#the fandom is literally insufferable

[rintoki]

being on genshin twt has severely affected my enjoyment of the game tbh

[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

[brainrotisseriechicken]

quick meri doodle for future reference

[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.

[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.”

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

It's my personal belief that new voltron live action should be Office type documentary style comedy about paladins doing fuck all and day being saved by weird hijinks. Only way to save this timeline/j

[lilacpaperbird]

I can't believe people genuinely think young sam was spoiled and selfish for wanting to eat some lucky charms. how can you be mad at something so innocent ! he's just a little kid ! he can't even pronounce spaghettios right !

[will80sbyers]

did you know people can be both GA fans of a show and content creators knowing people that get them tours on set because they are probably rich and stuff

[butwhatifidothis]

It really is strange how Edelstans simultaneously dig hard into people that don't agree with their specific interpretation of 3H to the point of being happy they manage to drive those people away... and be so upset and baffled that people become generally disinterested/actively hostile towards 3H content.

If folks get repeatedly driven out of a fandom, and that group of people repeatedly calls anyone who disagrees with their specific interpretation of 3H stupid/illiterate/"acting in bad faith"/sexist/racist/homophobic/etc., and it is repeatedly done by a group of people who insist that 3H's fandom problem is a "both sides" thing, with all of this being dragged into spaces that have nothing to do with 3H, well... obviously people are then going to start to dislike interacting with either 3H in general or its fandom in particular?

Edelstans are the ones spreading the idea that 3H's fandom in totality is shit. They keep trying to make their hands look cleaner than they are by claiming that everyone else's hands are just dirty as/even dirtier than theirs. Of course people who are unaware of everything are going to then assume that everyone's hands are dirty, thus making people not exactly want to shake hands with anyone.

Like, really now. What did they think was going to happen when they directly go after fanartists/fanfic writers who create/say things that go against the Approved Edelstan Status Quo, to the point that a non-zero amount of these creators just up and leave social media entirely? Or after they nitpick every single Disapproved Post and then lie about the post's OP? Or after it becomes a consistent pattern that people who even remotely disagree with Edelstans' opinions are always, without fail, buried with insulting and harassing anons? Or after they're shown time and time again to defend their worst actors with "well their/our victims deserved it because they said a 3H opinion we didn't agree with"? Or when they say that everyone does this shit in 3H's fandom except for them (which is either not believed because it's demonstrably untrue or is actually believed and now those people think the overwhelming majority of 3H's fandom is filled with shit)? Or when they drag 3H discourse into literally actually everything no matter how unrelated?

That with less fandom creators within the fandom space they'd get more content? That harassing and insulting people and accusing them of being this-and-that bigot is going to magically "correct" their minds into seeing The One Truth about 3H? That people are going to just look over all the shit they did just because they allocate the blame of their action on all of 3H's fandom? That people would like 3H more if they constantly remind people of the inarguable worst thing to come from 3H? That this would help 3H's general perception?

Fuckin' no, of course that's just going to make everyone fuck off from 3H. And would you look at that, a shit ton of people have fucked off from 3H since everything has been swept under a "well it'sth a bolth thides ithue tho what can ya do?" rug. And it's been swept under that rug by pretty much the only people who are pulling this shit, who then get shocked - utterly gobsmacked! - that that made them look bad too. That crying "both sides!" included themselves too and not just the people they've been harassing. That saying that the entire fandom is bad everywhere made the entire fandom look bad everywhere.

If Edelstans are really so upset that no one talks about 3H positively anymore, then maybe they should stop being the reason no one likes 3H anymore. Just a thought

[slurpyboii]

A little bit of this chapter was actually p good but the rest was literally nothing. Like. What are we doing. What do you mean one more chapter left.

Spoilers in tags

[autistic-katara]

oh my god can ppl find a reason to ship/not ship something that’s in the middle of a ship war w/o trying to make out the other character to be the worst person in existence? honest to god it’s not that hard to say “this ship doesn’t work for me bcz of xyz” u rlly do not need to go “uhhh actually no it’s not character a that’s a horribly racist asshole who thinks SA is cool (that’s so stupid wtf, they barely did anything), its character b. did u not see how they [smallest thing possible]??? can’t believe the hypocrisy u have going on here…” like seriously PLEASE u do not have to justify urself to this level it just makes everything 10x more annoying

[sskk-manifesto]

[adarkermiserablecrow]

One of my biggest fears folowing the end of s7 was that there would be some kind of lawsuit 2.0 era where Buck as the resident White Guy would be at least somewhat complicit with Gerrard's bs and then be redeemed in some shape or form and uhhh I am concerned

[snixx]

the 39 clues girlies are having a field day in the notes of a post I made months ago and all I can do is gaze upon them fondly as I remember the most passionate late lover of my life

[fitzrove]

32 and 40 for the musicals ask game??

32. favourite musical where no one dies

Omg, I had to think about this for a bit hahaha... I guess it's the aforementioned mean girls xD Since basically every other musical I like has characters at least implicitly die.

40. favourite musical you used to like but don’t anymore

I had a phase in like 2016-2018 (this is where the mean girls stuff comes from) where I liked every 2016-popular teen musical. Don't blame me ajsjdj, I was a literal teenager, I was the target audience... This included dear evan hansen (which I now think is terrible) and be more chill (which I find only a bit bad). I actually own the original book BMC is based on and did like it when reading it as a teenager, though I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to anyone because it's very early 2000s. (The author of the book tragically passed away quite young, though, which makes the mental health themes in the book come across very frank and real to me... which is why I'm, in a sense, less inclined to judge some aspects of it.)

[moki-dokie]

there needs to be fandom spaces exclusively for people 30 and over like for real 99.99% of the reason i simply do not enjoy any fandom is because of the fucking kids. sure lets have a mutual space to hang out sometimes but for FUCKS SAKE i would like to hang around and socialize with grown ass adults who aren't living in a delusional parasocial brainworm infested reality some of the time, too.

much love to the Youths out there but sometimes yall are fucking insufferable and flat out stupid and suck the joy out of every aspect of everything ever. and that's not particularly anyone of yalls faults thats just being young and dumb. we were all insufferable and stupid at some point. (and like, let's not kid ourselves some of the adults are even worse lmaoooo but not so frequently) but it's amplified x100000000000 with the terminal onlineness and social media. and frankly, i'm sure the kids would probably like to get the fuck away from us old farts just as much sometimes.

absolutely kills me that we just don't have kids only and adults only spaces anymore like we did Back In The Day.