#ill hashtag other fandoms here

[balloooonn]

NEW BANNER ! ★ LITTLE PRESENTATION 4 EVERY PONY !

★ DISCLAIMER : I'M NOT THE BEST AT ENGLISH ! SORRY FOR THE BAD GRAMMATIC !

Hi, I'm kotty. I'm 16, chilean and a trans male. He/him! I have a cover / music / animation etc channel, It's in spanish, but I'd love you to watch it.

I just do the things I love the most. The objective of the covers is translating songs to spanish and making them as accurate as possible, mixing it my own essence. It's something I always wanted to do since I was a kid.

You'll se Anjerta Vicaduñez and Alan in almost every video. Together, or separated. They're my ocs, a simple representation of the positive and negative side of things.

ABOUT MY ACCOUNT HERE ON TUMBLR :

I created myself a tumblr for posting fanart of the things I like. Just fanarts, not much else. I don't like posting about my ocs. (Maybe some exceptions in the future, I don't know.)

I've been here for just two years, yet I don't know how to use it fully... LMAO-

★ YOU'LL FIND THIS KIND OF FANDOMS :

• Eddsworld (Mostly neighbors)

• Bugbo

• Don't Hug Me, I'm scared

• Lacey's games

• Papa's canibalia

• Spooky Month

• My little pony

I'm in some more fandoms, but I think I won't upload about them here (I'll uptade this list when I do). Maybe I missed something, but whatever.

I'm tagging the rest of the fandoms in this publication.

Very big fan of Jack Stauber too.

MY PRINCIPAL FANDOM ★ EDDSWORLD AND MY CHILEAN AU PROJECT !

I have a project of Eddsworld in mind since july of 2023. It's an alternative universe of Eddsworld were they are chileans. It's just them being funny together, but in Chile, my country.

Needless to say I don't want to offend anyone with this, It's a parody, and I made this for my own fun, just wanted to share it with the fandom. (Seems like people like it, tho!)

I'll share some of the art I've made until now.

I tend to be very awful at having constancy and perseverance with my own projects, so I don't have advanced it very much. (Yeah, it's a bit abandoned.)

Eddsworld Chile has an account on Tiktok. I post news about the project, animations and other things. I have my own personal account too there.

I'll make a channel on YouTube for it soon.

★ EDDSWORLD CHILE ACCOUNT:

★ MY OWN ACCOUNT:

- I have to say that making this AU changed my life in a way I didn't think it would. That's something personal I've been thinking lately.

Despite everything bad that has been happening in my personal life, this was a very big comfort, and it only made me take a lot of inspiration for everything I want to do when we talk about art and music.

That's all! Consider watching my channel if you like Sodikken or Jack Stauber. Bye ;p

THANKS 4 WATCHING ★ HAVE A [Nice Day] ! ONLY FOR 4,99$ !

[codecicle]

wanted to apologise for possibly being someone who fucked up ur tl with 18+ slime posts (coming to grips with how tagging works on this here webbedsite!) please take my sincerest (anonymous) apologies ur a cool goober 🙏

ay man it's alright!! really!!! i understand most of the 18+ people are coming from websites like twitter or tiktok so they don't quite understand how it functions :-) if you ever need a tutorial or any help with understanding the culture here, shoot me an ask! it's insanely different from other social media and i completely understand its weird to adjust to and navigate. peace and love + have fun with your slimeposting ✌️

[apatheticlexicographer]

to be completely honest, the stranger things fandom has damn near ruined the show for me lmfao

[bucktommybingo]

WELCOME TO BUCKTOMMY BINGO !

General Guidelines: 

Standard bingo rules apply: five in a row (vertically, horizontally, diagonally) to ‘win’. If one wants to fill in the entire card, or all three, feel free to do so, this is just for fun!

ALL types of creations count as fills - fic, art, gifs, etc.

disclaimer: there will be no acceptance of AI works. Do not tag this blog in any AI. This is an AI hate space.

You can use one prompt per creation OR try and wedge an entire line into one creation if you’re an overachiever (affectionate). If you score a full card by the end please make a master post for bragging rights!!

New works or WIPs that you've been looking for an excuse to finish accepted but nothing already posted / incomplete on AO3.

Tag this account to be reblogged: @bucktommybingo

Other hashtags to include: #bucktommybingo #bucktommy bingo

PLEASE make sure to tag correctly for works containing any of the major warnings on AO3 (graphic violence, character death, rape/ non-con, underage)

This is for fun and to encourage this Very Cool fandom 😘 No pressure to finish a whole card but that would be super awesome if you’re feeling it!

There are three different bingo cards so everyone can have the choice in what they want to do, if you don't want to do NSFW works, then the first card works just fine! If you want to do ONLY NSFW works than the smut card is just for you. If you've been looking for an excuse to delve more into the darker side of things, the darkfic card is for you.

This bucktommy bingo is run by a proshipper, hence the darkfic card, and there will be no censorship done here. there's no moderation. I'm only here to reblog people's works and encourage people to participate.

AO3 Collection here

Start Date: November 23rd

End Date (completed bingo cards/ masterlists should be posted by this day): March 6th, 2025 (aka the end of hiatus).

Text list of prompts under the read more.

HAVE FUN 🥳

1ST CARD:

BUCK 1.0

ROOMMATES

GAY BARS

MPREG

TOMMY'S HOUSE

CHEATING

AGE GAP

HURT COMFORT

ROAD TRIP

FIRST FIGHT

NEAR DEATH

A/B/O (omegaverse)

FREE SPACE (anything you want!)

JEALOUSY

OUTSIDER POV

FUTURE FIC

SPORTS

DIFFERENT JOBS

SOULMATES

ILLNESS

EXES

SOLDIER TOMMY

FAKE DATING

COLLEGE AU

MUAY THAI

SMUT CARD:

PUPPY PLAY

RING CUTTER

BREEDING KINK

PISS KINK

FIRST TIME

PRAISE KINK

EDGING

RIMMING

DADDY KINK

DIRTY TALK

BAREBACK

BDSM

FREE SPACE (whatever you want!)

COLLAR

ONE NIGHT STAND

PHONE SEX

SUBSPACE

CHOKING

SEX TOY

PWP (porn with plot/porn without plot)

ARMPIT LOVE

COCKWARMING

PUBLIC SEX

THREESOME

SOMNO

DARKFIC CARD

DUBCON

MONSTERFUCKING

SELF HARM

TORTURE

CHILD ABUSE

STALKING

GROOMING

HURT NO COMFORT

MOB/GANG

RESTRAINTS

BLOOD PLAY

DRUGGED

FREE SPACE (anything you want!)

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME

UNDERAGE

BETRAYAL

CAME BACK WRONG

PRISON

MCD (major character death)

POSSESSION

MURDER

ABDUCTION

SUICIDE

FORCED TO WATCH

NONCON

[hashtagdrivebywrites]

Hello, yes, howdy, welcome to...

✨Hashtag's Fic Masterlist✨

A little about me:

She/her pronouns

I write and sometimes make art

Here is my Ao3!

Asks are open! or you can drop me a message if you want to

I like ask games, but I might be late or accidentally lose track of them before I can respond to them (whoops!)

I'm into a lot of stuff so this blog/page/black hole will be a mixed bag of fandoms

[Updated October 10, 2024] - Fic links below:

Published, In Progress:

Imprint (DPxDC) (Baby G.K. Danny, Halfa Dad Jason, Fright Franklin Pickle Girl Knight, oddball co-parents, attempted qpr relationship) 10/10: Chapter 13 done - trying to finish out the arc so I can MAYBE get this thing back on a bi-weekly schedule again 😭

Meandros (AC: 3 x AC: Odyssey) (Time travel/Reincarnation, Kid Desmond, OC's, Deimos!Kassandra, dumb mercenaries with a big bro/dad complex, Desmond "I'm Done" Miles) 10/10: Chapter 13 done - trying to finish out the arc and picking at the sequel drafts

Published, Complete:

As Long as Stars are Above You (TMNT (mostly Bayverse and Next Mutation)) (Family Fluff, Surprise Baby Acquisition, Good Big Bros, Momma April) 15 Chapters; 39k words; Sequel in progress

Our Mother Breathed Fire (GOT) (Dragon POV, kind of a character study? I don't know) 1 Shot; 2k words

Your Blood That I Bleed (AC 1, 2 & 3) (Family of Choice, Immortality, Cat Dad Desmond, Assassin Dads) 10 Chapters; 74k Words

"In The Drawer" - On Hiatus until I can give it the attention it needs:

A Place For Us (Batman (mostly Arkham Knight)) (Families of Choice, Kids, Adoption, Bat Fam coming back together) 4/12: My first fic on Ao3 and it's been set aside for a complete overhaul because there's no structure/direction and there's a lot of issues with how I was writing/presenting the characters.

Unpublished, In Progress:

And Longer Still If I Can - sequel to As Long As Stars Are Above You (TMNT) (Family and Found Family, Kid Fic, Adventure Fic, Larval Form Mutanimals) 10/10: On pause!

Red Devil Rowdy (title may change; DPxDCxSDxSPN) (Paranormal Mystery/Detective Fic, Family Reveal, Identity Reveal) 10/10: 4/5 Chapters done - working on that fifth then will be ready to post

And Still You Stand, Sturdy and Smelling of Smoke (DC x Spider-man) (Peter Parker Fist Fights the League, Catatonic Jason, Hyper Independent Tim) 10/10: On pause!

Illing and Able! (title may change; DSxTMNT) (Time Travel, Older Turtles (21), Mom Friend April, Gratuitous Use of "Bro", "Dude" and "Yo") 10/10: First arc finished! Will be published in the same update w/ Imprint 13 and Meandros 13!

Holy War is On The Phone (DPxMHA/BNHA) (Ghost Prince Danny, Undercover Investigation, Fake Family, Pissed Off Danny) 10/10: On pause!

Redline (DCxMHA/BNHA) (Robin!Jason, Jason has the Metagene, Accidental Dimension Travel, Pro-Heroes/Older Class 1-A) 10/10: Finishing the first arc!

(Recently fallen head over heels into a Star Wars hyperfixation, which has naturally spawned a bunch of WIP's of its own, so expect some content soon (EDIT: there's three independent SW wips and three crossovers with other fandoms in progress - will list them soon on the WIP list (10/10)))

[bigt1e]

Re-Intro

Hello! My name is Bigite, some nicknames I use: Airy, olivegarden, and olive oil I'm okay with different nicknames, just ask before using them!

I am a minor (but my birthday is aug 28 :3)

I go by he/they pronouns

Im Demiromantic, Ace, and Nonbianary!

Im an osc artist, though I do draw other stuff and I can take requests!

REMINDER: I am human, and I may be stressed, tired, or busy so I may take longer to do some requests!

My persona is the character on the image, I will use him when ever I want tbh. Most of the time for silly thoughts, but that's it!

I also have tons osc, which I will post here and there and sometimes do lore drops for them lmao

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DNI LIST!

°No Nsfw

°Basic dni (homophobia, transphobia, etc)

° anything else that's hella gross or something triggering (I can't think of anything else rn)

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likes:

Object shows (favorites: hfjONE, ii) Music (Favorites: TV Girl, Lemon Demon !!, Will Wood!! I love show/game OSTs sm!! Mother Mother and plenty more) I love mephoj (mephone4 x Oj) so much my comfort ship fr, also my favorite characters are Mephone and Airy, if you see art of them pls @ me!! I love to see it!! I also like chatting with people, so don't be afraid to dm if you're a moot!! (Small interactions help me go through the day) I'm in so many fandoms it's concerning, so if you do have a special interest or hyperfixating on something share it! I will most likely join in lmao. I love seeing art in gen, so if you're my moot and do art you also can @ me in it! :D

Also. I love fan art of my ocs so like yk... 👉👈

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dislikes:

don't dislike many things lmao, besides like body fluids and stuff like that (which I most likely won't have to worry about lmao)

Also vegetables if you place one in front of me I'm dead/j

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Art request!:

If you would like to request a drawing you can dm, ask box, or @ me in a post, anything is fine!

I will draw:

Ocs (original characters)

Furry characters

Characters from shows/ games/ books etc.

Object show characters

Ship art of characters

Not heavy/detailed gore (like blood thats basically it)

Angst (I'm not that well at drawing angst 💔)

i won't draw

nsfw (or anything like that)

Pro/com ships

heavy/ detailed gore

Full backgrounds (it's because I will cry if I tried to do that for a req)

please send a reference picture with your req! Or I will cry and violently attack you/j

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I will TRY to be organized with my posts, but probably not if I am then here's the hashtags I might use

#bigtie's art #bigtie rambles abt something #bigite's req

Thats it I think ill probably edit in future...

thanks for reading!! Have an amazing day/night!!

[creators-club]

Created: 11.4.24 | Updated: 11.4.24

Welcome to the Creators Club and our community. Here, we are all about supporting and nurturing content creators of every type: writers, visual artists, readers, aspiring indie authors, and everyone in between. Whether you're sharing fan works, original world, or personal projects, we're here to cheer you on. Please remember, genre does not matter, as all creativity is welcomed.

Below, you will find a list of our guidelines / rules.

Admin Support

Single Admin: Currently, we have one admin who manages this club. Please allow for response time, as we're committed to making this club a positive experience for everyone.

Questions & Support: For any questions or support, please sent asks directly to the @creators-club rather than @bardic-tales. This helps keep communication organized, ensures your messages are seen, and allows us to respond accurately to @creators-club inquiries.

Community Standards:

Respect and Support: We're here to cheer everyone on. Please keep all comments and reblogs encouraging, uplifting, and constructive.

No Politics: Political or religious content should only be included if it's in your story, world, or character. This is to keep the club welcoming to everyone, regardless of personal beliefs.

Harassment or personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Personal Information: Do not share personal information about yourself or others.

Plagiarism and Theft: Do not share or claim others' works as your own.

Content Guidelines

Originality: We do not accept AI-generated content. Please only submit original works created by you or collaboratively with others.

Accepted Content: All forms of creative works are welcomed: fanfiction, art, meta, alternate universes, canon-based, original characters, canon x reader, canon x oc, and original works created by our talented indie or aspiring indie authors.

Queue Submissions: Submissions that do not relate to a current event will be added to the queue for posting. All queued posts will be hashtagged with 'ready-set-queue'. This helps to keep our group feed balanced.

Polls: At this time, we are not accepting polls for submission.

Event Participation

Flexible Engagement: Participate in events as much or as little as you are able to. As a person with a chronic illness, I understand how batteries or spoons are low some days. There is no pressure to engage beyond what you feel comfortable with.

Formatting Requirements

Read More: For written works over 400 words, please use Tumblr's 'Read More' feature. This keeps our dashboard clutter free.

Joining the Creators' Club Tag List

How to join: To be added to the Creators' Club tag list for Tumblr games and Writeblr ask games, please interact with the joining post by liking, reblogging, or commenting on it. By doing so, you're letting @bardic-tales know that you wish to participate in community activities, receive tags, and engage in our supportive, drama-free space.

Alternative Blog: If you have a different blog that you'd prefer to be tagged in, please specify it in a reply to the joining post.

Opting Out: If you do not wish to join the tag list, simply avoid interacting with the post. If you want to opt out at any time, please send a message to @creators-club.

Community Connection: After joining, feel free to reach out to other members on the tag list. This club thrives on mutual encouragement and celebrating each other's works. Connecting with other creators is always encouraged.

Proper Tagging

Clearly tag all works by fandom work. For example, fandom-specific tags like '#Hunger Games' or "#Marvel'.

If your work includes character x reader or character x oc pairings, please tag accurately: character x reader or character x oc. This helps readers find what they are looking for.

NSFW Content: Any NSFW (Not Safe for Work) content must be clearly tagged as such. This ensures that all members can enjoy the community in a safe and comfortable environment.

Content Warnings: Please add content warnings where necessary. For example, if your work has violence, please tag for violence. This makes our club safe and welcoming for all.

Tagging for Events: Please tag @bardic-tales after you make your post or answer a question for the events hosted by the Club. This allows me to upload your work to both @creators-club and @bardic-tales efficiently.

Submission Process

Hashtags: Always use relevant hashtags so we can categorize your work properly. If you do not include a fandom hashtag, we'll assume it is original work.

Ask Rounds: Asks are usually sent out in two rounds to avoid being barred from sending asks. Your patience is appreciated during this process.

Reblogs: Please be patient with reblogs, as I'm the only one managing this, as of right now, and I also want to be able to create my own content. I appreciate your understanding as I work to share everyone's submissions.

[the-little-cookie-corner]

Welcome!

Hello Everyone! Welcome to my very own Tumble Blog! you can call me Hydras and im a girl! I have resently been intrested in Cookie run in general, so ill probably be in the fandom for a long time. This Blog is a Cookie Run Agere dedicated and ill be manly doing art and headcanons of such.

now im no regressor by any means, but dou to the hashtag bringing me confort and a place of calm, peace and happiness, i wanted to contribute as much as i can!

Please keep in mind that this Blog is SFW only, anyone from the ABDL community and/or any of the Age Play subgenre communities please DNI, there are other places to find things you want, not here. As by definition, regression is a coping mechanisms and is used to get back and relive the childhood some unfortunatly had to lose/grow up fast from, but of course thats not the only reason people regress. Anyway, with that being said, i hope to bring the confort and joy just like the hashtag brought me, ill post pretty soon

Bye-Bye!

[sunlitmcgee]

hello @suddenlydaggers ! I wish to properly reply to you and am gonna be talking about your replies here since I need to ramble a bit. I do not mean to be rude, but in advance, I just need to say I fear you may have misunderstood What exactly I was talking about with this post.

TLDR: While I for the most part agree with your points here: This wasn't what this post was about. This was a post about violence and hatred I've seen and experienced with fandom as an arospec/acespec person who enjoys exploring that part of my identity through headcanons and character interpterions.

This wasn't a post about representation in media, but instead about how Hateful and Violent otherwise progressive queer communities online are towards people like me when we try to see ourselves in our favorite characters. This was about how normalized it is to say stuff like "there's not platonic explanation for this" in regards to two characters Literally Just Breathing Near Each Other but someone choosing to interpret an intimate queer relationship as a qpr one will be harassed, abused, insulted and called homophobic for "gay erasure."

*insert long, long, Long rant that I don't have the emotional capacity for today about how all of this can be linked back to the violent aphobia of Not Too Distant Tumblr's past*

I've been triggered on multiple occasions going into tags for certain ships I enjoy in a qpr context only to be met with post after post sneering and jeering at the Idea that these characters are """just friends"". One time I saw a post that word for word says "people who interpret this relationship as a platonic one are trying to demeaning the value of the characters' marriage in their story" and felt violently ill for the rest of the day. I have been told countless times through fandoms that claimed to be hashtag Quirky and Queer and Proud that the way I love is Lesser. That I am not a complete person because my ideal relationship isn't full of Sloppy Raw Dogging Action but is instead one completely detached from a very Suffocating idea of romance and sexuality that fandom spaces reveal in at the cost of excluding those who just....don't Crave that and just wanna have fun with something Else when playing around with the little blorbo people in the little stories.

The idea that romance is this sacred, holy, all powerful form of love and that it's the Only Way To Be Queer is Harmful. Both IRL and in fandom spaces where people should be Safe and Happy and Free to explore themselves through fiction. That's what this post was about.

I hope that this didn't come off as too Venty or Ranty. I just feel you misunderstood the Point I was Making and hope I have clarified.

[hollyhorseheads]

hi hollyhorseheads all 3 of us. i want a sideblog just for them... fair warning this blog will probably not be used for very long but if you stumble across it like wayyy into the future u are welcome to send me an ask or a message or whatever because this is just a sideblog of my main & i still check sideblog notifs cause it bugs me if i dont make the notification symbol go away LOL

main blog if u follow me on here thats where ill follow back from!!! also where i like posts from (duh) and if you wanna see me yap abt / rb stuff ur free 2 follow

art blog if i post art of these guys it will probably be on my art blog (but ill rb it to here)!! i also post art from other stuff i like but be prepared for long hiatuses 💔💔💔 i tend to go through phases of drawing multiple times a day every day to not drawing for months on end LOL

writing / playlists tumblr this one was SUPPOSED to be my blog for posting fandom spotify playlists i made and then also fanfics i wrote but um. well i do just end up rambling on there occasionally. IF UR LEGALLY A MINOR (or just dont wanna see that shit) PLEASE FILTER OUT MY 18+ POSTS ON THERE THANK U!!!! anyway if i write anything / make a playlist for them (or just want to post abt music and them in general) itll be on there but i will of course rb it here :3

yeah ur free to follow any of my blogs idm!!! and ur absolutely free to unfollow at any time too no hard feelings <3 my final warning is that i do fixate on stuff and change interests sometimes (not, like, often, but a few times a year usually) so youre welcome to follow when im into one thing and unfollow when im into another! my point is that ur always getting a mixed bag with me LOL... the only constant is my love of nonbinary yuri headcanons. hashtag proud himejoshi for LIFE!

thats it i think. oh you can call me mona or ramona i think thats my most used name atm... idm about pronouns or masc/fem/neu terms. use whatevers funniest for the bit. ok? awesome :]

[anisaanisa]

Will you be participating in any of the IY Fandom events this year? (Inu-Spiration, InuSecretSanta, Inuvember, Sugar and Spice Event, etc.)

Hello, anon! I realise you’ve sent this ask to multiple people, so in the interest of your interest check, I’ll answer your question. I tend to keep musings to hashtags, but as my closest friends here know, I’m an opinionated mouthpiece when given the opportunity. So, I’m going to be honest about my feelings here, since you asked in such good faith.

But for future reference – you don’t need to hide. I won’t bite unless asked. Note: These opinions are my own and not a direct reflection of how others may feel, or the coordinators of these events.

Inu-spiration: No. Mystery-bag art isn’t on my Christmas list, and the same goes for writing. When I want to collaborate, I have options, and those options come with people I adore and admire, and afford me the gift of knowledge. Not knowing who/what/when/where/why I’m being paired and the type of work I’ll create is not in my repertoire of a good time, and from personal experience, participants tend to be laden with stress up until the very last moment. In the interest of peace and tranquillity, it’s a no from me.

InuSecretSanta: My calendar quakes. In the interest of peace and time-keeping, it’s a no from me.

Inuvember Mothership (and somehow FC) Bingo: No. And because you forced me into having to read, re-read and make sense of something that doesn’t make sense, I returned the favour – this is going to be longwinded.

Incoherent: I have to read a lot to get to the meat of what this event entails. My brain is flighty, and I tend to skip ANs on a good day – so when I did just that, I was brought to percentages. So, I have to go back up to the top to understand why those are there. And when I read it all, it’s still not very clear what the aim is here – apart from, of course, competition, competition, competition.

Longwinded: Bingo. A game beloved by many, particularly OAPs and children. It usually comprises of a card and a time and place to meet. This event, so far, has come with 2 announcement posts, neither of which is a bingo card, and an edit (which I’ll get into) to the event itself. As per the previous incoherency issues, neither of these announcements have come from the Inuvember page, and have been spread between 2 other blogs. Having to jump through multiple hoops to find information is a PR nightmare, and I’ve already thrown my laptop out the window because I don’t know where to look. The OAPs and children weep, for the adults don't have the answers.

Exclusionary: This one is two-fold, so I’ve broken it down. -Themes: are, at best, exclusionary. Forcing people into rare characters and rare pairs has pushed the majority of the fandom out of participation within the first 2 weeks. On top of that, the original event comprised of an entire week of whump, which is baffling for so many reasons – so by week 3, there are half a dozen people left who might participate. By the time we reach week 4 – the only one that makes a lick of sense for a fandom-wide event – it’s Tropes, which, besties, no… Whump is a Trope. And as a final hoorah, the event has been amended before we’ve even seen a bingo card. If that isn’t fumbling the bag, I don’t know what is. At this point, we have 3 weeks until November, no Bingo card, and very little time to come up with a Hojo Whump story. – Competition: Ain’t my schtick. Leaderboards, as a concept, are not cute. Fandom is an escapist plain, and with the incredibly niche themes and modge-podging that has to be done to earn points/percentages/whatever, all but 2 people have “lost” their chance to place anywhere. To meet any requirements here, you’d have to give yourself over to the toxic productivity that only a handful of people thrive in. We already have a quarterly competition that happens too frequently for a small, dying fandom, so this portion of the event was unnecessary, ill-advised, and just plain whack.

Transparency/Prizes: There are prizes…apparently. There has been no mention of what they are and should have been announced from the word go. I’ve gleaned that this section of the event may have sprouted from Feudal Connection’s input, considering I've spotted they've answered a few concerns already. From personal experience, I have received 2/8 Winners banners promised from that specific event (which I do not feel to/shouldn’t have to chase, and no, I’m not a special case here), have found it to be nothing but an administrative nightmare from the ground up, and can't compute when suggestions for improvement are met with combative resistance to change. With all that being said, I am 1) not surprised this hasn’t been coordinated/planned properly yet and 2) not convinced that they will be worth the hassle of chasing up when/if these promises are met.

Convoluted: From my wading through multiple blogs and posts, I have concluded this is a Mothership event and bears no real affiliation with Inuvember, apart from appearing on a banner and in a tag. Three separate blogs/events conducting one’s brainchild is confusing at best, and I struggle to understand where FC or Inuvember come into this event other than being guilty by association.

TLDR: From my understanding, previous Inuvember events have been this: 30 days of themes for us to celebrate our love for Inuyasha as a fandom, in whatever way we see fit. This is 30 days of competition to see whose Franken-fic comes out on top. Fandom accolades have never been the aim of my game, so you’ll have to find this very, very particular bloodlust elsewhere. Verdict: In the interest of peace and sanity, it’s a no from me.

Sugar and Spice: Probably not, cause it’s too far in the future for me to say for certain what with having no concept of time. In the interest of refusing to believe 2023 is near, it’s a no from me.

Etc: Fandom is supposed to be about fun. And yes, some find competition and Being Number 1 fun. But I’m tired, I have a child to raise, and I just wanna write/draw my silly little grocery store daydreams and delight over them with my friends. I do not care who is the best. I do not care about stretching myself thin for things that do not bring me joy. And you won’t find any HoW tO WiN aT FaNdOm nonsense here. We have snacks – that’s about it.

Hope this helps! 🥰❤

[otherspeciel]

Otherkin and the public eye

If otherkin are to be understood and respected, they need to be "popular," to a degree. Walmart doesn't have to sell otherkin merch, but more people have to know about them. This post is me just taking about how that could happen.

Just a note:

1. I'm alterhuman/otherkin myself, I’m part of every group mentioned in this post

2. I'm very interested in numbers, trends, optics, etc, and that's what this post is talking about

3. If this is weird or hard to understand, please let me know and I can rephrase/clarify parts that are confusing

4. I’m really bad at terminology, I’m sorry, it’s never clicked with me. I did my best to get everything right, but there might be mistakes.

As a method to spread awareness of otherkin, I propose a flurry of posts on Tiktok and Twitter that will give a desirable image of the community. I say Tiktok because it lets posts be spread to enormous amounts of people in a very short amount of time, and Twitter because of the way communities are formed on that platform, and because movements across two platforms generally do better.

Points I’d like to make:

What should the community look like

What types of posts should be made

1. What should the community look like:

First, I’d like to explain that I’m not interested in censoring/neutering the community. I’m not against the community having an image that in places is unpleasant to outsiders. I just don’t see why the image needs to be unpleasant in ways that aren’t fundamental to the community. To use furries as an example, I’m totally against denying the nsfw aspect of the community. Lots of furries like nsfw, and it’s a part of the fandom that shouldn’t be erased. “Marketing” furries correctly, to me, would not look like denying the 18+ side of the fandom, it would look like making sure that when people see a fursuit for the first time, it’s a pretty fursuit.

Looking at areas where non-otherkin interact with us, I’ve noticed they seem to disagree mostly with the ideas that otherkin are their kintype, that kintypes are involuntary, that otherkin are free to act as their kintype, and that otherkin experience dysphoria. I respect/believe all of those ideas, and in fact I want the community to be more popular so that more people respect/believe them as well.

That being said, I think an image of the community needs to be constructed that is palatable, in the sense that it is easy to understand and spread. If someone says they are otherkin, there should be an idea in people’s minds of what that means, and how they can respect that, and any way that someone’s needs might differ should be simple to address.

Take the transgender community as an example. Though being transgender can be complicated, and there’s lots of room for discussion of that, the idea of the community can be expressed simply as “trans women are women, trans men are men, and nonbinary people are nonbinary.” That doesn’t compromise on any fundamental part of the community, and doesn’t hold the community back by being unclear, hard to understand, etc. There is also a simple understanding of “what to do” when someone is trans, especially on twitter, thanks to threads like this: https://twitter.com/jaysaltx/status/1389683863262310404?s=20.

So, what should the community look like? Here are some superficial things that cause friction:

Not being accepting of ideas surrounding mental illness. Most of the time I see people upset at otherkin it’s because of the way they behave around people with psychosis, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, etc. This could be resolved by explicitly being supportive of people who otherkin are typically thought to harm, and respecting the wishes of people in those communities.

Being super nitpicky/”toxic.” Nine out of ten times I see people who aren't otherkin talking bad about otherkin, it’s because they associate “kinning” with a time on Tumblr where people would get called out/harassed for minor issues, things like friend disagreements or doubles. It would do the community well to be portrayed as a place where if you get something wrong, you are gently corrected/(“educated”) rather than “harassed.”

Liking Danganronpa? I’ve heard people being referred to as “Danganronpa kinnies” like a thousand times, and it’s never positive, so maybe just use other media as an example for fiction kin.

And here are some things that people like about the community:

Being able to label themselves/ find a sense of identity

The way kintypes affect gender

Aesthetics

Demi-humanity: catboy/girls, dogboy/girls, vampires, werewolves, zombies, etc

My strategy would be to simply lean away from those things that cause friction, and towards things that people enjoy.

2. Types of posts that could be made:

Generally:

-Infographics/informational pictures. These get spread everywhere, and, if done right, are easy to understand.

-Flags/twibbons/symbols. People like them

-Slogans? Common phrases? If you notice someone saying something that’s short, clear, and easy to understand, repeat it

-Memes especially are important, think about how well “starter pack” memes were able to create an image of groups of people

Twitter specific:

-Informational threads, so so many of them

-”Otherkin promote yourself” posts (also just good for support in general)

-Hashtags (for art, promotion, or just in general.)

Tiktok specific:

-POVs, memes, normal Tiktok stuff

-Videos centered around common kintypes?

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That’s all I have to say for now. If there’s more interest, I’ll go into more detail. Thanks for reading, & I’d be interested to hear what y’all think!

[wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj]

there are two main female characters with about a dozen male characters. one is canonically with the male lead. the fandom ships the male lead with his best friend though, so we can’t have that actually, but we can’t just leave our girls because we love them but they’re strong and don’t need no man hashtag girlboss but they can’t just be single because everyone still has to be paired up so they’re lesbians! we love lesbians they’re very soft and sweet and wholesome but also act as the logical ones as opposed to the disaster gays, always laughing at and shaking their heads at their shenanigans. we won’t make nearly as much art and fic for them but they’re always in the background so u know how much we love them haha they’re sarcastic and so funny and they’re so pure and perfect together! um also because there’s no more female characters i guess they don’t have that many strong friendships with other women. fuck the writers for their heteronormativity we’re so cool for making everyone gay amirite

do you know how devastating it is to see lesbian headcanons and my first reaction isn’t the joy of seeing lesbians being represented and loved and celebrated—instead it’s skepticism, reluctance. because i’m so used to source material and fans alike giving female characters dust. and yes fandom creators work with the crumbs they have and often it’s good, it’s wonderful even. but those trends add up. and i hate cynicism and assuming people are shitty, but this isn’t about assumption of ill intent, it’s discomfort in knowing that this deep-rooted misogyny is inescapable and that it influences all fandom creations and headcanons, including my own. and lesbian headcanons are so often intrinsically involved, often feeling almost like compensation for shafting women so much.

how do i cope with that? the misogynistic lesbophobic amatonormative biases that lurk behind these innocent headcanons that make it hard to believe that non-sapphics actually care about wlw representation. and again this isn’t about individual intent or malice but larger fandom tropes and trends being so consistent and integrated into fandom culture that it’s hard to ignore. but wtf am i supposed to do. media with big fandoms either have casts with men as a majority, are children’s cartoons whose discourses ive seen mushroom clouds of in the distance, or get cancelled by netflix. i hate it here sometimes

anyways do yall have any good recs 👉👈

being a lesbian whose fandoms are very male character-heavy is so hard you guys don’t understand

[chalkrevelations]

Word of Honor Ep 6, and let’s talk a little about what’s canon, and what’s not, and about the particular slip-slidiness of the line between them on this show.

But first, due diligence: If you are NEW or JUST VISITING, this is a re-watch, so you’re going to find SPOILERS not just for this ep, but for the entire show. Scroll away and come back later if you haven’t seen all 36.5 eps and want to watch unspoiled. Also, heads-up, this got super long, because I had to talk about that stuff up there and then still talk about the ep. Hashtag long post (remorseful).

So, “canon,” as applied to fannish source material (in Western fandom, at least) traditionally has been considered the official stuff – the episode, the book, the comic, the movie – based on the religious definition of  “canon,” the collection of texts accepted as genuine and official within a religion. The word “fanon” – widely accepted fannish ideas – plays on this, as does the fandom concept of “word of God,” or things the Creators have said about the text but outside of it. Is it in the show as it aired or the book as it was printed? Canon. Is it not in the show as it aired or the book as it was printed? Not canon. (Apocrypha? Maybe. Anyway.) Generally, I think we’d say that things like material in the first draft of a script that doesn’t make it through revisions and onto the screen isn’t canon, even if you can get your hands on a copy of the first draft. The final product that airs is what’s canon. BUT this gets super slippery in something like WoH, in a way that’s exemplified in this episode. This ep is one of the places where people who can lip-read Chinese have spotted some significant dialogue changes between what the actors say on-screen and what lines have been dubbed in. (Everybody’s dubbed in cdramas, it’s just the thing that happens. You have your on-screen actors, and you have your voice actors. The ONLY person in The Untamed who did his own voice dubbing, for instance, was Ji Li, who played Nie Huaisang. All the other characters had voice actors dubbed in. In fact, the voice actor for Jiang Cheng in The Untamed is the voice actor for Wen Kexing in WoH.) One of the descriptions of WoH that I’ve heard is that this show was filmed as a bl and dubbed as a bromance. The thing is, nobody tried very hard to hide the shift. There are plenty of places that you can clearly see the actor’s mouths don’t match the dubbing, and they’re not artfully shot or edited to hide this. They’re fully on-screen, mouthing words that don’t match, right out in the open, almost like they want to you to pick up on it. Almost like it’s canon, because it’s right there on-screen, aired in the episode. In my first-watch reactions to Eps 36 and 37, I talked a lot about how the dubbing puts a layer of de-queered no-homo over what the on-screen actors are saying in these places, but if you can see what they’re actually saying and understand it, does that make it canon? What does it mean, both textually and meta-textually, if you can’t believe what you’re hearing – what you’re being told – because it contradicts what you’re seeing? How does that affect what we’re told about Our Protagonists and its “truth,” particularly in the final scenes? How much is the show deliberately working against censorship in this way? How much is it teaching us to look deeper than what we’re hearing on the surface?

Several people have talked about what’s actually being said by the on-screen actors in places where this happens, and I’m going to direct you to AvenueX on Youtube if you want a complete overview, because she’s reliable and has a good compilation that’s easy to find. She has a couple of videos called “Lip Reading for Sugar,” and the March 9, 2021, installment includes the Ep 6 incidences, the most significant of which are: At 3:05 in the ep, when WKX throws himself on Zhou Zishu’s back during the zombie Drug Men attack, calls him “mom,” asks ZZS to carry him, and tells “mom” that “your shoulder blades are the most beautiful.” Only no, Gong Jun didn’t say this, if you watch his mouth compared to the sound of the words. Instead of “niang” (mom), he says “Zhou Zishu.” Twice. “Zhou Zishu, carry me.” “Zhou Zishu, your shoulder blades are the most beautiful.” This is not only important because it emphasizes he’s gay for Zhou Zishu’s shoulder blades, but also because he’s fucking baked on Drunk Like A Dream incense when it happens, and later, ZZS will reveal that Drunk Like a Dream makes you see what you most desire, and he’ll confront WKX about how he “kept calling” someone’s name while he was under the influence of it. This makes no sense with the dubbing we get, because with “mom” dubbed over ZZS’s name here, WKX only calls Zhou Zishu’s real name once while he’s under the influence, at the end of ep 5. That is not kept calling. ANYWAY, once WKX clears his head and flies them away from the Drug Men, back to the a lakeside, there’s another disjunct at 5:05, when the dubbing has WKX tell ZZS not to play hero, that he doesn’t lose face if WKX helps him, and ZZS responds with something about your grandmother’s bear, which AvenueX tells me is a real Chinese idiom, although not for what. What Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan appear to actually have said, though, is that WKX tells ZZS that this was just like a hero saving a beauty, with the implication that ZZS is the beauty, the damsel in distress, and ZZS respons that no, it’s like the beauty saving the hero, without a lick of concern that he’s the beauty, the damsel, in this scenario, just that he did all the work killing Drug Men and now this asshole is going to act like he’s the one who did the saving. At 31:24, dubbing has WKX telling ZZS that he’ll give ZZS whatever he wants if ZZS can get him some of the Drunk Like a Dream, but AvenueX tells me that he actually offers his body in exchange, in a way that implies marriage. And at 32:22, when ZZS asks WKX what he saw under the influence of the Drunk Like a Dream, the dubbing gives us some random story about baby WKX throwing a rat on his mother’s bed, while Gong Jun’s mouth seems to be saying something something about being in the bridal chamber with his beloved … so circling back to our first instance at 3:05, WKX using Zhou ZIshu’s name is now super-interesting, eh?

Another slip-slidey point of canon here is that there are two versions of this episode. The original version didn’t have the rabbit-washing scene. That was an extra that was inserted later into a Special Version ep when Youku reached 2 million subscribers. But the Special Version is now available on Youku’s channel (it’s the one I watched for this re-watch), AND it’s the regular version that’s on Netflix. So at 25:28, we now get this adorable little scene where ZZS and WKX are cleaning two rabbits in the lake before cooking them, and WKX splashes ZZS who pretends to be irritated before splashing WKX back and running away up the riverbank, chased by WKX. It’s flirty and playful and ALSO a foreshadowing of the flashback we’re going to see in a later ep, when they play together for an afternoon as children. Wasn’t canon before. Now it is.

Anyway, even with the (bad) dubbing that we get, this is a fantastic WenZhou ep. We open with them still being menaced by the zombies Drug Men, with a lot of swordwork by ZZS before he starts flagging because of his Nails Issue, whereupon WKX instantly sobers up, goes Evil Ghost Valley Master on Imposter Hanged Ghost who’s controlling the Drug Men, kills him with his Fan of Death, then scoops up ZZS and flies him off to a lake, where he attempts to tenderly check ZZS’s pulse and take care of his wounds before ZZS slaps away his hand like an offended maiden. WKX has to give him the qi smackdown in order to hold him still to :coff: pull down his robes and suck out the poison from the Drug Men scratches on the back of his shoulder. :hands: I remember the first time around, watching this with my mouth hanging open, demanding to know the heterosexual explanation for this. (Also, if you’re rummaging on Youtube, the Five Straight Guys Watching Word of Honor for this ep is not to be missed. They’re a little questionable in their reaction to the poison sucking, but before that, they’re a bunch of squeamish babies over using the dagger to further slice open the wounds to get to the poison, and it’s HILARIOUS. They can’t even look at the screen once the dagger comes out, hiding behind their hands. I love them, more and more as the eps go on, but they are WEAK compared to even the newbiest hurt/comfort fangirl.) There’s some more back and forth between WKX and ZZS about revealing their true selves to each other, no you, no YOU. WKX makes it clear that he knows there’s something really wrong with ZZS, and then they fight, set to romantic music, and ZZS ends up falling in the lake. I do the victory arms (  \o/  ) to myself where I’m sitting on the couch and startle one of the cats, because FINALLY we’re going to get rid of that execrable fake facial hair. ZZS fucks with WKX by staying underwater long enough that WKX panics and also dives in, we get some really cheap and awful underwater effects, and ZZS reveals his face! They end up back on the edge of the lake, drying their perfectly dry outer robes, while they sit around the fire together in their perfectly dry inner robes, but I am not going to complain because y’all. I CANNOT with how smug and pleased ZZS is for just a moment about WKX mooning over how pretty he is. Then he remembers to be an ill-tempered gremlin and pokes at WKX with a flaming stick, but I had to rewind four times just to catch that little moment of satisfaction about being admired again – it’s subtle and gorgeous and Zhang Zhehan is going to kill me with his face one of these days. ZZS demands dinner on this date, and fake-coughs pitifully to get WKX to go hunt something down, while he stays and does his delightful little thinky face as he pokes at the Soul Winding Box they got from Imposter Hanged Ghost. Then we get a shot of WKX looking at ZZS before he heads off to catch some rabbits that confirms he now knows he’s really Zhou Zishu, rather than Zhou Xu.

So, we’ll get back to the Ghost and the Box in a minute, but I do want to mention that this whole ep is layered through with mini-references and thematic stuff. Imposter Hanged Ghost rings his little bell to control his Drug Men, and remember that, we’ll see that again. WKX asks if ZZS came from the Healer’s Valley when ZZS offers him an antidote to the Drug Man poison; we learn later that WKX, himself, is the one who came from the Healer’s Valley. When ZZS gets the Soul Winding Box open and finds a piece of the Glazed Armor inside (Danyang’s, taken off of Ao Laizi by Ghost Valley before he was hung at the gate of Sanbai Manor), he gives it to WKX, tells him to throw it away if he doesn’t want it. WKX says he couldn’t possibly, and that he’ll wear it because it’s his first gift from A-Xu. Compare this to the way Xie’er will wear Awful Yifu’s Glazed Armor around his neck. We also see some of the thematic and referential stuff come up in conversations that form a repeated pattern in this ep of ZZS stressing what a bad and dangerous person he is: He scoffs at the idea he’s from Healer’s Valley, and asks if he looks like someone who practices medicine; WKX responds that he looked like a professional killer (true) who was cruel in the abandoned temple (presumably while escaping Mirror Lake) and frightening to a kind-hearted man like WKX who can’t even kill a chicken (particularly amusing given the prep for New Year’s dinner in a later ep, when WKX is the only one who CAN). At the lakeside and again after ZZS hightails it away from Sanbai Manor when they spot Han Ying there (HAN YING, my beloved), WKX asks if ZZS is a fugitive, what he’s hiding from, and says that he’ll protect him – by reason, because would he kill anyone unreasonably (omg, where to even begin? How many guys have you choked out at this point)? When they’re arguing about ZZS revealing his “true” face, ZZS warns that most people who’ve seen his real appearance are dead (probably true). WKX says he’s not afraid of death (not his own, at least, we’ll see that the thing he’s afraid of is ZZS’s death). ZZS warns WKX that he’s not only sharp-tongued, he’s ruthless (true). He tells WKX that he’s murdered many people (true) and set them on fire (not unlikely, frankly) and committed many crimes (true, in a way, although they were state-sanctioned, making them legal, if morally reprehensible). This is the ZZS who put the Nails in himself, who talks to himself about what a truly awful shixiong he is, who tells Prince Jin that he’s only good as a weapon. I like how we see this at the same time that we’re starting to see the side of him that’ll preen when someone thinks he’s pretty - this is a process, and it’s subtle, not as high-drama as WKX’s, but it’s there, nonetheless.

We also formally meet Xie Wang in this ep, artfully posed and playing his pipa among the bodies – old and new – of Zhao Coffin Home. He and Changing Ghost have a bit of a slapfight over whose fault it is that Imposter Hanged Ghost, who was actually Long-Tongued Ghost, got killed and got his (Danyang’s) Glazed Armor took by WKX, when Changing Ghost stole it from Ao Laizi, put it in the Soul Winding Box and gave it to Long-Tongued Ghost specifically to deliver it to Xie Wang. Xie Wang is super cool through all of this, and I think we get a sense of how deadly he is by the way Changing Ghost backs down. So, here’s what’s falling together: Some iteration of Ghost Valley is working with Xie Wang and the Scorpion Sect, giving the Scorpions access to the Soul Winding Threads, which we saw used at the Mirror Lake massacre and in the woods outside of Sanbai Manor to kill Yu Tianjie in the last ep. Via Xie Wang, Ghost Vally has access to use of the Drug Men, which we’ve seen at the Zhao Coffin Home (so far), although we haven’t yet been told (I think) how Xie Wang got access to the potions to create Drug Men (we also know ZZS read about Drug Men in a book somewhere, and got enough info to engineer an antidote to them). Xie Wang and the Scorpions have access to Drunk Like a Dream incense, which had to come from Prince Jin’s court, having been engineered by ZZS based on a much stronger formulation. Han Ying, from Tian Chuang in Prince Jin’s court, has been seen at Sanbai Manor, Zhao Jing’s place.

Meanwhile Chengling is doing poorly, with no appetite and getting bellowed at some more by Shen Shen, who would be the worst if only I didn’t know everything I know, which makes me cringe when Zhao Jing refers to Chengling as “my son, now.” NO. RUN, Goldbean. For some more thematic and referential stuff in this ep, WKX calls Chengling a “lonely chick with no one to rely on” and tsks over the fact that he’s “surrounded by hounds smarter than foxes” now that he’s under the care of the Five Lakes Alliance. This is clearly to manipulate ZZS into thinking Chengling is better off with ZZS, but it also sounds like an awfully apt description of Zhen Yan in Ghost Valley. I’m just sayin’.

[ghostiewriter]

this isn’t an ask or anything, more like a rant but im fr so tired of twitter stans and the way they attack madison/jiara on ANYTHING.

i don’t necessarily agree with some things madison does but they’re not HARMFUL. like yesterday when she went live to address the people who were hating on her for her dress at the mtv awards. i don’t remember exactly what she said but ppl on twitter started calling her a “classist” ?? like what. because she said one little thing, she’s a classist..make it make sense. it’s so funny to me because everyone in the main cast with the exception of madelyn and jd (unless im missing something) have done something wrong, yet i see madison get the most hate for what she’s done? also i don’t get why people say madison is transphobic, when she’s clearly not..it’s so confusing to me. she’s spoken up about trans rights before and how we shouldn’t exclude them from black lives matter. i know she made a poor comment like two years ago but she was young and probably didn’t know any better.

and as for people who attack jiara stans/jiara, get a life?? why does it bother you what people ship...? it’s so strange, like just focus on your own ship. imagine telling someone to k*pk themselves because of what they ship 😍. i would understand if it was a toxic ship...but it’s not. hot take but tumblr stans > instagram stans > twitter stans. obx twt stans are the worst, they can’t respect anyone or anything for shit.

okay that’s all, thanks for listening to me ramble and i would love to know your thoughts as well!

I don’t know all the details of the situation, nor have I seen the “evidence” that people have for all these claims. But I have an opinion, and I’m not saying my opinion should be everyone’s but nonetheless here it is.

I tend to avoid fandom Twitter because it’s generally quite toxic, and the OBX fandom is just an example of it. They are ruthless, they interpret things how they want and then use it to “cancel” celebrities because they take clips out of context and use it as “evidence”. They seem to love targeting Maddie, most likely because she tends to respond to their claims (which honey, I wish you wouldn’t because they don’t deserve the attention ahshsbdb). But it’s not only Maddie they do this too, they like to do it to other cast members and even take it to the people around them. Then again, this isn’t just a Twitter thing, you tend to see this in every platform and within every fandom.

It’s stupid and I honestly don’t understand the point. I’m not saying people should or shouldn’t be “cancelled” but if someone’s done or said something shitty or wrong, they should be educated and learn to grow as a person. Cancelling them does nothing, tell them why they are wrong and let them learn from their mistakes. They deserve a chance to be a better person.

And as for the ship thing? It’s just simply immature. We all watched this show and loved it, we have that in common. However, we just saw the potential in different ships. That’s okay, that’s honestly completely okay. What I don’t understand is why we can’t just let each other go about with our preferred ships and leave it there. Telling people to k*ll themselves over a ship? Calling them homophobic or racist if they don’t ship the same ship as you? Like ma’am if you can’t learn to respect someone else’s opinion on something as trivial as a fictional ship in a TV show, then the internet is not the place for you. If it bothers you that much, just blog the hashtag and be done with it. No need to get hostile and say such extreme and rude things to people.

I would also like people to remember that though these actors play fictional characters we love on a show, they are also humans. Just like yourself and I. And they have boundaries and they aren’t perfect and they are bound to make mistakes. It’s not our job as their fans, and as people in general, to harass them and “cancel” them. Whatever Maddie said, I’m sure she meant no ill intention by and most likely should’ve just worded it better. I’m sure we’ve all had situations like this. But like this lovely anon said, none of it is harmful. Maddie and the rest of the OBX cast are young, they are gonna make some mistakes and they will grow from them. Unlike the rest of us, they are in the spotlight where everyone’s pointing a camera at them and waiting for them to trip up. But once again, they are still human and still deserve a chance to grow as a person and learn from their mistakes.

But if you think harassing them and “cancelling” them and bullying them is gonna solve anything, you can kindly fuck right off my blog!❤️

[disenchantedfaerie]

So many things to say and so many things not to say.

Fandom: This fandom is toxic. There is no other way to put it. It’s toxic from top to bottom, left to right, diagonally. My partners and I discussed this today because we were bored. We whole heartedly believe it starts at the top and by top I mean her majesty of the written word. Of course, now that’s she’s dropped the self diagnosis of “somewhat autistic,” you really can’t say anything because then you’re a horrible person. But she uses that as an excuse for her snark and condescending attitude. Hey. Whatever lady. I don’t follow you, I don’t read your books and aside from the few things I see, you’re no better than the leads. The difference is you’ve been milking the fandom for 30 years; people are waiting for you to finish and you can’t even complete the one that was supposed to be done last year. Yet you continue to yak about this side thing or that side thing and really, I don’t need a JF origin story. We’ve gotten that enough in the 9 other flipping books. You see the pattern here tho folks?

The female lead: She has done her share of being flippant and rude to people on her SM. She becomes sweet as pecan pie on Thanksgiving when she wants to want to launch something though. She was the one who wanted to end the shipper rumors and so IFH happened but sadly when you skirt around a subject and don’t say your partner’s name or take photos of them/with them and only take photos with your male lead in what could be construed as compromising positions - yeah. People will continue to buy what you sell to them. I’ve said it time and again, they are the biggest trolls in the fandom and do more to fuel the ship, even now that she is married to another man who is not the male lead, than anyone else. That’s all I have to say about her. She doesn’t owe anyone anything, none of them do actually, but sometimes being kind goes out the window with the lot of them.

His highness: Where to begin? His “fans” come all the way over here to our little corner of tumblr to hide behind Anon Asks to spew their hate and vitriol to those of us who seem to have opinions that differ from theirs. Namely, he is not a god. He is not someone we worship. We simply come together over coffee and tea and trade stories of current events and talk about the what if’s. My opinion of him is based on his own actions. Maybe all these “fans” want to blur the timeline of events and take it as gospel from his highness that he went on his luxury vacation before the travel ban while the rest of us cancelled ours and many lost jobs and incomes. Well that’s simply untrue. When he was called out, knowing he was wrong, instead of being the sweet, humble, normal guy that everyone says he is, he doubled down, became rude, flippant, went on a blocking spree, posting articles about COVID being no worse than the flu. Did his traveling companion get serious threats. I believe so. I believe he has as well from the same kind of people that come here to our little corner of tumblr, keyboard warriors that hide behind their anonymity and spew hate and vitriol. I also believe that people have gone to Glasgow and stalked his flat, which, come on people. That’s wrong on so many levels. I lived in LA for many years. It never occurred to me to drive to Malibu, Hollywood Hills, Laurel Canyon to actually stalk the celebs. Why? What’s the point? So I can see them in their grungy clothes looking like real people? No thanks. I don’t have that kind of time or energy. Thus the 4 page rant. Hey good for you dude. It’s about time you grew a pair actually but what did it accomplish? Nothing really except people stopped talking about his covidiocy. Why? Not because he wasn’t a covidiot and quite frankly still is (remember, he’s the king of “it’s not worse than the flu”) but because he pulled the mental health card. I think he does have mental health issues. I still have high hopes that some day he will realize this himself and seek the help he needs.

Now these Anons come to our little corner of tumblr and drop their comments saying things like “I hope you get COVID and die. It’s because of you he did his 4 page rant. The people you call mommies are his real fans.” Mmmkay. I used to blindly defend him. I used to buy into his shilling and his ever so sweet exterior, I even bought into the “best fans ever” bullshit. You want to blame us who never name him, her or the one who “writes” in any blog, never hashtag him, her, or the other one or the show, never interact with any of them on other platforms of SM for his 4 page rant, his mental illness, all of his flaws and accuse us of not being fans - fine. He who is without sin, cast the first stone. Perhaps you need to sit back and take a long look at yourself in the mirror as well. Wishing a deadly disease on people, making threats, spewing hatred - isn’t this the exact same thing that was done to his highness and you were all up in arms about it, yet you come here and do it to others and think that’s okay. What makes it okay? Because you’re defending your favorite star? If this is what it means to part of this fandom, part of his fandom specifically, no thank you. When y’all can walk on water, then you can judge me. Until then, judge not lest ye be judged.

I walked away long ago but I’m still human and still have an opinion, everyone does. If he’s your favorite celeb then perhaps you should follow his advice the next time you see something you don’t agree with - suggest you ignore. He’s the one that started the entire “be kind” campaign right? Or does that only apply when it’s comvenient? If you think this is the sort of behavior that will get you on his Christmas card list or the top of his potential list of never ending “girlfriends” - well, good luck. At some point this man (again, he’s a man, he’s flawed, he makes mistakes and he’s not perfect) will fall from the pedestal his fandom have put him on and then where will you all be? He has been unapologetic for all the things he’s done. He continues to shill his swill and all his other crap when a lot people can’t make ends meet. He continues to ask for donations to HIS causes instead of asking people to take care of themselves or their own communities. I love Scotland as much as anyone but my money right now is better served in my community. I ignore most of what they all do, following his own suggestion of ignoring, but things cross my dash and I do not condone or appreciate threats. I didn’t condone it when the threats were directed at him, his traveling companion, or anyone else nor have I ever made a threat against anyone.

I wish to be treated the way I treat others and if you can’t do the same, if you can’t engage with me in a calm, adult manner, I don’t have time for you. You can have a differing opinion than me. It’s okay. We don’t have to agree but we can respectfully disagree and discuss, not argue, about who’s right and who’s wrong. It isn’t cut and dry, black and white. We can agree to disagree and still be civil and still be friends.

My Scotsman added this: When will the games end, when will the games stop? I had high hopes for his highness to lead by example and be better but he’s a follower and he followers her majesty’s lead. He follows his business partner’s lead. He sees her milk the fandom, so why can’t he and he does an excellent job of it. His fandom vote for meaningless awards until their fingers bleed, buy all of his merchandise, buy anything he sells up to and including the ship. Is there an ounce of him being a genuine person left? Yes. He gives us a glimpse now and again but make no mistake, he will take you for what you’re worth. Maybe one day he’ll change and we’ll follow him again. Until then, I’ll be watching like my partner. I’ll be around.

I guess at the end of the day my point is this, the fandom made itself toxic and I highly doubt at this point it can or will turn around. Why would it? All we can do is choose to be part of the toxicity and contribute to it and pass it forward like these precious anons have been doing or we can choose to walk away, scroll on by, try to make the world or at least our little corner of it better.

I’m still disenchanted. I hope one day my wings turn white again with the promise of a better time and place. Until then, take care my friends. I’ll be watching and I’ll be blogging.