#sorry I'm not often salty or into discourse

[theboarsbride]

bro I love clowning on BookTok and how silly stupid BookTok books and trends and tropes are, but I am sick and tired of this 'all BookTok is is porn' discourse.

Like it just reminds me of Twilight discourse, and it stinks of misogyny. Just let people read what they want??? It's not that hard to find a book YOU want to read and look the other way? It's not that hard to engage with BookTok content that can cater your FYP to YOUR book tastes? Also just stop demonizing porn/sex work and those that use those services? Because unless it's depicting something genuinely harmful/hateful/etc. then what does it matter? BookTok critics need to give readers more credit, tbh, because more often than not I feel like adults can differentiate what is real and what is fiction, and can distinguish what is or is not a toxic relationship but still engage with certain material because they like tropes, are exploring kinks, need escapism, etc.?

Like people waste so much time fretting over porn and spice in books. In that time you could have found a dozen more fantasy or sci-fi books that cater to your tastes! As an AroAce person who is discomforted by ideas of sex, I don't engage with smut or spicy books because it's not my cup of tea and I know my personal boundaries. That's it. I just go find books I WANT to read, then! It isn't rocket science! It's ok to not like smut or be uncomfortable with sex scenes/discussions about sex - it's ok! But to go and demonize those who DO like reading that kind of material is hella stupid.

If you really wanna have a discussion about the ick of BookTok then maybe discuss how toxic the publishing industry can be to its authors, especially authors of color, and how it expects authors to work like machines to pump out bestsellers, valuing quantity over quality, or discuss the harm of authors being in review spaces and how this leads to readers facing threats, doxxing, harassment, and then being too scared to share thoughts on books online.

You peeps waste more time worrying about spice and smut when you can just be whimsical and let people enjoy what they wanna enjoy.

Anyways,,,sorry if this is incoherent i'm just feeling VERY salty.

[rafole]

I hope I don't come off as salty but in light of Netflix and this tendency to profile certain players as innocent babies and others as problematic villains I just think we should bear in mind that these male tennis players live in their own millionaire bubbles and most of them don't really care about women's rights in general. For example, I don't know if this didn't have much impact outside of Spain or the Spanish-speaking world, but Rafa Nadal has denied and justified the gender pay gap in a 2019 press conference using a PRETTY sexist discourse. Being one of the most influential tennis players in the world, that certainly won't help solving the many gender inequalities that still exist in tennis. While I don't agree with Rafa, I understand he thinks this way bc of the way he was raised (his uncle Toni has close ties with the Spanish right-wing party [PP]). I'm not trying to tarnish Rafa's reputation, it's not like he'll solve the wage gap anyway, but this is just an example of why we shouldn't put any tennis player on a high moral pedestal. Sorry for the rant! I just felt I had to express this thought

And I agree with you. Yeah its fun to have favs and love and support players at the end of the day I and no one else here knows any of them personally and situations like these are a reminder of that.

I didn’t know the details of the Rafa thing but I’d heard of it before and its a good example of how your fav sports stars will often disappoint you but you don’t have to hate them for stuff like that. I don’t expect me and a 37 yo millionaire to align politically.

I hope I don’t come off as a person who demonizes or babies players like you put it. I don’t hate any of these players for what they said in the press conference I don’t think any of them are evil for their response and I sympathize and can understand that they might have been caught off guard. For example, Fritz, who probably knew he might be asked about it, had a much better answer than Cam and Casper.

When it comes to babying players, I know alot of people do it because they find comfort in them but it’s something I kind of hate too.

Im gonna take this as an opportunity to tell you guys that while I post abt jannik like he’s the greatest thing to walk this earth I don’t really think that😭 and its not normal to think of anyone in that way.

Anyway ty for ur perspective

[vomara]

absolutely love how some of the people reblogging my post about aang’s trauma getting dismissed are the exact types of people doing the dismissing

[artswaps]

I really gotta write 500 fics focused on Keith & Allura where they have an empathetic and supportive friendship to make up for all the fandom drama they were the centre of because of s2 that still crops up every so often, that left people with the impression that they don’t like one another and an aversion to the idea of them being good friends, huh??? I really gotta???? 

Fine!! I’d love to!!!!! Cos I love my favs and I love writin about them!!! So there!

[chimpukampu]

Haha thank you. I'm not too worried about the shipping wars and stuff because I was in the supernatural fandom for...damn it's been like 8 years so I know how it gets but I started watching ml as a happy, not super dramatic and easy to watch show and it was very jarring to just find others saw the opposite in it. But the recommendations helped a lot and I feel like my dash is going to be less like the dead sea 😂😂

Ngl ML fandom is a bit tamer compare to other fandoms that I've been before, though I'm not sure how these salty trends will affect the fans in the long run.

I mean, one of my friends quit ML because this guy she befriended here, who often got compared to Luka (coz he's a guitarist), have been messaging her that he must "save" her from her husband. What creeped me out was how he imagined her as Marinette and her husband as Adrien.

Knowing this, and the panic attacks that happened to my other friend, made me feel scared and sorry for those fans who are too deep into the salt discourse.

[maychorian]

I haven't been in the VLD tags in a looong time. I saw the discourse (wank) starting and jumped ship as fast as I could. I get my fix mainly through your blog. It doesn't sound like it's gotten any better than it was when I left. Also I wish fandoms didn't dissolve into ship stuff so often. Maybe it's because I'm a gen lover who only multiships for fun, but I don't get why shipping can't be chill? Why do people always have to be wieners about it all the time? Sorry for ranting i'm just salty :P

Ahh, no problem! You can come rant in my askbox any day. I DEFINITELY know that feeling. And yeah, I checked out the voltron tag last night and it was so full of salt that I had to go drink two glasses of water. 

I’m glad my blog is a happy place for you! I comb through the tag so you don’t have to.

[whereimfeminine]

Lmao I feel like every time I come to your inbox I'm complaining about niall so I'm sorry but like the more time goes by the more I'm realizing my love for him is dropping off significantly... idk I'm having trouble buying anything he says or does as sincere anymore? His tweet was ridiculous. It's his studio time with people he's paying. He knew when the Brits were. If he had wanted to go that badly he would have gone? And I mean he was able to extricate himself from the studio just fine an -1

and a half later to go to the afterparties to rub shoulders with industry execs so.... I just feel like he's trying to pander to me but I'm really not interested in any of it. For all people whinge about Harry being cold and calculating and playing his fans I see that coming from Niall 10x more than Harry. -2

Not to re-open this discourse, but there is one Slytherin in that band, and it’s Niall....

hahah ANYWAYS I am v glad to be the person you turn to when you wanna be salty at Niall, it’s one of my stronger suits. Ya like I don’t know what to make of the fact that it -appears- Liam may have made a surprise appearance last night just to get the award. And I think it’s really weird that Niall was in London but didn’t go. I don’t like to speculate on why Louis does or doesn’t do things at this point in his life, so I won’t add that. But honestly I don’t think it’s some conspiracy where Niall “couldn’t” go to the Brits but went to the party to show his support or whatever. I dunno why he didn’t go, I think it’s weird and it would’ve been great promo and I totally agree that he didn’t HAVE to be in the studio then, and you may be onto why he went to the after-party. And I think if, say, Harry just went to the after-party, people would’ve taken it to be exactly what you said--not bothering to show up to support One Direction, but showing up to further himself at an after-party. So all in all, I’m just like “meh” and they’ll do what they’ll do and it’s not really my business to figure out why they do what they do. But I agree that I am often very *eyeroll* at Niall lately. Which is a shame, because like, I don’t wanna feel that way, but alas.