#if you ship idols . just unfollow me

[hanlimz]

me when someone fr asks jaywon if they’re dating on live and then all the comments r like “THEY DIDNT SAY NO” “JAYS SMIRK AFTER 🤭” … you guys are so fucking weird (/gen) and i’m the fanfic writer? (/hj)

have you no shame? do you really think that’s any of your business? can you not see that the silence afterward isn’t cute—it’s fucking awkward? are you truly that socially inept? idols are real fucking people; they’re not ideas or characters in your favorite webtoon. and, yes, i understand this might sound awkward coming from a fanfic author, however—the stories i write and the characters i create are caricatures/reimaginings of the boys. and, i post them on a contained website that they are unlikely to ever come across.

directly asking if two idols are dating is such an invasion of privacy. directly asking if two idols from the same group are dating is an absurdly strange thing to insinuate and, frankly—for lack of a better phrase—kills the vibe. i just know these are the same people that lament the sunki situation, and i know that they’re just blissfully unaware of the fact that that was also their fault.

stop treating idols like they’re your dolls in some twisted game of make believe. idols sexualities, private lives, and relationships are none of your fucking business. listen to the music, write the fanfics, draw the fanart, do everything you can to support them—but, this is unacceptable. truly. stop being so fucking entitled and weird, take a seat, and reflect on what made you think this was okay.

idols are not your friends.

idols do not owe you anything.

fuck people who genuinely ship idols. you ruin good things.

[thespianinthebackcorner]

I'm pretty sure Squid Sisters were already pretty popular back in the Splatoon 1-Splatoon 2 days. After all, their relationship, agent lives and family drama was the main focus of the plot (among saving the squid society). And even nowadays, people still love them. They're THE Splatoon icons. Have you forgotten how people went crazy over the Reporter Callie outfit? There were fanarts everywhere!

Off The Hook are also really interesting - they played a huge part in Octo Expansion (you know, the DLC with the biggest, darkest, most liked lore and aesthetic?) and in Side Order, we also know their backstories (especially Marina's backstory is pure fanfic material, people love the angsty deserter trope + she was a breath of fresh air and a mystery as a first important non-enemy octoling character ever). Not to mention that they're literal canon lesbians with healthy and interesting dynamics.

What do we know about Deep Cut?? They've got nothing going on. They were villains in the Splatoon 3 storymode but mind you, not even the main villains. They grew up together, they come from some prestigious families that aren't mentioned ANYWHERE outside of the Sunken Scrolls, we know nothing about them. They don't have backstories, they don't have interesting dynamics (they're just 3 random people and their bond isn't even shown to be that strong, of course people prefer the SS family drama or OTH lesbian romance). Deep Cut is boring, of course people don't care about them, don't blame us, blame Nintendo for neglecting them.

Also, stop acting like you're better than others because you don't care about the icky romance and give deserved equal attention to every poor idol that gets overshadowed by the lesbians. People DO care about other Splatoon characters. There are fanarts of the Agents (Agent 24 is problably the second most popular ship right after Pearlina), non-idol Splatbands, even Craig Cuttlefish and Octavio! Maybe you'll see all this content if you stop exclusively browsing only the pearlina tag. Also accept that Deep Cut is boring.

ooh, another one.

Okay, I don't have all the time to type up an entire essay (tbh I lowkey admire the effort of writing four paragraphs just to bitch on me for having an opinion), so I'm gonna summarise my result.

I don't follow the pearlina tags. The only Splatoon tags I follow are Splatoon and the promo kids tag. Used to follow more but I have my reasons for unfollowing the other ones. (They were mostly agent ships, for clarity.)

I know other people care about the others. I'm just saying that when stuff like this rolls around it's never seen because everyone talking about pearlina gets top spots on this site and no one gives attention to anything else, so everything else is hard to see. This is mostly a recent development with grandfest, but even so Pearlina overshadows a LOT. For me, the Callie suit was actually a rare case of the community not focusing on them.

i know the Squid Sisters were popular in their first games. That's the point. Y'all are sitting out here talking about the old idols and ignoring the ones we're supposed to be paying attention to.

So what if the deep cut members don't have much lore to their names? I'm in the promo kid fandom! They have literally only their names and people don't have a problem coming up with headcanons and engaging stories for them. Just be creative. That's what fandom is for.

Believe it or not, I know Pearl and Marina featured in side order and octo expansion. I know they have a healthy dynamic. Surprise surprise, I've played the games too. I have both DLCs and have completed both. I know. That's not my point.

i also know that there are poeople out there caring about other characters. Like I said, I'm in the promo kid fandom. It's just that whenever pearl and marina appear on screen, any trace of that is immediately overshadowed and made ten times harder to find. And I rarely have the time to go hunting through tags.

I'm not trying to act like I'm better. I'm not guilty of pearlina posting, but I'm not much better either. I'm just stating how I feel and how i see things. If you've got a problem with that, great, but don't insult me for my feelings. It's your choice how you react to things. If you've got nothing nice to say, don't say it.

[ryuichirou]

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Anonymous asked:

Dayummm Azul is BIGGGG LOOK AT THAT BOY! DAYUMMM

Hehe thank you!!

I am happy I managed to figure out how to draw the fishies… Azul is one thicc boy

Anonymous asked:

What do you think of Silver x Kalim? Cater x Leona? LMC + Rook x Idia?

Kalim/Silver is cute but unfortunately too cute to click with us; their interactions are sweet and wholesome, but they don’t really give us anything we look for in ships.

Cater/Leona is hmmm nothing against it, but we’re not invested enough in either of them to ship them, plus we haven’t seen anything from their interactions that would grab our attention yet.

Love Rook/Idia though! We have a tag for them and just posted them a week ago, and I’ll write a hc post about them soon… well, at some point…

Anonymous asked:

🐩 anon has arrived once more to thank you for your absolutely delicious art. I had to come out of twst burnout, it's so hard to enjoy the fandom when it's all self righteous antis trying to police the game as if it's not catered to basically young adults and older. These kids have me baffled, it's as if they believe pixels are real people.

I can hardly stand to look at TWST Tumblr anymore either, they're all so white knighted that you'd think they were paid to be piss babies in circles they don't belong in. It's one of those "Why put yourself in that position to see it, if you didn't want to be there in the first place".

Hi 🐩 anon, long time no see! Thank you for being around and still enjoying my art.

I feel you, it really is difficult when you keep seeing people saying the same type of antis bullshit over and over and over again; even if you become apathetic about it, it’s still very annoying. Mostly because it’s impossible to ignore completely – they love to invite themselves to spaces that aren’t meant for them. That’s like the whole idea. No one is forcing anyone to see anything, every ship and triggering trope is always tagged in some way or another, but instead of avoiding this type of stuff they use the tagging system to shit on certain characters and ships directly, just so you couldn’t look for your favourite thing without seeing their outbursts of unsolicited opinions.

It really is very annoying.

Anonymous asked:

🐩 anon again, but now with one that's more funny and teehee haha random info that I thought you'd think it'd be interesting or funny

On that note, I came here because I started a DND campaign with a group over a twst based campaign. It reminded me of you, which made me invested in the campaign. Now I have a whore serving with 18th century fashion, giving Vil a run for his money. So far, 10/10. He has major Edmund and Idia vibes, wants no part of it, gets shit luck anyways and so far, has slept with Bird Man for Ramshackle funds on a bad roll. Mans is a survivor and we are barely halfway into chapter 1 😭

It’s so sweet that you got reminded of us and got invested… I am very glad you’re having fun! “Rewriting” your negative fandom experience with a positive one and good associations is so important.

Major Edmund and Idia vibes + a 18th century fashion whore??? SLEEPING WITH BIRD MAN??? An icon and a hustler. I don’t know him but I love him already…

Anonymous asked:

Good lord. I had randomly followed a twst blog but then I saw them posting about how even though there is a two year age difference between the third-years and first-years, it’s wrong to ship them because the first-years treat them, especially the housewardens, like idols and apparently that’s grooming. Like, no, that’s you in Delululand and I’m about to unfollow and block. #staytoxicbestie

Yeah they seem to have discovered this idea and now put it everywhere, harassing JackVil shippers and such. It’s one of those moments when I genuinely hope that they deliberately lie and reach because I am scared of the idea of anyone being this dumb.

It does suck that there seems to be more people like that lately, and they don’t even tag their accs with “proship dni” anymore either. Gee I wonder why.

[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

Regarding a certain someone and their actions on social media, do you think idols need to be held accountable for what they repost/follow/like on social media? I think that for someone who often talks about how he stalks armytwt and sends ai and fanart to the other members etc, even trying to pretend to be a fan and start hate against himself shows that this person knows what they're doing, they know what goes on in the random and how his fans are particularly awful to his supposed soulmate. And yet all he does is feed into their delusions while twisting reality. Also the fact that he turns on lives at his members house without permission, shows the shaved head when the member was obviously hiding it, etc does he not realise how it makes him look when the behaviour is so consistent?

I think it depends on the situation and there should be limits. I don't agree nor like when fans are religiously keeping an eye on what kpop idols do on social media and pass judgement either without having the full picture or creating entire narratives from scratch.

But in this particular context, I find it impossible for the idol not to know how the ship he's part of is currently perceived. They all do, they are aware, there's no point in going over that again. Despite me believing that the first thing one does online is promote the brand and himself as being in poor taste, I don't think it is an actual problem. I don't think that it is actually that imperative to check the account, although when you have a social media following of 50 million, you also do have a responsibility. All public figures are media trained and they know what they're doing. They know that such an act can be then interpreted as promoting/endorsing or simply exposing. In this case it was enough for a shipper account to gain traction. I want to stress that it being a shipper account is not the issue, the issue is that it's an account that has embraced harmful fandom narratives that have been perpetuated for years and now it gets even more exposure if an actual subject of the ship is interacting with it. I think this is where some sort of responsibility is necessary. Talking about this under the illusion that it's only a ship/duo name is naive, when we are all aware what that group actually represents and advocates.

I also find it interesting how stans make sure to keep everyone in check, from big to small accounts, as to who they follow and interact. Not only that, it is so important that they tag and urge people to unfollow who they consider problematic. But all of a sudden, an idol is absolved of all that, he doesn't need to check beforehand, he has no responsibility, he doesn't know. Just as he didn't know how to use IG in 2021 as justification for accidently following his girlfriend.

[witchcraftandburialdirt]

🔥 give me two , one about shipping , one about following / unfollowing — all good if you don't have an ' unpopular ' opinion per se ! just happy to hear your thoughts

✧ ━━ 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐃 "🔥" 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐍 𝐔𝐍𝐏𝐎𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐑 𝐎𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝙼𝚄𝙽𝙳𝙰𝚈 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚃𝚂

I'm really glad you said that the opinion doesn't actually have to be unpopular because I have no idea what's considered a popular opinion or not (☛ ´∀｀*)☛ I know I'm always writing on here but I genuinely know nothing about anything on tumblr outside of the circle that I'm in, and I don't really take part of fandom except at cons. So I'll just list a few things I guess and we'll go from there ━

I don't like the idea of characters "deserving each other". I think what matters most is that the feelings are mutual and not one-sided. Not only that but sometimes people use this as a way to justify horrible things happening to said ship or between them? I dont know I'm just not a fan of the connotation.

Shipping real people feels ... icky to me, and like an invasion of privacy. I know a lot of idol/ k-pop companies push it, though. I'm not talking about "oh they look so cute!" I mean like ... 20+ minute analysis videos. If someone made one about me I'd be horrified so ━ I can't really support it being done to somebody else, even if it is innocent at heart, the feeling behind it is just ... not good.

I genuinely can't stand it when a ship that's going to inevitably be complicated and rather fucked up gets turned into a purely fluffy relationship. Granted I enjoy fluff as much as the next person, and anyone can show tenderness towards those they love, but my goodness please let the characters continue to be messed up.

Thaaat being said I can’t see any enjoyment in watching or reading two characters mercilessly abuse one another in a nonconsensual or purely hateful way. Play fighting, both being equally weird and mirroring eachother or general bickering doesn't count - obvs - but if a ship becomes abusive I'll step back from it. I know I know! But Egg you JUST said "keep the relationship and characters fucked up"! Yes! I did, and that doesn't mean that that messed up relationship is abusive or horrible for those characters specifically because its something they both enjoy/willingly take part in. Continuing about this because this is for my own tastes: Its okay to enjoy darker ships and toxic ships! This doesn't mean the person who is enjoying the content believes abuse is alright.

I find that stories that only revolve around romance tend to be extremely dull to me a lot of the time. There should be an idea of where the story is going without romance included, and if the ship comes along then it does. I think those are the ships that tend to feel the most natural since the characters interact without a specific romantic end goal in mind, which makes it all the more sweet when they do come to recognize their feelings as its come from them and not the destined plot ━ I just like it that way though and people can like whatever, y'know?

Possessiveness in ships is like ... very hit or miss for me in how it's portrayed. There's certain instances where its fun but others where it makes me wanna die. Mutual possessiveness/obsession though? Ohooho that is fun to play with, so long as it doesn't become abusive or unbalanced/unwanted by one of the parties. Man - tsk - idk anymore I feel like my opinion is so all over the place but like this all spins back to the toxic abusive relationships being a no no for me like as long as the insanity is consensual between two adults that both like it ? Yeah - that's fine. Does that make sense? I could probably go into stuff about Vladibin with this ( me and borb were talkin about it ) but I won't because I will go on forever and this is already WAYYY longer than I originally intended.

As for unfollowing it's ... whatever to me? There's obviously mutuals that if I lost I'd be really confused/wondering what happened + sad about it but I would still keep my distance; but for the most part I'm unaffected by it ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ I used to care a lot but I grew out of that within like ... 4 months. I know people grow out of their likes and what they want to view, or that they assumed my blog was something else and upon it not being what they wanted, unfollowed - which again, is valid! I don't know I just don't think unfollowing is anything personal ( like, 95% of the time ofc there's always the small percentage that is ). Don't harass people who block you or try to get around the block, things we've heard a thousand times. ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭ ̀ˋ I think though, that if you have been mutuals/friends with someone for a while and plan to unfollow - I think it would be most polite to message said friend to briefly explain why; especially since so many of us have anxiety sometimes it seems like an unfollow means the other party hates the other. It's just nice if you have a history with someone, not necessary, just polite (ง ื▿ ื)ว

[ask-serendipity-sky]

That thing with Holland is so sick. I've been seeing armys do bs for a long time but this genuinely made me ill.

Harassing a queer idol because the fetishizers in your fandom won't stop harassing him? Of course he named them, he's obviously getting requests from one group the most. They're so proud of being the biggest kpop ship - they should own this too. Why act innocent and naive now? And they all managed to completely ignore the point he was trying to make about how insane it is that these people are trying to forcefully out their faves even if they were actually not straight.

I just unfollowed every army I used to follow. They're either shifting the blame onto him or staying silent. They'll speak about a bunch of things when they need to virtue signal and it costs them nothing, they'll get into fights about the most stupid stuff with other fandoms, but the moment you can actually use your clout for something and speak on how awful it is that your fandom is essentially bullying a gay artist who we know has gone through so much - literal hate crimes - because he came out, you're completely silent? ARMYs have lost all sense of proportion, logic and morality.

The hypocrisy also strikes me because they'll go around naming pjms every day of the week. They always drag Jimin into fanwars. I don't see anyone saying let's not use his name then other than by solos themselves. But this isn't even the first time they've shielded tkkrs. They'll drag up random accounts with hardly any followers and a handful of likes and talk about solos infecting the fandom but god forbid anyone talk about tkkrs unless it's in the most general way so that you can sweep it away as a shipping thing.

And this discourse about namedropping is also ridiculous. They have 70K+ Jimin anti tkk shipper and 300K+ tkk shipping porn accounts running around freely. They tag JK in all their gross edits on Tiktok. We all saw them waving around the tkk banner during Jimin's bday event. Nobody had much to say about it except Jimin biased.

Plus do they actually think Tae and JK don't know? They just need to look at their comments during their lives to find out what tkk is. What are they even talking about? They've nursed these Jimin anti delusional shippers in their fandom for years but the problem is when others point that out?

I actually prided myself on following a variety of people so I'm never too enmeshed in any one group think. I used to follow ARMYs, shippers, solos and other KPop fandom accounts from my main but I'm done now. I was actually so proud that the fandom was being so active in speaking up about the Palestine cause but if your sense of mortality can't tell you how wrong what is happening now to Holland is and if you are too scared to sacrifice clout to speak up for him, then I can't take anything you say seriously. Sorry to bring up a serious real world issue in the midst of all this but what happened yesterday just tells me that if you can't stand up for a queer idol for petty bs fandom reasons or because you don't want to get involved when you know it's wrong (because I was very careful in curating my tl so I know the armys I used to follow at least have that much sense) then there's no way you'd actually do anything if were to cost you something in real life.

So yeah I still listen to BTS, I still like all the members but I'm done with 'army'.

Hello,

This was a tough read.

I can feel your anger and dissapointment and the only thing I can say is that I feel the same way.

It's "small" things like these that tell you who people really are and they are a sign of the person you could become. It may seem silly because it's kpop but it's real people with real struggles with real hate.

You don't have to be army or pjm or a shipper. None of those names mean a thing at the end of the day. Support what you want and stand up for what you believe.

I get you 🫂

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

[destinyc1020]

Yeah the person that you reposted saying that Austin was definitely not hanging with Kaia because he invited a friend over was weird. They sound like larries, denying the existence of romantic relationships of their idols just because they have other friends

Hey, I'm not going to judge what someone wishes to post on their OWN blog. That's their choice and right? 🤷🏾‍♀️ I've always said on here that I am NOT the blog police. If you have an issue with what someone posts on THEIR own blog, either just unfollow them, or take that up with them in their own inbox. 😅

Now that I went back and re-read that post, it actually didn't seem to me that they were denying the rlshp exists, it just seemed to me like that blogger was tired of shippers making EVERYTHING about Austin and Kaia's rlshp.... which, I can understand that.

Some shippers be doing a bit too much. 🙄🥴 And to me, they're not even "couple goals" AT ALL lol 😆 😅 I don't want their rlshp lol (for various reasons lol 🤭).

Like I said, I don't usually "ship" celebrity couples anyway. Tomdaya is a huge exception. I like BOTH Tom AND Zendaya. They're super cute, they seem genuine, they seem like best friends, their rlshp is one I'd actually want to have, and they seem like they really are endgame. 🥰

I might think a celebrity couple is "cute" or whatever, but that's usually where it ends for me. 🤷🏾‍♀️ After Tomdaya, I most likely will not ship another couple ever again, coz like I said, it's just not my thing.

Like, I'm a busy woman, I have a life lol 😆 😅 I can't be following tons of celebrity relationships and their every move and whatnot. It's just time-consuming to me, and for what exactly? 😅

[ghostvampiregalgazerock]

Here’s something you all should know what I love to write and don’t want to write as a fanfic writer

What I enjoy writing ✅

My fav seiyuus (Mamoru Miyano, Yuma Uchida, Aoi Shouta)

My favorite idols (Yuta Nakamoto, Sana Minatozaki, Mina Myoui, Rosé, Johnny, Jaehyun)

My favorite anime characters (One Piece, Bleach Vampire Knight, Black Butler, Sailor Moon, etc.)

My favorite band (the GazettE)

Crossover ships (Uruha from the GazettE x Rosé from Blackpink, I write them when they are the same age like High School students or college student to avoid age gaps!)

Crackships (Nami x Ace from One Piece and Sana x Yuta) [This doesn’t mean I don’t want Yuta and Sana to become a thing in real life, I am just bored and he did mention her in a radio show]

Idol x Idol (like Jaehyun x Yuta)

Yaoi (I take it slow like how Sasaki and Miyano were [I recommend that series. ITS SO SWEET!!!!])

LGBTQ stories ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Sometimes horror

Fantasy (Medieval, Adventures)

Funny stories

One-shots (easier than full stories)

Romance (not cheesy)

Fluff (I’m melting when I write that cute shit!!!)

Smut? Why not? (I do not write underage smut!)

WHAT I DON’T WRITE AND NEVER WILL ❌

I don’t write animal violence (it hurts my heart a lot and I love animals deeply. Seeing it in movies and shows triggers me a lot and animal abuse in real life…😭)

Rape of our favorite characters/idols (TRIGGERING AF)

Breakups (well to suit the story but I love the characters chemistry how I write them. But only the main character dumps the dumbass bf/gf)

Gore (just eyeball gore, maggots, and finger/toe nail gore.🤢 I CANT STAND IT EVEN THOUGH I LOVE HORROR! Goth horror)

Cannibalism (FUCK NO! I WONT EVEN SEE MOVIES WITH THAT GROSS SHIT. Well Sweeney Todd had something like that but not like weird disturbing)

I’m trying my best to not give characters major deaths if I feel close to them. (SPOILER ALERT! I WONT WRITE FANFICS WHERE ACE IS DEAD! I LOVE HIM TOO MUCH!!!! Even Eddie😭)

UNDERAGE (I FIND IT FUCKED UP! NO THANK U!!! WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD!!!!! NEXT!!!!!!!)

INCEST (GROSS!!!!!! OMG EWWWWWW!!!!!! WTF?!?!!!! WHY?!?!!!!! THEY ARE RELATED!!!!! SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!! VAMPIRE KNIGHT AT THE END OF SEASON 2 HAD THAT WITH THE MAIN FEMALE GIRL AND I HATE HER FOR THAT FOR LEAVING MY BOI ZERO! I watch that series because of Zero! Also Pseudo-Incest with Ace, Luffy and Sabo fanfics and fanart…NO THANK YOU!!!)

Masturbation - IM SORRY IT MAKES ME REALLY REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE

Weird Kinks (knife kink, pain kink, piss kink…more weird kinks I rather not say…WTF?!?!!)

I write how I want to write my smut scenes because I don’t know why I get uncomfortable while writing and to make it look good. But what matters the most that I’m enjoying what I love to write and it’s my story

If you don’t like my fanfics you can leave and unfollow. I got mean comments how I write idol x idol but hey you don’t own my story and account don’t tell me what to write and they won’t see it! I hardly doubt they will read fanfics of themselves since they have busy lives ahead of them. I don’t do photoshoot edits of idols like everyone does to make it look real! Rosé got mad for that when people though it was real.

I don’t write weird shit that I just explain right now!

I will update more what comes to my mind!

[5woon]

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[bulletproofknight]

Welcome! Please read this before following or even scrolling through this blog :D

my main is @fratricideknight

i use they/them

i'm ot7, obviously. no bias.

sfw + there will be some mentions of shipping. all in good fun i am not a delulu + i'm willing to speak with delulus in an attempt to make them see reason but otherwise they are not welcome, please go away.

this is a positive space! the closest thing to any negativity here will be me expressing my personal dislike for a song, or something. but i genuinely like basically every bts song so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

do not bring negativity here. i block and unfollow liberally and am very selective about following.

basically the only time any other idols will be mentioned is when they interact with bts.

this is entirely for my own fun and idc if i'm just yelling into the void lol. but if you wanna scream with me about bangtan, then do so!

[yaoiplug]

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[haleigh-sloth]

(1) I’ve largely erred on the side of not saying this because I don’t care to rain on anyone’s parade, but since you mentioned feeling like the friendship between Tomura and Spinner can get blown out of proportion, I can think of at least one concrete reason for why that disconnect might exist. I obviously don't blame people for taking the official translations at face value, but I feel like Spinner's line about "bonding" with Tomura over games is another example of sentiments getting

Ahhhhhh lot of good stuff here

Putting a cut for length but also people who just don't wanna see this type of response

I feel this way about a lot of peoples' interpretations of the League and their interactions. Not just Spinner and Shigaraki, but all of them. I feel like a lot of gestures get blown way out of proportion. Shigaraki's "I just want them to be able to live how they see fit" does not equal "Their happiness is my priority, and I'm going to work to create a world where they can be happy". I'm sorry but those two are not the same thing, and I haven't seen Shigaraki act in such a way either. Those two goals may point in the same direction (they don't because he's a fucking liar to his own face and so is Toga to her own face), but that kind sentiment did not suddenly mean that he is prioritizing their happiness and wellbeing above all else. If that was the case, well, they wouldn't have formed a giant ass army to take on the world at war and risk dying (which one of them did) and Spinner wouldn't be in the situation he is in now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

I don't want to rain on people's parades either, but my opinions are pretty clear and have been for a while and people have had plenty of time to block/unfollow me as they see necessary. So at this point, I don't hold back (I try very hard to avoid being super negative though about any character in general). I used to hold back my not so popular (in the villain corner of the fandom) interpretations on the League up until recently. As we've gotten closer to the end, I've decided that I'm just gonna put my opinion out into the void even if many people--specifically in the little circle of blogs I occupy--don't like it. And many don't, and that's okay. My opinion doesn't change unless the manga gives me a reason to change it.

Spinner and Shigaraki--I have a lot of issues here, MAJORITY of it due to fandom hyping them up as more than they are. And look, I don't care when stuff is clearly fanon or headcanons. Posts that are meant to be taken that way are usually pretty clear about it. But these are whole analyses based off of this overblown bond/friendship that literally only Spinner seems to acknowledge/be so attached to.

I don't doubt Shigaraki views everyone in the League as a friend in some capacity. I don't doubt that at all. I don't doubt that he cares and genuinely wants them to live how they want. However, I would like for someone to show me where he pays the same type of special attention to Spinner that Spinner gives to him. Imo, Shigaraki treats them all pretty equally--Spinner included.

I didn't know that about the Japanese, and yet, I still felt this way. Assuming that someone who has a good understanding of Japanese can correct your statement, I'm gonna take your word for it since I can't say shit otherwise lol. But cool--yeah that particular line is used quite a bit. And I get it! It's fun especially if you ship the characters or just enjoy their interactions.

But I feel like people overlook the fact that Spinner's idolization and attachment is literally negative and is a challenge in his arc, not some cute uwu friendship that was just about video games (when would they have played video games in canon??? WHEN????).

Spinner decided to seriously devote himself to Shigaraki (which in itself is a weird not great thing to do) during MVA, because it looked as if Shigaraki had made progress and overcome a barrier and become this all powerful destructive god who can make dreams come true (dreams for someone who wants to lash out at least). But MVA was not any of that. MVA was Shigaraki doing exactly what AFO wanted him to do--get worse emotionally, spiral more mentally and become even more unstable, and hate himself to the point that he sees no point in thinking or hoping for change for the better. Perfect, all according to keikaku. And THAT is when Spinner was like "FUCK YEAH THIS GUY". I know Spin didn't know that, but come oN guys THE TIMING OF IT IS SO FORETELLING.

AND IT WAS. Because look now. What has turned me completely off to this dynamic is the fandom hyping it up as a pure devotion that isn't stemming from a lot of self-worth issues and negative idealization. Spinner associates Shigaraki with destruction, rage, anger, and misery. That's also what Shigaraki associates himself with, and that's exactly what AFO wants. And man, he sure got it out of both of them.

And I'd like it if people acknowledged that more for what it is, but it's just reduced down to "two gamers that AFO groomed and took advantage of". And I feel that is just super oversimplifying what actually happened. AFO didn't groom Spinner from the age of 5, he took advantage of a vulnerability he was able to pinpoint super quickly after Spinner made it painfully obvious.

I like Spinner more on his own, and I like the potential for him to face the reality that him ignoring his gut instincts in favor of that dream of destruction he associates with Shigaraki eventually led to him making things worse for Shigaraki--unintentionally. I mean he hasn't made shit hit the fan YET--but man if things aren't looking ominous as fuck right now. AFO is counting on Spinner? Oof. But the potential for drama here is exciting, and I'm ready for it.

But yeah. I agree--it's overblown imo. It has become a plot point in Shigaraki's arc in a negative way. So I feel people miss the mark when they focus on how devoted Spinner is to Shigaraki during all of this mess, because that's exactly why things look the way they do lol.

[dangermousie]

Various Ukraine things

1. Congratulations, Russia, for finally being number one in something that is not just the amount of land you own!

2. If this is in any way accurate, this is insane! The Soviet-Afghan war lasted 9 years and killed “only” 15K Soviet soldiers (and USSR had a much larger population than Russia does now.)

One of my most vivid childhood memories is vacationing somewhere and meeting a middle-aged lady vacationing with her 17 year old daughter in law. The girl got married to her school sweetheart because he was going to be shipped to Afghanistan and they wanted to be married before that. I tagged after her and idolized her the way only a small girl can be with a “cool” older teen. And then mid-week they left and it was because they got a death notice for the woman’s son/the girl’s husband - he was killed in Afghanistan. I don’t even remember where we were vacationing tbh, I was so little. But that stuck with me all these decades later. And I keep thinking about all people like that in two countries which will lose their lives and their loved ones’ lives because of one fucking psychopath who never has enough. 

3. Shell is out of Russia - stops buying oil from Russia, shuts down its stations within it. Think of what it takes to get an oil company to find something too immoral and too not worth it! Also, the US is banning energy imports from Russia today which GOOD! I will happily walk and take a bus and wear three sweaters in the winter inside the house for the rest of my life not to give money to Putin.

4. I literally started chortling:

Across the years and countries, this man waves hi:

Except even Petain did something impressive once - in WWI. Yanukovich...well.

If Zelensky and his government demonstrate the heights a government and politicians can rise to if needed, Yanukovich is here to demonstrate the polar opposite.

5. This is just hilarious and amazing.

6. No comment. Positively no comment.

7. Also no comment, but for vastly different reasons.

As you can tell, this used to be a purely fandom tumblr but it really isn’t. Hard to stick to that when country you were born and grew up in is being invaded. If you don’t want to read that stuff but also don’t want to unfollow, I tag all of these posts with “real life” so if you blacklist the tag, you are good.

[olderthannetfic]

all the talk of what brings on antis and dogpilling reminds me of the only time i've ever witnessed it happen in real time, on stan twt naturally

an army made a joke at the expanse of one of the members being insert-flaw-i'm-still-afraid-to-repeat-now lol and people decided they were a secret anti trying to infiltrate army spaces on purpose, which is apparently a thing?

their group of friends joined in like 'everybody calm down this is a joke and yes x is flawed lol which is fine actually let this be a moment to reflect on how it's important we treat the boys as humans and not put them on pedestals etc!'

at this point there were call out tweets against them encouraging everyone to block/report them en masse retweeted by literally everyone i followed like it spread lightning fast to every corner of the fandom, from people who had clearly never even been in the vicinity of the same social circles and who didn't hesitate one single second to maybe give the benefit of the doubt to people who had been actively producing imo very good content for years?

by that point it was maybe 6 hours since the first tweet uttering the flaw accusation, and the friendgroup had all locked/changed usernames unlinked their other media etc because they had received hundreds of hate messages telling them to kill themselves among other niceties, and the call outs circulating kept getting updated with the new usernames for a little while (!!!!!!) like literally mocking them for trying to hide and gleefully exposing them for Punishment

anyway sorry for the novel but even if it had nothing to do with me i'm still lowkey traumatized by the story of how 8 months after joining i kind of not so accidentally quit twitter by way of unfollowing my entire TL in one go bc they all turned out to be idiots/cowards, and afterwards i just couldn't be in a space where everyone was okay with facilitating something like that happening by using anti tactics

like it's been a couple years now and i still can't believe this happened to very outspoken softcore badwrong writers who engaged heavily in pro shipping discourse, they really got (temporarily) run off the platform by accusations of being anti i'm

so my point was, genuinely i believe even in a situation where it's v statistically unlikely you could still randomly get dogpiled on, the best thing you can probably do to protect yourself is just to react fast and do everything you can to remove yourself from the situation completely if it ever happens to you. and the bigger a fandom the more insane and potentially dangerous it is. and also twt is : Hell.

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Twitter is garbage, and this is why.

Stupidass teenagers hoping sempai will notice them will always engage in this kind of behavior. Plenty of people old enough to know better will too. But on a site with decent site architecture, they wouldn't be able to go viral like this.

Also, idol fandoms are notorious for melting down when their faves are described as anything less than flawless.

[mysmorgasbordoffantabulosa]

My opinion is that they are together.

First, when he made an insta he followed her. From his official account. People lost it, so he unfollowed. No one can deny that.

Second, this could be the first official dating announcement for bts. So Hybe and Tae are taking their time. For now, Armis are doing the work for them. More and more people are shipping them every day and the hate is slowing down. By the time they decide to go public officially or an undeniable proof surfaces, people would not care anymore. Plus, if it is true and the company lies about it, that would be a harder scandal to recover from imo. Also, I'm sure they are investing the hacking issue. Just because they are not informing fans about every step taken, it doesn't mean they are idly standing by.

Third, no one could find the original pics if they were edited. Some fans try, but it's clear they are real.

There is another theory too. They are friends and this is a purposeful distraction from something else. Some say she's dating someone who she wants to keep a secret etc etc. But that's a bit of a reach in my opinion.

Finally, I'm happy if Tae is happy. That's all I want. And they should be allowed to date and live notmal lives. Whatever the truth is, if anything good comes out of it, I hope it's the kpop fans realising how insane it is to make dating an issue. Especially bts- they are almost 30 ffs. This should absolutely not be as big of a deal as it became 🙄

Hello there, it's great that people can have difference of opinion and not get aggressive about it, so thank you for that. Regarding your points:

I think that's a possibility, but I think what's equally likely is Tae has two accounts, 1 public and 1 private, and he simply forgot to switch accounts and tried to make up some excuse.

2. I just don't think BigHit / HYBE would be this callous to drag one of it's the most popular members. If really, they'd probably acknowledge it in a passive-aggressive what that doesn't acknowledge, a bit like the whole Kim Garam bullying response. This has been going on since May and we supposedly we have potential criminal activity, so where are the police, the lawyers?

3. Originals... mmm... firstly, my understanding is with photoshop (or similar editing software), you can create completely realistic but fake photos using multiple sources and I think that's the case in most of this "leaked" photos. If someone had hacked Jennie/Tae's cloud/phone as some have suggested, as I said, it's a criminal matter and HYBE/YG would have called the police by now, which they haven't, HYBE has sued fans for booking seats on the same flight and cabin. This would lead me to several possibilities: 1. Tae/Jennie leaked the photos to gain traction (this wouldn't explain the clear editing in the photos, though); 2. A friend or staff member leaked them 3. Jennie/Tae posed for a few separate photos that were then edited together for a specific aim; someone the created pictures using body doubles and super-imposed Tae/Jennie's features onto them. Either way, there is some form or manipulations going on somewhere, and either the companies/artists are complicit in it and using it for some purpose, or they're not, and they don't comment on fake photos/stories, conjecture and rumours.

4. I think they could be friends/close acquaintances, and I would not be surprised to find Jennie is dating someone who's not a celebrity, and I know there's a rumour she is.

5. I agree, I want Tae (and all the members) to be happy and to be able to date in public with the person of their choosing. However, feel Korean K fans are not as forgiving as International fans when it comes to this sort of thing. Although, I think in about 5 / 10 years time we'll get more and more idols being open about their relationships (well the straight ones anyway) particularly after completing military service.

[one4theages]

Betrayal// T.H.

Helloooooo, this is my first post. just a short story and has nothing to do with real-life events.

If there are any grammatical errors, I'm sorry!!! My first language isn't English. I hope you like it !!! <3 <333333

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You had seen the pictures. It wasn't a surprise when you unfollowed both of them, it was too painful to see their pictures.

Tom broke up with you just two weeks prior he was seen kissing his co-star. The same one he promised you was only a friend. The same one the fans didn't stop shipping and wishing they were dating. The same one you were secretly jealous of how beautiful, kind and smart she was.

It completely broke you.

When the pictures came out, you cried, you cried like you never cried before and then you disappeared. All your social media was deactivated and you went into hiding mode. The fans and the public usually joked saying you were pulling a "Taylor Swift".

Of course, your fans were sad that you decided to take a break but they understood the pain and sorrow that you were suffering, after a 5-year relationship ended and just weeks after, he was seen kissing another girl.

Everyone idolized your relationship with Tom. Even you. For that reason when he decided to end the relationship, it took you by surprise.

"I'm sorry y/n, but I can't do this anymore, I can't be the man you need me to be" He had said.

During the last 8 months, you remanence all the moments you two lived together. From when you first meet him in that award show with only 17 years old. You just became famous after your band got their 1st hit on the radio and Tom just ended filming civil war. Both of you were young and new in the industry. You were a private couple, didn't like to be in the public eye but that didn't mean you were hiding. Your first public appearance was in Infinity War, everyone was so excited about seeing you two together for the first time. Tom was so happy of having you next to him during the premiere and you were so happy of being able to be next to him in such an important moment.

8 months of the two being seen together, kissing, going out, getting dinner, never confirming their relationship, avoiding questions about their relationship, changing the subject every time the reporters mentioned your name.

It hurt you that they were not brave enough to recognise that they played you. Because you thought of her as a friend and you trusted him with all your heart.

They betrayed you and they knew it.

So when the first pictures of you that came after 8 months of hiding were of you kissing another boy, it broke him.

"I'm sorry y/n, but I can't do this anymore, I can't be the man you need me to be" As Tom said that, his heart shattered. Because for you he was a traitor and the situation a betrayal, but for him, it was a contract that he couldn't come off. A situation he wished and wished every night he had thought through.