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autistic-katara · 3 months

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mutuals and non mutuals pls answer 🙏🙏🙏

#making a poll cause idk what to do #writing would be good for me rn but idk if i have the energy to fight god for it #and then fight my self doubt while i write #but idk if i don’t do it whenever i can’t do it easily ill never do it yk #idk #the fandom is mlb btw but i feel weird tagging it #(i’m sorry it entrapped me with its silly plots and the amazing quality fanworks)#fanfic #ao3 #ao3 is down #ryan shut the fuck up #poll

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yanderespamton78 · 4 months

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Edit since a lot of people seem confused - your "real" name is the name that you want to be referred to in real life. It doesn't have to be your legal name. So if you're trans and you have a different name to whats on your birth certificate, even if not many people call you by the name, it still counts as your real name.

Edit 2 : Holy shit guys please stop reblogging this post my poor inbox im getting like 20 notifs an hour asjfhkajshdkh /lh /srs

#FUN FACT : charlie isnt my real name :]#i decided to go with the name charlie because i didnt wanna use my real name and i like the name charlie #my parents were gonna call me charlie when i was born but didnt in the end #i dont really know why i dont just tell you lot my real name because its a super common name #another thing that using a diff name online has caused is me seeing “charlie” almost as a different person #theres “[wearegonnapretendiputmyrealnamehere]” and then theres “Charlie” and they are two different people in my mind #idk aksjffhkajsshdka #anyways this is the second poll ive made today what is my deal with polls #i should make a seperate poll tag for all my fucking polls that i make #I MAKE A LOT #ill tag all my polls when i think of a good name lol #anyways woah i got a bit rambly there #did i make a whole ass poll just because i thought you might find it interesting that my real name wasnt charlie?#yes. yes i did.#(DO NOT take this as me not wanting you lot to call me charlie i would prefer you use that name over anything else lol)#polls #tumblr polls #random polls

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antimony-medusa · 1 year

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Okay so inspired by nothing in particular (it's inspired by reading the notes on the ace swag final poll, fun stuff in there), I have been thinking about being Cringe. Cause like, you enter a fandom, and usually, you find out shortly that somebody else hates that fandom. There is no fandom niche enough that it's not Weird to somebody, and there's no fandom mainstream enough that it's not Annoying to somebody else. And given the fact that some people do hatred recreationally, there's often going to be somebody mad enough about your fandom that they're going to go on diatribes about how your fandom is bad and actually harmful and destroying the fabric of civilization, etc. They're gonna pull out anything negative and blow it up until it's the size of the skyline and attack you for liking this negative thing.

Fun times, we've all seen it.

And the thing is, there's an impulse to have this happen and immediately find somebody else to point to and say, yeah, well, I might be weird, but at least I'm not THAT guy. I might read YA, but at least I'm not a Furry— those guys are sexual deviants! I might be into actual play podcasts, but at least I'm not into mcyt— those guys are all harmful and my guy is fine. I might be into danmei, but at least I'm not into bandom— rpf is so gross. I might be a furry, but at least I'm not into mainstream romance novels— senseless drivel aimed at middle class white women. Y'know. Immediately find someone to punch down on.

And boy do I understand why you want to do that, when people are pointing at you, but I don't actually think that it's helpful.

Cause like, every fandom has a logical train of thought and reasonable human impulses behind it. You might not share those impulses— I'm not a furry I don't think, I don't really get true crime— but that doesn't mean I can't have it explained to me by a very patient person in in the writer's workshop common room and go "oh, yeah, kinda pretending to be an animal, but you're gay about it, yeah, makes sense", or "oh yeah, morbid curiosity from the safety of your headphones, it's like a horror movie but real" and nod. Like there isn't a fandom or group out there that doesn't look weird from the outside, and there isn't a fandom or group that can't be explained if someone has thought about the human psyche enough.

And that isn't to say that there isn't sometimes salient critiques for what fandoms are doing or not doing— to grab the two examples above, I have heard people talking about issues with true crime reinforcing the current fucked up justice system, or bigotry at furry cons. But a) most of the time, there is already somebody inside that community that's fighting against those issues, and you just threw them under the bus with the problem they're trying to fix b) you don't usually know the nuances of the actual conversation and problems, you saw a couple callout posts. You saying "Yeah I'm a board game nerd but at least I don't play competitive trading card cames, those guys are doing nothing but feeding the capitalist machine" is not usually helpful towards fixing the ctg scene. It's just a cheap way to score points.

Like, I assure you that the YA scene is aware of the calcification of the genre into a tighter and tighter romantic form and their dependence on going big on tik-tok to sell enough to keep publishing. They know.

You specifically saying that your fandom is better cause it's not [problems you heard about other fandom having] is not actually going to make the person who's hating on you stop hating. They already decided that you're the person they're better than and that they're punching down on, you passing the punching down on to another fandom just makes more people sad on the internet, and potentially starts yet another chain of someone punching down at someone else. The wheel grinds on, everybody gets punched.

I guess this is just kinda turning into a "why hate on the internet, what good does that do" post, which is broader than I meant it to be. But like, there's a difference between thoughtful critique of problems (complicated to do fairly but very necessary) and finding someone new to curbstomp to make yourself feel better/morally superior (look, I'm writing this on a mcyt blog, we've all seen this happen, it does not increase the joy in the world).

Like in MCYT, we all decide to punch down on [other server we hate], or RPF, or people who write kidfic, or people who write e-rated fic/art, or people doing the popular trope of the moment, and sure, it lets you feel morally superior for the moment, at the cost of slapping the guy next to you. Haven't we had enough slapping the guy next to you? There but for the grace of god (got a fun idea/watched the wrong stream/ended up in the wrong brainstorming circle/got fixated on the wrong funny guy) goes I. You're not better than another group just because you saw a couple more callout posts (usually from people inside the community trying to fix things) about them.

We are all Cringe. There is nobody who's not Cringe. Don't say that you're not Cringe because someone else is more Cringe. Stop that.

#discourse #This is another thing where the public/private rule applies too I think #cause social media is public and what you do there is governed by different politeness rules #walking into your friend's dms and saying GOD I AM SO ANNOYED BY [other fandom] is a normal human impulse #posting that where other people can see that is potentially much more like shouting in the face of a random person #idk this is potentially something where me having a thousand followers is warping the perspective #cause I try to be really aware of the fact that who knows what people who see my posts are into #there's nobody I can throw under the bus and not have them see it #if you have eight followers all of which you know #you're much more effectively in a private space #idk #boy reading the tags on that ace swag poll was kinda a Oh Yeah They Really Hate Us moment #I forgot that cause I was just happy over here #but boy are we still an internet's favoured punching bag #and I just think making an effort to not continue to punching bag people might be good #fandom meta

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trix-or-treatz · 7 months

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I miss the jim era

#posts that make zero sense to anyone who wasnt in the markiplier fandom while wkm was coming out #i also miss mark coming on here and just causing problems on purpose but thats another thing #dude.... imagine what he could do on here with polls now #mark when you're done being soso busy please come back we miss you #markiplier #jim markiplier #idk how to tag the jims #wkm #who killed markiplier #trix talks

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thatoneluckybee · 7 months

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sue miley darling WHY is your design so COMPLICATED

#i KNOW she’s difficult for me to draw why am i doing this to myself ive drawn her before i should know it takes me hours #bee is suffering doing silly doodles #its my actual artstyle though…. so idk if thats getting shared #i might make s password protected blog though. just cause i do things but nobody knows the characters irl #hmmmmmmm #thats what the poll earlier was. it was for the blog name id i made one lol #rambles

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statementlou · 10 months

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Thinking again about how the other day that anon wrote me wondering why Louis was so popular with older adult women and I had a couple ideas but was basically like idk IS he or is it just the same amount as any other pop star but then the other day BBC posted that video of 1D members doing 1D songs* solo without Louis in it and the post was like go comment on all these platforms and I was like what the heck it's not like I use my facebook for much else- but that meant I ended up looking a few times at the other comments (being mad about Louis' exclusion) and like I KNOW it's FB so ofc it's skewed by who uses that... but like damn, there ARE a lot of middle aged and older ladies for Louis! Like A LOT!! So again I am thinking about it and I would love to know what other people think might be the reason... my ideas plus footnote under cut-

~He’s so fucking SMART and the older you get the more appealing and necessary that is to appreciate someone. ~His music has always been in large part 90s style stuff which may draw in folks who already loved that kind of music because they’re old enough to remember it. ~We’re queer and were drawn into this fandom by crying our eyes out over how beautiful baby Harry and Louis were together and wanted to give them the world and protect them (is this age dependent? see below for why maybe I guess but idk) But my top theory is that ~it's based on the combination of him being this beautiful goodhearted boy all the shitty things we saw happening to him for so long and wanting so much to be able to DO SOMETHING, to make things better for him and give him everything. Not saying this is age based but maybe this works more strongly on older folks than on people who feel like they are in the same boat? Anyway would love to hear if other people think 1) there are more older louies than other celeb fandoms/ the other members of 1Ds solo fandoms and 2) if so what do you think it is about Louis? or 3) no, all these things apply to me but I'm only (whatever young age) so that can't be it

*I have since figured out why they did that and it isn't because Louis is blacklisted or whatever it's because they just pulled their footage that they own of 3 of them playing BBC Big Weekend which Louis hasn't done, and footage of Zayn from his public insta, which isn't something they could do for Louis- to include him they would have had to like get footage from his management or something they can't just use whatever off youtube and it was just a silly SM post they weren't gonna do all that

#not introducing discussion questions to make up for no content when it's only been one day😂#possibly won't work cause no one is around but I really am fascinated I would love to figure it out #OOH I should do a POLL too... let me figure out what it should be #or should I wait and try to get responses than poll based on them🤔much to consider #but this research goes nowhere withou t you lmk what you think!!#louis tomlinson #idk I just tag now??? lol basically we did that thing and nothing bad happened so now I'm like oh.. that's a thing I guess #why not

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seilon · 7 months

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more and more it makes me kind of uncomfortable (for lack of a better/softer word) to call my own characters ‘ocs’. because like. they’re from a completely original universe and from completely original intertwined stories and all that. so why would i have to specify they’re original in the same way someone would when referring to a character they made for a pre-existing non-original universe/franchise/whatever? by that logic every fiction author ever would be referring to their characters as ocs rather than just. their characters. you know.

#i guess you could say it’s different or something because I haven’t published any one Solid Official Work yet or anything but.#I don’t think that particularly matters? cause then you just get into policing what does and doesn’t count as Real and Official and that #inevitably doesn’t do anything good #idk man I know the term Original Character isn’t technically incorrect in my case but. I just feel like that term was created to separate #fandom creations from their source’s canon. or maybe to describe characters that don’t come from any particular established universe #or story at all (fandom or otherwise).#cause otherwise. why shouldn’t I just be calling them my characters. the characters from my universe and my works. which are #established and incorporated. it’s definitely not properly organized or set up for true publication (at least not yet. definitely possible #I’ll publish something as a consumable structured thing someday)#you just don’t hear established authors calling their characters ocs. because why should they? the original part is sort of a given.#hopefully anyway #anywayyuyyyyyyeuyyyhh sorry this is not important just has been on my mind the last few weeks or few months or more #kibumblabs #I guess there’s also a difference maybe between making characters for the sake of making characters- and those being ocs- versus #characters that are developed as part of a larger work/story #I definitely feel like there’s a difference between the two and how they should be labelled (but im not saying one is more valid than the #other or anything like that.)#like when I see a poll that’s like ‘how many ocs do you have’ I just kinda sit there cause that question. doesn’t make sense in #my situation at all. because it’s the same as asking the author of a fiction novel that question. what do I count as my ‘oc’#would that mean my primary characters? or vaguely my primary and secondaryish ones? or do you mean every single character mentioned #regardless of importance or prevalence? every single named parent or grandparent or boss or childhood friend or one night stand or etc etc #I feel like it’s weird to call those characters ‘ocs’ in the way the question is implying. but then what DOES count? it just doesn’t make #sense for something like this. right? it irks me a little

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maddy-ferguson · 2 months

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antifeminism is so exhausting to me

#the moderate kind especially like 'if feminists weren't so mean and forcing young men to hate them and the concept of women having rights #then everything would be fine :('#like it's actually crazy. men hating women is the status quo they're just mad we genuinely don't need them and want what they were promised #even though the promise was like...implicit whatever you know what i mean #i do think young men being more sexist/misogynistic/antifeminist than older generations like men over idk 50 (that one poll in the uk from #a few months ago) is an interesting phenomenon but like blaming feminists is crazy. i know comparing causes is unchic but do people who #think they're 'allies' of other causes talk about them in the same way. i know some probably do but it's like??/!??/! idk #like opposing feminism literally serves their material interests as does being racist if you're white and they're aware of that #this is about a thread...on twitter...by someone who already made a thread being like um feminists criticizing (white) men makes them more #misogynistic so maybe...stop?❤️ now he tweeted a video of the republican national convention thing in which young men say feminists hate #white men so they hate feminists and women should die instead of having access to an abortion or something like that i don't know i didn't #watch the video. and he's like well everyone hated me six months but i was right see the young white republican men are saying it #like i really wonder if he says the same thing when they say they're racist because black people dislike racism too much or that they're #homophobic because gay people don't hide their sexuality like they used to anymore #or whatever #anyway. i'm genuinely tired #like misogyny is one thing but antifeminism really gets to me #and like i say: brf slt

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fluffypotatey · 3 months

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i fucking hate horse race journalism

#no i am not talking about the literal journalism that covers horse racing #i’m talking about how the news media in the USA handles politics LIKE it’s a fucking horse race #idk who came up with the name bc it’s been a year since i read up on it #but jfc it explains why my skin crawls every time i hear about national politics bc it truly feels like news stations are treating #everything political like it’s sport stats. everything about policies or acts or bills or whatever the fuck all go down to their polls #Polls this #Polls that #but our margin of error will be in tiny fucking font that you can’t read bc it’s on TV and you’ll need to get real close to read it #also that will only make sense if stats wasn’t an elective #i am so fucking tired that every quote is met with a ‘ooooooh is [representative] gonna take it???’ or some shit #sorry i’m annoyed rn #presencial debate is on and i can’t change the channel despite how much i want to bc something tells me that this debate will #cause me to lose braincells #but what the duck do i know #anyway #ignore me #prob will delete later

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supercantaloupe · 1 year

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beginning to not have fun with these opera bracket posts tbh

#some of you guys are being really mean honestly. and i think that's really pathetic and unnecessary.#'why are people complaining about us voting for the Objectively Best Operas' cause it's not about what's Objectively Best #(there literally cannot be an Objective best if people are this argumentative about it....cause then it's.....subjective....)#it's about what You Personally Like More. every poll is literally titled 'which do you prefer' not 'which is Best(tm)'#which. sure sometimes we like things because we think they're the most well crafted works available #but also sometimes we like things that are just. fun. not necessarily Artistic Masterpieces. but they're enjoyable #and there is no moral or intellectual superiority attached to which opera you like best #for gd's sake.#'why are you people taking this so personally and whining about everything' well you are saying that people should be banned from #Watching Opera and or that you would like to kill someone/yourself if your choice doesn't win #or that people are literally brainless troglodytes for voting against your taste #and like #idk #i think it's valid to be upset about that?#'have you noticed that the people who Complain are Objectively Wrong' how do you say this with a straight face #and still feel comfortable up on that high horse of yours?#whatever i guess. you guys can have fun pretending that the forza or don carlo guys are making out or whatever #but it's just. unnecessarily mean to pretend like anyone who disagrees or has slightly different taste is Stupid and Wrong #i wanna talk about me #it's probably obvious that there's a particular post i'm referring to with this but i'm not gonna link it #because i don't want to directly get embroiled in anything. don't fucking @ me to argue i will honestly just block you #you can reply if you want guess but if you're rude or weird. watch out.#it's yom kippur. i have bigger things to focus on than fucking bitichfights on tumblr over the most pointless popularity contest yet devise

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swagging-back-to · 7 months

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am i just toxic as hell or

so if someone left you on read for 12 hours before messaging, you wait another 12 to respond.

[this doesnt apply if they were asleep during that time or genuinely did not have access to their device (such as a power outage) it's mainly if you SAW them online/see that that they read it but never responded]

#polls of tumblr #polls #avpd #actually avpd #<- also if you have avpd as well PLEASE lmk so i know if this is a toxic thing or a 'i am so irreparably altered by abuse and trauma' thing #like. if i dont wait at least half the time it took them to respond to me to reply back i get nauseous #even thinking of responding to it before that time passes makes me feel sick and wrong and so fucking angry #if i do not wait then IT WILL be obvious that im seething mad/hurt as fuck #in some situations it ends up causing us to stop talking entirely #and yknow what? i dont even feel bad about that #edit later in the day; okay so maybe thats a little overkill. but sometimes it really do be like 'okay wow fuck you' yk?#like i said in the comments it all really depends on the vibes yk???#idk #i think maybe im just toxic </3 #who wants to start a toxic yuri with me

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confluencechimera · 7 months

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Ashes of Eden is by far my fav BB song in terms of how personally I relate to it, but in terms of emotionally messing me up so bad, it's definitely What Lies Beneath

#emotionally repressed people when they hear the lyric ''All in all you're no good / you don't cry like you should''#that new meme of the lady holding the song going ''nuh uh don't do it'' ME WITH WHAT LIES BENEATH #another lyric in that song that gets me is ''Now you turn the tide on me / cause you're so unkind''#bc to me. for a band w usually violent imagery and rougher lyrics using the word ''unkind'' is like #idk. it feels like such a simple and innocent word that in the context of the song it makes me so emotional #come closer i can be normal abt this band #(saw a post abt a poll like ''which song ruins you'' and i went MAN i wish there was some bb on that bracket)#aven.text

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leavemetoplaythesims · 10 months

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