#it makes fandom special!!

[ess-presso]

honestly i agree with you. people who have nothing to contribute to fandom but negativity and criticism of fan-made content are a drain on fandoms: they scare, intimidate or simply tire out creators (who are the ones keeping fandoms running!) and contribute nothing of value. my motto has always been "if it doesn't exist, i'll make it myself" and i've learned to do and appreciate all types of things because of it (photography! video and photo edits! drawing and painting! writing! making comics and pins! embroidery!). i love fandoms with creative forces and imaginative people, because they inspire and teach me so much (there are so many things i dont know and every person is so unique in how they think, i love being shown new things!). i dont like fandoms chock-full of police who'll tell me i'm wrong for, idk, shipping remus and lily. that stifles creativity and joy.

got a little bit long , so I’m putting it under the cut-

literally though !! you absolutely spoke the truth here !!

the great thing about fandom & fics & ao3 is that we’re making material we want !!! not trying to force others to make material we want - because that’s going against the whole fandom is a free space thing !!!!!

like HELLO , if you want more wlw fics , which is totally valid , write them !!! no one can write what you want better than you !!

And when people say there’s a lack of wlw fics they meab that the ‘big writers’ aren’t writing wlw focused fics. there are so many on ao3 already - admittedly not as many as wolfstar because s & r have much more background than marlene and dorcas , for example. And fanfic is supposed to be chill. people don’t have to develop characters and flesh them out if that’s not their thing.

and your motto & the way you’re going about it is so right. LIKE YES !!! DO THESE THINGS !!! I’M SO HAPPY YOU DO DO THEM !!! and if you or someone who does things like you ever feel obliged to share your art form , we should be GRATEFUL not saying ‘oh my remus isn’t like that’ (this doesn’t apply to things like dark-skin dorcas & plus-size peter - if you don’t do these things then it gets into a whole different issue)

& yes !!! I love seeing the diff interpretations of characters - that’s what makes each story so fun and unique . Like (for example) I like Draco in Dramione Fics and I like Draco in Drarry fics , but ( at least in the ones I’ve read) they’re VASTLY different . And honestly, that’s one of the reasons why I love them.

ship whoever you want!!! no one has a canon sexuality!!! (except dumbledore but who’s shipping that crusty old bellend with anyone anyways - though i’ve read a couple of grindelore oneshots myself) . do whatever makes you happy !!! I don’t ship remus and lily and a bunch of other ships (some in my head are so so disgusting and gross but i won’t say their names) , never have , never will - so I don’t read their fics - and especially don’t tell someone what they can and can’t do. like use the goddamn tag system . it’s there for a reason , you twats.

pls no fandom police thank you very much they can piss back off to authors with an editing team like that *whispers* coho.

tl:dr - stop policing what people can and cannot do. stop demanding things. stop putting fanfic under the perspective you’d put a traditional author. as anon rightly said , it stifles creativity & joy.

[madamemiz]

sad: falling out of a hyperfixation

tragic: watching your beloved friends and mutuals fall out of the hyperfixation while you're still in it

[1800-lemon-boy]

Friendly reminder that Jason spent months looking for Leo and only stopped when Chiron forced him to enroll in school.

<33

[freddie-77-ao3]

Annabeth: Percy annoyed me today so I told him that I can’t wait to see what he has planned for our special day tomorrow. Grover: But there's nothing special about tomorrow? Annabeth: But there is something special about watching the colour leave his face as panic takes over.

[zukkaoru]

[ID: a tweet edited to read:

tumblr the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted.

You can say "we should appreciate the female characters that already exist in canon" and somebody will say "oh so you’re saying I can’t like male characters that my neurodivergency has made me latch onto?"

No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.

/end ID]

piss on the poor website.

[swiftmitsu]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KILLER‼️‼️‼️💥

MY FAVOURITE BURNT TEARS LEAKING GREMLIN EEHEHE 💛💛💛

extra:

little context: killer was left alone on his birthday, so Nightmare had Error bring him to the anti void to meet his new friends. :)

they wanted to give Killer those kitties in particular to give him familiar company while they… deal with some things. :)

[langernameohnebedeutung]

honestly, House's 'I have tenure' attitude is one of the funniest aspects of the character. He comes in late, leaves early, doesn't read his mail, doesn't write reports or do any paperwork, doesn't do conferences, regularly skips out on clinic time and even when it comes to meeting his regular 'one patient per week' quota, he'll either just hide from Cuddy after curing one or if she tells him to do his job he'll just be like "no❤️" and go to his office to play with his yo-yo or bounce balls against the wall or hang out with Wilson on company time. 'I've been through three regime-changes at this hospital'

Anti-work king.

[kasienda]

Why I love Marinette Dupain Cheng

So, I just watched the London Special and I have feelings!!

I want to preface this by saying that I very much didn't resonate with the second half of season five for a lot of different reasons, but that the special really worked for me, gave me what I needed to get to a place to be excited about the potential of season six.

Marinette is a 14 year old superhero who is fundamentally a good person. She tries to do right by others, and when she realizes that she's done harm she genuinely tries to fix it. Now, her character is often portrayed as someone with ADHD. She is subject to tunnel vision, hyperfixating, anxiety spirals, and not always being great at taking other perspectives into account. She's never been good at anticipating how her actions and choices might hurt someone else.

And I LOVE that about her!!!

You know who else is not great about taking other people's perspectives? Fourteen year olds!! Developmentally, they're LEARNING THIS AT THIS AGE!! They're also LEARNING to make decisions and accept responsibility. And they are NOT good at it!! Take it from someone who works with fifteen years olds DAILY!! Even the most "good" well behaved teenager does and says thoughtless harmful things that hurt others sometimes in excruciating ways. And you ask them, "What were you thinking?" after it's blown up in their face and the answer is ALWAYS, "I don't know" OR "I wasn't thinking."

Developmentally, middle school is about fitting in. It is not easy for kids at this age to stand up for what is right, to make decisions that are healthy, to communicate in healthy ways. Marinette's whole character is about learning to do that! And to showcase that you have to show her making mistakes, sometimes even big ones, and learning to take responsibility for those choices.

Marinette salt hurts me so much because the salt seems to paint her at this malicious manipulative girl who wants to control Adrien and the world on whole. That she's malicious in the choices that she's made.

Meanwhile, the narrative is not framing her as in the right when she makes these choices. Kagami told her she disagreed in almost the first scene. Nathalie told her it was time to tell the truth. Throughout the whole special, it's obvious how much the choice she made is weighing on her, how much she's wondering if this was right. She seems to know on some level that it isn't.

THAT IS SO RELATABLE!!!

Have you ever lied to a friend or to your parents? And then, realized huh, I probably shouldn't have done that, but now you're in too deep and don't know how to take it back? Have you ever NOT told someone about a hard truth about themselves or about you because you didn't want to hurt their feelings, and then have to watch as they get hurt or rejected again and again because they just don't realize what the problem is??? Or confronted with someone around you who has lost a lot and just not sure at all what to do in the face of all that? And then to be given the choice to maybe ease the hurt of that loss with a lie? You think you WOULDN'T at least CONSIDER doing that for someone you love??

Do I think it will bite her in the butt? YES!! AND I AM HERE TO SEE IT!

Nathalie tells Marinette they should tell the truth. And Marinette's like, "but you'll go to jail." And Nathalie nods, accepting this. "But then Adrien will be alone." And Nathalie responds with "he'll have you."

DO YOU KNOW HOW TERRIFYING THAT WOULD BE TO HER??

If she does tell the truth, Adrien DOES lose Nathalie. That would hurt him too. Adrien DOES have to deal with the backlash of being Hawkmoth's son both inside his own head and with the world at large. And maybe in the long term, that would be the better choice. But how many of us choose what's better in the long term??? (THE ANSWER HERE IS ALMOST ZERO! I DON'T CARE HOW OLD YOU ARE!)

Bunnyx tells her there will consequences good and bad to every decision she makes. And what matters is how she faces the consequences. How she tries to take responsibility for them in the future.

Marinette is not trying to hurt Adrien here. She's not trying to manipulate or control him. It also doesn't mean she thinks what Gabriel did was right or that she condones his actions. It certainly doesn't mean she's okay with abuse. Everyone saying that she is has the benefit of the global perspective of knowing everything in the show! Marinette does NOT have that perspective.

Does that mean she isn't causing harm? No! She IS probably causing harm here. As so many of us do unintentionally, or sometimes even knowing that we're doing it because doing something else feels impossible to face in that moment.

And when the truth comes out, and I do think Gabriel's identity will come out (I'm less confident about the senti reveal, but that's more because they're literally not allowed to say the words), Adrien is going to have a LOT to work through. But the thing about Adrien, that all of his defenders seem to misunderstand, is that HE IS FORGIVING! If she explains it all to him, he will be angry and maybe hurt, but he is also going to be the first to understand. He's been the one right there next to her with a front row seat to all the pressures she had to face often completely on her own. I think she will be way more angry and hard on herself than he will be on her. That's kinda who his character is. He's NOT VENGEFUL.

This whole show from the beginning has been about characters making mistakes, sometimes learning from them, and being forgiven for them!! And it's the FORGIVENESS AND UNDERSTANDING given to each other after the fact that has brought the characters together time and time again. Watch origins and look at the class dynamic. Then watch guilt trip. The class has come together in a way they absolutely were not in the beginning! Because they have gotten to know each other and forgave each other. Watch Alya apologize to Marinette for telling Nino about still being the fox, and watch Marinette smile and say she knows what it feels like to need to share your secret with your best friend! Watch Ladybug ask Chat Noir if he understands the weight of a secret, and have him dryly agree that he is familiar with the feeling.

They are all flawed characters who make mistakes, who do things that hurt each other even when they're are trying SO HARD to do the opposite, and that's why I love them!!

I like characters making mistakes! I like there to be conflict in my stories.

And what I love about miraculous is that so far, the resolution to conflicts has always been one of listening to each other, and coming to a place of understanding and forgiveness.

[basilsimp43]

"Sixer's entire sense of self worth was tied up in his self image as a lone genius"

[botlabyrinth]

it’s the pjo season finale tonight and i just wanna say i’m so grateful for this show and how it’s given me a chance to feel like i’m 10 years old again every tuesday at 8pm. to watch my favorite story of all time play out in front of my eyes and feel just as giddy as i did experiencing the books for the first time 10 years ago. it’s not everyday you get to relive how it felt to experience your favorite piece of media for the first time. it’s so so special and i’m so grateful <3

[urfavcrime]

dsmp is still SO insane to me. still not completely convinced it wasn't a social experiment. it is something that can never be replicated again due to the really specific circumstances that attributed to it's creation and popularity

[gentil-minou]

Honestly my only hope for shadybug and claw noir is that they are woefully inept at everything they do. Just like the epitome of losers claw noir tries to cataclysm someone and accidentally touches a falling leaf while shadybug left her yoyo back home cause it didn't go with the fit

[bisexualvader]

Star Wars Battlefront II (2017) - Scenery 1/? - Scarif

[buildmeaboy]

Rusty quill gaming may not be a technically good ttrpg podcast, it's long and very slow at times, but I loved it so much the first time I listened. The show and the fandom did so much for me as a young aroace. Not only do they have a canonically greyace character, they also have a canon qpr (!) Young me had never even heard of that, it changed my worldview.

Not to mention that Wilde is often headcannoned as aro, making zoscar an aro4ace qpr which is frankly mind-blowing to me even today.

So I want to send a bit of love out into the world for the way they handled all of this, it really made a huge impact on 17 year old me <3

[0xeyedaisy]

Yeah I just draw whatever

[vizjpmdose]

if he becomes a husband, he's gonna be the best husband out of all the husbands.