#ive just been seeing a WORRYING amount of that kinda more old school hyper positivity shit lately and it's... weird... | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

vivalasthedas · 4 months ago

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i hope when veilguard comes out people will like... let people dissect it and be critical and very 'the curtains were blue symbolized xyz' and not get shitty about that way of engaging with things you enjoy and claiming that any negative opinion is 'fandom drama'.

like for sure if you don't like talking about that shit, great, don't engage, leave it alone. But the amount of times you'll be having a perfectly fun talk about biowares Unfortunate Implications because of their constant statement of real world parallels and inspirations and their handling of shit in game and how that unintended outcome effects their intended story or something and someone comes along and like fandom high horses about how it's not that deep let people enjoy things why are you being so negative whine whine bitch bitch about it is wild.

Let people engage with fandom however they enjoy. For some that will be Big Think. It will be analyzing shit, no matter their skill level at doing so, and digging into it. If that's not it for you, that's awesome! I'm sure most people like both at different times, different moods, different media properties. Sometimes you want to get in the fandom place and go 'i bet this blorbo would cry if their tamagotchi died' and other times you want to talk about the accidental 'colonialism is good' narrative in the scifi movie you just watched or how xyz thing is part of a larger character motif about 123.

Respect whatever the fuck fandom means to other people, and just don't engage with shit you don't want to. Either direction. Don't go on posts of people being silly goofy and happy and be a jag, don't go on posts being negative or critical about something and get mad about people being negative. Grow up. Move on. None of it matters.

#the more i like something the more i want to chew on it #the games i play the most are the ones i have the most opinions on same with books i love and films and tv shows #i have the most to say good and bad and will delight in sitting with a friendo #and ripping into bioware accidentially doing blood libel and shit like that #it doesn't take away from the game to me #and in fact adds to it cause it shows me other peoples approaches to the story and interpretations of it #and how our real world experiences flavor how we engage with and view these stories from the offset #not a da example but i remember a star wars fandom friend being the first person who pointed out the tusken raiders are indigenous populati #and their use in the earlier movies v much mirrored like western depictions of indigenous americans #its something other expanded universe stuff actively talked about #and i'd never noticed of thought about it cause i didn't really do legends era eu #that was a really interesting thing to think about and talk about #and htis was the same star wars fandom friend #who you could go to for 'i bet this alien species has a fucked up penis' talks #we came to the conclusion that duros - what cad bane is - probably had hemipenes cause they're reptilian #and they headcanoned togruta as having barbed cat dicks #i swear to god if people use this as an invitation to argue with me and prove my point #i will not be surprised but i sure will block them #ive just been seeing a WORRYING amount of that kinda more old school hyper positivity shit lately and it's... weird...#but i also imagine it's in part related to certain fandom cricles i've ended up falling into following and watching #and maybe less of a general trend #at least i ihope that's the case #i am so going to rethink this post and delete it or make it private in like an hour tops

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