#keep seeing posts making fun of people who like loumand

[hobermallowed]

listen. it’s not a competition Pam. let people like things.

[gatoraid]

Year in Fandom 2023

Seeing people posting their recaps made me look back a little on my own year too. 

2023 marked the year I came back to tumblr with full force after leaving my account mostly unused for abt five years. Twitter was my fandom home for a long time (and for jp language stuff it still is to some extent), but it has become such an awful place I really wanted to have an alternative.

This year I also resumed a lot of fandom activities like writing and reading fanfic, from which I had unintentionally taken an almost three year break from. Finding the joy in writing and sharing it with others after a long time has been really nice, especially since a big part of this year has otherwise felt like a struggle. There were a lot of times when I needed escape or comfort and found that in fiction, fandom or writing.

I also made a conscious effort to lurk less and let artists and creators know how much joy they have brought me. Messaging the translators and authors of my fave stories, reaching out to artists via asks or making the conscious effort to comment on fanfics a lot more than I used to have all made me happier in the process too, so I really want to keep doing that in the new year too.

My biggest fandom obsession in 2023 was definitely The Radiant Emperor book series by Shelley Parker-Chan. Out of the five fics I published this year, three were for this fandom so I think that alone says a lot. I read She Who Became the Sun in March, and when He Who Drowned the World came out in August, I was ready to be blown away and haven’t recovered since. It’s still hard to articulate all the reasons why these books spoke to me so deeply, but I’ll just accept that this is my life now. 

I think I’ve been almost equally blown away by how much fun I’ve had in the Radiant Emperor fandom. It’s been so inspiring to see all the beautiful fanworks and reactions to them from the small but dedicated crowd, and to be able to discuss and build upon each others’ meta and headcanons. Whether we’re mutuals or have exchanged thoughts via comments, tags or dm’s, I really look forward to obsessing over these books and characters together in 2024 too!

Shoutout to the other fandom-related things that also kept me sane in 2023: Loumand Paris romance, all the fics I read about Lee Yut-Lung, and playing and analyzing Love Shore.

[enigmaticdiary]

the recommended posts feature on twitter can be so diabolical sometimes cause I do enjoy seeing funny iwtv posts but then other times it will recommend me such an absolutely braindead take that it leaves me seeing red and Its so hard to keep my fucking mouth shut on twitter but the racism that oozes outta the fandom surrounding this series makes me so Demonically angry

Like there's no way i saw someone unironically making fun of louis during the end of ep 7 while he was struggling to parse through the reliability of his own memories as Daniel instigated it in the most aggressive way possible. Like thers no way you're comparing loumand making fun of daniels reaction to his ex wife's pregnancy to louis reliving the night he and claudia kill lestat right.

Unfortunately some of my anger is of my own making cause I went to this persons page to be like Well maybe not all their takes are so braindead right. I was unfortunately a fool and bore witness to them hypothesizing that the loumand "teamup" against daniel would then to turn to either armand/daniel "teaming up" against louis or louis/daniel "teaming up" against armand. And i truly beg to god that white people be more cognizant of the shit they say and how they phrase it especially in regards to characters of color, but there is absolutely no good faith way to interpret that. "TEAM UP"? Now why in gods name are you hoping that the couple of color end up breaking off for one to go into the arms of a WHITE MAN, TO DEMONIZE THE OTHER MAN OF COLOR? Like what do armand or louis have to gain from antagonizing one another? ESPECIALLY to antagonize louis?

im so mad i can't even put my thoughts together coherently anymore. genuinely to hell with yall who are wishing for the narrative to go down that way i will make sure i am the reason yall don't see the pearly gates