#oh shit i don't know the tags for this fandom

[blubushie]

have u seen/played mouthwashing? thoughts?

I'll be honest I have the tag blocked.

I don't hate the game or nothing, I'm sure it's great, but I look a lot like Curly pre-crash (blue-eyed, blond, with the exact same haircut except Mine's a little longer at the back cuz mullet, hell my fringe even parts the same way) and I'm also a burn victim so I'm sure you can understand my discomfort.

That said it's not really Mouthwashing itself that makes me uncomfortable but rather the fandom around it. From people giving a fucking human being dog buttons and thinking it's funny like he isn't dehumanised enough in the game (and the ableism by Jimmy kinda being a focal point of one of many reasons Jimmy sucks), to people saying Curly DESERVED to be disabled in the crash like disability is a fucking punishment of some kind that people must have earnt, to people saying Anya should keep the baby...

Also as a more-or-less recovering alcoholic (I'm managing ok) who's been desperate enough to drink hand sanitiser for a fix, uh... The whole "drink the mouthwash" thing strikes a bit too close to home. My ability to be tolerant of that aspect varies by the day though. The only shit I can't tolerate is the fandom and how it treats these characters. And yeah I know characters aren't real bla bla bla but I'm not talking about people writing fic or something I'm taking about how the fandom's behaviour is indicative of how they view rape victims and disabled people and people with substance abuse disorders and other marginalised people. You get it.

Oh and also the rampant infantilisation of Daisuke in the fandom like East Asian men aren't infantilised enough.

Or people showing Anya, a fucking nurse, hugging/touching a patient with third degree burn wounds. But that's more the doctor in me bitching about infection and how she's a nurse and would know better.

I think I could bitch for hours about shitty takes I've seen on my dash and all of my bitching pertains only to the fandom and not even the actual game. We're reaching levels of "dislike by association". Which I really try not to do because I think the game can speak for itself but if I see one more untagged Mouthwashing shit take on my dash I'm gonna start putting people in blenders and drinking it.

[cold-heart-warm-writings]

Pairing each Olivia Rodrigo song on her Sour album with a A Court of Thorns and Roses character: Yes, these songs are angsty, but I have so many fun memories with this album, so let’s just have some fun and get these characters in their feels. ~spoilers~

brutal - Nesta, Emry, Gwyn - The Valkyries “If someone tells me one more time, enjoy your youth, I’m gonna cry.” - These girls have all been through some SHIT! This is just a fun, snappy, and quick song, and I could see them absolutely rocking out to it as the House drops off more chocolate while they all scream “GOD, IT’S BRUTAL OUT HERE!” They would laugh and point at each other for the line “I only have two real friends, and lately I’m a nervous wreck!”

traitor - Elain - Even though Greyson didn’t cheat on her, he still betrayed her and turned his back on her. I can see her belting the words out a window in the House of Wind, and really putting her everything behind it.

drivers license - Rhysand - okay look we all need an angsty song every now and then, and at first I thought naaah, but then I thought of those few months where Rhys was “letting Feyre go”. The little peaks down the bond could’ve been him driving past her house… “and you’re probably with that blond girl” hey, that blond bitch has a name, and it’s Tamlin. Give him a bit of wine, and he’ll sing this loud and proud and Morr.

1 step forward, 3 steps back - The Lady of the Autumn Court - Cause Beron is an asshole and I wish she could leave his ass and get with Helion.

deja vu - Tamlin… but in a he’s having a pity party for himself kind of way. It makes me think of that dick move he made during the high lord meeting where he trying to humiliate her, (but Azriel is having none of it). 

good 4 u - Cassian when Nesta is in her figuring herself phase and Cassian is trying his best to be okay and be fine that she doesn’t want him when in reality it is absolutely destroying him inside.

enough for you - Morrigan - Because that girl tried so hard for her family, and she tries to be always on and perfect, and I can’t imagine how exhausted she must be.

happier - oh fuck, Tamlin too… cause he’s such a bitch boy. WAIT LMAO AMARANTHA - Amarantha at Tamlin. I once read some random fan theory that she was Tamlin’s true mate and that just gets me good. This is the kind of song she would totally sing to herself while thinking about Tamlin … and planning her next task to kill Feyre. :)

jealousy, jealousy - Azriel - He’s just jealous of what (or I guess, who) he can’t have. He crushes on Morr, she’s not interested (and she’s allowed that!). She crushes on Elain, and she doesn’t really want anything to do with any males (she does not owe them anything). Azriel does seem like a person who is confident enough in his own abilities, but I bet little things will eventually get him down and he can’t help but compare himself sometimes to other males.

favorite crime - “The things I did, just so I could call you mine.” Tell me that is not the definition of Feyre with Tamlin during that period of ACOTAR ending and ACOWAR starting up. Feyre was in a dark place, full of guilt for everything she did for Tamlin, and then he just.. Didn’t do much to help or support her through it. Honestly, he ALSO needed help and support. Really, they all needed a therapist or a counselor or some kind of professional to help them process what happened to them, but no one was provided that kind of support, so Feyre fell deeper. And this song resonates with her.

hope ur ok - Amren - Now, while she does not seem like a person who would like this sort of soft song… and I don’t think many of the individual verses would apply to her, but I think that when it’s quiet, she’s had a lot to drink, and she’s alone, she wonders what happened to her family. She’s been separated from her own home universe for eons, and the message of growing up and growing away from people but still hoping that they’re okay… that would touch her. “We don’t talk much, but I just gotta say… I miss you, and I hope that you’re okay.”

[ispridestillasin]

So I decided to watch a bit of Bridgerton with my mother, which I'm not really interested in (I don't really like period pieces unless it's a fanfic for a ship I like) but it's a show she enjoys so I sometimes catch her watching it and join her, and literally the only takeaway from the stuff I've seen with her is that Colin, Lord Debling, and Penelope should have all been poly

[hercarisntyours]

hello transformers fandom i am once again here to spread xdinary heroes propaganda with today's one being boy comics which i think is so stupidly transformers or d16/orion coded it's a crime

[prentissluvr]

just saw someone saying that jared's acting in spn was bad... gonna commit heinous crimes

[subway-boss-jericho]

I don't think I'll ever be a proper Content Creator because of the way my brain works, but my biggest goal is to somehow make a story that makes someone so mentally ill about a thing that they can't think straight. As I do. Every couple weeks or so. Someday it will happen and I will do skitter around dancing and cheering wildly on the subway platform in my brain

[forter-from-meteos]

i will be "i should make art of a ranbarumban" and come out with two minor ocs and ideas for two more

[rotisseries]

the age old "two cakes" mantra of fandom creation is so true in that genuinely you should not worry about doing what someone else has already done because your take on the same ideas is valuable anyway but I do so hate when all of a fandom's popular content is sort of the same thing. its like going to a bake sale and everyone brought a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. it's so good, but I can only eat so much cake. the frosting is getting to be too much in my mouth. I just want someone's homemade specialty cookies

[concerto-roblox]

my rejection-sensitive ass trying to internalise that someone saying they hate a character that i like doesn't mean they're personally attacking me and people are allowed to express negative opinions on the internet (i am not succeeding and believe everyone hates me for having fun in the wrong way)

[grokebaby]

Been thinking about it and honestly I've been feeling like I don't really wanna post about several ocs anymore

[daniclaytcn]

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[spittingspite]

i would like to hear about the wip known as sigh 👀

Alas, sigh is not one of my erasermight fics hxfhcc (although maybe I should write an erasermight fic called Sigh at some point bc that might be nice. Idk what it would be about though). It's a broadchurch omegaverse fic that I started writing 1) to procrastinate on my important wips (sweats while trying not to look at lmbyw) and 2) because I looked in the omegaverse tag for that fandom and saw it didn't really have any. There's three, I think??? One of which has multiple fandoms tagged, and two of which are in another language. "Well," I thought to myself, "someone has to be the one to inflict omegaverse on this fandom, don't they?" They do not. It is a peaceful fandom. But I'm gonna do it anyway

The fic itself isn't really shippy, I'm going for a platonic angle between the two characters, and there isn't gonna be any smut, so I could be inflicting worse on this poor fandom. If you're interested, there's no deep or interesting reason it's titled as "sigh". The "sigh" is a reference to me sighing at myself in disappointment for starting yet another wip instead of writing any of the things I should be writing

“They’re taking me off my suppressants,” she says. “Thought you didn’t want to talk about it.” “Shut up, or you can get out and walk the rest of the way there.” It’s not an empty threat, and he knows it. Wisely, he decides to shut up.

[negativepeanuthoarder]

I feel like I as an author need to know my place in The Fandom Ecosystem and that's as the b-team. Fics u read while waiting for JanetBaby99 or Thethirdmanthethird or Selvish to post.

[wereh0gz]

If I have to hear that being queer in any way is a sin one more time I'll show you an actual sin by beating your skull in with this brick I found 😊

[cuddlytogas]

entering my bitch era (trying to get more into twitter fandom and finding my tl flooded with people talking about A Certain Popular AU Fic that is, frankly, mostly just fine, and being overwhelmed with some of the pettiest little jealous rages you ever did see)

[this-charming-primevalmusic]

EXACTLY

one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.

which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)

what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes

and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts