#if I was a fan I would be pissed

[tamelee]

If novels are canon Sakura's terrible moments in fillers are canon too. Like wondering who'd se save between Sasuke and Naruto, hitting Naruto for no reason, RTN scenes.

Well yeah, in the logic where "either everything is canon or the Manga isn't canon either", that would be true but it's not and it makes no sense. They all have terrible moments in filler though. (And unpopular opinion but I don't even like the SNS filler where they're stuck to each other 👀)

[wishchip106]

i’m looking at those certain tiktok xmen fans

[macdenlover]

I GRADUATE TOMORROW!!!

[tracys-slumber-party]

horrible doodle that i feel i must expose the masses to

[dinomintz]

when your fuck ass younger brother grows taller than you

uuhhh read my fic that inspired this quickie doodle?

[heavenuphere]

beatles fan neil perry and bob dylan fan todd anderson. do you see my vision.

[hellohellowelcome]

Standard shonen endings have rotted some people's brains. I've seen so many dudebros disappointed that Izuku didn't at the very least "bag his girl" as some sort of reparation for losing his quirk. And so much Ochako slander for "ghosting" Izuku for 8 years for being quirkless (not true btw, leak mistranlastion) because she wasn't explicitly Izuku's endgame love interest in typical shonen fashion. I even saw a tweet doing crazy numbers (70k+ likes) suggesting that Izuku should've gotten with Hatsume because at least she spent 8 years working on his suit....? Ask yourself why you feel like Izuku needed a canon love interest post-time skip to be happy. And then ask yourself why you hate women and view them as the MC's "much-deserved" reward for saving the day.

[strewwwberry]

Ming fan is such a funny character and it needs to be said

His life is a fucking mess like ong, I’ve said it before I’ll say it again lmaoo

Nah honestly tho

Ming fan the sorta dude to go get snacks at a local convenience store only for binghe to be at the till and absolutely freak the fuck out lemme give you a ✨visual✨

And ima be real I was kinda thinking he would be smoking but then I thought again and I was like… that goody toe shoes? Ain’t no way so we got overworked boo instead lmao, and then I thought yo this could be both of em, and then I remembered Bingge and was like yeah nvm cmere pookie bear Ming-er (I did chuckle making this pun, if you don’t get it say it out loud, if you still don’t get it never go to the uk)

Edit: completely misused the -er siffix lmaoo so anyway my beautiful pookie a-fan loml you 100% have called lbh a minger and I love you for it (thank you @sentariana )

Anyway, imagine

Walking down the pavement it’s dark and the roads are quiet apart from the odd car or two rushing past. In a worn grey hoodie, pajama pants cosplaying as jogger pants and trainers slipped on lazily.

Hands in pocket, he sees a bright light coming out of an almost empty convenience store, and with a slight chime he walks in.

And just as he goes to give a slight hello to the cashier, he stops. Mouth open slightly in halted mid hello.

There.

The cashier looks back at him, gleaming in schadenfreude.

It’s Luo binghe.

The pest.

He stares, exhaustion flooding his being, even more then he thought he could.

And with an annoyed (😒-for reference :D) click of his tongue he bitterly nods at Binghe as the man says a pleasant “hello shixiong!”, mischief clouding the sheep persona.

Ignoring the wolf in sheep’s clothing, he walks around the narrow space picking up, steamed buns, two packs of pocky, strawberry and white chocolate (dunno why but I feel like he’s a picky with chocolate, only likes specific ones that he chose when he was 5 and refuses to try any others not even a different brand), and two 12 packs of strawberry soya milk (I feel like he likes strawberry flavour, again dunno why he just does for some reason, also projecting a lil)

He walks up to the till, his food in hand glaring daggers towards Binghe as he scans the foods

“Hmm.. lots of strawberry milk, didn’t know shixiong was such a sweet tooth”

Ming fan looks up at Binghes very annoying smile, and grunts in response trying to embody his old PE teacher from high school (wonder who that could be🫣- it’s liu qingge ofc it’s liu qingge anyway this is going on way longer then expected sooo)

Stuff is done tryna pay and pack up

“Bag… please” -mf

“What was that?” -lbh

“Could you put it in a bag…. Please” -mf

“One more time shixiong” -lbh

“Stfu before I beat you ahh” -mf

…. Binghe jumps with joys for successfully annoying shixiong and then was shot 57 times

I got carried away kmaooo, anyway imo this is childhood bully #redemption?probablynot to academic rivals to lovers but it’s also reads to me as lifelong frenemies which I find very funny, especially if we have a moment like this:

[gemgdynamight0]

In some part of the fan book horikoshi and his editor talk about Katsuki's death.

So we Katsuki fans always yapped about it being symbolic blah blah (even though I myself knew he really didn't have to die to execute that), but now horikoshi says "oh the reason for his death was because I just wanted to show how strong Shigaraki is" and that's... all.

Oh and why did he want to show that? Because when his mc came back and was equally as strong as Shigaraki, he can say "look how strong deku is unlike Katsuki. He's so powerful and has improved so much. Yay" Sth he has been doing since the start of season 6 lol.

Another example of him using Katsuki to uplift other characters. I just knew it.

[bombasticsalt]

Being a Shen Jiu hater means that no matter what you say about that man you'll never be his number one hater because it's mxtx herself like she really said trust this evil bastard will be dealt with every single time we get a description of him being tortured by Bingge it really fills me with intense glee that even if most of the fandom likes the guy mxtx does not and to make matters worse the guys body is possessed by a stranger and getting railed by the boy he hated for no reason and everybody likes the imposter in his body better than him

[ezlo-x]

i finally have been able to capture the aesthetic/art direction i would like to take my tloz au!! idk if I'll be able to capture that feeling through my work especially the comic but I think that specific vibe old fantasy games had especially in the old PlayStation era like Shadow of the Colossus, Dark Souls, King's Field. Just whatever type of game fits that vibe

[rev0lverluvr]

[interlagosainz]

we need to have the conversation of how charles fans treat his teammates without falling into the accusatory zone that we want to harm charles by having this conversation.

i mean charles no harm, but it is something that is getting extremely out of hand and it needs to be talked about. some charles fans have gotten too freely with being cruel to others drivers.

people used to call sebastian vettel a CORPSE. yes, scuderia ferrari screwed him. yes, everyone loves sebastian vettel again NOW (because he is far away from it and free from this hell) but back in 19/20? charles fans, mainly on twitter, made his life miserable. he couldn’t win. he couldn’t make anyone happy. if he won, he was taking something from charles that belonged to charles rightfully. it he lost, he was old and bad and should retire already and this sport wasn’t for him. he wasn’t a team player. he didn’t care about ferrari. he wanted to screw charles over.

if you just got here, if carlos is your first experience of how charles’ teammates are treated, let me tell you. everything that is being said about carlos has already been said about sebastian. and it is crazy for some people to understand that because everyone loves sebastian again, so you can’t even imagine what he went throught.

and i’m sorry for generalizing all of charles fans, im a charles fan, but it is something we need to stop and look at and talk about. how long will we let it go. how long until it starts to happen to lewis hamilton, of all people. how long until they dismiss his victories and say he is old and should give up of this sport so charles can win.

and you know one of the worst part? charles loves to race. every time he had to fight for it, he loved it. when he and carlos race in that track, he comes out with a big smile and talking about how he loves to race carlos. how this is real racing. he loves to fight for it. to prove himself. to have to sweat for it.

all while his fans try to make everyone just bow down their heads and give him things in a plate, already chewed and easy to get. as if he would like that. as if he can’t prove himself worth otherwise. as if he isn’t good enough to fight for it.

[guzhufuren]

everyone should give it a chance to get sucked into ateez and their music but not even for normal reasons. it's because it's this one instance where despite fully knowing that half of celebrities only pretend to be decent people, that you can never know if a famous person is of good character or is a shitty fucker who pretends well, you just know. with those men you look at them daily and you know. it gets to the point of feeling bad that you yourself are not on their level of goodness and kindness and compassion. they are such good eggs and sweethearts that continual exposure to them will make you want to go outside and search for street orphans to feed or like open an animal rescue or start a charity. i would trust them with a child or a bag of all my bank savings. every one of them is just so genuinely inherently good it's ridiculous

[smartzelda]

Sorry guys I gotta speak my truth on this one

I'm not kidding when I say that I think that blaming shit media literacy from fans on shipping/shippers avoids the actual root of the problem to throw people you can easily throw under the bus (simply because it's not unpopular to consider people who post about ships or ship characters in media as having lesser or derivative tastes by default)

And here's why.

I think when you blame people who are "shippers" or "consume media through shipping lenses", the true root of it all is a mindset problem.

In actually, putting on shipping lenses can be helpful when trying to analyze a piece of media. When analyzing media you're supposed to approach it through a number of mindsets and put on different lenses (both to deepen your personal understanding of the media, and to pick it apart and see what you can find there (whether intentional or not on the author's part)), and different ships can be some of those lenses

When it comes to ships between main characters (for those who are genuinely willing to see what the narrative is showing with their relationship and what it's doing), there are times when analyzing it from a shipping lens may be helpful. As someone from KH fandom, I have seen people come to deeper understandings and pick canon apart in the process of analyzing a relationship that is genuinely integral to the story (platonic or not). I've also seen people get into rarepairs of characters who barely interact or who just suffer little screen time, and I've seen them come to better understandings of those side characters and how they potentially fit into the world of the media simply because people are now focusing on these characters and how they fit into the narrative.

Frankly, I resent the idea that the only way to truly objectively analyze a piece of media is by turning off the part of your brain that gets excited over relationships and individual characters. Don't get me wrong, that is a way to approach a piece of media and a valid one at that, but the truth is that we cannot be free of bias.

For instance, I was watching House MD with my parents circa last year. At some point I started heavily tuning into what was going on with House and Wilson's relationship. My parents, on the other hand, were largely watching casually. They're not thinking of character relationships or getting heavily invested in most characters, they're watching because they like watching. One of them in particular did try to analyze things that were happening in the show as they happened. However, when it came to the scene late in the series where House threw out Dominika's letter approving her American citizenship, my parents could understand that he was doing that because he didn't want her to leave, but not much beyond that. I ended up explaining to them that House's fake marriage for Dominika was an explicit parallel to when Wilson was living with House in the early seasons. Both situations started with House being none too happy about it but ultimately letting them stay, spending a considerable amount of effort getting them to leave/getting this situation to be finally over so he didn't have to deal with it anymore, and then by the time a piece of news comes through that would mean the person in question actually leaves, House hides this news as long as he can. Because he doesn't actually want them to leave and has grown attached. And by doing this he became a self fulfilling prophecy. By reacting to the truth of Wilson and Dominika leaving him the way he does, he seals his fate and they ultimately leave anyways. Maybe I ship Hilson, but becoming open to how their relationship was handled allowed me to transition to doing character studies and recognizing patterns/parallels that I wouldn't have noticed if I didn't particularly care about the characters or their relationship.

Likewise, I've seen mutuals complain about how people who don't like or don't care about certain characters often overlook these characters (what they're actually like and their place in the narrative), while the mutuals in question (by default) are able to come to deeper understanding of what the writers/story is trying to do because they care about this funky guy

You can't eradicate bias when you're engaging in media analysis, but you can consciously put on a range of lenses and observe the media through different povs with the goal of understanding the media better or bolstering your reading of it. And those lenses/povs can include focusing on specific relationships or the perpective of certain characters

And this is why I say it's actually a mindset problem. Shippers and people who have this one blorbo they like a lot aren't inherently terrible "fandom brained individuals" who are the root of media analysis problems. The problem only arises when people's readings/analysis of a piece of media are inherently restrictive/narrow and self centered. Your problem is with people who view a piece of media through a ship they like but don't keep an open mind about it, and whose "media analysis"/views on canon cannot be split from fanon and their comfortability levels. These are the people whose "media analysis" starts and ends with justifying their fanon as canon, whose views on media revolve around sorting characters and relationships into categories they personally enjoy rather than trying to understand what's going on.

Here's another example.

Here we have a fictional ship we'll call uhhhh...Blanebin. this fictional ship I made up on the spot for characters that don't exist named Blane and Corbin

Person A is super into Blanebin. They're part of the main cast of characters and canonically childhood best friends, so person A (as much as they enjoy fanart and fic) is also enjoying analyzing how narratively important to each other they are. Recently, Corbin started dating another character in canon, but Person A is enjoying watching how Blane is reacting to this. "Is this potentially a tell that Blane is jealous or is having complicated feelings about this? What if he was, how would that contextualize his behavior this season? Here's what I think based on how Blane dealt with explicit jealousy last season in a different situation". It's not impossible that person A is still missing further understanding due to their obsession with Blanebin, but at the end of the day this obsession has allowed them to start picking through the characters both in and outside this relationship. It has allowed them to see potential subtext and theorize on what might happen next with these characters' relationship. Not to mention that with addition of Corbin dating someone else, instead of trying to erase this fact or state that Corbin canonically isn't into that person, Person A is trying to factor in how Corbin's current dating life affects his relationship with Blane (irregardless on personal views on the nature of Corbin's relationship with the person he's dating).

Person B is also super into Blanebin. They really enjoy fanart and fic of the characters, love obsessing over their moments together, and just feel like there's really something between the characters. To person B, every moment between them is just further proof that the writers are ship teasing them. But Corbin getting together with someone else this season? Oh that pissed person B off. They cannot believe that even though Corbin and Blane are CLEARLY gay for each other the writers had Corbin get with someone else this season. Perhaps, they think, it was even a decision specifically made to spite fans. How evil of the writers to tease a perfectly good ship and then have them not get together first? They must have been just doing those teases to get views from Blanebin shippers those scoundrels. To Person B, since Corbin started dating someone when he obviously has some chemistry with Blane (even though the series is far from over) means that Blanebin can never get together now and Corbin x person he's dating is ruining Blanebin by existing. In fact, they think, this is terrible writing for Corbin to be dating someone else because they don't like that relationship and don't see the point. Obviously if the writers were good then Corbin would have started dating Blane instead because this was supposed to be the Blanebin show.

Person C despises Blanebin. Don't get them wrong, they've always enjoyed the character's childhood friendship, but they actually have always thought Blane would have been better off with Victoria. They have a lot of moments too! But they're tired of seeing people ship Blanebin. Corbin just got together with someone else, so obviously that's not gonna work out. Plus Corbin and Blane totally has always given person C bro vibes. In fact, person C thinks, sure Corbin and Blane have a close friendship, but people shouldn't be shipping them. Person C likes Blanetoria and Blanetoria can't be canon if Corbin is in the way of it. So Person C likes to read Blanebin as siblings anyways. Sure they're canonically friends, but obviously their friendship turned into brotherhood. This means that nothing can be in the way of Blanetoria and Corbin can keep dating the person he's already canonically dating. Actually, now Blanebin just straight up makes Person C uncomfortable. Don't the pesky shippers understand that Blanebin are sibling coded because they're childhood best friends and that they're important to each other because they're brothers? It's obvious to anyone with eyes.

Sure, ships are involved here, but is the root of this problem shipping? Character A isn't as knowledgeable of other characters in the plot due to this lens they're using, but at the end of the day they're dedicated to analysis. Their love of the characters is pushing them beyond what they like or dislike to try to understand what might be happening through their lens. Not perfect, but they are slowly broadening their horizons. But Person B and C's problems here are their restrictiveness. What is or should be canon to them is tantamount to what they personally like or find comfortable. Is person C actually analyzing the this fake show when they decide to "read" Blanebin as basically canonically siblings (and this all of their moments are totally a bro thing) just because they don't like Blanebin and the idea of them getting together over Blanetoria makes them uncomfortable? Is person B actually analyzing this fake show when their "analysis" of Blanebin goes only as far as asserting it's being ship teased and deciding anything short of canonizing Blanebin is a targeted attack or "bad writing" because it's not what they wanted personally to happen?

This is what I'm talking about. This is the mindset. Shipping isn't the problem. The problem is when people marry fanon and canon to the point where they have a vested interest in superimposing their fanon over canon as "a reading" and trying to make "collective decisions" on what is canon (or what canon is trying to say) based on what does or doesn't make them uncomfortable. The problem is people being restrictive and centering their own likes and dislikes in the conversation, so they can only interact with canon "analysis" wise by deciding what is canon or should be canon "as obviously agreed on by everyone". You can't simply claim you like media analysis. To be able to analyze media and bolster your views on any given canon, you must be open to looking at it through multiple povs, to studying characters without trying to pretend things you don't like don't exist or do like do exist. There is a balance that must be kept between trying to keep objectivity and putting on specific focus/bias based upon the lenses you're putting on. You have to be willing to try to figure out what a media is doing or saying, not saying you're trying to figure out what it's saying while in actuality trying to define the narrative around what people believe it's saying in ways that suit you.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.