#im talking about the character NOT the actual person

[plasmas-arcade]

i like to keep it 50/50 for myself. i post my thoughts out in the open on tumblr, while making friends on discord. i like to be personal with people, and theres so much i just. cant share out in the open for my own sanity and safety.

i struggle to accept that people on tumblr would want to talk to me. that at the end of the day im just a post on a dashboard and not an actual person. it feels very impersonal.

i love this site to death, but sometimes its not very great for my self-esteem.

im not just a fic author. or a roleplayer. or someone who makes headcanons about silly characters.

im a real person. who wants friends.

getting that "good morning" text from my roleplay partners, seeing a notification that someone messaged me, getting to explain my deepass heavy lore of my life to someone 1x1 is an experience i just never get through tumblr.

but i would like to make friends here.

I think a lot of people are forgetting that on tumblr fandom used to be practiced very differently. now everyone fucks off to their discords or tumblr groups to discuss everything with a select few, making tags be nearly only used for posting some finished fanworks or not at all

a decade ago people didn't have tumblr groups. people didn't even have dms. if you wanted to talk to anyone about anything you had to make a post, or send an ask (which more often than not would get published and thereby become a post in the end too)

so next time you think "I have a fandom thought but I have to find a small group of hyperspecifically like-minded people to share it with in private" remember all the freaks you could be missing out on meeting by keeping the tags dead. use tags, make friends. fuck discord.

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #7701:

I'm gonna be the one to say it.

I am so fucking tired of fandom blogs reblogging and posting about political real world shit.

And yes i am talking about the palestine and israel thing.

I get why and i get those people are fucking dying and its a tragedy, and boo hoo if it upsets me to have to hear about it

But personally i am not in any sort of place where i can be worrying and stressing myself out over a genocide on the other side of the world.

"then dont"

I'm literally just venting about the fact that nearly all 47 fandom blogs i follow have been nonstop posting about this shit. Yes i block tags yes i block words but its still everywhere and im tired of going through 20 "this post has tags you blocked" before seeing an actual post.

I dont need to be berated over any of this.

I just wish fandom blogs would stick to fandom.

Its all "fandom isnt activism!!" Until its something like this where people feel pressured to let their followers know they are on the "right side".

And the fucking unsolicited anon asks pressuring people to reveal how they feel about the situation.

Its a fucking bait ask. If they dont answer its seen as them not caring about mass murder and opens them up to hate and losing followers, so they have to answer and will still probably lose followers and get hate.

Its stupid. Leave this shit out of fandom and more importantly stop forcing fandom blogs to get involved.

I'm literally so sick of being forced to hear about the latest ways people are dying around the world when im just trying to look at fanart/fiction of my favorite characters.

[princess-charlie-of-hell]

im so petty against many radioapple shippers. So petty that noticing how much they hate Lilith (cuz she's Lucifer's wife) and mimzy (cuz she stopped hell's greatest dad song) makes me one of the biggest fans of these two women and then I loved them unironically because I love women doing dubious things and support women's wrongs

Oh god yes the misogyny in the R@dioapple fandom is the reason why I stopped shipping it. I know that not every shipper hates Lilith but the bashing in comics and fanfictions I saw was just so overwhelming, even when I filtered out the Lilith morningstar bashing, Lilith morningstar is a bad mother/person and Abusive Lilith morningstar tag people still involved Lilith being "evil"

The thing I found ironic is that people accuse her of attempting to separate Lucifer and Charlie, being a power hungry manipulator and abusive and like do you know who is all that? Alastor! He literally tried to get between Lucifer and Charlie, we know that he is a manipulator, he literally sang that he wants to "pull all the strings" and then he threatened Husk and pulled the leash which caused Husk to be on his knees shaking and scared like shit, I don't care what people say that was emotional abuse and we don't how far he would went have went if Husk continued to talk about Alastor's deal

Don't get me wrong I love Alastor but the fact that people ignore how terrible he is and put the blame somehow on characters like Lilith and Roo because they own and force him to do terrible things despite him being a serial killer before arriving in Hell (no leaks please) while villainizing a woman who hasn't said anything yet and had like 3 seconds screen time

And my girl Mimzy, I never understand why People hated her, she didn't even interrupted hells greatest dad, Lucifers and Alastor's part was already over if she didn't had appeared they would have argued or even fighted, she probably saved Alastor and i don't care what people say, I love her part in the song! Despite never really watching Steven universe, I listen regularly to other friends and drift away because Sarah stiles is a phenomenally singer, that plus her character design? How am I not supposed love Mimzy!! Why does she have more character Vox)

And people disliking her for bringing the loan sharks to the hotel is just a silly reason like it is not even the worst what happened to the hotel it was slightly damaged and the radio demon and King of hell were there so it wasn't even in great danger(if Lucifer would have done anything to defend) like even Adam gets less hate for bringing an army of exorcists to the hotel and destroying it completely

How the two are treated in the fandom shows how misogynistic it really is, like a woman getting between a MLM ship is enough to make her evil in the eyes of people. And if they actually turn out to be evil? I support women wrongs and people love characters like Vox despite him being a evil, arrogant, asshole capitalist who we see brainwashing other people to buy his products. Why can't we love evil women too?

Alastor/Vox/Adam: killing and torturing people

Fandom : My sweet baby girls they are perfect and can do no wrong🥰

Lilith/Mimzy: Exists

Fandom: Pure evil! Power hungry whores! They don't deserve to breath the same air as my favorite male characters!

[centipededotgov]

im very very obsessed with your gotg remix and the designs and concepts for it!! is it okay to ask of how different Gamora is your version and how her relationship with Peter and with everyone else is now? Gamora and Peter are usually romantically involved so does that stay or is it way different now? very curious of the direction youre taking w a lot of the characters!!

Thank you so much, that makes me very happy!

A few things one needs to know about Gamora in this iteration:

Gamora is still the ‘Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy’/’the Daughter of Thanos’/etc. in this iteration. She was raised more as a weapon instead of a person under Thanos.

This way of being raised included a COMPLETE lack of proper socialization for a kid. The only people she was talking to were her sister, Nebula (who hates her), dad (space dictator), and administrative/military ranks below Thanos (solely for work). She’s never had friends or peers her age (besides Nebula, but, um) and has been raised on nothing but military reports since age three. 

She has a really, really, REALLY bad case of resting bitch face.

As a result - she's terrible at communication on any level. She doesn't know how to deal with problems with just her words. She's very blunt and less socially aware of some things.

(She also does not know how to take care of herself AT ALL hence her tangle of hair that is very greasy and her usually stained clothes.)

So her interactions with the other Guardians usually are a bit stranger/more tense/potentially life-threatening(?) due to her miscommunication.

So she's not DISTANT with the rest of the group, it's just that she's not one for conversation, which doesn't help with developing dynamics and relationships.

The guardians that are socially oblivious enough to not notice this (Peter, Mantis, Groot?) manage to push past this and usually end up having a nice conversation with a wall, while those do who notice it/aren't that much talkative either (Rocket, Drax, Adam) tend to just sit with her in (mostly) companionable silence.

That's not to say that Gamora doesn't care for her friends, though. It's actually pretty much the opposite - she just shows she cares through her actions, instead of her words.

And in terms of Peter and her having a romantic relationship -

I do want Gamora and Peter to have that! I think they balance each other out nicely (Peter LOVES to talk for hours and Gamora is very satisfied to sit and listen to all of it) but then again I’m aromantic so take any relationship I write with a grain of salt :P.

The attraction isn't immediate, since they both have so many issues they have to work through before being able to healthily handle a relationship, but I think Gamora initially views Peter as endearing enough to make up for his annoying tendencies (like a dog that ate your shoes).

Thanks for the ask!

[akkpipitphattana]

#ok prev i HAVE to take issue w this one specific tag#moreover specifically committing crimes against the queer students of suppalo. like i love him very very deeply and with utmost sympathy#but he did do all that!!#<<< bc i cannot stress enough how much i disagree.#akk didn't attack the world remembers gang bc they were queer he did it bc they were disruptive to the suppalo environment#narratively they weren't queer by accident ofc but in the context of the world these characters were living in#the world remembers gang could have literally been anyone and akk would have done the same thing#he didn't single them out BECAUSE they were queer. and so i think it's really unfair to characterise it like that#especially given what thua did at the end. he was far more vile to them and made comments specifically BECAUSE they were queer#like calling them freaks and threatening them online and imo that was way more damaging than anything akk ever did to them#like i know this post is not about that and it's all just fun and games n maybe im taking it all too seriously#but i think it's really unfair to characterise it like that to characterise akk's behaviour bc that's just not true.#and like if we're being real. sure akk did some bad things but if we're talking abt red flags in the eclipse. thua is literally right there

tags by @sunsetsover

ough okay. i did not want for this post to start like actual discourse cause i was just making a joke about people erasing akk’s flaws and wrongdoings in the same way they do to sand from only friends but if we’re gonna talk about it actually i guess we’re gonna talk about it

to preface lauren i adore you and also i adore akk like it feels sacrilegious for me to have to correct this because he’s The Character of All Time for me but also like. part of the reason he IS so important to me is because of his growth and the ways he messes up and the fact that yes, he is homophobic toward the world remembers gang because of the ways he was manipulated into thinking by the adults around him.

i understand what you’re getting at with your tags and how akk didnt specifically target them because they’re gay and to a certain extent i understand that but like it wasn’t JUST because they were disruptive either. it’s both. yes, akk would have dealt with disruptive students regardless because his job was to enforce the rules in general, but he explicitly would not have done the same things he did to the world remembers gang if they weren’t queer. we can’t divorce akk’s treatment of them from the fact that they are queer and that they are protesting the homophobia in the school.

the rules at suppalo as they existed were homophobic. kids that broke the rules were punished. gay kids were being unfairly punished because they were queer. that is the central plot of the show, it’s not just the overall messaging or an important narrative detail, it IS the narrative. it’s made explicitly clear through the world remembers gang, through thua who is bullied for being gay despite not being explicit about it in the same ways as the world remembers gang, through dika who committed suicide because of the way the school reacted to him being in love with a man, through akk and the fact that he believed he had to hide is sexuality and stamp it out in others.

like dont get me wrong, i understand the instinct to defend akk and the things he did because at the end of the day it’s really not his fault. he’s a kid, he was manipulated and brainwashed into all of it, but it doesn’t change the fact that he DID do those things and the reason he targeted the world remembers gang was in part, yes, because they were queer.

which is also like. for those reasons is why i, personally, cant fault thua fully for the things he did. YES, he did awful things and took it to extremes but he is not worse than akk for those things. like i know thua hate is very popular because everyone wants to defend akk and i GET IT, but thua is also just a queer kid in a fucked up, homophobic system that he was reacting to, one that akk specifically was a figurehead for. no one was doing anything about the way gay kids (including him!) were being treated and akk was the head of that movement among students! he felt the need to take action and i fucking get it.

does it make the things he did right? no, of course not! but neither were the things akk did - some of which were, inherently, homophobic.

the point of the show is that they are all queer kids reacting to the fucked up system theyre in. the world remembers gang protests it, akk tries to survive from the inside and enforce it, thua tries to take it down through violence, ayan tries to take it down by gathering information and taking action where needed. despite their worst actions, these kids are all being failed by the same system and reacting to it in different ways.

we can’t sanitize akk’s actions because it’s important to acknowledge WHY those things were wrong and who specifically they were hurting - including him. and i at least can’t fully condemn thua, either, because despite his own harmful actions, he was just a kid reacting in anger to a system that was LITERALLY killing his people.

another first kanaphan character that many people refuse to acknowledge is a red flag is akk. you guys remember when he almost committed vehicular manslaughter and also almost committed arson

[mythalism]

FMAB is the show of all time you are very correct and i have been wanting to do another rewatch of it myself. can i ask what you like about it? (love to hear people chat about things they really love !!)

WHAT A WONDERFUL MESSAGE!!!!!!! TALKING ABOUT FMAB IS MY FAVORITE THING IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!

i think the most boring and least philosophical thing i love about it is the literal execution. i studied literature in college and storytelling as a craft is something i am passionate about, and i truly have never experienced a better, more expertly constructed narrative in my entire life. even if the themes or characters didn't resonate with you, i think anyone would struggle to argue that it is anything other than a nearly perfectly executed story. it has a clear message that it wants to tell; it states it plainly and without remorse. nothing is superfluous, every single scene and lines serves an explicit purpose that becomes clear at a later stage in the story. the characters are complex, flawed, realistic, interesting, and experience significant growth in ways that make logical sense. the lore, science, and worldbuilding is tight and does not lose itself in a confusing, abstract magic system. it's rules are clearly defined, and any deviations are explained, and have clear consequences. the plot is intentional and clear. it has incredible rewatch/re-read value because the foreshadowing is abundant. there is deeper political and philosophical meaning littered throughout for those who care to delve into it. the ending is near-perfect (id call the manga perfect, some show changes weaken it slightly. im looking at you roy finale scene...). there is not a single plot hole. every single thread that was introduced not only gets a satisfying conclusion, but a conclusion that has profound narrative impact. the way things come together in the final arc is actually breathtaking to witness and makes me giddy every single time.

on a more philosophical level, the overall message of the story is something that has resonated with me in a way nothing ever has in my entire life. a story that tackles religion, imperialism, genocide, and complacency within those systems with the goal of better understanding what it means to be a human being, and comes up with the conclusion that you are morally obligated to overthrow your evil government is fucking insane. i cannot think of anything else that so unashamedly makes such a statement. arakawa has talked about how japan's imperialism influenced the story, and it resonates similarly as an american. i just watched the first four episodes last night and i was struck by the freezing alchemist saying to edward "don't you know who you're working for and what they're doing?" and edward says, "who cares? its not my problem." and... well. if you have watched it, you know what he would have to say about that at the end of his journey. and isn't that were so many of us start out? is there a single more important belief to unlearn when you live at the heart of an empire? the way it so proudly declares that human connection is most powerful force in the universe floors me every time. it is a story that makes me a better, more thoughtful, more caring, more appreciative, and more accountable person, and it gives me hope for the world every single time i watch/read it. it has fundamentally changed my outlook on life and the human experience for the better.

i could keep going for literally years but i have actual schoolwork to do today so ill have to stop now. but im sure ill be writing thinkpieces on it as i get further in my rewatch. thanks for inviting me to yap <3

[raddestrose]

Happy birthday to Osamu Dazai

one of the gayest characters born in one of the gayest months

[sonknuxadow]

its so frustrating how a lot of scu fans cant handle other sonic fans not having the exact same taste in sonic media that they do. like i feel like you can say something negative about literally any other sonic media on here and people generally wouldnt care that much but the second you say anything less than positive about the movies people start getting all weird about it and trying to argue with you ive had it happen to me and seen it happen to others as well .... like the sonic franchise is very big and has many different media types and writing styles not everyone is going to uncritically love everything. get over it ? im not trying to be mean but idk what else to tell you

[seasonalmoss]

NO NO EXACTLY EXACTLY!

IM NOT EVEN MAD THIS IS A PERFECT THING TO ADD!

Trauma is always always going to be a reason not an excuse, and yes I will say being a child does effect that, that doesn’t change the fact that someone was still hurt, that doesn’t change the fact that the other person has every reason to be upset!

You can recognize that what someone did was bad and harmful but you can also recognize why they did what they did and not dictate their entire character to be based on something that they didn’t have control of (in this situation, im talking about all of this with the idea that the person is below the ages of 15-13 there’s actually so much to say about this topic because you are SO RIGRT)

Coming from someone who has a lot of generational trauma there’s so much I can say about this topic!

What they did wasn’t okay, and instead of demonizing these kids we should focus on blaming the perpetrators who made them act in such a way and then address their behavior. They shouldn’t be acting like that, that’s the whole point, it harms people! But that doesn’t mean they are any less of victims or deserving of any less empathy!

Here’s another thing I’ve said about why I didn’t necessarily bring it up in the original post even though it’s an important thing to bring up.

Because unfortunately people will take these ideas and run with them, without seeing any nuance in it.

It’s either their completely evil or they haven’t done a single bad thing ever in their lives. When can’t it be that they aren’t evil but they have objectively hurt people?

AND AGAIN DWW THIS IS SO SENSITIVE TO ME TOO!! HDJDBDBDH I just hold off on giving much details about why exactly this is so sensitive to me since I have an awful habit of oversharing so I’m sorta actively choosing to not even say anything about my life in the first place 😭

just going to put this out there since it’s an actual problem that I have but I can never word it since I’m always afraid I sound too rude or something but I swear I’m not trying to attack anyone or be mean nor am I claiming anyone is a bad person, I just want to inform.

Almost everyone who is active in this fandom treats Wooly and Amanda odd, especially especially Wooly and I don’t like it.

Peoples takes and theories and analysis of Wooly are always so, ignorant? They always claim one thing or another which simply isn’t true or makes no sense for who we see him as. It’s clear a lot of people simply aren’t educated on things like trauma and psychological and I’m just now realizing that. Because almost more then half of what everyone says about Wooly? They would not be saying if they had more forethought and empathy for him. A lot of this could apply for Amanda too! But Wooly is the more mysterious character out of the two which makes people say more wild stuff about him.

I don’t want to sound pretentious or cocky, I’m not saying everyone else is dumb and I’m not, I’m coming from a place of hurt. It hurts seeing the way this fandom acts about Wooly and Amanda, especially Wooly. People often aren’t coming from a place of true understanding for him, they fully aren’t recognizing how he and Amanda are abused.

and yes they are. they, by definition are abuse victims since, they are getting abused by Hameln. We can not have a proper conversation about these two if we don’t call it what it is. We can not have a empathetic discussion about this if we don’t address the root of a lot of their trauma. We need to talk about the awful, we need to talk about the topics that are hard and uncomfortable, because the treatment that they aren’t any of those things? Is an awful rhetoric that can and has effected how people are with reality, if you don’t admit some things to be abuse then you are giving yourself a path to deny someone’s actual experience.

so much of how this fandom treats these two is so underhandedly dismissing, ignorant and uneducated and I’ve actually spiraled about this. Because it made me feel as though I for also being a traumatized hurt kid was bad in some way for simply wanting to be safe and loved. Please be careful with your wording please.

again this isn’t meant to call anyone out or be rude or anything like that, I just want people to be more empathetic. I’ve talked a lot about this in my drafts and I’ve always been iffy about weather or not I should show them or not but you know what? At this point if someone takes offense to what I’m saying despite my constant points to make sure they know that I am not attacking them, then that’s on them.

one thing I also really need to bring attention and drive home is how this fandom treats Wooly specifically. HE IS A CHILD. people always say that they want to or they are extending the same amount of empathy they have for Amanda to Wooly but they actually aren’t, they are not actually fully extending that empathy to him whatsoever. Your words don’t mean anything if you don’t actually do it. People act as though Wooly is 10x more sinister then he actually is, as if he has more forethought and planning then he actually does. They genuinely lack a lot of empathy for him and are never fully 100% admitting

HE IS A CHILD. An ABUSED CHILD. Don’t shy away from that, say it with your chest say it Loudly and proudly.

here’s something else I put in my drafts regarding this specifically.

I might delete this for many reasons but I just feel like the ATA fandom on tumblr needs to see some of this

I’m going to @ all of my mutuals because I feel this is important. I’m not @/ing you guys because I’m trying to call specifically you out, I just want the fandom to be aware of this especially my mutuals since they are my mutuals

@maddyk-madwriter @curliiwurlii @dannyatnightfall @daze-bunny

[blackkatdraws2]

The Main Character.

[Blank Scripts AU]

[cent-scratchnsniff]

my pain

[dukeofthomas]

I can't find it now but there's a post about suspension of disbelief and how it's broken when the story starts trying to excuse it. "character gets knocked unconscious for hours but there's no further issues from this" okay 👍 "and actually this makes perfect sense because of this and that" um no it doesn't why are you lying to me. like i am willing to ignore the holes and the discrepancies!! all you need to do is let me and not bring unnecessary attention to it!!!

and all that is my issue with the whole robin child soldier argument. like i am willing to ignore it i am willing to engage with the fantasy literally all you need to do is NOT try to convince me that Actually It's Fine Because They Want To Do It or whatever. like literally just shut up about it and i can engage with the fantasy!!

[evelynpr]

Might be a hot take as a bkdk and tgck truther here, but I find izuocha endlessly fascinating, beautiful, but also tearfully tragic.

I see their love for each other as something representative of their innocence and naivety when they only knew so little about who they were, and what was to come.

I think the main barrier of their relationship is that its rooted in how they see each other very idealistically, specifically that they're attached to the image of their Best Heroic Selves, and not the deeply selfish, destructive, freaky, and egotistical parts of them. To each other, they need to keep fulfilling that image or else that same person they looked up to would almost die in front of them, and that would be too cruel. Although that hero is still there, that same person they looked up to is not the same now because of...well...everything.

Izuku had barely even talked to girls when he first met her. She was Izuku's first ever real friend (Sorry Kats, everyone and him knows he was terrible), so he saved her in that entrance exam even if it was so dangerous. She gave a new meaning to his derogatory nickname just by being a friend that believed in him. After that, she saved him several more times (Blackwhip and Megaphone are the biggest samples iirc). It makes perfect sense that she is Deku's hero.

Ochako hardly knew what it meant to be a hero when she first got into UA. Just by reaching out to some kid tripping, she made a new friend who would then save her in that exam, then save him again in return. This boy then became someone who was always working so hard to save everyone in trouble, and she realized she wanted to be just like him too. "I want to save people"

But...Deku changes. The weight of One for All is on his shoulders and he needs someone to carry this burden with him. He continues to want to save other people at the expense of himself, still not letting his true selfishness and ego ever show- and it only grows more and more unbearable.

Then...Ochako fell in love with Himiko. Truly, relentlessly, selfishly and devotedly in love with a girl who then dies giving her blood to her- the greatest expression of love Himiko could ever give.

Not that they can't love each other because of this happening (and...so many other things oh god), I'm honestly not sure how to explain it- But them ending up together after losing that innocence and naivety? After Ochako will forever grieve the girl who showed her love in its most beautiful and ugly form? After Izuku changed so fundamentally as a person that the butterflies of a nice girl talking to you doesn't exist anymore? After that simple image of being a hero and being in love has completely changed for them both?

Even so, I believe they still love each other. There is no label I know of that can properly describe them though. They are each other's image of being a hero when it comes to saving people. Aside from Shoto, no one else can grasp the grief of the person you tried to save dying in your hands. They would no doubt try to cope with these losses together, and just try to get better together...but so much has changed. They've changed. The world changed. What are they now? Who are they now?

"What happened...to us?"

[oh-no-its-bird]

The biggest lie Naruto tells its audience is that you can be both a good person and a good shinobi.

[indigopoptart]

could a star and a bird ever find love?

idk. probably

[tenebrous-dream]

the npcs in 3ot are so dramatic . calm down andrew