so nice to read cause there was so much feeling to it, all the time. makes me feel warm inside. smiled so big reading it and cried too! i just had to put it out here.

[araneapeixes]

OH HEY HAPPY LESBIAN ALOY TO THOSE WHO CELEBRATE ❗️❗️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[whysamwhy123]

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[badolmen]

I’m a simple man. If I see you reblogged an ask game and talk about not wanting to be seen as needy for asks in the tags I will send you at minimum three different asks with three different cadences/personas.

[cardboxshelter]

I'm feeling nostalgic for Steven Universe lately

[end-orfino]

droners might have some flaws but i really think that if someone wants to write a proper rivals to lovers dynamic then they should study whatever hannah and corto have as a reference

[simplydnp]

char, you're so so strong and i'm proud of you <3 i'm glad dnp and the community can be a source of strength and joy for you and i hope all your problems can get solved soon cause i feel like you're such a genuine and lovely person

aww katie thank you 🥺 i'm doing my best--some days i've only got 30% in me, other days are better. i'm trying to be kind to myself during this time, and one of the best ways, i find, to do that is to share joy. let myself feel excitement and happiness, send that message, buy that thing (within reason, as i'm currently at a place i am able to do so)--and do my best to be present with those around me (especially the ones who do the same for me). we've got a special community here and i'm grateful every day that there are lovely people for me to get to interact with all the time. it's truly an honour and a privilege, and i don't take it for granted 💞