#it's like how apparently multi shipping is a point of discourse now.

[simplepotatofarmer]

i don't even care a little about rpf. people thought jared and jensen were in love and had just married their wives as a cover. i can't have an opinion on it other than 'are you asking the people about it to their faces at a con? no? cool.'

[something-about-sunflowers]

Alright, this might be a long post so, fair warning lmao.

I realize my previous post may sound like I’m doing some deep dive conspiracy exposé or something, just getting out ahead of it: this isn’t that. This is mostly speculation and educated guesses. For the sake of clarity, this is just how I am reading the situation and may not, in fact, reflect what is actually happening (Even though, I’m pretty positive it is).

Disclaimer aside, I’m gonna get into why (I think) Izzy and the real living human beings who are fans of Izzy are getting so much aggressive hate. And why there’s so much inflammatory discourse around the character.

The gist of it is:

1. Its Ship War Bull Shit

2. The Entitlement

3. Silencing And Scare Tactics

4. We’re Not Falling For It

5. As Good Of A Solution As We’re Gonna Get (At Least Until Something Big Changes In Fan Culture As We Know It)

Now, actually Getting Into All That:

1. Its Ship War Bull Shit

Exactly what it says on the tin. I’m not saying and I don’t want to imply that everybody with their own preferred non-Izzy ships are the ones encouraging and participating in this behavior. What I am saying is that a non-zero number of, particularly Blackbonnet/Gentlebeard, shippers (though this isn’t unique to them) don’t like seeing other people ship Izzy with one (or more) of the characters in their ship. The same could be said for other fan favorites/popular ships as well. Jim, Lucius, Frenchie, etc. There is almost always another popular ship that the other party is involved in.

Though this does go beyond shipping as well. The way I see it, even people who don’t have ‘overlapping’ ships (or who don’t have ships at all and simply like Izzy on his own merit) are a target because of association with other fans who do. Whether that is actual interactions with said other fans or only imagined by way of them both being fans of Izzy.

This idea of a zero-sum game where, if people ship Blackhands that means there’s less people who ship Blackbonnet/Gentlebeard! (Or Ouizzy vs Room People, or Sprizzy vs Lucius’ polycule, or Jim/Izzy vs Tealoranges) is a false one. Multi shippers exist. Some people are more than capable of shipping two overlapping pairings with no problems. Sometimes people just don’t ship your ship. Its unreasonable to be mad at a Tealoranges shipper for not shipping Blackbonnet/Gentlebeard, so should it be unreasonable to be mad at a Blackhands/Gentlehands/Ouizzy/Sprizzy/etc shipper for not shipping your preferred ship.

Which brings me to my next point, being:

2. The Entitlement

Hi. I’m someone who is very particular in my ships. I have a handful that I like and I don’t particularly like to see ones that I don’t like, especially if they involve a character I ship with someone else. The difference between me and The Problem is that I am fully aware that my fandom experience is my own responsibility. If I don’t like something, its on me to remove myself from situations where I might encounter said thing. I don’t go into tags for ships I don’t like. I don’t go into tags for characters I don’t like. If I read a fic that deals with topics or ships that I don’t like I simply back out and move on with my day (provided the fic was properly tagged, please make sure you’re tagging your fics properly).

The Problem comes when people don’t take responsibility for their own fandom experience and expect everyone else to cater to their tastes. You are not entitled to other people’s: time, energy, enjoyment. If you are not paying someone, they don’t owe you anything.

I understand it can be frustrating when it seems like there’s not enough content for something you enjoy but there’s an apparent abundance of content for something you don’t but the only person who’s problem that is? Is you. Be the change you want to see in the world. If you think there’s a lack of content for your preferred thing? Go make content for that thing. If you don’t think you have the talent to make content for the thing? Do it anyway. Talent is not inherent and practice doesn’t make perfect but it does make improvements and for every imperfect thing you do make you’re increasing the amount of the thing you like. If you’re not inclined to make then consider commissioning someone. If you can’t be bothered to do either though? You’re not allowed to complain about a lack of content because you are part of the problem.

The entitlement doesn’t do you any favors either. When I joined this fandom I was over the moon for Blackbonnet/Gentlebeard. Now? I only read it if its written by a small handful of people because I don’t/can’t trust that anyone outside of those people aren’t going to be Weird About Izzy (and unnecessarily aggro at me about it). I don’t engage with the content for it anymore because The Problem has made it unsafe to do so. I have no intentions of making any sort of content for it now either. I do not cater to bullies and, for my own sake, I don’t care if ‘innocent’ people get caught in the crossfire. They are missing out on content because of people they are either passively allowing to remain in their spaces or actively encouraging. I am not the only one who has adopted this policy in light of The Problem.

Again, you are not entitled to other people’s: time, energy, enjoyment. If you make your spaces inhospitable for them, they are well within their rights to remove themselves from said spaces and blacklist the community from their own spaces.

Speaking of inhospitality:

3. Silencing And Scare Tactics

This is where the issue really lies. Fueled by The Entitlement, The Problem decides the best way to avoid/discourage content they don’t like is to make it seem like said content causes harm. Basically: ‘Its Problematic!’

This is where the ‘Izzy is racist/homophobic/a colonizer/etc comes from. It doesn’t matter what the canon says. It doesn’t matter if its interpretation or bad faith or anything else. ‘Izzy is a bigot’ is by and large, true or not, a silencing tactic to scare people into complying with the demands of The Problem. Its why ‘and that makes you an apologist/part of the problem’ always follows. Regardless of whether or not the person being told this is a part of any of the groups Izzy has allegedly wronged (for the sake of being part of those groups).

Its why several BIPOC have been accused of racism for being fans of Izzy. Why abuse survivors have been called abuse apologists for liking him.

The average person, when interacting with the fandom, will hear the loudest voices yelling ‘Izzy is problematic and so are you if you like him’ and avoid the topic for fear of coming across as problematic themselves. They won’t bother looking into the accusations because there is a risk in digging deeper and moreso of speaking out. ‘Its Problematic’ is a shield to hide the abuse being thrown at people who would really rather just be minding their own business.

Which isn’t to say its bulletproof, since:

4. We’re Not Falling For It

Which means that we’re being, perhaps not just as loud but, as loud as we can be about it all being Bull Shit. To some this might come across as apologia and ignoring the actual wrongs the character has done, its not. What it is is disputing false accusations towards the character and towards ourselves. Its quoting Word Of God and citing canon and saying ‘hey, this interpretation doesn’t really match up with the themes of the show’. Its poking holes.

Which The Problem doesn’t like.

Which leads to doubling down on accusations towards the fans. ‘Racist/abuse apologist/etc’. Over a fictional character. This isn’t to say that no Izzy fan is (consciously or unconsciously) racist, though the same could be said for fans of any character, just that its not because of association with the character. Personally, I think there is more issue with removing the agency from a BIPOC character and making all their faults be the fault of their white henchman (and all their virtues being attributed to the influence of their white boyfriend), but that’s just me.

What it also leads to is death threats and suicide bait. Which, I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a much worse offense than ‘liking the wrong fictional character’.

The excessive vitriol (the anon hate, the doxxing, the death threats, the outlandish accusations) comes from the fact that we’re doing our damnedest to show that The Problem is an actual problem and they don’t like having the spotlight shining on their bad side.

Which leads me to my last point:

5. As Good Of A Solution As We’re Gonna Get (At Least Until Something Big Changes In Fan Culture As We Know It)

The best thing we can do, until something big changes, is to remove the spotlight entirely. Deplatform the worst of them as we’re able to, which means not debating and not correcting (This’ll be especially difficult for me, I like to argue lol. Though, if you’re like me, you could also make a separate post disputing the argument after you’ve blocked the original poster. Just make sure you don’t mention their name/@ when you do, otherwise you’re just giving them back their platform by giving people access to them again.), and block liberally.

Blocking is a solution to two problems: 1. It avoids the possibility of seeing bad faith takes that you might want to argue with, and 2. It keeps The Problem from having access to you. It also provides you with a way to report The Problem if they do that fun thing they like to do and go around blocks to get to you anyway.

I know I’m probably not saying anything we didn’t already know, but I think its a good thing to remind people (and myself) of sometimes. We’re not The Problem, we deserve to have a space where we can enjoy ourselves in the fandom without harassment, and we have at least some level of ability to make that possible. This is hardly the first or only fandom to be experiencing this sort of issue, but given its the fandom we’re in right now, we gotta do what we can to make sure its a safe one (Which means, anybody who isn’t experiencing this, but who isn’t speaking out about it? Maybe start doing that. Its not just us that need your help, its fandom as a whole. Many voices make changes.).

[daughterofelros]

Assuming Best Intent In Fandom

I want to take a moment to talk about why I try to approach things in fandom with the lens of assuming best intent. It’s not specific to fandom-- this is how it makes me happiest to live my life in general. But sometimes I need the extra reminder in fandom, because it’s a place constructed with a degree of removal from real people. We’re mostly behind screens, and that can be wonderful and challenging all at once. Overall, I interpret the idea of assuming best intent to mean that I start from a point of believing that everyone is trying their best to do things well. That behind most actions is genuine care and most things are well-meaning. Now, that can be disproven, and having good intent doesn’t mean that the outcome itself is good. But it makes a big difference to me in my compassion, my empathy, and my own experience of stress to assume that best intentions are in place, and to look for that as a baseline.  As a result, when I see something I find wrong or upsetting, I don’t usually assume that someone is a shitty person, or that The Thing was made through a lens of being intentionally bad. Instead, i automatically end up looking for gaps in understanding, places where my perspective doesn’t align with the thing I’m seeing, and why that might be. It forces me to imagine the internal life of the people behind the content, and the structural/contextual issues at play too. It actively reminds me that we’re all human, and all deserving of dignity. Remembering that people are stressed because of quarantine or hard things in their own personal lives, or that policies and procedures and contracts and laws play a role in casting, or what content gets to my TV, or even just remembering that reading an interview may leave me with a different impression than seeing or hearing the same content (because communication is complex) is decidedly helpful in diffusing anger and irritation. Assuming Best Intentions also reminds me that people aren’t shitty, behaviors are. And that behaviors are informed by context and history and perception. Behaviors are things which someone can choose to address, that we can ask for support in addressing, and that we can understand. We are more than our behaviors, and behaviors can change. It’s more constructive too. Instead of approaching something in canon or fandom of a place of frustration and “Why would they DO that!?”, or “Why don’t they CARE?” framing it as “If I take it as a given that everyone had best intentions and our values are shared to at least some degree...how did this decision come about?” That framing alone sets me up for two things that make a difference: 1.) I am more likely to see the validity on a decision or perspective even if I don’t agree with it. I can hold it as meaningful. It cuts down on misunderstanding, and it increases my empathy. 2.) I am more likely to see how to move forward constructively. I can more effectively ground my discourse in shared values and empathy, have more meaningful discussions, be better primed to learn myself. Assuming best intentions makes conversations, fandom discourse, and interactions with creators more fulfilling. I learn more, I feel better heard and understood. I see/hear more perspectives and that makes me more informed. It enriches my experience. 

I’m a lot happier when I assume that someone loving a ship I don’t love quite as much just means that...they love it! It doesn’t feel good if I assume that by loving it, they’re seeking to diminish the ship that I adore. Even if the two things contradict each other and I can’t bring myself to get aboard their ship...it’s happier and healthier for me to start from the basis that they want good things for their favorite characters...and that the broad motivation of wanting to see some characters happy together is something we have in common, even if we see the rest of the details (including *which* characters) very differently. It works better for me to not presume from the start that a person loving another ship more means that they hate my ship or favorite characters.

Also...no one reacts well to feeling attacked. It hurts. We all know it, because it’s a pretty universal human feeling. But sometimes our brains lie to us. And for a relatively benign example, if we feel momentarily backed into a corner because someone asks us to tag something (any time we’re brought up short and asked to consider something in a new light can feel jarring)...considering their perspective and assuming they have good and valid intentions is so much more constructive than lashing out.  For an RNM fandom example, I have pretty strong feelings about tagging for violence and sexual assault and trauma responses-- it should be done. But scenes can be perceived differently, and people can be triggered/activated by things that aren’t in the text. I’ve learned about some I didn’t realize I had. There are some tags that it’s actively damaging to my mental health to use in some contexts...but I also know that it’s damaging to a fair number of people to not be able to filter out content about particular scenes, and assuming best intent makes it readily apparent that their concerns about their own needs are valid even if our perceptions of the content differs. So I tag the scenes in question (in particular, the 1x02 diner scene, the 1x06 hammer scene, and the 2x06 airstream scene). Whether I feel those scenes (or others) are problematic or not, whether they trigger me or not, I take it as truth that people need those tagged objectively, separate from values judgments and analysis.  Sometimes people show you repeatedly that they don’t have best intentions. And that sucks. But even then, I find that grounding myself in the best intentions perspective makes it a little easier to ease the sting, remember they’re probably going through their own thing, and let go of as much of the hurt as I can, even as I seek distance and safety, or choose to stand my ground.

Everyone is going through something. Everyone has bad days. Structures and Systems are unfair, contexts matter. Perfect is the enemy of Good. For me, starting with the idea that everyone is doing their level best and waiting to be proved wrong is just a lot more satisfying than starting with a negative perception and needing people to dig their way out of it. For me, its easier to think critically, learn, grow, and advocate if I start with the premise of assuming best intent. That’s how I find the most joy in life and fandom. It’s part of why/how I multi-ship, and where I start my analysis from. Your Mileage May Vary...this is just who I am.

[hazbintrashbin]

Best kind of action to take regarding opinions. Especially if they differ…

I leave tumblr and it’s HH “scene” just to come back and realize there’s some new discourse regarding Vivianne backtracking (essentially) on what she initially said.

First, she said that while the characters have canonical sexual orientations, she will still encourage people to ship whatever they like.

Personally, I like that because of the sort of atmosphere that exists nowadays in a lot of fandoms: in many fandoms today, I notice ppl are taking shipping more and more seriously —even if romance/sex has nothing to do with the original content.

Though, at some point (apparently, I don’t follow too closely on Viv anymore) Vivziepop said something along the lines of… to ship according to canon? Idk how true that is, but regardless, the “argument” that I’m seeing now (tho it feels more like “once again”) is that shipping characters different to whatever their canonical sexuality is, is somehow “erasing” their representation. How? I’ve the slightest idea 🤷🏾���♀️ because the so called argument is weak asl to me anyway. I think this is just ppl taking shipping too seriously once again.

The problem I have with ppl taking shipping so damn seriously is that 1) it makes it more difficult for those of us that are multi shippers to enjoy ALL of our ships in peace/in the open, the SAME WAY everyone else does (or at least should); (2) for those of us who love CRACKSHIPS: ships that entirely exists *precisely because* of how unrealistic/impossible/random it is (hence the name meaning “ship(s) on CRACK”), it’s even MORE difficult to enjoy your ships in peace because there are ppl who will try to limit you on what you “can” or “can’t” do with certain characters.

All that being said, I hate this attitude of “you can’t ship them!” Resurfacing in the HH community. Now, apparently ppl are assuming the worst of you because of a crackship?!

Fanfics, fan characters, AUs and SHIPPING is supposed to be about FUN for EVERYBODY. The only legitimate reasons to undermine a ship is on the premise of p*dophilia and/or inc€st, that’s it!! Otherwise, you’ll be attacking some person on the internet over something as irrelevant as whether or not you like, let alone “agree” with a ship. Unless it’s p*dophilic or inc€stual, your opinion don’t mean nothing.

I just think it’s sad and annoying is all, and more importantly, I feel like, within this community, a couple leaps BACK has taken place. Representation is not being erased from this fandom due to fanart and crackships, that’s just not how it works. If you think Charlie will stop being a canonically bi woman because of a bunch of Charlastor art, I assure you that, that is LITERALLY not happening. All the fan content in the world won’t be enough to “change” her sexuality, and NOTHING would change that she is also in a whole relationship with Vaggie. On that note, shipping Vaggie with literally any male WILL NOT affect her character in ANY WAY. Anybody who is an actual part of the HH fandom, even to a light degree (as I am), would be able to tell you that she is canonically WLW. That won’t change because of fanart or the ignorant “demands” of a few. Alastor is still our ace “king” regardless of whether or not he’s shipped with ppl, and whether or not that ship contains sexual themes. Not to mention the fact that asexuality is actually a spectrum and there *are* sex-favorable aces buuuuutttt that’s beside the point.

Point is, this can be said for all of the other characters: trust me, aint no amount of fanart in the world gonna change what is or isn’t canon about any particular character. Our representation hasn’t gone absolutely anywhere.

There's a lot of shipping hecc going on Twitter, so....yeah. I don't care who you ship as long as it isn't hateful, you're not harassing people, and/or that you're not trying to make it canon.

[rainstormcolors]

“Hm… I’m actually debating whether or not to make a post discussing why I’m both infatuated with the ending while also interpreting / needing to interpret it as Seto being able to return. The problem is doing so directly challenges the other interpretation, and I don’t want to be a tyrant over what people draw happiness from. I sincerely feel people have a right to take away whatever they wish from fiction. I’d like a discussion, not “””discourse””“.

Also, I give Takahashi a giant A+ for crafting such an elegantly debatable ending.”

I guess you can consider the above a sort of disclaimer. I have no intention of dictating the interpretations or emotions other fans carry, whether of the characters or the film. Everybody has reasons for why they feel as they do, and they’re absolutely entitled to those feelings. These are simply my own thoughts. I apologize if it seems dismissive. (Yes, I take this all far too seriously. What else is new?)

The end of the film can be interpreted a dozen different ways and as I’ve watched it be discussed up and down by various people, it’s apparent just how meticulously crafted the finale actually is. It was designed to stir speculation, and it’s achieved that goal beautifully. What’s aesthetic, what’s metaphorical, what’s literal?

Here’s a rundown of some basic interpretations I’ve seen (to add in what Seto’s motivation is would fracture this much further):

1)      Seto seeks one final match with Atem, and will return.

2)      Seto can move between the mortal world and Atem’s world.

3)      Seto has chosen to leave the mortal world and is now of Atem’s world.

4)      Seto seeks one final match with Atem, and traveling to this dimension will cost him his life.

It isn’t too difficult to shape the cues within the ending to fit what you want. Though I feel interpretation number four is soundly debunkable, but I’ll get to that. (There are other interpretations as well, but I’m keeping the list short for this.)

Grief is such a vulnerable, visceral, human theme. It’s certainly something personal to me. I had a bit of an epiphany not too long ago: the reason I’ve been so valiantly defending Seto’s characterization in the movie is because of my own experiences with mourning and emotional instability. Once again, it’s the role of audience projection.

And there was a part of me that had wondered just how much shipping factored into my emotions, but I realize I do not want the ending to be the third option, even if it means my ship is “nearly canon.” It feels cheap to me to reduce both the movie and the characters down to that. I understand there’s a rosy escapism to the third interpretation; the options I choose are stupidly escapist as well, more so even. But there’s more to these characters and this story than just some shipping end game.

(I had also wondered how I’d respond to Takahashi following up on the ending, but he essentially has.)

Before, I had written a post about Seto’s labyrinthine relationship with death, and there was something I failed to make clear in that post. For this movie, Seto’s arc is coming to terms with death and the bond he felt with Atem. But the reason Seto Kaiba is such a wonderfully written character is that he has many different arcs. His struggle with hatred and the ghosts of his past, his relationship with Mokuba, his rejection and begrudging acceptance of humanity (re: Mokuba, Atem, and in himself). He’s a wonderfully multi-faceted character. I have to view the movie as something encapsulating all this, a completion of Seto’s story, and thus the first or second interpretations are what fit for me.

The movie is imperfect, but I forgive those imperfections because what works for me works deeply. I’ve regurgitated this point ad nauseam: the movie respects the pain felt by both Yugi and Seto. Seto isn’t villainized for what he’s doing. There’s a poignancy to the characters’ grief and in the way their mourning is juxtaposed. Most notable is the duel between Yugi and Seto. Yugi is so patient and understanding towards Seto and it’s something I could kiss him on the cheek for. That the duel ends inconclusively also feels significant to me. I understand there are forth wall elements to consider, but within the narrative itself neither characters’ emotions have lost, and thus both are valid.

In the original run of YGO, there was something I found dissatisfying in the conclusion to Seto’s story. This man who has a profound distrust of others---he finally puts his trust in someone, and that someone immediately abandons him. How could that not be viciously detrimental? The film stares this question in the face.

Here are some crappy visuals that horribly simplify everything but I think get my point across, in regards to the emotional well-being of Yugi:

The gap left represents Yugi’s pain, and it’s the hole we feel when we lose someone precious to us, but he’s supported and mourns in a healthy manner.

Now here’s Seto, and why I think Atem’s death hit him so hard:

Again, this is a simplification. (For goodness sake, psychology is far more complicated than this!) But Seto never had the stability Yugi has. This isn’t to imply Atem should have been obligated to stay, but rather the pain Seto feels is something deep and sharp. It’s a tragedy without a guilty party.

If one were to ask me what I think the conclusion to Seto’s story is, I would answer this plus maybe this (note how on the surface, it seems platonic). The precedent for taking the second interpretation is of course the story of Persephone and Hades. The first interpretation plays out more properly on the level of coming to terms with death, and is perhaps more mature. With these things in mind, the finale of the movie is something cathartic. It cheapens the meaning of death but it’s an elegant wish-fulfillment, and it’s hopeful and sweet. It’s an indulgence, but it’s also a spot of happiness for a character who has bore far too much pain already. Let him have his wish. And perhaps then he can move on from the darkness in his life.

The hopeful notes of the music paired with Atem’s smile debunk the forth interpretation. Atem would not be smiling if Seto were slowly dying in front of him, end of. But what of the other three interpretations?

Is the golden dissolve of the space station aesthetic or literal? Is the dust lifting from Seto’s body aesthetic or literal? Did Seto bring the whole space station with him? Is there a time limit to his visit? Really, you can answer these questions however you please.

The movie informs us Seto has possession of the Cube, but the shot of the Cube is such that we can’t tell where it is. As I said, the ending is meticulous in its ambiguity. Where is it? You decide!

Further orchestration for maximum ambiguity: Seto doesn’t answer Mokuba. How do I take that? I characterize Seto as someone who’s rash and impulsive, because he constantly did rash and impulsive things throughout the original series. And thus I imagine his thoughts are, “I don’t know. I don’t know, but this is something I need to do.” And that’s why he can’t answer. But other fans will take something different away.

I also reference Transcend Game for my understanding of how the machine he’s inside may work. They aren’t the same pod, but there’s clearly a connection in their design. That machine bookends the story of the film, and it implies to me that the golden dissolve is metaphorical while the black dust is literal.

In the end, I can’t accept the third interpretation because this is not an improvement for Seto:

I’d rather see something like this for him:

I also characterize Seto as harshly asocial. It’s only my impression, but I don’t think he enjoys social interaction and so I don’t imagine him having an extensive web of friendships, but I can see him forming a few individual friendships eventually. And that’s what I hope for him, just to have support he can rely on.

There’s also this tricky question: is the ending a metaphor for suicide? In regards to the third interpretation, I think it is, but it’s a can of worms I’m not sure I want to open. Suicide is also something very personal. To bring up that it becomes a suicide metaphor also spits in the romanticism of the idea of sacrificing everything to be with the person you love and beginning anew, which might be the very reason for taking this interpretation in the first place. Given how indulgent my own interpretations are, it may be inappropriate for me to judge. Because the thing is, this interpretation might be just as cathartic for somebody else. But it just leaves such a bad taste in my mouth.

All the while, I’m aware I’m blinded by my favoritism for the character. Fans who are more indifferent to Kaiba probably have more clarity on the situation. (I’ll note I’ve seen more indifferent fans go with any one of the four interpretations.) And what about people who love the morbid and mercurial? The openness of the ending offers all sorts of possibilities for us to tinker with. In the end, this is all only fiction. This post is not so much about me judging others as it is just me putting it out there that I personally dislike the third interpretation.

I’ll conclude the post by iterating this: I sincerely believe people have a right to take away whatever they wish from fiction. Everybody has reasons for why they feel as they do. But for me, if all four interpretations are hanging there like fruit for me to pluck, why not pluck the first or second one? Particularly when the first two interpretations make more sense to me as the completion of Seto’s story.

[coldstarlightharmony-blog]

Universe Tab S3 survey: The high cost of a balanced Android tablet It may be superior to the Tab S2, yet is it worth $600.

Samsung keeps on contending with Apple's iPad with the redone Galaxy Tab S3. Two years back, the organization discharged 8.0-inch and 9.7-inch models of the Tab S2, yet Samsung is currently improving with only one 9.7-inch model of the refreshed tablet. The $599/£599 tablet has a HDR-prepared show, a smooth glass plan, a speedier processor, a unique mark sensor, and an included and enhanced S Pen, just to give some examples of its elements.

The new S3 proceeds with Samsung's endeavors to influence the individuals who need a top of the line, generally useful tablet to pick its Android gadget over an iPad, and Samsung cushioned this endeavor with several elements intended for clients of its Galaxy cell phones. Yet, Android's tablet application hole, in addition to other things, keeps on making premium Android tablets a hard offer.

Look and feel

The Tab S3 looks misleadingly like the Tab S2, however Samsung made the gadget look and feel inconspicuously more top of the line than its ancestor. Presently the back isn't made of delicate touch plastic, yet rather than glossy glass that is somewhat intelligent. The dark model shows fingerprints more effectively than our delicate silver model, however the glass makes the tablet feel more extravagant when all is said in done. The Tab S3 has a similar metal edge that the S2 had, and it has correspondingly estimated bezels encompassing the 9.7-inch, 2048×1536 AMOLED display.At 429g (simply under a pound), the S3 is not as light as the Tab S2 (372g) or the Nexus 9 (425g), however regardless it figures out how to be lighter than the iPad Air 2 (437g) or the new $329 iPad (469g). On its edges are a microSD card space, the volume rocker and power catches, an earphone jack and one USB Type-C port for charging, and two little, oval-ish spaces. These ovals encompass attractive hubs that help the tablet connect to the console deck.

While the console is discretionary, the Tab S3 incorporates the enhanced S Pen in the case. This model of the stylus resembles a more drawn out, somewhat fatter adaptation of the pen found in the Samsung Chromebook Pro, and it includes an all-elastic, .7mm tip and a particular side catch. The tablet can detect when the pen is floating over it, and the side secure brings the pen menu as a matter of course. That catch likewise goes about as a fast eraser, giving you a chance to switch all the more uninhibitedly between pen information and eraser nullification.

Samsung still has the physical home catch at the base of the show board, which is embraced by a touch-touchy application drawer and back catches. The unique finger impression sensor is like what's on the Tab S2 as in it's not the least demanding approach to open the gadget, similar to a unique mark sensor ought to be. The setup procedure requests that you turn your finger as you would to open the gadget in picture and scene mode, yet that doesn't appear to help the sensor distinguish your unique finger impression when it's at an odd point. In any event a fraction of the time, I was approached twice for my unique mark in light of the fact that the sensor didn't remember it the first run through.

While the show determination didn't change, now it's an AMOLED board that backings HDR. When you see the visual contrasts amongst HDR and non-HDR video, the Tab S3 clearly creates more dynamic hues and wealthier blacks than its non-HDR partners. It's a decent liven, particularly in a gadget implied for video and (in some ways) craftsmanship content. Be that as it may, presently HDR is quite recently that—a wonderful liven and not a need.

Inside the Tab S3 are quad speakers tuned by AKG, which sense the introduction of the tablet to give the best stable. Four speaker flame broils are unmistakable on the top and base edges of the tablet, and the speaker programming will change the way solid leaves those speakers relying upon how you're holding the tablet. There's a discernable contrast when you change from representation to scene mode while tuning in to music-based substance, for example, a music video: everything is somewhat enhanced when in scene mode, with more grounded vocals and articulated foundation instruments that are typically just black out echoes. In any case, when watching something more discourse based, similar to a Netflix appear, the distinction is less apparent.Keyboard case and S Pen

The enhanced S Pen that accompanies the Tab S3 has a super thin tip that can bolster up to 4,096 levels of weight affectability. The delicate touch, rubbery feel of the pen makes it grippy and simple to hold, and it's about a third longer than the Chromebook Pro's stylus, so you don't feel like you're composing with a twig. Yet, the stylus additionally does not have the lessened inactivity of the Chromebook Pro's stylus, so you'll see a moment or-so slack between your strokes and the computerized ink showing up on the tablet. Apparently the best thing about the S Pen is that it doesn't take any batteries, and you will never need to charge it.

Either squeezing the S Pen's side catch or floating over the tablet's show will raise the stylus' menu. As a matter of course, the menu has brisk get to symbols to make a note, get to every one of your notes, brilliant select (for catching a bit of the screen), screen compose (for taking a screenshot and making notes on it), and decipher. You can alter the alternate ways in this menu by changing the Air Command settings, and you can include an easy route for about any application you need. This makes it less demanding in case you're in the zone with the S Pen and you need to get to much of the time utilized applications all the more rapidly.

My most loved Air Command is Translate. On the off chance that you need to interpret a word starting with one dialect then onto the next, simply float the tip of the S Pen over that word and Translate will demonstrate to you the equal in another dialect. This component would have been unfathomably useful for me in school, when I would look into each other word while attempting to finish assignments for my great Italian writing classes.

The Tab S3's console case is an extra adornment you can purchase for $130. It's a common tablet-buddy console that appends attractively to a strip along the highest point of the S3's keys, and the back fold joins to the tablet's back attractively also. The Tab S3 must be situated consummately in this strip to be completely associated with the console, and some of the time making that association was less demanding said than done. The strip itself is a long indent in the console deck with six attractive hubs in the center and two oval-ish distensions on either side of the hubs. These hubs fit into the spaces on the Tab S3, however I frequently discovered them hindering my capacity to completely secure the tablet into the strip. At the point when this happened, the keys didn't work despite the fact that the tablet was steady and remaining for the situation, and the on-screen console flew up as the main information alternative. This is settled by evacuating the tablet and putting it down onto the attractive hubs as straight as would be prudent.

The console deck doesn't have much space, which positions the Tab S3 as a great deal all the more a tablet than a two-in-one of any sort. The chiclet keys are fulfilling to sort with, and, even with them being so little, I could sort at a genuinely ordinary speed. Where the console stumbled me up was numbers: the numeral and image characters are the top-most column, and each key is about a large portion of the extent of a general key. I never wrote a multi-digit number accurately the first run through, and I turned out to be progressively irritated at the marginally bigger Backspace key that was additionally hard to hit appropriately. As I feel with most tablets: since I could sort this survey utilizing the console case doesn't mean I ought to.

To compensate for the absence of S Pen holder on the Tab S3, Samsung added a discretionary holster to the console deck. This little bit of adjusted plastic has a level glue strip appended to it that gives you a chance to stick the holster on to the pre-situated indent on the back of the console deck. I wish Samsung had just incorporated this with the console deck, since anybody acquiring the discretionary console deck is as of now doing a considerable measure with the Tab S3, and they likely need the S Pen accessible at all times.SoftwareThe Tab S3 ships with Android 7.0, so you'll get all the enormous elements of Nougat out of the crate. That incorporates the multitasking highlights, some of which Samsung offered much sooner than standard Android did.

At the point when Android 7.1.1 turned out a couple of months back, it brought new emojis, it brought a thing called

"dispatch activities" to certain applications, including YouTube, and it conveyed GIF consoles to Google Allo, Google Messenger, and Hangouts. Those are generally little changes, yet we would have gotten a kick out of the chance to have them promptly on the Tab S3. The Tab S3 likewise accompanies the February 1, 2017 Android security fix, making it a month outdated.

This form of Samsung's TouchWiz subject is ostensibly the minimum hostile that we've seen, and it doesn't conflict with Google's Material Design as much as past adaptations. One of the outline alternatives that is on as a matter of course is the "symbol outlines" setting, which embraces each application symbol with a translucent, white adjusted square. Turning it off will make Google applications symbols, similar to Hangouts and Drive, have a greater amount of that Material Design feel, regardless of the possibility that they don't appear to be indistinguishable to application symbols on gadgets like the Google Pixel cell phone. The white square helps applications emerge on the home pages like Samsung cases, especially on the off chance that you have a bustling backdrop. In any case, we welcome that Samsung gives you the choice to kill that element on or.

The required Samsung-reproduction applications organizer remains. It holds applications including Internet, Email, and My Files, which can be disregarded on the off chance that you depend on comparable Google administrations. Samsung incorporates an application called Pen.Up, an "informal community" for specialists to make and share computerized drawings, however you have to agree to accept a free record before you can even portray in it. Thus alone, I adhered to my favored workmanship applications like Autodesk SketchBook.

Samsung additionally incorporated the versatile renditions of Microsoft's suite of Office applications, which will be simpler to use on the Tab S3 than on the Tab S2 on the off chance that you get the console extra. Be that as it may, you'll get more application optio