#intentional vagueposting

[dreaming-of-galaxies-and-stars]

I would actually put this post under my sideblogs, if it weren't for the fact that:

i'm a coward

i especially don't want to start shit in a small fandom.

But I can't help but notice how people have a certain distaste for a certain ship. (like personal taste is subjective and if you don't like a ship that's totally 100% valid) but some of those posts did rub me the wrong way, because this kind of dislike only jumps out if u ship these two characters together, like every other pairing (canon or not) is totally valid in the eyes of the fans, it's just those two that can't be together.

Because after people made some post saying that "Hey these two are kind of cute ngl 🤔" people immediately made other posts with " yeah... no, these two don't make sense at all! Why would you ship them?! 😤" And what do they use to fuel their argument? "B-but canon!" as if shipping two characters who never interacted in canon before, is something that never happened in the history of fandom. 🙄

See I thought people "hated' this ship because it went against the main two popular pairings of the fandom; and people dislike the idea of another ship creating a wedge between them. The problem is that this idea doesn't add up, because other ships do the exact same thing and don't get shit for it. (or if they do, i haven't seen those posts)

Idk... maybe all of this is all in my head and i'm blowing it way out of proportion, but it sure does suck that sometimes i don't feel welcome just because i find that the 'disliked' ship has potential, and it's worth discussing how their dynamic would unfold, but the potential backlash makes me hesitant to even try to open up a discourse in fear of alienating the already small fandom space.

[snixx]

you know as a neurodivergent person I only have two fucking requests of anyone I consider a friend: 1) do not cold shoulder or get aggressively angry with me for something you didn't bother to communicate you had a problem with and 2) do not fucking infantalize me and treat me like a naive fragile broken child who is a burden on everyone in my life. shouldn't be too hard right??? insane how many neurotypicals are fucking incapable of doing the bare fucking minimum

[edenfenixblogs]

Tonight…sure is huh.

[laughatlocksmiths]

so here's my take on something no one asked for my opinion on: vampires do not need circulation for sex or for brain function or to avoid blood pooling in their lower bodies or for any other purpose. vampires do not need an explicable bodily process for how they generate fluids other than blood in order to cry, spit, sweat, etc onscreen. vampires do not need a process for excreting the blood they feed on.

like, if you just enjoy speculative biology and want to come up with a vampire design that explains how they function then that's awesome, you guys are cool as hell. but other authors/artists that create biologically-unrealistic vampires are not doing that because they don't know enough about science to understand that living creatures need to excrete waste. like, come on.

most vampires are anatomically unrealistic because most vampire stories are not about anatomy, you know? vampires drink blood because they steal and consume human life. vampires can have sex (or can't have sex, depending on the story) because the author wants to talk about the relationship between sex and death. vampires have hypnotic/mind control powers because they represent anxiety regarding power or bodily autonomy. vampires can turn into animals because the Other is often animalistic and wild. these reasons among other reasons, of course. i just don't think it's a plot hole for these tropes to lack a biological explanation. i think that in many cases, the story would be weaker if there was such an explanation.

[mumblesplash]

grateful and blessed to have a taste in music that's just barely good enough to recognize certified bangers but also shitty enough that i can't tell when songs are bad. i am enjoying soooo much more music than you opinions-having bitches

[lemoncholy-stars]

me when my beloved mutual likes my post [that i reblogged to check if they were still awake] when they should be asleep: ha! that was a TRAP!! u have been BAMBOOZLED!! u played right into my hands!! now go to sleep u PATHETIC FOOL!!

[astxrwar]

hm. thought too hard about 50+ y.o. gray-haired senator bucky. have to lie down

[angelsarecomputers]

average disco elysium fan when you tell them that harry is intentionally written to have deeply internalised misogyny

[hauntingofhouses]

hi, it's me. the fic writer that uses culturally-specific idioms in a very different cultural time setting and keeps confusing words like reign and rein. this is my story.

[is-desantis-dead-yet]

woo I love how I can’t talk about the politics of my state without outing myself. desantis wants me and people like me DEAD and yet you chastise me for wishing the same on him? he has made speeches about killing us to roaring applause. I tentatively suggested over brunch that I’d buy myself a cake if he were to die. how can you not see the difference?

[dogin8]

I have always joked about being a person who sounds guilty when I'm telling the truth and sounds like I'm telling the truth when I'm lying

And that's funny but I want to talk about how Genuinely terrifying this shit is.

I go through so many interactions where it feels like I have absolutely no impact on anything, No matter what I say or how I word it, nothing about the direction of conversation, the other persons opinions or their perception of me, is even Lightly accessible.

And then as soon as I start lying they believe every word.

I hate it so fucking much, I sit here knowing that this person could think ANYTHING about me EXCEPT what I am. And I understand it's important to give up on trying to control what everybody thinks of you, but when I want to tell somebody any earnest thing about how I feel, I want to be believed SO BAD

I told somebody a joke "I'm going to bed.... Cause I hate you guys" then followed it up with "That was a joke" and immediately hear back "It didn't sound like a joke" fine, I should be more sensitive

Somebody apologises for something because they think they upset me I tell them "I'm not mad" they continue to apologise, ignoring what I said completely. I press further "You have to believe me because I can't control tone" they say "I just didn't want to upset you"

Why the fuck are my lies and jokes believed immediately but I feel like no matter how much work I do to tell the truth it doesn't affect anything (in these specific interactions) anyway

I go into a conversation knowing for a fact that this person has an opinion of me, and the ONLY affect I can ever have on that is by lying and making it further from my actuality, because any truth that doesn't reinforce their established belief will be immediately disregarded

[smileymoth]

I never liked mr longname because sth about him seemed off. Then i kind of forgot abt it bc my friend watched him and im like yeah hes. Ok. I guess. And then he got up close and personal about fandom shit. And now he just makes me mad when i see him. He would be a good bitchy fictional character but unfortunately hes a real man LOL

[anti-ao3]

so today i learned my ao3 account was in an anti blocklist that includes writers who used the "no incest" tag.

and it specifically judged ppl who used said tag and said "i wish i didn't have to tag this".

lmao.

[chaotikanvas]

I wish there was a way to block a tag but like. from a specific blog. Like I don't want to block the tag, because it's content I do want to see and I don't want to block/unfollow the person because I generally enjoy what they post/reblog and this is a more occassional thing, but our takes in this one specific topic are so astronomically different and I've seen them enough times to know I just don't want to see them anymore

[thegardengrows-infrozenrain]

bitches be like "i'm a fan of [band] but anything besides their first 2/3 albums is just pop trash and really forgettable and i hate every song on the first few albums besides [tiny list] and honestly they've overstayed their welcome as artists and need to stop producing and if you like their first few albums/[specific album that is popular/unpopular] you're a tiktok fake fan who's only posing and pretending to like them"

like honey you're not a fan you're a toxic piece of shit

like yeah don't consume anything entirely uncritically but at the same time don't become an asshole who does nothing but criticize yknow

[moonmoonthecrabking]

the absolute fucking whiplash in this screenshot