#out of market fandom....

[moregraceful]

i was like why is my dog going crazy and why does my body feel like it's imploding...oh it is bc HIS anxiety meds wore off and MY allergy meds wore off. now he is calmly asleep on his heated bed and i can breathe again. we are doing gr8. on the bright side i have internet now!!!!

[undercooked-icicle]

Ideas for Inside Out 3:

White guilt.

Depression.

Stinky.

Goofy.

Girl boss.

Vengeance.

Gay.

[holoscout]

another day another fern and jermaine sketch dump whats upppp

[hydrachea]

I’ve always loved the dynamic between the ot3 we've had since 1.0 and with firefly joining the party it instantly became an ot4 for me lol so that's fun! Speaking of firefly infantilization, I absolutely agree with what you said and what’s sad is you know damn well that if the person inside SAM was a man people would’ve cared to explore the odd connection & parallels between “him” & blade beyond “dad & daughter 🥺” posting (not to mention the fact that she’s much older than him). And she literally told kafka to “stop playing with her food” in the jepella trailer. They're partners & equals, not a nuclear family 💀

It's the exact same for me! Well, except I started playing in 1.3, but don't worry about it. As soon as Firefly's identity as a Stellaron Hunter was leaked (wow that was a while ago now) I started waiting to see how they'd portray her relationship with the other three, since they all already had a great dynamic - and wow did 2.2 and 2.3 not disappoint. She joined the ot3 now ot4 easily!

Alas, infantilization is just the fandom fate of any short young looking woman with a man she's close to in her life. Over on Genshin's side, Sigewinne still largely gets treated as Wriothesley's daughter even though she literally saw him grow up and clearly acts like an adult. Nevermind that she, just like Firefly, is the much older one of the two. Just because Firefly actively tries to enjoy her short life in as many ways as she can experience instead of brooding 90% of the time like Blade doesn't automatically mean he's older or more mature... He's just depressed.

That said! There are people with very nice takes out there, even if they aren't directly ship. And since I too am very interested in the dynamic between Blade and Firefly, given their respective situations and wishes - have you seen this comic yet? Only part 1 is out and I don't know if the webnovel (fic?) it's based on exists in English, but just that part 1 is so nice.

[yzafre]

Roxas: Had the Halloween town kids throw bombs in his face for multiple missions in a row before finally breaking down and smacking them around a bit.

Ventus: The dwarves were rude and refused to talk to him, immediately resorted to chasing them down and whacking them.

Characterization I see frequently: Ah, yes, Roxas is the one always willing to throw hands and Ventus is a smol sunshine boy.

[tiddie-taylor]

Io2 tv spots are my biggest opp rn

[dollypopup]

y'all can all cancel me (again) for this, but if there's even a SHRED of 'who should I pick?' from Penelope in season 3, I am tuning out SO fast because like. . .sorry not sorry, there IS no choice. Debling is some crusty OC suitor she barely even knows and Colin is a man who she has been so supposedly in love with to the point where she'd ruin her entire family's reputation to have a potential love story with him. Penelope and Colin have background, years of knowing each other, intimacy that few people in the Ton can boast of having (letters, conversations about purpose, fights and arguments and makeups) and her and Debling have. . .a dance or two at a ball because he's a rebound for Penelope's broken heart. he means nothing. he has no nuance, he has no weight to the story, he is such an afterthought to me. either I wanna see Penelope going 'you know what? I don't even LIKE this dude. he's. . .fine, but I don't care about him even a shred as much as I care about Colin' or the INSTANT Colin's like 'you know what? we should get married' if it's not an immediate 'say less, you're already my husband, try returning me without the receipt, Debling whomst?' then I don't want it!

like. . .it's just so frustrating to see all the 'I hope Debling sweeps her off her feet and she rejects Colin's proposal and she makes him work for it and and and-' nonsense from the fandom and it's always tagged and no matter how many times I block it, it just keeps popping up. I go into the Polin tag for POLIN. I don't give a SHIT about a male love interest other than Colin. Not one. Not a shred. Not an iota.

and also. . .Debling has the 'benefit' of not having depth, or character traits, or HISTORY, so peeps can project onto him however they want, but I'm calling it now, there is NOTHING he could do or be that would make me like him more than Colin. Colin will always hit different, and I will always love him more. and if Pen's not on that same page? lol bye

you want me to believe Penelope and Colin are soulmates and it's romance for her to hem and haw about how difficult a decision it is for her to marry a stranger who knows barely anything about her. . .

when Marina was out here dropping banger lines like 'You were the only man with which I could see myself being happy' and 'I do not care about any of these men, where is Colin?'? like hello??? and she wasn't even fully in love with him!!!! but we'll demonize her until the cows come home in our fandom and make her the villain in Polin's love story for DARING to get in between Polin, yet Debling, a white man, is a darling dear perfect prince for getting in between Polin? existing in our fandom solely so Penelope can be like 'lol, Colin ain't shit, let me entertain any and everyone else'?

if that's the direction it goes then, ten toes down and on my mama, she doesn't deserve Colin and she can move because I'm on my way to court him my damn self

and that's that on that

[thedailydescent]

going off of what dwreader and ghostfoolish have been saying better than i can:

why do people think louis will still be a believable victim and it won't be racist if the show just has armand mess with louis's memories regarding 1x05 and how claudia died, and also be controlling him throughout the entire interview/relationship? like not only does it paint victims of abuse as unreliable and unstable, therefore not be trusted with anything*, but it also, just, shifts most if not all the blame from a white man to a poc? we've asking this the entire time, but they still don't have an answer for that.

*like statistically speaking victims of abuses' memories might be muddled/repressed from the trauma, so even though they know the abuse happened, people will use the fact that they might not be able to describe an entire fight in specific detail, or got some dates mixed up, or did not speak up sooner, to paint them as mentally ill liars, or even abusers themselves. which is why i think giving louis false memories in 1x05 is still victim blaming in a way, because it encourages the trend of victims not being believed.

[yshtal]

when I was little I used to play clue with my sister and when I won by being like “okay YOU don’t have the candlestick and I don’t have the candlestick and there are no more cards, so it’s gotta be the candlestick” she would get really mad and tell me I was cheating because I wasn’t supposed to be making assumptions like that and she didn’t understand where I was getting the info from, so I was ruining the game for her

anyways I don’t rly get why people on twt are THAT mad about veilguard spoilers because they do not seem that deep

[byler-alarmist]

They should have another event like the Sranger Things Experience. I'm craving it

[qprstobin]

On a more serious note... y'all realize that the Team Jonathan and Team Steve thing is just a normal ass marketing ploy right? They're on the final season, I'm pretty sure they have barely anything else they can talk about at this point that wouldn't end up being a massive spoiler, so they're falling back on an old faithful bit they've done before that they had already set up in the previous season so it isn't actually a spoiler. And it's aimed to get people riled up, everyone knows that ship wars get people worked up for better or for worse. Like if y'all hate the marketing tactic so much it's better to not react to it, not to continue to talk about it that's the whole point lol.

[magistralucis]

Love is... stored in the translation... 😌💖

[wisteriasymphony]

"How much do I have to pay you to stay with me? One thousand, two thousand—Hundred thousand? I-I'll do it, darling!" He cried out, following her pace like a sick hound to its master. "God save me, dear, if all the riches in the world aren't enough to please you, I'll get you the moon!" His knees would buckle and threaten to give out, and yet Adrien would crawl before he ever stopped for breath.

"I don't even want you to joke about that, Adrien." Claudia growled back. Her fists were curled tight, with pallid knuckles.

"Then what do you want? Anything will be yours, I swear it!"

"I want you to leave me alone!"

"Anything but that!"

Claudia faltered to turn around a table, and that was enough to close the gap. Adrien seized her by the elbows; She would thrash and cry out like she always did, but he kept his grasp steadfast despite his quivering voice.

"Claudia, you give a man who has starved his whole life a single slice of bread, you give a man who has been parched of thirst his whole life even the smallest droplet of water—All his life he has known naught but emptiness and you dare take away that which fills his stomach, runs down his throat?" he whimpered out.

Claudia still jerked back and forth—stamped down on Adrien's feet. He would never get a single bone fixed if she fractured it, for that would be losing another sign that she had ever existed: If they were as fleeting as she wished to tell him, he would treat it as such.

As Claudia screamed back curses, he kept his voice low against her ear, begging through tears. "You give me, starved of love far beyond my years of living, the slightest kindness, and I intend to hold on. I—" His heart caught in his throat, just as she tried to jab him with her elbow. "I will bend to your every whim just for the gift of your company, darling. Please, just let me stay."

[fayehartz]

dude i accidentally gotten myself into this series and im getting obsessed with thsi damn grasshopper

[dougielombax]

Yes I do consider it a major red flag if a piece of media markets itself as being the anti-woke alternative to something.

It reminds me all too much of those fan projects made purely out of backlash and spite.

Though even if it doesn’t market itself that way, it can come to be perceived as such by obnoxious fans.

Helldivers 2 seems to have this problem. Among other IPs. Not its fault though btw.

[heyclickadee]

I almost forgot how much I’m d r e a d i n g the marketing lead up to TBB season three.