#it's really not that serious

[cquackity]

people who are embarrassed to like dsmp because it's 2024 are more embarrassing than dsmp fans who like it unabashedly. and also 10x more annoying. why are you prefacing every post with "i know it's dsmp but-"

[disdaidal]

I find it amusing that some folks here keep entire blogs dedicated to hating a single fictional character and every relationship they have. You say you hate this character, but they also live rent-free in your head 24/7. That's a lot of commitment for something you don't like.

[symbologic]

seems counterintuitive to:

- go into a ship tag - write a whole-ass essay on why people shouldn't ship the thing, with arguments that are 100% based on personal HCs and not the actual source material - declare you've got an agenda to convince people not to ship it - block anyone who's either politely like: "hello, are actual fans of this ship the audience you're going for? would you be cool with untagging this?" or "hey, i think your argument has flaws in it <CITES CONCRETE EVIDENCE>"

like, what is this person actually trying to accomplish? genuine question

[laurenkmyers]

If you have any taste, and I know you do as a fellow FortPeat fan, your ghostship is totally BossPeat. Did you witness the flirting? And the way Boss kept touching P'Peat? 👀

BUSTED.

Let me first preface this by saying that fortpeat are my LITA babies. No one can touch them. No one can beat them. No one.

Buuuuuut there's just something so intrinsically sexy about the bosspeat ghost ship. They have such a natural energy about them. We got bare minimum scenes between bosspeat in LITA and I want *more*. I'd love to see them as like, exes or something, before the fortpeat characters get together.

And we don't talk about the fucking *eyes* Peat gave Boss the third(?) time Boss tickles him, okay? (timestamp: 19:32) My little ghostship heart was a-flutterin'. I am not immune.

[merrigel]

Everybody do the wenis!

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[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[its-your-mind]

[asthedeathoflight]

Still thinking about none houses left grief, and while I understand where people are coming from, "it took me out of the world" is just... Really not a relevant criticism here. Like, that line is SUPPOSED to be jarring. It is supposed to be kind of darkly funny, but the point isnt for you to laugh. Its not trying to be a punchline. The point of that line IS to "take you out of the world" because the point is that *this world isn't what you thought it was.*

[lemon-wedges]

Im gonna be honest, i watched The Menu last night and all that been on my mind since then is getting a cheeseburger

[oilith]

Don't laugh at people or mock people who are "childish". People are allowed to like things that are considered "childish". Toys, kids cartoons, anything like that can be a valuable source of comfort for the people who like them. It's important to have things in life that make you happy, and without them it gets miserable. Wether that thing is stuffed animals or cooking or writing lyrics, what's important is that others don't ridicule and belittle them for it. There shouldn't be such judgement for the things that make people happy.

[commander-gloryforge]

your ocs should be friends with mine btw. my ocs told me they want to be friends with yours. theyre too shy to ask so i have to tell you. my ocs are asking your ocs to be friends with them

[wolfythewitch]

Both fellow-countrymen then,

how often we’d have mingled side-by-side!

Nothing could have parted us,

bound by love for each other, mutual delight …

till death’s dark cloud came shrouding round us both.

[nicosraf]

As per my last post, if yall arent aware — Cait Corrain, the author of the upcoming Crown of Starlight made a bunch of fake accounts on Goodreads to review-bomb other debut authors, almost entirely BIPOC, with 1 star while 5-starring her own book. She also added traditionally published debut authors to a list derogatorily labeling them as "self-published" hacks. She went after random books that are Greek mythology retellings, like her own is, and again targeted BIPOC authors. She even targeted my good friend RM Virtues, who is an indie author who writes queer Black Greek myth reimaginings.

Many of those she attacked were people who considered her a colleague and friend. She's tried to spin a lie about how she's being framed by someone from her Reylo fandom days, but Reylos have disproven that already.

Cait allegedly liked to brag about how her publisher treated her like royalty, and she had a massive Illumicrate deal. Her book was also getting favorable advanced reviews and had a beautiful cover, so she had nothing to be jealous of. She's potentially destroyed her career due to racism alone. Do not buy her book and do not support her.

Here is a thread if you want specifics and here is the 31-page doc of evidence.

[084392]

"i wish luffy didnt fall asleep listening to peoples backstories-" ok well i hope he falls asleep listening to his own backstory

[bugsbenefit]

tbh i do feel like we all lost the plot with that discussion from yesterday, no idea what's going on or who's fighting with who about what at this point