#the fandom is insufferable as it is

[winchestress]

I am grateful that iwtv amc aged up all characters. because I gotta level with you. I would not, at this stage of my life, find it in any way compelling to watch a bunch of 20-somethings and teenagers act out all of *that*

[anthonycrowley]

he’s the moment

[taikk0]

i cant think of a caption i have an exam tomorrow 💀(it is currently 12 am <3)

[vypridae]

also before i forget to post this heres some more dca who au doodles (au by @magicicephoenix)

[tourmaline-dream]

But then…there’s Osha. 

Osha, who leans into him in the shelter of a doorway from the rain on Jabiim, caught in bad weather while buying necessities. Without even thinking, like a reflex he’s had for years, he curls his arm around her, tucking her in close to his side and away from the rain as they wait for the downpour to subside. She inhales, sharp and quiet, the arm not pressed to his side reaching up to touch his coat.

They both look at eachother, a little shocked at their placement, and neither move to change it.

He smiles. It pulls at the corners of his mouth before he can stop it. He watches as her eyes soften, her weight settled comfortably against him, and she smiles too. Her fingers tangle in the fabric of his coat, like she finally had permission.

(she always did)

They both turn away as her cheeks flush, looking at the sodden sky as they wait.

(image updated because his hand was bugging me oop)

[madefortherain]

they’re a ten but no matter what song you play they start crying over how it relates to these random dead gay wizards from the 70s

[ren-the3rd]

i haven’t seen the telemachus/antinous art, but the people bullying that artist for it are such miserable losers and it shows

[brainrotisseriechicken]

quick meri doodle for future reference

[kiwisandpearls]

”Madoka’s not the protagonist of pmmm, Homura is!!”

extremely loud incorrect buzzer

“Sayaka only became a witch because of a boy!”

extremely loud incorrect buzzer

“The girls were stupid to make their wishes with kyubey!”

EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER

“pmmm is exclusively about madoka and homura’s relationship with each other—“

EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT FUCKING BUZZER.

[flowersintheimpala69]

Feeling extra messy today so another rant

But like. U don’t have to like wincest but what do u mean “why is it so common”???

Did we not watch the same show?? Wincest is possibly the spn ship with the MOST subtext. I don’t rlly feel the need to even name all the reasons wincest makes sense cuz they’re so obvious and naming them all would take a while and that’s not rlly the point of this post.

Also why r u acting like wincest is a plague or invasive species in the spn fandom. Like the spn fandom was BUILT on wincest. It makes sense that a prominent part of the fandom are wincest shippers.

It’s like going to the ocean and seeing a sign warning of sharks and being like “aw:( why do sharks have to ruin the beach I just wanna swim” as if sharks aren’t an important and natural part of the ocean ecosystem. Like that’s their HOME. They’ve been here longer than YOU (the you is destiel shippers in this fuck ass analogy) if u don’t wanna risk being around sharks at the ocean you can go to a pool or lake (other fandoms) and if ur adamant on the ocean remember sharks aren’t bloodthirsty and horrible like they are in movies, and if you stay away from ocean areas that are prominent with sharks you should be ok. And even if you come across a shark on a beach that usually dosent have sharks don’t panic! You can get out of the water. Sharks won’t attack you unless you antagonize them.

Did that analogy make sense?? Probs not but fuck it we ball

Just. Tired of ppl acting like shipping fictional incest is the worst possible thing in fandom.

[lonelyslutavatar]

Saw someone on reddit say there was initial backlash from the fandom against Martin being a prick in season 5 that they had to tone his character down. Is this true? Because I'm gonna need to track the og fandom down and murder them with my bare hands.

[saintsenara]

Why Harry being short and frail (or even petite and delicate) past puberty is such a popular take these days? Sure, he is not bulky, but don't we know from Voldemort himself that James was tall and don't we know that Harry was exactly the same height as James during the final battle? Don't we know that Harry works out 3 times a week and is generally athletic? Is it the same thing that is happening with fanon Sirius or is it something different? Is it because he was short as a child and grew up in a cupboard, thus unlikely to end up like he did at the end of the series? What do you think about it? How likely is it? I keep seeing it in many slash ships and I am genuinely baffled. Is it me who has it backwards? Please solve this mystery, dear Asenora!

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

i think several things are at play, tbh - some of which are more understandable than others.

the first is that daniel radcliffe genuinely is short [for a british man, at least] - his height is given online as 165cm [or 5'5], but looking at pictures of him leads me to suspect that's an exaggeration - and was, unsurprisingly, even shorter when he was a teenager. many of the other actors in the films are much, much taller than him - especially people like alan rickman and david thewlis, both of whom were over six foot - and since the films inevitably influence how people picture the characters physically, the height differences we see on screen end up becoming part of that.

the second is that, while harry is described as "tall" in canon, that term appears to be doing a fair amount of heavy-lifting. numerous male characters are described as taller than him in both half-blood prince and deathly hallows - with the example which always stands out to me being the fact that fred and george weasley are said to "shrink" when they polyjuice into harry before the seven potters chase. fred and george - like charlie - are described in canon as being noticeably shorter and stockier in build than bill, percy, and ron. unless ron et al. are so tall that it would be thought of as really unusual - let's say above 6'6/198cm - harry probably isn't over 6'0/182cm tall.

thirdly, it's worth saying that what is meant by "tall" is culturally contingent. i've said that daniel radcliffe is shorter than average for a british man - and that's true - but his height isn't going to be thought of in that way in different parts of the world. similarly, there are parts of the world where describing a man who was, say, 5'10/178cm as "tall" would be considered quite strange - but i don't think the uk [where the average male height in 1998 was just over 5'8/174cm] is one of them. certainly, i picture harry as around that height [allowing characters like ron, sirius, dumbledore, and voldemort - who are all described as such - to be noticeably taller than him, but not so tall that their height would be considered abnormal], and i don't think it precludes him still being thought of as "tall" within the context in which he lives. but an author from, for example, the netherlands - where the average male height is 6'0.5/183cm - would probably think differently.

[there's a point about cultural contingency in the quip he makes about being short because of the cupboard too: i would read that as a dark joke which he doesn't actually think has any truth behind it specifically when it comes to his height, but which nonetheless expresses that the dursleys abuse him generally and this abuse has had a long-term impact upon him; readers from other parts of the world take it more literally.]

and finally, harry is definitely physically fit and - of course - works out a lot as part of playing quidditch, but both he and james are emphasised in canon as having slender builds - and it's also implied in the text that seekers are generally slim. harry doesn't need to be seen as any less sporty if we presume that he has the physique of a distance runner or triathlete rather than that of a sprinter.

however, there are definitely some aspects to the tendency for harry to be written as short and slender which do bother me a fair amount - and i do think that these have something in common with what we see with fanon sirius.

that is, that harry and sirius aren't written as short and slender because the author wants them to just happen to be short and slender. they're written as short and slender because the author wants them to be passive. their height/build is emphasised in the story in order to hammer this home - and it's often accompanied by them being assigned other aspects of physical appearance, personality, dress, or manner [especially ones which might be considered as "effeminate"] which, once again, aren't intended to communicate anything other than this passivity.

and - of course - in the writing of vast amounts of slash, any indication of passivity, submissiveness, or femininity - and the physical traits which end up equated with them - is taken as an indication that the character in question would be an exclusive - and submissive - bottom, who defers to the whims of their partner, an exclusive - and dominant - top.

and - unsurprisingly - topping ends up being associated with masculinity - and the personality traits and physical characteristics - above all a tall, muscular build - which are equated with that.

frail!harry seems to be most prominent - in my experience - in ships like tomarrymort, not so much because people really care about the implications of harry's characterisation, but because they're hugely opposed to the suggestion that characters like tom riddle would ever bottom [since - of course - they associate the act of being penetrated with femininity and femininity with weakness...]. great lengths have to be gone to, then, to emphasise that voldemort - or whoever else - is powerful and proud and authoritative and masculine and tall. and, for some reason, this is apparently incompatible with the idea that he might also like to get railed... which means that harry has to make sure nobody is in any doubt about who's the woman bottom by becoming as teeny tiny as he possibly can...

[theshadowsingersraven]

elriels: jurian made an SA joke about elain (while pretending to be evil) and Lucien is friends with him!! how can anyone justify that?? It's so disgusting 🤢 eluciens hate elain and want her to be friends with someone who made a rape joke about her!

also elriels: omg it'd be so hot if azriel and elain fucked in his torture room 🥵🥵 love elain's shadow daddy who makes a symphony of pain!! 😍

[olskuvallanpoe]

the most devastating part of kaz brekker is that he’s a finance bro

[katebeckets]

I think the x files is going to be my favorite fandom story to tell for the rest of my life because within the span of THREE (3) months, I have created 68 gifsets, joined a discord group, made msr playlists, helped organize an x files secret santa, and written my first EVER fanfic… all because I got an anonymous ask on tumblr saying I should watch the x files, to which my documented response was “um, I don’t know about that.”

[the-magpie-archives]

Whenever I get really into something I get very paranoid that I'm making everything about it, and being an incredibly obvious fan.

Anyways the other day I was having a conversation and I thought to myself "I have to stop speaking like this, it's so obvious I'm just trying to sound like Jonathan Sims."

Because of my accent. My English accent. That I've had my whole life. Because I live in England.