#sr fandom critical

[megafreeman]

So if you don't keep up with Saints Row community drama some big stuff went down today.

Flippy released a video talking the state of SR2 patch, including mentioning minimaul's role in it, which pissed minimaul off so now saintsrowmods.com is offline.

For the record, saintsrowmods is the host of 90% of Saints Row mods (all of the games), and hosts all of the resources and tools for making mods.

[very-uncorrect]

ADS AREN'T CONTENT THEY'RE ADS

[sweetsickheart]

blocked, blocked, blocked and BLOCKED!! all you ranboo rebrand antis are KILLING me lmao. its so funny to see ya'll argue like fucking children. i want to compile this into something that makes sense but im mostly just gonna be shooting off thoughts ive had.

number one: the ranboo rebrand is not FOR you. its just...not. you're allowed to not like it, and you're allowed to just take a step away if you have to. its for them. he is doing what he feels comfortable with. "but if he wants to stop being an mcyt he should quit mcc!!" they still like minecraft??? and are allowed to??? he just doesnt wanna be associated with weirdos.

number two: you guys crit him and then talk about fucking the dteam until they pass out and call them ur uwu kittens or some shit. you can NOT be talking. yeah, i see you with "PROBLEMATIC" in your desc. yes, i can and will critique ranboo if they say something fucking dumb. but, i dont go "hell yeah sapnap!! go and support the corporation that promotes trans genocide!!"

three: please, for the love of god, check your parasocial relationships with internet creaters. they dont owe you their old selves. they are allowed to move on in ways that feel comfortable for them. ranboo just keeps getting dragged back into the tranches of who they used to be. you're still allowed to like old ranboo, but please, let them move on. its a normal thing normal people do. people enjoy different things, people switch fandoms, people get new favorite colors, people fucking, idk, move houses or some shit. your allowed to be sad about the rebrand, your feelings are not invalid, but just remember that ranboo is a human that changes, and sometimes they can and will be sudden.

stay as safe as you can, the internet can be a horrible place sometimes, and i hate contributing to it. please, just dont be a fucking jerk.

[thatguykaboom]

Screenshot redraws

With old oc

Beta designs

Hair crisis bc he just looks like kevin

I have no name ideas for him…

[cupcraft]

its just funny to me though like as a 23 year old like if i met someone in my school class who said hey btw i send anon hate to people on tumblr at our age especially minors who so much as say something negative about my streamer, especially in regard to Very Serious Allegations against him isn't that cool. Like you really need to touch grass and learn to be kinder and get some more friends outside of the echo chamber. And just feel lucky you're on anon, because your internet history in the end is forever.

[typemoonconfessions]

[severussnapemylove]

Sometimes I wonder if JKR even realises she wrote Snape as a victim of sexual assault. Because he unambiguously is, and she writes him as traumatised by the incident. So it seems mad to suggest that she might not have thought through the implications of her own writing, but if she did get it, I am baffled by how sympathetic she remains to James. Harry is never really made to confront how vile his actions were, because he looks for comfort from Remus and Sirius rather than telling Hermione who would react in horror and disgust, and he gets to skip over it completely in The Prince’s Tale. JKR clearly considers James a hero, and has confirmed that in interviews. She’s even more sympathetic to Lily, who is portrayed as an absolute paragon of goodness, morality and virtue, despite her being attracted enough to James *after* he publicly commits sexual assault on a less privileged kid to marry him! What a malfunctioning moral compass. JKR also has no sympathy at all for Tom Riddle Sr, who is a victim of rape, and his rapist Merope Gaunt, who is herself strongly implied to be a victim of incestual abuse, is condemned by Dumbledore and the narrative not for what she did to Tom but for not being as courageous as nice, pretty, middle class Lily Evans because Merope committed the crime of���dying in childbirth. The only conclusions I can draw from this is that JKR is the sort of ´feminist’ who doesn’t believe men can be the victims of sexual crimes, and that deep down she thinks being a member of the underclass who can’t drag themselves out of it alone is indicative of moral failure.

This! All of this!

I don't think she puts it together at all. She's incredibly tone deaf about a lot of the abuse she puts these characters through. And with the blasé attitude she has about male victims of SA in the books definitely goes along her brand of toxic radical "feminism". It looks like she just doesn't recognise the severity of what happens to these characters. On top of Severus's attack and Tom Riddle Sr, remember that Ron was roofied with love spell that was intended for Harry, and Moaning Myrtle is incredible predatory towards the boys. Sadly, this attitude carries over from the author to a chunk of the fandom too. I've seen so much dismissiveness of the assaults against the male characters, especially Severus. And it's even more disappointing when I see people who have experienced abuse saying that what Severus endured "didn't count" as abuse. Had someone today on another platform having an absolute meltdown at me, saying that what happened in SWM wasn't sa, and that he wasn't traumatised from his abuse and if his anger was caused by trauma then why wasn't Harry the same. Seriously, you can't tell another person that what they experienced wasn't "bad enough to be abuse", that's a very warped mentality. Survivors are supposed to support each other, not belittle each other's trauma. Also, what book did they read that they think Harry doesn't have issues from the life he endured? He has different issues than Severus, yes, because he had different life experiences and everyone's reactions to trauma are different.

"Merope Riddle chose death in spite of a son who needed her, but do not judge her too harshly, Harry. She was greatly weakened by long suffering and she never had your mother's courage."

WTF is this!!!??? This is just plain victim blaming. "Your mothers' courage"? Lily had supportive, loving parents, was loved by her peers, admired by her teachers, had a very comfortable, secure life. Merope was physically and mentally abused for her whole life. They really criticized the poverty stricken, abuse victim for not being as "strong" as the Mary Sue of the Wizarding World??? Toxic as hell. Personally, as someone who has dealt with self-harm, mental illness and generational trauma in my family, this attitude of "they weren't strong enough" is nauseating and infuriating.

There really is a disturbing trend of extreme poverty equalling a dead-end life with no hope. Which is again an extremally toxic and judgmental attitude and a very dangerous message to put in a book aimed to children. The attitude towards abuse, poverty and indecent assault of men is beyond problematic, not only in the books but in far too many members of the fandom.

I could rant more but this will go on for pages.

[andromedasummer]

this whole lando and donald trump shit is gonna blow over so quickly btw it always does bcos people in the f1 fandom could literally not give less of a fuck about minority/vulnerable groups. nothing happened when carlos sainz made racist comments about chinese people eating dogs in 2020. nothing happened when sainz sr took photos of his dinner the leader of the alt right party in spain. nothing happened when max verstappen used the r slur and m slur towards lance on team radio and nothing happened even after mongolia made a complaint to the UN about his conduct and red bull joked about it the next week in one of their pr videos. nothing happened when nelson piquet and his family got outed as close friends and supporters of jair bolsonaro. nothing happened when zak brown bitched about politics in f1 and then filmed a video with a tory minister. nothing happened when a 20 year old ayrton senna dated a fucking 15 yr old girl! nothing!

you cannot convince this fandom to not bat for these white men, no matter what they say or do. they will die on that hill and they will look like some godforsaken amalgamation of a teenaged kpop stan sending death threats and a disney/marvel adult twisting progressive language in defense of blind media consumption.

ultimately and above all, their comfort and attraction will overwhelm anything else. praxis to them is looking at these coddled fucking manbabies and saying "oh he's so gay" "omg trans ally" "feminist king" when he blinks.

there is a massive conversation we could have about the intrinsic classism, racism and fascism that you cannot remove from f1 (and the whole of motorsport!) without crumbling its core foundations. about how every driver on the grid is complicit in these systems and how they overwhelmingly use their wealth to ensure it's existence. it will not happen here because interaction in that fan space has degraded to sending death threats because you have decided to criticize their specific special human incarnation of oatmeal slop

[xomoosexo]

dteam twitter people migrating here ily but remember to:

reblog! cause we are a home grown economy here, there's no fancy algorithm. the only way people will see your posts is for bigger blogs to reblog you (and then more blogs reblog from them and so on)

liking! a lot of people around here don't like when you like but don't reblog (remember, no algorithm. likes really do nothing) liking without reblogging is fine sometimes but for things like fanart, it's probably best to pop a reblog!

decorate your blog! people might think you're a bot or a troll if you don't slap a little color on the walls! super easy to find a random pic of gnf and make it your pfp lol

tagging! a lot of people use hashtags for thoughts about someone elses post, compliments to an artist, extra notes they don't want on the main post, and also as content and trigger warnings. Not that many people maintag around here anymore unless it's something like fanart or important information!

tags to note:

#dtblr

#dteam fanart- fan art maintag

#dreamblr- dream fan maintag

#dreblr- c!dream fan maintag (positive only)

#dreamwastaken tag for dream since #dream is too broad

#404blr- George fan maintag

#pandasblr- sapnap fan maintag

#dream situation/drituation- discussion of the allegations

"#tw ___" or "#cw ___"- tags for trigger and content warnings, please use! (ex: #tw blood)

"#___ neg" or "#___ crit"- tags for creator criticism and negativity (ex: #george neg)

#mcyt- broad tag for all of minecraft youtube on this site. totally okay for most dtblr posts

#Minecraft- tag for Minecraft fandom. Not a place for mcyt content and they don't appreciate it when we tag this. (though if you want to post your cool Minecraft builds or mob vote stuff that is a okay!)

interact! reblog posts! add something to the post! compliment someone's art in the tags! follow people!

and most importantly:

chill out! people here tend to be a lot more relaxed about what we post because this is primarily a fan space. if you see someone posting something you think is against creators wishes or invasive,

just block them. You should also feel free to block tags for things you don't want to see, and don't get upset with people if you see something that's tagged correctly- it's on you to curate your dash.

now about shipping. people on here tend to be a lot more lenient and comfortable with ship content since they know creators won't see it or interact with it.

the line between shipping/truthing or joke shipping is super blurry. if you don't want to see people talking about dnf /srs then block them! But for a lot of people on here they don't really care and it's very excepted for people to be somewhere between joking and serious.

and finally, just don't be a dick! people on here tend to be a lot less hostile, if you see something you think should have warnings in the tags but doesn't, shoot them an ask! 90% of the time they'll amend it. We have been using Tumblr instead of twitter because we don't like creators seeing what we post. so please respect that boundary by not reposting anything on here to twitter or other sites! have fun!!!

[xxduncandonutxx]

I'm sorry but I'll block any "Helluva Boss/Hazbin hotel critic" account if they are using Burnie Burns/Creepzo as their profile pic

You ain't helping the critic community's rep or proving the HB/HH fandom that you guys are NOT insane "haters" by using him as your profile picture. /srs

ESPECIALLY since the character is base on an insane, stalkish fan who turn into a creepy, mentally unwell hater.

He's literally base on Lincar Rox and the creator of ren and stimpy.

[megafreeman]

lol noone is playing victim. they just said calling fans terrorist won't make them buy your stuff

The fact you think they refer to fans as terrorists for simply not buying the game and not thst they're referring to fans making jokes about shooting up Volition for making a game that doesn't appeal to them means you're playing victim lmao

Get your head out of your ass and look around, the fandom is toxic af and its filled with edgy 13 year old pretending to be gangstas saying all kind of inapproriate shit

[spopsalt]

Spop fans: " omg, your so obssesed with hating catradora! "

me: says the person who is also obssesed with an incest abused ship and at least us anti C//A shippers don't support abuse irl

Spop fana, when they see a glimmadora fanart or when they see a valid opinion about hating C//A: " always the glimmer stans "

me: oh sorry, i didn't know having a valid opinion was forbiden in spop fandom also if you don't wan't to see glimmadora fanarts maybe block the tag so you cannot see it

srs friend, spop and C//A are the most childish fandom i ever seen, like they critic us for having valid reasons to dislike the ship but they always act rude and mean toward us anti C//A comunity just for hating c//a ?? i mean did they now the word " respect " or "opinion " ?? but well looks like for them shipping sister and abuse is their whole world for them but well here are the questions: do you wish the fandom would be less childish and that learns about respecting opinion ? what do you think when a C//A make comments like " always the glimmer stans " or " C//A on the top " in a glimmadora fanart or edit ? also do you wish there would be more anti C//A shippers ?

Yeah, the stans are really childish. One of them blew up at me because I used one of their few seconds gifs, and like I expected, they went straight to insulting me. They could've ignored the post or calmly asked me to remove the gif, but nope! They complain about seeing our posts like they can't just block the tags. They also called us obsessed for hating a show that ended years ago....but people hate twilight and 50 shades of grey, and that ended years ago? Make it make sense.

[tipheeweefee]

!! INTRODUCING MYSELF !!

Hey hai hello how are you ? My name is Tiphe and I am a self-taught digital artist <3 !! I draw stuff and characters I like, aswell as my favorite musical artists!! I am from Tunisia but I live in France, I'm trilingual, I speak arabic (tunisian dialect), french and english 🗣️ Also I'm muslim so yeah !

DNI list : Proshippers, zionists, racists, hawdabi shippers /srs, oc x canon antis, ISLAMOPHOBES (hope yall sleep with an eye open), if ur too old like 23+, anything problematic

Interact list : if you're in any of those fandoms: Genshin Impact, Honkai Impact 3rd, Honkai Star Rail, Project Sekai, Vocaloid, Resident Evil, Love and Deepspace, Bayonetta, Blue Eye Samurai, Boku No Hero Academia, Hunter X Hunter, Demon Slayer, Mortal Kombat 1, Kill Bill and Matrix (does kill bill and matrix even have fandoms??)

As for what I use to draw, I use my pc and a graphic tablet, and the app I use Ibis paint premium.

Looking for moots !! For my future moots, just know that I am probably more scared of you than you are of me so pls interact with meee 😖

Another thing, constructive criticism is welcomed <3 !!

[saintsenara]

i think your take on percy is a lot more canonical than the uwu percy takes (which are fine everybody should play with the text however they want) but with your view, any thoughts on percy/hermione?

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

i think harry low-key shipped it, because the narrative perspective - which is, of course, his - is quite gagged in goblet of fire when hermione calls percy a little bitch for defending barty crouch sr.'s treatment of winky:

"Well, Mr. Crouch is quite right to get rid of an elf like that!" he said. "Running away when he’d expressly told her not to... embarrassing him in front of the whole Ministry... how would that have looked, if she’d been brought up in front of the Department for the Regulation and Control - "   "She didn’t do anything - she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time!" Hermione snapped at Percy, who looked very taken aback. Hermione had always got on fairly well with Percy - better, indeed, than any of the others.

and i think we have here the purest encapsulation of why this would be an absolute flop that makes everyone in a ten-mile radius want to hurl themselves down a well.

percy is someone who finds it very difficult to be wrong. so is hermione [even though, in this case, she's completely right - percy should grow the fuck up and stop defending slaveowners... as, to be honest, should a sizeable chunk of this fandom when it comes to sirius...].

but while hermione's need to be right is one part of a broader communication style focused on debate - she's someone who works through feelings and worries and so on by voicing them and testing them through debating [and, in many cases, bickering about] them with another person - percy's isn't accompanied by this fundamental enjoyment of argument. if he's pressed on something he's said, especially if the response is critical, he tends to shut down the conversation, to refuse to listen and/or to talk over the other person until they're forced into submission, and to disengage from the conversation by physically leaving it.

and so, while it's clear that hermione doesn't always love being pushed back against [hence her tendency to do her condescending "lofty" voice, resort to personal attacks, and/or to give the silent treatment when she's been backed into a corner in an argument], she is someone who fundamentally likes yapping, and who is happy to mutually bicker with those she values and who she feels value her in turn.

she's more comfortable with being told she's wrong by ron than anyone else in canon [although this does also turn up a little bit in her relationship with fred and george] because she feels that he respects her, and his willingness to accept her preferred way of communicating as it comes is one reason why. percy's way of handling any conversation in which he's not universally agreed to be correct is going to annoy and upset her, because it displays - as she sees it - a contempt for her, her views, and her intellect.

they would fight constantly, neither would enjoy it, and everyone they knew would be praying for the day it ended.

[vhvrs]

w artfight coming to a close, i wanted to nudge anypony into letting me know how my arts looking rn... ive been experimenting with composition/graphic design more and putting characters into environments so im curious if thats looking alright! and the way ive been rendering lately as well??

usually when i say this i get more positive feedback than critical so i am being v srs abt ppl being allowed to be as critical or nitpicky as they want - this isnt a trick suggestion. i wanna know if things are working out and/or if theres other ways to experiment/improve i wouldnt think if :3

kinda similarly ig lmk what ud like to see me draw more of? fandom/charawise or just types of art (illustrations, sketches, etc) since the former is more fixation based lol

[cupcraft]

I've been having some thoughts lately and decided to put it in a long post during my lunch break.

Cc's are not and never will be your friend. It's normal to engage and feel parasocial to a degree with cc's but it's important ccs and yourself create the boundary of "we don't know each other and thus are not friends/etc." This is important of the cc, because a responsible cc is aware of their impact, aware of the power dynamic, and sets healthy boundaries for themself. It's important for you in order to stay safe and engage with a fandom and cc with respect and to maintain a healthy mindset.

It is also normal for fandoms to defend their cc TO A DEGREE, especially when comments against the cc affect other people (this is a simple way to say it, theres a lot of nuance to this pt). But, you should never feel the need or actually try to parent or speak for a cc. For example, people being queerphobic to Ranboo is fair to speak up against particularly because the queerphobia affects other members of the fandom. However, feeling like you must speak on behalf of ranboo, be their parent, or protect them at all costs from "evil ccs and fans" is not only against their express wishes but just isn't a healthy or normal way to engage with a cc.

Because if you don't engage healthily besides breaking any cc boundaries, and hurting yourself and mental health, you really can hurt other people. If you're engaging in fandom and cc fandoms especially to a point in which you create yourself an echo chamber of toxicity that seeks to harm anyone in your path that is unhealthy behavior and you need srs help and I mean that genuinely like you need to talk to a trained professional or support group.

Like it's not normal to hate all ccs and people who are not explicitly positive about your cc at all times now and forever. It's not normal to make excuses for widely acceptable bad actions to the point you harm those affected by said bad actions. It's not normal to view holding a cc accountable as "just being an anti/hater/jealous" as you should always leave room to be critical of the content you consume especially if it's from a real person with real actions. It's not normal to dislike those that dislike ur cc so much (cc or fans) to the point you dedicate your social media presence to sending death threats, doxxing, harassment, gory images, etc as well as spending the majority of your blog screenshotting and vagueing and cyberbullying people. It's not normal to feel as though your cc is an infallible perfect idol figure that is in desperate need of an army protecting them at all times where you hang on their every word to dictate all actions, opinions, and morals to the point you will change your entire personality and ethics system just to maintain any ounce of being uncritical of someone. In simpler words, you might want to be aware the line of parasocialism and crossing over into being like a member of a cult (not to say it actually is a cult, this is an analogy)

And you might say to this post "this is a vague" but I'd rather argue that if you feel like this post applies to you regardless if you're mcyt or another cc/celebrity/real person based fandom you might want to realize that you need to do srs self reflection and understand how you got here, who you've hurt to stay there, and what things you've sacrificed for someone you don't even know. This isn't just an mcyt specific fandom problem.

Because why I'm making this post is I feel like something needs to be questioned when we throw away our kindness, empathy, ethics, and compassion towards people just because they are any ounce a tiny bit little bit critical of something a cc did. And it would be easy to say the people willing to suibait/send threats/harassment/slurs/etc toward someone over a cc and be happy about it and own it are people who "just don't care and won't change". But I'd like to think they got there somehow you know that they weren't always the kind of person to justify that. And that doesn't mean they deserve anyone's forgiveness, but it does mean I have concern for that person I hope they genuinely get help and feel the full weight of what they've done all for 1 person that doesn't know them.

As always with everything, please add on via rb if want, correct me on anything, and send asks if you wish. Stay kind out there though ❤️