#reblogs disabled because The Annoying People Fandom found it

[justintaco]

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oh fuck oh shit

[whetstonefires]

So I can't reply to @phoenixyfriend having replied to my reblog because either they've blocked me or they don't do DMs with non-mutuals despite suggesting that as a preferable forum for disagreement, but in brief:

My reblog was 'necessary' within the very limited definition of that word that applies to fandom blogging because that post was not a post About Tony Stark. I don't engage with posts About Tony Stark or most characters in general that I disagree with, in general! It's rude and life is too short.

That post, however, was not about Tony. It was a conversation between bloggers asserting an argument for why people who don't agree with your headcanons are morally inferior and have Bad Corrupt Motives.

"What does it say that Steve is, in fandom, often considered a better/more qualified speaker on the topic of chronic illness and disability than Tony" and "these people would rather listen to the white, able-bodied guy than the person actually forced to live with the consequences of life-long disability" and "viewers with that perspective continue to see his disability as a sign that he's still a bad person, because he hasn't 'earned' a cure the way Steve did."

(Which again is wild as a take because Iron Man 3 has tony 'earn' his way out of both physical damage and PTSD through willpower and smartness in the ending montage, because inspiration porn doesn't work if you stay damaged.)

It was a post about the fandom. Accusing other actual human beings of being morally at fault for how they interpreted the marvel cinematic universe.

Not like, an intense horrible attack post as these things go, but it still wasn't about characters. It was about other fans. That is different from talking about characters! Your post was about how it's sus and shameful for people to disagree with you, not about your actual positions and why they're right. Let alone about the character. That doesn't fall under the curtain of 'don't start shit' because shit was already started.

Like I don't have any Avengers fic, haven't been in the fandom for several years, and I was still sitting here scrolling my dash getting these Bad Person Motives assigned to me just for thinking one character was more meaningful disability representation, that I would be interested in hearing from on the subject, than another.

You made inflammatory statements about other actual people in a public forum, where it could be predicted they would see it.

And then flew off the handle when someone went over your post asserting their alternate perspective, carefully avoiding attacking you personally or assigning you evil motives, which would have been incredibly easy except it's a shitty way to interact so no, and speaking only in general terms about things they found personally annoying.

If you can't deal with people reblogging your posts to argue that you're being unfair, then maybe don't post about how other people only disagree with you about your blorbos because you are a better human being than those people. I mean.

[outrunningthedark]

I'm gonna admit that I stumbled onto your blog because I did something I barely do anymore being a fandom old who already knows better; I checked the tags (for 911). But then I ended up reading, like, everything you've written (not even close actually, but oh what I got through is still a lot) and I'm just glad to have found your blog. For the most part I've found the 911 fandom pretty alright, with certain kinds of people with wildly bad takes few and easily blockable, but it's been really nice (refreshing is almost the word because it's not, not really but like a similar sensation mentally) reading your perspective on multiple things in the show. I'm more of a lurker when it comes to interaction with fandom stuff, more comfortable with just reblogging art and gifs and stuff, but even that can be overwhelming in certain fandoms because of some blogs....

Anyway, all that to say, I'm really glad to have made the decision to follow you and you've helped me give words to some thoughts that have been circling in my head so thanks

Hi, new friend! I would apologize for making you feel like you can't stay away from my blog, but I must admit that opening the app to find a plethora of likes and reblogs has warmed my heart today. 💗 I'm not the type of person with a brain full of half-formed headcanons. I can't write fic to save a life. My inherent lack of creativity means that I tend to be one of the more "serious" participants in fandom - some would say the most rational. Not everybody wants to be confronted with critical thinking and facts when entering a new fandom (particularly a fandom dedicated to a not-yet-canon slash ship), so anyone who's actually interested in what I have to say is more than welcome here. 🤗 And on a more personal note, my favorite days in this fandom have been when people I don't already know find my posts about ableism (both on the show and in reality) and give them a reblog and maybe even leave nice commentary. Everybody's got their *thing* that they wish was more talked about, right? A part of themselves they think they need to shrink or hide in order to be accepted. My *thing* will always be CP. It's what makes me the most angry, but it's also what drives me to be unapologetically me. I'm not ashamed to discuss my disability or to say things that will probably piss a lot of people off because they don't understand what the hell I'm talking about. In doing so, I've (thankfully) opened some eyes to the ways in which they were operating with an ableist mindset and started a conversation that desperately needed to be had given what we’re watching on screen. That was a longwinded way of expressing my gratitude for you and anybody else that accepts probably the most annoying part of me in the minds of a few (never shutting up about my disability) and I will always do my best to make you feel just as appreciated and respected in return. 💞

[badsithnocookie]

war for iokath #2

[ part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 | part 5 | part 6 ]

spoilers for fractured alliance chain (5.2+)

Quinn, hon. if anyone here is trying too hard, it’s you.

Elara ground out the DvL armour set, btw. i can’t tell without comparing but i think it’s the highest version to. my question i guess is: did she get to meet master ranos?

or is the DvL set Republic armour? if so, how come she’s the only one wearing it? so many questions

anyway, Quinn manages to be far more of an annoying sycophant than Elara does, in spite of his aspersions on her character. which is appropriate, yes (he is something of a sycophant, where as she is very much... not, despite the fact they are both also sticklers for rules) but eyerolling to have to sit through, all the same. it certainly does nothing to present him or the Empire in a positive light

this tiny cutscene with Quinn and Elara is the only time they get to interact in the entire game, and it’s barely at all. once this cutscene ends, a character who’s never met them before will never speak to them again, outside of briefly running into the enemy comp before a boss fight, and that’s it. which frankly is a complete and total waste of both characters.

Jace Malcom and Theron Shan are both consumate professionals.

honestly, i hate the hatchet job BWA did on their relationship in the name of cheap family drama. this shit isn’t entertaining. it’s tedious at best. outright hurtful at worst. just fucking stop it. let people reconnect and be happy for once. being an edgelord makes you a bad writer. not a good one.

honestly jace you could have sold that justas keeping it out of the empire’s hands and it’d go down a ton better than implying that the republic needs a superweapon itself. nobody needs a superweapon. that’s how we end up with MAD and terrible storylines like this one.

that said, i am like 99% sure that the Alliance found and claimed Iokath before either faction, and with the might/right thing that BWA love so much, the eternal fleet means that once the plot device disabler is disabled, the Alliance could smush any opposition, including both fleets, into so much mush if it felt so inclined.

but, yanno. earth logic.

first of all: no you didn’t. kyo turned down an alliance with you, because you’re the fucking sith empire.

secondly: this is the only place before or since that the empire are said to have suffered anything for not simply attempting to ally with odessen but actually committing treason against zakuul and i’m honestly going to assume that acina is lying here because of the complete lack of evidence to support her assertion

thirdly: you’re the fucking sith empire. literally nobody worth actually listening to will mourn the sith empire. which i know sith fandom are going to whine about how this makes me pro genocide or something, all while reblogging that meta post from thor ragnarok about how imperialist societies do not deserve cookies and need to be burned to the ground and new ones built that are not constructed with the bones of those they enslaved, but, you know. that entire post, but for this fandom.

she’s not an empress. she specifically rejected being an empress.

she’s an eccentric hermit, okay? eccentric. hermit. who misses her husband.

*bangs fists on table* WHERE IS FELIX, BIOWARE?

anyway, absolutely no prizes for guessing who sha sided with. i’ll give you a clue, though: 

quinn blows up... a ship? or something? the alliance has some really low quality security. might wanna check that out, shan.

except we don’t - other than seeing quinn very briefly with acina, later, we’ll never so much as share a screen with him again. he’s only ‘dealt with’ if you happen to be an SW who makes an art form out of bearing grudges - otherwise, he escapes to be acina’s puppydog another day.

wait... cina can gain influence from this?

(yeah, i’m not even getting cxp for this. just irl aggro.)

[stone-butch-blue]

sorry but a socially inept person whos "excruciatingly painful" to talk to because they have one (special?) interest and need to heavily script social encounters+always a have a security blanket (coping device) is probably autistic. sorry we suck so much to be around ig??

like for me that script is heavily influenced by what other people want me to say but thats an incredibly painful isolating way to live. sorry some autistic people wanna actually be happy and comfortable in their day to day lives and have found coping mechanisms that make you slightly uncomfortable because you cant be assed to SAY youre uncomfortable with the conversation or say you need a topic change.

because chances are they have no idea it makes you uncomfortable. maybe take control of your own destiny there instead of leaving it up to your conversational partner to monitor your mood and respond accordingly.

like i went to highschools that were primarily for autistic kids throughout highschool, 3 different ones. 95% of autistic people match those patterns and if it isnt fandom ita trains or yarn or art or movie direction or math or fuck i dunno. welding? it doesnt matter what it is and its always different. but a lot of them do choose fandom spaces. literally everything here can be chalked up to being bad at stuff or annoying. cannot tell you how many times ive been told im bad at stuff or annoying. you can find it annoying,you can reblog this. autistic people arent safe from criticism i guess but if knowing the people youre talking about are often autistic (or emotionally neglected.... the fucking overlap there is wild i see you guys too and all the other people w trauma or intellectual disabilities who end up being that guy too) makes this feel a little pointless and mean and youd rather talk about gatekeeping fandom spaces from "fakes" or "casuals" (or poc, queer people, etc), inappropriate interaction with others thats actually harmful like suibating randos online for having a non gross/harmdul opinion (or anyone ever), or sexualizing minors, or sexually harassing irl actors or some shit maybe dont reblog it when you think its about "normal" people or whatever, because if it IS actually harmless and not malicious... its harmless and not malicious thats all i can say.

Roger Ebert just destroying some specific kind of nerd(s). 

[guyinlovewitheremika]

your post has literally 0% ship-related content between Reiner/Bertolt and Levi/Erwin. please stop this ship tagging thing unless it's actual shipping. my xkit blacklists it automatically because i have posts of ships i don't ship disabled and it annoys me when it blocks things i like to see, but please DO NOT TAG it just because it has two of the characters in it. there's nothing shippy about it. 0% ship-related content. thanks

This is the post in question

Okay I’m sorry, but that’s not gonna work out.

First of all, about the issue whether or not the post features ship related content or not. Yes, character X and Z aren’t making out on screen, but it is still a fact that the images highlight the relationship between X and Z, by isolating them from a larger group and presenting them together, sharing an activity. What’s more, this is coming from an OFFICIAL source, aka the people in charge chose to highlight the relationship between X and Z. From a shippers standpoint, that’s huge. The importance of the specific relationship is given an emphasis through official sources, thus in turn validating the feelings of the shippers in question. 

Furthermore, do you consider your definition of what is shippy and what not to be a universal fandom rule? Do characters actively need to be doing the do for it to be shippy? Matter of fact is, the relationships between characters can be appreciated without it needing to be directly romantic/sexual (I suppose that’s what you’re referring to by “actual shipping”). People are allowed to be invested in a relationship of any shape or form. If I were to, hypothetically, write a meta piece on the canon relationship between say, Eren and Mikasa, without necessarily implying they want to make out under a tree any minute, it would be accepted for me to tag the ship, because ultimately, the shipnames are used for the sake of tagging one’s appreciation of a relationship. Granted, the big majority of the posts found there has romantic undertones, but its not exclusive! You’re free to interpret a relationship in any way you want to. People can “ship” characters platonically, or whatever. Your definition of what warrants a ship tag isn’t a universal guideline in fandom.

And if you think I’m just trying to shove my personal opinions on the matter in your face and make you accept them as universal truths, that’s not the case at all. Many of the “big, popular, accepted” blogs tag official art concerning the relationship between X and Z as a ship. Many of my followers do to. Everyone is allowed to tag and interpret things the way they want to. And though you personally may not agree that the pic features “actual shipping”, that is once again not a fandom wide rule we’re all forced to abide to. If you check the reblogs under the post, you’ll notice that many of them got tagged as rei/ber or eru/ri, despite the fact that they’re not “explicitly shippy” or whatever. People can interpret it the way they want. I can interpret it the way I want. And that’s just how it is. For many months now, I’ve tried my best to share all kinds of Attack on Titan related news, from promotional material, to updates on xyz, or newly released artwork, with the fandom. I happen to spend an absurd amount of time refreshing official sources and trying to share news with as many people as I can, because people want to see new content. Shippers greatly appreciate official content concerning the relationship of their preference, and if I get the opportunity, I gladly want to provide them with that. Hence the shiptag: a way to bring attention to new official stuff. And once again, people are entitled to interpret the artwork the way they want; the ships in question may not be my biggest OTPs, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy them. 

And here’s another thing: You are absolutely 100% entitled to blacklist a ship you’re not a fan of, I by no means want to deny you the right. But matter of fact is, when choosing to blacklist a ship, you need to acknowledge that you will be missing out on certain content. You may have your own definition of “actual shipping”, but please do acknowledge that this is not a fandom wide, universal viewpoint. Everyone is entitled to their own interpretation, and allowed to act according to it. You can’t expect to somehow enforce your own personal policy on me or the rest of the whole fandom. Things just don’t work that way. You’re the one who resorted to blacklist which, once again, you are totally fine to do so, but you need to realize that not everyone’s tagging system will be conform to that. You can’t control the whole fandom according to your personal viewpoints, especially if those aren’t conform to how the majority of the fandom works. I apologize if I’m starting to sound rude here, but you’re the one who accepted to see less content, and the fandom isn’t perfectly cut together for everyone. I already try my best to tag stuff appropriately. Stuff that is explicitly romantic usually doesn’t get character names. And things that aren’t necessarily explicit may get the shipname, but also character names, and, in the case of official things, also various tags for that (I did originally not feature my “s2 art” or “official art” tags on the post in question due to poor memory, if you had those highlighted and if this was the cause of this issue I apologize, but I’m human and mistakes happen). I already try my best to keep this organized to conform to as many people as I can, but it is COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE EVERY SINGLE PERSON WITH THE TAGGING SYSTEM. I do my best but there are limits. I’m sorry you may miss out on some content or that you find this system “annoying”, but I’m not going to revamp my entire system and alienate many other followers for that. I mean, hell, it’s not like I’m shoving your NOTP in your face or anything.

And ultimately, what I interpret as shippy and what not, or how I tag the content on my blog is ultimately my decision, and mine alone. I’m sorry if it really doesn’t work out for you, but this system has worked well since day one, and is certainly not limited to my blog alone. 

This got long, I may have gotten a tidbit rude, but I really wanted to sort this out.

[s-hadow-chan]

Moving blogs + a reflection essay

tl;dr -- I’m moving my main blog. Because lots of my views on life have changed, my life has changed, and obviously my tastes in fandoms have changed. I’ll put the URL here later once I’ve made it. To see how I got to this position and where I am now, keep reading ^w^

Note: This is just my own opinion as to how I’ve seen Tumblr over the past few years. 

Well, it’s the start of a New Year. I haven’t been active much in 2017 but I’ll try and be active this year. Thanks to all the people who’ve helped and supported me this year and the following people who have made my life on Tumblr : *a list of people I rarely talk to anymore*

....Is what I would have said perhaps a year or two ago. I’m still glad I’ve joined this site and had conversations with some KnB fanatics like I was. However, I haven’t talked to them in a year. The only people I usually talk to on this site are basically nonexistent. I mean my friends from high school technically, but I talk to them irl during classes and lunch. The truth is that I have not been active on Tumblr for the past year. And my activity on the site was starting to wane in 2016 as well when I accidentally deleted my main blog last year when I was actually trying to delete a side blog I was working on. But that’s besides the fact as to why I’m moving. I’ve changed quite a bit since 2014 when I first joined Tumblr. My views of the world have changed, my life has changed, even the tiniest things such as my fandom tastes have changed. Because of this change, I’m moving to a new blog. Since you’ve decided to keep reading, I’m going to write a long detailed essay about the three things that have changed with me: my taste, my views on the world, and my life in 2014. You have the complete freedom to click out anytime ^w^

The fourteen-year-old me has a different shit taste in anime than the shit taste I have in anime now. Obviously, no one person can stay the same. If you’ve reblogged the little posts I’ve reblogged from other blogs (try saying that five times lol) notice how there’s barely any Hetalia or Kuroko no Basket or Haikyuu for that matter. Even when I’ve been active for the past few days, it’s been more positive posts, memes, and occasional anime of Hero Aca and such. So really if you want to know what I’m into at the moment, it’s Honeyworks, Hero Aca, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (Your Lie in April), food, study things, any Makoto Shinkai film (doesn’t have to be Your Name but it can be) and always memes. And getting off from the high of finishing Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, I’ll be looking for that too. Also, notice the decline in squealing yaoi fangirl that used to squeal in the tags section about two dudes cross-dressing. Ah, yes. The Hetalia days of where I’d ship APH America with everyone and just had a huge obsession with APH America. The title of my blog (on mobile anyway) is still a quote from the dub haha.  To be fair, that squealing, yaoi fangirl did have a brief revival when Yuri on Ice was still airing. I still have a soft spot for the anime as it was very good (and still is, Phichit will forever be an angel) and I absolutely LOVE Makkachin still. But for the most part, I have mostly lost the whole yaoi fangirl that I once was in Freshman year of high school who still loved shipping countries together. Why I deviated from Hetalia is another post unto itself.

I mentioned how I haven’t been posting a lot of kurobas lately. Yes my interest has waned in the show, but I still appreciate what it’s done for me in my high school years. I still have a quote from Aida Riko back in the earlier chapters of the manga hanging on my wall as I work on homework: “I want you to have a big concrete objective and the will to achieve it.” I won’t deny, KnB really helped me set the mentality I needed to tackle high school -- to keep pushing myself to become a better person. Whether I fulfilled that expectation or not is debatable. But as always, the inspirational quotes of KnB will undoubtedly carry me onto college too.

Now don’t get triggered when I say that Tumblr can really take leftist ideology to the extreme. It’s definitely right to treat everybody equally no matter their skin color, gender, sexuality, shape, size, disability, etc. Basically, everyone deserves to be treated equally. That’d definitely fine and it’s the right way to live life after all. However, it first hit me in Junior year that Tumblr was getting annoying. The whole “the straights are terrible” and “white men should burn in hell” preaching gave Tumblr the black and white views of the world without any grays (or greys however you spell it) in between. Now I’m a straight CIS female. I’ve got good friends who are asexual, bi, lesbian, etc. I will say this, but I doubt it will be heard by the screams of hate against a straight CIS gender like myself: I DON’T CARE WHAT YOUR DAMN SEXUALITY OR GENDER OR COLOR OR WHATEVER IS AS LONG AS YOU ARE A NICE PERSON! If you are a trans, gay Hispanic (an example, not pointing you out) who treats other people terribly, that means I will flip you off and beat your ass (to some extent of this statement). Not all straight people are bad and not all gays are good and it goes for every demographic that exists ever.

Though it may seem that I am blaming all of Tumblr for acting this way, I am. But I can’t forget that I too, once had a black and white view of the world. As a fourteen-year-old who was very much shielded from the world because of a private Catholic school with conservative parents who are very well off, I had an inkling of what the rest of the world was like. And I feel like the people on Tumblr were just as uneducated about the world as I was. By no means do I know everything about the world now. A seventeen-year-old who hasn’t even finished high school will never know how the me from four years from now feels. I am just saying that my opinion from leaning so far left a damn tree would break has become more moderate. This website made me think: gosh being straight and CIS is uncool and being a normal functional being with no anxiety or depression isn’t normal too. I need to be bi and genderfluid! That was stupid thinking. Right now, I’m completely fine with being a straight, CIS female with no mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety who will gladly respect your pronouns.

Now life is really crazy. It was crazy in 2016, and it was crazy in 2017 too. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned that I’m from Las Vegas, Nevada now did I? Times have changed man. I don’t think I would have said that when I was 10 on a website lol. But yeah if you’ve somehow been scrolling this far down I commend your efforts. And I’m sure you’re getting really strained rn. So get some water, take a break, I’m sorry if you can’t get to a laptop or computer right now. Don’t read this in one go. If you’ve returned or decided to read straight on through welcome back or good for you respectively. Now I’ll repeat that again. Yes, I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. Right where Stephen Paddock decided to shoot from the 37th floor of Mandalay Bay onto the Route 91 Harvest Festival where over 500 people were wounded and 50 people were killed and where three students from my school were at on Sunday night (they were unharmed physically I believe). I found this out when I was tucked in bed at home, far from the strip checking my friend’s snapchats before I fell asleep. For the largest mass shooting in modern US history to take place in an area where my family would take our extended family to dinner or where we once had a New Years Eve celebration at the Vdara, is sickening. My cousins and I used to go to Mandalay Bay and hang out at the pool and stay the night because it was Spring break back when we were in middle school. My mom’s 40th birthday was at the Mandalay Bay. It’s terrible. I know how those people in Orlando and Colorado and everywhere else in the world feel when a mass shooting happens and completely disrupts your life. I’ve barely even been to the strip this year. The fact that a terror attack happened in my own backyard is beyond words. It makes me angry that some bastard decided to fuck up the lives of everyone in my city by ruining a good time at a concert. It makes me sad when I read a Washington Post later about a group of girls who went to a Lutheran school were affected by this event mentally and some even physically by this event. And that in turns makes me pissed off that some dude ruined the lives of teenage girls exactly like me, who were worried about the SAT and ACT and AP Classes and college. Fuck him.

So that’s my feelings on the shooting a few months late. But remember that I live in Las Vegas. You can’t just forget a mass shooting that happened in the city you live in. I’d mention how people would disagree with me that other events on the strip have happened such as a robbing at the Bellagio (it’s always the Bellagio man! That’s my fave part of the strip with the dancing waters and the seasonal garden inside like man they don’t deserve that) and etc. but feel free to disagree with me when you submit an ask dear anon.

Now on a somewhat lighter note, high school will forever be stressful. Going to the best high school in the state is stressful when all your friends have a nonstop grind to be one of the valedictorians (apparently you can have more than one?? I had no idea until I went to high school). Though I am nowhere near becoming a valedictorian, I still have plans to graduate with high honors ( wearing white for graduation) because half of the people graduating will wear white because it’s a magnet school dammit we’re kinda smart. AP classes have been part of my workload since Sophomore year which is right when I deleted my blog, but I managed to keep my activity up somewhat. Junior year slumped in my activity big time. APUSH is hard you guys. That’s it. I believe I posted a reflection at the start of 2017 detailing a bit more of this. But the difference this year is that I’m a senior in high school. That means college and scholarships. As I’ve mentioned before, I live in Nevada. I either stay in Las Vegas and attend the university there or I head up to Reno, which is like a 6-hour drive from home or just an hour flight. That means living in a dorm away from everything I’ve known. And that includes my boyfriend.

The biggest change in my life between Freshman year and now is that I’m taken! And honestly, it was the biggest fucking plot twist of 2016 (and the largest failed segway of 2018 thus far). I’m dating the largest weeb at my school ever and I’m happy dammit. Most of the time. I’ve learned a lot from being in a relationship like how to shut the fuck up and listen and appreciate more in life. By no means was my relationship perfect either. We’ve had a lot of fights. I’ve mentioned this in my reflection of 2016 at the start of last year so the rundown is that we’ve been together a year and a half now. I’m in a healthy relationship. Then college comes in and says hi. Now my boyfriend has decided to go to the university here in Las Vegas. I’m still very unsure as to where I want to go next. After all, the decision as to where to continue my education lies with me and I’m running out of time (I’m procrastinating on the decision right now lol). Four years ago, I had dreams of going out of state to either a UC school or the United States Airforce Academy in Colorado, until I learned that school outside of my state is expensive so I decided to stay within the confines of Nevada. 

And honestly, that’s where I’m at right now. Thanks for reading this long ass rant. I spent an hour or two typing this up. I just have a lot of feelings haha. I hope everyone has the best year ever. If this is after I’ve posted my new URL, go follow me there. But for now, thanks for all the support thus far and especially for reading this long ass rant. See you!